It seems that the villain is targeting me.

Dr. Chen quickly glanced around the corridor: she didn't see anyone else.

The doctor's wrist unconsciously relaxed.

I really am scaring myself...

She gave a slightly sarcastic expression.

When did I become like this? I was so scared, treading in the shadows like a thief, afraid to be seen.

But it's normal for her to become like this: isn't this what happens to people who do bad things?

If the teacher sees me now, he will feel very

Disappointed?

I failed to live up to her expectations of me... and became a bad person.

But now that things have come to this, I can no longer stop.

Doctor Chen's hands dropped unconsciously, and his mood became a little depressed.

At this moment, a slightly cold hand reached out and grasped her wrist.

The doctor turned around reflexively, but the hand that clamped her wrist suddenly exerted force, twisted her arm, and pressed the doctor against the wall.

The weapon in his hand was also skillfully removed, the knife fell to the ground and was kicked away violently.

Dr. Chen did not panic. She clenched her teeth, pressed her knees against the wall, and prepared to struggle.

But just before the doctor was about to explode, he suddenly seemed to be hit by something, and his body trembled unconsciously.

She relaxed her grip and even forgot to struggle at all.

The tone of the person behind her was unusually cold, but the voice itself was so familiar that it almost made her cry.

Xiao Niao clamped the doctor's arm tightly from behind.

"I got you," she said.

Chapter 80 Memories of the Past

Xiao Niao could clearly feel the sound of his own heartbeat.

Her breathing was a little heavy, but she did not relax the strength of her hands.

It is very difficult to suppress an opponent who has an advantage in height, so Xiao Niao used all his strength from the beginning, putting his weight on him to prevent the opponent from struggling.

He reached for his wrist in order to disarm the doctor - but here Xiaoniao actually didn't know how dangerous the doctor was, and disarming was just a subconscious action.

She actually didn't hold out much hope of catching him.

When Xiao Niao first discovered this person's whereabouts, he was indeed emotional for a moment and followed him without thinking.

When she was almost at the hotel lobby, she regained her composure.

"...I'm completely unaware of her presence," the system muttered, its voice filled with disbelief. "This doesn't make any sense—she's clearly standing there."

If the confirmation was done purely by scanning, Tongzi wouldn't even be able to detect Dr. Chen's presence.

She seemed transparent in the eyes of the system, and it could not detect her even if she stood right in front of the bird.

Xiao Niao naturally proposed a hypothesis: "Could it be that she was responsible for the unusual luck?"

The logical chain here is this: there has been an abnormal change in luck - a suspicious woman was found at the scene - the incident may be related to her.

You can't blame Xiaoniao for being arbitrary. Dr. Chen himself has the words "I have a problem" carved on his face.

"...I'm not entirely sure," the system hesitated. "Lu Yao's aura fluctuations are also very strange... I feel like something's not quite right..."

Xiao Niao stepped into the hotel lobby. Everyone around her ignored her and focused on their own work, as if they didn't even notice her presence.

She lowered her head and saw that cat number four had already followed her happily.

Ever since gaining a large amount of karma points in the last incident, the mental outlook of cat No. 4 has been completely renewed - without even needing the bird to remind him, it quickly used [Cognitive Interference] to cover it up.

It raised its furry little face and looked at Xiaoniao with joy, looking like a well-behaved and sensible bird asking for praise... making the latter truly understand what it meant to be in a difficult situation.

Now that things have come to this, it would be rude not to do something.

Xiao Niao thought to himself, "I'm already here," and went upstairs with gritted teeth.

Then she observed the situation - Tongzi could hack into the surveillance, so Xiaoniao didn't worry about being discovered by the hotel staff - after confirming that the other party had no other helpers, she ambushed outside the door and tried to induce the doctor to open it.

Things were unexpectedly simple. The man did not notice her immediately after opening the door. Although he was extremely alert, his attention was completely in the wrong place.

Xiao Niao was actually hiding behind the door at the time - she estimated the other person's height to be around 1.75 meters - at this height, there would be a blind spot when looking around, so the doctor failed to discover Xiao Niao at the first time.

She lowered her body, pressed silently against the wall, and then seized the opportunity to reach out and disarm him.

Xiao Niao completed the uniforming process more smoothly than he expected.

...It was a little too smooth, and even gave her a strange sense of déjà vu.

"Don't move," Xiao Niao warned in a low voice, "or you'll get an electric rat."

The man who was threatened in this way stiffened his body, and his shoulders, which were originally struggling and twisting, also collapsed and slowly lost their strength.

The doctor's face was pressed against the wall in a somewhat embarrassed manner. She tried to glance at the person behind her with the corner of her eye, but she could only hear the other person's irregular breathing.

The doctor was torn between the fear of his identity being revealed and the feeling of 'she's so close to me'.

She was in such agony that she couldn't help but want to throw it all away: So what if they saw me? The teacher wouldn't do anything to me...

Deep down, Dr. Chen is afraid of facing birds.

One reason is that she has lived in seclusion for a long time, and she almost instinctively wants to stay away from people and never takes the initiative to establish contact with others.

Second, it is because of some complex homesickness.

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She was afraid that the bird would not recognize her, but she was also afraid that the bird would recognize her, and thus showed a look of disappointment.

