insouciant

He looked at them and they shook their heads.

"We can't leave here."

Translation: We don't want to get involved.

"I see."

He picked her and carried Gu Yue towards the infirmary, after a distance away, he dropped her and began dragging her by her foot.

As Fan Lin was just 500 m away from the school nurse. He heard a voice that he had been avoiding.

*Sigh*

'Everything's going to happen tonight."

"What are you doing to her?!!?"

Tang Wulin screamed while running towards Fan Lin.

"I found her unconscious (conscious) in the Eastsea park and am taking her to the school nurse."

Fan Lin said to the dashing Tang Wulin who reached him before his sentenced finished.

"How can I believe you?"

Tang Wulin asked seriously.

"Ask the guards or the teacher when she checks her. She has been unconscious for a while."

Fan Lin calmly replied.

"... Okay but why are you dragging her like that?"

Tang Wulin said with confusion. He didn't like Fan Lin but he knew he can believe him.

"You are asking me that? You don't know why?"

Fan Lin said with Gu Yue's foot still in his hand.

"Leave her, I will carry her. Where's the infirmary."

Tang Wulin said while looking at the unconscious Gu Yue.

"Okay."

Fan Lin dropped her foot and Tang Wulin carried Gu Yue on his back and asked for the direction of the infirmary.

"Just 500m away. Let's go."

Fan Lin said and Tang Wulin followed beside him.

"How does she became unconscious?"

Tang Wulin asked.

"Don't know, it could be anemia or something else."

Fan Lin nonchalantly stated.

"Is it serious?"

Tang Wulin asked, he still didn't know about these kinds of stuff.

"Anemia is just a weakness caused by the deficiency of iron. She is not eating properly, just make her eat more food."

Fan Lin emotionlessly remarked. His words were met with a nod as Tang Wulin also thought that Gu Yue ate too less.

"What are you doing here at this time of the night?" [Fan Lin]

"I needed to go to the Blacksmith Association today but the classes ended too late and I was late for the association, which caused me to be late to return. What about you? Still doing your night strolls?" [Tang Wulin]

Tang Wulin said with a smirk. It didn't work on Fan Lin.

"Just practicing in the Eastsea Park." [Fan Lin]

"Ohh. I thought you haven't changed since Teacher Ye came to ask about you." [Tang Wulin]

Tang Wulin said and looked at the infirmary in the distance.

"Ye Ringrong?" [Fan Lin]

Fan Lin asked, alerted at the situation. This was not a good start.

'I was right to make the vials. I should be prepared for what's to come.'

"It's Ye Yingrong and that's Teacher Ye for you. You never change, do you?" [Tang Wulin]

Tang Wulin loudly exclaimed like Fan Lin made a grave error. Fan Lin didn't reply and continued walking.

"...what was she doing in the Eastsea Park?" [Tang Wulin]

Tang Wulin asked him.

"How would I know? I just found her." [Fan Lin]

"You really like to venture at night."

Tang Wulin said to Fan Lin again.

"Did Na Er tell you that? She can't even catch a ball in daylight and then she complained to others that I am the child killer. That was stupid." [Fan Lin]

"Don't you dare badmouth her."

Tang Wulin angrily roared. The pain of her disappearing suddenly hitting.

"I didn't badmouth her and what would you even do? Forget the last time when I broke your legs, although weirdly, you were able to walk the next day. I don't think weirdstance would happen again."

Fan Lin's voice turned completely emotionless, making Tang Wulin remember some bad memories.

"I am not the same as I was then."

Tang Wulin said with determination in his eyes.

"Neither am I that merciful now. I have told you that your sister was at the fault for annoying me. There are a few things that I hate and she did just that, she had it coming." [Fan Lin]

"She was just a little girl at that time, okay? and she didn't know about it. She was just trying to make you happy because you treated her well."

Tang Wulin defended his sister.

"A person's ignorance can't be used as a justification for the things that they did. It was never about whether she knew or not, it's about did she dared to feed me meat or not. You know the answer and I had told her that I don't eat flesh. And I don't care if was a day one child or a dying mother, I would have acted the same."

Fan Lin calmly commented. His words igniting Wulin.

"You spoke weirdly- I don't eat flesh of living. She misunderstood it as you not eating a living chicken but a cooked one and what did you do? You beat her up for that."

Tang Wulin said while throwing a punch at Fan Lin with all his strength. Fan Lin immediately put Gu Yue in front of him while ducking down.

Tang Wulin immediately tried to hold his strength when he saw his punch was going to hit Gu Yue but he was a few moments late. Gu Yue was punched directly on the side of her face, throwing her nearly 8 metres away from them.

