Chapter 14 - Mysterious Boy (IV)  

Xiong Zhi run downstairs.

When she was out of VIP floor. She let out a sigh of relief.

She sat one of the chairs in the waiting area. Her heart beating so fast.

She felt nervous but excited at the same time. These feeling were all strange for her but she like it.

She experienced many things today -- she sneaked, run, being pursued, been a part of suicide drama, in the end she realized she had a talent in acting! Well, except she still had her cold face. She was thankful that whenever she was bored which was all the time, she watched any shows. That 'someone called I should go' escape route was derived from those drama's.? She just applied it to escape from that man inquiries.

All in all she would in grave these memories in her mind. One of her most exciting day.

She calmed herself and rest.

She returned to her usual demeanor with a cold look and indifferent face. Her "do not approach me" mode was turned on.

It seemed like the happenings earlier were all illusion. She even forgotten that she merely witnessed a suicide act.

She wait for Dr. Beiquing while staring at her notes:

Xiao Mei

Guangdong Hospital - Mrs. Xiao Ping

Zongyang Law firm - Ms. Bivia Chang

Quangpayan Police

Her goal was to finish the deal today. But it was already afternoon, the doctor still not here.

Xiong Zhi looked around. She observe her surroundings. Then she heard footsteps that came from a large group.

She saw a group of doctors. The nurses quickly approached them and talk to the other doctors.

The group dissipated with each nurse and went to different directions.

Then she saw the nurse called Mi approached the youngest doctor. It seemed like the nurses were all assistants of these doctors.

Guessing that the young doctor that nurse Mi approached was Dr. Beiquing, she blocked their way and greeted them.

"Excuse me, are you Dr. Beiquing? I'm a relative of Mrs. Xiao Ping, the patient 462'C bed. "

"Ah..I'm glad you're here. Mrs. Xiao illness is getting worse as time passed. Can we go to my office and discuss the things there. I want you to see something." Dr. Beiquing said.

"Yes, thank you." Xiong Zhi followed them until they reached a certain room.

Dr. Gregory Beiquing

A name was written in the door.

They entered the room and Dr. Beiquing gestured to Xiong Zhi to sit.

After Xiong Zhi settled on the couch. Mi came with two tea cups. The aroma of green tea tickled her nostrils.

But she did not glance to it. She directly went to business.

"Dr. Beiquing , thank you for care to my grandmother in the past few days. I wanted to know her current condition."

"Yes, Ms. Xiao. Mrs.Ping was unconscious when she was brought here. Actually, I was worried because no one visit her. We cannot undergo some tests and procedures without the patient and her family's permission. But I really become worried since she was having a symptoms of COPD

( Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease ). So I have done some tests even without your knowing. But I did not regret it. I'm actually thankful, because if I was a little late, her illness will only consider as exhaustion and stress because of her old body. But after I have done the tests the scan here tells that Mrs. Xiao has COPD."

Then , he turn on a flat screen. After he typed Xiao Ping , an x-ray of lungs could be seen.

" This is the result of her x-ray. As you can see, her lungs on the left, the air tubes and alveoli (air sacs where gas exchange take place) lose their elasticity and are unable to stretch when she breathe. The walls that lie between the alveoli get destroyed. The lining of the air tubes becomes thick and inflamed. The air tubes secrete more mucus than they should, causing them to clog. COPD has different types and Mrs. Xiao has Chronic bronchitis. Her airways are chronically inflamed, resulting in scarring and thickening. This process also frequently causes an increased production of mucus, which then fills the airways, further obstructing her breathing." Dr. Bequing said while tapping and pointing at the screen. He cliked his mouse and another picture appeared.

"Airflow limitation in COPD is progressive, meaning it generally worsens over time.? COPD is often asymptomatic (without symptoms) until significant damage to the lungs has already occurred. Can I know how long Mrs. Xiao showed symptoms like coughing coherently and has yellow or green pleWghm? Or having her nails showed a tinge of blue?" Dr. Beiquing asked.

