Chapter 10
After breakfast, Lan Yexing went to school.
The wounding case that happened in the downtown area yesterday has been reported by the media. The three alphas insisted that they just wanted to steal some money on impulse. The police said that the case is still under trial and more information cannot be disclosed.
This incident caused a huge uproar. After the fire, such a vicious incident happened in Xingdu District, the innermost part of Central County, which made people have deep doubts and concerns about the public safety of Central County.
The highest governor of Central County personally held a press conference and appeared in front of the camera to reassure the people, saying that he would accept supervision from the citizens, try the suspects fairly, and strengthen security work in the city to protect the lives and property of citizens.
In order to calm the public's panic, even the royal family members, who have always been low-key and reclusive, decided to go to the pet hospital where the incident occurred in person to express their condolences under the media's camera.
When Lan Yexing returned to school, the streets he passed by were under martial law due to the royal family's trip. He could only stand in the crowd outside the cordon and wait for the royal vehicle to pass by.
When the innermost car passed by, Lan Yexing saw the royal family members of this world for the first time through the half-open car window.
He was a brown-haired young man with a gentle and friendly temperament, about twenty years old, wearing a low-key, straight business suit, and a red moon badge with a gold frame on his collar.
He had deep features, light freckles on his face, and a pair of unforgettable deep red eyes.
I don’t know if it was a coincidence or intentional, but when passing by the boy, the young man who was looking straight ahead suddenly turned sideways and looked at Lan Yexing for a moment.
After the car passed quickly, the young man shifted his gaze back to the front, as if the eye contact just now was just a momentary illusion.
After all the royal vehicles had passed, the cordon was quickly lifted. Lan Yexing followed the crowd across the road and walked into the school's magnificent and beautiful gate.
Recalling the eye contact just now, Lan Yexing twitched his lips: that young man who seemed extremely friendly and harmless on the surface, was so cold and eerie when he looked at him with those red eyes just now.
There isn't a single normal person among the nobles in this world.
Lan Yexing stretched his body and walked deeper into the campus, going over in his mind the information about the royal family that he had looked up before:
The power and wealth in this country are held by the big families, and the royal family does not have a strong presence.
Those royal family members are just very low-key and do their best to play the role of mascots and symbols of national spirit without real power. They are simple in style, low-key in doing things, never out of line, and never try to grab the limelight in public opinion, and are very popular among the people.
Lan Yexing paused and asked the system: "What type of spiritual power do the royal family members have?"
He had looked it up before, but there were many different opinions.
The royal family's spiritual power seems to be kept particularly secret.
The system was not short of data this time. It said: [Any kind of mental power.]
Lan Yexing: Since you naturally possess all spiritual powers, you are a royal family?
But even after all this, he still has no real power?
The owner of that pair of extremely cold and ambitious red eyes just now didn't look like someone who was willing to be just a mascot.
Lan Yexing shook his head to drive the pair of eyes he disliked out of his mind. While sorting out the new information he had collected today, he continued to walk towards the buildings of the School of Humanities - he had professional classes on Monday morning.
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After finishing classes in the morning and afternoon, Lan Yexing went to Library No. 1 for the first time.
It is said that this library has a long history. It existed before the school was founded and contains many out-of-print books.
Its current owner is not the school, but the royal family. However, the royal family has always been close to the people, so this library is open to the students of Xingdu University for free.
This building seemed to have a strong religious connotation. It was older than any other building in the school and had a solemn style, with a pointed tower top, and exquisite reliefs of figures carved on the doorposts and mottled walls covered with ivy.
Lan Yexing swiped his student card and walked into the hall, which was decorated with arched stained glass windows everywhere. Opposite the high dome of the hall, there was also a huge piece of stained glass inlaid.
Lan Yexing looked up slightly and soon saw that there was a beautiful and solemn goddess painted on it. The goddess wore a laurel wreath with a red crescent moon in her hair and held a huge and weird red eye in her arms. She looked at the eye with a sad and fearful expression.
Lan Yexing frowned slightly as he looked at it. The librarian at the service desk looked at him curiously. Lan Yexing quickly retracted his gaze and walked towards the wooden stairs as usual.