"I was a thousand times more rageful that you can ever be, I didn't kill her was me being incomplete. There are things that I hate and there's reasons for them..."

Fan Lin continued.

"Intentional or not, my existence got hurt."

"Just like you treasure your sister and your parents, I also have things that I treasure, some promises that I don't want to break. Some taboos that no one should cross. she did that and it's precisely because I realised that she didn't do that intentionally that I was able to stop while she was alive."

"If it was someone else or if it was the current me, I would have teared her apart and burnt down that entire city. Worthless beings should die a garbage death."

"You! Bastard!"

Tang Wulin roared and came to punch him again. He really loved his sister and he would not allow anyone to bully her.

Fan Lin easily dodged the angry Tang Wulin and kicked him in the direction of Gu Yue.

"Arggh."

Tang Wulin immediately got up and took out his hammer and pounced at Fan Lin again.

He had lost nearly all of his combat training experience in his anger and had rushed at Fan Lin like a mad bull, the result was obvious be it the current scenario or the beating an year ago.

Tang Wulin was beaten to a pulp before stealthily given the healing vial.

After settling him, Fan Lin turned to look at the unconscious Gu Yue and slowly walked to her.

'She is an part of the protagonist group, she must have lost a tooth or two though.'

Fan Lin thought as he checked her pulse and fed her the antidote of the sleeping poison. It would be quite suspicious if she didn't react up after getting punched on her face.

Tang Wulin, who just healed up and without realising that he was fine, was ready to attack again but stopped himself as he remembered the situation.

He was going to bring Gu Yue to the infirmary not hurt her.

"What are you doing?"

He asked as he saw Fan Lin peering through her mouth.

"Checking for internal injuries, she got hit by you, weirdly enough, not that much injury was inflicted but..."

"You have your fingerprints on her thighs, I have my fingerprints on her arms(while placing her in front of him) and her clothes and hair are dishevelled and her face has an injury and there are dragging marks on her body and clothes. Things just got a lot serious for us. This looks like she got beaten up by bullies behind the school or maybe even worse, a gang.... Let's take her to the infirmary."

Fan Lin said to Wulin in his calm voice.

"What do you mean?"

Tang Wulin asked Fan Lin.

"Nothing, hurry her to the nurse before others come. You were screaming pretty loud."

Fan Lin looked at Gu Yue seriously.

It was at this moment that a thought came to his mind.

He didn't know how the people of the Douluo continent check periods.

He never learnt it for obvious reasons. He never needed to.

So he had no knowledge on it.

Now he had told Wulin and the others that he found her unconscious, that wasn't suspicious enough to warrant a lookout on him but that and this were two different scenarios.

When he said the he had found Gu Yue unconscious, she just had drag marks on her clothes; On the other hand, Gu Yue now had a punch mark on her face with their fingerprints on some dangerous places on her body.

Now if the teacher of Class Zero aka the Chilling Prince Charming Wu Zhangkong were to be suspicious and asked for the nurse to check for any kind of 'those' types of injuries.

THAT would be a no no situation for Fan Lin.

Because when the nurse checks for any signs of bleedings or injuries on Gu Yue and finds traces of blood on not her but on Fan Lin's body...

'That would be hard to explain '

'I was training in the forest and got an injury, the blood is from there,'

Except there was no injury as it had healed.

There was no proof of his training because he erased it himself a few minutes ago.

And he was completely drenched with blood. An injury might not enough to explain the amount he was under.

As for the main question on how did she got so injured, thet would have to tell about the fight because Tang Wulin would definitely talk about it and then they would know that he was capable of taking Wulin but purposefully losing and then, and then what? Fan Lin had no actual idea. Things had gotten out of hands long ago.

Fan Lin was thinking of this scenario in his mind, Wulin came near him.

"Take her to the infirmary, I will catch up with you later."

"Did you do something to her? Or is it your usual things to hide? Is that why you are asking me to take her to the nurse?"

Wulin asked as he picking up Gu Yue from the ground and onto his shoulders.

"You have the face of innocence, I don't and something related to that."

He asked Wulin to take Gu Yue to the nurse while he would go to his dorm to wash up any signs of blood before meeting them. Although it was suspicious, it would be lesser than what the situation was going to be.

He knew that it was suspicious but did he have a choice.

'I could be just paranoid.'

Just as he was turning backwards, he saw a fountain just below the infirmary. This could work, just need to dilute some things.

"Take her to the infirmary fast, I will meet you in a few moments."

Fan Lin said while pointing to a building. Fortunately, the infirmary was at a secluded spot near the advance academic areas and there were little to no people in sight. At least they didn't encounter anyone on their path.

"Okay." [Tang Wulin]

Fan Lin started running towards the infirmary, or to be more precise the fountain.

