Chapter 71 Explosion 19
The little girl's struggle and screams stopped abruptly at this moment.
She stared blankly at the severed child's arm with her eyes wide open, and a layer of wooden haze slowly covered her clear pupils.
"Don't..." She muttered to herself like a sleepwalker.
But the men in the cellar would not stop their cruel actions because of her words.
The child whose arm was chopped off cried loudly in pain. The cry was mixed with despair and distortion, and it floated out of the cellar and into the sky on the cold wind.
"continue."
At the man's command, Zhang Xian and several other big men took action again.
This time, they grabbed the three children's right feet at the same time and aimed the machetes at the tendons.
The little girl in the man's arms gradually turned pale.
She kept shaking her head.
"Stop... Stop... Stop it!"
As she finished speaking, a cold knife flashed before her eyes, and hot blood splattered on her eyelids.
Blood slowly slid down her eyelids, and the world in the little girl's eyes turned blood red.
In the blood-red, she saw the three children whose tendons had been cut, their tender facial features distorted by pain.
The shrill screams were like fine needles, piercing the little girl's heart.
The little girl closed her eyes in despair, tears slowly sliding down her pretty face.
"Why don't you want to watch it anymore?" The man holding her stroked her hair like a doll. "This feast is specially prepared for you. If you don't watch, who will they show to?"
As soon as he finished speaking, the man's hand on her hair suddenly exerted force.
The little girl felt a pain on her scalp and her head was pulled so hard that she had to tilt it back.
"Little cat, open your eyes and look carefully." The man pulled her hair and pinched her chin with his other hand, forcing her to open her eyes. "If you don't look, these inferior products will die even more painfully."
The little girl had to open her eyes under the man's coercion.
She looked at the children tied to the cross, one after another being tortured to a state worse than death in front of her, and tears silently rolled down her face.
"Little cat," the man's devilish voice rang in her ears, "If you don't want more people to die because of you, you must stay by my side. You can't escape, not in this life."
You can't escape in this life...
You can't escape...
The light in the little girl's eyes gradually went out in the man's hypnotic words, and finally turned into complete silence.
She can't escape.
…
"No……"
The girl on the hospital bed frowned.
She murmured anxiously, and cold sweat broke out on her forehead again.
Xi Jiu, who had been looking at her, quickly grabbed her hand.
"Baby, I'm here! Don't be afraid, baby!"
The man's gentle comfort had no effect. Ruan Qi was completely trapped in the nightmare and could not hear any sounds from the real world.
Nie Beilou stood up from the sofa and walked quickly to the bedside.
He pried open Ruan Qi's eyelids and took a look, then pulled out a few silver needles and pierced her head.
"Talk to her more. Her consciousness has sunk into a nightmare now, and she must be brought back."
Xi Jiu's heart sank. He grabbed the little girl's hand and began to call her.
"Baby, Grandpa and Mom and Dad miss you very much. Chef Chen at home has developed a new dish, and he always asks me when you have time to go back and help him try it out."
"Baby, Director Jian called this afternoon. Mo Lan said you were injured and in the hospital, and Director Jian was very worried. He asked you to get well soon and go back to continue filming for him."
"Your birthday party is coming soon. Fans have already started preparing for your support, and I've prepared some too, but I don't know if you'll like it."
"Qin Qingdi called me yesterday and asked me for permission to use the exterior lighting of the twin towers at Xi's headquarters. She said she wanted to spell out your name with lights on the towers on your birthday."
"Baby……"
"Baby……"
Xixi, who heard the noise outside, walked to the large glass and saw the man chattering like this.
Xixi was a little surprised, and at the same time felt a little sad.
The head of the Xi family is taciturn and cold as ice, but he never thought that one day he would willingly become a chatterbox for a girl.
The man's voice was hoarse and gentle, and every word he spoke was filled with deep affection. His voice carried far in the quiet night, and the tenderness and sadness in his tone made everyone in the ward feel sad.
Ruan Qi, who was trapped in a nightmare, gradually responded to the man's incessant nagging.
A tear rolled down her cheeks, and she sobbed, "Jiujiu..."
"I'm here." Xi Jiu replied immediately, "Baby, I'm here. Open your eyes and look at me."
When Ruan Qi heard the man's words, her eyeballs moved rapidly under her eyelids.
Xi Jiu immediately raised his voice, "Baby! Wake up!"
"Xiao Qi! Open your eyes!"
