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Chapter 168: Chapter 168: The Lost Right Eye
After being confined by Han Yi for three days, Han Jiaojiao was finally allowed to go out, but it was only as far as the door of her room.
Her confinement continued until a week later—
A week later, Beicheng Base was hit by an unprecedented Mutant Bird attack, and Hong Yun was injured in the battle.
Despite early aerial alerts from the base, the scale of this Mutant Bird attack was enormous, causing countless deaths and injuries among both military personnel and civilians, with rivers of blood flowing.
Han Jiaojiao pleaded with Han Yi for several days and finally obtained permission to visit.
The hospital was overwhelmed with patients. Hong Yun gave up her own ward to a teammate with more severe injuries and sat in a corridor chair, waiting for the nurse to change her dressing.
When Han Jiaojiao saw her, she couldn’t wait and called out to her.
"Sister Hong!"
Hong Yun turned her head—Han Jiaojiao saw Hong Yun’s bandaged right eye and stiffened instantly, feeling as if a bolt of lightning had struck her in a clear sky! Her mind went completely blank!
"Jiaojiao?" Seeing her, Hong Yun paused, then slowly smiled.
Han Jiaojiao stared blankly at Hong Yun’s injury and suddenly, she broke free from Han Yi’s grip and quickly walked up to her.
"Sister Hong, your eye..." Han Jiaojiao’s breathing was a bit rapid, as if she couldn’t believe what she was seeing, "What happened to your eye?"
"Mmm, it got scratched by a bird." Hong Yun’s tone was casual, "What’s with that face? I’m fine, don’t worry."
Han Jiaojiao’s heart was in disarray, as was her mind. She couldn’t understand why Hong Yun had lost her eye just like in her previous life. Had she remembered wrong? Was it actually predestined for Hong Yun to lose her eye at this time? Or, perhaps she hadn’t remembered wrong, but instead, the wheel of fate was making everything progress exactly as it had in her previous life...
In the end, Hong Yun became one-eyed.
What about her brother then?...
Would he die a violent death, just like in her previous life?
Han Jiaojiao felt a chilling dread!
Han Yi had already come up behind her, gently taking her hand. He saw Hong Yun’s injury and frowned slightly.
"The wound isn’t deep; it just happened to be across the eye, making it look scarier than it is... The doctor said my recovery isn’t bad, and I myself feel it should be this way." Hong Yun gently touched the bandage over her right eye where it throbbed painfully, and slowly said, "So, you don’t need to worry about me losing heart, I really am fine. Compared to my teammates, I’m very lucky to still have all my limbs."
In battle, a dozen Mutant Birds could strip a person down to their skeleton if there was no cover, let alone the thousands in this flock. Countless people within the base were snatched into the sky and torn apart by the Mutant Birds, or died struggling and falling from the air.
Han Jiaojiao’s residence, protected by Han Yi’s psychic shield, was spared, with no casualties. The area with the greatest casualties was the southern slums, where most people lived in tents, utterly defenseless.
Han Jiaojiao looked at Hong Yun’s injury, her eyes gradually reddening, and whispered softly to her, "Sister Hong, can I try using my Ability? It might help heal your wound. I’ll be very careful and won’t hurt you..."
Hong Yun, knowing that Wang Mengyi’s leg injury had been treated by Han Jiaojiao, trusted her and nodded slightly.
Han Jiaojiao dared not place her hand directly on the wound. She moved her palm down to Hong Yun’s right cheek. The water molecules became active near her fingertips, reviving the necrotic cells and reinvigorating the blood circulation. The wound’s natural healing ability was fully activated... However, the eyeball was too thoroughly destroyed.
Even if the wound healed, it couldn’t change the fact that the pupil’s lens was damaged. This right eye would never see again.
Like her past life.
Hong Yun focused intently on the little girl in front of her. Seeing her with just one eye was a unique experience. It was both familiar and novel, so much so that she didn’t have time to lament her dead right eye; she felt that her current perspective was overlapping with the scene she had seen in the deep consciousness of Han Jiaojiao.
Viewing the girl from the angle of just the left eye felt déjà vu, yet it was somewhat different.
In the layers of deep consciousness, she was emaciated and lingering, not as lively and spirited as she was now. However, Hong Yun missed that version of her more because that version had trusted and relied on her wholeheartedly. ... Now, Han Jiaojiao still trusted her, but with less closeness.
Perhaps ... it was because of him.
Hong Yun’s gaze shifted to Han Yi, who was behind Han Jiaojiao, that man whose expression was usually cold.
In this world, the people who accompany each other just need to choose one, just one, and no more. In the deep consciousness, she chose herself, but in reality, she chose her brother ... Han Yi.
Hong Yun felt a slight bitterness in her heart.
Han Jiaojiao had already lowered her hand. Hong Yun said with a smile, "It really doesn’t hurt at all."
But Han Jiaojiao felt she hadn’t done enough and said somewhat dejectedly, "My ability isn’t really healing; it just helps enhance your body’s self-healing capabilities and speeds up the recovery of wounds. Other than that ... I’m powerless ..." She couldn’t repair the damaged lens.
Perhaps a true Healing Ability could restore Hong Yun’s eye. But now, four months after the apocalyptic world, Superpower Users needed more time to grow and learn.
That included Han Jiaojiao herself, who also needed to grow. She believed that her ability would not stop here in the future. But for now, this was all she could do ...
"You’ve already done very well. Thank you, Jiaojiao." Hong Yun sincerely expressed her gratitude to her.
Han Jiaojiao shyly smiled.
After the Mutant Bird attack, there was a lot of follow-up work to do, and after changing her dressing, Hong Yun had to return to the Special Training Team. She and Han Jiaojiao said goodbye at the hospital entrance. Before leaving, Hong Yun told Han Yi, "The base will be making some movements soon; you should be prepared."
After hearing this, Han Yi nodded silently.
On the way back, Han Jiaojiao was preoccupied, even though she was holding hands with Han Yi; she stumbled several times along the way.
Han Yi, with a gloomy look in his eyes, didn’t say much. Faced with Han Jiaojiao, deep inside, Han Yi always felt a profound sense of defeat. After realizing Han Jiaojiao was extremely resistant to him touching her dreams, Han Yi chose to remain silent on many of his questions about her. 𝑛𝑜𝘷𝑝𝘶𝘣.𝑐𝘰𝘮
It was as if he was saying, "If you won’t talk, I won’t ask," that kind of attitude.
Although he knew that continuing like this would lead to many hidden dangers, and it would be terrible ... but he was powerless to change anything because he was genuinely afraid of seeing her tears.
At this moment, Han Jiaojiao was thinking about Hong Yun’s lost right eye.
—Her past life and this life, there had already been a great many differences, this lifetime! With a brother, companions, a Superpower, and the Cotton Candy not present in her previous life. All these suggested that fate could be changed.
But Hong Yun’s eye ...
The fear in Han Jiaojiao’s heart was deepening. Even though now Wenhao’s whereabouts were unknown, and it was impossible for him to suddenly appear and frame her brother, she couldn’t help but feel fearful and worried.
She was afraid that living her life again, she still couldn’t change fate. What should she do then?
What exactly should she do to avoid the tragedy?
