Chapter 34 "It doesn't hurt, bite here."

"Who's hiding there?!"

The shadows of the trees sway, and the sunlight shines like gold through the gaps between the green leaves.

Unfortunately, the person who emerged from the beautiful scenery was a teacher named Wu.

…

The man and Li Xiaogou looked at each other. The atmosphere was quiet and mysterious. For a moment, both of them were speechless.

In the end, it was the man who spoke first, uttering the ancient and classic spell: "Come to my office."

Li Xiaogou stood in the office, looking around.

The teacher's office area was renovated from the old teaching studio. An old-fashioned ceiling fan was creaking overhead. Teacher Wu filled his huge two-liter teacup with hot water before looking Li Xiaogou in the eye.

"School is a place for teaching and educating people. I can tolerate your mischief, poor academic performance, and bad learning attitude. These can all be corrected. But I absolutely cannot tolerate any of my students abusing small animals!"

At this moment, another teacher entered the office. Teacher Wu, filled with righteous indignation, suddenly smiled and nodded. Then, his expression quickly darkened as he continued to lecture Li Xiaogou: "I can't teach someone like you. Let your family handle the process of withdrawing you from school."

Li Xiaogou was still marveling at the teacher's ability to change his expression, which rivaled even the best actor, when he suddenly heard the word "drop out." He sneered, "What excuse are you going to use to get me to drop out, Teacher Wu? Did you witness me torturing a cat?"

Not only did he refuse to give in, but his attitude was so aggressive!

Teacher Wu had never seen such a student before. His high blood pressure was about to burst. He angrily said, "There's no one else there except you. Who else could it be but you?"

"You can't say that without evidence. If I were a mean person, I could still say you did it. After all, there was no one else there. Who else could it be if not you?"

The man held his forehead, blood rushed to his head, and his head was buzzing.

The male teacher who had just entered listened to the entire process. He looked at Li Xiaogou in surprise and then chimed in, "Let's not talk about whether you have anything to do with the cat abuse. Just to put it simply, it's class time. Why are you, a student, not in the classroom but in the woods? What are you doing there?"

Li Xiaogou answered sincerely: "I skipped class."

The male teacher was stunned by this self-righteous attitude. Li Xiaogou continued, "I happened to be passing by the grove and saw a strange man. Out of curiosity, I followed him and found the dead kitten. Just as I was about to chase him, Teacher Wu arrived."

After a brief exchange, the male teacher realized that Li Xiaogou was hopeless. He said, "How many people in the city want to enter No. 1 Middle School's experimental class? You have this opportunity, but you don't cherish it. You skip classes without any regrets. Based on this alone, there's no problem for Teacher Wu to persuade you to withdraw."

Teacher Wu nodded: "Yes!"

Li Xiaogou blinked his eyes. "This is my first offense. We are all erring. I think I should at least be given three chances."

Teacher Wu laughed angrily.

The male teacher shook his head repeatedly: "If you can't recognize your mistakes, what's the point of giving you more chances?"

Li Xiaogou: "You can't say that. Before the mock exam, you changed the numbers on the test paper and assigned it to your class in advance. You didn't think you did anything wrong. Didn't the principal still give you a chance? And not just one, but three chances."

Teacher Wu opened his mouth and suddenly forgot what he wanted to say to Li Xiaogou. He turned his head abruptly and looked at his colleague beside him in surprise.

His colleague is the principal's son-in-law, and was awarded an award last month because his average score in the math simulation exam was close to that of the experimental class.

And it turned out to be through trickery? And more than once?

The male teacher was obviously panicked. He smiled awkwardly and said, "I didn't mean to do that... Please let me explain..."

Li Xiaogou went from being the one being criticized to being the one watching the show.

I was happily cracking melon seeds when a deep and gentle voice came to my ears: "Teacher Wu, I'm here."

A chill ran straight from his tailbone to his brain. Li Xiaogou turned around in disbelief and saw Yunlou's calm face.

Why is he here?!

Yunlou didn't look at him. He shook hands with Teacher Wu gracefully and said, "I'm sorry to trouble you. I will communicate with my son."

