Chapter 4: "What about you? Is it expensive too?"

Chapter 4

Shi An did not answer the question.

The thick blanket wrapped almost the entirety of the teenager, revealing only a furry head, and the milky white mist from the cup slowly rose up to steam a thin layer of red from his face.

He tilted his head dumbly, wondering what he was thinking.

Shi Zechun forced down his anger, barely managed to hook up an ugly smile, and said word by word:

"Shi An, Officer Mu is talking to you, do you hear me?"

"...... Huh?" Shi An hadn't returned to his senses yet, and he subconsciously craned his head to look at Shi Zechun, letting out a bewildered monotone.

Shi Zechun: "......"

The brat wasn't even listening to him!

Shi Zechun was so angry that his veins were furiously throbbing, but only because Mu Hang was still around, he forcibly held back his anger.

Mu Hang obviously didn't mind his opponent's wandering off.

He lowered his eyes.

Beneath the silver-white lashes, the eyes, like the steel-blue blades of a knife, reflecting the remote and solitary silver glow of the sky, with a touch of sullen inquiry, were looking fixedly over.

After gazing at Shi An for a few seconds, Mu Hang withdrew his gaze and looked at Wen Yao.

"Have the tests been done?" He asked nonchalantly.

"...... this!" Wen Yao was stunned, "This, not, not yet."

Some magical creatures are able to mimic the appearance and even the voice of a human, or parasitize in the human body, so in theory, anyone who has had close contact with a magical creature has to be tested to make sure it's safe.

However, this kind of magic creature was really extremely rare and there were almost no cases, so people had gradually ignored the existence of this program.

"Do you need me to apply to the top now?" Wen Yao tensed up and asked, "The instruments should be delivered soon."

Mu Hang: "No."

With that, he took a step forward and lowered his eyes to Shi An:

"Give me your hand."

--The moving piece of bright flash said so.

So Shi An dully put her hand out.

Mu Hang smoothly caught his slender, elongated wrist.

He wore pitch-black tactical gloves, the cold leather so rough that it felt oddly painful to scrape against his skin.

Shi An was startled.

He reflexively shrank back, but was firmly cut off halfway through.

Immediately afterward, only heard a "click" sound, a small silver ring on his wrist.

Shi An, that's when he came back to his senses.

He lowered his head as an afterthought, his eyes landing on the silver ring.

The silver ring was set on top of the even-stopped, fine wrist bone, and was set off by the snow-white complexion with a gleam of radiance.

The grain on the silver ring was changing and looked beautiful in the light.

Shi An eyes light up.

Soon, the lines stopped transforming.

The pattern on it rests on top of a certain form.

Mu Hang frowned, a pair of silver-blue eyes hidden beneath long white lashes, his eyes settling on the surface of the silver bracelet, seeming to look somewhat puzzled.

Shi An eyed the bracelet similarly, blinking.

Hmmm ...... can't read it.

The atmosphere was stagnant and heavy, and the flow of time seemed to slow down as a result.

Finally, Mu Hang lifted his eyelashes, looked deeply at Shi An, and said:

"It's okay."

He pressed lightly on the surface of the silver bracelet, and with another "click", it opened.

Wen Yao's lifted heart slowly lowered, not tracing a sigh of relief.

--This was the first time she'd seen Mu Hang use that bracelet, and it seemed like a red flag that thankfully everything wasn't out of the ordinary.

Shi An chased the bracelet's destination with her eyes and spoke reluctantly, "You're taking it away?"

Mu Hang for a while.

He looked at the bright look of disappointment on the face of the teenager in front of him and slowly asked, "Or what?"

Shi An said despondently, "Not for me?"

"What are you talking about?" Shi Zechun's face changed, and it seemed as if eye-knives were about to fly out of his eyeballs, but he was still forced to be patient and grit his teeth:

"This kind of detection bracelet is expensive and only a few of the top echelons of the Magical Creature Administration would have it, so how could they just give it away?"

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

He raised his eyes to the man in front of him.

Mu Hang had been silent from a moment ago, scrutinizing him with a sort of wistful scrutiny.

Silver blue light precipitated in the bottom of the eyes, in addition to the brilliant pure magnificence, there is a kind of ice version of the sharp cold, just now it looks bright light glittering bracelet in the hands of the other party, actually hard to lose color for a few points.

Shi An thought for a moment and asked, "What about you? Is it expensive too?"

As soon as his words came out, everyone drew in a breath of cold air.

Shi Zechun: "......"

Grass.

