Chapter 126: Changes

"Jean"

"Jean, Can you hear me?"

"Charles, how is she!?"

"I'm trying my best!"

.....

In a daze, Jean seemed to hear Professor Charles' voice, along with Hank's.

She suddenly opened her eyes and saw two worried faces in front of her.

Seeing Jean wake up, Charles, who still had a lot of hair, breathed a sigh of relief and joked somewhat thankfully, "I almost called an ambulance."

"Are you okay? How do you feel?"

Hank, who was brilliant and wore glasses, helped Jean stand up and asked with worry.

"I...I'm fine. How did I get here?"

Jena got up with Hank's help and looked around. When she did, she saw that she was outside of the Xavier Institute for Higher Learning. Hank was picking up her books that were all over the ground.

"You suddenly fainted without warning and scared us all," Hank said.

Charles frowned and looked at her seriously, "Did something happen?"

He knew that the power inside Jean's body was very dangerous. With that kind of power, she couldn't get sick or die for no reason.

Jean looked at him, then at Hank, feeling a little confused for a moment.

She couldn't even tell what was real and what wasn't. Was everything she'd experienced before just a dream?

According to Charles, it seemed that she had never left here and had just fainted for a while. Then, what about her experiences for the past month? Was it really just a dream?

"Your books are all here."

Hank put the books back in order and held Jean, telling her, "I think we should go to the hospital for a thorough checkup. It won't take much time."

"No... okay, let's do the checkup."

Jean instinctively wanted to refuse, but she thought about it and decided that getting her brain checked out might help her figure something out.

"... By the way, Jean, your ring is very pretty, but why is it on your ring finger?"

Hank suddenly turned his head and looked at Jean's hand, his face a little strange.

"What?"

Jean was also confused and didn't understand what Hank was talking about.

'Ring? She had never worn a ring. Not to mention the fact that it was on her ring finger, which meant something she was very familiar with.'

She suddenly stopped walking and looked at the ring finger on her right hand with disbelief.

A silver-white, exquisitely carved lady's ring with beautiful indigo blue patterns was firmly placed on her finger, shining in the sunlight.

"This..." Jean's face suddenly burst into a smile, tears of joy flowing out, but her expression was both happy and sad.

She was happy because her month of experience was real. But she was also sad because she might never see that man again.

Charles, who had fallen behind, took a few steps forward to walk next to Jean and looked at the ring on her hand with true respect. "Wow, this seems to be expensive a lot."

Charles' voice suddenly awakened Jean, who then realized the most serious problem.

She looked at Charles in shock and asked, "Professor...you...you..."

"What's wrong?" Charles was puzzled by Jean's reaction. He looked at himself, dressed properly and with his zipper closed. He even secretly sniffed himself, and yes, he was wearing his usual cologne.

Everything seemed normal. So why was Jean looking at him like he was a ghost? Just when he couldn't help but ask what was going on, Jean explained it to him.

"You can walk?!"

Charles stopped moving and looked at Jean with a slightly miserable face.

'What, are you disappointed that I can walk and jump?'

He still remembered the last time Erik said that to him, and he threw a violent punch at him. But when Charles looked at how fragile Jean seemed, he didn't dare get angry.

"Yes, I've always been able to walk, haven't I?"

Charles quickly caught up with Hank, muttering to himself that it was better to hang out with his brother. His students always made him feel upset.

Jean still stood in place, still in disbelief.

'Professor Charles could walk? From the first time she saw him until now, he had always been sitting in a wheelchair. Could she have remembered it wrong? No, it was impossible.'

Jean shook her head and hurried to catch up.

'It's best to ask some questions.'

The three of them got to the medical room quickly, but as soon as they walked in, Jean started to doubt herself again.

Looking at the pure white robot strolling past her, and the huge bed in the center of the medical room, there was nothing else in the medical room except for this bed.

'This is the medical room?'

Jean would have thought she went to the wrong place if she hadn't followed Charles and gone in with Hank.

"Jean, don't stand at the door, come over here."

Hank called her over while clicking on a screen next to the bed.

Charles was already lying on the bed.

As Jean walked over, a mechanical arm suddenly prepared out from one end of the bed, and then a light flashed from the arm and scanned Charles's whole body.

Hank was still looking at the screen, suddenly frowned, and looked at Charles seriously. "Charles, are you drinking the wine from the cellar again?"

"I'm not! I didn't! Don't talk nonsense!"

Charles denied it without hesitation, but when Hank pushed the screen in front of him, he was speechless.

"The medical machine test shows that your alcohol level is above the limit. You drank last night, right? It can be detected now, and you didn't just have a few drinks."

"..."

Looking at the bunch of data, Charles was silent.

Jean spoke up.

"What...what is this?" she pointed to the medical machine and asked, "When was it added to the medical room? What about other things?"

"Other things?" Charles and Hank exchanged confused looks, and the latter replied, "There has always only been the medical machine in the medical room, haven't you forgotten?"

"As for other things...with a medical machine, there's no need for anything else."

"Let's not worry about that for now, let's give you an examination. Come on, lie down."

Jean remained silent and obediently lay down on the medical machine. Just like earlier, a beam of light scanned her entire body, and then Hank spoke.

"Hmm, no problems, you're very healthy."

Jean felt like she was dreaming and stood up in a daze, not sure where she was.

Seeing her like this, Hank and Charles finally realized the seriousness of the situation, and their faces became serious.

Charles seemed to have figured something out and asked tentatively,

"Jean, where did you go just now?"

"Where did I go?"

Jean was stunned for a moment and thought, "I did go to a place just now..."

"Do you know Jack Wayne?"

Hank asked urgently.

Jean was once again stunned, looking at Hank suspiciously.

"How do you know this name?"

"Do you know him?"

Seeing Jean's reaction, Hank and Charles suddenly breathed a sigh of relief.

Charles looked at Jean, who was still confused, and smiled.

"Welcome back, Jean."

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