Chapter 18: "Just, you were carried out of it by that officer ......"

Chapter XVIII

Shi An feels like she's had a long dream.

He dreamed that he had gone back ten thousand years.

The spacious, dry cavern was filled with glittering treasure, and he himself lay comfortably amidst it, his long tail circling around to cradle his favorite treasure in his paws.

A sea of bright flashes flooded him.

Shi An can name each of her treasures and where they came from.

The sapphire crown near his left paw was snatched from the mermaid kingdom five hundred years ago, the silver and white diamond bead chain pillowed under his head was stolen from the elven domain, and the tons of gold near the tip of his tail were paid to him as tribute by the humans some time ago.

His scales are so indestructible, the hardest pile of treasure is just a tickle to him.

Gazing at her nest, Shi An felt a rare sense of joy and satisfaction.

He's an Abyssal Dragon, the last of his kind in the world.

This has been an established fact since Shi An broke out of its shell.

In all those long years, he had never seen any of his own kind.

As he lived longer and longer, the whole waking thing became more and more boring.

Shi An let out a big yawn, then rested her head on the tip of her tail.

So boring.

Shi An blinks and decides to take a nap.

Sleep longer this time.

The black dragon curled up in the pile of treasures slowly opened its mouth, a series of ancient incantations echoed in the empty cave, like a low murmur from the distant past, as the voice fell, the dragon's eyelids drooped down a little bit, covering its red-gold vertical pupils, and its black body crouched down in the pile of treasures, falling into a deep slumber.

The passage of time begins to lose its meaning from this moment on.

I don't know how long it's been.

Shi An heard a faint call from the darkness, very soft, very weak, like a cry or a whisper.

He flew lightly in the direction the voice came from.

Immediately afterward, in a cloud of darkness, Shi An saw a tiny human standing in the distance.

He stood alone in the cave, lowered his head and slashed his wrist with a knife, a drop of scarlet blood splattered down in the dust and was carefully drawn into a complete circle, an extremely complicated magic formation appeared in the center of the cave, exactly the same as the pattern drawn on the paper beside him.

Immediately afterward, the human stood next to the magical array and whispered a long-forgotten esoteric incantation, over and over again.

The opponent is using an ancient dragon language, even older than Shi An itself, it can wake up a sleeping dragon and force the appearance and descent of the other party, this spell is very powerful, but the same, it requires humans to actively sacrifice their lives, at the same time, the amount of magical power it requires is very huge, in the ancient times, it would have required the magical power of the entire human kingdom to even be used up to complete it. The language is very powerful, but at the same time, it requires human beings to sacrifice their lives.

By all accounts, the spell was impossible to complete.

But the world's last dragon had slept too long, and his soul had entered its weakest state.

Shi An, who saw the whole thing, was furious:

"Hey, hey, I'm trying to go back to sleep, what are you doing, don't wake me up!"

But all he could do was watch as he was yanked over, closer and closer and closer-

So Shi An woke up angry.

His eyes snapped open, only to be met with a snowy white ceiling and an even, regular dripping sound that rang in his ears and stood out in the empty room.

...... eh?

What's the situation?

Shi An blinks in confusion and tries to move her arms.

Hiss!

Shi An's expression twisted with pain.

It hurts, it hurts, it hurts!

It hurts everywhere!

Fueled by the pain, the memories from before the coma came back slowly this time.

Shi An remembers spitting that ball out, and then being forced to revert back to human form, falling straight down straight from mid-air - and then what?

Shi An held his vaguely aching head and couldn't think of anything.

At that moment, the bed sheet beside his hand moved, and the demonic worm poked its head out, looking at Shi An with a resentful face : "My lord, you're awake?"

Shi An vaguely remembered what happened to him before he swallowed that ball.

He whispered somewhat sheepishly, "...... Oh."

The Demon Worm revealed a pained expression, "That ball is called the Eye of the Abyss, it's the key to keeping the entire rift open, and most importantly, once it leaves the Abyssal Rift, it will self-destruct!"

Shi An's voice was a little smaller, "Now I know ......"

"And that Mu Hang was chasing you at the time!" The Worm became more and more agitated, "Do you know how much effort I went through to hide it from him!"

Shi An blinks and says in a small voice, "I'm sorry ......"

He apologized so readily that the Demon Worm choked.

Only to see the teenager in front of him hanging his head dejectedly, his slender body wrapped up in a hospital gown that was on the large side, looking both well-behaved and pitiful - not at all connected to the ancient beast that had made the demonic creatures submit and wail earlier, huh?

"......" Damn, this dragon is so good at playing the poor guy too!

