Chapter 55 Professional Bodyguard "Li Nai"

At four in the morning, the sky over the county town was beginning to lighten with the first hint of dawn.

In the silent, chaotic, and overgrown streets, a woman carrying an injured person ran around. She entered one pharmacy and clinic after another, leaving empty-handed each time. By this time, pharmacies and clinics had long been ransacked.

The woman stood still, her dark eyes, even more hollow than a ghost town, flashing incessantly, giving off a feeling of computer data analysis.

The Third People's Hospital of Rong County is 5.5 kilometers away. The route has been planned.

The woman, carrying the person, turned around and ran and jumped, making her way through without any obstacles.

With the hospital gates in front of her, she barged in, casually dispatching a few emaciated zombies that appeared, and finally found the operating room on the fourth floor.

After placing the injured person on the operating table, she turned and searched for some suturing instruments.

Sitting on the round stool, her eyelids didn't blink—her brain received the professional surgical instructions. Three seconds later, she treated the penetrating wound in her calf according to the procedure, cutting open the previously applied emergency bandage to reveal the bullet hole, a ring of torn flesh torn open. At the slightest touch, a large amount of blood gushed from deep within her groin.

Li Nai's hands moved quickly and steadily, switching instruments, cleaning and suturing the wound. From start to finish, it took no more than five minutes.

On the operating table, a pair of phoenix eyes suddenly opened, their weak gaze wandering back and forth before settling on the top of Li Nai's head, where the other person was re-bandaging her arm. The bullet had torn a long gash in her side arm, but fortunately, it hadn't broken any bones.

Lin Jingru observed quietly for a while, she had too many questions to ask Li Nai.

Just as he was about to speak, Li Nai suddenly turned his head to look at the wall of the operating room, his brows furrowed, as if he sensed that danger was approaching from outside the wall.

"You found me so quickly."

Lin Jingru remained somewhat calm, her phoenix eyes glazing blankly, looking utterly lost and dejected.

Li Nai picked her up and carried her to the small door in the operating room where waste was disposed of.

As soon as the door opened, a burst of white light flashed.

Someone has laid flashbangs outside.

Li Nai instinctively closed his eyes and turned his back to the door, as several bullets whizzed through his back.

Carrying the person back to operating room number 1, they took a few steps, stopped, and keenly heard others entering through the main entrance. They were flanking the two of them from both sides.

Empty black pupils flickered.

There were only three people lying in ambush outside the small door behind us. We pinpointed their hiding place.

Lin Jingru's eyes were blinded by the flashbang, and suddenly, Li Nai put her down. She clung to the door frame, and just two seconds after her feet were firmly planted, she was picked up again.

She was a little confused. What had Li Nai been doing just now?

"Li Nai" carried the person and strode over the three corpses lying on the ground. Their nearly identical heads were strangely tilted to one side.

He kicked a pistol up with his toe, caught it, and held it in his hand.

"Li Nai" circled the outer passageway used to transport the waste. His eyes switched to scanning eyes, the walls became transparent, and everything in the room turned into CAD lines, except for a few human bodies that were in varying shades of color.

Near the open main door of operating room number 1, large-caliber pistols were pointed at the people inside, smashing their heads one by one.

After dealing with all the threats, she carried the person out of the operating room.

When I left the hospital, it was already broad daylight.

Lin Jingru parted her pale, chapped lips. "I want some water."

Li Nai stopped in place, turned his head left and right, and the next second, he picked up the person and started walking faster.

They stopped in front of a general store leaning against a tree. The door was wide open, the windows were broken, and from the outside, they could see that the shelves inside were overturned and askew. If they were looking for water, they'd be better off going to the public restroom.

Lin Jingru was put down and leaned against the tree trunk. She watched as "Li Nai" did not go into the general store, but instead squatted down and quickly dug into the soil with both hands.

Soon, a package of supermarket plastic bags was revealed.

When taken out, it clearly contained two 1.5L bottles of water.

A bottle was opened and handed to Lin Jingru, who was somewhat dazed. She glanced at the grocery store and vaguely thought that the shopkeeper's idea was not bad.

Just then, Li Nai's retreating figure blocked her view, and she saw Li Nai enter the store. Without stopping her, she picked up the water bottle and drank.

