Chapter 374: Matters of the Soul (4)

"Where exactly is my sister?" Guan Xinyue asked again urgently, turning a deaf ear to everything else he had said.

He did not speak, watching Guan Xinyue with keen interest, as if observing a laboratory phenomenon.

Guan Xinyue watched him vigilantly. "There is no reason for Luo Qi to hide it from me. Unless he discovered that my sister is dead and just doesn't want me to be sad; he might just be waiting for a better time, when my parents are both around, to tell me the bad news."

"Oh, believe me, the reality is far more complicated than that." Luo Qi revealed a faint smile. This also looked nothing like Luo Qi; Guan Xinyue stared fixedly at his face, for the real Luo Qi was expressive, every expression incredibly vivid, and he alone could never make a look like this.

Guan Xinyue could not help but blurt out, "You look like a Luo Qi pickled in a vat of bad water."

Luo Qi watched her thoughtfully, as if he needed a moment to react to such words, unable to immediately grasp the point of Guan Xinyue's remark.

"Are you a robot? Running a program? Is your brain blank if it's not in the database?" Guan Xinyue retorted crossly. When it came to arguing, humans had always surpassed Mages, and Guan Xinyue could be considered quite adept among humans.

He ignored her, which was one of the reasons Mages were not as good at arguing as humans; a Mage's emotions were not so easily stirred, and it was not very easy to make a Mage lose control through heated words, especially for a Mage with deep experience and a relatively high rank. If it were someone who had lived for at least several thousand years or even longer, almost every reaction similar to Guan Xinyue's had appeared countless times in their life.

He looked at Guan Xinyue calmly, her attacks having no effect on him, but since he was actually a "she," her reaction to a female was always a bit complex. She observed Guan Xinyue, as if wanting to find something from the past within her.

While pondering, he said, "Luo Qi is not that kind, and he isn't keeping quiet for your sake. Your sister's situation is extremely complex; she... is between life and death, neither fully alive nor fully dead. This is the reason he cannot speak, and also because there is more than one person in this state, so he will not say it out loud and reveal this Secret Realm."

After finishing, he pursed his lips and smiled, the female characteristics becoming more exposed, making Guan Xinyue's scalp tingle.

Guan Xinyue was surprised to find that she was not angered into a Fireball by such vague words; she was a bit weary of anger, and although she was truly a minor, just as children in war always mature rapidly, she had long since stepped into the war of her own life. Emotions were useless; she stood alone in the corridor, with no friends by her side, nor those two adult Great Mages, and the familiar body in front of her contained a soul she was unfamiliar with. She could not help but grab her own arms, shivering as if in a cold wind, but she was still thinking, thinking about every clue this "Luo Qi" had leaked.

"Luo Qi" would not bother to talk nonsense with her; what he said must be true, in some sense, and on a level he himself could understand. His relaxed posture also indicated that he was enjoying this brief conversation. This feeling was strange; Guan Xinyue's intuition sensed that he was like someone long trapped who was enjoying the afternoon sun. Using this time to tease her unhurriedly, teasing her, this foolish human.

Finally, she managed to think of a similar story, and she looked at him in astonishment, "What do you mean? Do you mean Luo Qi is Schrödinger? And my sister is his cat?"

Luo Qi laughed, as if amused by some joke, "Schrödinger's cat? A long-circulating, erroneous understanding of quantum mechanics."

"What? Erroneous? Quantum mechanics? Erroneous understanding?" Guan Xinyue did not know why she was angry; she hadn't even been angry when she heard about her sister just now. Now she could no longer figure out why her trigger point was so strange. Perhaps it was because she had been looked down upon by Mages for too long, her racial discrimination trigger was bizarrely low and sensitive. "I don't care who you are, you're just a Mage. Mages are all illiterate! Illiterate, primitive, and barbaric illiterates! Don't think you understand just because you dug up a few names from Luo Qi's memory! Luo Qi himself is an illiterate, with only a superficial understanding of human science!"

"You don't need to know that much. You only need to know that your sister loves you very much, and as far as you are concerned, she has already died for you." He said smugly, enjoying the devastating blow this sentence dealt to the young girl. He did not want to compete with the young girl; he just felt she was too noisy, too sneaky, and too sensitive. He struck at her, just like a cat idly catching a bird and snapping the bones of its throat between its paws.