278: Chapter 278 These days, it's hard to be a person, and it's even harder to be a good person.

"Xu Zhixia, can't you understand words? I told you to put your clothes on first." Lin Fan's tone became a bit harsher.

Looking into Lin Fan's eyes, Xu Zhixia didn't act spoiled or make a fuss.

She picked up her drenched tank top and put it back on. As the cold fabric pressed against her skin, she shuddered involuntarily.

"My underwear is all wet, I'll take it off and just wear the outer jacket!"

"Whatever you want." Lin Fan turned his face upstream and continued stuffing leaf strips into his nostrils.

Don't look, absolutely don't look.

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He, Lin Fan, acting as this contemporary Liu Xiahui, wasn't because of high moral awareness, but purely because the cost was too high.

A moment of pleasure, a crematorium afterwards.

On this damned Deserted Island, there was no obstetrics and gynecology department, no B-ultrasound, and not even a single fetal protection injection could be found.

After a long while, Xu Zhixia finally finished fixing her clothes. She spoke to Lin Fan, "What? Have you practiced the Ninjutsu of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles?"

Lin Fan poured some stream water onto the back of his hand to wash it, then raised his head to look straight at her, "Dr. Xu, since things have been said to this point, I don't even bother pretending to be an upright gentleman."

He pulled out the leaf strips from his nostrils. His nose was no longer bleeding, and he casually threw the leaf strips into the forest.

"If Su Qingxue wasn't pregnant, given that silky combo of unbuttoning, fake falling, and pressing against the chest you pulled in the woods just now, I would have already executed you on the spot."

Xu Zhixia blinked and didn't take up the conversation.

"But the core issue is that Su Qingxue is pregnant."

"So what?"

"Is Young Master Lin planning to keep himself pure for her?"

"No, the key is that she cannot be stimulated right now." Lin Fan squatted down again, pulling back the drifting water bottle, "She just awakened the Superpower of conjuring objects out of thin air, her physical foundation is extremely weak, and the one in her belly is even more of an unknown."

"If I couldn't hold back right now and did the wild deed with you by this stream."

"If she finds out, gets furious and disturbs her pregnancy, and the child is lost, will my physical enhancement regress along with it? Will Su Qingxue's Superpower be reclaimed?"

"As the child grows, will my ability become even stronger?"

Lin Fan tightened the bottle cap, "These are all unknowns. Out here, a drop in combat power equals death."

Xu Zhixia stared at him for a long while.

Lin Fan's words sounded extremely harsh, wearing not a shred of the moral coat of love and responsibility, every single word and phrase purely about risk control.

But this also showed his extreme lucidity.

Xu Zhixia let out a soft laugh: "So, you're keeping yourself pure not to consider Qingxue's feelings, nor to preserve my reputation, but purely because you're afraid your cheat code will go offline."

Lin Fan pushed the last empty bottle into the water: "Is there a difference?"

"There is."

"This indirectly shows that you have no feelings for Qingxue."

Lin Fan didn't reply; let her think whatever she wanted.

Xu Zhixia took half a step forward.

Lin Fan glanced over. Inside was practically a vacuum; if they were to have contact again, who could control themselves? "Stop, keep a safe distance."

Xu Zhixia's steps paused, her hands spread wide to show she was harmless: "Fine, Young Master Lin, I won't go over."

She lowered her head and groped around in her soaked pants pocket, pulling out a metal medicine bottle.

The cap was wrapped with a few turns of waterproof tape.

Lin Fan swept his gaze over: "What is that?"

Xu Zhixia unscrewed the cap, poured out a small white pill, and handed it over: "For reducing internal heat. Eat it, or your nose will bleed again later."

Lin Fan didn't take it: "Clarify the ingredients first."

"I already said it's for reducing internal heat." Xu Zhixia pushed the pill forward a bit, "After your body was enhanced, your metabolism far exceeds ordinary people's, and your yang energy is overly exuberant, so internal heat naturally rushes upwards easily."

"Plus lately you've been eating barbecue every meal, your vegetable and fruit intake is almost zero, your sleep is fragmented, and your nerves are taut every day."

"And today you were tossed around like this by me."

"Capillaries rupturing and having a nosebleed is, from a medical perspective, completely reasonable."

Lin Fan stared at that pill: "Are you sure it's not poisonous?"

Xu Zhixia paused her movement and pulled the medicine back half an inch: "Lin Fan, if I wanted to harm you, over this past month or more, I'd have a hundred ways to make you die suddenly in your sleep. Would I need to wait until now?"

Lin Fan was noncommittal.

Xu Zhixia slightly raised her chin, her eyes revealing a hint of mockery: "However, your persecuted delusion look is quite hurtful."

"I, a professional doctor, prescribe medicine for you, and your first reaction is that I'm going to poison you. These days, it's hard to be a person, and even harder to be a good person."

Lin Fan reached out and took the pill, grinding it between his fingertips.

His retina was completely clean, with no high-risk early warning popping up.

The system stayed silent, indicating that this thing wouldn't kill someone from eating it.

"Medicines for clearing heat and detoxifying, don't people usually take them by the handful? Why are you being so stingy with just one?"

Xu Zhixia was laughed into anger, and backhanded the medicine bottle cap closed.

"Why do you have so many questions?"

"On this damned island, is there anything wrong with being cautious about things entering your mouth?"

"Nothing wrong."

"But you first have to figure out whose medicine this is."

"Whose?"

"Yang Ningcong's."

Xu Zhixia stuffed the medicine bottle back into her pocket, "Who is Young Master Yang?"

"The young master of the Yang Group."

"Normally when he drinks a sip of water, he has to test the mineral content, and when he takes a vitamin, he has a private nutritionist precisely proportion it."

"Can the special-supply medicine he carries with him be the same as those nine-yuan-ninety-cents free-shipping things from ordinary pharmacies?"

Lin Fan pinched the pill, still not putting it into his mouth.

Seeing his hesitant actions, the last bit of patience in Xu Zhixia's eyes was exhausted.

"Lin Fan, if you don't want to eat it, give it back to me."

She suddenly reached out, pulling the pill away from his fingertips with speed, accuracy, and ruthlessness.

Lin Fan was stunned for a moment.

The next second, Xu Zhixia flicked her wrist.

The white pill traced a parabola in the air, landing with a "snap" sound into the stream water, instantly washed away without a trace by the current.

Lin Fan's eye twitched: "What are you doing?"

"If you don't eat it, forget it. I'm not a health supplement salesperson who has to kneel and beg you to sign up for a card and buy a course of treatment!"

Lin Fan stared at the water surface, feeling a bit dazed.

When this woman's temper flares up, she really throws it!

Xu Zhixia bent down to pick up her long-sleeve shirt, twisted it a couple of times casually and put it on, dropping a sentence without looking back: "Don't regret this."

"Right now you're only having a nosebleed." She raised a finger to point at his mouth, "In a few more days, the complications caused by internal heat will be acute pulpitis and trigeminal neuralgia."

"Think about it, all your other bodily functions have been magnified by three times, if this pain perception is also magnified by three times..."

She let out a soft laugh, "That zesty refreshment—whoever hurts knows it."

After hearing this, Lin Fan's back molars began to ache faintly, and that fatal question really popped up in his mind.

If the pain sensation were also magnified three times, it really would be better to just give him a quick release.

While he was pondering, Xu Zhixia had already picked up the empty bottle and started filling it with water.

"Lin Fan, honestly speaking, I really look down on you right now."

Lin Fan snapped back to his senses: "Look down on me?"