Chapter 8
It was already evening after the afternoon class and Lan Yexing returned to the dormitory building.
Jiang Xiaozhou was not in the dormitory. He seemed to have gone home, but Janes was standing on the balcony outside the floor-to-ceiling window waiting for him.
Janes' expression was still as innocent and cute as ever: "When I came, your roommate was still there, so he opened the door for me."
Lan Yexing nodded and said calmly, "Come in and sit down." Then he sat down beside the bed and gave up the chair.
Janes walked in and sat astride a chair, folding her forearms on the back of the chair and looking at him: "You're discharged from the hospital so early? Are you feeling well?"
Lan Yexing subconsciously moved his right shoulder: "It's nothing." It just hurts a little when it is touched here.
Janes smiled and said, "That's good."
There was a moment of silence, and the cute mask on Janes' face gradually faded. He looked at Lan Yexing seriously: "Xiaoxing, do you think I was behind the fire?"
When pheromones are powerful enough to a certain extent, they can indeed cause the mental power of a group of people with mental power to lose control. The mental power of their family is the same as that of the Yuan family, both of which are pheromone-based, and his ability has indeed reached that level.
Now many people in the school say that it was him who hid behind the scenes and caused Li Xin's mental power to lose control, resulting in the fire, allowing the Jian family to reap the benefits.
So, will Lan Yexing believe it?
Lan Yexing looked at him quietly, then said honestly: "I doubted it." After a case happens, no one will not doubt the ultimate beneficiary.
Janes chuckled, "You are so honest, Xiaoxing." After a pause, he also spoke frankly, "My family did add fuel to the flames of public opinion for their own benefit, but whether you believe it or not, I want to say that I did not do that kind of thing."
"I'm not that shameless."
Maybe when he grows up to the level of his father, he will do anything for the benefit of the family, but at least not now.
Janes: "I do want to deal with my cousin's illegitimate child, but I have countless more direct methods that will never involve you."
"When I recognized you in class, I doubted you, tested you, and thought about investigating you, but when I called you that evening, I had already made up my mind. No matter what your origins are, I want to try to be friends with you."
It was the first time he was honest with someone he had only known for less than three days.
But will Lan Yexing believe him now?
There was a long silence, and beautiful streams of light passed through Lan Yexing's light-colored eyes. He stretched out his hand to him neatly: "I believe you."
Janes' pupils shrank, then he bent his blue eyes and held the hand.
After resolving his worries, Jian Si said goodbye to Lan Yexing. However, as he walked to the door, he seemed to remember something and turned to look at him: "Xiaoxing, the Yuan family members all inherited the genes of madmen. They can do anything. The Yuan Ping you met in the restaurant is even crazier and has no logic. You have to be careful of him and the club he founded."
Lan Yexing nodded, and then asked, "What exactly is the Paradise Society?"
During the afternoon class, he tried to ask classmates he was not familiar with. It was obviously just a campus club, but the ordinary classmates all seemed to be very secretive and dared not say more, so he could not find out anything.
A cold look flashed across Janes' eyes: "It's just a garbage group that brings together the scoundrels from inside and outside the school. They have no bottom line." And Yuan Ping's pheromone-based mental power can also reach that level...
Lan Yexing lowered his eyes and took note, and said sincerely: "Thank you."
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After Janes left, Lan Yexing simply packed up a few things and returned home.
No matter what he will face in the future, Lan Yexing always chooses to live in the present. He temporarily puts aside the school matters and starts to enjoy his two-day vacation.
Get familiar with the cat, cook and eat well, take a nap on the sofa, watch the movies and TV series of this world and discuss them with the system, look at the clear starry sky of this world from the balcony at night, copy the notes that Qiao You lent him before going to bed, and record the details of what happened in school in another notebook...
Turning to the page of [Qiao You], he put a question mark in the column of mental power.
The system had said before that Qiao You was an orphan from a large family that had a good relationship with the royal family, and was raised by the old housekeeper of the family. According to the theory of spiritual power inheritance, he should also have spiritual power.
But the system doesn't know what his mental power is.
He had also asked around at school, but no one knew. Qiao You seemed to have never used his mental power in front of anyone.
Lan Yexing looked at the question mark for a long time before closing his notebook. Then he washed up and went to bed. He spent the first day of his holiday quietly and happily.
The next morning, the white cat had become a little bolder. When Lan Yexing was in the living room, it would cautiously curl up in the corner of the sofa to rest, and little by little use its own scent to mark the places where it felt comfortable.
When Lan Yexing was sitting on the sofa, it started to walk over with its furry little legs and rubbed his fingertips, as a way of saying hello to its roommate.
Lan Yexing smiled gently and opened a can of staple food for the cat. After the cat finished eating contentedly and licked its paws gracefully and contentedly, he scooped it up and took it to the original pet hospital for vaccination.
There, he ran into the owner of the corgi again.
The old neighbor was still elegantly dressed. While the corgi was undergoing its annual physical examination, he happily exchanged names with the young man he liked and started chatting: "What's the name of your pet?"
Lan Yexing blinked: "Maotuan?" He called it that yesterday.
The old man smiled at the kitten who was getting vaccinated and praised it: "What a good-natured and beautiful little fellow."
Lan Yexing bent his eyes and looked at it tenderly: "I think so too." After a pause, he asked: "What is the name of that corgi?"
Old man: "Lychee. Because my young master loves to eat lychees."
After that, he looked at Lan Yexing with increasing fondness: "That's great. College students should enjoy life with their pets during the holidays." A little relief slowly appeared on his face: "My young master went to a nearby bookstore to buy books. He will come to pick us up later. You are from the same school, I will introduce you to each other then."
