He was infected, but he was trying his best to help humanity.
Is this... also unacceptable?
Yu An felt a pang of bitterness welling up inside him. He lowered his head and stared blankly at Song Jun on the bed.
If Song Jun were to become like Sun Mo, would his teammates, captain, and officers who had spent so much time with him on the island drive him away?
"Yu An".
Noticing Yu Anqing's low spirits, Xie Chiyuan seemed to guess what he was thinking, so he took a few steps closer and said in a low voice, "If Song Jun becomes like that person, I will protect him."
Yu An raised her head in a daze.
Xie Chiyuan seemed to have gotten used to ruffling the tuft of hair on Yu An's head. After ruffling it again, he said in a low voice, "Don't look at me with such a surprised look. Do you think I'm cold-blooded?"
Yu An nodded reflexively, and the next second, his hair was grabbed.
I spent half a day in the ward.
Song Jun still had a fever, and Yu An rubbed his eyes, his head starting to nod.
Xie Chiyuan went out and came back, only to find a sleeping boy lying next to the hospital bed.
He put his things down and picked up the sleeping Yu An.
From the ward to Yu An's room. In the corridor, Xie Chiyuan also saw Yin Feng waiting at the door.
This is not daytime training time, and there are no outsiders around.
Yin Feng called Xie Chiyuan "brother".
Xie Chiyuan looked at him indifferently and casually asked, "What are you doing here?"
"We await Yu An."
Xie Chiyuan looked at him, thought for a moment, and then praised him, "You and Yu An went out for training, and you've definitely improved. At least you know how to work together as teammates now."
Yin Feng is the squad leader.
Xie Chiyuan finally let him go, as he was able to change his previous attitude of ignoring Yu An.
Chapter 37
Yu An was completely still awake while being held by Xie Chiyuan. His face was buried in Xie Chiyuan's chest, and his breath seemed to seep in through the fabric.
Xie Chiyuan suppressed the slight unease in his chest and gave his cousin a few more words of advice.
“Yu An is no rookie. He’s younger than you, but his progress is no less than any of yours. Don’t cause any more divisions within the team.”
Xie Chiyuan stopped standing outside the door. He opened the door with one hand and instructed Yin Feng, "I'll take Yu An back. He's already asleep. If you need anything, talk to him tomorrow."
Yin Feng looked at Yu An, who was fast asleep, and after a while, he hummed in agreement.
The door opened.
Xie Chiyuan put Yu An on the bed, got up and looked her over for a few seconds.
Yu An was very good at tidying up his home; he kept it clean and tidy. On the windowsill, in a clean old wine bottle, he had also put a bunch of wild grass and a few wildflowers.
Standing here, Xie Chiyuan could vaguely sense Yu An's love for life through all of this.
Even if he doesn't know how long he'll be staying here, he'll still tidy up his temporary room into a cozy little home.
Xie Chiyuan didn't stay in the room for long before turning around and leaving, closing the door behind him.
Not long after he left, Yin Feng, who was at the corner of the corridor, followed him away.
After all the outsiders had left, the little white mushrooms and butterflies that had been hiding in the room hurriedly popped out.
"Big brother!"
The little white mushroom couldn't wait any longer and climbed onto the bed first, calling out.
After he called out, a little butterfly flicked his wing at him.
"Shut up!"
The little butterfly snapped, "Didn't you see that big brother is sleeping?"
The little white mushroom puffed up its cheeks and used its mycelium to entangle the little butterfly: "I just missed my big brother so much! You damn moth, you can't even pretend to be calm right now!"
"Weren't you frantic with worry when your older brother didn't come back?"
As soon as the little white mushroom finished hitting it, it noticed that the little butterfly's two wings were trembling slightly, clearly showing that it was ready to pounce.
He stuck two mycelium strands into the mushroom stem, then struck a pose with his hands on his hips: "What, you want to fight?"
Without further ado, the little butterfly got straight to work!
Anyway, he'd been through a lot of trouble with that quack doctor these past few days, and his external injuries were now completely healed. The food that quack doctor occasionally whipped up was surprisingly palatable.
He can still manage to get a chance even if he just hits a broken mushroom.
The two little guys, though seemingly fragile, managed to keep quiet during their fight so as not to wake their older brother.
Not long after.
