Double Pupils

"Shi Yi, the results of your eye examination are still the same as before. There are no lesions, and your body is healthy as well."

"Don't overthink things in daily life, and don't put too much pressure on yourself with your studies. Get plenty of rest after you go home, and keep your diet light. You'll recover completely after some time."

Dr. Xu, dressed in a white coat, set down the medical flashlight in his hand and spoke with a gentle expression.

The medical record before him stated that this sixteen-year-old youth had been born with cataracts. He had examined him at this hospital for three years, once every six months. This was already the sixth time!

Shi Yi had come for his examination more than a month early this time, saying that the four pupils in his eyes had changed from black to two blue and two red, and that strange words would even appear in his vision.

If not for the fact that his previous psychological examinations had revealed no problems, Dr. Xu would have thought that the sixteen-year-old boy before him had suffered a mental breakdown from excessive pressure in life and school, becoming mentally ill!

Now, judging from the examination report, Shi Yi had merely been under too much psychological pressure, which had caused him to experience hallucinations. He just needed to relieve his stress.

"Thank you, Dr. Xu. Sorry to trouble you again this time!"

Shi Yi put on his sunglasses, picked up his medical record, politely bade him farewell, and left the ophthalmology department.

"Double Pupil users—if they had lived in ancient times, they would have been born Saints, regarded as innately divine. They would possess the extraordinary features of heaven and man; upon their birth, the four quarters would converge and the eight directions would come to pay homage."

"The Records of the Grand Historian recorded that Double Pupil users such as Cangjie, Emperor Shun, Duke Wen of Jin, and Xiang Yu were all great figures who shook their eras and left their names ringing through the ages."

"Sadly, in modern times, Double Pupil users are merely cataract patients with congenital pupillary deformities. They need regular eye examinations to check for lesions, and some people even treat them as freaks in daily life."

"They really were born at the wrong time!"

After seeing Shi Yi leave, Dr. Zhao beside Dr. Xu shook his head and sighed.

A born Saint in modern times simply meant someone was sick—an adhesion deformity of the pupils, a congenital pupillary deformity.

In everyday life and at school, they would be treated as freaks and ostracized by some people.

Even their families would be implicated, with others maliciously saying their genes were poor, that they had hereditary diseases, or that their descendants were suffering retribution because they had committed too many sins.

"Dr. Zhao, I know you've finished reading the Records of the Grand Historian too!"

"As for this claim that Double Pupil users are born Saints, that was merely the ignorant superstition of ancient people who knew nothing of modern medicine. As doctors of the new era, we cannot indulge in feudal superstition."

"Besides, modern young people are very accepting. They might even think Double Pupils look cool, so don't condemn them all with one stroke of the stick!"

"Ha! The next patient is here. Enough chatting—let's see the patient first."

Dr. Xu smiled helplessly. This was not the first time Dr. Zhao had shown off this knowledge in front of him!

As a doctor of the new era, he preferred to use the data from examinations and lab tests, together with the medical knowledge he had learned, to analyze a patient's condition.

In his eyes, Double Pupil users were cataract patients. But with the changing times, this was no longer a major problem.

Meanwhile, Shi Yi, who had already left the ophthalmology department, twitched his ears as he walked toward the hospital exit.

"Mom, why is that big brother wearing sunglasses in the hospital in broad daylight? Can't he see?"

Seeing Shi Yi walk past, a little girl asked the young mother beside her with a puzzled expression.

"Children shouldn't talk nonsense."

"In the future, when you see—"

The young mother cut the little girl off. Only after seeing that Shi Yi seemed not to have heard did she quietly begin educating her daughter.

As Shi Yi passed through the hospital, some pedestrians politely stepped aside when they saw him wearing sunglasses, while others ignored him coldly.

The people on the road were not speaking loudly, but every word fell into Shi Yi's ears. His hearing was excellent, far beyond that of ordinary people.

This included Dr. Zhao's remarks about the Records of the Grand Historian, which Shi Yi had heard when he had just left the ophthalmology department.

