At this point, Ye Yiqing shook his head again, "However, all of this is just my speculation; the reality may not be as I see it."
"But I think the reality is probably about the same," Keke replied weakly.
"Okay, that's enough for now. Let's get some rest and wait for her to wake up."
Then Ye Yiqing slowly lowered his eyelids, closed his eyes to rest, and stopped speaking.
Keke didn't say anything more, but leaned closer to Hela. "Sister Hela, I'll lean on you and sleep for a while, thank you." Then he fell asleep on Hela's shoulder.
Having walked all day without eating much, and having just experienced such an exciting event, Keke was now completely exhausted.
Hela glanced at the group of people who were all unconscious, and her gaze involuntarily fell on Han Xiaoxiao.
"What's going on? Why do I have this strange feeling whenever I see her?" Hela muttered to herself, feeling that sensation of her internal organs being kneaded again.
"Is it because I almost killed her before?"
Hela began to recall that night six months ago, when she devoured the man who had always protected the Xiaoxiao, cut off the Xiaoxiao's right arm and left calf, and then forced her off a cliff.
As Hela reminisced, the feeling of self-reproach and guilt, as if her internal organs were being kneaded, grew stronger and stronger, as if something was about to burst out of her body.
She slowly reached out her hand and, without the slightest hesitation, inserted it directly into her own abdomen.
Click!
The hard spine was snapped in an instant, and at the same time, the strange feeling vanished without a trace.
Hela stretched out her hand, and the wound on her abdomen and the broken ribs immediately healed, without a drop of blood on her hand.
Hela hated that strange feeling, because it was the only sensation that struck her heart, besides the feeling of Life slipping away.
Hela possessed and could perceive smell, taste, pain, and touch, but her perception was more like that of an observer.
Just like pain, Hela could cut off her own hand without batting an eye or crying out in pain, nor would she hesitate to cut it off because of the pain.
For Hela, it felt more like a signal, telling her what state she was in.
We will not forcibly change her subjective will or thoughts.
The self-blame and guilt she felt just now were completely different; that feeling made Hela clearly want to make amends to Han Xiaoxiao and apologize to her.
But Hela's rational mind didn't want to do such a meaningless thing, because she felt it was unnecessary.
Therefore, Hela strongly dislikes anything that might influence her subjective judgment.
"What's wrong?" Ye Yiqing slowly opened his eyes and looked at Hela when he heard the noise.
Hela shook her head. "It's nothing."
"Aren't you sleepy?" Ye Yiqing asked, looking at Hela showed no signs of wanting to sleep.
Hela nodded obediently.
"If you're sleepy, go to sleep. Don't worry, I'll react if there's any danger." Ye Yiqing then closed her eyes again.
After Ye Yiqing fell asleep again, Hela stopped thinking about it and continued to lean against the tree, lost in thought.
Every now and then, it would pluck a couple of clumps of grass, put them in its mouth, chew them a couple of times, and eat them to replenish some energy.
"Cough, cough!" After an unknown number of hours, Han Xiaoxiao, who was lying on the ground, suddenly coughed twice, and then slowly lifted her eyelids.
At the same time, Ye Yiqing woke up and reached out to help Han Xiaoxiao up.
"What's wrong with me?" Han Xiaoxiao touched her head, still somewhat disoriented.
Hela felt uneasy seeing that the other two were awake, Keke was still asleep.
Then, Keke woke up in two quick movements.
"Ah... what's wrong? Have you eaten?" Keke woke up with a start, looking around sleepily, then remembered her current situation.
Realizing what she had just said, Keke blushed instantly, but seeing that no one was paying attention to her, she felt relieved.
Then they discovered that Han Xiaoxiao had already woken up, and their attention immediately turned to her.
"At that time, a Variant brought me over, and I fought with it. Just when we were about to be injured by the Variant, Hela intervened and severely damaged it."
"Then you lost your mind and fainted." Ye Yiqing Keke explained as he helped Coco up.
Han Xiaoxiao shook her head after hearing this, then remembered something, and her eyes began to look complicated.
" Xiaoxiao, what's wrong with you? Why did you faint from fright?" Keke asked, her face still flushed.
"It's alright. If you don't want to talk about it, we won't force you." Ye Yiqing gently patted Han Xiaoxiao's back.
After a moment's thought, Han Xiaoxiao shook her head, indicating that it was fine. "It's okay, I can tell you."
Then, her gaze fell upon Hela. "This is related to Hela."
" Hela?" Keke thought for a moment, then suddenly realized, "I know you were scared by Hela's bone whip, right? I was startled the first time I saw it too."
Han Xiaoxiao didn't speak, but lowered her eyes.
A hint of seriousness flashed in Ye Yiqing's eyes.
" Hela reminded me of some things from my past."
Han Xiaoxiao tilted her head back, took a deep breath, and then slowly exhaled before continuing her story.
"[ HeLa Cell ], it killed my only family member, and it's what made me who I am now."
Han Xiaoxiao touched her right side with her left hand, but there was nothing there except a hollowed-out sleeve.
Then she pulled up her left trouser leg.
What appeared before everyone was not a fair calf, but a cold, hard prosthetic leg.
Keke covered her mouth, her eyes filled with horror. Although she had heard that Han Xiaoxiao's leg was a prosthesis, seeing it with her own eyes was completely different from hearing about it.
"My right arm and left calf were both cut off by [ HeLa Cell ] using the same bone whip as Hela's." Han Xiaoxiao pulled her trouser legs down again to hide the prosthetics.
"I have an older brother named Han Xuan. He is a Night Star."
"Our parents died in a car accident a long time ago, and my older brother raised me."
"After he became Night Star, I admired him even more, considering him a hero who rid the people of evil and protected the world."
But he consistently refused to let me become Night Star.
"Because he said, 'I will protect this world, and you just need to be the one being protected.'"
"The squad my brother joined was called Squad 105. It was a squad in City C, Shan'an. There were very few people in that squad; including my brother, there were only three of us."
But they were very kind to me, often taking me to their camp for meals, and sometimes even taking me on picnics.
At this point, Han Xiaoxiao slowly revealed a smile, as if that wonderful day was just yesterday.
"That day, they took me on a picnic as usual, and everything was fine until it was almost evening."
Han Xiaoxiao's smile vanished, and her eyes once again revealed endless sorrow.