I was suddenly speechless. How could I know? It was about health, a life at risk, so she could not lie.

"Actually, I did not live that long in Mrs. Xiao Ping house. It has only been about three days." Xiong Zhi lied crossing her finger nails behind her back.

"Is that so? Well, Ms. Xiao, my guess is Mrs. Xiao Ping has this illness for a very long time. She was already in severe stages of COPD. I'm sorry to say but this illness has no cure. But with a proper treatment it can be controlled. She needs constant medication and I'm afraid to tell you that she needs lung surgery."

He clicked his mouse and zoom the picture. He pointed his pen at it while saying.

"We need to remove her damaged tissue. If the damaged tissue continue to stay in her body, it will spread to the other tissues making her breathing difficult and more painful.? And I say it to you Ms. Xiao because it is a very important matter. She needs to have a surgery as soon as possible. Within this month I suggest. It will be difficult to remove the damaged tissues and may cost her life if it delayed. " Dr. Beiquing seriously said.

Xiong Zhi was in thought. She remembered within this month, the old woman would pass away.? Now she knew why.

"Yes. I thank Dr. Beiquing for his guidance. Unfortunately, my cousin was her guardian. I will tell this news to her. Probably within this week we gave you our response. For sure we will let our grandmother to undergo surgery. We will just discuss the date." Xiong Zhi said.

Even she agreed to let the old woman have surgery. She did not have a say in this matter. She needed to talk to the person involved.

" Just please do anything you could for my grandmother's health. Money is not an issue." Xiong Zhi added.

Dr. Beiquing and Xiong Zhi talked a little bit more.

After a while, Xiong Zhi got out of the room and went to cashier. She paid the bills.

She looked around and spotted some cameras. She remembered the suspicious look the man gave him earlier in the rooftop. For sure, they would investigate her. She did not know whose family they were or the name of the silver boy.

Xiong Zhi went out of the hospital. She looked back at the hospital and her eyes roamed on the top floor of a certain building - the VIP floor. She could not help but remembered the scene earlier.

She remembered what the boy said while shouting at the sky and the pin symbol in the guard's suit.

'L'

Whose family is it? To become so ruthless to a child.

(A/N : yup, Xiong Zhi think the teens in her age and below 23 are child. Except Linfeng. Well her soul is 23 yes. old already. )

'Silver boy, I hope you survive well. I cannot help you this time for I am nothing right now. Maybe in the future, we might meet again.'

Then she strode off.

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In a VIP floor, inside the glass door. A boy with silver hair was sitting on a bed. His check-up was done. He was currently staring outside the window. Then he sighed.

'I didn't even get her name. My friend's name.'

Thinking he has his first friend. The corner of his pale lips curled up slightly. His first slight smile after ten years.

Then he heard the door opened. His smile and daze eyes quickly vanished replaced by blank empty eyes and expressionless face. His entire aura returned for being dark and gloomy.

The head guard came in. He walked towards the boy and even sat on his bed.

"Well, young master, how is your health? It keep deteriorating. You should focus on your health first. "

Then the man stand up and walked closer to him. He bent down and whispered maliciously to his ear.

"You should not playing around with some girl on the rooftop."

His disgusting fingers traced at the silver boy's beautiful and smooth pale jaw.

"We know your every move.?? Do you think if that person knows you met a suspicious person he will spare the girl? I don't think so. Maybe you have forgotten what happened to your nanny and maids."

The silver boy slapped the roaming hands of the man.

He looked at him with empty, cold eyes.

"Do what you want. " He said in a very cold voice.

He stand up and walked towards the comfort room. Before he open the door he said.

"And don't you touch me."

He closed the door hard without looking back.

The man who was standing beside the bed chuckled.

Does he not care? Or is he just acting? Does he really run to the girl in the roof top coincidentally? And doesn't know her at all?

