Chapter 1209: Brother
Botanical Garden, Beiyong District
Vibrant colors faded, leaving the city silent and cold in the monochrome world. At some point, it had started to rain. The downpour looked like dense grey lines in black and white manga. Amid the lines, Qing Ling rode on her blade with Gao Yang, landing on a street near the botanical garden.
Thirty seconds ago, Qing Ling had hit Gao Xinxin with a slash charged with her maximum power. The cyan blade aura lingered in the night sky for eight seconds, while Gao Xinxin flew away like a white shooting star, crash landing into a neighborhood a few hundred meters away.
Gao Yang jumped down from the sky. Moving to the center of the crossroad, he spotted Gao Xinxin immediately.
Qing Ling followed him down. She warned, “She’s seriously hurt, but she can still fight. Be careful.”
“I know,” Gao Yang said in a low voice as he walked up to Gao Xinxin slowly.
Even with Memory Tailor modifying much of his memory, the scene before him still hit him like a stab in the chest—it was more out of an inherent human empathy, however, rather than a personal heartache.
A part of one of the houses had toppled. Buried in the rubble was a frail girl. Her hair ran messily over her pale face. The skin was marred by drops of blood.
An ugly wound ran from her neck to her chest, almost carving it open. Black energy gushed out like ink in an attempt to repair her body, but it was struggling. Even more black energy was draining from her like blood loss that couldn’t be stopped. It fluctuated strangely as it spread, blooming into one flower of black flames after another.
“Brother...” Gao Xinxin’s face distorted with pain. Her voice was weak as she looked at the boy towering over her with tears in her eyes. “It hurts. My chest...hurts...”
Gao Yang didn’t say anything.