Transmigrated as the Villainous Love Rival of the Abusive Novel's Heroine [Quick Transmigration] - Chapter 48

Chapter 48: An Eye for an Eye

Those beasts had not injected these people with any anesthetics while dissecting them.

This was because they firmly believed that only through pain could humans burst forth with powerful strength. The persistence of agony would force them to continuously stimulate their supernatural abilities in an attempt to escape the suffering, making it easier for the researchers to uncover the truth behind their unique powers.

Among these people, some were trembling uncontrollably as the pain persisted; some were bleeding non-stop, their wounds gaping open; others were unable to even stand.

Yet, none of them spoke.

They clutched that tiny bit of light, tears streaming down their faces in the darkness, yet they did not dare—nor did they believe—that such a small amount of warmth could truly comfort them. Every day and night on the experimental table, every inch of the blade that fell upon them, had exhausted their capacity to trust others.

But Yun Qianxue did not need them to believe. She was simply doing what she wanted to do.

“Who is the healer from A274?” She had heard on the experimental table that the healer’s ability was exceptionally strong. Because of that, the harm she endured was greater than anyone else’s.

No one moved. Yun Qianxue waited quietly, without rushing.

“Tap, tap tap…” A twelve- or thirteen-year-old girl, with withered yellow hair, gaunt and limping, walked out. She stared fixedly at Yun Qianxue for a long time, then suddenly revealed a bright smile.

She said, “Mama said there are always good people in this world.” Despite being captured and tortured, she wanted to prove her mother’s words were right. That was her final treasure. “I am willing to believe you.”

So she stood up once more regardless of the danger, even though she was shaking all over from fear.

Yun Qianxue gave her a gentle smile. Since she was holding two children and couldn’t easily squat down, she could only lower her head and say to her, “Use your ability. Heal yourself first.”

“I can’t. I can’t do it.” The girl did not lie or hide the truth; her energy core had been in a constant state of depletion. Those people wouldn’t kill her outright; they would only exhaust her energy, let her rest a bit to recover, and then continue the experiments, making her heal her own wounds over and over. It was an endless cycle of pain.

“I’m here,” Yun Qianxue promised.

Her soft energy moved alongside her words, like an invisible giant hand pushing away the violent external energy. Through Ouroboros, she channeled the purest, cleanest power into their bodies. The girl’s energy core filled up instantly, and the wounds on her body healed rapidly. She then very sensibly began to help heal the others.

Previously, under Yin Shaoqing’s protection, Yun Qianxue had been able to spend enough time and crystal cores to upgrade her own ability. She was now at the peak of Grade 3, only one step away from Grade 4. The Ouroboros ability, which Yu Yinglang had coveted for two lifetimes, seemed useless when Yun Qianxue was alone, but among a group of ability users, it was the core—an invincible force.

In less than three minutes, after the girl’s Grade 2 core had been refilled nearly a hundred times, everyone was healed. They looked at their own bodies in disbelief. That look of astonishment, that look of regained hope, felt like a lifetime ago.

“Sister…” The little girl blinked and asked what was on her mind: “Who are you?”

Yun Qianxue set down the two healed children. She held them with one arm and stroked the girl’s head with her other hand. “I used to live right next door to you.”

She was the experimental subject from Bed 1, Room A273. But now, as a victim, she stood up to protect them, her fellow victims.

The little girl didn’t fully understand, but she felt the warmth. She wanted to hide away just like the two children in the big sister’s arms. That way, she wouldn’t have to be afraid of anyone hurting her anymore…

“Now, follow me. We’re going to find that false god.” And then, they would judge him.

Thus, these hundred-plus people followed obediently behind the girl who looked thin and fragile. Yun Qianxue removed the bandages from her face; the wounds had been healed, but the scars remained. It would not be an exaggeration to describe her face as unrecognizable, yet these people followed her nonetheless. They believed her when she said: “Follow me, stand behind me, and I will protect you.”

Perhaps it wasn’t just for protection, but to use the light to step onto the path of revenge. Their eyes had gone blind in the darkness, so they needed a guide.

“Where is the hairpin?” Sitting in the room, Yu Yinglang was bleeding from his Seven Orifices. The syringes scattered across the floor told the tale of just how much energy he had exhausted. That madwoman was a demon; she simply couldn’t be suppressed.

So, he had come up with another plan. Long before Yin Shaoqing sliced off the head of the wind-attribute zombie, he had ordered a space-attribute zombie to hide the hairpin. He originally thought that if he let Yun Qianxue unseal the wooden hairpin herself, the hairpin wouldn’t be destroyed like last time when his brainless little lover used it recklessly once. He needed the spirit spring within it to continuously refine his body and increase his supernatural power.

Now, it seemed he could only relinquish control over the zombies and hide inside the hairpin. In the previous life, he had personally watched that woman enter the hairpin and vanish along with it for half a month. Half a month’s time was enough for him to recover his strength and escape the base. Besides, he didn’t believe Yin Shaoqing, burdened with a dead weight like Yun Qianxue, could escape from the zombie horde unscathed!

