GBT Chapter 50
by VolareIn the ward, the sound of helpless discussion grew increasingly intense.
When the phrase “electrical defibrillation” reached Shen Ji’s ears, the throbbing in his temples intensified, causing a throbbing pain throughout his brain.
Shen Ji strode towards the bed: “Get out of the way.”
A crowd of doctors in white coats still huddled in front of him, that expanse of white blending together, accentuated by the heavy atmosphere, resembling shrouds in a morgue.
“Get out, all of you!” Shen Ji hammered the bedside table forcefully, causing the items on it to tremble and fall to the ground.
The ward fell silent instantly. The medical staff exchanged glances. This patient had a special identity, involving the two major families of the Southern Shen and Western Qi. His electrocardiogram was already in such disarray, and they still couldn’t find the cause. Could they leave? If the person died, wouldn’t they be blamed?
Qi Yi Liao, by the table, waved his hand.
The medical personnel understood and retreated, standing by the wall, clearing the space in front of the bed.
“Don’t want to live?” Shen Ji leaned over, his hands supporting himself on the edge of the bed, close to the pale-faced youth. “Little dog, where’s your rebellious spirit?”
Shen Ji looked at the pitted and scarred wound on his lips, his voice hoarse, “When you were dealing with me, wasn’t that set of thorns very sharp? You even dared to defy me, act wild in front of me, challenge my bottom line time and time again. Wasn’t that stubborn, unyielding energy quite strong? Why don’t you want to live?”
As he spoke, Shen Ji’s voice grew lower and lower, the words clinging to his throat, like a lover’s whispers.
Shen Ji remembered something, bending his back even lower, almost touching the youth’s nose, his expression seemed mocking and helpless: “Just because I made you kneel in the ancestral hall last night?”
Most likely that was it.
The way this little dog looked at him at the time made the little thorn in his heart suddenly grow into a thicket of thorns.
Several months had passed, and not even one thorn could be pulled out, let alone a thicket.
“I don’t know what tricks you’re playing, even the doctors can’t figure it out. You wake up, and I won’t make you kneel anymore. You can do whatever you want.” Shen Ji stroked the youth’s chin, his fingertips tracing the lines of his slender face, admitting defeat with a cold smile, “Your game of playing hard to get has reached perfection. You’ve won, Little Mrs. Shen.”
Qi Yi Liao’s half-lowered eyelashes fluttered slightly, and in the next second,
The monitor issued an alarm.
The electrocardiogram turned into a straight line.
The ward became chaotic again. When Shen Ji reacted, his arm was being pulled by his old friend, and he was no longer by the bedside.
“The heart has stopped beating… electrical activity…”
“Start chest compressions immediately!”
The medical staff immediately began emergency measures.
Shen Ji watched the young body being repeatedly pressed on the chest, his heart once again experiencing the feeling of being repeatedly crushed by various emotions, the last time being after he slapped this little dog of his.
This time, the feeling was several times deeper than the last. His heart even issued a warning that it could not bear the load.
No one could see the pain in his heart.
Some place had torn open, wind was rushing in, wave after wave.
Shen Ji instinctively moved closer to the bed.
The hand on his arm increased its strength, grabbing him tightly.
Qi Yi Liao met his blank gaze, advising: “Old Shen, you should go out first.”
Shen Ji regained his senses, shaking off his old friend’s hand with great force. A stubborn furrow fell between his brows, every line filled with hostile anger, like someone had stepped on his dragon scale.
Qi Yi Liao put his hands in his coat pockets, nodding: “I’ll go out too.” He said in a low voice, “Being here, besides hindering the medical team, we don’t serve any purpose.”
Finally, he added: “That child is already standing on the line of death.”
Shen Ji’s breath hitched. As if escaping, he took a step and left the ward.
Qi Yi Liao didn’t immediately follow. He slowly exhaled a breath of turbid air mixed with the scent of tobacco, glancing at the frail body still being pressed down on, again and again.
