Ring of Fate

Chapter 1030 What is Real
When Jianna was thinking quickly about how to "get" the silver-white pocket watch from Zhou Mingrui, Luo Shan suddenly said:

"I'll go."

Uh…Janna and Lumian looked at Roxanne at the same time.

Luo Shan showed a "it's nothing" smile:

"I know Zhou Mingrui, we are friends and good colleagues, so it's easier for me to get close to him than it is for you.

"Although he has some doubts about me now, knowing that I have extraordinary powers and has received my hints, but overall, he should still think that I am a friendly party and stand on the position of helping him, right? Is my analysis correct?"

Luo Shan showed a lack of confidence in such matters.

Without waiting for Lumian and Jenna to respond, she laughed at herself and said:

"Zhou Mingrui might be alert and cautious, but he would never have thought that my target was the pocket watch.

"and……"

Luo Shan paused and said:

"Besides, you are outsiders. Even if you just provoke Zhou Mingrui and arouse his suspicion, you may be kicked out. But I won't. I am a local. At most, I will be more careful next time!"

"No, this is also very dangerous." Jane reminded Luo Shan with a serious expression, "We have never tried to let someone like you remind Zhou Mingrui in person or do something to him before. We have no way of predicting the possible development and the worst outcome. Judging from other similar incidents, the light on the ceiling might suddenly fall down and hit you on the head, killing you, or you might die on the spot as soon as you touch the pocket watch."

Luo Shan's expression became solemn.

She nodded slowly:
"I know."

Without waiting for Janna and Lumian to persuade her, she suddenly asked in a low voice:

“What am I like in reality?”

While Lumian was observing Zhou Mingrui and Zhou Shasha's movements, Janna was silent for two seconds and said:
"I'm a civilian employee of the police station. My father was also an official Beyonder who died in a supernatural disaster.

"She has a lively personality. Although she likes to be lazy, she is very popular among her colleagues. Everyone treats her as their sister. She is now married and has lovely children."

Luo Shan listened very attentively, and after a few seconds she said:

“Isn’t this another me…

“This is indeed another me…”

She looked at Jane with a twinkling gaze and said jokingly:
“If you have the chance to meet her, please tell her:

"I envy her..."

Hearing this, Janna's nose suddenly felt sore, and her throat was filled with emotions, making it difficult for her to speak.

Luo Shan slowly straightened her back:
“Please also tell her that I have my own pride and experiences that she might envy.”

Luo Shan's gloomy expression gradually softened, and she spoke as if she was talking to herself:
“I’ve been thinking about my past every day.

"My mother is so real, my interactions with her are so real, my father is so real, his sacrifice is also real, my childhood, my junior high school, my high school, my university, my experience after work, all the details, all the bits and pieces are so real.

"I can remember the smell of my mother, the smell of her best dish, the roasted pork with eggplant. I can remember where the cigarette butt had a hole in my father's police uniform, where the snacks he bought for me were hidden...

“In your eyes, these are dreams, but to me, they are the most real and the meaning of my existence.

“It is precisely because of these memories and the past that I feel I am real, no matter how you see it.

"Now, I am going to do the thing I long for the most. It will make me more real, make my life more meaningful, no longer false, and not just a dream of others!"

Before Jenna could speak, Lumian suddenly said:
"Okay, get close to Zhou Mingrui and find a chance to steal the pocket watch."

Roxanne was stunned for a moment. She didn't expect Lumian to agree so quickly.

In just a blink of an eye, a smile appeared on her face, a smile that was filled with pride and nostalgia.

She looked at Janna and asked softly:
"If, if the dream is shattered and you leave alive, will you remember me, will you remember that there is such a Luo Shan, will you remember what I have done?"

Jana's vision blurred instantly, and she said with a choked voice:
"Yes, I will always remember that I have a friend named Luo Shan. She is lively and kind. Although she is a little lazy and always misses her mother, she is full of sense of justice, just like her father..."

Luo Shan smiled, very pleased:
“This shows that I have really lived and my life is real.”

She took a deep breath and pointed in the direction of Zhou Mingrui and Zhou Shasha:

"I have to hurry over there. They're almost at the entrance to the parking lot for ride-hailing cars."

"Okay." Lumian and Jenna could only respond briefly.

Roxanne took a step outside, then suddenly turned around and gave Janna and Lumian a bright smile.

She said a little nervously but longingly:
"I can be a guardian, too."

Without waiting for Lumian and Janna to respond, she turned around in a shirt and skirt and ran towards Zhou Mingrui and Zhou Shasha in the distance.

