Chapter 136 : Chapter 136
Chapter 136
Perhaps because he was sick, Bai Xuechao slept exceptionally soundly, and it was already the next day when he woke up.
When he awoke, he opened his still somewhat dazed eyes and recognized that he was in the bedroom. Immediately after, Yuan Lan's smiling face appeared in his field of vision.
Bai Xuechao couldn't help but be stunned. Although he had thought that Yuan Lan wouldn't go to the laboratory today, he was still a little surprised that it had actually happened.
Yuan Lan used the forehead thermometer in his hand to measure Bai Xuechao's temperature. After looking at the temperature displayed on it, his voice was gentle and sweet: “It's exactly 39 degrees, the fever is starting to go down.”
He placed the forehead thermometer aside, supported the back of Bai Xuechao's neck to help him up, then picked up a cup of warm water and two pills and handed them to him, a slight smile on his lips: “Time to take your medicine, this is fever medicine and thrombopoietin.”
Bai Xuechao didn't take them, but instead asked: “Why didn't you go to the laboratory today?”
Because he was still running a high fever, he looked a little listless from his illness.
“Of course, it's to stay and take care of you.” Seeing that Bai Xuechao didn't take the medicine, Yuan Lan naturally brought the pills in his hand to his mouth, as if he was going to feed him.
Unexpectedly, Bai Xuechao didn't use his hand to take them. Instead, he looked at Yuan Lan and hesitated for two or three seconds, then obediently opened his mouth, took the two pills held between Yuan Lan's fingertips, and then took the cup from his hand, swallowing the pills with the warm water in the cup.
He looked very well-behaved as he drank the water, his snow-colored long eyelashes lowered, his beautiful, translucent, glass-like red eyes looking at the water in the cup, giving off a sense of docility. In the end, he drank all the water in one go.
When Bai Xuechao took the pills, Xiao 6 couldn't help but let out a “hiss.” Needless to say, it was shipping them again.
But having been bound to Bai Xuechao for so long, it had some understanding of his way of doing things. It felt that he wouldn't be so obedient for no reason; there must be another purpose. So it asked curiously: “Host, what are you planning to do?”
“Can't you tell? I'm going along with him.” Bai Xuechao replied in a flat tone, “Let him think that I'm most well-behaved when I'm sick.”
Xiao 6 asked, puzzled: “Why would you do that?”
Bai Xuechao still maintained that calm and indifferent tone: “To make him think that it's easiest to increase his favorability with me when I'm sick. Also, to make him think that if he wants me to stay this obedient, he has to keep me sick.”
Xiao 6 was shocked and asked again: “Why?”
It felt like all it could ask today was “why.”
But its host was truly too difficult to understand!
Bai Xuechao didn't answer Xiao 6. Instead, while handing the empty water cup to Yuan Lan, he said to him: “Aren't you going to the laboratory yet?”
“Eh? Is it not good for me to take care of you today?” Yuan Lan took the empty cup and put it aside. His pair of brilliant golden eyes, like sunlight, blinked at Bai Xuechao, an imperceptible dark tide surging in their depths, “Then who does Little Xuechao want to take care of you? Little Yu?”
“Actually, I don't care who takes care of me, it's fine if no one does.” Bai Xuechao looked directly into Yuan Lan's eyes and reminded him, “Today is the fourth day, can you finish it in time?”
They had agreed back then to share the information on the black ring in five days.
Yuan Lan propped his chin with his fingers and thought for a moment, then said confidently: “I can finish it.”
“Oh?” Bai Xuechao tilted his head to look at him, his brow slightly raised, “You can finish it even if you don't go today?”
“Then I can't finish it.” Yuan Lan answered frankly.
Bai Xuechao said: “Then why aren't you going yet?”
Yuan Lan said: “I plan to take care of you for half a day. I'll go to the laboratory after I coax you to sleep at noon.”
