In a crossover anime, do you believe that a machine spirit can defeat a fake human?

Several bullets grazed Rio Futaba's body, but she escaped unharmed.

Chen Yi rushed in front of Shuang Ye and took a bullet for her.

"Hiss..." He endured the excruciating pain and shot the security guard in the head.

"Commander!" Kroos exclaimed in alarm when she saw Chen Yi get shot.

P.S.: I'm having writer's block (feeling wronged). I don't know how to write about the Second Miss... I can't really portray her as a stereotypical, sharp-tongued character, right? It feels like I'm writing about a random passerby...

Forget it, I'll just rest well today and do some research in my dreams.

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Service Department: Chapter Forty-Seven: First Aid

Human adrenaline is a fascinating substance that has played a crucial role in human survival and reproduction throughout the long course of evolution.

This is why Chen Yi was not disabled after being shot and was able to continue running to the school gate.

"Rio, who is this...?" The driver was a middle-aged woman. She noticed that Rio Futaba had been pulling a boy of similar age along the way she ran out, and a look of inquiry appeared in her eyes.

"Auntie Kazumi, let's go to the hospital first!" Futaba Rio recalled the emergency hemostasis knowledge she had learned and tore a piece of her white coat to prepare to bandage Chen Yi.

“I have hemostatic powder in my guitar case.” Chen Yi’s trembling hand pressed down on Rio Futaba’s white coat.

“Yes, yes…this is infectious.” Rio Futaba calmed down a little. She put down the tattered cloth torn from her white coat and reached into her guitar case.

"Auntie Hemei, can you hurry up a bit?" she asked anxiously.

"That...sample..." Chen Yi reminded him, enduring the excruciating pain. If that thing were left any longer, it might evaporate completely.

"Who cares about that now!" Shuangye roared, silencing Chen Yi's words.

Rio Futaba pulled a small camouflage bag out of her guitar case, frantically unzipped it, and looked at the various medicines covered in Russian writing, feeling completely overwhelmed.

Using her broken Russian and limited ability to read pictures, Rio Futaba unpacked her sterile gloves, found the hemostatic powder and bandage, and used a tamponade method to sprinkle the hemostatic powder all over the wound. Then she stuffed gauze into the wound and wrapped it with the bandage after pressing it a few times.

"How are you feeling? Are you still conscious?" Rio Futaba asked, patting his face.

"Still alive." Chen Yi slowed his breathing and looked at the large patches of blood on his clothes. "Thank you," he said softly.

"Commander, this amount of bleeding doesn't seem like massive bleeding. At best, it means the internal organs weren't hit," Kroos's voice rang out, sounding somewhat tired.

"Commander, it's my fault for being incompetent." Kluge's tone was filled with sorrow and regret.

"It's a good thing you weren't hit in any internal organs, don't belittle yourself," Chen Yi comforted her in his heart.

"It's the soldier's fault that the officer was injured," Kroos insisted stubbornly.

'The Soviet soldiers in World War II made huge mistakes,' Chen Yi joked.

"..." Kroos was a little angry, but helpless.

"We're here, Rio. You watch this student for now, I'll go call the emergency room." The woman called Kazumi got out of the car in a hurry and rushed into the hospital's main entrance.

"Chen-kun, hang in there, it will be over soon..." Seeing Chen Yi close his eyes as if he had lost consciousness, Futaba Rio's voice was already trembling with tears.

......

When he regained consciousness, it was already the next morning.

"How the hell am I in the hospital again?" Chen Yi muttered to himself expressionlessly.

If this continues, I might as well just rent a hospital room and stay here permanently.

He looked around at his surroundings. The ward was a single room, with only his bed. The window was ajar, and a cool late spring breeze brushed against his face, carrying the smell of disinfectant into his nostrils. Occasionally, a nurse would push a trolley through the corridor, the rubber wheels making a soft creaking sound as they rolled over the floor.

Futaba sat on the stool by the hospital bed, seemingly having stayed with him all night.

"What happened?" Chen Yi asked, puzzled.

"We administered general anesthesia to remove the bullet," Rio Futaba explained calmly, regaining her rational and composed demeanor.

"The bullet's caliber is .22, so the cavity effect isn't significant, and it didn't hit any internal organs."

"It really... scared me to death." She muttered again in a low voice, but the environment in the ward was very quiet, so Chen Yi could hear her clearly.

