Reunion: A Lover's Trial

She said "Oh," but her gaze drifted to the side. She wasn't particularly cunning; it was obvious at a glance that she was trying to find a workaround. In fact, both members of the Ability Control Bureau noticed. One of them glanced at the Blood Moon symbol on her hand and his lips twitched. "... Madam, are you from out of town?"

Ye Jiang looked at him, and the member of the Ability Control Bureau said, "You may not know that the magnetic field of the Watch Mountain Range is strange. The closer an ordinary superhuman gets, the more disordered their superpowers become, and their superpowers will be unreliable."

He said, "If you think you can get in just because you have superpowers, be careful that once you're inside, your powers will fail and you'll be stuck climbing mountains like a wild man. You'll be in a real bind, with no one to turn to for help."

This isn't him trying to scare people; the name "Watch Mountain Range" comes from this very characteristic, as the mountain can withstand most of the Polluted coming from the outside.

The member of the Ability Control Bureau looked slightly helpless. "Besides, didn't you hear what we said? There have been disappearances."

A flicker of emotion crossed Ye Jiang's eyes, and a hint of surprise appeared on her face.

What surprised her was not the strangeness of the mountains, but that she had been so easily seen through. She really wanted to take another route into the mountains.

Members of the Ability Control Bureau: "..."

He understood her thoughts once again.

Hello, I understand perfectly!

While this member of the Bureau of the Ability Control Bureau Ability Control Bureau was trying to persuade Ye Jiang, another member was scrutinizing Ye Jiang frequently, with a hint of contemplation in his eyes.

Over there, although Ye Jiang's little scheme had been seen through, she remained stubborn, putting on a stern face and insisting that she hadn't done anything wrong. She didn't engage with the Ability Control Bureau's struggles, and after speaking, she turned and left, as if she had heeded their advice. Rong Yin followed behind her, saying, "A member of the Ability Control Bureau has come over."

Ye Jiang knew perfectly well; the footsteps were so obvious that it was impossible for her not to notice, and that person wasn't Rong Yin.

"They're here to monitor her, to make sure she listens to their advice and goes back," Ye Jiang thought, not taking it to heart. She prepared to abandon walking and directly leap into the mountains. Just then, the person who had followed her suddenly shouted "Wait!" and ran over. Ye Jiang paused, abandoning her thought of slipping away, and waited for the person to catch up.

The man ran over, slightly out of breath. "Madam, are you really going into the mountains?"

Ye Jiang remained silent, neither speaking nor responding, and refused to admit anything.

However, the man then added, "If it were you, I wouldn't stop you."

Ye Jiang's eyebrows twitched slightly. "If it were me?"

Why does it sound like she could be an exception?

The man smiled and said, "Aren't you Miss Ye, the Healer?"

The members of the Ability Control Bureau noticed early on that the woman looked familiar. Upon closer inspection, they realized that she was the legendary Healer they had seen online before. Healer Ye had become a minor celebrity due to the "Pollution-Hunting Competition" in City A, and many of her photos had appeared online, but they were quickly taken down, seemingly by government intervention. Her photos are no longer available online.

Although her photos and even information have been blocked online, her reputation is growing stronger within the Ability Control Bureau, and the word "legend" is almost synonymous with her.

A member of the Ability Control Bureau greeted politely, "Hello, Healer, it's an honor to meet you."

Ye Jiang: "."

She ignored his pleasantries and simply asked, "May I go into the mountains now?"

The member of the Ability Control Bureau hesitated for a moment before saying, "I can pretend I don't know, but..."

"Only?"

"If you see my team leader after you go into the mountains, I hope you can lend a hand to her if it doesn't put you in a difficult position."

"Your captain?"

"Her surname is Xiao, Xiao Pei, and she's from the Bureau of the Ability Control Bureau's main team," a member of the Ability Control Bureau said. "She went into the mountains a month ago to investigate disappearances, and she hasn't returned yet. I have a feeling something's happened to her."

Ye Jiang's expression shifted; it was the boss.

If she were the boss, she would naturally lend a hand if she could.

She thought this to herself, but said aloud, "Okay, but in exchange, you have to answer a question for me."

"You asked."

Ye Jiang looked up, and the barren mountain range came into view, with crimson bones intertwined, lying quietly.

Her eyes flickered, and she asked in a slightly deep voice, "That mountain... what kind of skeleton is that?"

The question popped into her mind when she saw the mountain.

The members of the Ability Control Bureau were taken aback, not expecting her to ask about this. They shook their heads slightly after regaining their composure. "I'm not very clear about it, nobody knows, but it's rumored that it's the skeleton of A-Rank Polluted who died on a Disaster Day three hundred years ago."

He said, "A-Rank Polluted attacked, threatening to destroy the city. A hero arrived and killed it a second before it entered the city, preventing the disaster... That's probably the story circulating in City M."

Ye Jiang listened, gazing at the mountain with an unreadable expression. After a while, her figure disappeared from the spot.

She's gone.

The members of the Ability Control Bureau were taken aback, but gained a deeper understanding of the title "Legendary Healer," and felt somewhat relieved.

