Like anyone who had just awakened from a long dream, Lu Baiyan was still a little dazed when he saw Xu Shi before him.
"Xu Shi?"
His normally squinty eyes widened slightly as he murmured softly.
Then, seeing the various tubes inserted into his body, he instinctively struggled a little. "Where is this?"
"You're awake?"
Xu Shi smiled. "I'm sorry, but none of us survived the battle at the Church. This is heaven."
Though he did not know whether the Hualan Empire's culture had a concept of heaven, he still chose to use it as a joke.
"...Brother Xu, stop teasing me."
Lu Baiyan froze for a moment, then returned the smile. "That kind of joke won't fool me."
He had not forgotten what had happened before, and he had his own estimate of who had won and who had lost. There was no way he believed Xu Shi would lose.
It was entirely possible that he himself had died, but Xu Shi... that was unlikely.
And since Xu Shi was still alive, then he definitely was not dead either.
His logic was impeccable.
"Tch. Boring."
Seeing how calm he looked, Xu Shi shook his head in disdain.
Why were you so normal? I hadn't even gotten to say the classic line, "The surgery was a success." And you weren't like Xu Ying either, waking up and grabbing me by the collar to call me Dad...
Boring!
Still, Xu Shi could not help wondering: when everyone else was abnormal, did Lu Baiyan's normality count as normal, or abnormal?
Lu Baiyan recovered quickly and went straight to the point.
"My head is still a little muddled... What exactly happened that day?"
Xu Shi did not hide anything from him. He carefully told him about what had happened on the day of