When the magic flower blooms

"This is a hospital, not your willful back garden."

As soon as the majestic tiger subhuman spoke, not only Ming Ruoxing, but even the security guard and Shen Dongli fell silent, and the atmosphere at the scene was like a thunderstorm.

Ming Ruoxing was caught off guard by his brother's appearance - he was a little scared of him, but at this time he wanted to rely on his brother's face to get Shen Dongli to cooperate, so he could only probe cautiously.

"...Brother? Why are you here?"

Ming Ruochen put on the score and said nothing, the person who answered him was Wu Fei.

"I came to the hospital to go through some handover procedures. Your brother wants to discuss something with the hospital."

Although Wu Fei was downplaying it, Ming Ruoxing was very clear—one of them was the administrative director, and the other was the director of the bureau. What important procedures would require two important officials from the Asian Security Bureau to come to the hospital in person?

It must be related to Naga.

More daringly inferred, perhaps because of a major abnormal situation in Naga, the Asian Security Bureau believed that it was of research value, so it secretly transferred the person to the research institute inside the Asian Security Bureau, and at the same time asked the hospital to block the news from top to bottom.

In other words, the Naga probably didn't die at all!

It was as if a candle light suddenly lit up in the dark night, Ming Ruoxing walked up to Ming Ruochen in two or three steps, and asked in a low voice.

"Brother, I want to see Naga!"

"He died in the line of duty. The body has been handed over to the Institute, and he filled out the body donation form before his death."

"Then you let me see him, even if he is dead! I just want to see his body. Is this too much to ask?"

Ming Ruochen stopped talking, but stared at Ming Ruoxing with stern eyes.Not to be outdone, Ming Ruoxing raised his head to fight.

Just as the two brothers, the tiger and the cat, were competing for strength, Wu Fei received a call.After a few brief exchanges, he coughed lightly, interrupting the meaningless contest beside him.

"I'll take Xiaoxing to see it, the dean is already waiting for you."

Ming Ruochen turned his head to look at him, the two exchanged a look that only each other could understand, and then Ming Ruochen finally made a concession.

"But it must not interfere with normal work."

"got it."

Wu Fei nodded and looked at Ming Ruoxing again.

"Let's go."

In an instant, Ming Ruoxing felt many complex emotions welling up in his chest—maybe he was a little happy at first, but it was followed by a hundred times stronger loss and fear.

Since Wu Fei dared to take him to the morgue, it meant that Naga was really dead.No luck, no fantasy, just bloody, naked facts.

And the facts are always inescapable, no matter how cruel it is, you must bite the bullet and verify it.

The mortuary of this hospital was originally located under the medical technology building.Through a long, blank corridor is a heavy stainless steel door.Inside the door is a bright and tidy farewell room for the remains, and going further inside is the morgue.

At this moment, several research institute researchers in protective suits were busy in front of a flat stainless steel bed in the corner.

Wu Fei led Ming Ruoxing over, so they saw the man being put into a silver body bag.

Perhaps it was Shen Dongli's intention to scare people, but the Naga at this moment did not look as hideous as he imagined.On the contrary, he just seemed to be asleep, lying quietly where he shouldn't be sleeping.

Wu Fei whispered a few words to several researchers, and led them out of the room temporarily, leaving Ming Ruoxing alone.

Perhaps there is no more terrifying occasion on earth than here.Colder than a cemetery, more deadly than a battlefield.

For about ten seconds, Ming Ruoxing silently looked down at Naga's body.Motionless, it seemed to have solidified into a sculpture.

After a long silence, he finally reached out his hand slowly, through the opening of the silver body bag, and pressed it on the bare chest.

Although the muscles are not yet stiff, the skin is cold.

Ming Ruoxing's wrist trembled a few times, barely suppressing his inner emotions.He moved his palm slowly, looking for the beating feeling in his memory.

there is none left.No matter how hard you try, you can't feel the most basic beating of life.

Naga, confirmed death.

At the end of the trance and dizziness, Ming Ruoxing calmed down instead.

In a short while, this body will be sent to the research institute, and the dissection and research will be kept absolutely confidential.Therefore, this moment is their final farewell.

What should be said?

