Chapter 384: Chapter 365: Danger Lurks Everywhere
"Who are you?"
"Why are you following me all the time!"
Jiang Xiaowen suddenly turned around, looking gravely at the man who had been trailing her the whole way.
Despite appearing preoccupied, Jiang Xiaowen’s alertness hadn’t diminished in the least.
This man had been following her since the corner without any attempt to hide his movements.
Even when Jiang Xiaowen chose this remote path by the roadside, he followed openly and unashamedly.
She couldn’t tell if he was foolish or just a novice at this bold stalking.
His method of following was so blatant that it was hard not to notice.
Unable to bear it any longer, Jiang Xiaowen stopped midway, and when she turned around in anger, she was unexpectedly ’struck’ by the man’s handsome appearance.
She couldn’t imagine that such a good-looking, young man would turn out to be a ’perverted’ stalker.
Though surprised by his looks, Jiang Xiaowen quickly regained her composure and questioned him.
Even though they were the only two on this remote path, the bustling street was less than five meters away, and Jiang Xiaowen wasn’t worried about him daring to do anything to her here.
Lin Yi looked at the woman in front of him with amusement. Although she seemed strong on the outside, a trace of panic and fear flickered in her eyes.
Lin Yi suddenly pointed at her handbag, making a phone gesture to remind her:
"Your phone has been ringing for a long time."
"Ah!"
Jiang Xiaowen realized:
"Don’t move!"
Then Jiang Xiaowen cautiously kept her distance from Lin Yi while retreating. Only then did she take out her phone from her bag:
"Uncle Zhao."
Jiang Xiaowen listened to Zhao Jiang’s concerned words on the phone while observing the smiling man ahead:
"I’m fine, I just didn’t hear it."
"Mm, I’m coming back right away."
After hanging up, Jiang Xiaowen, still suspicious, threatened Lin Yi:
"I warn you, stop following me, or I’ll call the police for harassment."
Saying this, Jiang Xiaowen walked towards a side road back to the main street without looking back.
Lin Yi, on the other hand, glanced interestedly at a dark corner in the greenbelt behind him, muttering to himself:
"It seems things aren’t as simple as I thought."
Lin Yi didn’t care about the girl’s warning and continued following her at a steady pace.
His demeanor further convinced Jiang Xiaowen of Lin Yi’s ’perverted’ identity, prompting her to quicken her pace toward the hospital.
At this moment, all Jiang Xiaowen’s thoughts were on how to evade the ’pervert’ Lin Yi, paying no attention to the man in a baseball cap casually approaching her from the front.
Suddenly!
Just as the man was about to collide with Jiang Xiaowen, Lin Yi suddenly appeared in front of her:
"Bang!"
The two men seemed to collide abruptly.
A pair of startled eyes appeared beneath the cap; the man wanted to flee but was horrified to find himself immobilized. He whispered angrily:
"Let me go!"
At that moment, Jiang Xiaowen, like a startled rabbit, dashed past Lin Yi toward the inpatient building of Tianshui Hospital.
Watching Jiang Xiaowen’s retreating figure, Lin Yi applied a little force with his arm, causing the man’s face to contort in pain:
"Ugh~"
Lin Yi swiftly snatched what was in the man’s hand, which allowed the man to escape from Lin Yi’s grasp, fleeing into the crowd.
But Lin Yi didn’t pursue him. Instead, he looked in the direction the girl had fled before inspecting the item he had retrieved from the man.
It was a thumb-sized, exquisitely crafted device.
Holding it in one’s palm, it would go completely unnoticed.
Lin Yi took the device to the roadside.
Curiously, he pressed a switch on the device towards the roadside greenbelt:
"Pop~"
An almost inaudible sound came from the device, and Lin Yi saw a tiny needle shoot out of it, disappearing into the grass like a bolt of lightning.
Lin Yi looked at the little device in his hand with surprise; it seemed to contain only that tiny needle which was now gone, leaving the hole empty.
It’s not hard to imagine that if Lin Yi hadn’t intervened, that needle would have ended up in the girl’s body without her knowing it.
Lin Yi didn’t bother to figure out if the needle was poisoned or not, he simply crushed the device with his hand and tossed it into a nearby trash can.
Then Lin Yi quickly caught up with the girl who was about to disappear at the inpatient building’s entrance.
It’s said that no matter what, one’s family should be spared, and Lin Yi really wanted to know who Luoshen Liunian had offended, that someone would go after his daughter.
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"Bang!"
The door to Jiang Shangchen’s hospital room suddenly opened, causing Zhao Jiang and Qiu Yongyuan inside to jump up in alarm:
"Who!"
Jiang Xiaowen hurriedly turned back to secure the door, saying:
"Uncle, it’s me."
"Xiaowen?"
Seeing Jiang Xiaowen panting, the two exchanged a glance, and Qiu Yongyuan asked concernedly:
"What happened?"
Knowing the girl well, they recognized that something serious had made her this flustered.
Relieved to see Zhao Jiang and the others, Jiang Xiaowen said:
"I noticed someone following me downstairs just now..."
"What?!"
The two were shocked!
Zhao Jiang immediately opened the hospital room door to look outside, while Qiu Yongyuan came to Jiang Xiaowen’s side, asking worriedly:
"Are you alright?"
