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"Kevin, don't blame me for not helping you in the future. I almost got forcibly Hollowfied again in order to help you improve your strength."

Lu Qiong carried the unconscious Kevin on his shoulder, occasionally grumbling as he walked toward Dr. Mei's location.

"Sigh, now that this matter is over, I can finally relax a bit and have plenty of time to rest."

...........

"May, I'm entrusting Kevin to you. Take good care of him."

Lu Qiong casually tossed Kevin onto the sofa and prepared to leave.

However, when his eyes met Mei's, he couldn't help but feel a little guilty.

Mei looked at Lu Qiong calmly.

It was as if he were being questioned, "How did Kevin become like this?"

"Cough cough, Kevin is fine, at most he has a muscle tear. Once he wakes up, just give him plenty of high-protein food."

"So you're just going to leave like this? Isn't your mission to protect me?"

"Relax, as long as those old fogies within the Firemoth don't make a move on you, basically no one can cause trouble here. Besides... did I help Kevin improve his combat power for nothing? With his current level, he can basically do whatever he wants in the Firemoth. So his temporary task is to protect you in my place."

"gone."

Lu Qiong waved to Mei.

"See you."

Watching Lu Qiong's departing figure, Mei's feelings were not complicated, just a little regretful.

After several twists and turns, Mei has clearly come to regard Lu Qiong as a friend.

"Although he can be quite unreliable at times, he's actually a pretty interesting guy, isn't he?"

.....................

Lu Qiong was right; he had indeed retired. With Möbius's help, he submitted a report about an accident during an experiment that resulted in serious physical damage.

After confirming several times that Lu Qiong was no longer able to contribute to the cause, the higher-ups decided to let Lu Qiong retire, but he would retain his position as vice dean of the medical and nursing department and be promoted to colonel before retirement.

With this, Lu Qiong's military career came to a complete end.

.....................

On the very day Lu Qiong retired, the sun shone brightly and a gentle breeze caressed his face, but no one knew that a fierce argument was unfolding in Möbius's laboratory.

A man and a woman stood facing each other, the atmosphere so tense that it seemed as if the air itself had frozen.

Their argument had been going on for a long time, but it wasn't a quarrel in the ordinary sense—more accurately, it was just Möbius questioning the man one-sidedly.

"What's wrong with your body?!" Mebius stared wide-eyed, his face full of anger as he questioned Lu Qiong.

Her voice was sharp and shrill, filled with uncontrollable anger and anxiety.

Despite Mebius's stern questioning, Lu Qiong remained remarkably calm.

He smiled slightly and gently patted Möbius's shoulder, trying to calm her down: "Don't get so agitated, Doctor. Getting angry can cause wrinkles, you know."

However, his words of comfort had no effect. On the contrary, Möbius became even more enraged. She suddenly swung her arm forcefully, shoving Lu Qiong's hand away, and continued to question him in an almost roaring tone: "Why didn't you tell me?! I could have helped you! As long as you were willing to cooperate with the examination..."

Lu Qiong quietly watched the emotionally distraught Mebius, maintaining a faint smile on his face.

After a long silence, he slowly spoke, "No, Doctor. Some things are not as simple as you think. Regarding the problem I have, in this world... I'm afraid no one can truly solve it..."

Seeing Lu Qiong's calm expression, Mebius suddenly felt a sense of panic.

The girl's lips trembled slightly, and her previously calm and composed expression was instantly replaced by panic. Then, as if all her strength had been drained, her body slumped forward, and she opened her arms to tightly hug Lu Qiong's waist.

"Please... listen to me, okay? I... I really can't live without you," Möbius's voice was trembling with tears, as if every word was uttered with all his might.

The choked sobs in her voice, almost inaudible, evoked pity in the listener.

"Eh?"

Lu Qiong was clearly taken aback by the sudden turn of events.

He stood there dumbfounded, completely unsure how to deal with this Möbius who was so different from the one he knew.

Recalling the cold and outspoken Mebius of the past, and then looking at her now, with tears streaming down her face, pleading with him, Lu Qiong felt as if he had lived through another world.

"Could it be that... I've been misunderstanding her all along?" (thinking that Möbius simply used him as a stress reliever)

Lu Qiong pondered to himself.

Just then, he felt Mebius hug him even tighter, as if he was afraid that if he let go, the other would disappear.

Left with no other option, he could only gently comfort her, "Okay, okay, I promise you. I'll cooperate with you during the checkup, alright?"

Seeing that Lu Qiong agreed, Mebius breathed a sigh of relief and quickly released his arms that had been tightly holding his waist.

She hurriedly wiped away the few remaining glistening tears from the corners of her eyes, as if trying to cover up the traces of her recent crying.

“You… listen carefully, immediately forget everything that just happened! This is my order!” Möbius tried hard to control his excitement, but his voice still trembled involuntarily.

Faced with this situation, Lu Qiong felt helpless. What else could he do but try his best to coax her?

For the next hour, Lu Qiong completely obeyed Mebius's instructions and arrangements, letting her urge, push, and even pull him to undergo various tests.

Mebius, meanwhile, was intently observing every change in the data, seemingly filled with both anticipation and nervousness about the medical examination.

