Chapter 17

The dark red blood soaked Xia Feng's entire left shoulder. After she fainted, Shi Yu couldn't believe it at first, and when he found that the knife was still stuck in her shoulder, his eyes went dark.

What should I do about this?! Right, should I wait for that Loren Xia Feng mentioned to come over?

Shi Yu had a dazed expression on her face, trembling as she knelt on the ground with difficulty, her eyes filled with tears as she avoided her seriously injured shoulder. Then the girl supported Xia Feng's thin and soft waist, letting Xia Feng lie on his back and rest his head on her bent knees.

After completing a series of movements, Shi Yu made a bitter face and moved his legs uncomfortably.

Perhaps because his legs bore a considerable portion of his and Xia Feng's weight, he felt a sharp pain from his calves to his ankles, but thinking that Xia Feng was still lying on his thighs... Shi Yu gritted his teeth and endured the pain with a fortitude that he himself had not expected. In order to let Xia Feng sleep more peacefully, he straightened his back and sat up straight.

Xia Feng lay quietly on her legs, his face pale, and his expression was tired and painful as he slept.

The soft and cool sound of breathing blew across her skirt. Shi Yu took a slight breath, as if she could feel the summer breeze's vitality slipping away at any moment.

Seeing Xia Feng so weakened, Shi Yu's heart was tormented. It felt like even blinking would shed another tear. She turned her face away, not daring to look at the sharp weapon piercing Xia Feng's shoulder. Even though Shi Yu didn't know much about medicine...she knew she absolutely couldn't touch the wound at this moment. Pulling it out rashly could lead to even more serious consequences.

…

Shi Yu himself didn't know why he suddenly thought of Wayne again...

In other words, if he were still here, Shigure felt that the boy who looked like he was good at fighting would definitely be able to handle the current situation.

The silent and quiet environment can really torture one's nerves. Shi Yu wiped away her tears while thinking about all sorts of things, and raised her head to try to hold back the dry and burning feeling in her eyes.

From the elevated view, the rough rock formations seemed to be stacked one layer upon another, winding upwards. At the end above was a cave entrance with a faint light. It was very quiet there. Noah and Xiu seemed to have given up the idea of ​​continuing to hunt her. This was the only thing that made Shi Yu breathe a sigh of relief.

After a moment, she withdrew her gaze and nervously used her fingers to tidy up the hair on Xia Feng's cheek, praying anxiously that the boy named Loren would arrive in time.

"Sorry for the wait."

Eh…? ?

Two or three seconds later, as soon as the idea emerged in his mind, Shi Yu was horrified to hear a voice coming from beside him, which seemed a little low-key and rigid because there was no tone in the words.

The young man leaned forward, as if he had just emerged from a nearby hollow cave. As a result, two strands of hair dyed with light green fell irregularly on his forehead, although his hair was combed back neatly. This made the inexplicable inhuman and mechanical feeling on him fade a bit.

"Don't be surprised." The fluorescent green lenses reflected Shi Yu's slightly open mouth. The boy named Loren stood up straight with an expressionless face, holding his collar with his hands as he walked over. He told her in a reassuring tone, "We've just met. I'm Xia Feng's companion. You can rest assured."

"Uh, I know..." Shi Yu was still traumatized by what she had just experienced. She froze for a moment, then realized there were more important things to deal with. She quickly adjusted herself and said, "Xia Feng still has a knife on him. What should we do?"

Shi Yu stuttered, stumbling over his words as he pointed at Xia Feng's shoulder, but lowered his head as if ashamed of his own incompetence.

Loren said "hmm", squatted down, quickly took a look at Xia Feng's injuries, and said without any surprise: "It's okay, you did a good job."

“…Huh?”

Shi Yu was confused, she didn't dare to do anything...

"At least you didn't move around, which is commendable. The rest is my responsibility."

After answering the doubt on Shigure's face, Loren slightly lowered his angular chin, then raised his eyes slightly while holding his monocle, and met Shigure's gaze coldly.

Shi Yu suddenly felt a chill on the back of his head.

Confused, her eyes darting around, she quickly avoided the boy's gaze. A faint fluorescent light flickered in Loren's glasses. He paused for a moment, keeping his gaze fixed on Shigure's facial expression. He asked honestly, "I think compliments like this will help ease Beta's nerves. Don't you agree?"

Shi Yu already knew that Beta was basically used to replace her. She opened her mouth and squeezed out a sentence with a red face: "I... I'm not nervous!"

"Don't worry about me! Xia Feng is seriously injured now... Save her, otherwise!"

Shi Yu's voice gradually faded, until she finally sniffled with frustration. With someone nearby to talk to, the fear and dread in her heart, along with the chill and tingling in her body, seemed to surge back at once, causing the bitterness she had been suppressing to overflow and swirl in her eyes.

In Shi Yu's misty vision, Loren pushed his glasses up and nodded in agreement, "Okay."

"But before that."

Suddenly, without warning, the boy set his eyes on Shigure's ankle and reminded her, "Put Xiafeng on the ground first. Your ankle is dislocated and needs treatment."

Shigure: "Thank you...but don't worry about me."

Shi Yu was stunned for a moment, finally realizing the reason for the relentless, nerve-wracking pain that rippled from her calf to her ankle. She had never dislocated a joint before, and falling from such a height…she vaguely felt that this pain was only natural.

