"Teacher Li, what are you doing?" the chemistry teacher said angrily.

As soon as he saw it, he knew that it must be Teacher Li who was corporally punishing the students. If it was making them stand or copy, it would not be a big deal, but hitting the students was a serious matter.

Moreover, the wound was on the forehead, so obvious, how could the student’s parents not see it?

If the school is held responsible, Teacher Li will certainly be expelled. If the parents make a fuss again, the school's reputation may even be ruined.

"It's this student! He violates the rules every day and doesn't take us teachers seriously at all!" Teacher Li bit his lower lip, "A student who doesn't study hard might as well die!"

The chemistry teacher was so frightened by her words that he wanted to go up and cover her mouth.

He winked at He Kaiyan and whispered, "Student He, take this student back to class first. I will persuade your teacher."

He Kaiyan nodded in panic, pulled Xiao Mo and was about to walk out.

Fortunately, Xiao Mo did not resist and left the office with him obediently.

Teacher Li seemed to want to rush forward, but the chemistry teacher quickly held her hand and forced her to calm down.

For some reason, Teacher Li's hands were very cold. The temperature didn't seem like the body temperature of a living person, but more like...

The chemistry teacher shuddered and dared not think about it any further, while Teacher Li's eyes suddenly became cloudy.

Her body kept shaking as if she was having an epileptic seizure, and the chemistry teacher didn't dare to hold her down anymore and helped her to the sofa nearby.

"Teacher Li, are you feeling unwell? Can I pour you a glass of water?" the chemistry teacher asked nervously.

Teacher Li's head drooped. She didn't answer. Her limbs drooped weakly and her body almost fell off the edge of the sofa again.

After a few seconds, some unclear sounds came out of her throat, like the whimpering of a wounded beast.

"What did you say?" The chemistry teacher suppressed his fear and moved closer.

She raised her head suddenly, and her eyeballs turned ink-black!

"Take me back...I must go back!"

"Going back where?"

The chemistry teacher was startled, not entirely because of the strange change in Teacher Li, but because the question just now was not what he wanted to ask at all!

But he asked those three words as if he was controlled by someone.

"Go back... we all have to go back... to warm up..."

Before she could finish her words, she fell straight down, and the floor was soon stained with a layer of bright red.

……

Xiao Mo's forehead was broken by Teacher Li's teacup, and glass shards were embedded in it, so he took Xiao Mo to the infirmary.

There was no anesthesia in the school hospital, so the doctor could only pull out the fragments forcibly.

What surprised He Kaiyan was that Xiao Mo didn't even say the word "pain", and even acted as if nothing had happened.

He Kaiyan felt a sense of respect. In ancient times, it was said that Master Guan had his bones scraped to treat his wounds. In his heart, Xiao Mo could be compared to Master Guan.

"Did you hear any sound?" He Kaiyan asked uncertainly.

He seemed to hear someone shouting, but it was not clear.

Xiao Mo was stunned for a moment and shook his head again.

"Okay, maybe I heard it wrong. By the way, did you come to school this morning?" He Kaiyan asked again.

"Hmm." He uttered only one syllable.

"Then why were you called to the office by Teacher Li? Did you not finish your homework, were you late, or what?"

"I..." He spoke hesitantly, and after a long time, he lowered his head and said nothing.

The doctor wiped the wound with a cotton ball soaked in iodine and applied a layer of ointment. His forehead was wrapped with bandages several times.

After doing all this, the doctor breathed a sigh of relief.

The conditions at the school hospital were really poor, but Xiao Mo's wound had to be treated. As a doctor, he couldn't imagine how painful it would be without anesthesia.

Fortunately, Xiao Mo didn't move around or shout, he was incredibly well behaved.

"Student, you'd better go to the city hospital for another checkup of your wound. I'll write you a medical record." The doctor wrote the medical record skillfully. "Here, you can give it to your class teacher. Leave me your parents' phone number and I'll call them for you."

"Thank you, doctor. I don't need to call you." Xiao Mo said embarrassedly, "My parents are very busy at work and can't come."

