You Can Call Me Yong Xin

Jie La Er placed the bloodstained purse on the table, then watched as Tachibana's small figure rummaged through the pile of accessories, making her look like a little mouse rummaging through a haystack.

Yes, Jie La Er has returned to the warehouse.

Logically speaking, he had no intention of returning, or even showing his face; he simply planned to put the bag of money in the warehouse and then leave quickly.

However, on the way there, they encountered such a situation. Jie La Er naturally wouldn't just stand by and watch, so he went over to help out and cracked open the heads of those thugs.

But this also made the money bag in his hand even more brightly colored, looking like a tool for committing a crime, so it was really not appropriate to just hand it over to Ju.

Moreover, Tachibana also discovered his problems.

To be precise, the problem lies with the metal body.

These parts were attacked and damaged during the battle with Da Ke.

Ju actually detected the problem just from the sound of Jie La Er's footsteps and offered to fix it for him, as a form of after-sales service.

Although Jie La Er didn't want to cause Tachibana any more trouble, he knew this wasn't the time to be reckless. Damaging his prosthetic limb and causing unpredictable consequences would be the real problem. So, after a moment's hesitation, he agreed and followed Tachibana back to the small warehouse.

Seeing Tachibana diligently searching for spare parts, Jie La Er couldn't help but feel a little dazed.

That tiny figure made him hallucinate again, taking him back to more than a decade ago. Back then, every time he returned home from the Contaminated Land, there was a tiny figure darting around him, asking if he was injured, and if so, helping him apply medicine.

"What, missing your daughter again?" Bai Wei's leisurely voice interrupted Jie La Er's reverie. "Is it a pity? You could have seen your own daughter today, so why are you here looking at someone else's daughter... Oh, I almost forgot that's not your daughter either. You don't even have a wife."

Jie La Er ignored Bai Wei's teasing and simply said to Bai Wei in his mind, "You still haven't told me what you want from Ina?"

"Why do I have to get something in return?" Bai Wei said with a smile. "Can't I just have some fun? Do you think I'm the kind of person who's very calculating?"

"It's not about being cunning," Jie La Er said calmly. "But I'm pretty sure you would never do something pointless... no, not quite. But doing so could very well expose your identity, which wouldn't be good for you, yet you did it anyway. So you must have other plans, and I want to know what they are."

"Is it because you want to know my plans, or because you're worried about your daughter?"

"For me, there is no conflict."

"Heh, you're quite straightforward." Bai Wei raised Jie La Er's eyebrows and said, "You didn't ask before, which made me think you weren't that concerned about your daughter anymore. But your reaction now still surprises me. I thought you would be more intense, after all, this involves your daughter. From your perspective, don't you think I'm pushing your daughter into a fire pit?"

Previously, Bai Wei thought that Jie La Er would be angry, or even furious, after learning that he had disciplined his daughter. Gerald would then argue with Bai Wei while shouting, "How dare you involve my daughter?" Bai Wei had already prepared various arguments to deal with Jie La Er.

It's like a matador fully prepared, flashing a red cloth at the bull, just waiting for the bull to charge.

The bull didn't react at all; it just glanced at the red cloth in the matador's hand and then leisurely ate grass, leaving the matador feeling powerless, as if he had punched cotton.

Of course, this is just an exaggeration. In fact, Bai Wei was not that regretful, and Jie La Er was not that indifferent.

After learning about Ina's situation, Jie La Er did not become hysterical. He remained silent for a while before whispering, "I understand," and then left the scene without saying another word.

But Bai Wei knew that Jie La Er was not as calm as he appeared on the surface, because when he heard Ina's name, Bai Wei could clearly feel the huge emotional fluctuations deep in Jie La Er's heart, like surging waves.

But he still endured it, and he still has now.

"It wasn't you who pushed her into the fire," Jie La Er said softly. "From the moment she joined the Devil Squad ... no, from that accident ten years ago, she was already in the fire. It was my fault, not yours, and..."

He looked up and gazed at the sky outside through the narrow window.

As the sun sets, the entire sky is dyed crimson by the sunset's afterglow, as if on fire.

"Isn't Lyra now just a giant pit of fire?"

