Chapter 140 - Nothing should Happen to Them

"What I did last night?" Liu Xiaodan twitched at the question. Not because he did something wrong, but because he exactly did something suspicious. If he lied about staying in his room all day, what if they found evidence of him showing up in that room where he met Yun He. Moreover, he also stepped inside Zhang Wuji's room.

The father only chuckled nervously. "I'm not really planning anything bad, but I'm very curious. It's just that… I'm very hungry now, Ms. Three. Can I still go down for lunch?"

Three wanted to react, but she figured Liu Xiaodan had been around the others a lot and knew how they referred to one another. Moreover, there was a big three on the side of her helmet. She only shrugged at the request. "You can try, but getting there would take a few minutes. If you missed the time, you can only wait till dinner time."

"Okay, do you mind if I… hurry along? I'm just… very hungry..." Liu Xiaodan didn't know, but he suddenly felt very hungry. Moreover, he really started to feel like wanting to bite into Three's shoulder. It must have something to do with what was done to him by those people in the Treatment Hall. Then again, for it to take so long to manifest? Was it because Guangru was holding it back, or did it really have a delayed effect?

Before Three could respond, Liu Xiaodan moved across them and into the hallways leading to the Food and Leisure Hall. Before he knew it, he arrived at the double doors and smelled the unappetizing smell of hospital food. He pushed the door and attracted a few eyes as he walked towards one of the nurses from the fourth floor. Since Yun He was not around, he didn't know who else could give him food.

The certain nurse recognized Liu Xiaodan as one of their problem patients. Even if Liu Xiaodan was not causing trouble on the surface, he was on security level five. Moreover, he had been coming in and out of the Treatment Hall, the home of the experimentation. When he asked for food, the nurse figured giving him a full bowl immediately would lessen their contact.

Liu Xiaodan then moved to sit down at the table of the paranormal-disturbed patients. They were all worried about him, and he ended up chatting with them to ease their worry. When the food came, he completely forgot about them and devoured the chowder in a few minutes. It was as if he was starved for days.

"...didn't they… feed you in the Treatment Hall?" One of the patients twitched. After Min Ye, it would be his turn. Seeing that Liu Xiaodan was eating like a madman, he wondered what kind of treatment was given to the young man. The others in the group were also worried about themselves, but they were more worried about Liu Xiaodan's state… more when Liu Xiaodan finished the bowl, dropping it from his hands.

Thud! The plastic bowl hit the floor and got a nasty crack from the fall. Liu Xiaodan placed the plastic spoon down on the table and stared at the surface. He could feel a strange area inside his body, and it had been pulsing negative energy as if it was forcing him to go haywire. It's just that… it suddenly vanished.

Liu Xiaodan flattened a hand on his c.h.e.s.t and finally realized the mess he had made on the floor. "Ah, sorry, I was careless." He tried to move, but he suddenly recognized a strange presence around him. Moreover, at the corner of his eye, he could see a shadow extending from his own. When he turned, it looked like someone was hanging above him—ah, no, someone so tall was standing from the same space that he was.

"X-Xiaodan?" Chen Anna began to call out as she tried to move away from the man seated quite near her. Everyone else was also inching away from him. "What is that?"

"I can't see it. What does it look like?" Liu Xiaodan straightened his back and looked at the paling faces of the neighbors at their table. He then picked up his glass of water and looked at the reflection cast on it. Some kind of tall monster was faintly visible, and it was like overlapping with his image. It had a huge eye on its head, and it didn't have limbs. Its black body was hidden under a coat, and its mouth was seemed to be most of it.

"Eh, Old Doctor?" Liu Xiaodan's eyes shook as he realized that this thing was actually that greater ghost he picked up from the Treatment Hall. He then felt so tensed. 'Hey, Old Doctor, if you cause trouble here, I will throw you at Abaddon's face!' Even if he wasn't scared of the greater ghost, it could still harm the patients and staff.

Old Doctor then bent down and vanished as if he hid inside Liu Xiaodan's image. "Just woke up… didn't mean..."

Liu Xiaodan only sighed as Old Doctor decided to concede and not harm anyone. It's just that when he looked around, all the people—who were sane enough to process things—were stunned. It was not just the patients of the paranormal floor; everyone there had seen that faint apparition suddenly towering over Liu Xiaodan.

Bang! A loud sound of slapping took his attention away.

Someone ran off and hit the emergency button, sending the lights into its red counterpart. The siren blared, and most patients cowered at the sound of it. Only Liu Xiaodan made a betrayed look on his face. He wasn't doing anything, and yet he had a feeling that he would be sent to the Treatment Hall again.

…

After spending a few nights in a rest unit closer to the city, Li Feng and Li Yunru decided to return to the Li Family Estate where his father was. Now that Wang Yusheng—the strange doctor—was looking after Li Heilong, there was no more poison being injected into the tyrant's system. Yes, Li Feng had discovered that Li Heilong was being poisoned by the bribed doctors. However, he didn't know who hired them for such an evil act.

On their way home, he was staring at the email Ren Shanyue had sent him. Cherry Med had accepted their applications for the two projects, and they were looking forward to their participation. Though there was no definite day when they would be picked up, they were all told to be on stand-by.

"Are you sure you don't want me to come with you there?" Li Yunru suddenly clung to his arm, and Li Feng nodded with a smile. He reached out to pet her head. "Someone has to stay here and watch over Mommy and Daddy. I can't trust anyone else but you. Don't worry, if Nayi was correct, nothing should happen to us in there."

"Still..." Li Yunru sighed in defeat. 

When she was about to pull away, Li Feng's phone on his hand rang, and it was someone Li Feng didn't think would call him. Nonetheless, he still answered, "M-Master Tianni? W-What's wrong?"

"Can you go home to Bingbing right now? I need you to see something."