Chapter 10

A purebred Bloodling?

How is that possible?

Xia Yuzhou gazed at Si Jun lovingly, as if looking at a naive child. If he was indeed a purebred, then when they first met, Si Jun would be a Bloodling. They have been intimate for so long, so how could he not tell? First of all, those neat and flat white teeth of his. Can you even be called a Bloodling without bloodfangs?

“Jun Jun, you don’t need to act strong, Dad understands.” Xia Yuzhou blinked, trying to let the wind take the moisture away. He is a father now so he must be strong. If he cried first, how can he persuade the child to bravely face the miseries in the world.

“Shut up!” Si Jun’s clenched fist, gripped even harder. His handsome face had turned white from anger, while two sharp fangs slowly and firmly extended, just like cat claws. The top of the fang is wider and it narrows as it reaches the curved tip. It has about the same length as Xia Yuzhou’s bloodfangs.

Xia Yuzhou’s eyes instantly widened. The tears that were just about to fall were frightened back, it caused his nose to redden, and with a choking voice, “Tract… Retractable teeth!”

……

“Can’t you retract your two teeth?”

……

Xia Yuzhou always thought it was just a silly remark. It turned out, that it was just him who was too stupid. People’s bloodfang can really be retracted, it’s real!

The guy who has this kind of advanced automatic retractable teeth is obviously not of their old Xia family. The father-son relationship was not established.

Xia Yuzhou wistfully took back his hand, and turned his back to him. “Cough, what? I didn’t know there were other Bloodlings.”

Si Jun didn’t speak.

A sense of awkward akin to glue, thick and sticky, spread in the room.

“Dad,” A feeble voice interrupted the deadlock. Chen Mo held the glass bottle and asked breathlessly, “Can I drink this?”

His silly son is still hungry.

“Drink it, drink it.” Xia Yuzhou quickly said.

After getting his approval, the child immediately put the bottle to his mouth, and with glug, glug, drank it happily. The slim bottle of blood soon bottomed up. The small white face that was pale due to low blood sugar turned rosy to the naked eye.

Xia Yuzhou smiled in relief, turned his head and met Si Jun’s cold blue eyes again. “Come on, come on, don’t be so mean. If you think I just took advantage of you, you can return one back to me.”

Si Jun slowly retracted his teeth, “No need.”

Xia Yuzhou sincerely apologized, “I’m sorry, I was confused for a moment. ‘Broad-minded people will not care about the narrow-minded people,’1 so you don’t have to think of me as your Father.”

Si Jun, “……”

Xia Yuzhou’s teeth slipped out, as he rebuked slapped his mouth, “No, I mean…”

“Xia Yuzhou,” Si Jun interrupted him, seriously and solemnly, he said, “Shut up.” Xia Yuzhou made a zipper mouth gesture, and honestly stayed silent.

Si Jun turned around to check the child who was now full. Xia Yuzhou followed after him, and from behind, he tilted his head and winked at his son.

He didn’t know what the young man realized, but he obediently let Dr. Si listen to his heartbeat, and said, “Doctor Si, you are also a vampire. Why didn’t you give me the First Embrace before? Is it because I’m not qualified?”

Si Jun put away the stethoscope and opened the boy’s mouth to check on his teeth. The two small canine teeth have not changed their original appearance, and have yet to become hollow.

“It’s the Bloodline,” Si Jun corrected, “I don’t have the ability to ‘Embrace’ people.”

The young man’s eyes lit up, and he said, “You two have different abilities! What can you do? Hypnosis, magic or flight?”

Si Jun, “……”

This silly son, ask the main point! Xia Yuzhou was about to gesture to him when a riot suddenly sounded outside the door.

“Ahh! Hold him down!”

“Don’t get close without protective clothing!”

“Roar——” A beast-like roar resounded, and the fragile wooden door of the ward trembled, as if something slammed into it.

“What is it?!”2 Xia Yuzhou turned around and the door lock clattered, exposing a gap.

Another fierce force hits the door, and the door bounces open with a 'slam.” A man in ragged clothes with wide eyes, and wide open mouth rushed in with a roar.

“F*ck!” Xia Yuzhou cursed and lifted his foot, about to kick the rushing person when Si Jun suddenly dragged him back, and he barely escaped the paw that aimed at him.

“Chen Mo, get out of the way!” Si Jun shouted in a low voice, he grabbed the quilt and covered the person.

However, the young man on the bed didn’t have time to react and the monster covered by the quilt bumped against the bedside, struggling to look out and directly rushing at him regardless. The person’s eyes were muddy, red and crazed, while saliva continued to drip from the corner of his frothy mouth. It was simply disgusting.

Xia Yuzhou grabbed the infusion rod, swung it in an arc and fiercely slammed it to the side, a second before the black nail touched his son, and it smacked the claw away. The pole swung again in the air and the six wheel heavy base hit the person’s chest, sending him flying out.

When the madman fell to the ground, four men in thick protective clothing immediately held each of his limbs down. Si Jun took out a syringe from the pocket of his white coat, stabbed it into the person’s neck without hesitation, and quickly pressed down the plunger.

The moment the medicine entered the body, the person quieted down. Although his four limbs were limp, his wide opened eyes, still yet to close mouth, with his tongue hanging out, and dripping drool remained.

“I’m sorry, Dr. Si. The patient went crazy on the way to the emergency. We weren’t able to stop him on time.” One of the medical staff in protective clothing explained to Si Jun.

“Rabies.” Xia Yuzhou leaned over to have a closer look. Seeing the patient’s appearance, his eyes suddenly darkened.