"You are seriously injured, how can work be more important than you? Don't worry, your parents won't blame you. Treatment is the most important thing." The doctor persuaded patiently.

But Xiao Mo still firmly refused him. No matter how the doctor tried to get him to answer, he refused to tell the doctor his parents' phone number.

In desperation, the school doctor had to call their class teacher.

He thought that the head teacher would definitely tell him about the call, but he didn't expect that Xiao Mo's head teacher just said lightly, "It's okay, don't worry about it, I will handle it", and hung up the phone in a hurry.

The school doctor frowned. Every family has its own problems. It can be seen that Xiao Mo's parents don't seem to care about him much.

The school doctor didn't ask any more questions, but instead said, "Then you can rest here for a while. I have something to do later, so I'll trouble you to accompany him."

He Kaiyan nodded hurriedly. He also planned to stay with Xiao Mo to prevent his injuries from getting worse.

Xiao Mo lay obediently on the bed. He didn't sleep, but stared at the ceiling motionlessly.

After a while, the school doctor left the room, and He Kaiyan asked, "Um...you yesterday..."

"What?" Xiao Mo blinked. "Yesterday afternoon? I... felt a little unwell, so I asked the teacher for leave and went home."

He Kaiyan knew that Xiao Mo did not go home, but it was not convenient for him to continue asking.

"Are you sick? Can I ask what disease you have?" He changed the way he asked the question.

Although he and Xiao Mo have been desk mates for some time, the number of words Xiao Mo has said to him can be counted on one hand.

Perhaps because He Kaiyan was accompanying him, Xiao Mo started to talk. "A congenital disease that cannot be cured... was diagnosed when I was four years old. My father took me to many hospitals, even those in the capital..."

Obviously it was a very unfortunate thing, but He Kaiyan did not see any emotion on his face, no sadness, no anger, just like a blank sheet of paper.

In addition to his heart, many of his internal organs were failing at a very fast rate, which caused his lower limbs to often become swollen and weak, and he even had to walk slowly.

Although his condition improved somewhat after several organ replacement surgeries, those organs continued to fail rapidly.

If he gets emotional, it will be like an epileptic seizure and will accelerate the deterioration of his condition.

According to Xiao Mo's family, he should stay in the hospital to recuperate, but his attending physician said that Xiao Mo must maintain a certain contact with people of the same age.

Ever since Xiao Mo could remember, he had spent 90 percent of his life in the hospital.

In order to treat his illness, his father sold almost all of his property, but it was still just a drop in the bucket.

He is like a doll whose parts need to be replaced at any time, and each replacement costs hundreds of thousands or even millions of dollars. The service life of each organ does not exceed eight years, and some even need to be replaced in the third year.

Xiao Mo didn't understand when he was a child, but when he grew up, he realized how much time and energy his father spent on him.

He had thought about ending it all and letting his father live a normal life, but his father said to him, "If you want to give up, then what's the point of all my efforts over the years?"

Later, because Xiao Mo's disease was too rare, a Sino-foreign joint hospital in the imperial capital that specialized in treating difficult and complicated diseases admitted him and covered all his medical expenses.

"So how are you recovering now? Are you almost well?" He Kaiyan couldn't help but ask.

If Xiao Mo's condition is still as serious as before, even walking a few steps will be a huge burden for him, let alone going to school.

Xiao Mo didn't say "yes" or "no". He was silent for half a minute before he said, "Compared to before, it's definitely much better."

With the help of medication, his organ failure is no longer as serious, but his condition still recurs when he becomes emotionally agitated.

However, Xiao Mo is already very satisfied to have saved his life, not to mention that he can still go to school now.

"Those things are in the past, let's not talk about this anymore. By the way, Xiao Mo..." He Kaiyan hesitated and said, "Do you believe in metaphysics?"

"metaphysics?"

Xiao Mo was obviously stunned for a moment. He didn't expect He Kaiyan to change the topic so quickly.

"I always heard some legends from my elders. People become ghosts after death. There are monsters in the mountains that absorb the moonlight..." He Kaiyan racked his brains to think, "What about you? Have you heard any legends?"

Xiao Mo shook his head. He had been staying in the hospital all the time, and his father was busy making money for his treatment. Who would tell him stories?

