Hearing 005 say this, even though the layer of vigilance in Mo Yi’s heart had not fully faded yet, he still felt somewhat excited.
The other side’s meaning was, wasn’t that saying all of his memories were real, that he really had met this person, and had even been treated so gently by him!
All this time, Mo Yi had seemed like duckweed drifting with the wind, with heaven and earth so vast, yet nowhere for him to belong, enduring endless loneliness and malice.
Meeting again someone from his memories who had sincerely treated him well, even if that person no longer remembered him, still made his emotions surge. Even with doubts still lingering, he could not help but secretly hope, unable to resist wanting to grasp something.
“005, then will those lost memories of mine be restored in the future?”
He asked anxiously. When the system heard this, it hesitated for a moment. In fact, if they left the spirit artifact world and returned to the real world, there was a very good chance they could be restored. But 005’s energy was insufficient, and it had never been to the real world, so it was not sure either. It could only tell the truth and say, “Host, I’m not sure either, but there is still a very good chance they can be restored.”
“Woof!”
Mo Yi lowered his head, and from deep in his throat came a canine whine unique to dogs, sad and joyful at the same time.
Seeing Mo Yi like this, 005 sighed in its heart. When it received this task, Mr. Bai Su had told it that no matter how many hardships his host had gone through, he was still a simple child, and it absolutely had to protect him well!
Actually, Mo Yi’s voice was very soft, and only for a breath, but it was still heard by Bai Ren, who was very close to him.
The man looked at the boy across from him, at the slightly red eyes, and felt a dull heaviness in his chest.
As if guided by some strange impulse, he reached out and gently patted the boy’s hand, which was right before his eyes.
Bai Ren’s initiative in touching him made Mo Yi’s whole body stiffen slightly, and it took a long while before he relaxed.
Apart from that memory, no one had ever treated him like this.
Those people all said he was unlucky, and feared the bad luck on his body would rub off on them. Not to mention touching him, if they did not need his power, then even looking at him once seemed as if it would dirty their eyes.
But now, he could feel Bai Ren’s goodwill and concern. For him, this was undoubtedly an extremely novel experience.
Being patted like this on the back of his hand made Mo Yi think of when he was little. He had secretly slipped into the village and seen the scene of a village girl and the big yellow dog in her family getting along.
It was an old dog, already advanced in years, not as good-looking as he was, and its fur was not as glossy as his.
But it could be gently brushed while basking in the sun.
Back then,
he had been so envious.
Now, someone was willing to touch him too.
But he probably could not hope for this person to brush his fur. Because right now, he was completely bare, and there were no longer any of those beautiful fur layers from before.
However, this good atmosphere did not last long before it was ruined by the system speaking up.
There was no helping it, 005 was truly afraid that Mo Yi would get too excited and say something else, so it helplessly reminded him, “Host, you still need to be careful with what you say!”
“Small worlds have restrictions. Although we’re helping repair the world, we cannot mention too many things outside the world. Otherwise, we may very likely be expelled by the small world!”
“It’s normal that he doesn’t remember you. He doesn’t have a system on him, and every time he enters a world, it’s equivalent to being a newly born native, so he won’t have memories of things from before. If you say too much, it may even arouse his suspicion!”
After hearing the system’s explanation, Mo Yi’s eyes flickered.
Some of the information 005 mentioned was still a little too complicated for him right now, but he knew very clearly that he absolutely did not want to be expelled and leave this world.
Taking a deep breath, the familiar aura on the other side made him feel a little more at ease.
Mo Yi felt a little regretful, but he was no longer sad. He was still concerned about Bai Ren’s body. He took the initiative to ask about it, and seeing the other side keep smiling as he answered, he felt somewhat impressed.
If his leg injury were this severe, he definitely would not be able to smile through the pain…
Seeing that the boy’s mood had improved a little, Bai Ren then said, “By the way, I still haven’t asked the name of my lifesaver. Can you tell me what your name is?”
“Mo, Yi.”
The boy’s eyes shone as he pronounced his name word by word, very slowly, and with a certain solemnity. It made Bai Ren feel that what the other side was telling him was not just a name, but also something carrying a deeper emotion, only he could not yet see it clearly.
This was also the first time Mo Yi had introduced his name to someone. He was a little unaccustomed to it, but when he thought that he now had a name too, and the meaning behind that name, he felt a little exhilarated.
And this name had been given to him by the person in front of him, which made him very grateful.
Bai Ren went through the families he remembered that might have connections, but there was no family with the surname Mo. He had originally planned to try starting from the boy’s name, but now it seemed that would not work.
However, if this person had really happened to save him by chance, and had no other purpose, then Bai Ren was still very willing to give him some reward.
