City’s Best Divine Doctor
Chapter 597 - 0598: Contact Zhao Ruxue

Chapter 597: Chapter 0598: Contact Zhao Ruxue

Just past seven in the morning, when Ye Xue got up to make breakfast, she noticed that Ye Qiu’s car wasn’t parked in the garage. Rushing upstairs, she realized that Ye Qiu wasn’t in his room and had gone out.

Where could Ye Qiu have gone this early in the morning?

"Ye Qiu, where are you?"

Ye Xue took out her phone and called Ye Qiu.

Ye Qiu was still at Jiangbei First People’s Hospital waiting for Li Shen and Zhu Zhiming to wake up.

"Sis, I’m over at Jiangbei First People’s Hospital. Something happened to Li Shen and Zhu Zhiming last night," said Ye Qiu.

"What happened to them?"

"I’ll explain when I get back."

After hanging up the phone with Ye Xue, Ye Qiu couldn’t help but wonder if the perpetrator behind the scenes was targeting him. Now that both Li Shen and Zhu Zhiming were injured, having barely escaped with their lives, did it mean that his other relatives and friends were also in danger?

This worried Ye Qiu even more.

Recalling the mass poisoning case at the last housewarming party, this was what Ye Qiu was most concerned about.

When Ye Qiu left Jiangbei First People’s Hospital and went outside where it was much quieter, he took out his phone to call Zhao Ruxue.

Zhao Ruxue was still investigating the mass poisoning case, but without any leads; they hadn’t yet identified any suspects.

Zhao Ruxue was in her room at the Zhao Family Courtyard, having worked late into the night. She initially planned to go to the police station at nine in the morning to continue investigating the poisoning case.

Upon hearing her phone ring, she immediately woke up, reached for it, and saw that it was a call from Ye Qiu.

"Hello, what’s up?"

Zhao Ruxue, still in her pajamas and feeling sluggish—not fully awake yet—knew that as a police officer, the luxury of a full eight hours of sleep like ordinary people was an impossibility.

"Something happened to a friend of mine last night."

"What happened?"

Zhao Ruxue asked urgently.

"Do you remember the living dead we dealt with last time?"

As Ye Qiu brought it up, Zhao Ruxue took a moment to recall the incident with the creature that had injured her sister and was then captured in a net and burned with gasoline by Ye Qiu’s order.

"I remember, what about it?"

"My friend might have been harmed by something like that last night!"

"That serious? Where are you—I’m coming right now."

"I’m at Jiangbei First People’s Hospital."

Said Ye Qiu.

"I’m on my way there now."

The moment she heard that another thing—neither human nor a conventional corpse, but also unlike Zombies—was causing trouble, Zhao Ruxue became intensely interested.

She hurriedly got up, washed, dressed, and left without eating the breakfast her mother had made for her, driving straight to Jiangbei First People’s Hospital.

By the time she arrived at Jiangbei First People’s Hospital, it had been an hour and a half later.

Zhu Zhiming had already woken up, but recalling last night’s events, his eyes were still filled with fear and terror.

"Little Zhu, what exactly happened?"

Ye Qiu inquired.

"I was playing a game at the time when I suddenly felt a chill all over my body, especially on my neck, and then I noticed that the window, I don’t know when, had been opened."

Zhu Zhiming recalled what happened last night, he remembered the window being opened, and then went over to close it because the air conditioning was on.

Then, somehow the lights in the room turned off!

He was already scared at that time, so before anything happened, he yelled out loud. Zhu Yulin and Li Meizhen downstairs heard him and hurriedly ran upstairs.

At that time, Zhu Zhiming only saw a shadowy figure in the dark room, then he felt pain all over his body and collapsed to the ground with a scream. By the time Zhu Yulin and Li Meizhen came in, they saw the scene from last night.

"A shadowy figure?"

Ye Qiu asked.

"It was a shadowy figure. The room was so dark I couldn’t see clearly, but I felt severe pain all over my body, and then I lost consciousness."

Ye Qiu knew that it might have been when Zhu Zhiming felt the chill behind him that the undead had come in through the window, and when Zhu Zhiming went to close it, the lights inside the room were turned off, probably by the undead as well.

"Anything else?"

"I seemed to smell a foul, rotten stench."

There was no need to say it, that was definitely the scent given off by the undead.

Ye Qiu was certain, one hundred percent, that it was the undead who committed the crime!

"Okay, you rest for now."

Ye Qiu found that Zhu Zhiming was almost scared out of his wits, although it didn’t cause his spirit and soul to scatter, but he was indeed terrified, and Zhu Zhiming’s courage was much smaller than Li Shen’s.

This time, it really scared him so much that he couldn’t recover for a long time.

When Ye Qiu went to see Li Shen again, Zhao Ruxue had just arrived.

"How is your friend?"

Zhao Ruxue asked.

"They’re all right now, but last night was very serious."

Zhao Ruxue noticed the bloodstains on Ye Qiu’s clothes, and if they weren’t his, it was very likely they belonged to his friend.

Last night Ye Qiu carried Li Shen to that bed, and it was then that he accidentally touched those bloodstains, which now remained on his clothes, and probably couldn’t be washed off.

As Ye Qiu and Zhao Ruxue walked and talked, Zhao Ruxue still felt quite frightened after hearing it.

"Right now, I’m not worried about these two people, I’m worried that the killer is targeting my friends and relatives."

Zhao Ruxue and Ye Qiu entered Li Shen’s hospital room, who had already woken up but still didn’t seem very coherent. Obviously, Li Shen’s courage was much greater than Zhu Zhiming’s; he was not afraid of those small-time hoodlums on a normal day.

But his condition this time was even worse than Zhu Zhiming’s.

"Bamboo Pole, how do you feel now?"

When Li Shen saw it was Ye Qiu, he said, "Better."

He didn’t know that his intestines had spilled out last night, he just knew that he had passed out from the pain.

When he woke up again, he found his parents by his side, and that’s when he learned that it was Ye Qiu who had come to save him last night.

"Tell me about what happened last night."

As Li Shen tried hard to recall everything that happened last night, initially, his situation was similar to Zhu Zhiming’s. Only, his window was originally open, and for some reason, it had been closed, and then when he went to open it, he saw a shadowy figure and smelled a foul stench.

By the time he tried to get a clear look at the shadowy figure, he felt pain all over his body, and then he fainted.

Clearly, the perpetrator of these two attacks was the same person, and one after the other—first attacking Zhu Zhiming, then Li Shen, with not much time in between. This indicates that while Ye Qiu was treating Zhu Zhiming, the perpetrator had gone after Li Shen.