The tears on Gao Shukai's face had not yet dried, and the moment he saw Lin Dan, they began to fall again. The rationality that he had thrown out of the window finally came back, prompting him to turn around quickly, lift the hem of his T-shirt to wipe his tears, and mutter to himself embarrassedly: How embarrassing, so unmanly!
Lin Dan stared at his tall and strong back for a while, and actually laughed softly.
Her laughter was like a spell that instantly broke the darkness in the alley and woke up Ma Rui and a group of thugs who were in a daze, and then they screamed.
"She's alive, she's not dead! Damn it, we're in trouble!" Ma Rui was covered in wounds, but he seemed to feel nothing. He quickly got up and staggered away. The gangsters had already fled in all directions, but none of them dared to choose the direction where Lin Dan was standing. Instead, they ran wildly in the opposite direction, and some of them even exuded a strong smell of urine.
In a corner that no one noticed, a group of red bugs were drilling into the cracks in the wall and disappearing.
"What are you doing?" Lin Dan walked over slowly. Yu Yeying followed closely behind her, occasionally sticking out half of her head and secretly looking at Gao Shukai, who was crying loudly but pretending to be nothing.
"I heard that Ma Rui was going to attack you, so I came to save you." Gao Shukai had no idea that there was a stream of snot hanging on his face.
Lin Dan didn't mind his dirtiness at all. Instead, she looked at him tenderly. "Here, you go." She took out a clean white handkerchief and instructed, "Wipe your face with it."
"What's wrong with my face?" Gao Shukai touched his cheek and then became petrified.
Lin Dan directly covered his face with the handkerchief and let go only after he caught it, with a joyful light flashing in her deep eyes. No wonder Ai Yu likes to call him a big fool. Now it seems that he is really a bit stupid!
Gao Shukai quickly held the handkerchief and whispered, "Did you use this handkerchief to wipe your face on the first day of school?"
"Yes." Lin Dan nodded.
Gao Shukai's ears turned red, but he held the handkerchief tightly and refused to let go. "I, I'll wash it and return it to you. Stay away from Ma Rui in the future, he is not a good person. His lifestyle is problematic and he likes to force girls. Go home quickly after evening self-study and don't stay outside. If you really want to buy something, you can come to me and I'll take you there."
The last sentence seemed to have cost him too much courage, so he didn't dare to look up to see Lin Dan's reaction.
Lin Dan stared at his hair that was as hard as a hedgehog and said briskly, "Okay, I'll trouble you from now on, Gao Shukai."
"No trouble, no trouble!" Gao Shukai waved his hands repeatedly, his cheeks flushed.
Ai Yu quickly chased after him along the alley, shouting in frustration, "Stupid guy, you're running away again! Do you know that this is dangerous? You're almost pissing me off to death!"
Lin Dan suddenly leaned close to Gao Shukai's ear and said slowly, "Student Gao Shukai, please don't stay outside after dark. If you have to go somewhere, please call me and I will protect you. But you have to pay me, okay?" She gently held his injured hand, her hungry eyes resting on the Band-Aid.
Gao Shukai's brain was already burnt out. He felt that what Lin Dan was blowing towards him was not hot air, but flames. His ears, his cheeks, and even the tip of his heart were about to be singed by her. He had no way of trying to understand the deeper meaning of her words and could only stare blankly at her disappearing into the dark alley.
Lin Dan walked slowly, and Yu Yeying followed closely behind her.
Walking to a brighter place, Lin Dan turned around and asked, "Is your new friend the girl that Ma Rui bullied last time?"
Yu Yeying's eyes immediately turned red, and she nodded, "Yes, it was her. You don't know, her uterus was ruptured, and her life was ruined by those beasts! The first time I saw her, I knew that she and I were the same. Only people who have been hurt would have that kind of fearful and desperate look."
Lin Dan sighed deeply, then hugged the silently crying girl in his arms.
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The next day, Ma Rui took sick leave. A few days later, he came to school with a pale face and dark circles under his eyes. When he saw Lin Dan, he couldn't help but shrink his shoulders, looking frightened. Lin Dan just glanced at him indifferently, and he immediately lowered his head and ran to his seat in embarrassment.
He took a few deep breaths to calm his frightened heart, then opened the desk to get a book. Then he opened his mouth in shock and let out a broken breath. I saw a severed hand in his drawer. The moment it came into contact with air and light, it quickly rotted into a pool of blood. Dense insects crawled out of the smelly blood, covering the books and his fingertips. The piercing pain swept over me, so familiar, so terrible!
Ma Rui closed the desk with all his strength and shouted at the top of his lungs: "There are bugs in my desk and they are going to eat me! Help!" He stepped back repeatedly and accidentally fell to the ground, but he quickly got up and staggered away.
He was running and yelling like a madman. The whole class looked at him, and only started talking after he ran away. His deskmate opened his desk and wondered, "There's nothing here! Where did the bug come from?"
"I think he's mentally unstable!"
“It’s like taking drugs!”
"No way?"