"What are you doing now?"

Tang Wulin said while catching up to him.

"Nothing."

Fan Lin calmly replied.

"Really?"

Tang Wulin pressed on with his words.

"Nothing."

Fan Lin repeated his reply.

"Okay then why are you running?"

Tang Wulin asked, both of them steadily moving towards the infirmary.

"Just think, two guys, one dishelleved beaten up girl who's unconscious; in the middle of night. What would be your first thought if you encounter a situation like this?"

Fan Lin calmly said.

"... The two guys did something to the girl, but we didn't, I mean we did but..."

Tang Wulin tried to answer but failed. The situation was that weird. They did harmed Gu Yue on there way to the infirmary but that wasn't intentional. At least not on his part.

"So take her to the infirmary and explain the situation to the nurse. Your words will hold more weight than mine."

Fan Lin said, the fountain just a distance away from him.

"Well I was going to do that anyways. Why are you running though?

Tang Wulin asked. Fan Lin didn't reply and jumped in the fountain.

"Heh?"

He still had no idea on what Fan Lin was thinking.

Fan Lin on the other hand silently lay in the fountain.

30 seconds later.

"I was just washing myself clean because I felt dirty."

Fan Lin said while coming out of the water.

He was sure that he was fully clean now.

"I didn't ask" [Wulin]

"Why are you still here? Go take her to the infirmary."

"What the heck is wrong with you? What dirty?"

"Ignore that and let's take her to the building."

Fan Lin urged Tang Wulin to follow him to the infirmary.

"Wait a second, by dirty, you meant when you held Gu Yue."

Tang Wulin said with anger once again rising in him.

"I never said that and yeah, I was repulsed by the thought of holding her but that was due to the fact that I didn't want any rumours to occur if someone saw us like that and I don't like her."

"Then why did you wash up in the fountain?"

"Because I was dirty."

"You didn't look like dirty to me though."

"It's my body, I will decide if I am dirty or not."

While Fan Lin and Tang Wulin were having another small argument, they reached the infirmary and Fan Lin looked at Wulin to take the first steps.

'I should have just meditated like I normally did.'

Fan Lin regretted as he entered the infirmary.

'Today is the unluckiest day of my life.'

Fan Lin thought.

Unbeknownst to him though, it was the lucky day of his life as... Gu Yue was hearing everything while playing dead.

Fan Lin did gave Gu Yue a really strong toxin but Fan Lin didn't know exactly what Gu Yue was.

He had no idea that his poison wasn't properly effective against her.

And in context with how Fan Lin treated her on his way till the infirmary, he would have died a thousand times if not for the fact that Gu Yue had a mental fortitude of a Dragon.

'Not one, not twice but three whole times.'

Gu Yue fumed.

Fan Lin fed her the toxin forcefully.

He dragged her on the ground and then used her as a shield when Tang Wulin punched her straight on the face.

She was Gu Yue.

She was not just forcefully touched by a unknown person of a different gender with bloody hands, she was also fed a weird toxin that immediately took control over her body with the same bloodied hands. (She did restart her body within a second but it counts.)

That surprised her, making Di Tian stop in his tracks at her orders. She had heard Fan Lin mumbling things while restoring the area and was thinking about what he was previously doing but couldn't even fathom what happened before she was fed something once again by the dirty hands of Fan Lin and when she tried to focus again, the area was full of flora and she wanted to check but then he dragged her by the foot.

'HE DARED TO DRAG HER BY HER FOOT FOR NEARLY HALF AN HOUR AT THAT!!'

Fan Lin had at least enough courtesy that he didn't choose the paved stone path but the grassy one while dragging her but that didn't matter since he was doing it to avoid people.

A little afterwards, she realised that he knew Tang Wulin and that explained the occasional glances he passed at Wulin.

What it didn't explain was why did Fan Lin use her as a shield.

The sheer force of the punch had launched her 8 metres away and what happened next, they started arguing, completely ignoring her existence as her body laid on the ground in a messy state like an abandoned doll.

She wanted to act when Fan Lin was bashing Tang Wulin as well but Di Tian had stopped her. He was also the one who had thwarted the other people from wandering around Fan Lin so that no one could see the dreadful state of his Majesty.

The reason he stopped her was also simple. He wanted to see if the Golden Dragon King in Tang Wulin reacts to his emotions and lend him his strength.

Unfortunately they were proven wrong and Tang Wulin just layed by the side before healed miraculously.

Then he 'healed' her. Wretchfully.

How?

She didn't know.

What about the almost magical restoration of the forest before?

She didn't know as well. It was not divine power. It was not an ability that she was familiar with. It wasn't even possible to recreate.

What was it?