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At this moment, Swire seemed to have all her strength drained away, even her fingertips were trembling uncontrollably, her eyelids were tired and drooping, but the eyes that were slightly closed still burned with a stubborn flame.

"Tired?" Because of the perspective, Yun Yi mistakenly thought that Shi Huaiya was completely exhausted and couldn't hold on any longer.

She picked up Swire and placed her on her lap, Swire's soft legs dangling down and gently bumping against Yunyi's calves.

She gently pressed Swire's head against her, then stroked her hair, speaking slowly and softly, "You should be sleepy. Go to sleep."

Perhaps it was because he had just come into contact with Yun Yi's soul, or perhaps it was because his body had reached its limit after withstanding the weakened pressure.

At this moment, Yun Yi's soft and melodious voice fell into Shi Huaiya's ears, like a lullaby, like a babbling brook in the stillness, like the distant tolling of bells at dawn and dusk, easily stirring up the drowsiness hidden deep in her mind, making her thin eyelids tremble and slip into sleep.

This persistent drowsiness seems to be rooted in instinct and cannot be stopped.

Shi Huaiya only managed to struggle to hug Yun Yi briefly before falling asleep.

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Volume Two: Fireworks at Longmen - Chapter Sixty-Eight: Missed Opportunity to Go Further

Swire's gentle hug made Yun Yi pause slightly as he stroked her hair, somewhat amused and exasperated: "You're so tired, yet you're still thinking about points, that's really..."

That's quite proactive.

Yun Yi glanced at the delicate face of the woman carrying him, her brows slightly furrowed. Come to think of it, Swire seemed to care more about points than she did. Was it because she was too serious, or was he too relaxed?

Perhaps both are true... but there's nothing wrong with being a little more relaxed, right?

Lost in his thoughts, Yun Yi guided the young lady's hand upwards, his fingertips gently brushing against her soft face and brushing aside the stray strands of hair on her forehead: "Well, although she's not a real mascot, she's 'mascot' enough—we're just one step away from binding her, let's just finish it all at once."

"Hmm, he shouldn't wake up and cause me any trouble?" Yun Yi muttered as he picked up the doll.

The doll has transformed from a blank, faceless state resembling a naked human model into a doll with its eyes closed, consistent with Yun Yi's current characteristics.

Her white hair was disheveled and she wore a tailored black trench coat over a loose, casual white shirt—even the few unbuttoned buttons on the collar were identical.

It looks mini and cute when paired with off-white cargo pants.

Yun Yi's gaze swept over the black mother-of-pearl ear clips tucked under the doll's hair, then over the barely visible titanium gray-blue choker around the doll's neck, finally settling on the plain wooden pendant hanging on the doll's chest.

Something seems off?

She looked down to check her large pendant—it was blocking her view.

Although he couldn't see it, Yun Yi felt that the pendant that came with his body should have patterns and designs.

She looked up, her fingertips brushing against the pendant, which was smaller than a fingernail, and examined it carefully again. She finally confirmed that it wasn't because it was too small that she couldn't see it, but because the wooden pendant was indeed completely smooth without any patterns.

It's hard to say that they cut corners; the doll even replicated the fine details of the chip in the center of the collar, finer than a hair, so fine you wouldn't notice it unless you touched it.

I don't understand.

Yun Yi wanted to scratch his head but found he had no hands. "Uh, never mind, let's complete the binding first."

As she spoke, she moved the doll, neatly aligning its head with Swire's forehead, and pushed it forward to bring the two together.

Almost the instant the doll touched Swire, a halo similar to Yun Yi's aura appeared without warning.

The halo, swirling with crimson gold and a hint of icy blue, disappeared directly into the pendant on the doll's chest.

A flat wooden pendant floats up, bathed in a halo of light, and the words "Beatlex Swire" appear one by one in mid-air, as if formed from solidified ink.

Then, as the pendant's halo deepened, the characters seemed to be pulled by an invisible force, shrinking from the inside out of the pendant, creating an indentation of the character "碧" on the pendant's surface.

In the blink of an eye, the doll with the name engraved on it shimmered with light for a moment before returning to its ordinary appearance, and a system panel popped up in front of him:

[The Soul Doll has been completed]

[Linker: Subject - Beatrice Swire]

Yun Yi didn't pay attention to Shi Huaiya's long real name, but stared at the pendant with the inscription and wondered, "Why did you specifically leave a place to engrave your name?"

The system did not respond—perhaps because the remaining program was a bit idiotic.

Swire, who usually responds, was silent as he fell asleep.

"Never mind, since everyone's asleep, let's go back and take a nap together." Not getting an immediate answer, Yun Yi quickly shifted her attention. She gently lifted Shi Huaiya, who was slipping a little in her arms, and placed the doll-like figure, which looked like it had been marked, between Shi Huaiya's drooping ears.

Yun Yi released his grip, and the doll stood upright, as if it were a decoration without a restraint.

