Chapter 19: "Shhh. It's our secret."

Chapter 19

Ward entrance.

Two worried doctors were talking in low voices about the disposition of their patient, when suddenly an unfamiliar voice rang out beside them, interrupting their conversation:

"Hello?"

They turned their heads to see a teenager in a hospital gown standing not far away, with bandages on his arms and legs, seemingly also a victim of this school accident.

"What's the matter? Can't find your way?"

One of the doctors asked amiably.

Shi An shook her head and pointed up to the name tag sewn on her hospital gown.

The doctor looked at it and froze.

Isn't that the name that the patients inside this ward have been screaming for the past two days?

"I think there might be a misunderstanding between me and this student, can I go in and see him?"

Shi An asked.

The teenager in front of him looks not very old, pale face, dark and deep eyes, in the wide hospital gown under the backdrop of the fragile and delicate, luring pity, and the ward of the tall and big, struggling up to four people can not hold down the newborn is almost no comparison.

This made them more and more certain that that freshman was simply mentally stimulated.

The two men looked at each other, their tones subconsciously softening:

"That would be fine, but I see you haven't recovered yet, and I'd be wary of him hurting you in such an unstable state."

Shi An replied obediently, "It's okay, didn't you guys tie him up already?"

A magic bug hidden in Shi An's sleeve:

"......"

It's possible to hurt anyone, but not Shi An.

Others didn't know, but it could know clearly that the reason why that human in here was now like this was entirely the handiwork of the one in front of him!

Still, he deserved it.

Listening to the screams coming from the wards, Wraithbug felt very comfortable.

--who made him shady behind his back!

Inside the room.

Although tightly bound to the bed, Duan Hua kept struggling.

He felt as if he had been burned from his internal organs, and every inch of his flesh was hot, as if he had been thrown into a blazing fire, and even his wailing could not relieve him.

However, all the doctors who examined him said that it wasn't caused by any magical creature, and that nothing was parasitizing him.

They said it was a psychological disorder caused by his overstimulation.

Fart!

Duan Hua knew very well that the torture he felt was definitely not a hallucination!

And it just started that night, after that Shi An touched herself!

He was seething with hatred and gnashing his teeth.

It must be him! That trash ...... can t even die in peace, and he has to torture him after his own death!

"Shi An--" he howled in a mournful hiss as he took another bounce from the cauterization.

At that moment, a soft and gentle voice rang in Duan Hua's ears:

"Eh, I am."

In that instant, though his body still burned with sharp pain at every moment, Duan Hua felt his scalp explode and cooled from head to toe, and he slowly and stiffly turned his bloodshot eyeballs, frame by frame, in the direction from which the sound had come-

The young man with a clear and elegant face was sitting peacefully in front of the hospital bed, was lowering his head, gazing at him steadily with those dark, abyssal and bottomless eyes, his light-colored lips hooked into a warm and peaceful arc, looking elegant and soft, as if he was angelic and innocent, without any trace of aggressiveness.

The sound was caught deep in his throat and made a cackling sound.

Duan Hua's eyes widened in fear and he began to shiver from head to toe, "No, it can't be, aren't you dead? You should be dead already! Impossible!"

Shi An lifted a finger and put it to her lips, "Shhh."

He winked at Duan Hua, "It's our secret."

Secret ...... secret?

What do you mean?

Duan Hua felt that his brain was stagnant and stuck, as if it was a rusty gear, and he couldn't respond for half a day.

Only Shi An dropped her eyes warmly and quietly, her long eyelashes fanning out.

The originally pitch-black pupils were instantly tinted with the color of blazing fire, and the pupils were thin and narrow, inhuman and grotesque, with a kind of playfulness and cruelty of a predator located at the top of the food chain, who was now looking down on him from above.

Duan Hua's face swished white as he violently opened his parched lips wide and tried to scream miserably in misery and horror.

"You can't do that."

Shi An frowns with some annoyance and shakes her head rather helplessly before gently and deftly tickling her fingertips.

The next moment, Duan Hua felt as if his throat was being strangled by an invisible force, and even though his legs were kicking frantically on the bed, he was still unable to make a sound.

The doctor guarding the door heard the commotion and raised his hand to knock with concern:

"How's it going, okay?"

Not good! Not good!

This man is a monster! Monster!

Duan Hua's face was twisted and he was screaming madly in his mind as he stomped his feet on the bed boards, trying to make noise to get attention from outside.

"Sure."

Shi An replied while giving him a light sweeping glance, "It's just that he's a bit excited to see me."

Almost immediately, Duan Hua felt that he could not move his torso.

Indescribable panic fell hard on his head.

