Chapter 28: 26

There really was something very wrong with Meng Guowei’s expression. His gaze filled with a thick anxiety and the phrase, “How can it be like this, it’s actually like this.” he opened his mouth, extremely anxious, and his first two words were barely audible. “It’s like this, don’t be anxious you two…”

Xu Sheng couldn’t understand why Meng Guowei was having this kind of a reaction. What was wrong with slight physical discomfort, what was wrong with a headache and a warm forehead? 

Was this necessary.

Those who didn’t know would assume he and Shao Zhan had been infected with some terminal disease.

 

 

Xu Sheng, “The two of us aren’t anxious.”

Meng Guowei didn’t know where to start with his next words. He wanted to drink some water to calm his nerves, so Xu Sheng and Shao Zhan stared blankly as Meng Guowei’s hand shakily took a cup of water. The water in the cup shook back and forth, rippling in circles. 

…

 

Exactly who was anxious?

“What’s with Lao Meng.” Xu Sheng turned around to ask, “Parkinson’s?”

Shao Zhan spat out five words. “How would I even know.”

 

Between classes, there were many people in the office. Grey-blue school uniforms filled the scene.

Shao Zhan was wearing a mask. This along with his black T-shirt made him look very incongruous with the rest of the office no matter where he sat. He stood up and said, “Teacher, if there’s nothing else, classmate Shao Zhan and I will go…” Go back first.

Before he had even finished speaking, Meng Guowei placed the cup of water down and shouted loudly, “Wait!”

 

As he spoke, Meng Guowei reached over to the phone on the table. He pressed a series of numbers and the phone connected with someone after a few beeps. The other person on the phone had a gentle, feminine voice. “Hello? This is the school infirmary.” 

“Doctor Li.” Meng Guowei swallowed and said hurriedly, “This is the staff office for the high school second years. Please have the infirmary send people over at once, I have two students here, they need to be immediately quarantined. Please hurry—!”

When Xu Sheng heard the first half of Meng Guowei’s words, he merely thought it was a bit strange. After the two words ‘immediately quarantined’ appeared, he was completely stunned.

He met gazes with Shao Zhan. Both of their eyes contained a huge question mark: ?

Quarantine?! 

“Is there a misunderstanding here.” Xu Sheng was so anxious he even took off his mask. “What quarantine?”

“Shao Zhan, put that mask back on first!” Meng Guowei was extremely shocked. He wanted to calm the students down before the school infirmary arrived, so he evacuated the office with Teacher Zhou. “Students, hurry and leave, completely evacuate. Return to your classrooms and listen to me calmly. When you return, tell the other students in your classes that no one is allowed to take a single step inside the office without any broadcasted notice! Get out! Hurry hurry hurry! Start running!”

For a time, the office fell into chaos.

Students currently turning in their homework, reporting their homework progress to teachers, and standing there being scolded were driven out and scattered. They were pushed out by the strong urging of the two teachers without even any time to take their things. 

Xu Sheng was standing close to the entrance. The crowd swarmed towards the door. The male student running in the forefront was still holding his stationery in his hand. It was clear he was about to stab him, but a hand reached out, pulling him away.

Xu Sheng was dragged to the side by this sudden force, just managing to miss the person who was about to run into him.

 

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The entire event occured in a few seconds. The doorway was already jammed with people.

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Although he still hadn’t figured out what the current situation was, and Shao Zhan’s tone was rather harsh, Xu Sheng still said, “Thanks.”

Meng Guowei evacuated the crowd very quickly; even the other teachers ran out with their mouths and noses covered. Two minutes later, only the three of them remained in the office. The people the school infirmary sent also came quickly, passing two teaching buildings before hurriedly going towards the second year’s staff office. 

The school doctor wore a long white coat and a surgical mask, and rushed through the door. “Where are the students who need to be quarantined?”

Meng Guowei raised his hand. “Here here here!”

The medical facilities at Sixth High were well-known; just the infirmary took up half a building by itself. It contained a medical room, a rest room, and a never-used before quarantine room.

There was an extra door designed outside the quarantine room. The windows were also shut tightly and the inside was equipped with special disinfection equipment. 

Bang!

After Xu Sheng and Shao Zhan were pushed inside, the school doctor immediately shut the door.

And it was at this moment, their school broadcast began. “This is an urgent announcement. Today, the eastern district of the country has discovered two cases of a new influenza virus, named the N411 Virus—”

“Our school has two students who we suspect have been infected…do not panic, follow your teachers’ directions. Every class will carry out disinfection activities in an organised and disciplined manner as soon as possible.” 

“…”

What kind of fucking coincidence was this?

Getting hit by a falling billboard on the street wasn’t as difficult as this!

The two of them stood in a row, facing the cold iron windows, their hearts a huge mess. 

“Teacher.” At this moment, Shao Zhan figured he might as well take his mask off. He faced the Meng Guowei standing on the other side of the quarantine window and said, “I think I’m better now.”

Xu Sheng grasped the iron rods on the quarantine window and also said, “I also feel better now.”

 

How would Meng Guowei trust their words? He said compassionately, “Don’t worry, as long as we maintain a calm state of mind and cooperate with the treatment, the new virus isn’t scary.”

Even if Xu Sheng had wanted to split his head, he wouldn’t have thought things would turn out like this. He said, “I really think I’m better now.” 

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Meng Guowei, “I know you guys will find this very difficult to accept at the moment.”

Shao Zhan forced himself to calm down, and mentioned, “We can go get a checkup.”

“Silly child.” Meng Guowei let out a sigh; he also couldn’t tolerate the fact that this kind of thing was happening to his own students. “It can’t be detected during the incubation period.”

