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Chapter 118: Chapter 118: Each Harboring Their Own Thoughts
Han Jiaojiao walked ahead alone, and before long, she felt Han Yi grabbing her hand from behind.
She tried to pull her hand away.
But his grip only tightened more forcefully.
Han Jiaojiao felt her hand being squeezed so tightly it hurt, she bit her lip and did not make a sound.
Han Yi, with a somber look on his face, didn’t speak either; he forcefully led her on for a while before gradually loosening his grip.
The two walked back home in silence.
In the peaceful and serene farmhouse villa, the kitchen was alive with the sizzling sound of cooking. Yan Xiao, Xiao Jian, and Bai Kairui were gathered together playing poker. Zhou Yan was inside the house reading medical cases, and Lu Changyuan was alone in a corner, smoking...
Yan Xiao looked up and saw Han Yi and Han Jiaojiao returning, he was about to greet them but, seeing their faces, the greeting got stuck in his throat.
Han Yi didn’t look at anyone; he pulled Han Jiaojiao directly upstairs.
The people in the hall glanced at each other, wondering what was wrong with the siblings...
The heavy wooden door shut, and Han Yi pinned Han Jiaojiao against it and kissed her fiercely.
Han Jiaojiao clasped her lips tightly to stop him from going further, but his large hand gripped her delicate jaw, his lips and tongue roughly invading until he felt the coldness on her cheeks, and only then did Han Yi let her go—
Her lips were somewhat swollen, showing a tortured beauty, and her pale face had two cold tear streaks.
Han Yi raised his hand to wipe her tears, his voice hoarse as he asked, "Why are you crying?"
Han Jiaojiao, with tearful eyes, looked at Han Yi and murmured, "... You promised me, stop seeing her, okay?... I can’t take it."
Han Yi sighed silently, "I was going to see Aunt Duan."
"Don’t see anyone from the Qin Family... okay?" Han Jiaojiao almost pleaded.
Han Yi looked at her silently and after a long pause, he slowly said, "Jiaojiao, Aunt Duan... she knows many good doctors. I don’t want your dreams to become a psychological burden. Let’s find a time to see one..."
"Dreams?" Han Jiaojiao’s eyes showed wariness, "You’ve been in my dreams? When?"
Han Yi looked at her, his dark eyes unfathomably deep.
"... Seeing a doctor doesn’t mean you’re sick. I just hope the doctor can give us some proper advice. You don’t need to be scared; it’s just a chat."
Han Jiaojiao relentlessly asked him, "What did you see? What did you see in my dreams?!"
Han Jiaojiao rapidly recalled her recent dreams; it had been a long time since she dreamed of past life matters. The only one that left a deep impression was probably the dream about Su Xue and Qin Nanyi. How much had her brother seen? What was he thinking? Did he think she was crazy? Taking dreams as reality? Unreasonable?
Yes, she took them seriously! Because those things truly happened to her! To her, they were a deep pain, yet to him, they were just a meaningless dream!
Han Jiaojiao laughed mockingly, "I am sick, yes, I’ve got a heart disease! As long as people of the Qin Family are not clean gone, my disease will also not be cured!"
"Jiaojiao!" Han Yi’s tone was suppressed with anger.
But Han Jiaojiao laughed even harder, "Hahaha... Why are you angry, brother? I am now a sick person! A madwoman! Insane people who kill aren’t breaking the law! Don’t you know?!"
Han Yi took a deep breath, his voice low with restrained fury, "You need to calm down."
Han Jiaojiao turned her head away stubbornly.
Han Yi straightened up and stormed out, slamming the door behind him.
Listening to the footsteps descending the stairs, Han Jiaojiao silently wiped away her tears in the room. From a drawer, she took out a bag of Crystal Cores that everyone had helped her save because there were many Superpower Users in her family and the demand for Crystal Cores was high. So far, they had saved up to seventy cores, big and small.
Everyone else’s Crystal Cores had already been absorbed, only Han Jiaojiao’s portion was left until now. To prevent the precious energy within the Crystal Cores from dissipating, they had been cleaned thoroughly and wrapped tightly in cling film, then stored in a dry, cool, and dark place.
As Han Jiaojiao held the Crystal Cores in her hand, she gently exhaled the pent-up frustration within her.
Han Jiaojiao did not deny that she suffered from a psychological disorder. In fact, in this apocalyptic world, how many people had normal, healthy minds? Her anxiety and irritability stemmed from her past life, from nightmares, and from the deep recesses of her memories. She did not believe that just any therapist could unravel her psychological knots.
She had thought that her life’s trajectory was different from her previous one, that she might set everything aside and start anew without dwelling on the past. But now she knew she was wrong. As she had said, the Qin Family had become her obsession! As long as Qin Nanyi and Qin Wenhao were alive, she would never be at peace.
Qin Nanyi had already arrived, and it wouldn’t be long before Qin Wenhao would also come.
Clenching the Crystal Cores tightly in her hand, Han Jiaojiao’s lips whitened as she pressed them firmly together. This time, she would not sit idly by—she was determined to eliminate these two major threats!
She was going to kill them!
Han Jiaojiao picked up the Crystal Core and also went downstairs.
In the hall, everyone saw Han Yi come down with a dark expression and were startled. Suddenly, they saw Han Jiaojiao, obviously having cried, appearing at the top of the stairs—
"Yan Xiao, where’s the Mutant Rat I bought?" Han Jiaojiao asked, ignoring Han Yi and addressing Yan Xiao directly.
Yan Xiao, bewildered by the eerie atmosphere between the siblings, looked at Han Jiaojiao, then at Han Yi, and stood up, "Oh...oh, just a second..."
Yan Xiao ran out the door, and soon came back carrying a cage, which he handed to Han Jiaojiao.
Han Jiaojiao took the cage and without a word, ran up the stairs; from the sound of her footsteps, it seemed she went straight to the third floor.
The rest of them all looked at Han Yi...
Han Yi coldly scanned the room, and everyone lowered their heads—
We didn’t see anything... we didn’t see anything... we didn’t see anything...
—Like before, Han Jiaojiao first checked Pepper’s eggs, watered Xiaogua, Xiaodou, and Cotton Candy, then caressed each vine in turn.
The places where the teeth were had become more noticeable.
The vines seemed very excited upon seeing the Mutant Rat, cooing loudly and gently touching the cage with their tendrils. Seemingly aware that their teeth had not yet grown in, they only dared to slap the cage making it clack and clang, not daring to really reach inside.
Han Jiaojiao pulled out a Dagger and stabbed a rat through the cage, causing the Mutant Rats inside to become agitated, violently crashing against the cage and clawing at the wires, attempting to break free. However, these low-level mutants, apart from being larger and stronger than normal rats, had no other differences.
The scent of blood excited Xiaogua, Xiaodou, and Cotton Candy, and the vines tentatively stretched into the cage.
Han Jiaojiao ruthlessly slapped them away. In her view, their vines were still too tender, the tough skin covered with a light fuzz was not yet fully formed, incapable of withstanding the sharp teeth of the Mutant Rat.
Han Jiaojiao sucked the blood out from the dead rat’s body through the cage. Just as she had anticipated, she could extract liquid from any object, be it plant or animal.
Only...
Han Jiaojiao slightly frowned, closely examining the clump of bright red liquid in her hand, when suddenly, one white and two green vines shot over, rapidly licking the clump of liquid clean!
Han Jiaojiao: "..."
