Ruan Li shook her head, holding his hand, "It’s not uncomfortable, I feel like I’ve overlooked sothing very important."
Bai He hugged her and led her inside, "It’s cold outside, you can think about it inside."
As soon as they entered the living room, Ruan Li’s gaze fell on Xu Mo’s face, suddenly realizing what she had ignored.
"Xu Mo, do you rember what hint Ruan Ying gave you after you turned into a little fox and lost your mory?"
At that ti, Ruan Li didn’t delve deeply into the matter, thinking it wasn’t important, but now she pondered like an epiphany: soone as calculating as Ruan Ying would never do anything aningless.
Perhaps from the first eting, she had been subtly telling sothing.
Ruan Ying had been under the Queen’s control for years, but such a proud and intelligent person would be unable to endure being used as a tool for long, especially when things exploded and she had to bear all the bla.
If she were Ruan Ying, she would definitely be unable to bear taking the fall, nor tolerate her research being wantonly misused—she would surely have a backup plan.
Combining this with the fact that Ruan Ying inexplicably captured and detained her under the guise of protection, but released her amidst an external crisis and interstellar peril, Ruan Li was almost certain that stopping this catastrophe was the key—herself.
Xu Mo, seeing Ruan Li’s urgency, carefully recalled, "She wanted to monitor your every move, especially to be concerned about your physical health and the fluctuations of the Life Force within you."
"And what else did you tell her?"
"Just reported so of your daily routines, nothing special."
"Did Ruan Ying ever tell you the conditions needed to achieve immortality?"
Xu Mo shook his head, "The conditions and content of her experints are only known to her. I’m just responsible for the parts involving contact with you."
Ruan Li turned to ask Bai He, "By the way, how is Lan Ruo doing? Has she woken up?"
Bai He replied, "Not sure, should I call to ask?"
Ruan Li directly said, "Lan Ruo might have very crucial information on her, I want to treat her directly."
Ruan Li made a call to Lu Mufeng to express her intention.
Lu Mufeng pondered briefly and gladly agreed.
Lan Ruo, being the Duchess, naturally was in a separate, high-end treatnt room.
The doctor responsible said, "Miss Lan Ruo’s external body has been repaired using the Repair Chamber, but it’s unclear why she hasn’t woken up."
Ruan Li stood by her bedside, placed her palm on her forehead, transmitting the Life Force, and the pink energy quickly flowed through her entire ridian like a warm stream.
Lan Ruo’s snow-white cheeks soon turned rosy, full of vitality.
Yet she still didn’t wake up.
"This..." The doctor hesitated, "Logically, since Miss Lan Ruo didn’t have any head injury, she shouldn’t be in a coma."
Ruan Li said to the doctor, "Then let her rest well and heal."
After the two left, only when the sound of footsteps completely disappeared, Lan Ruo slowly opened her eyes.
"Avoiding like this, yet allowing so many Beastn outside to be injured or even die in battle, Lan Ruo, you must feel guilty inside."
The figure thought to have already left appeared in front of her once again.
"You didn’t leave." Lan Ruo, realizing she was discovered, stopped concealing.
"How did you know?" she asked.
Ruan Li wouldn’t tell her that because she perfected the act of pretending to sleep from doing mischief as a child, she naturally knew her clumsy acting.
The dical staff, respectful of her status as a Royal Family female, naturally didn’t dare to be presumptuous, so they hadn’t discovered her recovery—she was just pretending to sleep.
Ruan Li smiled slightly, "Because your acting isn’t great, when I put my hand on your forehead, your eyelashes started trembling slightly."
Lan Ruo reluctantly accepted her explanation.
"The shield of the S Star Main City is already low on energy, now relying on backup power, at most it can hold for ten days. After ten days, the main city will fall, and then you won’t be able to survive safely."
Ruan Li paused, then continued, "You don’t seem anxious, not worried about the main city falling, no, to be precise, you’re not worried about the evolving Fierce Beasts—did the Queen promise you sothing? Soone coming to rescue you? Do you have so ans of self-protection?"
She was like an examiner of a psychological criminal, probing one by one the seemingly ordinary criminal before her.
"Do you have sothing for self-protection?" Ruan Li stepped forward, tightly grasping Lan Ruo’s wrist, judging based on her expression, "Not the bracelet, is it the necklace around your neck?"
Noticing the woman’s pupils slightly contract, Ruan Li smirked, ripping off her necklace, "Miss Lan, the entire interstellar will thank you for your selfless contribution."
Lan Ruo, seeing her about to leave, suddenly shed the panicked deanor she just had.
She slightly lifted her head, looking at Ruan Li.
"Ruan Li, you’ve grown fast."
"Less than a year ago, you were just a shy little female. A year ago, you were rely an emotional monster, resentful and petty."
Ruan Li turned around, facing her, "What do you want to say?"
Lan Ruo lazily leaned against the headboard, fingers winding her long hair, "I’m just advising you not to hand this thing over, a friendly advice from a... friend."
"Friend?"
"Certainly, maybe you won’t consider a friend. There’s a five-minute window where surveillance is ineffective right now, I speak freely."
Another act... One after another they are pretty good actors.
"What is the function of this necklace?" Ruan Li decided to directly ask, having no ti to bother with why she was acting or pretending to sleep before being discovered.
"To be precise, it’s not about the necklace’s function, but its aura—it’s a necklace soaked with Eternal Flower. The Eternal Flower is a plant developed to stabilize Fierce Beasts’ temperant. However, the conditions for its growth and maturity are extrely harsh—"
She stared at Ruan Li, "It needs fresh blood from a female to water it daily to grow, and to mature and bloom, it needs to devour the female’s Life Force."
"Of course, if it’s a treasure like you with inexhaustible Life Force, a drop can nurture countless Eternal Flowers."
She was smiling, but there was a faint irony in her eyes.
"So all I have to do is use my blood to nurture the Eternal Flower, and the Fierce Beasts will stop attacking?"
"Right."
"One more question, why did you keep locked in the laboratory for more than a month back then?"
Lan Ruo smirked, "Nirvana Fire Rebirth is the last step to immortality."
"Your bloodline and physique have been modified but not entirely fused, while the internal Life Force continues explosively growing in a terrifying manner, you yourself cannot control this power.
Within the illusion, you were lured to indulge in pleasure, yet suffered betrayal by the only person you trusted, while the sound waves continually stimulated your brain and heart—the arising emotions and resonating sound waves would spur the fusion of your internal Life Force and body, this being the final remolding."
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