Chapter 73 Beijing Ruins - 9 Lu Yi buried his head in...
Lu Yi buried his face in Tang Bufan's neck, his fangs biting the man's slender neck as he continuously injected venom. Tang Bufan's eyes were tightly closed, and his breathing was rapid. His face, which was always pale, was now flushed with an abnormal redness. He tensed up and began to struggle unconsciously in Lu Yi's arms.
Anderson initially sat leaning against the bathroom door, watching the two men, until he noticed Tang Bufan flailing his claws and legs in extreme pain, at which point Anderson's expression changed slightly.
"Enough...enough!" Anderson immediately rushed forward and grabbed Lu Yi's head, frowning anxiously. "Do you want him dead?!"
Lu Yi was pulled on the head by Anderson's hair before he realized what was happening. He was so focused on saving Tang Bufan, and the slightly sweet taste of the man's blood made him forget that too much venom could not be injected.
He immediately looked up and pulled out his fangs, only to see two deep, bloody holes he had bitten into Tang Bufan's neck, from which a large amount of blood gushed.
Lu Yi panicked and quickly reached out to cover the man's neck, trying to stop the bleeding.
"Ugh—ah—ugh ahh—!"
Tang Bufan's body was stiff, and he let out unconscious cries of pain. His hands and feet were kicking wildly, and his five fingers were hooked into claws. He tried to roll on the ground, looking like a zombie or a person experiencing drug withdrawal.
But both orcs knew that the pain was caused by his body mutating.
There is a mortality rate in the mutation of humans into beastmen. The initial beastman experiments had a very high mortality rate, with only one in a hundred surviving. Later, as the experiments matured, the mortality rate was gradually reduced, but due to physical reasons, some humans still died during the mutation process.
Lu Yi panicked and grabbed Tang Bufan to stop him from rolling and struggling on the ground, but Tang Bufan scratched his face hard.
His face immediately bled; it turned out that Tang Bufan had grown sharp fingernails.
"Tie his hands!" Anderson, who had been married before, had experience caring for mutant humans, so he immediately took out a roll of bandage from the medical kit and gestured for Lu Yi to grab Tang Bufan's hands and hold them together.
Lu Yi was flustered, but he also knew the relevant knowledge, so he cooperated with Anderson to tie up Tang Bufan, who was writhing in pain.
They only tied his hands, not his feet. The mutation was promoting Tang Bufan's secondary development, and tying his feet would hinder his growth.
"Ah...ahhh...uh...woo woo...ah..." Tang Bufan was in so much pain that he was unconscious. His skin was red to an abnormal degree, as if he had been burned. Lu Yi saw him suddenly open his eyes, which were bloodshot and even overflowing with tears of blood!
"Blindfold him!" Anderson said to Lu Yi in a deep voice, and quickly went to the window to pull the curtains shut.
Lu Yi immediately picked up a bandage and, while holding down the writhing Tang Bufan, quickly wrapped the bandage around his eyes.
Tang Bufan's eyeballs are mutating and becoming extremely sensitive to light. In fact, these preparations should have been made before the mutation began, but in order to save Tang Bufan, Lu Yi had no choice but to bite down first.
"Teacher, just bear with it, it will pass soon, it will pass soon..." Ignoring his bleeding face from being scratched, Lu Yi covered Tang Bufan's eyes with his red eyes. Seeing that sharp fangs were slowly emerging from Tang Bufan's mouth as he groaned in pain, Lu Yi put his own hand into Tang Bufan's mouth before Tang Bufan could bite him.
"Waaah..." Tang Bufan started crying, the bandage on his eyes smudged with blood, and his mouth was tightly closed as he bit Lu Yi's finger, quickly drawing blood from the orc boy's finger.
"Seb! What are you inserting your fingers into!" Anderson quickly rummaged through the carriage, grabbed a piece of Tang Bufan's clothing, tore it into pieces, crumpled it up, and threw it to Lu Yi.
Lu Yi didn't feel any pain; in fact, he was feeling hot all over because of nervousness.
