bioinnovel Chapter 552 An Eye for an Eye
Chapter 552 An Eye for an Eye
Su Wan looked around and spoke:
"Let me introduce you all. This is Lin Feng, who was temporarily transferred from the Breast Surgery Department. He's one of our team members today."
Su Wan then introduced the people in the office to Lin Feng.
First was Old Zhou, the archivist (a middle-aged man). Lin Feng bowed to Old Zhou, but Old Zhou just snorted coldly, not giving him the slightest bit of a friendly look.
Then there's Kobayashi, the supplies specialist (a freckled woman).
Lin Feng extended his hand to shake hers: "Please take care of me."
Kobayashi held his hand, gently rubbing his thumb against the back of his hand, as if testing the feel of fabric.
"Your hands are quite warm. What hand cream do you usually use?"
"If you hold someone's hand again, you'll melt!" Su Wan blurted out irritably.
Xiaolin's hand jerked away as if it had been burned.
The last one is the clerk, Xiao Ren (a young man).
Xiao Ren walked up to Lin Feng and grinned.
He reached out and shook hands with Lin Feng, his grip firm but firm, and then released his hand.
After Su Wan finished her introduction, she glanced at Lin Feng.
"Alright, get back to work." She pointed to an empty seat behind Xiao Ren, "You can sit over there."
"First, sweep the office floor clean, and carefully wipe the leaves of the pothos plants as well."
She paused, then added casually:
"There's only one rule here—don't upset me!"
After speaking, Su Wan sat down in her seat and deftly turned on her computer, the blue light from the screen reflecting on her face.
She tapped a few keys on the keyboard, and the monitor screen was instantly filled with various surveillance images.
The real-time movements of the chosen ones in different regions are all under our sight.
Taking advantage of Su Wan's gaze shifting away, Ah Ying took small steps to Lin Feng's side, handing him a broom and dustpan, and whispered:
"Just a quick sweep will do. The cleaning lady came this morning and it's spotless."
Lin Feng took it and nodded gratefully to A Ying, but he didn't hesitate to use his hands.
He gripped the broom and began sweeping inch by inch, starting from the corner of the wall, not even missing the dust in the grout between the table legs and the floor tiles.
After sweeping the floor, he wrung out a clean rag and walked towards the three-tiered wooden flower stand in the corner of the office—
There were seven or eight pots of pothos on it, their vines hanging down like emerald green curtains.
Lin Feng stood in front of the flower stand, bent down slightly, gently supported the back of the leaf with one hand, and used the other hand to wipe the leaf inch by inch from the root to the tip with a cloth.
The movements were unhurried and deliberate, yet earnest and meticulous.
He picked off a few slightly curled, withered leaves and moved on to the next one.
Ah Ying brought over a glass of warm water and handed it to Lin Feng: "Here, have some water."
Lin Feng took it, smiled at her, and tilted his head back to drink it all in one gulp.
Su Wan's brow furrowed imperceptibly as she shifted her gaze from the monitor screen to A-Ying:
"Ah Ying, go to the outpatient department and check on the situation of the Chosen Ones."
"Oh—" Ah Ying drawled out, her lips unconsciously pouting as she moved toward the door, looking back every few steps, like a little animal that had been temporarily kicked out of its den.
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at the same time.
Breast Surgery Inpatient Department, Room 405.
The curtains were half-drawn, and light slanted in through the gaps, falling on the foot of the bed.
The furry, silver-gray shadow curled up at the foot of the bed suddenly trembled violently.
The bones made a series of fine "clicking" sounds, the hair disappeared one by one, and the body's outline was stretched and reshaped by a brute force.
A few seconds later, Zi Tong finally broke free from the rabbit's body and stood naked on the floor.
She grabbed the clothes scattered on the back of the chair, put them on quickly and ruthlessly, as if she were wrestling with the fabric.
His jaw clenched so hard it made a grinding sound, and two sharp lines appeared on his cheeks.
hatred.
The burning sensation started from the tailbone and continued all the way to the top of the skull.
She turned her head and her gaze fell on the hospital bed where the blanket was partially lifted.
The Phantom's Bed.
A faint, cool perfume scent still lingered on the quilt.
Zi Tong's breathing suddenly calmed down.
She stared at the bed, and suddenly the corners of her mouth slowly turned up—a sinister smile characteristic of a cold-blooded animal.
She walked over, bent down, approached the bundle of blankets, took a deep breath, and then opened her mouth—
A thick, fluorescent, eerie green toxic mist surged from deep within her throat, lunging like a living thing into the gaps between the fibers of the blankets and sheets.
Zi Tong spat for a full five seconds, until the poisonous mist completely soaked the fabric, before covering him with the quilt again and gently pressing it flat with his palm.
Then she straightened up, gave the empty room a silent, expectant smile, turned around, pushed open the door, and left, her steps as light as if she were going to a grand feast.
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About ten minutes later, footsteps were heard at the end of the corridor.
Aque accompanied Meiying back. Meiying pushed open the door to 405 and glanced around the room.
The bed was neatly made, the curtains were half-drawn, and the water glass was still in its place, but the rabbit and Zi Tong herself were nowhere to be seen.
"Heh." Phantom snorted through his nostrils, his contempt undisguised. "If you cause trouble again next time, it won't be as simple as turning you into a rabbit."
She paused, as if considering a recipe: "Instead, we're going to stew rabbit."
Phantom waved for A-Que to go about her business, then took off her coat and casually draped it over the back of the chair before pulling back the covers and lying down.
At first, it was just a little itchy on the back of my neck.
She thought it was a fiber from the blanket that had pricked her, so she rubbed it with the back of her hand.
Then my back started to itch.
Then, the sides of the waist, arms, inner thighs, and ankles—
It's as if thousands of invisible insects awaken simultaneously under the skin, crawling, biting, and laying eggs in dense numbers.
The Phantom couldn't resist reaching out to scratch, her nails making a "rustling" sound as they scratched her skin.
At first, I could control the force, but the itching sensation was like a flood breaking through a dam, becoming more and more intense and penetrating, as if it were directly connected to my bone marrow.
"Hiss..." Phantom gritted her teeth and began to frantically scratch her arms, leaving red marks where her nails scratched.
The phantom rolled over and rubbed its back against the blankets frantically, like a wild bear scratching an itch on a tree trunk, but to no avail.
The itching intensified as the friction caused more toxic fumes to evaporate from the bedding and adhere to her skin.
She glanced down at her forearm, her pupils contracting sharply.
The scratches had begun to break open, exposing the pale pink dermis to the air, with an abnormal bluish-green tinge around the edges.
She scratched off several patches of skin, revealing fresh wounds oozing tissue fluid underneath, with blood trickling from under her fingernails.
"Damn it... damn it..."
Phantom suddenly realized something—when she was fighting Zi Tong just now, she clearly felt the suffocatingly strong poison emanating from the other party.
That wasn't ordinary snake venom; it was a deadly poison with an eerie aura, capable of turning the air green.
This quilt...
The Phantom yanked off the covers and threw them to the ground, but it was too late.
The poison has seeped into the skin all over the body.
She stumbled out of bed and reached for the call button on the wall, only to realize that the button had already been smashed by Zi Tong...