BC Chapter 174

It had been several days since Lu Ziming was arranged to stay in the hospital for some routine check-ups and psychological counseling. Lu Ziming, dressed in a blue and white striped hospital gown, sat on the bed, looking at the bland breakfast provided by the hospital, still feeling somewhat dazed. Although she had been brought here by the rescue team several days ago, and she, like the other survivors, had been following the arrangements of the rescue workers and the medical staff in the hospital, she still couldn’t believe that she had escaped that disaster just like that. It was like she had been in a long nightmare, deeply immersed in it and slowly getting used to it, when suddenly someone woke her up in the middle. Because she woke up too quickly, her mind was in a state of confusion, making it difficult to distinguish which environment was real and which was illusory.

She felt like she needed a few more days to adjust. Hesitantly, she reached out and pinched the stainless steel spoon handle, but in her absent-minded state, she forgot to control her strength. As soon as her fingers closed and applied force, the end of the spoon handle immediately Quit, and the stainless steel spoon in her hand was as fragile as clay waiting to be shaped on a turntable.

Her eyes glanced at the deformed spoon, and she quickly looked around, making sure no one was paying attention to her. She immediately took the spoon under the table board, silently exerted force to bend the spoon handle back to its original shape, and then straightened her back and breathed a long sigh of relief, gently placing the spoon into the porridge bowl, scooping up a spoonful of porridge and blowing on it.

From the results of the check-ups in the past few days, her routine check-up values were not much different from those of other survivors, so the thing she had been worried about before blending into the survivor group, being taken away for research, never happened. She was therefore a little relieved. It was just that her body was ultimately different from ordinary people, so occasionally there would still be some accidents that made her break out in cold sweats, just like the spoon just now. Fortunately, her ability to adapt was not bad, so basically every time she managed to muddle through with a narrow escape, without letting ordinary people notice her differences.

There were probably a few more days left in the stage where the rescue team forcibly required the survivors to cooperate with the hospital for check-ups and care. As long as she endured those few days, and if nothing major went wrong, Lu Ziming would completely regain her freedom. This was what she cared about most right now. As long as she thought that she was about to escape from the dead and dull environment of the hospital, Lu Ziming could regain some patience to continue waiting. Thinking of this, she couldn’t help but speed up her eating. Just as she finished the last bite of food in front of her and happily raised her head to start cleaning up her tableware, she noticed out of the corner of her eye that a black figure was standing beside her bed at some point.

Lu Ziming turned her head in confusion, and when her eyes moved up to the other person’s face—it was a face that she was very familiar with during that dangerous time in the past, and at this moment, a smile was on her lips as she looked at her intently.

“Cough… cough cough, uh.” The last bite of food that hadn’t been swallowed almost choked her.

“…Are, are you okay?” The person’s smiling face immediately turned flustered when she saw Lu Ziming choking and turning red. She didn’t expect her appearance to surprise Lu Ziming to this extent. She should have waited outside the ward. Feeling self-reproach in her heart, the panic on her face was obvious and concerned, but the action of patting Lu Ziming’s back never stopped.

“Cough… cough… huh… I’m fine, I’m fine.” Lu Ziming, who had worked hard not to spit out the food in her mouth in a mess, finally swallowed the food and adjusted her breathing, and quickly turned around and grabbed the other person’s wrist.

The soft touch on her back seemed to still linger. Lu Ziming, who was really not used to having such close contact with others suddenly, suddenly realized that this was also a kind of close contact after grabbing the person’s wrist, and quickly let go of her hand as if she had been burned.

“Yao… Captain, why are you here?” That’s right, this “acquaintance” of Lu Ziming who suddenly appeared was Yao Jinglin. Lu Ziming hesitated whether to call her by her name or her title. In the end, she thought that she was likely here to find her because of work-related issues, so she called her by the title of Captain.

“Is there something you need my help with?” Lu Ziming seemed a little uneasy. For her now, Yao Jinglin’s appearance was actually not a good thing. If the other party was here for official business, then it was very likely that her superiors already knew that she had some extraordinary experiences and abilities beyond ordinary people in this disaster, so they sent Yao Jinglin to find her and take her to a strange place for questioning or verification. Thinking of this, she couldn’t help but sigh in her heart—was the free life she was about to obtain going to turn into a fantasy like this? Because of the bad premonition that arose in her heart, the expression on Lu Ziming’s face became a little subtle.

Yao Jinglin, on the other hand, had some doubts in her heart because of Lu Ziming’s series of actions just now—did she regain her memory? Yao Jinglin’s hand was still suspended in mid-air, and she stared blankly at the wrist that Lu Ziming had just grabbed. Clearly, when she met her again later, she wasn’t as estranged from her as she was now. She even saved her at all costs when she was suffering from amnesia. And at this moment, her hedgehog-like behavior was clearly more like her before she lost her memory.

Of course, the fact that Lu Ziming had amnesia was something that Xu Rubing took the initiative to tell her before Lu Ziming and Xu Rubing separated from her and Lin Xiang. Perhaps she knew that she couldn’t surpass Yao Jinglin in Lu Ziming’s heart, and also knew that she and Lu Ziming would eventually be separated after being rescued, so she slightly “helped” in the matter between the two of them.

Of course, judging from the “harsh words” she later put down to Yao Jinglin, the reason why she told Yao Jinglin that Lu Ziming had amnesia may also have been to make Yao Jinglin completely give up. Playing the routine of “you should just give up, she has long forgotten you and the things between you”.

However, from Yao Jinglin’s point of view, she was still very grateful to Xu Rubing for telling her this. It made her realize once again what Lu Ziming’s actions of saving her several times were out of. It also strengthened her determination to persevere in this relationship.

In Lu Ziming’s heart, she definitely has herself! Moreover, Lu Ziming herself hasn’t even realized this!