Past Memories, No Longer Fleeing from the Unknown, Airi's Shyness

After following Velvie over here, Airi immediately blushed and covered her eyes.

"No! Velvie, why isn't A'Yuan wearing anything!"

Quickly turning around, Airi asked in a delicate voice.

She had been wearing clothes when she emerged from the cultivation pod, albeit very thin ones, but she was definitely clothed.

Unlike Chang Yuan, who was completely naked.

"What are you shy about? Just don't look, I'm a primary doctor and I don't care."

Having performed surgery on many people, and even seen many die on the operating table, Velvie had become desensitized to the human body.

Therefore, she didn't understand why Airi was feeling shy at that moment.

"This, I, I won't look anymore."

Covering her face and turning around, Airi fled the scene.

She wasn't like Velvie, who seemed as if she'd been fishing for decades in some kind of slaughterhouse, her state of mind unshakeable.

Meanwhile, Chang Yuan, inside the nutrient pod, was not in a good situation.

He had ultimately underestimated the power of the Fusion Warrior surgery.

In the pitch-black, deep valley, all he felt was a profound sense of suffocation and despair.

The dark valley kept telling him that it was fine to just sink into it.

Chang Yuan, however, kept recalling Airi in his mind; she was arguably his only spiritual pillar at the moment.

He persisted like this, for a duration he himself didn't know.

Until finally, he even felt that it would be fine to just succumb, as he felt that even if he got out, he might not be able to save anyone.

But compared to him, the situation outside was far from calm.

Beep beep beep—!

"Hey, hey, hey, what's going on!"

Seeing Chang Yuan's vital signs suddenly plummet, Velvie frantically began adjusting various data.

Adrenaline, painkillers, and other beneficial drugs were injected wildly.

But these still couldn't change the decline in his vital signs.

"Velvie, what happened to A'Yuan!"

Hearing the alarm, Airi immediately returned from outside.

She noticed Velvie, who was now flustered.

However, a bad premonition began to surface in her heart.

And in the next second, Velvie confirmed her ominous feeling.

"For some reason, Chang Yuan's vital signs have suddenly dropped drastically. If this continues, he'll die!"

While operating on Chang Yuan, Velvie explained the current situation to Airi.

"No, no, the previous failed cases always had prior warnings, why is there none this time? Could it be because of the Emperor-class Honkai Beast genes?"

While maintaining Chang Yuan's vital signs, Velvie was also contemplating what had gone wrong.

"It's below 70%, it can't drop any further. Below 50%, and he might never wake up! Damn it, what else can be done."

Anxious, Velvie was frantically racking her brain to find a way out of this predicament.

On the other side, Airi, knowing she couldn't help, could only stand in front of Chang Yuan's cultivation pod.

She no longer cared about being shy. She gently placed her hand on the glass cover, constantly praying for Chang Yuan in her heart.

"A'Yuan, hold on. Do you remember our promise? I haven't said it yet, and the person you want to save hasn't been saved, so wake up."

From outside the glass cover, Airi murmured softly.

It was this murmur that Chang Yuan, who was preparing for eternal slumber in the deep valley, heard.

"Promise..."

In the profound deep valley, Chang Yuan slightly opened his eyes and murmured.

A single sentence pulled him back to the time when they made promises by the beach.

They had promised each other that in the future, they would help each other fulfill their wishes.

"Whoa, whoa, whoa! His vital signs are gradually rising! Airi! What did you do? Keep going!"

Although she didn't know what Airi had said to Chang Yuan inside the cultivation pod, it was good that it worked.

Hearing Velvie's words, Airi also recalled what she had just done.

She immediately understood the key to breaking through the crisis.

She then immediately began to recount their past experiences.

And Chang Yuan, whose will to survive had just been ignited, was now moving towards this voice.

Now is not the time to sleep. The future may not be so bleak; there is still a sliver of hope.

"Normal, normal, woohoo."

Seeing that Chang Yuan's vital signs had returned to normal, Velvie wiped the sweat from her brow.

If she had killed Chang Yuan here, she didn't know if others would seek revenge on her, but she herself might have died of depression.

After all, Chang Yuan was like a half-life mentor to her; he had given her so much inspiration.

If she killed this person who was both a teacher and a friend, she would feel guilty for the rest of her life.

"Velvie, A Yuan seems to be awake."

Looking at Chang Yuan's slightly trembling eyelids in the cultivation pod, Airi reminded Velvie.

Hearing this, Velvie focused her attention on Chang Yuan.

When Chang Yuan opened his eyes, Velvie immediately removed the glass cover of the cultivation pod.

The nutrient solution and various injection tubes inside were all retracted instantly.

"A Yuan, are you okay?"

In her concern, Airi didn't have the mood to pay attention to Chang Yuan's appearance at the moment.

She just wanted to know if Chang Yuan's body was safe and sound.

"I'm fine, but Airi, can you find me some clothes first? It's not that I'm cold, but it's very awkward."

Scratching his face, Chang Yuan said with a strained expression.

Upon Chang Yuan's reminder, Airi subconsciously looked down, and her face turned so red that she almost fainted backward.

She immediately fled in a panic without saying a word.

"Yo, you've developed quite well."

"...Big V Teacher, you should find me some clothes now, not say these things."

Chang Yuan said with a darkened expression, looking at the female hooligan.

He knew that Velvie's words had no hidden meaning, and Velvie herself could not have any feelings for him beyond friendship.

But it was still embarrassing enough for him. What the hell was this, streaking under the moonlight?

"Why are you shy? I've already seen you inside and out before you went in. Here, clothes prepared for you."

The inside and outside Velvie mentioned naturally referred to the inside and outside in the physical sense.

When she performed the Fusion Warrior surgery on Chang Yuan, she had to cut him open, so it could be said that Velvie was currently the only one who understood Chang Yuan's "inner" self.

Catching the set of clothes Velvie threw over, Chang Yuan immediately put them on in front of her.

If others weren't shy, why should he, a grown man, be shy? He wasn't the one at a disadvantage anyway.