Ballroom dancing is a sport that requires a lot of teamwork. Once the steps are mastered, the dancers no longer need to look at each other's feet, but instead gaze into each other's eyes, creating a kind of flirtatious exchange. This made the group of men around them burning with jealousy, wishing they could kick Chen Xu aside and dance with the beautiful woman themselves.
After jumping around, Chen Xu felt quite pleased with himself. After all, being in close contact with a beautiful woman was a completely different feeling. Although he tried his best to tell himself that the woman in front of him was a vixen and not to be trifled with, he couldn't help but think that she was actually quite nice, both beautiful and generous. If she were his girlfriend, he would probably wake up laughing in bed at night.
Just then, Chen Xu suddenly felt Guan Yi pause, and the two of them couldn't help but stop. Then, Chen Xu's shoulder was gently patted twice. He turned around and saw a rather burly man standing behind him holding a bouquet of flowers. The man said in a very polite tone, "Excuse me, could you please move aside? This Guan Yi is actually my dance partner."
Although his words were polite enough and his tone was passable, Chen Xu was very unhappy with the guy's eyes. That wasn't a discussion; it was a blatant threat!
So Chen Xu turned his head back to look at Guan Yi, who was frowning, and deliberately asked, "What? Is this your dance partner whom you arranged to meet before?" But whether he did it on purpose or not, he just wouldn't let go of Guan Yi's hand.
Guan Yi first gave Chen Xu an apologetic smile, then said to the beast, "Liu Lingtian, I don't remember ever agreeing to be your dance partner. Also, we're dancing right now, so please don't disturb us, okay?"
Instead of answering her directly, Liu Lingtian looked at Chen Xu and said, "Excuse me, you'd better step aside. This is a private matter between us." His tone was blatantly threatening.
Chen Xu felt Guan Yi tug at his hand, and he gently squeezed back to indicate that he understood.
Originally, he really didn't have any particular feelings for Guan Yi. If this guy had asked for his help in a nice way, Chen Xu would have indeed stepped aside. But the problem was that this guy's tone was too arrogant, and Chen Xu was the kind of person who would listen to gentleness but not force. He would treat others with respect if they treated him well, but if someone offered their face to him, Chen Xu would still slap them hard!
Chen Xu looked at the animal carrying a large bouquet of flowers and laughed, "You have your private matters, and so do I. Can't you see we're dancing right now? You're standing here like a flowering cactus, blocking our way. Who should move aside?!"
Chapter 36 Rabies (Part 1)
Actually, everyone in the dance floor was watching what was going on. Although Liu Lingtian wasn't particularly handsome, he had a great physique. At 180cm tall and carrying such a large bouquet of roses, no one could miss him! Moreover, he went straight to Guan Yi as soon as he entered, and a group of gossipy guys were incredibly excited to see if any illicit affair would unfold.
Upon hearing Chen Xu's words, the group of animals with their ears perked up finally erupted as if they had been injected with chicken blood!
Because Liu Lingtian was wearing a green T-shirt and had a lot of pimples on his face, he really looked like a cactus. So, a group of women were cursing Chen Xu for his sharp tongue. Even the guys in the dormitory were surprised... they hadn't realized that Chen Xu had such a sharp tongue!
Liu Lingtian's face turned red with anger at those words, but fortunately, he was quite composed. He took a deep breath before looking at Guan Yi, who smiled sweetly and deliberately moved a little closer to Chen Xu: "Excuse me, please move aside."
Liu Lingtian was so angry he felt like his lungs were about to explode. The group of guys watched with great anticipation, thinking he would throw a glove at Chen Xu and the two of them would agree on a time and place to duel like bulls in heat. But to their surprise, the guy's face turned red and green in turns, changing several times as if he were practicing the Great Shift of Heaven and Earth. Finally, he gritted his teeth as if he had made up his mind and said to Guan Yi, "Are you really not going to give me even the slightest chance?"
Hearing such affectionate words, Chen Xu almost vomited. Guan Yi held his head and smiled wryly, saying, "Senior, you really misunderstood. Actually, I've always thought of you as an ordinary friend and didn't think that much about it."
Liu Lingtian looked somewhat frantic, almost shouting, "No! I can feel it, you treat me differently than you treat others!"
Upon hearing this, Chen Xu immediately thought, "Oh no, this woman really caused all this trouble."
Because this woman was too alluring, every smile and gesture of hers could stir the hearts of other men, leading to misunderstandings. Clearly, Liu Lingtian was a pitiful, somewhat narcissistic child who had fallen into a trap.