What's more, with Xia Feng, who was more seriously injured, by his side, Shi Yu's attention was mostly distracted, and he managed to survive until now quietly.

Loren glanced at Shi Yu and said nothing more, but considerately lifted Xia Feng's uninjured shoulder so that Shi Yu could smoothly pull his legs out of Xia Feng's arms.

Shi Yu hesitated for a moment before holding the hem of her skirt tightly with one hand and using the other hand to support herself and carefully sit to the side a little so as not to put any more pressure on her painful ankle.

After moving her legs obediently, she watched the weak Xia Feng being put on the ground by the boy. The girl couldn't help biting her lower lip and whispered again.

"Xia Feng," she said, "Let's take a look at Xia Feng first..."

Loren hummed, then fell silent. Shigure lowered his head and waited for a while, only to find that Loren didn't seem to have any intention of talking to him anymore.

Unable to control her worry, she shifted her gaze and quickly glanced at the boy's regular, rigid and cold face. She found that he lowered his eyelashes and eyes slightly, and squatted beside Xia Feng with great concentration and seriousness - and tentatively pressed the fabric around Xia Feng's wound with his fingers, as if he was going to treat Xia Feng.

"Thank you..." Shi Yu forgot that he was peeking and thanked him again dryly, then asked softly with a tight throat, "Excuse me, is Xia Feng's injury serious? Can he recover?"

Without even looking up, the boy could sense the obvious fear in Beta's question. He pondered for a moment, then gave a moderate response: "It's not life-threatening."

The girl breathed a sigh of relief, but the next moment, Loren's cold words interrupted the thanks that seemed to be about to come out of her mouth.

"As for thanking you, there's no need. I was planning to prioritize treating Xia Feng's injuries. Since you said so, I don't care."

Loren's expression was normal. His eyes remained fixed on Xia Feng's shoulder. He asked in a slightly cold tone, "Let me ask you, are you afraid of blood?"

"It seems a little..." Shi Yu was a little confused by his sudden question.

"Then don't look at it. Try to turn around yourself."

Loren paused and added, "Be careful not to hurt your ankle. I'll come back to solve your problem later."

…

“…”

After the tunnel hidden in the snow-capped mountains was opened, Simon snorted coldly and was the first to bend down and crawl in.

Before the hasty teleportation, they were still on guard against each other because they were targeting the same prey, but they ended up accidentally teaming up with Simon. Youlai touched his nose and followed behind awkwardly.

They set out a little later than others of the same level - two hours ago, Youlai was still very confident that the main venue of the elimination battle was outside the cave where the wind and snow were blowing. He abandoned his unfamiliar companions and wandered around outside the snow-capped mountains for a while.

An hour later, the severe cold that even Alpha could not bear made his limbs numb and his eyes dizzy. Finally, he was picked up by Simon who had caught up with him at some point.

"Idiot." Simon's golden eyes were filled with cold disdain. He threw the snow-covered, purple-faced white-haired puppy to the ground, rubbing his wrist and taunting him condescendingly. "You've circled back and forth at the cave entrance three times. Are you really that stupid not to notice?"

"..." Feeling guilty, Yu Lai had to shut his mouth, and then he wisely regarded Simon as the temporary leader between the two.

It was not until they found the entrance to the tunnel hidden in the cave and went deep inside that Yulai, who had been chattering for a long time, finally breathed a sigh of relief because he could no longer see Simon's strange face covered with a mask.

The gray-haired boy seemed too lazy to pay any more attention to him. His long legs strode forward on their own. The empty waist of his training suit also made the clanging sound of bottles colliding with his steps... Yulai trotted a few steps, trying to hold it in, but he couldn't help but say aloud: "You're making too much noise. There are many Alphas with good hearing in the same class. I think you should slow down-"

"Oh, we'll talk about it later. It's not impossible to push you out."

Simon interrupted him coolly from the front.

Yulai was choked by this disrespectful attitude. His eyes widened for a long moment, and then, without much thought, he blurted out a taunt that he thought would also hit the other party: "You didn't rank as high as me when you entered school, right? Without me, what would you do when you meet the enemy? Use those medicine bottles of yours?"

"...They are more useful than you. After all, they don't have long legs."

Simon gave a meaningful humming laugh, his sharp golden eyes slanting down to look at his waist.

Apart from the hypnotic stuff, the other dosages were still sufficient, so his words also carried a bit of evil sincerity.

You Lai's eyebrows twitched, and he actually felt unable to refute. He just choked on his angry words in his throat... After all, he was the one who just refused to listen and left.

Simon ignored Youlai.

Whether it was their incredibly strong mental strength or their exceptional talent for mecha operation, Alphas with special abilities were still quite rare even within the First Military Academy, which was filled with talented individuals. Those Alphas who were born without special abilities and seemed inferior were able to be admitted. They must have some other means to compete with these top talents.

So, Simon thought, his fingers lightly brushing the medicine bottle hanging on his lower back - it was because of these that he was forced by Wayne to do hard labor for a period of time.

But even if I keep using this shady method to keep Beta asleep, making her as inseparable from her master as a canary, it seems that I can't restrain her will...

Because, she always invited me——

Simon curled the corners of his lips and thought so with some unusual pleasure.

The author has something to say:

Ahhhhh here I come!! This chapter talks about some things outside of Shigure's perspective... For example, why she is always sleepy, and why Wayne dragged Simon to cook x

But Wayne didn't do anything.