After bidding farewell to the two from the Astral Express crew, and Stelle who had not yet decided whether to stay or leave, Silver Wolf returned to Kafka and Blade's side.
As she had said before, she still had two troublesome adults at home waiting for her to come back and take care of.
Silver Wolf would never have thought that this time, even Blade's condition would be much better than Kafka's...
But he could have been better.
For a very short period of time, Blade seemed to have become another person.
It was not a mara-struck episode, but more like he had recovered his self.
At that time, he had said that he wanted to forge a weapon that belonged exclusively to Zao Wu.
However, the materials might require a little more thought, to be sought in the cosmic market or on the Xianzhou.
But with Zao Wu's "departure", Blade had returned to his original cold and ruthless appearance.
He picked up the Shard Sword alone.
The cracks on the black sword seemed to have increased by a few, but who cared?
Silver Wolf was a little sad.
But what made her even more sad and heartbroken was Kafka.
That devil hunter who was supposed to be painless and tearless, and who did not know what fear was, was now deeply tasting the grief that pierced her entire heart.
—Kafka, it looks like she's broken.
.........
Plums and plum blossoms are not related.
But perhaps because it was stained with the character "mei" (plum), the plum wine brewed from it was also favored by Ruan Mei for a recent period of time.
But clearly, in the past, she had been a teetotaler.
Alcohol is not a good medicine for a scientific researcher.
Its scientific name is "ethanol." As its concentration in the blood increases, the central nervous system of the human body will be affected to varying degrees, from the cerebral cortex to the subcortex and cerebellum.
Finally, if even the centers responsible for breathing and circulation in the brainstem are inhibited, then the problem will be very serious, and may lead to death.
The alcohol content of plum wine is not high. It is a light wine suitable for ladies to enjoy in their leisure time.
Ruan Mei would not drink until she was dead drunk. She only wanted that faint feeling of dizziness and lightness, to deal with a certain heaviness in the depths of her heart.
Even if she wanted to, she could easily do it through other ways, and in a healthier way.
At the very least, a sip of the drink SoulGlad, which was produced on the festival star "Penacony," was said to make one feel a sense of happiness as if they were in a beautiful dream after drinking it, and it also had the effect of aiding sleep and calming the nerves.
But she still chose to drink, a way that was somewhat harmful, to slowly numb her own mind, as if she were carrying out a slight and insignificant punishment.
Punishing oneself with three cups?
What a sarcastic and hypocritical phrase.
The clear, amber-colored plum wine rippled in the white porcelain cup, reflecting an unusually ambiguous light.
"Ruan Mei, he is just a creation, and he has already committed suicide and died."
"Why can't you forget him?"
In an empty laboratory, a woman with hair like a waterfall spoke to her cup.
The next moment, the sweet and slightly sour and bitter wine liquid moistened the woman's lips and tongue, and slid down her throat.
One drop of it trickled down from the corner of Ruan Mei's lips and dripped onto her slightly heaving chest.
A faint coldness arose.
Ruan Mei couldn't help but shrink her slender shoulders.
She suddenly wanted to hug herself tightly.
But when she came back to her senses, she inexplicably felt some disgust for this self of hers.
Just like a while ago, in order to study human personality and emotions, she had created a series of unique artificial life forms.
Their appearance was mostly based on the traditional snacks of the Azure Star and the most common domestic pets, cats and dogs.
The canine-type creations had the appearance of a shumai with a pair of dog ears and a always arrogant expression.
The feline-type creations had the appearance of a cat curled up in a pastry, cautious, pitiful, and soft and well-behaved.
Unfortunately, Ruan Mei did not know how to deal with their innate deep feelings for her, so she often appeared indifferent.
Among them, there was a cat-pudding with a "salted winter plum" filling. Just because it happened to be accidentally stroked on the head by Ruan Mei's hand, it became an object of envy among all of Ruan Mei's creations.
But in fact, once Ruan Mei's research on them was over, they would be forgotten by Ruan Mei in a corner of the Herta Space Station.
Only the robot that was programmed to distribute dog food and cat food on time would accompany them, waiting for a person who would not come back to return.
But experiments are often full of uncertainty.
You don't know when it will give you a surprise, or... a scare.
When the "Life Oven" underwent an accidental special mutation, and gave birth to that snow-white, but with light green eyes, and a well-behaved and timid-looking cat-pudding, Ruan Mei's hands and feet suddenly became cold.
She could not help but see through the white cat-pudding in front of her, and associate it with the young man who had been unforgettable to her for a long time.
Ruan Mei left the "Life Oven" and abandoned the newborn white cat-pudding on the spot.
The data recording of this experiment also terminated from that moment.
The cat-puddings still did not know that they might never have a chance to see their creator again in the future, and were still waiting in a secret corner of the space station with full of expectation.
However, what Ruan Mei also did not know was that the white cat-pudding was actually just like Zao Wu in character. It had actually found a chance to escape, and was now being helplessly raised by the Doctor of Truth.
Speaking of the Doctor of Truth, this always-meddling uninvited guest, he always appeared out of nowhere, just like now.
Ruan Mei was having a private drink in her secluded secret laboratory, but she was disturbed by him.
Before Ruan Mei could rarely show her dissatisfaction, the appearance of the Destruction Aeon Nanook's phantom on the terminal he brought quickly attracted Ruan Mei's attention.
But what truly made Ruan Mei lose her grip on the porcelain cup she was holding with her fingertips, causing the plum wine to spill and wet her cyan skirt and leg ring... was the young man who was walking on the golden Path of Destruction.
The creation she had once witnessed his self-destruction with indifference.
He had grown taller, was dressed more handsomely, and seemed to have been well taken care of.
He had met many friends worth knowing, and had seen scenery that she did not know.
Under his paranoid and crazy behavior was a heart of a newborn child that was extremely gentle.
Even in a lightless black hole, it could also emit light and illuminate the world!
She once again watched the young man disappear.
She had lost him once again.
It was just that this time, there was not even an inch of space in his eyes for her.
And it was all occupied by that purple-haired woman...
Ruan Mei's heart—suddenly ached as if it were being pierced by an awl!
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