Chapter Five: A Debt of Pain

Su Wanqing made three rules: stop training if tinnitus lasted ten minutes, record every memory gap, and never describe a fracture as “still playable.” She broke all three herself. Their third Reality Echo was a black injector with one instruction: 【Transfer one person's pain to a selected target.】 “This isn't treatment.” She locked it away. “It only sends the bill to someone else.” Zhou needed hospitalization, but the system assigned him to Wanqing's ER. Near midnight, a driverless bus crashed through the waiting room. Wanqing shielded a child as metal pierced her side. She did not fall. Pain glowed beneath her skin as red lines. She lifted the bus with her bare hands and freed three trapped people. Every phone video uploaded as static.