228 Precautions (1/2)
”Yo! Boy, you look great.” Under the desk lamp, the blonde youth laid lazily on the sofa. On the back of his hand, the entangled double-snake heraldry reflected a silver gleam.
The faint light illuminated his fully enthusiastic smile, but the youth sitting opposite him was expressionless. He put his face closer to the lamp, showing his pair of dead eyes. ”Boss, look at my face, how do I look great?”
”Aha, I just wanted to compliment you. Don’t mind me.” Hermes waved and pointed to the table. ”I made a good cup of tea. Have a taste. In the East, this thing is priceless!”
”Here’s a suggestion,” Ye Qingxuan said bitterly. ”When you want to find someone, can you not wake up the drunken Seton? I felt like he was always looking for a chance to kill me on the way here…”
”Haha, it’s my mistake, my fault.” Hermes whistled gloatingly. Looking like a pretty boy, he was curled up on the big, pompous couch and looked at Ye Qingxuan with a subtle smile. ”Don't get mad, I was just worried about you, wasn’t I?”
”Worried about me?” Ye Qingxuan smiled bitterly. ”Boss, your worry is really special.”
”You're fearless because you know nothing, aren't you? I've heard about what happened today.” Hermes exclaimed, ”Fighting with a teacher in public...How dangerous! If the principal came out a little later or you kept staring at him like that, maybe there would be nothing tonight.”
”What do you mean by nothing?” Ye Qingxuan frowned.
”Oh, in layman terms, it means dead, or some people say go to hell, or...”
”Okay, I got it,” Ye Qingxuan interrupted him with some uncertainty. ”You mean, I’d die if he glared at me?”
”Well, kid, have you been getting too cocky?” Hermes was amused by Ye Qingxuan. He squinted at this guy, his eyes full of ridicule. ”Ye Qingxuan, don’t forget that he has broken through the barrier of knowledge and has been a Resonance level musician for many years.
”If one is below the Resonance level, the musician could still be regarded as a person. But one at the Resonance level is regarded as ‘inhuman’ and has the ability to intervene with things.
”And you, you’re just a little shrimp at the Rhythm level. If he wanted to mess with you, he doesn't even need a music score!
”Modifications can turn the iron in your body into a blade to travel in your heart and brain; Summoning can use your beastly nature to erode you; if it is the School of Choir, their interference will basically get you all kinds of strange diseases, which may also be contagious. The School of Mind and Illusion are even more vicious...
”The interventions from Revelations are the most difficult. It’ll bury the ‘cause’ of your death in you. When it’s time, you’ll naturally get your ‘result.’ You may suddenly fall into cardiac arrest, fall down and get a stroke, or be hit by something that falls from the sky...Anyway, you're going to die in a very 'normal' way. In short, all seven schools of music are difficult to deal with! If Ingmar wants to kill you,” Hermes rubbed his two fingers and said casually, ”you’ll be dead in just few minutes.”
Hearing this, Ye Qingxuan sank into silence for a long time. Suddenly, he could not help but want to laugh. ”Then he must regret not killing me before things got worse.”
”Yes, if he’s going to kill you, he can only do that quietly when things are over. Now, he’s riding on the tiger. He needs to ensure your safety by all means. If you die, he won't be able to explain it,” Hermes said lightly. ”But in some sense, shouldn't you be more careful?”
”Be careful of what?”
Hermes glanced at him with a cold smile. ”Beware of the principal.”
Even though it was only a few words, the words from Hermes’s mouth was like an axe slicing through the air. Even though there was no murderous intent, even though he said it casually, the lingering meaning quietly opened a door in Ye Qingxuan's brain.
Indeed, if he died, then the most obvious suspect would be Ingmar and the school board behind him. They would fall into absolute public disfavor in this fight.