"Don't you know? When he was in junior high school, he liked to hang out with a bunch of hooligans and his life was a mess. If he took drugs, I wouldn't be surprised at all!"
"Then let's quickly notify Teacher Chen!"
The classroom was in chaos in an instant. Some people ran out to chase Ma Rui, some went to the office to find the head teacher, and some took the opportunity to slack off. Lin Dan was not distracted from beginning to end. He was reading an English book in his hand, but his accent was weird, which made Yu Yeying cover her mouth and laugh.
After class, Ai Yu blocked Lin Dan in the girls' restroom and said sternly, "You've put a curse on your classmates again! If you keep going like this, Ma Rui will be driven crazy by you! What on earth did he do that you have to treat him like this? He's just an ordinary person, don't go too far!"
Lin Dan was too lazy to say a word to Ai Yu. This girl seemed to regard herself as a messenger of justice and wanted to intervene in everything.
"Hey, I'm asking you a question. How did Ma Rui offend you?" Seeing that Lin Dan remained silent, Ai Yu wanted to walk up and pull the other person.
Lin Dan avoided her lightly and said slowly: "It's not your turn to take care of my affairs."
"I joined the Xuanmen Arbitration Bureau a few days ago. If you endanger ordinary people, I am qualified to intervene! Don't use your abilities to disrupt the secular order!" Ai Yu said righteously.
Lin Dan didn't even look at her and just washed his hands carefully.
Ai Yu gritted her teeth in anger and taunted, "You are just a Gu girl, not even a wizard, so don't be so reckless. You can't deal with a real Heavenly Master. I may not be as strong as you, but there are many people in Xuanmen who can deal with you! I have warned you twice in a row. If it happens again, I will definitely not let you go! You'd better get rid of Ma Rui's Gu!"
Lin Dan raised his head and said slowly: "Aren't you very powerful? Can't you tell whether he is poisoned or not? The Heavenly Master is indeed very powerful. You call yourselves real people, as if you are superior to others, but in fact, you are still human after all, and you are not extraordinary. If there were no insects on the earth, do you know what it would be like?"
Ai Yu stared at her without saying a word.
Lin Dan continued, "Without insects, trees cannot reproduce, land and water cannot be purified, and the world will be destroyed sooner or later. Humans are the most intelligent creatures in the world. You gave yourself this title, right? But look, without humans, the earth is still turning, and it will only become healthier and better. So in the final analysis, humans are the most redundant species in the world, not even as good as insects. Where does your sense of superiority, your pride and pride come from? What's wrong with the Gu girl? A truly powerful Gu girl is enough to send the entire Xuanmen to hell."
After saying these words, Lin Dan couldn't help but be stunned, and finally realized that something was wrong with him. Since when did she divide herself and humans into two species? Could it be the influence of the Holy Gu? She rubbed her temples, looked at Ai Yu deeply again, and then left.
Ai Yu was stunned for a long time before shouting at her back: "I want to see how you send the entire Xuanmen to hell! You ignorant lunatic!"
The figure of a strange man appeared behind Ai Yu, with a very sinister look in his eyes. Let the entire Xuanmen go to hell? Why does this idea sound so tempting? Lin Dan is worthy of being Lin Dan and never lets him down. When Ai Yu turned around and found him, his gloomy expression was immediately replaced by warmth and kindness, and then he seemed to listen carefully to his little disciple's complaints.
This episode did not affect Lin Dan's mood for the whole day. She accepted Gao Shukai's WeChat application and became friends with him. During the lunch break, she went to a nearby bank to apply for a savings card and sent the account number to her class teacher. Not long after, another WeChat account applied to become her friend, with the remark "Long-legged Brother".
She ignored it several times, but the other party kept sending requests, until the last time he changed the note to "kind-hearted person". Lin Dan suddenly realized what was going on, and then she quickly added the other party and thanked him carefully.
"No, I don't need you to do anything for me. Your hard work in studying is the best reward for me." A kind person sent this message.
Lin Dan replied seriously: "I will."
The man hesitated for a long time before saying, "Is five thousand yuan enough for you? I can give you some more."
"No, I'll find a part-time job."
"No, you must not take a part-time job. You are so busy with your studies, you have classes during the day and evening self-study at night, where do you find time for a part-time job? Just study hard and don't worry about the rest. You can take a part-time job after you go to college, it's too early now. By the way, you must pay attention to safety, the security is not very good recently!"
This earnest exhortation warmed Lin Dan's eyes and her heart. She curled the corners of her lips slightly and replied seriously: "Okay, I won't go."
The other end fell silent again, and after a long while, a message came back: "Don't fall in love too early, unless the boy is tall and strong, has a strong sense of justice, and comes from a wealthy family who can protect you."
Lin Dan glanced at Gao Shukai subconsciously, then replied, "Okay, no premature love."
Gao Shukai's hair stood on end when he saw her. After a long while, he buried his head in his arms and said in an anxious tone, "Just reply to your text messages. Why are you looking at me? What do you think I mean? Ahhhhh..."
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