The night before the promotion

Chapter 67 Doctor Ji

An intense pain spread from Li Weiyu's left shoulder, as if roots were growing in the wound, absorbing his blood and flesh.

Li Weiyu's breathing couldn't help but become rapid. The panic of blood loss triggered the strengthening of his organism. His personal emotions quickly subsided, and were replaced by an extremely clear mind.

"The bullet shot from above happened to hit me," Li Weiyun analyzed calmly, "It should have broken my collarbone, or it may have penetrated my chest cavity."

"This place is not easy to bandage... Keep breathing, Team Leader Li." Zhou Si took the medicine from Li Weiyu's body and gave him an injection on his arm.

With the injection of the medicine, the pain lingering in his mind weakened a little. Li Weiyu covered the wound tightly with his right hand to stop the bleeding, and picked up the electromagnetic pistol with his left hand despite the pain.

The sharp rustling sound came again from the shadows on all sides, as if sharp steel was dragged on the ground, splashing sparks.

Zhou Si supported Li Weiyu. He could feel Li Weiyu's trembling with every step. His face was tense and painful groans lingered between his teeth.

"Why? Doctor Zhou."

Li Weiyun panted and said with a clear mind, "Pei Dong has obviously successfully upgraded, and the success of his feathering technology has been verified. Why do they still want to hunt you down?"

"Yeah, I really don't understand what these psychopaths are thinking."

Zhou Si cursed in a low voice, "Don't they think Pei Dong's level of upgrade is a success? Or do they think the current metamorphosis technology is still not perfect and needs more test data?"

The clues are contradictory and intertwined, making the whole case more complicated and confusing.

At a certain moment of enlightenment, Zhou Si guessed, "Besides the metamorphosis technique, do they have other purposes, and is this purpose related to me?"

Zhou Si carefully reviewed his past experiences. He really couldn't think of anything else worth pursuing except being the number one.

"I don't know... I really don't understand."

Li Weiyu's complaints suddenly stopped. He raised the muzzle of the gun with difficulty and shot at another shadow. A series of sparks burst out in the darkness, and then the roar of a steel body falling heavily to the ground was heard.

"Stop talking, Team Leader Li," Zhou Si said while soothing him, "Try to dilute your own existence and regard yourself as a bystander."

"Dilute the self? Bystander?" Li Weiyun asked, "Is this what you call spiritual training?"

"I guess so. It's a way to avoid pain. When you are no longer yourself, the pain you endured will also disappear."

"That doesn't sound easy."

Zhou Si kicked open the crumbling iron gate and stepped into the shadows with Li Weiyu. A narrow aerial corridor wrapped in rusty iron sheets appeared in front of them.

"We have to get there quickly."

Zhou Si and Li Weiyu walked forward side by side. With every step they took, the sky corridor shook slightly, and the air was filled with the smell of rust and water vapor.

Not far from the two men, Zhou Si heard bursts of fierce gunfire and collisions, and could vaguely hear Song Qiliang's roar.

The scout incarnation was still fighting, and it had successfully delayed a large number of pursuers for the two men, but it was still unclear how well it was doing.

Xiang Ji's voice rang out from the channel, "Doctor Zhou, we are already in place, how are you doing?"

"We have escaped the pursuers for now," Zhou Si glanced at Li Weiyun beside him, "but Team Leader Li was shot in the left shoulder. The wound is very deep, and the bleeding has barely stopped."

"Okay, keep your heads up and rendezvous here."

Following Xiang Ji's words, Zhou Si looked towards the gap in the iron sheet above his head. A few seconds later, he saw a flare rising from the edge of the hidden alley.

In this gloomy and gray weather, the flare released a burning red light, like a meteor rising from the depths of the earth, all the way upwards, carrying its brilliant light, illuminating the wet earth with a blood-red color.

Just as Zhou Si was about to speed up his pace, a heavy crash came from the side, and then the fragile aerial corridor began to shake violently.

"Doctor Zhou..."

A hoarse and evil voice lingered in Zhou Si's ears. Zhou Si turned his head and saw a humanoid incarnation lying on the side of the aerial corridor. Its sharp claws pierced through the fragile iron sheet and hung firmly on it.

"Go away!"

Zhou Si stabbed out the narrow blade, trying to pierce the humanoid incarnation, but it dodged the stab with a flash, and crawled nimbly on the aerial corridor like a gecko.