"Tsk, you're quite rational," Bai Wei said. "I thought all fathers were the kind of creatures who would turn into berserkers when their daughters were threatened."

"What warriors need most is reason, not madness," Jie La Er said. "In the Contaminated Land, madness means pollution, and once you're tainted by madness, you can no longer be called a warrior."

"Your understanding is somewhat different from what I meant... Never mind." Bai Wei gave up explaining the meaning of the word "Berserker" to Jie La Er. He said calmly, "Let's get down to business. Actually, your judgment is correct. I didn't treat your daughter that way just for fun. Well... at least not entirely."

He paused.

"What you said earlier about me potentially exposing my identity is not something to worry about too much. After all, you have a universal scapegoat here— the Contaminated Land. Just blame everything abnormal on the Contaminated Land. Your daughter will definitely think that your changes are caused by the Contaminated Land. After all, it's normal for people who are contaminated to become mentally unstable, right? Look at so-and-so's family, aren't they quite schizophrenic?"

Jie La Er did not refute Bai Wei's statement, because it was indeed true. In Lyra, all abnormal phenomena could be attributed to the Contaminated Land, since pollution made people abnormal anyway.

"Then why did you do this?" Jie La Er asked again, returning to his initial question. "What do you want from her?"

"That's a lot," Bai Wei said with a light laugh. "She's an active-duty Devil Knight, after all. If she's willing to help, there are so many things we can do."

Upon hearing Bai Wei's words, Jie La Er suddenly became wary.

"You don't mean you want her to go to the Abyss Land and retrieve your body parts, do you?"

"If I could, I would indeed like to do that." Bai Wei deliberately slowed down his tone to feel Jie La Er's fluctuating emotions, and then said with a faint smile when he was about to reach the tipping point, "But don't worry, I won't do that. Your whole team couldn't get it back back then, I don't expect your daughter to find it by herself."

Bai Wei's words reassured Jie La Er somewhat, but only somewhat.

Then he asked the question he had always wanted to know, "Do you know where your body part is?"

"I roughly know."

"Then why don't you just go and take it?" Jie La Er asked. "Can't I do it with my body?"

"You talk as if your body is some kind of amazing thing," Bai Wei said calmly. "The Contaminated Land is too dangerous. You can't get that far using your own strength, but your body can't handle using mine. So naturally, you have to let someone else do it for you."

Yes, Bai Wei always knew roughly where his tongue was located.

However, there is no way to retrieve it directly.

But the reason isn't just what he told Jie La Er; there's an even more important reason.

That is, he doesn't want to be targeted by those two true gods.

Unlike Lyra, this place is too close to Rhine gods. It's hard for Second Order Descent to go unnoticed by them. Even if they are currently fighting fiercely and are locked in a life-or-death struggle, as long as they sense Bai Wei's presence, they might abandon their opponents and come to hunt Bai Wei down.

With Bai Wei's current power, even if he were to undergo Second Order Descent on Jie La Er's body, it would be almost impossible for him to fight against a true god, even one as weak as this.

So we still need to find the right opportunity.

Fortunately, Bai Wei felt that he was about to seize that opportunity.

Jie La Er wanted to ask more questions, but at that moment Tachibana walked over with the new parts, so he temporarily stopped talking to Bai Wei and looked at Tachibana.

"Do we need to change all of these?" Jie La Er asked.

Ju nodded.

But Jie La Er suddenly hesitated.

"Um, do I have enough money?"

Upon hearing this, Ju subconsciously turned her head and looked at the money bag on the side.

The blood that had spilled from the bag was already seeping down the table.

"That should be enough," Ju replied.

... You clearly didn't even look at it.

Jie La Er said somewhat helplessly, "Sorry, I came back in a hurry and didn't have time to deal with it. If the money here isn't enough, I'll make up the difference later... but I'll have it sorted out by then."

Orange nodded without saying much, and silently began her work—removing Jie La Er's damaged parts and replacing them with new ones.

She didn't seem very interested in money.

When Jie La Er entered the house, he found that the money he had given to Tachibana that morning was still untouched, which made Jie La Er feel powerless in his "thank you" to Tachibana.

Tachibana is Eric's daughter, Jie La Er wanted to do something for her, especially after seeing how Tachibana was being harassed by those thugs, which made him furious.

