Bite Your Fingertips
Chapter 36
Chu Yu didn't sense that something was wrong. He wrinkled his nose and said, "Yes, you're right."
When he was full, if he didn't deliberately focus on smelling other people's blood, he wouldn't be able to pick up too many scents.
However, the blood of the person in the corner was too bitter and smelly. It was as if the smell was drilling into his nose. He had no choice but to smell it.
When he realized that Lu Shi had retreated behind him, Chu Yu fanned himself in front of his nose with his hand. When he turned around, he was stunned.
In the plastic bag that Lu Shi had casually placed on the ground, there were steamed buns and soy milk, as well as a white, transparent straw.
At one end of the straw was a sharp, slanted opening.
Lu Shi took out the straw, held it in his right hand, and made a cut on the tip of his left index finger.
In the next second, dark red blood overflowed. It looked like thick ink on the cold white skin.
Chu Yu's heart suddenly skipped a beat.
He never knew that a straw could pierce the skin so easily.
Moreover, the moment the tip of the straw pierced the skin, Lu Shi's hand movements didn't hesitate or stop. His expression was even more calm. It was as if he was doing something that he was used to doing.
Behind the two of them, a few people with tattooed arms saw the opportunity. They supported each other and quickly ran away.
Soon, only Chu Yu and Lu Shi were left in the narrow alley.
Lu Shi approached Chu Yu. He lowered his eyes and meticulously smeared the blood on the tip of his index finger on Chu Yu's lips. His movements were slow and could even be said to be gentle.
"Does my blood smell good?"
Chu Yu's nose was already filled with a familiar fragrance.
He stood in the same spot and let Lu Shi smear his lips.
When Lu Shi asked him in a low voice, he looked into Lu Shi's eyes and answered, "It smells good."
His fingers stopped moving.
Lu Shi's voice sounded like a lover's whisper. It was soft and hoarse. "Then, why do you want to smell other people's blood, huh?"
"Does his blood smell better than mine?"
Chu Yu realized that Lu Shi's current state was somewhat abnormal.
She didn't have her usual aloofness and carelessness. She wasn't cold and aloof like she usually was in school. She also wasn't ruthless like when she was fighting.
His eyes were dark, as if they were covered with a layer of ink, and no light could penetrate them.
There was even a kind of shocking paranoia.
Chu Yu felt a chill run down his spine, and his heart trembled.
The blood on his lips had dried up, and there was an uncomfortable tightness.
He opened his mouth, wanting to say something, but his throat seemed to be constricted, and no sound came out.
Lu Shi did not get an answer.
All of a sudden, his expression turned cold and he took a step back.
The two of them went to school together in the afternoon.
As usual, there was a long line of people lining up at the elevator on the first floor. Chu Yu and Lu Shi did not squeeze in and chose to take the stairs instead.
When they reached the fourth floor, they bumped into their homeroom teacher, Old Ye, who had just come out of his office.
Old Ye saw Chu Yu walking in front of him and smiled. His expression was very gentle as he asked with concern, "Student Chu Yu, are you feeling better?"
His impression of Chu Yu was getting better and better. This student's temperament and character were good, and he was smart. When it came to studying, he could calm his heart. At least, there were very few people who could study for half a month and get into the top two hundred of their grade.
Whether it was the bet or the youthful spirit, it all proved that this student was very good.
Chu Yu remembered the leave application that Zhu Zhifei had helped him fill in and hurriedly nodded. "Thank you, Teacher. I'm much better after taking the medicine."
"Good, good, good. Also, you can't ignore your health just because you're young."
Old Ye glanced at Lu Shi, who was a few steps behind. "Lu Shi, you're here too. Have you settled your family matters?"
Lu Shi nodded. "Yes, I've settled them.
Teacher, I'll go back to the classroom first. "
"Okay, go look for your classmates to take a look at the class notes for the next two days. Don't forget them."
Seeing Lu Shi walk towards the classroom, Chu Yu wanted to follow.
Old Ye remembered and stopped him. "By the way, there were some problems with your poem yesterday. Come, let's talk in my office."
Old Ye had a scholarly temperament. When facing students, he rarely spoke harshly. If there was anything, he would say, "Come, let's talk in my office."
However, most of the students in Class A did not like to talk with Old Ye in his office. This was because Old Ye was too good at talking. He could talk about everything from Yao Shun to the Western Paradise to Confucius to the Eastern Paradise to cutting trees in Washington.
Old Ye picked out Chu Yu's poem from the stack of dictation papers. "The dictation before the monthly exam was basically all correct. But this time, there were a little too many mistakes."
Chu Yu was very clear in his heart that there were not a little too many mistakes at all.
He did not memorize them and was too lazy to secretly flip through the books. If he had an impression, he would just casually write a few words. If he did not have an impression, he would just leave it empty.