Seemingly realizing her lapse in composure, Rio Futaba pushed up her glasses and quickly lowered her head to pretend to write on her sketchpad, but the unmoving pen tip clearly showed that she was completely lost in thought.

"Thank you," Chen Yi said sincerely.

"You're welcome." Rio Futaba looked up, then looked away, a faint blush creeping onto her cheeks.

"How's the sample coming along?" Chen Yi asked, recalling the thermos in his backpack.

“My mother drove over to pick it up herself while you were having surgery, and it’s being tested in the lab right now,” Rio Futaba replied.

Phew... I hope there's still some of that little piece of biological tissue left... otherwise I'll have to figure out how to hunt another one.

"Commander, I think we should reconsider this further." Kluge's voice rang out, revealing her dissatisfaction.

"Could you please stop eavesdropping on my thoughts next time? What if I'm thinking about something...? Wouldn't that ruin the noble and righteous image you have of me?" Chen Yi complained.

'Then don't even think about it.' Kroos wasn't having any of it.

"..." Such a strong desire for control, Chen Yi shuddered.

"Oh, right, my mother said... after you're discharged from the hospital, remember to find some time to invite you to dinner... or something." Rio Futaba suddenly spoke up, her tone a little hesitant.

It's perfectly normal to thank Chen Jun for saving you, and then have a meal with him, right?

"Oh, okay... Where's my phone?" Chen Yi nodded, instinctively trying to check the time.

"It ran out of battery and shut down automatically, so I charged it for you." Rio Futaba handed the phone from the bedside table.

"Thank you." Chen Yi pressed the power button, and a flood of messages and missed calls came in like a tidal wave.

Chen Yi swiped his fingers across the screen a few times. Aoyama Nanami's message ended with an emoticon, indicating she was in a good mood; Yukinoshita's inquiry was brief and restrained, ending without punctuation. Ignoring these two unimportant messages, Chen Yi turned his attention to the other two contacts.

Hiratsuka-sensei and Kasumigaoka-senpai.

He blocked Kasumigaoka, and the few calls he made this morning must have been urgent... Let me report to Hiratsuka-sensei first.

"Beep beep beep beep..."

"Hello, Chen Yi?" The call was answered quickly, and Hiratsuka Shizuka's tone had an eerie calmness.

Did you come to school this morning?

"Did I forget to ask for leave?" Chen Yi put down his phone and asked himself in confusion.

Wait a minute, I was unconscious, why would I need to ask for leave?

"No," he answered honestly.

Where are you now? I called you this morning but you didn't answer...

"I'm in the hospital now." After a pause, Chen Yi finally told the truth.

"..." A suffocating silence fell over the other end.

"I'm coming over now," Hiratsuka Shizuka said briefly before hanging up the phone.

"My homeroom teacher is about to come and give me a good scolding because of my reckless behavior last night," Chen Yi said with a wry smile.

"Futaba, I'll have to ask you to help explain this later." Chen Yi clasped his hands together, closed his eyes, and looked serene.

"After all, you were an accomplice."

“Alright, Mr. Main Culprit.” Shuangye smiled, amused by Chen Yi’s humor.

P.S.: Thank you so much to reader '1937q' for the spicy snack! Thank you, boss, thank you, meow! Wishing you good health, meow! And a happy life, meow!

Service Department: Chapter Forty-Eight: Hospitalization

"Around 4 PM on April 27th, Chiba Municipal Soubu High School was attacked by spies. The number of casualties is still being tallied. Further updates will follow..."

The closed-circuit television in the ward was turned on by Professor Hiratsuka, who didn't say a word after coming in.

They said they were there to interrogate him, but they still bought some fruit as a token of their appreciation on the way.

"I received a notification this morning that the school was attacked by stunt doubles last night, and a security guard died. Do you know what happened?" Hiratsuka Shizuka asked calmly as she peeled an apple with a peeler.

"..." Chen Yi pondered.

"Speak." Her tone left no room for argument. "Don't tell me you don't know anything. If you really didn't know why you were lying here, would you have gotten so badly injured if you had just gone home?" Hiratsuka Shizuka questioned.

"Alright," Chen Yi sighed, relenting. "The thing is actually like this..."

He will return to the scene to collect samples, then contact Rio Futaba, and explain in detail how he tried to process the samples at the school and how he finally escaped.

"Futaba-san, is that so?" Hiratsuka Shizuka looked at the somewhat unfamiliar girl beside her; she wasn't one of her students.

