Facing "Lü Siya's" burning gaze,
Meng Chao felt as though he had been stripped naked, with nothing left to hide.
He shuddered deeply.
Then he snapped awake, struggling with all his might to break free from the damp, scorching force wrapped tightly around him like miasma in the jungle. He roared, "Shut up! You're not Ya-jie at all. What the hell are you?"
"Of course I'm Lü Siya."
"Lü Siya" stretched her limbs and freely admired her graceful body. Reveling in the exhilaration of using this "Sensitive One" body to stir her Life Magnetic Field and resonate with the Planetary Magnetic Field, she smiled. "My emotions, my memories, my thoughts—they're all exactly as they were before. Nor have I forgotten the deal between us. If you say I'm not Lü Siya, then who exactly am I?"
"A monster that has taken over Ya-jie's body."
Meng Chao gritted his teeth. After a pause, he emphasized, "No, perhaps this isn't even Ya-jie's body at all—this body has already been filled with the Green Tide and Bloodpetal Flowers, turning into a terrifying existence like an undead creature. This isn't a human body at all!"
"Your definition of 'human' is far too narrow."
"Lü Siya" toyed with her emerald-green hair, wagging a finger dismissively. "If I'm not mistaken, you were just planning to chop off my entire right arm at the shoulder, weren't you?
"If your plan had really succeeded and you had rescued me, how would you have treated my injuries? Nothing more than surgery, cleaning the wound, and then installing Mech Prosthetic Limbs. Perhaps you'd even have embedded dozens of weapons inside the mechanical arm.
"I imagine you would never regard a Lü Siya fitted with one or even two mechanical arms as some sort of freak.
"So why is it that