Chapter 91: The Steel Pipe
Word Number:228
Author:梦里的漩涡
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Release Time:2026-01-09
I was all alone in the empty room. Looking at the half-eaten boxed lunch on the nightstand, I pulled it toward me and started taking small, quiet bites again. After I finished, I tossed the container into the trash can by the window. I stared down at my fair, soft hands; spending those days trapped in that underground lab without a sliver of sunlight had made me noticeably paler. My mind drifted back to the choice I had made right before I blacked out. I decided to test whether I still had it—whether that power was still there. I tried to summon the old emotions, focusing my mind, closing my eyes tight and snapping them open. But nothing happened. It seemed I really had returned to the life of an ordinary person. The realization sent a jolt of excitement through me, yet at the same time, I felt a strange, lingering sense of conflict. Early the next morning, I calculated the time the bus from my grandma’s place would arrive. I grabbed the syringe I'd hidden in the drawer and the basket of goose eggs from the nightstand and slipped out of the hospital, whispering a silent prayer that my parents hadn't called my grandma to check on me. I bought some bread and milk at a shop in the station and had a quick bi