Chapter 2 Chapter 2 He seems to be locked up.

When Gu Chen woke up, he felt his body was very light. He vaguely remembered the last scene before he fell into coma - rolling all the way down from more than ten steps.

Logically speaking, after a blow of that magnitude, one's whole body should be in pain, so how come he doesn't feel anything at all?

Could it be that he was taken to the hospital for surgery and given anesthesia?

Gu Chen sat up tentatively - it was very smooth, so smooth that it was a little abnormal.

Although he is only a sophomore in high school, he has some medical knowledge and knows what the patient's condition should be like after undergoing a major surgery.

A hidden uneasiness slowly emerged from my heart.

Although he couldn't see, people had an instinctive intuition about their bodies. When he sat up just now, he felt that his body gave him a different feeling than before. It's not just a matter of weight.

Gu Chen tentatively touched to the side, touched it twice, and opened his eyes wide in surprise.

Why do I seem to be unable to feel my fingers? ?

He tried to stretch his hand farther, but found that the actual distance he could reach seemed different from the distance he estimated in his mind.

Was it an amputation?

Anxiety quickly grew into fear. Gu Chen raised his hand and touched down from his shoulder.

The sense of touch was still there, but he was sure that he had lost his fingers. Not only the fingers, but the entire arm seemed to be ten times shorter than before. The legs seemed to be in the same situation, much shorter and the toes could not be touched.

It felt like my limbs had really been amputated... It was like a basin of ice water was poured over my head. Gu Chen sat there blankly for a while, then felt something was wrong. However, people can't see anything in the dark.

"…Is there anyone here?!" Gu Chen shouted.

"Hmm." A soft whisper came from not far away, and the owner of the voice seemed to be still sleeping.

Gu Chen looked over quickly—and saw nothing.

The voice just now should be from the patient who was in the same room with him? But it was so strange. Even at night, there should be light from the instruments in the ward.

"...Hello?" Gu Chen spoke tentatively in that direction. This time there was no movement.

Gu Chen took a deep breath and was about to try to reach over when a voice suddenly sounded in his ear: "What are you doing here?!"

Gu Chen was stunned.

Director Xiao? !

"Master, hello, director! I'm here to see the academic bully."

"You dare to come?!" Xiao Minglang stood in the hospital corridor, looking through the glass at the young man lying motionless in the ICU with a ventilator, and felt heartbroken. "If you hadn't caused trouble with No. 4 Middle School, would Gu Chen have fallen down the stairs?!"

Qi Xiang scratched the back of his head and said in annoyance, "I didn't expect the academic bully to be there on his day off..."

He thought he was quick to reach out, but in the end he still failed to save the person. The chemistry teacher conducted a surprise inspection of homework a few days ago. If Gu Chen hadn't lent it to him to copy, he would probably still be kneeling on the washboard at home. As a result, when Gu Chen had something to do this time, he couldn't help at all!

Qi Xiang glanced into the ward and saw the young man on the bed, motionless, wrapped in bandages like a mummy.

"Director..." Qi Xiang was really a little scared. "What did the doctor say? The top student should not be in danger of life, right?"

Xiao Minglang had been the director of studies at No. 1 Middle School for more than 20 years. He had seen more students than he had hair. He knew that people like Qi Xiang, although they usually skipped classes and fought, were actually not bad people. There were other eyewitnesses at the time of the incident, who proved that Gu Chen slipped accidentally and it had nothing to do with Qi Xiang and the people from No. 4 Middle School.

Having said that, Xiao Minglang was still upset. He didn't expect that he would encounter such a big thing happening to a student from his school when he just went to the hospital to get a prescription on Sunday.

"There's no danger to his life, but I don't know when he will wake up."

In the darkness, Gu Chen, who had been trying hard to listen to their conversation, sat there in a daze.

...What's going on? Isn't he awake already?

Just now he thought there was something wrong with his vision, so he couldn't see Xiao Minglang and Qi Xiang, but now it seems that the problem is far from as simple as blindness. He had clearly been moving since he woke up, so why did they seem to have not noticed him at all?

"That means he has become a vegetable?!" Qi Xiang's voice suddenly rose.