"Senior Sister! Senior Sister, please don't sleep!"
One familiar voice after another entered the endlessly dark nightmare.
Who is it?
Who is speaking?
Why is it so noisy?
The nine-year-old girl tried hard to keep her eyelids open, but she couldn't wake up.
At this moment, a fresh medicinal fragrance, like a breeze blowing across the lake, gently enveloped her.
A warm and soft hand gently rested on her cheek.
"Xiao Qi, wake up."
Who is it?
Such a gentle female voice.
Which young lady is it?
The little girl's eyelids moved, and she slowly opened her lifeless eyes.
Endless darkness instantly flooded into her world.
Only the graceful and gentle figure in front of me, and the pair of peach blossom eyes exactly like hers, are like a ray of sunshine, warming my heart.
"Miss...who are you?"
"Me? I am you."
…
The first ray of sunlight in the sky breaks through the long and lonely night.
The sun rises in the east, and the rays of light spread all over the earth.
Inside the ward, Xixi and the others, sitting or lying, opened their eyes. Nie Heng drew aside the curtains and opened the windows, letting the warm July breeze flow into the room, sweeping away the night's gloom.
"How is Senior Sister?"
"She slept well in the second half of the night." Xi Jiu took the wet towel from Mo Lan and carefully wiped the little girl's face. "She talked in her sleep a few times, but soon calmed down. Mr. Beilou, when will Xiaoqi wake up?"
Nie Beilou felt Ruan Qi's pulse and opened her eyelids to take a look.
"It's hard to say. Her body functions are all normal now. The reason she's not conscious is due to her own subjective consciousness."
Xi Jiujun frowned.
"You mean, Xiao Qi doesn't want to wake up?"
"No." Nie Beilou shook his head. "It's not that she doesn't want to wake up, but her current state of consciousness makes it difficult for her to distinguish between reality and dreams. She thinks dreams are reality."
Simply put, it is a confusion of consciousness, mistaking dreams for the real world.
That's why she didn't wake up for a long time.
"Then if Senior Sister never realizes that the dream world is fake, then won't she never wake up?"
Nie Heng asked what everyone was most worried about.
Nie Beilou nodded with a gloomy face.
"That's a possibility. So you must always speak in her ear and pull her out of the dream world."
…
Just as Nie Beilou, Nie Heng and others were discussing what to do, a taxi suddenly braked to a stop outside the hospital.
The person in the car took out two hundred yuan, said "No need for change", and got out of the car in a hurry.
He dragged his suitcase and rushed into the inpatient department at lightning speed, heading straight for the elevator.
At the door of the women's restroom not far from the elevator, a woman wearing glasses let out a soft "eh".
"That person... looks like Shen Wenqian."
"Who?" Another woman in white, who had just walked out of the bathroom, frowned and asked, "Who are you talking about?"
"Shen Wenqian, Ruan Qi's manager." The woman with glasses pointed in the direction of the elevator. "I just saw him pulling a suitcase into the elevator. Strange, what is Shen Wenqian doing in the inpatient department? Is he here to see a patient?"
When the woman in white heard this, she looked towards the elevator thoughtfully.
"Sister Xu," the woman with glasses looked at her and asked, "Should we tell Miss Three about this?"
The woman in white's eyes flashed, and she said, "Of course I have to tell her. Isn't Miss San worried about not being able to catch Ruan Qi's little braid? Maybe this is a good opportunity. Xiaolin, go ask a nurse and see if you can find out the purpose of Shen Wenqian coming to the inpatient department. I'll go back to the ward and tell Miss San about this."
The two women split up into two groups.
The woman in white hurried back to the ward.
Before I pushed the door open, I heard Cheng Run's shrill screams coming from the ward.
"Can you please be gentler? This is a human head, not an animal's!"
"If it hurts, just apply the medicine yourself!" Cheng Run's wife's sharp voice followed, "You have no ability at all, yet you dare to go to Cheng Jinyan's office alone to settle the score. Why don't you look in the mirror and see who you are! Do you think you can fight Cheng Jinyan with your pig brain?"
"How did I know Cheng Jinyan was so cruel?" Cheng Run cursed. "No matter what, I'm still his third uncle, and he actually threw a lamp at me just for a little celebrity! I think he's really been bewildered by Ruan Qi and can't tell the difference between family and friendship!"
"Serves you right! What kind of heart does Cheng Jinyan have? You've lived in the Cheng family for so many years, don't you have any sense?! Even the old man is afraid of him, and you're actually rushing to die!"