Last night, regarding the reunion of the two, Ming Ruoxing had drawn up several different plans, but in each plan, he was not the one who spoke first.Anyway, Naga was straightforward enough and shameless enough, there was nothing shameless or explicit that he couldn't say.

But now, he will never speak again.

It was only now that Ming Ruoxing realized that his tongue was so clumsy, so clumsy that he couldn't express a ten-millionth part of his true emotions.

After struggling silently for a while, he slowly bent down and leaned close to Naga's ear.

"Remember what we said on the phone before we left?

"What the hell do you want to talk to me about?

"We don't have time. I'm here now, so tell me..."

Intermittently, he raised the question that he couldn't let go of in his heart, but he was extremely frustrated because he was destined not to get an answer.

There was another faint sound of footsteps outside the door.Ming Ruoxing hesitated for a moment, then suddenly leaned forward, held that icy cheek, and placed the first and last proactive kiss on the same icy lips.

"I will avenge you."

He made the promise in a low, but uncommonly firm voice.

Behind him, the heavy door opened again.Wu Fei and the others stood far outside.

"Is it alright?"

"……Can."

Ming Ruoxing quickly cleaned up all expressions, turned around and nodded to them in apology.

"Sorry for wasting everyone's time."

Several researchers walked over quietly, zipped up the body bag, and then transferred the body to a stretcher, walked through the bright and white corridor, and disappeared into the darkness at the end.

-

Seven days later, the Asian Security Bureau issued a series of commendation orders in recognition of the combat teams and individuals who made outstanding contributions in this operation.Naga was posthumously recorded as a personal first-class meritorious service. Since he had no family members, the honorary certificates and medals awarded were temporarily kept in the operation place where he worked last before his death.

Ming Ruoxing also received a second-class commendation, and promotion was almost a foregone conclusion.However, he began to write a transfer application, and he wanted to leave the office completely and go to the front line where dangers abound.

In the afternoon of the same day, the bureau held a memorial service for several colleagues who died.Behind the flowers and condolences is the busyness in the dormitory and apartment of the Asian Security Bureau-the property that has obtained the final permit has begun a vigorous clean-up.Ming Ruoxing held on to the city for more than a month, but was finally breached.

That same night, Ming Ruoxing discovered that Little Xingxing was missing.

This is the third day since he took the white cat back to live in his home.Since the eleven-story building is really not suitable for pets to come and go daily, Ming Ruoxing had no choice but to change the free range to captivity, and planned to take the white cat to a pet hospital for sterilization in a few days.

Perhaps because he sensed the great crisis in the life of the cat, Ming Ruoxing returned home from get off work that evening and found that the sliding door leading to the roof garden from the living room had been opened a small hole.The white cat has disappeared.

There was no surveillance camera installed in the corridor of the apartment, and the surveillance on the ground did not capture the whereabouts of the white cat... For four full hours after that, Ming Ruoxing frantically searched around the apartment.I searched every garbage can and debris pile in every dark alley, but I still found nothing.

At twelve o'clock in the middle of the night, lightning flashed in the sky, and a torrential downpour came unexpectedly.

It was rare for Ming Ruoxing to be in such a state of embarrassment. He was drenched from head to toe and shivered from the cold, as if he had returned to the moment when he jumped into the rushing river by the lover's island a few days ago.

Only this time, there was nothing around him.

-

Two years later, spring.

It was a wet and gloomy day in mid-March.

The spring rain, as thin as a cow's hair, was blown away by the east wind and scattered in the garden of the hospital.There is a big pear tree in the middle of the garden, the branches are covered with snow-like pear blossoms, and it emits a hazy white light in the dim sky and earth.

On the third floor of the inpatient department, which was about the same height as the pear tree, the lights were not turned on in the single ward on the easternmost side.The water traces flowing vertically and horizontally outside the glass windows are reflected on the wall, like a crystal palace under the sea.

On the same snow-white hospital bed, sat the quiet Ming Ruoxing.

He was wearing a large blue and white hospital gown, his complexion was not very good-looking, and his long hair, which he had accumulated over two years, was randomly tied into a bunch and hung on his shoulders.The whole person looks a little more mature, but less sharp.

What's more striking is the bandage on his head, which almost wraps around half of his cheek in an exaggerated manner.If you look closely, there are faint traces of bandaging under the collar of the hospital gown.