The mycelium of the little white mushroom broke off, and two small holes were poked in the wings of the little butterfly.
Despite the intense pain, they all stubbornly refused to cry out.
The little butterfly practically spat out a sentence through gritted teeth: "I'm a Class I protected animal in China, a golden-spotted swallowtail butterfly. Not a fluttering moth!"
The little white mushroom, which has no background in zoology, dismisses the title of this first-class protected animal with disdain.
The two kids looked at each other.
If their eldest brother hadn't been alive, they wouldn't have stopped until they killed each other.
After their fight, Little White Mushroom and Little Butterfly went back to their beds. Two cardboard boxes now sat on either side of them, their respective nests.
Next to their eldest brother, the little ones finally got a peaceful sleep.
Yu An didn't sleep very well that night. He was still thinking about Song Jun before he fell asleep, and even in his dreams, he dreamed of the scene after Song Jun was infected.
Sunlight streamed in through the window.
Yu An sat up, still half asleep. Little White Mushroom was the first to notice his older brother was awake. He snuggled up to him and rubbed against him.
"Big brother, I miss you so much."
The little white mushroom, with its soft, sweet voice, said to Yu An in a coquettish tone, "If you come back very late in the future, can you take Xiao Jiu with you?"
"Hmm."
Yu An didn't agree immediately, and he couldn't make any guarantees: "I'll see. I wasn't back last night, were you and Xiao Liu good?"
"good!"
The little white mushroom rubbed against Yu An's finger and said seemingly casually, "I don't know if Xiao Liu is good or not, I've been waiting for Big Brother in the room."
As soon as he finished speaking, Little Butterfly woke up.
Tea Xiao Jiu: "..."
Cha Xiao Jiu calmly changed the subject: "Big brother, did you run into some trouble at the training ground? You said you would come back early."
"It wasn't any trouble at all."
Yu An didn't want them to worry, so he didn't go into details about what happened at the training ground. He played with the two little ones on the bed for a while, and then he noticed that Little Butterfly's wing was injured.
"Xiao Jiu, weren't your injuries almost healed? Why are there still two small cuts?"
"I did it by accident."
Little Butterfly understood the rules of the game, unlike that certain Tea Mushroom. He didn't tell anyone about the fight, and he said he didn't feel any pain at all about the injury on his wing.
Yu An still frowned.
"Don't move."
Yu An carefully cradled him, saying, "I'll take you to see Dr. Tang Yi."
The little butterfly was already used to quack doctors, so he didn't let his older brother take him: "Brother, I'll fly there myself in a bit, you don't need to worry about me."
How could Yu An not worry about him?
However, before Yu An could go out to deliver Little Butterfly, Dr. Tang Yi knocked on the door.
Upon seeing him, Yu An quickly reminded him, "Dr. Tang, remember to apply some more medicine to Little Butterfly; his wings are injured again."
"good."
Dr. Tang took the little butterfly and strode back to his room.
In his room, there was a first-aid kit specifically for his little butterfly. Besides the first-aid kit for his little butterfly, there were actually first-aid kits for other animals, but unfortunately, he never had any other small animals besides his little butterfly.
Yu An watched his retreating figure and breathed a sigh of relief.
"Thank goodness we have Dr. Tang Yi." Yu An turned around and said to Xiao Jiu, "Xiao Jiu, have you noticed that Dr. Tang Yi is actually quite nice?"
Xiao Jiu: "..."
No.
He just felt that the moth that hadn't yet taken down Tang Yi was incredibly patient.
Tang Yi took Xiao Hu Die back. Yu An was unsure whether to continue training today. After thinking for a moment, he put Xiao Jiu in his pocket and took her to the ward.
Inside the ward.
Tang Xin was observing Song Jun's condition: "His fever has gone down a bit, but it's still higher than normal."
Tang Xin had never seen anything like the symptoms Song Jun was currently exhibiting. He could only offer conservative treatment and try to find ways to reduce the fever.
"Is Lord Song fully conscious?"
"not yet."
Tang Xin answered Yu An's question: "He wasn't fully conscious yet, but he called your name several times in a daze. I heard from your teammates that Song Jun was someone you insisted on dragging back."
"If he really recovers, then he should really thank you."
Tang Xin praised Yu An for not abandoning his teammates. The kind words he used made Yu An blush and almost want to write them down in a notebook.