Chapter 72: The Old Lady

　　"Xia Ning, you... are you okay?" Wu Jing stepped closer, her voice thick with worry.　　I heard light footsteps behind me. I didn't even have to open my eyes to know it was Yumeng.　　"Xia Ning..."　　I slowly opened my eyes. The tense, pale faces of Wu Jing and Yumeng came into focus, and the crimson tint in my vision had completely faded away.　　"I'm fine," I said with a small smile. "What could possibly be wrong?"　　Just as I’d felt before, I didn't find my "uniqueness" strange at all anymore. It was like a newborn baby knowing how to cry; it was just an instinct. And those blood-red eyes? They were my instinct.　　"You scared the life out of me," Wu Jing said, patting her chest. "What the hell just happened?"　　Yumeng was staring at me with an intensely searching look, her questions written all over her face.　　I was about to explain when a rustling sound from the ground nearby caught our attention. All three of us turned to look.　　It was that lady from earlier. I hadn't even noticed her walk over, but there she was, squatting on the ground