Chapter 15: Thought the Bad Luck Was Over?

Chen Fengshi’s terrible mood finally improved a little when he reached the restroom at the foot of the mountain. After washing, he was surprised to find—there were no wounds on his arms!

That’s right, no wounds! Was it because he was lucky during the roll down the mountain and didn’t scrape his arms?

Of course that was impossible.

There were no wounds on his legs either. After washing the blood off his legs and face, he couldn’t see any scars at all.

Facing the face in the mirror above the sink—a face with no scars, where the fair and tender skin had boosted his attractiveness by two levels—Chen Fengshi could only stare in shock.

Then, he couldn’t help but think of the scene where Liu Shuzhi’s injuries rapidly healed under the control of the Fungal Demon… This ability was simply too inhuman!

In disbelief, Chen Fengshi put his head under the faucet and vigorously rubbed and washed his hair, which was clumped together from dried blood.

There was no shampoo, so he used the hand soap on the sink. Fortunately, whether the hand soap here had just been replaced, or the frugal nearby residents hadn’t used up theirs yet, there was still a lot of hand soap left, and no one had taken it away.

His hair, which was originally dirtier and messier than a homeless person’s, finally looked normal after this rough cleaning. Chen Fengshi faced the mirror, using the light to carefully feel and search for wounds on his scalp, but—still nothing, not a single bit! Even the scar left from a bump on his forehead’s hairline when he was a child was gone!

So he took off his pants to look for the scar on his thigh from a fall when he was little—nothing, it was gone too, all of them were gone!

The skin on those places that should have had scars was now smooth and delicate, even better than the skin of a Love Sage who had been carefully maintained since childhood.

Chen Fengshi finally accepted his current self in the mirror and couldn’t help but say in shock, “Am I not suddenly more handsome than a Love Sage? Damn, am I a bit too handsome… Is ‘baby-like skin’ talking about me?”

When it came to looks and such, people like Chen Fengshi were originally no worse than a Love Sage; they were both top-notch in their different appearance types. But for someone like Chen Fengshi from a working-class background, raised freely since childhood, with all kinds of bumps and bruises, and skin overly damaged by the outdoor environment, leaving more or less hard-to-reverse or even irreversible marks, this was not just a matter of skin color.

Compared to the face of a Love Sage, which had been carefully cared for since childhood and had very few flaws, it just couldn’t compare.

At this moment, it was no wonder that Chen Fengshi couldn’t help but be a little narcissistic facing the face in the mirror, where all irreversible skin marks had disappeared.

Shaking the water off his hair and wiping the remaining water from his face, Chen Fengshi took a deep breath and tugged at his tattered clothes that barely covered his body; he felt much better. At least when he went back, he wouldn’t have to worry about the wounds all over his body.

He could now choose to climb the wall into the school, sneak back to the dorm, and jump up to the dorm building in the dark, which would at most only startle Skinny; or he could directly find Big Guy to borrow some clothes to go back to school; of course, he could also simply take off his clothes and pants, find the police for help, and lie about being robbed.

The third option took too much time, had big side effects, and pointlessly increased the workload of the people’s police; it was too immoral, so it was just a possibility.

Just as Chen Fengshi gathered his mood and prepared to use the first option, he poked his head out of the restroom and saw two figures on the way down the mountain, so he quickly pulled his head back. He didn’t even need to think; just by looking at their figures, he knew it was definitely the awakened Liu Shuzhi and Sister Yao.

Not to mention that Sister Yao’s sexy figure was now hard to forget, just the fact that Liu Shuzhi still maintained the muscle level of an elite bodybuilder was enough to recognize him.

There was only one open road from the restroom going down, and Chen Fengshi didn’t want to run into them, because he could guess that these two had a very high probability of being implanted with some unfriendly memory remnants by the Fungal Demon.

