Chapter 19
Why would Nan Yunzhou teach Quan Guanxi a lesson for him?
No, that was not necessarily it. It could also have been one of Quan Guanxi’s enemies.
“Ye Xuan, from the moment you entered the reserve team, you were already caught in a trap,” Xia Chenxi said, giving Ye Xuan a definite conclusion.
“What are you talking about?” Ye Xuan asked in shock.
“That guy who talked to you is from Official Team One. The people in Team One either possess special abilities or have extremely powerful abilities. Anyone who can enter Team One is not ordinary. There are countless people who want to curry favor with them. Why do you think he appeared in the reserve team? And why did he talk to a reserve team member like you, who doesn’t even have an ability?”
That was right. From the moment Nan Yunzhou had shown his ability in front of him, Ye Xuan had felt something was off. Now that Xia Chenxi had pointed out the relationship between them, it was as if Ye Xuan had finally pushed aside the fog.
“He came for me. He wanted to make me the target of everyone.”
“Then what is the purpose of the person behind him? That’s hard to guess.”
Xie Yan. From the very beginning, he had been helping him, shaping himself into the image of a good person. But what could not be ignored was that Xie Yan was always one of the base’s people, and he always prioritized the base’s interests.
It should have something to do with his previous ability. They wanted to observe him. In their eyes, he might just be an experimental sample.
In the apocalypse, he should use the greatest malice to speculate about everyone.
“Xia Chenxi, can I trust you?”
“That’s something you have to ask yourself.”
Oh. Then that meant he could trust him.
“You don’t need to fall out with them too quickly either. In truth, our relationship with them isn’t one-sided exploitation, but mutual benefit. It’s just that our positions are slightly unequal.”
“Mm, I know.”
He had endured a brutal beating. What else could he not endure?
“Right, if you’re free tonight, I want to analyze the videos you sent me today with you. I noticed something special.”
“Alright.”
Xia Chenxi cleared away Ye Xuan’s bowls and chopsticks, finished his own lunch, rested for a while in the living room, then went back to the training field to train.
All afternoon, Ye Xuan analyzed the videos in his room. But after watching them again and again, he did not gain many new clues. Instead, his head grew dizzy and swollen, and at some point, he unknowingly fell asleep.
At dusk, Xia Chenxi came back and called Ye Xuan several times from outside his door, but there was no answer from inside. Thinking something had happened to Ye Xuan again, he directly knocked the door open, only to find this guy lying on the bed, sleeping soundly.
“Ye Xuan, stop sleeping. Get ready to wake up and eat.”
The person on the bed woke up groggily. Seeing the person crouching beside him, he was confused and asked Xia Chenxi in a hoarse voice, “Didn’t we just eat lunch? You went out to train and came back this quickly?”
“Did you sleep yourself stupid?” Xia Chenxi tapped his wristband, and the screen displayed the time: five thirty. “It’s already evening. How long did you sleep?”
Ye Xuan did not know how long he had slept. Not long after Xia Chenxi went out, he had been watching videos on the bed and fallen asleep. It might have been two or three hours.
“Probably quite a while.”
“Forget it. If you’re tired, rest a little longer. I’ll go cook.” Xia Chenxi touched Ye Xuan’s forehead with his hand. Only after confirming that he did not have a fever did he leave his room.
Ye Xuan lingered in bed for a while before finally waking up completely. Then he felt that something was wrong with his body.
Why did his neck no longer hurt? The injuries on his body did not hurt either. Not only that, he even felt his body was full of energy, with an impulse to go fight someone.
Ye Xuan sprang up from the bed and ran to the bathroom, peeling away the gauze on his neck.
They were really gone. The two bite marks Xia Chenxi had left on his neck, so deep bone could be seen, were gone. His skin was incredibly smooth, as if he had never been bitten at all.
He checked the injuries on his body too. If he had not looked, he would not have known; once he looked, he was startled. Ye Xuan covered his mouth in disbelief.
He knew better than anyone how heavily Quan Guanxi had hit him that morning. Quan Guanxi had beaten him as if he wanted him dead, every punch landing solidly on flesh.
But now, those black and blue bruises had almost completely disappeared.
What kind of miracle medicine had Xie Yan used on him?
“Xia Chenxi, Xia Chenxi!” Ye Xuan did not know how to describe his current feelings. He urgently needed someone to give him an answer.
“What is it?” Xia Chenxi rushed in wearing an apron. “You’d better have something important. Otherwise, the food burning in my pot is going into your stomach.”
Ye Xuan excitedly ran up to Xia Chenxi, brushed aside his hair, and exposed his neck.
“What are you doing?” Xia Chenxi covered his own face, his gaze drifting unsteadily.
“Look. Look at my neck.”
Xia Chenxi focused his gaze and lowered his hand. The trace of awkwardness from just now vanished completely. So Ye Xuan had asked him to look at his neck to show him his recovery.
However, Ye Xuan did not notice anything unusual about Xia Chenxi.
“I’m guessing the injuries on your body have almost disappeared too, right?”
“How did you know?” Ye Xuan, who had been excited just now, became slightly dejected. Xia Chenxi always gave him the feeling that everything was under his control, while he himself seemed like an idiot.
Noticing Ye Xuan’s mood, Xia Chenxi stopped teasing him and explained, “Actually, ability users recover very quickly. Forget two or three hours. Some can even recover immediately. Wait here for a moment.”
Xia Chenxi returned to the kitchen and came back with a fruit knife.
“What are you doing?” Xia Chenxi was not planning to self-harm in front of him, was he?
Before Ye Xuan could even blink, Xia Chenxi directly cut open his own wrist and arm. The wound was deep and long, and blood immediately seeped out.
“Hey, Xia Chenxi, are you crazy?”
Ye Xuan reached out to cover Xia Chenxi’s wound. “You don’t need to hurt yourself in front of me just for this!”
Xia Chenxi could not help the corners of his mouth lifting. Why was this guy so adorable and funny right now? In the past, he would only sweep those clear fox-like eyes over him once, then quickly walk past him, afraid of running into him.
If people with fox eyes were usually full of schemes, then Ye Xuan was probably an exception among them.
A clear, silly little fox.
“Let go.”
Xia Chenxi’s smiling tone made Ye Xuan freeze. Xia Chenxi had never spoken to him in this tone before. In his impression, Xia Chenxi’s voice was always flat and calm, carrying a hint of AI-like detachment. Ye Xuan’s ears heated up. To keep Xia Chenxi from noticing, he moved his hand away, lowered his head, and pretended to look at Xia Chenxi’s wound.
The wound that had just been as long as a finger had already healed into a thin line. The coagulated blood was proof that the wound from earlier had truly existed.
Xia Chenxi had not lied to him.
Ye Xuan raised his head to look at Xia Chenxi, his eyes filled with three words: please explain.
“For this phenomenon, Xie Yan’s answer is that the R Virus not only awakens abilities, but also promotes cell and metabolic regeneration, improving the recovery ability of ability users.”
“But I’m not an ability user right now.”
“You’re not one right now, but you used to be. Didn’t Xie Yan say that another kind of R Virus in your body has gained the upper hand? Then it’s very possible that after this injury, that R Virus further suppressed the other one. Now all you’re missing is an opportunity—one that lets this R Virus fully take dominance inside your body, stimulate the emergence of your ability, and make you an ability user again.”