The members of the Ability Control Bureau felt that although the Watch Mountain Range were strange and dangerous, the Healer possessed a legendary reputation and was not an ordinary superhuman. She was stronger than Captain Xiao, S-Rank expert, and they believed she could handle the situation in the mountains, so they did not stop her. However, he was unaware of the existence of monsters, and he was unaware that a cruel monster had also entered the mountains before him. The dangers within the mountains had already exceeded his understanding.

He gazed at the mountains and suddenly remembered that the Healer had a companion. He looked down but found that the companion was nowhere to be seen.

"???"

When did he leave?

Such a weak presence!

Ye Jiang entered a crevice in the mountain range, a crevice that was actually incredibly spacious. Stepping inside felt like entering a giant cave. Wind blew through the cave, accompanied by ghostly howls that rose and fell.

Ye Jiang heard Rong Yin's footsteps beside her, glanced at him, and walked deeper into the cave. As she walked, she sensed the strange magnetic field that the Ability Control Bureau had mentioned. She casually brushed a wisp of wind and discovered the reason. Sometimes one or two energy particles would drift through this wind. They existed very faintly in the mountain wind, but they were incredibly powerful, disturbing the magnetic field of this land.

At that moment, these energy particles automatically burrowed into Ye Jiang's body the moment they touched her hand.

It's... her energy particles.

She had been here before.

Ye Jiang's heart skipped a beat, a calm feeling of "I knew it."

Ye Jiang stretched out her hand, letting the mountain wind entangle her fingers.

In the silence, a snow-white mycelium gently wrapped around her finger with the mountain breeze. The cool touch drew Ye Jiang's attention. The soft mycelium floated in the wind, one end intimately entwined with Ye Jiang's finger, the other end connected to a snow-white figure. In the dark cave, the other person was as white as a ghost.

"Teacher," a gentle voice called from the snow-white figure, "Long time no see."

Ye Jiang: "..."

"What are you doing here?" Ye Jiang asked.

Ming Chun, the mycelium will be withdrawn, ankle-length hair will flutter in the wind, and the snow will fall like a waterfall.

"My sister went missing after going into the mountains. She went with Captain Xiao from the Bureau of the Ability Control Bureau. I don't want to meet Captain Xiao, afraid that it will cause trouble for the teacher, but it's been a month..." She sighed, "It's been far too long."

So she went into the mountains.

"I'm sorry," she apologized to Ye Jiang.

Ye Jiang didn't care; she was hiding more than just Ming Chun from Xiao Pei these days. She simply asked, "Is Ming Xia also on a mission in the mountains?"

"Yes," Ming Chun said, "She's currently learning from Captain Xiao; this is their first time performing as a group..."

She stopped abruptly before she could finish speaking.

A mountain breeze blew by, Ming Chun keenly sensed that the surrounding magnetic field seemed to have been distorted in some way.

Her expression turned serious. "Teacher, something's not right here, we need to leave..."

The words that followed were scattered and blurred by the wind, as was her figure. It was as if she was being wiped away by an eraser, her figure growing fainter and fainter until it was about to disappear into the air.

Ye Jiang was not in a hurry. She saw dense energy particles emanating from the bones beneath her feet, swirling and colliding in the air, distorting time and space.

She let herself sink into this distortion, her figure becoming as faint as Ming Chun.

In the last second before disappearing, she cast her gaze at Rong Yin, met his eyes, and only after confirming that he was there did she let her consciousness dissipate.

Her consciousness returned, and Ye Jiang saw the sunlight and the clamor pouring down on her.

She stood in a square, which seemed to be a holiday. The square was particularly lively, with children dragging their parents to buy toys, groups of students holding charity sales, and shops in the square having big events, attracting crowds of onlookers.

Ye Jiang paused, then slightly raised her gaze to the distance, where skyscrapers came into view, and the city's prosperity was immediately apparent.

When Ye Jiang woke up in the hospital, many of the cities she saw were still prosperous, but prosperity and ruin coexisted. The city she saw at this moment was a kind of prosperity that had not experienced disaster. The city and the people living in the city were full of vitality.

"Teacher."

Dressed in pure white, Ming Chun ran towards her, her face filled with shock, holding a flyer that someone had given her. "Look here!"

She handed the flyer to Ye Jiang, showing her a corner of it, where it read—

Event Date: [Date in 2034]

Chapter 144 Reunion and the Tragedy of Love.

As Ye Jiang's gaze fell upon the flyer, Ming Chun hurriedly stopped a passerby and asked her what year it was. The passerby's eyes flashed with amazement upon seeing her face, and she stammered, "2034."

The passerby was completely stunned by Ming Chun's face. Her companions were also very excited. The group of young people huddled together, whispering about what a chosen cosplayer was.

One of the girls even handed Ming Chun a parasol, kindly reminding her that the sun was very strong that day, completely treating Ming Chun like a special patient.

Ming Chun didn't take the umbrella from the other person, politely thanked them, and then whispered to Ye Jiang, "Teacher, this really is 2034."