My Arms Can Turn into Blades-Chapter 34 - 28: Messed Up

After Xia Panqiu and Wu You left Ah Yue’s office, they did not linger at the company.

The two of them were physically and mentally exhausted.

After all, there was a lot to wrap up after Lu Hao’s death.

Neither of them had slept for three days.

Although they had plenty of questions, there was truly no one who could answer them now.

So after saying goodbye to each other.

Wu You dragged his weary body home.

Xia Panqiu was standing downstairs of the company; she originally planned to go home too, but before she left, she took out her cell phone to check the time... and noticed the message icon on her phone.

She stood still for a while, reached out, and clicked on the message that she had composed but never sent.

She stared at the message for a long time, hesitated, bit her lustrous red lip, and eventually turned toward the hospital.

On the other side.

At the hospital.

Chen Lusi finally finished tying Lin Ying’s hair and clapped his hands: "Turn around and have a look."

Lin Ying turned around, proudly puffed out her chest, and lightly swayed her ponytail.

"It looks nice."

Chen Lusi nodded in satisfaction.

"Right."

Lin Ying smiled gently and then asked, "Do you feel any discomfort?"

Chen Lusi shook his head: "No, everything’s fine."

"Then have a check-up and get discharged."

Lin Ying said straightforwardly: "I don’t like the smell of hospitals."

"Where will you stay then?"

Chen Lusi asked, "My hospitalization should be covered, right? So why not stay a few more days."

"Then where will I stay?"

Lin Ying retorted: "I came back last night and haven’t showered. You don’t expect me to sleep in a chair, do you?"

Chen Lusi: "..."

"That’s settled. I’ll find a doctor to check you out and arrange the discharge."

Seeing that Chen Lusi had no response, Lin Ying made the decision for him and directly walked out of the ward.

Chen Lusi watched her leave, then sat back on the somewhat cramped hospital bed and stretched his left arm.

Although it felt like there was no problem.

It had been broken after all.

The strange sensation of a missing arm still lingered, which was odd.

Knock knock——

Suddenly, there was a knock on the door.

Chen Lusi raised his head, thinking it was the doctor, and said: "Please come in."

Outside the door.

Xia Panqiu hesitated for a moment after hearing "please come in," took off her glasses, then opened the door and walked in.

"..."

Chen Lusi looked up and saw it was Xia Panqiu. He was slightly stunned.

A bit surprised.

Xia Panqiu walked slowly into the ward, stopping a meter away, then softly asked: "...Are you okay?"

Chen Lusi nodded and replied: "I’m fine, the Celestial Strategy’s technology is quite good. They not only revived me but also reattached my arm."

"Revived you?"

Upon hearing this, Xia Panqiu was slightly stunned, then she realized and replied: "It’s not the Celestial Strategy."

She explained what happened after his ’death’ to him.

"Ah?"

After hearing her explanation, Chen Lusi pointed at himself and said in surprise: "Me?"

"Yes...at that time, you were unconscious."

Xia Panqiu looked at Chen Lusi, hesitated for a while, and asked: "Do you know what happened?"

"Clockwork Man?"

Chen Lusi frowned slightly, carefully recalled, and replied: "I don’t know... Even about that girl in the white dress, I don’t know who she is. Everything about her was told to me by you."

"I see."

Xia Panqiu responded, then fell silent.

Her visit was not to seek answers.

Therefore, she did not continue asking.

Both remained silent. 𝐟𝐫𝕖𝗲𝘄𝚎𝗯𝕟𝐨𝕧𝐞𝚕.𝕔𝕠𝐦

After patiently waiting for a while, Chen Lusi couldn’t help but ask: "Is there something you came over for this time?"

"..."

Snapped back to reality, Xia Panqiu instinctively replied: "Yes, there is one thing."

But just after saying that, she regretted it and quickly added: "I also wanted to check on you, to thank you sincerely, and..."

Chen Lusi looked at her.

Noticing Chen Lusi’s gaze, Xia Panqiu slightly lowered her head, letting her stylish short hair cover her face, and softly said: "And I shouldn’t have targeted you before, treating you like someone else, I’m sorry."

