Chapter 44: A Ruthless Soul Through and Through

Chapter 44: A Ruthless Woman Through and Through

Tian Hu followed Luo Lan into her home, feeling like a commoner who had been ushered into a palace. He didn't know where to place his hands or feet, and he repeatedly offered to help carry the battered Fang Xiaoling, only to be flatly refused by Luo Lan each time.

"Trying to take advantage of my best friend?" Luo Lan joked, carrying Fang Xiaoling into a bedroom. She didn't stop there; she walked to the wall opposite the bedroom door and rotated a mural on the right-hand side by 180 degrees.

The wall before them rumbled open, revealing that it was a hidden door.

Tian Hu followed her inside, completely stunned by what he saw. "Are... are you a secret agent?"

"Ask less. There’s a box on the third shelf of the sixth cabinet from the right. Help me get it." As she spoke, Luo Lan placed Fang Xiaoling onto a large black marble bed in the center of the room. "This bed has an automatic sterilization function. I usually treat myself here when I’m injured."

"Incredible..." Tian Hu looked at the weapons and equipment displayed in the surrounding cabinets. It was dazzling—a stockpile even more exaggerated than what one might see in a spy movie. He found the box where Luo Lan had indicated and placed it by the edge of the stone bed.

"The finger bones aren't broken, just dislocated. It’s nothing serious; I can help her reset them." Luo Lan opened the box, which was filled with various medical instruments. "But the injury to her waist requires surgery. Assist me; give me whatever I ask for."

"This... are you sure we don't need a hospital?" As Tian Hu spoke, he saw Luo Lan already snapping Fang Xiaoling’s fingers back into place one by one. "The point is, I have absolutely no experience."

"It’s fine. It’s just a minor injury; I can handle it." Luo Lan turned Fang Xiaoling over to lie prone on the stone bed and took a scalpel from a compartment in the box. "Do you see that tube in the box? When I make the incision, you insert the tube. Hold it for two seconds, then pull it out. Understand? It’s very simple."

"Ah?" Tian Hu pondered for a long time, not daring to reach for the tube. "Stop joking around. I can't do this! Isn't this playing with someone's life?"

"I suppose so." Luo Lan sighed. "After all, aside from acting cool, you don't seem to know how to do anything. Forget it. Get out; I can handle this on my own."

Tian Hu hesitated for a moment, then picked up the tube and said, "Make the cut! If you dare to cut, I’ll dare to insert it!"

Luo Lan nodded. Just as she was about to make the incision, Fang Xiaoling suddenly rolled off the stone bed and raised her hands in cheer. "Great! Finally, I’m dreaming!"

Having said that, she seemed to realize that two people were staring at her in stunned silence. She grinned and said, "Hello, Sister! Hello, Brother-in-law!"

Tian Hu blinked. "Sister? Didn't you say she was your best friend?"

"That’s not the point!" Luo Lan said sternly. "Xiaoling, how did you stand up? I clearly felt your lumbar vertebrae pressing against your nerves; you shouldn't be able to move."

"I'm fine, it was just a small scratch." Fang Xiaoling wandered around as if nothing had happened. "Wow, does all this belong to you, Sister? So cool! Could you give me some for self-defense?"

"You... go ahead, as long as you know how to use them." Luo Lan’s gaze never left Fang Xiaoling. It was too bizarre. Even the fingers that had just been reset could move freely. Such an injury, even on herself, would require months of recovery.

"Hmm." Fang Xiaoling wandered around a few times and returned to Luo Lan. "I want the one in your hand, okay?"

Luo Lan paused, then handed over the scalpel. "You want this?"

"Yeah!" Fang Xiaoling gripped the scalpel, her body suddenly stiffening, only her lips moving slightly. "Sister, I miss you so much..."

Before she finished speaking, the scalpel lunged toward Luo Lan’s face. The latter didn't even flinch, quickly pinning the blade firmly between two slender fingers.

"Xiaoling, is this because I didn't arrive in time to save you?" Luo Lan asked coldly.

"Sister is truly much more powerful than Sister..." Fang Xiaoling said with a smile, slowly loosening her grip on the handle. "Luo Lan, I know that with my strength, no matter what I do, I can't succeed in my revenge, but perhaps I can take your best friend with me."

Luo Lan studied her face carefully. If not for these words, she would never have realized that the person before her was no longer Fang Xiaoling.

"Are you Li Mengling?" Luo Lan frowned slowly. "So, this is really starting to happen—a transmigrator actually seizing the body of another transmigrator..."

"Pah! Who seized whose body? You are the villains who occupied my sister's and my bodies!" Li Mengling clenched her fists tightly. "If I hadn't fainted from the cold in the building's lobby, I never would have given Fang Xiaoling the chance to occupy this body!"

"No wonder you said 'finally dreaming' earlier. You only occupy this body when Fang Xiaoling is dreaming?"

"Sleeping isn't enough. It has to be when she's dreaming, when her consciousness is completely absent from this body, only then can I squeeze in." After saying this, Li Mengling shook her head. "No, no! Why am I telling you all this? It’s all because you have my sister’s face, which is confusing me!"

"I see. It seems you know quite a lot." Luo Lan narrowed her eyes, suddenly twisting her arm and pressing the scalpel against Li Mengling’s throat. "Didn't you just say you wanted to take my best friend with you? That means you intend to destroy this body, right? How do you plan to do it? Slam into a wall? Bite your tongue? Little girl, do you really have the courage for that? Why don't I help you?"

"You... I don't need your help! I plan to take her with me tomorrow!" Li Mengling felt the cold blade against her neck and her legs went weak. She had only wanted to threaten Luo Lan, never expecting her to be this ruthless—even willing to strike at her own best friend.

"Mengli, this... I don't know what’s wrong with you both, but please, stop killing people." As Tian Hu spoke, he felt like a stranger to himself. After all, he used to run with Boss Long; how was it that in the face of Luo Lan, everything that happened before felt like child's play?

This Luo Lan had killed an enemy in the lobby just minutes ago, and now she was about to kill her own best friend in her own home?

She really was a ruthless woman through and through.

"Little girl, goodbye."

After Luo Lan finished speaking, both Li Mengling and Tian Hu closed their eyes.