Kid, be strong.
As soon as the patient’s electrical activity recovered, the medical staff immediately proceeded with electrical defibrillation. They didn’t know that a soul was standing next to them, numbly watching them perform the rescue work.
“I’ve already come out, and this body can still show vital signs.”
Jiao Bai mocked, “Assistants, you’re working hard.”
The system didn’t respond.
Jiao Bai looked down at himself. He didn’t know why, but he hadn’t turned into the appearance he had in his previous life. He was still in the original body. His feet were touching the ground, just like a real person.
The difference was that no one else could see him.
Also, he couldn’t leave the ward.
Jiao Bai went to the corner and squatted down, watching the ongoing rescue with his hands on his cheeks.
The body had been stripped of its upper clothing, its skin pale, its ribs clearly defined, dry and fragile, like a withered leaf in the wind and snow.
“Two hundred joules for the first time, shock!”
“Anything?”
“…”
“Two hundred joules for the second time, shock!”
“Anything?”
“…”
“…”
“Living is really hard.” Jiao Bai tugged at the corner of his mouth. When he was sent to the hospital, he was conscious, and could hear all the sounds that brushed past his ears.
Originally, his desire to live was very strong. He hoped that the doctor could discover the cause of his illness, and he even hoped that Qi Yi Liao, who believed in ghosts and gods, could detect this anomaly.
However, when Shen Ji came in with an aloof attitude, he was stimulated, both physically and mentally experiencing strong disgust and rejection, wanting to get away.
In that instant, his soul left that body, catching even himself off guard.
The system warnings kept ringing.
Jiao Bai just wouldn’t go back in. He had also figured out that once a player’s soul separated from the body due to some factor, they had to voluntarily return, and couldn’t be forced.
The electronic voice was still ringing.
[Seventy-eighth warning, player Jiao Bai, please return to your body immediately!]
Jiao Bai ignored it.
Even a tool has a temper.
In the early hours of the morning, when he was in so much pain that he wanted to die, there were moments when he really wanted to give up, but he tried his best to persevere.
Because he was unwilling.
For the past six months, he had been abused in various ways. To leave like this would be the same as suffering all those crimes for nothing, and being disgusted for so long for nothing?
However,
He still had to leave, but he wanted to change his ways. After all of his friends were in the group.
Jiao Bai thought of Shen Ji and Qi Yi Liao talking, that “I’m the dog owner, I’ve come, I’ll take care of my own dog” tone, he wanted to tui.
The Shen family’s genes were truly strong.
The Old Lady was like that, and Shen Ji perfectly inherited it.
Shen Er An’s blood also had it, and it was triggered by Li Jue in the later stages.
The characters in old-fashioned dog-blood comics were remarkable in the two-dimensional world, and would also get extra points for their high-value art styles, making them look quite cool, but when the two-dimensional world became three-dimensional, and everything was related to him, there were only two words – goodbye.
“Little assistant, let’s talk.” The corners of Jiao Bai’s mouth turned up.
The electronic voice’s warning sound stopped, giving one the illusion of holding their breath.
“It’s not that I don’t want to go back to continue doing tasks, it’s just…” Jiao Bai said slowly, “My body parts are either broken or loose. Even if I complete the task and gain control of my body, how many years will I be able to live? This deal is too uneconomical.”
[When the player completes the task, the body will be restored to its best condition.]
Jiao Bai blinked: “Is that so?” He laughed heartily, as if he was really happy, but the arc of his mouth was exaggerated. After being tortured for a long time, his mentality had changed consciously and unconsciously, and his happiness threshold had reached a very strange level, neither high nor low, but only by precisely touching that point could he feel happiness.
“Not bad… not bad, not bad.” Jiao Bai laughed so hard that he leaned forward and backward, and even his hand propping up his cheek slid down uncontrollably.
[Please return to the body you are bound to!]
