The pulsing sound of the heartbeat monitor echoed rhythmically in the white ward, thin sunlight filtered through the curtains, and there was constant traffic on the elevated road. It seemed like today was a good day, and the city of Tokyo had changed from a few days ago.
I finally took a breath away from the chaos, and regained my energy and enthusiasm.
The door of the ward was opened, and the director of the executive bureau, Minamoto Kasaki, walked in. After walking in, he glanced at Okubo Ryoichi, who was lying on the ward for infusion. The other person didn't seem to be aware of his visit, and he lay on the bed with his head tilted.
Quietly looking at the fluttering white curtains - he has been like this almost all the time these days. What is better than a vegetative state is that he can go to the toilet by himself without inserting a catheter.
Yuan Zhisheng took off his inconvenient windbreaker and hung it on the coat rack. Wearing a lined long-sleeved white shirt, he straightened the cuffs and sat on the chair next to the hospital bed. The sitting position was just in front of the patient.
He stood between Okubo Ryoichi and the window, forcing the other party's dead eyes to shift to his face.
"Director." Liang Yi nodded slightly and was about to sit up from the bed, but was stopped by Minamoto Chisheng: "Just lie down. The doctor said you are feeling much better. How do you feel about yourself?"
"It's just a minor injury." Ryoichi didn't insist on sitting up anymore. He was lying on the bed and looking at Minamoto Chisheng.
"Three cuts, two stab wounds, and four gunshot wounds." Yuan Zhisheng crossed his legs and put his hands together on his knees: "The liver, lungs, and ribs all suffered varying degrees of trauma. When he was sent to the hospital,
The external wound has become infected and suppurated, and is also accompanied by internal bleeding. Doctors say it’s a miracle that you survived.”
"Is it a miracle?" Ryoichi muttered in a low voice.
"Miracles and magic are not free." Yuan Zhisheng said.
Ryoichi was stunned, and then looked at Minamoto with a strange expression, because the line he just said came from the classic TV series "Puella Magi Madoka Magica", in which magic and miracles require the user to pay a corresponding heavy price
The price... He didn't expect that the dignified director of the Executive Bureau would actually know about this kind of anime series that was biased towards 'girly' genre (actually dark and dark).
"It turns out that the director also likes otaku culture." Ryoichi said in a low voice.
"It's Eri, who has been watching it recently." Gen Zhisheng realized that Ryoichi had misunderstood and shook his head and explained: "In comparison, you are the one who can understand this joke, right?"
"No, it's just my sister who has watched it." Ryoichi said, "I just watched it with her."
"Same as me." Yuan Zhisheng touched his waist, but found the windbreaker hanging on the coat rack, and realized that he was in the ward, so he gave up taking the cigarette and instead took the cigarette on the table.
An apple was peeled with a fruit knife: "Your injuries have stabilized. Your bloodline saved your life. In fact, mixed breeds like us can survive most injuries as long as our heads are not bitten off."
."
"Then I'm glad that I wasn't the one who made a U-turn that night." Liang Yi touched his neck, then looked up at Yuan Zhisheng who was peeling an apple and smiled silently for no reason, and an inaudible trace of joy flowed through Yuan Zhisheng's eyes
smile.
Originally, two people with vastly different class status would probably never sit together and talk in their entire lives, but now they are actually sitting together talking about strange things like "magical girls". This scene is particularly interesting.
We laughed and joked, and when Yuan Zhisheng put down the fruit knife and placed the peeled apple on the toilet paper on the table, the formal conversation began.
"I want to know what happened, who you met in the Paradise Pavilion, and what happened in the end."
Hearing Yuan Zhisheng's question, Liang Yi lowered his eyes, and the former continued without noticing anything strange: "According to the longitude and latitude you provided at the time, we rushed to the mountains of Osaka and only found a raging mountain fire.
, after extinguishing the flames, they only found the ruins of a burned-out big house. There was nothing inside, and the only harvest was a large amount of pachinko scrap metal."