What the hell?! Super generation increase?

Li Xiaogou complained in his heart about being "taken home" by Yunlou. Yunlou stopped at the edge of the woods. He was wearing a camel-colored coat today, and his aura was much gentler. Coupled with his attractive face, he attracted a lot of attention along the way.

"Is this the place?" Yunlou asked.

"?" Li Xiaogou took a moment to react before realizing Yunlou was referring to the cat's corpse. "Yes, I only saw the man's back. He ran very fast."

Yunlou nodded, pushed aside the bushes and walked in.

The cat's body was covered with something that looked like the work of Teacher Wu. Yunlou lifted the cloth and took a look, his handsome eyebrows slightly furrowed. "It is indeed the work of a superpower."

He stood up, and his eyes, which seemed to be able to see through everything, lingered on Li Xiaogou for a long time. Just when Li Xiaogou was wondering if he had made a mess, Yunlou smiled gently and asked, "Were you really so naughty when you were studying?"

Is he naughty?

Li Xiaogou didn't know the answer either.

Skipping classes is a common occurrence because of follow-up investigations.

Fighting is a daily occurrence because people always say that he is pretentious and not sociable, and they can't stand him but can't beat him.

What else? Oh, and never participating in group activities, sleeping in during class... the list is endless.

He pursed his lips and replied softly, "Not very naughty."

Yunlou stared at him for a moment, not sure whether he believed it or not. He tapped his forehead with his glove and said gently, "Then don't go too far now."

"Oh." Li Xiaogou agreed obediently.

Yunlou just left like that. After confirming that there was a person with superpowers in the school, he just said lightly that he knew it and then left it alone.

It was as if he was just an ordinary parent who was called to the school by the head teacher.

However, after Yunlou came, Teacher Wu never mentioned the matter of asking him to drop out of school.

Li Xiaogou came out of the office and walked towards the classroom. He was thinking about where to start the investigation when he suddenly smelled a sweet smell of rust.

It's the smell of human blood.

"Please move aside." Situ Yan squeezed past him with a large stack of test papers. The strong smell of blood when they passed by made him frown unconsciously.

I subconsciously looked at Situ Yan's wrist, but it was covered tightly by his sleeves and wrist guard.

In such hot weather, I wear a wrist guard...

It seems there is no need to confirm, there is definitely a wound on Situ Yan's wrist.

Back in the classroom, Wang Bo gave him the same answer. Situ Yan had no less than five wounds on both wrists, and the cuts were not shallow.

"But it's strange that those scars avoid fatal areas. Could it be that he doesn't want to die yet and is simply torturing himself?"

"Just ask and you'll find out."

The presence of hidden people with special abilities on campus has caused the risk factor to rise sharply. They don't have time to investigate slowly, so asking directly is the fastest way.

"Okay, then let's go according to plan. I'll take him to the alley tomorrow at noon."

At noon the next day, Wang Bo, relying on his extraordinary shamelessness, successfully tricked Situ Yan into the alley.

The school bully Li Xiaogou happened to be hiding in the alley smoking.

When the two sides met eyes, there was a smouldering passion between them.

Situ Yan heard the girl with twin ponytails next to him say that she was not willing to be the girlfriend of the school bully, she was forced to do so.

Seeing the school bully walking towards them with a gloomy face, Situ Yan bit his lower lip, resisting the urge to turn around and run away. He protected the girl behind him and faced the dangerous scrutiny of the school bully Li Xiaogou. He stammered, "You, you, don't come over here! Many people saw us walk in. If you do anything to us, the teacher will know immediately!"

Li Xiaogou did not stop at all.

"I heard yesterday that Teacher Wu said if you keep making trouble, he'll expel you! You don't want to be expelled right after joining the experimental class, do you?"

This time, he earned Li Xiaogou's sarcastic chuckle.

Situ Yan protected Wang Bo behind him and retreated cautiously towards the alley entrance while speaking.

Wang Bo folded his hands behind his back and prayed to God to forgive his sins for deceiving such a simple and kind little lamb.

"Stop talking nonsense." Li Xiaogou took a sudden step forward, breaking his balance. At this moment, Situ Yan felt a strong force behind him, and he was pushed forward suddenly.