“Why the rush, I haven’t finished yet.” Jiao Bai stopped laughing. He pondered for a while and made a condition.
The assistant didn’t respond.
“I’m not someone who takes advantage of a fire, it’s just one request, consider it.” Jiao Bai was patient. Since the situation was in his favor, he wouldn’t fail to take advantage of it.
An opportunity once lost will never return.
When the rescue work in the ward ended, the electronic voice rang out.
Jiao Bai smiled: “Deal.”
This time he was really happy, that feeling pouring out of his eyes and filling his face.
[Please return to the body you are bound to!]
Jiao Bai didn’t buy it: “Wait a minute, I haven’t enjoyed the soul state enough.”
[The body’s life functions are data superimposed, and can only be maintained for twenty-four hours without a soul carrier. Please be aware!]
“I know, I know.”
The electronic voice turned into a string of busy tones.
Jiao Bai comfortably clicked his tongue, probably driving the machine to death. He just complained and grumbled a few times, and it accused him of going overboard, provoking it, and questioning the rules, giving him thirty lashes of corporal punishment. What a glass-hearted idiot!
Jiao Bai’s emotions fluctuated a little, and he couldn’t squat still, collapsing to the ground, his soul’s mental state was also very poor, uncomfortable, nauseous.
He could still distract himself and hold on just now, but now he couldn’t.
Whether he went back or not, he would suffer.
But entering his body now would be more painful than staying in his soul state, so he should wait a little longer.
Jiao Bai sat down for a short while and then lay down, curling up in the corner with his hands and feet. He wanted to see what the reaction of his friends would be when he was unconscious, and whether they could give him some activity points.
Regarding the patient’s condition, the hospital’s conclusion was that the patient’s will to live was still very weak, and it was hard to say when he would wake up, or whether he could wake up at all.
Shen Ji smashed everything he could in the Hospital Dean’s office, leaving with hands covered in blood and an aura of dread, slamming the door behind him.
Chen Yi Ming clutched his face, which had been cut by the broken wood, and followed closely behind.
Not only Chen Yi Ming, but the Hospital Dean also suffered harm in this purely violent venting session. There was a bloody mark on his head of mostly white hair, and he didn’t even know when or by what his head had been injured.
Doctor-patient relationships are prone to tension.
This time, because it involved that person from the Shen family, it developed into this result.
The Hospital Dean didn’t know where to start with the messy office. He was about to call someone to help him clean up when he saw that there was still someone in the office who hadn’t left.
The Hospital Dean had lived for a long time, and had seen many people and things. In his opinion, that person from the Shen family had the typical style of a leader of a large family, ruthless, cunning, arrogant, and cold-blooded, and he could see through him.
But he had also met the Qi family’s member several times, and they were always smiling and friendly, which was very strange, making it difficult to fathom what was behind that facade.
Qi Yi Liao handed over a handkerchief.
“Thank you.” The Hospital Dean reached out to take it. If others were polite to him, he would also respond politely, “Chairman Qi, the patient is Chairman Shen’s…”
Qi Yi Liao answered irrelevantly: “How can his will to live be improved?”
Before the Hospital Dean could answer, he heard him say again: “If it’s improved, will he wake up?”
“The will to live varies from person to person. There’s the care and encouragement of relatives and friends, the unwavering support of a loved one, and also one’s own inner strength.” The Hospital Dean pressed the handkerchief to the wound on his head, answering the second question, “We can only say that if the will to live is improved, the chances of waking up will be greater.”
The Hospital Dean hesitated: “Chairman Qi, I personally have a suggestion. You might as well send the patient to the research institute.”
Qi Yi Liao’s eyebrows twitched: “Send him to the research institute?” His expression became very strange for a moment, so fast that it was impossible to capture, “A lab rat?”
“You misunderstood.” The Hospital Dean quickly clarified, “The research institute is more experienced than our hospital in researching difficult and complicated diseases.” How could they dare let that person in the ward be a lab rat, the Shen family would never allow it.
