[Net King + Black Basket] Seijuro, your mother calls you to go home for dinner!

Half awake and half dreaming, Xunli felt her body sinking slowly, as if she was sinking deep into the fine sand of the beach. The rough sea waves washed over her, the cold touch made her nerves throb, and her normal breathing was hindered. The ups and downs are very laborious.

Dreams, both real and fake, confuse reality, and she no longer remembers the days before she lay on the beach, but realizes she's trapped in some abandoned corner of the world.

The screech of the vulture pierced the sky and spread its wings soaring into the sky, but she could hear it so clearly from such a distance.

Billowing clouds hungrily swallowed the clear blue sky and replaced it with hazy gray.

She tried to move her hands, but her body didn't listen to her commands at all.

"...Is it a dream? Or reality?"

"Why are you lying here? Am I not at Akashi's house?"

"I'm suffering from asthma again, did Katase buy a spray?"

Xun Li's consciousness is slowly waking up, and the eyeballs under the eyelids are turning violently.

She was sure that this was a dream, but the hateful thing was that she couldn't get rid of the spiritual world she had woven.

Time passed slowly in the dream, and she lay on the beach for a long time.

But the leaden sky overhead remained the same.

"Xiaozheng is about to leave school, no, I have to wake up quickly—!"

Xun Li forcefully forced himself to separate his consciousness from the dream, turning his brain desperately to absorb all the short-term lost memories.

……

"!"

Xun Li trembled violently, although the feeling of falling from a high altitude to the bottom of the valley was an illusion created by her brain, she immediately regained consciousness.

The first thing that catches the eye is the white ceiling, the first thing that smells the pungent smell of disinfectant, and the first thing that is heard is the beeping heart rate monitor.

She found herself in a hospital with an IV tube in her hand and an oxygen ventilator in her mouth.

Xun Li's consciousness is fully awake, his eyelids are drooping, and his eyes are dull and lax.She wanted to get up but it was in vain, her limp body lay powerlessly on the white bed.

"It's just asthma, why did I get sent to the hospital? I fainted?"

The accident happened too fast, her mind was in a mess, and she could only rack her brains to come up with a reasonable explanation.

Only fainting could explain it, but the fuss and fuss of transferring her to the intensive care unit was too exaggerated.

Xun Li turned her head with difficulty, and she saw a large group of people outside the ward through the glass window.There was a doctor in a white coat, Noriko who rushed to hear the news, Katase who took her to the hospital, and...

The person she most wanted to see right now was Seijuro.

Her pupils narrowed sharply, wishing she could jump up from the bed and wave vigorously to them to prove that she was fine.

But she couldn't exert any strength.She cursed silently that the sound insulation in the ward was so good that she couldn't hear what people outside were discussing.

at the same time--

"The patient has symptoms of arrhythmia and dyspnea. This is a negative reaction induced by the recurrence of asthma. I am afraid that he has received some stimulus." The doctor frowned and said in a heavy tone. "It seems that we still need to be hospitalized for observation."

Seijuro clenched his fists tightly. For the first time, he felt that his knowledge was too lacking. He didn't even understand the terms the doctor said.

"I saw it!" Katase, who was especially protective of the young lady, gritted her teeth, "Yes, it was Mr. Matsubara who kept putting pressure on the young lady. She was also angry at the time, and her asthma relapsed, so..."

"Maybe it's related to this." The doctor's face was a little strange, "In short, please go back first, the patient is out of danger now."

"Can I go in?" Seijuro summoned up his courage, raised his head and asked, "I just want to be with her."

"The patient needs rest."

The doctor turned him down coldly.

Seijuro refused to let go, but was finally persuaded by Nianzi to leave.He didn't even have time to take a look at Xunli——

Assuming that he could turn his head one last time in a trance, he would find that Xun Li was staring at him with wide-eyed eyes.

Her mouth opened and closed, calling Seijuro's name, but what came out was only a cloud of white mist instead of a sound.

He was her last straw.

"Xiao Zheng—turn around! I'm already awake!"

"Seijuro!"

She felt that Seijuro was drifting away from her.

Familiar people left the corridor of the intensive care unit one by one, and only the doctor was left at the end. He glanced at her inexplicably, and he was only slightly stunned when he saw that she was awake, but he did not enter the room to check her condition. Go out in a hurry.

She seemed to be the only patient in the quiet whole floor.

With a click, the world she lived in fell into darkness, as if a black hole suddenly swallowed everything.

Xun Li shouted and screamed in his heart, the fear that had been under strong pressure once again hit his whole body, swarming wantonly in his body.

Every cell is clamoring to leave, to escape from this room where only black and white remain.

The memory went back to the distant past, she wanted to escape from Akashi's mansion countless times, but now the situation is just the opposite.She wanted to escape back to this place that could be called "home" from the unknown world outside that could not give her a sense of security.

Xun Li took a deep breath, afraid that the consciousness that finally woke up would gradually sink in the darkness.She slowly raised her still movable right hand, moved to the left, and mercilessly pulled out the needle attached to the drip on the back of her hand.

Next came the ventilator.She tore off the damn transparent cover without hesitation, and finally exhaled a long breath easily.

She swears that her asthma has improved, though she's not sure Katase will ever buy back the spray.As for the coma, she couldn't remember it at all.

As his eyes adapted to the darkness, Xun Li could gradually see the outlines of things.She got off the bed lightly, moved her sore and stiff muscles, and finally got rid of the soft and weak feeling.