The leaves overhead danced in the wind, and the fragmented morning light shimmered like gold. I squinted; my eyes, injured by a flashbang, couldn't stare at the light for long. I closed my eyes, enjoying the coolness in my throat.

*Crack!* A loud explosion rang out in the air.

Suddenly, cold water splashed all over her face.

She looked down and immediately saw the broken 1.5L plastic bottle on the ground.

Someone attacked!

He hurriedly got up to hide, only to find a figure pressing down on him—it was Li Nai.

*Thud!* The bullet hit the target.

Li Nai shielded Lin Jingru with her body. The two entered the nearest general store.

Lin Jingru squeezed the bottle in her hand hard, making a crackling sound.

Li Nai, who was blocking the doorway, turned around and gave her two things.

A gun in his right hand, and a hot, deformed chocolate bar in his left.

Lin Jingru accepted them silently. At that moment, the two of them seemed to understand each other perfectly.

She understood what Li Nai was going to do.

Huddled in a safe corner, I watched helplessly as Li Nai stepped out of the store and disappeared in an instant.

...

"Captain, target missing. Requesting backup."

The headset light flashed green, and a flat, androgynous voice came from one of the team members.

Da da da.

The sound of rapid keyboard typing filled the carriage.

The screen reflected the woman's indifferent face.

She controlled three drones, searching for her target, Li Nai, high above the city, and even switched to a thermal imaging system.

For a full ten minutes, they still couldn't find Li Nai.

There's a rare crease between the smooth eyebrows.

A bad feeling lingered in my temples.

"Captain," the team member's voice remained calm. "She's behind me—"

Something made a crisp knocking sound inside the headset.

A drone happened to turn around and send back a video.

Li Nai grabbed the teammate's slender neck from behind and snapped it without hesitation.

Her empty black eyes had been staring at the drone ever since it appeared, as if she were the one monitoring them from behind the scenes.

The woman—Captain of Riches—sensed malice. It was a countdown warning from the hunters.

He rolled down the car window, threw the computer out, climbed into the driver's seat, and sped off.

Far behind, explosions rang out one after another, and all three drones self-destructed.

Dial 010.

Captain Ricky put his mouth to the earpiece.

After a brief dialing process, the call is connected.

She said, "It's confirmed that Lin Jingru is another target."

He added, "There are two new pieces of information: Li Nai did not return to his original body, and he was not punished for exceeding the time limit."

On the other end of the phone.

"Come back safely as soon as possible."

Misike hung up the call, raised her deep eyes, and looked into the one-way glass. Inside the room, two laboratory staff members were giving the panda cub an injection.

She stood up, approached the one-way glass, and tapped her knuckles against the glass as if passing a secret signal.

One of the lab technicians glanced up, continued packing, and muttered something under his breath.

"How pitiful."

"Hmm? Who's pitiful?" another experimenter asked.

"It will have no owner from now on."

"How so?"

"Its owner betrayed our boss and ran away with that Miss Lin. Once they're caught, they'll both be dead."

"What's going on? I've been really busy these past few days, so I just wanted to listen to some gossip to relax."

"It's that Miss Lin again. I heard our boss originally planned to kill her after using her, but Li Nai saved her. We don't know where the two of them have gone."

The two researchers walked away, talking.

Inside the cub's glass enclosure, the panda cub was unusually quiet after receiving its injection, leaning against the glass in a daze. Its motionless appearance resembled a fluffy, lifelike toy.

Did Li Nai run away with his men?

Are you talking about Li Nai?

But she's right here, how can you say she ran away?

Blink your little black eyes.

The unknown potion had a calming effect, but it was so strong that it made me feel languid all over, and I just wanted to lean back comfortably.

Its head drooped, revealing its furry white belly.

Wait, this looks familiar.

Scratching his belly, a flash of lightning struck his mind when he saw the claws of an animal that didn't belong to a human.

Is she the host now?

Where is she?

Bring up the control panel and raise the claw to operate it in the air.

Current status: Special ability period. □□ Temporarily under system control.

She stood up in shock, kicking her feet.

Close your eyes and silently repeat "return to human body".

I didn't feel any shift at all. I opened my eyes and saw that I was still a panda.

