The people outside the corridor weren't doing anything serious. After playing with the kids for a while, Xie Chiyuan told Pei Si, "Watch over them for a bit, I'm going to find the restroom."
"OK."
Xie Chiyuan turned and left. After going around a corridor, he opened a door.
Ying Jian was inside the door.
Ying Jian has been imprisoned until now, and he's in a terrible state. He's never lacked people around him, and he hasn't experienced any hardship since the outbreak of the virus.
Right now, everyone around him is gone; this is the first time he has ever been in such a predicament.
"Dr. Ying, how do you feel being here all alone?"
Xie Chiyuan pulled up a chair and sat down. He said casually, "The West District originally treated you as a distinguished guest, but it's a pity that you didn't want to be that guest and insisted on choosing this method to formally contact the West District."
Ying Jian was left here and hasn't even had a proper meal.
He raised his eyes and stared at Xie Chiyuan with hostility: "The West District is full of hypocrites who look respectable. If I really go to the West District, you won't be very polite to me."
Xie Chiyuan's expression remained indifferent.
In the past, he might have tried to explain things to Ying Jian properly, but now that Ying Jian had taken lives in the West District, he had lost all patience with this doctor.
"You really are a pity."
Xie Chiyuan looked at him but didn't say anything about regretting it.
But Ying Jian could sense: "You want to kill me."
Xie Chiyuan smiled and said, "If I wanted to kill you, I wouldn't have kept you alive until now."
Their eyes met. Ying Jian didn't bring up the issue of killing or not; he simply asked, "What do you want to ask me? Gu Ainan, or Yu An?"
"Xie Chiyuan, is your relationship with Yu An strong enough?"
"If you discover that the person you love is a complete monster, can the two of you still be together?"
Ying Jian's eyes were filled with malice. He stared intently at Xie Chiyuan and slowly said, "Don't you think so? Yu An, that little monster, is about to break out of his shell!"
Ying Jian had already witnessed Yu An fighting with the superhuman, and he knew very well that—
Yu An is not some soft and innocent little lamb.
He can't hide it.
A single fight was enough to make Yu An lose control. Even without further fights, he might revert back to being that little monster.
Xie Chiyuan scoffed and said disdainfully, "Even if he turned into a piglet, let alone a little monster, he would still be my wife."
Ying Jian was choked on the spot.
Xie Chiyuan arrived, sat down, and didn't ask any crucial questions. He simply stared coldly at Ying Jian, listening to Ying Jian's incessant chatter.
"Don't you want to know? Don't you want to know who Yu An is?!"
"I will know when the time is right."
Xie Chiyuan remained calm and composed, looking at Ying Jian as if he were looking at a stray dog.
I don't know how much time passed.
Ying Jian could no longer hold back. He started throwing things around and threatened Xie Chiyuan: "Let me out! My relationship with the East District is deeper than you think. The East District will never agree to you keeping me here!"
The East District has passed regulations for the legal cultivation of aberrations, and the aberrations from the East District laboratory are currently being exported.
He has not only traditional nutritional pastes, but also many other technologies.
He has signed more than one cooperation agreement with the East District, and now that the cooperation period is over, the East District would never abandon him.
You should have a strong sense of security and believe that you can be saved.
But Xie Chiyuan was even more confident than him: "I can guarantee that you will definitely be the scapegoat of the East District."
Ying Jian's face was full of disbelief.
Xie Chiyuan seemed to be there just to mess with Ying Jian's mentality. He smirked and told Ying Jian, "Just wait and see how the East District will give up on you."
Ying Jian: "..."
Ying Jian's eyelids twitched heavily.
Before he could say anything more, Xie Chiyuan, having dealt with the man's mindset, got up and left without lingering any longer.
Ying Jian stared at his back, a sudden unease creeping over her.
He began to take stock of the feud between him and Xie Chiyuan. Quite a few people from the West District had died in the training grounds this time.
He remembered that the dead were from a squad sent by the West District, and there were several young faces in the squad. Some of the young men even called out Xie Chiyuan's name as they died.
Xie Chiyuan had been serving as an instructor in the West District. Those young men were Xie Chiyuan's students.
"Xie Chiyuan, what exactly are you trying to do?!"
Ying Jian had heard of Xie Chiyuan's ruthless reputation, and before this, he did not think that Xie Chiyuan would seek revenge on him for the sake of a few students.
He is of great value.
His life is more valuable than his death.
But it wasn't until Xie Chiyuan walked out that he had a vague intuition—
Xie Chiyuan truly didn't care about his value; Xie Chiyuan really wanted him dead.
About ten minutes later.
