Chapter 53
What do we do now?
Ye Ting, Xiao Shengyun, Chen Buyan, Huang Yu, and Yang Xiao were staring at each other in the hospital. Shen Yao's test results came out, and fortunately, the girl was healthy. But a new problem arose.
Where will Shen Yao stay, and what will happen next?
The Shen family's house has now been sealed off, her parents have both passed away, and she has no relatives left.
"Arranging a temporary place for her to stay is no problem, but..."
Ye Ting looked into the ward. The girl was sitting blankly on the bed, staring straight ahead.
No one expected that Shen Yao had autism; this was not mentioned in the information collected earlier.
"It's probably not autism; he was just devastated by the news of his parents' death."
Yang Xiao speculated that Shen Yao was not in a good state when she first woke up. She kept asking about her parents, but since they were dead, no one could conjure them up. They could only tell Shen Yao the news in a roundabout way, and then she didn't say another word.
"Why don't we let her live with me for now? She's capable of taking care of herself now," Yang Xiao suggested. As the only female executive in the team, it was indeed the most reasonable thing for her to temporarily take in Shen Yao.
After confirming that Shen Yao was safe, the others breathed a sigh of relief but were also inevitably disappointed. They had come hoping to get some clues from the girl, but unfortunately, they came up empty-handed.
In the ward, Shen Yao was still lying in bed.
When Xiao Shengyun walked in, she was peeling oranges. The oranges were something they had brought with them when they came. The fresh scent of citrus fruits purified the air that smelled of disinfectant.
"You say that Mom and Dad have passed away. What does 'passed away' mean?"
"Death means you may never see them again."
“But they were just asleep, they slept for a long time.” Shen Yao opened her big eyes, as if she were saying something perfectly normal.
Xiao Shengyun raised an eyebrow. Given Shen Yao's age, she should understand what death means.
“They usually wake up the next morning, but that day they didn’t wake up until the afternoon of the next day.”
The girl's clear voice struck Xiao Shengyun like a thunderclap.
What do you mean "awakened"? Does it mean he died and came back to life?
"Then my dad and mom took me out to play, and my dad and mom were also in my bedroom."
The implied information in this sentence was chilling: the person who took Shen Yao out was a member of the True Knowledge Society. Xiao Shengyun thought of the story An Nan had told him; it was almost the same method.
The other party disguised themselves as Shen Yao's parents, while the real Shen Xiuping and He Yun were still lying in bed. They took the girl out of the house.
But what role does Shen Yao play in this story?
She was already a teenager, and even seven-year-old Anan could tell something was wrong. Why would Shen Yao still believe it after seeing her parents' corpses?
Does this girl really have some kind of mental illness?
"When will I be able to see them again?"
The orange in her hand had already been peeled. Shen Yao wiped her hands with a tissue and placed the orange pulp on the table next to her.
Shen Yao's condition was still unstable, and in order to prevent the True Knowledge Society from coming again, the group decided to leave Chen Buyan behind to take care of the child.
"Is this appropriate?" As soon as Ye Ting said this, the others turned their attention to Chen Buyan's green hair, the jingling silver ornaments by his ears, and his disheveled uniform.
However, they understood Ye Ting's meaning in the next second. In order to prevent Young Master Chen from causing any more trouble, they simply found him a job to do properly.
There are doctors and nurses in the infirmary; he only needs to perform his duties as a guard.
Although Chen Buyan's personality isn't great, his character is barely passable, and his abilities are also quite good, making him perfectly capable of handling this task.
“Hey, I’m here to eliminate pollutants, not to run around doing these trivial things every day. Besides, the medical room is right in the operations department. What’s the difference between the intelligence service coming here and robbers going to the police station? Do you think they’d be that stupid?” Chen Buyan protested loudly.
However, all protests were rejected. The action department had strict hierarchical rules, and Ye Ting, as the captain, could dispatch team members according to relevant regulations. If he did not obey orders, even Young Master Chen's identity would not be protected.
Everyone else had left, and Chen Buyan, bored, wandered around the corridor outside the ward. After being scolded twice by the nurses for being in the way, he returned to the ward.
"Aren't you bored?" He casually pulled up a chair, his silver chains jingling.
Shen Yao didn't reply, but she was drawn to the noise by the hospital bed, her eyes shifting from the wall to the earring.
It's so quiet here.
Chen Buyan couldn't stand silence the most.
His grandfather held an important position in the Department of Supernatural Abilities, and his parents went into business. Both of them were workaholics, and there were no other children in the family. Therefore, Chen Buyan's deepest memory is of being alone in an empty house when he was young.
