That night, Yao Yi had a dream.
He saw himself, or rather his body.
Clothed in rags, hunched over, walking on a muddy road.
The road had no end in sight, the scenery on both sides unclear, bizarre and motley.
He tried hard to see his own face clearly, his gaze shifting upward, further upward…
Then, he woke up.
Scared awake.
The visibility in the hospital room was low; he wiped the sweat beads from his forehead and panted heavily.
He couldn’t recall the specific scenes from the dream anymore; he just felt that watching himself walk was very strange.
He turned his head to look toward the neighboring bed, wanting to tell Lu Bai about this dream of his.
But the empty hospital bed made him gradually sober up.
Right, after Lu Bai took Xiao Ying away, he seemed not to have returned; where did he go?
……
Bang!
A mirror was smashed.
He Yan blocked the uninvited guest outside the room.
A continuous stinging pain came from the wound, giving her a strong urge to vomit; that knife must have injured her stomach.
Unfortunately, her current situation left her no opportunity to check how serious the injury was.
Click~
In the darkness, Lu Bai accidentally stepped on a mirror shard; the movement was small, but it made He Yan in the room break out in cold sweat.
This was a barber shop located on the second floor of the mall; besides the barbering area, there was an interior room used for living.
This mall had very low foot traffic, so most shops closed and packed up early.
A slightly larger movement wouldn’t attract much attention.
Lu Bai slowed his breathing, walked to the house door, and suddenly kicked out, knocking down the fragile house door.
As his body leaned forward, he thrust Long Fang out with one knife.
“Don’t! Spare me…”
Sizzle~
His hand didn’t even tremble; one knife sealed the throat on the spot.
[Ding!]
[Points +1, Current Points: 3, Current Rank 2/415]
“Tsk.”
Lu Bai put away Long Fang: “Someone actually acted faster than me?”
The number of death fighters had dropped so much in a short time, clearly he wasn’t the only one acting under cover of night.
But regrettably, this hunting method wasn’t very efficient.
The main difficulty was how to quickly find the next objective?
In fact, although Lu Bai had only obtained three points so far, this was already the sixth highlight he had searched.
After most of the night had passed, any death fighter with a bit of brain probably wouldn’t stay in place anymore.
He needed to change his approach; tonight would end here.
Lu Bai turned around and strolled around the barber shop, carefully cleaning up any traces that could expose his information, including hair, footprints, fingerprints.
After spending some time cleaning up, Lu Bai left from the exit on the other side of the mall, circumvented the surveillance cameras along the way, returned to a flowerbed, pocketed the hidden mobile phone, and went straight back to the hospital.
……
The next day, early morning.
Yao Yi woke up groggily from sleep, with faint dark circles under his eyes; clearly he hadn’t slept well last night.
He noticed Lu Bai “refreshed” on the neighboring hospital bed and was very surprised: “Brother Lu? When did you come back last night?”
“You were already asleep when I returned.”
Lu Bai opened his eyes and stared at the white ceiling, saying something correctly pointless.
He actually hadn’t slept much, but his mental state was okay, so he simply got up and went to the washroom to freshen up.
Some say, why not go to the hospital for a stroll; perhaps the hospital walls have heard more prayers than the church.
But Lu Bai felt it was fine; whether in his previous life or this one, he wouldn’t have much sentimentality.
Staying in the hospital during this time hadn’t caused any negative impact on his mental health.
After washing up, he checked the time; it was almost nine o’clock.
Seemed no need to sleep in anymore?
When returning to the hospital room, he noticed a doctor in the corridor leading a resident doctor in preoperative inquiry with a patient.
The resident doctor was taking notes on a small notebook: “No eating for the last twelve hours, right?”
The family member supported the patient and hurriedly replied: “No, no.”
The older doctor suddenly spoke: “How can you do such a big surgery without eating something?”
“Yes, yes, yes.”
The family member nodded like a chick pecking rice: “But aren’t you not allowed to eat? So we just had some millet porridge.”
Hearing this, Lu Bai couldn’t help but show a smile.
Viewing the same thing with different mindsets leads to different answers.
Anyway, since they were at the hospital, better to smile more.
……
“That Xiao Ying is really… a parasitic organism?”
Yao Yi glanced at the situation outside the hospital room, confirmed no one was eavesdropping, then asked quietly.
“Yeah.” Lu Bai glanced at him and continued drinking the soy milk brought by Tong Shujuan.
“No, I find it hard to believe; parasitic organisms can disguise themselves so well now, don’t you think they’ve evolved too fast?”
Yao Yi looked toward Tong Shujuan nearby: “Juan, right?”
Tong Shujuan rolled her eyes: “How would I know? I’ve never seen the Xiao Ying you two are talking about.”
It was worth mentioning that, not only Lu Bai and Yao Yi, but Tong Shujuan, after strong insistence, had also been recruited into the Special Affairs Bureau, just not assigned to the Field Operations Department.
After all, to control news spread, the Special Affairs Bureau couldn’t recruit people on a large scale at this stage.
In the startup phase, personnel for the entire department were basically drawn from the army or police systems.
In this way, if they had seen parasitic organisms and voluntarily joined, the Special Affairs Bureau generally wouldn’t refuse.
However, once the Special Affairs Bureau improved in all aspects, joining wouldn’t be that easy anymore.
Lu Bai swallowed a fresh meat bun whole and opened his mobile phone to play a video.
The screen in the video was surveillance footage from several intersections near the hospital.
He had asked the Special Affairs Bureau team member who brought him back to the hospital to help retrieve the surveillance; by the time the video arrived, he had already fallen asleep on the hospital bed.
Couldn’t say it was completely useless, but it was barely better than nothing.
He casually glanced for a couple of seconds to see if there were any suspicious people wandering near the hospital.
Ding ling ling~
Two phone ringtones rang almost at the same time.
Lu Bai was watching the surveillance video and conveniently answered.
He had some guesses about the purpose of Xu Qiang’s call.
“Hello?”
“Lu Bai? Have you seen the news?”
“Not yet.”
“Shocking, simply shocking; nearly a hundred murders overnight, mostly home invasions!”
“What do you mean?” Lu Bai raised an eyebrow.
“Damn it, making such a big movement; are these parasitic organisms crazy? What the hell do they want?!”
Xu Qiang on the other end of the phone was full of anger, slamming the table bang bang: “Get your ass back to the bureau quick; gotta give you more responsibility.”