"Won't it affect the development of the teacher's fangs?" Lu Yi asked anxiously, also worried that Seb would affect Tang Bufan's breathing.
Tang Bufan's heart rate was too fast, and his breathing was too rapid, as if he was about to have trouble breathing.
Anderson was stunned by Lu Yi's question. He really didn't know that when he mutated his wife, the housekeeper and servants had made full preparations. His wife was bound to the bed with soft handcuffs, her eyes were wrapped with light-blocking bandages, and her mouth was filled with a hollow gag that did not affect her breathing. He leaned over and comforted his wife for a few words, and then marked his wife under the watchful eyes of his family and servants.
Looking at Tang Bufan, whose chest was heaving violently in Lu Yi's arms, Anderson frowned and quickly looked around the messy interior of the carriage, his gaze then falling on a belt.
"Use this to gag him!" Anderson threw the belt at Lu Yi, then strode outside. "I'm going out to find some tools!"
The mutation will last for several days, and we can't let Tang Bufan keep biting Lu Yi's finger like this. Under the intense pain of the mutation, Tang Bufan might bite Lu Yi's finger off. Also, the belt binding the mouth will make it inconvenient to feed Tang Bufan later.
The two fingers that Lu Yi had stuffed into Tang Bufan's mouth were already bleeding profusely from being bitten. Tang Bufan was biting with all his might, without his own awareness, just like an infant who cannot control his strength.
Lu Yi held Tang Bufan tightly with one hand, forcefully pulled out his fingers with the other, and then stuffed the leather belt into Tang Bufan's mouth, making him bite on it for the time being.
"It'll be alright, teacher... you'll be alright." As Lu Yi spoke, she couldn't help but shed tears again, leaning down to press her forehead against Tang Bufan, who was writhing in pain.
He had already injected the mutated toxin into Tang Bufan's body; all he could do now was wait.
The bleeding on Tang Bufan's neck stopped, and the wound healed quickly. However, he vomited blood several more times, which left Lu Yi at a loss. Vomiting blood should not occur during the mutation process. He wondered if it was because Anderson had given Tang Bufan veterinary drugs.
Will liver and kidney failure affect mutations? Lu Yi, with red eyes, held the restless Tang Bufan tightly, her mind in a state of extreme anxiety.
After struggling painfully in Lu Yi's arms for several hours, Tang Bufan gradually showed signs of calming down. The bandage around his eyes was stained red with blood, and he had bitten through the leather belt in his mouth, forcing Lu Yi to replace it with a piece for him to continue biting.
His skin was still red. Lu Yi noticed that his trousers were a little shorter, and then belatedly remembered to take off Tang Bufan's shoes and socks so that he would be barefoot and his feet would not be affected.
"So small." Lu Yi, her eyes red, grabbed Tang Bufan's hand, which had grown sharp claws, and kissed it. "Teacher, why are you growing so slowly? Grow up faster."
The mutation process takes about a week. Healthy humans with good constitutions may calm down in three days, but some slower humans may take up to ten days. Tang Bufan is not in good health, and Lu Yixin thinks it will take ten days.
Anderson was gone for five hours. He searched all over the abandoned, vast city of Beijing and finally found the hollowed-out gag and the baby bottle.
The leather belt had been torn to shreds by Tang Bufan's chewing. Lu Yi carefully pried open his mouth, and Anderson took out the belt, stuffed the golden gag inside, and tightened it behind his head.
Tang Bufan was breathing painfully with a gag in his mouth. The fangs he revealed were so small that they could hardly be called fangs; they looked more like small tiger teeth.
"Luckily, there's some nutritional powder in the car." Anderson held a baby bottle and prepared nutritional supplements for Tang Bufan, looking at Tang Bufan, who seemed to have lost even more weight.
Mutation consumes a lot of energy. If the body does not have enough energy, it will begin to engage in autophagy. If a person is fat, they can survive on body fat, but a thin person is more likely to die.
