The nth time I met my puppet

The curious man finally returned to Ta'ersha. He was looking forward to seeing that familiar figure, but he looked everywhere but could not find anyone.

"Wannan! Where are you!"

The curious person couldn't find Wan Nan for a long time, and in the end he only found Escher.

"Where are Niwa and Wannan?"

Escher turned his head away hesitantly, as if he found it difficult to speak, as if he couldn't bear to tell the truth.

"Lord Niwa...as the head of Tadashi Sand, he should have been responsible for this disaster. But he..."

Esher paused, sighed, and continued, "Alas... But, after all, this is human nature, and everyone can understand it."

Although Escher does not explicitly state this, his words imply that Niwa ran away because he was afraid of taking responsibility.

“Why…how is this possible?”

The curious person was confused and puzzled. They had clearly agreed that he would go to seek help, so why did things turn out like this? Had he been betrayed by Niwa?

This thought filled the curious with immense pain and disappointment. He couldn't believe Niwa would do such a thing. Unable to accept this fact, he was filled with doubt and uneasiness.

"Where's Nan that night?"

The curious person continued to ask, saying that the person he was most worried about was Wan Nan. He couldn't find her, so he could only ask Escher.

"Wannan? It seems like I haven't seen her for a while. Everyone's been busy during this period. I saw Wannan coughing up blood a few days ago. I don't know what's wrong with her...

Maybe... No, that shouldn't be the case, don't worry, maybe it's just missing?"

Escher looked extremely heartbroken, as if he felt deeply sorry for Wan Nan's experience, but with just two sentences, he directly rationalized Wan Nan's death.

But even if Wan Nan had the same symptoms, she wouldn't have died immediately during this time period, so why did she disappear? Escher didn't mention this at all.

"How could that be? When did she..."

The curious man suddenly stopped talking in the middle of his words, with a painful expression on his face, as if he remembered something.

On the day he left, Wan Nan wasn't completely unremarkable. Perhaps, as early as that time, Wan Nan had already...

Thinking of this, his voice became a little choked and he didn't know what to do.

"No, this is impossible! She clearly told me that she would wait for me to come back, how could this happen?"

"Ugh……"

The curious one shook his head. He couldn't accept such an ending. He couldn't believe that Wan Nan would leave so suddenly.

"I don't believe it! I'm going to find her!"

Escher did not stop or dissuade him, but accompanied him silently, like a friend. No one noticed the corners of his mouth slightly raised, as if he was enjoying a good show.

"Wannan! Where are you!"

The curious person ran out frantically, calling Wan Nan's name loudly, hoping to get that familiar response, but there was only the sound of the whistling wind from beginning to end.

He searched the entire Ta'ersha and asked everyone, but the answers they gave were no different from Escher's. Finally, he looked at his former home, at the ruins, and muttered to himself.

"Liar... We agreed to rebuild together when I came back. But... where are you?"

There was dead silence, and no one responded.

But... Wan Nan was standing in front of the curious person.

"Don't cry... don't cry... I'm here, look at me. I've always been here, I didn't lie to you, I've always been here waiting for you."

Wan Nan tried to touch the curious person, but her palm passed through the curious person's body. She was stunned for a moment.

I almost forgot that she was already dead. As a soul, she couldn't touch the curious person. She couldn't even offer such simple comfort. She could only watch all this happen.

The doctor brought a device made from Wan Nan's heart with him, so Wan Nan's soul was able to follow and see everything, but was powerless to stop it.

She watched the curious being deceived and blinded by the doctor, but she was unable to tell him the truth. She could not change anything. After all, she was already dead.

He finally understood love, but the person who taught him how to love was no longer there.

"I clearly agreed that I would give you an answer.

I haven't had time to tell you,

I love you…

I already understand what love is, but where are you?

Why did you break your promise? You promised me you would never lie to me again…"

But Wan Nan never broke her promise and waited for him from beginning to end. It was just that in his eyes, Wan Nan finally broke her promise.

"I didn't break my promise, I've been waiting for you.

I love you too.

Don't cry, we can meet again.

Next time, can you give me this answer again? "

The curious one choked up and asked Wan Nan again and again why she was not there, why she didn't wait for him to come back, why she lied to him, but he felt guilty in his heart, why he didn't come back earlier, why he didn't realize something was wrong in time.

Wan Nan responded again and again, but her response could not reach the curious one.

Until the end, the curious person's throat was dry and he could no longer make a sound, and he did not receive a single response.

Escher sighed softly and patted the curious man on the shoulder. "I understand your grief, but in life, birth, aging, sickness, and death are inevitable. Sooner or later, we will all face this day."

The curious one did not speak, he was no longer able to respond.

"One more thing... The source of the Tatar Sand disaster has not yet been resolved.

Someone needs to take this device to the depths of the furnace and shut it down, and this disaster will end. But now no one can go...

Niwa is missing, and no one is responsible. People hope that you can take Niwa's place and prevent this disaster.

Well...it's up to you to decide, no one will force you."

The doctor handed the device to the curious man. The curious man said nothing and remained silent, but he did not refuse, even though he knew he might die.

Perhaps it was because Wan Nan had already left, and suddenly he couldn't find a reason to refuse.

Everyone needs someone to stop this disaster, they need him. And he has nothing.

Perhaps he should have prevented this disaster.

Wan Nan was so angry that her teeth were itching. She wanted to stab the doctor to death. After that, she wanted to trick Qingqizhe as well.

"Damn it, this bastard is just taking advantage of the fact that the strange guy is easy to deceive. He just made up all sorts of nonsense because he doesn't know anything. Besides, he must have calculated that the strange guy wouldn't refuse given his personality."

Wan Nan didn't want to let the strange guy go, but she only had her soul left and it was impossible to stop him.

The curious person took the device given by Escher and went deep into the core of the furnace to shut it down.

The temperature of the furnace core was very high, and the scorching heat seemed to warn him that if he dared to touch it, his flesh and blood would be burned to ashes, but he did not hesitate.

He felt a burning pain in his fingers, and it hurt, but he didn't stop. He even burned his fingers to shut down the furnace.

With the core shut down, everything finally came to an end.