Chapter 38

The last dot of light left, and the glowing formation suddenly went out - it had completed its mission.

"Is it over? Can I go back and rest now?" Lu Yayin yawned, tears welling up from her eyes. "Including today, I haven't gotten much sleep in almost three days and three nights."

Yin Li, who also looked sleepy, nodded: "Yeah."

This special hospital in Chongming City belongs to a different department and does not receive ordinary patients, so there are many empty rooms. After Yu Tu and the other three went back to rest, Yin Li also checked in a room with her ID card. After getting the room card, she walked into the temporary room and just drew the curtains to rest, she saw a familiar shadow in the residual light—there was a faint red in the green plants downstairs.

Yin Li's eyes turned away suddenly and she froze in place: "Luo Susu?"

The red color among the green plants trembled, making a rustling sound.

Yin Li grabbed her whip and turned over. After landing lightly, she walked cautiously to the place she saw. At a safe distance, the black whip was like a spirit snake out of its sheath. With one whip, it broke the covering plants, revealing a dirty two-tailed fox.

"Lily..." The red fox curled up into a ball under the green plants pitifully, "I finally escaped. Call the police! There's a bad monster in Chongming City—"

"So law-abiding~" Before Lu Susu finished her words, Yin Li heard a female voice behind her. She quickly whipped the whip hanging at her side and hit the person who was talking behind her, but the person was not hurt at all. "It's not good for the little girl to be so vigilant."

The broken plants gave off a faint fragrance, and the voice had a hint of flirtatious teasing.

Yin Li's vision suddenly began to spin, slender figures began to overlap, and an irresistible dizziness came over her.

"One, two, three—" she heard the female voice say, "Fall~"

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Sending the baby spirit away was the end of what Yu Tu had been worrying about. He returned to his ward, simply dusted off the talisman ashes, and fell headfirst onto the bed to catch up on some sleep.

I don’t know how long I slept, but Yu Tu was awakened by a pungent smell. The smell was not particularly bad, but it made people feel very uncomfortable.

He climbed out of bed and walked to the window. There was a small piece of broken plant in the greenery outside the window, and the pungent smell was emanating from the broken part of the plant.

Yu Tu: “……?”

How come his sense of smell has become so sensitive since germination?

This is the greening of the hospital. Yu Tu is not in a position to make any comments. He closed the window and decided not to open it when he went to bed tonight.

Because he hadn't eaten for a long time, his stomach was growling. Yu Tu touched his hungry stomach, opened the door, and prepared to go to the cafeteria on the second floor to eat.

The elevator went down to the cafeteria on the second floor. It was already past noontime and there was only one window open in the cafeteria. A fat lady was guarding the window. Her plump, white face looked kind and amiable, but she seemed a little listless and was yawning one after another.

"Auntie He." Yu Tu walked to the window. "What dishes do you have today?"

"It's Tutu." Auntie He, who was serving lunch, looked up after hearing the voice. "Today's main dishes are beef stew with potatoes, braised chicken, and sweet and sour pork with pineapple. The vegetarian dishes are stir-fried lettuce, boiled bean sprouts, and salad lettuce. The soup is corn, yam, and pork rib soup. After the meal, there's a fruit platter of oranges and yellow peaches."

Although it was not the first time to eat in the hospital cafeteria, Yu Tu was still looking forward to it, because the meals were not only different every day, but also tasted especially good. It was said that the old chefs worked in high-end hotels as banquet chefs before their retirement, and they were rehired so that the executive team and injured patients who were taking a break in the hospital could eat happily.

After Yu Tu had a delicious lunch, he couldn't eat any more of the fruit platter. Aunt He magically took out a take-away box from the cupboard and filled it up for him. She could barely close the lid: "Take it upstairs and eat it slowly."

The chefs and aunties in the cafeteria were all very good-tempered and were very happy to feed the people who came to eat in the cafeteria. Before, when they came to eat, everyone's meal was fully packed, and the dishes were almost piled up, so no one talked in the cafeteria, just buried their heads in eating. Yu Tu had heard Lu Yayin pinching the flesh on her waist and sighing: "Fortunately, I don't eat in the hospital cafeteria every day, otherwise I'd really worry about my waistline being ruined."

Every time they left after eating a full meal, they would each hold a box of fruit after the meal, so their stomachs were never empty during the few days they stayed in the hospital.

Yu Tu thanked her and returned to the elevator carrying the heavy box of love packed by Aunt He. After smelling the pungent smell, he began to feel sleepy again.

The elevator ran to his floor. After a ring, the elevator door opened and Yu Tu walked out of the elevator door. When he passed by Yin Li who was about to go downstairs, he smelled a familiar, pungent smell.

Yu Tu turned his head subconsciously: "Did you go to the green bush next to the building?"

"Hmm?" Yin Li tucked her hair behind her ears, a puzzled look on her face, "What greenery?"

Yu Tu felt uneasy after blurting out this, but he reacted quickly. He pointed at the whip on Yin Li's waist and said, "Your whip is not clean. There are plant residues on it."

He advised: "After all, this is a hospital, a public place. It's better not to use the green plants in the hospital to practice whipping."

"I understand." Yin Li nodded, with an expression of humility and willingness to learn. "I will pay attention to this in the future."

The two chatted for a few words at the elevator door, and Yin Li took the elevator straight down.

After the elevator door closed, Yu Tu's calm state suddenly changed, and he quickly ran towards Meng Ziqiu's room.

The owner of the gaze staring at him has not been found yet. Yu Tu is now in a state of panic, and he tends to think about things if something is slightly wrong. Although he has not had much contact with Yin Li, she does not seem to be a person who will destroy public greening at will and has low morals.

