Chapter 3

Standing in front of the table, Chi Xia finally saw that the mutated rabbit was still alive. Its dark red heart was pumping rapidly deep in its abdominal cavity, its whole body was spasming and contracting, its abdominal cavity was more than three times its normal size, and its spine was severely deformed.

Chi Xia had a bunch of questions on her mind, but she managed to blurt them out in one sentence as she looked up at Ye Feng, "Where did the rabbit come from?"

Ye Feng took another drag of his cigarette, and as he exhaled, he glanced at the timer. "You wasted almost a minute."

The two students who were originally hiding behind their textbooks watching the anatomy video were forcibly "awakened" by Cheng Mo's smelly hands. They took off their holographic glasses, cursed a few times, and also noticed the commotion at the back of the classroom.

One of the girls complained disdainfully, "Cheng Mo, can't you go wash your hands?"

"cannot."

Cheng Mo strolled over leisurely with his long legs, chuckled, and plopped down on the desk Ye Feng was leaning against. He said to Chi Xia, "Old Ye always keeps his word. He said he'd feed you the remaining insect eggs, and he definitely won't leave a single one out. Although I think that scene is quite exciting, I'm just kindly reminding you since we're meeting for the first time: if you don't want to become the next rabbit to be dissected, hurry up and get started, my lovely braided teacher."

Cheng Mo called out that last nickname with a playful and provocative tone, which, combined with his flamboyant handsome face and wicked smile, gave him the perfect gangster vibe.

Some girls, seeing the rabbit convulsing and the bunch of worm eggs writhing in its abdomen, felt physiologically nauseous, covered their mouths, and stood a little further away, afraid of being caught in the crossfire.

Chi Xia was certain of one thing: the worm eggs in the rabbit's abdomen were planted by that rascal Ye Feng. As for how he captured the mutant, that remained a mystery.

"Teacher, you only have three minutes left," Ye Feng reminded him.

Chi Xia reached in and pulled out the insect eggs, startling the students in the front row who were watching and causing them to back away.

A boy pointed and asked, "What is she doing?"

No one answered, because no one knew. Chi Xia simply threw handfuls of insect eggs into Ye Feng's incubator.

Another boy shouted, "She cheated!"

Ye Feng did not stop her, nor did his expression change. He watched as Chi Xia took out the last few insect eggs.

"Look quickly, the worms inside have punctured those membranes."

"Wow! They're eating the egg membrane."

Chi Xia glanced at the rabbit next to her. Some of the insects were about to burst their egg membranes on their own. She picked them out by hand and threw them into the other classmate's incubator. Then she quickly closed both incubators.

“If you want to raise them, the egg membrane can provide them with ample nutrients; there’s no need to waste it.” Chi Xia, her hands covered in blood, leaned on the edge of the table, glancing around. “Does anyone have a needle and thread?”

"I…"

A female classmate raised her hand, called out, and then nervously looked at Ye Feng. Seeing that Ye Feng did not object, she took the needle and thread and handed it to Chi Xia.

"Can I save your rabbit?"

Ye Feng sneered, his dark eyes unfathomable. "Whatever."

Chi Xia repositioned the various parts of the rabbit's abdomen and skillfully sutured them together, successfully sealing the two rabbits whose bellies were leaking air. She also removed the steel nails that were pinning the rabbits' limbs.

After doing all that, she turned around and pressed the timer. "Coincidentally, it's also 7 minutes and 8 seconds."

Whether by coincidence or design, this was the timeline of Ye Feng's glorious achievement in retrieving insect eggs. Everyone was watching Ye Feng, who then threw away his cigarette butt and stomped it out, saying, "Is that so?"

As soon as he finished speaking, the two rabbits on the table, which had recovered, suddenly launched a fierce counterattack, one pouncing on Chi Xia and the other on the girl closest to it.

"ah!"

"Ye Feng! Help!"

Chaotic sounds of fleeing filled the air.

Even Cheng Mo instinctively spat out, "Fuck!"

The students panicked and scattered instantly, but Ye Feng remained motionless, watching as Chi Xia effortlessly caught the two rabbits, one in each hand.

"That's what beasts are like. Even if you save it, it will still try to kill you once it recovers. Teacher, ignorant kindness can't save this world." Ye Feng coldly mocked, then put his hands in his pockets and walked towards the door.

