Chapter 52 Chapter 52 Chapter 52 (Two in One)...

A transmission elevator was set up outside the actual combat training site, and the group returned to school smoothly via the elevator.

The principal heard the noise outside and stuck his head out of the window again.

Seeing Luo Shizhen being carried back and Lu Qiujin being supported walking towards the infirmary from afar, his eyes widened.

"What's wrong? What happened?"

He retracted his head and was about to walk out.

The guard reached out to stop him, but the principal slapped him away: "Everyone is back, why are you still stopping me?"

guard:"……"

Although he was sent by Yong Zhou, the principal could indeed applaud him because he also graduated from this school.

"But your confinement order will last for one hour. Unless we receive orders from above, we cannot let you out. Principal, please understand."

The principal was so anxious to go out and see what was going on that he didn't want to embarrass the guards who had to follow orders, so he simply lay down on the ground and started knocking on it.

"Vice Principal? Vice Principal!"

"Are you there? Are you there? Are you there, Vice Principal?"

The part that was hit slowly moved away from the bottom, and a man with waist-length white hair and a god-like appearance slowly popped his head out.

He said slowly, "Principal, if you have something to say, you can just tell me directly. You don't need to ask if I'm here."

Principal: "Hey! How can that be? This is a matter of courtesy."

The guard behind thought, isn't it impolite to get on the ground and knock on someone's ceiling when you have a disagreement?

The vice-principal was of a mild disposition and did not argue with the principal. He just yawned slowly and asked slowly:

"Is there anything you want to talk to me about? If not, I'm going back to sleep."

"Stop sleeping!" the principal said, grabbing the vice principal who was about to return to the cave. "The students who went out for the field exercise are back. I can't go out. As the vice principal, please go out and check on them. Find out why one was carried back and the other was supported."

The white-haired man yawned again, his beautiful eyes filled with sleepiness: "But~I~am~sleepy~"

"Don't be sleepy, don't be sleepy. You look very energetic. Our school leaders must attend an event like this. I can't go, so you have to go. Go quickly!"

The principal dragged the man out and pushed him out the door: "Remember to come back and tell me after you find out what's going on!"

The white-haired man walked forward slowly, and the principal stuck his head out of the window:

"Vice Principal! Hurry up! At this speed, by the time you get there, the injured students will have recovered!"

The white-haired man moved slowly, even though he walked so slowly, he still looked like an immortal:

"I'm already walking...very fast~"

headmaster:"……"

This speed is not much faster than a snail.

Guard: "Principal, are you just going to stand here and watch the Vice Principal leave?"

The vice principal walks at that speed, and the principal is so impatient, can he bear it?

Principal: "Do you think I want to see it?"

"I'm stuck again, help me out!"

On this side, the vice principal was still on the road, walking slowly at the pace of a snail.

On the other side, the infirmary has seen its peak influx of visitors since the start of the school year.

Young awakened people don't like to gather in groups. When the medical staff suddenly saw a large group of students walking in together, they thought the school was attacked by a hallucinogenic monster and they were hallucinating.

Also, the presence of students and teachers in the infirmary, while surprising, wasn't too surprising.

Where did these strange guardians in combat uniforms come from?

The Guillotine members, who were being watched by the medical staff, pretended not to see anything and shamelessly followed behind.

"Give these two students a full checkup."

Chen Heyan immediately stepped forward to negotiate with the medical staff.

He was also in disbelief after receiving the news and rushed over quickly. Although he knew that Luo Shi was really fine, he couldn't help but hold his breath when he saw him sleeping with his eyes closed in Sui An's arms.

Luo Shizhen looked really miserable, with blood all over his body. Although he had learned from the phone call that the bloodstains were from Lu Qiujin, Lu Qiujin was still standing there in good health, while Luo Shizhen had his eyes closed.

Only after he went over, gently stroked the child's head, felt Luo Shizhen's clear and even breathing at close range, and confirmed again that his vital signs were stable, did Chen Heyan breathe a sigh of relief.

"Luo Shizhen, it seems that he fell into drowsiness due to excessive use of his purification ability."

"Lu Qiujin, after being transformed to 94%, was forcibly purified. Her vital signs are now stable."

The medical staff who came over didn't react much after hearing the previous sentence.

It is not uncommon for energy users to overuse their abilities.