Devil Worm was very angry.

But the main gas himself.

Why will always be deceived by the appearance of this dragon!

Is he soft! He's soft, my ass!

"Eh yes," Shi An suddenly remembered something as he said, "I had a dream during the time I was passed out."

Immediately afterward, he briefly recounted what he had dreamed.

After hearing this, the Demon Worm guessed thoughtfully:

"That spell, if successful, is capable of summoning your essence at full strength? Right? But if it fails, then it won't be able to awaken a giant dragon at all.

And in the current situation, although the summoner was weak, he should have used some kind of magic increase, after all, this is possible with current human technology, so the spell was only half successful, which led to the current result."

Demon Worm: "But ...... why you have become this human-like now, I'm not quite sure eh."

--Shi An had a vague idea about this.

On this continent, names have power in themselves.

Only powerful fantasy species have names, and they gift the knowledge of their names to their followers as a symbol of shelter and protection.

So his renaming of this human couldn't have been an accident.

The spell that caused him to be the way he is now probably had something to do with it.

Shi An suddenly perked up, "I've decided!"

The Demon Worm was taken aback by him, "Wh, what?"

Shi An said:

"I'll have to find out where this human saw this spell, after all it's very old even to me, let alone a normal human.

So if I can find the place where this spell was recorded, I might be able to find out how to restore it!"

Shi An is confident again.

It was at that moment that the door to the hospital room was pushed open.

Lin Yanming, also dressed in a hospital gown, came in from outside.

Upon seeing the awakened Shi An, his eyes lit up and he hurriedly stepped forward quickly: ''My god, you finally woke up! You know, you've been sleeping for more than three days, how do you feel now? Does it still hurt anywhere?"

Shi An pathetic: "It hurts everywhere ......"

Lin Yanming poured a glass of water and handed it over.

Shi An asked, holding a glass of water and taking a careful sip:

"Did anything happen in the three days I was out?"

Lin Yanming: "It's nothing, the field test site has been shut down and put under martial law, recently it's been filled with Administration people, it's said that this time the situation is really serious, all students are forbidden to go near the neighborhood."

He rubbed the back of his head:

"I really didn't think I'd be stunned that day in the real world ......"

Devil Worm: You were bitten by me! Bitten!

Not scared!

Shi An felt the Demon Worm at his hand stirring.

He held it down without a trace.

"...... Only after I was rescued did I hear that you were actually trapped in the heart of the most dreadful place, alas, fortunately-"

Lin Yanming suddenly stopped talking.

He suddenly looked a bit strange, and glanced at Shi An in a hesitant manner.

Shi An sensed something was wrong, "What's wrong? Fortunately what?"

Lin Yanming hesitated and said:

"That, and you just woke up, so you shouldn't know it yet, is ......"

"Just what?" Shi An pursued.

Lin Yanming glanced at Shi An and his voice subconsciously lowered, "Just, you were carried out from inside by that officer ......"

Shi An: "The officer?"

Lin Yanming gave him a fussy look, "It's Mu Hang, Mr. Mu."

Shi An: "......"

Lin Yanming stayed silent a bit longer this time, then spoke hesitantly, "And, uh, it seems that, at the time, your clothes were, for whatever reason, damaged."

Shi An: ".................."

Lin Yanming pointed to a chair off to the side with a pitch-black coat perched on it, "Here, this is his coat."

...

When Lin Yanming left the hospital room, Shi An took the bug out from under the covers:

"Say it."

"......"

The Demon Worm fluttered twice in mid-air with its six thin legs before saying weakly:

"That, I didn't lie to you just now, I really helped you hide it, I just ......"

Its voice was even lower, "...... I just didn't get that last part out."

--The part where Mu Hang goes into the cave at the end, it was really not expected!

Shi An stared at it for two seconds and let go.

He sighed, "Forget it, I'm the one who started it anyway by not listening to you first."

And it didn't matter if he was carried out by that shiny human, he'd be in his collection in the future anyway!

Shi An instantly felt at ease again.

*

Other side.

With the intervention of the Administration's Crisis Incident Management Department, the aftermath of the Abyssal Rift in the school became much faster, and in just a few days' work, the poisonous gas had already been cleaned up, but sadly, due to the fact that the rift had existed for far too long, the many Abyssal Species that had been released from it couldn't be eradicated all together for a while.

But other than that, the school has basically been able to officially resume classes, except that students are still not allowed to approach the area where the mutation occurred in order to avoid accidents.

Thus, the placement of new students into classes is once again on the agenda.

The examiners really didn't expect that after barely dealing with the second round of additional questions, almost equally difficult questions would be put before them again.

