Chapter 182 - Do You Have Any Favors to Ask?

Qiao Shan's glare remained on this woman who had recently regained her status as Guangru's mother. Based on the stories given by the other psychics, Chuan Nayi mysteriously arrived in a rolling bed and wooden vines that attacked the feared God Raven. How could she forget that this woman had already won the fight before it even started? Then again, it was all dependent on Liu Xiaodan's perception.

She only closed her eyes and tried to calm down her pounding heart. "Talk to me in that tone again when you deliver Mo Xingli's head to me. Who cares if her body was ten years old? She's not a human anymore..."

Chuan Nayi only narrowed her eyes, but her gaze wasn't anything judgmental of Qiao Shan. She was in that position before, but it was rather universally accepted as the child in question was actually a demon. In Qiao Shan's case, the child was an actual little girl who lost her mind.

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Purple eyes stared at that strange-looking door of the patient's room. Even if it looked normal on the surface, Tang Mingming could feel the white circles hidden away from the view of a greater ghost like him. He was transcending after all, from all the entities forced down his throat after they separated Yi Junhai from him when they first came here. Now that Yi Junhai had returned, he was more or less himself again—only stronger.

He remembered how he feared coming to this place because of the spoken whispers of the other entities. He didn't want to come running to Liu Xiaodan for protection when he himself knew that Liu Xiaodan was a magnet of trouble. However, he had no choice. He was trapped in a place where Kings abounded. 

Tang Mingming never liked depending on someone else aside from Yi Junhai, but here he was standing before Liu Xiaodan's door.

Old Doctor was also locked outside of Liu Xiaodan's room because he didn't come back with Guangru that morning. However, as long as they stayed around this place, no other entities would surface aside from those Liu Xiaodan could f.o.r.c.i.b.l.y materialize outside the room. The huge black figure only stared at the small petite-framed male gazing at the door.

"…come in?" Old Doctor tried to speak with Tang Mingming, but the other was too deep in his thoughts that Tang Mingming didn't hear him. Before speaking again, Old Doctor brought his gaze to an approaching figure. The lamp he was holding was pretty much protection against the things inside the Hall, but the stark light was making the person stand out. "Master… has visitor…?"

"Hm?" Tang Mingming felt the scorch of the lamp's stark light. He turned to the other human who pretty much froze at the sight of them. It seemed that the two greater ghosts were not afraid of the lamp he was holding. Tang Mingming then smiled. "Are you here for Xiaodan? If you can open the door for us, that would be nice!"

"Wow, it looked so human..." The visitor's eyes flickered, but his statement was only for Tang Mingming who had a rather perfect human apparition. However, it didn't lessen the fact that he was scared to take another step forward. This ghost… might cause trouble to Liu Xiaodan after all, and he didn't want to be here if things went down between the purple-eyed idol-looking man and that questionable human.

However, small hands then clutched on the visitor's pants. Guangru then appeared from behind the visitor's leg. "Ming, you're scaring Nurse Yun. Nurse Yun, it's okay. They're good..."

Yun He looked down and saw the child-like apparition of Guangru that was nothing like the ghostly form he had outside the Treatment Hall. The nurse then smiled at him. "Oh, were you kept out as well? How could you get out of the room on your own?"

The child only smiled back. "It's a secret." Guangru then hopped and grabbed the nurse's hand to drag him forward. "Nurse Yun, Nurse Yun, Baba has been sleeping longer than necessary every day. Why's that?"

"It's probably from the gas in the room. It helps us regulate the other Kings. Try not to mess with it because it's flammable, and they might turn it up if it didn't look like Xiaodan is affected by it." Yun He took out a gas mask hanging from his waist before unlocking the doors with his keys. If it was some other Kings, no one would dare go to their cells like this. It's just that Liu Xiaodan was special.

"That's no fun if he keeps on sleeping." Guangru sharpened his look, but he figured Yun He couldn't do anything about it either. Yun He didn't like the gas either based on the look on his face when the door opened. He's a nurse, and he didn't like anything harmful close to his patients. However, there was nothing that could be done for Liu Xiaodan for now. Perhaps… after this, there would be changes.

The volume of the gas escaped, and even Tang Mingming and Old Doctor were disturbed by it. They quickly ran inside the room and jump into Liu Xiaodan's shadow to protect themselves. Perhaps only Guangru was safe from its current levels.

Yun He didn't close the door as he needed the gas to decrease so he could talk with Liu Xiaodan. It's just that Liu Xiaodan opened his eyes almost just as Yun He appeared in his eyesight. The nurse left the light on the floor, not letting it blind Liu Xiaodan. "Hey, Xiaodan… it's been a while..."

"...Mister Min… how is he?" Liu Xiaodan recalled the last time he had seen Yun He. He was rolling Min Ye out of the floor. It's probably been days since then… even if everything felt like hours.

"Ye is doing fine in the Sick Hall. His condition is too grave for the treatment so we're skipping him for now." Yun He's eyes lowered. "I'm powerless to help you or him. Even if I did something, I doubt it would be enough to make a difference."

"It's fine, Nurse Yun. I'm comfortable with you than anyone else in this place. As long as you're willing to answer my questions honestly, you don't need to do anything else for me." Liu Xiaodan sighed as he realized the spots everyone in this facility had. Everyone was scared of doing anything because they would be fed to the Kings. He had already seen the kind of terror they brought even to the composed soldiers.

The nurse then looked around in the room and saw that it was so empty. Liu Xiaodan's bed was not even a real bed. It was making him angry, but there was nothing to be done; his voice had no sound to the management. He then spoke again, "I have something to ask of you. Do you have any favors you want to ask in return?"