Chapter 116: The Alter Ego Says He Loves Me (Part V)
“Sorry, do you want me to rub it for you?”
Xiao Ji apologized, but it didn’t sound very sincere.
Xiao Yinnian didn’t want to bicker with him too much at this time and said no more.
Things happened so fast that everyone’s attention was drawn over.
Du Lin gave Xiao Yinnian a thoughtful look before retracting his gaze.
Only Jin Can spoke up, resting her chin on one hand:
“Nice moves too.”
The fat man lay on the ground. Perhaps because of his heavy weight and the hard fall, there was no movement from him for a long time.
Lin Chuan’s meal, having been visited by Xiao Yinnian’s slipper, was obviously inedible now.
Zhao Xiaoyu looked at the medicine in front of her and asked Jin Can cautiously:
“Sister Jin Can, can this medicine be taken?”
Jin Can hesitated for a moment: “In this kind of mission background, as long as you follow the NPC’s requirements and don’t violate the rules, generally speaking, you won’t get too many points, but no accidents will happen either.”
“You can try.”
As she spoke, she scooped a spoonful of rice into her own mouth.
Zhao Xiaoyu was startled: “You haven’t taken your medicine yet.”
Jin Can said: “I am a nurse, not a patient.”
Seeing Jin Can eat directly, Wang Ran looked around. The other nurse who was distributing medicine to other patients seemed to have no reaction.
So she also picked up her chopsticks and slowly started eating.
Xiao Yinnian always felt that the medicine was nothing good and didn’t dare to act rashly.
Lin Chuan, on the side, didn’t know what he was thinking. He pushed his own food aside, pulled Xiao Yinnian’s food over, threw his head back, and swallowed the medicine in front of him.
While eating, he whispered to Xiao Yinnian:
“You helped me just now. Now I will bear the risk. If there are any unexpected situations tonight, you have to pull me out.”
Du Lin scanned the group and chose to be like Xiao Yinnian, neither taking the medicine nor eating.
During this time, everyone was waiting to see what consequences the fat man would face.
But until everyone finished their meal, nothing unexpected happened.
The fat man still lay motionless on the ground.
When leaving the cafeteria, Zhao Xiaoyu asked worriedly:
“Could he be dead already?”
Xiao Yinnian turned back and saw the fat man lying on the ground curl his legs and feet, roll over, and slowly get up.
“Not yet.”
Returning to the ward, Xiao Yinnian first rinsed his slipper in the bathroom, then leaned against the foot-square glass on the ward door, watching the movements in the corridor.
About ten minutes later, he saw the fat man, covered in food scraps, appear in his line of sight, stand at the ward door for a while, push the door open, and walk in.
“He’s back, doesn’t seem to have any reaction,” Xiao Yinnian said to Lin Chuan.
Lin Chuan yawned: “The rules wouldn’t be without aim. Let’s wait and see.”
No mobile phones, no television, no entertainment facilities, and no tools to pass the time.
Xiao Yinnian lay on the hospital bed, bored out of his mind and completely sleepless.
But Lin Chuan on the other bed was already dead to the world.
“Is it the effect of the medicine?” Xiao Yinnian looked at Lin Chuan and asked Xiao Ji.
However, before Xiao Ji could reply, the lights in the room suddenly went out without warning.
At the same time, outside the narrow glass frame on the ward door, the corridor, which was originally lit by faint lights, also plunged into pitch darkness.
Lights out.
Xiao Yinnian lay on the bed, and except for the thumping sound of his own heartbeat, there was dead silence all around.
Not long after, he heard the rhythmic clicking of footsteps echoing in the corridor.
From far to near, becoming clearer and clearer.
Accompanying the footsteps was a pale beam of flashlight.
Xiao Yinnian held his breath, not daring to move an inch.
The footsteps first lingered at the doors of the wards near Xiao Yinnian for a while, then stopped next door.
The flashlight beam flickered, ultimately dimming again, seemingly shining elsewhere.
When the knocking sounded, Xiao Yinnian felt he could barely breathe.
Sensing that Xiao Yinnian’s heart was about to jump out of his throat, Xiao Ji comforted him:
“Let me handle it.”
Xiao Yinnian handed over control of his body to Xiao Ji without a second thought.
The heartbeat that had almost exceeded its limit instantly returned to normal.
Xiao Ji stretched his limbs, got out of bed, walked barefoot to the door, and looked out through the glass frame.
He saw a nurse in white standing diagonally opposite their ward, holding a flashlight and shining it inside through the glass frame of that ward door.
A moment later, seemingly having seen the face inside clearly, she walked toward the ward directly opposite Xiao Ji.
She knocked on the door as well. After no one answered, she picked up the flashlight and shone it inside.
The next second, the nurse suddenly turned her head abruptly and shone the flashlight right onto Xiao Ji’s face.
Their eyes met. Xiao Ji looked at the nurse’s pale face and didn’t move.
The nurse turned around slowly, stared at Xiao Ji, the corners of her mouth curling into an eerie arc, and spoke:
“The disobedient patient, is it you?”
Xiao Ji spoke calmly: “No.”
The nurse’s hand pressed on the door handle:
“Why aren’t you sleeping?”
Xiao Ji said: “I didn’t go out either.”
He watched as the nurse’s left cheek seemed to twitch nervously, then she grinned and continued:
“You didn’t take your medicine.”
Xiao Ji stated it as a matter of fact: “So I didn’t eat either.”
Hearing this, the nurse paused for two seconds, then suddenly began frantically twisting the door handle.
Even standing from the perspective of a bystander, Xiao Yinnian felt he was about to suffocate watching this scene.
But he could feel that under Xiao Ji’s control, the heart they shared was still beating steadily.
Xiao Ji looked down at the door handle that was swinging up and down, already showing signs of giving way, then raised his eyebrows to look at the nurse outside the door and said:
“Aren’t you looking for a disobedient patient?”
He raised a hand and pointed to the ward next door where the fat man was: “I think he’s quite disobedient. He didn’t take his medicine, but he ate.”
Sure enough, upon hearing this, the nurse stopped pressing the door handle.
She shifted the direction of her flashlight and walked towards the room next door.
Whether it was because the fat man hadn’t locked the door or because he himself had violated the rules…
From Xiao Ji’s angle, although he couldn’t see the nurse’s actions clearly, he could hear the door next door creak open amidst the silent corridor.
Soon, the fat man’s cries for help and screams pierced the entire corridor, reaching everyone’s ears.
Xiao Ji stood there quietly listening to the sound of sharp objects stabbing into flesh next door, again and again.
A long time later, it went quiet again.
Following that was the clicking sound of footsteps, dragging a heavy object, moving from near to far, slowly leaving.
The surroundings plunged back into darkness and silence.
Xiao Ji waited a little longer before returning to the bed, lying flat, pulling the quilt over himself, and saying to Xiao Yinnian:
“So far, as long as we don’t violate those few rules, we’ll be fine.”
Xiao Yinnian took a long time to recover before asking in confusion:
“Don’t you feel fear?”
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