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"No," I felt the newly acquired power surging within me. "This is repairing the boundaries..."
A brilliant golden light erupted from my right eye, illuminating the entire basement.
In the radiance, I saw Lin Xiaoyu's figure slowly rising, her soul separating from my eye.
"Goodbye, Xu Rong," her voice was filled with tenderness. "My mission is complete..."
As she departed, I felt the power in my right eye reach its peak. A massive golden beam shot into the sky, restoring the shattered boundaries.
Chen Ming and the One-Eyed Men let out their final screams, dissipating into black smoke.
When the light faded, I found myself standing on the city streets. The sky had returned to normal, but I knew this was merely a temporary calm. The boundaries between two worlds remained fragile, and my eye was still the key to guarding it all.
Life returned to tranquility.
Four months later, on an ordinary late night, I finished my shift and walked home. The streets were deserted, and the streetlights cast a hazy yellow glow through the mist.
Suddenly, I caught a whiff of a familiar sweet fragrance. My heart skipped a beat.
Turning the corner, I saw that hunched figure.
Dressed in a gray cloth shirt, carrying a bamboo basket filled with those glaringly red Lychees.
It was that Grandma; she had returned.
"Young man, buy some Lychees; they’re freshly picked," she said, her voice still hoarse but her gaze hollow as if she had never seen me before.
My right eye suddenly throbbed with pain, but this time no strange phenomena appeared.
Since that incident, my abilities have been gradually diminishing. Now, I can hardly tell whether the figure before me, Grandma, is human or ghost.
"How much per pound?" I heard myself ask, my voice trembling slightly.
"Ten dollars, very cheap," Grandma replied mechanically, her movements stiff as she packed a bag of Lychees.
I took the bag from her, my fingers brushing against her skin, which felt icy and bone-chilling.
Once home, I placed the Lychees on the coffee table and stared at them blankly. My right eye began to throb again; ever since my powers faded, I had been suffering from insomnia. Each night, I could hear faint cries but could never locate their source.
I picked up a Lychee and gently peeled back its skin. The familiar metallic scent hit me like a wave, and my hands began to shake. The flesh remained eerily translucent, but this time, I saw something far more terrifying—a golden pupil of an Eyeball spinning within.
It was my eye.
Trembling, I pried open the fruit's flesh, and the Eyeball rolled onto the coffee table. It stared at me unblinkingly, its pupil contracting and expanding.
Suddenly, a sharp pain shot through my right eye, and my vision began to distort. I found myself standing before a massive archway—a "door" leading to another world. The frame was riddled with cracks, purple light seeping through the fissures. Countless eerie hands reached out from behind the door, trying to grasp something.
"The boundary is collapsing..." A familiar voice echoed in my ear; it was Lin Xiaoyu. "You must reclaim your eye..."
The sharp pain jolted me awake from my hallucination. The eyeball on the coffee table was still there, its runes in the pupil flickering with a faint glow. I touched my right eye; it was still there, but had lost all its special abilities.
Suddenly, I noticed something moving inside the bag of lychees. I opened the bag and found that all the lychees were gently undulating, as if they were breathing. Trembling, I peeled open another one, revealing yet another Golden Eye inside.
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