Chapter 29 Hello, I'm very interested in your body.
What kind of relationship? Without even thinking, it must be Qi Shuihan's boss.
Li Naiping lay sprawled on the bed, staring at the seamless white ceiling. Sigh, exhausted, back to the "White Universe Room"—the name she'd just given it.
There was a noise to her left. She didn't turn around. Then came the familiar sound of two wheels sliding along.
A green scanning ray enveloped her entire body before withdrawing after a few seconds.
"007, how are you feeling today?" a cute electronic voice greeted.
"not good!"
"receive."
There was a moment of silence on the left, followed by the sound of typing.
She glanced sideways. Only a meter tall, with no neck or waistline, a round, bulging white body like a bucket, a small, square head slightly drooping, two mechanical arms extending three fingers, deftly and quickly typing out daily medical reports.
"Little trash can, can I go out?"
Xiao Fang raised her head, her fingers moving rapidly: "I'm not a trash can, I'm a robot that patrols the rooms, my number is BZ687593, my duty is to record patient conditions, promptly detect new situations, and, when necessary, prioritize execution of treatment..."
"Okay, okay, I understand." She quickly stopped herself, turned her face away, and faced the small robot. "You can go now."
Behind him, the little robot remained silent, frantically typing on the keyboard.
It's so noisy. She wanted to cover her ears, but her restrained hands wouldn't allow her to.
"Is the report really that long?" she huffed, turning to glare at the little robot.
The little robot ignored it and started knocking even louder.
"Please keep your voice down, the patient needs to sleep."
The little robot ignored everything and focused on completing its work, except that it typed faster, its fingers leaving afterimages.
Forget it, why bother getting angry at a cold, hard lump of iron?
She turned to look at the ceiling, focusing her attention on herself.
He straightened his arms and fingers, lifted his lower leg, and tried to touch his injury, but failed. This bed looked ordinary; he never expected it to have a 'freeze-the-body' effect.
[70% of the body has been repaired]
Sorry, the repair is incomplete and the function is unavailable.
"Alright!" She sighed softly, gazing at the pure white wall. She could only wait until the machine was repaired.
Clap, clap, clap.
"Hey, little... robot. Why doesn't Missy come to see me?"
The knocking paused for two seconds.
"Sorry, 'Misico' cannot be recognized."
The keyboard continued to clatter.
She stared directly at the top of the robot's smooth head: "Huh? You don't even know your boss? How did Merck set you up?"
The stubby yet agile mechanical fingers stopped, and it raised its small square head, revealing two adorable big black eyes, from which two green lights flashed.
"My boss is G management. Sorry, 'Merck' cannot be recognized."
After speaking, he lowered his head slightly, tapped the keyboard five times quickly, then retracted it into his body, and tucked his hands into round hands like Doraemon's.
Finally, she raised her head and said goodbye crisply, "Please get some rest."
With a turn, the wheels beneath him slid smoothly away, and the room returned to silence.
"G management?"
She remembered that Qi Shuihan also called that familiar-looking woman G Manager.
The image that comes to mind is a woman wearing a white coat and Hong Kong drama office attire, with a rather aloof style.
That woman must be a doctor. But why does she look so familiar?
The woman's appearance magnified in my mind: short, curly black hair, glasses, a small red mole at the corner of her mouth, a small red mole, a small red mole...
etc!
His hazy eyes suddenly brightened.
A female doctor who's really tough on injections!
Speak of the devil and he appears.
At that moment, a door opened in the wall leading outside, and a woman walked in—G Manager, also known as Ji Fenglan.
The visitor walked to the bedside and looked at her legs: "How do you feel?"
"I don't feel anything." She tried to lift her head to look at her legs, but apart from a patch of pink and white flesh, she couldn't see any details.
Ji Fenglan nodded to himself, turning his gaze away from his injured leg and looking at her instead.
"You must be Dr. Ji," she asked hesitantly.
Ji Fenglan smiled gently: "It's me. You still remember me."
It was indeed the female doctor who gave them the injection during their rescue.