She used her "Reporter" ability to a small extent, moving at a very fast speed, as light and agile as a deer.

Lumian looked at Roxanne's back and repeated her words in a low voice:
"protector……"

…………

Red Moon Hospital.

In a ward with the curtains drawn, it was still a little dim at noon.

Anthony used the "Ice Mirror Spell" which had one "Mirror Travel" effect left, and took Ludwig out of the bathroom mirror.

Anthony walked to the bedside, looked at An Xiaotian for a few seconds. His head had many centipede-like suture marks and his face was covered with thick black beard. Then he asked Ludwig:

"Can it be cured?"

"I don't know. You'll know only after you try." Ludwig plucked a golden mushroom from the cracked corner of his eye, stuffed it into his mouth, chewed it and swallowed it.

He is currently unsure whether the healing power of the spores extracted from the mushrooms can awaken An Xiaotian. This is not within the gourmet's knowledge.

Anthony looked around, took out a blank sketchbook and a piece of pencil, and started sketching quickly on the TV table in the ward.

Before long, he completed a painting.

The painting depicts a complex maze, but every path in the maze seems blocked.

After tearing off the sketch and collecting the five blank paintings left in the album, Anthony carefully came to the door of the ward, applied his "psychological invisibility" ability, opened a gap, and pasted the painting on the outside of the door.

The painting suddenly became illusory and sank inward, merging with the door of the ward.

After doing this, Anthony observed the nurses coming and going and the patients taking a walk, then he retreated back into the ward and closed the door.

He then said to Ludwig:
"Begin treatment."

Ludwig hesitated a little, took small steps, walked to An Xiaotian's bed, and put his hands on the other's head, which was shaved clean, inserted with many instruments, and had many hideous wounds.

The next second, a damp and fresh feeling emanated from Ludwig's body, making the surrounding area seem like a forest after rain.

Anthony waited patiently, watching the seconds tick by.

Suddenly, he saw bumps under the skin of An Xiaotian's face trying to get out, and then quickly shrank back, sometimes moving sideways a few centimeters.

On the screen of the monitoring device, data such as heart rate, blood pressure, and oxygen saturation changed instantly.

It worked, but I don’t know if it’s enough... Anthony subconsciously held his breath.

Then, he used "comfort" on himself to calm down.

After another ten or twenty seconds, Anthony didn't know if he was hallucinating, but he felt that the darkness in the ward had deepened a little.

At this moment, he saw bumps suddenly growing on An Xiaotian's face and head, breaking through the skin and flesh and growing out.

They are thumb-sized mushrooms of various shapes and sizes, some with fleshy patterns, some fluffy and white and tender, some overflowing with white liquid, and so on.

These mushrooms grew rapidly and became larger, eventually turning An Xiaotian's head into a cluster of mushrooms, with only his eyes, nostrils and mouth uncovered.

Beep! Beep! Beep!
The data on the monitoring equipment fluctuated violently, sounding an alarm.

Several nurses at the nurses' station ran over immediately, some taking the lead and some pushing the treatment cart.

After they opened the door of the corresponding ward, what appeared before their eyes was not the bathroom on the side and the end of the bed, but a long corridor leading to an unknown place.

There are many unmarked doors in this corridor.

Normally, the nurses should step back to the door and check whether they have gone to the wrong place, but they ignored it and ran forward, constantly opening different doors to find the real entrance to the ward.

Amid the sound of the instrument alarm, Anthony clearly felt that the ward was becoming darker, and a secret, dangerous, and gloomy atmosphere began to echo here.

Ludwig retracted his hands, retreated to Anthony's side, looked at An Xiaotian whose mushrooms were densely packed, licked his lips and said:

"efficient."

As soon as he finished speaking, An Xiaotian, who was in a coma, sat up straight.

Zizizi, the lights, televisions, monitoring equipment and other electrical appliances in the ward all made obvious electric current sounds at the same time, a sound that even the beeping alarm could not cover.

At this time, An Xiaotian sat up straight and opened his eyes, revealing a pair of dark, weathered, and slightly empty eyes.

Compared with the mushrooms growing all over An Xiaotian's head, this seems very normal and sensible.

An Xiaotian opened his mouth, spit out a lot of tiny spores, and made a hoarse voice:
"Be careful……"

When they heard this word, Anthony and Ludwig suddenly felt that the environment became extremely depressing. The darkness around them gradually became like a substance, drowning and crowding them out.

With Anthony's mental state and emotional management level, he couldn't help shivering at this time and wanted to leave the ward.

The next second, An Xiaotian's voice became sharp and shrill:
"Be careful Zhou Mingrui!"

(End of this chapter)