The Hospital Dean’s mind flashed with the face of that old lady, and he hesitated again, he heard that the old lady was very superstitious, maybe she would agree.
Forget it, every step in medicine isn’t that easy to take.
“Difficult and complicated diseases?”
The Hospital Dean heard the voice of the Qi family head, and he nodded: “That little patient’s symptoms are truly bizarre.”
Qi Yi Liao was silent for a long time, then laughed: “Let’s forget about the research institute.”
The Hospital Dean didn’t know why, but he sensed a trace of sinister disdain from that smile. He wanted to say a few words for the research institute, but the person had already left.
Qi Yi Liao was by the window in the corridor, making a phone call: “Old Shen, last time at Lan Yi Zhai, I reminded you to take that child for a check-up, did you take him?”
Shen Ji was on his way to the group headquarters. He had just hung up the phone from contacting foreign experts, and his mood was irritable, his tone very bad, with an indiscriminate attacking sharpness: “He stayed with you for half a month, was kidnapped on the way back to South City, and only came back yesterday, now he’s lying in the hospital today. Did I have the time to take him for a check-up?”
Shen Ji thought he was talking about a physical examination, and said impatiently: “Besides, before going to West City, he went to the hospital for a check-up with my son. Although he didn’t have a full-body examination, he did several tests. If there were any problems, we would have noticed it at the time.”
“I’m not talking about a physical examination.” Qi Yi Liao’s face was facing the window glass, which seemed spotless, but he raised his hand and wiped it, and his hand got covered with a thin layer of dust.
Shen Ji paused in the motion of straightening the hair on his forehead.
Qi Yi Liao said: “Old Shen, that night at Di Ye, the abnormality that child showed on the bed in my room, I sent you the surveillance at the time, and then at the old lady’s birthday banquet, I reminded you again…”
Several words in his old friend’s speech seemed particularly harsh, Shen Ji’s face sank, and he directly interrupted, his words filled with contempt: “So, you’re saying something dirty refers to that aspect, A Liao, he’s my dog, I know him better than anyone. That set of yours from the Qi family doesn’t work for me.”
It was unknown whether he looked down on the Qi family’s set, or whether he didn’t put other things in his eyes.
Qi Yi Liao sighed with a smile: “Alright, since you’ve already made up your mind, there’s no point in saying more.”
Before the last syllable could fall, the call was hung up.
Qi Yi Liao stood by the window for a moment, rubbing the dust and grit between his fingertips, then turned and went to the ward.
Jiao Bai received a friend online notification, but he didn’t immediately see whose avatar had lit up, several possibilities flashing through his mind.
The most likely was Zhang Zhen, after all, that man was like an old father who had lost his child on the way to the hospital, holding his hand and trembling all the time, completely dumbfounded.
The second most likely was Li Jue.
The protagonist shou, after all, was prone to appearing in unexpected places. There was only what you couldn’t think of, there was nothing he couldn’t reach.
Finally, there was Shen Ji, the traces of venting on him when he first came were too heavy, obviously he didn’t know where he had slept comfortably last night, and would definitely be furious and launch a set of overbearing president boxing techniques commonly used in scum and cheap stories.
Why make me endure these pains that I shouldn’t have to endure? The whole world is wrong, only I am not wrong.
Jiao Bai’s back suddenly stiffened, the person who had come was actually… the old pervert.
All of the senses of the soul state were particularly sensitive. He didn’t open his eyes or turn his head to look at the door, he confirmed it through the damp, cold scent of sandalwood.
Jiao Bai propped open his eyelids, and in the next moment, got up and stared at Qi Yi Liao’s avatar.
I’m Grass.
The white cat was really going to die this time!
That thin wire had already deeply embedded itself into its neck, severing its flesh and bones.
Its neck was tilted to one side, hanging by only a bit of skin and flesh.
Jiao Bai stared blankly, what was going on?