Once the doll was in place, Yun Yi picked up Shi Huaiya and stood up. With a thought, she appeared in the bedroom outside, and the gray, shimmering liquid beside her silently transformed back into the collar around her neck.

Ignoring the Nirvana, Yunyi looked around. 001 and 002 hadn't returned yet, and the bedroom was still the same as before, with no problems.

She then looked at the bed by the window and helped Swire walk over.

The bedding on the bed was soft and fresh. Yunyi glanced at the cushion she had specially placed there earlier, picked it up, weighed it in her hand, and threw it back onto the sofa—since she was already hugging it, there was no need to put up a quarantine.

Moreover, judging from Swire's attitude, he probably won't need it in the future, so let's not take up space.

After doing all this, Yun Yi lifted the blanket, carefully placed the soft body in his arms onto the bed, and then lay down himself, putting his arms around Shi Huaiya's supple waist again.

Throughout the entire process, she never severed skin-to-skin contact with the other person, ensuring that the points of physical contact remained unbroken.

Yunyi pulled the blanket over himself and the person in his arms.

Perhaps it's because my mind is clear right now.

Even with a warm and soft woman in her arms, Yun Yi didn't think much. She easily cleared her mind and fell asleep instantly.

A dreamless night.

The next day, the heavy curtains faithfully blocked out the sunlight as always.

On the ceiling, the forgotten incandescent bulb stubbornly emitted its substitute light, falling on the two sleeping in each other's arms, on their faces, and between their eyelashes, causing Swire's eyelids to tremble slightly and her breathing to become disordered for a moment.

But perhaps due to overwork yesterday, Swire did not wake up after the slightest noise. Her breathing became long and steady again. However, Yun Yi, who was head to head with her, seemed to sense something and slowly opened his golden-red eyes.

Before my eyes, a soft and delicate facial contour is so close, radiating a warmth that belongs to others.

Yun Yi blinked, tilted his head back slightly, and only then did his eyes focus and he could see clearly that it was Shi Huaiya—it could only be her.

Why are we so close?

Yun Yi glanced at the overview in a daze, then her spirits lifted—she wasn't the only one who had the habit of sleeping with something in her arms.

Swire's hands were equally restless, giving Yunyi a bear hug in his sleep, and even lifting the hem of Yunyi's shirt, her fingertips forcefully resting on the faintly visible V-line of Yunyi's waist.

At this moment, Yun Yi could clearly feel the warmth of Shi Huaiya's palm and the uncontrollable rise in his body temperature.

Yun Yi raised an eyebrow. Was this shyness...? It shouldn't be surprise—

"Hmm? Hmm!"

The unusually high temperature in her palm instantly woke Swire. Her murmured words as she opened her eyes interrupted Yun Yi's thoughts, causing his gaze to shift and fall on her pale blue eyes, which were filled with surprise and a hint of fear: "You're awake—had a nightmare?"

"..." Swire's memory was still stuck in the terrifying pressure before her eyes, and she hadn't recovered yet.

After a moment of stunned silence, she rubbed her still throbbing temples. As she raised her hand, a series of sharp, stinging pains spread through her body, making Swire murmur, "I'd rather it was a nightmare."

This is too uncomfortable.

Swire's voice was very soft, and Yun Yi didn't quite hear it: "What...what dream did you have?"

As they spoke, Yun Yi's breath, so close to her face, brushed against the fine hairs on Shi Huaiya's face, causing a continuous tickling sensation that made Shi Huaiya's earlobes twitch.

"Keep your distance—I just said I'd rather it was a nightmare. That's not important. What's important is what you did with that doll? It suddenly developed a spirit, and the pressure was so intense that my body would probably break down for a whole day. My precious vacation is gone..."

As Swire spoke, she flipped her palm over and covered Yunyi's face, pushing her away a little. But in the process, she accidentally pulled on something, and her whole body was suddenly filled with an even more intense and continuous pain.

She couldn't help but raise her eyebrows in annoyance and said, "Ouch, that hurts like hell! You better explain yourself! Why did you suddenly use your soul?"

Volume 2: Fireworks at Longmen: Chapter 69 Is it really necessary to treat the same person differently like this?

Yun Yi felt Shi Huaiya's fingertips trembling as she pushed him, and hearing her slightly dissatisfied words, he realized that things seemed to be more complicated than they appeared: "Soul, pressure, physical ruin?"

The process of binding the doll requires extracting a wisp of her soul, and it is true that her soul is dangerous to the Terrans, but didn't the system say that all contract partners who live off others will be protected from harm?

So Swire wasn't asleep, he was in a coma!

"Sorry, I thought it wouldn't affect you."

Yun Yi felt both puzzled and guilty, but the most important thing right now was to alleviate Shi Huaiya's pain and help her get better.

—Let's use the recovery potion from the Nirvana.

