Global Examination N Chapter 120

Bloody Carnival

Chapter 120: The Hospitalised Woman

You Huo sat down in a chair by the window.

There was actually a chair opposite his, but Qin Jiu didn’t choose to sit there. He leaned against the back of the You Huo’s chair and asked, “What are you looking at so eagerly?”

“Photo.” You Huo didn’t hide anything, He lifted his phone to show him.

“Sothing you received?” Qin Jiu reminded him, “You didn’t go online did you?”

“No.” You Huo glanced at him, “Not asking where I got it?”

“I can guess.”

“That 001 rank isn’t in vain. Your observational skills are not bad.”

You Huo moved the phone to his right hand to let Qin Jiu see as well.

Qin Jiu let out an ‘oh’, “Then compared to A?”

You Huo didn’t look back, “Almost there.”

After saying that, his hair was ruffled.

You Huo quietly snorted as he selected open the photo.

That photo wasn’t very clear and there were also lines running through them that would typically appear when one takes photos of screens. Since 021 was nervous when she took the photos, the first one was blurry.

But Qin Jiu could tell that it was a photo of a monitoring screen. It was a photo of soone’s confinent room.

He was a little surprised.

“Whose?” Qin Jiu asked succinctly.

“Old Yu.” You Huo zood in on the photo and pointed at a figure, “Here.”

Although the face had turned pixelated, Old Yu’s unique posture and bent neck could easily be identified.

The pure white bed and a basket of flowers were also distinctive features despite its blurriness. You Huo recognised it at once, “Should be the hospital.”

Qin Jiu lowered his finger and moved the photo to the right, revealing another pixelated figure on the bed, “Who is this?”

You Huo was a little hesitant.

It seed that in this photo only that part there was sothing he was unfamiliar with.

Qin Jiu examined the blurry photo and couldn’t’ seem to understand 021’s intentions, “Any other photos? Ones where you can see their faces more clearly.”

You Huo was still in daze.

He reacted a few seconds later and swiped to the next photo.

The picture this ti was clear. It was as if soone with short-sightedness finally put on glasses.

Without even needing to zoom in, the face of the person on the bed could be seen.

“Do you recognise her?” Qin Jiu asked.

He glanced at You Huo and saw that the other party’s eyebrows were slightly furrowed as he stared at the sickly woman who was seemingly pretending to be healthy and also seemingly a little dazed.

After a mont, he saw You Huo’s brows relax. A self-deprecating smile appeared on his face, “My mother.”

Qin Jiu was completely stunned.

For a mont, he didn’t know what to say.

He had thought that it was probably You Huo’s distant relative, or even an unrelated stranger….

He didn’t expect this answer.

You Huo stared at the photo for a very long ti. This continued until soone comfortingly swiped their finger across his face.

He returned to his senses and looked at Qin Jiu, “Is it a little surprising?”

Qin Jiu, “It is, a little.”

“She——” You Huo’s eyes moved back to the photo. He continued in a low voice, “Passed away very early. I rember how she looked like when she wasn’t sick, but it had been too long, my mory isn’t clear, and the photo is a little distorted so….”

He fell silent for a mont, “I didn’t recognise her earlier. I feel a little sorry.”

The light in the room was of a single colour tone. It made him looked as if……he was feeling sad about this person who had suddenly appeared in the photo.

“It should be around this ti.” You Huo’s voice was still calm, but it was very low. He pointed at the photo, “Old Yu’s relationship with her was very good. It seems that he took care of everything before she passed away. I suspect my father was probably an artist, a drifter probably. The type that would leave without leaving a trace behind. I haven’t t him before and no one ntioned him…..”

As he said this, his usual mocking tone leaked out, but he quickly stored it away.

He had used the words ‘should’ and ‘seems’. Qin Jiu could tell that his mory of those people and the events back then was vague and unclear.

Perhaps it was because he was still young at that ti. But…….

You Huo seed to have read his thoughts.

After a mont of silence, he explained, “I have always been studying in boarding schools; elentary school, junior high school, senior high school and later military school. It was because there was no one around to take care of —–”

He looked at the woman in the photo, “She was too busy. I would only see her on weekends or during holidays…..and even then I wouldn’t necessarily see her.”

In his mory, she would always be wearing a white coat and would either just be about to leave, or just arriving ho.

There wasn’t a lot of communication between them. Perhaps it was because the mother and child are too similar and are both not very talkative people.

When You Huo was a child, he would often ask her for help if he encountered a problem.

She was a smart and powerful person and could always give him accurate answers, but her answers were always too complicated and too difficult for a child to understand. She would then use even more complicated explanations to clarify her earlier answers.

