Chapter 39 The mutant knew you were going to smash me, thankfully you didn't...
Seeing Lin He standing motionless beside them, Wen Han whispered a reminder: "Hey, you'd better find somewhere to hide."
"Where am I supposed to hide?" Lin He said, dissatisfied. "Why don't you come over here and I'll hide behind you?"
"If you're not going to hide, then stay away from us," Wen Han said disdainfully. "If they find out that you brought Wen Ruan here, and you're standing with us, then we'll all be implicated."
Lin He almost wanted to applaud this heartless guy: "My God, who have I been helping all these past few days?"
Wen Han showed no mercy: "Stop pretending, I can see you're pretty excited too."
The Gu family's butler also appeared. This old man had seen her at the hospital before, and with Wen Ruan as a comparison, his impression of her was probably not good. Wen Han quickly turned her face away: "Jing Yu, that butler knows me."
Jing Yu patted his back gently without making a sound, and Wen Han continued, "It was the night Gu Cheng suddenly went into heat, and Wen Ruan dragged me to take him to the hospital. I don't know if he still remembers. I even took a hundred yuan from him."
"Yes, I know."
Fang Zhi's cries of pain echoed through the hall, along with the dull thud of Gu Cheng's fists striking bone. Some timid people tried to leave in fear, but Gu Zong's face darkened. With so many guests present, he couldn't raise his voice to save face, so the butler stepped in front of Fang Zhi, using his body to block Gu Cheng. Wen Ruan grabbed him, tears streaming down her face, her voice trembling, "Gu Cheng... Gu Cheng... please, calm down, okay?"
With tears streaming down her face, Gu Cheng finally suppressed his inner rage and looked at Wen Ruan. Seeing that Gu Cheng's red eyes were gradually calming down, Wen Ruan finally breathed a sigh of relief.
There was no sound. Was it over just like that? Wen Han was a little disappointed, but although it was a bit quick, it was generally in line with her expectations.
Jing Yu suddenly asked, "Is he an Alpha?"
Wen Han looked up: "No way, he doesn't seem like an Alpha."
He stared at Lin He warily and asked, "Isn't Fang Zhi a Beta?"
How could that be? Wen Han had confidence in his nose. He hadn't smelled any pheromones on Fang Zhi at all in the restaurant.
Seeing that his head was still buried in Jing Yu's shoulder, but he was frowning and staring at him, Lin He couldn't resist the urge to pinch his cheek. He almost got scratched by Wen Han.
Fang Zhi was attacked by Gu Cheng and fell to the ground, his vision blurred and he was about to faint. His Alpha instincts caused his pheromones to suddenly burst out and spread rapidly throughout the hall!
Before Wen Han could even smell Fang Zhi's pheromones, Jing Yu suddenly covered the lower half of his face and whispered, "Hold your breath."
Lin He glanced at him casually.
Wen Han was completely bewildered. He looked around and saw many people lying on the ground, struggling in pain as if they had been choked.
Gu Cheng and Wen Ruan were closest to Fang Zhi and had the most severe symptoms. They immediately fainted. Gu Zong noticed something was wrong, quickly covered his mouth and nose, and shouted, "Call the police! Call an ambulance! Hurry!"
"What the hell?" Wen Han quickly kicked Lin He's shin and demanded, "What happened? Did you do this?"
"I'm innocent!" Lin He covered his mouth and nose, and Wen Han could only see his eyebrows curving up, his eyes full of laughter. "It wasn't me who hit Fang Zhi."
When the ambulance arrived, Wen Han suddenly felt a weight pressing down on him. Jing Yu seemed to have fainted on top of him. Wen Han thought he had also been poisoned, so he quickly called for the paramedics. But then he saw Jing Yu quietly open one eye and blink at him.
Wen Han: "?"
Oh dear, Jingyu wants to take this opportunity to take them out so they don't have to stay here.
If Gu Zong had suspected someone was up to something, they would have already made their escape. The nurse asked, "Did you come with him?"
"Yes," Wen Han nodded quickly, "I was with him."
Just as Wen Han was about to get into the ambulance with them, Lin He, that shameless guy, chimed in, "I'm his brother."
Wen Han muttered under her breath, "Pah, how do you look like him?"
The situation was urgent, and Lin He suddenly put on a bad expression, so the nurse simply took Wen Han away as their guardian.
*
Jing Yu didn't inhale much pheromone, so an IV drip was enough. Lin He, on the other hand, was completely covered up and didn't even need an IV drip. He recovered after the doctor told him to breathe some fresh air.
The nurse instructed, "Press the bell when the IV bag is empty."
"OK."
Lin He somehow got hold of apples and oranges. He tossed the oranges to Wen Han, who panicked at the thought of the huge mess he had caused. His original intention was just to embarrass Gu Cheng, and at most, add another unlucky playboy to the mix. But Lin He had gone too far, creating a bomb that sent so many people to the hospital! This was not what he had hoped for.
He refused to believe that Lin He had acted accidentally. Now, he was an accomplice. Anyway, it was Wen Han who asked him to find the person, so he could just pretend he didn't know anything.
