"Halt!"
Xie Mi shouted as she charged over with a long stick raised. "Fiend, where do you think you're running?"
Most ordinary people were afraid of lunatics.
Bad people included.
In an emergency, pretending to be a lunatic could work wonders at scaring off an attacker.
That was exactly what Xie Mi had in mind, so she had grabbed a stick beside a trash can and charged over in Run Tu's melon-field-hunting pose.
But she saw no attacker, only a panicked, screaming passerby and a body lying on the ground...
A corpse?
Xie Mi's grip loosened, and the stick fell.
Blood spread across the ground, and the body lay there stiffly.
Smack!
The stick landed squarely on the body, which let out an "Ow."
Xie Mi instantly went from gloomy to delighted.
So he was alive, just a little dead!
The passerby shakily pulled out their phone to call an ambulance. Xie Mi threw herself down beside the body to comfort him. "Shen Yeqing, hang in there! The ambulance will be here soon. Come on, chant with me in your head: 2024 Purple Star, 2024 Purple Star..."
"Sister Liu?"
A familiar voice came from above. Xie Mi froze and looked up to see the boy standing at the entrance.
He looked at the scene, visibly taken aback. "What... happened here?"
"..."
Xie Mi bent down to look at the face of the person on the ground.
Okay, it wasn't Shen Yeqing.
But he was also a student at Apricot Blossom High School. Since he wore the same uniform and was lying facedown, she had accidentally mistaken him for Shen Yeqing.
The ambulance soon arrived and took the injured student to the hospital.
The helpful passerby went with the police to give a statement, while Xie Mi slipped away amid the