94: Chapter 94: Kindergarten (Please Favorite, Follow, and Vote for the Monthly Ticket) 94: Chapter 94: Kindergarten (Please Favorite, Follow, and Vote for the Monthly Ticket) He Ao had finished lunch well after three o’clock in the afternoon.
Even though he tried to eat as little as possible, he did feel sowhat overstuffed.
So, he decided to walk ho to help digest his al.
Although food from the main world couldn’t generate “Earth Qi,” it could provide energy for those already enhanced muscles.
After his internal organs had been nurtured, He Ao’s digestive ability also seed to have improved significantly.
By the ti he got ho, most of the food had already been digested.
Just as he reached the entrance of his community, he received a ssage from Zhang Ansha.
[Zhang Ansha: He Ao, one of the three people from the other night, codenad ‘Magic Apprentice,’ has escaped.
I’ve sent you his photo.]
[Zhang Ansha: (A picture of a person dressed in a magician’s tailcoat)]
[He Ao: How much is this worth?]
[Zhang Ansha: This man is dangerous, his ntal state is sowhat unstable.
If you see him, avoid him at all costs and contact us imdiately.]
[He Ao: Alright]
In short, this man wasn’t worth any money.
He Ao pocketed his phone.
Just as He Ao was about to head ho, halfway there, he suddenly stopped, noticing that Grandpa Fang’s stall wasn’t out.
Grandpa Fang usually set up his stall very early, and even if there was no business, he liked to sit there and watch the world go by.
Grandpa Fang had three sons.
the second and the third lived and worked out of town, and the eldest had bought a house in the city center, only occasionally visiting.
He Ao didn’t have any mory of Grandpa Fang’s wife; by the ti He Ao was very young, Grandpa Fang had been living alone.
He Ao keenly realized that sothing was not quite right.
So he headed straight into the complex.
Grandpa Fang also lived in the community, on the first floor, just behind the building where He Ao lived.
As a child, He Ao often went over to Grandpa Fang’s place to play.
“Auntie Li.”
As He Ao approached the building, he happened to run into Auntie Li, Grandpa Fang’s neighbor, who was walking her dog at the entrance.
“Ao,” Auntie Li greeted He Ao with warmth as she saw him, “Finished with school?”
“Mm-hmm,” He Ao pointed towards Grandpa Fang’s door, “Auntie Li, did Brother Fang co by today?”
Brother Fang was Grandpa Fang’s eldest son.
He Ao had grown accustod to calling him Brother Fang since childhood.
“No,” Auntie Li shook her head, glancing at Grandpa Fang’s door, “Now that you ntion it, it seems like old Fang hasn’t been out since he went grocery shopping this morning.”
He Ao’s eyebrows knitted, and he rushed to the door.
Grandpa Fang’s door was unlocked, so he pushed it open, imdiately noticing onions and tomatoes scattered all over the floor.
Following the trail of the vegetables, He Ao found Grandpa Fang lying on the couch, breathing weakly and with a pale complexion.
His fingers were tightly clutching the bedsheet, as if entangled by a nightmare.
“Grandpa Fang!
Grandpa Fang!”
He Ao called out several tis without response, realizing that the situation might be quite serious.
He imdiately dialed for ergency services, and at that mont, Auntie Li also arrived in a fluster,
“Has old Fang been possessed by so evil spirit?”
He Ao looked at her, “Auntie Li, do you have Brother Fang’s phone number?
Call him quickly.”
“Okay, okay.”
Auntie Li fumbled to get her phone out and made the call.
—One hour later—
Xidu Suburban Hospital
“Ao, how’s my dad?
What’s his condition now?”
A middle-aged man wearing a plaid shirt rushed into the hospital.
“Brother Fang, calm down,” He Ao grasped his shoulder, then pointed to the nearby ward, “The doctor said there’s no major issue detected for now, but Grandpa Fang is very weak and has been in a coma, receiving a glucose infusion.”
“Okay, okay.”
The man gradually cald down a bit, and followed the direction He Ao pointed to, walking into the ward.
He passed the door and saw the thin elderly man lying on the bed, and listlessly sat beside the bed for a while.
At such an old age, he cannot withstand any tornt.
After a while, he suddenly realized sothing, stood up, and walked out of the ward,
“Ao, did you cover the dical expenses?
I’ll transfer the money to you.”
However, his words awaited no response; the doorway was empty, and that handso and steady young man had long since disappeared.
——
He Ao walked into the deserted market.
The busiest ti for the market is in the morning.
Selling breakfast, vegetables, and at, voices bustling, and the calls of vendors never cease.
The people who generally co to buy vegetables in this area are middle-aged or elderly, and everyone likes to buy fresh vegetables early in the morning; vendors also typically prepare only enough for the morning.
After midday, basically no at or vegetables are left, and even if there are, they’re just the leftovers that others didn’t pick.
Only so students who co out to party or rent rooms by the day would buy so vegetables at this ti.
This market isn’t large; He Ao walked through the empty stalls, stopping at the front of every shop and stall.
He returned here because he felt an unusual energy from Grandpa Fang, unable to identify exactly what it was, but vaguely felt it wasn’t from Grandpa Fang himself.
If forced to make a comparison,
the energy felt sowhat similar to that of an exotic beast.
After the end of the second formal Copy World, his soul, just like the first ti, received feedback, not only replenishing the consumption of his Super mory but also improving the quality of his soul a little.
Together with the advancent in Martial Arts, his perception had beco much sharper than before.
The only place Grandpa Fang visited today was the market.
If there wasn’t an issue at the market, then it must be sowhere on his way to and from it.
He Ao searched the entire market but found nothing of note.
Finally, he arrived at the market’s corner—the bathroom of the market.
He went into the n’s restroom and checked it stall by stall.
With diverse people coming to the market, the restroom was hardly cleaned and was full of various strange slls; the restroom door was caked with grease and gri.
The restroom had only five stalls in total, and when He Ao reached the last one, he found the door tightly shut.
He tentatively knocked on the door.
“Soone’s in here!”
A voice that seed to belong to a middle-aged male ca from inside.
He Ao glanced at the door and walked out of the restroom.
So, the restroom was not the problem either.
He stood next to the washbasin, washing his hands, and just happened to look up to see an abandoned construction site not far from the market.
Though the sun was setting in the west, that construction site emitted a bizarre vibe entirely different from the surrounding buildings.
He imdiately left the market, heading towards the construction site.
Actually, this construction site had been there since he was in high school.
At first, a developer bought the land wanting to build a kindergarten.
But later, after the developer went bankrupt and jumped from a building, the site was naturally abandoned, with no one to take it over.
Not long after He Ao left, a thirty-sothing cultured and refined middle-aged man walked out of the restroom, washing his hands while looking towards the abandoned construction site.
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