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The third floor is the rare book lending room. Lan Yexing walked through the rows of tall bookshelves that looked like a maze. When he passed bookshelf No. 13, he paused:
There stood a frivolous student, who was casually picking up a book and flipping through it. However, he did not look like he was reading at all. His face was full of annoyance, as if he was waiting for someone.
A slight electric sound was heard in Lan Yexing's body. His eyes darkened and he turned inside, passing by the man like an ordinary student.
After a while, the student suddenly rolled his eyes and fell down with his body tilted, making a "bang" sound.
In the extremely quiet space, Lan Yexing coughed lightly, squatted forward, and pretended to be shocked and worried and asked: "Classmate, what's wrong with you! Are you okay?"
The librarians were alarmed and they rushed over to check. At Lan Yexing's reminder, they hurriedly found someone to send him to the school hospital.
Watching them leave, Lan Yexing finally breathed a sigh of relief:
That student was the one who was sent by Yuan Ping to the library to wait for Qiao You and asked him to go to the medical school late at night.
As long as this person was knocked down before Qiao You came to the library, Qiao You would not know about this incident at all, let alone agree to go to the appointment with Yuan Ping - of course, he had just strictly controlled the amount of electricity to a level that would not cause any harm to the human body, and the student would only be unconscious in the infirmary for one or two hours at most.
The strategy incident was resolved perfectly, and Lan Yexing was in a good mood.
It was a rare opportunity for him to come to the library, so he wanted to borrow some books that interested him.
Standing in front of the engineering section, Lan Yexing carefully picked through the bookshelves one by one. Then he was stunned: there were no books related to aerospace engineering here - such as engineering books related to airplanes, satellites, manned spacecraft, etc., not a single one.
Lan Yexing blinked as he looked at the bookshelf, but didn't think much about it, thinking that the books in every library had some bias.
Since there were no books that interested him here, Lan Yexing decided to go to the second floor to borrow some popular novels to kill time during his free time this week.
At this moment, a refreshing and cool scent of lime suddenly exploded at the tip of Lan Yexing's nose, and Lan Yexing's pupils shrank.
A tall shadow was cast quietly, completely covering Lan Yexing. A slender and powerful arm almost brushed the tip of the boy's ear and passed over his thin shoulder. A large hand with distinct bones was placed on the spine of a medical book that was placed here by mistake on the top shelf of the bookshelf, as if considering taking it out.
From the third person's perspective, it was simply the tall blond young man possessively holding the other person between his arms and the bookshelf.
Lan Yexing: “!”
He turned around abruptly and leaned against the bookshelf, subconsciously pushing hard on the young man's broad and powerful chest.
Qiao You finally took the book down. He stepped back gracefully and looked at the boy, who was staring at him with wide eyes and red ears. He curled his lips in a relaxed and distant manner and whispered jokingly, "What a coincidence, we meet again."
"Junior, you feel so guilty, did you do something bad just now?"
The young man did not wear a school uniform jacket, but only a wool vest, white shirt, black trousers and a tie, which made his body proportions look even better. When he focused on one person, he exuded a certain irresistible and fatal charm.
Lan Yexing continued to glare at him, because he lowered his voice to the lowest level in the library: "You are the one who did the bad thing."
Don't think he can't see the teasing and malice in that man's smile.
The strategy incident had been resolved, so Lan Yexing was too lazy to pay attention to him and just walked past him.
When passing by, the young man called him: "I thought a smart kid like you would listen to what I said." Even if he didn't drop out of school, he shouldn't appear next to him again.
Lan Yexing stopped and turned slightly to look at him. Her eyebrows were delicate, and her light-colored eyes were quiet and beautiful, with a hint of soft helplessness in them: "Senior," he said seriously, "I also have things I must do."
No matter what dangers he faces, there are things that he must not abandon and things that he must do.
Qiao You's clear jawline tightened for a moment as if it were an illusion. The lower half of his face still had a flawless smile, but his eyebrows and emotions were hidden in his blond hair and could not be seen clearly.
He didn't say anything else.
Lan Yexing brushed past him and walked towards the door of the reading room.
