Second-floor supermarket.
"Duo Duo, don't..."
"It's okay, I'll bandage him up, and he'll wake up."
Ye Xin lay on the ground, motionless. Duo Duo rummaged around for various tools, her clumsy little hands busily working on him.
Her eyes were vacant, as if she were doing something utterly hopeless.
"Uncle Zhong, please run and bring Su Wu over!"
Suddenly, her eyes brightened.
"Second Miss... the dead cannot be brought back to life. Let him go."
In just two short days, they had no idea what had happened, why this man had gained the second young miss's favor.
Even if there was no breath, she still wanted to strive for a slim chance of a miracle.
Su Zhongren also chimed in, trying to persuade the second young miss to come out of her shadow sooner.
"Do you all want to rebel?"
"This old servant wouldn't dare!"
"Aunt Wu wouldn't dare!"
The two of them knelt down at once, and Su Zhongren immediately disappeared from the spot.
"Sigh..." Aunt Su Wu sighed, not knowing what to say. She turned and asked the people who had rushed up from the kitchen, "What exactly did you encounter down there?"
Judging by the young lady's and that man's strength, no one should have been able to hurt them.
Yet, the man died, and Duo Duo looked haggard.
"It's me... it's all because of me..."
Zhao Ziming, looking dejected, rolled up his sleeve, revealing a Phoenix pattern on his arm. The imprint, starting from his palm, spread across his entire arm, even extending to the side of his face and forehead, looking lifelike. The phoenix eye on his forehead was faintly visible.
"This is..." Aunt Su Wu leaned in for a closer look and was startled by the aura emanating from the imprint. It felt almost as strong as Duo Duo's.
"Sequence Ability! Whoa, we actually found someone like this here."
The well-informed Su Zhongren recognized it immediately. Unlike ordinary awakened imprints, their defining feature was that they were almost always located on the forehead.
And the young ladies had long since learned to conceal theirs, unless they were using a large skill.
"Kill him!" Duo Duo murmured, her small hands gently patting Ye Xin's face, trying to rouse him. "The wound is bandaged, why aren't you waking up…"
Tears streamed down her face. Her chest ached, as if a piece of it had been torn away.
[Sister... Duo'er's heart hurts... Am I going to die? The bad guy didn't even give me the antidote...]
[...] Su Momo fell silent, not telling her that she hadn't been poisoned, fearing it would be too much for her to bear.
Thinking back to every time she bickered with Ye Xin, she always bullied him, until he risked his life to protect her. She didn't really understand.
Because sisters had a telepathic connection, Su Momo also saw those snippets, sometimes experiencing them as if she herself was interacting with Ye Xin.
"Big bully, we're not even close, why did you have to be so presumptuous and save me... Wake up... Waaah... Give me the antidote... I hurt so much…"
Ye Xin was unaware of everything happening outside. In the final attack, Ao Yin's third skill was to restore health. As long as he didn't turn to ashes, external injuries could be healed.
Fortunately, Duo Duo brought his body back, or he really would have kicked the bucket in the blood mist.
Waking up from a state of suspended animation, Ye Xin saw the little loli crying on his chest. He moved his mouth and said, "Silly girl... You're hurting me..."
"Waaah... Uh... You're really not dead?" Originally a sad thing, Duo Duo saw that Ye Xin was fine and called her a silly girl again, so she wiped away her tears and tensed her face.
"Don't worry, my body has self-repaired. I have many kinds of Sequence Abilities. As long as I'm not completely gone, I can basically survive." Ye Xin was very conceited, showing off.
"You're not dead? Give me the antidote quickly, then you can go die."
Duo Duo said without a care in the world. She had cried so sadly, but she didn't know to say hello earlier.
Even though she said that, she didn't stop wiping the bloodstains on Ye Xin's face.
"You..."
Seeing her red and swollen eyes, Ye Xin guessed she'd been crying for a long time, and he still had the nerve to argue with her.
"Miss, do you still want to kill him?" Aunt Su Wu asked, pointing at Zhao Ziming. Ye Xin wasn't dead, which also confused her.
Strange, he clearly had no breath left. How could he still be alive after being so badly injured?
"You decide!"
Duo Duo asked Ye Xin for his opinion, having been blinded by anger earlier.
"I decide? Decide what?" Ye Xin was a bit confused. He had just woken up and couldn't figure out the situation.
At this moment, Zhao Ziming knelt on the ground and apologized to Ye Xin, "Big Brother, you gave me my life. I once swore that if I awakened, I would follow you to the death. Now, do with me as you will." After saying this, he kowtowed heavily on the floor, his forehead bleeding.
Zhao Ziming had heard the whole story from Qiu Lijie. He had lost control after awakening and killed people, Ye Xin being one of them. Fortunately, he was still alive.
Turning, he bowed apologetically to Li Fang, Xu Zhu, and Qiu Lijie, saying, "I'm sorry... everyone!"
"It's not your fault..." What was the point of apologizing? The other two were dead. They all knew that their hope of survival lay with these superhumans, and Zhao Ziming was their only reliance.
"Follow me?" Ye Xin doubted he'd heard correctly. His strength was inferior to Ye Xin's and also to the two women here.
"Yes!" Zhao Ziming nodded very firmly.
"Don't joke with me. I've never thought about taking on underlings."
Seeing Ye Xin's swift refusal, Zhao Ziming was somewhat disappointed, but unwilling to give up, he continued, "How can I convince you? If you don't believe me, you can take my life now."
Ye Xin had seen stubborn people, but never one so desperate. He pursed his lips. His mouth was dry, and his lungs still burned. He didn't know if the fist mark that had pierced his lungs was healing, even though it was tightly bandaged.
"Alright, alright, I'll take you. Go get me a bottle of water from the shelf." If he kept dawdling, his mouth would dry up. Zhao Ziming happily moved, but Duo Duo was faster than him, almost flashing over.
"Here… take this." Duo Duo held out a bottle of mineral water to him.
"Uh… could you unscrew it for me, and then…"
"Feed it to you, right!"
Zhao Ziming brought the water and stood by, not interrupting his brother's good fortune. In his eyes, Ye Xin's act of saving his sister undoubtedly confirmed that this person would be a good older brother. Following him would definitely not be a loss.
However, Ye Xin really wanted to complain; he really wasn't a good person. But alas, personal feelings and old affections were at play, turning him into a bodhisattva of the apocalypse. These types of people usually don't survive more than a few chapters.
Later, Su Zhongren brought Su Wu and Su Momo here.
"Sister!" Duo Duo saw her sister and happily threw herself into her arms.
"You… you can't be so playful next time, you scared your sister to death…" Su Momo chided, while also giving Ye Xin a strange look, saying, "How come you're not dead!"
"Why are you acting the same as that little idiot, wishing I'd die sooner?" Ye Xin said, annoyed. Even lying in bed was mental torture, and the third-party damage was undoubtedly the greatest.
"Er... I didn't mean it like that. Su Wu, take a look at him!"
Su Wu nodded and stepped forward to heal him.
This matter was temporarily put to rest. The only thing that made Su Momo curious were the other two newly awakened people.
"You, and you, what are your names?"
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