Chapter 112 Healing
Xiaozhen knocked on Teacher Xiaoyuan's door.
There was no sound in the house and no one came to open the door.
Xiao Zhen shouted, "Teacher Xiao Yuan, it's me."
There was a rustling sound from the door. After a few minutes, the door was opened a crack. A small group of crabs piled up from the ground to the door handle, and the crab on the top said, "Come in."
Xiao Zhen and Mr. Cat walked into Teacher Xiao Yuan's home together.
This is the second day that Teacher Yuan has taken leave.
After Xiaozhen entered the door, the crabs immediately closed the door tightly. It can be seen that they were very careful to avoid any mistakes that might be discovered by other humans.
The crabs now are no longer the human woman who can be called Teacher Xiao Yuan, but a bunch of scattered crabs.
Five or six crabs crawled out of the kitchen carrying a kettle, and four crabs followed behind carrying two cups.
Xiao Zhen sat down and watched the crabs raise their kettles to pour water for him. Qiuqiu, the husky, ran over and squatted obediently beside the table.
"Ah, thank you." Xiao Zhen picked up the teacup and took a sip of water. "Teacher Xiao Yuan, how are you doing now?"
"30% of individuals need healing." said a crab.
"Rest! Rest!" shouted another crab.
"We need to take about half a month off." another crab shouted.
"Half of Tana's leg is gone!"
"Xiao Wei's body has not been found."
The crabs were all talking about the casualties of their own group. Although Inspector Sheying seemed to have stopped, he still caused some casualties to the crabs.
One of the crabs asked, "Is classmate Chen Yuxin okay?"
"The Eye of Supervision found the Heracles VIP, took good care of him , and stuffed him back on the returning ship. Now this matter has nothing to do with Chen Yuxin."
"That's good." The crab with a plate of biscuits on its head climbed onto the table, "No one can touch my students!"
"He's my student!" another crab shouted while handing Xiaozhen a biscuit.
“It’s ours!!”
"Song Jiarui was also frightened. Is she okay?"
Xiaozhen told her that the Supervisory Eye had already taken corresponding measures, and all the witnesses on the street that day would forget about this incident.
"I have a suggestion," Mr. Cat said. "Please write a letter of complaint about your casualties and ask for compensation directly from the Safety Committee."
"but……"
"Write!" said Mr. Cat, "and send nine thousand nine hundred and ninety-nine emails every day."
"Why nine thousand nine hundred and ninety-nine?"
"This will trigger the alarm mechanism in their mailbox and cause the system to shut down for five minutes."
"Can we get compensation for this?" asked a crab.
"Of course not. But it can give the Overwatch an excuse to attack the Security Committee."
“…”
Led by the existing healthy crabs, they took Xiao Zhen to the bedroom. Unlike ordinary humans, Teacher Xiao Yuan's bedroom was furnished with a huge pool. The room was very dark, and the air was filled with the pungent smell of medicine. There was shallow water at the bottom of the pool, and some crabs were resting in the shallow water. There was a row of machines next to the pool, with crabs floating in different incubators, and several crabs in white robes were busy in front of the flashing instruments.
"We are treating our individual companions," said a crab that looked like a doctor. "Don't worry, most of them can be cured."
On an operating table behind the instrument, a miserable little crab was lying. Its injuries were very serious, its outer shell was cracked, one of its claws was broken, and green pus was flowing from the crack. Another medical crab was operating on it, and it used a knife to cut open its shell, revealing layers of gill tissue and gray intestines. A catheter was inserted into the crab's tissue, and a bottle of transparent medicine was hung next to it. Every time the doctor's scalpel moved, the crab's legs on the operating table would tremble. Xiaozhen saw its green eyeballs, which froze completely after moving a few times.
The appendages on the head of the medical crab shook. Several assistant crabs inserted more tubes into its body. There was a buzzing electronic sound in the air, and numbers jumped on the instruments beside it. After a while, the screen returned to silence.
Xiaozhen tasted the bitter taste, which was the throbbing in the hearts of all the living crabs in the room. This was the emotion of intelligent life forms towards their deceased companions, which rolled through the crabs' consciousness like a hurricane, or like the drizzling autumn rain, calm and restrained.
They pushed the crab carcass off the operating table.
A crab noticed the look on Xiaozhen's face and said, "Death is something we all have to face. Please don't be sad about it."
"It's your companion."
"Yes. But we who are alive will live with its memory, and that is the meaning of life." The crab said gently, "So, please don't be sad about it."
Another dying crab was pushed onto the operating table. Under the bright operating light, the medical staff surrounded it, just as serious and solemn as before.
…
After saying goodbye to the crabs, Xiao Zhen and Mr. Cat walked out of Teacher Xiao Yuan’s house.
He went downstairs and came to the gate of the community, where he unexpectedly met Teacher Feng.
Teacher Feng was holding a box of gifts and looking at a piece of paper.
After seeing Xiao Zhen, he was surprised: "Yan Zhen? Why are you here?"
"I'm here to see Teacher Xiao Yuan." Xiao Zhen said, "Teacher, what about you?"
Teacher Feng smiled and said, "I'm here to see Teacher Xiao Yuan, too. She suddenly took a leave of absence, so I can't see her these past two days." He looked at Xiao Zhen and asked, "Is Teacher Xiao Yuan okay?"
