The front desk checked the appointment records accordingly.
Jian Xie tapped the table with his fingers while staring at her intently with a patient expression.
“……”
After a moment, she raised her head and looked at Jian Xie with confusion, “Sorry, I can’t find your record. Are you sure it’s today?”
“How come?”
Hearing what was said, a confused expression appeared on Jian Xie’s face, which was enough to make any heartless person feel unbearable.
Then, his voice became anxious, “But I do have an appointment. Can you call Dr. Li? I won’t waste too much of your time. I just need to explain it briefly and let him know that I’m here.”
The boy looked sincere. Sweat condensed on his fair cheeks, and his clear eyes were staring at the front desk.
“I have cram school in the afternoon. If I miss today, I don’t know when I will have time to have a check-up again.”
【Little liar.】
There came an amused, indolent voice in his ears.
Jian Xie pretended not to hear what was said. It was not like It was the only one who could ignore things in his mind.
What’s more, he believed the other party would not hurt him.
Before going out this afternoon, he did two sets of math problems before he was able to erase the ambiguous memory of last night from his mind… At the same time, thanks to the math problems, his numb brain became much clearer. After sorting out what had happened, he was able to come up with a guess about how the situation would develop going forward.
This conjecture was much more reliable than the reason of “It was pursuing him”.
Since It was bound to his body for unknown reasons, it was likely that if his body died, It would not be able to escape unharmed.
That was why It only appeared when he was in danger.
In short, they were now revolutionary comrades who shared life and death.
In other words, this meant that the relationship between them was purely one of interest, and this thought made Jian Xie feel much more comfortable.
He selectively ignored the fact that his revolutionary comrade gave him expensive gifts and wished them a happy anniversary. He treated it as a deception to confuse his vision.
“Sister, can you do that? Please. “
As expected, under Jian Xie’s sincere gaze, the receptionist couldn’t hold it and put her trembling hands on the phone. “N-no problem.”
Sensing the various emotions conveyed in her words, Jian Xie smiled at her reassuringly.
Unlike when Jian Xie called but the phone was turned off, the lady at the front desk used the hospital’s internal line so the call was connected quickly.
“Doctor Li? Are you busy? There’s a student here…”
“I’ll talk to him,” Jian Xie said politely, “Thank you.”
After a moment, he took the telephone handed to him, put it to his ear, turned his back to the front desk, and said expressionlessly, “Doctor Li, it’s me.”
After hearing his voice, the other side suspiciously fell silent: “…………”
A few seconds later, there was a clatter, as if something was knocked over, followed by a short scream from Dr. Li on the other end of the phone.
“I tried my best, don’t come for me!!”
Then, the call was hung up by the person on the other end in panic.
Ignoring the beeping sound beside his ear, Jian Xie handed the telephone back. “He said that I can go in.”
“A-ah, okay.”
The lady at the front desk was stunned. The high school student, who was gentle and amiable just now, suddenly stopped smiling and was emitting a cold aura. It seemed like except for nodding in acceptance, there was no way to object to anything the other party would say.
She didn’t remember what she said. When she came to her senses, she could only see Jian Xie’s back.
The receptionist put down the telephone in a daze, then lowered her head and began to go back to organizing the documents which were interrupted by Jian Xie earlier. A few minutes later, she suddenly covered her mouth and said “ah”. She then realized that she seemed to have forgotten to continue asking about the content of the call and simply let the high school student in.
She was not usually like this. Although she did have a good impression of the other party, she wouldn’t let him go like that without even asking about the content of the call.
So……
It was really strange.
Why did she forget to feel doubtful just now?
*
Jian Xie reached the familiar office door.
Before knocking on the door, he squinted his eyes and looked at the nameplate hanging in front of the clinic door. There were a few lines of neatly printed words on it. It was the introduction of the other party as a doctor.
Li Yucheng (21)
Technical Director of A City Neurological Group
Honorary Member of the Neuroscience Center
Deputy Director of the Neurology Department, Second People’s Hospital of City A
Specialized in solving difficult and complicated cases, neurological and other psychological diseases for decades
On the right side of the introduction card was a photo of a young man in a white coat. He had soft brown hair and a small fang showing to the people outside the frame. Although he appeared like a successful person, his baby face made him look extremely out of place.
The cold faced Jian Xie: “…………”
He fell silent, reflecting on his indifference to his surroundings.
Why was there such a big loophole in the whole thing? It had been almost stupidly placed in front of him for a year, but he had never noticed it.
Look at the age written above. If Dr. Li has really been in the industry for decades, he must have started working when he was less than ten years old. What a miserable office slave he must have been.