Thinking of this, the man’s
smile widened a little more.
“A very nice name. Which two characters are they?”
Mo Yi had never gone to school, so naturally he could not recognize characters.
Originally, every time a tasker entered a plane, the system would first select a suitable person in the small world, exchange a certain condition for the other party’s identity, and then use system energy to replicate the original body and hand it over to the tasker to take over.
Then the tasker could naturally obtain the original body’s memories and master their essential skills.
But the problem was that the original owner of the identity Mo Yi had taken over was not very smart.
The other party’s memories were fuzzy and indistinct, and there was no value in them as learning references at all. He could not even speak clearly, and was not as capable as Mo Yi, this nonhuman who had lived long enough.
The original owner’s only deep memory was that he had a grandfather who loved him, a father who did not seem to like him very much, and a few bad people in the family who always bullied him.
He had grown up in a daze, almost never leaving the house. But from some fragments of memory, Mo Yi could still tell that the original owner had clothes handed to him and food placed in front of him, and lived quite well.
It was only not long before Mo Yi took over this identity that, for some unknown reason, the original owner was taken away in his sleep. When he woke up, he was in a remote little mountain hollow, and had been handed over to a fierce-looking man for supervision.
The original owner had been very afraid at the time, but he did not cry or make a fuss. The man probably saw that he was fairly obedient, and after watching him for a few days, relaxed his guard. Later, he even drove him to town to buy things.
However, although the original owner was foolish, he still remembered that he wanted to go home and find Grandfather, so he ran away when he got the chance.
The market was full of people, and the man could not find him.
The original owner also did not know how to get back. He could not explain himself clearly either, so he begged along the way and rummaged through trash, and in a daze made it to the nearest Shencheng.
By a coincidence, the original owner’s family also seemed to have the surname mo. The original owner did not remember his own name, but he remembered that his grandfather had always called him “Xiao yi.”
As for exactly which two characters they were, Mo Yi was not sure either. Based on what the person in his memory had told him, he could only roughly repeat, “Mo is the Mo of black fur. Yi is the Yi with four fires.”
“Black fur?”
Bai Ren found this explanation very interesting, and the corners of his mouth lifted. “A very good name. I remember that yi in a name means peace.”
But when Mo Yi heard him say that, his whole body froze.
[Let me give you a name, how about calling you Mo Yi?]
[It’s the yi with four fires. Look, there’s still a flame-like red mark on your forehead, and you’re good at using fire too, so I felt this character suited you especially well. And most importantly, yi in a name means peace.]
The person before his eyes suddenly overlapped perfectly with the person in his memory. Those memory fragments that had once been impossible to confirm now became extraordinarily real.
A surge of warmth suddenly flooded Mo Yi’s chest. He felt his throat go dry, opened his mouth, and in the end still could not say anything.
He only nodded somewhat dazedly, but in his heart he was already impatiently wanting to do something for Bai Ren.
“D-do you need me to do anything?” Mo Yi sat in front of Bai Ren, both hands resting on his knees as he looked at him seriously, looking rather obedient.
Bai Ren smiled, looked around, and seeing the dirty clothes he had taken off earlier lying on a chair not far away, pointed toward them at Mo Yi. “Can you help me bring them over?”
Mo Yi obediently brought the clothes over. After taking them, the man felt in the pants pocket, and sure enough there was no phone. The phone should have been in the shirt he had somehow lost, but fortunately the wallet was still there, with identification documents and some cash inside.
He directly took out the entire small stack of cash from the wallet and handed it to the person across from him.
“Could I trouble you to help me borrow a phone and bring it back?”
Mo Yi took the money blankly. He knew what money was for, and could also understand Bai Ren’s meaning. He did not have any intention of refusing in his heart, he just was not used to being given things.
Seeing him like this, Bai Ren instead thought the other side had misunderstood this as his thanks, and gently explained, “Don’t mind it. I just thought your pocket might not have any money left.
Staying here has already cost you money, how could I not contribute at all? It just so happens that there is still some money in the wallet, and for now it can be used to solve an urgent problem. I will naturally thank you properly after this.”
Bai Ren’s expression was warm and courteous, but his words carried a slightly deeper meaning.
Mo Yi could not hear the hidden edge in them, and did not feel that he had done so much for the other side that he needed to be specially thanked again.
In his heart, he muttered about what a phone chicken was, and whether or not it was tasty.
But thinking of 005’s reminder earlier, he ultimately did not say more. He said, “No need to thank me,” then, while communicating with the system in his consciousness, left the room.
Once only Bai Ren remained in the room, he restrained his smile, returned to his usual gloomy expression when alone, and began carefully thinking over the whole matter.