“Is this… considered her killing him?”

“If she hadn’t pulled out the arrow, maybe he could have held on for another minute…”

“Isn’t she the drug peddler from yesterday? I remember her saying that her hemostatic medicine could stop severe bleeding from a ruptured artery. Seems like it was all a lie, huh?”

“It’s already pierced through his neck… Isn’t that worse than a ruptured artery?”

The crowd couldn’t help but whisper among themselves, with some even speculating, “Could it be… that her real intention was to test the effectiveness of her medicine?”

Qian Qi glanced up at these people. She had naturally heard their suspicious murmurs, but she paid no mind to them. After sprinkling the medicinal powder, she stood up.

At that moment, a hand suddenly grabbed her arm.

“What are you trying to do? Are you trying to run away?” A boy with a well-defined face tightly gripped Qian Qi’s arm and shouted to the surrounding crowd, “This is murder! You can’t run, junior!”

Hearing his words, some students who hadn’t seen clearly thought Qian Qi was really trying to escape and quickly joined in, shouting, “You can’t run! You can’t run! You need to stay here first!”

Qian Qi turned her head to look at the boy. A memory she hadn’t recalled before suddenly flashed through her mind. She paused for a moment, and then a faint, ambiguous smile appeared on her face.

She tightly grabbed his arm in return, and a mischievous, threatening smile crept onto her lips. “Who are you, classmate? Why are you spouting nonsense like that? You’re really putting me in a difficult position here.”

The boy’s face stiffened, and then he couldn’t help but sneer. It seemed Chen Miaomiao wasn’t lying—Qian Qi’s brain really was damaged, and she couldn’t remember some things.

Otherwise, she wouldn’t have failed to recognize him as Chen Tong.

“Junior, don’t misunderstand,” Chen Tong said with a sharp smile curling at the corner of his mouth. “I mean no harm. It’s just that someone has died, and you just accelerated their death. That counts as involuntary manslaughter. You should stay here and wait for the school to investigate.”

He had originally been thinking of a way to quietly get rid of Qian Qi, but he hadn’t expected that after hearing about the hemostatic medicine, he would secretly follow her and stumble upon such a perfect opportunity.

And this was all Qian Qi’s own doing. Who told her to be so stupid as to pull the arrow out of the guy’s throat?

Chen Tong desperately suppressed the glee in his eyes. The thought of Qian Qi being taken away and him being able to bribe someone to torture her excited him beyond measure.

He couldn’t wait to see Qian Qi groveling on the ground, begging for mercy!

Qian Qi raised an eyebrow as she observed Chen Tong’s expression. Unlike his restrained demeanor, Qian Qi didn’t bother to hide the sinister smile that was creeping onto her lips.

How interesting. Let her think about how to “play” with this senior, Chen Tong~

Seeing Qian Qi’s terrifying smile, Chen Tong couldn’t help but shudder, a sense of foreboding rising in his heart.

Under Chen Tong’s gradually alarmed gaze, Qian Qi slowly lowered her eyes and kicked Xiao Wang, who was lying on the ground. “Stop pretending to be dead. Get up now.”

Her words confused everyone present. They all looked at Xiao Wang in bewilderment, only to see the supposedly dead classmate suddenly open his mouth wide, gasping for air. His upper body jerked up as if he had come back to life.

Following that, Xiao Wang lowered his head and began coughing violently. After coughing up the blood that had been stuck in his trachea and esophagus, he touched his neck, which was now completely intact and painless, and exclaimed in shock, “Holy shit, I’m not dead?”

Xiao Wang’s resurrection shocked everyone present. A few seconds later, someone in the quiet crowd suddenly exclaimed, “Holy crap, is that hemostatic medicine really that amazing? It can even bring someone back from the dead?”

“Is this some kind of divine medicine? Pinch me, make sure I’m not dreaming!”

“Damn, this… this… Boss! Do you have any more of that powder? I want to buy some too!”

“Me too, me too! Boss, I want to buy a bag!”

“Don’t fight me, I was here first! Boss, I want five bags!”

On the scene, the students who had witnessed this miracle rushed toward Qian Qi, eager to transfer money to her via their light brains and establish a good relationship. “Boss, boss! What’s your light brain ID? Add me, add me!”

The atmosphere in the square changed in an instant. What had been a tense and nerve-wracking situation just moments ago had now turned into a frenzy of eager buyers.

Seeing that the situation was not in his favor, Chen Tong immediately tried to slip away in the chaos.

However, as soon as he turned around, he found Qian Qi’s fingers tightly gripping his arm. Amid the noisy crowd, her gaze playfully fixed on Chen Tong, and her expression grew increasingly eerie and sinister.

She silently mouthed:
Found you.

Chen Tong’s heart skipped a beat.

At that moment, the second-year archery instructor and the school doctor came running over. After pushing through the crowd, they asked breathlessly, “Where’s the patient? Did you all move him?”

Immediately after, they saw Xiao Wang, who was wiping his blood-stained neck in shock. The school doctor screamed in alarm, “Don’t touch the wound! Who pulled the arrow out? Are you trying to kill him?”

The surrounding students couldn’t help but laugh ambiguously. Xiao Wang, seeing the school doctor and the instructor, quickly explained, “Teachers, it’s fine. My injury is already healed.”

“What?” The school doctor exclaimed in surprise. “Didn’t the caller say you were shot in the neck with an arrow?”

Although archery students would deliberately control the size of their arrows during practice, it was still no minor injury!

“It’s really fine. I used the hemostatic medicine,” Xiao Wang said, wiping his neck and showing it to the school doctor. “Look, there’s no injury.”

On Xiao Wang’s neck, there was only a faint, pink diamond-shaped scar. It seemed the amount of medicinal powder hadn’t been enough to fully heal the scar.

The school doctor carefully examined it and confirmed that it was indeed a scar left by the arrow. But in such a short time… The school doctor couldn’t help but ask in confusion, “What did you say that hemostatic powder was?”

Injuries to the neck weren’t easy to treat. Hemostatic powder… By the sound of it, shouldn’t it only stop bleeding?

Just as Xiao Wang was about to explain, Qian Qi suddenly tugged at the school doctor. “School doctor! You should take Xiao Wang to the hospital for a check-up, just to be safe!”

The school doctor nodded in realization and quickly called for her colleagues to take Xiao Wang to the school medical van.

The second-year archery instructor also wanted to follow, but she was suddenly pulled back by Qian Qi.

“What is it, student?” the instructor asked patiently, thinking Qian Qi had something important to tell her.

Qian Qi, still tightly gripping Chen Tong’s arm, turned to the instructor with a face that had shifted from an eerie smile to a pitiful, tearful expression. “Teacher! I want to report someone for harassing me just now in the chaos!”

The instructor’s face instantly turned serious. “Who? Which girl harassed you?”

Qian Qi: ???

Qian Qi didn’t care anymore and pointed at Chen Tong, whose face had turned dark. “It’s him!”

The instructor turned to look at Chen Tong, then: ???

The instructor looked at Chen Tong, then back at Qian Qi. After a while, she cautiously asked Chen Tong, “Student, this classmate says you harassed him. Is that true?”

“Qian Qi! Are you fucking insane?” Chen Tong finally couldn’t hold back his anger. “You’ve got nothing to offer! Why the hell would I harass you?”

Qian Qi: You’re allowed to spout nonsense, but I can’t do the same?~

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Damn, I just read a manga, and it stopped at the most critical moment. My heart almost stopped!