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The nurse said that the child mumbled a few words like "Dad" and "Mom" during the resuscitation.

She didn't know what the child had gone through before awakening that caused the psychic surge, but she knew that the person the child was talking about would never be able to see her again.

Was Lu Zhao facing a similar situation at that time?

Chapter Fourteen: It's not me who's wrong, it's the world!

In the dead silence, the phone rang at just the right moment. She answered it, "Hello, this is Lu Zhao."

“Captain Lu,” a serious male voice came from inside, “I am a member of the Sky Dome Monitoring Department. The detailed information about this incident has been compiled and sent to your email address.”

"You've worked hard, get some rest." She hung up the phone, glanced at the numbers the clock on the wall pointed to, and blinked in surprise.

It's already 3 a.m., and she's still not sleepy at all.

Since I can't sleep, I might as well take a look at the report.

She opened the document and began reading it quickly. This was the first time she had seen a document from the Monitoring Department since she transmigrated. She didn't have much of a concept of this department before, at most knowing that it was a department that monitored psionic fluctuations across the country.

Furthermore, since this is Everspire City, the main setting of the game, most psionic events occur here, so the monitoring department only focuses on monitoring this one city.

However, it wasn't until she saw this detailed document that she vaguely understood how terrifying this department was.

Not only was the time of the accident recorded down to the second, but even the family's life story was written down in great detail, almost as if they had pasted their household registration and ancestral records on it.

To lead such a department that involves so many confidential matters, Chi Ying must have put in a lot of effort.

After reading the documents, Lu Zhao looked up at the little girl on the hospital bed and reached out to tuck her in. "So your name is Duan Yue."

The cause of the whole incident was very simple: the young couple in the Duan family were going through a divorce and were arguing in their room when Duan Yue, who had just returned from school, saw them and then completely lost control.

Every family has its own troubles, and since the young couple had already passed away, Lu Zhao didn't need to comment on them anymore.

However, when she saw Xiao Duan Yue left alone in this world, she still felt somewhat dissatisfied. It was indeed too pitiful for a seven or eight-year-old child to lose both parents like this.

Moreover, according to the information, Duan Yue was found to have signs of awakening as a member of the Spirit Clan half a month ago. The diagnosis from the hospital also clearly stated that her emotions must be taken care of in the next month, and there must be no mistakes.

According to the rules, people who are about to awaken should stay in the hospital for observation until the awakening is complete before they can be discharged. However, her parents did not take this into consideration and forcibly took the little girl back home on the grounds that the hospital was too expensive.

According to testimonies from neighbors, the couple began to consider divorce when Duan Yue was diagnosed as becoming a member of the Spirit Clan. One party believed that the Spirit Clan was an alien species and demanded to have another "normal" child, while the other party was unwilling to have another child due to financial pressure.

Since the two sides couldn't get along, they simply started a divorce. After the divorce, neither of them wanted to take a foreign child as a burden, so they simply sent the child back to the countryside, giving him a small living allowance each year, which they considered their best effort.

These matters, which should have been discussed between the couple, were overheard by Duan Yue, who happened to come home from school early.

Being too young, she didn't understand what her parents meant by calling her "outcast" or "little monster" with disgust, but she knew that these words were referring to her.

Then, when she heard that her parents were planning to send her to the countryside to live with her grandmother whom she had never met, Xiao Duanyue finally realized that her parents probably didn't want her anymore.

Unable to bear the shock, while the young couple were still arguing about Duan Yue's awakening, she went into the bathroom to hide, but lost control of her emotions and started a fire.

In this world, the Eldar have only existed for five or six years, and many people still feel a sense of rejection towards this new race that is different from humans but looks exactly like them.

Duan Yue's parents are typical representatives of this type of people.

He believed his daughter was of a different race and considered her a monster, so he wanted to abandon her. However, he was unable to do so due to legal constraints, so he came up with the excuse of sending her to the countryside.

