Chapter 20 Chapter 20 He might be dead.

The police took the man away.

"Director Xu...are you okay?"

"How's your wound..." " It's just

a superficial wound, it's okay." Xu Lian's face was still pale, but his emotions had calmed down. She looked not far away and saw Lu Xun still squatting in the corner of the window.

"Classmate." Xu Lian walked to Lu Xun and said softly, "Thank you for what you did just now."

Lu Xun did not respond, and did not even change his posture. He squatted there, staring at the doll in his arms motionlessly, as if he had formed a closed vacuum suite.

"Classmate?"

"Xu Lian." Han Xiu walked over, glanced at Lu Xun who was squatting on the ground, and felt a little scared. "I'm so sorry about what happened today. Your injury..."

Xu Lian shook his head: "It's okay. They were all accidents. We have had this in our hospital."

"Go and take care of your wound first." Han Xiu, wearing gloves, handed Xu Lian a piece of disposable hemostatic gauze. "It seems that the police want to take a statement from you."

Xu Lian took the gauze and pressed it against his wound that was still bleeding. Before leaving, she looked at Lu Xun again and said, "I'll come up later."

The crowd dispersed one after another, and the corridor became quiet again. The moon seemed to be frightened by the commotion just now and retreated behind the clouds.

Lu Xun squatted in the dark, staring at the lifeless baby in his arms. Just now, he clearly did not see Gu Chen's soul floating out of the doll. But now, the other party did not move at all.

"Was it you who lost the doll just now? It's too dangerous..." Han Xiu squatted beside Lu Xun and noticed that his hand holding the doll seemed to be shaking, "Xiao Xun?"

Lu Xun suddenly stood up and strode into the ward next door.

Han Xiu felt something was wrong, so he followed and when he saw the brain wave lines on the instrument gradually flattening out, his eyes suddenly widened.

"Doctor Zhang." Han Xiu held the phone and spoke quickly, "Hurry and bring your people up. Gu Chen's condition is not right..."

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"He may be dead."

"Maybe?" The boy's hoarse voice was like a rusty saw grinding stone, "Is this your specialty?"

The creature frowned and turned his head.

Lu Xun sat on the ground, leaning against the wall, his spine bent, one arm resting on his bent legs, his black pupils revealing a dark sense of oppression under the dim purple light.

For a moment, the creature felt like a genius scientist held hostage by an evil boss in a science fiction movie.

"I mean the probability." The blue-haired doll was lying on the experimental table with his pants half pulled down. The creature pulled down his buttocks and saw that the black words of the task were still printed there intact.

After confirming, the biomedical technician put on the baby's pants: "What did the hospital say?"

"The vital signs are still there."

Last night, Han Xiu and his team spent more than three hours to stabilize Gu Chen's vital signs. There were several times when the lines on the monitor were about to straighten, but were forcibly pulled back by the doctors and nurses. After repeating this many times, they finally stabilized.

Lu Xun looked at the phone in his hand that was shining with a cold metallic light. He had already informed Han Xiu that if there was any movement from Gu Chen, the other party would notify him immediately.

Creature: "You go out first, I want to do some research in seclusion for a few days."

The body still had signs of life, but the soul was not in the doll. This was the first time he had seen such a situation.

"What for?" Seeing that Lu Xun was staring at the doll on the experimental table, the creature said, "He wants to stay here."

Lu Xun: "Can he not stay?"

The creature looked at him puzzledly: "Do you want me to save him?"

Lu Xun paused, stood up and walked to the side of the experimental table, and gently touched the doll's soft blue hair.

It’s still just as soft, but without the soul, it’s also without warmth.

The creature gave him a long look.

"If you are willing, do more homework in the next two days." The biology student crossed his arms and said, "Let's try our best to see if we can bring his soul back."

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"Damn, this monthly exam is too abnormal. I feel like 30 points in math is incredible."

"Physics is not much better. Damn it, why do I feel like the test is not the same as what is taught in the textbook?"

"Qin Che, how do you feel?"

"It's okay, but it's a bit difficult."

"Translate it. It's a bit difficult, but it's no problem to be in the top ten in the grade... Hey, is this this room?"

Qi Xiang pushed open the door and was stunned: "Brother Lu, why are you here?!"

Lu Xun raised his head from his homework book.

Qi Xiang was standing at the door holding a large bouquet of white carnations, followed by Qin Che, Yu Fan, and Yu Fan's girlfriend Su Ya. Everyone had a look of horror on their face.

Lu Xun sat on the chair beside Gu Chen's bed and felt a cool breeze blowing on his arms: "Close the door."

"Oh...oh."

Qin Che looked at Gu Chen, then at the homework book in Lu Xun's hand. It’s still Chinese, and it’s already the third volume. He remembered that Lu Xun was still writing the second volume three days ago.

Qin Che: "You didn't go to the monthly exams these two days, Teacher Gao and Director Xiao are so mad."

Lu Xun lowered his head and said while copying homework: "I'll buy some health products later, can you help me deliver them."

"..."

"I was worried about not having a vase when I came here just now." There was a table diagonally opposite the bed with a white porcelain vase on the corner of the table. Qi Xiang put the carnations into the vase and moved it to Gu Chen's bedside table.

A few petals fell along the branches and floated onto Gu Chen's quilt. Lu Xun stood up and picked them up one by one.