-And it's all caused by the same person!!!!

It stands to reason that the final placement results are largely determined by the results of the third round.

However, the third round of the actual battle had a completely unforeseen and unexpected situation, the abyssal rift's mutation caused the system to go offline, the monitoring to stop, and all the students were trapped within the territory of the actual battle test.

Of course, there must have been engagements during this time, as well as students whose point counts have risen.

But none have risen as far as Shi An!

He went straight from last place with 0 points to first place with 130,000 points!

How the fuck is that possible?

It was clear to all the examiners that this must be a problem with the student's bracelet, but when they carefully asked Mu Hang if he had seen the other man's bracelet when he brought Shi An out of the danger zone, they were met with a glib reply:

"Yes, I stepped on it."

Crowd: "......"

It's fucking embarrassing.

If you rank freshmen according to their points before the mutation appeared, it would be very unfair to other students whose points went up during the trapped period, but if you rank them according to their current points ......

There isn't a single examiner who doesn't get a heart attack thinking about Shi An's 130,000 points.

Gazing at the report card in front of them, they looked at each other and saw the same headache and pain on each other's faces.

Grass, is this a test for the students or for them?

*

Due to the special nature of the school, the Ableist Academy was very mature and advanced in terms of medical care; whereas other schools might only have a simple infirmary, the Ableist Academy had built a building directly on the campus.

Although he had fallen from a great height, but after all, the scales had not yet faded away to protect him, Shi An's body was only left with superficial wounds, and with the combination of magic and technology, he healed very quickly, except that the doctors were worried about the after-effects of the poisonous fog, so they didn't let Shi An out of the hospital, and decided to keep him for a few days of observation instead.

Shi An has no problem with that.

After all, wherever he was, he was happily snacking and playing games.

Until Lin Yanming couldn't stand it any longer and forcibly confiscated his game console.

"If you stay so nerdy and play games every day, your eyes will go bad, and your body will be left sick even if you don't have any major problems."

Lin Yanming looked at Shi An with a motherly expression, "At least go out for a walk, move around and get some sunshine."

Shi An looked blearily at the game console in his opponent's hand:

"I don't want to go to ......"

Lin Yanming made a determined effort, "No way! You have to go out for a half hour walk and I'll give you back your game console when you come back!"

Under threat, Shi An reluctantly walked out of the hospital room.

He slowly wandered over toward the stairs, but as he passed the front desk, he was suddenly stopped by the nurse behind the desk, "Eh, you're Shi An right?"

Shi An nodded.

The nurse lowered her head and rummaged on the table for a moment, then looked up and handed Shi An a card:

"Administration sent it to you."

She tapped the phone number on it, "Said for me to pass it on to you, and to get a call up there as soon as I recovered."

Shi An was a bit puzzled, "Who gave you this?"

The nurse thought for a moment and said, "A brown-skinned girl, I heard others call her Team Wen, very good-looking, very sharp-looking, looks like she should be a very important figure in Administration, very handsome oh."

Shi An thought for a moment, rummaging through the corners of her brain for information on the man.

Wen Yao.

She was the one who took herself out that day at the villa and wrapped him in a blanket and handed him warm milk.

Shi An was very impressed with her.

He smiled at the nurse, "Thanks a lot."

The nurse looked at the teenager's distant back with a slight look of compassion in her eyes.

This kid, good-looking and well-behaved, can be so delightful.

Shi An looks down at the piece of paper in her hand.

There's just a string of numbers on it and nothing else.

Just as he was pondering this, a hysterical scream came from one of the wards not far away, "-- Shi An! It must be him! It's him!"

Shi An, who was inexplicably called by name, raised her head and looked in the direction from which the voice came.

Only two doctors stood in the doorway of the hospital room, frowning and talking carefully:

"Is ...... still shouting?"

"Right."

"Has the cause been found?"

"No, he kept screaming that it was so hot, so hot, but we gave him a very careful full body check and all his values were fine."

"What was that about?"

"It's possible that he was stimulated, after all, that incident before did leave a psychological shadow."

"Keep it under observation for a few more days and see if it doesn't work out, then transfer to psychiatry ......"

Shi An always sounds ...... a little familiar.

He took a few steps forward and peered into the ward.

I saw Duan Hua, securely bound to the hospital bed, his eyes glazed over, his hair disheveled, his expression haggard and frantic, screaming in a hysterical voice, "The devil! He is the devil!"

The Devil himself stood in the doorway, looking back carefully with an expression of dawning realization.

Oh, yeah.

It's you eh, I almost forgot!