Ch37 - Madness

TW: Gore? Uh I’m not too sure but I placed it just in case some are sensitive about this yah. Let me know if there’s a more suitable warning orz

As Xu Luo mentioned, Ji Qinghuai remained asleep and slept for a whole day before waking up. When he finally opened his eyes, it was already the next evening.

Ji Qinghuai lay on the bed blankly, muddled. It took him a while to return to his senses.

He grabbed the quilt aggrievedly. It hurts…

He slowly sat up. His pyjamas hung loosely on him, looking as soft as he was.

Ji Qinghuai moved his eyes to search for his mobile phone. His eyes fell on the cabinet next to the bed, and he reached out to pick it up.

The phone had been muted by Qin Lang. As soon as he opened his WeChat, a stream of messages from several people popped out. Ji Qinghuai looked at it and was stunned.

Among the several unread messages, the most recent one was Xie Yan and it had been sent just two hours ago.

This was the first time Xie Yan had taken the initiative to send him a message.

Ji Qinghuai quickly read through others’ messages and replied to the most important ones before he finally opened Xie Yan’s message.

Xie Yan: Are you awake?

Xie Yan and Xu Luo knew each other and Ji Qinghuai had been aware of this a long time ago. Seeing that Xie Yan suddenly asked this, he most likely found out about his detoxification through Xu Luo.

Ji Qinghuai typed slowly.

The most handsome actor in history: Just woke up.

Xie Yan’s mobile phone was on hand, and as soon as it vibrated, he picked it up.

Xie Yan: How do you feel now?

Ji Qinghuai didn’t immediately reply to his message. He was staring at the words in a daze.

Xie Yan is caring about him? Seeing this, his body was filled with warmth.

Although Qin Lang and Su Yuhe both warned Ji Qinghuai to avoid Xie Yan, he couldn’t bring himself to do that. It wasn’t that he didn’t believe Qin Lang and Su Yuhe, but that he had a different view of Xie Yan.

In the eyes of others, Xie Yan was cruel and ruthless, a very dangerous person. But, Ji Qinghuai had met with him secretly so many times and what he saw was completely different from what others saw. Except for the time when someone demanded a protection fee when he moved in, he had never seen Xie Yan act like what the others said.

Although Ji Qinghuai was narcissistic, he wasn’t self-absorbed enough to think that Xie Yan treated him differently from others. But one thing he was sure of was that Xie Yan was definitely more indulgent to him than others. This was also why he had fewer scruples speaking in front of Xie Yan.

Ji Qinghuai thought, since Xie Yan is willing to take the initiative to care about him, does that prove that he is now a close friend in Xie Yan’s heart?

Ji Qinghuai’s eyes were smiling and his typing speed became faster.

The most handsome actor in history: I’m so uncomfortable, Mr Xie.

The most handsome actor in history: Not one spot on my body feels well, it hurts everywhere.

A pitiful expression with tears in his eyes followed.

After reading these three messages, Xie Yan imagined the scene where Ji Qinghuai looked at him pitifully, weeping about the discomfort.

Xie Yan: I’ll help you vent your anger.

Ji Qinghuai’s hand holding the mobile trembled.

This sentence not only made Ji Qinghuai happy, but it also surprised him.

According to Xie Yan’s personality, Xiang Yunfei would have to reincarnate if he wanted to help him out.

It was true that Xiang Yunfei was wrong, but it was a life after all. Ji Qinghuai didn’t want Xie Yan to take the life of others because of him and Xu Luo had also said that Xiang Yunfei had never deliberately harmed people with fake drugs.

As for the fact that he was pitted and suffered so much, Ji Qinghuai himself did the math, and if he let Xiang Yunfei lose his life because of it, he would be sorry.

The most handsome actor in history: No need.

Fearing that Xie Yan wouldn’t listen to him, Ji Qinghuai also found a reason to explain his reply.

The most handsome actor in history: I was a bit unlucky this year. I’ll let him off this time and accumulate virtue for myself.

Xie Yan looked at the message and was silent for a while.

Xie Yan: Okay.

Xie Yan: Then, you should have a good rest.

The most handsome actor in history: En.

Immediately, a cute cat winking sticker was sent.

At this point, their conversation was over.

Ji Qinghuai put down the phone and breathed a sigh of relief. Does this count as helping Xiang Yunfei save his life?

Obviously, he was the one who was cheated, and he was also the one who suffered, yet he had to help those who cheated him find a reason to preserve their lives.

He couldn’t help sighing. This young master is so kind ah.

After praising himself, Ji Qinghuai lifted the quilt, and immediately felt pain run through his body.

“Hiss……” Ji Qinghuai then remembered that the sequelae after the acupuncture on his body had not yet subsided, and he immediately became less full of himself. He put on his shoes carefully and got up, walked slowly to the door and opened it.

In the kitchen, Qin Lang was preparing dinner.

Xu Luo had mentioned that Ji Qinghuai had to recuperate for a while and would be better if he consumed nourishing food to replenish his body, so Qin Lang boiled chicken soup tonight.

Smelling the aroma from the kitchen, Ji Qinghuai’s stomach began to growl. He hadn’t eaten for a day, and now he felt like he was starving after smelling the soup.