However, according to the information, the so-called grandmother in the countryside was already bedridden and was supported by her son's meager living expenses. She had no ability to take care of the child at all.

They not only wanted to abandon their daughter, but also wanted to kill her and bury this daughter who was different from them in the countryside, as if she never existed.

Thinking of this, Lu Zhao was even somewhat relieved that Duan Yue was still young and wouldn't think so much. Otherwise, if she knew that her parents wanted to kill her, she would be even more heartbroken.

"Mom... Dad..." Duan Yue uttered a muffled sound from the hospital bed, "Little Yue, be good, don't abandon me..."

Lu Zhao sighed softly, reached out and stroked Duan Yue's head, gently stroking it as he whispered comfortingly, "Your father and mother aren't leaving. They'll stay by Xiao Yue's side forever."

She's a habitual liar, and this time was no exception.

Sure enough, the little girl who was still sobbing seemed to hear her voice, and a sweet smile gradually appeared on her face. She fell into a deep sleep, just like a child sleeping in her mother's arms.

"White flames."

A wisp of flame emerged from Lu Zhao's fingertip. She glanced at the pure white flame, then touched Duan Yue's brow with her index and middle fingers through the air.

Her white flames are the king of fire; any flame that encounters them can only submit.

With his eyes closed, Lu Zhao carefully sensed the gradually disordered spiritual energy fluctuations emanating from Duan Yue's body. He hardened his heart and the flame at his fingertips gradually increased in size. Without touching Duan Yue's skin, it silently enveloped her body.

She watched as Duan Yue's body was enveloped in white flames and gradually rose into the air, while the spiritual energy fluctuations that had tried to resist lost their power and began to gradually submit.

Lu Zhao's lips curled slightly. The flames enveloping Duan Yue seemed to pass through an empty field, gradually sinking into Duan Yue's body, forming a cage that completely imprisoned the flames within her.

Once Xiao Duan Yue can control her emotions in the future, she will be able to easily break free from Bai Yan's restraints.

After doing all this and gently placing the child back on the hospital bed, Lu Zhao finally felt a bit tired.

It seems that using the White Flame also puts a considerable strain on her body.

When she has time another day, she needs to test how long this body can withstand the continuous release of spiritual energy.

To ensure her safety, the thing she should understand most is her own body.

After a drowsy yawn, Lu Zhao finally couldn't resist and fell asleep by the hospital bed.

Xiao Duan Yue's dreams include her parents, but what else might be in her dreams?

Chapter Fifteen: My Deputy is Actually a Gentle Beauty

"Senior, senior!"

A familiar voice rang in his ears. Lu Zhao looked up groggily and was met with a bright, smiling face.

"Why are you asleep? Did you stay up all night?" The person chuckled and poked her cheek, then pointed to the computer in front of her. "Didn't we agree to play games together?"

Lu Zhao blinked, then turned around in confusion to look at his surroundings. It was still the same not-so-spacious computer room he remembered, with the air conditioner on the wall blowing cold air. Looking down, he saw that he was still wearing that summer T-shirt.

Is it because I heard too much on the road that I dreamed of entering that game?

Feeling the ample cool air in the room, Lu Zhao slowly let out a long breath, and finally a smile appeared on his face as if he had survived a disaster.

Games are fine to play, but if you actually went inside and became one of the characters, that would be a very unpleasant experience.

"Actually, I just had a dream about the Spirit Race..." She smiled and was about to tell her about her dream with great interest, but as soon as she looked up, she felt that the face of the junior schoolmate in front of her was becoming a little blurry.

Lu Zhao tried to open his eyes wide, but his vision still began to blur. Then he heard a gentle voice he had never heard before.

That voice sounded like it was calling her… Captain?!

Startled awake, Lu Zhao sat up abruptly, only to find himself still in the hospital. The cold air he had just felt was simply from a window that had been opened halfway.

She didn't go back; she's still in the game.

Her fingers trembled uncontrollably. She swallowed hard before looking up at the woman standing beside her.

How should I describe it?