Qi Xiang's neck twisted following Lu Xun's movements, and his mouth opened into an O shape.

Lu Xun glanced at him, then at the petals in his hand: "Want to eat?"

Qi Xiang closed his mouth for a second, then felt a little itchy. He endured it again and again and whispered: "Brother Lu, you can be so gentle..."

The petals were pushed in front of his mouth in an instant, and Qi Xiang immediately closed his mouth again.

"Brother Lu..." Yu Fan was also surprised, "I didn't expect you to be so familiar with the top student in your class."

Although they were not in the same class, he had been hanging out with Lu Xun since the first year of high school, and he had never seen Lu Xun and Gu Chen have any interactions. To be honest, it's hard to imagine. After all, a student like Gu Chen, who has always been the top student in the grade, seems to be from a different world from them.

"It's okay." Lu Xun gathered the picked petals into a ball and piled them next to Luo Xingyuan's glass bottle filled with paper cranes: "Not very cooked yet." "

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Yu Fan was about to say something else when his hand was suddenly pulled hard. He turned around and saw his girlfriend coming towards him.

Yu Fan’s mind moved: "Yaya, there are so many people here..."

"Do you smell anything?" Su Ya stared at Lu Xun and Gu Chen.

"Your perfume?"

Su Ya glared: "I didn't wear any perfume today."

Yu Fan was speechless, and just as he was about to make amends, he heard Su Ya whisper in his ear: "CP..."

"Shh!" Yu Fan has been with Su Ya since junior high school and is well aware of his girlfriend's special hobbies. He said nervously, "You dare to imagine Lu Ge, you're risking your life..."

"Yu Fan! Stop hanging around there, both of you! Come here!"

Qi Xiang took out a wooden box from his bag, which was filled with bright yellow talisman paper with strange-shaped ink characters drawn on it.

Qi Xiang, Yu Fan, Su Ya, and Qin Che, each of the four of them held a piece in their hands. Qi Xiang was wrapped in a gray bed sheet he brought from home, with a Crayon Shin-chan scarf draped around his neck: "Brother Lu, do you want to join?"

Qi Xiang's grandfather was a famous Taoist priest in their village. It was said that his ancestors had served the emperor. Qi Xiang had been influenced by this since he was a child and was extremely keen on praying to gods and Buddhas. Before every major or minor exam, a small altar would be set up in the room and rituals would be performed.

Lu Xun thought about how Qi Xiang’s history grades had always been among the bottom ten in the grade.

“…Don’t make too much noise.”

“Alright!”

Several people held talismans and circled around Gu Chen’s bed, chanting, “Heaven and earth, please bless this top student…”

Lu Xun continued to copy his homework as if no one was around.

Qin Che performed two rounds of the ritual, then stepped out, took a chair and sat next to Lu Xun. The corners of his mouth were tense and there were dark circles under his eyes.

"When did you become so close to him?"

The tip of the pen paused slightly, and the black ink spread on the snow-white paper. Lu Xun raised his head and looked at Qin Che.

Qin Che smiled and said, "Don't worry, I won't tell anyone else."

Lu Xun paused, said nothing, and patted his shoulder heavily.

At ten o'clock in the evening, Lu Xun returned home. There was a "Do Not Disturb" sign on the biology room door.

It's the third day already.

Lu Xun returned to his room and turned on his computer. The time was clearly visible at the bottom of the screen: 2026.4.24 22:30.

The cold white light reflected on the boy’s expressionless face. Lu Xun opened Google Chrome and clicked on the favorite URL on the tab.

An animated web page popped up on the screen, with blue sky and white clouds, blue sea and green grass, and rows of tombstones standing on the grass. There were a few words written at the top: Taoyuan Cemetery welcomes you. Lu Xun

entered the reservation page with ease and clicked on the reservation at 2026.4.27 12:00.

After the appointment, he turned off the computer and continued to do his Chinese homework. After writing a few lines, a strong sense of sleepiness suddenly came over me.

He stood up, went to the kitchen, washed his face with cold water, and drank a glass of ice water. After returning to the room, I still couldn't get rid of the sleepiness.

He walked over to the bedside table and opened the top drawer, revealing a small box.

There were nearly ten silver needles of varying lengths in the box, which his mother used to make dolls.

Lu Xun poured the needles out of the box, spread them out in his palm, and squeezed them hard. When he let go, there were several dense bloodstains on his left hand.

Lu Xun copied until six in the morning and finally finished copying the third volume.

The ashtray on the table was full of cigarette butts. Lu Xun went out to dump it out and turned to walk towards the biology room.

The "Do Not Disturb" sign on the door has been removed.

Lu Xun pushed the door open directly: "What's going on?"

The biologist was tinkering at the experimental table. He was startled by the sound. Just as he was about to blame Lu Xun for not knocking on the door, Lu Xun had already walked up to him.

The creature glanced at him. The boy's lips were somewhat pale, and he had thick dark circles under his eyes. But even darker than the dark circles was the color of his pupils, which were so black that they seemed to be able to eat people.

"...I've thought of all the possible solutions." He put his hands in his white coat and looked at the doll on the laboratory table.

The doll has various tubes inserted into it that look like toys from a human perspective. It looks very much like the original body in the hospital ward and is motionless.

Bio: "Your condolences."