"How is your injury recovering?"

Fei Yuhan walked into room 402 with a large stack of books and placed them on the bedside table.

"Thank you." Vakiris nodded in gratitude. "I can already get out of bed and walk around. The doctor said I'll be fully recovered in about a week."

"That's good. Even among martial artists, your self-healing ability is top-notch." Fei Yuhan smiled.

"Is... that so?"

"The enhancement of the body by the Power of Nature varies from person to person. Not every Awakened One can heal so well after their leg bones are crushed in a month. It's just that you probably haven't seen martial artists suffer such serious injuries before, so you don't know your own potential." She paused. "In your place, your strength should be ranked at the top, right?"

"Why do you think so?"

"My master often said that the strong are strong in every aspect—fast healing means your foundation is excellent, and your body has a strong resistance to blows. People like this usually have a one-in-a-million talent for martial arts, like me." Fei Yuhan said frankly. "When your injury is completely healed, maybe we can spar a few more times."

"Is this why you brought me into the team?" Vakiris said helplessly. "You are a super genius of the Association. I don't think I can help you much in martial arts."

"What does it matter? Besides, you've been lying in bed for so long. Sparring with strong people is the fastest way to regain your strength. After all, the Fallen Ones won't take into consideration that you were injured."

"..." Vakiris was silent for a moment, then nodded. "Then please give me some guidance."

"No problem." Fei Yuhan raised the corner of her mouth. "By the way, I made a special trip to the city center yesterday and bought some special pastries from the Kagard Peninsula. They're in the top bag. I think you'll be interested—after all, the meals provided in the hospital are too monotonous."

As she said this, she caught a slight surge in the other person's throat—an unobtrusive swallowing action.

Although the Kagard Clan can also eat ordinary food, it is said that it is difficult for them to distinguish the taste of good or bad. Only the unique ingredients produced in their place of origin can satisfy their taste. Fei Yuhan had also tried this kind of "uniquely flavored" food, and found it completely unacceptable.

Of course, a small number of people claimed that they could taste the rare delicacy of this world as long as they tasted it carefully, but this view has not been recognized by the public. Therefore, food from Kagard is only sold in some specialty stores—compared to the vast majority of residents in the city, Peninsula people are always a minority.

"Thank you for your trouble..." Vakiris concealed her subconscious reaction very well and thanked her again.

"It's nothing. I'm the captain, after all. It's my duty to care about my teammates." Fei Yuhan waved her hand. "But speaking of which, you really like reading."

"Yeah, when I'm bored, I want to find something to flip through, and it's become a habit."

"That's a good habit. There is no other entertainment in the sanatorium, but there are quite a few books. If you want to read anything else, just tell me."

"Thank you."

After saying this, neither of them continued to speak, and only the rustling sound of turning pages was left in the room for a while.

Fei Yuhan stood by the window of the ward, looking at the scenery outside the window—the weather today was very good, it could be said to be a clear autumn day, the yellowing willow branches beside the artificial lake hung down into the water, and drew ripples with the gentle breeze; further away, a line of swans was swimming across the lake unhurriedly, leaving a string of white waveforms in the blue reflection.

This is indeed a good place to recuperate.

However, the corner of her eye never left Vakiris. Through the reflection of the glass window, Fei Yuhan was always observing the other person's every move.

She is neither a warm-hearted person nor interested in forcing others to practice martial arts with her.

The reason why she pretended to be like this was because she accidentally noticed during the visit a month ago that this person might know Luo Lan.

No, the accurate statement should be that she knows Luo Lan, but Luo Lan treats her as another person—those seemingly frivolous overtures were actually him confirming his judgment. Fei Yuhan believes she won't be wrong about this.

But what puzzled her was that Luo Lan didn't show any hostility when asking, and his tone and wording were quite relaxed, which meant that whether Vakiris was the person he was familiar with or not, she didn't pose a threat. But the latter showed strong hostility and tension—although it only happened the moment everyone entered the door, it was still captured by Fei Yuhan, who was walking in the front.

What kind of relationship would produce such a difference in reaction?

If it were a bit clichéd, it would not be difficult to imagine a scene of lovers turning against each other because of love, ten years of plastic surgery for revenge, the former regretting it, but unable to reach the latter, but Fei Yuhan did not think too much about it at all. The reason is that Vakiris' subsequent control of her expression was so amazing that even she would have a hard time noticing the clues if not for the very beginning. If it was just an emotional problem, it would be hard to believe that anyone could do this.

Fei Yuhan has been good at observing since she was a child, and her Power of Nature awakening has raised it to a new level. Because of this, people who are truly familiar with her have alienated her one by one, and even fear being with her. Over time, she has become accustomed to this sense of alienation and has gradually distanced herself from everyone—anyway, she can guess almost everything in the other person's heart with just a few glances.

However, Luo Lan is different. This newly promoted hunter of the Association is one of the few people she has been unable to see through in recent years, and Vakiris, who has some kind of relationship with Luo Lan, is also the same. They are obviously hiding something, and the secret behind it makes it hard for her not to pay attention.

In the subsequent interactions with Vakiris, Fei Yuhan further confirmed her intuition.

Although this martial artist from the Kagard Peninsula behaved like a normal person, there were still many details in her life that revealed strangeness—if she had met the other party before Luo Lan, she wouldn't have suspected anything, but when she made a slight association, these strangenesses could be surprisingly linked together.

For example, she had brought Vakiris a local snack before, and the latter didn't show any joy at first, but later found that she had eaten it all. And this time, Vakiris' reaction has undergone a clear change. This matter seems to be no big problem, but thinking about it carefully, it means that the other party did not eat to fill her stomach, but simply did not know the taste of the local snack before!

A person from the Kagard Peninsula has never eaten Kagard's specialty cuisine, which simply does not make sense.

In addition, Fei Yuhan has never seen Vakiris playing with a mobile phone in the past month—something that young people can hardly leave for a moment, but the other party is like an insulator, which is a bit strange.

And those...

According to Vakiris' request, all the books she borrowed from the library were about history. Although reading is a good habit, holding a boring and tasteless history book all day long, even Fei Yuhan admits that she does not have this patience and perseverance.

If the change in attitude towards food is because she didn't have an appetite at first, not playing with mobile phones is because of her quiet nature, and only reading history is because of special hobbies, it seems that it can also be explained. But all the strangeness appeared together, which is too coincidental. Compared with all kinds of reasons, Fei Yuhan always has a feeling that the other party is rapidly familiarizing herself with this world.

If it were at other times, she would probably just laugh it off, but when she thought of the word "Your Majesty," a guess that made people unbelievable suddenly appeared in her heart.

She didn't want to continue thinking about it, because it was too horrifying, even a little chilling, but once the thought came out, it could no longer be ignored.

With it, all the anomalies have a reasonable explanation.

In this city, some different people have infiltrated at some point.

They... come from another world.