If Chi Ying possesses a cold beauty, and Xia Zhifei exudes a sweet and elegant aura, then the feeling this woman gives Lu Zhao can be summed up in two words: gentle.

Or rather, it has a Yamato Nadeshiko (ideal Japanese woman) feel to it.

Even though she was just wearing a very ordinary light-colored sweater and jeans, Lu Zhao's gaze kept lingering on the eye-catching curves of her chest.

That's incredibly impolite!

Forcing herself to look away, she stood up, only to realize she was a head taller than the other person. She unconsciously took two steps back, coughed lightly, and said, "Um, that..."

"Captain, Messiah's taxi fare last night needs to be reimbursed. Please sign off on it."

Ah this...

Lu Zhao was momentarily stunned when he heard that gentle voice before taking the bill from her hand, glancing at it casually, and then signing a fluent signature with a pen.

The other party took the bill and stared at the signature for a while, somewhat surprised.

Oh no, the original owner's signature style must be different from hers!

Alarm bells immediately went off in her mind, and her brain raced. She was just about to come up with an excuse to get away with it when the beautiful woman looked up and smiled at her with satisfaction. "I've been trying to persuade you for so long, and you've finally agreed to practice your calligraphy?"

Eh?

Lu Zhao swallowed back what he was about to say and quickly smiled, saying, "Yes, it looks better this way."

The beautiful woman nodded and also signed her name with a delicate, elegant handwriting, which looked quite lovely.

Squinting at him, Lu Zhao finally got a sense of what was going on. The person in front of him should be the last member of their four-person team, and also the original owner's deputy, Song Lingge.

Whether it's her name, appearance, or temperament, she gives off the feeling of a gentle beauty.

As one of the three romanceable characters, Song Lingge is naturally one of them as well.

So on the forums, players say that joining the first team of the Operations Department is like having a harem, with all kinds of girls, whether they are cold, sweet, gentle, or... offbeat.

Someone once asked the official account if they could have a harem ending where they could recruit everyone from the first action team, and then they were blacklisted by the official account along with their ID.

Although this behavior is a bit radical, it shows that the official creators are a group of dedicated fans of pure love.

But... what were the details of Song Lingge's life?

Before she could even begin to recall, the other person walked to the bedside first, carefully examining Duan Yue, who was still fast asleep. A hint of worry appeared between her beautiful brows. "Was it this child who caused the fire?"

A little unaccustomed to her tone of voice, Lu Zhao paused for a moment before nodding in response.

Song Lingge didn't notice anything amiss with her, and only sighed before saying, "What a pity, to awaken at such a young age... Does she have any other family?"

“She still has a grandmother in the countryside, but she’s no longer able to take care of her.” Lu Zhao carefully recalled the data provided by the monitoring department, which stated that Duan Yue had no relatives in the city other than her grandmother.

As for those distant relatives, quite a few were listed, but Lu Zhao estimated that these people probably wouldn't be too enthusiastic towards Duan Yue.

“In that case, let’s send her to the spirit management center after she wakes up,” Song Lingge said.

A mental institution?

It was another new term, but this time Lu Zhao quickly recalled its meaning.

The reason is simple: the original owner of this body had also spent some time in this spiritual management center.

According to the Provisional Constitution of the Spirit Race introduced five years ago, if a minor Spirit Race member commits a crime, he or she will be imprisoned in this Spirit Energy Institute. The length of imprisonment will be determined according to the severity of the crime. If he or she reaches adulthood before the time has passed, he or she will be sent to the Spirit Race Prison.

To put it simply, it's an institution similar to a juvenile detention center.

However, given that the original owner's memories of the Spirit Management Office were far from pleasant, Lu Zhao frowned and stepped forward to ask, "She's so young, isn't there any other way?"

Song Lingge glanced at her in surprise, then smiled and said, "Captain, I know what you're thinking, but the law is the law. She has no guardian, so she can only go to the mental hospital. If she does, there's still room for maneuver."