Su Qing'an Began to Act.

Carousels are boring; the simple ups and downs and circles are just a waste of time.

The slight swaying did clear the little girl's previously confused mind a bit, albeit in many negative ways. Nevertheless, it made Seele realize that sitting on the carousel indefinitely would hardly achieve her ultimate goal.

She walked with steps as light as cotton, ignoring the smart car's questions, and sat back down in her original spot. Her toes, clad in heavy boots, hovered a few centimeters above the ground, swaying gently with inertia.

"Beep beep beep, dear child, would you like to ride the White Horse Sightseeing Car?"

"It's only 15 yuan!"

Although she really didn't want to deal with this smart car that just kept repeating the same old phrases, she knew that continuing would only lead to a boring stalemate. So, she reluctantly took out a fifty-yuan note from the slot and put it in.

"Give."

Where do you want to go play, little one?

Seele was silent for a moment, then responded earnestly to the mechanical reply:

"Ferris wheel, Seele wants to go to the Ferris wheel."

When Seele said these words, her eyes lit up.

She vaguely remembered that her brother had mentioned that he and Sister Hua had ridden on a Ferris wheel.

The boy's casual, ethereal tone left a strangely deep impression on Seele.

So the little girl was naturally curious about what the scene that had once been seen by those two people looked like.

At the same time, this is also the best location to implement the plan.

"Kids, sit tight! The White Horse Sightseeing Car is off!"

Soothing piano music lingered in the air as the smart car began its journey toward a prominent building in the distance.

3:15 PM.

Su Qing'an successfully finished work. After tidying up his lesson plans, he glanced at Fu Hua in the back row, but considerately did not go up to talk to her. Instead, he turned around and left the classroom.

Behaving intimately with the girl in public will have a significant impact on her future school life. Maintaining the current interesting situation is probably the right choice.

See you tonight.

After sending the message to Fu Hua, Su Qing'an loosened his tie slightly. He breathed in the cool air outside but felt no chill at all.

It's hard to understand the cold I used to feel in winter. After being shaped by the Void Sword Qi several times and gradually tempered by martial arts, the boy's body can still distinguish between hot and cold, or rather, it's become more sensitive than before.

But this could only become a detail that enhanced instincts during battle, and his feelings about the four seasons gradually faded away. Even though he was still human, he had undoubtedly become a kind of anomaly.

Abnormal.

Su Qing'an once had no other thoughts about this, because without becoming extraordinary, she could not survive in this world, and if she were content to be ordinary, she could not protect anything.

Whether it's for your own survival or for the survival of others, becoming special and different is an inevitable path.

Su Qing'an had a wish buried deep in his heart, but he was not qualified to reveal it until he reached a stage where he could fulfill it.

But... someday.

The boy's thoughts came to an abrupt halt. He pressed his brow for a moment, then looked up at Udu-dust, who was slumped to the side.

The beautiful feather danced in the wind along with the falling white snowflakes, its crimson glow casting a warm hue on the white snow that had fallen from the sky, as if to say that it was not alone.

Su Qing'an casually picked up the Udu-dust, ignoring the feather's immediately droopy and aggrieved appearance, and whispered:

It's snowing.

After tonight, this academy will be draped in a magnificent, silvery white wonderland.

That would surely be a beautiful scene; putting pen to paper would be a good choice for tomorrow's sketching assignment.

As Su Qing'an pondered these slightly professional matters, her steps inadvertently halted as she gazed at the scene where snow was gradually spreading across the sky and earth.

The boy's clothes looked excessively thin in the snowy scene, yet he asked the feathers without a care:

"Didn't I ask you to stay by Hua's side?"

The tail feathers, which had been swaying naturally, stiffened for a moment, then it pretended not to understand and slumped into Su Qing'an's palm, even the halo it emitted dimming slightly.

This reaction was actually quite funny.

Su Qing'an's lips curled slightly, and he said helplessly:

"Can't you do it? It seems you really are useless now."