As if to confirm something, Gu Chen held his breath and tried to move his amputated body - it went surprisingly smoothly. He followed his feeling and got out of bed in the dark. Although he couldn't feel his toes, his feet landed smoothly on the ground. Gu Chen tried again and was even able to stand up.

...So strange. It's like walking with two little fists.

Gu Chen didn't have time to think about it, and walked quickly in the direction where Qi Xiang's voice came from. After taking a few steps, my head suddenly hit something.

That thing was elastic and when Gu Chen hit it he bounced back. He opened his eyes wide and raised his hand to touch it.

From top to bottom, from left to right... Gu Chen felt that thing was both soft and hard, yet tough, boundless, like a layer of soft glass.

A creepy thought came to my mind - he seemed to be locked up? ?

"Director Xiao!" Gu Chen slapped the thing that locked him up, "Qi Xiang!!"

There was no response from outside.

In the corridor, Xiao Minglang let out a long sigh.

"Damn it." Qi Xiang clenched his fists. "It was those bastards from No. 4 Middle School who scared the top student! Just wait and see what happens in two days..."

"How is your injury?" A deep voice suddenly sounded, neither hurried nor slow, interrupting Qi Xiang's passionate declaration.

Qi Xiang came back to his senses and first saw Xiao Minglang's eyes like a fire dragon, then he realized that he almost said something to send him away.

He rolled his eyes guiltily, his gaze passing over Xiao Minglang's shoulder and falling behind him.

A young man in a grey hooded sweatshirt was squatting by the wall not far away. He had very fair skin and long hair that went past his ears. He had narrow eyes and his black pupils showed no emotion. He looked indifferent, yet he exuded a presence that could not be ignored.

"Brother Lu? Are you still there?" Qi Xiang raised his right arm which was wrapped with two bandages and said with a smile, "It's just a minor skin wound, no big deal."

Lu Xun nodded. At his feet was a black backpack, which was about the same size as a mountaineering bag, or even bigger, making it feel like it could fit a two or three-year-old child.

Lu Xun put half of his right elbow on the top of the bag: "Where are Yu Fan and the others?"

Qi Xiang: "They are all fine. They just finished bandaging and went back."

"What?!" Xiao Minglang was furious, "Didn't I ask them to wait for me at the door of the clinic?!"

Qi Xiang then realized that he had betrayed his brothers. Just as he was about to make up for it, he saw Lu Xun standing up behind Xiao Minglang.

“Don’t worry.” Lu Xun held the top handle of his backpack with two fingers, and his soothing voice sounded like a viola playing, “I’ll go call them back.”

Xiao Minglang was completely immune to this voice that made all the girls in the school fall in love with him. If it hadn't been difficult to perform in the hospital, he might have already shouted it out.

"You stand here and don't go anywhere!" He said gritting his teeth, then turned to Qi Xiang and said, "Go back and write me a 3,000-word self-criticism. I'll settle the accounts with you tomorrow." Qi Xiang

sighed for three seconds, then said, "Director, this incident has nothing to do with Brother Lu..."

Xiao Minglang: "4,000 words."

"..." Qi Xiang shut up, walked out slowly, looking back every few steps, and kept looking at Lu Xun.

Lu Xun signaled with his eyes to the corner on Qi Xiang's right

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"5000..."

Qi Xiang's body flashed and quickly disappeared into the corner.

Xiao Minglang took two deep breaths and turned to look at Lu Xun behind him. Lu Xun was two heads taller than him, so he had to raise his head to speak: "You..."

Lu Xun carried his schoolbag, walked a few steps, and sat on a bench ten meters away from the ward.

Xiao Minglang frowned and walked over: "Did I ask you to sit down?"

Lu Xun looked Xiao Minglang straight in the eye: "This will make your cervical spine more comfortable."

"..." It was indeed much more comfortable.

Xiao Minglang put his hands behind his back and paced back and forth. "Lu Xun, can't you just let me be more careful?"

Lu Xun's legs were spread out casually, his right elbow resting on the schoolbag beside him. "I didn't fight."

