Chapter 93 Fever
In the hotel suite, Yu Che hadn't even warmed up to the sofa when he got straight to the point: "Mr. Chu, I'm here to ask you something. Is Lin Xingyan at the Chu family?"
"Lin Xingyan?" Chu Yanxing was sitting on the bed opposite. He was stunned when he heard the words, as if he was surprised that Yu Che knew this person.
Then, he crossed one leg over the other and said with a half-smile, "I think this seems to be a family affair of our Chu family."
The implication is that Yu Che is meddling too much.
Yu Che's heart sank, but he patiently said, "Lin Xingyan is my friend. He's been missing for almost a week, and I'm very worried about him."
Chu Yanxing smiled, a hint of interest flashing across his eyes: "Are you a couple?"
"No, no, we're just friends." Yu Che's face flushed and he quickly waved his hand to clarify.
Mr. Chu is really something, I didn't expect him to be so gossipy...
Chu Yanxing, dressed in a suit and tie, slowly picked up the coffee beside him, blew on it, and took a sip.
Seeing his indifference, Yu Che grew anxious and spoke again, "If you know, please, I'll contact him no matter what."
After he finished speaking, Chu Yanxing put down his coffee cup and lowered his eyes slightly. The orange light cast a beautiful shadow on his eye sockets.
When she looked up again, a hint of regret appeared on her face: "I'm sorry, Miss Lin said some nonsense at the ancestral home some time ago."
Chu Yanxing paused, as if recalling something, his tone somewhat difficult to speak:
"Don't be complacent, soon the world will no longer be dominated by the Chu family..." Such rebellious words, the clan elders were furious and took Miss Lin to the confinement room for reflection. Unexpectedly..."
Yu Che's heart skipped a beat, and he quickly asked, "What didn't you expect?"
Chu Yanxing looked at Yu Che deeply and said, "I didn't expect that she had a sudden illness and passed away three days ago."
……What?
As soon as these words came out, it was like a bolt from the blue. Yu Che's face turned pale, and the whole world seemed to be spinning. His ears were buzzing and he could no longer hear any other sounds.
Died? Lin Xingyan...died?
Countless memories of Lin Xingyan flashed through Yu Che's mind.
The quirky and clever him, the straightforward and kind him, the tearful him, the heart-stirring him. Every smile, every gesture is vivid in my mind, as if it happened yesterday.
Even during their last meeting, Lin Xingyan still felt guilty about losing the secret realm orb.
He pulled the corners of his mouth hard, and suddenly thought of the relationship between Chu Yanxing and Lin Xingyan. He must dislike Lin Xingyan. Maybe...
Yu Che held onto the last glimmer of hope and said in a dry voice, "S-Stop joking."
Chu Yanxing raised his eyebrows, his eyes expressing confusion, as if he didn't understand what was so joking about.
Instead of saying "It's true," he opened his lips and said again, "I'm sorry."
After these two words were spoken, Yu Che's breathing stagnated, and he tried to find any trace of lying on Chu Yanxing's face.
Even if it was just a little bit, but there was none, he only saw the indifference of not caring about it.
He suddenly froze, his expression gradually fell, and a huge storm was rising in his heart.
It was the Chu family who killed him...
Yu Che didn't believe in any sudden illness. Lin Xingyan was so healthy before. Everyone in the Chu family was an executioner.
Including Chu Yanxing!
His emotions suddenly got out of control, tears welled up in his eyes, and he roared, suddenly jumped up from the sofa, raised his fist and was about to hit Chu Yanxing in the face.
On the other hand, Chu Yanxing was still sitting calmly on the edge of the bed. He just raised his eyes and raised his palm, and easily caught the blow that contained all his strength.
Seeing this, Chu Yanxing frowned, and said with a hint of displeasure: "Are you crazy?"
"Asshole, I'm going to fight you!" After a stalemate between a punch and a palm, Yu Che attacked with his other hand, sobbing and crying.
Chu Yanxing's eyes turned cold and he showed no mercy anymore. The two of them fought fiercely in the luxurious suite.