"I remember." She suddenly recalled Lieutenant Li's face. Could it be...?
Is this a military base?
Before the other party could answer, she had already made up her own guesses. No wonder that little trash can didn't know about Misike and Merck. And Qi Shuihan? Was she also in the military? But wasn't she an assassin for some organization?
She shook her head in annoyance and finally concluded that Qi Shuihan was the legendary double agent.
"This is not a military base."
A dry, warm palm touched her forehead, and the fresh scent of hand sanitizer filled her nostrils.
Is something wrong with your head?
"Ah." She snapped out of her daze and saw the woman's approaching shoulder and neck, with a small pearl stud earring at the very bottom of her earlobe, its shimmering light dazzling. "No, no."
The hand was removed from the forehead, the scent of hand sanitizer immediately dissipated, and it was then put back into the pocket of the white coat.
"If it's not a military base, then it must be a national experimental base."
Ji Fenglan shook his head, walked to the bedside, and sat back down.
If I remember correctly, there's no other furniture here, right?
Li Nai opened her eyes wide and turned her head to glance at the small robot squatting down under the other person's seat.
Small trash cans transformed into small stools.
He withdrew his gaze and asked Ji Fenglan, "Where exactly is this place?"
"This is a branch base of the Rose Group, an animal testing base. I am the manager here, and they all call me Manager G."
Rose Group...
Li Nai stared intently. She was certain she had seen it in some kind of introduction.
Oh, right! It's on the target panel.
Sorry, the machine has not been fully repaired and its functions cannot be activated.
She gave up helplessly and looked at Ji Fenglan, intending to ask her for clarification, but found that the other party was focused on her injured leg.
Beneath the clear, purplish-glossy lenses, her beautiful amber eyes appeared somewhat dreamy.
He seemed to be obsessed with something, radiating joy.
Li Nai suddenly shuddered, startled by her own thoughts.
The woman who had frightened her noticed the movement on the bed, her gaze cleared, and she looked at her gently.
"What? Are you starting to feel something?"
That sounds really strange.
She quickly shook her head.
However, the other person insisted that she had feelings for it and simply asked, "Can I touch it?"
As she spoke, her fair and delicate hand was placed on her injured leg, her long, well-defined fingers gently touching the muscles that were healing and connecting.
Her calm and beautiful face showed no sign of disgust, and her rosy lips uttered a soft exclamation of praise: "Truly amazing."
Li Nai grinned in shock. Is this what it means to study medicine?
Since lying back in bed, I haven't lowered my head once, and I don't dare to look at my ravaged legs for even a second.
Looking away from the bright white ceiling, she changed the subject: "Dr. Ji, do you know about Misico?"
The fingers that were stroking the long veins paused for a moment, then continued stroking.
"I know. She's my advisor's daughter."
Hearing the word "mentor," a photo of the three of them flashed through her mind. Missy was the daughter of Dr. Ji's mentor; they must have had contact. Perhaps she could ask Missy how she was doing. With the zombie outbreak and the base's fall, she wondered if she was alright. And what about Mimi?
"How is Missy? Her base must have been overrun by zombies by now."
“I don’t know. We’ve never met. I only heard my advisor mention that she had a daughter. She mentioned that the two of them hadn’t been in contact since Missy was sent away at the age of 17. My advisor never got to see her daughter before she died.”
Li Nai noticed a hint of hesitation in Ji Fenglan's eyes. Perhaps she knew something else, but was considering that it was inconvenient to tell outsiders about her mentor's private matters.
I'm really curious, what exactly happened to Missy when she was 17, and what happened after that? Merck kept quiet about it.
"Dr. Ji must know Merck, right?"
“Him?” Ji Fenglan’s eyes flashed with a smile for a moment. “He is a very diligent and intelligent person who has high standards for himself. He must be a workaholic who doesn’t care about his appearance right now.”
Thinking of Merck's image, she exclaimed, "Oh my, Dr. Ji, you're absolutely right. Merck must be so jealous of you, because he's said through gritted teeth that you're a genius, and he can't catch up with you no matter what he does." She deliberately exaggerated.