"Alas, the young master should make more friends like you—"
Before he finished speaking, the wind chimes at the hospital entrance rang. The staff thought it was a parent who brought his pet. They were about to say something with a polite smile, but were startled: the people who came were three ruffian-looking young men from society.
Most of them are alpha.
They wore black masks, lowered their heads, put their hands in their pockets, and walked around the hall regardless of the staff's attempts to stop them. Finally, they strode towards Lan Yexing and the old man, taking something out of their pockets.
A few cold lights flashed, and it happened almost in an instant, and they all rushed towards Lan Yexing and the old man with daggers in their hands!
No one expected that someone would dare to commit a crime in broad daylight in the city center. The hospital was suddenly in chaos, with screams, automatic alarms, and pet dogs roaring out of fear, and everyone was running desperately for the door.
“Sizzle!”
Lan Yexing reacted quickly and used the system's electric shock function to knock one person down.
The other man was about to stab the old man with his dagger.
The next moment, he stood in front of the old man who was frightened and subconsciously fell to the ground, closing his eyes and desperately patting his chest, almost out of breath.
“Sizzle!”
Lan Yexing blocked the old man behind him tightly, and looked at the alpha who was a head taller than him with a cold expression. The iron dagger hit his arm that was protected by the electric current, and the blade was isolated by the current. The person holding the dagger also fell down with convulsions due to the electric shock.
But because of the time difference between the human body being electrocuted and the electric current sticking to it, the third person took the opportunity to pounce on him fiercely and stabbed Lan Yexing -
Lan Yexing suddenly opened his eyes wide - he actually had time to dodge to the side, but if he did, the knife would stab the old man behind him...
The wind chimes at the door rang rapidly, as if someone was striding in.
The next moment, Lan Yexing heard the sound of dripping blood.
The tip of the knife, flashing with cold light, was less than three centimeters away from his right eyeball.
The tall and handsome blond young man stood there, with his right arm stretched out, grasping the blade in his hand, completely blocking the tip of the knife from piercing Lan Yexing's eyeball.
Lan Yexing's pupils shrank.
Bright red blood kept dripping, Qiao You slowly side-glanced, he completely took off the smiling mask, looked expressionlessly at the alpha holding the knife, his whole body emanated a terrible pressure, his green eyes were full of coldness, darkness, and murderous shadows.
There was a crisp "plop" sound, and before Lan Yexing could see the movement clearly, the alpha had been grabbed by the young man by the wrist and the dagger was removed. After a hair-raising sound of broken bones was heard, the young man's long legs kicked the opponent hard in the abdomen.
Alpha fell to the ground screaming, and soon fainted with his eyes rolled back due to excessive pain.
Qiao You looked at the other person with a cold expression, as if he was looking at a dead person.
Lan Yexing came back to his senses, took out a clean handkerchief and strode forward. He naturally took the young man's hand and pressed the handkerchief hard on the young man's wound to stop the bleeding.
The terrifying darkness in Qiao You's eyes had not yet dissipated. When he felt the boy's movements and warm fingers, his expression paused.
At this moment, the old man gasped and opened his eyes with difficulty. Qiao You almost subconsciously quickly withdrew his hand and hid it behind his back along with the handkerchief.
His voice was low and hoarse: "His medicine is in his right pocket."
Lan Yexing glanced at him, walked up to him swiftly, took out the pill from the old man's pocket and fed it to him.
The old man recovered and looked at the blond young man and Lan Yexing worriedly: "Whose blood is on the ground? Master, classmate Lan, who of you is injured?"
Qiao You lied expressionlessly: "From the people on the ground."
The old man finally breathed a sigh of relief.
At this moment, the police finally arrived. Qiao You calmed the old man down and sent him and the corgi into a taxi home.
Lan Yexing entrusted the spare key of the house and the vaccinated fur ball to the old man, and asked him to help put the fur ball into his living room.
Afterwards, he accompanied Qiao You to the nearest clinic to bandage his wounds, and the two went to the nearby police station to take a statement.
After all the procedures were completed, the afternoon had passed and it was almost evening.
They came out of the police station together, walking side by side on the street where the street lights were already on. Lan Yexing smelled the cool scent of lime. He turned sideways and saw the young man's bright golden hair fluttering in the evening breeze. His facial features were impeccably handsome, but in his beautiful emerald eyes there was still a cold, dark and murderous shadow lingering.
He still hadn't put on that flawless smiling mask.
Lan Yexing withdrew his gaze: This was the second time he and Qiao You had private contact outside of the mission.
The first time was in the warehouse that caught fire.
And both times, Qiao You helped him.
Lan Yexing looked at the evening stars in the sky, blinked, and said, "Come stay at my house tonight."
Qiao You paused and looked at him with raised eyebrows.
Lan Yexing said, "You don't want your parents to see the wound on your hand, and you don't want people to see you like this when you go back to school. And it's not convenient to change the bandage on your hand by yourself."
"So come to my house. I'll let you stay for one night. We'll go back to school together tomorrow."
Fearing that the other party might be worried about something else, Lan Yexing shrugged: "Anyway, you and I are both male betas, so it won't be inconvenient."
Genders are mixed up in this world. Even in a boys' school, there are many A's and O's who pursue and are obsessed with Qiao You. He has always understood that this is the attraction between different genders. So he always feels awkward to be roommates with Jiang Xiaozhou, and tries to be a gentleman to Janes.
But since they are of the same gender, there shouldn't be any problems in this regard. Qiao You should be relieved.
Lan Yexing looked at the blond young man with a clear and frank expression, waiting for his answer.
Upon hearing this, Qiao You looked at the young man with an extremely subtle look for a long while before he said in a low and hoarse voice: "...Sorry to bother you then."
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