Chapter 48
Chapter 48 The Owner of the Clinic Shall not Be Offended
In the room, Ning Tao put Lin Qinghua on the bed. Then he walked back to the door and locked it from inside before he went to the window and locked it too and drew the curtain. As all preparations had been made, he removed the bedside table and opened the blood lock with the clinic key.
The blood spread and an inky hole appeared in the wall.
Ning Tao picked Lin Qinghua up and walked through the convenient door.
Behind the door was the Sky Clinic.
As soon as Lin Qinghua entered the Sky Clinic, the good-evil tripod glowered.
Ning Tao put Lin Qinghua on the floor and stared at him.
Black and white air gushed out from the good-evil tripod. In a blink of an eye, the whole clinic was enveloped by “mist”, which was distinct half white and half black, making it a spectacle. But after a few seconds, all the black and white air returned to the good-evil tripod.
After that, Lin Qinghua suddenly made a sound and woke up. He got up from the floor and stared at Ning Tao without saying a word. His eyes were shining with green light, looking extremely weird.
Ning Tao also stared at Lin Qinghua without saying a word. He wondered why Lin Qinghua had suddenly woken up and what he wanted to do, but his imagination had gone blank at that moment.
A few seconds later, Lin Qinghua looked away and darted around the clinic. When he saw the good-evil tripod, he couldn’t take his eyes off it any more, as if his soul had been suppressed by the tripod.
Ning Tao cast a glance at Lin Qinghua, then at the good-evil tripod, but he had no idea what was going on. It was out of the same reason—although he was the owner of the Sky Clinic, he knew little about the clinic.
“I…” A husky voice sounded from Lin Qinghua’s mouth.
Ning Tao had a brainwave and called, “Lin Qinghua.”
Lin Qinghua then turned his attention from the good-evil tripod to Ning Tao. “What… what is this place?” he asked, gazing dreamily at Ning Tao.
Ning Tao raised his right hand and asked, “How many fingers are these?”
Lin Qinghua took a look at his hand and quipped, “Are you an idiot? I’m not three years old!”
Through this little test Ning Tao had come to the judgment that he wanted—Lin Qinghua was sane in the Sky Clinic, not as Emperor Xuanzong of Tang but as Lin Qinghua himself.
“You look familiar to me. Have we met somewhere before?” Lin Qinghua inquired, before adding, “What is this place?”
“This is my clinic,” Ning Tao replied. “I’m Ning Tao, your sister Lin Qingyu’s friend. I was commissioned by her to treat you.”
“Ning Tao? It’s a familiar name…” Lin Qinghua was in a trance, sounding tired from his husky voice.
“We’ve met,” Ning Tao explained, “when you were a different character. So you don’t remember me clearly.”
“A different character?”
“Yes, Emperor Xuanzong of Tang, Li Longji.”
“Ha ha ha…” Lin Qinghua laughed and covered his stomach. “You must be a lunatic, but this is the first time I’ve seen a serious lunatic like you. Ha ha ha!”
“Don’t you remember how mad you looked and Yang Yuhuan you had been missing?” After a pause, Ning Tao cleared his throat and recited, “I think of her silver clothing at the sight of drifting clouds and her stunning appearance at the sight of flowers. The spring wind flows across the corridor while peonies are set off by the glittering dews. Do you remember the poem?”
“Ha ha ha! I beg you to stop. Do you want me to die of laughter?” Lin Qinghua almost laughed to tears. “Unexpectedly you can recite Li Bai’s “A Song of Pure Happiness”. You seem well-educated.”
Ning Tao pulled out his phone, turned on camera mode, and snapped a picture of Lin Qinghua.
“What are you doing?” Lin Qinghua unconsciously raised his hand to hide his face, but it was a little late.
Ning Tao turned the phone over and faced him on the screen.
Lin Qinghua’s eyes fall on the phone’s screen. He saw a haggard, skinny face, with sunken and green eyes, like a skeleton! A few seconds later, he suddenly screamed, “Ah—”
“Did you see that? This is you, look at you,” Ning Tao said.
Lin Qinghua lost his cool. “No, no! You’re lying. Shut up! I don’t want to listen to you!”
Ning Tao remained impassive. “Do you remember the project of ancestor seeking?” he went on. “You developed a drug. I don’t know what motivated you to study this drug, but you were infected with the drug and became a new demon. You’re normal here, but when you go out, you think of yourself as Emperor Xuanzong of Tang. You’ve seen what you are like now. You’re dying.”
“You shut up!” Lin Qinghua yelled at Ning Tao.
