"It's over, quack. The barometer keeps dropping, quack..." Yaya slumped to the floor as his eyes turned dim.
'The first meeting we designed so hard, the romantic, fateful encounter led to a destruction in the end.'
Once she heard Yaya's words, Lai Jiayi's legs became weak.
"I'll go chase after Zhao Yang. I-i will grab his thigh and– "
"It's too late…" Yaya murmured, and he suddenly stopped moving.
!
"Yaya! Yaya…" Lai Jiayi held back the urge to cry as she picked up the motionless duck.
The duck seemed to lose all hope, and this only made Lai Jiayi panicked even more.
'I can't lose just yet. Do I lose just in 2 days? No! My father is at stake here!'
Lai Jiayi looked at the AI and felt her heart was breaking apart.
"If only I don't drop Zhao Yang. If only I manage to slip off properly…." Lai Jiayi murmured again.
'Will the barometer drop? No! it might even rise!'
"Yaya, wake up, Yaya! Tell me the situation…" Lai Jiayi's voice was trembling as she asked Yaya, who seemed to be overloaded.
Maybe his circuits got burnt or something from too much shock, but he's not responding.
The girl was kneeling as she kept calling the Ai's name, but… there's no response.
'What's wrong with Yaya? Why isn't he responding? Is he...dead? But why! Is it because...I get eliminated?'
Panicking, Lai Jiayi shook Yaya's body, trying to wake him up. "Yaya, wake up! Hey! Don't joke around...hey...you are ok, aren't you? Yaya? Answer me...Yaya!"
But then she saw the AI looked like dead. He didn't move. His body grew cold. It's quite warm before, but now...it is as cold as a metallic machine.
'Yaya is...dead?'
At this moment, Lai Jiayi couldn't care much about her being eliminated or not as her focus was on this little AI she was holding.
'If he died...I won't have anyone left in this world. My father would be on the brink of death if Yaya left me too…'
Tears began to drip from Lai Jiayi's eyes. The soft crying sound could be heard from underneath the stairs where no one bothered to come there.
If anyone was here, one could spot a frail-looking girl who was half-squatting.
Her shoulder trembled, and tears dripped from her eyes to her cheek, down to the chin, and finally landed on the floor.
A faint noise of water droplets hitting a hard object mixed with a girl's crying voice was the only thing anyone could hear.
"Yaya! No...this can't be. He's not dead, right? Just because I'm eliminated...he is dead?" Lai Jiayi kept mumbling with a dead stare.
"No...no...and I can't be eliminated, right? But the barometer keeps dropping…."
Frustrated, Lai Jiayi bit her lips hard as she stroked Yaya's belly in a trembling finger.
'I regret this...so much. My weakness, my fear to face the trauma of the past, my weak self made the barometer drop and...if it keeps dropping…'
The girl didn't even know if the barometer would go down to minus or not, but her feeling told her so.
"Z-Zhao Yang must be mad...me a stranger drops him off…" Lai Jiayi wiped her tears.
'If this happened to me, I will be super mad too!'
"Yaya, I'm sorry...I'm sorry...it was all my fault...I will try my best not to act like that anymore...please…" Lai Jiayi poked Yaya's body begging him to respond.
"So please...wake up…"
'I'm wrong. I'm so stupid! Why should I drop him off despite my phobia??'
Lai Jiayi sobbed as her eyes became blurry. A few minutes passed by, and Yaya still didn't respond.
'Does this mean I failed? Do I get eliminated? Thus Yaya doesn't work anymore?'
The girl cried even harder. Her face was so messed up by the tears that even her hair was also messy.
Little did she know, she's just overthinking.
At this moment, Yaya actually had regained his conscious back.
'Ugh...my system froze for a while….' The duck tried to open his eyes.
'Luckily, the barometer doesn't drop anymore! It stops right at 0! It doesn't go minus!' Yaya cheerfully thought.
'Ahhh, thank God, God of luck or whatever, whoever...thank you!!'
Yaya wanted to open his eyes and told Lai Jiayi this good news, but then he heard the girl was panicking.
Then, she started to cry even began to confess her mistake, swearing not to did it again. His initial plan to wake up and tell her the good news vanished.
'Why don't I use this chance to give a lesson to my contractor? For now, we are lucky, but what about next time?' Yaya slightly opened his eyes as he stared at Lai Jiayi.
"I have to make sure next time this kind of thing won't happen again.' Yaya swore as he continued his act.
"Yaya, open your eyes, please...did I get eliminated? Did they decide to kill you too?" Lai Jiayi, who didn't know anything, started to cry even harder.
'It's fine to be eliminated, but Yaya….please don't die!'
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