Chapter 4
My brother hasn't come to see me for more than half a year.
He almost never breaks his promise, unless the task is so urgent that he cannot get away, then he will postpone it for a week or two.
Ever since I underwent transformation and gained extraordinary abilities, I need to be injected with maintenance potions every six months. Otherwise, my hemoglobin and platelets will drop rapidly, and even the smallest wound may threaten my life.
In order to avoid being discovered, I pretended to be sick and stayed home for a week. However, the school did not allow such a long leave, and my attendance rate was also related to my precious subsidy. I really couldn't pretend any longer, so I had to bite the bullet and come to school. The result...
Lin Yaoxin coughed violently and suddenly opened his eyes. The dazzling light of the incandescent lamp made him dizzy, but soon he felt a stream of cold liquid slowly entering his body through his veins, soothing all the discomfort and fatigue of recent days.
On his side was a row of floor-to-ceiling filing cabinets, and the sound of keyboard tapping came from behind the cabinets.
Lin Yaoxin propped himself up against the bed with his elbows, making a slight noise that instantly stopped the keyboard sounds. Then, he saw a woman in a casual coat and shoulder-length black hair approaching. It was none other than the school's new doctor, Dr. An.
Lin Yaoxin was still a little confused, but he remembered that his coma wasn't entirely due to Hewell, but rather a side effect of his artificial abilities. He didn't know what would happen if he stayed in school any longer. If anyone discovered that he had acquired extraordinary abilities through transformation, he might get into trouble. This thought filled him with anxiety. He glanced at the needle in his hand, and his first reaction was to pull it out and go home.
An Ge's face darkened instantly, and he stared at Lin Yaoxin coldly with displeasure: "If you want to die, just pull it out. I won't stop you."
Her powerful aura caused Lin Yaoxin to pause.
Seeing him stop, Ango snorted coldly: "After this bottle is hung up, hurry home. I still have to get off work."
Lin Yaoxin's expression gradually regained clarity, and he seemed to be thinking about everything that had happened. He asked in a hoarse voice, "Doctor An, you saved me?"
Now, he has reacted. His body no longer has the dizziness and fatigue he had in the past few weeks. It is just like the feeling he had every time after taking the maintenance potion. He tried to clench his fists again and found that his limbs were full of strength.
An Ge didn't answer directly, but said coldly: "You can't delay your illness. Remember to go see a doctor on time."
Her reminder was entirely out of good intentions, as she fully understood the desire of ordinary people to use extraordinary abilities to change their lives. Moreover, this technology had been passed down from her hands, and she did not want anyone to be harmed. However, if others discovered it, it would probably become very troublesome.
Lin Yaoxin's face was full of confusion. He watched the potion slowly dripping into his body, and looked at Ango in disbelief. All kinds of thoughts turned around in his mind, but he denied them one by one.
Could it be that Dr. An also came from the black market? Could she also develop artificial abilities?
——No, no, with this skill, how much money can you make? Why would you come to a place like this to be a small school doctor?
——Is it my illusion that these potions only relieved my symptoms and I was not fully recovered?
——But only protective medicine can save my life, ordinary doctors can’t do it.
Before he could think clearly, Ango continued, "Ace called your brother and he said he would pick you up later."
"My brother is very busy! I don't need him to pick me up..." Lin Yaoxin said hurriedly. He didn't want to be a burden to others.
Ango interrupted him impatiently: "You are a doctor and I am a doctor? If you keep talking nonsense, I will let Ace come over and hold you down."
Lin Yaoxin, of course, didn't want to trouble anyone more, so he could only keep quiet. After a few seconds, he spoke cautiously, "My brother... is very busy at work. If he can't make it, I don't want to delay Doctor An's get off work..."
Ango took a deep look at the frail young man, suspecting his difficult upbringing might have shaped his independent character. Her heart softened, and she thought, if all else failed, she'd take him home after the IV drip was finished. But she remained stern, "He's your brother. No matter how busy he was at work, he had to come pick you up. With such a serious problem, he should have been taken to a doctor long ago. You've been waiting until now. Do you still want to live?"
Before he could finish his words, two "bang bang" sounds were heard from the dilapidated wooden door.
Because the school had been over long ago and there was no one around, Ango had good ventilation habits and left the door open. A tall man with slightly long hair, wearing a thick black sweatshirt with fine water droplets on it, looked dusty.
"Brother!" Lin Yaoxin's eyes lit up and his tone was full of joy.
Ango turned around and saw who it was. The moment she saw who it was, her head felt like it was hit by something heavy. With a "buzz", her mind completely shut down and she felt as if she was in a dark abyss.
The man in front of him no longer had the familiar yet cruel smile he had seen the last time they met. Instead, he looked indifferent. “I’m here to pick up Lin Yaoxin.”
…
"Doctor An?"
The sound seemed to come from far away. Ango's hands and feet were cold, her muscles were paralyzed, and her breathing was stagnant. She seemed to have been drugged and could not move. It was not until the boy on the bed pulled Ango's sleeve that she came to her senses.
Fear overwhelmed Ango like a tide. She had never expected that three months after leaving the company, she would come into such close contact with the killer who once guarded her.
Her throat moved slightly, and her voice was mechanical: "Lin Yaoxin's...brother?"