She couldn't say which was more painful.

Even just imagining that scene makes my heart ache like it's being torn apart.

Dr. Chen's forehead was against the wall. She was panting and her eyes were tightly closed, as if she was waiting for the judge's verdict.

At such a close distance, none of her movements could escape the observation of the person behind her.

Xiao Niao felt something was strange.

…She really didn't resist. A strange thought popped up in her mind. Hmm, it felt like she had tied this person up somewhere before…

Come to think of it, this profile also seems familiar...

Xiao Niao was just about to get closer to take a closer look when he heard the sound of a door lock being opened not far away.

She glanced away: it was the room on her left.

The system had previously told Xiao Niao that that was the room where Gu Tianjiao was.

The fluctuation of luck comes from there.

[Someone is coming out,] Tongzi reminded Xiaoniao, [——It's Lu Yao, she's standing at the door now.]

[Cognitive Interference] has no effect on people with good luck, so the system will remind you.

Imagine Xiaoniao's current situation: in the Fun Hotel, with a woman's hands tied behind her back and pressed against the wall in the corridor.

If this scene were to be spread through Lu Yao's mouth, what a complete disgrace it would be!

She even has some personal grudges with Lu Yao!

Xiao Niao hesitated.

She hesitated for about half a second.

The next moment, the person who was originally suppressed by her suddenly struggled violently with great intensity.

Xiao Niao endured this unexpected attack and lost his balance almost in the blink of an eye.

If you have friends who are studying medicine, you will understand - those medical students' hands are as scary as pliers!

The doctor quickly turned the tables and grabbed the bird's collar to prevent it from falling to the ground.

Is this a scuffle or just a simple struggle?

Xiao Niao doesn't know.

It happened so suddenly that she didn't have time to think about anything extra.

The door behind Dr. Chen was still half open. There was no light in the room, and it was pitch black.

Their legs were tangled together, and they were tumbling and pushing each other like two cats with taped hind paws trying to fight.

The doctor didn't want to really hurt the bird, so he shamelessly used the "hug" technique from boxing matches to firmly lock the latter's movements.

Xiao Niao only knows how to swing the turtle punch and doesn't know how to counter such a move.

The two men were stacked on top of each other in an even more indecent manner than before.

To sum it up, Dr. Chen has a slight advantage.

She took the bird into the room.

The two men fell from the brightly lit corridor into the silent darkness.

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There was a sound of curtains being drawn in the room, and the silent darkness was pierced by light.

She noticed this, but still stubbornly rolled herself up in the quilt, like an ostrich escaping from reality.

"...A-Chen."

Xiao Niao was calling her, his tone as calm as ever—or perhaps mixed with deep helplessness—but she couldn't hear it.

Perhaps because of the quilt, the sound sounded a little muffled.

"Ah Chen,"

I felt a touch on the back of my shoulders, and then a gentle shake.

"Wake up," the other person said, "I know you are not asleep."

Once your tone changes to this, you can no longer act like a spoiled brat, otherwise Xiao Niao will definitely get angry.

She suddenly felt very frustrated: the other party was obviously cheating and using the authority of adults to oppress her.

Although in terms of age alone, she is actually an adult.

Ah Chen sat up from the bed, her hands still tightly wrapped around the quilt as if in a fit of anger, until Xiao Niao reached out to lift it up, and then she reluctantly loosened her fingers.

She didn't say anything, but just kept her head down silently. Because she had been stuck under the quilt for a long time, her face and neck were a soft pink.

Xiao Niao sat down on the edge of the bed. When Ah Chen lowered his head, she could see bruises on the corners of his eyes and chin.

There should be some left on his body, but it was covered by his clothes.

Ah Chen didn't know what Xiaoniao's expression was at the moment, she only felt that the other person's gaze seemed to have a physical body, gently falling on her shoulders and neck.

She felt a little anxious and thought Xiao Niao might start to question her.

She seemed to have gotten into a lot of trouble recently, so there were many specific things she could be questioned about: why did she skip classes, why did she fight with Chen Zhengkang...

Also, why did I impulsively kiss the bird that night a few days ago?

Because of this, Ah Chen has been avoiding Xiao Niao for several days. They haven't had a good conversation for a whole week.

She waited with a tragic mentality of waiting to be slaughtered, but Xiao Niao didn't ask anything. He just looked at Ah Chen's cheek, and then said, "Your wound is broken, and you need to apply some iodine."

She brought iodine and ointment. The ointment had a herbal smell like Chinese patent medicine. When Xiaoniao applied it, she rubbed some of it on her fingers, so her hands also had that faint smell.

The herbal aroma.

When applying the medicine, Ah Chen was relatively quiet, but his eyes kept darting around, revealing the inner turmoil of his master.

Her eyes fell on her intact arm - luckily her arm was not injured in the fight - Ah Chen herself was surprised, and as she looked at it, she couldn't help but touch it.

In her memory, there were always bruises on her arms, or scars that were healing. Ah Chen could not even remember what her arms looked like when they were intact.

Xiao Niao has already put away the medicine box.

Ah Chen pinched his arm with his fingers, and finally couldn't help but speak out: "Don't you have anything to ask me?"