"Where is your contact? What does he look like? Do you recognize him?"
At this moment, Zhao Jiang closed the door once again, and Qiu Yongyuan looked at Zhao Jiang:
"How is it?"
Zhao Jiang slowly shook his head to indicate that he hadn’t noticed anyone suspicious.
Just as Zhao Jiang finished his observation and turned to close the door, the elevator door suddenly opened.
A group of people filed out of the elevator, including Lin Yi who hurried over from the back.
However, Lin Yi didn’t rush out. Instead, he followed a doctor and a nurse naturally.
The doctor was talking to the young nurse:
"Later, hang up the last bottle for the patient in room 401, and make sure not to mix it up."
"Okay,"
The young nurse responded:
"Don’t worry, Dr. Zhang, it’s already prepared and won’t go wrong."
The male doctor in the white coat nodded and then walked with the young nurse toward room 401, saying:
"Let’s go, once we change this bottle, we’re done for the day."
Following them, Lin Yi frowned and thought: Isn’t room 401 where Luoshen Liunian Jiang Shangchen is staying?
The conversation between the two appeared mundane but sounded suspicious to Lin Yi’s ears:
This didn’t sound like something a professional healthcare provider would say.
Lin Yi followed the two to the outside of room 401. When the nurse pushed the medical cart into the room, he followed them in.
"Time for a change!"
As the young nurse entered the room, she pushed the medical cart to the bedside and began to change the IV drip for Jiang Shangchen lying on the bed.
Zhao Jiang and another person saw the doctor in a white coat enter and quickly approached to inquire:
"Doctor, you’re just in time."
"He’s been unconscious all day, hasn’t drunk anything all day now."
"And there are many decisions he needs to make. I hope you can help and examine what’s wrong."
At this moment, Jiang Xiaowen noticed Lin Yi entering behind the doctor and exclaimed:
"It’s you!"
"Why are you here?"
Zhao Jiang was waiting for the doctor’s response but was interrupted by Jiang Xiaowen. Zhao Jiang looked at Jiang Xiaowen:
"Xiaowen, what’s wrong?"
However, as Zhao Jiang turned around, he noticed Lin Yi standing behind the doctor, furrowing his brows:
"Who are you?"
Qiu Yongyuan also pulled Jiang Xiaowen protectively behind him, looking at Lin Yi with caution:
"Brother, did you walk into the wrong room?"
Jiang Xiaowen whispered from behind Qiu Yongyuan:
"The ’creep’ I was talking about is him."
Lin Yi, however, didn’t care about these people’s reactions.
Upon entering the room, Lin Yi saw Jiang Shangchen lying in bed, his head shaved, barely hanging onto life.
It was hard to believe the once prominent figure in online gaming had fallen to such a state, leaving Lin Yi deeply moved.
Lin Yi then turned his gaze to the young nurse who was changing Jiang Shangchen’s IV drip, seemingly oblivious to everything around her.
The attention of Zhao Jiang and others was focused on Lin Yi, entirely unguarded against the nurse’s actions.
They couldn’t possibly imagine that the doctors and nurses they had entrusted were, at this moment, playing a different role, accelerating Jiang Shangchen’s demise.
Lin Yi suddenly stepped forward toward the bed, prompting Zhao Jiang to block his path, speaking with grave seriousness:
"What do you want to do?"
"I warn you, don’t do anything rash, or I’ll call the police."
But Lin Yi ignored him, pushing Zhao Jiang aside and speaking harshly:
"If you don’t want Jiang Shangchen to die immediately, stand aside."
Then he reached out and grabbed the young nurse’s pale wrist, saying:
"Wait a minute!"
Seeing Lin Yi stop the nurse from changing the IV, the doctor suddenly spoke up:
"What are you doing? Let go."
Jiang Xiaowen was also shocked, looking at the ’creep’ who had been following her. Could his target actually be her father?
She thought Lin Yi stopped the nurse to harm her father, and a surge of courage made Jiang Xiaowen furiously exclaim:
"My father’s already in this state, don’t you have any humanity?"
As she spoke, Jiang Xiaowen was ready to fight Lin Yi.
However, Zhao Jiang stopped her, and just then, Lin Yi shook his hand, causing the young nurse to painfully let go. The IV bottle fell to the ground, shattering.
In that instant, the entire room became tense, with everyone staring at Lin Yi in disbelief, not understanding why he did this.
Jiang Xiaowen looked painfully at the spilled liquid on the floor and suddenly weakened, collapsing to her knees.
Zhao Jiang and Qiu Yongyuan were shocked:
"Xiaowen."
After everything, Lin Yi sternly addressed the stunned doctor and nurse:
"If you don’t want me to expose your tricks, leave now."
With that, Lin Yi walked to the bedside and looked at the critically ill Jiang Shangchen.
Standing firm, Lin Yi pointed at Zhao Jiang and the others about to intervene, frowning:
"You too, if you don’t want him to die now, keep quiet."
Just then, the room door burst open, and a group of people swarmed in, quickly surrounding everyone in the room.
Meanwhile, a person Lin Yi never expected appeared at the door, and Lin Yi looked at him in surprise:
"What are you doing here?"
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Today’s update is complete.