His eyes almost closed and his whole back went out.

"You want to buy me?"

Mu Hang ignored the crowd and looked straight towards the teenager beside him.

Wen Yao, standing on the sidelines, looked horrified and in a daze, hardly believing his ears.

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

Just the hair is fine--

Shi Zechun stepped forward in a huff, slightly flustered, and explained towards Mu Hang:

"This ...... this, you don't want to take it seriously, this child is just out of danger, his mind is not quite clear ......"

At that moment, old Butler, too, came out of his state of utter shock, and, with a white face, he raised his hand violently and pulled up the blanket with which Shi An was draped over her body, just in time to cover her face.

Shi An in total darkness: "......"

He gazed blankly at the blanket in front of him, in deep confusion-what was going on?

Shi Zechun squeezed out a smile on his face:

"This ...... sorry ......"

While this was going on, one of the personnel conducting the on-site inspection came running to report to Mu Hang, who spoke in a low voice before handing over a piece of material for Mu Hang.

Mu Hang took the material and casually flipped through it twice.

He craned his head to look deeply at the teenager, who was wrapped tightly all over his body, at last, then raised his eyes and swept them over Shi Zechun, interrupting the other man's incoherent speech faintly, and

"Never mind."

After saying that, he closed the material and turned around to head inside the banquet hall.

*

Along the way, Shi An listens absentmindedly to Butler's painstaking chatter and advice.

He didn't understand what he was doing wrong at all.

Don't all humans like money anymore! Obviously tens of thousands of years ago they were still fascinated.

If Shi An hadn't gotten his body and strength back by now, he wouldn't have needed to buy it and would have just grabbed it back!

After finally getting through to the other side, Shi An went back to her room.

The door to the room closed, shutting out the light from the hallway.

Next, Shi An takes a deep breath, then slowly takes a few steps backward-

Sprint!

Wow!

He flung himself onto the bed and rolled happily.

The bed, where soft bedding should have been, was piled high with shiny gold and silverware, both large and small, and jewelry that had been hard-wrenched from the walls of the furniture.

They piled up on the bed and clashed with a clinking, crisp sound.

Shi An squinted contentedly and balled her body in.

These were all collected little by little in this villa after he became "Shi An", a human being, and it took him a long time to finally make a bed that he could sleep in.

Unfortunately, this current human body is just too spoiled and fragile, and Shi An can't maintain the way the magic power is released all the time, so often when he wakes up from a sleep, his body is covered with red marks from being choked out.

Shi An buried himself in his pile of treasure and rolled around for a while before finally remembering his purpose.

He sat up and pulled the man-faced bug out of his pocket.

Shi An poked at the bug's belly.

One of its thin legs stomped down, but it remained on its back, pretending to be dead with great seriousness.

A cluster of dragon flames rose at Shi An's fingertips.

"......!!!" The bug stopped playing dead, and it popped up, letting out a squeaky scream.

Shi An smiled kindly and dipped his head closer, "Awake?"

Magic Worm: "......"

Ahhhhhhhhhhhh don't you come over here!

*

Magic Administration Located in the middle of Uptown, in a tall and solemn gray building.

Mu Hang had just walked into the building when he saw a researcher in a white lab coat panting:

"Chief Mu ......"

Mu Hang craned his head to look over, the other man's panicked expression reflected in his quiet eyes, as if in silent questioning.

The other party gasped, "Mr. Zhuo explained to me that as soon as you come back, he will call you over, saying, saying that there is something very important ......"

Mu Hang thoughtfully, he nodded, then turned in the direction of the research office.

Zhuo Fu is already waiting there.

He was the head of the institute, and was responsible for researching the weaknesses of magical creatures and monitoring their movements as well as unusual magical fluctuations on weekdays.

At the moment, his cynical face was taut, but his eyes were amazingly bright, almost a little leery.

"The results of the analysis of the magic power fluctuations detected some time ago have just come out." Zhuo Fu took a deep breath and said slowly:

"--It's possible, it's possible that it's a fantasy species."

Mu Hang was stunned.

A fantasy species that once sat at the top of all magical creatures.

They are powerful and fearsome, possessing intelligence and longevity beyond that of humans, and once ruled an entire continent.

--and they've been out of sight now for over 10,000 years.

Although from time to time rumors of fantasy species coming into existence would appear, they were nothing more than rumors, and no one had actually seen those fantasy species that only existed in legends.

And Zhuo Fu is a big fan of fantasy species research.

