Defeat the system! Kiss my little monster!

Pei Du had only been upstairs for a few minutes when Sheng Shixian was still downstairs. Pei Du paid attention to his condition, quickly wrapped the wound with bandages a few times, and then went downstairs.

Sheng Shixian lay motionless on the sofa as before. Pei Du guessed that he was seriously injured and might have fainted. Unexpectedly, when he walked over, Sheng Shixian's eyes were still open.

Upon seeing Pei Du, Sheng Shixian's lowered eyelashes lifted again. He glanced at Pei Du's right hand, which was wrapped in medical bandages, and continued to stare at him with a sinister gaze.

Pei Du ignored him. He walked past Sheng Shixian, went to the table in front of him, and poured himself a glass of water.

This male lead's resilience is truly exceptional.

"Ding-dong-"

The doorbell rang. Pei Du stepped forward and opened the door, where a man in a white coat carrying a medical kit entered the room.

"Where were you bitten?" Qi Sheng was a few years older than Pei Du, only about twenty-five or twenty-six. He wore gold-rimmed glasses and looked Pei Du up and down as soon as he entered the room.

"Describe your symptoms: nausea, dry heaving, fatigue, dizziness, body atrophy, increased or decreased heart rate. Which of these do you experience?"

Pei Du: "Not a single one."

Qi Sheng: "?"

Qi Sheng looked at Pei Du's right hand. Before he could speak, Pei Du turned and walked to the sofa: "Come see him first, he's dying."

"Who is this?" Qi Sheng followed over and saw the bulging crimson veins on Sheng Shixian's arm. His eyes widened. "Holy crap, Pei Du, you dare to keep a mutant? That's illegal!"

“If you don’t tell anyone, no one will know.” Pei Du frowned slightly and continued, “He still has humanity. Sending him to the hospital would just mean he’d be transferred to the military region and shot. There’s no need for that.”

Qi Sheng sneered, "You think humanity is something that just exists? You're not a doctor! Pei Du, I advise you to stay out of this kind of thing, or you'll end up dying without even knowing why..."

Pei Du didn't speak. He picked up the suit tie that had been tossed aside; it was soaking wet. He took the tie and stepped forward, stopping in front of Sheng Shixian.

"Sheng Shixian." Pei Du called his name softly. Sheng Shixian did not move, but his eyes turned to Pei Du.

Pei Du stood before him, asking casually, "Are you a human or a dog?"

Sheng Shixian: "...?"

His eyes flickered slightly, and after catching some specific words, he said weakly, "I am a human being."

It wasn't a dog.

Pei Du seemed to be deep in thought. He squatted down, wrapped the tie around his hand in front of Sheng Shixian, and then placed his palm near Sheng Shixian's lips, continuing to ask, "Will you bite me?"

The dampness on his tie felt like a threat. Sheng Shixian gritted his teeth and exhaled, "No."

Pei Du turned to look at Qi Sheng. The fact that a mutant could control himself and not devour or tear at others like a wild beast was enough to prove that he possessed humanity.

Sure enough, a look of hesitation appeared in Qi Sheng's eyes.

"One last question, what's your name?" Pei Du asked.

Pei Du had given him a hint before, and Sheng Shixian coughed and said, "...Sheng Shixian."

"Sheng Shixian?!" Qi Sheng's tone changed drastically. He walked closer to the sofa, and after seeing Sheng Shixian's face clearly, he almost popped his eyes out. "Isn't this... isn't this someone from the Sheng family? The one who tried to steal your woman?"

"It's him." Pei Du looked at Qi Sheng. "What's wrong?"

Qi Sheng filled in the blanks in his mind in just over ten seconds.

Sheng Shixian and Pei Du have been at odds for a long time. One is a rising star in the capital, and the other is a wealthy man with assets of tens of billions. They both have their eyes on the same woman, and every time they meet afterward, it is a bloody battle.

After Sheng Shixian was infected with the virus, he disappeared. Unexpectedly, Pei Du imprisoned him at home and tortured him.

