To ensure Yan Huirou could rest well, the researchers came up with a plan and specially found a large private room for them. Although it was interconnected, it was separated into two areas, front and back.
But everyone soon discovered that this was completely unnecessary. At night, she would always squeeze into the same hospital bed as Yan Huirou, and advice was useless.
So she won’t run away now?
She was only well-behaved for three days.
When the repaired alarm system once again blared through the sky, a plum blossom dart, so fast it almost sparked in the wind, flew over.
The alarm sound abruptly stopped, turning into a series of faint, machine-like buzzing.
The lights in the corridor came on again. A group of researchers with dark circles under their eyes stood up, unable to help but curse—Not again!
Chen Cha’an had practically lived in the research department these past few days. She also stood up, bleary-eyed, took off her eye mask, and walked dazedly towards the medical department. “…Coming, coming, why did she run to Yan Huirou’s place again?”
As she said this to herself, she stopped in her tracks.
Hiss, that’s not right…
Isn’t Yan Huirou in the same room as her?
What on earth is that woman up to now?!
At that moment, a swift wind rushed past Chen Cha’an’s eyes.
Jiang Xidai was holding a terrified Yan Huirou in her arms, leaping lightly over a soil composition analysis instrument, her posture graceful and nimble.
Did they run into each other by chance?
Chen Cha’an watched, trembling. She was clearly wearing the inconvenient, multi-layered red gauze of ancient times, but it didn’t seem cumbersome at all. Every step was dangerous, yet perfectly balanced.
So amazing, and she’s even holding Yan Huirou horizontally. That’s a load of over a hundred jin…
If she went on a game show, she would definitely win a refrigerator, right?
Chen Cha’an’s thoughts strayed. She shuddered and quickly came back to her senses. “No, wait—where are you taking Yan Huirou?”
Her only response was a disdainful sneer from the woman, and Yan Huirou’s weak and faint voice, “Put me down… help…”
Yan Huirou was clutching her clothes in terror. Who knew that when she woke up, she wouldn’t be in a hospital bed, but escaping with Jiang Xidai.
“Sect Master? Why are you running out again?” Yan Huirou quickly tried to stop her. “Stop!!”
“Even if I have to break this wall today, I’m getting out,” Jiang Xidai said coldly. “This Seat can’t stand it anymore.”
“…What’s wrong?” Yan Huirou tried to lift her neck, pressing against her for comfort. “If there’s something you’re not used to, just tell me.”
“The people here,” Jiang Xidai’s beautiful brows furrowed tightly, “are utterly lewd.”
Yan Huirou was bewildered. “Weren’t you just going for a physical examination today?”
“Examination?”
Jiang Xidai: “The beginning was fine, they just looked me over here and there, as if they were measuring something. Later, a young girl about your age came…”
As Jiang Xidai said this, she seemed to find it a bit hard to speak. “How dare she? Make me do that kind of thing? Yan Huirou, if you hadn’t repeatedly told me I absolutely could not kill anyone, and to cooperate as much as possible, I would have long since—”
Yan Huirou asked seriously, “Was a medical staff member taking advantage of the situation to harass you? You can file a complaint.”
“Mmm.”
“…So, what exactly did she say?”
Yan Huirou felt something was not quite right. After all, she had seen the few medical staff who had taken Jiang Xidai away today. They were very gentle and didn’t seem to be that kind of people at all.
“That girl first made me change into an ugly set of clothes and go to some small rooms to be ‘photographed’. That was fine. For your sake, this Seat endured it.”
“But after… she said she wanted to check my heartbeat or something.”
“She made me undo my collar and outer robe, and lie down flat…” Jiang Xidai said. “This Seat asked her, since she wanted to know my heartbeat, why couldn’t she just check my pulse? She refused, saying she didn’t know how. What a clumsy excuse. What kind of doctor doesn’t know how to check a pulse?”
“…”
“Later,” Jiang Xidai said coldly, “I saw she was a little girl, and was on the verge of crying after just a few stern words. I thought, it’s not too outrageous between women, so I patiently did as she said.”
“Who knew this person would reveal her true nature at that moment.”
“Yan Yan…”
As she spoke, the woman’s eyes misted over, as if she were angry. “In a moment of carelessness, she actually lifted my clothes, and smeared some slippery thing on… my… and even used a clamp…”
Perhaps she found it too indescribable. Jiang Xidai didn’t continue, only asking, “What is a ‘complaint’? Where do I file it? You said killing is illegal, so can filing one make her ‘legally’ die?”
“No,” Yan Huirou sighed and comforted her. “Don’t file a complaint. That wasn’t molestation, it was just a step in the examination… really, Sect Master… don’t be angry, it’s very normal. I had it done during my onboarding physical, and many people have had it done…”
Yan Huirou tried to explain, but Jiang Xidai was still quite resentful. She listened to Yan Huirou speak as she broke through various door locks along the way.
She frowned and said, “Even if it’s normal, that’s still not acceptable. I don’t care who that little girl examines, just don’t touch me. I find her disgusting.”