But when hearing that Lu Qiujin was forcibly purified after being alienated to 94%, even an ordinary person would realize how unbelievable this was.

There is only one purifier in the school, and it is obvious who purified Lu Qiujin.

A doctor came forward with an almost pious look, and wanted to carefully take Luo Shizhen from Sui An's arms.

But Sui An refused.

"I'll send him straight for a checkup."

Sui An had undergone this kind of comprehensive physical examination many times and was familiar with the process. The doctor thought about it and didn't say anything.

Another doctor said to Lu Qiujin, "Classmate, let's go. Do you want me to help you?"

"No, I've recovered a bit."

Lu Qiujin stood firmly on her own, but her eyes were still fixed on Luo Shizhen.

For the first time, he admitted his student status and looked at Chen Heyan:

"Teacher Chen, why is Shi Zhen unconscious? Is he okay?"

Chen Heyan didn't know either, so he could only shake his head:

"This is the first time a mutation exceeding 94% has been able to be purified. We'll need to wait until a comprehensive examination to know what your and Shi Zhen's physical conditions are."

Lu Qiujin pursed her lips.

Lin Qi put a coat on him to cover the scar on his chest, but Lu Qiujin knew that there was a scar there.

Luo Shizhen cut it open with his own hands to save him.

He approached Luo Shizhen in order to be purified.

But even Lu Qiujin himself did not expect that after he had given up on being purified, Luo Shizhen did not give up.

Lu Qiujin never thought that someone would do their best for him.

And if something happens to Luo Shi because of this purification...

At this moment, Lu Qiujin felt extremely panicked.

This panic even exceeded the panic he felt when his parents tied him to the operating table and prepared to remove his heart for his younger brother.

"Don't overthink it."

Chen Heyan noticed that Lu Qiujin's expression was not right, and said softly:

"Shi Zhen's vital signs are currently normal, and his Qi body is stable. He should be fine."

Luo Shizhen was not only fine, he was actually having a sweet dream at this moment.

In his dream, he was catching butterflies under the care of his grandmother.

It was a sunny day and grandma was washing clothes by the stream. Little Luo Shizhen was still walking unsteadily and was concentrating on chasing butterflies.

"Be careful..."

My grandmother at that time was not very old. Although her hair was white, there were not too many wrinkles on her face.

Luo Shizhen felt at ease under her gaze.

The little child tried hard to swing his disobedient legs and ran for more than half an hour, and finally caught a small butterfly that could not fly high.

He looked at the colorful and beautiful butterfly and smiled in surprise.

The next moment, the child suddenly opened his mouth and swallowed the butterfly.

“You can’t eat it!”

The old man who had been paying attention to his grandson immediately stood up, quickly pinched open his mouth, and took out the butterfly.

The child cried out in grievance: "Ah! Ah!"

He stretched out his arms clumsily, trying to reach the butterfly in his grandmother's hand, and didn't understand why he was not allowed to eat the prey he had caught.

"Shi Zhenguai, this is a butterfly, and butterflies cannot be eaten."

"Eat! Ah! I have to eat!"

Grandma Luo patiently took out a piece of dried sweet potato from her cloth bag and stuffed it into the mouth of the hungry child.

"Butterflies don't taste good. Let's eat this and dried sweet potatoes."

When there is something in the mouth, the child stops making noises and moves his throat as if he wants to swallow it.

Grandma Luo stopped him again: "You have to chew slowly, okay? Otherwise your throat will be scratched."

The child began to chew slowly, savoring the delicious taste of the dried sweet potato. After finishing the dried sweet potato, he looked longingly at the butterfly in his grandmother's hand.

"eat!"

Grandma Luo skillfully stuffed another dried sweet potato into his mouth: "Eat the dried sweet potato, not the butterfly. Butterflies are for viewing. Look, their wings are so beautiful."

The child stared at the butterfly seriously: "Beautiful?"

"Yes, they are beautiful. Butterflies are beautiful, and so are our Shi Zhen. Beautiful things are meant to be looked at. Just looking at them makes me happy."

The child was still very stubborn: "Eat! I want to eat!"

He thinks everything is for eating.

Grandma Luo just stuffed a dried sweet potato into it.

The child ate piece after piece of dried sweet potato, but in the end, it still couldn't fill his stomach, but the butterfly wings were already dry.

Grandma Luo placed it on a leaf, and the butterfly tentatively flapped its wings twice and flew away.

