Chapter 30: Drug Action

Chapter 30

Outside the ward.

"Yes, it's a cold."

The doctor handed the checklist to Wang Li and then stuffed the pen into his jacket pocket, "The medication has been prescribed, and in theory he should be fine soon, but the amount of ice cream he ate was too large, so it's best to stay in the hospital for a day of observation."

Well, it's just as I suspected.

Wang Li thanked the doctor and pushed his way into the room.

I saw Shi An lying on the snow-white hospital bed, without the slightest trace of blood on her face, with tears in her beautiful dark eyes, and she said breathlessly:

"I'm dying."

Wang Li: "......"

The corner of his mouth twitched, "Don't worry, it won't kill you, you just caught a cold from eating too much ice cream."

Looking at the sickly teenager in front of him, Wang Li couldn't help but sigh.

He's at fault this time too.

I thought the other guy could eat that much ice cream because he had a plan, but I didn't realize it was simply a lack of self-control.

He opened his mouth to ask:

"I'm going out to talk to a couple of them next, is there anything you want me to bring?"

Shi An thought about it and whispered:

"The one this afternoon, cool and sweet ......"

Wang Li: "......"

You still want to eat!

His eyebrows couldn't help but jump as he gritted his teeth, "This is not allowed!"

Shi An shut her mouth in resignation.

Wang Li was angry and funny: "I've never seen a gluttonous chocolate Ba Fei hospitalized, is this your first time eating it?"

Shi An blinked and nodded, "Yeah."

Now Wang Li froze, "...... eh?"

Shi An said seriously, "This is the first time I've had this, and it's super delicious."

Wang Li was stunned, and looked Shi An up and down with an unexpected gaze as she lay on the hospital bed.

The teenager was very thin, pressed under the covers with almost no mass, looked as if he was going to be swallowed up by the snow-white hospital bed, the exposed neck was slender and easy to fold, the jaw line was thin and obvious, there was a kind of frail and childishness that did not match his age.

Thinking of the internal strife in the Shi family that she had heard about earlier, Wang Li's vision could not help but be complicated.

Apparently, Shi An has been underappreciated to some extent in the Toki family.

The Toki family was, after all, a family of material abundance, so why did they have to be so abusive and harsh to their eldest son?

Did ......

Is that why he hides his strength in obscurity?

Shi An has no idea what kind of bitter drama Wang Li has cooked up.

--because this time it really was totally just a moment of gluttony on his part.

Shi An curls up under the sheet and winces slightly, sniffling sadly.

He's super scared of pain.

Wang Li gave Shi An a deep look with complicated eyes.

He sighed long and hard, then said in a soft voice, "You get well first, and after that Chocolate Ba Fei you can eat as much as you want."

Shi An : "Really!"

Wang Li nodded, "Really."

He eased his pace and turned to leave the hospital room, taking the door behind him in the process.

Shi An and Zhao She are in different sections of the same hospital, one a general ward and one a special ward where magic causes injuries.

Wang Li walked through the empty corridors, feeling his head aching at the thought of those other three companions waiting in another part of the hospital.

Ah...... how to explain to them that Shi An is actually simply just too much ice cream?

Being on the verge of leaving this sickbay, he suddenly realized that something was buzzing and vibrating in his pocket.

Wang Li reaches out and pulls out a cell phone.

He was slightly stunned, which was an afterthought.

This is Shi An's cell phone.

Just now, as he was in a hurry to bring Shi An to the hospital, he incidentally slipped the other party's cell phone, which had fallen on the ground aside, into his pocket.

The cell phone screen glowed brightly, but there was no caller ID to be seen.

Wang Li answered the phone and said politely, "Hello? Who is this?"

There was silence on the other side of the microphone for a few seconds.

Immediately afterward, a man's low, magnetic voice rang out, "Where's Shi An?"

Wang Li: "I'm sorry, Shi An is in the hospital right now, I'm afraid it's not convenient to answer the phone, is there anything I need to pass on?"

The phone was hung up.

Wang Li somewhat puzzled to look at the above cell phone screen, only a string of numbers, can not see anything.

...... Forget it.

He shook his head and casually tugged on a nurse lady to shove her cell phone into the other side, telling her to pass it on to Shi An later, before hurrying out of the hospital.

*

Mu Hang put down his cell phone.

His eyes landed on the screen for a few seconds, no extra emotions visible in the bottom of his sunken eyes.

"Wen Yao." Mu Hang suddenly spoke.

Wen Yao, who was preparing a report on the progress of the mission's investigation, raised his eyes, "Yes."

"Confirm the location of this number." Said Mu Hang, tossing his cell phone over.