There was a nanny at home and guards outside the door, but no one understood what a little child was thinking, and no one talked to him.
He turned on the TV, and there was a lot of noise coming from it. He couldn't understand those songs and TV dramas back then, but it was good that at least it could make sounds.
When he reached a certain age, Chen Buyan was sent to school. There were many rich kids in the school, but most of them were not as wealthy as his family, nor did they hold as high an official position as his grandfather. He started forming cliques, and a group of them would go to bars all night. But in the blink of an eye, he still felt a sense of silence.
Later, schools were established specifically to train awakened individuals. To awaken one's talent, one method was through contamination, and the other was through injection of a certain drug. This drug had a high mortality rate, but he still went, because loneliness was constantly seeping into his bones, and he needed some stimulation.
My memory of what happened after that is hazy...
Chen Buyan couldn't take it anymore. He turned on the screen opposite the hospital bed. The medical facilities in the action unit were quite good. This screen could connect to the internet and also watch TV series.
"Do you want to watch some cartoons?" He hadn't spent much time with children this age, and he awkwardly started to coax the child, trying to distract Shen Yao.
"Mom." Shen Yao still didn't react, murmuring to herself on the hospital bed.
"Based on the replay and the information revealed by Shen Yao, Shen Xiuping and He Yun died on Friday night. Then on Saturday night, the True Knowledge Society members disguised themselves as Shen's parents and took Shen Yao away. They probably wanted to search for something in the house, but they also had to take Shen Yao away as soon as possible."
"So on Sunday night, they came to the Shen family again and checked Shen Xiuping's computer and study. The two deaths were discovered on Wednesday, so they had enough time to find what they needed, but they were attacked when we went to investigate. One possibility is that they were afraid we would discover some secrets, and another possibility is that the people who attacked us and those who took Shen Yao away were not the same group."
Ye Ting connected these clues.
Do you have any further questions or comments?
"If the contents of that piece of paper were handwritten from He Yun's notebook, then does the mark of the True Knowledge Society originally belong to He Yun?"
Xiao Shengyun asked the question.
Their focus has always been on the True Knowledge Society, but who says the victim is innocent? Shen Xiuping and He Yun are dead, but what secrets do they hold? Why is the True Knowledge Society targeting the Shen family?
The meeting room fell silent for a moment.
He thought of He Yun's diary and the soft, fluffy quilt in Shen Yao's room under the sunlight.
It gives people a completely different feeling.
One is a cold record, the other is a heart full of love.
Can love be faked?
However, before everyone could figure it out, they heard a huge explosion, which came from the medical room across the street.
"What kind of jinxes are you? Come here right now!" Chen Buyan's voice came through the communicator, followed by the sound of a small explosion and shouts from doctors and nurses.
By the time they arrived, the battle was over, and the infirmary building was in ruins.
It seems the opponent withdrew after only a brief exchange.
"Quick, save him!" came a nurse's shout from the side.
Besides the patients, many medical staff were also buried in the rubble. Looking at the collapsed buildings, people at the scene felt a sinking feeling, fearing that many of them were seriously injured.
However, when the awakened one used his talent to lift the stone blocks and building fragments, the dozen or so patients in the medical room were completely unharmed, without even a speck of dust on them, and each of them was surrounded by a yellow light screen.
"This is Chen Buyan's talent. He used this move during the attack that day," Huang Yu shouted, his feelings mixed. He hadn't expected Chen Buyan to be reliable at all.
Chen Buyan was dug out from the lowest level.
"These damn bastards, they run away when they can't win, if they're so capable... cough cough..."
He was covered in dust, and his right arm was probably broken, hanging limply at his side, making him look like a dirt chicken.
Young Master Chen, who is usually radiant, is now unusually disheveled.
"What are you looking at? It hurts so much! There's only one wounded person here."
The nurse, regaining her senses, hurriedly grabbed medicine and bandages and rushed forward to bandage Chen Buyan. Chen Buyan's face was contorted in pain, and if there hadn't been so many people around, he would have screamed a couple of times.
Buildings can be rebuilt if they collapse, as long as no one is injured.
Ye Ting's opinion of Young Master Chen had also changed slightly. The surveillance footage showed that only two people had come: one was floating in mid-air, and the other entered the building through a window.
No one knows what happened inside, because the surveillance cameras were destroyed. All that can be seen from the footage is that the entire fifth floor exploded a few minutes later.
The two then clashed, and in order not to accidentally injure others, Lu Buyan had to use half of his strength to create a protective shield.
In the instant he split into two, the other party kicked him into the ruins.
The intruder then vanished into thin air.
True Knowledge Society...
Ye Ting leaned back in his chair and let out a soft breath.
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