Thinking about this, Chen Xu felt sorry for the child. Sometimes, being presumptuous is not the right thing to do. Not every woman's smile means she's being affectionate. If that's the case, then beautiful women should just wear masks when they go out and never smile, otherwise they'll get into trouble... Chen Xu felt that he was quite good at controlling himself. Guan Yi was laughing so hard that he was shaking with joy, but he wasn't being presumptuous at all.
However, looking at Liu Lingtian's appearance, not only Chen Xu but everyone felt something was wrong, because he seemed to be in great pain, clutching his head, and looking somewhat deranged. Several senior students who knew him immediately came over and said, "Liu Lingtian, let it go. You're not a child anymore. You can't force these things. You should go back. You seem a bit off today."
At this moment, Chen Xu kindly said, "Senior, why don't you go back, wash up, and go to sleep? You seem to be acting strangely. Should you go to the hospital to get checked out?"
Liu Lingtian glared at Chen Xu with bloodshot eyes and roared, "Shut up!" In his eyes, Chen Xu was like a rival in love.
Chen Xu felt wronged and realized he shouldn't have gotten involved in this mess. He was about to tell Guan Yi that he couldn't handle the situation and that Guan Yi should handle it, but before he could finish speaking, he saw Liu Lingtian's fist coming towards him.
It happened so suddenly that even the senior students who had tried to stop him weren't expecting him to attack so suddenly. Everyone thought that if that punch landed, things would really get out of control, and the women were all prepared to scream. But in the next second, everyone was shocked to find that Liu Lingtian's fist was firmly held between Chen Xu's hands!
In fact, Chen Xu himself was quite surprised. For some time now, every night he would enter the virtual reality simulation combat training and be tortured for several hours. He would also constantly spar with low-level masters. Although he had never fought anyone in reality, his body would react subconsciously after the opponent threw a punch.
Missing his first punch, Liu Lingtian became even more enraged and was about to throw another, but several senior students nearby held him back forcefully. Wu Ning practically yelled in his ear, "Liu Lingtian, are you crazy?! So many people are watching! Aren't you ashamed?!"
Even Coco couldn't stand it anymore and came over to say, "How can this student act like this? You're only going to annoy people. It seems I need to give you a lesson in psychology."
Then Coco pulled Guan Yi aside and whispered that she had seen this kind of thing many times before and understood it, so don't take it to heart.
This left Chen Xu standing there, feeling quite annoyed. He glanced at Guan Yi, and when he saw her give him an apologetic smile, he couldn't help but shudder. He said, "Sister, you'd better smile less in the future. You should be like Bao Si, who only smiles when she has to light the beacon fires to amuse the feudal lords."
Guan Yi really wanted to say that if that kid, Feng Huo Xi Zhu Hou, were to come out and update his game, he would indeed laugh. But considering the current situation, it wasn't appropriate to make such a joke, so he kept quiet.
Meanwhile, Wu Ning and the others were also extremely frustrated. Liu Lingtian was a sophomore majoring in Information Science, just like them. Seeing the kid's unusual behavior today, the sophomores blushed.
Because dating among college students these days is very realistic. It's rare to see the kind of relentless pursuit you'd have in high school when you had a crush on a girl, like the Titanic crashing into an iceberg – ending up battered and bruised. Entering college means you're practically an adult, so why is this guy so immature? She rejected you, so why make it so unpleasant, especially in front of so many younger students? Ugh, so embarrassing!
And it's embarrassing for the nursing department! What if it scares all the female nursing students? Doesn't this cut off all the male students in the information science department's future?
So these older students, feeling frustrated, tried to drag Liu Lingtian out, but he struggled with tremendous strength, looking at Chen Xu as if he were his mortal enemy, as if he wanted to pounce on him and bite him hard! To put it nicely, that look was like that of a wounded wolf; to put it bluntly, it was like that of a mad wild dog. In short, it made Chen Xu a little scared... afraid of being bitten!
Unable to break free from the grip of several burly men, Liu Lingtian spat at Chen Xu in desperation. Luckily, Chen Xu reacted quickly, raising his left hand to block the spittle from his face. This time, however, Chen Xu was truly enraged. His three closest roommates rushed out, blocking Chen Xu's path and unleashing a torrent of angry curses.
At this point, everyone felt that Liu Lingtian had gone too far!