Chen Fengshi had to hide on the side of the restroom. Not long after, Sister Yao and Liu Shuzhi came over, and sure enough, they were cleaning up at the sink; both of them were covered in dirt from the earlier fight.

Sister Yao felt a bit better after washing her head and face. After she finished cleaning up, it was Liu Shuzhi’s turn. Seeing him staring blankly at the mirror for a long time, she couldn’t help but say, “Have you made up your mind yet? Chen Fengshi injected you with some weird drug, causing your body to get this weird disease of muscle hyperplasia, and you really don’t want revenge?”

Chen Fengshi, who was listening on the side, covered his face speechlessly. He knew that the Fungal Demon leaving such a memory for Liu Shuzhi not only made him take the blame but also explained the reason why Liu Shuzhi suddenly went from a bamboo pole to an elite bodybuilder physique. But hearing the hateful tone in Sister Yao’s voice, he cared more about what kind of grudge was in her memory.

In Liu Shuzhi’s memory, this was the first time he saw himself in the mirror. He felt it was very unfamiliar, but at the same time, he felt that he quite liked being so strong! In his past life, he never had a reason to be confident and proud, but now, the him in the mirror had such a reason!

“Sister Yao, I think Chen Fengshi saying he wanted to kill you or whatever earlier was just angry talk, so you shouldn’t take it too seriously. As for me…” Liu Shuzhi hesitated, still looking at the bulging, iron-hard muscles on his body in the mirror, and said as if talking to himself, “…I don’t hate him at all, really! Even though I don’t know what drug he injected me with, I like becoming this strong!”

“You idiot!” Sister Yao got angry from the lack of it, pointed at him, and scolded, “He was trying to use that drug to kill you; you just had a lucky escape. Otherwise, according to him, you would have kept growing muscle until you died! And you still don’t hate him?”

“…I really don’t hate him. I think Chen Fengshi is quite a good person; he never looked down on me when we met before.” Liu Shuzhi scooped up clear water to wipe the dust off his arms, feeling the iron-like solidity of his muscles, and a surge of confidence—confidence in being very powerful, yes, confidence. This thing was very unfamiliar, so unfamiliar, yet it made him unable to stop his emotions from stirring.

At this moment, he was just afraid! Afraid that everything in front of him was just a dream!

“He’s good? He forbade me from mentioning my relationship with him, looked for me to sleep with when he was happy, and didn’t even show his face when he was unhappy. I had three abortions for him! And him? He had so many other women privately! When I found out and made a scene, he tricked me here to kill me! You must be lacking oxygen in your brain to say this kind of person is good!” The more Sister Yao spoke, the angrier she got, unable to accept Liu Shuzhi’s attitude. Seeing his unmoved silence, the scolding words from her mouth became uglier and uglier.

And Chen Fengshi, listening on the side, could only look up at the sky speechlessly… He was taking the blame so unfairly! He had inexplicably become a modern Chen Shimei, but the biggest problem was—it was all completely made up!

At this very moment, Chen Fengshi truly felt the terror of the Fungal Demon! If that Fungal Demon was given more time, would it learn to frame people, and then make him a wanted criminal who couldn’t be cleared even if washed?

“…Do you even have a brain? Did your mom lack nutrition when she gave birth to you, making you brain-dead…” When Sister Yao cursed to this point, Liu Shuzhi was suddenly stunned, and then, he angrily splashed the water in his hand right into her face!

Sister Yao was stunned, not expecting him to suddenly lash out. At this moment, Liu Shuzhi glared at her angrily and said word by word, “Yes, my mom didn’t eat well when she was pregnant with me! But that’s not my mom’s fault! As for whether I’m brain-dead or not, it has nothing to do with you! Don’t you just want me to be your thug? You get mad from embarrassment when your lobbying fails, I don’t see how smart you are! I don’t care if Chen Fengshi is good or bad, but for a public bus like you, what right do you have to demand others’ respect? Even if he did find other women outside, I think you deserve it!”

