Ch37 - Saw Blood (2/2)
“You’re drunk.” Yu Hao said, “Let’s go back first ba.”
Zhou Sheng stood in front of Yu Hao to block him. Yu Hao helplessly lit his cigarette for him.
With a click, the flame illuminated Yu Hao and Zhou Sheng’s faces. When Zhou Sheng leaned in, his eyes suddenly widened — he saw Yu Hao’s hand that was holding the lighter covered in blood.
“Yu Hao——!” Zhou Sheng’s roar had violently awoken the three dormitory buildings to the core in the dead of the night.
Yu Hao, “Don’t get too agitated!”
Zhou Sheng roared hysterically, “Explain this clearly to me!!!”
Half an hour later, in a standard room of a small hotel outside the school.
“Are you crazy?!” Yu Hao finally couldn’t endure it anymore. No matter what, he had to retaliate once. He would explode from all his restraint if he kept holding himself back from calling Zhou Sheng out.
“I really didn’t know!” Zhou Sheng had half sobered up, “When I saw blood, the first thought I had was that you had slit your wrists!”
Yu Hao, “Is there something wrong with me?? Why the hell would I slit my wrists?!”
Zhou Sheng, “Haven’t you always been like that?”
Yu Hao, “Since when?!”
Yu Hao took a pillow and whacked Zhou Sheng with it, but Zhou Sheng kept dodging it. In the end, Yu Hao threw the pillow away furiously because he knew that Zhou Sheng was just letting him off easy. After all, he was someone who could take on an entire dormitory alone.
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“Don’t move!” Zhou Sheng was meeker than usual now. He was standing at the corner of another bed as he admitted, embarrassed, “I was wrong I was wrong okay?! Be careful, your bandages could fall off!”
Yu Hao’s palm was wrapped in bandages, and now he actually did want to die. His phone was ringing endlessly from the constant stream of messages in both his WeChat and QQ group chats — everyone in the dormitories and their entire cohort had heard Zhou Sheng shout Yu Hao’s name like he had lost it on the field in the middle of the night.
Fu Liqun gave Yu Hao a call and asked, “You found him ba?”
Yu Hao told Fu Liqun what had happened. Then he learned that Zhou Sheng was originally drunk. After he returned to the dormitory and found out that Yu Hao wasn’t around, he left again to go look for him.
“He was the one who shouted your name just now ba?” Fu Liqun asked.
“It was me!” Zhou Sheng said.
Fu Liqun said, “Snap out of your drunken fit, hurry and come back to sleep. Where are you? Should I come down to get you guys?”
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“I brought him out and got a room.” Yu Hao said and motioned to Zhou Sheng to stop talking. Zhou Sheng nodded.
Fu Liqun said, “Okay, then I’ll really sleep now.” He hung up, leaving Yu Hao and Zhou Sheng to stare at each other speechlessly. Eventually, Zhou Sheng got up and packed away the iodine and bandages that had been used. Yu Hao said, “Don’t people slit wrists instead of palms? Why don’t you try it once for me to see?”
Zhou Sheng picked the scalpel up to scrutinise it carefully, “It’s the middle of the night, how would I have known where the cut was!”
Yu Hao held his phone in his left hand and slid up the screen to unlock it, and as expected, all he saw were @him: Zhou Sheng’s shouting your name downstairs, hurry and take him back. Zhou Sheng’s calling for you, he’s calling for you. You better explain this to me clearly……Yu Hao roared angrily in his heart, I heard it! I don’t need all of your reminders! Then he turned his phone off.
After Zhou Sheng finished packing up, he put his ID away and collapsed onto the bed. He was terribly exhausted.
Yu Hao said, “Are you still going to listen to my explanation?”
Zhou Sheng covered his face with a pillow, then outstretched a finger from beneath the blanket and pointed at Yu Hao’s bed.
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“Sleep.” Zhou Sheng’s voice sounded somewhat stern, as if he had resumed his identity as General, “I’m sleepy, we’ll talk in the dream.”
This was the first time after Shi Ni’s matter concluded four months ago for Yu Hao to properly enter the dream world of his own accord again.
When he opened his eyes, he found himself sitting on the throne in the centre of the palace in his dream. He was flanked by military officers on either side, with a huge screen behind him. Floating clouds and mountain ranges were visible overhead — it was the Mt. Tianqing that they had hiked in the morning.
