Chapter 36: Doctor Lin's Ability

Besides, she and Bao Jing were clearly on the train just before, but in the blink of an eye they arrived here.

Is this also her ability?

Ye Xi'an glanced at the still-unconscious Bao Jing; right then she also felt the urge to grow stronger. If she hadn't been surrounded by those males, Bao Jing wouldn't have risked his life to rescue her. Constantly relying on others for protection won't last.

Her usually fragile cat-like eyes flashed with determination now; she propped herself on Bao Jing's hospital bed and stood up, saying to Lin Zhi Jing: "Okay, let's go."

Ye Xi'an followed Lin Zhi Jing back to the laboratory, but the structure of the experimental platform caught her attention.

This experimental platform differs from the usual hospital operating table; it is a solid rectangular block cast from iron, and she didn't see the metal fine chains that had bound her earlier anywhere near the platform—where did those chains come from.

Lin Zhi Jing had put on his lab coat; turning his head, he saw Ye Xi'an examining his experimental platform up and down, like a cat that has seen something strange and won't be satisfied until its curiosity is quelled.

He had walked up behind Ye Xi'an without her noticing: "What are you looking at?"

Ye Xi'an was so engrossed that when Lin Zhi Jing suddenly spoke, she was startled, jumped up from the ground, and bumped right into his arms; she quickly stepped back, feeling a bit embarrassed: "Sorry, I didn't know you were behind me."

Lin Zhi Jing smoothed the lab coat wrinkled by Ye Xi'an's bump, his face still cold: "So what were you looking at?"

"I wasn't looking at anything; I was just searching for the metal chains that bound me, but I couldn't find them anywhere. Does this experimental platform have some mechanism?"

Lin Zhi Jing lowered his eyes: "You mean this?"

As soon as he finished speaking, the metal of the platform began to extend outward like liquid, gradually forming the shape of chains.

Ye Xi'an's eyes widened in shock. In her memory, males possessed various abilities—for example, the common five elements: metal, wood, water, fire, earth; plus some less common ones: ice, wind, dark, healing, lightning.

But she had never actually witnessed a male's so-called ability; the only ability she had seen was her own—a passage space that could lead to the Xiao Shijie.

Now, watching the hard metal deform like water before her eyes, she was so shocked her mouth could swallow an egg. This ability must be a metal-type ability, right? Same type as Ye Ling?

Lin Zhi Jing saw Ye Xi'an's inexperienced look and couldn't help finding it amusing, so he pulled those chains longer and longer, more and more—first one, then two, three, ten—until the room was filled with silver chains writhing like a demonic dance, as if they had entered a strange cavern overgrown with silver vines.

Ye Xi'an felt envious; if she had this ability, it would be great—she could drive away anyone who wanted to harm her.

Lin Zhi Jing retracted the chains, and all the metal reverted to the experimental platform: "All right, now you can lie down honestly."

Ye Xi'an nodded, lay back on the platform without hesitation, and just before the chains wrapped around her limbs, she suddenly said: "Actually, you don't need to tie me up; I can endure a lot."

"That won't do," Lin Zhi Jing said, pushing his silver-thread glasses up his nose, the corner of his mouth curling into a mischievous smile: "I tie people up not because I'm afraid you'll move, but because I simply enjoy seeing people bound."

Ye Xi'an: …… No, his perversion is just an act, right?

After Lin Zhi Jing finished speaking, four icy chains once again bound Ye Xi'an's limbs.

Lin Zhi Jing pushed in a strange instrument from somewhere, its surface covered with tubes and wires of various colors.

He took out the measuring probe of the instrument, intending to insert it from beneath Ye Xi'an's clothing and attach it to her body, but her outfit was a one-piece dress, leaving no opening from the hem to slip it in.

Lin Zhi Jing lowered his head and gave the lying Ye Xi'an a faint smile: "Sorry for the intrusion."

As he spoke, a pair of scissors appeared in his hand out of thin air, the blades long and sharp, and he cut straight down from Ye Xi'an's collar.

The cold, temperature-less back of the blade touched Ye Xi'an's warm skin, instantly giving her goosebumps all over.

She stared blankly at Lin Zhi Jing and asked: "What are you doing?"

Lin Zhi Jing didn't stop cutting; he had already sliced from the collar down to the chest: "Your clothes are in the way, I'll cut them for you."

"Help me cut?" Ye Xi'an gazed blankly at the lab's metal ceiling, pondering whether the word 'help' was being used like that.

But Lin Zhi Jing's scissors gave her no time to be dazed; in the blink of an eye they reached her navel.

She had wanted to struggle a bit, but seeing there was no hope, she completely gave up.

Researchers always neglect the privacy of experimental subjects—stripping people naked is basic procedure; she had even seen these white-coated people peel off others' skin and then use instruments to extract every cell, which is truly a total lack of privacy.

But when the scissors touched a certain spot on her waist, she suddenly felt a tingling numbness run down her spine, almost making her cry out.

Lin Zhi Jing also clearly sensed the change in her; his cutting motion paused slightly, he poked that spot with his finger, and indeed Ye Xi'an's body twitched a little again.

In the spirit of a researcher's dedication, he poked the same spot on himself and felt nothing special.

"Never mind, getting the data is more important." The dress was split down the middle; Lin Zhi Jing pinched the edges of the cut opening and neatly draped the fabric over Ye Xi'an's body on both sides.

But upon seeing Ye Xi'an's bodily structure, he was momentarily stunned.

He had never before studied a female's bodily structure; he hadn't expected it to differ from a male's.

It seems he still needs to keep learning.

He picked up the measuring probe again; it was actually a bunch of thin metal sheets with slight adhesive properties.

When the sheets approached Ye Xi'an's body, they automatically adhered to her.

The warm skin suddenly met cold metal, making Ye Xi'an shiver.

Lin Zhi Jing applied the probes along Ye Xi'an's arms, calves, and thighs; even the poor little white rabbits didn't escape.

Finally, the last two sheets, Lin Zhi Jing fixed them onto Ye Xi'an's forehead.

When the machine started up, the screen displayed Ye Xi'an's bodily structure diagram—first the basic surface structure; when it reached the area between her legs, Lin Zhi Jing frowned again.

It turned out to be different here as well; he thought about cutting it open to see what to do.

He turned his head; behind his lenses, a pair of phoenix eyes gazed steadily at Ye Xi'an.

Ye Xi'an also surprisingly guessed what Lin Zhi Jing intended to do, and before he could even ask, she immediately refused: "No!"

Although she was used to it, this wasn't Diqiu, and the Doctor Lin before her wasn't human; surely he wouldn't be that insane.

Lin Zhi Jing shrugged regretfully.

(End of chapter)