Yu Wei

If one could be human, who would want to be a ghost?

Yu Xian did not truly want to become a wild man in some remote mountain wilderness. He simply had no choice.

"Do you have a phone?" Curious about what kind of organization Qilin was, Yu Xian asked Nora beside him.

Nora took out her phone and handed it to Yu Xian, warning uneasily, "The password is six sixes. Don't look at my photo album or check my browsing history, or I'll shoot you."

"Don't worry, I'm just looking something up," Yu Xian said with a smile.

After unlocking it, Yu Xian opened the browser and searched for Qilin. The results were all sorts of legends about Qilin; someone had even sworn in a post that they had seen one in the wild.

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"Pfft, you didn't seriously think you could find information about Qilin online, did you?" Nora snickered.

Yu Xian returned the phone to Nora without changing expression. "There's nothing to lose by checking. Why not give it a try?"

At that moment, Nora took a bag of blood from her bracelet and pierced it with her fangs. After thinking for a moment, she took out another bag and handed it to Yu Xian, as though sharing snacks.

"No need. Even though I'm a Vampire, I don't drink blood," Yu Xian refused.

Though his body was already that of a Vampire, since he could feed on light, he felt it was best not to drink blood if he could avoid it.

"Relax, I'm not from the Classical School. This is all artificial plasma. Give it a try." Nora licked her fangs with her little tongue and urged him on with a smile.

After some back-and-forth, Yu Xian finally could not refuse Nora any longer and accepted the blood bag.

Fine.

Actually, he was a little curious too. What exactly did drinking blood taste like for a Vampire?

He punctured the blood bag with his fangs. The next second, he felt a surge of vitality being drawn into his body, and every cell in him became pleasantly warm.

The feeling was amazing.

It was completely different from basking in the sun.

Gradually, his consciousness became lost in that warm sensation, and his mind went blank...

When he came to again, the entire school was surrounded by large numbers of soldiers.

"What did you put in the blood?"

Yu Xian stood up, looking at the soldiers around them, and could not help asking Nora beside him.

He had actually lost consciousness after drinking the blood. If Nora or these soldiers had wanted to do anything to him just then, he would have had no chance to resist.

Nora explained with a smile, "It really was just ordinary artificial plasma. I just didn't expect you to get Blood Drunkenness like my cousin. Basically, after drinking blood, you get as drunk as if you'd been drinking alcohol."

"..."

Yu Xian was speechless. So Vampires could get Blood Drunkenness.

Fortunately, he had discovered this weakness in time. It would have been troublesome if it caused him to fail at a critical moment in the future.

The soldiers who had rushed over handled all the cleanup afterward. Under the surviving teachers' arrangements, Yu Xian and Nora went with Zhang Shou and the others to rest in tents outside the school.

The whole of Silver City was currently under wartime conditions. Going home was definitely out of the question.

The night passed without incident.

The next day.

Yu Xian woke up on the wooden bed in the tent and could not help stretching.

Perhaps because his battle with Zhou Tai yesterday had consumed too much energy, he had slept all the way until dawn. This showed that Vampire did not truly need no sleep; rather, their usual recovery rate exceeded their expenditure, creating the illusion that they never needed to sleep.

Of course, it might also have been because regrowing an arm consumed a huge amount of energy.

The moment Yu Xian woke up, he discovered that his right hand had fully healed. The newly grown hand was almost no different from the original one. He said almost because this arm seemed even more perfect.

In fact, because people were left- or right-handed, their two arms were not always exactly the same size.

Take right-handed people, for example.

If one looked closely, one would find that their right fist was larger than their left.

Yu Xian had always been right-handed, so his right hand had actually been a little larger than his left. Now, however, both arms were exactly the same size. Whether he threw punches or made other movements, his sense of balance was much stronger.

Not far away, Zhang Shou and the others sat in a row, looking toward the school. A group of soldiers in white protective suits were disinfecting the entire campus to prevent hidden dangers such as Aberrant Insect eggs being left somewhere.

"What are you looking at?" Yu Xian walked over and sat beside Zhang Shou.

Zhang Shou said heavily, "I just heard that there were only a little over a hundred survivors in the entire school, and most of them were left permanently disabled."

Half of those survivors had been saved by Yu Xian and the others. If Yu Xian and Nora had not worked together to quickly kill the Aberrant Insects in the teaching building, there might have been only thirty or forty survivors.

Yu Xian fell silent after hearing that. So many students and teachers had only survived...

Then, no one knew who started it, but several girls began sobbing quietly, making the atmosphere even sadder. Even Zhang Shou's eyes reddened.

"Salty Fish, do you think my parents are okay right now? Oh, right, where's my phone?" Zhang Shou suddenly asked.

Yu Xian immediately gave an awkward smile and said apologetically, "Your phone... You know how sudden everything was then, so I accidentally broke it."

"That makes sense. Things were a total mess back then, and it was a good thing you were there. Otherwise, we definitely would've been in trouble too," Zhang Shou said understandingly as he recalled yesterday's events.

If it had not been for Yu Xian, he knew that neither he nor the other students would have made it out okay.

Yu Xian had saved their lives. What was a mere phone?

At that moment, Chen Ling and a male teacher came over carrying several bowls. She forced a smile and said, "Everyone, come have breakfast."

"Oh, I've been hungry for ages." Zhang Shou immediately pulled himself together, stood up, and said loudly.

Carrying a bowl of noodles, Chen Ling walked over to Yu Xian. Yu Xian accepted it and smiled. "Thank you."

Though he could not digest other food, and it tasted as bland as chewing wax, he did not want to reject Chen Ling's kindness right now.

He held the bowl in one hand and chopsticks in the other. Only then did Chen Ling notice that his right hand had grown back, and she asked in surprise, "Yu Xian, your hand is healed?"

"Yeah, it grew back after one night's sleep." Yu Xian took a bite of noodles and smiled.

At that moment, he frowned and instinctively looked up at the male teacher handing out breakfast nearby.

"Who is this teacher...?" He looked at the man and asked Chen Ling.

Chen Ling introduced him: "This is Teacher Yu Wei, a PE teacher for the ninth graders. He happened to have no classes yesterday, so he was sleeping in the dormitory. That was why he escaped the Aberrant Insects."

"Oh, Teacher Yu must have been sick yesterday," Zhang Shou said with a grin.

Though ninth grade was not as intense as senior year, the academic pressure was still considerable, and PE teachers often happened to be "sick."

Chen Ling shot Zhang Shou an annoyed glare. Yu Xian, meanwhile, studied Yu Wei, feeling that something was off.

Although the enhanced sense of smell and vision granted by Blood of Silver had detected no problem, for some reason, he vaguely felt that there was something wrong with this teacher.

The problem was that the authorities should have checked everyone present. There should not have been any fish that slipped through the net.

Something was wrong!

Something was wrong!

Something was wrong!

Yu Xian lowered his head and ate his noodles.

Yet it was as if a voice in the depths of his heart kept reminding him: Yu Wei had a problem!