Chapter 109 (Part 1)
Luo Shizhen maintained a cycle of eating for a while, resting for a while, and continuing to eat once he had digested, purifying them one by one.
“Next!”
The curtain was lifted from the outside, and a tall man with honey-colored skin walked in.
While the other party was still slightly hesitant, Luo Shizhen was already skillfully calling him over:
“Hello, please take off your coat.”
The other party not only didn’t take it off, but also pulled his clothes tighter.
“Can I not take it off?”
This was the dark-skinned man’s first time encountering Luo Shizhen face-to-face at such a close distance.
How should he put it?
He was quite different from what he had imagined.
He originally thought he would be a playboy, greedy for flowers and beauty, but instead, the young Purifier’s eyes were clear, and he looked like a straight and upright little white poplar.
However, the fact that he asked someone to take off their clothes right off the bat still made him vigilant.
Luo Shizhen looked at him in confusion.
But it was fine if he didn’t take it off; he just wouldn’t use silver needles. He had a good temper, and as long as it didn’t violate any principles, he wouldn’t mind such trivial matters.
“That’s fine, then sit here.”
The dark-skinned man’s expression remained unchanged, and he sat down looking completely natural.
Luo Shizhen pressed his hand onto his arm, and before his heart could skip a beat or he could say anything, the purification had already begun.
After that, it was earnestly finishing the purification, then motioning for the other party to get up, giving him a QR code, and then calling out:
“Next!”
After Luo Shizhen called out, seeing this Guardian still standing in place looking somewhat dazed, he added a reminder:
“You can go out now.”
The entire process was strictly business-like, completely devoid of the way his Qi had pounced onto him yesterday.
The dark-skinned man took a look at Luo Shizhen. Luo Shizhen felt the gaze and looked back in confusion.
Those bright black eyes seemed to be asking: Is there any other problem?
The man withdrew his gaze, his face still revealing nothing, and slowly walked out.
“Captain!”
A team member waiting outside saw him come out and immediately followed up:
“How was it? Very comfortable, right? Do you feel completely clear all over?”
“It’s been too long since I’ve been this comfortable. I had almost forgotten what it feels like to not be in pain.”
The dark-skinned man glanced at the team member who had gone in before him:
“When you came out, why weren’t you wearing your shirt?”
The team member laughed: “I had to get acupuncture, so of course I had to take off my clothes. He couldn’t exactly stick needles through my clothes, right?”
“Acupuncture?”
“Yeah, this Purifier is truly both powerful and full of novel ideas. He actually thought of using silver needles to guide the Qi. Maybe this way the purification won’t be so strenuous. He even told me that this was combined with traditional Chinese medicine therapy and is more effective.”
The dark-skinned man fell silent.
Just now, once Luo Shizhen began the treatment, he hadn’t spoken a single word to him.
However, he did give him this.
He raised his hand and looked at the QR code on his hand, still undecided on whether to scan it or not.
But the team member saw it at a glance: “Captain, why aren’t you scanning the group QR code you’re holding?”
The dark-skinned man: “…Group QR code?”
“Yeah, a patients’ communication group, haha. This Purifier is really very responsible. Not only did he directly help us purify, but he also created a group for us so we could make appointments with him directly in the group if we had any pollution problems. He also said that he gets paid by Eternal Day, so helping colleagues like us purify is only right.”
Ever since the pain in his body was significantly reduced, this Guardian, whose personality was already a bit jumpy, was now in a constant state of hyper-excitement.
“Oh my god, to think there would actually be such a Purifier in the world. We’ve really hit the jackpot! He doesn’t take money, but I want to give him a gift to express my gratitude. Captain, what do you think if I give him a car?”
The dark-skinned man: “…”
After a few seconds of silence, he transferred 500,000 to the team member: “Count me in. Buy a better car to give him.”
“Sure, then it’ll be considered a joint gift from the two of us.”
As the two were talking, Chen He’an walked over and greeted them:
“Wen Shu, how is your team’s situation?”
The dark-skinned man replied: “Everyone has finished purification. Are you also here to be purified?”
“No.”
Chen He’an smiled: “The Purifier is my student, I came to see him.”
He asked a few more questions about the current situation, then lifted the curtain and walked in, and didn’t come out again after that.
The team member was curious: “Captain, did you already know this Teacher Chen?”
Wen Shu furrowed his brows and stared at the motionless curtain: “We graduated in the same class.”
The team member: “Then you must have a good relationship, otherwise he wouldn’t have come specifically to greet you, Captain.”
Generally speaking, after Awakeners graduated in the same class, they were either completely unfamiliar with each other, or they would exchange a barrage of mockery upon meeting; very few had a good relationship.
As for the reason, it was naturally known to all. Newly awakened students were mostly competitive and fought for territory. Even if they had been guided by the school to develop feelings, they rarely had good expressions when they met.
But Wen Shu frowned slightly.
He remembered that he and Chen He’an were classmates, but was he familiar with Chen He’an?
It seemed not. He couldn’t even remember clearly what Chen He’an was like when they were in school; he only remembered that there was such a classmate.
Why did Chen He’an come to greet him? To show off that his student was a Purifier?
In the inner room, after Chen He’an went in, he started helping Luo Shizhen out.
Luo Shizhen suddenly felt much more relaxed.
Before, when he was at the Zhen Family Clinic, it was Chu Xiao, Cheng Yunshao, and the others who helped out.
Cheng Yunshao positioned himself as an assistant and usually rushed to do all the work. Luo Shizhen only needed to apply the needles. If he tried to clean up, Cheng Yunshao would snatch the broom away, saying that he was the Divine Doctor Zhen, and how could a divine doctor do manual labor.
But now, purifying the older Guardians, Chu Xiao and the others couldn’t get close at all.