Following her heart, she raised her hand and lightly touched the collar, and a vial of futuristic-looking medicine appeared in her palm.

Yun Yi handed the potion to Shi Huaiya: "Drinking this should make you fine. As for before you fainted, I was binding an item I bought from the system—a doll that allows me to communicate with you at any time."

"Doll?"

Swire took the potion thoughtfully, then sat up abruptly from the bed. Without a moment's hesitation, she tilted her head back and drank it down. She was so fast that the bottle was empty before the blanket draped over her began to slowly slide down and pile up around her soft waist.

The drug's effects were even faster than Swire's actions; the moment it entered her mouth, the excruciating pain in Swire's body rapidly dissipated.

As she drank the potion, the pain was reduced to an imperceptible level.

Swire clenched her fist. The miraculous state of her body pain and the restlessness in her chest evaporating without leaving a trace, like morning dew, made her sigh: "No matter how many times, the creations of the system are always so soul-stirring."

“Indeed.” Yun Yi wholeheartedly agreed. Every time she used the system’s products, she felt a sense of awe as if witnessing the virtual reality come to life.

"No wonder it's a being suspected to be from a higher dimension." After her initial remark, Swire immediately turned her attention back to the main topic: "By the way, what's the specific situation with the doll you mentioned earlier?"

The last thing she clearly saw before she lost consciousness was Yun Yi touching foreheads with the doll, which must have been the doll Yun Yi was talking about.

Yun Yi's soul almost killed her on the spot just by existing. The puppet was able to withstand the terrifying soul, yet it was only used for communication.

Yunyi was unaware of Shi Huaiya's confusion. She propped herself up on the bed and looked up at the top of Shi Huaiya's head.

Between the furry tiger ears, a doll resembling Yun Yi sat with its eyes closed. Yun Yi glanced at it and then looked down at Shi Huaiya: "The doll can bind to our souls and has functions such as location, communication, and possession."

"As for the specifics, simply put, as long as we silently recite each other's names in our hearts..." Yun Yi extended an index finger, and a semi-transparent dark purple light band as thick as a wrist immediately appeared from her palm, extending upwards along the tip of her index finger, then making a sharp right-angle turn in mid-air, pointing directly at Shi Huaiya, with the end disappearing into her wrist.

Immediately, a string of information flashed through Swire's mind:

Directly ahead, less than 1 meter away, the other party is in good condition. There is no barrier between the two parties, such as time or space. Should we start communication?

Sensing the sudden information in her mind, she twitched her eyebrows slightly and tentatively moved her wrist back and forth, but the tiger tail swept across the band of light and missed.

The light band remained unaffected, staying firmly attached to her wrist and connecting the two.

Seeing this, Yunyi curiously flicked her finger, and the light strip pointed in different directions with her movements, but the end always pointed to Swire: "As you can see, no matter how far apart we are or what obstacles are in between, we can immediately and clearly know the other's location, distance and status without being affected, and communicate at any time."

“Oh, right, this band of light.” Yun Yi waved the deep purple band of light: “Only we can see it, and its color and thickness will change depending on the distance between us and the other person’s state—this is conceptual.”

"...It's convenient, but I always feel that it's somewhat... not up to the material that can withstand your soul?" Swire, unaware of how buggy conceptual things can be, rubbed the light strip. She could pass through it with her tail, but she could actually touch it with her fingers.

After a light touch, the light strip occasionally emitted a subtle electric current, causing a slight tingling sensation in her fingertips.

Yun Yi tilted his head: "I think that's impressive enough, isn't it? However, its core function isn't actually these things, but rather possession—"

As she spoke, she placed her index finger under Yin Sanwu's (six) shirt to disperse the light band, clenched her other fist and placed it on her chest, her eyelids slightly lowered to cover her shimmering golden-red eyes.

In an instant, she opened her eyes again, and two perspectives appeared before her.

One is the original, the other is—

"This doll is mainly used for this~" A voice with a slightly childlike tone, but still clearly Yun Yi's, rang out from above Shi Huaiya's head.

At the same time, Swire felt something warm brush against the tip of her ear, and her hair was moved by something—or rather, stepped on.

“Yun Yi?” Swire immediately looked at the person in front of her.

The white-haired girl smiled and made a zipping motion near her mouth, as if to indicate that she hadn't said anything.

What's that on her head?

Thinking about their conversation, Swire suspected that Yun Yi had possessed the doll and somehow ended up on top of her, but Yun Yi himself didn't seem to be unconscious or anything. How could he have possessed her like this...?

Swire had only been thinking for a moment when the doll-like thing on her head became even more brazen, touching and looking around, running around on her head, and finally rubbing against one of her tiger ears.

A tingling, electric-like sensation surged through the air.

Swire twitched her ear several times but couldn't shake off the little guy's persistent rubbing. She couldn't help but pause her thoughts and reach out to touch the unruly little fellow.