Chapter 532: Back

Chapter 532: Back

Li Huowang was having a splitting headache. “Materializing a Twisted One is still too much for me. If I want to materialize Zhuge Yuan to lend me a hand, I need to master the 'Truth' first.”

Knowing that they were at a critical juncture, Li Huowang sat up abruptly. He shook his head and opened his eyes. “Sorry, Senior Zhuge, I fainted. I didn’t see—”

Li Huowang stopped mid-sentence upon seeing doctors wearing white lab coats around him. He then looked around and saw that he was strapped to some sort of medical device. Moments later, Li Huowang finally realized that he had returned to the other side. “I’m back?”

“Li Huowang? Li Huowang? How many fingers am I holding up?” Three fingers were put up before him.

“Three?”

“Good! It seems that increasing the voltage has truly managed to bring you back here.”

Under the instructions of the doctor, the nurses approached Li Huowang and undid his restraints. They also peeled off the two electrodes on his temples and his scalp.

“Eat this first.”

Li Huowang’s pupils shrank at the pills and the cup of water before him. He slapped the pills away and asked, “Who’s been feeding me these pills? I don’t want any of these! Li Sui picked up the spine sword and sent me back to the Liang Kingdom! Do not trust the person that’s near me!”

Li Huowang was clad in his blue and white striped patient robes, and he looked quite emaciated.

A doctor wearing frameless glasses told the nurses to back down before carefully approaching Li Huowang. “Li Huowang, don’t be afraid. Have you forgotten me? It’s me, your doctor Yi Donglai.”

“Yi Donglai?” Li Huowang stared at the familiar face in front of him. He remembered a lot of things.

“I don’t care who you are. I won’t eat anything right now! You can feed whatever medicine you want once I get back to the other side!” Li Huowang shouted so loudly that even the people outside the corridor could hear him. Some of them peeked through the door.

“Alright, don’t panic. Relax. I’m not feeding you any medicine and mean no harm to you.” Yi Donglai took a step back and displayed his palms.

“Wait a minute!” Li Huowang clutched his head in pain and stopped the doctor.

It took him a few moments to catch his breath and calm himself down before he looked at Yi Donglai, “Don’t discuss this with me. You have nothing to do with it!”

“What? Is it that uncomfortable to have reality and the hallucination mix with each other? It’s fine; we can talk about something else. How about a trade?”

“A trade?” Li Huowang was curious as to what Yi Donglai was proposing.

“Yes. A trade. Do you understand the situation you are in right now? You are just like a living Bodhisattva. We can’t throw you, nor can we lose you. The leaders of White Tower Hospital are having a headache dealing with you. Whenever they're having a headache, they'd always pressure us, the doctors. How about this? Can you work with me and become sane during the visits of the leaders? That way, I'll be able to prove that my treatment method is working.”

Yi Donglai stood up and helped Li Huowang stand up before moving to the window. They stared at the scenery outside.

“As your reward, I can do almost anything for you as long as it's within my authority. This is a win-win deal for both of us.”

Yi Donglai produced an unfamiliar smartphone and gave it to Li Huowang.

Li Huowang touched the screen, and an anime wallpaper popped up. Li Huowang realized that it was his smartphone.

“I’ve updated the games. Why don’t you play them?”

Li Huowang tapped into QQ and WeChat. He saw the red message bubbles with the letter +99 on them. He tapped further and stared at the messages.

“I can give you your phone, and I can even grant you a certain degree of freedom. You just have to work with me. You can go to the canteen, play video games on the computer, and even watch movies."

Li Huowang felt a shiver down his spine at the remark, and he exclaimed, “Stop fooling me! The other doctors tried to do the same thing as you did! You want me to interact with this world more frequently so that you can condition me to think that this place is reality while the other side is fake!”