Xie Chiyuan returned to the corridor he had just left. He glanced at the still-closed door and asked Pei Si, "They haven't come out yet?"
"No."
Pei Si's face showed no sign of distress, but everyone was actually quite uneasy. Many had perished at Ying Jian's hands this time, and the few Tang Yi had rescued were the only survivors.
Time passed little by little.
Yu An, who was clinging to Tang Yi, was already sweating just from looking at the scene before him. He ignored his own sweat and focused on wiping it away for Tang Yi.
"It's almost over."
Tang Yi kept his head down, his long, thick eyelashes damp with sweat. He had changed his gloves several times, and the blood-stained gloves piled on the ground were a shocking sight.
Yu An breathed a slight sigh of relief upon hearing his notification.
He had been standing with Tang Yi for so long that his legs were almost numb. Tang Yi, on the other hand, seemed to be standing very steadily. He had experience performing surgery, so standing for hours on end was easy for him.
Nearly two more hours passed.
Tang Yi took off his gloves and plopped down in the chair Yu An had brought him. He tilted his head back and drank some glucose, slowly regaining his energy.
"Dr. Tang, how is it now?"
Yu An asked him, and seeing that he was only drinking glucose, she took some snacks from her pocket and gave them to him: "Here, these are all pretty good."
His pockets are big and can hold a lot of things.
Qi Zai and Qiu Qiu are close friends. In the RV, he specially packed a lot of Qiu Qiu's favorite snacks in his older brother's pocket.
The seven rich kids even generously declared, "There's more after we finish eating!"
He'll give you plenty!
Tang Yi glanced at the snacks, paused for a few seconds, and then reached out to take them: "Song Jun is the most seriously affected. He looks more energetic than the others, but he's actually the one with the weakest constitution. However, your Secret Shield has a lot of good stuff, so he's gotten a good deal. Once he gets through this, his abilities will be stronger than they are now."
"As for Yin Feng, I gave him a blood transfusion. He will either become a superhuman after waking up, or he will become a cripple."
"Where are you waiting to greet me?" Yu An pressed.
There's still Hou Ying who hasn't been mentioned yet.
Tang Yi glanced at Hou Ying lying in the back, paused, and then continued, "I'm not a god, I can't restore someone who has stopped breathing to be exactly the same as before."
Yu An felt a sudden jolt in her heart.
Tang Yi continued, "Secret Shield is creating mutants, and I can do that too. I modified Hou Ying's body, and he will incorporate some genes. In other words, he will become a new mutant."
Yu An: "..."
Yu An turned to look at the three people lying down.
In other words, this trip was a near-death experience for the three of them. They survived, but to varying degrees, they were no longer the same people they used to be.
Tang Yi's only responsibility is to save lives; he doesn't care about anything else.
He had done all he could, and he felt there was nothing more for him to do: "Wait another 24 hours, and then we can go back."
The Secret Shield Research Institute is a place that doctors dream of visiting.
But Tang Yi, having followed Yu An and not even finished exploring the entire secret shield, had no desire to leave without a second thought. He glanced at Yu An and relayed the message: "Come with me, Little Butterfly is waiting for you to return."
Yu An also wanted to go back to see her baby, but the circumstances didn't allow it for the time being.
He thought for a moment and replied, "We can pass through the East District first, and then return to Base 5 from the East District. From Base 5, we can fly to the island."
Yu An had planned the route very clearly.
But Tang Yi had no interest in the East District; he planned to go straight back.
During the 24-hour observation period, everyone took turns keeping watch. While Yu An was keeping watch, he also spoke with each of them individually.
well.
Suddenly not being human, Yin Feng and Hou Ying probably don't have experience in this area. But he, being someone who's been through it, can offer some advice.
Perhaps it was the sincerity of everyone that worked, or perhaps it was their own effort, but within 24 hours, they all woke up.
Yu An was overjoyed.
Xie Chiyuan had lingered here too long, so he immediately led his men to leave. The several treatment chambers of the Secret Shield were also moved away under Tang Yi's direction.
Besides the treatment chamber, Yu An acted like a thief, searching for a lot of valuables: "Xie Chiyuan, take all of this back to the West District!"
There's no one left at Secret Shield anymore, so leaving the old stuff here is a waste. It's better to take it back to the West District and reuse it.
The thief gave the place a cursory cleaning and then got into the car to go back.
There were many of them, but luckily they had enough cars.
After traveling halfway, Pei Si continued to escort Tang Yi and the three currently weakened patients back. Ying Jian was personally escorted by Xie Chiyuan and Yu An.
They were going to take Ying Jian to the western regional headquarters.