Qi Ji looked around casually, his eyes sweeping over those students who seemed a little at a loss, and the middle-aged male bodyguard whose expression had become a little nervous.
"...You guys, get out of here."
Candice was silent for a few seconds, and suddenly and rudely dispersed those fawning students.
When she said this, her tone was filled with genuine anger and impatience, as if she had long been dissatisfied with these chattering guys, but had not directly driven them away because of the royal family's face.
With this opportunity, she was finally able to stop hiding her true thoughts and express her anger without restraint.
"Oh, oh! Goodbye, Princess..."
"Be careful..."
"..."
Those students flattered Candy for so long, but in the end, Candy drove them away without any appreciation. However, no one dared to show any dissatisfaction, and they all left in shame.
Soon, apart from the serious and old-fashioned middle-aged bodyguard, the only people present were Qi Ji, Princess Candice, and Donna, who was standing there in a daze not far away.
“Go ahead.” After venting her anger, Candice seemed to be in a better mood. The displeasure between her brows eased a little, but her expression and color were still cold. “Clayman is not an outsider.”
As she said the second half of the sentence, she glanced at the bodyguard beside her.
Receiving her signal, the middle-aged bodyguard immediately turned around, as if looking at the scenery, and no longer fixed his gaze on the two of them.
"You know exactly what I'm going to say," Qi Ji looked the princess up and down, "It's just a matter of 'soul and flesh', you should understand it better than anyone else."
"How...why do you say that?"
Although Candice seemed to have expected it, she still showed obvious surprise when she heard Qi Ji say that word.
She originally wanted to say "How do you know?", but that would be tantamount to consent, so she quickly changed her words.
Qi Ji shrugged and said very casually:
"Your physical condition is like dust in the sun to me. It is obvious at a glance."
She suddenly came over to chat with the princess, definitely not simply because she wanted to know why a royal descendant had to go to school.
After all, exposing herself directly to the royal family's attention would likely cause some trouble. Although she was not too worried, she would still try to avoid it if possible.
What really interested her, to the point where her curiosity overcame her fear of trouble, was Candice's extremely unique physical condition.
As a living being with intelligence and consciousness, it must contain spirituality in its body.
They constitute the consciousness, self and personality of intelligent creatures, and also "back up" part of the memory information.
For ordinary creatures, the spirit and the body are inseparable:
Without the former, one will degenerate into a wild beast that acts only on instinct; without the latter, the life force of the living being will have nowhere to be carried and will die on the spot, and the soul will not be able to exist stably and will dissipate into the environment.
Generally speaking, the spirit and flesh of all intelligent creatures, whether they are humans, elves, vampires, orcs, dragons, or giants, are in almost perfect harmony.
Because if there is an obvious inconsistency and internal conflict between the spirit and the flesh, then the creature will not be able to survive normally.
It won’t be long before the spirit collapses, the mind loses, the person becomes a vegetable, or the body fails and the person dies.
Some extraordinary beings who are good at spiritual magic often launch spiritual attacks by interfering with the relationship between the enemy's spirit and body.
The current problem is that the soul and body of the third princess of the royal family, Candice Octavius, are strangely out of harmony.
It was as if her spirit and body were not "original" and there were quite obvious contradictions, conflicts and inconsistencies between them.
If she was in this condition when she was born, let alone living to the age of fourteen or fifteen, there is a high probability that she would not even live to be a full month old and would die.
Or, this situation is a recent one.
Or, there is something more special in her body, which allows her to live for so long in such strange and bizarre spiritual and physical conditions.
"This secret is only known by my father and a few of his confidants, such as Clement..."
Perhaps he realized that the other party already knew the truth and there was no need to hide it.
Candice no longer covered it up. She stared at Qi Ji's blurry face and spoke in a complex tone that was hard to tell the meaning of. Suddenly, she laughed a little sadly:
"What do you mean by saying this to me?"
Chapter 244: Disharmony between Soul and Flesh (Part 8) ()
"I don't have any special ideas," Qi Ji laughed a few times, "Just a casual reminder."
"Reminder of what?"
"Just a reminder that if you want to live longer, don't always stay with so many people," Qi Ji glanced at the bodyguard who turned his back, "especially the extraordinary ones."
"Why did you say that?"
Candice asked with her arms crossed over her chest and a frown on her face.
"The state of your spirit is already so strange. If you always stay with other spirits, the spiritual fluctuations of others will further disturb your spirit, thus accelerating the differentiation of the inconsistency between the spirit and the body."
Qi Ji sighed slightly and said with a hint of regret:
"Given your current condition, if you continue to stay in this school... you can only live for another year at most."
"what?!"
Candice immediately lost her composure. Her pretty face changed drastically. She was instinctively afraid at first, but was soon replaced by strong anger:
"You, you nonsense guy, are you cursing me to death?!"
"Believe it or not," Qi Ji spread his hands indifferently, "Anyway, I've already said this."
After saying that, she turned around and prepared to leave.
"Wait a moment!"
