Chapter 18
“Who did this?” When Xia Chenxi saw Ye Xuan wrapped in bandages from head to toe, unable to move, a rare trace of anger appeared on his face as he asked sharply.
Ye Xuan did not speak, so Xia Chenxi turned to ask Xie Yan, “Who beat him?”
Xie Yan raised his brows innocently. “Looking at me is useless. I don’t know who beat him either. Your friend’s mouth is practically welded shut. He barely said two words. When I met him at school before, wasn’t he pretty talkative?”
“Ye Xuan, tell me.” Xia Chenxi placed both hands on Ye Xuan’s shoulders, but afraid of hurting him, he withdrew them helplessly.
“Xia Chenxi, who it was doesn’t matter. Take me back.” Even if Xia Chenxi helped him beat up Quan Guanxi now, how was he supposed to get through the next few days in the reserve team? Sooner or later, he would personally take revenge for this.
“Heh, do whatever you want.” Xia Chenxi stared at Ye Xuan with a look of hatred for iron not becoming steel. Ye Xuan avoided his gaze and lowered his head. Xia Chenxi did not understand him now, but once he calmed down, he should understand what he was thinking.
“I’m taking him with me.” Xia Chenxi helped Ye Xuan up and walked out.
“Thanks.” As they passed by Xie Yan, Ye Xuan thanked him in a voice so faint it was almost inaudible.
Xie Yan froze for a moment, then smiled. “It was nothing. Remember to have your friend bring you here to change your dressing these next two days.”
Xia Chenxi brought Ye Xuan back from the hospital to the dormitory and helped him onto his own bed. Even the slightest movement made a faint expression of pain appear on Ye Xuan’s face, though he tried his best to suppress it.
“You insist on enduring like this, Ye Xuan. If it weren’t for what your mother entrusted to me, I wouldn’t bother with you at all.” Somewhere Ye Xuan could not see, Xia Chenxi’s hand clenched into a fist. This guy had been beaten like this and could still keep silent. In his last life, he had probably been a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle.
“Xia Chenxi, thank you. I sincerely thank you.”
Xia Chenxi lost his momentum. Talking to Ye Xuan gave him a powerless feeling, like punching cotton.
“Rest in the dorm. I’ll bring lunch back for you later.”
“Xia Chenxi, don’t tell my family about this,” Ye Xuan said to him.
Xia Chenxi turned his head slightly and left behind one word.
“Stupid.”
The door closed, and the whole room fell quiet.
Ding-dong. You have received a message from Xia Chenxi.
Ding-dong… 10
Ye Xuan struggled to lift his hand and opened the messages.
Xia Chenxi: If you feel bored in the dorm, watch these video data clips of ability users awakening their abilities. Though I don’t think they’ll be very useful.
Ye Xuan opened the videos, and a virtual screen appeared in front of him. He watched them one by one. After finishing the videos, he actually did discover some similarities.
Before each person broke through and awakened their ability, they usually went through a period of intensification. Just like before Quan Guanxi awakened his ability, he had been frantically beating him. Ye Xuan guessed that Quan Guanxi’s ability was berserk enhancement, allowing him to temporarily improve his bodily functions and strength, bursting out with inhuman power. But Xia Chenxi could control his own strength at any time. His ability could be used as he wished, so even abilities of the same type could differ.
Earlier, Xie Yan had said he was a space-type ability user. Then how was he supposed to enter that intensification period?
Since his first four-dimensional space ability required him to be on the edge of life and death, then a three-dimensional space ability should be distance shuttling. Perhaps it did not require reaching the brink of death.
Maybe he could try increasing his speed within a short period of time, breaking through his own limits and smoothly passing through the intensification stage, thereby achieving space shuttling.
The more he thought about it, the more feasible Ye Xuan felt it was. He could discuss it with Xia Chenxi tonight and hear his thoughts.
Unfortunately, he currently had no ability to move at all.
Just like that, Ye Xuan spent the whole morning bored out of his mind until Xia Chenxi brought lunch back.
Lunch had arrived, but Ye Xuan encountered an awkward predicament. His hand had been injured. It was not that he could not move it at all, but his movements were slow. The way he ate would definitely look ridiculous.
“Just lie there. I’ll feed you.” Xia Chenxi held the bowl of porridge and sat beside Ye Xuan.
Ye Xuan felt his face heating slightly. Ever since he learned how to eat by himself after the age of three, he had never let anyone feed him again. Even once, when he had a fever of forty degrees, he had forced himself to get up and eat on his own. Now he was already an adult, yet someone else had to feed him. And the person feeding him was Xia Chenxi. Ye Xuan felt that it was strangely awkward.
“Don’t force yourself. There’s no need to feel burdened. If you really can’t get past that hurdle in your heart, just treat me as a caregiver serving you.” Xia Chenxi scooped up a spoonful of porridge and brought it to Ye Xuan’s mouth.
Treating Xia Chenxi as a caregiver felt even stranger. Although he thought that, Ye Xuan still obediently opened his mouth.
To speed up this period of time, Ye Xuan kept opening his mouth faster and faster. A few times, he opened his mouth before Xia Chenxi’s spoon even reached him.
After finally finishing one bowl of porridge, Ye Xuan breathed a sigh of relief and leaned back against the bed. Unexpectedly, after Xia Chenxi went out, he came back in with another bowl of porridge.
“You looked very hungry.”
Ye Xuan was like someone eating bitter herbs in silence, unable to voice his suffering. Under Xia Chenxi’s gaze, he ate another bowl of porridge. After finishing this bowl, Ye Xuan’s mood underwent a subtle change.
It was as if he had recovered the feeling of childhood, that hazy sense of being a three-year-old baby. Embarrassment, awkwardness, and shame all vanished completely.
“In the orphanage, I also took care of three- or four-year-old children. Your expression right now is exactly the same as theirs. After eating, they’d get sleepy, eyes half-closed, looking dazed and confused. The difference is that you’re better behaved when eating than they were.” Xia Chenxi said this in a matter-of-fact tone, as if he were praising Ye Xuan.
A crack appeared in Ye Xuan’s expression. He tentatively asked Xia Chenxi, hoping the answer would not be what he thought.
“Xia Chenxi, are you treating me like a little brat right now?”
“Is that not allowed?” Xia Chenxi asked him back. “After all, some of your actions are very childish.”
“For example, when you hate someone, it’s very obvious. Your emotions are written all over your face. You can’t help acting spoiled with your parents, and your emotions also show on your face. Children who can’t hide what’s on their minds are just like that.”
“Children are born happy to borrow someone else’s power to bully others. You can do that too. So tell me who beat you.”
Why exactly was Xia Chenxi so fixated on this?
“Xia Chenxi, some revenge only counts as revenge if you take it yourself. Otherwise, like you said, that’s just borrowing someone else’s power.” Ye Xuan raised his eyes and met Xia Chenxi’s gaze.
Xia Chenxi did not avoid him. Instead, the corners of his mouth slowly curved upward.
“Then that’s a pity. Someone has already taught that berserk ability user a lesson for you. That newcomer was assigned to Team Two. On his way to lunch, someone bagged him and beat him into a pig’s head. Both his legs were broken, and he was hospitalized. He won’t be able to get out of bed for at least a week.”
Ye Xuan’s first reaction was that Xia Chenxi was joking, but Xia Chenxi did not look like he was lying. Then who was the person who had bagged Quan Guanxi and dragged him away?
A name appeared in Ye Xuan’s mind.
Could it be—
Nan Yunzhou.
