The pump seemed to drain all my strength, and I instantly dropped out of superhuman mode.
"Bzz~"
The moment I came out of it, blue light flashed before my eyes!
"Crackle!"
"Ugh!"
Guo Rui's body went limp. She fell to the ground with the momentum, sliding across it, while I... My vision went black, and I bit down hard on my tongue.
The pain kept me from passing out completely.
I opened my eyes. With no time to look at the others' shocked faces in the yard, I hurried over to Guo Rui and reached out to check her breathing.
She... she was okay. She wasn't dead.
That scared me half to death. If I'd actually electrocuted her, I'd have been done for.
I slumped onto the ground, too weak to get back up. Only then did everyone react, rushing over to help.
"Quick, get Guo Rui inside. Help Yuxuan in, too."
Fei Xing was the first to react. He checked Guo Rui's breath, let out a long sigh of relief, then shouted for the others to carry us both into the house.
I was only exhausted, not unconscious, so I was doing a little better. Guo Rui, on the other hand, was in bad shape. Her right arm had been badly burned. For a mutant, it wasn't anything serious; she'd recover after resting for a while. But until then, it looked pretty awful.
The others didn't look too happy. Aside from Fei Xing and Bai Chi, everyone else looked at me with a hint of hostility.
That was only natural. Guo Rui was their companion, while I'd barely known them for long.
If I knocked Guo Rui out, they'd look at me with hatred. If I'd been the one defeated, they'd only have looked at me with sympathy.
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