After drawing cards, the evil god became my source of吐槽 (tu cao, a form of humorous commentary/criti

Chapter 44 Bloodstained Hospital (23)

Dr. Du's Adam's apple bobbed slightly.

A muffled sound seeped from the corner of his mouth, intermittent and almost breathy:

“…Ruan…Ruan…”

An Jing's brow twitched.

She leaned down, turned her ear close to him, and lowered her voice.

"What did you say?"

"Ruan... Ruan..." The voice was very weak, like gas being exhaled from the lungs of a dying person, yet it stubbornly repeated, "...Ruan Ruan..."

An Jing immediately turned his head and looked at the "Soul Controller" who was still standing in the distance.

"The other person is in a daze at this moment, seemingly thinking that they have finished cosplaying."

Seeing this, An Jing gave it a sharp look.

Your "father" is about to die, and you're still standing there like an idiot!

How can you be so unprofessional? Don't you know you have to see the whole acting process through?

"Ruan Ruan" received the signal, blinked, and ran over in small steps.

"Hurry up!" An Jing rolled her eyes at her, giving her a warning look.

Ruan Ruan's body trembled, as if she had finally read the script, and she suddenly knelt on the ground, her voice breaking down in an instant.

"Daddy! Waaaaaah, Daddy, what's wrong?! I'm here! Don't scare me, waaaaah!!"

His voice was mournful and filled with intense emotion, so powerful it seemed to reach the top of his head, startling the doctor so much that he almost pulled the scalpel out again.

An Jing: "..." Okay, fine, you don't have to get this into character.

If any family needs a mourner for a funeral, she could consider renting out the soul controller; the income should be quite good.

An Jing immediately came to her senses.

What is she doing? Is she really going to become a capitalist?

Dr. Du's eyelashes trembled slightly.

His eyes slowly opened, the cloudy whites of his eyes like glass, and he struggled to turn them, finally seeing that tear-streaked face.

It's still so familiar, unchanged.

The corners of his mouth slowly turned up slightly.

Laughed.

“…Ruan Ruan…” His voice was as soft as a dream.

He struggled to raise his hand, his arm trembling violently like a tree branch about to break, yet he still managed to stretch it upwards little by little.

"Dad... I saw you again."

"Ruan Ruan" paused, watching his hand gently touch her.
She moved closer to him, like a real daughter, and gently rested her head on his shoulder.

“Even though you’re not real…” Dr. Du said almost hoarsely, stroking her head with his hand. “But… Daddy is still… very happy…”

His voice grew softer and softer, like that of an old man who, before dying, finally saw the illusion he had created.

"Dad finally... sees you healthy again..."

"So beautiful and well-behaved."

Ruan Ruan's body stiffened slightly.

She didn't know what emotion this was, and looking at the other person's expression, she suddenly didn't know how to react.

But she knew that at this moment, she had to play the role of this girl well.

She nestled quietly in that human's chest, neither crying nor speaking again.

Dr. Du suddenly looked up at An Jing.

His eyes were clear, yet like the last embers of a fire before it was completely burned out.

"Thank you……"

"Without you, I might have made even bigger mistakes."

"It was I who forced her to stay... to let her live..."

"But she seemed to be in a lot of pain..."

"Thank you for giving me the chance... to coax me after I made a mistake..."

An Jing didn't speak, but just pursed her lips tightly.

Not knowing how to answer him, An Jing turned her head away.

She genuinely wanted to comfort him.

Because Dr. Du truly loved her daughter. But when that comfort actually became the other person's final refuge, she suddenly didn't know if she had done the right thing.

"I'm sorry," she whispered. "I couldn't save the real Ruan Ruan, and I even contributed to her death."

"……It doesn't matter."

"That's enough."

Dr. Du closed his eyes, and his voice became barely audible.

It never opened its eyes again.

He died in Ruan Ruan's arms.

"Ruan Ruan" did not move.

After a long, long time, An Jing finally reached out and gently patted the little head that was hanging down.

"What are you standing there for?" she asked in a hoarse voice. "He's gone. It's time to see him off."

"Ruan Ruan" seemed to have just woken up and nodded gently.

The next moment, her body transformed into a soft light and shadow, returning to the shape of a card, and quietly landed in An Jing's palm.

The card surface shimmered with a faint light, yet its contamination level was 0.

An Jing lowered his eyes and stared at it for a while.

No words were spoken.

The disaster is over.

The magnetic field is gradually stabilizing, and the abnormal fluctuations are rapidly converging.

005 stood still, retrieved the mysterious sealing device, and simultaneously packaged and transmitted the data back to the external central hub.

After doing all this, he turned on the intercom channel and said in a low voice:
"Report 002: The target, Weimi, has been sealed. The crisis has been resolved. The mission target, An Jing, is safe and sound. Mission complete."

005 didn't even notice that he had changed his way of addressing An Jing from Chu Yuan to her name.

He paused, glanced at An Jing, and then added:
"The crisis has been completely resolved."

……

On the other side, at the other end of the communication channel.

He Lin stood outside the magnetic field, looking utterly dejected. She covered her head, unwilling to face reality.

Everyone around looked gloomy.

The first two groups of people who went in have not returned.

While they could still enter the mysterious magnetic field, it couldn't find them. They had also lost contact after encountering the A-rank mysterious entity; clearly, they were...

They assumed they were doing a "mission worth dying for," delaying, sacrificing, and buying time for those behind them to completely block the magnetic field and prevent it from spreading.

He Lin didn't know what to do; she had lost her teammate with whom she had spent every day.

The Mysterious Ones have grown too fast; now there are even A-level Mysterious Ones, and they are completely powerless to resist them.

And An Jing, whom 001 and the others were protecting to the death, is also likely to meet with misfortune.

A feeling of helplessness spread throughout her body, and He Lin really didn't know what to do.

But now, that familiar voice suddenly came through the channel:
[The crisis is resolved. 】

He Lin's mind went blank.

She thought it was an illusion.

The next second, the sound became even clearer:
[The target has been successfully sealed away; the infected have died. Requesting additional manpower to evacuate An Jing and eliminate the remaining low-level monsters.]

She suddenly looked up, her eyes widened, and she took a step forward as if she had been dragged out of a dream.

"……What did you say?!"

Her voice was shrill, almost a shout:
She would never normally lose her composure like this, but this news really stunned her.

It's no different from a pie falling from the sky.

"005, say that again!!!"

The team members behind her suddenly turned around, and everyone was stunned.

Meanwhile, 005's tone was exceptionally calm:
"I said, the crisis is over,"

"An Jing... survived."

002 pinched himself hard and shouted, "Am I dreaming?"

A cheer immediately erupted from the temporary command post.

(End of this chapter)