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Chapter 36 Bloodstained Hospital (15)

“I just… want you to walk out of this door healthy and strong, Ruan Ruan… I just want to see you running to school with your backpack, to make up for my guilt for not being able to give you a healthy body.”

He cried.

The suppressed sobs were like the last piece of support in her body had collapsed.

He reached out to hug his daughter, but his hands froze in mid-air, unable to actually touch her.

“Ruan Ruan… what did Daddy do wrong? Didn’t you want to live? Didn’t you say you wanted to travel and see the sea? Daddy just… just… wanted to fulfill your wish…”

An Jing stood to the side, slowly lowered her head, and said nothing.

She can understand.

They can also empathize.

But she couldn't forgive.

Ruan Ruan moved slightly as she listened to Dr. Du's words.

It took her a lot of effort to raise her hand and touch his cuff.

"Dad..." her voice was so soft it seemed to break, "Don't... continue."

Dr. Du froze, looked up, his eyes bloodshot: "What did you say?"

Ruan Ruan's lips were pale, and her voice trembled, yet grew clearer with each utterance:
"I...don't want...to live like this."

"I don't want to... become... a monster that others are afraid of."

Tears welled in her eyes as she struggled to continue speaking:
"I know you... have your eye on this older sister... you want me to take her... to use her to stabilize me..."

The air felt like it had been smashed.

Dr. Du's face turned deathly pale, and he couldn't utter a single word.

His lips parted, but no sound came out.

Ruan Ruan continued, her voice growing softer and softer: "She helped us... She didn't do anything wrong... Dad, you are a very kind person."

"Dad, I don't want you to do this for me."

"If I have to survive by eating other people... I don't want to."

Dr. Du collapsed, covering her ears: "You don't know! You don't know anything!"

“Every day I watch you writhe in pain, helplessly watching you suffer from your illness, and I can’t do anything about it! Do you know how many times I’ve wanted to throw you out the window and let you die sooner, but I can’t do it!”

"I asked so many people and searched so many places, and this was the only way in the end!"

"Do you know how long it took me to take this step? Even if it meant sacrificing others... I..."

"Don't you regret it?" An Jing suddenly asked.

Dr. Du froze for a moment.

An Jing neither blamed nor mocked her; she simply asked a question:
"Even if she were to actually eat me up, would she feel at ease?"

Dr. Du stared at her blankly, then collapsed to the ground in despair.

An Jing didn't look at him again. She just squatted down and gently wiped away Ruan Ruan's tears: "You did a good job."

"You haven't become mysterious."

Ruan Ruan's breathing became shallower and shallower, and her eyes began to glaze over.

But she still used her last bit of strength to whisper to An Jing:

"Thank you."

“I’m sorry… I… said ‘I don’t want to become a mystery’… You heard me, didn’t you…”

An Jing paused for a moment, then nodded: "I heard you."

While she was holding Ruan Ruan, Dr. Du was adjusting the equipment.

She whispered, "I don't want to become mysterious."

An Jing sensed that something was wrong.

She didn't initially agree to help Dr. Du out of genuine kindness.

In fact, she is a very selfish person. Given that she herself is in a high risk of getting into trouble, she would never help anyone else.

But when she turned to leave, she found that the way back had disappeared.

Worried that Dr. Du might be mysterious and would go berserk because of her refusal, and knowing she couldn't escape immediately, An Jing simply complied and pretended to agree to his request. Upon seeing Ruan Ruan, she questioned her own judgment; could this father and daughter really just be ordinary people?

However, after hearing Ruan Ruan say that she didn't want to become mysterious, she became certain that something was amiss.

"Back then... I knew... you could help me."

"Thank you...sister."

The words fell.

Ruan Ruan's body jolted violently and began to convulse.

It was more intense than ever before, as if some kind of power from within was surging out of control, trying to break free, but she held it down tightly.

Dr. Du rushed over in fright: "No! No, no, no!! Ruan Ruan, hold on! Don't fall asleep, you can't die, Dad only has you, Dad only has you, Ruan Ruan, how am I going to explain this to your mother!"

He could barely speak, and in his panic, he tried to start the instrument, but it was too complicated and there wasn't enough time.

003 stood to the side, without moving an inch.

He hasn't recovered from the fact that "this child would rather die than become a mystery."

Many people are in a mysterious magnetic field, and even those with slightly weaker minds will be corrupted and assimilated, let alone change.

A teenage girl.

Yet they can be so decisive.

She chose to die, simply to preserve some proof that "she was still human."

003 wanted to speak, but found that her voice was terribly hoarse.

He suddenly understood why An Jing had always wanted to stay with two people.

It's not because of an overflowing sense of kindness and compassion.

It's because she already knew there was something going on between the two of them.

If we don't keep an eye on them now, it might take much more effort to resolve this mysterious magnetic field once they hide.

An Jing's gaze was fixed on Ruan Ruan.

The girl's pupils were completely dilated, like a pool of murky, empty water, which swayed slightly and completely lost focus.

Her breathing stopped.

Even the slightest rise and fall of the chest has disappeared.

"...Ruan Ruan...?"

Dr. Du's voice was unable to produce complete syllables, as if a piece of ice was stuck in his throat. He gently touched the girl's shoulder, but his fingers twitched violently as if he had been electrocuted.

Icy.

It was completely cold.

He froze, his fingertips trembling slightly, and then his whole body began to sway gently, like an old pillar with cracks, about to collapse at any moment.

"She...she..." He seemed unable to believe it, his hand trembling as he approached the girl's lips, trying to feel the faint breath that had vanished. "...No...it can't be..."

But reason has begun to crumble.

"Ruan Ruan," he murmured.

Repeated once more.

“Ruan Ruan…”

The next second, he knelt down on the ground.

His knees slammed heavily onto the metal floor with a dull thud. He felt as if all his bones had been removed, and he curled up into a trembling bow, clutching Ruan Ruan's body.

“So close…really…so close…she could have survived…” His lips trembled with anger and grief. “It’s not that I didn’t want her to be a normal person…I just…I just…”

He couldn't continue, as if his lungs had shrunk into a ball.

An Jing stood to the side, her brows furrowed in alarm.

Dr. Du's condition is not right.

She sensed that his emotions were rapidly spiraling out of control. This was not just ordinary grief; the emotions were swelling too fast and too turbulent, as if pushed by some external force.

(End of this chapter)