Free Web NovelDu Sixian's rejection reaction came quickly and went quickly.
High fever, golden scales on her forehead, rapid breathing – all the abnormal states seemed to disappear in an instant, so fast that An Qing was caught a little off guard.
In her impression, there had been no prior instance of a Spirit Mark rejection reaction disappearing in such a short time.
Treating rejection reactions had always been a lengthy process.
Seeing Du Sixian slowly wake up, An Qing quickly went over and asked with concern, "How do you feel?"
"I..." Du Sixian looked at An Qing blankly, sat up from the bed, rubbed her temples, and after a few seconds of contemplation, said, "My head feels a bit dizzy..."
Midway through her sentence, she suddenly remembered the shout that had appeared in her ear while she was in a daze, seemingly from a distant time and space, calling her to wake up. She paused for a few seconds, then shook her head.
"There's no other special feeling."
"Is that so? That's good." An Qing nodded thoughtfully. "Then you should rest well here for now?"
"Okay."
An Qing left the office and turned off the lights. Du Sixian responded dazedly, lay back down on the bed, and stared blankly at the ceiling in the darkness for a long time.
Recalling carefully, Du Sixian felt that the voice that had just woken her up sounded like the same voice that had guided her to the Night Watch last time.
But why would she do that? I'm not related to her, nor do we have any shared interests. Du Sixian thought.
That kindness, of unknown origin and purpose, made her feel fear.
"Tap-tap—!"
As Du Sixian was thinking, there was a sudden light sound of feet landing in the dark room. Someone had entered the room.
Looking towards the direction of the sound, Du Sixian saw a young girl.
She came accompanied by the silver-white moonlight, like a pure white peony blooming under the night sky, glowing faintly.
She wore a short white dress woven from coarse cloth, with strange patterns printed on the edges. The thin garment clung to her body, accentuating her perfect figure. Beneath the hem, her long legs were bare-footed on the ground, and a pair of bronze bells hung on her ankles, making a crisp, pleasant sound when they gently touched.
Her face, as bright and beautiful as jade, complemented her slightly upturned red lips. Her long black hair was meticulously coiled up and fastened with a bone hairpin.
The entire girl looked as if she had traveled from a distant time and space. Beneath her ethereal appearance, there was a hint of wildness.
Du Sixian believed a saying was very true – there are no perfect people in this world.
She had shamelessly thought that she was at least eight out of ten in perfection.
But after seeing the girl before her, she suddenly felt that if perfect people didn't exist, then the girl before her definitely wasn't human!
If she wasn't human...
How did she break into the Night Watch without anyone noticing?
The thought was terrifying. Du Sixian's palms felt cold.
While Du Sixian was secretly observing the girl, the girl seemed not to see her at all. She looked around blankly, muttering to herself.
"Strange, I clearly felt his presence, how could it suddenly disappear?"
"Excuse me..."
Hearing Du Sixian's voice, the girl was startled for a moment and patted her chest, saying, "There's someone here! You scared me."
Du Sixian twitched her mouth. "..." Is my presence that weak?
"Since there's someone here, I'll ask..." The girl paused, then asked Du Sixian, "Excuse me, did you just see a man? I don't know how tall he is or what he looks like, but he's about the same age as me."
Du Sixian, "???"
"There are at least hundreds of millions of men like that in Z Country. How can I find him?"
"Really? That's too bad. I'll go back and wait!" The girl said, then flipped out the window, lightly tapped the ground with her toes, and with a burst of air vibration, turned into a white stream of light and disappeared into the sky.
"This..." Du Sixian stared blankly at the window, and only after a long time did she utter, "What did she come here for? Should I tell An Qing that she was here?"
...
It was night, slightly cool, at Hua City People's Hospital.
Lu Xu couldn't sleep, or rather, shouldn't sleep. As soon as he fell asleep, that blood-red lantern would constantly approach him, trying to burrow into his body.
But he eventually fell asleep after being taken to the hospital by Professor Ma and Lu Yibei.
He slept for a long time, longer than the total time he had slept in the past week combined.
When he woke up, he stared blankly at the ceiling in the night, recalling his conversation with the Doctor during the day, his heart filled with mixed feelings.
...
"Your test results are all normal. If there are no issues, you can be discharged after one more day of observation," the Doctor said, sitting across from Lu Xu, holding a thick stack of test reports, and smiling.
"This... this shouldn't be! Doctor, could you take another look?" Lu Xu said weakly. He felt like he was close to collapsing, his throat dry, and his eyelids heavy as if weighted down by lead.
The Doctor looked at Lu Xu's expression, which was a little strange. "There's really nothing wrong with your body. Don't worry too much."
"Alright, you should rest well. I'll be going now."
Lu Xu watched the Doctor get up and, bracing his weak body, shouted, "Doctor!"
The Doctor stopped, turned around, and looked at Lu Xu curiously.
"I really feel myself getting weaker and weaker. I know the reason. The red lantern in my dream that I told you about... it's getting closer and closer to me! If this continues, I'll die! Please save me!"
