"Don't you remember? You were bitten by a poisonous bug," Lin Wenwen wiped her face clean, then drank a bottle of antidote to make sure she wouldn't get poisoned. She then looked at Long Qingying and answered her question.
Long Qingying furrowed her eyebrows and thought for a moment. She recalled passing by a wetland earlier, where a huge swarm of bugs suddenly flew out of the grass.
They reacted quickly, each releasing their powers to protect themselves. However, there were too many bugs, and they couldn't guarantee to kill them all. One bug fell into Long Qingying's clothes and bit her.
She didn't remember what happened after that. She looked around, yet couldn't recall how she got into the room either.
"She feels hot. Maybe she's having a fever," Leng Xuantong stood by the bedside and said.
Kong Qingming automatically raised a hand to touch Long Qingying's forehead, but she slightly turned her head to dodge.
"You're too close to me," Long Qingying looked at him expressionlessly. Lying on the ground, she felt that her limbs were all soft and weak. Even turning her head slightly required a great effort.
Kong Qingming paused briefly, then stood up with no other choice and took two steps backward. Meanwhile, Lin Wenwen quickly came up and touched Long Qingying's forehead, then touched her own head.
"She's indeed a little hot. Maybe we should give her some antipyretics," Lin Wenwen said to Leng Xuantong. People always carried antidotes and all kinds of medicines for emergency use when they left the base to carry out missions.
Leng Xuantong moved closer to the bed and bent over, observing Long Qingying's eyes. "Except for weakness and hotness, are you feeling anything else?" He abruptly asked a question.
Long Qingying was with a cold look. Seeing Leng Xuantong come near her, she understood that he only wanted to check her body condition, so she didn't move. After hearing what he said, she blinked and glanced at the others in the room, then slowly responded to him.
"Just give me the antidote. I don't think what I'm having is a normal fever," she said.
Lin Wenwen immediately handed her a bottle of antidote. Meanwhile, she said, "We've given you three doses of the antidote, but it didn't seem to work. Earlier on, you let out some of that toxin. Maybe the antidote will work now."
Long Qingying didn't say anything, but took over the antidote and drank it. The others fixed their eyes on her, hoping for the antidote to deliver some effect.
"I think… I now need a… man," said Long Qingying. Her voice was still cold, but her tone of speaking was no longer calm.
The antidote failed to bring her fever down. On the contrary, she felt hotter and hotter. The sensation gathered in her lower body and brought up a strong sexual desire.
Lin Wenwen, who was worried about her, felt a little speechless. Kong Qingming, who had stepped behind Lin Wenwen, shared the same feeling with her. The others didn't know what to say either.
Only Leng Xuantong looked at her with a faint smile and said, "I guess the antidote isn't working. You already know what you need."
The roomful of people were confused at first, and in the next second, they turned to Kong Qingming simultaneously. The other single men sneakily moved toward the door.
"Oh, I'm married. I don't think I can do that."
"I have a girlfriend…"
"I have a girl that I'm fond of…"
People quickly sneaked out of the room while explaining themselves.
Long Qingying lay on the bed with a deep frown. She felt burning hot, and the desire in her heart was burning as well. The two different fires scorched her together. Her throat was so dry that she wanted to kiss someone; her skin was slightly itchy, that she wanted very much to scratch… or have someone stroke it.
She was aware that she was probably affected by some kind of aphrodisiac. Her condition wouldn't be eased unless she gave a vent to her desire. It was getting worse and worse. She didn't know how it might harm her if it didn't get solved.
"Ah… eh… Really? Can't cold water work?" Lin Wenwen asked with astonishment.
"Not even the antidote worked, so what can cold water possibly do to help her? I've checked her eyes just now. She has this light pinkness at her eye corners. That's what the toxin does. See? That pinkness is expanding. I think the longer this condition lasts, the worse it'll get," Leng Xuantong stayed calmed and explained it to Lin Wenwen.
"You don't have a boyfriend anyway. Just chose one from this team… eh-hem…" Leng Xuantong continued awkwardly and then left the room. On the other side, Lin Wenwen honestly didn't know what to say. She glanced at Kong Qingming, who was standing beside her quietly with a sour face.
Lin Wenwen thought for a second, then asked Long Qingying, "Eh… Do you know whom you want to do it with? I'll go and tell him…"
Long Qingying didn't seem to feel strongly repulsive toward what was going to happen, so Lin Wenwen sighed slightly with relief. After all, there was no other solution. Besides, people were open-minded about that kind of things now. It could be seen as an accident.
She didn't know what Kong Qingming was thinking at the moment though. She glanced at his unhappy face again and felt a little cold…
Shouldn't he be happy that he was now having an opportunity to make some progress with Long Qingying? Why was his face so dark? Wasn't he willing to do it?
Kong Qingming was indeed not willing to do it. He didn't want to take advantage of Long Qingying, but he could not let another man do it either. Long Qingying was still having a cold attitude toward him, so she wouldn't possibly agree to do it with him.
He didn't want to force her to accept him, but for her health, he couldn't stop her from doing it with another man, if that was what she wanted.
Without any other choice, he said to her with a begging tone, "If you really need that, can I do it?"
Long Qingying looked at him silently. Her face wore no expression, but her eyes showed repulsion.
She never liked that pretty-looking boy ever since they met each other. Later on, they saw each other often. He didn't do anything to her, but she recently found that he always looked at her in a strange way.
At that very moment, she really needed a man to cure her. That seemed to be the only solution.
She didn't want to do it, but she had to. No man was special in her eyes for now. She didn't really care whom she would do it with.
She glanced at Kong Qingming, then forcibly suppressed the hotness inside her and said to Lin Wenwen, "Go and ask around for me… see if anyone else is willing to do this."
It had to be consensual.
Hearing that, Lin Wenwen glanced at Kong Qingming, whose vibe was growing tense, then nodded and said, "Alright, I'll go and ask."
"Why? Why can't it be me?" Kong Qingming restrained his anger as he stared at Long Qingying, who had already closed her eyes, and said through clenched teeth. He had recommended himself to her, yet she ignored it. Which part of him was not as good as those men outside? Did she really need Lin Wenwen to ask them for help?