Other than the fur on its head being a bit white, the rest of the white cat was all red, blood dripping down.
Jiao Bai seemed to hear the sound of dripping, and covered his ears with both hands: “Earlier I said that I would save you when you howled, that was a lie. Whether you howl or not, I can’t save you.”
As he said that, he curled back up on the ground, but after a dozen seconds, he stood up again and staggered towards the bed.
At Lan Yi Zhai at the time, Jiao Bai discovered for the first time that the white cat was one inch closer to him, and he thought it was because it was tired of it, didn’t want to stay in the same place anymore.
At the time, he was still thinking, the thin wire on its neck was still there. Even if it moved a little, it would hurt like hell, why didn’t it stay put, and had to move around.
Now…
Jiao Bai looked again at the white cat that seemed to be completely dead. It wasn’t tired of it.
It was too painful, it wanted to give up. Taking one step forward was its act of self-inflicted suicide.
And that desperate cry for help in front of the Lan Mo Mansion graveyard was a struggle deeply hidden in its heart, even it wasn’t aware of.
It still wanted to live.
Just like me. Jiao Bai stared at the little block on Qi Yi Liao’s avatar. Was that tall, rectangular thing in there imprisoning the white cat?
What could it be?
Jiao Bai’s curiosity was completely piqued, but his current situation was more troublesome, and he couldn’t devote himself wholeheartedly to dealing with Qi Yi Liao.
“Hey, old pervert, your cat is dead.”
Jiao Bai sat on the bed, propping himself up with his hands behind him, half-reclining and looking at Qi Yi Liao, who didn’t show any abnormalities.
The highest level of acting was probably like this.
Jiao Bai felt that compared to sick old men, cats were easier to handle.
“White cat, how can I save you?” Jiao Bai tried to re-establish communication with the white cat.
The white cat’s golden eyes were tightly closed, and its tail drooped powerlessly, without a single response.
Its master did speak, though.
What he said was – you’re suffering, child, and keeping it to yourself. If you don’t say it, who will feel sorry for you?
Jiao Bai was stunned for a moment, then he chuckled loudly as if he had heard something very funny, but the arc of his mouth was exaggerated. After being tormented for so long, his mentality had changed consciously and unconsciously, and his threshold for happiness had reached a very strange level, neither high nor low, but only by precisely touching that point could he feel happiness.
Jiao Bai sat up, his face full of disdain.
Qi Yi Liao stood up, looking down.
As if his gaze had really touched him, his pale lips opened and closed: “I don’t know how many words you’ve memorized, I originally wanted to come and check.”
“Now it’s good, you’re asleep.” Qi Yi Liao smiled helplessly and tolerantly, but his eyes were filled with completely opposite darkness and haze.
“…” Jiao Bai smelled the rotting smell on the white cat’s body, he rubbed his nose, and looked at Qi Yi Liao’s activity, which didn’t stop, and didn’t drop back.
Instead, it rose to 17.7.
“Little cat, hold on, when I go and mess with your master, maybe I can accidentally save you.”
Jiao Bai wasn’t very sincere, but it wasn’t completely unintentional either.
Each friend’s avatar was a personification or objectification of their inner world. Judging from the white cat’s situation, its appearance represented that Qi Yi Liao had lost hope.
So, why would Qi Yi Liao lose hope?
Jiao Bai “brushed” to stand up, could it be because he had become a vegetable?
It wasn’t impossible.
Jiao Bai recalled the white cat’s changes along the way, and became more certain of his idea.
What left the deepest impression on him was that night at Lan Mo Mansion, Qi Yi Liao wanted him to do a favor, he refused, and the white cat vomited blood to show him.
When he helped with the favor, it snored.
So easy to understand.
He was its last, and only, hope.
Besides him, no one could untie the thin wire for it, allowing it to escape from what was imprisoning it.
Although for it, he could only possibly do it, and the probability was small.
