170 Ultimate Vision (1/2)

”Her forehead is burning…” Scarlet's answered worriedly. ”Should we give her some water?”

”No… It's okay. She said we can't disturb her else she will fail. Let's just wait for her to finish. She doesn't have much left. It seems to be the most important time for her,” Wuxing explained but still asked Devil Face just to be sure.

'She should be fine, don't worry,' Devil Face assured. ”If her body turns hot that means her spirit is adapting her body to accept new ability. If it's only her forehead that is burning, that means her ability mainly uses her brain to function. Those are the most dangerous but also the rarest. We are quite lucky to have her on our team.'

Taking the opportunity, he added, 'By the way, the guy from before already left my radius, it seems he just wanted to lose that bald guy by using us.'

Wuxing's eyes turned cold for a second only to turn back to normal a second later. He hated people like that but he knew it was probably necessary for his survival. Naturally, that didn't mean he would let him off as that action put all three of them in danger.

'It's okay, I will get my revenge on him when we reach the selection camp,' Wuxing informed and finally healed himself fully, moving his hands to the front to clean himself.

He didn't expect that Scarlet would suddenly exclaim, seeing his bloody hands.

”Ah! You are bleeding—” Wuxing quickly reached out with his clean hand and shushed her, cutting her off, ”Shh… you will disturb Dongmei…”

”But your hand…” Scarlet protested upset. He could see the worry in her eyes.

”Scarlet, I'm alright. it's not my blood,” Wuxing lied skillfully and showed her both of his hands which were still covered by blood but no wound could be seen. ”See? No injuries.”

He didn't want her to bother unnecessarily but he caused Scarlet to pout instead.

”Dummy, you think I'm an idiot?” Scarlet scolded quietly as she grabbed his hand and started cleaning it up for him with water. ”I'm not blind. I could see your battle even though I attended Dongmei. I care for you more than her…”

Once she was done, she began drying it up with her sleeve, finger by finger. It wasn't exactly needed so Wuxing tried to pull his hand away, ”It's enough. It's going to be dry soon anyway.”

Unfortunately, that wasn't that easy.

”No. Let me finish,” Scarlet rejected firmly, glaring at him and suddenly pulled on his hand, placing it on her chest. ”Can you feel my heartbeat? It only started beating so fast when I saw you got injured…”

She pressed his hand hard against her left breast as if she wanted him to grab it firmly. He wanted to tell her it wasn't how you sense your heartbeat when he actually could feel it, even though the fabric of their jackets.

Ba-dum! Ba-dum! Ba-dum!

Her heart banged rhythmically in quick succession and it didn't seem to slow down at all.

”Hey, hey, calm down…” Wuxing whispered as he caressed her cheek but Scarlet bit her lip and unzipped her jacket. The next thing he knew, she pushed his hand inside it and repeated the process, forcing him to embrace her breast once again, this time directly on top of her sports bra.

”Can you feel it now? When you touched me, it started to beat even faster...” Scarlet confessed, looking with expectations at Wuxing's face but he couldn't fulfill her wishes.

”Scarlet,” he called out her name firmly and pulled his hand away. ”It's not time to fool around.”

He didn't give her any more attention and focused on Dongmei instead. He could push Scarlet away from the start instead of letting her lead to such a situation.

”I'm sorry… I'm just honest,” Scarlet apologized as she didn't stop to gaze at his face from the side and passed him the chocolate she partially ate before. ”Eat, you used too much energy.”

When he turned back to her, Wuxing saw her smiling gently, not bothered by his soft rejection which made him feel bad. She was just too kind of a girl yet he pulled her into the brutal part of the world.