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Thanks to Li Lin not having spread jamming particles, the elevator that ran between the surface and the underground could still operate. It was one of the few V.E Consortium products popular within the Courmayeur underground facility, introduced only three years ago. Given the church's usual paranoia, this was a rare display of transparency.
The carefully maintained elevator hardly made any vibration or sound while operating. The original V.E Consortium logo was painstakingly scraped off and replaced with the church's cross emblem, and the decorative landscape paintings were substituted with austere religious images. In this completely soundproof and sealed space, Ji Ai'er's eyes did not stray from Roland for even a second.
She could not and would not allow them to.
The oppressive feeling of having her inner thoughts seen through stopped Roland from looking away from Ji Ai'er's gaze.
Eventually, Ji Ai'er broke the deadlock.
"You really did say some touching words."