More crashing sounds came from all directions. Through the gaps in the iron sheet, Zhou Si could see one human-shaped incarnation after another hanging behind the iron sheet, surrounding the place.

Sharp claws tore through the iron sheets and cut through the steel bars. Pale arms stretched out from both sides, like countless dancing anemones, with sharp and deadly edges.

In the blink of an eye, Zhou Si's body was scratched with several bloody marks. Immediately afterwards, waves of impact sounds were heard. The humanoid avatars shook the aerial corridor vigorously, causing it to sway violently.

Zhou Si realized that the situation was not good, but as he dragged Li Weiyu and strode forward, with a slight creaking sound, the shaky aerial corridor finally collapsed, broke, and disintegrated.

Fortunately, the skywalk was located three stories high and the narrow buildings on both sides successfully reduced its falling speed to a certain extent.

The two of them were like being trapped in a can, tumbling in the violent collision, and after a few seconds the roar of the crash spread.

Zhou Si opened his eyes with difficulty. Before he could feel the intense pain coming from all parts of his body, he forced himself to stand up. The disintegrated iron sheets were like sharp serrated blades, tearing shocking wounds on Zhou Si's body.

Blood flowed down Zhou Si's arm and was then washed away by the dripping rain.

Looking around, Zhou Si did not see Li Weiyun, but one humanoid incarnation after another had appeared, with their claws stretched out like hunting jackals.

Without any warning, a humanoid incarnation suddenly attacked Zhou Si, like a cheetah pouncing, leaping high from the side of the wall and turning into a black shadow that covered Zhou Si's body.

The narrow blade brought about a continuous flash of light, and before the humanoid incarnation landed on the ground, it was cut into several pieces by Zhou Si in mid-air. Even the driving battery inside it was pierced, exploding into a tiny fireball.

Several other humanoid avatars strode forward, and then several clear gunshots were heard, and the speeding bullets accurately smashed their heads into pieces.

The headless corpses staggered a few steps, fell down one after another, and lay quietly on the ground.

Zhou Si looked in the direction of the gunshot and saw Li Weiyu pushing away the iron sheet pressing on his body and sitting down against the wall exhausted.

"Captain Li, you look terrible now."

Zhou Si hurriedly checked Li Weiyu's physical condition. In addition to the gunshot wound on the collarbone, a twisted piece of iron had pierced deeply into his calf, and the entire calf was twisted at a certain angle. It seemed that the bone was broken when he fell.

"Can you still stand up?"

Zhou Si carried Li Weiyun's shoulders. He groaned and nodded reluctantly, "It's okay."

Li Weiyun stood on one foot and moved clumsily with the help of Zhou Si. Every movement brought piercing pain, but soon, the pain gradually subsided under the influence of biological enhancement. But this does not mean that Li Weiyun can be completely immune to pain, but the intensity of the pain has been alleviated to a certain extent.

"Their target is you, you can just run away by yourself, don't worry about me," Li Weiyun advised, "I am just a burden in my current state."

"Do you think I don't know?" Zhou Si said viciously, "But am I going to just leave you alone like this? Look at the injuries on your body. You are different from me. It won't be long before you go into shock from blood loss."

Artificial organs can precisely regulate Zhou Si's body functions, allowing him to maintain physiological movements for longer periods of time under extreme conditions, continuously increasing the threshold of his limit.

But Li Weiyu is different. The organs in his body are still made of fragile flesh and blood, like a balloon filled with water. If the leak is not blocked in time, he will only bleed to death.

Zhou Si looked around at the neon signs, then carried Li Weiyu towards another shadow. After turning a series of corners, he stopped in front of a closed iron gate.

"Hey! Is there anyone there?"

Zhou Si knocked on the door several times, but no one responded.

"Fuck, Ji Siling, I know you're home!"

After another round of cursing, the peephole on the iron gate was opened, revealing a pair of lifeless eyes. She first observed Zhou Si, then glanced at the dying Li Weiyu, and she decisively closed the peephole.

"Let's go, Dr. Zhou. I don't want to go against those psychopaths..."

Before Ji Siling finished her words, the sharp narrow blade pierced through the heavy iron door. Listening to the screams coming from behind the door, it seemed that if Zhou Si moved a little more to the side, the person behind the door would be pierced through.

Zhou Si was in a bad mood, and his words were full of anger. "I'm not here to bargain with you! Open the door quickly."

After hesitating for a moment, Ji Siling carefully opened the iron door. She said with a sad face, "Why bother?"