She groped around the room, but couldn't find any belongings.

Absurd thoughts crowded into her head, making her feel that the whole thing happened very strangely, as if it was another conspiracy to frame herself.

There is a kind of indescribable weirdness.

Xun Li twisted the doorknob, facing the dark and endless corridor, she took a step cautiously, looked around for a while, as if she was in the center of the black vortex, even if she turned her head, she had no way out.

The humming hits the eardrums, the pounding of the heartbeat.There was a "thud" in her heart, she was almost dominated by fear for a moment, and wanted to retract her feet and lie on the bed again.

"Maybe they'll come to see me again tomorrow."

"I can go home when I recover."

……

She insisted on thinking positively about herself, but her effective sixth sense always warned her that things were not that simple.

"Forget it, let's escape first."

She wrapped herself tightly in the thin hospital gown, and walked to the stairs in the dark. Fortunately, the lights on the stairs were dimmed, and she ran to the bottom floor with her head buried in one breath.In order to avoid doctors and nurses, I had to go outside from the exit of Ground (underground parking room).

Xunli stood at the crossroads, her unique hospital gown attracted the attention of many passers-by.

The hospital was embraced by brightly lit high-rise buildings at night. It took Xunli a while to recognize the surrounding environment. This was actually a private hospital in the city center.

She was penniless, let alone took a taxi home, and she didn't know what kind of frightened and surprised expression Seijuro would show when he saw her return home safely.

My keen intuition tells me that the current environment is not [-]% safe.

Akashi Nanami, Kanai Yukie, and even Matsubara Shikai, who lost all, are not easy to offend.

She needs to find a secluded place that no one can find to rest for a while, think calmly, and wait for the opportunity to make a comeback... This must be a long process, and it is just a foolish delusion as far as it is concerned.

She sighed melancholy, she was most sorry for Seijuro and Masashi.

Due to her limited mobility, Xunli stumbled across the crossroads and borrowed some change from a kind-faced middle-aged man. He also asked if he wanted to take her to the hospital or contact her family, but she kindly refused.

The first string of emergency phone numbers that came to her mind was from Mai.

After connecting, Xun Li didn't describe his situation in detail, but only asked her to pick him up quickly, she was ready.

"Are you... sure you want to do this?"

"Ah."

"Aren't you afraid that they will hate you?" The person who suggested it first started to hesitate.

"Ah."

"Have you ever thought about the worst outcome? If you leave, it means that Jinjing's biggest obstacle has disappeared. Can you tolerate..."

"I believe in Masashi." Xun Li was stunned for a moment, and decisively forced himself to make a choice. "Continuing like this is not an option, Akashi Nanami will make another move sooner or later."

"I have arranged everything for you in the United States, as long as you want, you can do it anytime...but I hope you won't regret it."

"Big husband~" Xun Li's tone was pretending to be relaxed, even though she had no idea in her heart, "I'm fed up with the smoky and messy life, the fate of being bound and unable to move. If I didn't have someone I wanted to protect, I would I will definitely do whatever it takes to get out!"

Well, just treat it as an instant trip.

Ever since Akashi Nanami made the threat that night, she had always had an idea, and gradually this bold idea took shape in her mind. If it wasn't an emergency, she would never want to leave at this moment.

If she doesn't leave, it will be a difficult and long battle waiting for her.She doesn't have the ability to win now.

Akashi Nanami's shining eyes flashed across her mind in vain, bringing a frenzied fear that made her hair stand on end.

"and also……"

"Ok?"

"Haven't you ever thought about it? If you encounter allergens one after another, you won't be so unlucky, right?" Mai asked tentatively.

"..." Xun Li immediately understood the meaning of her words, "It makes sense, as for who it is, I almost know who it is."

If her bold guess is in line with the truth, some close relatives learned of her allergies and intentionally added buckwheat to food many times to cause asthma.The recurrence of the old illness was just a cover, and she was not serious enough to need to go to the intensive care unit.

As for the drip, when she looked around the room in a waking state, she inevitably noticed the small label on the drip bottle——

Chlorzoxazone.

Unfortunately, Xun Li, a pseudo-returnee who grew up in North America, is not good at science, only chemistry is the best.The literal translation of the proper noun means: Chloroxazone, a muscle sluggish agent.

Recalling the naked eyes the doctor shot at her sent chills down her spine.

—Forebodings never go wrong.This is a carefully directed conspiracy.

"Anyway, come here quickly. I feel like I'm going to faint...Of course I'll be frozen into ice before that." Xun Li touched his sweaty forehead, and it turned out to be cold sweat.

"Wow, it's really courageous for you to be able to support this far." The person on the other end of the phone was still in a mood to tease.

"This is called an adrenaline rush...Let's not talk about it, the public phone is almost out of battery." Xun ideally thought about it, and added before the other party hung up, "Remember to bring anti-asthma spray."

Hang up the payphone.Xunli leaned on the glass door with her arms around her shoulders in thought, the corners of her mouth turned up slightly unconsciously, revealing a sneer without warmth.

Besides bread, probably the last meal she had before was soba noodles.

In order not to get his hands dirty and remove the chess pieces, Akashi Nanami put eyeliner around Xun Li early on.

Thinking of this, Xun Li still felt a little regretful.She used to think that Katase had always been a bosom friend who stood on the same front as her.

... She was too naive.

Xunli's heart twitched suddenly, his limbs became limp, and his weak body slowly slid down from the glass door.