After the young man left, Qiao You revealed his seemingly calm green eyes and began to quietly flip through the book on mental pathology in his hand - this was the type of book he had to read after he had finished reading the books he needed for his thesis in the past two weeks.
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After borrowing several novels, Lan Yexing left the library and walked towards the dormitory - he had just settled the fur ball before leaving home today, so he didn't have to go home to look after the cat in the evening.
After returning to the dormitory, Jiang Xiaozhou and Janes were both there, chatting politely.
As soon as he saw Lan Yexing coming back, the gray curly-haired omega boy's eyes lit up. He hurried forward and put his arm around him affectionately, pulling him to the table like a spoiled child. He pointed to the exquisite packaging box on the table and said, "Xiaoxing, I baked some cookies at home. I'm giving them to you~"
Lan Yexing was startled and blinked: "Thank you."
The omega's eyes sparkled: "Try it now."
Lan Yexing nodded, opened the box, picked up a cute little cookie with a milky aroma and put it in his mouth. His eyes lit up and he praised sincerely: "...It's delicious."
Janes's face instantly broke into a pure smile: "Great, as long as you like it!"
As he spoke, Janes stuffed the exquisite packaging box directly into Lan Yexing's uniform pocket. He looked at the boy who seemed to subconsciously dodge for a moment, but in the end he gentlemanly did not stop him, and smiled even more: "This way you can eat it anytime tomorrow."
After that, he took a step back and said, "I won't disturb you anymore after I deliver it. Go to bed early. I'm leaving first."
Lan Yexing nodded, saw him out the door, and said good night.
Jiang Xiaozhou watched the whole thing quietly and sighed with a smile: "You two have such a good relationship. I've never seen Janes smile like this to anyone before."
Lan Yexing thought for a moment and said, "It's a friend."
Jiang Xiaozhou looked at the boy tenderly and admiringly, smiled, and said nothing more.
Lan Yexing stretched his body and was about to take off his coat to take a shower when the watch on his right wrist quietly lit up for a moment.
Lan Yexing was startled when he felt a slight electric shock. He quickly sat down at the desk and looked at the text displayed on the dial:
[Tonight, a civilian omega will jump off the roof of the unfinished building of the medical school to attract the attention of the target person Qiao You to complete the strategy. Please prevent this strategy event from happening. ]
Lan Yexing's pupils shrank: He really didn't understand why someone would try to exchange his life for a relationship that was totally unpredictable...
And didn’t he already stop Qiao You from going to the appointment?
I can’t see it if Qiao You is not around, so what’s the point of that omega doing such a thing?
As if knowing the host's question, another string of text appeared on the dial: [Theoretically, if the target person is not here, there is no need to pay attention to the strategy event. ]
This should be a strategy event that the host can simply ignore.
Lan Yexing had already stood up and neatly spread out the quilt on the bed. He buried a pillow inside, as if there was someone sleeping there. He looked at Jiang Xiaozhou and said seriously, "Xiaozhou, I have something to go out for tonight. Please help me cover up when the dormitory supervisor comes to check on me."
"By the way, can I borrow your bicycle?"
Jiang Xiaozhou was startled, then a faint smile appeared on his face. He threw the car keys to Lan Yexing neatly without asking any questions. He just said, "Well, go ahead. If you can come back, come back early."
Lan Yexing curved her eyes and said, "Thank you." Then she left the dormitory.
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Since the university is a closed university and the dormitories have access control, there are almost no people on campus at night.
Lan Yexing avoided the security guards and rode his bicycle at high speed like a ghost in the empty campus. He soon arrived at the gate of the medical school building which had not yet been completely completed.
The door was open, and it was pitch black inside. Lan Yexing looked up and saw that this eight-story building, which was incompatible with the campus and had a modern style, was extremely oppressive.
The building was too tall, and Lan Yexing couldn't see clearly whether there was anyone on the roof.
This building is said to have been donated by the Yuan family. It was built too grandly, which resulted in slow construction. It is now in the final stage.
He had asked his classmates about the Paradise Club before. Even though they were very secretive about the nature of the club itself, they told him that the club's activity room was temporarily located in this building.
Lan Yexing pursed her lips and strode in.
