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Chapter 122: The Alter Ego Says He Loves Me (Part XI)
Xiao Ji actually wasn’t looking at anything he shouldn’t be; he was just thinking.
But since Xiao Yinnian asked, he still lowered his eyes, neither denying nor defending himself, and only asked in return:
“What exactly do you care about?”
Xiao Yinnian blanked for a moment.
Just now, he only felt that Xiao Ji’s gaze had fallen on Jin Can, watching her somewhat overly unrestrained behavior, and he had subconsciously blurted it out.
He didn’t know what he cared about either, so he could only say:
“I am a person who keeps himself clean and out of trouble. Do not look at what is improper. Don’t use my body to look at things you shouldn’t see.”
Xiao Ji ignored Xiao Yinnian, simply returning control of the body to him, and said no more.
After sending Jin Can away, Xiao Yinnian frowned:
“Are you throwing a tantrum?”
Xiao Ji said calmly: “No, I want to rest for a while.”
With this rest, Xiao Ji did not appear again until dinner time.
Xiao Yinnian hadn’t slept well last night. Around 4 PM, he drifted off to sleep in a daze. It wasn’t until the dinner alarm rang that he was woken from his dreams.
Lin Chuan sat on the other hospital bed, looking at Xiao Yinnian:
“Are you hungry?”
The two of them had gone to the doctor’s office in the morning. By the time they were free, the cafeteria had already passed its lunch service hours, so they hadn’t eaten all day.
It would have been fine if Lin Chuan hadn’t asked, but the moment he did, Xiao Yinnian’s stomach very cooperatively let out a rumble.
Xiao Yinnian looked at Lin Chuan:
“Are you afraid of me?”
Lin Chuan knew what Xiao Yinnian was referring to. He thought about it and said:
“There’s nothing to be afraid of. Honestly, the other one really gives people a sense of security. But I’m a bit curious, have you always been like this?”
Xiao Yinnian shook his head: “It started recently.”
“Will he… hurt you? Or do things uncontrollably?” Lin Chuan asked again.
Xiao Yinnian fell silent.
When this phenomenon first appeared, it had indeed troubled him greatly.
Especially when the other party spent his savings to buy that car without his consent.
No one could understand that feeling.
Xiao Yinnian was impatient for that person to disappear because the other party had clearly affected his normal life.
Otherwise, he wouldn’t have taken the risk to come to this hellhole.
But since Xiao Ji appeared, everything seemed to have become different again.
Whether it was the car crash on the highway or everything that had happened these past few days, Xiao Ji seemed to have become his closest partner and strongest backing.
Xiao Yinnian couldn’t treat Xiao Ji as a part of himself.
He felt that Xiao Ji was entirely another person temporarily residing in his body.
And most importantly, he and Xiao Ji could be awake at the same time.
The previous situation where he would completely lose consciousness the moment the other person appeared had never happened again.
After a long silence, Xiao Yinnian shook his head:
“He won’t.”
Lin Chuan clicked his tongue: “That’s really enviable.”
Xiao Yinnian was stunned: “Enviable?”
Lin Chuan nodded: “Of course. An intimate and omnipotent partner, isn’t that awesome?”
Xiao Yinnian said no more, but his stomach growled again.
Listening to the commotion in Xiao Yinnian’s stomach, Lin Chuan said:
“Let me accompany you to get something to eat. You rest tonight, and I’ll keep watch.”
Xiao Yinnian took his medicine and ate his meal. Upon returning to the ward, he felt incredibly sleepy. He forced himself to stay awake for less than half an hour before losing consciousness.
After lights out, Lin Chuan simply lay on his bed with his eyes closed. He breathed a sigh of relief after waiting for the nurse to finish her rounds.
Who knew that just as sleepiness washed over him, footsteps sounded in the corridor once again.
And this time, it was no longer that familiar clicking sound, but the sound of hurried running.
The sound stopped outside their ward, followed by urgent knocking on the door, accompanied by a somewhat familiar female voice carrying a sob.
“Open the door, Lin Chuan, Xiao Yinnian, it’s me, please help me!”
Lin Chuan was startled and asked through the door:
“Wang Ran?”
Wang Ran cried and yelled at the same time: “It’s me, Lin Chuan! Let me in!”
Lin Chuan frowned and sat up from the bed:
“Aren’t you a nurse? Going out at night should be allowed, right?”
Wang Ran continued crying:
“It’s Zhao Xiaoyu. I don’t know how she replaced my identity. The nurse is coming, Lin Chuan, save me…”
Lin Chuan looked at Xiao Yinnian, who was lying on the other bed, and said to Wang Ran:
“Sorry, I can’t take this risk.”
Hearing this, Wang Ran hurriedly said: “I know the secret of the sanatorium. Save me, and I’ll tell you all the information I know…”
“Jin Can won’t tell you guys! The nurse’s identity is a bug. If nothing goes wrong, Jin Can will be able to leave here tonight!!!”
“We’ve all been played by them! You helped them free up beds, but you only ended up paving the way for them!”
Lin Chuan was not a newcomer.
Wang Ran’s words undoubtedly hit him where it hurt the most.
Identities in the mission world were random and completely based on luck. Under the same background, the difficulty levels and opportunities of different identities varied.
Lin Chuan had long discovered that there was a problem with the nurse identity.
Whether it was taking medicine, riding the elevator, or talking to other patients, it seemed that only patients were bound by these rules.
The only point of restriction previously was that, just like them, they couldn’t go out after lights out while in the inpatient department.
But now, Xiao Yinnian had cleared away this single blocked path for them.
Wang Ran’s statement that Jin Can might be leaving tonight did indeed raise an ominous premonition in Lin Chuan.
If what Wang Ran said was true, then without the help of someone with a nurse identity, the difficulty for them to get out would undoubtedly increase significantly.
Xiao Yinnian’s alter ego was very formidable.
But as the saying goes, two fists are no match for four hands. There was no telling how many NPCs there were in this sanatorium. If they really wanted to clear the instance through brute force, it would probably be a fool’s dream.
Just as Lin Chuan was hesitating over whether he should take the risk and let Wang Ran in to talk, a familiar voice interrupted his thoughts.
“Ignore her.”
Xiao Ji rubbed his neck and sat up from the bed.
The medication had indeed affected Xiao Yinnian, but its impact on Xiao Ji was practically negligible.
Lin Chuan was startled. The moment he heard Xiao Ji speak, he knew he wasn’t Xiao Yinnian.
“Are you sure?”
Xiao Ji affirmed:
“In the afternoon, Jin Can warned me.”
Lin Chuan was confused: “I was there when Jin Can communicated with you this afternoon. Why didn’t I hear anything?”
Xiao Ji then repeated in front of Lin Chuan the gesture Jin Can had made that afternoon when she stuffed the note into her cleavage.
“She pointed outside the door, using sign language to tell me to beware of the people outside.”
Lin Chuan was surprised by the seamless exchange between these two, but there was one thing he still couldn’t understand:
“Why do you believe Jin Can instead of believing Wang Ran?”
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