Chapter 4: Sweet and New Life 1
After we made a lot of noise, there were not many students left in the school, but Hongze's appearance in the school still caused quite a stir. This guy had no self-awareness at all, and he jumped around the campus with my schoolbag on his back, touching everything he saw.
We walked for half an hour on a school road that was several hundred meters long. When we reached the roadside, Zhou Mian stopped a car and took us to the river . In the car, Hongze kept blinking and staring at the driver, repeatedly unbuckling and buckling his seat belt, and occasionally sticking his head out of the window. We just got off the car and before we had time to thank the driver, he stepped on the accelerator and drove away.
"Hahaha, stop looking, the shadow is gone. Look how scared you are making me!" Zhou Mian patted Hong Ze, who was still craning his neck to look at the car, and laughed so hard that he couldn't straighten his waist.
"Is this also the thread bag hope technique you mentioned before?" Hongze asked seriously.
Zhou Mian looked at me in confusion, as if asking me when he had said that. I suppressed my laughter and said, "It's modern information technology."
Zhou Mian, who understood what he said, burst into laughter again. Hong Ze seemed to realize that he had said something wrong. He blushed a little and walked forward angrily. I quickly pulled Zhou Mian and followed him.
Suddenly, Hongze's whole body trembled, as if he had been electrocuted. He looked back at us nervously, his face full of shock. I was also infected by his nervousness, and looked at him: "What happened to you just now?"
"It's okay, walk faster." After saying that, Hongze kept walking forward, as if he had received guidance, and soon found the stairs leading down from the scenic area to the water's edge.
Zhou Mian and I were confused about the situation. Although we noticed that something was wrong with Hongze, we could only follow him. Hongze walked the water's edge, looked back at us, motioned for us to stay where we were, and squatted down.
"What's going on with him?" Zhou Mian asked me worriedly.
I shook my head. “I don’t know either. But at noon, he was doing the same thing in the small pond. He must be communicating with the animals in the water.”
"You saw his clothes..." Zhou Mian suddenly shouted, then stopped talking abruptly, raised his hand to block my view, "Forget it! Don't look! "
"Ah? What?"
I was still confused when Zhou Mian walked towards the water: "Looks like it's over."
Only then did I see Hong Ze curled up on the river bank. He looked... well, even weaker than when I saw him downstairs in the laboratory building in the afternoon. The word "weak" came to my mind, and I couldn't help but feel a little worried.
"Let's go!" Zhou Mian put one of Hongze's arms around his neck, half hugged and half carried him to me, and greeted me.
Hongze's face was pale, his lips were bloodless, and his skin was so dry that it was peeling. His skin was almost transparent, and dark lines like scales could be vaguely seen, like a dehydrated fish. Seeing Hongze like this, I was shocked, and the words I had organized disappeared in an instant.
"Well, okay. Then..."
"I'm fine..." Hongze raised his eyelids with difficulty and said to me half-comfortingly, but his hoarse voice sounded like sandpaper.
"Do you have any solution?" I didn't care about anything else at the moment and asked him rashly, "What's wrong with you?"
"Just stay closer to me..."
Hearing this, I pulled Hongze's other arm over my body without saying a word, taking half of his weight and moving closer to him.
"Haha... I, I was just teasing you... cough cough..." Hongze forced a smile but couldn't help coughing. Probably because he was trying too hard to control himself, his whole body began to shake.
I couldn't tell whether he was really teasing me or just trying to save face, so I said anxiously and angrily, "Stop it! What the hell is going on?"
"Tsk! Lingmiao, you take the schoolbag and I'll carry this guy. I think he may not be able to make it. I'll go stop a car, you hurry up and follow me." As he said that, Zhou Mian supported Hongze and took off his own schoolbag and the schoolbag on Hongze's back with difficulty.