Xiao 6 really couldn't hold it in anymore. It clutched its little code-like handkerchief and made ying-ying sounds: “He said he'll coax you to sleep at noon! He's going to coax you to sleep!”
Bai Xuechao had no time to talk to Xiao 6. He was looking at Yuan Lan with his pair of red eyes, which were framed by frost-white eyelashes. After a long while, he suddenly smiled. His cold voice, slightly hoarse from his illness, asked: “You never thought of bringing me to the laboratory?”
“Oh, that's fine.” Yuan Lan smiled slightly, “You can rest on the fifth floor.”
Bai Xuechao didn't object, just nodded his head.
“Then get up and change your clothes.” Yuan Lan turned and walked towards the cloakroom, “Wait a moment, I'll go find you a new set.”
Bai Xuechao looked down at the pajamas he was wearing. He was still in the same cartoon white rabbit pajamas from yesterday, the chest covered in dried bloodstains, looking extremely horrifying.
“I saw you sleeping so soundly yesterday, which is rare, so I didn't help you change your clothes, for fear of waking you up.” Yuan Lan's voice came from inside the cloakroom.
Bai Xuechao's sleep had been very light for the past few days. He would wake up as soon as Yuan Lan got out of bed every morning. It was only this time, due to his illness, that he slept so soundly.
Bai Xuechao wasn't surprised that Yuan Lan could tell.
Xiao 6's virtual little hands cupped its non-existent face, making a “hehe” sound as it was shipping them. It suddenly remembered something and asked: “Host, you still haven't said why you want Yuan Lan to think that he has to make you sick to keep you obedient!”
Since he was idle anyway, Bai Xuechao answered Xiao 6: “Yuan Lan doesn't trust me enough yet. Only the weaker I am, the more at ease Yuan Lan can be. Let me ask you, would you be on guard against a patient who can't take care of themself in daily life?”
Xiao 6 was greatly dismayed and cried out: “What! You're going to become unable to take care of yourself?!”
“……No, I was just making an analogy.” Bai Xuechao was truly speechless with his silly system.
Xiao 6 breathed a sigh of relief: “Oh, oh, Host, you scared me to death!”
Bai Xuechao: “……”
Wasn't it the one who scared itself?
Xiao 6 asked with great curiosity: “Then what are you going to do? Are you going to take a cold shower every day to get sick?”
“No,” Bai Xuechao said something astonishing, “I'll wait for Yuan Lan to act against me.”
Xiao 6 couldn't help but raise its volume: “What?!”
“After my fever subsides, I won't be as obedient as I am now. Yuan Lan will feel the disparity and will act against me.” Bai Xuechao's expression didn't change as he spoke to Xiao 6, and his tone was very calm, as if the person who was about to be acted against wasn't him. He even had the leisure to speculate, “I guess he will ask Mu Xinyue to poison me.”
Xiao 6 hesitated, “He… probably won't, right?”
Bai Xuechao stated with certainty: “He will.”
Yuan Lan didn't have the emotions of a normal person. He wouldn't truly “feel sorry” for anyone; he would only resort to any means necessary to achieve his goals.
Xiao 6 wanted to say more, but it stopped talking when it saw Yuan Lan coming out of the cloakroom.
Yuan Lan came before Bai Xuechao and unfolded the pajamas: “Ta-da——”
Bai Xuechao looked at the pajamas and fell silent.
He had seen this piece in the wardrobe before and had never thought of wearing it.
It was a one-piece pajama set in a combination of white and pink. The hood of the pajamas had a pair of long decorative ears; it was unclear what animal it was supposed to be. That wasn't important. What was important was that it was very cute, and the fabric was quite thick, suitable for Bai Xuechao to wear now that he couldn't afford to catch a cold.
After a moment, Bai Xuechao finally spoke: “Are you crazy.”
Yuan Lan, with a smile on his face, held up the pajamas and said in a cheerful tone: “This is super cute!”
Bai Xuechao said: “If it's so cute, why don't you wear it?”
