Chapter 680 — Things That Have Passed
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Amber finally raised her head slightly and looked at Pi Yun: "What was it?"
"A heap of gray-black 'moss,'" Pi Yun grinned, the wrinkles on his face folding into ridges, as though the memory were genuinely hilarious. "It took me a good while to understand what you meant—you wanted to use the moss as payment for me to save the man beside you.
"I will never forget the look on your face then. You held out a fistful of moss as though you were handing me a fistful of gold.
"I laughed at you, and then... my heart softened, and I have never been able to shake the two of you off since."
A hint of bewilderment came into Amber's eyes: "I... do not remember at all."
"Of course you do not remember. Your capacity for memory did not stabilize until six years later, and before that, it took you four and a half years just to learn your first word," Pi Yun shook his head with a sigh. "Because your soul is synthetic—you are an artificial human!"