"Brother, you don't seem to be doing well right now."

Someone whispered in the darkness, the sound bouncing off the wall like an echo from a nightmare.

Lu Mingfei, who was lying on the bed, suddenly opened his eyes. Instead of turning on the light, he lifted the blanket and covered the source of the sound.

All the lights came back on, and it was still that unsettlingly white ward. Lu Mingfei was the only one in the room, so quiet that only his own heartbeat could be heard.

The blanket swayed in the air and landed on a chair, but there wasn't a soul in that spot. Everything he had just heard seemed like a dream.

Lu Mingfei got out of bed, walked to the chair, lifted the blanket, and stared blankly at the brightly lit streets outside the window.

He suddenly turned around, and the blanket in his hand unfolded like a fishing net due to inertia.

Lu Mingfei loosened the blanket, picked up the chair next to him, and swung it around, smashing it forward.

"Brother, I came to see you with great joy, even putting on a face mask and wearing formal clothes. I even brought you flowers and fruit. Isn't it a bit impolite of you to try and smash my head with a chair?"

Lu Mingfei's chair failed to land, and suddenly a person appeared in front of him... To be precise, it was a boy, about thirteen or fourteen years old, wearing a pure black suit, his youthful face glowing, and it was clear that he had just applied a face mask, as the light reflected off it made it slippery.

At this moment, he was holding onto one leg of the chair with one hand, and with the other hand, he drew a perfect circle in the air, and the blanket lay neatly in his arms with skillful effort.

"But I'm still happy to see you so energetic... Hey, hey, hey! Put down what you're holding!"

The boy chuckled, but his expression quickly changed as Lu Mingfei released the chair, took a step back, lifted the IV stand next to the bed, and thrust it at him without a word, aiming for his genitals.

"Damn it! What kind of older brother uses such a dirty trick on his younger brother? Are you trying to make me childless?!"

The boy grumbled under his breath, but his hands didn't stop moving. He quickly arranged the blankets and chairs in a way that Lu Mingfei couldn't understand, and then slowly straightened up and grasped the support that Lu Mingfei had thrust at him.

Lu Mingfei tried to pull the support back, but the boy was incredibly strong; he felt like he was in a tug-of-war with a semi-trailer.

"It seems that doctor really wasn't a quack. I didn't believe him at first when he said you had mental and psychological problems, but now it looks like you're developing a mental illness!"

The boy kept talking, but Lu Mingfei's strength, transmitted through the support frame to him, couldn't budge him an inch. He casually gripped the support frame, forcing Lu Mingfei to retreat step by step.

He raised his head, his pupils shimmering with a molten gold-like color, as if they were a furnace burning with gold.

In an instant, all of Lu Mingfei's will was swept into the furnace, the scalding magma enveloping him, and golden light filled his vision.

The magma seeped into his flesh and blood vessels through his pores, and with each heartbeat, it was transmitted to his limbs. All his strength was gradually disappearing, and he could only watch helplessly as he was sunk to the bottom of the magma.

The boy whistled loudly and skipped happily to Lu Mingfei's side, wanting to take the brace off his hand so that he could sit down and have a proper talk with him.

"Got you?"

Suddenly, a hand grabbed the boy's wrist.

The boy was startled. He looked up and saw a pair of eyes, flowing with flames, looking down at him from above. The next moment, flames actually flowed out of the eyes.

Lu Mingfei abruptly pulled the support back, and the support spun in the air before crashing down on the boy. This time, the boy had no way to avoid it, as Lu Mingfei was holding on tightly to him.

"Okay, okay, brother, let's sit down and have a proper talk. Let's not get physical anymore."

The boy, seemingly oblivious to the gleaming silver metal rod above his head, instinctively hugged Lu Mingfei, patting his back as if comforting a child.

"Although I don't know why you've become like this, we're brothers. Even if you're crazy, you're still my brother. I'll take care of you even if I have to beg outside."

A torrential downpour began outside the window, accompanied by lightning and thunder. The silvery light streaming through the glass cast the shadows of two figures embracing.

The sturdy stand in Lu Mingfei's hand was replaced with a blood-red tie. The boy stood on tiptoe and his head went through the middle of the tie, making it look as if Lu Mingfei had made such a big fuss just to help the boy tie the tie.

"I don't remember having a younger brother like you."

Lu Mingfei finally realized that the boy in front of him was not an ordinary person. His sudden outburst was neutralized by the boy. Perhaps even if he pulled out a knife now, he would not be able to hurt this ghost-like guy.

He released the boy's hand, and the boy released the hug as well, watching Lu Mingfei step back and press his whole body against the glass.

"Brother, you really have a bad memory... But I am indeed your younger brother, Lu Mingze. We are the closest people in the world."

Lu Mingze spread his arms and twirled in front of Lu Mingfei, like a little girl who couldn't wait to show off her pretty dress to her closest person:

"Brother, have you remembered anything?"

He tilted his head and looked at Lu Mingfei, his clear eyes full of expectation.

"If I remember correctly, my cousin Lu Mingze is a burly man who is 160 cm tall and weighs 160 kg. And given our relationship, he probably wouldn't come to the hospital to see me in the middle of the night."

Lu Mingfei was not deceived by Lu Mingze's harmless appearance. His gaze swept past the boy and looked at the door behind him.

He just made a lot of noise. This ward is very close to the nurses' station, so the nurses should be able to hear it if they're not deaf.

What puzzled him was that the corridor was eerily quiet until now, with no sound to be heard, as if he and Lu Mingze were the only two living people in the world at that moment.

"Him? He's just a guy who lives in this world using my name. Could it be that you like him more than me, brother?"

Lu Mingze's face darkened. Suddenly, he rolled up his sleeves, pulled out a brand-new shovel from behind his back, and said viciously:

"Then I'll go bury him now!"

Lu Mingfei didn't speak, but just watched Lu Mingze's performance in silence.

After waving the shovel around for a while and seeing that Lu Mingfei didn't react, Lu Mingze got bored, threw the shovel on the ground, and jumped onto Lu Mingfei's hospital bed to sit down.

"Okay, okay, I'm scared of you. If you have anything to ask, just ask it now. You're acting like you're guarding against everything. I rushed over here as soon as I heard you were in the hospital."

"But you just said that you put on a face mask and changed your clothes before you came. You don't look like you've been rushing around at all."

Lu Mingfei said.

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