But the injury should be almost completely healed, at least the pain is no longer there.At this moment, Ming Ruoxing was looking down at his open palm, in which was a golden medal.

There was a knock on the door, and he immediately clenched his hands subconsciously.When he looked up again, the door had already been opened, and a gentle man with glasses in a suit and leather shoes walked in. It was Wu Fei.

"how do you feel today?"

Ming Ruoxing smiled bitterly: "It doesn't matter what I say, otherwise I should have been discharged from the hospital long ago."

"Do you know what I'm here for today?" Wu Fei put a black bag on the bed.

Ming Ruoxing suddenly fell silent for a few seconds.

"Did you know that some people in the Bureau privately called you the 'Angel of Death.' Seeing you in a hospital is rarely a good thing."

"……Maybe."

Wu Fei smiled, apparently not caring.He pulled a chair and sat beside the hospital bed, finding the most suitable posture for talking.

"Ming Ruoxing, considering your injury this time, although it will not affect your daily life, it is more risky to continue working outside the office. The organization has decided to transfer you to the back office."

Although Ming Ruoxing's eyes were dull for a moment, he was obviously not surprised.

"Is it the organization's decision or my brother's?"

"Your brother cares about you very much. You should be lucky to have such a brother who protects you."

"He defended me because he felt that I should be weaker than him by nature. If a weak person wants to contribute to the family, he must strictly obey the arrangement of the superior."

Ming Ruoxing's answer made Wu Fei sigh.

"Do you have some misunderstandings about the back office work? You can still be responsible for some low-risk operations, or train new people. Besides, these are temporary, as long as you can prove that your body is fine, you can also apply to return to the previous jobs."

"It doesn't make sense to me."

Ming Ruoxing frankly shook his head.

"My target is the Chimera, nothing else matters."

"After these two years of action, China's Chimera power has long since completely disintegrated. You have personally avenged the Naga, and you don't need to do the rest."

"No, it's not enough, I want to watch the Chimera disappear from the earth with my own eyes."

When he said these words, Ming Ruoxing finally lost his composure.His left eye, which was not covered by bandages, even shone with a dark fire of resentment.

In the past two years, it was this resentment that supported Ming Ruoxing all the way until now.

Seeing his stubbornness, Wu Fei didn't insist on confronting toughness with head-to-head, but continued to use reason.

"I'm afraid it will be difficult. The centipede is dead but not stiff, not to mention its base camp is abroad..."

Having said that, he suddenly stopped and stared at Ming Ruoxing with a serious expression.

"I seem to have heard your brother mention...you, do you really want to chase him abroad?"

Ming Ruoxing didn't respond.He kept staring down at his clenched right hand.

The ward fell into silence, only the sound of the pattering rain beating on the window lattice.

After an unknown amount of time passed like this, Wu Fei let out a deep sigh of compromise.

"Actually, there is another temporary job that is very suitable for you, and you will definitely like it... It's just that your brother may want to kill me. However, it is better than watching you die abroad."

A person who has always spoken only eight points, suddenly made such an exaggerated speech.Ming Ruoxing noticed something strange, and finally raised his head to meet him.

Wu Fei seemed helpless, but he still opened the black file package.

"Look at the things inside slowly, and give me the answer when you think about it maturely."

After saying this, he left the bag, patted Ming Ruoxing on the shoulder, got up and left.

The ward became a pool of stagnant water again.When the sound of Wu Fei's footsteps completely disappeared at the end of the corridor, Ming Ruoxing reached out and dragged the file package in front of him, and poured out the contents.

There is only a thin stack of documents inside, and the most striking line on the title page is "Retired Police Officer Protection Plan file0143".

More important than this line of words is a photo clipped on the title page with a paper clip.

The background is green mountains and green waters, and there is a bush full of small flowers. The man in the center of the picture is a frequent visitor in Ming Ruoxing's dream for the past two years.It's just that his body is no longer dripping with blood and lifeless; instead, he is full of vitality, with a dazzling smile like sunshine.

At this moment, it seemed as if the rain stopped and the sky cleared, the clouds broke and the sun rose, and the pear trees were in full bloom, reflecting the light in the ward.