“The more you don’t want to hear it, the more I’m going to say it,” Ning Tao continued. “Your reaction shows that you actually know what’s going on with you. Tell me, what exactly is your ancestor seeking studying? Don’t tell me it’s for biopharmaceuticals, because I know the key material is spiritual soil, which belongs to the world of cultivation!”
As soon as Lin Qinghua heard the spiritual soil, he became uncharacteristically calm and looked at Ning Tao without saying a word.
Ning Tao put the phone away and stressed, “Tell me, what the hell did you work on and where did you get the spiritual soil?”
Lin Qinghua had no intention of telling the truth. He remained silent, his eyes fixed on Ning Tao, looking green and ghastly.
“What you studied shouldn’t exist in this world,” Ning Tao told him. “The drug you developed is in the academy of sciences, as well as your research materials and spiritual soil. You only have one chance…”
Before Ning Tao could finish his sentence, Lin Qinghua let out a weird snigger. “Hee hee…”
Ning Tao frowned and questioned, “Why are you sniggering?”
Crack, crack, crack…
Suddenly there was sound of bones moving coming from Lin Qinghua’s body. As the muscles and skin moved, his face changed, sometimes rigid, sometimes soft. Every second his face changed, as if he was like a face scanning machine, different faces continue to pass through him.
Ning Tao’s heart was filled with horror. He saw that there seemed to have countless people inside Lin Qinghua’s body, not only men, but also women!
Just as Ning Tao was stunned, Lin Qinghua’s bony chest swelled rapidly, and his short-sleeved hospital gown looked tighter and smaller with the expansion of his chest. Finally, it was splayed open, exposing two white lumps of stuff through the slit of his clothes.
Ning Tao was flabbergasted. Lin Qinghua was a man, but he saw in Lin Qinghua organs that only women had.
Then, Lin Qinghua’s buttocks also seemed to be inflated, becoming plump and hot. At this point, the change stopped, as if someone had pressed the stop button. Lin Qinghua’s characteristics as a man almost completely disappeared, replaced by a round woman’s face!
Ning Tao was openmouthed. “Is this the new demon? He looked like a transsexual!
“Ahhh!” Lin Qinghua let out a scream and pounced on Ning Tao.
Just now, he was still in a state of malaise, but after entering the “new demon” state, he was like the legendary Amazonian female warrior, far exceeding the human in power, speed and momentum!
Buzz!
Almost at the moment Lin Qinghua attacked Ning Tao, the good-evil tripod suddenly buzzed. It seemed to come from the outside with great majesty and endless pressure!
Boom!
Before Ning Tao could make a move, Lin Qinghua, who was lunging at him, suddenly fell to the floor, looking as if he had been crushed on the ground by an invisible big foot. His bones were broken; Blood oozed from his ears, eyes, nose and mouth; And even his skin was cracked! His chest and buttocks were flattened, and he was soon back his former gaunt appearance. It was as if the scene had been an illusion and had never happened.
Ning Tao was also shocked. It was the first time for him to encounter a patient who suddenly attacked him in the Sky Clinic. Just now, his instinct was to fight back and subdue Lin Qinghua, the new demon. But before he could take action, Lin Qinghua was crushed on the floor by the Sky Clinic!
If any patient could run wild here, would this be the Sky Clinic?
After all, the Sky Clinic represented the ways of Heaven!
Who could be more powerful than Heaven?
Who could defy Heaven?
“I… I was wrong… Help me…” pleaded Lin Qinghua. His skin split open and blood poured out, turning him into a bloody man.
Ning Tao suddenly remembered what had happened to him. The first time he came to the clinic he tore up the contract, and for a moment he felt as if he had been hacked open by a sharp ax, and his blood spilled on the floor. It was 100 times worse than death!
Lin Qinghua was clearly worse off than he was!
“Save me… Please save me…” Lin Qinghua seemed to come to his senses. His voice was weak, and his life was slipping away!
Ning Tao took a deep breath, calmed down a little before he demanded, “Tell me what your project of ancestor seeking studied, and where you got the spiritual soil.”
“I…”
“Say it!” Ning Tao snapped. “Or you’ll die!”
“The project of ancestor seeking… worked… worked on the drug that could activate man’s atavistic genes…” Lin Qinghua stuttered. “The human genetic chain is our natural hard drive, storing all the evolutionary information we have ever had. My goal is to unlock the secrets of human origin!”
“Go on!” Ning Tao shouted with a scowl.
“The project of ancestor seeking has been around for, for a long time… It’s just that I failed all the time… One day, I got an anonymous phone call. The caller said he had found something valuable that would help me develop the drug I wanted… It would change my life and make me a world-famous great scientist. He even said, said… I would surpass Newton and Einstein. I didn’t believe him, but my curiosity drove me there…”
“Where?” snarled Ning Tao.