Chapter 46 (1/2)

Chapter 46 A Dangerous Silence

Zhao Lingjun was conflicted and stood there foolishly, hugging wasn’t right and neither was pus.h.i.+ng her away. As he stood with his hands by his sides, a sudden pain was felt from his shoulder.

Meng Xue, who had thrown herself into his embrace, had actually unexpectedly bit him.

“Ahhhh, What are you doing?! Why did you bite me!?” Suffering from the pain, Zhao Lingjun wanted to push her away. But when he looked at her in his embrace, her face was full of tears, his heart softened, and just silently hugged her.

“You stinking barbarian…” Meng Xue looked at Zhao Lingjun with her eyes full of tears.

The two were plastered so closely now that Meng Xue’s soft and warm jade like twin peaks pressed against Zhao Lingjun’s chest. Zhao Lingjun could even easily feel her each and every heartbeat.

Zhao Lingjun’s heart at this moment only held a mother’s tenderness towards her, without a shred of l.u.s.t.

“I only used it as an excuse to eat that pill…”

“Even then, you’re not permitted to use that kind of excuse.” Before Zhao Lingjun could finish his words, Meng Xue interrupted.

Meng Xue fixed her glistening eyes on Zhao Lingjun’s, “You don’t know how disappointed I was at the time… I nearly thought that you were truly such a person. You… don’t know how I felt…”

“Don’t say anymore.” Seeing Meng Xue’s long eyelashes trembling and tears glimmering like diamonds adorning them, Zhao Lingjun suddenly felt an ache in his heart.

“Relax, in the future, as long as I’m alive, I won’t let you suffer from any more grievances.” Zhao Lingjun firmly said looking into her eyes.

“Really?” Meng Xue said as she turned scarlet.

“Of course!” Zhao Lingjun nodded, but abruptly a bitter smile appeared on his face. “But I don’t know how much longer I can live for.”

“What are you talking about?” Meng Xue was taken aback for a moment. Seemingly understanding something, she asked, “What was that pill that you ate just now?”

“I already answered that earlier, I don’t know.” Zhao Lingjun bitterly smiled. “Perhaps it’s a stimulant, like what the tall man said. But in any case, it’s no normal stimulant.”

Hearing the word ‘stimulant’, Meng Xue’s heart turned cold. She knew that stimulants were a sort of drug that affected a person’s nervous system. It would overdraft a person’s strength and stamina, and no matter what kind of stimulant it was, it would cause side effects. It was similar to narcotics, the better the effects, the stronger and more serious the side effects.

In the past, she had seen a news report where a weight lifting athlete ingested the latest type of stimulant in a compet.i.tion. With no effort at all, he had broken the world record. But almost immediately after the compet.i.tion, the athlete died of shock.

Although the stimulant had stimulated the nervous system to a large extent, allowing him to momentarily possess superhuman strength his heart and body were just incapable of sustaining such a burden.

Recalling Zhao Lingjun’s eruption of strength and speed earlier, Meng Xue was certain that in this world, there wasn’t a second stimulant that could be compared to it.

Thinking up to here, Meng Xue panicked, “Why do you not even know what kind of medicine it is? Where did you get it from?”

“Where did I get it from?” Zhao Lingjun, thinking of that thumb sized Black Lotus which magicked a black metal box into existence, couldn’t help but force a bitter smile. “Explaining where this pill came from is too complicated and a long story. Even if I explained, you probably wouldn’t believe me. It’s better for me to slowly explain it to you in the future.”

Meng Xue looked bewilderingly at him, and nodded. “Then… do you feel unwell right now?”

“Unwell? Zhao Lingjun took a deep breath, and blinked. “It seems fine, but in my body there is a sort of inexplicable flowing sensation inside. Also…”

“What else?” Meng Xue hurriedly asked.

“I can’t put a word to it at all, it’s just a very weird feeling.” Zhao Lingjun shook his head, “It’s like my senses have become extraordinarily sensitive, I can even feel distant gra.s.s swaying in the wind.

“Even distant gra.s.s swaying in the wind could be felt?” repeated Meng Xue, thinking it was too unbelievable and raised her head to look at him.