I tried several times but still failed.

She pounded her head, then the glass, and knelt on the ground, utterly bewildered.

Something was strongly preventing her from thinking.

My head hurts so much!!

After giving up her deep thought and pausing for a while, she discovered that she could experience the outside world from her own perspective, like playing a game. Unfortunately, she couldn't fully control her body; she could only watch.

Why did you save me?

At this moment, she was squatting down, changing Lin Jingru's dressing.

Under her phoenix-like gaze, "Li Nai" lowered her head and remained silent. Her dark hands did not affect her professional and gentle technique in changing the dressing.

She sized up the wretched Li Nai for a moment. Most of her hair was singed off, her clothes were tattered and crumbled with the slightest movement, and her bright red, charred skin was slowly healing. To survive three explosions and still retain a human form was truly remarkable; she was indeed another Li Nai with cheat codes.

"Don't you have a mission? Given how much she values ​​you, it's not too late to go back and beg for forgiveness."

His tone was sarcastic and tinged with bitterness.

However, "Li Nai" did not respond.

Lin Jingru stared intently at her, her hand clenched into a fist, a cool, hard object pressed between her fingers.

She glanced down and saw the silver ring she had painstakingly acquired.

His gaze froze for a second, then he let out a cold snort.

"What is stolen will never truly belong to you."

He quickly took off the ring and handed it to Li Nai.

Just then, the dressing change was finished. "Li Nai" looked up, seemingly ignoring the silver ring on her face, and stood up, standing straight to the side.

Lin Jingru frowned, feeling inexplicably irritated.

"Take your things back."

Seeing that Li Nai only glanced at her, she immediately reverted to her wooden doll state. She threw the ring at the wooden doll.

"Hurry up and go back to her!"

After throwing it away, she dragged her injured leg away from Li Nai step by step.

Li Nai followed behind.

Lin Jingru turned around and snapped, "Don't follow me!"

I kept walking, and I heard footsteps behind me.

Lin Jingru ignored the people behind her, intending to shake off her tagalong. Her phoenix eyes gazed ahead at the desolate street fork, her dark eyes momentarily lost in thought.

Where can she go now?

Group. Base.

Both sides want her dead.

Her phoenix eyes blinked open and closed. She gritted her teeth and continued dragging her legs along.

They walked through street after street. Their movements were not as agile and energetic as they had been at the beginning.

Lin Jingru gasped for breath, her wound burning with pain.

Sweat poured down, washing away the pale face.

Roar! —

She stopped in her tracks. From the shadows to her right, a zombie emerged.

There was no panic, no movement. He merely watched as the zombies approached.

The zombies quickened their pace; their speed was no longer the slow, shaky pace they had been at the beginning of the apocalypse.

He was about to be pounced on.

A dark shadow flashed before my eyes, and the zombie fell to the ground with a thud, its brains spilling out.

Lin Jingru looked back and saw zombies lying haphazardly along the road. She counted them carefully; there were over thirty.

His brows furrowed.

How could so many zombies suddenly appear in such a small neighborhood?

She avoided the shadows and continued walking aimlessly.

As for "Li Nai" following behind her, she had long since given up resisting her. After nearly being bitten by a zombie, she realized that her idea of ​​walking a dangerous path alone was foolish and naive.

The afternoon sun was scorching. I don't know if it was from exhaustion causing auditory hallucinations, or from an infected wound causing them.

A wisp of rock music drifted by.

It sounds like there's a concert going on nearby.

Lin Jingru noticed no footsteps behind her and turned around to see "Li Nai" standing still, quietly observing her surroundings.

She didn't interrupt Li Nai. Could it be that more zombies had appeared?

A few seconds later, "Li Nai" suddenly rushed towards her, picked her up horizontally, and ran towards a three-story residential building.

Without pausing for a moment, he took a big step, stepped on the tricycle parked downstairs, and then jumped onto the second-floor balcony.

Lin Jingru leaned against the balcony and looked at the spot where they had just stood. A dark mass of zombies had passed by, their frenzied running was quite frightening.

The music in the air grew louder and louder, becoming extremely frantic, as if deliberately attracting zombies.

“Carry me on your back and follow behind them.”

Lin Jingru's dark eyes lit up with interest.