The little child's eyes were sparkling as he watched it fly farther and farther away, its wings emitting brilliant colors in the sunset.

He stared blankly, blurting out two newly learned words: "Beautiful."

Grandma Luo smiled and picked him up: "Yes, butterflies are really beautiful, aren't they?"

"If we eat it, it won't be able to fly so beautifully, so we don't eat butterflies."

The child snuggled obediently in the old man's arms. This was the first time he knew that not everything in the world can be eaten.

That was also the first time he knew the word beautiful.

At that sunset, he leaned in his grandmother's arms, watching the sun slowly setting.

Before this, when the child saw the sun, he would only think that it must be delicious. But now, looking at the sunset, he understood for the first time what beauty meant.

"Shi Zhen..."

Grandma put the child in a backpack and carried him home. As they walked, they met people on the road. Those people stood far away and whispered about Grandma Luo's stupid grandson.

The child couldn't understand what they were saying, but just stared at everyone who passed by with his big black and white eyes.

The neighbors who whispered that he was a fool were inexplicably frightened by such stares. They stopped talking and avoided the child's gaze.

But the child still stared at them, and drooled as he stared.

"eat!"

Grandma Luo put him down temporarily, wiped his saliva, and coaxed him:

"We'll have delicious food when we get home. Let's not eat anything else but rice."

"If you eat enough, you can grow up like everyone else, go to school, graduate, find a job, get married, start a family, and have children."

At this time, Luo Shi really didn't understand what his grandmother was saying. He just felt that being carried by his grandmother in that simple backpack, rocking back and forth, made him feel very safe.

So at night he caught a snake and gave it to his grandmother to eat.

The snake, which was thicker than his arm, was still alive. It was strangled by the neck and hissed at Grandma Luo in the candlelight.

The child's big black and white eyes still looked straight at people: "Eat!"

Grandma Luo was frightened. When the child saw that she didn't want to eat the snake, he opened his mouth and was about to bite the snake's head. She quickly stopped him and guided him step by step to make snake soup.

"Shi Zhen, we have to eat cooked food."

The child didn’t understand: “Eat!”

They are both food, what’s the difference?

Grandma Luo patiently taught him: "Because other people also eat cooked food. If you are the only one eating raw food, they will be afraid of you and may even want to hurt you. Grandma knows that you don't have bad intentions, but they will think you do."

"So, Shi Zhen." She held the little child in her arms in front of the warm stove and said, "Don't let others see that you are different."

"Grandma doesn't want you to be rich and powerful in the future. As long as you can grow up safely, be an ordinary and insignificant person, and live a good life, that's enough."

The child was confused, but when he looked up at his grandmother's loving eyes, he nodded seriously.

***

At this moment, Chen Heyan looked at Luo Shizhen who was being examined with concern. He was sleeping soundly and even talking in his sleep.

But after all, the same thing kept coming back: "Eat."

“I want to eat!”

Chen Heyan: "Is this child using up too much energy and not getting enough nutrition? That's why he feels hungry even when he's asleep?"

The doctor thought Chen Heyan's analysis made sense: "Maybe. I'll have someone give me some nutrient solution."

"This is the last test item. The results of the previous tests are in, and they are all normal. Perhaps due to the extreme pressure, Luo Shizhen's ability has been stimulated to the third level."

The people sent by Yong Zhou also joined in: "I'm not surprised that he's been promoted to the third level. When Shi Zhen purified other students before, they also upgraded their levels. But I want to know why he can purify Awakened Ones with a 94% Alienation value? Is this related to his talent?"

The doctor said, "There is indeed some connection. We've detected that Shi Zhen's Qi body is slightly different from other energy users. It wasn't apparent before when his level was low, but now, his Qi body has shown an aggressiveness that other energy users don't have."

"Aggressive?"

This is indeed a great discovery. Energy users are all auxiliary types, and the Qi body itself is not very aggressive.

That is something only combat-type awakeners have.

Chen Heyan asked, "Could it be a mutation of ability?"

The Awakeners have only been around for thirty years, and the Awakener Center is still exploring many abilities. For example, the sudden appearance of an ability that is not in the sequence happens once every two or three years.

The doctor nodded. "That's possible. The good news is that these changes haven't had any negative effects on Mr. Shizhen."

