Amidst her crying, unknowingly, she fell asleep. She was experiencing a warm and comfy feeling wrapping around her. Never in her life had she felt something like that.
The next time she opened her eyes, she found herself in a weird place. The tent, camp, sleeping bag, everything was gone. She was sleeping on a soft bed, and the ceiling had a fan fitted just above her.
"Ouch, ouch," Jia sat up with some difficulty. She was feeling as if someone beating drums inside of her head. Her vision was still blurry. It took her some time to get used to the lights around her.
After her vision got cleared, she realized something was strange. Till then she was feeling she was in her room, but now she got to know it wasn't her bed and she was in a hospital.
"What the fck!! Who brought me here?"
Observing the patient recovered from her coma, the nurse sleeping near her abruptly stood up and ran out of the room.
It was already over midnight.
The nurse on duty was feeling drowsy and tired after a tedious day. After knowing the patient was in a coma, she thought of taking a small nap near her.
'Not like she will recover tonight.'
With this thought, the nurse on duty was taking a nap when the patient, Jia, suddenly recovered from her coma. The nurse on duty was already in her dreams when she heard someone cursing near her.
Upon opening her eyes, she saw the Asian girl cursing and throwing tantrums on her bed. She was still half asleep and had no idea what to do in that situation. So instead of interacting with the patient and clearing her doubts, she ran out of the room. To call a doctor on the night shift.
Fifteen minutes later, a group of doctors and nurses entered the room only to find out the patient was sound asleep. The nurse on duty had nothing to support her claim of the patient waking up. She would have been in big trouble if not for the CCTV cameras fitted in the four corners of the room.
Everyone dispersed from the room, leaving two nurses for night duty. Fifteen minutes ago, Jia was actually throwing tantrums and continued to do so even after the nurse left the room.
She tried to stand up from her bed and follow the nurse when a wave of energy surged from her body, making her body heavy and sending her to deep sleep.
The next time she opened her eyes, it was already noon. And this time, the room was not empty like the first time. It was filled with security guards, doctors, nurses, police, and some people in black coats.
One more person could be spotted in the crowd with a Nike cap and a blue hoody on him.
Jia was in a daze after seeing that many people. She thought she is done for, and all those people were there to arrest and interrogate her. She had strengthened her mind and was getting ready for the upcoming interrogation sessions when a lady in a silver officer suit came out of the crowd. Jia thought this lady must be the interrogator. But her expectations were crushed when the lady went near her and started crying near the bed.
Jia "…"
She had no idea why in the world that woman was crying. As far as she remembered, she had killed numerous animals and wild animals but never killed any human or someone's puppy, 'Then why in the world is this woman crying before me?'
Before she could ask her anything, a tall person emerged out of the crowd with fierce red eyes. Judging from the color of those eyes, she was sure that person was hella angry with her. Enough to show her those bloodshot eyes.
One more thing she noticed was the weird clothes that a person with red shot eyes was wearing. It looked like some traditional Japanese Kimono but all white and having some red fire patterns here and there.
Nevertheless, she wasn't much bothered by it. What she was thinking was to escape from that place and meet up with her team as soon as possible.
The male in a weird white dress closed the distance between them and started staring at Jia with red eyes. After some brief moment of staring, he went extremely near her and suddenly hugged Jia in her arms.
Jia was flabbergasted by this action of that person. She was making speculation and predictions whether that person will attack her or rant at her. But the reality came out to be something different.
After hugging her for a moment, the man in the weird dress turned around and directly went out of the room. Jia couldn't even see his facial expression after hugging.
When she thought this was coming to an end when an elderly couple entered the room. The old man had long white beards while the woman beside him had silver-white hairs.
Wisdom was written all over their face. Anyone could say they have reached the peak of gaining all worldly wisdom and transcend from this mortal world.
For a moment, Jia was like, 'Wtf, since when I am using words like transcending, mortal world?!'
Though she used it in her thoughts, it was something new for her. Grown and raised in America, she wasn't used to such traditional cultivation terms.
The room was as silent as a graveyard. No one was making a sound or taking the initiative to speak something. Seeing the silence was getting awkward, Xin couldn't take it anymore and said, "Oh, okay, then. I am waiting outside of the room. You can have your family reunion." And exited the room.
Jia showed a glim of happiness when someone broke through the awkward silence. But this happiness didn't last even for a minute and changed into disappointment.
The room became silent again.
Everyone was staring at each other.
The doctors were staring at the old couple.
The nurses were staring at the woman in the silver office suit lady, and the old couple was staring at Jia.
For Jia, where she was staring?
Isn't it obvious?!
She was hiding inside her bedsheet. It may sound stupid and childish, but she didn't have that good communication skill. A few moments later, something weird happened again, and the room was left with a bunch of doctors and nurses.
"Miss Xeng, can you come out of your bedsheet, please?!" asked the female doctor in a gentle voice.
Jia wasn't ready to come out, but she finally came out after much persuasion and convincing.
The same female doctor complimented, "Good, now can you let me check your health condition?"
In the beginning, Luo Rin was hesitant, but once again, after much persuasion, she finally agreed. The male doctors exited the room and let two female doctors and some nurses do the rest.
After a complete physical check-up, they couldn't find any wounds, scratches, or any sort of cut marks on her.
"Good," the same female doctor complimented again.
As of now, Jia was feeling a little comfortable with her. Next, the doc asked her to follow her to the nurse and cooperate with the radiographers.
After hearing the word 'radiographers,' she felt weird and started getting weird ideas.
'Will they make me a cyborg, or they have already made me one?'
Bizarre ideas like this were coming into her mind. And she can't stop thinking about them for some reason.
Till then, she was sitting on the bed. The physical exams from before didn't need her to on the ground. Now when she jumped out of her bed and looked at the nurse, she felt something was weird. Something wasn't right.
The nurses observed weird expressions on her face and asked her whether she was facing any problems in walking around.
Jia just shook her head and didn't reply to anything verbally.
Suddenly, she realized why she was feeling something was off.
It was her height!!
She had undergone spontaneous physical growth. Now that she realized what's wrong, she observed her fingers and hands. She noticed not only her height but her entire body had undergone changes.
Earlier she used to have dwarf-like fingers. But now she has long, pretty, sexy fingers. Accompanied by her long, sexy legs.
Seeing the surprised expression on Jia's face, everyone became concerned. They had no idea what's wrong with their patient and why she was looking all over her body.
'Is it a trauma? Or any past memory surfacing?' thought one of the doctors.
All they could do was to wait till she calms down then ask her about her weird behavior. After checking all over her body, Jia got a thought in her mind.
Seeing the patient looking around here and there, one of the nurses asked, "Miss Xeng, do you need something?"
"Huh, who? No, yes. I need. Washroom where?" she couldn't speak properly and stumbled here and there.
Upon asking, a nurse took her to the washroom and stood outside the room to prevent anyone from entering.