Wen Yao was stunned.

Locating ......?

However, as a competent subordinate, Wen Yao did not ask too many questions, but immediately began to invoke his own authority to accomplish what Mu Hang had explained.

Soon after, Wen Yao raised his eyes and reported sharply, "The last location shows a private hospital in the West End."

"Uh-huh." Mu Hang nodded slightly and lowered his eyes, his gaze falling on the mission report in his hands.

"Get out." He said faintly.

"Yes." Wen Yao turned around and left Mu Hang's office, smoothly closing the door behind him.

Silence returned to the office, and for a long time the sound of a mission report being turned over was not heard.

Fifteen minutes later.

The office door opens from the inside and Mu Hang walks out with his coat between his arms, looking as if he's ready to go out.

Wen Yao was a bit startled, but immediately stood up, "Sir, are there any other orders?"

Mu Hang shook his head, "No."

He put on his gloves as he walked away, swept a glance over toward Wen Yao, and said, "Dismissed, you're off early today."

Wen Yao was stunned, a perplexed look on his face.

This, obviously the other party has just come back not long ago ...... suddenly left because there is something urgent?

*

Other side.

Wang Li bends his knuckles and knocks on the ward door:

"How's it going?"

Chen Meng and Wu Huancheng stood by the bedside, while the tall, tower-like Zhao She sat weakly on the bed, still looking poorly, but much better than when he had just come out of the metal silo earlier.

Zhao She nodded at Wang Li, "It's better."

Wang Li: "What did the doctor say?"

Chen Meng replied, "The qi and blood disorder and concussion caused by the excessive magical impact, Zhao She has a strong body and should be able to recover in the next day, it shouldn't affect the progress of our mission."

Wang Li nodded, relieved.

At this juncture, the dropping of any member of the team is a loss.

Wu Huancheng spoke up from the sidelines, "What about Shi An over there?"

Wang Li hesitated for a while, but finally decided not to tell the truth: "It's just a skin wound, it's not serious."

Chen Meng frowned, "Captain, what's going on with that system? Why did it suddenly malfunction so badly?"

Wang Li shook his head and apologized, "I'm not quite sure about that yet, but I've already sent the maintenance staff to overhaul it, so we should know the cause after a while."

Chen Meng : "Then in that case, the results of this competition can't be counted ......"

Before she could finish her sentence, she was interrupted by Zhao She, who was in the hospital bed, "I'm the one who lost."

Chen Meng was stunned and twisted his head to look at Zhao She in shock, "What?"

Zhao She propped her hands on the side of the bed and supported herself with difficulty.

He looked seriously at the three partners in front of him and said, "I told you when I just came out of the barn that I lost this time ......"

Wu Huancheng frowned, "But ......"

"No buts." Zhao She shook his head and let out a bitter smile, "Regardless of whether the equipment is malfunctioning or not, I can feel that in a head-to-head magical confrontation, I'm definitely no match for him."

He raised his eyes to Wang Li and said solemnly, "Captain, I support Shi An's entry into the team."

The trip was treacherous, but with such a powerful member on the team, they would be like a tiger with wings.

The ward was quiet for a few seconds.

Wang Li turned his head to look at the other two members.

After a long time, Wu Huancheng sighed and said, "Since Zhao She herself, who was involved in the sparring match, acknowledged the strength of the other party, then I am in favor of it."

Chen Meng frowned at the number of people in front of her, and after a few seconds of silence, she reluctantly said, "Alright, then I agree."

Wang Li breathed a sigh of relief.

With that, the members of the team were basically finalized, and the next thing to do was to start working on the arrangements.

He nodded towards the three people in the ward and said, "Then in that case, I will start preparing the resources, you guys can take this time to adjust yourselves to the best state, the time until the mountain is sealed is very close, we have to race against the clock."

After a brief greeting, Wang Li walks out of the hospital room.

He made several phone calls in a row, giving concise instructions to prepare the supplies needed for the rest of the trip and contacting the barriers to prepare the passes.

After all the preparations were made, Wang Li remembered that he hadn't told Shi An about the news.

He turned toward Shi An's hospital room.

Wang Li followed the memorized route through the hospital and turned a few corners, seeing Shi An's hospital room not far ahead.

Suddenly, he saw an unfamiliar back appear within sight.

The man wore a long, pitch-black coat, was tall, with a strong, upright spine, and the most eye-catching thing about him was the long, silvery-white, waterfall-like hair.

Wang Li was stunned and subconsciously stopped in his tracks.

There's no way ...... is really that one, is it?

How could Mr. Mu Hang be here?