Yu Che's fury clouded his mind, and though his attacks were ferocious, they were utterly disorganized. Chu Yanxing, on the other hand, was at ease, his moves ruthless and brutal.
After fighting for dozens of moves, Chu Yanxing found an opening on Yu Che's back and chopped him on the back of his neck with a knife.
Yu Che groaned in pain, his eyes rolled up, and he fell forward helplessly.
At this moment, Chu Yanxing's eyes changed from cold and he gently took Yu Che's unconscious body. He lowered his head and looked at the person in his arms, his brows slightly furrowed, and there were traces of tears on his face.
He sighed, carefully stroking her cheek and wiping away the tears.
…
After an unknown amount of time, Yu Che felt a dull pain in the back of his neck. His eyelids trembled and he slowly raised his eyelids.
There was a cold white ceiling in front of him. He subconsciously wanted to move, but found that his wrists and ankles were put on iron rings, locked to the metal bed frame under him, and he could not move.
What's going on and where is he?
Yu Che gritted his teeth and struggled for a few times, even mobilizing his spiritual power, but the iron rings on his hands and feet did not move at all, and even scratched the skin around the edges of the rings, causing a stinging pain.
There was no way, he could only raise his head slightly and look around.
It was a rectangular room with four walls of a harsh white, including the ceiling.
In the room, apart from the metal bed under him, there was a dark gray square table not far to the right.
Apart from that, there's nothing else. It doesn't look like a normal residence, but rather like... what?
Yu Che was thinking to himself, when at this moment, a vertical crack appeared on the wall opposite the bed, and then slid to both sides, forming a small door that was only wide enough for one person to enter and exit.
Chu Yanxing walked in wearing a white research coat and rimless glasses, carrying a silver briefcase in his hand.
At this moment, he had shed the arrogance of a business elite and gained some of the calmness and self-control of a scientific researcher.
Ever since seeing Chu Yanxing dressed like this, Yu Che's alarm bells had gone off. He raised his head in embarrassment and said, "Chu Yanxing, what are you doing?"
Chu Yanxing ignored him, put the box in his hand on the table, extended his index finger, turned his head and hushed Yu Che.
"Don't be anxious."
After that, he took out a palm-sized remote control from his pocket, clicked the button on the wall, and a magical scene happened.
The four walls instantly became transparent, like four glass walls. Outside was a huge laboratory with rows of cylindrical culture chambers.
Inside the cabin, soaked in green nutrient solution, are sleeping exotic animals of many different species. Some researchers are moving around, some are operating instruments, and some are recording data.
"As you can see," Chu Yan walked to the transparent wall, his back to Yu Che, "our research on exotic beasts has reached a bottleneck. So, it's time to explore a new research direction."
He turned around to look at Yu Che, who was tied to the bed. His glasses flickered, and a hint of fanaticism flashed in his eyes:
"Human potential, especially one as gifted as you, may bring us even greater surprises. How about you become our institute's first human research subject?"
After hearing these words, a chill ran from his feet to the top of his head. Yu Che glanced at the surrounding scene and his scalp suddenly went numb.
Will he then be like these strange beasts, lying naked in the incubation chamber, without any dignity, until he loses all research value?
He couldn't help but tremble slightly as he imagined this scene. He knew what this room looked like, like a sinister laboratory in a movie.
"You're crazy, Chu Yanxing! This is illegal!"
Yu Che cursed loudly and struggled frantically like a stranded fish. Lightning flashed all over his body, connecting with the iron rings and the bed frame, emitting a "sizzling" purple light of electricity.
Chu Yanxing was not affected at all. He walked to the table and opened the silver suitcase. Inside was neatly arranged various surgical instruments and medicines.
He first put on white gloves, took out an empty syringe, then picked up a small bottle of colorless and transparent reagent, inserted the needle tip into the reagent, and slowly drew it out.
Then, he squeezed out the air from the syringe and walked towards Yu Che step by step with a cold expression.
"Don't come over here, get out of here!" Yu Che's eyes were bloodshot, and he used all his strength to hit the cricket pupa.
However, it was in vain. Chu Yanxing held down his arm, found the blood vessel, and pierced the skin with the cold needle tip, pushing the liquid in.