Candice immediately took a few steps forward and shouted at Qi Ji with an angry face:
"You're not a student, are you? Who is that person? Why is he on campus?!"
Qi Ji did not look back, nor did he pause for a moment because of her call, as if this princess of the imperial royal family was non-existent air.
"……hateful!"
Seeing that this shabbily dressed guy dared to ignore her, Candice immediately became so angry that her pretty face turned red and she stomped her feet hard.
"Clayman, leave her alone!"
She seemed to be getting angrier the more she thought about it. Before Qi Ji's back went away, she shouted angrily to the bodyguard:
"I must ask clearly today!"
The middle-aged man with a stern face and a serious expression nodded silently, and his figure suddenly flashed and appeared behind Qi Ji in the blink of an eye.
"Princess, please stay."
After saying this coldly, he stretched out his big hand and grabbed Qi Ji's cloak at his shoulder.
"Uh!"
But just before his fingertips were about to touch the old and simple black cloak, he suddenly felt dizzy.
When I came to my senses, the girl in the cloak had disappeared.
"What, what's wrong?"
The bodyguard was a little confused for a moment, and looked around hurriedly, only to find that the cloaked girl was completely out of his sight.
Even the green-haired girl wearing the junior academy uniform who had been with the cloaked girl was nowhere to be found.
"Hey, hey, hey! Clayman, what are you doing?!"
Suddenly, he heard the princess's anxious and slightly frightened cry, and he quickly lowered his head to look to his left.
A touch of transparent amber came into view, followed by the Princess's beautiful face, which looked shocked and puzzled.
"Your Highness, Princess!?"
Bodyguard Clement's eyes widened in disbelief.
He remembered that in order to chase the cloaked girl, he rushed out more than ten meters.
In other words, Her Royal Highness the Princess should be ten meters away from him.
Then why was she standing next to him?
At this time, his keen senses as a martial artist at the peak of righteousness allowed him to detect something strange.
He immediately observed the surrounding environment and instantly noticed the problem.
That is, "time" can't keep up!
The movements of the pedestrians and the positions of the fallen leaves changed dramatically, as if a section of time had been cut off.
"I, what happened to me just now?"
He immediately realized that the problem was not with time, but with himself!
Just a second before he was about to touch the cloaked girl, his mind fell into a trance-like state of complete freezing.
This state lasted... at least more than a minute!
"You, you were just about to catch that guy, but you suddenly stopped!"
Seeing her bodyguard's confused face, Candice quickly explained for him:
"I, no matter how I called you, you didn't respond, and that person took the student and left..."
"I... was hit by that person's mental spell?"
Bodyguard Kleiman immediately realized the seriousness of the problem:
While protecting Her Royal Highness the Princess, he actually fell into an unconscious state for a whole minute!
During this time, Her Royal Highness was in a completely defenseless situation...
If someone wanted to harm her at this moment, not to mention a minute, even a second would be more than enough!
"I'm sorry, Princess. I failed in my duty. I am guilty and deserve death!"
Clement’s lips were pale, and he kept apologizing in his trembling voice as he bowed.
If he had not been in public at this moment and as a confidant he had to consider the face of the royal family, he would have definitely knelt down and kowtowed to apologize on the spot.
"Uh, well, you don't have to be like this." Candice was also frightened by his excited reaction, and subconsciously comforted him, "I... I won't tell father, you... don't have to be so scared... um..."
As she spoke, she came to her senses and realized how dangerous her situation was. Her voice became thinner and her tone became unstable.
"Damn it, who on earth is that guy..."
She muttered to herself, and after the initial fear and palpitations eased a little, a strong sense of dissatisfaction and resentment surged in her heart.
This bastard actually dared to curse himself to die soon?
How dare you cast a negative spell on your bodyguard in public? !
How audacious!
The more she thought about it, the angrier she became. She glanced at the bodyguard, Clement, whose eyes flickered and whose face was uneasy, and ordered in a deep voice:
"Investigate this guy for me! You must catch him!"
While the little princess of the imperial royal family was furious, Qi Ji had already dragged Donna, who was still in a daze, to the door of Nanyuan Student Canteen.
"Don't you want to have breakfast?"
Qi Ji pushed her, but the latter didn't say anything and walked into the cafeteria like a sleepwalker, with a dazed expression on her face the whole time.
After about ten minutes, she came back to her senses when she walked out of the dining hall. She ran to Qi Ji in fear:
"Xiaoyao, you just bumped into Her Royal Highness the Princess! Do you know...what you are doing?!"
Little one...
Qi Ji's mouth twitched slightly, and he said in a calm and nonchalant tone:
"It's just a kind reminder. There's nothing to be afraid of."
"But, but..."
Seeing that she was not in a hurry at all, Donna became anxious instead and grabbed her shoulders with both hands:
"That's Her Royal Highness the Princess! You made her so angry. If she were to pursue the matter..."
Although she was standing quite far away and couldn't hear clearly what Qi Ji and Candice were talking about, she could still see the excitement in the latter's expression, demeanor and tone.