...
After being stunned for a few seconds, the Doctor shook his head with a wry smile and left the ward.
The ward became quiet. Lu Xu sat on the bed blankly, a hint of ruthlessness gradually appearing in his eyes.
He felt that no one could help him. The Doctor couldn't, Professor Ma couldn't, and even Lu Yibei could only help him delay the arrival of death. Now, he could only rely on himself.
Just like the Old man he met in his dream.
If that Old man could escape, why couldn't he?
...
In a daze, Lu Xu felt a constant breeze on his face. He was woken up by the cold.
He rubbed his throbbing head, sat up, and was surprised to find that he was sleeping on his dormitory bed.
It was pitch black all around. The darkness seemed to swallow all light. Everything in the dormitory was only visible as a vague outline.
There was no red lantern, no strange desolate village. The warm feeling of the bed came from his back, and the familiar smell of sweat from a male dormitory hung in the air. Everything before him seemed real.
For a moment, Lu Xu had an illusion, thinking that everything he had experienced recently was just a bizarre dream.
As he was thinking, wind suddenly blew in from outside the window, causing the curtain hooks to rattle.
He gritted his teeth, fumbled in the darkness, grabbed a chair, and walked towards the window.
Reaching the window, he held a corner of the curtain with one hand, while the other hand held the chair, ready to swing and smash it at any moment. Then he took a deep breath and pulled the curtain open with a "whoosh".
Outside the window, it was empty and filled with thick fog. Only vague outlines of the entire campus remained.
"Gulp—!"
Lu Xu swallowed hard, closed the slightly open window tightly, pulled the curtain shut, and then used the chair to firmly prop against the bottom of the curtain.
Lying back down on the bed, sleepiness gradually came over him.
In the darkness, every tiny faint sound seemed to be amplified. In a daze, he heard faint movements again.
Something was pulling at the curtain, and even the chair propped against it began to shake. The metal chair legs scraped against the tiled floor, making a series of grating sounds.
Lu Xu's sleepiness vanished instantly. He abruptly sat up from the bed and looked towards the direction of the balcony.
A faint bloody light penetrated from outside the window, passing through the dark blue curtain, making the color appear even more eerie.
A corner of the curtain lifted slightly, swaying gently with the cold wind.
The chair's movement became more intense. It would lift a corner from time to time, teetering precariously, yet it wouldn't fall over, as if an invisible person was sitting on it, rocking back and forth while tilting the chair.
"Creak—Creak—Creak—!"
Gusts of cold wind blew over Lu Xu. He felt his whole body stiffen. His extremely fast heartbeat made him feel chest tightness and shortness of breath.
He was terrified, clutching the blanket tightly with both hands, not daring to move. He was afraid that the invisible person on the chair would suddenly appear and rush towards him.
The tormenting scraping sound lasted for an unknown duration. The wind suddenly stopped, and the slightly lifted chair leg hit the ground with a "clang!", plunging the entire dormitory into dead silence.
There was no wind, yet the chair moved again, as if being pulled by something, dragging towards the center of the dormitory with a grating sound.
The chair was empty, but Lu Xu felt an invisible person sitting on it, silently watching him in the darkness with a strange smile.
"Whoosh—!"
A corner of the curtain on the balcony was suddenly pulled open, and a ball of red light floated from a distance.
The blood-red lantern hovered outside the window, like a scarlet, eerie eye.
At this moment, Lu Xu's last shred of security was also completely gone. His hair stood on end, his body trembled, and his teeth chattered ❀ Nоvеlігht ❀ (Don’t copy, read here) uncontrollably.
The blood-colored lantern got closer and closer, casting a bloody red glow on his face, as if it were covered with a layer of red gauze.
His pupils suddenly contracted, his eyeballs began to dart around in their sockets, and his body twitched continuously. His upper and lower teeth chattered together.
His breathing became rapid but shallow. It was as if the air was just swirling in his mouth without entering his lungs. He emitted groans like a dying person. ƒrēewebnovel.com
After a few seconds, he closed his eyes, all the abnormal reactions in his body disappeared, and he fell asleep.
...
At night, the hospital felt like it was hiding something strange.
Coupled with Lu Xu's crazy rambling during the day, the patient in the same ward always felt a faint unease.
"Damn it, meeting a guy like this, I'm even scared to go to the toilet at night."
"Tomorrow, tomorrow I'll change wards. I'm a patient too, aren't I? I need to rest!"
He walked from the toilet at the end of the corridor, tidying his clothes and muttering angrily to himself. As soon as he pushed the door open, his body shivered. Although he had just used the toilet, he felt the urge to urinate again.
He cried out in panic, "Who, who's there!"
After one or two seconds, Lu Xu, sitting by the bed, slowly turned around, a strange smile on his face. He said to him sinisterly, "Don't be afraid, it's me. I've already... escaped."
As he spoke, his hand touched something, which fell to the ground with a light "clink".
The patient in the same ward looked towards the sound and saw two pieces of wood that looked like charcoal...