"Yes, you didn't." Xiao Minglang knew the power structure of the school's gangsters very well. "You're the commander-in-chief."

Gu Chen didn't expect Lu Xun to be there too. Although he and Lu Xun were in the same class, they had little interaction since the other appeared in class less often than the district chief visited their school. The reason why I remember is simply because the other person has a face that no matter whether you are a man or a woman, young or old, you will never forget once you have seen it.

"...I'm just passing by." Gu Chen heard Lu Xun's voice, which was clearer than Director Xiao's.

This means that the place where he was imprisoned was very close to Lu Xun.

Gu Chen used his feet, whose toes he could not feel, to steady his body and pushed desperately. He felt that the layer of soft glass that was locking him up was being pushed further and further outwards, and he felt that he could use brute force to break a hole in it in the next second. But every time he tried to exert further force, he would feel pressure from above his head.

Bang——

Gu Chen was bounced and fell to the ground.

Perhaps because he had just woken up from a serious injury, he felt his body was soft and it didn't hurt at all when he fell to the ground.

"Lu Xun!" Gu Chen shouted outside, but there was no response.

His heartbeat was getting faster and faster due to fear. Gu Chen stood up and continued to push out while shouting even louder: "Lu Xun!"

Xiao Minglang had been dealing with Lu Xun for more than a year and knew that although this guy had a long history of bad deeds, he would definitely admit it if he did it. Although he felt that what happened today was a bit too coincidental, since Lu Xun denied it and he really had no evidence, he could only turn the gun around: "How is the homework I asked you to make up some time ago?"

Lu Xun stared at the floor and said calmly: "Knowing the truth is not good for your heart."

Xiao Minglang felt that he needed to go downstairs to make an appointment at the cardiology department: "Don't take it lightly. I tell you, if you dare to get a single-digit score again in the monthly exam next week, I will send your father a warning letter of repeating the grade!"

Lu Xun raised his head: "Do you have his email address?"

Lu Xun's father lives in Hong Kong for work reasons and does not live with Lu Xun.

Xiao Minglang thought the child was scared, and said firmly: "Your father is a school director, I can find his email address easily."

Lu Xun nodded: "If you can't find it, I'll send it to you."

"..." Xiao Minglang felt that he couldn't hold it in until the end of the month, "Go back today, and write me a 3,000-word self-criticism, and hand it in on Monday. If you can't, I will immediately send your father a notice of repeating the grade!"

Lu Xun: "Yes." "

..." Xiao Minglang was unsure what this yes meant, and was about to say something else when he suddenly heard footsteps coming from his left. He turned around and saw Xu Lian walking slowly towards Gu Chen's ward while pressing her cell phone.

Xiao Minglang signaled Lu Xun with his eyes to sit down and wait for him, and quickly went to meet Xu Lian.

Gu Chen was originally tired and wanted to take a rest, but suddenly he heard no sound outside and became scared again. Could it be that Director Xiao and Lu Xun are both gone? What should he do then?

Gu Chen took a deep breath, took a few steps back, bent down, and assumed a running posture for a 100-meter sprint. It was still pitch black in front of him, and Gu Chen's eyes focused on one point in his consciousness.

1, 2,

3—Ziz—

the sound of a zipper being opened.

A crack appeared above his head. The scorching light was cast down, and Gu Chen's body softened and he rolled on the spot.

His face felt hot and Gu Chen sat up quickly. Just as he was about to feel embarrassed, he saw

a huge piece of obsidian above his head. This was his first reaction. But soon he felt something was wrong. There is a circle in the middle of the obsidian, which is extremely black and deep. Extending to the edge, the color is lighter, a very high-grade haze gray. Extending further, there is a little white in the corner.

Gu Chen was observing when the obsidian suddenly moved and more white was revealed.

……Help.

His body trembled and Gu Chen stepped back unconsciously.

The full appearance of Obsidian was revealed as he moved. There was no doubt that it was an eye, a huge eye, just like the ancient moon he had seen in the documentary, so big that it almost swallowed him.

...Is he dreaming? His mind went blank

. At this moment, he heard Lu Xun's voice again: "If you continue to mess around, your body will also be in jeopardy."