Chapter 203 - 201: Abyss Says: You’re Looking at Me, But Thinking of Him

Chapter 203: Chapter 201: Abyss Says: You’re Looking at Me, But Thinking of Him

’But my soul is still here...’

As long as my soul was here, there was a chance.

’If one day I can regain control of this body...’

A thought suddenly appeared in her mind.

’I’ll definitely... definitely be stronger than that annoying guy!’

As soon as the thought arose, she instinctively recalled the sight of his back.

’No... by the time that happens... he’ll probably be even stronger.’

She mumbled unconsciously and began to struggle, unwilling to accept it.

The moment she struggled, the violent sensation that enveloped her came to a sudden halt.

The inertia of her "body" sent her lurching forward. Her head, the only part she could barely move, slammed hard against an object that was neither soft nor hard, and a searing pain shot through one side of her face.

This long-absent, distinctively human pain was like a clap of thunder, jolting her soul back into place...

"You’re awake..."

Spurred by the pain, she suddenly felt she was back in her body. But before she could rejoice, a familiar man’s voice sounded from ahead.

There was a jolt, and she felt the voice move a little farther away as it continued:

"Whoa, this gas mask is pretty cheap. How’d it get so crooked..."

Then, the sack that had been binding her soul began to loosen...

...

As Lin Fan ran, he only occasionally checked Ye Qingniao’s health bar. Seeing it stabilize in the yellow and slowly start to regenerate, he felt relieved and focused on running at full speed.

It wasn’t until he heard a soft mumbling by his ear that he found a place to shelter from the rain and stopped to check on her.

A glance revealed that the mask he’d put on her—to prevent her from biting... or from choking on the wind—had been jostled sideways. The rubber edge of the mask was pressing against Ye Qingniao’s mouth, nose, and one of her eyes...

Her good eye.

Lin Fan quickly reached out and undid the mask’s straps. It was a good thing he noticed in time; any longer and she might have suffocated.

The moment the mask was removed, the damp, cold air flooded her nostrils, sending Ye Qingniao into a violent coughing fit.

As she coughed, she quickly scanned her surroundings with her one eye, which glowed with a faint blue light.

The left half of her vision was gone, and she couldn’t channel any energy into it. ’It must be blind,’ Ye Qingniao thought as she forced her head to the left, only to see that strange yet familiar face...

It was that annoy... It was Lin Fan.

Right now, he was looking at her with a strange expression, just inches away.

Looking down again, she saw his shoulder. Was she... on his back?

’Then all that shaking and accelerating and decelerating earlier...!’

She stifled her cough, which stopped abruptly.

Ye Qingniao suddenly felt the blood rush through her veins. Her entire body went rigid. Staring at the face so close to hers, her mind went blank and completely crashed...

Meanwhile, Lin Fan saw that she was awake but had a bizarrely dazed expression. He couldn’t help but think of the cheesy tropes from TV dramas...

’This girl... she didn’t get struck stupid by the lightning and get amnesia, did she?’

’What am I supposed to do then? What if I take her back and she doesn’t recognize her sister, and insists on treating me as family?’

’Worst case, I’ll just give her to Chu Zhaozhao. Let her have a little sister too...’

"Uh... do you remember your name?"

Having already decided her fate in his mind, Lin Fan waved a hand in front of her eyes and asked tentatively.

Hearing a line she felt she’d heard countless times before, Ye Qingniao suddenly wished she really did have amnesia, or that she could just fall unconscious again.

"I... Just let me have a moment..."

Ye Qingniao blinked, sighed, and buried her head in the space between her own and Lin Fan’s shoulder, not wanting to speak.

Unfortunately, Lin Fan didn’t have night vision, so he couldn’t see that her face was currently so red it was practically on fire.

’She doesn’t actually have amnesia, does she?’ Lin Fan couldn’t help but wonder.

’When Wang Zhong found out I saved him, his reaction wasn’t "Just let me have a moment." Shouldn’t she be thanking me...?’

"Well... do you know who I am?"

Lin Fan gently tapped her bowed head and silently prodded again.

"You..."

A muffled voice sounded from below.

"You’re... Lin FAAAAAN!"

Ye Qingniao violently lifted her head, opened her mouth, and bit down on the side of Lin Fan’s neck!

"Stob smudderin’ me!! I don’ haf amnesia!!!"

[-1]!

"Ow, ow, ow, ow, ow! Let go, let go! What is wrong with you!"

’She already bit my hand, which is why I put the mask on her for this whole trip, and now that she’s awake, she bites me again.’

’So unfair!’

"You’re repaying my kindness with ingratitude!"

Last time he had shouted, Ye Qingniao hadn’t heard him. This time, he could finally shout right in her ear.

"You’ve bitten me twice!"

"When’d I bi’e you twi’e!"

"You bit my hand when I was pulling you out of that crack!"

At Lin Fan’s words, the burning shame in Ye Qingniao’s heart slowly subsided, and the little drama that had been playing in her head was pushed to the back of her mind.

"Yuh..."

Ye Qingniao knew in her heart that Lin Fan had saved her, so she hadn’t bitten him with any real force. Now, hearing that she had already bitten him when he pulled her from her hiding spot, she couldn’t help but feel a pang of guilt. She slowly released her bite and asked, puzzled,

"How did you know I was down there..."

After speaking, she wanted to raise her hand to wipe the saliva from his neck, but she found she couldn’t move her limbs at all. There was only a tingling, numb sensation.

She could only lean her head over and rub the side of her head against Lin Fan’s neck.

The tickle from her disheveled hair made Lin Fan reach up and pat her head. Although he had no idea what her whole reaction was about, he figured, ’who can guess what’s on a young girl’s mind?’

’Anyway, I wasn’t wrong. She does have amnesia...’

But he didn’t answer her question, only saying to her: