Chapter 1.1

Through the glass wall of the special ward, you can glimpse at the wan and sickly young man on the hospital bed. With this condition he still looked calm.

The bedside and windowsill were filled with all sorts of trimmed fresh flowers, they were vividly gorgeous yet fleeting, just like this young man.

“Man’s life is but ephemeral!”

Xia Yuzhou sighed and pulled up the mask hanging on his chin to cover his face, put one hand in his pocket and hummed a tune as he walked towards the door of the room.

“I lift my drink and sing a song, for who knows if life will be short or long, man’s life is but the morning dew,1 past…f*#k!”2

“Click,” The door of the ward suddenly opened from the inside, and a young doctor in a white coat walked out. As the slender figure came into view, like how a cold popsicle poking straight into a hot oil pan caused crackling sounds, his melodious syllable morphed to a swear word.

The doctor seemed to feel something and turned his head to see where Xia Yuzhou stood.

It was absolutely empty.

“Doctor Si?” The nurse next to him reminded him in a low voice.

The doctor withdrew his eyes and took the form from the nurse’s hand. He took out a pen from his chest pocket and signed it.

The nib of the gold-plated pen made a uniform rustle as it scratched the paper. Such volume was not enough to maintain the operation of the voice-activated lights, and the corridor lights behind the corner gradually extinguished, submerging Xia Yuzhou in darkness.

“I’m off work. Please watch over him. Don’t let him run out again.”

A silvery and deep voice like the breeze blowing through the pine trees.3 It was as if it was boiling water gushing down, unavoidable, and it immediately scalded Xia Yuzhou that he flinched and almost jumped out of the window.

Si Jun.

It’s really him!

Why is he here?

Xia Yuzhou’s fingertips trembled as he listened to the sound of his footsteps drifting away. He slowly poked his head from his corner to look at the direction in which that person disappeared, then swept his eyes at the brightly lit ward and decisively turned to leave.

Today, he was here to do a good deed. Even if the young man received the most advanced treatment, his survival rate was not high. His only salvation was Xia Yuzhou. But before he could even start saving the dying and healing the wounded, he unexpectedly met the last person he wanted to meet.

“Boy, it seems you and I have no fate.” To do good deeds, first of all, this good person must be alive.

Xia Yuzhou sighed, wore the hood on his head, tightened the black mask on his face, and walked out quickly without a sound. There are two doors in the hospital, one at the front where he is walking now, and at the back near the location of the doctor’s office that was now untouchable to him. Even if he was unlucky enough to walk through the same gate, Si Jun would still need time to take off his white coat and change into casual clothes when he returned to his office. With that man’s pedantic personality, he wouldn’t be finished in ten minutes but it was enough for him to walk out of the hospital.

The more nervous you are, the better your memory will be. Everything in front of him was vividly printed in his mind. The neat floor tiles he’s stepping into, the yellow medical garbage can and the auxiliary handrails on the wall, the dimly isolated corridors and the obstructive nine-dollar white coats. It was just like being in a horror escape game.

Twenty meters, ten meters, five meters…

The long corridor finally came to an end, and there was no one around.4 His breath of relief was interrupted by a sudden “ding” 一 crisp sound which caused him to jump in fright. He almost threw his phone across the courtyard wall.

A new message.

【Senior: Yuzhou, this is the video of this year’s “God of Brain” finals. Although it’s very abrupt, I still hope you can take a look. He’s only sixteen years old, and he’s a real genius, just like you back then. 】

The “God of Brain” is a brain competitive program, the content of the competition involved shorthand, mathematics, logical reasoning and other aspects. The participants were all young people with superior IQs.5 They showed the audience the difference between a genius and an ordinary person.

And the young man in the ward who booked a business seat for the Death Train is the champion of this season.

“The Fifth Global Champion of the God of Brain Competition had been born. He is the 16 year old gifted boy, Chen Mo! This is the pinnacle of global brain power and the ceiling of human wisdom! And he is only sixteen years old, his future is bright. It’s simply limitless!” In the video, the host handed the microphone to the indifferent teenager with excitement, “What do you want to say at this moment?”

The kid raised his drooping eyelids and looked at the host. He reluctantly took the microphone and said, “Your line is not logically correct. If I am the pinnacle of brain power, what are the previous four champions?”

Host, “…Huh?”

Xia Yuzhou paused in his step, staring at the kid on the screen who arched an eyebrow with deadpan eyes that questioned so deeply, as though it came from his very soul. He raised his eyebrows slightly. Tut, what an arrogant and annoying kid.

He turned off the video and replied:

【Senior remembered it wrong, I’m not a genius. 】

【Moreover, I hate geniuses the most.】

He muted the phone, put it in his trouser pocket and turned around.

The human’s autonomic sympathetic nerve that inhibits the perception of pain will increase at night. In the critical areas that housed severely ill patients, even if there was no howling and crying, there should still be a lot of noise from the people who were sleepless. But in this place, it was strangely peaceful, only low-pitched conversations flowed through from a few open wards.

“You can’t go out now because your immunity is very low. Doctor Si was angry about your sneaking away last night. His cold face was so terrible that it scared my legs soft.” The nurse said softly as she changed the medicine for the young man.

The young man didn’t show any signs of having heard her. He held a book with a black-bronze cover seemingly absorbed while reading it. It took a couple of seconds before he replied, “Are you sure what you felt was fear?”

“You kid, what are you talking about!” The nurse instantly blushed and frightened him, “In any case don’t run out, especially at night. This is the affiliated hospital of the Medical University. Beware of being eaten by a vampire.”

“Have you heard of the vampire of Medical University?” The boy suddenly raised his head, staring at the nurse with a pair of dark doe like eyes.