He had read the Records of the Grand Historian too. He had browsed through every book concerning Double Pupils and remembered their contents.

As for the pedestrians' reactions, Shi Yi was long accustomed to them and pretended not to hear.

Those who differed from ordinary people were regarded as freaks and might be ostracized. He had experienced it since childhood and had long grown used to it!

At the intersection, Shi Yi took out his phone and used an app to hail a ride home.

When the driver saw Shi Yi get into the car wearing sunglasses and remain silent, he did not take the initiative to start a conversation either.

"Jun'an Residential Area!"

After arriving at the destination, the driver made a point of reminding him.

"Alright, thank you, sir."

After politely thanking him, Shi Yi walked into the residential area.

"That young man was quite polite, but he wore sunglasses the whole time after coming out of the hospital. Could there be something wrong with his eyes?"

Only after seeing Shi Yi walk away did the driver mutter softly.

Those words also entered Shi Yi's ears, but his expression remained unchanged as he continued walking deeper into the residential area.

He skillfully swiped his card to enter the compound and returned home not long afterward.

The apartment was not large—sixty-two square meters, with two bedrooms, one living room, one kitchen, and one bathroom.

He lived alone, so it was just the right size.

Shi Yi went into the bathroom and washed his face with cold water, especially his eyes.

He raised his head and looked into the mirror. An exceptionally handsome face appeared in the reflection. If he closed his eyes, anyone who saw him would praise him as a graceful young man with a face like polished jade.

But once he opened his eyes, the four pupils within them looked somewhat frightening.

He, Shi Yi, had been born with Double Pupils.

The moment he opened his eyes at birth, he had frightened people, including his own family.

Just as Dr. Zhao had said, in many people's eyes, he was a cataract patient—and a rather frightening one at that.

Shi Yi looked at his own eyes in the mirror.

They were completely different from the examination results at the hospital, and also different from the black pupils in the photos he had just taken with his phone.

In the mirror, his irises were still dark brown, but the four pupils were not black. They were blue on the outside and red on the inside, shimmering with an unusual divine radiance.

Yet in the examination reports from several hospitals and in photographs, the pupils in his eyes were still black.

Moreover, some additional information had appeared within his field of vision.

Pupil Master: Shi Yi

Physique: Double Pupils (preliminary unlock)

Divine abilities: Heart Like Ice, Eidetic Memory, See Through Illusions

State of mind: Indomitable Spirit

Cultivation method: None

Traversal: Activated (current world: Blue Star; traversable world: Central Great World)

Anchor Points: 3 (spatial positioning) (current location anchored; 2 Anchor Points remaining; can be changed; can be reclaimed)

Note: The stronger the Pupil Master, the faster the Double Pupils unlock progress. After unlocking, more Double Pupil abilities will become available, such as divine abilities and Anchor Points.

"My psychological evaluation report was normal."

"My vision examination was normal too."

"My pupil color examination was also the same as before."

"So these changes to my body can only be seen by me. They're directly within my vision."

Shi Yi calmly looked at the information appearing before his eyes.

These changes had appeared on his sixteenth birthday. At first, he had thought that he had suffered a mental breakdown and was hallucinating. But after examinations at several hospitals, he had confirmed that his mind was normal, his body had no issues, and his eyes outwardly appeared exactly as they had before.

The hospital he had just visited was the last one he had gone to, and also the one where he had undergone the most examinations.

He could be certain that only he could see the changes in his body.

In everyone else's eyes, he was still the same as before, without the slightest change.

"Other than the Traversal function, I've verified every function on this panel!"

"Now, it's time to verify what the Traversal function does—and see exactly what kind of place the Central Great World is!"

Shi Yi walked into the storage room, changed into fresh clothes, slung the prepared backpack over his shoulders, and checked whether he had forgotten anything.

"Traversal, activate!"

After checking everything he intended to bring, Shi Yi decisively selected the final function on the panel that he had yet to use.

(Let me put up a disclaimer first.) The first chapter is background setup. This is a fantasy novel, mainly focused on another world.