"Brother Feng, where are you going? Brother Feng, wait for me."

Cheng Mo glanced at Chi Xia, feeling that this seemingly silly female teacher had a slightly eerie quality. The back door opened, and he followed her out. "Old Ye, want to wash your hands? Wait for me a moment."

Some of the remaining students watched, while others returned to their seats with little interest. Chi Xia held the rabbit by its ears with both hands. The mutated rabbit's physical strength and aggression were more than ten times that of a normal rabbit, let alone one that had been parasitized by insect eggs. It thrashed about fiercely, and no one dared to approach it. It even kicked over a nearby table.

Chi Xia smiled and said, "I'll take it to be dealt with."

As soon as Chi Xia left, the classroom erupted in chaos, with all sorts of opinions being expressed.

"Do you think our new homeroom teacher is a medical student? I just saw her suturing the rabbit, and her technique was so professional."

"You don't know anything. She's obviously an idiot, digging out handfuls of insect eggs with her bare hands. If she were a medical student, wouldn't she know that those mutated bee spiders carry neurotoxins? Infections from open wounds can be fatal from the venom."

"Hey, you guys think she's so brave, how do we scare her to tears?"

"Did you guys see Ye Feng's expression just now? I think Ye Feng wanted to kill her."

"Speaking of Ye Feng, who was shouting so loudly just now, calling for Ye Feng to save their life? They were really grasping at straws in their desperation, it's hilarious."

...

Chi Xia brought the rabbit downstairs. During class time, when no one was around, she took the private elevator on the first floor to the underground parking garage and found a blind spot in the surveillance cameras.

The rabbit twisted and struggled wildly, its fangs, claws, and hissing intimidating anyone who wanted to harm it. Chi Xia wasn't having any of it. She coldly met the rabbit's bloodshot eyes, stood still, raised her hands, and released them. The rabbit plummeted, and with two sharp thuds, the crazed mutant rabbit, unable to hit the ground in time, was struck by her two hand chops and died instantly.

They thrashed to the ground, then lay completely still. Chi Xia bent down, picked up the two dead rabbits by their ears, and neatly tossed them into the "biological waste bin" in the underground parking garage.

Back on the first floor after taking the elevator, she was once again that timid, silly, and eccentric female teacher. She went to the restroom first and carefully washed her hands twice with disinfectant.

The assassin's handwashing process was different from that of ordinary people; their meticulousness bordered on harshness. She took out a tissue she carried with her, soaked it in disinfectant, and washed every line, between her fingers, and under her nails until they were almost reflective.

After she finished washing her hands, the bell rang for class to resume.

In the classroom, Ye Feng and a group of classmates had already returned. Chi Xia had spoiled their game, so they had put their things at the back of the classroom. The desks and chairs were a mess, and they sat there haphazardly, betting on whether that silly female teacher would dare to come back.

After all, during the time the school hadn't found them a teacher, their games had progressed to a higher level, and this new teacher had actually taken care of the first wave. To be honest, this was interesting in itself for them; the new homeroom teacher seemed like a lot of fun.

Chi Xia walked up the last step. Her flat shoes made little noise, and besides, Chi Xia was always quiet when she walked. So much so that when she reached the wide-open doorway, her classmates were still actively discussing.

"Brother Mo, let her see your four great inventions. I want her to hang those turd-like glasses on a tree."

"She's not even afraid of insect eggs; climbing trees is too basic. Let's get straight to the point, Brother Mo."

Before Cheng Mo could reply, Chi Xia had already walked into the classroom step by step. Although she made no sound, someone would notice when a living person walked in.

Several students coughed to alert the class, and the classroom quieted down. Chi Xia lowered her sleeves and wrote her name and contact number on the blackboard.

Everyone was watching her. After finishing writing, Chi Xia turned around and looked at the textbook on her desk that had been tampered with. She acted as if she hadn't noticed and reached out to take it.

Many people sat up straight, wanting to see her reaction. Chi Xia lived up to expectations, turning to the first page of her textbook. Countless dead flies were stuck to the pages, densely packed, some even bursting from being pressed.

Chi Xia smiled and stood the book up and tapped it, "Catching so many in such a short time is really not easy."

