The heavy rain started in the afternoon and lasted for a few hours before it gradually stopped.

A small brown frog jumped out of the dripping shrubs and splashed the water on the ground. Soon, it disappeared into the flower bed.

Chu Yu sat on the steps and picked up a branch that had been blown down by the strong wind. He lowered his head and poked at the water in the small puddle.

He was originally at a loss and had some inexplicable fear.

However, after listening to Lu Shi, he strangely found a fulcrum to balance his emotions. At least he had some buffer time to sort out his thoughts amidst the chaos.

"I …" Chu Yu was the first to emphasize. "I really didn't cry just now."

Lu Shi glanced at him and didn't refute. His voice was cold. "Yeah."

Chu Yu poked the shadows of the two people under the street lamp with the branch in his hand. He was a little lost in thought again.

A gust of night wind blew past, and a chill swept across his soaked clothes. He couldn't help but shudder and come back to his senses. "I … I have a lot to say, but my mind is in a mess. I don't know where to start."

Lu Shi had his head down and was patiently and meticulously folding the umbrella neatly. His fingers bent to form beautiful lines.

After buckling the umbrella, Lu Shi turned his eyes and saw Chu Yu's thick and curly eyelashes drooping. He looked listless.

He took the initiative to start the conversation. "First of all, we can be sure that you are not an 'ordinary' or 'normal' human being.

Ordinary, normal humans don't have the ability to heal wounds at a speed visible to the naked eye. "

Chu Yu nodded dispiritedly. "Yes."

"In the restaurant on Qingchuan Road and in the corridor outside the classroom, you asked me the same question. You asked if I was hiding something delicious on me.

Because you smelled a very fragrant scent on my body. "

Lu Shi's eyebrows were calm. He analyzed the situation in detail as if he was solving a math problem. "When was the first time you smelled that so-called fragrant smell?"

Chu Yu followed Lu Shi's train of thought. "I remember that!

Qingchuan Road. At Qingchuan Road, when you were fighting with that group of tattooed brothers, wasn't your left arm injured? It was bleeding profusely.

That was when I smelled that very fragrant smell for the first time, and my throat felt dry and itchy. "

"Never before?"

Chu Yu was very certain. "Absolutely not."

Lu Shi asked him again, "Was there anything unusual after that?"

"Abnormal?

If you want to talk about abnormalities, there are a lot of them. "Chu Yu's thoughts gradually became clear, and he began to count on his fingers." I kind of entered a rapid growth period. My nails and hair grew very fast, and I had to cut my nails almost every day.

Always thirsty, but not wanting to drink water.

He was very hungry, but he had no appetite. His appetite was not good, and he would vomit after eating.

Oh, that's right, it was the night I returned home from Qingchuan Road that I started to have a fever.

I was so hot that my blood vessels were about to explode, but my body temperature was only 36.5. I was furious.

Also, "Chu Yu stammered," I, I will have the same dream many nights in a row. "

"What dream?"

"It's," Chu Yu looked away. "It's just that I dream of you."

Why did it sound so awkward when he said this sentence?

Lu Shi lifted his thin eyelids and looked at Chu Yu. "Me?"

"Yes, it's just that I keep dreaming of you." After saying it out loud, Chu Yu gave up and described it in detail. "It's probably that you're standing in that small alley, looking at me expressionlessly. The wound on your arm keeps bleeding, and the color of the blood is dazzling."

"You don't have a deep impression of anything else in the dream. The deepest impression is the bleeding wound, right?"

Chu Yu was startled, and suddenly realized that it was indeed so.

He vaguely remembered that there seemed to be sunlight, but when he thought about it carefully, he was not sure whether it was a sunny day or not. He also could not remember the surrounding environment clearly.

"Yes, that's indeed the case."

Lu Shi's white shirt sleeves were loosely rolled up. His sitting posture was casual, and his voice was mixed with the moist night wind. It was very soft.

"I have two speculations. Their common premise is that before this, the 'blood-sucking' characteristic in your body has always been in a dormant state.

And my blood is a source of stimulation.

When you smell my blood, the 'blood-sucking' characteristic lurking in your body awakens from its dormant state. You begin to thirst for blood, and a series of changes also occur in your body.

The first speculation is that you need to suck blood to survive.

The blood here is not only mine, but also someone else's.

Under this assumption, my blood and I do not possess any special properties to you.

In other words, if you change the blood of another person on that day, it can also stimulate your blood-sucking characteristic. "

Chu Yu rested his chin on his hand and listened carefully. "What about the second possibility?"