Sister Yao trembled all over with anger, but since Liu Shuzhi had lashed out, those terrifying muscles made her dare not push it further.

Liu Shuzhi pointed at Sister Yao’s face and warned, “Don’t think you can bully me like the old Liu Shuzhi! I see you’re a woman, so I won’t argue with you! But—from now on, speak with some respect. Don’t think you’re so great just because you’re pretty; for a public bus like you, no matter how pretty you are, I still think you’re dirty! Ah—spit!”

Liu Shuzhi spat on the ground. After venting his emotions, he felt much better, and this feeling of not hiding his true emotions, saying whatever he wanted to say, and scolding whoever he wanted to scold, was simply too satisfying! And the target of his scolding was Sister Yao, the big sister of the school; could he have even dreamed of that in the past?

But now, he felt that he—was so strong that he was almost fearless!

Sister Yao was humiliated, angry yet not daring to talk back, and even more unexpected that a loser in school actually looked down on her so much, which hurt her deeply.

“Liu Shuzhi, stop!”

Outside the restroom, Chen Fengshi moved to the side, ready to shift behind the restroom at any time, as he silently gave Liu Shuzhi a thumbs up in his heart.

Liu Shuzhi stopped, turned to look at Sister Yao, but didn’t speak, only showing an impatient expression that said “say it fast.”

Sister Yao took a deep breath, forcefully suppressed her emotions, and tried to appear as calm as possible. “Liu Shuzhi, you’re right. Yes, I just wanted to pull you in to help; whether you help or not is your freedom. Me scolding you just now was too much. But—what right do you have to humiliate me? What do you know? Why do you call me a public bus? How have I behaved improperly in my four years of college? What do you know about my past?”

However, Sister Yao still got more and more agitated as she spoke, and her voice indeed got louder and louder.

“That bastard—my first love, cheated on me. When I questioned why, he had the audacity to say, ‘Women are just for playing, when you’re tired of playing, you have to switch!’ Shouldn’t a scumbag like that die? But what could I do to him at that time? He was the big boss of the school, should I have killed him and died together with him? I could only seduce his friends, use men’s possessiveness, and only use outside thugs to fight him!”

When Sister Yao said this, her eyes were filled with tears. She took a deep breath and forcefully controlled her emotions from breaking down. Liu Shuzhi’s expression was full of shock; yes, he didn’t know Sister Yao’s past and her secrets, and suddenly he felt that she wasn’t that dirty…

“I got the nickname ‘public bus’ at that time! No one knew why I did what I did back then! Since that scumbag was sent to the juvenile detention center, I haven’t allowed myself to go wild anymore—what right do you have to humiliate me as if it’s a matter of course? Do you think that casually mocking someone as a public bus makes you something? You upgrade from a loser? Puh—I’m telling you, even if I really am a public bus, it’s none of the business of a smelly loser like you!”

Liu Shuzhi was scolded harshly, but he didn’t feel angry. Instead, he felt guilty for humiliating her without understanding the situation. “I was wrong, I shouldn’t have said that about you.”

Sister Yao sobbed and didn’t speak for a long time.

Liu Shuzhi looked at her like this, and suddenly felt that she was very lonely and pitiful, always being misunderstood. And since she wasn’t the kind of public bus that rumors made her out to be, she hadn’t let Chen Fengshi down emotionally, so being treated like that, she was of course a victim.

He hesitated for a moment, changed his mind, and said, “I can help you, but if there’s a chance, we still have to ask Chen Fengshi clearly if he was just angry for a moment; if it can be reconciled, it’s better to reconcile. Also, if I help you teach him a lesson or something, I can do that, but I won’t do anything too outrageous.”

Sister Yao immediately smiled through her tears, wiped her tears, and said with a laugh, “You think I’d still instigate you to kill someone?”

Liu Shuzhi thought about it and found it ridiculous too, and smiled.