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Chapter 325. The Blind Master's Past (1)

"Long time no see, Tantai."

The geographer's voice trembled slightly, and even he could hear the tension he couldn't hide as soon as he spoke.

The blind girl in the linen shirt turned her head slightly, as if she could sense the slight tremor in his body.

She smiled slightly, a hint of shyness in her voice, and asked:

"Are you afraid of me, Awei?"

Millions of embedded eyes silently gaze at the people on the hilltop.

In the blind therapist's uniquely gifted vision, it was a gaze without any blind spots—she could clearly "see" his trembling hands, his tense body, and even every inch of his silhouette trembling with fear.

She gave a shy, slight smile, her tone tinged with nostalgia:
“We’ve known each other since we were kids. It really hurts me to look at an old friend like that now.”

Jing Wei forced a bitter smile, shifted her weight onto the cane in front of her, and tried to steady her uncontrollably trembling hands.

The chilling aura emanating from her almost made him instinctively want to back away.

"I was just walking along the road when you insisted on having people surround me, and then you made your entrance like this..."

His voice was somewhat unsteady:
"Who wouldn't be afraid of you?"

He continued incoherently, "My talent is barely enough to protect myself, and you're a control-type... how could I not be afraid of you?"

The blind girl in front of me stood motionless like an iron tower, offering no response.

Jing Wei opened her mouth, as if she wanted to say something, but in the end, as if giving up, she let out a long sigh:

"I understand."

He reached into his hiking backpack and pulled out a small knife, which he had originally used to pry open cans.

But at this moment, he slowly turned the tip of the knife toward his own chest.

Jing Wei closed his eyes, clenched his teeth, and was about to stab down forcefully—

The hand holding the knife suddenly let go against its will.

The knife fell to the ground with a "thud," and his arm was tightly twisted behind his back by an invisible force.

A strong sense of disturbance suddenly invaded his brain, like cold tentacles probing and stirring his consciousness.

"what--!"

Jing Wei exclaimed in surprise. He clearly felt those invisible tentacles penetrating his mental barrier and drilling straight into his eyeballs.

An extreme chill spread from the depths of his eyes, as if his entire eye sockets were frozen.

He knelt on the hilltop, covering his eyes tightly with one hand.

The biting cold penetrated to his very core, causing him to involuntarily curl his fingers, wishing he could gouge out his eyes—but his palms were as if bound by an invisible force, and he could only stiffly press them against his eyeballs, unable to move.

Physiological tears kept flowing, soaking his golden hair, which clung messily to his pale cheeks.

This was an utterly overwhelming display of mental power. Under the direct invasion of a top-tier control-type expert, he was powerless to resist.

Jing Wei collapsed to the ground, a sharp pain shooting through the depths of her eyes.

At the same time, the sound of the white cane being driven into the soil gradually approached, and the footsteps were steady and clear.

Tantai Hui stood before him, gazing calmly through the thousands of embedded eyes at the figure curled up on the ground:
“Awei, I didn’t intend to kill you, and I don’t need you as a puppet.”

"It's just that you went back to the TV station... which is a bit of a nuisance."

The blond youth's face was streaked with tears, and he sobbed, unable to utter a single word.

Tantai Hui raised her head, and all the puppets followed suit. The azure sky entered her perception through countless perspectives.

The last time I saw such a blue sky...

It seems like many years have passed. Back then, she was a freshman at Radiant Academy, a regular student in the Department of Control Engineering.

Radiant Academy is a school for the Light faction, and its status within the Light Circle is similar to that of the Coastal Talent Academy among con artists.

Here you'll find the wisest strategists, the most powerful attack masters, and the most formidable control experts.

Radiant Academy has never lacked geniuses; it has an entire department of the world's most outstanding figures in the field.

The turbulent events in the Bright Circle are like infighting among alumni of Radiant Academy, with junior girls controlling senior girls and senior boys driving junior boys to their deaths—things that are commonplace in the school's history.

Having entered such an institution, one's future should have been bright.

Unfortunately, she was born into the Tantai family.

The Tantai family is a renowned family of strategists, and her elder brother, Tantai Jing, is a rare and highly talented strategist in the family.

In such a family, the emergence of an awakened individual with a branch of mind control makes her seem out of place, and she is even once burdened with the stigma and suspicion of being an "outsider bastard".

As a child, Tantai Hui was taciturn, and the invisible rejection within his family was like a cold wall.

In the college, her gloomy personality made her classmates keep their distance, and whenever it was time to form teams for final exams, she was always the one left behind.

It was during that period of isolation that she met Jingwei.

The Jing family is a long-standing family that is on good terms with the Tantai family. The former is known for its mental attacks, while Jing Wei, due to his lack of offensive power, has become a marginal figure in the family.

He loved playing with landscape paintings and drawing maps when he was a child. Because of his unusual hobby, he was considered an oddball in his class.

And so, the two people who had been squeezed out of the group came together and became long-term partners.

Jing Wei's attack power is not strong, and his support ability is not much stronger either. The use of firearms is strictly prohibited in the academy's battle. There is no trajectory for the [Navigation] to bend, so this ability is practically useless. As for the remaining half that is not useless, he uses it to accurately find the fastest escape route in melee combat.

Although Jingwei's performance was often unsatisfactory, Tantai Hui's control was truly formidable.

For a long time, whether the two could pass the final exam depended entirely on whether Tantai Hui could forcefully invade and suppress the opponent's mind with his immense mental power in a single encounter.

The standard scenario was often this: the opponent's movements froze under her mental onslaught, forcing her to stop, and Jingwei would seize the opportunity to slip out from behind her, carrying a large training knife, and following the instructions of the "navigation," rush over along the shortest path, pressing the blade against the opponent's neck, barely securing victory.

Although these days were tough, they were manageable.

Just when Tantai Hui thought that as long as she grew older and her talent grew stronger, her situation would improve, her fate took a sudden turn—her brother, Tantai Jing, suddenly went blind.

The family exhausted all their resources, searching for renowned doctors and even enlisting the help of the Song family, famous for their healing abilities, but all efforts were in vain.

Eventually, at some unknown time, a folk remedy of unknown origin quietly began to circulate—that by giving the eyes of a blood relative, one could regain their sight.

Tantai Hui's parents were both trusted advisors of the family, and their deaths could not be tolerated.

So when this proposal was put on the table at the family meeting, all eyes turned to the silent girl who had been sitting in the corner the whole time.

"Anyway, it's a control system... so it doesn't need eyes that much, right?"

Someone whispered those words that would decide her fate.

Tantai Hui's attempts to defend himself were in vain:
"I still need to go to school... If I lose my eyes, the academy will expel me... Please, please don't..."

She couldn't remember how she was taken into that room called the "operating room" or how she got out.

She only clearly remembers that the moment the cold medical equipment in the observation ward was connected to her body, her dream of graduating from Brilliant Academy and eventually entering the television station was completely extinguished.

The Light faction only has two top-tier powers. If she can't go to the TV station, where else can she go?

There is only one answer left—Black Eye Pharmaceuticals.

On that day, the Tantai family left the mental hospital with their eldest son, who had regained his sight.

But Tantai Hui remained forever, forever in the place that took away her eyesight.

However, her identity has changed from a patient on the operating table to a doctor making rounds.

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