"Oh, really?" Ji Fenglan seemed amused by her expression. "Did he say anything else?"
"He also said that he hated Lin Zhijun and called him a scumbag. Dr. Ji, who is Lin Zhijun? What did he do to Merck?"
She blinked, looking utterly clueless and curious.
Ji Fenglan gently pushed up her glasses frame with her fingertips, a smile playing on her lips: "Didn't he also ask me why I was helping him with his work?"
Li Nai was slightly surprised, then realized what was happening and avoided looking up.
The other person didn't scrutinize her with a sharp gaze, but rather looked at her with the tenderness of a good doctor caring for his patient.
"Lin Zhijun is my late mentor's ex-husband, a charming but selfish and hypocritical upper-class elite. Now he is the voice of the Rose Group, holding a 56% stake, above me and R in management. When my mentor was alive, he signed an agreement that would eventually make him the de facto controller of the entire group, and we all have to listen to him. As for what he did to Merck, I don't think he did, but I know the reason for Merck's hatred: Lin Zhijun killed my mentor and personally ruined what should have been a wonderful life for Missy."
"Why are you telling me all this, and about the company?"
"Because I'm very interested in your body."
Huh? Li Nai almost choked on her saliva. This is utter nonsense.
Ji Fenglan reached out to help her catch her breath and connected to the communication system to instruct other robots to bring warm water.
"Isn't Merck resentful about why I worked for him? Let me tell you now, I don't want my mentor's life's work to be squandered by him. I must infiltrate the Rose Group, reclaim my mentor's legacy step by step, and then research a cure for the zombie virus to save humanity."
His gentle yet firm amber gaze shifted to her face, and she saw a hint of excitement: "Your appearance has given me hope. This time, I will not let my mentor down."
That's a perfectly legitimate reason! I was terrified! I thought he was after her [sexual favors]. How narcissistic of me!
"Unfortunately, I cannot convey your reason to Merck."
"It's alright, I'll have Qi Shuihan find out about them for you."
Qi Shuihan. She frowned slightly.
"What's wrong?" Ji Fenglan noticed the subtle movement.
"Qi Shuihan, what is her identity?" She lowered her gaze. "Isn't she an assassin? Someone who infiltrates Missy's circle to work with Sister Hong to deal with Missy? But yesterday, it seemed to you all meant to arrest me instead?"
A cup of warm water appeared in Ji Fenglan's hand. At some point, another robot, identical to the one sitting below, appeared, its mechanical hands holding a tea tray neatly.
"Have some water." Ji Fenglan got up to feed her water.
Just then, she was thirsty. She accepted Ji Fenglan's thoughtful offer of water without any qualms.
Ji Fenglan is very meticulous and knows how to take care of patients. She is a good doctor who cares about the people.
After finishing his drink, Ji Fenglan asked gently, "Are you and Qi Shuihan very close?"
She anticipated Li Nai's question and said, "I noticed that you two were behaving intimately, not like strangers, or perhaps, wary of each other."
Since it involved system identities, Li Nai couldn't reveal their collaboration, so she could only make up a reason.
"We met and got to know each other at the Misik base, went through life and death together, and became good friends."
"Hmm?" Ji Fenglan bent her index finger and rested it on her chin, thinking. "She told you about her assassin identity and the group's mission, which means she trusts you a lot. But why didn't she mention the other mission I gave her? Aren't you two good friends who trust each other?"
Li Nai suddenly fell silent.
Yes, why hide it? Aren't they the best partners?
Qi Shuihan brought her back here twice, probably so that Dr. Ji could research a new treatment plan. If he directly told her about this other mission, he feared he wouldn't be able to complete it successfully, so he had to deceive her.
When she suddenly realized that she was under house arrest and would be a guinea pig day and night, she felt a tightness in her chest and a burning anger rose within her.
Qi Shuihan, you don't want me to die, you want me to suffer a fate worse than death.
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