Lu Shi's eyes were dark and calm as he stared at Chu Yu's subtle expressions. "The second possibility is that you need to suck my blood to survive.

Under this speculation, my blood is special to you. "

Special.

Chu Yu subconsciously looked away again and no longer looked at Lu Shi.

He was very sure that Lu Shi's blood was absolutely special to him.

This was because whether it was smelling He Zhihao's blood or the blood of countless patients in the hospital, not only did he not have any appetite, but if he tried to suck it, he would also feel physiologically nauseous.

Only Lu Shi's blood.

Lu Shi's blood was very fragrant. It was as if the taste buds on the tip of his tongue had exploded. After swallowing it, the discomfort in his body would immediately disappear. At the same time, it would produce a great sense of pleasure and satisfaction. He had only experienced it once, but it was engraved in his bones.

Moreover, he had a vague feeling that if he did not suck Lu Shi's blood, he might … not be able to survive.

He would die.

Chu Yu's five fingers tightened around the branch. He was not prepared to say this sentence out loud.

After all, he and Lu Shi had known each other for less than a month.

Before this, they had not even communicated much, and their understanding of each other was even more pitiful.

He had not reached the level of "trust" in Lu Shi.

"The second speculation is correct. Your blood is very special to me.

Other people's blood smells bitter and stinky, but yours … is different. "

Chu Yu did not answer this question in detail. "By the way, about that dream."

Lu Shi obeyed his wishes and changed the topic. "Hmm?"

Chu Yu chose his words carefully. "In the evening in the botanical garden, after I sucked a lot of your blood, my consciousness was not very clear.

However, I'm sure that the scene in the dream appeared before my eyes. It was the scene of you bleeding.

But soon, the image shattered like a jigsaw puzzle.

I have a feeling that … I won't have the same dream again. "

Lu Shi: "What are you thinking?"

"I'm thinking, could this dream be a symbol or an instruction?

It's not normal to have the same dream over and over again. "

After saying that, the corners of Chu Yu's mouth twitched again. "However, I'm not normal in any way right now."

Lu Shi ignored the second half of his sentence and only analyzed objectively, "You started having this dream after being stimulated by my blood.

And the scene in the dream shattered and ended when you sucked a lot of my blood.

If this dream is interpreted as a special reminder, then it makes sense. "

Chu Yu understood what Lu Shi meant.

The meaning of the existence of that dream was that after he awakened the "blood-sucking" characteristic, it repeatedly reminded him that he needed to suck blood, Lu Shi's blood.

Once he had his fill, this notification would no longer have any meaning.

"So."

Chu Yu looked up. "What?"

"So, it's very likely that your blood-sucking characteristic has been completely activated.

Or, you've completed a certain process in your growth stage. "

Chu Yu nodded. "That makes sense!"

"It's not necessarily correct. It's just a rough guess based on what we know now."

Lu Shi looked at Chu Yu. He was almost certain that his blood had a special effect on Chu Yu.

It was not just the taste. It was even possible that Chu Yu could only suck his blood.

This guess made Lu Shi's eyes, which were as dark as the night, seem to be faintly decorated with a few stars.

"Let's go back. We still have class tomorrow."

Lu Shi got up. He did not care about his soaked black school pants. He held the umbrella in his right hand and walked out of the park.

At night, it was raining, and the surroundings were eerily quiet.

Chu Yu was timid and afraid of ghosts. He quickly stood up, threw away the branch in his hand, and chased after him. "Wait for me, I'll go with you!"

The two of them returned to the school. At the fork in the road, they saw Lu Shi walking in the direction of the cafeteria. Chu Yu followed two steps and realized — right, he was full, but Lu Shi probably had not eaten anything yet.

More importantly, he had sucked so much blood from him.

For a moment, his heart was filled with guilt. Chu Yu hurriedly took out his school ID card. "Do you want —"

"No, I have my own."

Lu Shi looked at Chu Yu's soaked clothes that were about to dry naturally. "Go back and take a shower first."

"Huh?

Oh, okay. "

Chu Yu did not follow him. He stood in the same spot and watched Lu Shi slowly walk away under the dim warm light of the street lamp. Then, he came to his senses and walked back to the dormitory.

After taking a hot shower and putting on his pajamas, Chu Yu finally felt warm all over again.

He held his phone, locked the screen, and unlocked it several times. Then, he held his breath and dialed a number.

"Mom —"

"Hello, Young Master. I'm President Shi's assistant. President Shi is in a meeting now. The meeting is expected to end in 48 minutes.

