Chapter 29 : The Hospital Room

Time rewinds to this morning.

C City Hospital.

Wang Ya was looking at the indoor map on her phone while searching for the hospital room.

Last night, Awei and Afu had been taken out of danger and moved to the general monitoring ward.

Although both remained unconscious, as their superior, Wang Ya still found it necessary to come visit them.

“Room 519… 519… Ah, found it.”

Room 519—patients Awei and Afu.

Since they were both unconscious, there was naturally no need to knock.

Wang Ya directly turned the doorknob.

To her surprise, there was already a nurse inside.

She was injecting something into Awei’s IV drip using a visual aid device.

Wang Ya’s sudden entrance didn’t startle her at all.

She simply finished injecting the liquid, packed up the metal tray without a word, and lowered her head to leave.

“Excuse me, please wait a moment.”

Wang Ya called out and blocked the doorway.

“What were you injecting?”

“Glucose.”

The nurse responded mechanically.

“Glucose, huh?”

Wang Ya walked into the room and sat down on a folding stool.

“Yes. May I go now?”

The nurse’s gaze was vacant and her tone flat, completely devoid of human warmth.

“Tch… glucose, huh?”

Wang Ya crossed her sleek black-stockinged legs and picked up a document from the bedside table to examine it.

“But there’s no charge for glucose on this payment receipt.”

She shook the receipt in her hand and questioned coldly.

Her words made the nurse’s face instantly darken.

“That was an extra charge. The receipt is under Patient 1’s pillow.”

“Is that so?”

Wang Ya got up to check under Awei’s pillow.

Just then, the nurse suddenly grabbed a scalpel, tossed away her tray, and lunged at Wang Ya with a twisted expression.

“Die!!!”

The tray clattered loudly as it hit the floor.

But Wang Ya had been on guard from the start.

She twisted her body, dodging the scalpel with ease.

The nurse missed and fell straight onto the bed.

Relentless, she tried to get up and attack again, but Wang Ya swiftly pinned down her knife hand with her knee, the immense pressure forcing her to drop the weapon.

Without hesitation, Wang Ya pulled out the handcuffs at her waist and locked the nurse’s wrists behind her with a click.

Just to be safe, she also took out a spare zip tie and bound the woman’s legs, completely subduing her.

She then dragged the nurse off the bed and onto the floor, kneeling on her to keep her restrained.

With one hand freed, she yanked out Awei’s IV needle—and just to be safe, she pulled out Afu’s as well.

The nurse struggled like a salted fish under Wang Ya’s knee, flailing weakly.

But then suddenly, she let out a pained scream, her head drooped, and she stopped moving.

She hadn’t used any powers since the fight started… was she just a regular human?

Wang Ya called out cautiously, but got no response.

It was as if the nurse were dead.

Though there was a chance the woman was faking it to catch her off guard, Wang Ya, as a police officer, had a duty to confirm her condition.

She carefully turned the nurse’s face and checked her neck for a pulse.

There was still a heartbeat—but very faint.

Suddenly, a cockroach-sized insect crawled out from the nurse’s hair and tried to scurry into a gap in the nearby medical equipment.

Wang Ya reacted instantly.

She stood up and stomped it with her high heel, crushing it precisely.

“A control parasite?”

Looking at the twitching corpse of the bug, Wang Ya immediately identified its species.

This insect parasitizes the cervical vertebrae and can control the host’s body.

It’s a type of gu bug. Most importantly, once the parasite detaches, it injects poison from its mouthparts into the host, causing extreme dehydration and hypoxia—its method of preventing extraction by killing the host.

This nurse could be in critical danger.

She was an innocent victim controlled by the parasite!

She had to get medical help right away!

Wang Ya immediately pressed the nurse call button by the bed—but a sharp sting suddenly shot through her fingertip.

“Hiss…”

Blood began to drip from her finger.

“Heh… I knew you’d try that…”

At the door, a one-eyed man in a white lab coat leaned against the frame, his face full of mocking amusement.

It was none other than Martin, the same cyclops man who attacked Wang Ya’s police vehicle that night!

Wang Ya felt the room spin around her.

Starting from her fingertip, numbness and stiffness rapidly spread throughout her entire body.

“Honestly, you’re too cautious. The original mission was just to erase those two guys. But now, thanks to your damned vigilance, I’ve got a whole lot of extra work to do. Sigh…”

Martin switched the room status sign to “Do Not Disturb,” stepped inside, and locked the door.

“But hey, Miss Wang of the Wang Family, this is an unexpected bonus. If I offer you to the master, the reward will be… substantial. Heh heh…”

“D-dream on…”

Wang Ya’s legs buckled, and she stumbled.

Barely managing to stay upright, she grabbed onto the oxygen machine by the bed to steady herself.

“Blood Ghost Art… Surge!”

Wang Ya extended her hand toward the one-eyed man.

A ripple of power stirred in the air—an ability activation.

Martin instantly went on alert and raised his guard.

However, after a few seconds, nothing happened.

“Damn it… Don’t come any closer!”

“Relax, I’m not going to,” Martin sneered.

“After all, the Cyclopeans aren’t built for close combat. Who knows what kind of tricks you’re still hiding—I’m not stepping into your strike range.”

Wang Ya slowly slid down along the wall and sat on the floor.

She picked up the various medical items the nurse had dropped and, out of frustration, began throwing them at Martin.

Bottled iodine, cotton swabs, gauze bandages… even her own high heels—anything she could get her hands on, she hurled at him.

Martin didn’t bother dodging.

He let out a cold, silent chuckle.

Now he was sure: Wang Ya was completely powerless to resist.

He had used her sense of duty as a police officer—knowing she wouldn’t stand by and let a nurse die—to force the parasite to abandon its host.

Then he planted a venomous bug by the emergency button, lying in wait.

The moment she pressed it, she was poisoned.

All of this had been a contingency plan Martin thought up on the spot when Wang Ya unexpectedly barged into the hospital room.

No fight.

No noise.

He could continue his mission quietly and efficiently.

Even Martin had to admit—he was impressed with himself.

After flinging everything nearby, Wang Ya slumped down, her head weakly leaning against the wall.

“Damn it… I’ve really fallen into your hands this time. At least let me die with some clarity—tell me who your master is… Why did you target my subordinates for assassination?”

“Do you think I’m stupid?”

“Why not tell me? Look at me—I can’t even fight back. If you’re going to offer me to your master, I’ll find out soon enough anyway, won’t I?”

Wang Ya said with a bitter, self-mocking tone.

“Heh… at least you’re self-aware.”

Martin sneered again.

Finally letting down his guard, he picked up the folding stool Wang Ya had been sitting on earlier and placed it in front of her.

Sitting down with a smug air, he looked down at Wang Ya from above.