Chapter 35 You're a Nice Person
The sharp pain in my arm suddenly disappeared, along with the warm touch on my lips.
Situ Yan asked worriedly, "Why don't you smoke anymore?"
Following Que Song's gaze, Situ Yan finally saw Li Xiaogou behind the bushes.
He stood up suddenly, the color drained away from his face in an instant, his lips trembled but he couldn't say anything.
After the initial shock, Li Xiaogou felt relieved.
The greatest fear is always the unknown. Compared with the unknown superpowers lurking in the dark, the obvious vampires don't seem to be a big deal.
Li Xiaogou pushed aside the obstructing branches and instead of retreating, he also advanced into the woods.
Situ Yan stood up and stood in front of Que Song, acting as an absolute protector.
Li Xiaogou raised his eyebrows in surprise. When the top student behaved boldly, the school bully would have no chance at all.
"What are you doing here?" Li Xiaogou asked knowingly.
Situ Yan blocked Li Xiaogou's inquiring gaze and pursed his lips, saying, "You were right. I'm just a pervert who enjoys playing this kind of game, and I inflicted those injuries on myself. You have a girlfriend, so you should know that our school doesn't allow premature love. So, I ask that you don't tell anyone about what you just saw."
Situ Yan had rehearsed this passage many times in front of the mirror, so he spoke it very smoothly and even had enough time to observe Li Xiaogou's reaction.
Li Xiaogou chuckled and tilted his head. "Why should I help you? Old Wu knew I was in a premature relationship on my first day at school. Don't try to use that to threaten me. Besides—I don't play games like that."
"What do you want? We can sit down and talk."
Situ Yan blocked the people behind him tightly, and Li Xiaogou tried several times but couldn't see his condition clearly.
Li Xiaogou raised his eyebrows and said maliciously, "Seeing you guys having so much fun, I'm a little itchy too, but I can't bear to let my girlfriend get hurt. How about... you play with me? I've never tasted anyone else's blood before."
As soon as he finished speaking, a low roar rolling in Situ Yan's chest came from behind him, full of murderous intent.
Situ Yan touched Que Song's fingertips with his hands behind his back.
The hostility in the eyes of the comforted boy gradually dissipated.
Situ Yan's pale face forced a smile: "Okay, but it's not convenient here. Let's make another time and place. I will never break my promise."
When saying this, Situ Yan was very nervous because he had no way to prove his credibility.
Unexpectedly, Li Xiaogou agreed.
Situ Yan immediately turned around, grabbed Que Song's arm tightly with both hands, and pulled him out quickly.
Just as they stepped onto the path and were about to leave the grove, Li Xiaogou spoke.
"Do you know that there are people with special abilities in this world?"
Situ Yan was shocked and replied with a wry smile: "Isn't that something the screenwriter made up?"
Li Xiaogou curled his lips, but the smile didn't reach his eyes. "Made it up? Then what does this...psychic standing next to you say?"
As Li Xiaogou spoke, Que Song rushed over suddenly.
Only then did Li Xiaogou see Que Song's true appearance.
Que Song was the school bully he saw when he was eating melon at Situ Yan's place, but his eyes were not like the black or brown pupils of ordinary Da Xia people, but were scarlet, like two clusters of flowing fire. His two canine teeth were as sharp as wolf's teeth, flashing coldly in the sun. Li Xiaogou had no doubt that they could easily bite off his neck.
The moment he pounced, Li Xiaogou dodged. Que Song failed to hit him and fell to the ground, still making terrifying whimpers in his throat, staring at Li Xiaogou.
"Not a vampire? But a beast?" Li Xiaogou still had time to comment.
In the brief exchange just now, he could feel that the opponent's physical skills were greatly improved, but his attacks were disorganized and it was obvious that he had not received any combat training.
This made Li Xiaogou feel a little relieved.
Having dodged another attack and learned everything he needed to, he decided to call it a day.
"Does your boyfriend want to kill me to silence me?" Li Xiaogou looked at the anxious Situ Yan beside him.
Situ Yan obviously didn't have the courage to kill anyone, but he had no objection to letting Que Song teach Li Xiaogou a lesson.
So although he was anxious, he did not dissuade him.
"I was hired by your father. If anything happens to me, your father will be the first to be investigated."
"Que Song! Wait..." Situ Yan rushed into the battlefield, and his palm gently placed on the boy's forehead. The boy who was still rioting in the previous second, the voice in his throat gradually became smaller, and even the color of his pupils was slowly returning to normal.
Is this the power of true love? Li Xiaogou was amazed.
After calming Que Song down, Situ Yan asked, "What exactly are you?"
Li Xiaogou smiled and said, "Let's change the place where we can talk?"
Half an hour later, five students sat opposite each other in a hot pot restaurant on the fifth floor of a shopping mall closest to No. 1 Middle School.
The steam from the shabu-shabu hotpot engulfed their faces. The waiter was the first to break the silence: "This tripe needs to be cooked up and down. You cooked it for too long and it's almost overcooked."
Wang Bo fished out the tripe with a look of heartache on his face and put a few slices into everyone's bowl.
The atmosphere finally relaxed a little.
"Your father accidentally saw the wounds on your body and was worried that you were bullied at school, so he asked us to come to the school to investigate." Li Xiaogou told the truth.
Instead of asking directly, he asked someone to investigate his son. In Li Xiaogou's eyes, this was an act of taking off pants to fart, but Situ Yan accepted it easily.
He worriedly asked, "What will you tell my dad?"
After saying that, he hastily added, "I can pay you double what my dad paid you, and I'll also make up a good excuse so you can get away with it."
"You are a very nice person." Wang Bo said with a smile.
"I'm tempted by the conditions you offer, but unfortunately, your father didn't give us any compensation."
