"Besides the detonator on that assassin, there's also this! It received external commands! The enemy is nearby! They might be watching from the outside as our people rush in and die!"
Li Zhou stared at the charred fragment, his stomach churning. Night Owl's viciousness, precision, and all-encompassing control filled him with a near-suffocating fear.
Not only did the other party know about their actions, they were even there, watching them step into the death trap like enjoying a drama.
At this moment, the ICU door was pushed open again. A doctor wearing sterile clothing and a mask walked out with a serious expression.
Li Zhou and Shen Yanbai felt like they were paused in an instant. All their thoughts and emotions were forcibly cut off. They stared at the doctor with their hearts in their throats.
"Who are the family members?" The doctor took off his mask, his eyes tired.
"Me!" Li Zhou immediately took a step forward, his voice trembling.
"He's out of danger for now." The doctor's first words made Li Zhou's vision darken, and he almost lost his balance. Great ecstasy and even deeper fear hit him at the same time. Out of danger...that means..."
"But," the doctor's next words were like a bucket of ice water poured over his head, "the injuries are very serious. The shock wave from the explosion caused a severe closed head injury, accompanied by cerebral contusion and subdural hematoma. Although the surgery removed part of the hematoma, the intracranial pressure is still very high.
"He suffered multiple comminuted fractures throughout his body, a left-sided hemothorax, a ruptured spleen that had to be removed, severe contusions on both lungs... and respiratory burns from inhaling dust from the explosion..."
The doctor spoke very quickly, and every word he reported represented cruel injuries and long-lasting pain.
"The patient is currently in a deep coma. His vital signs are extremely unstable and could deteriorate at any moment. Whether he can wake up... and when he can wake up... depends on his willpower and... his luck."
luck……?
Li Zhou felt a chill running through his body from the soles of his feet in an instant, and every limb was frozen.
He opened his mouth, but no sound came out. He could only stare at the closed door behind the doctor, as if he wanted to see through it and see the person inside who was surrounded by instruments and tubes, whose life or death was uncertain.
Chen Yanbai's fists at his sides were clenched so tightly that they made a creaking sound. In the shadow under the brim of his hat, his eyes were terrifyingly gloomy.
"Also," the doctor hesitated, then added, "When the patient was brought in, his right hand was clenched into a fist. It was so tight that we had to work very hard to pry it open without causing any secondary damage... He was clutching this tightly in his hand."
The doctor opened his palm and saw something wrapped in a sterile evidence bag - a badge with sharp edges and a flapping owl pattern engraved in the center.
It was the one that Gu Yuxiao had stuffed into Li Zhou's pocket in the ruins. Now it had been cleaned, and the blood stains on the surface had been wiped off, revealing the cold metallic luster and the sinister pattern. Under the cold light of the hospital, it exuded an ominous aura.
Chen Yanbai's gaze was instantly drawn to the badge, as if by a magnet. He stepped forward and almost roughly snatched the evidence bag from the doctor's hand, holding it before his eyes, his sharp eyes piercing through it.
"Night Owl..." His throat rolled, and he uttered a hoarse syllable that was suppressed to the extreme, with deep hatred and an almost crazy excitement.
The appearance of this badge is like finally finding the most direct shed skin left by the poisonous snake among the ruins of the explosion and the dripping blood.
Li Zhou looked at the badge, then at the heart-pounding light in Chen Yanbai's eyes, and a strong sense of uneasiness gripped him.
This badge is a clue, a target, and even more so, a poisonous bait. It exudes the bloody scent that Gu Yuxiao paid for with his life, enough to drive any hunter crazy.
As the night deepened, the hospital's VIP floor was shrouded in an oppressive silence. Only the regular beeping of instruments echoed in the empty corridor, like the countdown to life.
Outside the thick glass window of the intensive care unit, Li Zhou stood motionless like a frozen statue.
He looked through the glass at the figure lying on the bed inside, surrounded by various tubes, bandages and instruments.
Gu Yuxiao's face was as pale as paper. The oxygen mask covered most of his face, revealing only his tightly closed eyes and furrowed brows. Even in a deep coma, his brows had never relaxed.
The green waveform on the electrocardiogram monitor fluctuated, and every weak beat touched Li Zhou's nerves.
He was covered with a sterile sheet, but his exposed arms and neck were wrapped in bandages and connected to IV tubes and drainage bags.
How could this still be the ever-elegant and calm ruler of the Gu family, who dominated Jiangcheng? This was just a fragile life struggling on the brink of death.
Li Zhou's vision blurred.
His father's cold tombstone, Gu Yuxiao's words "The Night Owl is still here" on a rainy night, the flames rising into the sky when the warehouse exploded, and the moment when Gu Yuxiao spread out his bloody palms under the rubble... countless scenes flashed and overlapped before his eyes.
Regret, anger, fear, and a piercing sense of powerlessness wrapped around his heart like poison ivy, tightening more and more.
He hated his own incompetence. He hated that he could only stand here like a piece of trash, unable to do anything.
He hated himself for not being more perceptive and not noticing the trap. His father's blood revenge hadn't been avenged, and now he had dragged Gu Yuxiao into this abyss of no return...
"The boss has a tough life." A deep voice sounded beside him.
Li Zhou snapped back to reality and blinked away the moisture in his eyes. Ah Cheng had walked over without a sound, like a silent shadow.
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