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Wenruo was taken aback for a moment, a hint of confusion appearing on her face. "Miss Lu... why did you come to help me?"

Lu Zhao blinked, a little confused. "I only came over after I received your call."

"Ah...is that so..." Wenruo lowered her eyes slightly, a little embarrassed. "Actually, I just pressed a button randomly. I don't know who I was going to call. It's probably because you're the latest contact I added."

Therefore, it wasn't that she specifically sought him out; it was just a coincidence.

However, Lu Zhao didn't seem to mind at all. He just smiled and comforted her, "Maybe this is fate. I just happen to be near the university town, and you just happened to call me."

See? She's already subtly hinting to the female lead that the two of them are destined for each other!

Once the female lead awakens, she will definitely remember this and choose to join the Bureau of Spirits!

Wenruo pursed her lips and looked up at Lu Zhao's bright eyes as he looked at her. Perhaps it was because his gentle smile was too dazzling that she couldn't help but be taken aback.

"Wen?" Lu Zhao called out, somewhat puzzled, when he saw that she suddenly had no reaction.

She quickly snapped out of her daze and unconsciously curled her lips into a smile. "You can just call me Wenruo."

Wow! Our relationship has grown so much faster!

Lu Zhao was overjoyed inside, but he maintained a gentle smile on his face. "Alright, you can just call me by my name then."

"Sister Lu." Wenruo raised her head and called out a title in a soft voice.

"Huh?" Lu Zhao was taken aback.

The female protagonist looked up at her, her face delicate, like the first green leaf on a spring branch, and asked, "May I call you that?"

That shows how close they are; she's even calling him "sister." It seems she definitely earns a lot of points with the female lead.

She tentatively reached out her arm and gently placed her hand on Wenruo's head. Seeing that the other party did not resist at all, she then rubbed it with peace of mind.

"Okay, little sister Wenruo." With a hint of teasing, Lu Zhao's eyes crinkled as she took her hand and led her out of the school. "Big sister will take you to eat something delicious!"

Wenruo didn't refuse and just let her pull her out of the school gate.

"By the way, those girls said you pointed out the grammatical error in Li Lingfeng's article on the spot. Aren't you a new student in the foreign languages ​​department? How did you spot that error?"

"I really liked the books he translated before, and I read them many times."

So that's how it is. No wonder he's a top student; he even reads those obscure and difficult-to-understand English books.

Lu Zhao nodded knowingly, and looking at the description of Li Lingfeng's works in the encyclopedia, he suddenly felt a headache coming on.

For someone like her, who struggled to get into an ordinary university and only aimed for a passing grade of 60, these books were enough to give her a headache just by reading the prefaces.

"Sister Lu." Wenruo suddenly called out to her.

She quickly turned her head. "What is it?"

But then a gentle, clear light appeared in the game's female protagonist's bright eyes. "You're going the wrong way. The school gate is on the other side."

Ah this...

Lu Zhao looked around for a while before realizing he had no idea where he had led the person in the middle of the campus. He awkwardly withdrew his hand, scratching his head unconsciously. "We definitely went the wrong way..."

With a soft "pfft," Wenruo covered her mouth and laughed, but quickly suppressed her laughter and pointed in the opposite direction, "Sister Lu, let me take you out."

"...Thank you." After struggling for a while, Lu Zhao finally managed to utter a single word.

It's so rare to have a hero save the damsel in distress, but he just tries to get attention from the female lead and then she suddenly starts acting stupid!

Following awkwardly behind the girl who was a head shorter than him, Lu Zhao was speechless. He could only hope that the female lead would be kind and not turn around to talk to him, so that he could process this awkward situation properly.

Fortunately, as they walked along, Wenruo only occasionally spoke to explain some of the sights on campus to her, and otherwise didn't even look at her much.

Lu Zhao only needed to keep saying "uh-huh" all the way.

Finally reaching the familiar school gate, Captain Lu breathed a sigh of relief. Just as he stepped out, he saw the figure walking beside him suddenly lower to the ground—

"careful!"

She instinctively helped the person up, only to find that Wenruo's eyes were tightly closed, and she was clutching her clothes in pain.

This situation... could it be...?

She swallowed hard, then turned to the gatekeeper and said, "Where's the infirmary? She's awakened!"

Chapter 118 Awakening

December 13th, heavy rain.

Lin Yu hurriedly stepped into the first floor, casually tossing aside the umbrella in her hand. Ignoring the fact that she was almost half soaked, she immediately grabbed Lu Zhao's clothes, who was waiting at the door of the infirmary: "Xiao Ruo, what's wrong!"

Lu Zhao frowned slightly and reached out to pull her hand down. "She has awakened."

“Awakening…” Lin Yu’s face paled, her mind seemingly numb. She opened her mouth slightly and looked at the person in front of her again, “It’s you again?”

What, it's her again?

Lu Zhao stood there, bewildered, watching Lin Yu lean against the wall, looking lost and dejected, her body slowly sliding down until she squatted on the ground.

"What exactly are you trying to say?" She stepped forward, looking down at her.

Lin Yu bit her pale lips tightly, her eyes red, and looked up at her with difficulty, but after a long while, she did not say a word.

Lu Zhao felt uncomfortable under her gaze, but some intense thoughts suddenly flashed through his mind—

"If it weren't for you, how could she have become a Spirit Race member!"