Xi Sen narrowed his eyes sharply: "Does the school doctor know me?"
Just this one sentence made Ango regain her senses immediately, and she instinctively became alert - she could only continue to act.
She quickly frowned, her eyes showing impatience: "I don't have time to talk nonsense with you, hurry up and take the patient away. He's the only one left in the whole school so late, and I'm still waiting to get off work."
Then she sat on the chair, lowered her head, and pretended to pack her things. She looked anxious, but her heart was pounding and she didn't dare to look up.
Now she was wearing a face-changing mask, and her facial features were different from before, and her hair color and dress were also very different. Although her figure could not be changed, with just one glance, she was still sitting there, and no matter how powerful the other party was, he would not be able to recognize her.
Xi Sen walked up to Lin Yaoxin in two or three steps and looked him up and down. "I'm sorry I'm late. I'll take you to see a doctor tomorrow."
Lin Yaoxin nodded obediently: "I'm fine, I feel much better now."
He raised the syringe in his hand and gestured to him: "Doctor An's medicine is very effective. I feel much better now."
Ango felt a cold, intriguing gaze piercing through her back, as if with the ability to see through her, seeing her true face.
She was so kindhearted that she rescued Lin Yaoxin, but as long as they went to the black market research institute, they would find that Ango had already given them drugs. By then, Xi Sen would probably discover her problem immediately.
Cold sweat had soaked her back. Ango knew that she couldn't stay here for long, and at this moment, she couldn't show any abnormality.
"Thank you, Dr. An." The corner of Xisen's clothes was very close to her, as if the dew on it would wet Ango's clothes in the next moment.
Ango remained calm and continued to act, instructing like a normal school doctor, "Take the child to the hospital for a checkup when you have time. Even though he's a Beyonder with excellent physical fitness, he can still struggle sometimes."
"Doctor An, what do you think is wrong with him?"
An Ge waved his hand and showed him the simple environment of the health room: "My conditions here are limited, so I can't tell. Take him to a big hospital for examination."
Xi Sen's face was expressionless as he nodded and said, "Anyway, Dr. An has worked hard, so why don't I take you home on the way?"
Ango suddenly felt very uncomfortable: "No, it's more important that you take him home."
Lin Yaoxin interrupted, "Dr. An lives very close by, in Ace..."
Ango didn't want him to continue talking at all, so he stood up and said, "Okay, I have to leave too. I'll ask for a day off for you and the teacher tomorrow, so you can rest assured."
"Hehe, okay." Lin Yaoxin scratched his head.
Irene chilled the nutrient solution, and Ace wolfed it down. As he drank, he asked, "How's Lin Yaoxin?"
"He's fine. His brother is here to pick him up."
"His brother is finally back. I heard he's working out of town and is very busy, so he only comes back a few times a year..."
Ace's voice drifted further and further away. Ango lowered her head, wondering how she should tell the two siblings that she needed to leave, or should she just leave without saying goodbye and flee overnight... Which option would be safer?
The longer you stay, the more flaws you reveal.
But Xi Sen was in town tonight. If the principal, the students, and Irene's siblings discovered she was missing... the news would spread quickly throughout the town, and Xi Sen would realize her identity and chase her immediately. Wouldn't that be considered self-destruction?
Irene seemed to notice Ango's uneasiness. "You too, why are you angry with Hai Weil? If you get hurt, just admit defeat. It's not shameful for ordinary people like us to lose to people with special abilities... Besides, this is a private bet between you two. Principal Meng may not agree to your resignation. He's worked so hard to recruit someone, so don't worry."
She thought Ango was distracted because of the bet with Hai Weil.
Ango was stunned for a moment, then suddenly looked at her seriously: "You are right."
She had already put the matter of Hewell behind her and was only thinking about how to get out of it. Now she could use him as an excuse to say goodbye to the principal and Irene Ace tomorrow.
This is a natural thing to do, and even if Xi Sen heard it, he wouldn't take it seriously.
As long as there is green mountain, there is no fear of running out of firewood. The most important thing right now is to get away from Lin Yaoxin and Xi Sen, these two time bombs.
Ango lowered her head to eat, her eyes glancing at the communication computer from time to time. She sent a message to Dulang when she got off work, hoping to get information from him, such as why Xisen appeared in this small town and whether the other party had been found by Xisen.
If Dulang's identity was leaked and he had fallen into the hands of the group, then even if they were communicating through encrypted channels, the group's research team might be able to crack it with two or three months of effort. Of course, this was the worst-case scenario, but even then, she had plenty of time to respond.
What's strange is that this old colleague who talks a lot of nonsense every day and replies immediately has not made any movement in the past few hours. This makes Ango even more uneasy. He suspects that Du Lang has been arrested. It feels like a storm is brewing.
But thinking about it, her encounter with Xi Sen was pure coincidence—Xi Sen was busy chasing her and had no time to return to bring Lin Yaoxin back for her maintenance potion, which was why they bumped into each other. It had nothing to do with Du Lang. As she said before, if she said nothing and simply abandoned the person and the matter at hand, she would only arouse suspicion.
Ango's mind was in a mess and he couldn't figure out the truth of the matter, so he could only choose to stay put.
She had to wait agonizingly for the next day.
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