Chapter 86: Poisoned
Pei Yin tried to help her activate it.
Instruments, Soul Beasts, medicine.
They all failed.
He even fed her two aged Beast Fruits.
After all the commotion, Jian Yu had finished dinner and the sky had turned dark.
"Don’t worry, take it slow. You probably just haven’t fully Awakened yet."
Pei Yin mused, "I was just trying to speed up your Awakening. The effect wasn’t great, maybe because the stimulation wasn’t enough. I’ll go back and do some research to improve the method."
Who would have thought a kiss would provide more stimulation for Jian Yu than all his tools?
Pei Yin reflected on this.
He removed the restraints from the bed and put them away in his Space Button.
Fortunately, today’s efforts hadn’t been in vain.
Since she could control three of her abilities, the other two certainly wouldn’t take much longer.
The bigger problem was her Attack Power.
When Awakeners and Half-awakened attacked people, they used their spiritual power for suppression.
For Awakeners with high spiritual power like them, they sometimes didn’t even need to use their Soul Beasts.
If a Soul Beast tried a sneak attack, it was a non-issue. A single glance from their Beast Soul could paralyze a Low-level Soul Beast.
Against an A-level or higher, with added spiritual power suppression, such a meager attack was still negligible. They wouldn’t even give it a second thought.
Jian Yu was different. As long as her scent wasn’t discovered, her probability of successfully launching a sneak attack on even an S-Class Awakener was very high.
She could very well be the first person to ever successfully ambush them.
The downside was, she couldn’t control her fragrance, so a sneak attack would only succeed once.
Pei Yin felt the threat, but rarely for him, he didn’t feel the need to be on guard.
Instead, he was personally teaching her how to attack and ambush them.
It was unbelievable, but his mind was clear.
"Practice more, just like I taught you. Keep your scent concealed so you won’t be detected before you attack."
Having gotten a taste of success, Jian Yu replied obediently, "Okay."
’Putting my cards on the table really has more pros than cons.’
’In just one evening, I’ve already made two breakthroughs.’
’One-tenth of my body has Awakened.’
’From now on, when I control the mist, the fragrance won’t come out, but the important thing is, the effect is still there.’
Jian Yu glanced sideways at Xi Yu’s flushed face.
She had always been worried about becoming their test subject.
Who would have thought they would voluntarily become her test subjects instead?
Through experimentation, they found that when the pink mist crawled over their bodies, it could stir their desires even without a scent.
According to Pei Yin’s speculation, when it clung to a person, it had the same soothing effect on an Awakener’s Threshold Devouring Period.
It was very reassuring.
Just a bit tiring.
Jian Yu collapsed into Ling Yanzhi’s arms, opening her mouth to eat the after-dinner fruit he fed her.
Pei Yin’s professional habits kicked in.
He frowned. "Get up and move a little. It’s easy to get indigestion, which will upset your stomach."
Jian Yu was a slacker at heart; her bursts of motivation to get stronger usually only lasted for a day.
Usually, her enthusiasm for something would last a few minutes, and she would put in exactly that many minutes of hard work.
One minute more was like asking for her life.
She blinked her eyes and said in a soft, gentle voice, "My legs are sore. I have no strength."
Speaking of legs, Pei Yin remembered something.
"The levitation lift goes directly to the academic building, but you still have to walk in between. It’s fine for us to carry you when we’re free, but Lin Yu and the others can’t."
He was the one who told her to move more, yet he was also the first to go soft.
Pei Yin suggested: "Let’s get her a mobility device. It’s normal for your legs to be weak during the Awakening Period, and your heart can’t take too much strain. We can work on physical training once you’re almost fully Awakened."
"Alright, I’ll have Lin Yu send one over," Ling Yanzhi said without hesitation.
Xi Yu’s tea-brown eyes shifted.
He brought up the old topic again. "Since you have no strength, how about I help you bathe, baby?"