"To answer your previous question, we are from a mysterious organization. To put it simply, we are responsible for managing all people with special abilities in Daxia."
Li Xiaogou glanced at the school bully who was trying to stuff raw beef into his mouth. Without waiting for Situ Yan to reply, he continued, "You think you're helping your boyfriend, but if I'm not mistaken, his need for blood is getting bigger and bigger, right? Sooner or later, you'll be unable to hold it back."
Situ Yan pursed his lips tightly, as if he was going through an intense inner struggle. Li Xiaogou and the other two did not make a sound to disturb him.
After a moment, Situ Yan asked, "You won't hurt Que Song, right?"
Jiang Mu smiled gently: "No, we have professional doctors specializing in people with special abilities here who can provide him with the greatest help."
Situ Yan was still a little hesitant.
At this moment, Li Xiaogou suddenly asked, "Is Que Song an orphan?"
Situ Yan was stunned for a moment, then nodded. However, he asked curiously, "How do you know? Que Song was adopted when he was very young. Even his neighbors didn't know about this."
Li Xiaogou and Jiang Mu looked at each other and understood what the other meant.
Que Song is similar to the children in Lingquan Orphanage before, and is likely to be an experimental subject of the organization.
The best strategy in negotiation is to gain the other party's trust first.
Li Xiaogou answered very frankly: "Because I am the same, and I have also gained some extraordinary abilities for unknown reasons, just like Que Song."
Situ Yan was so shocked that he was speechless for a long time. When he first discovered Que Song's abnormality, his worldview had been overturned. He didn't expect that there were so many people like him in the world.
Jiang Mu interrupted at this moment. His voice was calm and gentle, easily soothing the anxious mood. He slowly said, "Can you tell me how you met Que Song and discovered his abnormality?"
The three people opposite could have reported him directly, but they chose to sit here and talk to him in a gentle voice, and their reasons were so bizarre that they didn't seem to be made up.
Situ Yan already believed most of it.
He slid his hand down from the table, held Que Song's hand, and then replied: "I was indeed bullied. That was two years ago."
"I'm not a talkative person. I'm usually inconspicuous in class and don't have many friends. People rarely notice me. But the school held a parents' meeting, and my dad came and donated a building. The principal invited him to the stage to speak, and after he finished speaking, he returned to the class to attend the parents' meeting. Everyone knew that I had a father who was the richest man in the world."
"After that, people would stop me on the way home from school and ask me for money. Although my family was well-off, my father didn't approve of my extravagance and didn't give me much pocket money. Soon my money was all gone, and they didn't believe me, thinking I was just being stubborn, so they beat me. That's when Que Song appeared."
"He came out of the dark staircase with red eyes. He looked abnormal, but he helped me drive those people away. I was very scared, but when I wanted to leave, he fainted."
"...Later, I became familiar with him. He wouldn't speak during his attacks, but he wasn't a bad person and wouldn't attack others. He just needed to suck blood, otherwise he would become extremely weak."
Wang Bo raised his head from his food. "If he doesn't attack people, he can't attack cats either. What a cute cat! He can even bite it."
"That wasn't him!" Situ Yan explained hurriedly, "That day... he seemed to have run into something and had a fight with it. When I found him, he was injured, so I let him suck blood to heal his wounds."
As he spoke, he lifted the hem of Que Song's school uniform, and saw that there were indeed two holes on the right side of his well-defined six-pack abs, exactly the same as the wounds on the cat.
Situ Yan lowered his shirt and pinched Que Song's face soothingly before saying to the others, "His body is amazing. As long as he drinks human blood, he can recover from even the most serious injuries. Although there are still two holes in his body, they're no longer bleeding. As long as I suck his blood two more times, he'll be able to recover."
After much hesitation, he finally made a shameless request: "Can you... not take him away? I'll watch over him. If he ever hurts anyone, I'll personally hand him over to you."
Wang Bo could never understand those who were obsessed with love. He wiped his mouth and said, "One day? If you suck him like this twice more, will you still live to see one day?"
Jiang Mu: "Just because we take him away doesn't mean you won't see him anymore. You also want him to be completely cured, right?"
Situ Yan lowered his eyes and fell silent.
Li Xiaogou chuckled knowingly, "He doesn't want Que Song to recover."
Wang Bo: "What do you mean?"
Jiang Mu also looked puzzled.
Situ Yan looked at Li Xiaogou in shock.
Li Xiaogou stared back at him and asked, "Only when Que Song is sick is he your boyfriend, right?"
This biggest secret was actually known by the person in front of me.
Situ Yan's shoulders slumped, and he looked at Li Xiaogou with a pleading look: "This isn't an attack! This is just another him. Please, don't let this Que Song disappear, okay?"
There were already traces of everything.
The melon-eating system could only see Situ Yan's attempts to please the "normal" Que Song when he had a crush on him, but he couldn't find the source of Situ Yan's love for Que Song.
If Situ Yan only likes Que Song in this special state, then it makes sense.
At first, Situ Yan thought Que Song was Que Song, so he showed his goodwill to Que Song in his normal state, but he was disappointed and soon discovered that Que Song in different states were completely two different people.
Only Que Song in a special state is related to the world line, which Li Xiaogou's melon-eating system cannot detect.
Wang Bo was confused: "What do you mean by 'another him'?"
Li Xiaogou opened his mouth and whispered, "Two souls in one body."
Jiang Mu frowned: "Could it be just a case of split personality?"
"Maybe." Li Xiaogou was not sure. "It's just that seeing him reminds me of another person. That person is like a higher-level version of him, able to freely split his soul and place it in different bodies."
"Who is it?" Wang Bo looked confused.
Li Xiaogou: "Anna, the puppeteer."
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