He lay stiff as a dead body, unable to make a sound, unable to move, confined within this heavy shell, only able to roll his eyes and stare in horror at the devil with the innocent face before him.

Footsteps were far away at the door.

Duan Hua watched in despair as Shi An sat back down to where he had been a moment ago, even adjusting the height of his chair without slowing down so that he could sit more comfortably.

Immediately afterward, Shi An lowered her head and examined him with some curiosity.

He asked:

"Why are you doing this?"

Duan Hua shivered as if he had seen an evil spirit and gazed at the other party with fearful eyes.

Shi An propped her elbows on a side table and rested her palms on her cheeks, slightly tilting her head in what appeared to be disbelief, "I understand that humans are complex creatures, but it's really strange ah, we shouldn't know each other ...... What good would it be for you if I were to be eaten by a demon? "

"You won't tell me? That counts."

After all, Shi An didn't really want to know the answer that badly.

Humans were indeed strange, but after he regained his strength and then snatched the shiny human away to make it into his collection, he would never deal with humans again.

He'll find another cave and continue the beautiful dream he didn't finish last time.

Shi An thought about it and asked:

"By the way, where did you get all that powder?"

He felt that it would not be the first time he had encountered such a thing.

The last time he was in the simulation test, he had encountered a few demonic bugs' puppet bugs, and the only way they could continue to live after losing their mother body was if they were still receiving a supply of magic power elsewhere, plus, at that time, when he was within the simulation grounds, those puppet bugs behaved very similarly to the swarms of demonic creatures in the actual battle that day.

Duan Hua did not say anything and gazed at him with trembling eyeballs.

Shi An crooked her head, a little distressed, "Still not telling me?"

He reached out, his cool fingers landing lightly on the other man's wrist, just as they had that day.

Duan Hua shuddered violently, as if his whole body had been thrown into the flames and burned, and a grunt of suppressed agony escaped from his throat.

But he still didn't say a word.

Shi An narrowed her eyes and flicked her fingertips.

"Uh-huh. ......"

This time, Duan Hua barely made a sound, his eyes turned white and he only twitched.

Shi An couldn't help but be impressed.

Although he had deliberately restrained the intensity of his flames, it was really not simple for the other party to actually survive two waves.

It seemed that humans weren't such weak creatures as he had thought before.

Just as he was about to continue, the magic worm finally looked away, it said, "That ...... I think, he may not not want to say, but he can not say it, right?"

Shi An froze.

Oh, yeah.

It was then that he suddenly remembered that he had just restricted Duan Hua's vocal organs in order to prevent him from screaming out in agony.

Shi An hastily retracted the restriction and looked at the human in front of her with some guilt, whispering in embarrassment:

"Sorry oh I forgot ......"

Duan Hua: "........................ "

He no longer had the strength to roll his eyes.

"So, are you willing to tell me?"

The teenager in front of him put on a good-natured business-like expression, but Duan Hua now had a pretty good idea of what a horrible monster was hiding underneath that harmless skin.

Under that kind of overwhelming power, one was like a fish on a chopping board, with no other option but to cooperate.

He nodded weakly, almost as if he feared the other man would turn against him, and said in a hoarse, trembling voice:

"I, I do, I'll say whatever you want me to say ...... please ......"

*

Shi An walks out of the hospital room, closing the door behind herself.

The two doctors from before were coming down the hallway, and when they saw Shi An, they greeted her with concern:

"Well? Did you finish your visit? Did you resolve the misunderstanding with your classmates?"

Before Shi An could reply, the doctors suddenly realized that the ward, where wailing noises had been coming from all the time, had become extraordinarily quiet at the moment, and they were all slightly stunned, not reacting for a moment.

Only Shi An smiled at them, "Well, it's settled."

When he finished, he waved at the doctor and walked off in the direction from which he had come.

Behind Shi An's back, the two doctors opened the room, only to see Duan Hua sitting up, unusually lucid, but with a pale face and averted eyes.

"How do you feel, do you still feel hot?"

"No, no."

Duan Hua shivered and shook his head, "I was, before, before, I was just scared, so I was talking nonsense, in fact, these are all my hallucinations, I understand ......"

Far away.

The Demon Worm crawled out of Shi An's sleeve, a little indignant, "My lord, you're letting him off the hook?"

Shi An said lightly, "Yeah."

He glanced reproachfully at the Demon Worm, "What do you think I am? A homicidal maniac?"

Shi An said in all seriousness, "It's a law and order society now, I have to follow the customs now."

Magic Worm: "......"

Does the legal program that's played every day in the ward actually work?

Shi An continued:

"And I've left a drop of blood in his body la, whenever he has any unruly thoughts or actions, no matter how far apart we are, I can instantly turn him to dust, and I can guarantee that the process will be very long and painful."

