Chapter 1653 Exchange!
"It works! It works!"
Zhang Tiechui seemed to understand the child in his arms, and seeing the child's face gradually turning red, he excitedly exclaimed:
"thanks, thanks!"
"Thank you, Chosen One!"
However, there was no sign of relief in Li Luo's eyes.
He simply shook his head slowly, saying indifferently:
"I can't save him."
"Thank... uh, what!?" The smile froze on Zhang Tiechui's face instantly.
“I can’t save your child,” Li Luo repeated.
As soon as she finished speaking, another blood-stained flower withered and died on her shoulder.
Zhang Tiechui then realized what was happening.
Each time the blood-red flowers on the body of the Shadow Rakshasa Li Luo bloomed and withered, it seemed to represent the exhaustion of a complete life.
How many times have the flowers bloomed and faded?
“He has a ‘hole’ in his body,” Li Luo continued to explain.
"Because of this natural 'hole,' his vitality is constantly being lost."
“I can use my authority to share the burden with your child and make the ‘hole’ in his body smaller.”
"But there was no way to make that hole disappear completely."
"Moreover... the 'holes' on his body are still getting bigger."
"I suspect that it contains the power of rules."
"Let's say goodbye properly while we still have time."
Although Li Luo's words were meant to persuade Zhang Tiechui to give up...
But it never stopped activating the power of 'redemption' to slow down the rate at which the child's life was slipping away.
“‘The hole’…the power of the rules…there’s no way to save it…” Zhang Tiechui’s mouth was slightly open, trembling incessantly, like a fish that had been thrown ashore and was left to bake in the sun:
"Even the chosen ones couldn't save him..."
"Why, why did this cruel thing have to happen to me?!"
"I have never done anything evil in my life, why should I suffer such pain..."
The heart-wrenching sobs echoed through the icy snow, gripping everyone's nerves like a thick, lingering gloom.
Just then, Lin Qinxue suddenly remembered something and secretly asked Li Luo through her mental senses:
"Will Xu Xiao's authority be effective?"
"I don't know." Li Luo glanced at the outwardly cold but inwardly warm Frost Lord beside her and replied telepathically:
"But I don't think it will work."
"Xu Xiao's authority of 'tolerance' can only bring the target back to its essence, not purely treat or correct it."
"Besides, she's currently in the Palus Belt and might not be able to make it back in time."
"You mean this child was born with a defect, and even if Xu Xiao could return and use his authority on him, it wouldn't have any effect?" Lin Qinxue transmitted her voice again.
"At most, we can restore him to his state when he was just born, but we can't eliminate the 'hole' that has drained his life force?"
“That’s right.” Li Luo withdrew her gaze and looked back at the child.
Although there was no change in his facial expression
But the slight tremor in those scarlet pupils betrayed the true nature of this Shadow Rakshasa.
She was about to become a mother herself, and could best empathize with Zhang Tiechui's pain.
"Anyway, I'll try to teach her to come back." After a two-second silence, Li Luo spoke directly.
But just as she was about to open the data panel and send messages to Xu Xiao and Pan Xiaoxiao at the same time.
Suddenly, I sensed a familiar presence.
Looking back, I saw that the short Taotie had appeared in the crowd at some point, casting a silent gaze through his ferocious mask with its fangs.
Taotie noticed Li Luo's gaze and visibly trembled, as if it were somewhat frightened.
However, he quickly averted his gaze, slowly stepped forward, and approached Zhang Tiechui.
Upon seeing this, the Lin family guards, who were secretly monitoring the Taotie, instinctively wanted to step forward to stop it.
But before I even set off, I noticed a sticky sensation under my feet.
Looking down, they found that the shadows with the weakest presence were stuck to their shoes like glue on a mouse trap.
The guards immediately understood that this was Li Luo's intention, so they quickly regained their composure and continued to observe Taotie's every move.
Zhang Tiechui's mind was completely consumed by despair, and his perception of the outside world had been reduced to a minimum.
But when she saw a strange hand suddenly reach out to cover the child in her arms, she reacted immediately, instinctively moving the child away from the hand.
However, this does not seem to affect Taotie's investigation of the child.
After a long pause, he spoke calmly:
“Your child has a congenital malformation, and the basic rules that constitute life are disordered in his body, which is why there is a ‘hole’ that causes life force to continuously drain away.”
There are two ways to save him.
Upon hearing Taotie say that the child could be saved, Zhang Tiechui instantly regained his senses.
He rubbed his eyes hard and asked urgently:
"What method? Any method will do to save my child!!"
"The first method is to use the title 'Rule Tamperer,' pay the price, and forcibly alter the rules within this newborn's body," Taotie stated directly without further ado.
"Title [Rule Tamperer]... I've heard of Rule Tamperer trial tickets. Can I use one?!" Zhang Tiechui muttered to himself, like a drowning man grasping at a last straw.
"I heard that a player in the Frost Territory has this item. I can ask him to buy it!"
Faced with Zhang Tiechui's impatience, Taotie simply shook its head:
"Trial vouchers won't work; the effect of that item is only temporary."
"Once the effects of the props wear off, the disordered rules within your child's body will remain disordered, and the 'hole' that drains life force will still exist."
Li Luo, who was listening in, darkened her eyes.
"If my benefactor were here, this problem could be easily solved..."
The woman murmured to herself, beginning to miss that slightly frail figure, yet one that gave her an endless sense of security.
Taking a deep breath, she interjected:
"The title is unique, so the method of saving the child by using the title of 'Rule Tamperer' won't work."
Taotie glanced at the woman, its six eyes flashing with an unfathomable expression.
Instead of taking over the conversation, he continued speaking on his own:
"The second method is to use my authority and power to make an exchange."
"What exchange?" Zhang Tiechui realized that the person wearing the hideous mask was also a chosen one, and hope shone in his eyes again.
"Transfer the basic rules that work properly within your body to your child."
Taotie stared into Zhang Tiechui's eyes and said in an almost mocking tone:
"At that time, your child will be able to survive normally."
"And you, because you have patched his 'hole' and lost the basic rules that were working properly in your body, will suffer double the pain and die immediately."
"Are you willing?"
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