When Teacher Yuan heard that you were coming to visit, she would probably be so happy that she would collapse on the spot. Oh, no, she has already collapsed to the point where she can't collapse any more. Now is really not a good time for Teacher Feng to come to visit.
At present, Teacher Xiao Yuan is unable to meet guests (ordinary humans).
Xiao Zhen rolled his eyes and said, "Teacher Feng, you've made a wasted trip. Teacher Yuan is not at home now."
"Not at home?"
"Yes, I just knocked on the door, but no one was home." Xiao Zhen sighed deliberately, "Teacher Feng, you should contact her on her cell phone first."
"She called but no one answered." Teacher Feng frowned, "How can I give her this box of things?"
"This is?"
"The school gives teachers a box of hairy crabs, which contains ten crabs. She didn't come to work, so I thought I'd visit her and give her the crabs."
“…”
Teacher Feng looked at Xiao Zhen's expression and said with a smile, "This is a rare benefit for the school. All ten crabs are female. Teacher Lili said they have a lot of roe and are very delicious."
Well, I think if you tell Teacher Yuan about this in person, I think she will jump up and hit you.
In order to avoid adding insult to injury to Teacher Yuan, who was now suffering miserably, Xiao Zhen felt that she needed to stop Teacher Feng.
So he quickly sent out hints to Teacher Feng that "Teacher Xiao Yuan hates eating crabs" and "She will beat you three miles away if she sees you giving her crabs", and successfully stopped Teacher Feng.
Since Teacher Xiao Yuan was not at home, the teacher and student walked out of the community together.
Xiaozhen and Teacher Feng were walking the same road for a while, and they chatted as they walked.
After chatting with Xiao Zhen about some interesting things in class, Teacher Feng suddenly said, "Yan Zhen, I've always wanted to ask you for a favor."
"What's up?"
"You must be Fan Yingjie's good friend."
This name was unfamiliar to Xiao Zhen. He was stunned and quickly searched for his information in the database. Soon, Xiao Zhen found the relevant information.
Fan Yingjie is her classmate, but Xiaozhen has never seen him.
"After the summer vacation, Fan Yingjie hasn't come to class this semester." Teacher Feng whispered, "Do you know why?"
Xiao Zhen shook his head. Yan Zhen's brain left him with almost no memories or information.
Teacher Feng said, "You two used to have a very good relationship. Don't you really know?"
"Teacher, I really don't know."
Teacher Feng sighed and said, "He hasn't been to school since the beginning of this semester. I contacted Fan Yingjie's parents, and they said that Fan Yingjie refused to go to school no matter what, and even threatened to commit suicide. I have visited him several times to persuade him, but it's basically useless."
"Why doesn't he want to go to school?"
"I don't know. I asked classmates who were close to him, and they all said they didn't know. When I went to his house before, Fan Yingjie was willing to come out and talk to me. But the last few times I went to his house, he didn't even want to see me. The semester is already halfway through, and if he continues like this, I'm really worried."
"Is it not possible to persuade the parents?"
Teacher Feng shook his head sadly. He looked at Xiao Zhen and said softly, "Classmates all say that Fan Yingjie is very impressed by you. Yan Zhen, I have a request. Can you go to Fan Yingjie's house and persuade him?"
Xiaozhen knew nothing about her classmate Fan Yingjie.
After separating from Teacher Feng, he retrieved Fan Yingjie's information and checked it.
Fan Yingjie has excellent academic performance and is at the top of the class. Although he has never overthrown Liu Xingquan's status as the top student, he is also a regular among the top five in the class.
He is a representative of the Chinese class, comes from a wealthy family, and his parents are both corporate executives. He is also popular in the class, and from the information he has, he is not a loner.
For a student like this, it is hard to see what could make him so broken down that he doesn't want to go to school.
Information shows that Fan Yingjie's home is very close to Yan Zhen's home.
Since Teacher Feng asked him to do so, he might as well pay a visit, Xiao Zhen thought to himself.
He walked towards Fan Yingjie's home according to the registered address.
Fan Yingjie's home is located in an upscale community 800 meters away from Yan Zhen's home.
Fan Yingjie's home is in a townhouse. The entrance to the villa is planted with lush geometric shrub landscape, which is quite interesting.
Yan Zhen rang the doorbell.
"Excuse me, who is this?" A female voice came from the intercom.
"Hello, Auntie. I am Yan Zhen, Fan Yingjie's classmate. Is Fan Yingjie home?"
"Ah, wait a minute."
There was a noisy sound coming from the intercom, and then Xiaozhen heard a boy shouting.
"I don't want to see him!!"
"Yingjie, don't be so rude..."
"I don't want to see Yan Zhen!!"
After a moment, the female voice came from the intercom, with a guilty tone: "Sorry, Yingjie doesn't want to see anyone now."
"fine."
Xiao Zhen thought for a moment and added, "Please tell Fan Yingjie that I will come to see him again."
He moved away from the door and turned to leave.
…
Fan Yingjie stood at the window, looking at Yan Zhen's back. Yan Zhen, who had already walked to the side of the road, suddenly seemed to sense something and turned back to look at the window where he was. He quickly pulled the curtain over.
The curtains were drawn tightly across the windows.
Now the boy outside the window could not be seen at all.