"Look at how many people you've harmed!"

"Everyone who gets close to you will not have a good ending, not only Xiao Fei, but also your parents, they died because of you!"

"Lu Zhao, you're a monster."

She snapped back to reality, her heart pounding as she took a few steps back.

Lin Yu stood up silently, her eyes still red, and walked past her without a word toward the infirmary.

"Hey!" she called out involuntarily.

The person in front of her stopped and turned to look at her. His eyes were dark and cold, devoid of any warmth, as if to say, "It's because of you that Wenruo has become like this."

Lu Zhao swallowed hard. She opened her mouth slightly, her throat dry as if she hadn't spoken in a long time, and finally managed to utter a few hoarse, broken syllables: "It wasn't me..."

Wenruo is the female protagonist, and regardless of which faction she joins in the future, her awakening is inevitable.

It was clearly destined, so why blame her?

She wanted to explain, but her body was trembling uncontrollably. The cold wind blowing in from outside kept pouring into her coat, chilling her to the bone and reaching her heart.

Lin Yu didn't say anything, but pushed the door open and went in, leaving her standing outside alone. The wind kept blowing in, making her hands cold, and the chest where Bai Yan had been living seemed to have cooled down completely.

It shouldn't be like this.

Of the studies she has reviewed, none suggest that close contact between ordinary people and Eldar would affect their awakening.

Didn't those scientists also say that it was a meteorite that fell from the sky, with radiation covering the entire globe, that caused one in ten thousand humans to have genetic mutations, awakening powers different from ordinary people, while also paying a corresponding price?

This shouldn't be her fault...

Lin Yu works at the Spirit Management Bureau, so she has definitely spent more time with the spirit race than Wen Ruo, but she is still an ordinary person, which is enough to prove this point.

But why... why did the voice of those few words that popped into her memory belong to Lin Yu?

Was this the reason for the falling out between the original owner of this body and her?

For a moment, she felt extremely cold from head to toe. She stood there stunned for a long time until she heard the noise inside and came back to her senses.

"Wen...Wenruo!" She stumbled in and saw Lin Yu and the school doctor gathered around the bed, while the person on the bed trembled, as if groaning in pain from the depths of their soul.

Will it hurt this much when I awaken?

Lu Zhao was stunned and walked forward blankly. For some reason, Lin Yu did not stop her and let her walk to the bedside room.

The doctor was still struggling to hold Wenruo down to prevent her from biting her tongue in pain, but judging from the person on the hospital bed with her eyes tightly closed and her face abnormally flushed, it was clear that she was in great pain.

Suddenly, Lin Yu looked up at her: "Were you like this back then...?"

Lu Zhao was stunned again, staring blankly at her.

Did the original body also experience pain back then?

She didn't know, she only remembered the sky full of white flames, and the faint cries for help mixed in with the noise.

At first she didn’t know who it was, but later she found out that it was the voice of her original parents.

Those two people who were connected to the original owner by blood were thus buried alive in the sea of ​​fire.

Thinking about it this way, Lin Yu's statement that she caused her parents' deaths back then wasn't entirely wrong.

Lu Zhao tried his best to suppress the immense sorrow that surged up from the bottom of his heart. He reached out to help the doctor restrain Wen Ruo, but he didn't dare to look at her at all.

"Ugh...it hurts!" The girl on the hospital bed was still moaning incoherently. If it weren't for their restraint, she would probably be curled up in a ball by now.

"Why has it been hurting for so long?" The doctor's forehead was already covered in sweat. She turned to Lin Yu beside her for help, "I need to look up some relevant information. Can you hold her down for me so she doesn't hurt herself?"

Lin Yu nodded hastily, taking over the doctor's position and working with Lu Zhao to suppress Wen Ruo.

Looking at the girl who was burning up, Lu Zhao frowned and, disregarding the surging emotions in his heart, looked up at Lin Yu and said, "We need to cool her down, otherwise she might burn herself to death before the awakening period is over."

Upon hearing the words "burn to death," Lin Yu's brow twitched violently. He looked up at her with a complex expression and asked in a deep voice, "What do you intend to do?"

“The white flames can absorb her excessively hot body temperature,” she answered without hesitation.

Lin Yu's eyes widened in surprise. "You're going to use that fire? Aren't you afraid...?"

Lu Zhao understood her unfinished meaning, but seeing Wen Ruo's temperature rising higher and higher, she had no choice but to bite the bullet and continue: "Can you think of any other ways to quickly lower the temperature now?"

"..." Lin Yu gritted her teeth and remained silent for a long time. "I'll go ask the doctor!"

As soon as he finished speaking, the doctor lifted the curtain and walked in, saying urgently, "I've checked. High-level spirit races have extremely strong reactions during awakening. This student should be at least an A-level spirit race. Before she completes her awakening, we need to find a way to quickly cool her down, but ordinary methods don't work for spirit races. Do you have any other methods?"

We still have to use her method!

Lu Zhao made a decisive decision: "I am the only Spirit Race member here, let me do it!"

As she spoke, she looked at Lin Yu.

The latter glanced at Wenruo with a conflicted look, and only after being urged by the doctor did she reluctantly agree, "Okay, what do you want to do?"

Lu Zhao smiled slightly, stretched out his finger, and a small flame appeared at the tip of his finger.