After finishing, Chu Yanxing pulled out the needle and gently pressed the needle hole with a cotton swab, his eyes focused.
Yu Che did not appreciate this kindness. His chest heaved violently as he stared at Chu Yanxing with a fierce look that seemed to want to cut off a piece of his flesh.
After wiping off the last trace of blood with a cotton swab, Chu Yanxing took two steps back with satisfaction and pushed his glasses.
"have a good rest."
He raised the corners of his lips slightly and pressed the remote control again. The transparent wall returned to white, the wall opened, and Chu Yanxing walked out of the room leisurely with the box in his hand.
The cold iron rings hurt his hands and feet. Yu Che lay on his back on the metal bed, staring blankly at the pale ceiling.
Will he die?
What on earth had Chu Yanxing injected into him? Was it a deadly poison, or some potion that would turn a person into a monster?
The fear of the unknown is far more tormenting than known dangers.
Yu Che's thoughts drifted back to that day in the hotel, when Chu Yanxing recounted the cause of Lin Xingyan's death—she had spoken rebellious words and angered the clan elders.
"Soon this world will no longer be dominated by the Chu family alone."
Yu Che felt extremely guilty and regretful.
Aren’t those words, those ideas about changing the world and giving hope to ordinary people, exactly what I instilled in Lin Xingyan?
It was I who passed on that overly idealistic belief to him.
It was he who dragged him into this vortex that had nothing to do with him.
It was me... who indirectly killed him!
This realization was like the sharpest dagger, stirring Yu Che's heart fiercely.
Hot tears slid from the corners of his eyes and dripped onto the metal bed frame, leaving a little cool crystal.
He closed his eyes, and all he could think of was Lin Xingyan's guilty and dependent eyes when she looked at him for the last time.
In the next few days, Yu Che never saw Chu Yanxing again.
Only the silent and mechanical staff, who visited him twice a day to change IV drips and record data, reminded him that he was still imprisoned and his fate was uncertain.
It was like a sword of Damocles hanging over Yu Che's head.
On the sixth night, perhaps due to being immersed in negative emotions for too long, or perhaps due to the effects of the drugs, Yu Che's body finally protested.
He felt hot and cold, his forehead was burning, his lips were chapped, and his consciousness became dizzy.
Yu Che has a fever.
At this time, Chu Yanxing, who had been away for a long time, walked up to Yu Che again, wearing a set of casual clothes similar to the style of his previous date at the food court.
Yu Che's distracted eyes flickered, his mouth moved, and he murmured, "Lin Xingyan..."
In response, Chu Yanxing smiled, sat down beside Yu Che's bed, and called his name softly.
"Yu Che."
For some reason, when Yu Che saw the dimples on the cheeks of the person in front of him, even though his brain was a mess, his eyes would instinctively feel hot, and the tears that were about to flow were evaporated by the body temperature.
"I miss you so much……"
The slightly cool hand fell on the hot face, Chu Yanxing leaned down with a burning gaze.
Yu Che also looked at him infatuatedly, with redness at the corners of his eyes. He was enveloped by a familiar breath, and a kiss as soft as the touch of a feather fell down.
Chu Yanxing kissed her as if she were a treasure, while his other hand reached into her clothes and moved across her skin. Yu Che's high fever subsided slightly, but an even more difficult-to-extinguish desire quietly ignited.
This feeling was too subtle. Yu Che frowned slightly and couldn't help but let out a moan in his throat, his upper body slightly raised.
Chu Yanxing used the remote control, and the iron ring opened in two and retracted into the bed frame. Then, he picked up the confused Yu Che by the waist, carried him to the private bedroom, and pressed on him.
After Yu Che vented his emotions several times, his high fever gradually subsided and he suddenly regained some rationality in his mind.
The first thing he saw was Chu Yanxing's face under the dim light, his patient expression, and his bare upper body...
In an instant, Yu Che's body and mind were shaken, as if he had fallen into an abyss.
Chu Yanxing noticed Yu Che's strangeness, and a malicious glimmer flashed in his dark eyes:
"What's wrong?"
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