A student in the front row stood up with a mischievous grin, "Teacher, there's more, do you want some?"

As he spoke, he threw a whole sack of flies at Chi Xia. There were at least eight or ten thousand flies, dead or alive. The black flies were like dirty water splashed over, but Chi Xia's expression remained unchanged. He stepped to the side to avoid this disgusting attack.

"Phew, what a disappointment, she managed to dodge it." The classmate shook his head and sighed, then sat down.

Chi Xia reached down and picked up a book from below. It felt heavy, but her expression remained unchanged. "What do you want to learn?"

Lin Keli explained that these students could not be taught knowledge in the same way as normal middle school students. It would not work to teach them professional knowledge in a conventional way. If they did not accept the teacher, then even if the world's top professors came, they would not be able to stand on that three-foot-high platform.

"Teacher, why don't you tell us what you did before?"

"Teacher, were you a doctor before?"

Fortunately, someone started talking to her, so it wasn't too boring. Chi Xia was holding the textbook in her hand, and the contents were wobbling. Some of her body parts fell to the ground. Strangely, those things didn't stick to her hand, even though she wasn't looking at them. It was as if she was just playing with them without knowing anything.

"A doctor? Maybe." Assassins and doctors are somewhat similar in that they both understand the human body and have the ability to decide life and death. One is called life, and the other is called death.

"What do you mean by 'maybe'? If it is, it is; if it isn't, it isn't. Teacher, you're talking very strangely."

Chi Xia weighed the textbook in her hand, finding it much lighter, and stood below the podium. Ignoring the bloody mess, she glanced at the textbook cover and said, "This book is about how to discover yourself and awaken your talents. Seeing how smart you are, you probably don't need it."

After saying that, she threw the textbook on the ground. With the jolt, the textbook opened, and a carrion-eating worm crawled out. It was about ten centimeters long, with a body like a rope, pale pink, and a ring of thin, long tentacles around its head.

As soon as he came out, he moved quickly in a serpentine pattern, like he was weaving through the streets and alleys.

Many students were so frightened that they jumped onto the chairs. Chi Xia watched it with a smile until it tried to climb onto a student's leg.

"Cheng Mo, what is this thing? Get it away from me!"

“I know, this is a death worm, hermaphroditic. Its tentacles turn into sharp spikes the moment they touch a living creature, and they break off on their own once they pierce it. After three months, many small larvae will grow inside the living creature’s body.”

"Ah! Ah! Cheng Mo! You bastard, hurry up!"

The student's calf was entangled by the death worm, and everyone watched as the creature pulled its head open, its tentacles stretching out and about to turn into spikes.

Cheng Mo scratched the back of his head, walked over holding a paper cutter, and said, "Stop shouting, let me think about what to do."

Sensing danger approaching, the worm quickly turned, its tentacles transforming into sharp spikes, and frantically raised them at anyone who approached.

"How can it know someone is approaching if it doesn't have eyes?!"

The student then offered some科普 (popular science) explanations: "It's a thermosensitive organism; its entire body is a temperature-sensing system, which is extremely sensitive."

"Cheng Mo! What are you standing there for?!"

The student was trembling uncontrollably, his face was pale with fright, and he dared not move, so he could only shout at the top of his lungs.

Cheng Mo held up the paper cutter, which wasn't as long as a worm's tentacles, and was in a dilemma. "I want to be fast, but it won't let me."

Ye Feng sighed, got up and walked over. Several classmates made way for him. He took out a lighter, skillfully took a bottle of wine from a classmate's desk, opened the cap with one hand, tilted his head back and took a sip, then brought it close and spat out the worm's head. He lit the lighter with a "whoosh," and the worm's head burned off the classmate's calf.

Just then, Chi Xia, carrying a book, slammed it precisely onto the head of the worm that was trying to escape. Then, she took the paper cutter from Cheng Mo's hand and swiftly severed the creature's neck.

Cheng Mo: "..."

Ye Feng: "..."

Everyone: “…”

Under the astonished gazes of everyone, Chi Xia walked to the back of the classroom, grabbed a broom, and swept away the textbooks and the remains of that guy. She then dumped the trash into the biohazard bin in the hallway. Even if the surveillance cameras caught it now, it wouldn't matter, since everyone had already seen it.

Back in the classroom, there was still a book on the desk.