Shao Zhan and Xu Sheng, “…” 

After Meng Guowei left, only Xu Sheng and Shao Zhan were left inside the quarantine room. The room had the smell of disinfectant, which made Xu Sheng put his mask back on again. He leaned against the wall and asked, “What do we do now?”

Shao Zhan realised that every minute and second he was with Xu Sheng, something unimaginable would always happen.

Xu Sheng, this person; his grades weren’t that great, but he was very imaginative.

“Wait.” Shao Zhan said, “We’ll explain when people come over.” 

That was valid.

Other than waiting, they had no other options.

There was only one bed in the quarantine room and it was basically the same bed as the ones in the dorms. Xu Sheng would never wrong himself. Shao Zhan stood by the window watching the situation outside but when he turned around, he saw Xu Sheng had already found a good posture to lie down in. “What are you doing.”

“Taking a nap.” Xu Sheng was very good at taking care of himself. “Looking at it from another angle, this is a good opportunity for not going to class.” 

As Xu Sheng spoke, he scooted over a bit to the side, leaving space for Shao Zhan. “You wanna sleep for a bit too? Either way being idle is being idle, who knows how long they’ll observe us. We can’t stand until class is over.”

Looking at that bed, Shao Zhan wasn’t going to overdo it, and he refused. “Sleep by yourself.”

Now he felt like taking an exam in the last place room, or letting Xu Sheng use his name and go into the first place examination room, weren’t things that would make it that difficult for others to accept.

But there was something Xu Sheng had said correctly. There was still more than half a day left before school was over. He couldn’t stay standing until school was out. Other than that bed in the quarantine room, there was only a round stool with no backrest. 

The hot, dry summer wind was blocked by the iron windows, but the scorching sun still resolutely passed through the barrier. The cicada chirps faded away, leaving the smell of clean grass in the afternoon, like the scent of a youth’s school uniform after it was left to dry in the sun.

When Zhang Feng received the news, he rushed towards the quarantine room as soon as class was over. On the way there he ran into Hou Jun and Tan Kai. The three of them sprinted furiously towards the infirmary entrance, and saw this scene through the window:

 

Half of their Zhan ge’s face was buried in the school tyrant’s embrace. Perhaps school tyrant had sensed their gazes because his eyelids cracked open and he supported himself up into a half-sitting position. He raised his hand and pushed Shao Zhan to the side a bit. Calling it push wasn’t appropriate, because ‘Xu Sheng’s’ actions weren’t as cold and expressionless as his face.

He didn’t withdraw his hand until study god’s head rested back against the pillow. 

Zhang Feng, “Wow.”

Tan Kai, “What is this situation?”

Only Hou Jun, whose mind was clear on this matter, thought to himself, those who are gossiping in the forum, might be here to get fed…

But did school tyrant usually look that cold? 

Hou Jun tried to think, but he could only recall that the Xu Sheng at the beginning of the school year had been casual and would occasionally make a gag. It didn’t seem like he had been very cold?

This thought of Hou Jun was merely a flash of questioning and he didn’t think about it deeply, because ‘Xu Sheng’ had already walked towards the window. “What’s going on.”

Zhang Feng remembered the purpose of this visit. He leapt up violently and pressed his face tightly against the window. “Boss, I wanted to come tell you, you must hold on. You can’t give up on your life’s hopes, living on is more important than anything else.”

Shao Zhan, “…” 

Zhang Feng, “Really, it’s not as bad as we think it is. The two ill people in eastern district were discharged from the hospital without issues.”

“We’re completely fine.” Shao Zhan had waited for a very long time for others to come over. He interrupted him and said, “Call the doctor over.”

Zhang Feng, “Ah?”

Although the virus had a long incubation period and couldn’t be tested, a severe cough was a key indicator. The two of them were originally just pretending to cough, so the current lack of coughing was just them returning back to normal. 

The school doctor was very experienced. Along with the fact that after observing them for half a day, the two of them truly didn’t continue coughing, they had already reduced the probability of illness from 80% to 20% in their mind.

Nevertheless, the school doctor had to confirm. “Then what was the cause of your coughing earlier in class?”

Shao Zhan quickly found an excuse. His expression didn’t change as he said, “There was too much chalk in the classroom.”

Xu Sheng had also thought of the ‘chalk’ excuse, so he could only think of something else. “I used my throat too much.” 

“?”

“Recently in the past few days, I’ve enjoyed reading an hour of my textbooks in the mornings.” Xu Sheng said, “Those of us who love studying are all like this, Our memory is best in the mornings, so I really want to read my textbooks then.”

 

School doctor, “…”

Shao Zhan, “…” 

After messing around the entire day it turned out to be a red herring. The school doctor continued observing for another two hours and truly found that there was absolutely nothing wrong. Forget about not coughing, if they had been told to run ten laps outside, it would be fine.

Thus, the monthly exam still approached furiously.

“The monthly exams begin today, and continue for two days in a row. Everyone lift your spirits, there is still half an hour left of the morning study. Try to do a final review of the main points.” Meng Guowei spoke passionately on the stage, “Your results from the preliminary mock exams might not be satisfactory, but we will definitely be able to see the excellent progress you’ve made while studying this month!”

When he said this, he completely didn’t notice the two students’ stiff expressions and movements under the stage. 

“In a bit, go to the first examination site.” Shao Zhan said, “The first one on the left after you enter.”

There was no use in cramming in such a short time. Pretending to be sick hadn’t worked, so they had to give away their lives at the monthly examination sites. Xu Sheng sighed and said, “I’m in the last one, if you reverse all the answers then it’s mine.”

After he spoke, the two of them fell into despair.

nao: 

zhang feng: wow

nao: wow

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