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Ward 096
"Take your pants off, now."
A small body, platinum blonde hair, and a cool face, yet uttering such shocking and heart-pounding words.
The door to the medical room was locked from the inside by Zero; no one could get in from the outside, and no one could get out from the inside. Lu Mingfei gripped his belt tightly with both hands, struggling with Zero. "Don't do this, I'm fine."
The trousers that Ling had custom-made for Lu Mingfei were charred black, with a hole near his kneecap. The melted fibers around the hole solidified into hard lumps that clung tightly to his skin.
"Your knee is burned; it'll be difficult to treat if you don't take your pants off," Zero said. "There's no one else here."
Today, the college's medical resources are in very short supply, and many students have severe burns. Lu Mingfei's burns are actually not that serious.
Even so, everyone still tried their best to make room for this S-rank, so that Lu Mingfei, who had defeated the King of Bronze and Fire in one blow, could enjoy a private space with Zero.
However, it wasn't exactly private. Lu Mingfei could vaguely hear groans from the next room. After all, it was a regular ward, and the soundproofing didn't seem to be ideal.
"Take it off quickly!" Zero tried to pry Lu Mingfei's hands off.
"Keep your voice down!" Lu Mingfei noticed that the next room had suddenly become quiet. He would rather his brother be dead than have his ear pressed against the wall.
"No one else can get in or see this, so what are you shy about?" Ling frowned slightly, finally let go of his hands, put his hands on his hips, and looked up at Lu Mingfei.
My goodness, the sheer force of the atmosphere made Lu Mingfei's legs go weak, and he plopped down on the bed behind him, which creaked loudly.
"I don't think the wound is serious, so I'll just let it heal on its own. There's a saying that goes, 'Scars are a man's badge of honor.'" Lu Mingfei tried to stall for time; if he waited a little longer, his wound would be fully healed.
"If high-temperature burns are not treated, they are prone to infection, the knees will rot, and you will never be able to walk again." Zero said calmly, making alarmist claims, trying to frighten Lu Mingfei with a bleak future.
His knees were indeed badly injured at first; when he knelt beside Constantine's burning corpse, his knees were scalded and bleeding profusely.
But after only a short time back at school, his knee was only scraped, with large areas of redness and swelling. Strange, why does a serious injury heal so quickly, but this minor injury is suddenly healing so slowly? Lu Mingfei was extremely anxious.
Seeing Zero pick up a pair of scissors and walk over, Lu Mingfei's eyes widened: "What are you going to do?"
"Don't move, let me see!"
"Thump!"
A sound came from the next ward, and painful groans rang out again, but were quickly suppressed.
Zero picked up the scissors, squatted down, and carefully cut along the edge of the wound, leaving only a few scraps of fabric stuck to the wound, following the hole in Lu Mingfei's trousers.
"The fabric is stuck to the skin and the scab; I need to remove the foreign object." Zero looked up at Lu Mingfei. "Do you need painkillers or lidocaine spray?"
"Need not."
Open the saline solution, soak the gauze, and gently press it on the wound to soften the scab. Then, carefully cut the clothing fibers stuck in the skin.
Only then did Lu Mingfei clearly see his injury. No wonder it hadn't healed; it was recovering too quickly, and his skin had grown fused with his clothes.
After cleaning the wound, Ling picked up a new piece of gauze, dipped it in saline solution, and vigorously rubbed it back and forth on the wound to remove the necrotic epidermis and residual debris.
"Alright." Zero quickly put a bandage on Lu Mingfei's knee before his skin fully healed. "Don't get your knee wet for the next couple of days. No showering, just wipe your body with a damp towel."
"Thanks."
"If you need to take a shower..."
"There's no need for that!"
……
"I thought you would cry out in pain." After finishing cleaning up, Ling threw the trash into the medical waste bin.
"Hey, why would you think that?" Lu Mingfei said, dissatisfied. He had been through so much; was he the kind of person who would complain about the pain?
"You fainted from the pain last time." Zero said expressionlessly.
"That's because I overused my Word of Power and went into shock!"
"You even shed tears."
"You used too much force. That's a stress response, not crying!" Lu Mingfei thought of Ling's plier-like hand and felt a lingering fear.
Damn it, Lu Mingfei realized that Zero had seen his most vulnerable and unguarded side.
And Nono...
"Lu Mingfei." Zero pulled a lunchbox and a thermos from his backpack. "You must be hungry."
"Actually... I'm not that hungry," Lu Mingfei said sheepishly.
Ling's eyes widened slightly; she was clearly surprised.
"Judging from the last battle, you must have expended a lot of energy," Zero said.
"This was a sneak attack, a sneak attack! I hit him with one strike," Lu Mingfei said. "He wasn't on guard at all; he was only focused on finding..."
Ling picked up the thermos and stood up. Lu Mingfei silently prepared himself for force-feeding her. But instead, she went to the sink, opened the thermos, and poured out the suspiciously viscous liquid inside. Then she rinsed it briefly with water, dried the outside with a towel, and put it back in her bag.
It's actually the nutrient solution from the Equipment Department! Everything from the Equipment Department is always related to bombs, and this nutrient solution is a heat bomb too.
Last time on the Moniach, Zero forced him to drink this stuff. The weird smell of houttuynia cordata boiled with cockroaches still makes Lu Mingfei feel nauseous.
"If you don't want to eat, that's fine, but you need to be careful." Ling sat down next to Lu Mingfei, and the bed creaked again.
"What should I pay attention to?"
"You killed Constantine in front of the entire school, including two members of the board of directors. Your every move will be under scrutiny." Zero opened the lunchbox and said, "Don't let them discover your metabolic abnormalities."
Lu Mingfei kept his head down.
She always knew, she just didn't say it.
"Thank you, you're always thinking of me."
"No need to thank me, just come out to eat with me and we can avoid being stared at by others." Zero stared at the lunchbox in her hand and quickly finished her food.
Lu Mingfei watched Ling Xiaokou eat and a thought struck him.
"Hey, Zero."
"What's wrong?" Zero looked up at him.
"What do you like to eat? I'll make it for you," Lu Mingfei said. "I'm not bragging, but my Mapo Tofu is absolutely amazing!"
Ling looked at Lu Mingfei and thought about it seriously for a while. Lu Mingfei wondered why she had to think for so long before ordering a dish.
"Then let's have Mapo Tofu," Zero said, "and lobster tails too."
Lobster tails? Lu Mingfei had never made this before. It seemed he would have to learn from Ye Sheng. He had heard from Aki and Selma that Ye Sheng was a very good cook.
Even if the lobster tail wasn't cooked well, he was confident he could conquer Zero's taste buds with Mapo Tofu! He had used this skill to conquer people from the previous world, and even Asuka praised it highly!
"Alright, just wait and enjoy the feast!" Lu Mingfei said confidently.
"However..." Zero hesitated for a moment, then said worriedly, "I need to watch you make the lobster tails, in case you don't do a good job."
"Uh, okay."
It seems that Zero truly, truly loves lobster tails.