The news made everyone breathe a sigh of relief.

Sui An looked at the student sleeping behind the glass window and suddenly asked:

"Purifier, can you transform into a Devourer type?"

"this……"

The doctor couldn't give an answer. There had never been such a case before, but no one could guarantee that there wouldn't be such a case in the future.

"Teacher Sui, is there any reason why you ask this?" Chen Heyan keenly realized that he might know something.

Rocky from the Guillotine Team also had his eyes light up:

"Yes, Captain Sui, you have been focusing your mental energy on this young student. You should have seen clearly what happened before he purified the other student, right?"

Chen Heyan: “?”

His always gentle gaze suddenly became sharp, and fell on Sui An like a knife.

"Teacher Sui, are you putting your mental power on Shi Zhen?"

Even the people sent by Yong Zhou and the doctors looked at Sui An in shock.

Mental power is such a private thing. It is no exaggeration to say that it is just like controlling the other half of the body.

If this was done by someone else, it wouldn't be so surprising, but if it was done by Sui An, it would be too strange.

Sui An remained calm under so many gazes:

"I'm the accompanying teacher. This is the quickest and most reliable way to protect them. Any questions?"

Chen Heyan sneered. Everyone could tell whether he believed Sui An or not by listening to his sneer.

Rocky said, "Captain Sui, what did you see?"

Sui An still looked lazy:

"It concerns the students' privacy, so I can't tell you for now. When Luo Shi really wakes up, if he doesn't mind, I will report it."

When it comes to privacy, everyone looks very upset.

The awakened ones do receive comprehensive preferential treatment from the awakened center, but privacy is something that definitely does not belong to the awakened ones who may be alienated at any time.

After all, once an awakened person loses control, one awakened person may cause the death of tens of thousands of humans.

Even Sui An, the inspector and operator, was wearing a positioning detector.

But there doesn't seem to be anything wrong with Sui An talking about his privacy.

Luo Shizhen is an energy user, and energy users are notoriously fragile and their use of abilities is easily affected by mood swings.

Sui An judged that this privacy might affect Luo Shizhen's ability, so he chose to put it on hold temporarily, which was fine in terms of the rules.

What's more, energy users are already precious, and an energy user who can purify 94% of the alienated numerical awakeners is even more precious.

Yong Zhou will only try harder than before to protect Luo Shizhen's feelings.

With a ding sound, almost everyone present lowered their heads to look at their phones.

Lu Qiujin's medical examination report is out.

"Surprisingly, there really isn't any problem at all. He was so transformed that he wasn't even human at the time, but now he's no different from when he was healthy."

Everyone was very excited, even one of the Yong Zhou staff members had tears in his eyes:

"This is the first time an Awakened Person has been saved despite their Alienation value exceeding 90%. This means that Alienation is not completely hopeless!"

"Yes, and Luo Shizhen used the method of cutting open the chest and purifying directly on the heart. We can also imitate this method, and it may be useful."

For the awakened ones, alienation has become the biggest and unsolvable problem.

The awakened need to fight against the weirdness, which will output pollution. The awakened will inevitably be contaminated by the pollution, which will accumulate to a certain level and explode, and be alienated into weirdness.

That is why energy users are so precious, because they are the only ones who can delay the alienation of the guardians.

Maybe there are too few measurers, and they are auxiliary types, so many of them cannot go to the battlefield to fight, which is simply seeking death.

As a result, many guardians who were unfortunately contaminated during the battle had no time to be sent to find energy users, and their levels had already been rapidly alienated to over 80%.

Some awakened people can barely stay awake at this time, but they cannot stop the alienation from continuing.

It’s not that the teammates didn’t send him back in time, nor is it that the energy users were unwilling to rescue him, but that he transformed too quickly, and it was too late to rescue him at this time.

Even if a space elevator is used, it still cannot keep up with the speed of the awakened one's alienation.

Before this, everyone believed that any awakened person whose alienation exceeded 80% would surely die.

But now, the fact that Luo Shizhen opened his heart to save Lu Qiujin gave everyone hope.

Even if it has nothing to do with heart-cutting, and it's simply because Luo Shi's talent has really mutated, or is even stronger, being able to do this is exciting enough for the entire awakened group.

At least, for those awakened people whose alienation rate exceeds 80%, there is still hope.

They already knew that there was nothing wrong with Luo Shizhen, but no one said, "Let's wake him up."

