48. Night 48 Scar
"Hey, bring us the box from the cabinet."
In the room filled with various medical instruments, the young man gave instructions. Lu Xi took the box from the cabinet and watched him fiddle with various medicines.
Becoming the young doctor's assistant means Lu Xi no longer has to be locked up, but unfortunately, there are patrols everywhere and she can't escape.
"What are you doing? Give me the gloves."
Lu Xi was distracted for a moment, and Xi Luo was already dissatisfied. When she came to her senses, she quickly picked up the gloves from the tray next to her and handed them to him.
The young man put on his gloves and turned around, tilting his head slightly. "I have an operation to perform later. You can go back first."
Lu Xi frowned. Although he didn't know what the surgery was, it certainly wasn't a medical procedure. The boy in front of him was clearly a human being. Why would he do this for poachers? Was he being forced to do this? Who was he?
"Why are you..."
Lu Xi didn't ask after all. She had only known the boy for three days. Although he didn't do anything excessive, he would call Lu Xi when he had something to do and would not exploit her labor when he had nothing to do, letting her go back and rest early. But after all, she didn't know his origins. Judging from the respectful looks of those monsters, he was obviously of a very high status.
Lu Xi came out from Xi Luo's place, but did not go back to rest. The people passing by in the passage were all strange-looking monsters. She looked straight ahead, but in her mind she was thinking about how to avoid these people and continue to explore the structure here.
After several demons passed by, she quickly hid in a narrow passage where there were many doors, but they were all locked.
She saw a door at the end of the passage and walked towards it as if possessed by a ghost. Suddenly, a sound exploded above her head. "Who is it?"
Only then did Lu Xi notice that there was a hidden camera above his head.
Oh no.
Just as she was about to escape, the passage behind her was blocked by patrolling demons. After being interrogated, she was locked in a room.
There was no light in the dark room. After an unknown amount of time, the door was finally opened from the outside and a figure stood at the door.
Against the light, Lu Xi couldn't see clearly for a while, until the other person walked in, Lu Xi saw that the person was Xi Luo. He seemed to have just come out of the operating room, and his outer robe was stained with shocking blood.
"You really want to leave?"
His lips moved and he replied honestly, "Yeah."
"Don't even think about it. You can't escape."
Lu Xi was taken back by Xi Luo. She was not tortured or punished again. It seemed that her attempt to escape was suppressed. However, she was also sternly warned by Xi Luo that if she escaped again, no one would be able to save her.
The escape plan had to be put aside for the time being.
Lu Xi was very worried about the situation outside. She was suddenly captured and she didn't know how worried the mermaid would be and whether he would look for her everywhere.
But she really had no choice now. She had to wait for the opportunity. If she was discovered again next time, her fate would not be good.
"Do you have any watermelon left?"
Lu Xi saw a female banshee carrying a plate of watermelon, which was probably for the captured humans to eat. They were quite nice to the experimental subjects.
If it wasn't sent to the lab in the end...
"some."
"Please send a plate over to the doctor."
The Banshees acted quickly. Not long after Lu Xi returned to Xi Luo, they delivered the food, still chilled. It looked delicious.
"You don't seem to need to eat."
Xi Luo was preparing a bottle of medicine, but he glanced over here and saw Lu Xi coming over with two pieces of watermelon.
"This is for you." She handed a piece to him. "Eat watermelon to cool down in the summer."
"Tsk, is the air conditioner turned down?"
It was obvious that he didn't feel he needed to cool down.
“Besides being a relief from the heat, it’s also delicious.”
She picked up another piece of watermelon and took a bite. Although she didn't need to eat, it was indeed relaxing to taste something delicious occasionally.
The young doctor looked at her bulging cheeks and was silent for a moment. He silently put the test tube in his hand back on the shelf.
"Here." He held out his hand.
Lu Xi was about to give him the watermelon when the boy suddenly withdrew his hand. He stared at the juice dripping from her palm. The bright red watermelon was plump and juicy, and the red liquid flowed, just like cut human flesh.
"Forget it, just eat it."
The watermelon I just offered was rejected.
Lu Xi: “???”
Lu Xi put the piece of watermelon back and didn't intend to pay attention to him. She saw the boy picked up the test tube again. He lowered his eyes slightly, and his fair face was very pale because he had not seen the sun for many years. Shouldn't children of this age study and learn in school, enjoying the education they should have at this age? What on earth had he been through that made him do such a thing here for the demon clan?
"Hello." Lu Xi asked.
"My name is not Hey, my name is Shiloh."
"Oh." Who likes to say "Hello" to others the most?
"I'm not saying hello either. My name is Lu Xi." After Lu Xi finished speaking, she realized that the other party was still staring at the test tube, and she didn't know whether he heard her or not.
"If you have something to say, say it quickly." He didn't look at her.
"Sometimes I really feel that you don't act like a child."
He still didn't look at her, but the hand holding the test tube paused slightly. Against the backdrop of the snow-white wall, his fingertips seemed even paler.
Her fringe slightly covered her eyes. "Leave me alone."
Lu Xi muttered for a long time and then stopped talking. She stared at the boy's profile. After a few days of observation, she became more curious about him. The boy in front of her was very smart. He must know what he was doing. Why would he be willing to work for the demon clan? If he wanted to escape, he would definitely be able to escape.
Lu Xi usually doesn't leave the room at night, but she remembered that she had forgotten something Xi Luo had told her during the day, so she returned to the laboratory in the dark.
Unexpectedly, the lights in the laboratory were on.