However, when he finally received the heavy test report, Möbius's expression suddenly turned to utter astonishment: "How could this be?! Absolutely impossible! I don't believe this result..." With a piercing sound, the thin piece of paper fluttered down onto the cold, hard floor like a bird with broken wings.

Lu Qiong put in a lot of effort to calm Möbius down, but who would have thought that after just one glance at the test report printed out by the machine, she would fall to the brink of collapse again and be in a state of extreme frenzy.

“There’s absolutely no way there could be such symptoms! Lu Qiong, let me do the test again! It must be a machine malfunction, it must be like this…!” Möbius muttered to himself, trying to relieve the immense pressure in his heart with self-comfort.

Lu Qiong frowned and picked up the test report. He couldn't understand most of the technical terms on it, but the specific symptoms he described at the end gave him a jolt.

"Nothingness, disappearance, physical removal from this world."

Lu Qiong was not shocked by his own fate, because he had been able to vaguely sense it ever since his body first underwent mutation.

He was shocked that Möbius could actually detect it!

On the other side, Möbius, whose spirit was almost broken, was still muttering, "Test it again..."

"Ah~"

With a sigh, Lu Qiong helplessly hugged Mebius and comforted him, "The equipment should be fine. I know my body."

"You knew all along?!"

"Why...why didn't you tell me?!"

With nowhere to vent his anger, Mebius could only pound on Lu Qiong's chest.

"What's the point of telling you? Will it make you worry?"

Upon hearing this, Möbius was stunned, then smiled bitterly, "Yes! What's the use of telling me? What good will it do me to know? I can't do anything about it..."

"Okay, don't jump to conclusions. Maybe I'm actually fine and just scaring myself?"

Mebius glared at him.

Do you think I would believe what you're saying?

"Actually... I don't believe it either."

The air was silent for a few minutes.

It was Lu Qiong who broke the silence first, "But, on another note, Doctor, how did you discover the abnormality in my body? I should have hidden it quite well."

"Since the last time you shared a bed with me, I've noticed that your performance time in bed has been getting shorter and shorter. At first, it was just a few seconds, then it was a few minutes, and finally it gradually decreased again to..."

Stop, stop, stop...

Lu Qiong: "Why do I feel like... I've been insulted? Wait, who records the time for that kind of thing? Down to the second? Isn't that absurd!"

After glancing at a certain spot on Lu Qiong's body, Möbius continued, "At first, I didn't feel anything strange. I just thought I was more charming, so..."

Until that day, I was surprised to find that you started wearing gloves frequently, as if it were an inseparable habit.

However, fate is always full of drama. In a moment of carelessness, I happened to witness the astonishing scene after you carefully removed your gloves—your hands had mysteriously disappeared! No matter how advanced and special the detection tools I used to secretly probe, the result was—your body was always like this, the position of your hands was missing! I couldn't find any trace of them, as if those hands that once existed had been completely erased from this world, like formatted data, disappearing into thin air without warning.

"Faced with such a bizarre situation, a strong sense of unease and doubt welled up in my heart, so I am only now..."

Mebius couldn't help but ask, "So... tell me, in the current situation, how much longer can your body hold out?"

Lu Qiong scratched his head hesitantly and replied uncertainly, "Uh...maybe I can hold on for another ten years or so?" His eyes flickered, as if he was trying to hide something.

Mebius stared silently at Lu Qiong without saying a word, but her tense expression revealed her inner anxiety and worry.

After a moment of silence, Lu Qiong seemed to have made up his mind, and gritted his teeth, saying, "Ten years! Hmm, it should be around ten years!"

Upon hearing the number, Möbius's brow furrowed deeply, forming a deep frown. Clearly, this answer did not satisfy or reassure her.

Seeing this, Lu Qiong sighed helplessly and finally confessed, "Okay... actually, at most... at most, there are only two years left..."

When he spoke the last few words, his voice was almost inaudible.

Mebius's once slender, fair hands were now clenched tightly. She took a deep breath, trying to calm her agitated emotions, and then asked in a low voice, "In that case, what do you plan to do next?"

Lu Qiong shrugged nonchalantly, seemingly indifferent to matters of life and death: "What else can I do? I'll just live out the rest of my days peacefully and quietly."

His tone was nonchalant, as if death were nothing more than a trivial matter.

However, Mebius, standing opposite her, was completely unable to accept this answer. Her eyes widened as she stared intently at Lu Qiong, her gaze filled with anger and resentment.

"Absolutely not! I will never let you go easily! Even if you die one day, I will make your body into a beautiful specimen and let it accompany me forever... every single day."

Mebius said through gritted teeth, his words revealing a morbid obsession and madness.

At this moment, the possessiveness in Möbius's eyes erupted like a volcano, fiery and intense, sending chills down one's spine.

"What the hell?! You're a pervert!"

Lu Qiong wanted to say directly that he might not even leave behind a corpse in the end, but he couldn't get the words out. Looking at the increasingly crazed look in Möbius's eyes, he could only sigh helplessly in his heart, "It's fate, it's destiny. Even if I don't die, what difference is there between my future and my death?"

Even though I can't do anything about it now, I will definitely find a way to save you before you die! Don't think you can just leave without any worries!