Yu Tu had only run halfway down the corridor when he suddenly felt a sound of breaking air behind him. His first reaction was to open his mouth and shout for help, but what came towards him was a whip, which softly wrapped around his neck and tightened.

The feeling of suffocation gradually grew, and Yu Tu tried in vain to pry it out with his hands.

"What a sharp kid, you almost fooled me." Yu Tu heard a strange female voice, and light footsteps came from behind him and in front of him. He saw Yin Li's face, "If you were calmer and walked into the room by yourself, maybe I wouldn't be suspicious."

"If we're discovered, what should I do with you?" She slowly tightened the whip in her hand, "Killing you won't work, how about -"

Before she could finish her words, the door next to her opened and Gu Hongying jumped out from the door in high spirits and almost bumped into her.

"I'm so hungry, so hungry———" he rushed out yelling, "Who the hell is at my door!!!"

After braking the car urgently, Gu Hongying finally saw the scene clearly—Yin Li, whom he had met once before in the police station, was holding Yu Tu's throat with a whip. It was like a scene where a secret had been revealed and she was going to kill someone to silence him.

"Brother Qin, save me—mmmm—"

Gu Hongying's first reaction was to call for help, but he was strangled before he could finish his words, and the rest of his words turned into a whisper.

"I wasn't planning on looking for you, but why did you both run into my hands?" Yin Li held Yu Tu's throat with a whip in one hand and pinched Gu Hongying's neck with the other hand, with a gloomy look on her face. "Then I can only take you all away..."

"Where are you taking them?" A sinister voice sounded from behind Yin Li, "Would you like to tell me?"

Qin Fei just took the time to get a tester while taking care of Hongying. When he came back, he found that two children in his team were almost killed.

A huge force came from her hand, Yin Li felt pain and loosened the whip that was locking Yu Tu. Then her other hand was kicked away, and Gu Hongying's neck was also freed.

"You two, step back." Qin Fei, with an extremely ugly expression, moved his wrists. "How many of us in the special group are still alive? Is it your turn to act so recklessly here?"

A fist fight broke out in the corridor. Gu Hongying pulled Yu Tu back a little with one hand and used the other hand to hook away the sealed fruit box on the ground.

The two of them squatted at the door. Gu Hongying, who was so hungry that his eyes were almost green, tore open the lid of the box. A fresh fruity fragrance filled the air. Gu Hongying took the toothpick inside and poked the fruit while eating while complaining loudly: "Brother Qin pinched my neck and used a whip to strangle Yu Tu's neck. If you hadn't come in time, we would have almost died in her hands——"

After he finished his complaint, he handed the fruit box to Yu Tu and asked, "Do you want to eat it?"

Yu Tu shook his head: "I just had lunch in the cafeteria."

"The fruit today is quite delicious." Gu Hongying said, "Are you sure you don't want to try it?"

Yu Tu: “…It’s not impossible.”

So the two of them huddled at the door of the room, peeking their heads out to look at the crushing game while crunching fruit. When they saw that the situation was not good, they turned their heads back and focused on watching the game flexibly.

The fight ended with Qin Fei kicking someone away. When Yin Li fell from the wall to the ground, a layer of ripples like water suddenly spread on her body. The ripples started from her forehead and spread to her neck, shoulders, waist, legs, and feet. The ripples became more and more intense, and some people could not even see her clearly.

After the ripples stopped, "Yin Li" changed from her appearance to her figure. She became shorter, her skin became fairer, and her face looked even more pure, beautiful and charming.

Qin Fei was not confused by her changed appearance. He just frowned and asked, "Painted skin?"

"How can you speak to me in such a fierce tone? I'm so sad and scared." The Painted Skin, who was ferocious just now in the fight, now shyly lowered his head 45 degrees, and flirted with her affectionate eyes, which were full of the scent of little white flowers, "嘤～"

———I can’t beat him anyway, so I’ll hate him to death even if I hate him so much.

Qin Fei: “…”

The look on his face became even uglier.

"Brother, you look so charming when you hit me." Painted Skin said coquettishly, "I think I have fallen in love with you, brother~"

"Look at your charming Adam's apple and your strong abdominal muscles..."

Yu Tu and Gu Hongying, who were squatting at the door and sharing the fruit, looked up at the same time with the same shocked expression: "...Ah?"

After they spoke, Qin Fei's face had almost turned as black as charcoal. He looked around, took a few steps in their direction, snatched the fruit box that Gu Hongying had finished eating, and under their shocked gaze, crumpled the box into a ball like crumpling paper.

The Painted Skin over there was still talking nonsense: "Brother, I am crazy about you~ I am crazy about you~ Brother, I can slide on your abdominal muscles————Mmm——Mmm!!"

Qin Fei blocked her mouth with a rolled-up plastic box.

Gu Hongying whispered: "Why don't you use a spell?"

Yu Tu responded in a low voice: "Maybe he forgot because he was angry?"

The Painted Skin, whose mouth was blocked by the plastic box, began to ripple again. After the ripples stopped, the Painted Skin, who had just been fair-skinned, beautiful and innocent-looking, suddenly turned into a young man with a delicate face and a slim figure.

Although his mouth was blocked, his eyes were blinking wildly, and his glances were so seductive that one would have thought he had an eye cramp.

Gu Hongying suddenly realized: "I understand! She is changing her sex for love!"

Qin Fei: “…”

"Gu Hongying, you'd better shut up."

Qin Fei graduated five years ago. For the first time, he felt how sinister society is when he saw the genderless Painted Skin.