Qi Sheng clicked his tongue twice and gave Pei Du a thumbs up, "I didn't realize, Pei Du, you're really sharp-tongued."

Pei Du: "..."

"Alright, hurry up and treat him. I'll give you a raise after you're done." Pei Du was already feeling tired. His body, even after his rebirth, was still weak, and he had no energy left to wear down the two of them.

Qi Sheng asked, "How many times?"

Pei Du: "Double."

"Tsk tsk, so stingy." Qi Sheng muttered a few words of disdain, but still took the first-aid kit and walked over.

Pei Du found a chair nearby and sat down. He tapped the table lightly with his fingertips and his gaze fell on Sheng Shixian again.

"This is terrible, this is terrible..." Gouqie Tiaosheng peered at Sheng Shixian's face. Sheng Shixian couldn't see him, but he could vaguely feel the heaviness in his swollen cheeks.

Having barely escaped death, he looked Sheng Shixian up and down, then reluctantly drifted back to Pei Du's side: "Truly incredible!"

Pei Du glanced at him. "What's wrong?"

"See that?" Gouqiechoingsheng held up the blue card. The number on his blue card had reached the required value. "That's the yang energy value of Sheng Shixian."

Pei Du: "..."

Before Pei Du could speak, Gouqiechoingsheng automatically crossed out the seven zeros on the blue board and pointed to the 10 above, saying to Pei Du, "This is your yang energy value."

Pei Du looked at the numbers above, took a sip of water, and said nothing.

"Why are you so weak?" Gouqietousheng was very puzzled. "A normal person has 100 yang energy points. The lowest I've seen is only 46. You only have 10."

Pei Du hummed in surprise: "Maybe it's because I'm a ghost."

"Impossible, absolutely impossible! Although your reborn body is not as strong as your original body, the similarity is as high as 99.9999%. You have always been like this." Gouqie Tousi Sheng seriously examined the blueboard.

Pei Du had never paid attention to this aspect before. He had no desire for sex and was indifferent to the part of his body that he was in.

"So what if it's low? Why does it need to be so high?" Pei Du glanced at Sheng Shixian out of the corner of his eye. Sheng Shixian had been given a sedative and had already passed out. Pei Du looked at his lower body and felt even more indifferent. "Too much of a good thing is bad. Too big or too high is a burden."

Kuqi, barely surviving, gave Pei Du a non-existent thumbs-up: "You know how to comfort yourself."

Pei Du calmly drank his water.

Sheng Shixian's most serious injury was to his right leg. He may have tried to escape, and as a result, his leg was broken after he was caught.

The flesh around Sheng Shixian's knee had long been rotten and clung to the rags. Qi Sheng was a decent doctor; after administering anesthesia, he simply cut away all the flesh from Sheng Shixian's knee, along with the rags.

Pei Du watched the entire surgery unfold. Sheng Shixian's eyes were tightly closed; he had long since lost consciousness. Qi Sheng was busy stitching up the wound, the fine thread in his hands almost transparent under the light.

Pei Du looked at the two of them, secretly organizing his thoughts.

Sheng Shixian was the person Pei Du suspected was most likely the author of the Guide to the Mad Book.

Although he doesn't admit that he is a dog, all his memories will go blank during the transition period between different species.

If Sheng Shixian had been controlled and hypnotized by others in his past life, he would have been misled and developed the illusion that he was a "dog".

After all, he had been missing for nearly a year, and no one knew what had happened to him during that time.

Who was the "master" who took Sheng Shixian away in her past life?

Moreover, the dog in the book spoke with Pei Du, but in Pei Du's memory, Sheng Shixian did not speak to him after he disappeared. The two disliked each other and had virtually no contact in private.

This creates a conflict between Sheng Shixian's identity and the author's in the book.

Pei Du found it increasingly strange. The guide to madness given to him by the cowardly life-stealer was utterly useless, and the thought gave Pei Du a throbbing headache.