"Isn't this also for Yanyan?" Cheng Run was furious at his wife's disparagement and retorted at the top of his voice, "If it weren't for Cheng Jinyan's pressure on Yanyan's PR team, would she have been scolded so harshly by netizens? Wasn't it just a few words implying Ruan Qi on Weibo? Those idiots insisted on chasing Yanyan to apologize to Ruan Qi. A mere celebrity, a slut worn by Xi Jiu, does she deserve an apology from our Cheng family?!"
The woman in white who was standing outside the door and eavesdropping couldn't help but roll her eyes.
Return to the Cheng family?
The old man of the Cheng family expelled your family of three eight hundred years ago. How dare you call yourselves members of the Cheng family?
The woman in white was complaining madly in her heart, but she knocked on the door with a normal expression on her face.
"Come in." Cheng Run's wife's voice came.
The woman in white pushed the door open and walked in.
In the ward, Cheng Run lay on the bed with a bandage wrapped around his head, his wife sitting beside him. On the sofa far away from them, Cheng Yan stared at her phone screen with a gloomy face.
"Mr. Cheng, Mrs. Cheng, Third Miss." The woman in white called out to them one by one.
Cheng Run's wife frowned and said with an unhappy look, "Why does it take so long to go to the bathroom? There was no one to apply medicine to my husband just now, so I had to do it myself."
You need help from others to apply medicine. You have cerebellar atrophy!
The woman in white wanted to hit her head with a chamber pot, but she still smiled and said, "Don't be angry, madam. It's my fault. The reason I was delayed was because I met someone outside."
"Who is it?"
Woman in white: "Shen Wenqian."
Cheng Yan, who had been staring at her phone, suddenly raised her head.
She stared closely at the woman in white and asked, "Who did you say you saw?"
"Shen Wenqian," the woman in white replied with a smile, "He's Ruan Qi's agent. I saw him rushing into the inpatient department with a suitcase, looking panicked. He looked like he was looking for someone."
Looking for someone?
A hint of doubt flashed across Cheng Yan's eyes.
Who was Shen Wenqian looking for in a place like the inpatient department?
Is anyone around him sick?
Could it be Ruan Qi?
Just as Cheng Yan was guessing, the woman with glasses who had gone to ask the nurse for information came back.
"Miss Third, Shen Wenqian is indeed here to see a patient. The patient lives in the VIP ward on the top floor."
Cheng Yan's eyebrows twitched.
This private hospital's prices were high; a night in the top-floor VIP ward cost 10,000 yuan. Of course, anyone with a bit of status in the capital could afford 10,000 yuan. But the problem was, even if you could afford it, the hospital might not let you in.
Because this kind of ward is specially prepared for the powerful people in the upper class.
For example, before Cheng Yan's family was kicked out of the Cheng family, they were also eligible for the top ward. But now that the Cheng family's connections no longer recognize them, Cheng Run can only stay in the ordinary VIP ward, which is slightly lower than the top VIP ward.
Even Cheng Run can't stay in the top VIP ward, so who among the people Shen Wenqian knows would be qualified to stay there?
The answer is obvious.
Cheng Yan suddenly became energetic.
She asked the woman with glasses, "Is Ruan Qi the one living in that ward?"
"I'm not sure." The woman with glasses shook her head. "These nurses are very tight-lipped. I spent two thousand yuan to pry one open. But she only said that the person living in that ward was very powerful and that even the hospital director personally went to visit him. She didn't say anything else."
Highly powerful...
Cheng Yan's expression twisted and a sneer escaped her lips.
Ruan Qi is just a small star, and his high position and power are bullshit.
The reason she can receive such treatment must be because of Xi Jiu!
It's really like a sparrow turning into a phoenix after flying to a tree branch!
A poisonous jealousy once again surged within her. Cheng Yan narrowed her eyes sinisterly and spoke slowly, "Keep asking around. Even if you have to pay me, you'll have to crack the nurses' mouths! I have to know what's wrong with Ruan Qi!"
…
Shen Wenqian didn't know that he was exposed.
He flew back to the capital from W City overnight. He didn't sleep a wink on the plane, and as soon as he fell asleep he would dream of the scene when Ruan Qi was in a coma last time.
After the plane finally landed, he rushed over in a taxi without even having a chance to drink water.
"How is Xiaoqi?" He rushed into the ward panting, dragging his suitcase.
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