He suddenly came closer and said mysteriously, "Maybe it will be a dragon."

Mu Hang's suddenly raised his eyes and looked over.

The silver-blue eyes took on a steel gray, and the dark fire burned silently beneath the ice with a strange kind of focus:

"Hmm?"

Zhuo Fu shivered and raised his hands in surrender:

"Don't look at me like that, I'm just kidding la ......"

"The data is just a possibility, not to mention that a fantasy species at the level of ancient legends like dragons might not be anything at all, you just need to be informed."

Zhuo Fu squeezed his eyes at Mu Hang, "But it doesn't matter if it does show up, after all, you're here."

-- Mu Hang, the most powerful human being today, and the youngest of the magical Administrators, sir.

It is also the only remaining noble dragonslayer bloodline.

Seeing that the expression of the man in front of him sank, Zhuo Fu coughed dryly and forcibly changed the topic, trying to ease the atmosphere:

"By the way, that ...... I heard you went to handle the mission uptown? How was it? Any casualties?"

Mu Hang gave him a sullen look.

Finally, before Zhuo Fu's forehead breaks out in sweat, he mercifully speaks, "No."

"Where are the demonic samples?" Zhuo Fu asked naturally, "Sent them to the lab?"

Mu Hang's eyes narrowed slightly, his pupils glinting a metallic steel-blue color as he said, "Escaped."

Zhuo Fu was startled, "A demonic creature could actually escape from under your nose?"

Mu Hang lifted his eyelids and swept a lazy glance at the other man.

Zhuo Fu cleared his throat and continued, "Have the results of the residual magic test come back yet?"

Mu Hang: "No."

He paused and said, "But I judge it to be an Abyssal species."

Abyssal species?

Zhuo Fu was astonished.

It didn't occur to him to question Mu Hang's judgment; the man had never been wrong about magic detection so far.

Mu Hang narrowed his eyes, "The Abyssal species have been showing up too often lately."

He swept Zhuo Fu's eyes and gently tapped the desktop with his fingertips, "Put your vapid fantasy species aside for now, the movement of the Abyss is more urgent."

Fuuo muttered something like "Fantasy species are not ethereal" and reluctantly turned over, ready to devote himself to the research Mu Shen had explained.

But before he could take a few steps out, he was stopped by Mu Hang:

"Wait."

Zhuo Fu twisted back in confusion, "What?"

Mu Hang frowned slightly, and after a long time, he asked, "Are you sure there's no problem with that portable human body testing instrument you designed?"

Zhuo Fu was greatly insulted and raised his eyebrows high: "What did you say? How can that be! That is one of my heart and soul! There is absolutely no way it can go wrong!"

Mu Hang nodded, "Got it."

With that, he turned and walked out the door.

Zhuo Fu realized something was wrong and raised his voice to shout, "What's wrong? What has happened to you?"

Mu Hang didn't answer and walked straight out the door.

His eyes were slightly downcast, and his long silver-white eyelashes imprinted shallow shadows underneath them, making his eyes look more and more inscrutable and unapproachable.

--Nothing.

It was just ...... the first time his instincts seemed to be at fault.

*

The worm shivered and cowered in the corner, staring at the "human" in front of him in horror.

He looked like an ordinary human, with the same limbs and torso and a head, and smelled completely human all right, but ......

Its eyes moved to the fire at Shi An's fingertips.

The crimson flames were burning silently in the darkness, and just by gazing at them, one could feel the terrifying heat escaping from them and the oppressive feeling of burning everything.

With just a glance, it couldn't help but tremble.

Even though it was pretty sure that its armor would be able to withstand most any human attack, the fear that instinctively rose up screamed - it would burn, it would definitely burn!

However, this cluster of fire that emitted a dangerous aura was being played with by this ordinary human teenager in front of him.

It is rounded and flattened under Shi An's fingertips, as gentle and docile as if it were just a small, glowing ball.

"What the ...... hell are you?" The human-faced bug curled up and asked warily.

Shi An winked.

It was at this moment that the wind picked up and the silver-white moonlight swept through the window, abruptly illuminating the room.

The light swept across the teenager's face and fell into the scarlet vertical pupils, appearing cruel and grotesque as he raised his hand, the tips of his fingers covered with a layer of hard and sharp scales, reflecting an icy metallic luster.

Shi An smiled and said, "Dragons."

Magic Worm: "......"

It gazed dully at the scarlet vertical pupils of the human in front of it, its sharp, dark scaled claws.

--After that, it stomped on its six legs and fainted again.