Jiao Bai curled his lips. He had been frightened by the gloom of Lan Mo Mansion, and only now did he understand the trick in it.
It seemed that if he wanted to get Qi Yi Liao into the group, he could only…
Eat less spicy food, stay up less, protect his voice, and memorize more words and scriptures.
Jiao Bai complained a few times with a stinky face, and suddenly realized that he was face to face with Qi Yi Liao, only half an inch apart.
One was in the yang world and one was in the yin world, only feeling emptiness.
Therefore, Jiao Bai didn’t need to retreat, dodge, or create distance. He could stare at Qi Yi Liao this closely, and not be afraid of embarrassment.
Jiao Bai stared for a long time, always looking at the small cinnabar mole on the left side of Qi Yi Liao’s nose.
He was becoming cross-eyed.
Jiao Bai covered his eyes, turned his eyeballs to relax, and suddenly noticed a gaze falling on his face.
Qi Yi Liao could see me???
Jiao Bai did several psychological consolations and adjusted his mood, he slowly took away the hand covering his eyes, and met Qi Yi Liao’s gray eyes.
Those eyes were staying in his direction, but were accumulating scrutiny and uncertainty.
Jiao Bai breathed a sigh of relief, he was overthinking, this man couldn’t see him. He was just too sensitive.
“Child.” Qi Yi Liao’s body bent down, pressing against Jiao Bai’s soul, passing through it, approaching his body, “If you want to overthrow capitalism, don’t sleep too long.”
Jiao Bai snorted, I’m not trying to be a great man of the times, overthrowing what capitalism to let the emancipated serfs sing. He just wanted to earn a life.
Seeing that Qi Yi Liao still had something to say, Jiao Bai couldn’t help but dislike it: “Is your education class over yet, hurry up and go, annoying.”
“Alright.” The corners of Qi Yi Liao’s eyes contained a smile, “I won’t disturb your sleep, I’ll come see you again next time I have time.”
Saying this, Qi Yi Liao didn’t leave.
He found something, and suddenly opened the young man’s collar.
Jiao Bai couldn’t stop him, he watched Qi Yi Liao stretch out two fingers, reach into his collar along the edge, and hook out a necklace.
“The most refined version of the military.” There was no surprise in Qi Yi Liao’s eyes, only a smile wrapped in amusement, “Isn’t your life pretty good, kid?”
“Having met friends from outside South City, there’s no need to trap yourself here, fly.” Qi Yi Liao rubbed the necklace, put it back, tidied his collar, and said affectionately, “Wake up earlier, don’t be greedy for sleep.”
Jiao Bai’s gaze ran back and forth between the white cat’s body covered in blood, and Qi Yi Liao’s back, who had an outstanding temperament and a steady and elegant pace. The difference between the life and death of these two made his scalp tingle a little, and his horror value explode.
Not long after Qi Yi Liao left, Yu Xiang came to the hospital.
Jiao Bai thought that Yu Xiang would be wailing and crying, rushing into the ward and screaming madly, but the Yu Xiang in front of him didn’t cry or make noise, and was listless.
His eyes were just so swollen that he couldn’t open them.
Zhang Zhen came with Yu Xiang, and his condition wasn’t good either, his eyes were very red, and his throat was dry.
“We’re not doctors, and we can’t help much, so we should say a few more words to encourage him.” Zhang Zhen put the flower basket on the table.
“Gua Gua’s situation is so terrible, what words can encourage him?” Yu Xiang tilted his head and thought, “It’s better to say less and do more, and directly bring Shen Ji’s dog head over.”
Jiao Bai: “…”
He looked at the steady Zhang Zhen, hoping that he would give a serious lesson, but he only heard: “Then after you chop it off, your head will fly too.”
Jiao Bai twitched the corners of his mouth and looked at Zhang Zhen and Yu Xiang, are you two okay?
Especially you, Zhang Zhen, don’t you never joke around?