Lu Yi was still holding Tang Bufan tightly, but he had calmed down a bit. He looked at Anderson with a hint of hatred in his eyes: "After you left, the teacher vomited blood several more times. Maybe it was because of the medicine you gave him."
"..." Anderson was silent, then tossed the baby bottle over in a daze: "Anyway, help him get enough nutrition first, and then give him a full check-up when we get back to the Federation."
Now that things have come to this, there's no use blaming Anderson. All Lu Yi can do is remove the gag from Tang Bufan's mouth and put the baby bottle in his mouth.
But Tang Bufan quickly chewed up the pacifier.
***
Tang Bufan felt incredibly hot, as if he were in a furnace. Then he woke up and looked at the somewhat blackened and moldy whitewashed ceiling, realizing that he was covered in sweat.
The bamboo mat beneath him was soaked. Tang Bufan turned his head and saw that the sun was blazing outside, and his family's old electric fan, which had been used for many years, was blowing directly at him.
Tang Bufan slowly got up, feeling uncomfortable all over. He turned off the electric fan, put on his slippers, and went to the bathroom to wash his face.
The phone on the sink rang. Tang Bufan looked up and saw it was Kai Ge.
He pressed the answer button with his wet fingers.
"Xiao Tang, why aren't you at school yet?" Kai's carefree voice came through the phone: "Class starts in ten minutes!"
Tang Bufan was startled, his mind instantly clearing, yet still somewhat hazy. He immediately shoved his phone aside and rushed outside.
"Oh no! I overslept! Kai, can you cover for me? I'm coming!"
"You really are something."
After hanging up the phone, Tang Bufan rushed out of the house. Suddenly, he felt someone watching him. He looked up and saw a golden kitten with one gold and one green eye hiding behind the stair railing, watching him.
Where did this kitten come from? Tang Bufan found it strange, then suddenly remembered that its name was Lu Yi.
"You picked it up yourself?" Kai poured beer for Tang Bufan, and the two sat in the barbecue stall while it was pouring rain outside.
The shop owner, wearing a greasy apron, was grilling meat for them. On the rusty grill sat skinned rats, while a news report played on the shop's television.
"A dangerous man has escaped from the West District Mental Hospital. The man is 30 years old and has killed two of his wives. He is extremely dangerous. Please be aware of his safety."
Tang Bufan picked up the roasted rat and started eating it, then suddenly realized and said, "It really is the one I raised. How did it escape from home?"
"If you have to keep a cat, you have to pay attention to the doors and windows." Kai's voice suddenly changed as he spoke, turning into a gentle yet mechanical electronic male voice, but Tang Bufan didn't think there was anything wrong with it.
Out of the corner of his eye, Tang Bufan suddenly saw a child standing in the downpour, his face pale and staring straight at him. Startled, he immediately looked up, only to find that there was no one in the misty rain.
The entire city was pitch black, except for this barbecue stall, which was lit up.
Tang Bufan then lowered his head and continued eating the rat, enjoying the slightly damp, cool breeze of the downpour.
***
"It's been 13 days! Why hasn't the teacher woken up yet!" Lu Yi questioned Anderson in a deep voice.
The RV's doors and windows were open, and some snowflakes drifted in through the windows and landed on Tang Bufan's face.
The man's eyes were still bandaged, and he still had a golden gag in his mouth, but his fangs were already very obvious, white and sharp, about 1.5 centimeters long.
Lu Yi's hair was messy, his eyes were bloodshot, and he smelled bad. Ever since Tang Bufan started to mutate, he had never left his side, holding him day and night.
Tang Bufan was covered with a thin blanket. His skin had faded from its bright red and returned to its original bluish-white color, but there was a hint of pink in that bluish-white color. His lips, which were originally dark, had turned bright red.
About eight days after the mutation, Tang Bufan stopped groaning unconsciously, but he still kicked his legs from time to time. In just 13 days, the man grew 15 centimeters taller.
Anderson was not much better off than Lu Yi, and because of his anxiety, he couldn't help but start biting his nails.
