Chapter 47
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Chapter 47: The Suppressor
The nurse’s mental state was in a daze, unable to sustain a coherent dream for long.
Zhuang Mian quickly emerged from the nurse’s In Dream, turning to the anxious El and asking,
“Did you kill Li Xia and Walk?”
“I had the intention, but I never found them,”
El replied honestly, preempting her next question:
“And…
“Dr. Bard was taken out by your deputy captain. By the time I got there, it was too late.”
Zhuang Mian had already anticipated this; she had pieced together the connections after reviewing the autopsy report.
The only thing that remained unclear was why Zhao Qi had died from his own medication.
But now that Heart Snatcher had revealed itself, the other party’s superpower could explain Zhao Qi’s death in certain ways.
At that moment, the nurse, who had narrowly escaped the fire, began to stir as the dream shattered.
The two turned their attention to the nurse, and Zhuang Mian posed the most critical question:
“Where is Laboratory No. 3?”
The nurse, severely burned, hesitated before answering,
“I don’t know the exact details, but I heard them mention it might be…
“Where?!” they both demanded in unison.
“Under some department… something about life…”
The nurse’s words were slurred, her pain and the exhaustion of survival pushing her to the brink of unconsciousness.
After a moment of thought, Zhuang Mian suddenly exclaimed,
“It’s the Department of Life Technology!”
She stood up abruptly, causing the half-supported nurse to collapse.
El swiftly caught her, silently noting that the public security captain wasn’t as dependable as he’d thought.
Zhuang Mian, realizing her lapse, offered El an apologetic smile. Together, they lifted the nurse and placed her in the back seat of the car.
The car, a sedan parked in front of Red Maple Grove Sanitarium, still had its keys in the ignition, likely intended for the gunmen’s escape after the arson.
Leaving the nurse behind would have meant her death in the fire, and neither of them was heartless enough to abandon her.
However, she could still pose a risk, so El used tourniquets from the laboratory to bind her arms and legs, and stuffed a large wad of medical cotton into her mouth.
This ensured she wouldn’t cause trouble, but with her occupying the backseat, El had no choice but to take the front passenger seat.
For the first time, Zhuang Mian found herself sharing a car with a wanted criminal in such a manner, an indescribable sense of unease settling over her.
Her mind was a whirlwind of conflicting thoughts, even disrupting her focus on driving.
After struggling to suppress her rigid notions of right and wrong, Zhuang Mian had planned to make good use of Heart Snatcher.
But to her surprise, she discovered that the other was nothing more than a genuine child laborer!
Moreover, the relationship between the other party and Dr. Lin—no, the priest—is very close…
Zhuang Mian has already experienced divine enlightenment and knows she has acquired special superpowers.
Could it be possible that El, this Young Man, has more experience in certain aspects than she does?
Thinking this, Zhuang Mian felt a strange déjà vu as if she were back at the peace officer academy, calling out to the older students on the playground.
In any case, as dawn broke on the horizon, Zhuang Mian drove the car with the Red Maple Grove Sanitarium license towards the headquarters of the research institutes on the other side of the inner city.
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Inner City, Research Institutes, Department of Life Technology Building.
In the conference room on the second floor, the elderly man Zhao Kai was hosting an internal progress report for the department.
Elderly people always wake up very early, and the people of the Department of Life Technology seemed to be accustomed to early morning meetings around six o’clock. Although they appeared somewhat listless, no one dared to slack off during the meeting.
Unlike the joint meetings of the previous days, this internal meeting was a closed-door discussion among family members. Zhao Kai no longer played the role of a good-natured person; he sternly criticized a few researchers for not completing their tasks.
Today, Zhao Kai seemed particularly spirited. In the past, he would need to pause for water after reading a few pages of the PPT, but today he spoke continuously for twenty minutes, indeed a Medical Miracle.
The researchers who were scolded felt shocked and wondered how their papers had reached the level of making the elderly have a moment of clarity…
The meeting proceeded as usual, with Ji Yongxing sitting in the front row, taking notes.
Needless to say, geniuses like him are always envied by others no matter where they are.
Once the researchers from the Department of Life Technology learned about Ji Yongxing’s brief background through several exchanges in the cafeteria, the majority of them sincerely admired the sixteen-year-old Young Genius.
No one dared to be unhappy about his seating arrangement, and many even worked harder because of him.
Ji Yongxing watched Zhao Kai speaking up front, feeling something was off about him today.
His remarkable observational skills did not only activate when his ability awakened.
The sense of incongruity was too strong, causing Ji Yongxing to overlook finding errors in Zhao Kai’s statements.
He sensed that Zhao Kai’s walking posture was quite different from before.
Previously, the elderly man seemed to have a slight limp in his right leg, walking as if he were afraid of injuring it. It was as if there was something important in that leg.
But today, it was entirely different, even having a hint of a powerful stride.
Just as Ji Yongxing fell into contemplation, Zhao Kai suddenly coughed:
“Cough! Cough, cough!”
The unexpected coughing made Zhao Kai stop speaking immediately, and his assistant quickly stepped forward to gently pat his back.
Zhao Kai waved his hand to stop the assistant, getting up from his seat and heading toward the restroom.
As he passed through the door, Zhao Kai instinctively leaned forward, bracing himself against the doorknob to turn his body. Ji Yongxing’s keen observational skills caught a glimpse of a wet spot on the old man’s shirt near his abdomen.
With the absence of the big leader, the conference room quickly filled with whispers.
Ji Yongxing raised his hand slightly to signal, unsure who had approved him, but he weaved around his colleagues and jogged toward the public restroom.
Ji Yongxing’s intuition was very accurate; he felt that Zhao Kai’s health was not as good as it appeared. He was genuinely worried that the elderly man might collapse in the restroom, missing the best chance for rescue.
As he approached a corner before the restroom, Ji Yongxing suddenly heard a dull thud, followed by the clattering of fallen items and hurried breaths.
His worst fears had come true!
Ji Yongxing quickened his pace, lifting the restroom curtain and rushing in.
He saw Zhao Kai collapsed on the floor, desperately reaching for a small white pill bottle on the ground with his right hand, muttering,
“Suppressor, suppressor…”
Although Ji Yongxing had no idea what the suppressor was for, he realized it was crucial for Zhao Kai.
He stepped forward and swiftly grabbed the bottle, twisting off the cap and handing it to the shocked Zhao Kai.
The elderly man eagerly swallowed seven or eight pills of the suppressor, then leaned against the restroom’s tiled wall, speaking earnestly:
“Yongxing, I’m really grateful to have you here today…”