Upon hearing this, Udu-dust's soft body trembled slightly, and the dimmed light around it began to create a hazy illusion.

Beneath the White Tower, where the wind and snow lingered, countless feathers of light fluttered down, their magnificent crimson covering all the whiteness in sight.

The boy, twirling the feathers at the tip with sudden pride, asked:

"You're not convinced?"

As soon as the words were spoken, the scene before my eyes shattered in the blink of an eye, only the sound of falling snow remained clear.

Su Qing'an watched helplessly as Yu Mao retreated into her own Sea of consciousness, and comforted her:

"You'll be a mascot for now. Once Hua gets the complete Udu-dust from this timeline, you might have other uses."

The current illusionary abilities are so limited that they struggle even to deceive normal people, and they lack any precision in terms of free control.

The reason, besides the fact that it was only a feather from Udu-dust, was that Su Qing'an, as its master, was not qualified to master the Divine Key and could not even exert any of its effects.

Under such circumstances, becoming a mascot is an unavoidable situation.

Su Qing'an intended to keep it by Fu Hua's side so that he could be alerted immediately if Fu Hua was in danger through contact with Udu-dust.

However, it is unclear whether it is because Udu-dust has now completely separated from the main body of the Divine Key, but its basic ability to connect to the Imaginary Space and obtain infinite Honkai Energy has been completely lost.

The Honkai Energy currently used to maintain its existence all originates from Su Qing'an's own body, and the consumption of Honkai Energy will increase rapidly once Su Qing'an is a certain distance away from him.

Even though Fu Hua has begun to cultivate the Void Sword Qi and theoretically has the ability to charge it, because Udu-dust and Su Qing'an have formed a soul bond, apart from the Honkai Energy of this new master, any other type of Honkai Energy will be instinctively rejected by it.

This led to Udu-dust's complete unwillingness to continue staying in Fu Hua's body; the feeling of being drained every now and then was simply too torturous for it, which was becoming increasingly spiritual.

Su Qing'an found it somewhat amusing; he could sense the crimson feather frolicking and swimming in his Sea of consciousness.

I'll put it back when I meet Hua tonight.

Let it rest now.

Although the Udu-dust's own abilities are meaningless to him, its other characteristics may become the key to Su Qing'an making unprecedented breakthroughs.

However, unless facing Herrscher or an overwhelmingly powerful opponent of the Judgment-class, it would be difficult for him to test the feasibility of this breakthrough against other enemies.

"Before I get home, I'll call that kid," he muttered to himself.

Five minutes later, the call still went unanswered.

The melody of the piano piece, used as Seele's phone ringtone, drifted softly through the snow and then gradually faded away.

Su Qing'an's gaze sharpened slightly. He hesitated for a moment before turning on the parent-child GPS location.

The reason this feature exists is that both people have the same brand of phone.

At the suggestion of the vending robot, Su Qing'an activated this function that could not be turned off unilaterally. He had heard that this function of the phone had helped parents successfully catch countless runaway children or children who were not doing their jobs in internet cafes.

The reason the boy chose not to consider Seele's privacy in this regard was that he felt the little girl's personality might lead her to leave without saying goodbye one day.

Seele could imagine that people from the lab would come, so how could Su Qing'an not? If you think about it from the opposite perspective, the little girl making this choice was bound to happen sooner or later.

The reason the boy didn't openly reveal his plans was that the more he did, the more Seele wanted to escape; the more important she thought she was, the less likely she was to choose to stay.

Su Qing'an walked towards the entrance of the academy, muttering to himself:

"Are we already this far from the academy?"

GPS positioning is merely a tool to determine whether someone has left or not; expecting to find Seele's true location from it would be a gross underestimation of the child's determination.

The boy ignored the missing two thousand yuan in his personal account. Looking at the payment and withdrawal records, he realized that this was all a basic disguise put up by the little girl, with the aim of making it impossible for him to find her.