Logically speaking, he shouldn't be showing up at this time, since he's still Wanted Criminal.

But he still made a move.

But... is that enough?

Is it enough that you only helped her drive away a few thugs, and only temporarily at that?

Jie La Er himself couldn't convince himself.

So as he watched Tachibana working diligently, he questioned himself inwardly: what else could he do for Tachibana?

Before he... still has a chance to do something.

Jie La Er was somewhat confused, but this confusion also seemed somewhat familiar.

Many years ago, he had faced a similar situation, with that small figure emerging from his mind and gradually overlapping with the girl in front of him.

So Jie La Er spoke up.

What kind of person do you want to become?

"Ina."

Ina felt somewhat dazed.

The sound faded into the distance in my memory, as if it were just a hallucination.

She straightened up and silently looked at the full-length mirror in front of her. The girl in the mirror was graceful and elegant, no longer the malnourished girl who had just come out of the orphanage.

"Your Ina, here is the information you requested."

A voice pulled Ina from her thoughts. She turned her head and saw a staff member in uniform holding a thick stack of documents, which was then placed in front of her.

"There are quite a lot." The staff member wiped the sweat from his forehead. "I didn't expect there to be so many, but according to your requirements, I've brought over anything that even remotely meets the criteria. I hope you can find what you're looking for."

Ina nodded, said thank you, and the staff member left with a smile.

Ina was able to walk over to the documents and sit down, then began flipping through the documents starting from the top.

This is the archives room of the Heaven Reaching Main Tower.

Ina was looking through were classified documents in the archives, which only the Pioneer Force and bishops were qualified to access.

Because all of this information is related to Land of Corruption.

It records all the symptoms observed in contaminated people since the founding of Lyra City.

Most of these materials are quite old, because when Lyra was first established, the means of combating pollution were not yet perfect. Many of the first Pioneer Force, the "Night Stars," were also contaminated. At that time, Evening Star Knight rarely lived to old age and had to make great sacrifices to extract even a small amount of source oil, which is why they were called heroes.

This situation only eased after Lyra purchased a batch of source crystals from Holy Sound that could detect and Purification contamination. By the time the Devil Squad arrived, although the largest Purification Source Crystal had been lost by the last Knight of the Evening Star, their overall resistance to contamination had been strengthened. Therefore, there were far fewer records of the symptoms exhibited by those who were contaminated after that.

This is why Ina came to the archives.

She couldn't forget her encounter with Jie La Er that afternoon.

She was certain that such a way of speaking and such a style of doing things was definitely not Jie La Er... and definitely not her father.

It's as if an extra soul has appeared in the same body.

So she wanted to find out why.

What made Jie La Er become like that?

Ina began to look through the documents.

People react differently to pollution, exhibiting both physical and mental symptoms.

The most severe physical damage is the transformation into a monster, and such infected individuals basically have only one fate—death.

Therefore, Ina's focus was naturally on the spiritual aspect.

The mental manifestations also vary greatly, ranging from complete madness to severe self-destructive tendencies, and some claiming to constantly hear voices coming from unknown sources.

Some people feel as if another "person" has appeared inside their body.

Such situations are relatively rare, but they do occur.

After spending about twenty minutes, Ina found one of the articles and then subconsciously read out the scholar's diagnosis.

"The infected person feels that an independent soul, or personality, has appeared in their body. The infected person claims that they can talk to this personality, just like a friend."

"Through scholarly observation, it can indeed be found that infected individuals often exhibit two completely different personalities, which suggests that the newly formed personality can also take control of the body."

"It's like two people with different personalities using the same body."

As she read this, Ina frowned deeply, then murmured, "Is this really possible?"

As soon as she finished speaking, another young voice rang out. "That's how it is."

Ina was slightly taken aback, then suddenly looked up and saw a young man standing in front of her with a smile on his face. This made her subconsciously reach for the Blazing Fire Sword behind her, but it was empty, because weapons were not allowed in the archives.

"Don't be nervous," the man said with a light laugh. "I just came over out of curiosity, I mean no harm."

Ina frowned. "Who are you?"

"Just an ordinary employee," the man smiled. "You can call me Yong Xin."

There are some details that weren't written well; I'll revise them later.