Qin Lang turned off the fire on the stove and said to Ji Qinghuai, “Go and wash up, dinner will be served soon.”

Ji Qinghuai let out a hum, then slowly turned around to prepare to wash. Just as his eyes swept past the shelf, he saw a large bag of medicine lying on it.

Ji Qinghuai paused, “What are these for?”

“Doctor Xu delivered it here at noon today.” Qin Lang wrapped the two ends of the casserole dish with cloth and walked towards the dining table.

Ji Qinghuai followed and heard Qin Lang say, “He also said that the residual poison in your body has not been removed, but acupuncture detoxification is too harmful to your body. Fortunately, most of the poison has been cleared so it won’t take too long for the medicine to remove the remaining toxin.”

Qin Lang put down the casserole and continued, “He also said that if you don’t want to drink the medicine and want to detoxify as soon as possible, he will detoxify it for you in half a month instead. After three times, it’ll be completely gone.”

Ji Qinghuai recalled the detoxification process yesterday and every cell in his body trembled with refusal.

That kind of taste, he didn’t want to have it a second time.

Ji Qinghuai looked on with a melancholic face. En, he’ll drink the medicine obediently instead.

At this moment, the considerate and capable Doctor Xu was working overtime in the unit, not for official business, but to analyse the bottle of blood taken from Ji Qinghuai.

Xu Luo had studied medicine at a young age. When he cut Ji Qinghuai’s wrist yesterday, he knew instantly that there was a problem when the blood flowed out.

Although the cold poison is a kind of toxin, the blood that is forced out shouldn’t be this colour. The only explanation is that there were other problems with Ji Qinghuai.

Xu Luo poured out some of the blood and was first going to first study what was wrong with it, and then put the rest for later use.

“Squeak!”

Suddenly, a sound came from Xu Luo’s ear. He looked down and saw that one of the white mice kept in the cage had run out at some unknown time.

The mouse was not afraid of people at all, crawling onto the table, and knocking over the bottle containing Ji Qinghuai’s blood.

Xu Luo didn’t have time to react before he heard a bang. The porcelain bottle was knocked to the ground and the purple-black blood flowed out from it.

Smelling the blood, the mouse crawled down from the table and licked the blood on the ground.

Xu Luo gave a tut, put on gloves and grabbed the mouse, taking it back into the breeding room and placing it in the cage closest to him.

There were seven mice in this cage, plus the one that Xu Luo just threw in, a total of eight and they looked about the same size. Xu Luo was afraid that the mouse in it would run out again, so he double-checked that the cage was shut tightly.

This time, there’ll be no more troubles.

Xu Luo took off his gloves, turned around and was about to leave when there was a high-pitched squeak from behind him. When he turned his head, he saw that the white mouse he had put in was leaping on another and biting its neck.

Xu Luo didn’t know why the mouse was suddenly going crazy. He put on his gloves again and was ready to retrieve it but just then, the mouse that had been bitten was released and pounced on another mouse.

Xu Luo frowned and didn’t move from his spot. He felt that something was wrong.

He stared at the little white mouse whose neck had just been bitten and observed that the mouse who had been lying on the cage floor suddenly stood up and rushed to its companion. The other mice were frightened and the cage instantly became a mess.

In the chaos, the other white mice were also bitten by those two crazy mice. At first, some of them would evade, but before long, they all went crazy, regardless of friend or foe.

Ten minutes later, the cage finally calmed down but Xu Luo was shocked by the scene.

He hadn’t seen such a gruesome scene in many years. Xu Luo’s stomach turned upside down and he immediately vomited.

Why did the little white mouse go crazy suddenly? The answer was self-evident. But he didn’t expect it to bite others and infect them.

Xu Luo hurried out of the breeding room, he would be disgusted if he stayed any longer. He returned to the office, took a bottle of mineral water to rinse his mouth, and drank more than half of the bottle before suppressing the nauseous sensation.

He wiped off the water stain on his mouth and his eyes fell onto the small glass bottle containing the other half of blood on the table.

This thing was too poisonous.

Xu Luo realized one thing later.

Yesterday, when he detoxified Ji Qinghuai, he saw how serious his condition was. Originally, he thought it was strange. Although the Cold Sky Grass had cold attributes, they weren’t so dangerous but how could Ji Qinghuai’s condition be so serious?

Now Xu Luo knew the reason.

In addition to the cold poison in Ji Qinghuai’s body, there was another very powerful poison hidden in his body. Judging from the situation of the mice just now, this type of poison was more dangerous than the cold toxin, but Ji Qinghuai had never realised.

It was precisely because of this other powerful toxin that the cold poison was produced after Ji Qinghuai accidentally ate the Cold Sky grass. If the other toxin was used as a trigger, it wasn’t strange that the cold poison was much more severe than it normally was.

A lingering fear swept over Xu Luo when he recalled the scene where the mice went crazy.

He walked to the table, reached out and picked up the remaining half bottle of purple-black blood.

If he couldn’t figure out what kind of poison this was as soon as possible, things would go horrible when Ji Qinghuai was stimulated and lost his mind like those little white mice.