Lion Light

From then on until noon, Yu Xian kept a close watch on Yu Wei. Yet Yu Wei revealed no flaws whatsoever. His scent was that of a normal male, no tentacles wriggled beneath his skin, and his heartbeat was completely steady, proving there was no foreign entity inside his chest. Furthermore, through extended observation, Yu Xian discovered that Yu Wei suffered from kidney stones, lumbar muscle strain, rhinitis, and other ailments. In short, he was merely an aging, middle-aged man who showed signs of physical exercise, though not much. That fit the profile of a ninth-grade PE teacher perfectly. "Strange..." Yu Xian was thoroughly baffled. If there truly was something wrong with Yu Wei, where on earth was it? Beside him, Zhang Shou could not help but chime in, "Salty Fish, if you really think Teacher Yu is suspicious, why not just report him to the soldiers? Once they lock him up and inspect him thoroughly, won't you know for sure?" "And they'd believe me just like that? What if they find nothing? By the way, where's Nora?" Yu Xian fired back three questions in a row, looking at Zhang Shou. Zhang Shou opened his mouth, only to realize he could answer only the last question. He explained to Yu Xian that Nora had a rather special status—her father was a diplomatic envoy for the Blood Clan, so her bodyguards had already taken her away the previous night. "All right then." Yu Xian sighed helplessly. He had originally wanted to ask Nora for her opinion. Although Nora sometimes seemed spaced-out, like a pretty, silly goose, she actually had plenty of clever ideas. Or perhaps it was precisely because she was too smart and had too many thoughts running through her head that she looked dazed at critical moments. *** In the afternoon. All the students were invited into separate tents for inquiry and investigation. Yu Xian stepped into one of the tents. The staff inside consisted of a man and a woman. The two first told Yu Xian not to be nervous, and then began the routine questioning. "Name?" "Yu Xian. 'Yu' as in surplus, 'Xian' as in virtuous." "Gender?" "Male." "Age?" "Seventeen." "Race?" "Human? Vampire?" Yu Xian answered, suddenly unsure. The female staff member smiled. "As long as you consider yourself human, you may put down human." "Human it is, then. Either way, I'm never drinking blood again in my life," Yu Xian said firmly after a moment of thought. After completing the basic information form, the two asked Yu Xian to carefully recall the events of the previous day and recount them in detail. The two staff members were relatively relaxed at first, taking notes as they listened. But the more they heard, the more their expressions shifted. What? This kid was the first person to discover the aberrant worms? What? The Public Security Bureau had been infiltrated? What? He had even encountered the suspected leader of the aberrant worms? When they finished writing, the two could not help exchanging glances. They told Yu Xian to wait there, then hurried out with the report in hand. After an anxious wait of about an hour, the tent flap opened once more. A square-faced, middle-aged man and an intensely formidable young man walked in together and sat across from Yu Xian. The young man spoke first. "I am Jin Sheng, and this is Jin Dajun. We're here mainly to verify a few matters with you." The moment the young man entered, Yu Xian felt the distinct illusion of facing the blazing sun. Moreover, the young man's heartbeat sounded like a roaring lion. He was clearly no ordinary person. "All right, I'll answer honestly," Yu Xian said, taking a deep breath and trying to steady his nerves. Jin Dajun could not help but chuckle. "Don't be nervous. We already have a clear picture of the situation. Not only did you expose the aberrant worms' plot and force them into taking action prematurely, but you also rescued so many classmates during the disaster. No one here would dare make things difficult for you." "Student Yu Xian, listen to this voice and tell us if it belongs to Zhou Tai." Jin Sheng took out a phone and played an audio clip. The recording was noisy, intermittently broken by frantic screams. Yu Xian listened intently. In the clip, an awkward male voice murmured faintly, *Director, isn't this world wonderful...* Chen Qingsong's wife had secretly planted a listening device in his office, intending to catch evidence of an affair so she could claim a larger share of the assets in a divorce. In the end, Chen Qingsong had died, and his wife had died as well. Yet that listening device had recorded a crucial conversation, which ultimately fell into the hands of Jin Sheng and his team. "The voice is about sixty percent similar, but the tone is practically identical. I'm certain it's him!" Yu Xian said solemnly after listening to the recording. Both Jin Sheng and Jin Dajun turned grave. Zhou Tai had already been exceedingly dangerous when he was still an ordinary human. Now that those twisted personalities could not only command the aberrant worms but also parasitize one of them directly, the threat had escalated drastically. If this was not resolved quickly, the consequences would be unimaginable. "May I ask what the aberrant worms' original plan was?" Yu Xian could not resist asking. Jin Dajun nodded and replied, "If you hadn't exposed the aberrant worm invasion, they would have gradually eaten away at all of Silver City from within. Every ordinary citizen would have become their food and their hosts until Silver City was transformed into their nest. If it had truly reached that point... I'm afraid we would never have been able to wipe them out completely." "Student Yu Xian, do you have any other questions?" Jin Sheng took a long look at him, as if dropping a hint. In truth, before arriving, the two had already familiarized themselves with every detail of Yu Xian's circumstances. A boy stricken with ALS who was forced to take an illegal route to become a wild vampire; despite being in grave danger himself, he had acted out of righteousness and ultimately made the right choice. Thanks to Yu Xian's choice, at least tens of millions of people in Silver City had survived. His contribution was monumental. With that golden halo over him, the state would never leave him to fend for himself. Forget the Blood Clan—no faction would dare touch him. "Well... I'd like to ask, do I have a chance of joining Qilin?" Yu Xian rubbed his hands together, his face full of longing. Jin Sheng was taken aback. He glanced toward Jin Dajun, who hastily cleared his own name. "It wasn't me! I didn't say a word. Just like you, this is my first time meeting Student Yu Xian." "Student Yu Xian, who did you hear about Qilin from?" Jin Sheng asked. Jin Dajun chuckled. "No need to ask. If I had to guess, it was Marcus's precious daughter, right?" Then he could not resist adding, "Student Yu Xian, you certainly asked the right person. This kid here is an operative of Qilin, ranked eighty-ninth, code name Lion Light! And I... am his old man! Hahahahaha!" "..." Jin Sheng looked at Jin Dajun, speechless. The reason he had suspected Jin Dajun in the first place was that every single one of his comrades-in-arms had already suffered through Jin Dajun's endless bragging. The man bragged to everyone he met that his son had joined Qilin. "Are you sure you want to join Qilin?" Jin Sheng sighed, then looked at Yu Xian. His original intention had been for Yu Xian to ask for official government protection. The authorities would only need to notify the Blood Clan that they were protecting the kid, and as long as he stayed within the country, the Blood Clan wouldn't dare squeak a word of protest. Even though the public constantly hyped up how vast and formidable the Blood Clan was, at the state level, a clan that lacked even a single Dragon-rank expert was merely a second-rate faction. The main reason the Blood Clan had succeeded in purging most wild vampires was that the people who turned into wild vampires were rarely good people to begin with. Some had even attacked ordinary citizens to drink their blood, so the state had naturally turned a blind eye. For someone like Yu Xian, who had an innocent record and had saved tens of millions of lives across an entire city, the Blood Clan didn't amount to shit.