Chapter 34
“Um–”
Duan Haiping groaned uncontrollably.
The pain of bone removal was a hundred times more severe than when his legs had been broken.
Next, the artificial bone had to be stuffed into the flesh and blood.
Duan Haiping felt his flesh and blood being squeezed by a foreign object. Only those who had experienced it could understand the heartbreaking pain.
Life was worse than death.
At that moment, he received a call from Liu Jin’an.
How timely, little one.
“Give me general anaesthesia,” he asked the anaesthesiologist without hesitation, and then passed out without any burden.
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“What trouble did you encounter again?”
Liu Jin’an heard a hint of joy in his calm tone.
He looked at Xiao Duan doubtfully: “What good thing happened to you, and you’re in such a good mood?”
Duan Haiping didn’t answer his question but just looked at the people on the deck who were devouring food: “This is it?”
After briefly recounting last night’s encounter in a short paragraph, Liu Jin’an whispered to him: “I had basically determined that the sea monster and Chang Siqin were inextricably linked.”
“On the first night, Old Hu and I had worked together to repel the sea monster, then a suspected blast wound had appeared on her arm.”
“The next night, I had asked her to release her fire power to help us cover, but she couldn’t even release her power and had been entangled in the tentacles.”
Duan Haiping thought for a moment: “You still lack substantive evidence.”
“That’s right,” Liu Jin’an nodded slightly. If he didn’t want to reveal his tracking ability, he would have to use other methods to expose Chang Siqin. “So, it’s up to you, my trump card, Mr. Xiao Duan.”
He wanted to use his ability to control metal in a short period of time to shoot bullets into the tentacles. By then, Chang Siqin would have been unable to argue.
Duan Haiping was very impressed by Liu Jin’an’s compliments and readily agreed to his request.
“Then how do you explain my appearance?” he asked.
Liu Jin’an thought for a while: “Let’s just say that you’re Uncle Hu’s summon, a superpower that just awakened during the day.”
“Nice arrangement,” Duan Haiping praised him without hesitation.
He glanced at Xiao Duan in surprise. This seemed to be the first time Xiao Duan had been so kind to him.
It was this glance that made him suddenly realize: “Xiao Duan, why don’t you look so good today?”
Duan Haiping said perfunctorily: “Maybe tired.”
Liu Jin’an nodded, looking at Xiao Duan’s face, which was exactly the same as Duan Haiping’s. He suddenly thought: “Today is the third day of the end of the world. He should have undergone bone replacement surgery on this day. I don’t know how he’s doing.”
“Although I knew the operation would be successful, it would be so painful to pull the bones out of the body and put the metal in. It makes me worried just thinking about it.”
Hearing this, Duan Haiping’s ears felt slightly hot. It turned out that this was how it felt to be missed.
His heart felt itchy, like being scratched by a cat’s paw, with a tingling sensation and endless aftertaste.
“If he knew that you were so worried about him, he would have been very happy.” Duan Haiping coughed twice and pretended to be indifferent.
Liu Jin’an sighed, his tone full of regret: “I couldn’t be with him when he needed me most. Even with my powers, I could still do very little for him.”
Duan Haiping didn’t understand why Liu Jin’an sounded like he owed him something from his previous life.
Besides, Liu Jin’an had done enough for him. If Liu Jin’an didn’t give him the news that the end of the world was coming, he wouldn’t have been able to gather so many supplies, let alone win the favour of the military so quickly.
The information provided by Liu Jin’an should have been the main contributor to the Duan Group’s current status.
Could it be that in the future foreseen by Liu Jin’an, there was something he had done for Liu Jin’an?
But Liu Jin’an shouldn’t be burdened with the responsibility.
If Duan Haiping sacrificed everything and even his life for someone one day, he would have done so willingly and without any regrets.
How could he blame others?
Duan Haiping opened his mouth but couldn’t say a word.
He was Xiao Duan now, Liu Jin’an’s summon, and he seemed to have no position to speak for Duan Haiping.
Tsk.
Maybe he should find a chance to confess to Liu Jin’an?
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Afterwards, Liu Jin’an brought Xiao Duan back to the dining table and explained the origin of Xiao Duan to everyone.
After receiving congratulations from others, Hu Deyi clasped his fists and smiled: “We’re all happy together. With Xiao Duan’s help, we’ll definitely not be as embarrassed as last night tonight.”
Liu Jin’an wasted a little time just now trying to find a place to summon Xiao Duan.
His stomach was about to rebel. He was preparing to eat when he suddenly discovered that Wang Gui’s daughter Wang Yunshan was also there.
He poked Hu Jianye next to him with his elbow: “Did Wang Gui bring his daughter today?”
“Where?” Hu Jianye looked around. “An’an, are you bluffing me?”
Liu Jin’an pointed at the girl not far away: “Isn’t that right? Old Hu, your eyesight is not good. You can’t even see it so obviously.”
Hu Jianye was stunned: “An’an, there’s something wrong with your eyes. It’s obviously Chang Siqin. If you don’t believe me, ask my mother!”
Zhang Wenqian took a look and said, “Hey, it’s really Chang Siqin.”
After receiving Aunt Zhang’s evidence, Liu Jin’an was stunned for a moment, and then suddenly realized something.
He quickly activated his tracking ability and was shocked to find that the sea monster was lurking at the bottom of the boat, not on Wang Yunshan in front of him.
“Xiao Duan, look at that girl. How old is she?” Liu Jin’an asked hurriedly.
Duan Haiping looked in the direction of Liu Jin’an’s finger: “She looks nine years old.”
‘I see!’
Liu Jin’an suddenly felt enlightened. He and Xiao Duan were the only two people who did not have dinner that night.
It happened to be them, and the little girl in their eyes was Wang Yunshan.
In the eyes of others, it was Chang Siqin sitting there.
In other words, there was something wrong with the food at the dinner. It caused everyone who ate it to hallucinate, mistaking Wang Yunshan for Chang Siqin!
The real Chang Siqin was the sea monster who tried to capture them.
After clarifying the roles played by Wang Gui and the others in this assessment, another question arose.
Why did they do this?
The spiritual treasure needed to go through a test to recognize its master, but until then, everything they experienced was not a test.
Although the sea monster hunted them, it only caught them and put them down when the time was up.
They could also upgrade their abilities for free every day.
Rather than saying this was a test, it was better to say it was a reward and a gift.
Duan Haiping knew that Liu Jin’an was thinking. When his eyes focused again, Duan Haiping asked him: “What are you going to do?”
If Wang Yunshan pretended to be Chang Siqin, then even if there were metal residues on the sea monster’s tentacles, there would be no traces on Wang Yunshan’s body.
Their plans would fail.
“Do nothing for now and wait for the last two days before taking action.”
“What about tonight, what should I do?”
“Wait, if the plan changes, just take advantage of it.”
Duan Haiping: “…”
He forced himself not to take general anaesthesia, just for the sake of fishing?
Liu Jin’an glanced at Wang Yunshan at the next table for the last time.
With a flick of his fingertips, a small ball of light rose into the air and burst into flames.
Everyone was watching the fireworks, but Liu Jin’an’s eyes fell on the little girl.
Like Wang Gui, she had no shadow.