He looked at Wang Bo in surprise.

Li Xiaogou had already grasped his wrist and squeezed it——

"ah--"

"You're crying out in pain before you even exert any strength?"

"I'm injured." Situ Yan replied hesitantly.

Li Xiaogou instantly flipped his wrist and pushed his sleeve to his elbow, revealing the deep and shallow scars on his wrist.

"What happened?"

"It's none of your business! Class is about to start, and the teacher will be here if you don't let go."

Li Xiaogou said jokingly, "It's none of my business? What if I tell the teacher and classmates about this injury and say that you like playing this kind of game with others..."

The color drained from Situ Yan's face instantly. He looked like he was about to burst into tears. "This is not a game."

"I did this myself. I couldn't handle the pressure. I'm incompetent. I cut it myself!"

By the end of the story, Situ Yan was already in tears.

That's too much.

Wang Bo said it with his lips.

Li Xiaogou was not completely convinced. He always felt that Situ Yan was hiding something, but he also did not rule out the possibility that Situ Yan really had a mental breakdown. After thinking about it, he let go, and Situ Yan and Wang Bo returned to the classroom.

The next day was still fruitless.

"Maybe we're overthinking it. High school students are under a lot of pressure. Look at me. I went bald for fear of disappointing my dad. It's normal for Situ Yan to harm himself. Isn't it said that the calmer a person is, the scarier they are when they go crazy? Situ Yan just exploded in silence."

Wang Bo collapsed on the sofa. A day of classes was more tiring than a day of exercises, especially the electric and magnetic field issues, which he had already returned to the teacher. He could now empathize with Situ Yan's reasons for self-harm.

Li Xiaogou remained noncommittal: "Jiang Mu will be able to come and help the day after tomorrow. Before that, let's see if there are any other clues."

"By the way, I'll take half a day off tomorrow morning, and you can go to school by yourself."

Suss recovered well after the operation and has woken up. He asked the hospital nurse to call him and say that he wanted to meet him.

It just so happened that Li Xiaogou still had some doubts about Su Min and Pan Rong, so he readily accepted the invitation.

The two chatted for the whole morning and had lunch together before Li Xiaogou returned to school.

However, he saw Situ Yan before he even entered the classroom.

Situ Yan still looked at him with timidity in his eyes. After they looked at each other, Situ Yan walked towards him with clenched fists.

Li Xiaogou raised his eyebrows slightly. Is he going to challenge him in a duel?

"Your girlfriend is injured."

Li Xiaogou was stunned for a while before he realized who his girlfriend was.

However, his dumbfounded expression had already led Situ Yan to misunderstand him, and the latter said to him dissatisfiedly, "After what happened in the alley, I didn't want to come to you. People like you have no feelings at all, but your girlfriend is still infatuated with you. She even swore to heaven that you are not a bad person by nature. I think she is just blinded by love!"

After condemning Li Xiaogou in one breath, Situ Yan's courage was exhausted. He glanced at Li Xiaogou's sharp eyebrows and lowered his voice: "He is in the school infirmary."

Situ Yan went back to the classroom to study, and Li Xiaogou went to the school infirmary.

There was only one student in the infirmary, which saved him a lot of time looking for someone.

The corner of his lip was broken, his entire right cheekbone was bruised, and his ankle was bandaged.

When Li Xiaogou arrived, the doctor at the school hospital was giving Wang Bo ideological education.

"How could a girl like you get hurt like this in a fight?"

"My future dream is to be a female boxer."

The doctor rolled his eyes, completely speechless.

When Wang Bo saw Li Xiaogou coming out of the corner of his eye, he immediately smiled as if he saw the savior coming. However, his face wrinkled in pain when the corners of his lips raised halfway.

"Who could beat you like this?"

After they left the school hospital, Li Xiaogou supported Wang Bo and asked.

Wang Bo hopped forward on one foot. "What a school bully! I don't know what's wrong with him. I was eating spicy noodles when he attacked me. I may be 1.9 meters tall, but I'm still a cute girl, okay? This guy showed no mercy to me and didn't hold back at all."

