A corpse blinked—the sight would probably have made an ordinary person pass out on the spot. Fortunately, Hao Ren's nerves had been tempered through countless trials, so he remained fairly calm. He set the Data Terminal down on the bed and stepped forward to check its condition. By then, it had returned to its original lifeless appearance, its eyes weakly half-open and half-closed. It looked exactly like a normal corpse, as though the "blinking" just now had been an illusion.
But some kind of change had definitely occurred, because the Data Terminal was still loudly proclaiming that part of its senses had recovered.
"There's a little light. It's blurry, but I definitely saw something," the terminal said excitedly. "And I can also see... something else now. I seem to have regained some sense of touch too, though the sensation is strange. It's probably still incompatible with the drive."
Hao Ren waved his hand in front of the corpse princess terminal's eyes. "How does it feel?"
"Oh, oh! A shadow passed by! I saw a shadow!" the Data Terminal immediately exclaimed. "But why can't I see it clearly?"
Hao Ren directly pried open its eyelids with his fingers. "You can see now, right?"
The terminal was astonished. "Whoa! I can see everything all of a sudden—amazing! How did you do that?"
Hao Ren held open the corpse princess terminal's eyelids with one hand, his broad face planted just twenty centimeters in front of hers. "Because you were squinting just now! Open your eyes."
He let go, and the golden-haired girl's eyelids immediately stiffened back into a half-open, half-closed position. The Data Terminal struggled for quite a while without making any progress. "How do I open my eyelids, anyway?"
Hao Ren: "...Weren't you blinking just now?"
"That wasn't controlled by me!" the