Even three senior officials of Yongzhou would rather wait outside the ward and wait for the child to wake up naturally.

At this time, some leaders and well-informed guardians received some news. Even the Women's Awakening Center knew about this matter and asked what was going on. For the awakened people whose alienation rate exceeded 90%, was it really possible to cure them?

The school is now closed and no one is allowed to enter or leave. Yong Zhou originally wanted to send some high-sequence guardians to protect Luo Shizhen, but he gave up considering that the strongest combat force Sui An was already there.

Hua Yi was also called to school because he was in the Devouring Sequence.

When he first arrived, he thought Yong Zhou had received his report and decided to remove Sui An and let himself be the teacher.

It turned out that he was called here just in case, so he took the Guillotine members to occupy an area with a stern face and closed his eyes to rest.

Lu Qiujin insisted on coming to take care of Luo Shizhen. Considering that Luo Shizhen had been in a coma for such a long time just to save him, their friendship must be very special, so Yongzhou agreed.

A group of people waited until seven o'clock the next morning with anxiety, anticipation and hope.

Luo Shizhen opened his eyes.

He smacked his lips, feeling happy because he dreamed of his grandmother and ate a lot of dried sweet potatoes in the dream.

However, he was so stupid when he was a child that he even wanted to eat butterflies. No wonder people always called him a fool when he was a child.

Luo Shizhen was very fortunate. Although he was still slow to react and his academic performance was not good when he grew up, at least he knew common sense like butterflies could not be eaten.

"Shi Zhen, are you awake?"

Lu Qiujin hadn't slept all night and had been lying beside Luo Shizhen's bed. When she heard any movement, she immediately raised her head.

"Lu Qiujin, you're okay!"

Luo Shizhen was very happy to see that he was safe and sound, and his eyes were full of joy.

Lu Qiujin felt a pang of sadness, yet also a little happiness: "You slept for so long, and you woke up to ask me."

He didn't expect that Luo Shi would really care about him to this extent.

"Have I slept long?"

Luo Shizhen scratched his head and said with a smile: "Maybe I'm too tired."

Lu Qiujin suddenly gave him a hug, and then a drop of moisture fell on his shoulder.

Luo Shizhen: "Lu Qiujin, are you crying?"

"Um."

Lu Qiujin said softly: "Shi Zhen, I'm not worth it. I'm not as good as you think. If you get into trouble to save me, it's not worth it."

Luo Shi really didn't understand: "I'm fine, right? Why are you talking like I'm dead?"

Lu Qiujin lowered her eyes. "Before this, no one had ever purified more than 90% of the mutants, but you did it for me, despite the pressure."

Luo Shizhen patted him and said, "It's okay. We are all classmates. We should help each other. Didn't you help me sweep and mop the floor? Besides, I am a purifier. I was supposed to purify you."

"Shi Zhen..."

It was difficult for Lu Qiujin to describe the feeling in her heart.

His parents and brother are the kind of people who exaggerate every little thing they do.

I clearly don't treat him very well, but I act as if I am very good to him.

But Luo Shizhen, who was really good to him, still smiled and said, it's okay.

Lu Qiujin made up her mind: "When I saw you sleeping for so long because of me, I thought the focus of my life should change. From now on, I will live only for you."

Luo Shizhen had already seen the watch and laughed:

"What? You're talking like I slept for three days and three nights. Isn't that just a dozen hours? People need to sleep when they're tired."

"And my sleep wasn't in vain. I even dreamed of my grandma. Maybe it was my grandma who appeared in my dream. She told me to work hard, get married, and have a child."

He was super happy: "I haven't dreamed about my grandma for a long time. She must miss me too."

Lu Qiujin: "...Does your grandmother want you to get married and have children? Will you listen to her?"

"Of course, how can I not listen to what my grandma says? But you don't have to listen to your parents. Didn't you say they weren't good to you? If they weren't good to you, then you don't have to listen."

Luo Shizhen patted Lu Qiujin on the shoulder:

"Also, Lu Qiujin, stop talking about living for someone else. You are you, and you live for yourself."

"If you really feel bad and want to thank me, how about this? When my child is born, I'll recognize you as my godfather."

He thought for a moment and added:

"But Chu Xiao might also be the godfather of my child. He came first, so you might have to wait in line behind him. Do you mind?"