The man weight his thoughts. He observed every action of the boy for the whole day. Nothing was amiss. He then concluded that his first guess was more possible. If that boy really knows the girl. Why meet now? He even threatened the boy but the boy was indifferent to it. He did not care at all if the girl dies.

He then just shrug it off. He would wait first at the result of their investigation.

Then his phone rang.

He answered it.

"Mr. Wei, the girl you were talking about just left. I checked first why she came here, by the looks of the cctv's cameras and her record. She came here to check her grandmother's condition. She went to the rooftop while waiting for one of our doctors."

"Did you check on the doctor?"

"Yes. He is clean. I also hacked their hidden cameras they purely talked about the patient. I checked the record. It was the first time that the girl visit here." The woman voice said.

The man was silent and was pondering at something.

"That's my initial investigation. Do you want me continue? I need a day to know her background and more." The woman added.

"No need. I get what I want. And you are still busy. Did you finish protecting the file?"

" Yes I just finished today." A yawn could be heard at the other line.

"Hahaha. You haven't sleep yet. Thanks for the help, you should rest."

"Yeah, I'm planning to. I have still another job to do you know. I still need to locate the other evidences. You should let the silver boy talked and not burdening my work. For your butt sake, I'm a computer programmer? not an investigator! " the woman complained.

The man chuckled more.

"Then tell it to the boss, if you have the guts to do so. He hired many detectives already. And he can't find anyone better than you in hacking. Besides even you are forced to do so you are given a plenty of money."

"Yeahh~~ I have plenty of money. But they are all dirty works. I don't want to work to that ruthless man and his evil father. Even towards his brother he--"

"Stop that. He is your boss." The man growled dangerously.

He was loyal to that man.

The other line was silent. After a moment, a sad voice said.

"You really changed, Kang'ge [1]. "

"I told you to call me Mr. Wei."

Wei said with a hard and cold voice. The funny tone he used earlier was completely gone and now the devil who talked to the boy earlier came out.

"Yeah right. Bye." The woman said with a sarcastic voice.

Then the call ended.

The man looked with a dark expression in his phone. In his ears, the words that he always hear from his companions and friends rang in his mind repeatedly.

"You have really changed "

He punched the wall and walked out from the room.

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While in the meantime, the moment the boy entered the CR, his shaking legs gave in, he slumped on to the floor. He leaned against the door. He folded his legs, his knees in his chest. He hugged his shaking body. He was shivering hard. His eyes were wide but not seeing in front him. His pale lips trembling and his face that was already pale become completely white like a sheet of paper.

When the man reminded him what happened to his nanny and the maids he saw black.

He suppressed his trembling body to act indifferently.

But inside he was completely broke down.

All he could see right now was the scene that was engraved painfully in his mind.

He was only six at that time. Innocent, joyful and playful child.

But it was shattered that night.

Screams, pleas, tears, guns, and blood. He remember it all.

He would never forget that nightmare.

He could still see in his eyes his father killing every maid who were working under her mother and? loyal to her.

He hugged his trembling body more. Since that night he was suffering from nightmare and insomnia. The worst, he was traumatize. Whenever he think of that night, he kept shivering.

It will passed. Just a little more.

He kept mumbling it to himself.

After the shivering was gone he stand up and take a hot bath.

While the warm water was sprinkled all over his translucent body, his mind was working fast. He really need to get out from his father and brother's clutches. He need to get out of here. He need to contact his mother's family. He would not stay here anymore. He need to find a way to get to his grandfather.

He clenched his hand. The joy of having his first friend quickly dissipated by a nightmare. He did not want his first friend to be gone.

He need to live and be free.

He suddenly stopped. The sounds of waters could only be heard even his breathing could not be heard.

His eyes that was blank and empty suddenly shined. His gloomy aura turned to chilling sharpness.

His lips curled up in a devilish smile.

He found a reason to live.

'I need to be free'

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[1] 'ge - an endearment to older brother. Not necessary to be relative but used by close person who are a little older than you. In ancient times in China, sometimes it was used to address in intimate way to a man.

Source: from me and novels