Old Ye did not nag as usual. He did not say anything more. "If you didn't write it down from memory, memorize it carefully. Go back to the classroom and rest. No matter what, you can tell me."
Chu Yu came out of the office and walked along the corridor to the classroom.
A sparrow landed on the railing. After a while, it flapped its wings and flew away.
Chu Yu remembered that time when he stood in the corridor between classes to take a few breaths of fresh air. His mind was full of poems and formulas circulating around.
Before this, he could not imagine that he could work so hard in order to achieve something and achieve a goal.
But what was the use?
Chu Yu did not think about it anymore.
Chu Yu had just returned to his seat when Zhang Yueshan turned around. He used a book to cover the lower half of his face and asked in a low, muffled voice, "School Belle, you came with God Lu?"
"Yes, what's wrong?"
Zhang Yueshan was worried. "God Lu's aura today is 2.8 meters tall. When I walk past him, I feel like I'm going to get frostbite!
I've been saving up questions for two or three days. I wanted to ask him, but I couldn't muster up the courage to succeed! "
Chu Yu suggested, "Class Monitor, why don't you save up the questions that you don't know?"
"Okay, I'll ask when God Lu is in a better mood."
It was English class in the afternoon.
The English teacher entered the classroom with textbooks and lesson plans. She was very energetic when she greeted them, but the response she received was mediocre.
Afternoon was the time when it was easy to get sleepy. Many people in the classroom were dozing off. Only a few students in the front row with good grades responded positively. Most of the rest were displaying fancy sleeping positions.
The English teacher was very used to this situation. She exchanged a few words with the English class representative. When she opened her English book, she asked Li Hua to read the text aloud.
Perhaps because the name was particularly affectionate, the English teacher was very fond of Li Hua. As a result, Li Hua never dared to doze off in English class.
Ever since Chu Yu scored 148 on the monthly English test, Chu Yu quickly became the favorite of the English teacher.
Sure enough, as soon as Li Hua sat down, Chu Yu was called to answer a question.
Li Hua turned around and whispered, "I've achieved two consecutive questions!"
Halfway through the class, Chu Yu lay down.
It wasn't that he was sleepy. He slept very well last night and didn't wake up early in the morning. He just couldn't help but think about what happened in the morning.
The wound caused by the plastic straw and Lu Shi's gloomy expression when she smeared the blood on his lips.
He began to recall.
The first time he sucked Lu Shi's blood, it was in the school hospital. He didn't realize it and even thought it was a dream.
After that, Lu Shi opened her clothes in the glass greenhouse and let him bite her.
After that, almost every day, he sucked Lu Shi's blood to fill his stomach.
Lu Shi's attitude and reaction were too normal and natural.
As a result, Chu Yu seemed to have entered a blind spot. He didn't realize that something was wrong.
He and Lu Shi didn't have a deep friendship or a close relationship. After all, they hadn't even known each other for long.
However, Lu Shi quickly accepted Chu Yu's bloodlust and was even willing to provide blood to him day after day.
No, Lu Shi even discovered the problem of "bloodlust" before Chu Yu himself.
Chu Yu held the pen and unconsciously drew countless messy black lines on the paper. They intertwined together like a ball of wool.
He suddenly realized that he needed Lu Shi's blood. No, he only needed Lu Shi's blood. This point seemed to have an extremely special meaning to Lu Shi.
This was why Lu Shi reacted so strongly when he went to smell the blood this morning. She asked him why he wanted to smell other people's blood. Was other people's blood better than his?
At that moment, Chu Yu admitted that he was scared and didn't even know how to answer.
But now that he thought about it, Lu Shi seemed to be even more scared than he was.
Zhang Yueshan and Li Hua were the first to realize that something was wrong.
The two of them sat in front of Chu Yu and had a deep understanding of the relationship between the two of them.
At first, they didn't see eye to eye. They didn't want to sit at the same table as each other. Then, they arranged their tables one after the other.
Later, for some reason, the two of them started to talk occasionally.
Later on, the school belle brought Lu Shi chicken soup every two to three days. Lu Shi was even more conscientious in tutoring Chu Yu.
Under these circumstances, they thought that the two of them had entered a harmonious relationship. Unexpectedly, in the blink of an eye, it was as if winter had arrived.
Zhang Yueshan rubbed his arms and sighed. "Ah, it's so cold."
Li Hua seemed to understand. He rubbed his arms and sighed. "Ah, it's really cold!
When will spring come back? "
The two of them looked at each other and saw the worry in each other's eyes. When will this cold winter pass?
Meng Ge came over to play. When he saw Zhang Yueshan and Li Hua rubbing their arms together, he sneered, "Hahaha, you two weaklings. I asked you to play basketball with me to strengthen your bodies, but you refused.
It's not even winter yet, but you're already having goosebumps! "
Li Hua said faintly, "You, don't understand."
