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"Have you always been so nice to Xia Yi?" Xia Yi looked at the group of reporters in the distance. The reporters who usually asked gentle questions in real life were now like mad dogs, clinging to Xia Yi's body temperature, wishing they could tear countless vicious news from Xia Yi. The normal questions from the few reporters squeezed behind him were drowned out by the sharp questions.
The coach and the inspection team had originally maintained a neutral attitude towards her incident, and now they also maintain a neutral attitude and are unwilling to get involved.
"Of course not. I've scolded Xia Yi before." Xiang Jiu's face was filled with nostalgia. Xia Yi should have found it strange to see such a young boy with such a nostalgic look, but she didn't find it strange at all. Xiang Jiu continued, "It must have been when Xia Yi had just joined the wrestling team. I sneaked in through the back door to watch Xia Yi's match. I was diagnosed with heart disease when I was young, so my family didn't allow me to watch wrestling matches. So that was the most intense match I had ever seen. Xia Yi was knocked down by Wang Lan again and again, and then he stood up again. He looked very embarrassed."
"I even placed a bet on Wang Lan, so I was looking at things from Wang Lan's perspective." Xiang Jiu's eyes were filled with a gentle smile. "I joined the crowd in cheering for Xia Yi to leave the stage. I cursed him a lot. I said, 'You're already in this state. You're going to lose whether we fight or not. Why are you still taking the beating and refusing to admit defeat?'"
"I was very close to the octagon, Xia Yi should have heard it."
"She turned around and said to me, 'I think I can beat her. If I can't win this time, I can win next time. As long as I don't back down, I will always have the courage to face her.'" Xiang Jiu was full of pride. "Just by chance, Xia Yi defeated Wang Lan in the next quarter. At that moment, I really felt that I had received guidance. I must bravely fight the disease."
"Then what?" Xia Yi vaguely remembered the boy in her memory, but what she remembered was not the scene where the boy scolded her, but the boy who appeared in the audience every now and then when she was competing.
After the accident, she never saw the boy again and gradually put him out of her mind. She was also afraid that she would be looked at with disgust when they met again.
"Then I was admitted to the ICU that night." Xiang Jiu shook his head. "The next day after I regained consciousness, I told my parents about Xia Yi and resolutely entered the hospital."
"I'm living pretty well in the stairs..." Xiang Jiu hesitated to speak.
Xia Yi nodded: "That's good, congratulations. But I haven't entered the stairs yet. Xiangjiu, do you think this is the real world?" Xia Yi turned his head and stared seriously into Xiangjiu's eyes, "Or is it more like the world inside the stairs?"
"Xiang Jiu, your eyes are beautiful, but it seems they won't lie to me."
Xia Yi was determined.
The place where 'Xia Yi' was was still a mess, with arguments and vicious accusations intertwined together.
I don't know who said it, but someone shouted excitedly.
"Why don't you go interview Yunying? She even spilled the chicken soup. She must be the one who knows the truth."
Xia Yi was standing not far from the group of people led by "Xia Yi". Upon hearing this, she took a deep breath and took the lead to walk over without waiting for the group of reporters to speak.
"Excuse me, what do you think of this incident? Would you still dare to be on the same team with 'Xia Yi' in the future?"
"Did you really see Xia Yi put drugs in the chicken soup, so you spilled it?"
Xia Yi turned a deaf ear to him and walked over to 'Xia Yi'. She slapped 'Xia Yi' in the face. The crisp sound of the slap made the noisy voices in the scene quiet for a moment. She gritted her teeth and said angrily, "I just saw you put drugs in the chicken soup, so I went over to spill it. I was just afraid that you would hurt others. I didn't expect that you had already given it to Zhang Duoduo before I went there. Zhang Duoduo is usually so good to you. He will share anything delicious and fun with you. How have we wronged you that you have to repay us like this? Duoduo is old and can't keep wasting time like this. After this, I will definitely retire gradually. There are fewer and fewer games to play now..."
While Xia Yi was cursing Xia Yi angrily, he observed his surroundings with his peripheral vision.
Mingxue was so frightened that she couldn't stop her for a moment. Wang Lan and Zhang Duoduo were shocked at first, but they reacted immediately and watched her beat and scold "Xia Yi" with joy. The reporters around her who were eager to step up and step on her were even more crazy. Their behavior seemed to be logical.
The entire wrestling practice arena simulates the lighting in a real octagonal cage match. Even during the day, the lights in the venue are still dim.
The noisy crowd huddled together, and the shadows under their feet shrank into the shadows, becoming larger.
Were the shadows just now also separated so widely?
Xia Yi's heart began to pound, even more intensely than when he was speaking in front of so many people when he first started acting.
——Bang, bang, bang!
Xia Yi slapped 'Xia Yi' again. "What's wrong with you? Are you mute? Why aren't you talking? I thought you were a good person when you first joined the team. If you didn't do that, why are you apologizing? If you vehemently deny it, do you dare to go on a live broadcast and bet that you drugged someone and then go out and get killed by a spaceship? I have a lawyer's phone number here. Do you dare to call right now, pay the lawyer's fees, and sue us all in court? Do you dare to call the police? Look at you, you don't dare to do anything. Then I say it was you who drugged someone. What else can you do? Besides, it was you who drugged someone in the first place."
