Sun Biao was relieved to see that it wasn’t a Magical Girl who came, but Lin Yizhou.
He had spent the whole day in fear, hiding here without a single bite or drink.
Seeing this, Lin Yizhou took out a bread roll and a bottle of water from his pocket, handed them over, and asked.
“I heard you’ve run into some trouble lately. Can you tell me what’s going on?”
Lin Yizhou didn’t put on any airs. He came over, crouched down without minding the smell, and said calmly.
“If you explain clearly, maybe I can help you.”
“You can’t help…” Sun Biao wolfed down the bread, chugged the water, and muttered bitterly. “I’ve killed so many people… you can’t help…”
“Tell me exactly what happened?”
Maybe because he finally had someone to talk to, or maybe he was truly exhausted, Sun Biao put down the water bottle and muttered.
“My daughter has uremia. To cure her, I’ve been working nonstop and poured all my money into it, but it’s still far from enough…” As he said this, Sun Biao clenched his fists.
“Then I remembered that deadbeat Old Wang, who owed me over 10,000 in wages and never paid. I put up with it before, but now for my daughter, I had to get that money back. So… I took the Monster Cell I’d gotten a long time ago, trying to use this kind of force to threaten him into paying up.”
After gaining power, his first thought wasn’t to rob a bank or break an ATM, but to threaten a deadbeat into paying back a debt…
Lin Yizhou was silent, his chest feeling like it was blocked by a stone, only able to let out a heavy sigh.
He tried to keep his voice steady.
“Then… how did the house catch fire?”
Hearing this, Sun Biao’s tone immediately became agitated.
“I really didn’t mean to! I had no intention of harming anyone! I just wanted to get my money back! I never wanted to kill them!”
“Calm down, don’t get worked up. Slowly explain what happened.”
Lin Yizhou pulled out another cigarette and handed it over. The other man took it with trembling hands, lit it, and took a deep drag. The harsh smoke temporarily suppressed the fear in his heart. After a moment, he continued.
“I was standing at the door, and he still wouldn’t let up, saying ‘I have no money, you’ll have to take my life.’ So I got angry and transformed into a monster.”
Sun Biao exhaled the smoke from his lungs and muttered.
“After I became a monster, Old Wang was scared. He fell on his butt, kept backing away, begging for mercy, saying he’d give me money…”
Lin Yizhou didn’t rush him, just listened quietly. After a pause, Sun Biao continued.
“Just when I thought I was about to get my money, that crazy wife of Old Wang…”
Sun Biao got agitated again, gesturing with hands and feet. “She picked up that bag of flour on the table without a word and threw it at my head, and then… then BOOM! The whole room burst into flames!”
“I was terrified by what happened, didn’t care about anything else, and just ran. I heard Old Wang and his crazy wife’s miserable screams behind me. By the time I escaped the apartment building, the fire had spread. I was truly scared, just kept running and running… until I turned back to normal and fled here.”
At the end, Sun Biao repeated.
“I really didn’t want to kill them! I really didn’t! My daughter is still in the hospital waiting for me to pay…”
After that, only Sun Biao’s sobbing whispers and murmurs remained. He pulled at the weeds on the ground, repeating over and over. The grown man in his thirties now seemed like a helpless child.
“My daughter is waiting for me… I can’t go to prison, I can’t… I can’t…”
Seeing this, Lin Yizhou’s heart felt terrible, suffocatingly tight. An indescribable weight and sadness spread.
At this moment, Lin Yizhou couldn’t help but think of Su Lili. Both are fathers and daughters, even if Li Li is a daughter from the future. If he encountered such a situation, his feelings might be just as desperate.
But faced with this situation, what could he do? What could he help with?
Just lightly say, “I’ll save your daughter”?
Maybe… that’s all he could do.
Thinking this, Lin Yizhou said to Sun Biao.
“Sun Biao, in your situation, even if you surrender, I can’t guarantee lenient treatment.”
Hearing this, the despair in Sun Biao’s eyes deepened, but Lin Yizhou continued.
“However, for your daughter’s uremia, I have a specialized medical team that can help.”
But before Lin Yizhou could finish, this father in his thirties knelt on the ground without a word, kowtowing and saying.
“No problem! Nothing is a problem! As long as you can cure my daughter, I’ll do anything! I’m willing to do anything!”
Seeing this, Lin Yizhou quickly pulled him up and continued.
“I have no demands. Rest assured, as long as you reform quickly and can face your daughter properly when you get out, that’s enough.”
“Definitely! Definitely!”
Seeing the other man wanted to kowtow again, Lin Yizhou quickly stopped him and asked, “Which hospital is your daughter in? I’ll go see.”
“Kensington Children’s Hospital.”
“Alright, I understand.” Lin Yizhou stood up and said to Sun Biao, “Go to the East City Police Station and surrender. About three days later, a Magical Girl will come to take you away.”
“Understood.”
After giving instructions, Lin Yizhou prepared to head over to check on the situation. Sun Biao, now filled with hope, eagerly ran toward the East City Police Station.
Lin Yizhou didn’t waste any time either. Since he didn’t know how many days Sun Biao’s daughter had gone without kidney dialysis, he had to get to the hospital as soon as possible.
The hospital fees here were extremely high. One kidney dialysis session costs several thousand yuan, and he needed two to three sessions per week. At that price, even an average middle-class family couldn’t afford it.
…
But these weren’t problems for him. He had a professional emergency medical team on standby at a villa on the outskirts. As long as he could bring the girl there, they could keep her alive.
Lin Yizhou didn’t consider himself a hero, nor could he save many people, but he hated tragedies, so he wouldn’t stand by and do nothing.
The sky grew darker, lead-gray clouds hanging low, pressing heavily over the city as if to crush everything.
But Lin Yizhou couldn’t care about that. He rushed to Kensington Children’s Hospital as fast as possible, went to the information desk, and asked the nurse there.
“Can you check which room Sun Yingqiu is in?”
“Sun Yingqiu?” The nurse was startled, then quickly typed on the keyboard. After checking for a while, she said, “Because she hasn’t paid her medical fees for a week, and we couldn’t contact her family yesterday, so…”
The nurse’s voice trailed off, her eyes glancing toward the back door. Her implication was clear. Lin Yizhou’s face turned completely dark.
Without another word, he sprinted toward the back door of the hospital.
But… when he reached the alley in the back, everything… was already too late.
In the sky, a torrential rain poured down.