“Wait a little longer.” Anderson, his eyes rimmed with dark circles, stared at Tang Bufan, who showed no signs of waking. He was incredibly annoyed. He leaned against the wall, biting his fingers hard. “Anthony checked. The longest recorded coma was a month. It’s only been 13 days…”
"What do you mean it's only been 13 days?!" Lu Yi shouted at Anderson, his breathing rapid. "Normal mutations only take a week!"
"He's not normal!" Anderson, annoyed by Lu Yi's yelling, pointed at the skinny man and cursed, "You know how bad his health is!"
After saying that, she stood up anxiously, walked to the kitchen in a daze, picked up the baby bottle that had been used with more than a dozen nipples, and started to prepare nutritional fluid for Tang Bufan. "What are you yelling about? He's already been dead before. It's good enough that he came back to life!"
Lu Yi held Tang Bufan tightly, looking at Anderson with a gloomy gaze. Then, with red eyes, he lowered his head and gently rubbed his nose against Tang Bufan's cheek.
***
"Lu Yi, don't be picky about food." Tang Bufan fed the kitten lettuce leaves, gently stroking its fluffy head with his fingers: "You won't grow big if you don't eat vegetables. Look how small you are, you can fit into a cup already."
Suddenly, a small figure walked past behind him. Tang Bufan turned around and found the room was foggy. He looked outside and saw dozens of green figures pressed against the security bars.
"The ivy downstairs has grown all the way up here." Tang Bufan looked at the dozens of green skeletons and laughed, "They're growing really well."
Out of the corner of his eye, Tang Bufan caught sight of a figure walking by again. This time, he turned his head and finally saw the child.
The child, with pale, bluish skin and a swollen body, stood quietly in the corner of the living room, watching him.
Tang Bufan felt he looked familiar, but couldn't remember his name, so he asked him from a distance, "What's your name?"
The child didn't speak, but pointed to the kitchen. Tang Bufan turned his head and saw an old woman cooking, her body hunched over, while outside the kitchen was a small courtyard covered with moss.
Tang Bufan felt something was off, so he asked the old lady, "Grandma, what are you doing at my house?"
The old woman, with her back to him, replied, "This is my home."
Tang Bufan was even more puzzled. "This is clearly my home."
Why don't you take another look?
Tang Bufan looked again and realized he was sitting in an unfamiliar little living room. He immediately remembered and quickly got up from the sofa, smiling at the old woman: "Grandma, I've come for a home visit."
"Oh, it's Teacher Tang." The old man turned around in the kitchen, revealing a blurry face. "Is my son Chen Fei behaving well at school?"
"Chen Fei is very well-behaved," Tang Bufan said with a smile. Just as he was about to discuss the home visit with the old man, he suddenly heard the phone ring.
"Ring ring—"
Tang Bufan stopped abruptly. He looked up in surprise, the sound of the bell seemingly coming from the sky.
And faintly, he heard the voices of two men talking:
Are you sure the alarm will wake him up?
"Your words are useless, my words are useless, and even Kai's words are useless. He just wants to go back to being a teacher, so let's let him hear the bell and see if he gets up!"
Who's talking? Tang Bufan found it strange, and at the same time, he found the ringtone unusually jarring.
Class is about to start... Class is about to start...
Tang Bufan became anxious upon hearing the bell, so he called out to the old woman in the kitchen, "Grandma! I have to go back to class!"
The old man looked at him with his blurry face, seemingly smiling: "Go on, Teacher Tang."
"Ring ring—!"
"Ring ring ring—!"
The ringing of the bell made Tang Bufan's heart race. He rushed outside, but his legs felt heavier and heavier.
He suddenly felt very tired, and his eyelids were drooping, but the phone was still ringing.
"Ring ring—!"
"Ring ring ring—!"
"I'm up...I'm up..." Tang Bufan suddenly opened his eyes, but everything was pitch black. He shouted, "Oh no! I'm going to be late for class!"
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