Ring of Fate

Chapter 991 Father and Daughter
When Lumian heard the sound of an out-of-control vehicle hitting the curb, he immediately rolled down the window and stuck his head out.

He looked towards the intersection which was about ten or twenty meters away from him, and at Mr. Cui who had been knocked away and run over even further.

Almost at the same time, he saw several figures coming out from different hiding places and running towards the deceased and the vehicle involved in the accident.

Lumian immediately picked up his phone, took two photos, and muttered:
"Oh my god, there was a car accident!

"The driver was driving like a race car, was he drunk?"

He looked like a bystander who was about to post on his Moments and short video account.

At this moment, the dented vehicle in front completely stalled and could not be started. The door opened and a staggering man came out.

"Damn, I'm really drunk. Don't drink and drive, and don't drive after drinking!" Lumian started filming a video, cursing as he went along.

After the ambulance had taken away Mr. Cui's body and the police had taken the driver away, only the traffic police investigating the scene and the tow truck were left. Lumian then sat back in the car, as if considering how to share what had just happened in various groups.

Not long after, Anthony, who was also disguised, came out of the 24-hour convenience store on the side, carrying a large bag of things, opened the door and got into the car.

Lumian started the car and drove away.

They didn't take Ludwig with them and sent the little boy to Janna. If there was a little boy of seven or eight years old at both the scene where Zarathustra was shot and the place where Mr. Cui had a car accident, it would be very suspicious even if they looked different at first glance.

…………

DeChuang Garden, room 2303.

Lumian sat on the single sofa and said to Franca and Janna:

"I'll go find Li Keji after midnight."

He paused and said:
"Did Lumiana show any abnormality on this day?"

Janna was silent for two seconds, then told her everything about Lumiana's daze, her inner impulse, her bad luck, the breeze on the rooftop, her conversation while playing cards, and many details, without hiding anything.

Lumian listened attentively without interrupting, and the expression on his face gradually softened.

After Janna finished speaking, Franca opened her mouth, hesitated for a moment and said:

"If you are kicked out of the dream again, you will be severely restricted when you enter for the third time, just like the 'Mysterious Queen'."

Lumian was silent for a long time and said:
"I know."

…………

On the edge of a lake, in a four-story villa.

Huang Beibei came back from outside and walked into the magnificent hall.

Every time her classmates come to visit, they would ask, why is your house decorated like a palace, isn’t it weird?

Huang Beibei could only shrug his shoulders and say, “This is what my dad likes.”

"Where are my dad and the others?" Huang Beibei asked the butler standing in the hall.

She usually lives on campus, and unless there is a major holiday, she only chooses to go home on weekends.

The butler replied respectfully:

"Young Master Huang Xia is exercising in the basement basketball court, Young Master Huang Bo is assembling a four-wheel drive car in the toy room, the wife is out attending an art salon, and the master is in the wine tasting room."

Huang Beibei nodded, walked to the side of the hall, and took the elevator down to the underground floor.

There is a large wine cellar with a solid collection room and a tasting room with a view of the indoor swimming pool.

Huang Tao was sitting on the sofa, holding a glass of pure malt liquor with ice cubes and sipping it leisurely.

"Are you back?" He smiled when he saw Huang Beibei coming in.

"Why are you drinking again?" Huang Beibei sat down opposite.

Huang Tao smiled and said:

“I’m old now, and there aren’t many hobbies left.”

Huang Beibei stopped trying to persuade him. She just watched her father take another sip of the attractively colored liquor and put a few large peeled pine nuts from the dried fruit plate on the table into her mouth.

After finishing his meal, Huang Tao asked:

"Where are your classmates? Didn't they come to visit?"

"Something happened to the biology teacher at her cram school, and she's busy dealing with it, so she doesn't have time." Huang Beibei said simply.

Huang Tao laughed:

"You mentioned it before. Really, if you want to do experiments, just apply for a job in the corresponding laboratory. Why be a biology teacher?"

At this point, Huang Tao looked at Huang Beibei and sighed:

"Why don't you like living at home? School still has some time before it starts, but you moved into the dormitory early."

This is not my problem... Maybe in Mr. Fool's perception, you and I are separate, and we are together less often than we are apart... Huang Beibei explained dutifully:

“I am participating in a project.”

Huang Tao did not ask any further questions. He just complained and said:
"How's your children's book company doing?"

"Not bad." Huang Beibei recalled, "The children's book market is the most profitable area in the physical book market. There is a real demand for repackaging and redesigning many classic fairy tales. Moreover, we are also cultivating our own children's book authors and picture book painters."

"In this area, China started too late and is not yet mature. There is still a lack of good works. You have a lot to do." Huang Tao praised his daughter. "At the same time, you should also pay attention to importing copyrights. You can't leave those excellent children's books from abroad to your competitors."

