Chapter 26 Red Rain

The clock continued to move calmly as usual, but for Qiao Yu, every second that passed was torture.

Qiao Yu was like a prisoner awaiting trial, his whole body tense. He nervously grasped Jiang Zhan's hand, trying his best to calm himself down.

Her hands tightened unconsciously, so tightly that her entire arms trembled slightly.

“Tick-tock—”

Suddenly, a few drops of liquid fell rapidly from the sky and hit the bluestone path in the courtyard heavily.

Qiao Yu's pupils dilated instantly. With her current eyesight, she could clearly see without even leaning against the window—

The liquid dripping onto the slate was red, just like in the previous life.

It finally came.

The sound of rain gradually grew louder, as if carrying the momentum to destroy the heaven and earth, enveloping the entire world in a blood-red wetness.

"Oh my god! What's going on? Red, red... rain?" Cheng Sinian reacted the most. He jumped up and stuck to the window glass, his face full of shock.

After a few seconds of hesitation, Cheng Sinian quickly remembered Qiao Yu and Jiang Zhan's unusual behavior today. He turned around and looked at the two people who were still sitting still on the sofa, and asked with a complicated expression, "Did you... already know this?"

It's like accepting your fate after the dust has settled.

Qiao Yu was actually much calmer at this moment, his entire body relaxed, but his face showed a mixture of sadness and joy. "Now... I can tell you."

Outside, a strange red rain poured down, while inside, the news reporter on TV was reporting in astonishment. But Cheng Sinian didn't bother to investigate. He sat stiffly on the sofa, his eyes filled with shock.

If Qiao Yu's face was not still a little pale and Jiang Zhan's eyes were not full of seriousness and solemnity, Cheng Sinian would definitely think that they were joking with him.

End of the world, rebirth, superpowers, space.

...How could something that sounds like a fairy tale be true?

But Qiao Yu actually made the sofa disappear in front of him, and then it reappeared.

This made it impossible for him not to believe it.

But after being shocked, Cheng Sinian's first reaction was that Qiao Yu's huge change in attitude towards Jiang Zhan was due to his previous life.

Cheng Sinian glanced at Jiang Zhan calmly. Jiang Zhan looked very calm, obviously having known about this matter for a long time. This was probably why he kept urging him to take leave and come back.

Cheng Sinian should have been happy, because Qiao Yu's current behavior clearly showed that she cared about Jiang Zhan, and Jiang Zhan's feelings were truly reciprocated. However, as Jiang Zhan's psychologist, he had new concerns.

Jiang Zhan suffers from severe anxiety dependency. His possessiveness and desire to control Qiao Yu have reached an extremely pathological level, which can be seen from his behavior of sending people to follow and secretly photograph Qiao Yu.

But after all his painstaking investigation and intervention, he discovered that Qiao Yu had a "past life" in which he had never participated. Could he really accept it so easily?

Furthermore, anxiety dependency itself is a disease that will continuously generate and expand psychological needs. Just like the desires of normal people will always expand, dependency will never be truly satisfied. Unless Qiao Yu can continuously meet his emotional needs and give him positive emotional responses, his condition will only get worse.

But can Qiao Yu really endure this kind of control and possession with no privacy and no personal space?

Cheng Sinian's silence made Qiao Yu think that he was still immersed in the shock of learning that the apocalypse had arrived, so he gently comforted him, "I know you may not be able to accept it for a while, but now that things have come to this, there is nothing you can do but accept it. Don't worry, Ah Zhan and I have prepared a lot of supplies. At least we can guarantee that we will not starve to death."

"And, fortunately for us, the three of us are all rare natural-type mutants. Even..." Qiao Yu looked at Jiang Zhan, who was silent at the side, "We may even have a dual-type mutant."

Jiang Zhan's eyes flickered, and he continued to look at Qiao Yu in silence. She had never told him what kind of superpowers he had in his past life, and he didn't even know if he was a superpower in his past life. But now, the meaning of her words became more and more intriguing.

Cheng Sinian seemed to have just woken up from a dream, and finally regained some consciousness. However, he was very confused after hearing this, and asked in rapid succession: "What do you mean? Dual-system alien? Who? Brother Zhan?"

"Yeah." Qiao Yu nodded, took Jiang Zhan's hand, and looked him straight in the eye. "I wasn't particularly sure, so I didn't tell you. But after thinking about it carefully, it seems that this is the only explanation. Not only are you a rare natural-type mutant, but you are also a dual-type mutant, which is theoretically impossible. And if I'm not mistaken, your second ability is mental power."

Qiao Yu had always been puzzled as to why that madman from her previous life had been so obsessed with Jiang Zhan. Naturalists were rare, but they weren't completely unattainable. She herself was a genuine naturalist. If they wanted to study them, couldn't they just study her?

But the madman's purpose in capturing her was just to lure Jiang Zhan over. Jiang Zhan's abilities were already very powerful at that time, so why would that madman risk being killed and go to such great lengths to capture Jiang Zhan?

The only possibility for going to such great lengths to seek something far away rather than something near is that Jiang Zhan has something that other aliens don't have.

Qiao Yu had seen the laboratory where Jiang Zhan was imprisoned. Although she didn't understand the functions of the instruments, she had seen a white chair covered with instruments in the alien treatment center, which was specially used for psychiatric aliens.

And in the laboratory where Jiang Zhan was imprisoned, there was an identical chair. This was definitely not a coincidence.

Qiao Yu thought back to the time when she had been on a mission with Jiang Zhan before. There were several times when she was on the verge of life and death. The alien species were right in front of her, but it seemed as if they were blocked by something and could not touch her at all.

Jiang Zhan's ability was wind. She had thought it was just a wind wall he had erected, but now that she thought about it, it seemed more and more wrong. The wind wall could indeed contain the aliens' movements, but it was more like a push, blowing them in the opposite direction. But at that time, the aliens weren't pushed away, but rather stood still, unable to move forward. It was like a transparent glass cover, with her inside and the aliens outside.

"You just said... the three of us are all natural mutants?"

Cheng Sinian's sudden question brought Qiao Yu back to her senses. She nodded, "Yes, Zhan is wind-type, I'm ice-type, and you're fire-type."

"You just said that natural mutants are very powerful. Then how did you die in your previous life? And us..."

Based on Qiao Yu's understanding of their past lives, they must have been together. If they were together, then Jiang Zhan couldn't have failed to save Qiao Yu when she was in danger, and he would definitely stand by Jiang Zhan's side.

But Qiao Yu was reborn after death...which means that he and Jiang Zhan will definitely not have a good ending.

But the three natural mutants...are they all dead?