"In other words, probably only you two know what happened in the Paradise Pavilion that night." Yuan Zhisheng said, "To be honest, I'm surprised that you came back alive. Although the Paradise Pavilion was burned down, the ruins are still intact.
The gunshots and bullet holes left in the gun indicate that you encountered a small encounter, and the opponent's firepower was enough to suppress you to death, but you survived."
"Yeah." Liang nodded, because he was still lying here intact.
"Tell me about it." Yuan Zhisheng said, "Tell me about yourself and him."
"What does the director mean - Mr. Lin?" Liang Yi raised his head and looked at Yuan Zhisheng.
Yuan Zhisheng didn't say anything, just looked at him.
"What does the director want to know?"
"everything."
Yuan Zhisheng opened the door of the ward and walked out. Behind him, Ryoichi in the ward looked at his back silently. He didn't close his eyes and rest until the door was slammed shut.
At this time, the phone rang at the table, and Ryoichi, who had just closed his eyes, opened his eyes again and looked at the mobile phone left on the table. His original mobile phone had been lost on the way to Osaka to avoid being tracked by Princess Kaguya.
This mobile phone was recently equipped with public funds from my family, and only a few internal phone numbers are stored in it.
Is it Team Leader Hasegawa?
Ryoichi immediately thought of the old man who was worthy of respect and who cared for him so much. He would have been furious if he acted privately this time. It was only because he was seriously injured and was lying in the special medical room of his family.
You didn't come to scold yourself in person. It's normal to call now.
Liang Yi stood up and reached for the phone, but he was stunned when he saw the phone number on it.
This was an ocean-going call with no notes, but it went to his phone number that had just been activated a few days ago.
Harassing phone calls?
Ryoichi didn't think it was such a coincidence. He hesitated for a while, picked up the phone and put it to his ear: "Hello?"
"Hello, you must be Ryoichi Okubo, right?"
The voice on the other end of the phone was that of a girl. When he heard her voice, Ryoichi could not help but feel a creeping fear in his heart.
He had heard this voice before. It was this girl's voice that came from Wang Jiang's cell phone during the night at the Paradise Pavilion a few days ago.
"I am." Liangyi said softly, and his originally dead heart began to make rapid calculations and guesses. He turned his head and looked at the corner of the bedside table and the ceiling. If he guessed correctly, at least he would be installed by me in this ward.
There are no less than five bugs, and the law enforcement officers in the background are monitoring every move in this ward at all times, including of course his current conversation with the girl on the other end of the phone.
"Don't worry." When Ryoichi was thinking about how to cover up the conversation, the girl spoke first: "All surveillance methods in this ward will be ineffective within ten minutes. Our conversation is absolutely safe, and the phone record is also
It won't exist at all, you are safe."
Liang Yi was shocked - the place he was sitting on was the special medical floor of Genji Heavy Industries. The Sheqi Eight Family would place patients who were difficult to send to outside hospitals into special wards, and Genji Heavy Industries was undoubtedly one of them.
The core of the family, even Kaguya's computer room, is hidden in this building, but the girl on the other end of the phone said that she controls the communication equipment here?
"That child has been under your care recently." The girl said with a smile.
"What's going on? He's actually just taking care of me." Even though he was amazed and shocked, Ryoichi had to continue the conversation, but his mind felt much heavier for no reason.
"Really?" The girl nodded: "Then as the one being taken care of, should I pay some price?"
Liangyi lowered his eyes slightly: "Price? What do you mean?"
"It seems that what I said is not clear enough." The girl said: "——Are you willing to die for him?"
Liang Yi was stunned and did not reply for a long time.
"I know that you did not inform the people of the Sheqiba family about the child, including Yuan Zhisheng, the head of the Yuan family who just asked you about that night." The girl said: "You did a good job, so I
I am willing to give you a chance to 'repay'."
"'Repay'?" Ryoichi asked.
"yes."
The ward was quiet for a long time, until finally, he nodded calmly: "I do."
"The contract is established from now on." The girl said, and then the phone hung up, leaving only a busy signal.