The Female Cannon Fodder With Boundless Merits-Chapter 223 - 227 Angel in the Mortal World (17)

Su Li didn’t care what Ye Qiu thought; with a gleeful whisper, she said, "Since you like living in the Mortal World so much, why not stay here permanently and enjoy the human emotions and desires?"

Ye Qiu listened to Su Li, whom she had never taken seriously, and felt utterly baffled.

Su Li added, "Besides, I’m quite interested in your Angels’ way of life."

A sense of danger suddenly surged from the depths of Ye Qiu’s heart, and her large wings drooped down, flapping in panic like a frightened bird.

Yet, her body, immobilized and bound, couldn’t stop Su Li’s approaching finger.

It seemed slow, yet exceedingly fast—Su Li’s jade-like finger directly touched Ye Qiu’s forehead.

No matter how Ye Qiu shook her head, she couldn’t break free.

What terrified Ye Qiu even more was the energy within her body rapidly draining away along the finger.

Despite her helpless appearance, if only she had a bit more time for her energy to accumulate to a certain level, she would have shattered anything and anyone obstructing her.

It was somewhat of a chaotic rescue by Su Li that saved the research facility this time.

Otherwise, given Birdman’s initial demonstration, the people in this facility might not have ended well.

Su Li joyfully absorbed the power flowing into her body, shaking her head contentedly.

Forget it, she thought, I just want to be an unnamed hero.

As the power drained away, Ye Qiu instantly became listless. The Holy Light she always emitted made her look pure and holy, but now she seemed covered by a layer of dim gauze, becoming less noticeable.

She was no different from an ordinary human now, except she was still slightly more beautiful.

The large wings exposed on her back began to shrink slowly, finally retracting completely into her body, disappearing entirely, leaving only two deep, bony wounds on her shoulder blades as proof of their previous existence.

"Ah..." Su Li felt the core of the power, raised her hand, and grabbed upward, as if she had caught onto something.

Under Ye Qiu’s drastically distorted face of terror, Su Li pulled a walnut-sized light group from Ye Qiu’s forehead.

"You, you can’t do this, please..." Compared to the loss of power, this Little Light Group clearly meant much more to her.

To avoid being caught on camera, Su Li ignored Ye Qiu’s wails and snatched the light group at lightning speed.

The moment she touched the small walnut-like light group, a flood of information rushed into Su Li’s mind.

It turned out to be the Deputy Divine specific to Angels; without it, Angels couldn’t gather energy anymore or grow wings to fly back to Heaven.

In fact, this Deputy Divine had been passed through the hands of countless Angels.

It was Ye Qiu who had acquired it inadvertently five hundred years ago, allowing her to become an Angel.

That meant the former Ye Qiu had also been a mortal, and only with this Deputy Divine could she transform into an Angel.

No wonder she was so terrified, struggling frantically.

But this time, no matter how much she struggled, the heavy bracelets and anklets that she used to be able to shake now remained completely motionless on her limbs.

"Please, give this back to me."

Su Li smiled slyly, "How could I? I’m not giving it."

Originally, she had planned to test whether all energy bodies were essentially the same by trying to absorb all the energy from Ye Qiu completely to see if, like the cultivators in the Cultivation World, she would become like a mortal without Spiritual Power.

As it turned out, reality was even simpler than she had imagined. The Spiritual Energy of the cultivators was hard-earned through their own painstaking cultivation, whereas the existence of an Angel depended solely on the Deputy Divine inside them. With this entity, they could slowly absorb energy and change their physical constitution, even growing a pair of wings.

The Deputy Divine also stored the memories of each Angel. Su Li had merely glanced over them briefly and had quickly grown disgusted by these supposedly sacred creatures.

Since Angels were transformed from humans, their inherent human flaws were inherited; with the addition of power, even originally kind-hearted people could become unrecognizable over endless time.

But there seemed to be limits, as the lower dimensions’ self-protection prevented these powerful beings from entering.

It was also because Ye Qiu was injured that she had unintentionally fallen into a black hole and appeared in this world with greatly diminished capabilities.

All this happened as quick as lightning. By the time the research personnel in the surveillance room noticed something amiss with the subject in the footage, Su Li had already finished her mischief and had retreated far from Ye Qiu.

"What happened?" The middle-aged man hurried over, his face dark as night.

Su Li blinked fearfully as if terrified, "I... I don’t know what happened. I just scolded her a few times, and she started convulsing like someone with epilepsy."

"It’s terrifying, way too terrifying... I want to go home," Su Li said, her voice quivering with a hint of crying.

The middle-aged man stepped forward and examined Ye Qiu carefully. By then, Ye Qiu was as wet as if pulled from water, her wings completely vanished, her eyes tightly shut, her breath weak.

The middle-aged man’s suspicious gaze swept over Su Li again and again. His instinct told him that everything might be highly related to Su Li, but he couldn’t pinpoint what could have caused Ye Qiu’s loss of control.

After all, Su Li was a truly fragile human.

The middle-aged man, with a stern face, said, "Repeat everything you just said to the subject, all the words and the whole scene."

Despite Su Li’s flawless wording, the middle-aged man seemed not to give up, his oppressive gaze fixed on Su Li, repeatedly disrupting the sequence of events and making Su Li explain the scene over and over.

After several iterations, Su Li’s consistent performance left no openings for the middle-aged man. It seemed that things were exactly as Su Li had described, with some unknown cause leading to Ye Qiu’s condition.

Innocent yet anxious, Su Li whispered, "Could it be because I scolded her too harshly?"

The middle-aged man also repeatedly studied the video footage of the house. Su Li’s angle at the time was coincidentally back towards them, leaving them no choice but to take her word for it.

Yet, it was these many coincidences that aroused an uncomfortable feeling in the middle-aged man. Despite racking his brain, he couldn’t figure out what had gone wrong.

Although he doubted Su Li, they belonged to an official organization, and it was not acceptable to detain Su Li without cause.

This was the confidence Su Li had to act right under their watch.

When Ye Qiu eventually woke up slowly, the confusion in her eyes erased the last of Su Li’s concerns.

In the end, Su Li left under the unceremonious expulsion of the middle-aged man, but her spirits were nevertheless incredibly high.

This experience had proved far too rewarding.