If was as if she wasn’t interacting with a child and was conversing with a scholar or a colleague.

Because his mory was too vague and too few, whenever he tried to rember her, her features would all be blurred, and he could only rember that white coat.

You Huo returned to his senses and said to Qin Jiu, “That is all that I rember……. Perhaps they had also been tampered with.”

They could still clearly rember Chu Yue’s words from last ti.

Chu Yue had said that You Huo’s childhood was tied together with the system and the systems upgrade relied on his eyes. Everything he saw and everything he experienced was also seen and experienced by the system. If he didn’t have much of an impression, it ant that his mory was likely tampered with.

Tampering was one thing, but Qin Jiu hoped that at least You Huo’s mories of his parents would remain true.

But he felt that…

If even these mories were disturbed, then the truth may make You Huo more unhappy.

Qin Jiu was a little lost in thought as he looked at the photo.

That woman was resting against the head of the bed. She held Old Yu’s hand and appeared to be saying sothing.

After staring for a while, he could indeed tell that she looked three points familiar, especially her eyes. Qin Jiu looked very carefully hoping to see so regret or deep emotions, but it was to no avail.

She looked like she was talking about sothing trivial.

Qin Jiu said, “The tampering should be done on mories related to the system. These mories shouldn’t be included, right?”

“Not necessarily.” You Huo rubbed his finger across the screen and turned to Qin Jiu, “Her illness developed very quickly. During her stay in the hospital, I didn’t go there a single ti. According to my mory, this is sothing I shouldn’t have seen but…”

“Want to make a bet?” You Huo asked casually like he was suggesting a small ga to pass ti.

His finger swiped across the screen to change the photo.

The woman was still talking but Old Yu this ti appeared very agitated.

Another swipe.

The woman was still indifferent. Old Yu held his head and seed to be making a difficult decision.

Another swipe.

In another photo, a third person finally appeared.

It was You Huo from many years ago. According to his mory, he should not have appeared in this ward.

The mont he saw this photo, he suddenly seed to have recalled sothing.

He seed to rember the strong sll of disinfectants. It was a sll unique to hospitals.

And there was also Old Yu’s stunned face.

After a mont, You Huo chuckled softly.

“Look, I won the bet.”

He raised his phone.

His hand was suddenly empty. Soone had taken the phone.

“Not necessarily.” Qin Jiu’s arm hooked over. His muscles were warm and firm, “It’s just a confinent room. It doesn’t necessarily represent the truth.”

You Huo made a sound of agreent.

The sky outside the window was completely dark. His and Qin Jiu’s figures were clearly reflected on the windowpane. Although it was just a reflection, it was more real than any mory.

He suddenly felt that it didn’t matter.

“I have to ask Old Yu about this properly. He also looks like he has sothing to say.” You Huo decided.

In just a blink of an eye, his tone had turned for the better.

Qin Jiu agreed, “Choose a suitable ti.”

“Wu Li said last ti that she had sothing to tell us, but we didn’t have the chance.” You Huo then said.

“Then choose a suitable ti for that too.”

“I suspect that these two matters are related.”

“That’s better. It can fill in the gaps.”

You Huo nodded. He rubbed the back of his head against Qin Jiu’s chest, “But Old Yu might not tell the truth.”

“Don’t forgot your silly brother. If worst co to worst, you can bluff him.” Qin Jiu reminded.

“That makes sense.”

“What about ?” Qin Jiu asked.

You Huo turned his head to look up at him, “What about you?”

“Mr Invigilator here is clearing out past debts but you have missed your biggest enemy here. I feel very left out.” Qin Jiu playfully joked.

You Huo looked at him through half narrowed his eyes before suddenly reaching out to rub his neck and throat, “Invigilator Gi’s punishnt……is to make this Head Invigilator happy.”

……..

No light could be penetrated through the heavy curtains.

The coolness of the night outside however could still travel through the window and curtains into the room, but it was completely gone before it could reach the bathroom.

A slender and sharply defined hand was pressed against the glass that was coated with water droplets. Under the steaming heat and sound of water splashing, that hand tensed and relaxed over and over again.

Water droplets rolled down You Huo’s neck, running down his thin shoulder and waist before reaching his rmaid line and hip bones.

Qin Jiu’s kiss fell on You Huo’s shoulder as the other party stretched out his neck in response before turning to look back at him with narrowed eyes.

He knew. His Big Invigilator is a very resilient person. No matter what he saw, rember or encounter, he would always be able to calm himself back down very quickly.

Between them, there was no need for one-sided comforting and pity.

I’m not here to save you, I’m here to love you.

KK has sothing to say:

“I’m not here to save you, I’m here to love you.” ??????