Chapter 98 Recalling the Past on the Deathbed

Just as Yun Bai was staring at the plaque of the money shop, his heart dead and cold, almost collapsing to the ground, the Formation Plate at his waist suddenly vibrated urgently.

It was a message from Master Jiang!

It contained only a few brief words: "Yun Bai! Return immediately!"

At the same time, the Formation Plates of Jiang Shuanger and Captain Zeng Fu also rang; everyone had received the same message.

"Qianqian!" Struck as if by an electric current, Yun Bai spun around and dashed madly toward the Jiang family's small courtyard!

Seeing this, Captain Zeng Fu and the others felt their hearts sink and immediately followed.

Rushing into the courtyard, a thick scent of blood and medicine assailed them. Shen Qi was guarding the side of the soft couch, crying like a tear-stained mess.

Master Jiang stood to the side, shaking his head and sighing with a heavy expression.

Yun Bai threw himself before the couch. With just one look, his heart felt as if it had been torn apart in an instant!

Where was there any trace of the lively and adorable Yun Qian who usually rested on the couch?

Less than an hour of torture seemed to have drained away all her vitality.

Her originally dark, silky long hair was left in a disheveled mess by sweat and her own scratching, sticking to her paper-pale cheeks and forehead.

Her cheeks were deeply sunken, her eye sockets blackened, and her lips were cracked and devoid of color.

Her slender arms and neck were covered in bloody scratches from her own unconscious clawing; some were even deep enough to see bone, still slightly oozing blood.

Her body was still twitching slightly and unconsciously, each spasm accompanied by a painful, muffled groan.

Only that pair of large eyes, which once held the stars and the sea, were now struggling to open. Her pupils were slightly dilated, yet they tenaciously searched until they focused on Yun Bai's face.

"Bro... Brother..." Yun Qian's voice was as faint as a mosquito's hum, her breath as thin as gossamer; every word seemed to exhaust all her strength.

"Qianqian! Brother is here! Brother is here!" Yun Bai knelt abruptly before the couch, trembling as he grasped his sister's cold, scar-covered little hand. Tears instantly broke through the dam, blurring his vision.

He could barely recognize this as the same intelligent, strong, and always smiling sister he knew!

"Sor... Sorry..." Yun Qian struggled to pull the corners of her mouth, seemingly wanting to offer a comforting smile, but it was even more heartbreaking than crying. "Brother... don't... don't be sad... Qianqian... had long... anticipated... that this day... would come..."

She spoke intermittently, her breathing rapid and weak: "It's just... I can't bear to leave... Brother... I feel... I am... so useless... always being... Brother's... burden... I'm sorry..."

"No! No! You were never a burden! You are Brother's most important treasure! You are the meaning of Brother's existence!"

Yun Bai held his sister's hand tightly, pressing it against his tear-soaked face, his voice choked with sobs, making it almost impossible to speak.

"The school... Teacher Gao... praised me... for my talent... in Formation..." A faint glimmer of light flashed in Yun Qian's eyes; it was a rare moment of pride in her short life. "I... originally... thought... after I got better... I could... help Brother... become... Brother's... assistant... and no longer... hold you back... but..."

Her voice grew lower and lower, the light in her eyes fading rapidly, filled with endless regret and unwillingness.

"Don't say anymore... Qianqian... don't say anymore... You will get better... Brother will definitely save you..." Yun Bai's heart ached so much he couldn't breathe, tears rolling down like broken pearls.

Watching his sister's life rapidly slipping away, endless grief and memories surged into Yun Bai's mind like a tide.

At this moment, everyone quietly retreated, leaving only the siblings, Yun Bai and Yun Qian, inside the room.

Choking back sobs, Yun Bai spoke with difficulty: "You were never Brother's burden; back then... back then it was you who saved Brother. You have always been so headstrong, so strong..."

"Listen to me..." This was the first time Yun Bai had mentioned the events of his past life in front of his sister.

On that technologically advanced Blue Star, his sister Yun Qian was the true pride of the heavens, the pride of their family and even the entire planet.

She was intelligent, beautiful, confident, and full of an exploratory spirit, having been admitted to the top Interstellar Aerospace University with the highest grades, and was selected as the top candidate for the deep space exploration team, the "universe shuttle".

As for Yun Bai himself, while not bad, he had always lived under the dazzling radiance of his sister.

He applied to be an astronaut more because he just wanted to accompany this only sister of his and protect her as she realized her dream of exploring the sea of stars.

At that time, he didn't have any great ambitions; he just felt that being plain and simple, watching his sister shine, was enough.

The outbreak of war destroyed everything.

Their homeland fell, and their parents perished.

He and his sister took humanity's last spark and hope, boarding the "universe shuttle" to execute a desperate deep space Transmigration mission.

At the critical moment of life and death, while crossing that unknown Universe singularity and encountering a violent spacetime storm, it was Yun Qian who first discovered the anomaly, screaming as she lunged over and shoved him hard toward the nearest escape pod entrance!

And just as she was about to squeeze in herself, a piece of spaceship debris torn apart by the storm whistled over like the Grim Reaper's scythe! In order to push him away completely, Yun Qian was half a second too slow...

Boom!

The escape pod shook violently, and the hatch forced itself shut at the very last moment.

Through the distorted observation window, the last thing he saw was the image of his sister being struck in the head by the debris, blood splattering, and her eyes, which instantly lost their luster yet remained fixed in his direction... It was that severe head injury that damaged her Soul Origin, causing her Sea of Consciousness to be born incomplete after reincarnating into this cultivation world, leaving her to be tormented by excruciating pain year after year.

It was never his sister who dragged him down.

On the contrary, it was because she saved him that his sister ended up like this!

"Qianqian, you have always been Brother's pride." Yun Bai gripped his sister's hand tightly, afraid that she would leave him the next moment.

Yun Qian's mouth twitched, as if she wanted to smile.

She said: "So, so that was it... Then, that is truly wonderful... Brother, Brother, don't cry. I, I am much happier now."

Two lines of clear tears flowed down Yun Bai's face.

Now, was his sister going to pass away before him again because of his incompetence?

"No... Qianqian... don't leave Brother... Brother cannot live without you... cannot..." Yun Bai held his sister's cold body tightly, burying his face in her disheveled hair, letting out a whimper like a desperate beast.

The entire world seemed to lose all its color and sound at this moment, leaving only boundless darkness and cold.

Despair completely engulfed him.