"It's pretty much the same as Chen Jun's description." Shuangye nodded. "Chen Jun was injured while protecting me, so please don't blame him, teacher."

"One more thing to add is that there's something wrong with that security guard's identity. He seems to have a similar background to the security guard in the previous incident at Hemu Apartment," Chen Yi added after thinking for a moment.

"You mean...?" Hiratsuka Shizuka's expression changed drastically, and she immediately called the school's higher-ups to question them.

"Hey, Principal, has the police found out any information about that security guard...? Is he really a 'Crab Leg Disciple'? Is the school's administrative department just sitting around doing nothing? Where do you put the safety of teachers and students...?" Hiratsuka Shizuka cursed.

"The news is getting out of control; the school's leadership is about to undergo a major reshuffle." Rio Futaba pushed up her glasses.

"Serves you right." Chen Yi said dismissively.

“…” Hiratsuka Shizuka hung up the phone and took a few deep breaths to calm herself down.

"Looking on the bright side, this time we exposed the conspiracy ahead of time, preventing it from having a bigger consequence." Chen Yi comforted her, and Hiratsuka Shizuka's mood visibly improved.

"I haven't investigated your risky trip back to collect samples yet, so I'll let you off the hook this time." After peeling off the last piece of apple skin, Hiratsuka Shizuka handed the smooth apple to Chen Yi.

"Thank you, Professor Hiratsuka." Chen Yi accepted the gift.

"Where are you hurt?" Hiratsuka Shizuka examined her closely. Her arms were both intact, and when she touched the blanket, her feet were also unharmed.

"I was shot here." Chen Yi lifted his hospital gown and pointed to the area covered by bandages.

"It was lucky that it didn't hit any internal organs or arteries," Chen Yi smiled.

"My arm was also scratched by the spider-like android's limbs, but the arteries weren't damaged." Chen Yi rolled up the cuff of his left arm, where a large bandage was wrapped.

"...That security guard deserved to die." Hiratsuka Shizuka cursed under her breath, completely lacking any ladylike manners, for daring to hit my student.

"Take good care of your injuries. The school will probably be locked down for a while. Apart from the corpse of a fake human on the fourth floor, we haven't found any other fake humans." Hiratsuka Shizuka checked the time, stood up, and said goodbye.

She has other things to do, and Chen Yi also needs to rest... We'll settle the score with Chen Yi for taking risks later when we have time.

...Will it even work? Chen Yi is like a mad dog, impossible to tether. Hiratsuka Shizuka mocked herself inwardly.

......

"Futaba-san?" Chen Yi looked at the closed door and turned his gaze to Futaba Rio.

"Could you help me take the rifle out of my guitar case? I need to get it serviced." Chen Yi glanced at Krockey, who was staring intently at him.

"Commander, you don't really need to worry about me. I've only been neglecting my health for a few days. I'm not that fragile."

"Saying one thing and meaning another." Chen Yi rolled his eyes.

When will this arrogant little monster realize that arrogance has no place in the market?

"Aren't you going to wait until you're fully recovered and have more energy to start taking care of yourself?" Futaba asked casually as she picked up the HK416, feeling its weight.

"This is a life-saving device; we can't afford to be careless," Chen Yi said calmly.

Chen Yi carefully arranged the various tactical accessories from the handguard onto the table next to the hospital bed, and then began cleaning the barrel and bolt according to a meticulous procedure.

"416 little darling, you really are..." she muttered to herself.

If I'm not the one who's embarrassed, then it's someone else who will be.

"...So your so-called eager maintenance is just saying some...shameful things while cleaning the gun barrel?" Shuangye was shocked for a long time before she came to her senses. Looking at Chen Yi holding the gun with a deep affection on his face, she hesitated to speak.

It's hard to imagine that a person could say so many cheesy pickup lines to a gun. Chen Yi is no ordinary guy.

"Hmm... Everyone has a few quirks that only they understand. For example, I like to use a beaker to make coffee... Hmm, I can understand that." Rio Futaba muttered to herself, successfully convincing herself.

Just as I looked up, about to say something, there was a knock on the door of the ward.

......

After getting to know Chen Yi, Kasumigaoka occasionally felt inferior.

She had realized that she had developed a vague feeling for Chen Yi, and this soft emotion was like an addictive alcohol, making it impossible for her to extricate herself.