Guan Yi walked up with a cold face and said in a cold voice, "Liu Lingtian, to be honest, I really look down on you!" After saying that, he turned around and took Chen Xu's hand and said, "You didn't get any on your face, did you? I'll take you to wash it off."
Pulled by Guan Yi, and seeing Liu Lingtian looking like a wounded wild beast, Chen Xu's anger subsided involuntarily, and he felt that the guy was really too pitiful.
Looking down, I saw that apart from a little spit on my sleeve, the rest of my saliva had been sprayed onto my watch. Luckily, it wasn't thick phlegm, and the supercomputer is waterproof, otherwise I would have been disgusted to death.
Chen Xu withdrew his hand and said, "I'll go wash up by myself. You go back first."
Guan Yi gave a wry smile: "How can I go back now that things are like this? I'm sorry that my situation affected your mood today. I'll treat you to a late-night snack later as an apology."
What could Chen Xu say at this point? Besides, accompanying a beautiful woman for a late-night snack without having to pay wasn't a bad job, so he nodded in agreement.
Entering the adjacent restroom, Chen Xu first used a napkin to wipe the saliva off his sleeves and watch. Then, he took out a new tissue, dampened it slightly, and carefully wiped the surface of his watch... Even though the supercomputer was touted as waterproof, it was still better to be careful.
But just as he was wiping the watch, Chen Xu suddenly noticed a line of text on it...
Five seconds later, Chen Xu rushed out of the restroom and stormed into the student activity room, yelling at Liu Lingtian, who was still struggling and being dragged out by a group of animals, "Damn it! Do you have rabies?!"
Chapter 37 Rabies (Part 2)
Everyone was dumbfounded. Coco was dumbfounded, Guan Yi was dumbfounded, and even Liu Lingtian was dumbfounded.
After a long while, Liu Ling finally roared, "You're the one with rabies! Your whole family has rabies!"
Chen Xu felt he was a magnanimous person and wouldn't stoop to this guy's level, so he patiently said, "Why are you like this? You really have rabies, you should go to the hospital to get checked out!"
"Hiss..." Now everyone felt that Chen Xu had done something a bit too unfair.
All they did was spit on you, and you were the one who insulted them first. Was it really necessary to go to such lengths to destroy them? And now you're still attacking them with such venomous words. Sigh, you should be more considerate!
Wu Yuan and a few others came over and pulled Chen Xu aside, whispering, "Third brother, let it go. This guy is quite pitiful. Don't be so ruthless."
Old Dong agreed, saying, "Yes, yes, we should be forgiving. You haven't lost anything anyway. At worst, a few of us will go downstairs and beat him up."
Qin Xiaoan also told Lao San, "Don't be so stingy. Look, you've already hooked up with all his girls, so just let it go."
Chen Xu was both amused and exasperated. Did you all think I was scolding him?
Everyone looked at him with a strange expression, their eyes conveying the message: "Aren't you one of them?!"
"I'm serious!" Chen Xu was almost in tears as he said to Liu Lingtian, "Dude, what you did earlier wasn't very kind, but I won't hold it against you. But if you really do have rabies, you should go to the hospital to get it checked out!"
"Are you ever going to shut up?!" Liu Lingtian snapped. "I think you're insane! Get out of my way, I'm not going to bother with a lunatic like you!"
"No, listen to me, you really have rabies!"
"You're insane!"
"No, you really have rabies!"
"Neuropathy!"
Rabies!
"Neuropathy!"
Rabies!
...
...
The two guys argued like lunatics for ages before finally being pulled apart. Only after Liu Lingtian disappeared from sight, yelling "lunatic!" did Chen Xu realize, with a mix of amusement and exasperation, what he had just done!
He actually challenged Liu Lingtian, exchanging insults back and forth. It would be strange if anyone believed him!
Thinking about how he had embarrassed himself in front of so many people, Chen Xu felt angry and frustrated, but then he realized he couldn't just abandon Liu Lingtian... It wasn't some deep-seated hatred; isn't it normal for classmates to exchange a few insults? So Chen Xu quickly asked Wu Ning, "Do you have Liu Lingtian's phone number?"
Wu Ning gave him a disdainful look and said, "You still want to call and yell at me?"
Chen Xu was about to say he wasn't insulting him when he saw a pretty young girl come out and walk straight over to Wu Ning, saying in a sweet voice, "Senior, will you be my dance partner at the next ball?" Chen Xu knew why Wu Ning looked down on him so much. Before the girl could even notice him, he turned and ran, not daring to look back.