"I can't die. I'm just badly weakened by the Soul Binding Cage. Just now... cough cough, I used the formation again, and I'm about to... cough, I can't hold on to this dress anymore..." Hong Ze looked awkward and spoke vaguely with his eyes half open.
After hearing what Hongze said, Zhou Mian and I said in unison: "Huh? Are you..."
I swallowed the word "stupid" and let out a long sigh instead.
In the distance, a taxi slowly drove over. Zhou Mian, who was about to say something, immediately yelled, "Driver, stop the car!"
The taxi stopped and the driver stuck his head out and looked towards us.
Zhou Mian quickly squatted down, carried Hongze on his back and ran towards the taxi. I also quickly picked up the two schoolbags on the ground and followed him.
"Go to Kangbei Pet Hospital! Quick!"
At our urging, the driver stepped on the accelerator all the way, even running a red light. But I guess he was frightened by Hongze's appearance. After all, when he heard that we were going to the pet hospital, he said in shock: "Pet hospital? Isn't he going to a human hospital in this state?"
The car finally stopped steadily in front of Kangbei Pet Hospital. Zhou Mian dragged Hongze out of the car with difficulty and walked towards the yard. The driver said worriedly, "Are you really not going to a human hospital?"
I walked around to the driver with two schoolbags in my arms and explained with a smile, "It's okay, it's okay. He just has low blood sugar. It looks scary, but it's actually okay. Thank you." The driver still looked skeptical and glanced at Hongze worriedly before driving away.
Through the glass door, I saw Hongze slumped in a chair. He turned over uncomfortably, but slipped to the ground. I quickly pushed the door open and tried to help him up.
I threw down my schoolbag in panic, supported Hongze, and patted his face: "Are you okay? Can I help you up?"
"You! Forget it..." Zhou Mian's voice suddenly came. He was standing at the top of the stairs on the second floor, holding a set of clothes in his hand, probably for Hongze.
He walked down the stairs quickly, held Hongze's other shoulder, and helped me lift Hongze to a chair. He turned to me and said, "Go get a mask and put it on."
"Oh, okay!"
Just now, I saw the situation was urgent and rushed to the deepest part of the hospital, completely ignoring the existence of the cats and dogs around me. Now that Zhou Mian reminded me, I felt a little itchy in my nose. I was afraid that Zhou Mian would notice it, so I quickly reached for the counter and took out a mask. After thinking for a while, I took out a tablet of anti-allergic Zyrtec and swallowed it.
"Let me help you put on your clothes. How do you want to restore your energy?" Zhou Mian tucked his clothes under his armpits and reached out to help Hongze.
Who knew that Hongze turned his face away and raised his hand to block Zhou Mian from touching him, and said stubbornly: "I'm fine... ahem, I'll be fine after sitting for a while, take away your human, ahem... clothes."
I couldn't help but roll my eyes as I listened to him. His voice was hoarser than before. I even suspected that he wouldn't be able to make a sound soon, but he was still trying to be brave.
Zhou Mian was also speechless. He tilted his head and looked at Hongze, saying angrily and amusedly, "What are you going to do? Your magic power is almost gone by the river. I saw your clothes flicker for a second. Are you going to sit here naked for people to see?"
"You! Cough, cough, cough, cough..." Hongze shouted, but he himself started to cough. Sitting here naked?
If that were the case, it would definitely be on the front page of tomorrow's news, with the headline - "A naked man suddenly appeared in the city's top pet hospital. People and dogs worked together to subdue him, and Teddy performed another miraculous feat."
"No, no, this is too scary." I waved my hands, dismissed my strange thoughts, and ran over to persuade Hongze, "This is also a product of modern information technology. Don't you really want to try it?"
"This one too?" Hong Ze looked at the clothes in Zhou Mian's hand in confusion. After a long while, he said reluctantly, "Since you are so, ahem... begging me so much, I will be merciful and give it a try."
"Hey, thank you." Zhou Mian immediately helped Hong Ze up and walked towards the empty treatment room.
