The "students" left the classroom one after another.
Some of them were excited and some were regretful.
After people left, Dean Lawrence walked into the classroom.
"You gave a great lecture." He praised sincerely: "I think this lesson will definitely appear on the headlines of tomorrow's newspaper."
"I won't teach you the second lesson." Lu Li looked at him calmly.
Dean Lawrence's expression froze, and there were rapid footsteps in the corridor outside the door.
Professor Daisy Schmidt rushed in panting heavily, and said to Dean Lu Li and Lawrence like an asthma: "Nuno is about to die..."
"I'll go see him."
Lu Li said and walked out of the classroom.
Professor Daisy Schmidt returned to Dean Lawrence, who had a gloomy face: "The lecture failed?"
"Very successful."
"Then why did you..."
"He only planned to talk about this section." The emotion disappeared from Dean Lawrence's face. "Maybe Mr. Lu Li is very dissatisfied with me."
"Maybe." Professor Daisy Schmidt sighed.
"You also think I'm wrong?" Dean Lawrence's sensitive nerves were touched again, and his mind flashed with everything he had done and paid in the past few days, and what he had obtained with begging and pleading.
"No, we are all very grateful to Dean for your efforts, including Cesar and Nuno. I think Sir Lu Li will feel the same way."
"But he refused"
"It's normal, isn't it?" Professor Daisy Schmidt patted Dean Lawrence on the shoulder. "Your Excellency Lu Li is a person of this era, but he does not belong to this era. He is different from us... and he also has his own
things to do.
"Let's go, let's go see Nuno for the last time."
Leaving the empty classroom, they learned that Lu Li had set off in a carriage.
"Your Excellency Lu Li has a closer relationship with Nuno than we do." Dean Lawrence still kept whispering: "If it is Nuno's request, maybe he will agree?"
"Nuno wouldn't do that."
"Why?"
"He respects Lu Li."
"So do we."
"It's different, it's more like...faith."
…
Lu Li came to the hospital again. There was no crowd around him, only many eyes looking at him, wondering whether this handsome man with black hair and black eyes surrounded by knights was the exorcist rumored recently.
Arriving outside Professor Nuno's ward, Professor Cesar, who heard Lu Li's arrival, walked out of the ward and stopped him.
"Be prepared, it may be a little... cruel."
Sad Professor Cesar stepped aside from the door.
Lu Li walked into the ward. The windows were closed tightly, and the air was filled with the smell of burning parchment.
Professor Nuno was lying on the hospital bed. His body outside the quilt showed a kind of wood fibrosis, and his old skin was like bark, like a tree carved into a statue.
"He was infected with something."
"Plant Curse."
Professor Cesar answered as Lu Li closed the door behind him.
"It's not the first disaster, it's a blood curse originating from a vegetative state."
"Vegetative state?"
"They live around the old Thunder Castle. They are a group of weird trees. Their seeds will parasitize passers-by."
"The curse... weakens the pain... the desire for food, but... every breath... changes like the trees..."
There was a rustling sound like wind blowing through the woods. Lu Li lowered his eyes and saw Professor Nuno opening his eyes. His fibrous eyes were like wooden balls placed in the wardrobe to remove insects.
"I'm very happy...to see you...at the last moment of my life..."
The rustling sound was clearer than before, and they seemed to be talking in the maple forest.
Lu Li thought about the plant plague and patients that Luo Lei Fort encountered when he was controlled by the God's Rope.
Professor Nuno's eyes moved numbly, but he could not see anything.
"tell me……"
The voices were lost in the rustle of the wind through the trees.
Severe wood fibrosis, stiff arms hanging with tentacle-like roots are slowly raised, becoming more and more slowly and laboriously
The hand that could no longer be lifted was held by a slender hand.
laugh
Invisible green smoke rises.
Lu Li frowned and wanted to take his hand away. But Professor Nuno suddenly tightened his grip on his hand.
This ended the last chance of Professor Nuno's life, humanity poured into his body, and Lu Li was dragged into Professor Nuno's death retrospective.
The wind howled in my ears.
"The curse... weakens the pain... the desire for food, but... every breath... changes like the trees..."
Lu Li stood up straight in silence.
The myself a minute ago was standing behind Professor Cesar.
After a brief conversation, the deteriorating Professor Nuno reached out to Lu Li.
At this time, Lu Li suddenly leaned forward and approached Professor Nuno's head.
He heard the whisper that was hidden in the wind and could be dispersed by the wind at any time.
"Do we still have hope..."
Returning to reality, Lu Li released his wooden palm.
Professor Cesar lowered his head sadly.
"Bad guy, kill this old man!"
A sharp scream sounded, and the eldest sister who was hiding on Lu Li climbed onto his shoulders and slapped him with her two little hands.
"If Mr. Lu Li doesn't do anything, Nuno will die."
Professor Cesar saw that Lu Li didn't resist and thought they were together.
"I've seen vegetative people! They're alive and well!"
"Those are people with their bloodline...Ordinary people who are infected by the curse will eventually die and become a tree that cannot grow." Professor Cesar shook his head slightly.
The lumbered Professor Nuno is like a dead tree, they have been dead from the beginning.
"You are in the same group!"
The screaming elder sister covered her ears, jumped off her shoulders and disappeared.
"Is the worsening of Professor Nuno's curse related to something else?" Lu Li looked at Professor Cesar.
When they arrived three days ago, Professor Nuno was still in good health except for fainting from excitement.
"It seems not." Professor Cesar said. "Many cursed bloodlines are like this. They will not show obvious signs at the beginning, but at a certain moment they will suddenly intensify...the infection...spread...the lesions..."
Bang
The door was pushed open, and Dean Lawrence and Professor Daisy Schmidt arrived belatedly.
"You guys are late, Nuno is dead." Professor Cesar turned around and whispered scornfully. He did not speak loudly, as if he was worried about disturbing Professor Nuno who was sleeping. "Did you be delayed by using Sir Lu Li's reputation for publicity?"
"How is that possible..." Dean Lawrence smiled bitterly.
He did not argue and allowed Professor Cesar to vent his emotions.
Professor Cesar was so sad that his friend died that he didn't want to blame him. He looked at Lu Li.
"What will happen to the body?" Lu Li asked.
"Burn, the flame will purify everything." Professor Cesar said softly, looking at the figure sleeping quietly like a tree: "Let's leave and leave it to the doctors..."
Leaving the depressing hospital, Lu Li and the others returned to Impersonation University.
Not long after, Lu Li's portrait was delivered. The layers of paint added thickness, and the hazy light and shadow gave Lu Li a divine brilliance.
After Lu Li saw it, it was taken away and the oil painting will be placed in the Midnight City Museum.
After a night's rest, Lu Li woke up early the next morning.
