The square fell silent once more.
Jiaying stood where she was, her eyes fixed on Skye, her mind racing with a thousand thoughts.
When Skye was first found, her heart had indeed been filled with joy.
She had truly tried to make up for the maternal love that had been missing for over twenty years.
But now, she chose to stand on the side of the humans who persecuted the Inhumans...
The experience of being dissected alive was still vivid in her mind. In Jiaying's perception, humans were forever selfish and dangerous Raiders, untrustworthy and impossible to coexist with.
Only the Inhumans were her true compatriots.
Since Skye chose the humans and chose to betray her... then she had to eliminate this threat.
Even if the person was the daughter she had carried for ten months.
At this moment, Skye turned to walk toward Jiaying, attempting to persuade her once more.
"Mom, let's end all of this..." Skye reached out her hand.
Jiaying took Skye's outstretched hand, but a cold smile rose at the corners of her mouth.
"I always thought that what supported me through all that torture and pain was having you. I thought you were a gift from heaven."
"Ah! Mom, what are you doing?!"
Skye let out a scream. Her originally rosy cheeks quickly turned ashen, and her skin lost its luster.
Coulson and the others were pale with shock and wanted to rush up to save her, but they were held back by several of Jiaying's loyalist villagers.
"Let her go! You lunatic!"
Skye's consciousness grew increasingly blurred. Looking at her mother's cold face, a wave of desolation surged in her heart.
Her mother wanted to kill her.
Just as Skye's life hung by a thread.
"Let go of my Daisy—!"
A roar like that of a Beast came from the side.
Skye's father, Calvin, rushed forward like a madman.
His large hand grabbed Jiaying's arm and pulled hard, forcibly breaking the life-absorption connection and shielding Skye behind him.
Skye slumped weakly to the ground, clutching her chest and gasping for breath.
Seeing Jiaying trying to step forward again, Calvin lunged and held Jiaying tightly in his arms, pinning her down.
"Why do you want to hurt our daughter?!" Calvin roared at Jiaying with bloodshot eyes, "She's the Daisy we searched for for over twenty years!"
"Because she betrayed the Inhumans! She betrayed me!" Jiaying said coldly, "And so did you!"
Saying that, she pressed her hands against Calvin. Her life-absorption ability activated again, frantically draining Calvin's vitality.
Calvin's whole body jolted, a look of agony appearing on his face as his life force began to drain away frantically.
But his heart felt ten times more pain than this.
On one side was his beloved wife, and on the other was the daughter he had searched for for over twenty years.
Calvin looked at Skye on the ground, a flash of relief crossing his eyes.
He knew Jiaying had gone completely mad. If he let go today, Skye would surely die.
"Sorry, Daisy..." Calvin laboriously uttered the name he had originally given Skye, his face struggling to squeeze out a fatherly smile.
"I'm not a good father. I couldn't give you a complete home..."
Calvin's voice grew weaker and weaker. "I only hope you can have a happy life in the future. Go fly, my little bird... I love you."
After saying those last words.
Calvin let out a roar, and the monstrous strength inside him, modified by the "Hyde Formula," exploded with full force at this moment.
Crack!
The sound of bones shattering was clearly audible in the square.
Jiaying's eyes gradually lost their light, and her hands went limp.
And Calvin, having had too much life force absorbed, was at the end of his strength.
His tall frame swayed twice before he fell heavily to the ground, clutching Jiaying's body, his breath gradually fading away.
Skye knelt blankly on the ground, looking at her parents lying together not far away.
Just a few days ago, they were happily eating dinner together. Calvin was clumsily telling her jokes, and Jiaying was gently brushing her hair.
And now, her mother had tried to kill her, and her father had killed her mother with his own hands to save her, then stopped breathing right before her eyes.
"No... don't..."
This immense tragedy caused Skye's emotions to completely collapse at this moment.
"Ah—!!!"
A shrill scream erupted from her mouth.
With that scream, the special ability within her body suddenly exploded without warning.
Rumble, rumble—
The ground began to shake violently.
The entire village seemed to turn into a small boat tossing in a storm.
Wooden houses collapsed one after another, and deep cracks opened in the ground.
Everyone was knocked to the ground by this terrifying earthquake, unable to stand.
"Skye! Stop! You'll destroy this place!" Coulson shouted as he fell.
But Skye could hear nothing. She just held her head, kneeling at the center of the vibration, letting the shockwaves frantically destroy everything around her.
The villagers screamed in terror, searching everywhere for something to grab onto.
The vibrations grew more and more intense.
Crack... Boom!
At that moment, a loud noise from inside the mountain jolted Skye awake.
But it was too late. Skye discovered in horror that the massive section of the mountain carrying the entire village had begun to tilt.
Following the thousands of meters of steep mountain range, it began to slide down irreversibly.
This was a devastating landslide. Falling from this height, everyone would be smashed to pieces.
Looking at the tilting houses, the desperately screaming villagers, and Coulson struggling to grip the edge of a rock.
"What have I done..." Skye shed tears of regret.
The angle of the ground's tilt grew larger, and the sliding speed increased.
Her own body also slid rapidly down the slope. Below was a thousand-meter-deep valley.
In this moment of life and death, a flash of light suddenly crossed Skye's mind.
She struggled to reach for her wrist.
"Please... come and save us..."
A strong sense of weightlessness hit her. Skye had already slid off the edge of the village, her body falling downward.
The wind howled in her ears.
Skye closed her eyes, waiting for fate to descend.
Her parents were dead, her home was destroyed, and she had even endangered everyone.
Death might be a release.
She just felt some regret—regret that she wouldn't have the chance to see that man one last time.
Poof!
Skye suddenly felt her body lighten.
The weightless feeling of the rapid descent vanished.
A familiar, steady voice rang softly in her ear.
"Caught you, my Miss Hacker."
Skye snapped her eyes open.
Sunlight pierced through the clouds, spilling behind the man in front of her, forming a halo along his silhouette.
It was him.
He was here!
Skye stared blankly at the face she had been thinking of day and night, and tears streamed down her face.
"You're here..." Skye sobbed, burying her face into Homelander's firm chest. All her grievances found an outlet at this moment.
"I'm here, it's okay." Homelander gently patted her back.