old dream

Chapter 157 The Kiss of Death
"Impossible, even if the doctor of the religious order misdiagnosed me, I have..."

She believed it was impossible for her to be mistaken.

Although Ji Lian was comforting Elena with a smile, stroking her curly black hair hanging in front of her eyes, her voice softened, and she turned her gaze to the side thoughtfully.

"...Did you think of something?"

Elena noticed Ji Lian's unnatural expression, so she asked softly.

Ji Li'an turned her gaze back, fixedly looked into Elena's eyes, and felt her breath brushing against her bare collarbone, slightly itchy.

Since I was expelled from the church school until now, I have not infected anyone in the past eight years.This was something Ji Lian was quite proud of originally, proving that her protective measures were in place and did not affect other people's lives.

But after being reminded by Elena, it doesn't seem like it can be explained by just "measures are in place".

She found the germs herself under the microscope.It was slightly different from the hand-painted illustrations in the book, but she thought it was the difference between the hand-painted and the real thing, or that what was in her body was an undiscovered subspecies.

but.

"I've done experiments on some mice..."

Ji Li'an recalled with a little loss:

"Inoculated them with the pathogen, and it didn't affect any of them. I thought it was just that the mice weren't infected by the bacteria."

Or, they target humans only.

"Jillian."

Elena interrupted Ji Lian's memory, her emotions gradually recovered, and she murmured:
"...if it can be proven that your disease is not contagious at all."

This is what I should have done at the time, but didn't.she says:
"Then can you..."

Back to the order.

"Impossible."

Ji Lian put her fingers against Elena's lips, and said with a forced smile.But I couldn't help thinking about it.

Going back to the church...Even at the beginning eight years ago, I didn't have to be expelled from the church school.

Not to be reduced to such a place.

I will not live this kind of life.

Ji Lian, who has received a theological education, often tends to rationalize her pain, seeing it as some kind of trial or doomed pain.

But if, all this is just a meaningless misunderstanding.

"But it's just a guess," she said:
"Maybe, it's really because I pay more attention at ordinary times. Because I have done everything I can think of, wearing a mask, cooking daily necessities, controlling distance..."

Ji Li'an snapped her fingers and counted her usual efforts like a whisper.

"It's not just about the past, Ji Lian." Elena said:
"If the teacher can recommend you to return to the religious order, and wait for them to discover your talent, you will receive the best treatment."

"Discover talent, you put it so simply." Ji Li'an thought she was just teasing her, and said a little embarrassedly.

"I was serious."

Elena once saw a cluster of flames that fascinated her so much, and now she stares at Ji Lian's pupils, and finds that it still exists in these eyes:
"If it's you, it's absolutely fine."

Elena always felt that most people underestimated Ji Lian.

The teachers in the church school will be happy for mediocrity like themselves, but if they meet a genius like Ji Lian, they will only panic.

Because of Elena's gaze, Ji Lian couldn't help lowering her eyes, and her long eyelashes covered her eyes:
"It doesn't infect mice, maybe it's because it only infects humans; it didn't infect you in a year, maybe it's just that the contact is not dense enough, and the exchange of pathogens is not enough..."

"Then let's try it out."

"Eh?"

"Try to see if it will be contagious."

"How to do?"

"so……"

…………

Suddenly soft.

An extremely dangerous kiss with a breath of death.

I don't know whether it was caused by the lung disease, or the suffocation from elsewhere, which almost submerged Ji Lian's consciousness.

She opened her eyes.

After a long time, Ji Lian still couldn't believe what Elena had done.And when she recovered from the trance, the latter had straightened her upper body and sat on Ji Lian's lower abdomen in a stable posture.

Elena's cheeks were slightly flushed, and she was wiping her lips with the back of her hand, but her eyes turned to the other side.

"Are you crazy?" Ji Lian whispered.

Only then did she understand why Elena kept asking to stay at her home.

"If it's for you." Elena said with a small mouth.

can die for you.

There are only two people in the world that Elena can yearn for so much, one is her teacher Linus, and the other is Ji Lian.

She has been jealous and obsessed with certain characteristics of the two of them.I deeply believe that they are more worthy of living than myself.

Elena just sat on Ji Lian's body, and changed into a soft shirt and delicate socks.

After getting dressed, Elena got up from the bed:
"If I don't have any symptoms before next weekend." She turned to Ji Lian and said with a smile:

"Then I will propose to the teacher to introduce you to the Holy Province of Danalo."

Ji Lian buried her head halfway in the soft pillow, and watched Elena get up from the side, with a layer of sadness on her brows.

"Do you know... If you are infected, it is not just your problem."

Is it possible to further infect others?

"It just so happens that the next two days are weekends, I can rest at home." Elena straightened the buttons and said:
"When I go to work next week, I will also take some protective measures."

"What if the incubation period may be several months?" Ji Li'an said: "What if some people will never get sick, but they can infect others?"

Hearing her friend's doubts, Elena went back to the bed and held Ji Lian's hand with both hands:

"The possibilities are endless, and without a large sample of patients, nothing can be determined," she said:
"With careful suspicion like this, we will never be able to solve the problem."

"So, let me be your first sample."

…………

But during this period of time, Ji Lian has also been asking Elena about the movements of the Prohibition Bureau, and handing them over to Colin when Elena goes out to work during the day.

For example, the number one commissioner is a person named "Linus", with long hair mixed with blond and black, who is going to solve the problem of the rampant issue of bootlegging in Stade from the source of goods.

It is precisely because of this information that Ke Lin also took targeted measures to make the organization's expansion smoother.

In the afternoon of the day before this early morning, Ke Lin and Ji Lian also met at the open-air coffee shop they are usually used to.

"They have noticed that a lot of goods have re-entered the old city, but they have not been able to find out the source, so Linus is also a little anxious."

Ji Lian wore her hat slantedly, half of her face was covered by the black tulle.Having said that, she took a sip of the strong Otto coffee in the small cup.

Ke Lin kept his face propped up with one hand, motioning for her to continue.

"Linus doesn't trust the other Prohibition Commissioners very much. In fact, he rarely even goes into the office of the Prohibition Bureau. Linus seems to think that these people who have only been trained for a short time will be corrupted sooner or later." Ji Lian Say:
"Or he's still afraid of something else."

Colin thought for a while:
"No matter what the reason is, if only he and Elena are acting. They can't open the situation."

Ji Lian nodded slightly:
"But you know that both Linus and Elena are from the Holy Province of the principality." She paused:
"It's different from mine...they are, true transcendents."

"Before the Prohibition Bureau was able to determine the source of the goods on the market in a short period of time. It did not rely entirely on conventional means."

"Perhaps that kind of measure is expensive, but judging from Elena's movements, I think they will repeat the old trick."

Ji Lian put the small porcelain cup back on the tea table, and seriously warned Ke Lin:

"Means of Prediction."

(End of this chapter)