If you have something urgent, I can pass the message on your behalf. "

He did not have time to adjust his expression. He was slightly stunned.

However, for as long as he could remember, nine times out of ten when he called his mother was like this. Not only could he recite the same words, but he could also imitate the tone of his mother's voice perfectly.

However, Chu Yu was still not used to it.

Chu Yu leaned his back against the edge of the desk. He held a triangular ruler in his hand and lowered his eyelashes to hide his emotions.

"Then I'll call back in 48 minutes."

"Okay."

The call was hung up. The system automatically returned to the main interface of the phone.

Chu Yu stood there for a while. He thought about it and wanted to ask Lu Shi if she had finished her supper. However, he immediately realized that he did not have Lu Shi's contact information.

Lying on the bed, Chu Yu aimlessly swiped through the interface of his phone. Suddenly, he saw a QQ message 99. He opened it and saw that it was from the class group.

[Student Committee- Fang Ziqi]: "Let's meet to study. It's a father-son game. Whoever puts down the pen first is the son. Do you want to come?"

[Class Monitor - Zhang Yueshan]: "Son, come."

[Commoner - Li Hua]: "Do you want to do an English test?

Are you going to write to me again? "

Below, a string of "hahaha" was mixed with the word "come" in response to the Student Committee-

Chu Yu tapped on the screen and typed.

[Campus Belle - Chu Yu]: "Me too."

[Campus Belle - Chu Yu]: "No, why is my title the campus belle?"

[Student Committee- Fang Ziqi]: "Because you're the campus belle. You're the campus belle."

"We're responsible for studying hard. You're responsible for being as beautiful as a flower!"

[Campus Belle - Chu Yu]: "Go away, go away. I love studying. Studying makes me happy!"

After sending two emojis, Chu Yu switched to the main page of the class group and found Lu Shi's name in the list of members.

Chu Yu clicked on the temporary chat. His fingertips hovered over the keyboard. He did not know what to write.

He was not familiar with Lu Shi. Although they had a strange connection now, they were still not familiar with each other.

Chu Yu hesitated for a long time before he decided to forget about it. Maybe the message would annoy her.

Chu Yu stared at the time. It was on time. He dialed the number again.

The person who answered the phone was still the assistant. After a few words, the phone was handed to Shi Yaling.

Chu Yu subconsciously became nervous.

"Mom."

Shi Yaling was used to going straight to the point. "What's the matter?"

This mode, on the contrary, made Chu Yu relax a little.

"Recently, I —"

His heartbeat suddenly quickened by half a beat.

Chu Yu stopped talking.

He could not say it. At least, he could not say it all for the time being and expose Lu Shi's existence.

Chu Yu knew his mother's way of thinking and her way of doing things very well.

If he told her that he was thirsty for blood, that he would die if he did not drink blood, and that he could only accept Lu Shi's blood, then the consequences would be completely out of his control.

Whether it was for the Chu family or for him, his mother would never allow such a fatal weakness to be in Lu Shi's hands.

In order to eliminate this risk, his mother would definitely take control of Lu Shi first.

Perhaps, from tomorrow onwards, Lu Shi would be forced to be "bound" to him. Her freedom would be restricted and she would become his mobile blood bank until he no longer needed blood, or until he died.

He remembered that on the steps of the park in the middle of the street, Lu Shi held an umbrella and gently touched his wet hair. Her eyes were calm as she told him not to be afraid.

"What's wrong recently?

I'm very busy. Don't waste my time. "

Chu Yu took a light breath until his heart rate returned to normal. Then he spoke in a tight voice, "I've been feeling very unwell recently. I think I'm sick. I always feel very thirsty and hungry, but my appetite is not good. I can't eat anything and I vomit after eating.

Also, my whole body has been burning up for a long time. My heart rate is also a little fast. "

After saying this, he became nervous again.

He was very conflicted.

However, if his mother knew something about blood-sucking, would she be able to find some clues from the symptoms he described?

"Chu Yu, if you're feeling unwell, you should go to the family doctor, not me."

Shi Yaling's phone rang and her assistant reported in a low voice. Then, Shi Yaling arranged things one by one.

Chu Yu waited quietly.

He moved his fingers and realized that he was too nervous. His knuckles were stiff.

After half a minute, Shi Yaling's voice sounded again on the other end of the line. "Is there anything else?"

"No." Chu Yu turned sideways and curled up. He said into the phone, "Take care of your body. You're too busy with work and need to rest properly."

"I understand."

"Then —"

The call ended.

Chu Yu faced the air and finished the second half of his sentence. "Good night, Mom."