Part 3
—In the early morning, Luo Shizhen sat up with a look of bewilderment, clutching his quilt.
What a strange dream.
Thinking that the seven pets in the dream didn’t include a puppy, Luo Shizhen breathed a sigh of relief.
He still wanted to raise a puppy in the future.
However, he was so hungry.
The “self” in the dream had looked quite delicious; even his pets wanted to eat him.
Luo Shizhen lifted his arm and, full of expectation, took a bite of himself. Finding it had no flavor, he lowered his arm in disappointment.
It really was just a dream—
He got out of bed and went straight to the kitchen. Chu Xiao was currently making breakfast. Seeing him arrive, he greeted him:
“Feeling better? If you’re unwell, we should still go to the hospital.”
“I’m better! I feel refreshed and don’t feel unwell at all!”
Luo Shizhen happily drew closer to his good friend to check the noodles in the pot. “Can we eat now? I’m so hungry.”
Chu Xiao had grown up with him and could tell from his tone that Luo Shizhen was indeed quite hungry. He reached into the cabinet, took out a box of cookies, and handed it to him.
“Eat this first to tide you over. The noodles will take a little longer. Do you want poached eggs?”
Luo Shizhen: “Yes!”
When he was hungry, he wanted to eat everything!
That morning, Luo Shizhen ate four large bowls of noodles, a pack of cookies, five poached eggs, and two large chicken legs that Xiao Shan had brought back.
Only after drinking a large glass of water did he stand up with satisfaction. “I’ll go wash the dishes!”
Because Luo Shizhen had been eating and eating, everyone else had already finished; he was the last one.
Lu Qiujin stopped him. “You were sick yesterday. Don’t do any work; I’ll wash them.”
In truth, washing dishes wasn’t really work. The villa had a dishwasher. It was just that their group was a medical team on the outside, a team of scammers on the inside, and Awakeners deeper within, so it wasn’t convenient to hire a domestic worker.
Usually, cleaning was done by everyone on a rotating basis.
Of course, the rotation schedule had been prepared by Luo Shizhen.
Today was Luo Shizhen’s turn, but everyone refused to let him work. If he hadn’t insisted on seeing patients, the Zhen Family Hall would have temporarily closed for the day.
After Lin Ke finished Luo Shizhen’s makeup, he once again became Doctor Zhen.
The moment they arrived at the Zhen Family Hall, Luo Shizhen began to feel glad that he had come to work today.
Because Wen Hu, who was lying in wait to observe the block, sent back a message:
“There’s a Bizarre aura, looks to be roughly Rank 3. Judging by the route, it’s heading for the Zhen Family Hall.”
It’s finally here!!
Everyone’s spirits were bolstered, and Luo Shizhen put even more effort into playing Doctor Zhen.
He even mentally rehearsed what kind of expression he should use to convey terror and helplessness when he was about to be captured.
However, the Bizarre did not do as they had expected—they did not kidnap Luo Shizhen during a quiet, empty moment.
Instead, they appeared quite brazenly, right inside the Zhen Family Hall.
At the time, Luo Shizhen was currently administering acupuncture to a patient. They emerged from the ground, looking very strange, with half of their faces looking like donkeys. They gave a sinister laugh, their eyes glowing green.
Without any nonsense, they directly came forward to seize him.
Luo Shizhen glanced at the terrified patient in a bit of a daze.
Shouldn’t they have come to capture him when no one else was around?
Although the plan had changed, he still cooperatively displayed terror, suppressing the Qi essence on his body as he was dragged toward the ground.
As they walked, he asked, “What—what are you doing? Why are you grabbing me?”
The donkey-faced Bizarre continued to laugh sinisterly:
“We’ll let you die with understanding! We’ve taken a fancy to your cleverness, wisdom, and rich knowledge. Human, your death will enhance my intelligence. You should feel honored.”
Luo Shizhen: ……?
“Rich knowledge”? Me?
He pressed his voice low and asked in terror, “Was Zou Tangzheng also captured by you?”
The donkey-faced Bizarre was also the type to answer every question: “Zou Tangzheng? You really are fellow professionals to actually know about him. However, he wasn’t captured by us. Although he was very wise, someone else seems to have beaten us to it.”
