Chapter 33: Luoshui

As the only top-tier university in Binhai City, Binhai University is quite large, with a total area exceeding 9,000 mu.

The campus where Bai Cangshu is located is not that large; it is built along the sea and covers 3,000 mu. Outside the campus lies the famous Ring Sea Avenue of Binhai City, with beautiful scenery and moist sea breezes.

This year's freshman military training has already ended. As Bai Cangshu walks through the campus, many freshmen cast curious gazes his way.

There are even quite a few bold female students who walk over to greet him.

"Senior, which department are you from?"

"Senior, can I add you on WeChat?"

These girls who have just entered university are always full of expectations for college life and campus romance.

But before Bai Cangshu can respond, their seniors have already awkwardly nodded at Bai Cangshu and pulled the girls away.

"Don't be infatuated; that person is not someone you can afford to provoke!"

Bai Cangshu smiles indifferently. He crosses the entire campus and exits the school gate. The sea breeze rushes toward him, carrying a faint scent of freedom.

The degree of muscle damage on his body is not something the school infirmary can handle, but there is a decent private hospital on the street next to Binhai University; he figures they must have been attracted by the potential geographical advantages of the university town.

Bai Cangshu notices that the black strange bird behind him is indeed still circling in the sky, and he becomes even more certain that the bird is one of the links in monitoring him.

After Bai Cangshu briefly registers, the surgeon re-bandages and stabilizes his injuries; the degree of his muscle contusions surprises even the doctor.

The doctor uses a needle-knife to repair and adjust Bai Cangshu's muscles. The excruciating pain during the process leaves a deep impression on Bai Cangshu, but he insists on not using anesthesia. In a sense, Bai Cangshu is simply incredibly well-adapted to everything about being a Reincarnator.

Cautious in the details, yet quite insane in the big picture.

By the time everything is finished and the bandaged Bai Cangshu comes out, it is already sunset.

The red setting sun on the sea surface looks exceptionally beautiful.

On Ring Sea Avenue, a red sports car is parked on the side near the hospital.

Luoshui sits in the car, feeling somewhat nervous, and keeps talking to Song Xian via a Bluetooth headset.

"Master, what should I do? He's come out!"

This is Luoshui's first time executing such a mission alone. Due to her background, she has basically never worked on the front lines. If it weren't for the special current situation and her possession of that treasure for protection—which allows her to be completely unaffected by cognitive interference-type abilities—her father would never have allowed her to enter the current department.

Song Xian's voice comes through the earpiece; his tone is low and steady.

"Luoshui, you don't need to be too nervous. Bai Cangshu is just our subject of observation; he is not a bad person in the strict sense..."

"You only need to interact with him normally. We don't even need you to actually spy on any Intelligence. All we need to do is ease the confrontational sentiment and let him know that our 【Monitoring】 is not an act of hostility."

Song Xian also feels somewhat helpless. His actions are not supported by some people in the bureau. For those leaders who never go to the front lines, the standards for operations are always mechanical and inflexible.

Those people do not know that in a place like the Infinite Dimensional Space, talent is always the scarcest resource.

The things a powerful Reincarnator can achieve are truly too terrifying.

Therefore, Song Xian had no choice but to send out this young girl, Luoshui. After all, Luoshui has a special status, and even the leaders in the bureau cannot order her around.

Luoshui thinks about it carefully; this Bai Cangshu indeed only looks strange in the files, and when she met him, she did not notice anything unusual at all.

She touches the pendant on her neck again. It was a gift from an enlightened master, and her master, Song Xian, said it is a rare treasure that can keep evil influences at bay.

Luoshui secretly cheers herself on for a good while before opening the car door, but Bai Cangshu has already walked some distance away.

She secretly punches her own thigh; this makes her prepared "chance encounter" excuse unusable. Luoshui trots to catch up to Bai Cangshu and says, "What a coincidence, Student Bai, it really is you."

The smile on Luoshui's face is slightly stiff; she knows her words right now are very awkward.

Sure enough, Bai Cangshu turns around to see Luoshui and retorts, "You weren't jogging over here, were you? This doesn't look like a chance encounter."

As Luoshui's face turns slightly red, Bai Cangshu changes the subject, saying, "But I also know that leaving the campus without permission must be a violation of your rules. I was just worrying about it."

"I'm relieved that it's you who came, and not that Officer Song."

A smile appears on Bai Cangshu's face, and under the orange-red sunset, he actually looks quite warm.

Hearing this, Luoshui finds a topic and an entry point. She smiles easily and says, "Right? My master always has a dark face; even I am a bit afraid when I see him. So I volunteered to come and ask if you had any business leaving school so suddenly?"

She feels that her opening of this topic is very natural and is secretly pleased.

On the other side of the headset, Song Xian's face turns dark; he did not expect his own disciple's way of finding a topic would be to join the observation subject in complaining about him.

Bai Cangshu knows that Luoshui's words are actually meant to probe his whereabouts, so he "truthfully" says, "I have a habit of working out. I went to the shopping street across from the school to work out yesterday, and I didn't expect to strain my muscles."

He pulls his shirt down a bit to reveal his bandaged chest. Luoshui's gaze drifts over involuntarily, only to find that Bai Cangshu's muscle lines are very defined; it would be no exaggeration to say they look carved by a knife.

Is this person a bit too muscular? Is this an effect that can be achieved in a gym? Bai Cangshu maintains the posture of pulling his clothes open, but the policewoman keeps staring. He coughs to pull his clothes back up, and Luoshui also blushes, coughing to explain,

"Don't misunderstand, I was just checking your injuries, um, and confirming what you said..."

Bai Cangshu can tell that this policewoman must have an unusual family background. That car should be a Mercedes-AMG SL63; it is quite an expensive sports car for ordinary people and should not be something an ordinary law enforcement agency member could afford.

Therefore, he does not treat her naive demeanor as a pretense.

Dealing with this kind of person is always better than dealing with that Song Xian.

He takes the opportunity to invite her to the commercial street for a drink, which also serves the purpose of making it convenient for her to monitor him.

Luoshui feels that her operation today is quite smooth; not only did she figure out Bai Cangshu's tracks for leaving the campus over the past two days, but she also successfully built a rapport. She believes that Bai Cangshu's impression of her should be quite good.

But hearing the coughing sound from her master in the headset, she still refuses,

"Student Bai, there's no need for tea. I just came to see if you had encountered any problems. If you have similar issues in the future, you can call me directly, and I can provide some convenience within my authority."

She hands him her business card, then trots back to her car and leaves gracefully.

Bai Cangshu also waves with a smile, turns, and walks toward the commercial street, arriving at the gym above the bar from yesterday.

Xiao Ning, with his hands bandaged, sees Bai Cangshu coming and involuntarily lowers his head.

For some reason, he feels even more terrified of Bai Cangshu.

"Xiao Ning, have you brought the iron sand I wanted?"

Xiao Ning nods.

"Those things are all prepared."

He does not dare to ask what those things are for.

Bai Cangshu waves his hand and walks into the VIP area on his own.

Following his requirements, some new equipment had been added here.

Bai Cangshu walked over to that basin of heavy iron sand and suddenly plunged his hand straight into it.

Pfft! The coarse iron sand instantly chafed his skin until it burned, but he acted as if he felt nothing, continuing the act of "harming" his own body. — On the other side, listening to the roar of the engine, Luoshui suddenly remembered.

She had forgotten to ask Bai Cangshu about his parents.

Even though she had remembered it clearly before, and Song Xian had said he would remind her, once Bai Cangshu appeared, both of them had forgotten about this matter entirely.

(End of chapter)