Who says a sickly daughter can’t break through the weirdness?

"I'll try to be gentle, Qiyin."

She seemed to be talking to Shen Qinyin, but also seemed to be talking to herself.

After Shen Qinyin left, Kana scooped out a small piece of luncheon meat with a spoon and put it to the girl's mouth.

Perhaps it had been a long time since she had eaten such decent food, the girl immediately opened her mouth and began chewing and swallowing almost instinctively.

She ate voraciously, and Kana fed her gently and patiently until half of the can of luncheon meat was gone. The girl finally managed to shake her head with all her might.

"Ugh..."

She seemed to want to say something, but with her vocal cords destroyed, she could only make hoarse whimpers.

But Kana could tell that she was expressing her gratitude.

And let her do it.

Kana gently put down the can, with a rare tenderness in her purple eyes.

She carefully gathered the girl's broken body into her arms and rested her head on her chest.

"Listen to me, little angel."

Kana's voice was as light as a feather, and the purple thread wrapped around her fingertips slowly sank into the girl's brow.

"It won't hurt..."

The girl's body trembled slightly, but her expression was unexpectedly calm.

Cana took a deep breath, her purple hair falling down, covering half of her face.

“May you hear birdsong and brooks instead of the wailing of pain.”

"May you touch soft petals instead of cold chains."

"May you taste sweet fruits, not blood and bitterness."

“May you ascend to heaven, and when you open your eyes again, you will see your mother waving at you in the sea of ​​flowers…”

As she suddenly pulled the silk thread in, the girl's tense body completely relaxed.

Those burnt wounds, hollowed-out eye sockets, severed vocal cords, all the pain disappeared under Kana's comfort.

......

An hour later, on the national highway.

The rescued survivors huddled together in panic. They were lucky to have survived the disaster, but without their weapons and the protection of their leader, they were no different from lambs to be slaughtered at night.

"We can't take them with us." Shen Qinyin's words blocked the idea of ​​taking them in.

She looked around at everyone and said word by word, "We haven't found the ruins yet. We need to continue our exploration. If these people follow us, it will only be more dangerous. Besides, our supplies can't support so many people."

"Qiyin, we all understand." Tang Miao patted her shoulder with a comforting look, "It's just that I feel a little guilty about leaving them alone like this..."

Lin Qiutang said, "I just talked to them, and they know they can't rely on us, so they plan to return to the base destroyed by the Doomsday Faction, hide out tonight, and then find a solution later.

Well, don't blame yourself too much. At least they have survived until now. As long as they don't encounter the doomsday faction, they know how to protect themselves."

Shen Qiyin touched her chin, glanced at the radio, and after thinking for a moment, she turned on the radio, asked Xiaoxiang to access Gray Wolf's private channel, and then left him a message:

"Gray Wolf, I have something to tell you."

"We killed a group of doomsday bastards and rescued a number of survivors. Their base is in a village in Yunnan Province. I'll send you the coordinates."

"If you're planning on recruiting talented individuals, please send some people to the coordinates to meet us."

After leaving the message, Shen Qiyin turned off the radio and said, "This is all I can do."

"Um, Qiyin." Tang Miao raised her hand weakly. "Although it's not a good time to say this, if those survivors saw our Titan, what if they told Gray Wolf..."

"Don't worry, Kana will take care of it. Her mental attacks can erase the other party's memory. Those people will forget about us."

"Huh? You actually have such a powerful ability?"

Tang Miao's eyes widened in disbelief, and he immediately looked at Kana with a wary look: "Kana, you, you better not do anything bad to me and then use this trick!"

Kana winked deliberately teasingly: "How do you know I haven't done it yet?"

"Ah, wha, what, you haven't already?!"

"Guess what~"

"..."

This damn bad woman, I just thought she was a little reliable, but I didn’t expect her to be so careless!

Shen Qiyin also gave Kana a meaningful look, and then said: "We will have more cooperation with Gray Wolf in the future, and there is another thing -

I plan to arrange contact with the authorities after completing this exploration of the ruins."

Lin Qiutang asked with a complicated expression, "Qiyin, have you finally made this decision?"

"There's no other way. There are ruins in the Tianshan Mountains in the north, and there are still undiscovered ruins in the East China Sea. If we want to explore these places, we have to go through official eyes. We can't hide it. Besides..."

Shen Qiyin raised her hand, and invisible threads of telekinesis entwined with her palm, with such a fierce force that it seemed as if it could even cut through space.

"I didn't dare to contact the authorities before because I didn't have enough strength and was afraid of being tricked by those with ulterior motives. But now, we have some self-defense power...

In fact, what Gray Wolf said was right. The situation has become more and more desperate. The days are getting shorter and the nights are getting longer. In the end, I am afraid that the entire planet will fall into eternal darkness.

We are indeed strong enough, but even for us, it will be difficult to survive the coming eternal night, so it is worth trying to cooperate with the official.

What's more, the authorities possess a wealth of intelligence that we don't, and the resources are backed by the national treasury. Humans are ultimately social and collectivist animals, and the ability to resist risks by banding together for warmth is definitely higher than that of scattered strongholds."

"I'm glad you said that."

Lin Qiutang rubbed Shen Qinyin's hair with relief.

As a former official investigator, she had always hoped to recruit her sister, but she also knew her sister's concerns.

A man is innocent unless he possesses a treasure. Not everyone in the officialdom is united, and there must be people with ulterior motives.

It was a wise move for Shen Qiyin to choose to become stronger before contacting the authorities.

"What are you going to do?" Kana asked curiously. "From what I know about you, you won't just throw yourself into the arms of the authorities, right?"

"Of course not. I plan to find a middleman to serve as a bridge for our cooperation with the authorities."