It looked at Luo Shizhen with a satisfied expression. “However, having you is enough. You’re smarter than Zou Tangzheng.”
So it wasn’t them who captured him?
Luo Shizhen immediately dropped the act. He pulled out a dagger with his backhand and, carrying his Qi essence, chopped off the donkey-faced Bizarre’s arm with a single stroke.
At the same time, Lu Qiujin, who had been secretly following, emerged from beneath the tree roots, sending out countless vines.
The rest of the teammates also arrived. Two Rank 3 Bizarres would have been somewhat difficult for them in the past, but now, with their mutual cooperation, they could actually trade blows quite well.
Especially since these two Bizarres somehow felt a sense of being suppressed for some reason.
Quickly, they were pinned to the ground.
Luo Shizhen was troubled. “They weren’t the ones who captured Zou Tangzheng. But they can speak human language.”
He used the dagger to threaten the Bizarre: “Do you know who captured Zou Tangzheng?”
The two Bizarres somehow felt unable to breathe. They looked at this group of Awakeners with extreme terror:
“This… I… I guess, it must be that Lord…”
“Yes, yes, yes. I sensed that Lord’s aura that day. He’s the one who grabbed him! It has to be him!!”
Cheng Yunshao frowned and half-knelt. “A Lord?”
“It’s… it’s a High Rank existence… a… very terrifying Lord…”
Zou Tangzheng’s son, Zou Lin, had just returned home when the doorbell rang.
He went to open the door and saw the gorgeous youth walk inside. “Gege, I’m here!”
Zou Lin was confused. “What a coincidence. I just got home and here you are.”
The youth said with a beaming smile, “Maybe it’s because our hearts are in sync. Gege, I brought you a gift.”
Looking at his beautiful and well-behaved lover, Zou Lin’s tension from his father’s disappearance also eased slightly. He said with a smile, “Sugar cakes?”
“And something else.”
The youth took out a small piece of tree bark and placed it in Zou Lin’s palm.
On the bark—only visible to him—was a coil of white mist. He looked at Zou Lin with a smile:
“This belongs to you~”
Zou Lin looked at the bark in confusion, not seeing the white mist. “My thing? I’ve never raised plants.”
The youth leaned against him. “I know you don’t remember, but it doesn’t matter. I’ll help you remember.”
Zou Lin was puzzled and was just about to speak when a single petal drifted by. His expression became blank, and he stared dazed at the youth.
The youth embraced Zou Lin and looked toward the back of Zou Lin’s neck.
There was a black birthmark right there.
Gazing at the birthmark, the youth touched it gently with his hand, his eyes filled with excitement. “I’m the one who left this.”
“They all thought you were dead, but only I know that you’re still here. You have a soul.”
He gently patted Zou Lin’s back as if coaxing a child.
“Gege, I like you without your power. This way, you can only ever belong to me.”
“Look what I’ve found. The power of being alive. It belongs to you.”
The white mist was gently lifted by him and placed on that birthmark.
But it did not merge.
The youth’s face suddenly turned dark. He tried to put it in once again, but the white mist still didn’t merge; it even drifted outward with a sense of rejection.
This was clearly indicating that Zou Lin was not the owner of the white mist.
“How could this be…”
Had he found the wrong person?
He pushed Zou Lin away and gripped the white mist, his expression shifting between light and dark.
But when he looked toward the black birthmark on the back of Zou Lin’s neck, his expression softened once more.
“It must be because this human shell is binding you.” The youth embraced Zou Lin sweetly once more. “I left my mark on you; you are Gege.”
“Don’t worry, Gege, I’ll find a way to let you regain your memories. Will you forgive me? I didn’t mean to kill you; it’s just that you’re too terrifying. You needed a true death before you could have a new life.”
“You’re angry, aren’t you? It’s okay. I’ll wake you up.”
He murmured to himself, whether to Zou Lin or to himself, it was hard to tell.
At the same time, Luo Shizhen handed the two Bizarres over to Yongzhou. He stared at a small tree sapling formed from white mist that had appeared in his Qi essence.
“Eh? How come I’ve ranked up again?”
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