He taught his daughter seriously, as if he wanted to make Dawn Children's Publishing Company bigger and stronger.

Huang Beibei listened carefully and put forward her own ideas from time to time. The father and daughter had a very harmonious discussion.

At the end of the discussion, Huang Tao suddenly shook the wine and said with emotion:
"Do you know what the greatest pain in life is?"

Huang Beibei shook her head.

Huang Tao laughed at himself and said:

"It's like watching the people and things you cherish most, the life you long for most, being taken over by others, while you are locked up in a dark and depressing prison."

Huang Beibei looked at Huang Tao without responding.

Huang Tao didn't care. He drank some dried fruits and liquor by himself for a while.

He gradually restrained the expression on his face, looked at Huang Beibei and said:
"If you find yourself to be just an imaginary character in a dream, and someone tries to wake up the owner of the dream, what will you do?"

Huang Beibei was silent for a few seconds and said:
"It depends on the specific situation."

Huang Tao smiled and said:

"Let's be more specific. You clearly know that if the owner of the dream is awakened, you will disappear completely. Even if there is another dream, the corresponding person who appears will no longer be you now. But the person you care about most supports awakening the owner of the dream and is willing to take risks and even sacrifice himself for it. What will you do?"

Huang Beibei did not answer.

She looked at Huang Tao and never said a word.

Huang Tao responded to his daughter's gaze calmly.

After a while, he drank the remaining wine, stood up and said:
"I'm going up to take care of things."

Huang Tao walked out from between the sofa and the coffee table, passed by Huang Beibei, and walked towards the door of the wine tasting room.

"dad."

Suddenly, Huang Beibei called him.

Huang Tao turned around with a smile on his face.

"Anything else?" he asked.

Huang Beibei also stood up and said carefully:

“I have always been curious about what the inside of a mirror looks like and what lies deep inside the mirror, without talking about science.”

Huang Tao stared at Huang Beibei for a few seconds and said:
"It hides a horror greater than you can imagine."

After saying that, Huang Tao turned around, opened the wooden door, and walked out of the wine tasting room.

"Great terror..." Huang Beibei stood where he was, chewing over the word.

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late at night.

Lumian used "teleportation" to reach the vicinity of Red Moon Hospital.

He was not in a hurry to enter. He changed into Lumiana's appearance, made a good disguise, and walked around the Red Moon Hospital.

He saw all kinds of mushrooms growing in the green belts around Hongyue Hospital and in the cracks in the corners of the buildings, like mushrooms after a spring rain.

These mushrooms do not invade the living space of other organisms, nor do they endanger the structural safety of buildings. They grow quietly and peacefully.

With so many mushrooms growing, it's no wonder that Red Moon Hospital is offering a mushroom meal... They all look edible... Who wouldn't be happy to use ingredients that don't cost money? After Lumian roughly confirmed the situation in the outer area of ​​Red Moon Hospital, he hid in a hidden place, got into the mirror, and came all the way to the ward of the psychiatric department.

He was not worried about being blocked or trapped by the police from the Dream City in this mirror world, because Lumiana had no real identity and had no apparent relationship with Li Keji. Unless senior police officials such as Yagaiji used prophecy or divination to get the revelation that there would be clues by waiting here, it would be unlikely for them to send anyone here.

With everyone suppressed at Sequence 7, Lumian, as the "Witch of Despair", was not too afraid of divination and prophecy pointing to her whereabouts.

After observing the entire ward for a while, Lumian jumped out of the mirror-like object and landed lightly on the ground.

He always held a mirror in his hand to reflect light, create illusions and deceive surveillance cameras.

Lumian then looked at the dim corridor lights and the steel door sleeping in the gloomy environment, but his spirituality showed no warning.

Then he took a breath and didn't smell blood or any other strange smell.

Only then did he gently knock on the metal door of Li Keji's ward.

Bang, bang, bang. The knocks on the door were not loud, and they echoed quietly in the area without reaching the nurses' station.

Li Keji's voice suddenly sounded, in a very low voice:
"Who?"

This time, no white and tender mushrooms peeked through the window, and no large amounts of white mycelium emerged from the crack in the door.

“I,” the black-haired Lumian replied softly, “I’m the one who asked you to help treat my friend who was in a comatose state.”

"You..." Li Keji still did not appear behind the iron grille window of the door, and seemed to be curled up in a corner of the bed.

"Have you made any progress in your research?" Lumian asked.

"I have some ideas, a bunch of failed products, and a semi-finished product. It still needs to be verified. I'm not sure what the final effect will be..." As he spoke, Li Keji's voice revealed a bit of confusion, "But something strange happened. I may not have time to advance the experiment you want recently."

“What’s the matter?” Lumian’s mind suddenly tensed up.

Is there something that could make Li Keji put the mushroom experiment on hold?
After a few seconds, Li Keji answered doubtfully:

"I am pregnant."

(End of this chapter)