Li Zhier shook her head and said, "I don't want to answer your question, and I don't want you to ask me like that again."
"All right. I can see you're feeling a little sad. How about this, then? We can't save these living beings, so we'll save some that we can. Perhaps that would be another form of redemption?" I said with a smile.
Li Zhier frowned at me. "Redemption?"
"Yes. Something within our ability." I smiled.
Li Zhier paused, then asked, "What do you want to save?"
"People." I glanced toward Zhao Jing, who was still lying over by the jade ship and undergoing slow treatment. At my current pace, how long would it take to bring him back to life? Besides, this wasn't something I could hand over to someone else. Li Tianjing and Huo Ming, for instance, wouldn't do. Saving people would expose too many secrets. Li Zhier, however, wasn't so calculating.
"Someone important?" Li Zhier asked.
I nodded. Then I told her about Zhao Jing, leaving out the matter of borrowing his body. I only said that he was someone Sky City wanted to save. That reason alone would be enough to make Li Zhier give it her all. If it had been Li Tianjing or someone else, they would probably have treated it as a conspiracy.
"Then won't we have to see your master again?" Li Zhier asked unhappily. I smiled. "You don't actually think I'd take my master's side, do you?"
"Don't you think that would make you a traitor who betrays and destroys his own master?" Li Zhier wasn't going to let me fool her so easily.
"I only became his disciple because I had no choice. In my heart, the City Lord of Sky City is my true master, even though