At that moment, Wang Li suddenly remembered the scene of Mu Hang and Shi An whispering to each other at the entrance ceremony.

Is it possible that the two of them actually do know each other personally?

Thinking of this, Wang Li accelerated his pace and walked forward, raising his voice, "Officer Mu!"

The man walking ahead stopped and sidestepped.

A deep brow was hidden between the shifting light and a pair of icy silver-blue eyes lowered slightly toward him.

That invisible pressure instantly poured in head-on.

Wang Li subconsciously held his breath and said in a prudent and respectful manner, "Hello, may I ask ...... are you here to see Shi An?"

Mu Hang: "Yes."

His voice was deep, a little cold sharpness in his magnetic timbre.

Sound familiar?

Wait ...... isn't that the voice that just called Shi An!

As Wang Li was shaking his head, he heard Mu Hang continue to ask, "What happened?"

Wang Li immediately came back to his senses.

He swept his eyes at the closed ward door not far away, Wang Li realized that he was not a very nosy person, but ......

For some reason, Shi An's thin and slender figure, as well as his own earlier suspicions, all came to his mind at once.

"It wasn't anything too big, just a poor diet." Wang Li said respectfully, "Speaking of this matter, it was also a momentary lapse of judgment on my part-"

He sighed, "I just really didn't think that as a Tokiwa son, he'd never tasted ice cream."

Mu Hang's face still didn't change much emotionally, but his brows were slightly knitted.

Wang Li understands that it is enough to point to the point if there is one.

He said, "Since I have you here, I'll leave you alone."

Mu Hang: "Uh-huh."

Wang Li bowed to the other side, then turned and left the hospital.

Mu Hang glanced steadily toward the place where Wang Li had disappeared, then withdrew his gaze and turned toward Shi An's hospital room.

The door to the room is pushed open noiselessly and Mu Hang steps in.

The ward was very quiet, pale as far as the eye could see, and the pungent smell of antiseptic water filled the air.

After taking the medicine, Shi An has fallen into a deep sleep.

Half of his face was buried in the fluffy pillow, his short, soft, brown-black hair spread across the pillow, revealing a defined jawline.

Even as they slept, the other subconsciously curled up in a tiny ball under the covers.

It's a very insecure sleeping position.

This made Mu Hang think of what the man he had just met outside the ward had said, and his blue eyes sank slightly, as if they were a distant pall before an incoming storm.

As if sensing the stares, Shi An stirred under the sheet, shrinking a little tighter again.

The neckline and corners of the quilt spread out with the movement, making the small half of her neck and her collarbone, deeply sunken from her sleeping position, stand out.

It took a few seconds for Mu Hang to realize where he was staring.

He frowned and averted his eyes, reaching out and tugging the corner of Shi An's comforter upward, straight to the other man's chin.

Mu Hang's frown only loosened slightly after the blindingly white skin was covered.

But the next second, the teenager in the bed let out a soft, slurred grunt and unconsciously frowned before rolling over and reaching out to cradle the thing that had disturbed his sleep in his arms.

Mu Hang stiffened.

Despite the gloves, it was hard to avoid contact with the skin of his wrists, and an instinctive feeling of resistance rose in the back of his mind.

But before he could pull his hand out at once, Mu Hang suddenly realized--

I don't know if it's the cold or not, but Shi An seems to be shivering in a small way.

Mu Hang's movements were uncontrollable.

He maintained the somewhat awkward posture of his eyes and looked down.

Under the effects of the drug, Shi An did not open her eyes, her long eyelashes drooping and casting deep shadows on her pale face.

He slept seemingly peacefully, but his brow was furrowed.

As a cold-blooded animal, and one that had eaten eight large cups of chocolate Ba Fei and still caught a chill, Shi An shrank and shivered, instinctively moving closer to the source of warmth.

Even through the fabric, the temperature radiating outward from the human body was still as clear and conspicuous as ever, warm and hot.

Shi An tightens his grip, preventing the heat from escaping.

In her sleep, Shi An dreams of dry, spacious nests, full of treasure, and dark, warm eggshells.

He pressed his forehead against it, rubbing it in confusion.

In the embrace, the muscles in his arms seemed to tighten suddenly.

Half-asleep, Shi An seemed to sense that something was wrong, and with difficulty and drowsiness he propped up a bit of his leaden eyelids and looked toward the blurry, wobbly scene.

A glittering silver light, glowing with a brilliant glow against a dimly lit background, dazzled the eye.

"...... Ba Fei." Shi An mumbled dreamily.

And shiny.

He snuggled over contentedly, then drifted off to sleep again.