The Infirmary doors slowly opened, and sunlight spilled inside, stretching Tang Wulin and Ya Li's shadows.
The others, who had been waiting outside for a long time, erupted with excitement when they saw Tang Wulin emerge safe and sound.
"Wulin!"
"Captain!"
"You're finally out!"
Gu Yue was almost the first to rush forward. Tears brimmed in her beautiful pale-purple eyes as she looked Tang Wulin up and down, her gaze finally settling on his face.
"Linlin, how do you feel?"
Gu Yue asked urgently, her voice trembling slightly. "Your eyes... they're black now. I thought they would stay pinkish-blue forever."
Looking at the beauty before him, her tear-streaked face like pear blossoms in the rain, Tang Wulin felt warmth well up in his heart.
He instinctively raised a hand and scratched his head, an honest, slightly bashful smile appearing on his face.
"I'm fine. I feel great."
He blinked and said mysteriously, "They might be more than that."
Before his words had faded, a strange pinkish-blue glow suddenly lit up deep within his ink-black pupils.
The glow spread rapidly, filling his entire eyes in an instant.
Yet when everyone saw what his eyes looked like, they involuntarily sucked in a breath.
They were no longer the normal round pupils of a human.
In their place was a pair of lifelike butterflies that seemed ready to spread their wings and take flight!
The pinkish-blue, butterfly-wing pupils shimmered with a dreamlike luster beneath the sunlight, both sacred and uncanny.
"Wh-what's going on?"
Xie Xie's eyes widened. Pointing at Tang Wulin's face, he stammered, "Captain, your eyes... why have they turned into butterflies?"
"Could it be... a genetic mutation?"
Xu Lizhi swallowed beside him. "They look... even cooler than your old eyes."
Yun Ming and Wu Changkong exchanged a glance, each seeing profound