Magic Worm: "......"

Well, it didn't work.

Shi An showed a thoughtful look, "But speaking of which, that Shi Rui is a bit interesting."

Demon Worm: "Bah!"

It was righteously indignant, "I think he is a bad seed! He is definitely the one who is tripping behind your back! He's the one who put the knife in your back! I told you, I saw something wrong with him the first time I met him!"

Just after saying that, the demonic worm regretted it again:

"Sir, you must not burn him on impulse! Unlike that Duan Hua, this man is your nominal brother, and we're being watched by Mu Hang, so if this man dies, it'll be hard for you to get away!"

Shi An sighed, "Fine."

Magic Worm: "......"

Did you really just do that?

Saying that this is a society of law and order! Ugh!

Shi An : "He better pray he doesn't get caught by me again."

The teenager in front of him was puffed up, with a rare fierce look on his face, but nay, his facial features were soft and childish, so how did he look like he was complaining about being pampered.

But only the Demon Worm knew that the little bogeyman meant business.

If someone really pissed him off, he wouldn't even know how he died.

Thinking of Duan Hua's tragic situation just now, it shivered in fear, and for the first time, it was so glad that it had softened and obeyed quickly.

After a walk around the hospital building, Shi An returned to her room.

In the past two days, he has been moved from the high-risk ward and switched to the observation area, where Lin Yanming, who was his roommate in life, has become a patient again this time.

Lin Yanming put down the book in his hand and turned his head to look at Shi An: "Finished going out in the sun?"

Shi An nodded without changing her face, "Uh-huh, the tan is done!"

Lin Yanming gave him a suspicious look and lowered his head to look at his watch.

Instead, I did go out and turn around for an hour or so.

He was relieved when he pulled the game console out from under the pillow and handed it over, urging uneasily, "Don't play too long, you'll have to get up and move around in half an hour, oh."

"Yeah!" Shi An cheered.

He took the console and popped back into his bed, then focused on the game and started playing.

...... didn't take the other guy s words at all.

Lin Yanming rubbed his temples with a bit of a headache and picked up his book again.

According to the notification, it should be announced tomorrow the results of this time as well as the placement.

By the time placement is over, it's time to start classes.

Gotta prep for that.

Lin Yanming turned his head to look at Shi An, who was playing a game.

Although the only person who knows now that the other party is not a waste but a genius is himself, Lin Yanming believes that--

When school starts, Shi An will definitely be able to become the strongest student in the entire class, and even the brightest rising star in the entire academy!

Lin Yanming's eyes are pleased and kind, as if he is an old mother who sees her child's success.

The next bed over.

Shi An frowns at the characters on the screen and sneaks up on the Demon Bug, "What does this mean?"

Magic Worm: "......"

"It means this thing heals bloodstains." It sighed and asked, "My lord, don't you have to start learning a bit of human writing?"

Shi An didn't raise her head, "Say it again."

Magic Worm looked at him sadly, his eyes full of worry, as if an old mother who watched her uneducated child not study and still play games every day.

Tell me about you ......

What's going to happen after this school year starts!

*

Administration.

Mu Hang, his trench coat straightened and wrapped in blood, hurried in from outside.

The frost and fury on his brow had not dissipated, as if it were a blade with unrelenting murderous intent.

Mu Hang lowered his long silver-white eyelashes and slowly and methodically removed his bloodstained gloves, tossing them into a nearby trash can.

Zhuo Fu peeked over, "Is it over?"

Mu Hang glanced at him faintly, as if he had no intention of answering such an unproductive question from the other party.

Zhuo Fu is also used to Mu Hang's attitude, he said:

"Basically the high-profile swings in the urban area that require you to be on the field are gone, and it's okay to let the rest of Administration handle the rest."

He handed the new assignment to Mu Hang's desk:

"By the way, there are a lot of new top level missions released from the side of those big clans recently, with generous rewards, they have been coming every day lately to find out if you're willing to take them or not, and they're annoying Wen Yao to no end, and it just so happens that I'm here, so let me help bring these over to you."

Mu Hang didn't even think about it, "Push it."

Zhuo Fu flipped through the list of tasks and couldn't help but smack his lips, "Tsk, you really do regard money as dirt, which I'm all excited about, and you don't even look at it?"

Mu Hang raised his eyes in an unfriendly manner and swept them over:

"You're idle?"

Zhuo Fu hastily threw away the task list and said, "Fine, down to business."

He asked with a straight face, "I've heard about all the students over at the academy being sober, has that little friend of yours called you yet?"

Mu Hang moved with an unmistakable, slight lurch.

After a half-second of silence, he said, "...... No."