Thinking of this, Wen Han became furious and threw the orange in her hand heavily.
"Ouch." Lin He took a bite of the apple, was hit on the head, and laughed. "I knew you were going to hit me. Good thing I didn't give you the apple."
Wen Han lowered her voice: "What happened?"
"I'll tell you if you swear you won't come after me."
Wen Han gritted her teeth: "I swear I won't hold you accountable."
"Okay," Lin He said with a smile. "Did you know that some pheromones originate from toxic sources?"
Wen Han muttered, "I'm a Beta, how would I know?"
Jing Yu said softly, "Wen Han, do you still remember the person sitting at the table behind us?"
Wen Han's deskmate was an Alpha and a Beta, so Jing Yu was definitely asking about the Alpha. Wen Han said, "I remember, his pheromones were like mosquito repellent—wait? If Fang Zhi's pheromones were poisonous, why are they more like decorations, with no mosquito-repelling effect at all?"
Lin He continued, "For example, like... yuri?"
Wen Han's mother's pheromones are yuri, but he has never seen his mother troubled before.
"Most people whose pheromones are lily-like, although they smell like lilies, are not poisonous. Just like you said, they're more like decorations." For example, Wen Han's mother is one of these people.
“But some people’s lesbian pheromones are really toxic,” Lin He laughed. “Fang Zhi is a mutant.”
"It's just that his pheromones are oleander."
Wen Han asked anxiously, "Won't we be harming him by doing this? Won't he get arrested?"
"Don't worry, it's not his fault," Lin He said calmly. "Once they differentiate, when they register their pheromones with the authorities, if a mutant is detected, they will perform surgery to block the secretion of pheromones."
This is why Wen Han couldn't smell Fang Zhi's pheromones and thought he was a Beta.
Lin He laughed and said, "It was Gu Cheng who attacked him. Fang Zhi felt his life was in danger, which is why his pheromones re-emerged. So if anyone is to blame, it's Gu Cheng."
He spoke casually, as if the fact that Fang Zhi was almost beaten to death was a trivial matter.
"System, did you see that?" Wen Han was completely dumbfounded. "I always thought I was pretty bad, but it seems there are always people more capable than you."
"I've never heard of any mutant species before."
"A probability of one in several million? Of course I've never heard of that."
Jingyu peeled an orange for him, and Wen Han chewed it, saying, "If they don't register, wouldn't it be easy for them to do bad things?"
“It’s not that easy. Everyone has to register, and the machine will detect it.” Lin He yawned. “Unless you can control your pheromones, which is even more impossible.”
Seeing that Jing Yu was really alright, Wen Han asked, "Which ward is Wen Ruan in?"
"What, are you going to take care of him?"
"At least pretend, just in case he suspects me."
Lin He clapped: "Deep brotherhood, enduring humiliation and bearing heavy burdens."
——
Wen Ruan and Gu Chengli were closest to Fang Zhi, and their symptoms became more severe, especially Wen Ruan, whose body was already weak, making her even worse.
Fortunately, in order to salvage some of the reputational damage, Gu Zong specifically ordered the use of the best medicine, and even airlifted a batch from abroad, so at least he wouldn't have to go to the ICU.
Wen Ruan felt dizzy and lightheaded, and occasionally felt like vomiting. Wen Han brought him a basin and then took the medicine and poured it into his mouth after he finished vomiting.
Are you feeling better?
Wen Ruan nodded.
"How is Gu Cheng?"
"Oh my god," Wen Han exclaimed, "If he hadn't hit someone, you wouldn't be here vomiting."
"It's my fault, I shouldn't have come."
My goodness, Wen Han is looking for the clock; he can only stay for another ten minutes at most.
The ward door opened, and it was the Gu family's butler. When he saw Wen Han, his gaze instantly turned sharp.
“Grandpa Butler,” Wen Ruan explained when she saw him staring at Wen Han, “This is Wen Han, she’s here to take care of me, you’ve met her before.”
"Yes, I have seen you before," the butler questioned. "I think I saw you at the banquet."
Wen Ruan smiled and said, "You have a really sharp eye."
Wen Han was speechless: "I'm still wearing my formal dress, he could have guessed it even if he wanted to."
How did you end up there?
Wen Han replied indifferently, "Someone invited me to go."
"No normal person would invite you, would they?" the butler said calmly. "Even if they did, wouldn't they invite someone from a prominent family or someone with outstanding looks? Why did they invite you instead?"
"Are you sick? What's wrong with my looks? Why can't I go?" Wen Han pointed at Wen Ruan with a straight face. "If he's good-looking, why didn't Gu Cheng invite him? He even begged me to bring him along."
Wen Ruan was a little embarrassed. He hadn't forgotten that Lin He had brought him here, but now that Gu Cheng had gotten into trouble because of him, he didn't want to implicate Lin He. So he went along with Wen Han's words: "Grandpa, I asked Wen Han to bring me here. It has nothing to do with him."
Seeing that Wen Han showed no sign of guilt, the housekeeper's doubts were somewhat dispelled.
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