The girl’s originally beautiful face had become distorted and hideous, utterly repulsive. The space zombie he controlled handed over a simple peach-wood hairpin. Yu Yinglang took it with satisfaction. He didn’t seem to care that the zombie couldn’t speak or answer him, nor that every person who surrendered to him was merely under his control. From beginning to end, despite all his calculations, the only one he could truly command was himself.

It didn’t matter. In that thunderstorm, Heaven had sent him into reincarnation. He possessed memories of the future and had even seized the power of the “Divine Eye” from that little boy. However, the only thing that dissatisfied him was that the “Divine Eye” could not see every event that was about to happen. For example, Yin Shaoqing’s betrayal.

That woman actually betrayed him! Truly shameless! In the previous life, he had loved her so much, even personally sending his own fiancé to the experimental table for her sake!

Yu Yinglang gritted his teeth and bit his finger, dripping blood onto the peach-wood hairpin. His eyes shone with light as he excitedly held the hairpin, muttering like a madman: “Let me in, spirit spring, let me into the spirit spring quickly!”

Unfortunately, the hairpin did not react at all. It was as if it were a fake.

And it was indeed a fake.

The people hiding in the darkness watching the play snickered. With A2152’s “hide-and-seek” ability, over a hundred of them had entered the room quite grandly. They stood right in front of Yu Yinglang, two hundred eyes staring fixedly as he went mad, made a fool of himself, and acted like an idiot and a moron.

“So, am I amazing or what?” Even though the young man had lost a hand, he was still the greatest magician in the world.

“Of course,” everyone played along. Among them were former ordinary employees who, after the apocalypse, gained the ability to deceive the attention of zombies. There were students who gained the power to shroud themselves in darkness.

The protection of shields, the guidance of prophecy, the concealment under shadows, and the core-like Ouroboros… if all these powers were used properly, what a powerful team that would be, and how many people could such a team protect in the apocalypse? In the past, they had no chance to see the result, but in the future, they would put it into practice and find the answer.

“That girl…” Yun Qianxue looked at Yu Yinglang’s host body and couldn’t help but ask.

“She is dead,” the little healer girl from A2743 said. Her friend had a mental-attribute ability and was killed by that young, hypocritical man while standing in front of her to protect her. He absorbed her energy core, but because the energy impact destroyed half of his body, he eventually had to transplant his own brain into her friend’s body. The healing ability used during the transplant was even obtained through experiments on her.

“Sister, look. They have such good technology, yet they don’t use it for good. They truly deserve to die.” The small child had already carved revenge into her very bones and blood. One couldn’t blame her; the researchers had carved it into her inch by inch with their knives.

Yun Qianxue took a deep breath. Yu Yinglang, oh Yu Yinglang, you truly deserve ten thousand deaths!

The longbow was drawn to its limit; an arrow pierced through the air and through the zombie’s head, leaving Yu Yinglang terrified. Another arrow pierced his host’s body, pinning him firmly to that magnificent, jewel-encrusted throne.

Look—outside, people were wailing, while inside, a maggot had crawled onto the throne attempting to call himself a god.

Toying with the peach-wood hairpin in her hand, Yun Qianxue looked with loathing at the terrified Yu Yinglang and said softly, “Where do you think you’re escaping to?”

“Except for being taken to the experimental table to have that puddle of filthy brain matter removed, you have nowhere else to go.” The pain you once inflicted on others must finally be tasted by you personally. “Of course, it won’t take very long.” Yun Qianxue pressed her longbow against Yu Yinglang, who was secretly trying to use mental power to control them, and said coldly: “After all, this body isn’t yours.”

So dissection wouldn’t be necessary, but as for how that active brain would be treated—that was for the person behind her to consider.

“You can’t do that!” Yu Yinglang screamed in threat after realizing he couldn’t control these people. “I control the zombies outside the city. Once I die, none of you will live!”

Yun Qianxue ignored him completely. She pulled out the long arrow and tossed the man to the people behind her, who were grinning and happily waiting for Yu Yinglang to fall into their hands.

“That madwoman can’t block that many zombies. If you don’t want to die, let me leave!” Yu Yinglang was still struggling in desperation.

“Hmph…” Yun Qianxue snorted and turned her head, her apricot eyes filled with firm trust and pride. She said, “I know her better than you do. As long as I am still standing here, not a single zombie will step inside without her confirmation.”

The reason the space-attribute zombie could get in was that Yin Shaoqing intended for the peach-wood hairpin to return to Yun Qianxue’s hands. She wasn’t afraid that the girl wouldn’t get the hairpin back, because she similarly trusted Yun Qianxue’s strength. She was strong; her girl was very strong.

Yu Yinglang screamed and begged for mercy, but was dragged away powerlessly. This time, no one would come to save him. A false god must always face judgment from the humanity he deceived. No one could stop it…

Yun Qianxue also noted the syringes scattered all over the floor. She gave them a glance and then left. Those were energy-replenishing potions researched from her body; ha, fake and useless things. The side effects were enormous; whoever used them would be unlucky. She had seen that with her own eyes in her previous life.

Yun Qianxue stretched, stepping over the mess as she walked out of the underground laboratory. She was going to find her lover. And then, using Ouroboros, she would fight side by side with her.

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