“Encouragement is still necessary,” Yu Xiang turned his back, bit his hand and cried silently for a while, and when he turned back, all the tears on his face were wiped away.
He thought he was controlling himself very well, not bothering the sleeping Gua Gua.
But he didn’t know that the other person was in front of him, seeing everything clearly.
“Gua Gua, I wanted to go to the old house with you last night, it’s all Zhang Zhen’s fault.” Yu Xiang walked to the bedside, “I’m still waiting for you to wake up so I can complain to you. You don’t know how hard he knocked me, my head is still swollen, if he had knocked harder, I would have died.”
Zhang Zhen’s face turned as black as the bottom of a pot: “I’m not the kind of person who uses force recklessly.”
“I’m talking to Gua Gua, you talk after I’m done!” Yu Xiang shouted in a sharp voice. He didn’t dare to make a fuss with the comatose Gua Gua, so he vented his anger on Zhang Zhen, who had attacked him last night. If it weren’t for him, he would have slept with Gua Gua last night, maybe…
Maybe Gua Gua wouldn’t have had an accident.
Yu Xiang’s tears fell down drop by drop, he felt that he had failed his brother’s trust.
He had only just arrived in South City, and Gua Gua had already entered the hospital, in such a serious condition that he was comatose, and they couldn’t find the cause.
“Gua Gua, please wake up quickly,” Yu Xiang really didn’t know how to encourage him, as long as he imagined himself standing in Gua Gua’s shoes, he would suffocate. If he couldn’t escape, he might as well die.
But Yu Xiang couldn’t say this, he talked nonsense out of anxiety: “Don’t you want to see me find a dog? I’ll find one tonight, and bring it to show you, okay?”
Jiao Bai thought, silly child, every dog is raised by the dog owner with their body and heart.
Often by that time, everything has changed, and the dog owner has only half a life left.
And the dogs, for the most part, will continue to feed on the dog owner’s body and mind, lively and at ease.
Only a very few will tear off their own flesh to fill their stomachs.
“Gua Gua, the hospital is guarded by the Shen family, I can’t just come to see you. This time it was Zhang Zhen, otherwise I wouldn’t be able to come in.” Yu Xiang lay beside the person on the bed, blocking Zhang Zhen’s view with his body, making gestures under his hands, “I’ll take the necklace away for now, and keep it for you until you wake up.”
Yu Xiang said in his ear, “Otherwise, I’m afraid the Shen family will take it away.”
Jiao Bai nodded, indeed, take it away.
If such a precious and special thing fell into Shen Ji’s hands, he didn’t know how much shit and vinegar he would eat, and how many more times he would kick Yu Xiang.
More seriously, Shen Ji would investigate Yu Ling.
That would involve even more things.
“I won’t give it to them!” Yu Xiang muttered with chattering teeth, “Annoying people, go to hell!”
Zhang Zhen sensed Yu Xiang’s pure malice and murderous aura, and frowned slightly, wanting to say something but stopping himself, he wasn’t the other person’s family, what was he if he said too much?
Yu Xiang wanted to rub Jiao Bai’s face, but suddenly the clothes on his back were grabbed, and he was pulled to the side by that force.
“It’s my turn.” Zhang Zhen said before Yu Xiang jumped up.
Yu Xiang didn’t argue, he knew that Gua Gua needed encouragement, and he didn’t have it, so he switched people.
Someone would always say something.
However, Zhang Zhen wasn’t that person. He could punch for a day, but he couldn’t cook a bowl of chicken soup for the soul.
“Jiao Bai, it’s not easy for anyone to live in this world.” Zhang Zhen squeezed out a sentence after holding back for a long time, “You’re only nineteen, and life is still long.”
Zhang Zhen’s thoughts weren’t very focused, a little scattered, not knowing where to drift. He was still saying: “As long as you’re alive, there’s hope, if you die, you have nothing. Everything, all of it, is like the way you are when you die, there won’t be a second possibility.”