The interior of the palace was embellished with golden, red and silver materials that exhibited magnificence and resplendence. The sliding red lacquer doors carved with decorative patterns slid open automatically in succession, and outside the palace, gilded carpets were revealed within each layer. Yu Hao looked down upon himself and realised that his dressing was very inconsistent with the setting. It wasn’t a regalia, but instead, he was dressed in a black butler uniform from head to toe. In comparison, Zhou Sheng was adorned with a red and black dragon-plated armour and carried a shield on his back. He wore a three-inch long golden iron rod at his waist as he strode in.
“Welcome, General!” The military officers on both sides all knelt down on one knee in unison.
Yu Hao, “……”
“Yo, your interior decoration’s pretty beautiful.” Zhou Sheng pulled out a《Linear Algebra II》from the bookshelf on one side of the palace and flipped through it, “You’re still studying in your dream.”
Yu Hao, “Why are my NPCs kneeling down to you?”
Zhou Sheng, “Can’t they worship me?”
Yu Hao, “You’re so stuck-up.”
Zhou Sheng, “Wanna fight?”
Yu Hao, “You can defeat me here?”
Zhou Sheng, “You never know, let’s practice?”
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Zhou Sheng walked over to the throne and Yu Hao thought that this crazy Zhou Sheng was really going to start a fight with him. He placed his left fist on his right chest and saluted Yu Hao by bowing slightly, then made a “please” gesture, “Little fox, let’s take a walk outside?”
“How am I like a fox?!”
Yu Hao then got up and left the palace with Zhou Sheng, and they headed to the rooftop. The capital in his dream had changed slightly compared to the last time he was here: the lanterns and fireworks had all disappeared, replaced by the warm glow of the sun, as well as the beautiful, fresh flowers of spring.
The scenery in his conscious world seemed to change based on how he felt during the four seasons in reality. Outside the palaces on a platform that faced the mountain ranges, an additional suspension bridge had appeared out of the blue. The suspension bridge led into the clouds, and it was the place that Yu Hao had walked through in the day.
“Recall what happened.” Zhou Sheng said to Yu Hao, “Imagine you have a screen in front of you, and let me see it. You don’t mind it ba?”
An image of the memory was projected in front of Yu Hao and Zhou Sheng, and it was shown from Yu Hao’s perspective — it played out the entire timeline of what Yu Hao had caught a glimpse of underneath the stairwell in the middle of the night.
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“That’s it.” Yu Hao said.
Zhou Sheng remained quiet for a long time. Yu Hao gave him a sidelong look and asked, “What should we do?”
“What can we do?” Zhou Sheng murmured, “He wanted to kill someone.”
Yu Hao said, “I didn’t dare ask, the knife is still in the room. Why does he bear such a huge grudge against Professor Lin? Don’t they have a teacher-student relationship?”
“You’ll have to ask him that.” Zhou Sheng mocked, “How would I know?”
Yu Hao sized Zhou Sheng up doubtfully. Zhou Sheng said, “This is a dream, you don’t need to give me such a meaningful look.”
“Do you know something?” Yu Hao asked.
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Zhou Sheng pondered for a moment. Yu Hao thought that he was thinking it over, but Zhou Sheng said, “Look.”
Yu Hao then realised that a screen had manifested in front of Zhou Sheng. The screen played out memories from Zhou Sheng’s perspective of what had happened in the hospital.
In front of Zhou Sheng, a fierce-looking Professor Lin appeared who was listening to Zhou Sheng.
“When was this?” Yu Hao spent most of his time with Zhou Sheng, and he didn’t recall meeting Lin Xun with him.
“On the day we handed in my registration for the cycling competition.” Zhou Sheng said, “I was guarding Liang Laoshi in the hospital, and coincidentally, this guy came.”
Yu Hao remembered now. That day he had realised that Zhou Sheng looked a bit off, so it was because of this?
“What’s wrong? Student Zhou Sheng, if you have any difficulties, feel free to talk about it.”
“That……” Zhou Sheng said sincerely, “Why don’t I sell you a sandbag for cheap? We have lots of them in our boxing club, it won’t cost much to buy one. It’s not good to use your wife as a sandbag to practice your punches on everyday, Professor Lin!”
“Why are you always picking a fight wherever you go?” Yu Hao said helplessly.
Zhou Sheng said indifferently, “I just made a little crack at him by asking if he usually hits his wife at home.”
Yu Hao, “……”