"I guessed it. This middleman is Gray Wolf, right?"

"Yes, we already have a cooperative relationship with the Gray Wolves, and he seems to have a strong network of contacts in the official circles. No one is more suitable than him."

Soon, Gray Wolf received Shen Qinyin's message and replied with a message of agreement.

He would send a search and rescue team as soon as possible to take the survivors to the camp he managed.

The survivors recovered quickly under the healing power of the White Queen's potion. The few who had broken limbs were sent away peacefully by Kana, and the rest were all normal people.

They can engage in labor and provide productivity. Since the gray wolves are willing to accept them, it means that they are still valuable to them.

After deciding on the next plan, Shen Qiyin gave most of the food they had stockpiled to the survivors, left the national highway, and went back into the rainforest.

At 14:50 pm, it was dark.

Thick darkness enveloped the rainforest. The outlines of the trees twisted into eerie shadows in the gloom, and the vines hanging between the branches were like dry arms, swaying slightly in the silence.

The air was filled with a rotten dampness, mixed with some indescribable fishy sweetness.

Shen Qinyin stood on the Titan, surrounded by thick fog. Even with the Titan's lighting system, she could not see anything beyond thirty meters.

The accumulated water on the ground could not reflect any scenery, only a turbid black, with a few unnatural ripples occasionally appearing, as if something was swimming slowly underwater.

After a while, there was a sound of crisp footsteps behind her.

The familiar fragrance gradually became stronger, and a touch of graceful purple entered Shen Qinyin's field of vision.

"Honey, aren't you going to sleep yet?"

Kana hugged Shen Qiyin tightly from behind, and put her chin on her shoulder: "I know, I'm the one keeping watch tonight, you're afraid that I'll be lonely, so you come to accompany me, right?"

Shen Qinyin did not answer immediately, but let Kana put the weight of her entire body on her back.

She could feel the other person's warm breath brushing against her earlobe, carrying that signature faint fragrance.

After a while, Shen Qiyin suddenly spoke: "The leader of the Doomsday Cult seemed to have said something before he died."

"Hmm? Really?" Kana tilted her head and touched Shen Qiyin's neck with her cheek, smiling, "I didn't hear clearly~"

"He said the word 'fly,'" Shen Qiyin continued, "and you killed him before he could finish his words. It looked like you were trying hard to cover up something."

"Um, no~"

"Haven't you forgotten your past? When you encounter someone who might know your identity, shouldn't you ask them exactly what they know?"

"..."

"Kana, we need trust. You promised me."

Kana sighed slightly, then chuckled, her red lips almost touching Shen Qiyin's ear: "Dear, we don't have a crisis of trust, don't think too much~"

Shen Qinyin turned around suddenly, her telekinesis suddenly activated, grabbed Kana's wrist and pressed her down on the Titan's cold armor.

The two of them were so close that they could count each other's eyelashes. Shen Qiyin's eyes were full of seriousness and resentment: "I'm not kidding you, Kana! The people from the Doomsday Cult know you and are very afraid of you!"

Kana's purple eyes glowed slightly in the darkness. Instead of struggling, she used her other hand to hook Shen Qiyin's neck: "Many people are afraid of me, after all..."

She deliberately prolonged the ending of her words, and with a sudden and light turn, she switched their positions instantly and pressed Shen Qiyin down: "I am indeed very dangerous~"

"..."

Although her legs were numb, Shen Qinyin knew that Kana's thigh was pressing between her legs, and she was deliberately rubbing it with subtle movements.

Seeing that Shen Qinyin remained cold and calm, the playful look on Kana's face gradually disappeared.

After a while, she suddenly said, "The Ascender."

"The Ascending One?" Shen Qiyin's expression changed slightly.

"Remember when I was in Jiuyin Mountain, I told you that I had seen the Doomsday Cult symbol before?"

Kana raised her head and distanced herself slightly from Shen Qiyin. "I recovered some of my memories. I saw a cage, snow-white walls, snow-white floor, and everything around was white."

"..."

"I vaguely remember that in that memory, the mirror reflected my childhood self."

"That must have been more than twenty years ago, right?"

"Oh, look at what you said, I'm not that old."

Kana joked and continued, "In my memories, I often heard the word 'Ascendant', and there were many children like me."

"...Could it be some kind of experiment?"

"Oh, who knows?"

After saying this, the two fell into silence for a long time.

The breeze kept blowing through the forest, making a rustling sound.

It wasn't until Shen Qiyin felt her arms getting cold that she spoke again: "If you think of anything else, or if you need my help, just let me know."

Shen Qiyin suddenly spoke, her voice was very soft, but it made Kana's body stiffen for a moment.

The latter's lips trembled as he asked doubtfully, "You, aren't you planning on kicking me out? I thought our trust had collapsed. How can you be sure I'm not hiding more information? For example, what if I'm really a member of the Doomsday Faction?"

"You are nothing like those beasts,"

Shen Qiyin recalled the motherly compassion in Kana's eyes when she comforted the young girl, and said, "I am very sure of this."

"..."

Kana's purple eyes trembled slightly, like the surface of a lake wrinkled by the wind.

She opened her mouth as if she wanted to say something, but swallowed it back.

The night wind blew up her scattered hair, drawing several blurred boundaries between the two of them.

"...Heh, you are such a naive girl."

After a while, Kana sighed softly.

She gave a bitter smile, looking somewhat helpless, but her purple eyes were filled with unconcealable joy: "You know what? Sometimes I would rather you doubt me."

Shen Qiyin frowned: "What do you mean?"

"Because trust is too heavy." She looked over Shen Qiyin's shoulder and looked at the dark rainforest in the distance, "especially... when even I am not sure who I am."