As he said that, he glanced carefully and realized that Chu Yu was lying on his stomach. His posture had not changed, so he didn't know if he was asleep or not.
Lu Shi was doing practice questions. His expression was colder than before.
At this moment, the cold from Western Siberia chilled his heart.
The atmosphere between the two of them was getting colder and colder. Until the end of the evening self-study session, Chu Yu and Lu Shi did not say a word.
Chu Yu turned his head a few times, but he still did not say anything.
He did not know what to say, or rather, he had not thought it through completely.
When the bell rang, Meng Ge rushed out of the classroom from the back door with a basketball in his arms.
Zhang Yueshan and Li Hua packed their bags and gave each other a look. In the end, they asked Chu Yu, "School belle, do you want to go to the cafeteria together?"
Chu Yu was thinking about something, so his reaction was slow for two seconds before he answered, "Forget it. You guys go ahead. I'm not going. I'll go straight back to my dorm."
Without taking his textbook, Chu Yu picked up the unfinished comic book and got up to leave.
Lu Shi did not even look up.
Zhang Yueshan and Li Hua looked at each other again. It seemed that the friendship they had cultivated with great difficulty had been ruined.
Chu Yu spent one to two hours reading the comic book. He had lost count of the number of times he had spaced out.
Just as he was about to get up and take a shower, his phone rang. It was Zhu Zhifei.
"School belle, have you seen Lu Ge?"
"He's not in the dorm?"
"No, I went to his dorm and knocked on his door. He's not in. The cafeteria is also empty.
Actually, Lu Ge is already an adult. I shouldn't be so nervous, but I've been a little paranoid these past two days. I'm worried that Lu Ge will do something exciting if he's unhappy. "
Zhu Zhifei sighed loudly. "I'm only 17 years old, but I already have the heart of an old mother!"
"I don't think so," Chu Yu comforted Zhu Zhifei. "I'll also look around the school. I'll contact you later."
It was October. After the rain, the night became cold.
Before Chu Yu left, he grabbed a jacket. When he walked out of the door, he realized that it was Lu Shi's jacket.
He did not return it after he wore it. Lu Shi did not mention it, so he had forgotten about it.
After putting on the jacket, Chu Yu went downstairs.
Street lights were on everywhere in the school. The teaching building was only a dark silhouette under the dark blue sky.
When he reached downstairs, Chu Yu wrapped the jacket around himself and realized that he did not know where to find Lu Shi.
Lu Shi was very self-disciplined. His daily activities were in the classroom, the dorm, and the cafeteria. Occasionally, he would go to the basketball court with Meng Ge to play basketball.
After thinking about it, Chu Yu decided to try his luck and go to the basketball court to take a look.
It was too late, so there was no one at the basketball court. The street lights on the side sent some light over, and there were shadows.
Chu Yu went in and looked around. When he saw that there was no one around, he was about to go to another place to look. Suddenly, he caught a glimpse of someone sitting under the basketball hoop.
With just one glance, Chu Yu was sure that it was Lu Shi.
He walked over.
Lu Shi was sitting there. When he saw Chu Yu, he was not surprised. "Are you hungry?"
"No."
Chu Yu stood there for two seconds before he sat down next to Lu Shi.
The night breeze blew over, and the greenery planted by the basketball court rustled.
This scene reminded Chu Yu of the night when he found out that he needed to suck blood. He was sitting on the steps of the park in the middle of the street. Lu Shi also sat next to him like this.
Neither of them spoke.
After a long time, Chu Yu asked, "The wound on your finger … Does it hurt?"
"It doesn't hurt."
Chu Yu wanted to refute. How could it not hurt?
He used a plastic straw to prick open a layer of skin. Just thinking about it hurt a lot.
He placed his heel on the ground and subconsciously rubbed it twice.
"Lu Shi."
"Yes."
Chu Yu swallowed the words that were about to come out of his mouth.
Before he could come to a conclusion, Lu Shi stood up. "I'll go back first."
But the next second, his sleeve was pulled.
It was not a strong force, but he could not break free. He could not move at all.
Chu Yu tightened his grip on the fabric of his shirt. His voice was not loud, and his vocal cords were even dry. "It's not like that."
"What's not like that?"
Chu Yu had a feeling that Lu Shi was waiting for him to express his opinion.
It was like a tacit understanding.
Lu Shi was waiting for his answer the whole afternoon and night.
Or perhaps, a guarantee.
Every word was said very clearly. Chu Yu looked up and met Lu Shi's lowered gaze. "Only your blood smells good.
Lu Shi, only you. "
Lu Shi lowered his thin eyelids and repeated in a low voice, "Only me?"
"Yes, only you."
In an instant, all the gloomy thorns in Lu Shi's body were suppressed into the deepest part of his heart with these words.
He smiled, like the moon breaking through the clouds.