“I’m so tired, I want to sleep,” Yan Huirou half-closed her eyes. “Sect Master, take me back. I can’t digest food right now, I can only rely on the IV… you can’t run away with me.”
Jiang Xidai’s steps paused. She couldn’t help but rub Yan Huirou’s throat in puzzlement. “Why can’t you always eat? Could it be that that group of people is lying to you to control you?”
“No, I’ve already talked to you about this,” Yan Huirou gave her a faint smile. “The research center is quite good to me, mostly friends.”
“You’re still so quick to trust others,” Jiang Xidai said with displeasure.
“Do you trust me?”
“Barely,” Jiang Xidai replied faintly. Because she was still angry.
“Then… the Sect Master should also trust my judgment,” Yan Huirou coaxed. “Right?”
“Still talking smart?” Jiang Xidai: “I’ll deal with you after you’re well.”
She was about to step forward, but a warmth suddenly pressed against her cheek.
Yan Huirou hooked her neck and kissed Jiang Xidai’s side profile. She actually wanted to kiss her eyelashes, but she was too tired. As she fell asleep, she murmured, “Go back, be good. I’m really tired, I’ll sleep for a bit, and when I wake up, I’ll get you some honey pancakes from nearby.”
“…”
This escape plan ended rather dramatically with a kiss and a honey pancake. Although Jiang Xidai didn’t know what that was, Yan Huirou’s desserts were always delicious.
She hadn’t had any in five years. It wouldn’t hurt to stay and have a taste.
But the staff of the research department had had a terrible time, almost fully armed with robots to seal all of Jiang Xidai’s possible exits.
Just as they were discussing their tactics—
Someone ran over, panting. “It’s fine, the test subject has gone back, she’s resting.”
“…”
If not for the high overtime pay, they really wanted to blast that person to pieces, so unpredictable and temperamental.
There was nothing they could do. This was a research project approved by their superiors, with high priority and high potential value. Even if they had to coax and deceive, they had to raise this one and only character test subject well.
Promotion and salary raise were at stake!
After this incident, and after checking the surveillance and learning the reason for the test subject’s abandoned escape, a Western-style dessert chef robot was even specially added to the door of the private room.
Now, Yan Huirou didn’t even have to place an order. Jiang Xidai could have a different dessert every day.
She admitted that this made her impression of this wretched place a little better.
But not by much.
Although now, after some persuasion, she gradually understood Yan Huirou’s IV, and the strange forms of examination…
This didn’t mean she would allow this group of people to stick a needle in her.
So, when the little girl in the white uniform came to her with a needle—
The little girl almost flew out again.
“…”
Yan Huirou half-leaned against the hospital bed. “Actually, it’s just a matter of drawing a tube of blood. If you close your eyes, it won’t hurt much… the Sect Master just arrived, and although she looks fine, it’s a good time to check her health.”
The researchers who had fallen into a pile of miscellaneous objects sighed. “Yes, just a tube of blood.”
Chen Cha’an, who was hiding under a table, narrowly avoiding this attack, smiled placatingly. “Cooperate a little, Sect Master. I’ll kneel down for you.”
Jiang Xidai said coldly, “No. It’s one thing to pour it in, but now you want to draw it out…”
This time, even Yan Huirou’s presence was of no use. The woman resolutely refused this kind of “torture.” First, she didn’t like pain. Second, to her, drawing blood with a tube was a bit too strange.
In this situation, it was impossible to get it without knocking her out. But that drug couldn’t be used too many times, and Jiang Xidai was becoming more and more alert, so there was no opportunity to use it.
What to do?
The research department’s experiment was at a standstill, stuck at this one point, and had not progressed for a long time.
The only gratifying thing was that Yan Huirou was getting better, and Jiang Xidai was not withering away like the plants and flowers from before.
She was in very good spirits. Although she was a bit of a picky eater, she seemed to be more stable than an ordinary person—she refused all the exquisite three meals “offered” to her and only ate sweet desserts. An ordinary person couldn’t do this.
Perhaps the overly sweet diet made the woman’s curiosity have nowhere to go. Every day, after Yan Huirou fell asleep, she would spend a lot of time “walking” the researchers.
The researchers were almost exhausted. They never knew when the next “escape” would be.
But the rather malicious woman, after being caught, would always raise a beautiful smile and sneer, “Finally here? An improvement from last time.”
Or if she really wasn’t caught, she might take a few unopened cups of milk tea from the staff, take a tour of the research center, and then go back and order the chef robot to make desserts out of boredom.
Slowly, everyone was not so keen on catching her anymore.
Jiang Xidai also realized one thing during her daily strolls—a very important thing to her.
She had thought she was very weak after losing her cultivation, but the reality seemed not to be so.
The people here were clumsy and weak, and could only rely on those buzzing instruments to protect themselves. There wasn’t a single one who could fight her one-on-one.
The only thing Jiang Xidai needed to be careful of, she understood, was something called a gun. With that thing, even without cultivation, they could shoot out powerful hidden weapons.
It seemed much more useful than an ordinary one.
Jiang Xidai thought to herself, she might need one.
