Chapter 1238: Painting (Part 2)

Is the person I'm painting... really you?

Looking up and gazing at Fei Liya's emerald eyes, feeling the incomparably complex emotions within them, Prince An De Lie couldn't help but fall silent for a moment, then asked back with a look of surprise:

"Fei Liya? Why are you asking this? Who else could the person I'm painting be if not you?"

"An De Lie Ge Ge..."

The green-eyed young lady bit her lip, did not respond to Prince An De Lie's question, but turned her gaze away and said softly:

"I've counted. When you encounter a problem you want to escape from, the method you like to use most is to answer a question with a question."

"..."

"Actually, during the days I was caught by that pervert, my brain seems to have become 'clearer' instead, and I've thought through many things I couldn't understand before."

Lowering her head and staring tightly at her own sleeves, Fei Liya said with a complex expression:

"An De Lie Ge Ge, with your level of painting, it's impossible for you not to be able to paint the most ordinary portrait. The only reason I can think of is that the person you want to paint is not me."

"..."

After listening to the green-eyed young lady's words, Prince An De Lie first fell silent for another moment, then lowered his head and raised his brush to continue painting, while answering:

"No, the person I'm painting is you."

"But you're not painting the me in front of you, but the me in your heart, which is why you could never paint it, right?"

"..."

The green-eyed young lady said with a somewhat lonely expression:

"Aside from missing quite a few memories, I have the vast majority of Fei Liya's soul and an almost identical body. But you could never convince yourself, you couldn't treat me as your younger sister, right?"

"..."

"After helping me obtain a body, you have been indulging those little willfulnesses of mine, and you were even willing to accompany me to do some absurd things that only children would do... Are you truly coaxing me, or are you letting me 'reproduce' the Fei Liya of the past?"

"..."

Looking at Prince An De Lie, who was asked to the point of silence and was just burying his head in painting, the green-eyed young lady couldn't help but bite her lower lip and asked the final question.

"An De Lie Ge Ge, can you tell me, if the real Fei Liya had been caught, would you still have ordered the shelling that day?"

"Sand... click..."

Hearing this question, An De Lie, who was drawing the draft, paused slightly, and the tip of the charcoal pencil in his hand snapped.

That should be... no.

Almost without any hesitation, this rather cold answer emerged from Prince An De Lie's heart.

To himself, the real Fei Liya had long since died, leaving only the intelligent machine core made from Fei Liya's brain and soul.

Even if he helped her "reshape" her body, treated her like the real Fei Liya, and insisted on calling her Fei Liya instead of A Ti Fei 01, this point still couldn't be changed.

The real Fei Liya had long since died!

"Didn't we just say we wouldn't talk about that matter before?"

After changing to a new charcoal pencil, Prince An De Lie, while continuing to depict on the canvas, comforted her warmly:

"Fei Liya, stop making a scene. This time is different from before. I will be able to paint you out immediately."

"And after painting me out?" The green-eyed young lady said in a low voice:

"After painting me out, will there be anything different?"

"There will be."

Prince An De Lie said without raising his head:

"After confirming that I can paint your 'soul' out, I will take action at the 'Royal Night Banquet' and paint you into it as well. Then we can stay in that painting together."

"Is it staying in that painting, or being locked in that painting?"

"?!"

Looking at Prince An De Lie, who stopped his painting brush again and looked back in surprise, the green-eyed young lady couldn't help but grit her teeth and say:

"Although I don't understand soul coding technology, I do know some of the research related to souls in Zone 1. The physical body is the escort ship of the soul, and the soul is the most reliable carrier of will and wisdom."

"And although that 'Royal Night Banquet' was painted by you, the people inside are not fake. Aside from being unable to realize that they are in a painting and needing to follow certain rules, they are no different from real people. They all have souls."

"..."

"An De Lie Ge Ge, just now when I was in that 'Royal Night Banquet,' I looked at the Fei Liya being held by mother. In the entire painting, only she was stationary."

"And what you are doing now is preparing to paint my soul in as well, using my soul and existence as a fake younger sister to make the real younger sister you painted 'come alive.' Am I guessing right?"

"Fei Liya, you're thinking too much..."

Prince An De Lie closed his eyes upon hearing this, then put down the charcoal pencil and began to paint. While painting, he shook his head with a calm expression:

"There is no real younger sister or fake younger sister. She is the real Fei Liya, and you are also the real Fei Liya. She is you, and you are her, it's just that neither of you is complete enough."

"And after I paint you in, she will be able to truly wake up in that world, and you will also be able to lie in mother's arms without a care in the world like her... Isn't this good?"

"This is not good!"

The green-eyed young lady bit her lower lip and said with disappointment:

"Even if I am not the real Fei Liya, I have the same soul and body as Fei Liya, and she is just a fake painting! You just want to kill me and then use my soul to exchange for a Fei Liya you imagined!"

"She is not imagined by me, but truly exists."

Depicting on the canvas without raising his head, the calm An De Lie explained with extreme patience:

"Although the place where she can move is a bit small, that is indeed a real world, and it is even the same as the world we are currently in. The people inside also have physical bodies and souls. They are real, it's just that their way of existence is different from the people in this world."

"And I am not killing you by doing this. I am just letting the you in this world fall asleep, and then waking you up in that world... Have you forgotten? I am preparing to paint myself in as well. Do you think I would kill myself?"

"An De Lie, you have truly gone crazy!"

Seeing that no matter what she said, she couldn't persuade the stubborn An De Lie, the completely disappointed green-eyed young lady couldn't help but say angrily:

"That pervert was right! You are just a clown! A giant baby who cannot face his own mistakes and can only perform self-comfort in a fake world created by himself! You... Mmph! Mmph!"

Reaching out to draw a stroke in the air, directly sealing Fei Liya's mouth, Prince An De Lie, with blue veins bulging on his temples, couldn't help but breathe rapidly twice, calming his agitated mood, then said expressionlessly:

"The real Fei Liya would not say such things. It seems that during the days you were hijacked by that person, you were subjected to many bad influences."

"But it doesn't matter. With his current ability, he will never escape the 'Royal Night Banquet.' I will deal with him immediately after painting you, and won't give him the chance to continue polluting you. You have plenty of time to correct yourself in the future."

"Fei Liya, although you may feel that I have gone crazy now, after you wake up in that world with me using your true identity, you will immediately understand that I am..."

"Ssh..."

"?!!!"

Hearing the sound of cloth tearing from behind him, Prince An De Lie's emerald pupils contracted violently. He turned his head suddenly, clutching his painting brush, and discovered that in the "Royal Night Banquet" floating behind him, a silver-bright knife tip had actually pierced out!

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 1239 =====