If we follow the location of these two taxis, we will definitely not find Seele's real place of departure. Judging from her taking out cash, the little girl most likely paid for the taxi with cash and went to another place.

While the possibility of overlooking the truth cannot be ruled out, Seele's random departure without leaving any clues is the most realistic scenario.

If the destination is random, then the behavioral logic of going in a direction that even the person themselves doesn't understand cannot be traced using clues about their personality.

What could be Seele's reason for leaving?

Su Qing'an was confident enough that she didn't have such thoughts before, at least not before she left the house.

With his own knowledge of micro-expressions and his ability to observe and judge them, coupled with a renewed examination of the Soul Essence, no abnormality could escape his eyes.

If Su Qing'an had known in advance, his usual approach would have been to skip class today and wait for Seele to run away from home, thus achieving his goal once and for all.

But the unexpected situation now can only mean that the little girl somehow knew that someone was coming to arrest her, so in order not to implicate him, she chose to leave directly.

Otherwise, there's no way to explain Seele's motive for leaving.

Let's speed it up a bit; in a bustling city, using [Thousand Stars] is much more convenient than using other modes of transportation.

The clamor of the wind cut through the surrounding snow and wind, and in the next instant, Su Qing'an had already left the school grounds.

At this incredible speed, akin to instantaneous teleportation, even the meaning of "hidden" becomes almost imperceptible; the human retina can no longer capture the boy's figure.

With the improvement in physical attributes and the passive effect of [Stigmata], the harm of [Thousand Stars] to the body is much lower than before, and the upper limit of the amplification has also been raised again.

Even without releasing Artificial Stigmata to enhance Honkai Energy control, the internal and external circulation structure, which has become almost instinctive, has already been carefully constructed.

Simply put, it has changed from an ultimate skill to a regular skill.

So much so that even now, using it for traveling wouldn't be considered a waste.

Su Qing'an has been constantly getting stronger. Even though his upper limit has long been fixed, he still makes breakthroughs beyond the limit in subtle areas.

The chaotic flow of Honkai Energy should be disordered and chaotic data.

However, the teenagers of today are able to predict the turbulent flow of each Honkai Energy in advance and use their naturally crude Honkai Energy manipulation abilities to indirectly interfere with it in order to achieve their desired goals.

This is a truly terrifying method; no one can imagine how extreme one's thinking speed and efficient execution ability must be to accomplish the same thing.

Even Fu Hua in her prime would have thought this was an absurd theory, pure nonsense.

But the boy has now achieved a 100% success rate.

In fact, this precise operation is accompanied by extreme danger; even the slightest mistake can lead to immediate and inexplicable death.

Su Qing'an is a genius in a certain sense. He bypassed his own shortcomings and achieved an operation that only a person born with Stigmata could replicate, using completely different methods.

This is the real reason why he can still use [Thousand Stars] without activating Artificial Stigmata.

During his time in St. Freya, the hundreds of deaths he experienced in the virtual battlefield were not in vain.

The miracle that Fu Hua once believed might happen has been completely accomplished through the boy's silent efforts, in a place she couldn't see.

The significantly enhanced Soul Essence after the reboot is one of the reasons for the miracle, but the seemingly meaningless accumulation beforehand is the true source of success.

Even with the ability to maintain high speed for an extended period, finding Seele in an entire city is still quite difficult.

However, as mentioned before, Su Qing'an's growth is quite abnormal.

He has the personality trait of focusing on one thing and reaching the pinnacle.

It may seem that he has only a handful of abilities, but in reality, his powers have already undergone several transformations without him even realizing it.

The same is true today.

It covers a wide area with the wavelength of [potential], and at the same time incorporates the boy's special ability to remember the aura of a soul, extending it outwards in a divergent manner like sound waves.

In this way, Su Qing'an was able to confirm whether Seele's soul aura lingered in every corner of Canghai City in less than an hour.

As long as she hasn't completely left Canghai City, the young man is absolutely confident that he can bring Seele back.