The more he spoke, the more excited he became, and the wound at the corner of his lip was pulled, causing another dull pain.

Wang Bo covered his mouth and continued, "If I could reveal my superpowers, I would beat this brat to death!"

Li Xiaogou was trying hard to hold back his laughter: "You can't even beat a high school student without your powers, and you're still so proud?"

Wang Bo squinted at him and said, "As expected, those who can become school bullies are inhumane. Your brother is already like this, and you don't want to help me get revenge, but just attack me in the face. Where is justice!"

Li Xiaogou: "Are you a cute high school girl?"

Wang Bo: ...

Li Xiaogou didn't kill him completely. He changed the subject: "What does the school bully look like?"

"Tall and handsome."

Li Xiaogou: "...Why don't you just say one nose and two eyes?"

Finally, Li Xiaogou used the melon-eating system to see the appearance of the school bully, but - the school bully who beat up Wang Bo turned out to be the one that Situ Yan had a crush on.

What concerned Li Xiaogou even more was that the school bully's back was 90% similar to the person he saw in the woods.

After going to the school hospital for a while, Teacher Wu called me to the office and criticized me. By the time everything was over, school was over.

The activity of finding the school bully can only be postponed to tomorrow.

Early the next morning, Li Xiaogou, Wang Bo and Jiang Mu gathered at the bus stop.

Li Xiaogou did not do nothing last night. He used the "Eating Watermelon" system to find out everything about the school bully, from his family background to his height and weight, and now he told everything to the two people next to him.

As he was speaking, the school bus from No. 1 Middle School arrived.

Jiang Mu got on the bus first, but when he turned around, he found Li Xiaogou still standing on the platform.

Li Xiaogou didn't know that No. 1 Middle School actually had a school bus.

"You guys go first, I suddenly remembered that I didn't take something." After saying that, without waiting for the two to respond, Li Xiaogou ran back towards home.

"Your memory is so bad at such a young age. What will you do when you get old?" Wang Bo muttered as he found a place to sit down. He raised his eyes and called out to Jiang Mu who was standing there in a daze, "Sit down. What are you daydreaming about?"

Jiang Mu withdrew his gaze and subconsciously rubbed his earlobe.

His special ability occasionally has side effects. When the people around him have extreme emotional fluctuations, he will passively hear their inner thoughts, which are often hysterical voices.

However, just now, he heard a scream in Li Xiaogou's head, which was similar to the one he had heard before, but it was louder and more shrill.

So what just happened?

I ran a whole block without realizing it, and when I stopped, my forehead was covered with sweat.

Ignoring the gazes from people around him, Li Xiaogou took two deep breaths, put his hands in his pockets and slowly walked towards the school.

They got up late to begin with, so they were naturally late due to this delay.

Old man Wu had obviously classified him as "useless wood". He didn't even bother to say anything more to him. He just waved his hand and sent him to run laps in the playground.

After putting down his schoolbag, Li Xiaogou was about to start running laps when he suddenly heard the sound of a conversation.

"It doesn't hurt, just bite here."

The deliberately lowered voice was particularly familiar.

Li Xiaogou walked towards the source of the sound with light steps.

In the woods, Situ Yan and a boy were sitting face to face. Because of the angle, Li Xiaogou couldn't see the boy's face clearly.

Situ Yan took off his school uniform jacket, rolled up his sleeves, and raised his scarred arm to the boy's mouth: "Bite it, I'm ready."

Li Xiaogou's pupils suddenly contracted.

The boy licked the skin on Situ Yan's wrist with the tip of his tongue, then grinned, revealing two sharp canine teeth that were not like those of humans.

The canine teeth pierced Situ Yan's arm, and the pain made Situ Yan turn his face away, so Li Xiaogou finally saw the boy's face clearly.

The school bully that Situ Yan had a crush on was holding Situ Yan's arm and sucking his blood in big gulps.

This is... a vampire? !

Just when Li Xiaogou was extremely shocked, the boy had sucked enough blood and raised his head with satisfaction. His red eyes looked straight into Li Xiaogou's eyes through the gaps in the leaves.