Yuan Lan blinked his eyes: “But I bought it in your size, I can't fit into it.”
Bai Xuechao: “……”
Pfft, you're just making that up.
The two of them were only a few centimeters apart in height.
Bai Xuechao fell silent again for a moment, but in the end, he took the pajamas and went to the bathroom to change. He also washed up and came out clean.
When Yuan Lan saw him, he gave him a thumbs-up and praised him: “Very cute!”
Bai Xuechao suddenly felt the urge to hit someone.
They were going to the laboratory next, so Yuan Lan walked towards Bai Xuechao, making a gesture as if to carry him.
At this moment, Bai Xuechao took the initiative to speak: “I want a piggyback ride.”
On that face, flushed from the unabating high fever, there was clearly no expression, yet the words he spoke gave the illusion that he was acting coquettishly.
Yuan Lan looked slightly stunned, but he still turned around, squatted down with his back to him.
Bai Xuechao lay on Yuan Lan's back, his two arms extending from either side of Yuan Lan's neck, hanging down relaxedly.
Yuan Lan picked him up and walked leisurely to a room with blue curtains.
Bai Xuechao remembered Yuan Lan saying before that jumping out from here would lead to the laboratory. Yuan Lan probably wanted to carry him just now because he was afraid his body was too weak to make the jump.
Yuan Lan opened the window and leaped onto the windowsill. Without much pause, he jumped straight out. Because the two windows were quite far apart, Bai Xuechao could clearly feel the sensation of being airborne.
The two of them jumped into the window directly opposite.
“We're here.” Yuan Lan put Bai Xuechao down.
Bai Xuechao, wearing fluffy slippers, landed on the floor and looked around, recognizing this as Yuan Lan's laboratory number three, located on the sixth floor of the spire, for researching items related to special abilities.
On the lab bench by the window, there were still several black crystals, but there was one more than the last time he came.
Bai Xuechao touched the last new piece and turned his head to look at Yuan Lan.
“This piece was fired for a whole day yesterday.” Yuan Lan put his arm around Bai Xuechao's shoulder and walked out of the laboratory, “I'll be firing a new one today. I'll show you when it's done.”
Bai Xuechao didn't mention wanting to watch Yuan Lan conduct his experiments and was led downstairs by him to the fifth floor.
The fifth floor was a bedroom plus a study.
Bai Xuechao sat on the sofa, watching Yuan Lan boil water and grind coffee.
Yuan Lan asked: “Do you want some coffee?”
Bai Xuechao said: “No, thanks, I'll just have water.”
“Okay.” Yuan Lan poured Bai Xuechao a cup of freshly boiled hot water and placed it on the coffee table in front of him to cool. He himself took the cup of coffee, looking like he was about to leave, and said to him, “If you're bored, you can read the books on my bookshelf.”
Bai Xuechao glanced at the bookshelf. The books on it were almost all related to physics; he had no desire to read them at all.
Just then, he noticed several books on criminal psychology on the bottom shelf and walked over to pull one out.
Seeing the book he had pulled out, Yuan Lan said with a smile: “Are you interested in this? I like reading this too, I find it very interesting.”
Bai Xuechao didn't refute him. He took the book back to the sofa and flipped to the table of contents.
Seeing this, Yuan Lan said: “Then I'll go up first. You can call me if you need anything, the door to my lab isn't closed.”
With a special ability user's hearing, one could hear even with the door closed, let alone open.
Bai Xuechao grunted an “mm.”
Yuan Lan left with his coffee.
Only then did Xiao 6 pop up, continuing their previous topic: “Host, are you really going to get poisoned?”
“Yeah, don't worry, I won't die.” Bai Xuechao didn't dwell on this topic, but instead asked, “Has the manga been updated today?”
Xiao 6 said: “It's been updated, right when you just woke up.”
Hearing this, Bai Xuechao placed the criminal psychology book in his hand on the coffee table and said: “Then let's read the manga.”