Unlike the pitch-black first floor, several rooms on the second floor were lit up. Lan Yexing hid at the corner of the stairs and saw many panicked students in the corridor. They were talking in low voices as they walked:
"Haven't we called the emergency number? Why hasn't the doctor come yet?!"
"Brother Yuan was in a bad mood, wasn't he waiting in the room alone for the omega to be sent over to vent his feelings? How did he suddenly pass out? Whose are those three bloody ribs on the ground! - They can't be Brother Yuan's! There aren't any wounds on his body!"
"Brother, what should we do with the guy on the roof? Should we call him down? Brother Yuan said that he would jump off the building in front of Qiao You to scare him off, but Qiao You didn't come at all, and I don't know where the guy who sent the letter to Qiao ran off to..."
"Why are you yelling? Just let him jump. It's not like Brother Yuan's family can't handle it. The most urgent thing now is that Brother Yuan doesn't get into trouble, otherwise...his family won't forgive us..."
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Lan Yexing's expression grew colder as he listened to those words.
After those people walked away, he came out from the corner and was about to continue going upstairs when the door of the laboratory next to him quietly opened. A slender and powerful arm stretched out. The slightly cold big hand quietly reached into Lan Yexing's collar from behind, then picked up the cloth neatly and exerted force. Lan Yexing suddenly opened his eyes wide and was instantly pulled into the dark laboratory.
A tall black shadow stood behind Lan Yexing. The scent of lime suddenly invaded and enveloped his whole body. A strong arm was across his slender waist.
The young man put his other arm around the boy's shoulders from behind, raised his cool index finger, and pressed it hard on the boy's warm and soft lips, signaling him to be quiet.
Lan Yexing reacted immediately, held his breath, and nodded calmly.
The young man then moved his finger away. At this moment, he heard footsteps outside the window. He made a quick decision, held the boy's waist with one hand, and sat down against the wall with his arms around the boy from behind.
Lan Yexing rested his whole body in the broad arms of the young man, his back pressed against his chest. The thumping sound of his heartbeat came back and forth against his skin, and he couldn't even tell whose heartbeat it was.
He covered his mouth, breathed softly, and listened nervously to the footsteps outside...
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I don’t know how long it took, but the footsteps in the corridor gradually faded away. Although I couldn’t go out yet, at least I could make some noise.
So Lan Yexing turned around with his eyes wide open, looked at the young man behind him, and asked in a low voice: "Why are you here?" He clearly did not let Qiao You contact the student who reported the news, and the group of people just now also said that Qiao You did not come at all!
But here he appeared!
Qiao You hid in the dark and casually rubbed the finger that had touched the boy's lips. He raised his eyebrows, looked at the boy in his arms in the chaotic moonlight, and said with a smile: "Junior brother, before asking me to answer this question, you should answer this question first."
Lan Yexing pursed his lips. He couldn't expose the system, so he couldn't answer this question.
So he asked another question: "How did you know I was outside?"
Qiao You was honest: "The smell of you."
The boy had a light fragrance on his body that had nothing to do with pheromones but was very pleasant to the touch. His nose was pretty good, so he only smelled a very faint hint of it just now.
Lan Yexing, who had no idea how ambiguous this was, said, "Okay."
The footsteps outside the window almost disappeared. Lan Yexing was about to get up from Qiao You's arms, but the biscuit box that Janes had put in his pocket accidentally fell out.
Just as he was about to pick it up, a big hand took the box of cookies before him.
Smelling the disgusting strange omega scent on it, Qiao You disdainfully pinched it with his fingers. He looked at Lan Yexing with a half-smile: "Junior, you are very popular."
Lan Yexing looked puzzled: "Huh?" He frowned and stretched out his hand to the other party: "Give it back to me."
There was a soft "bang" sound.
The extremely arrogant blond young man sitting against the wall skillfully cast it toward the open window on the other side of the classroom.
The cookie box flew across the classroom in a parabola, then flew out of the window with incredible accuracy and fell into the dense bushes behind the building.
Qiao You lowered his eyes and looked at the boy in his arms without any guilt: "The smell is too bad, my hands are slipping."
Lan Yexing stared at him with eyes wide open: "...."
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