So, he put down his hand, which was originally prepared to curl on the knuckles so he could politely knock on the door, and instead twisted the door handle, decisively opened the door and walked in.
Jian Xie’s timing of arrival was very clever. He just happened to run into Dr. Li who was halfway up, trying to escape through the window.
One of the other person’s feet was outside the window, swaying in the wind like the billboard hanging outside the building opposite. His whole body froze the moment the door opened.
Doctor Li: “…”
Under Jian Xie’s expressionless gaze, Doctor Li slowly crawled back and said with a sorrowful face, “I can explain, but please… don’t eat me!”
He fell directly to his knees.
Jian Xie: “…”
In this situation, he chose not to mention the vitamin candy, but remained silent and waited for Dr. Li to reveal the answer himself.
He could sense that Dr. Li might be hiding something else from him.
When a person was too panicked, the psychological pressure caused would lead to more information being revealed.
The unknown existence in his body was not wrong. Jian Xie was actually different from his harmless, fragile and sensitive appearance. It was as if he had built three layers of barriers. The first layer was a cold defense, and the second layer would make people mistakenly think that he was approachable.
As for his most essential and deepest layer, even Jian Xie himself may not quite understand what he was like there.
“Get to the point.” He was brief and concise.
“……”
The air was silent for a few seconds, and then Dr. Li’s face twisted. After a while, he fiddled with his fingers and stammered, “…You already know that I’m not human.”
Special A-level monster.
Rational, able to disguise itself, and able to play with people’s hearts. It would be enough to scare any investigator into a cold sweat, but at this moment, it was looking at Jian Xie with horror, as if the human in front of it was even more cruel than the monster and may kill it in a deranged manner any second.
But in a sense, it was true… whoever touches him will die!
Dr. Li cried silently.
Half a year ago, Li Yucheng was not yet Doctor Li.
At that time, it still had some dignity as a Special A-level monster. When passing by the street one day, a high school student who was on the phone attracted its attention. It was not because of the other person’s outstanding appearance, but because of the unique scent emanating from the other person.
It was very fragrant.
Li Yucheng stopped dead in its tracks, turned around and stared at the other person’s back, drooling with greed.
It was generally recognized by monsters that investigators were tastier than ordinary people.
It was no longer a matter of whether the human was delicious or not because the human possessed an unprecedented appeal that almost made him release his predation field directly on the street.
Flesh and blood were actually unimportant to monsters of their level, the Special A-level monsters.
Compared to that, they prefer to stir up trouble and play with people’s hearts, feeding on the humans’ negative emotions such as fear and terror. That was why it took the time to listen to the content of the phone call, from which it learned that Jian Xie was contacting a psychiatrist provided by community assistance.
As a result, it made the most regretful decision in its life.
It replaced that human being and volunteered to become Jian Xie’s psychiatrist, which left it with a lifelong psychological trauma.
Now it was no longer worthy of being called Li Yucheng, it was only worthy of being called Doctor Li.
After listening to the narration, Jian Xie: “…”
He concluded, “So, what’s in me will eat you and you were coerced by It.”
【It’s just the law of the jungle.】 It said lazily, still arrogant as ever, 【Coercion? Not necessary.】
“That’s not the case!”
Unexpectedly, as soon as Jian Xie spoke, Dr. Li, who had been lying on the side, suddenly became agitated and started crying in humiliation, “It would be better to just let that being eat me than what is happening now. Who would have known that they came here to make food for a human like you!”
“…….”
It had made a mistake. It admits, the human being in front of it was the real devil.
The other actually used fishing as means of entrapment.
He never thought that Jian Xie, like it, fed on fear, and what a coincidence that his prey was monsters like them!
As a Special A-level, Li Yucheng has never put itself in the position of “food”.
Until he met Jian Xie.
He feeds on monsters’ fears… is he really an ordinary human?
It had asked itself this question countless times.
Every time it was time for treatment, it meant that it had to be under the terrifying aura lingering around Jian Xie. The powerful crushing existence always made it feel great panic and cowardice, producing food for the human opposite it like an automatic feeding machine.
This dangerous aura was deliberately concealed when Li Yucheng first met Jian Xie.
It strongly guaranteed that the noble being looked at it like an interested spectator during each of their consultations.
Even the vitamin candy was what It told it to do.
Refuse? Will it dare to refuse?
…Help, is this still a human being? Huh?!
After hearing its series of tearful accusations, Jian Xie stood there, momentarily stumped for words.
Then, confusion appeared in his eyes.
“What do you mean? …I feed on monsters’ emotions?”
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