She walked to the door of the laboratory and heard faint suppressed breathing sounds coming from inside. The door of the laboratory was not closed tightly. She saw through the crack in the door the young man slumped against the wall. Under his lifted sleeve was an extremely ugly arm.
There was not a single piece of good flesh on the slender arm, which was covered with stitch marks. The skin was of different shades of color, as if it had been taken from different people and sewn onto one body in a cruel way.
He held a syringe in his other hand and pushed an unknown liquid into his arm. Looking at the hideous skin covered with muscles, Lu Xi was completely stunned.
"Who's there?"
The young man noticed something and shot over with a sharp look.
The door was gently pushed open, and seeing the slender figure at the door, Xi Luo was slightly stunned, as if he didn't expect it to be Lu Xi. He pursed his lips and pulled down his sleeve expressionlessly to cover the arm that made him so disgusting that he couldn't eat.
"Who did it?" Lu Xi asked.
Shiloh knew what she was asking.
"Don't meddle in other people's business." He stood up with the help of the wall and prepared to leave. He didn't intend to mention anything about his own affairs to Lu Xi.
"Who did this to you?" Lu Xi grabbed his hand and, taking advantage of his weakness, pulled open the sleeves covering his arms.
The ugly wound was revealed by someone else, and the boy struggled violently like a tiger whose butt was touched, trying to break free from Lu Xi's grip.
He groaned and his back hit the wall.
"Who is it?" He sneered, "My adoptive father."
Lu Xi was speechless, as if he had been put under a spell.
"He locked me up in the basement and stabbed me every day, day and night. You know, it was the demons who saved me. If it weren't for them, I'd still be imprisoned. Which is scarier, the demons or the humans?"
His smile stung Lu Xi's eyes. Whether it was among the demons or humans, there would always be scum. Xi Luo's adoptive father was a scum.
"You said I don't look like a child. I'm already 20 years old. Can you tell? You can't tell, right? Because I'm a monster."
"Where is he?" Lu Xi took a deep breath.
"Why, you want to teach him a lesson for me?" The smile on his face widened. "No need, because I've already sent him to hell."
The laboratory suddenly became very quiet. Lu Xi noticed that there were several bottles of disinfectant and cotton swabs and gauze on the table next to him.
"Does the wound need cleaning?"
"What..." He didn't seem to expect that the other party could face him so calmly after hearing that he had killed his adoptive father. In fact, Lu Xi was indeed not calm in his heart, but not because of what he had done, but because of what he had experienced.
Lu Xi opened the bottle of disinfectant, took out a cotton swab, and forcibly lifted up his sleeve, revealing his bumpy, blind, and shabby arm. Anyone who saw such a wound would feel disgusted, but Lu Xi only felt distressed. He was still a child when he experienced these things. His adoptive father was really a devil.
The rejection reaction caused by stitching different skins together almost killed Shi Luo, but he survived. He still remembers his adoptive father hugging him and saying that he was a miracle, a miracle achieved through his lifelong research.
No, he's just a monster.
Although he survived, the rejection reaction caused by the stitched skin still made him live in excruciating pain every day these years, and he could only rely on drugs to relieve the pain, so he hated his adoptive father and those humans.
Lu Xi helped him disinfect and apply ointment bit by bit. She noticed that except for his arm, the skin seemed to be connected to his body. She believed that except for this arm, there was no good meat anywhere else on his body.
But noticing his shrinking, she knew it was very difficult to expose his ugly parts completely, so she did not force him to show other scars. At least she knew why he didn't want to escape so much.
Lu Xi's days in the poachers are still going on, but her relationship with Xi Luo seems to have eased a lot compared to the beginning.
"What's this."
"Roast chicken. I asked them to bring it."
"You brought it for me?"
"Tsk, I have no appetite, you got it for free."
But Lu Xi knew that he just refused to admit it.
These poachers were very cautious and changed their base every once in a while. Lu Xi followed them and boarded the big ship that was moving to a new base.
The sea breeze beat against the waves, and Lu Xi stared at the waves outside the ship. She even wondered if Asent could find her if she jumped off.
The ship had only been sailing for half a day when dark clouds appeared in the distance, thick thunderclouds with lightning and thunder, and strong winds suddenly blew, which looked very bad.
"Damn it! How could this happen? What's wrong with that guy Lazar? Didn't they say the weather would be great today? Find him and bring him here."
"It looks like a storm is coming soon."
"It's too late to turn back now, fuck."
The ship's deck was in chaos. A demon was beaten half to death by the leading demon and thrown on the deck. It was the weather he was surveying.
"Impossible, I clearly, clearly..." He didn't seem to believe that he could be wrong. It was supposed to be a sunny day today.
"If anything happens today, you'll be dead." The leading demon picked him up and punched him a few more times in his horrible face.
Lu Xi stood at the corner, watching the commotion in the middle of the crowd, frowned, and Xi Luo behind him turned and entered the cabin, "Let's go in."
The storm came quickly and violently, bigger than any they had encountered before. The ship swayed in the sea. Shi Luo, who usually remained calm at all times, became disfigured by the violent shaking and vomited violently on the trash can.
"Once we get to the island, I'm going to kill that guy, ugh..."
Before he could finish, he vomited again.
What's even worse is that water has started to leak into the cabin, and the storm has just begun.
"I'll go up and take a look." Lu Xi frowned.
"Don't go." Xi Luo stopped her.
At this time, the big ship was shaking violently and almost capsized. Lu Xi's face darkened slightly. A demon rushed in with a panicked tone.
"Doctor, the ship has hit a reef."
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