The person is obviously having a rabies attack. When the excitation phase is reached, the person will be in a state of extreme mania, akin to an aggressive rabid dog. For it to be able to cross layers of obstacles, rushed all the way from the emergency area to the critically-ill ward is quite a feat.

“Stand aside and don’t touch anything with the patient’s saliva.” Si Jun stood up, took off his medical gloves and threw it to the dustbin.

“You being so casual when you gave him the injection, aren’t you afraid that it can go out of control?” Xia Yuzhou looked at the man’s neck. If things went haywire, he might’ve been stabbed to death.3

“When encountering rabies patients, all personnel have the right to dispose of them, a basic principle to give priority to the safety of their own life,” Si Jun explained calmly, and looked up at him slowly, “This medical guideline is set during the mad disaster period.”

In the past, the rabies virus mutated, and its transmission routes evolved from animal bites to ‘saliva and other secretions. It caused the disease to rapidly spread and it soon became a disaster. As medical students, they also became volunteers at that time. It’s just that Xia Yuzhou didn’t bother remembering the rules and regulations, considering that there was Si Jun by his side who will instead remind him from time to time when he forgot.

“Oh, I forgot.” Xia Yuzhou admitted his mistake without any sincerity.

The mad disaster came and went quickly. After it subsided, there were no more massive infections. Xia Yuzhou naturally did not care about the institutional changes due to him being a dentist. Moreover, he also had no way of knowing if this criterion is still valid.

Si Jun’s mild expression suddenly turned cold. He told the nurse to disinfect the room again and strode out.

“Hey, this man changes faces so fast, so temperamental.” Xia Yuzhou tutted and also went out to have a look.

The corridor was a mess. A nurse rushed to a collapsed patient whose head was broken and bleeding. It must have been the patient occupying the extra bed on the corridor. In the ensuing chaos, the infusion bottle and rod fell to the ground and was smashed. While the comatose rabies patient was firmly tied to a stretcher by a restraint belt, and was carried downstairs. With his flare out, I’m afraid that even gods would find it difficult to save the man.

“What are you looking at?” His son poked his head under his arm and looked around.

“It’s fishy.” Xia Yuzhou frowned.

“What’s wrong?” Chen Mo wanted to retract his head to stand straight, but Xia Yuzhou lowered his arm and directly clamped his head.

XIa Yuzhou ruffled his son’s head, and said, “Let me ask you, where’s the emergency area?”

“The west wing of the first floor that faces the outpatient building.”

“Where are we?”

“East wing of the first floor. Let me go.”

Xia Yuzhou acted like he didn’t hear him, and pointed out the distance to his son, “It’s at least 200 meters away from the west wing to this area. Say, he directly ran this way and didn’t hit a single door. Why did he hit this door?”

Except for the oversized observation window, the doors in this ward are uniform. That rabies bro, however, was ‘able to rush to this place without any distraction.’4 That ‘mental fortitude’ of his is pilgrimage worthy at this point.

“Random coincidence,” Chen Mo said and forcibly pulled his head out of the headlock. “The probability of him coming all the way and crashing into any of the rooms here are the same. Considering the surrounding interference factors, the probability decreases the closer you reach the east wing. But overall, the opposite door has the same probability as ours.”

Xia Yuzhou sneered, “That’s some good luck, huh. The door he just had to smash has three bloodlings inside. If this was a scratch-and-win lottery then he won first prize.”

“What do you want to say?”

“It’s a werewolf.”

The young man was startled and looked around. “You mean, that rabies patient is actually a werewolf in disguise? What else exists besides bloodlings and werewolves?”

“I mean, that person was ferocious and more ruthless than I thought. In their case, did one also have to meet the standard to become a successor in this new age of socialism?”

Xia Yuzhou patted the young man’s clever little head, and smiled at Si Jun who came out of the office. In such a short amount of time, this man had changed into a new white coat, probably because he was slobbered just now.

“Come here, wash your hands.” Si Jun stood there and motioned for them to go.

Hey?

This man is getting more and more impolite.

“Since both of you are bloodling, then the ‘difference of human and ghost bad route was broken?’” Chen mo asked in a low voice.

“What do children know,” Xia Yuzhou kicked him. Between them, there exists more than just the problem of the gulf difference between human and ghost. Although now that they’re of the same species, it’s also a good thing.

The place they were ushered to wash is a spare scrub station. It has quite a large wash station and is equipped with antiseptic sopa and brush.

Xia Yuzhou first washed himself. Looking at his son, he couldn’t help but tease him, “Do you want Dad to wash it for you?”

The young man blushed and said, “No, no need. Just help me hold this sleeve up.” On his left hand full of needle scars, there still remained the PVC,5 which inconvenienced him.

Xia Yuzhou rolled up his son’s sleeves, feeling a gaze that stabbed at his back. He turned his head and looked over, and sure enough, Si Jun was staring at him. “What’s the matter, you also need Dad…to roll up your sleeves?”

Si Jun came over, pinched the young man’s hand, took out the PVC, then directly pressed a cotton pad on it, and said, “Won’t use it in the future.”

The young man lowered his head and looked at the bloodstained needle tip. Then, it was quite a long time before the sound of wailing stopped.6

Translator’s Notes:

About Rabies, although there are hearsay, and even studies that a person with rabies can/may infect another person through a bite, but it’s unproven.

Although rabies is rare, it’s fatal. So please beware. Always remember this old adage, better safe [vaccinate it] than sorry [than leave it] when dealing with it. Tho, you won’t turn into a madman if you do have it.

Sigh. Poor Chen Mo. Si Jun taking out his jealousy on Yuzhou’s precious.