He Kaiyan was a little puzzled. The gem was obviously Xiao Mo's, and it must be related to metaphysics.

Didn't he know the use of the gem, or was he deceiving himself?

However, looking at Xiao Mo's expression, he really didn't want to reply to the liar.

He Kaiyan suddenly had an idea and thought of a way to test Xiao Mo.

"Then let me tell you a story. Once upon a time, there was an old couple. Both of them were very lazy and thought about how to get something for nothing every day." He told the story slowly, "One day, the old woman said, it would be great if I could pick up a box of jewels from the wheat field..."

This was a story he read in a magazine. After the old woman made a wish, she really found a diamond necklace in the wheat field.

She happily sold the diamond necklace to the jeweler for a large sum of money, but miraculously, the necklace returned to her.

The old woman vaguely felt that the origin of the necklace was not simple. She didn't care whether it had divine power or a curse, and began to make a wish to the necklace.

She wanted a manor of thousands of acres, servants who worked hard but never asked for compensation, countless gold and silver jewelry, and a horse farm that raised purebred racehorses...

"Ah."

As He Kaiyan was speaking, he suddenly heard an almost inaudible laugh.

He Kaiyan couldn't believe that such a mocking laugh actually came from Xiao Mo's mouth.

He also thought that Xiao Mo didn't care about anything and didn't have any strong feelings.

He Kaiyan paused and asked, "What's wrong?"

"No, I just..." Xiao Mo didn't say anything else, "Please continue."

Even though she became the richest manor owner, the old woman was still not satisfied, especially because she just couldn't stand her old man.

The old woman also asked the necklace to find her a young and handsome man, and she also wanted him to love her wholeheartedly.

In order to be more compatible with her lover, the old woman made a wish that she would remain young and immortal, and always look like she is in her twenties.

Although she had so many things, the old woman still had an inexplicable panic. She was afraid that others would take away her wealth, and she was also afraid that everything she had gained would disappear.

Finally, she decided to make one last wish and never use the diamond necklace again.

"I hope that if anyone other than me asks for anything from the necklace, even a coin, he will be killed instantly."

The old woman found a heavy metal box, put the necklace in it, and sealed the keyhole with wax.

Not only that, she also asked her servants to wrap a circle of iron thorns soaked in poison around the outside of the box. If anyone wanted to touch the box, they would be stabbed to death by the poisonous thorns.

In the middle of the night with heavy fog, the old woman drove her boat and threw a three-meter-long "coffin" into the sea.

The coffin was too heavy and sank into the deep sea as soon as it entered the sea. The old woman left with satisfaction.

A few years later, a sailor accidentally fell off the boat.

Even for someone who is an excellent swimmer, it is impossible to conquer the vast ocean by himself, not to mention that this place is thousands of meters away from the shore.

Fortunately, a longboard floated over from afar. The sailor slid hard a few times and leaned his body against the longboard.

This board can only drift with the current, but it allows the sailor to take a short break.

After a while, the sailor suddenly felt something strange. There was a layer of paint on the outside of the longboard. When he first saw it, he thought it was made of metal.

But it can float on the sea, which means that although it looks thick, it is actually very light.

The sailor looked into the gaps in the longboard that were corroded by the sea water, and saw a few thin layers of straw and dead branches inside, and there seemed to be a box emitting a faint glow.

He was so curious that he broke the surface of the long board with his hands and pulled the box out.

After brushing off the dust from the box, the sailor found the lock and it popped open by itself.

"This is..." He felt his hands trembling.

If he were on shore, he would be able to sell this necklace for a good price, and he would not have to worry about food and drink for the rest of his life.

But now he is floating on the vast ocean and may be overturned by the waves at any time.

It seemed as if a voice was echoing in his head, telling him to make a wish to the necklace.

The sailor was in a trance for a while. Naturally, he now hoped that he could return to the shore, but when he thought of his dilapidated home, he hesitated again.

Although falling off the boat was an accident, no other airline would hire a careless sailor like him in the future.

He has no other skills, so even supporting himself has become a problem, let alone starting a family in the future.


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