Looking at the sincerely apologizing Xia Panqiu, Chen Lusi nodded and replied: "I see... Just don’t mistake me for someone else again; after all, we’ve been through life and death together."

"Okay."

Lowering her head, Xia Panqiu responded and breathed a sigh of relief.

Chen Lusi waited patiently for a while, then reminded: "You just said there was one thing."

Xia Panqiu lifted her head, paused for half a second, then reacted and said: "...I want to tell you what the Yellow Springs Fragment is."

"Lu Hao wants the Yellow Springs Fragment?"

"Yes, it’s a very special type of paper. The specific access is known only by a few celestial strategists in the Celestial Strategy Mansion. Its primary role is to record all the empowerers’ authorities, and this recording is not just simply printing the name of the authority... Under certain conditions, the Celestial Strategy Mansion can use the Yellow Springs Fragment to strip the recorded authority."

She mentioned it.

Xia Panqiu had to continue: "Lu Hao defected because the internal requirements of Celestial Strategy Mansion demanded that all celestial strategists and Level 1 Authority holders, key figures, must submit the Yellow Springs Fragment. After Lu Hao developed a high sequence Detached Body Technique, he had to submit the Yellow Springs Fragment."

Intrigued, Chen Lusi asked: "Submit it to where?"

"Two copies, one goes to the Yellow Springs, the other to the higher-ups."

"Does the Yellow Springs really exist?"

"Yes, but I haven’t been there."

"I see..."

"This is actually a form of insurance. I told you before, most empowerers’ authorities would disappear after half a year... That’s because every half year, a celestial strategist will go to the Yellow Springs to uniformly strip most unimportant authorities."

Chen Lusi chuckled: "No wonder Lu Hao felt unrestrained once the Yellow Springs Fragment was submitted, so he chose to defect, didn’t he?... By the way, did he eventually get his Yellow Springs Fragment?"

Xia Panqiu: "..."

Realizing his mistake, Chen Lusi apologized: "Sorry."

He defected.

He must have gotten it.

Softly, Xia Panqiu said: "Before Lu Hao defected, each squad’s Yellow Springs Fragment was separately stored, because each squad’s mission times and locations were different, making centralized management difficult. I didn’t expect his reaction to be so intense."

"It’s not your fault."

Chen Lusi smiled and said: "Even if you didn’t tell him, he would have defected after knowing it."

"Hmm." Xia Panqiu replied then fell silent again.

Checking the time, Chen Lusi thought Lin Ying should be back, so he said: "Thank you for your explanation... Is there anything else?"

"There’s one more thing."

Xia Panqiu raised her head, looked into Chen Lusi’s eyes, and softly said: "The Yellow Springs Fragment recording your authority also needs to be submitted; I wanted to let you know first."

This time, she had no other intentions.

She simply wanted to clarify it to him.

She also believed Chen Lusi would not react too strongly.

And indeed, he didn’t.

However...

After hearing this, Chen Lusi was slightly stunned, then he smiled wryly at the young lady in front of him and said helplessly: "Come on, you can be quite harsh... Testing me again, really, I have no other intentions, truly won’t be a traitor."

"..."

Upon hearing this, Xia Panqiu was initially shocked, then slowly paled.

That’s not what I meant.

She looked at Chen Lusi, unable to speak.

Knock——

Suddenly, Lin Ying pushed the door open: "Chen Lusi."

"Procedures done?" Chen Lusi shifted his gaze from Xia Panqiu to Lin Ying.

"Yes, we can leave now."

Lin Ying nodded, casually greeting Xia Panqiu: "Xia Panqiu, you’re here, good afternoon."

"I’m coming."

Chen Lusi stood up, finally looking at the lowered-headed Xia Panqiu, and smiled: "Don’t worry, submit the Yellow Springs Fragment, I don’t mind, trust me just this once... Bye."

With that.

He waved his hand and left the ward with Lin Ying.

Xia Panqiu stood in place, not reacting until Chen Lusi was gone.

Biting her lustrous red lips hard, she lowered her head again.

Turns out, preconceived notions are so embarrassing...

...Messed up.