Pei Yin smacked him on the head. "Don’t you know what boundaries are? There are some places you shouldn’t just look at."
Xi Yu’s eyes turned sinister.
He grabbed Pei Yin’s hand, activating his poison. "You showed your chest to baby. *You’re* the one with no boundaries."
Jian Yu lowered her head.
’Why do I kind of want to laugh?’
Out-argued, Pei Yin silently administered an antidote for the Poison Needle.
He took out a medicine. "If you can’t exercise, then use supplements. This one also helps with digestion."
It was sweet.
Jian Yu took it and drank it in one gulp.
Less than two seconds later, she was being held by someone else.
Xi Yu gave her cheek a loud kiss. "Good girl. I’ll take you for a bath, baby."
Jian Yu turned her head, looking for Ling Yanzhi.
A floating screen appeared, displaying a blurry mosaic and garbled text.
He had enabled his privacy settings.
Ling Yanzhi stared at the floating Star Brain panel, his expression grave.
Noticing Jian Yu’s gaze, he closed the Star Brain, walked over, and kissed her forehead. "I’ll go pick out some pajamas for you, baby."
Jian Yu felt that their moods were off.
’Is it because I’ve revealed too much of my cheat ability, making them...’
She cut off that line of speculation. The premise didn’t hold up.
’When you’re wary of someone, you break their wings; you don’t support them as they grow.’
’There must be another reason.’
Jian Yu couldn’t guess what it was, so she could only watch him walk into the dressing room.
Xi Yu finished drawing the bath and carried her inside.
He had a shy look on his face. "Baby, how much strength do you have left? Do you need help taking off your clothes?"
Jian Yu snapped back to reality, her face flushing red.
"I can do it myself."
’She rejected me, but that’s okay.’
’There’s always next time, and the time after that, and the time after that...’
Xi Yu gave her a couple of kisses and left quietly.
Bath time was also when Jian Yu had her voice call with the director.
The director’s panting voice came through the receiver.
"Mom?" Several bad thoughts flashed through Jian Yu’s mind.
"I’m here, I’m here." The director’s voice was breathless.
Her speech was faintly tinged with the sound of crying.
"It might be because we moved, they’re not used to the new environment. Several of the little ones got sick. I just finished checking on Zhang Yuan and Xiao Yun, and now I have to rush over to take care of Xin’er."
"It’s nothing serious, don’t worry. The hospital said it’s just minor ailments. I just had someone deliver their meals. Xin’er’s case is a bit more serious, so I need to hurry over."
"Be good, baby. I’ll talk to you later."
The call ended.
’Is it really just that they can’t acclimate?’
Jian Yu didn’t quite believe it.
Zhang Xin’er was the director’s biological daughter. Whenever two or three people got sick at the same time, the director would always check on the others quickly, arrange for someone to deliver their food, and then run back to take care of her personally.
One was her biological daughter, the others were adopted daughters. Even if they were all "daughters," there was ultimately a difference.
Jian Yu didn’t like Xin’er. She knew it was wrong, but she just didn’t like her.
Because the director doted on Xin’er the most, she always ended up neglecting her because of Zhang Xin’er.
Zhang Xin’er could also sense the director’s favoritism, so she didn’t pick on others, only on her.
Whenever she got sick, Zhang Xin’er would pretend to be sick too, just to keep the director with her. She would even deliberately run to her sickroom to tell her she was faking it.
In the real world, after the director passed away, Zhang Xin’er even scammed her out of money.
The moment she thought of this, her dislike for her grew.
’This situation... something has clearly gone wrong.’
’This isn’t the time to be petty.’
Jian Yu quickly finished her bath and changed her clothes.
She deliberately concealed her presence.
Just as Pei Yin had taught her.
Ling Yanzhi probably didn’t expect her to finish her bath so quickly and had let his guard down.
He was talking to someone on his Star Brain. "Poisoned? Have they been caught? What’s the hospital saying?"