"Do not talk nonsense."

Zhou Si carried Li Weiyu into the room, while Ji Siling looked around vigilantly, and only closed the iron door after making sure that there was no one there.

As he stepped into the room, he was greeted by the smell of disinfectant mixed with the smell of motor oil. This familiar smell immediately reminded Li Weiyu of Zhou Si's clinic.

Li Weiyun said weakly, "Where is this place?"

His biological enhancement did not last long, and the pain and blood loss tortured him.

Zhou Si looked at Li Weiyu with pity. For someone like Li Weiyu who had not undergone mental training, maintaining sanity under extreme circumstances was an extremely difficult task.

"It's my friend's clinic. Don't worry, you'll be fine."

Zhou Si said as he carried Li Weiyun to the operating table. Then, he shouted to Ji Siling with a fierce look on his face, "Come here for surgery."

"Keep your voice down, keep your voice down."

Ji Siling trembled in fear, but no matter how much she resisted, she finally came over obediently, cut open Li Weiyu's clothes, and treated the wound.

Zhou Si took a long breath, endured the pain in his body, opened the medicine cabinet, picked out a few bottles of medicine, then tore open his clothes, picked up the gauze and sutures, and started operating on himself.

While patching up the wound, he said, "Let me introduce you. This is Li Weiyun, Team Leader Li from the Supervisory Bureau, and this is Ji Siling, Doctor Ji, the black-hearted doctor from Hidden Alley."

Ji Siling showed an awkward smile and said to Li Weiyu, "Hello, hello, Team Leader Li."

"you're good too."

Li Weiyun turned his head and talked to Zhou Si, keeping his self-awareness clear, "You really have a lot of friends, Doctor Zhou, is this also one of your connections?"

"more or less."

Zhou Si sewed up the wound expressionlessly and bandaged it with gauze expertly. "I met Doctor Ji when I was practicing medicine in Yinxiang a few years ago. At that time, she was being harassed by someone who was treating her."

He said fiercely, "I hate people who cause trouble in the hospital the most in my life."

"I really want to thank Dr. Zhou for his great help back then," Ji Siling said tremblingly, "It would have been better if Dr. Zhou hadn't brought trouble here today."

"Team Leader Li, don't be fooled by her harmless appearance. She is actually a bigger bastard than anyone else," Zhou Si was unexpectedly irritable today. "This girl likes to prescribe large doses of drugs to others. She makes a lot of money from this. The medical disputes in the past were caused by this kind of thing."

"That can't be helped, Doctor Zhou. As you know, the Hidden Alley is full of patients with Lishi disease."

Ji Siling changed her timid look and said firmly, "It is difficult to cure the disease. I can only prescribe large doses of drugs to delay the pain."

"not to mention……"

She glanced at Zhou Si's left arm, where the deadly blade was hidden. "I don't have the force like you to make the patients obey me."

Li Weiyu looked at Zhou Si, then at Doctor Ji who was operating on him. She did not look very old, about the same age as Zhou Si. She wore glasses, had a gloomy expression, heavy dark circles under her eyes, and looked listless.

"Bear with me."

As Ji Siling spoke, she picked up a pair of tweezers and slowly pulled out the piece of iron that had pierced Li Weiyu's body.

Li Weiyu's face was pale and covered with cold sweat. He had not suffered this degree of injury for a long time. As far as he could remember, the last time he was injured to this extent was several years ago.

While treating Li Weiyun's wound, Ji Siling asked, "So, Dr. Zhou, how did you get involved with these psychopaths?"

Zhou Si asked back vigilantly, "Do you know who they are?"

"I only know a rough idea," Ji Siling replied vaguely, "This place has changed a lot since you left the Hidden Alley."

It has been several years since Zhou Si started practicing medicine in Yinxiang. Later, as his cooperation with Li Weiyu deepened, his active area gradually shifted to the entire city of Anyan. Since then, Zhou Si rarely returned to this chaotic place.

"what happened?"

While Zhou Si was asking, he complained to himself in his heart, "Damn it, how could I forget you? You are the doctor here, and you know no less information than Madam Cui."

"There is another force that has penetrated deep into the hidden alleys. It is said to be a group of incarnated killers. I don't know what their purpose is, but many of the patients I have taken over believe in this mysterious group and say they want to join them."

Ji Siling picked up the saline solution and rinsed Li Weiyu's wound. She raised her head and said to Zhou Si.

"Join...Cloud City."

(End of this chapter)