She had thought about the scene countless times, and she didn't have to live so miserably.
She didn't expect that things would become so serious in the end. She was afraid that if she made a big deal out of it, she would lose her job on the wrestling team. She was also afraid that the cost of hiring a lawyer would be too high and she would go bankrupt in the lawsuit. She was also afraid of the countless netizens pointing fingers at her during the live broadcast. Her family had never encountered such a vicious incident and had no experience in solving this matter. When the best opportunity to explain the matter was missed, no matter how much she did in the future, it would not be able to make up for it.
She actually kept blaming herself.
Xia Yi's aggrieved and angry eyes met Xia Yi's complex, red and tearful eyes, and he was stunned.
"If you didn't drug me, then you did nothing wrong and there's no need to look like that." Yes, I did nothing wrong.
I don't need to blame myself, I don't need to hate myself, there is always a way to deal with things, if not now then in the future.
Xia Yi's frown relaxed a little, and the last slap was lightly slapped on Xia Yi's face, almost like a caress.
'Da da da da'
The sudden sound was like the gears of memory starting to spin. The moment Xia Yi closed his eyes and opened them again, it was as if he had changed his body, and a burning temperature remained on his face.
She really just killed someone.
Xia Yi covered her cheeks, and her mind was like a movie playing as she recalled all the lost memories after she entered the stairs.
She couldn't help but look up at Xiang Jiu.
Xiang Jiu had disappeared. The pure black kitten landed on the radiator in the corridor, breathed softly, and responded to Xia Yi's gaze, staring at Xia Yi with its deep blue eyes warmly.
Xia Yi's lips curled up into a smile unconsciously.
"You still have the nerve to laugh?" Her consciousness returned to her body, and Yunying in front of her was also taken over by an unknown consciousness. Yunying continued her previous actions with a twisted smile on her face.
Xia Yi grabbed Yunying's hand and slapped her.
When she was on the wrestling team, she was always stronger than Yunying.
Therefore, while bending Yunying's wrist, she was able to spare some energy to look around. The reporters surrounding her, as well as Wang Lan, Zhang Duoduo, Mingxue, and the coach not far away, all showed stereotyped smiles on their faces one after another.
The smile was distorted in the same way as the one on Yunying's face.
The shadows under their feet also grinned, and the clumped shadows tore apart, one after another pouncing ferociously towards their masters.
It's like having your consciousness taken over.
People took a step towards Xia Yi in unison.
The smile on the corner of his mouth turned into a bloody mouth that stretched to the back of his head, with fishy yellow liquid at the corner of his mouth, and he bit towards Xia Yi in an orderly manner.
The shadow took over the body very quickly. As soon as Xia Yi released his hand that was holding Yunying, countless mouths came up to bite him.
Xia Yi instinctively wanted to retreat, but a fishy smell spread from behind his ears to the tip of his nose. Xia Yi paused and immediately squatted down to avoid the mouth flying towards him, turning into a mirror elf.
The teeth collided with the mirror-like scales, making a harsh crunching sound.
"Crack" Xia Yi used his body to crash into the solid human wall. Fortunately, the mirror elf was strong enough.
Xia Yi rushed out of the encirclement and shouted, "Xiang Jiu, come up."
Xiangjiu had been sitting on the radiator obediently, but when he heard the words, he jumped onto Xiangjiu's back.
"Sister Yiyi, I was really scared when I first found you. The person controlling your body during the wrestling match looked nothing like you." Xiang Jiu meowed, briefly explaining his situation in Xia Yi's mind, "I was trapped in the bed during the threesome, and after losing consciousness, I entered this place. Maybe because our memories are connected, we were assigned to the same copy. To be more precise, I was merged into your copy. You haven't regained consciousness these past few days, and I don't even have anyone to discuss things with. I'm so scared."
"Also, these past few days, I've been secretly following the fake Xia Yi. I found out that she hasn't been home for the past two days, and I don't know where she got the pork rib soup from."
"Do you know where my home is?" Xia Yi turned into the road leading back to his home, and drove fast on the road based on his instinct, his mind still working to find out the unreasonable things in Xiang Jiu's words.
"Not only that, I know your email account, StarNet account, and even your private StarMachine number." Xiang Jiu said sweetly, "I only looked at it once. The hospital your parents went to for emergency treatment is the same hospital I've been receiving treatment at. When you went to process the paperwork for them, I was standing right next to them. I have good ears, so I happened to remember what you said several times that the nurse didn't hear clearly."
"Then why did you come here only recently?" Xia Yi was not angry and ran into the community.
The wrestling team was not far from her home, but in just two kilometers, the number of people chasing after her and Xiang Jiu increased two to three times, crowding together and blocking the entire street. The stench dyed the air yellow.
Although the mirror elf looks strong, it is very heavy when climbing the stairs, and its huge body fills the entire corridor.
Xia Yi could only transform back into a human body.
"Xiang Jiu, why aren't you talking?" Xia Yi listened to the footsteps in the corridor downstairs and calmly opened the door.
The moment he opened the door, more than ten pairs of eyes looked over. Xia Yi's scalp tingled as he looked at the sixteen 'Xia Yi's' sitting or standing in the room.
Judging from their actions, they were also looking for something in the house.
The monster behind him was climbing the stairs quickly, squeezing his body and crawling up the stairs. The rustling sound was getting closer and closer.
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