“I have his number, but you…” Guan Yi walked over with his phone and said, “Let’s just forget about it.”
Chen Xu was almost in tears: "You also thought I wanted to curse him out? Fine, give me his number first... um, and yours too, I'll text you to bother you at night if I have nothing else to do."
Guan Yi smiled, recited two numbers, and said, "What, you're really not cursing him?"
"Why would I curse him!" Chen Xu said with a bitter face. "It's pointless, and do you think I'm such a petty person? Let me tell you, you really should stay away from him, he's definitely rabid!"
Perhaps thinking of Chen Xu's reputation as a fortune teller, Guan Yi frowned and asked, "Are you sure?"
"Of course!" Chen Xu said with certainty. Rabies is transmitted through saliva, and Chen Xu happened to block the guy's saliva with his hand, leaving a considerable amount on the watch that the supercomputer had transformed into. The watch then analyzed the saliva and found it contained the rabies virus!
"I'm saving him now! And saving the animals in his dorm too. I don't want to see a rabies outbreak at Hexie like a biohazard."
Guan Yi thought about it carefully. Liu Lingtian's behavior just now was indeed not normal. To put it bluntly, he really acted like a mad dog... But that doesn't mean he has rabies, does it? And if it really was rabies, then there would be more than just this.
Seeing that Guan Yi was still doubtful, Chen Xu scratched her head and said, "Sister, don't you know that rabies has an incubation period? It doesn't usually show symptoms, but when emotions run high, these symptoms might appear. I suggest you call him and ask if he has been bitten by a dog recently. If he has, then it's definitely rabies, and you should take him to the hospital immediately."
Guan Yi hesitated for a moment, then dialed Liu Lingtian's number. The phone had barely rung once when Liu Lingtian's incredibly excited voice came through: "Yi, you called me?"
Chen Xu, listening from the side, felt another chill. "Huan Yi... why are they making it sound like a Korean drama? Back when I watched The Promise, the most cringe-worthy thing was that they kept saying the single word 'King' all the time. It was so cringe-worthy."
Guan Yi looked rather embarrassed. After thinking for a moment, he said, "Senior, um, I just wanted to ask if you've been bitten by a dog recently or in the last few months, and didn't get a rabies vaccine?"
"..." After a moment of silence on the other end of the phone, Liu Lingtian's voice boomed like thunder. However, Guan Yi had already wisely moved the phone away from his ear to a certain distance. "You actually think I have rabies too? You think I was bitten by a dog?! Is that what you think of me?! Do you think I'm a mad dog?!"
Guan Yi hung up the phone before he could finish speaking: "I should have known that asking him now would lead to this result."
"What should we do then?" Chen Xu was somewhat frustrated. "Maybe we should just ignore him and let him die if he wants to." Seeing the look in Guan Yi's eyes, Chen Xu became even more frustrated: "Then sister, what do you suggest? How about I take a few people and pretend to be a dog-catching team to beat that guy up and send him to the hospital?"
It was supposed to be a joke, but Chen Xu's eyes suddenly lit up: "Hey, that's actually a good idea!"
Guan Yi put his hand to his head, probably thinking that this guy was being so irresponsible, and then said, "Stop messing around, let's think of a solution. If it really is rabies, then we'll be in big trouble."
Chen Xu thought about it more and more and felt that this was a good idea, so he said, "Don't worry, I'll go find Boss Wang Dong. He has a high reputation in the college. I'll ask him to persuade him. If he doesn't listen, we'll beat him up again and send him to the hospital."
Guan Yi rolled her eyes... She realized that despite always considering herself smart, she couldn't grasp the train of thought of this beast in front of her at all.
"Well, there's no rush. How about this, I'll talk to him after he calms down, or I'll ask him to come with me to the hospital." Guan Yi thought for a moment and said, "If I ask him to come with me, he should go."
"No, no!" Chen Xu shook his head like a rattle-drum. "Sister, he's already deeply in love with you, and this guy is so narcissistic, super narcissistic, he gets all excited over the slightest bit of kindness. So you'd better stay away from him. Besides, how are you going to lie to him and go to the hospital? Say you're pregnant?"
Seeing Guan Yi glare at him as if he was about to hit her, Chen Xu quickly pulled his head back: "Hehe, just kidding. I'm telling you, sister, you tricked him into going to the hospital for a checkup by using sex as a lure. You can't use that anymore, or that kid will really be too scared to come out! I think my method is more effective, simple and convenient!"