It would have been fine normally, but right now they were all in a polluted state. Their Qi was exactly at the point of fighting for territory and couldn’t tolerate other kin.
Luo Shizhen was a Purifier, and his Qi was peaceful, so it wouldn’t affect them.
But Chu Xiao and the others were different. If they even got close to the treatment process, it would likely provoke the older Guardians’ aggressiveness.
But Chen He’an wouldn’t provoke rejection from the other Guardians.
In Luo Shizhen’s eyes, this was proof of the teacher’s gentleness. With his teacher there, he felt as if his treatments had more power.
Luo Shizhen abruptly spent an entire day controlling the pollution on all the older Guardians to within a safe range.
By the time the last Guardian went out, he was already so full that he was getting sleepy.
If Chen He’an wasn’t there, even though Luo Shizhen was sleepy, he would have been able to groggily hold himself up, walk out, and then return to his room to lie in bed and sleep.
But his teacher was there. He squinted his eyes and leaned dependently onto his teacher.
“So sleepy. Teacher, can you hold me up?”
“You’ve worked hard. Teacher will help you go rest.”
Chen He’an gently supported the young man out, and unsurprisingly saw that there were still people standing outside in twos and threes.
There were also some teams currently mapping out their next attack direction based on the map, some teams were exercising in place, and some were resting with their eyes closed.
Today was the designated rest period. They originally should have been resting in the tents in the area designated for their respective teams, but as if by some tacit agreement, over a dozen people had gathered outside the treatment area.
Seeing Luo Shizhen being supported out, the few who were originally sitting subconsciously stood up.
“What’s wrong with him?”
Chen He’an supported his student: “He’s a bit tired, I’m taking him back to rest.”
Although Luo Shizhen was very sleepy, he wasn’t so sleepy that he had lost all consciousness. Hearing someone ask about him in his groggy state, he immediately felt embarrassed.
Although his teacher was supporting him, he was clinging on like an octopus, wishing he could just hang off his teacher’s body.
Luo Shizhen embarrassedly got down from his teacher and smiled at the crowd.
He wasn’t a child anymore. Being seen acting spoiled with his teacher was still quite embarrassing.
“I’m going back to rest first. If you still feel any discomfort and I don’t reply in the group, just have Chu Xiao and the others come wake me up.”
After adding the group, not a single person had spoken in it. The people in the dead-silent group nodded silently.
They watched the young Purifier walk away—his pace was slow, but every step was earnest and proper.
The closeness they felt during the treatment earlier was clearly just for the sake of the treatment.
Now, Luo Shizhen’s unfamiliarity and bashfulness towards these older Guardians were vividly displayed.
After walking a certain distance, perhaps feeling that they wouldn’t be watching anymore, he intimately hung half his body back onto Chen He’an.
Who was close and who was distant was clear at a glance.
The Guardians, who had just experienced the intimacy of Luo Shizhen’s Qi today, felt a mix of complex emotions in their hearts.
Wen Shu hesitated for a moment, then still followed after them.
He didn’t want to follow Luo Shizhen, but rather felt that since classmates had met, and under these circumstances, perhaps they should catch up.
Chen He’an watched Wen Shu following them and didn’t say anything, only focusing on supporting Luo Shizhen.
Luo Shizhen pushed himself to walk a certain distance, but he really couldn’t hold on any longer.
No, strictly speaking, he could probably push himself a bit more.
But his teacher was there.
“Teacher, I can’t walk anymore.”
The young Purifier naturally asked his teacher for help: “Can I sleep now?”
Chen He’an smiled and picked him up, holding him like a little baby:
“Sleep. You don’t need to worry about the rest, Teacher will handle it.”
Luo Shizhen fell asleep feeling very secure.
Wen Shu followed them from a distance, watching Chen He’an carry the person to the back of the cafeteria, and then followed to the door, just refusing to go inside, leaning against the doorframe to watch.
He watched Chen He’an carefully place the young man on the bed, take off his coat, take off his shoes, tuck him in completely, and adjust the room temperature before finally straightening up.
Wen Shu found it hard to describe what he was seeing.
This was his classmate?
Everyone in their class was ruthless; how could there be a nanny-type classmate? Was Chen He’an like this when they were in school too?
Wen Shu tried hard to recall, but he could only remember that when he was in school, he was either fighting with classmates every day or on his way to fight with classmates. He barely had any impression of the others.
Seeing Chen He’an sit down again, wash his hands, and then gently touch Luo Shizhen’s forehead—this look of wishing he could hold the person in his mouth or pamper him in the palm of his hand—Wen Shu inexplicably wanted to record Chen He’an looking like this and post it in their class group chat.
Unfortunately, they didn’t have a class group chat.
Chen He’an slightly lowered his eyes, looking at the sleeping young man. Pity arose in his heart, and he gently smoothed his hair.
Wen Shu really couldn’t bear to watch any longer.
He said directly:
“He likes you, doesn’t he?”
Chen He’an paused his movements: “Why do you say that?”
“Isn’t it obvious? He appears close to others, but also polite and mindful of his pride, but he’s not like that in front of you. Isn’t this just liking someone?”
Anyway, in front of him, Luo Shizhen was strictly business-like and hadn’t said a single unnecessary word.
When he said he wouldn’t take his clothes off, he really didn’t have to take them off.
Chen He’an looked at the young man sleeping with flushed cheeks and sighed.
“Shizhen is just dependent on me, just like he was dependent on his grandma. Don’t say such things in the future.”
His voice was barely audible:
“He’s still young, what does he know about liking someone?”
Translator’s Note: The “little white poplar” is a common Chinese metaphor for someone who is upright, resilient, and pure. “Qi” refers to the spiritual/vital energy within the body.
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