“Think more openly, take it lightly.” Zhang Zhen rubbed the finger bones on the back of his hand, the bruises on it were caused by him hitting a tree trunk, he pressed them hard a few times, sighed, and said in a very light voice: “Live on, tell me if you have any difficulties in the future, I’ll do my best to help.”
This was a promise that Zhang Zhen only gave to brothers who had gone through life and death together.
He gave it to this young man who hadn’t had much contact, but made his memory loosen.
Jiao Bai couldn’t hear Zhang Zhen’s voice clearly, he only saw that the color blocks on his avatar had all dimmed.
As if someone had bleached off a layer of color with bleach.
Old and worn.
Zhang Zhen’s slender eyelashes covered his peach-shaped eyes, and he said non sequiturly: “I plan to continue investigating a case, to investigate from a different angle. I both hope that it’s the way I guessed, and I don’t hope that it’s the way I guessed, it’s very contradictory.”
This time, Jiao Bai, who had come closer, heard every word, he glanced at the entanglement and distress in Zhang Zhen’s eyes, and muttered like an old god: “Then investigate first.”
“Maybe after the investigation, you’ll find that the idea isn’t the original either-or, but a third one.”
“I’ve decided, I’ll investigate today!” Zhang Zhen’s eyes were firm, and he glanced at the heavily ill young man: “Jiao Bai, do you want to see your adoptive parents?”
Jiao Bai’s face changed, don’t!
“Are you crazy.” Yu Xiang exploded, “Where does Gua Gua have any family, they’re all leeches, sucking his blood. If they come, that face they’ll show will be for the sake of getting more money, wishing they could stuff Gua Gua into the Shen family!”
Zhang Zhen touched the tip of his nose apologetically: “I didn’t think it through.”
Jiao Bai didn’t think Zhang Zhen was acting so recklessly, he suspected that Zhang Zhen wanted to fight poison with poison?
There was no need for that. He was afraid that he would be disgusted to death.
The scene that Jiao Bai hated the most still happened, right at noon.
Shen Ji’s people brought Li Jue over from Three Middle School. Li Jue didn’t come on his own, he brought a message.
This innocent, life-threatening protagonist shou said sobbing that he had already called his old aunt, and they would be coming over in the afternoon.
Old aunt was Jiao Bai’s original body’s adoptive mother, a bloodsucking king.
Jiao Bai was about to vomit blood.
What kind of suffering was this?
“Little Qiu gege, what on earth have you gotten into?” Li Jue said crying, “You called me last night at almost twelve o’clock, and you were fine, how could you be like this today…”
“Mr. Shen wants me to keep you company, and I want to keep you company too, I’ve already asked the school for leave, but he won’t let me stay in the ward.” There was a trace of resentment in Li Jue’s tone, and also bewilderment.
“Why are there Shen family bodyguards all over the corridor? Little Qiu gege, what is your relationship with Mr. Shen? Are you lovers?”
Li Jue answered himself: “It doesn’t seem like it.”
“When I came, I also saw the news about Mr. Shen, saying that he keeps people in several mansions. If he was dating you, shouldn’t he send everyone away and treat you well?”
Jiao Bai didn’t listen much to Li Jue’s innocent remarks, he found that his activity with the other person had broken zero, and was rising all the way, over 10, 20, stopping at 27.
This was Li Jue’s curiosity about him.
It stemmed from his involvement with the Shen family, and Shen Ji’s attitude towards him.
Activity wasn’t entirely from direct contact with him, like Cen Jing Mo’s part.
Jiao Bai looked at Li Jue’s avatar again, the photo on the marriage certificate was still a photo of him and Shen Er An.
Confetti cannons were exploding from time to time.
Even though Shen Er An’s life and death were unknown, Li Jue’s inner first love seeds and longing for marriage were still full of vitality.
Li Jue babbled and talked with Jiao Bai for a while.
The door of the ward was suddenly pushed open from