Kaidan Game Train: Abide Rule or Die!
Chapter 251: I Heard You Lost Your Brother’s Life

"At The Seventeenth Hospital, do you remember the man who stood beside you for the group photo?"

"Other than the other four young male doctors, there should have been another man about your age. He’s also a doctor. You’ve done many things for him; you might have been dating, but then he abandoned you and disappeared."

Liao Xu frowned at Xu Huo, "Mr. Xu, I really appreciate you coming to see my mother, but she truly can’t remember anything from the past."

Xu Huo’s expression remained unchanged as he simply said, "People don’t delete memories. What’s forgotten is still in the brain; they just can’t remember it for now."

"You’re right, but my mother is sick. Her brain has undergone changes, and if she can’t remember, then she can’t remember." Liao Xu stopped him and was about to ask him to leave, but at that moment, the female doctor suddenly moved. She went to her bed, took a tiny peach heart-shaped vanity mirror from her cabinet, and, with a smile, tidied up her hair before placing the mirror back where it belonged.

Xu Huo picked up the mirror and lightly tapped on it, and along with the falling mirror piece came a folded portrait. However, the man in the drawing had no eyes.

Liao Xu was quite surprised. "My mother drew this a few years ago when she was learning to sketch. She drew many that looked exactly the same."

"Without eyes?" Xu Huo slapped the picture and then put the paper back exactly as it was.

"No, she said she couldn’t remember the model’s face as she was drawing."

Xu Huo looked at the female doctor—this incomplete beginner’s sketch was the only clue he had found so far, and that too under the circumstance of the female doctor being ill.

Those who had spent time in The Seventeenth Hospital, including doctors and patients, all couldn’t remember the seventh doctor, as if their memories had been erased. But he believed in himself.

Unless one undergoes surgery to remove parts of the brain or the brain undergoes degenerative changes, memories do not vanish. They are always stored in the brain and can suddenly resurface under particular conditions, though they might also never be recalled.

The female doctor started getting sick a few years ago, so it was possible that she might suddenly remember a person who should have been forgotten. As for him, since he became a player, his brain had been evolving. With the catalyst of the potions, it wasn’t strange that forgotten memories would flash in his mind. Moreover, another proof was his history of medication.

In his clear memories, because his condition was more stable than other patients—eating and sleeping without causing any trouble to anyone—and also at his parent’s strong insistence, the hospital focused more on psychological intervention, without heavily medicating him. Therefore, those medication scenes he saw in his dreams should be real.

He had merely forgotten the key figure in those events, just like everyone else had.

It wasn’t clear if the doctor who never revealed himself but established the Seventeenth Hospital was the same person as the unseen businessman, but if someone had been quietly training him and then erased his memory, the other four kids might have experienced the same situation.

Chang Bei and the others disappeared or died ten years ago, and except for Chang Bei, the other three’s entire families perished. The records before the incidents showed they all grew up as normal people, entering school, graduating, being praised as outstanding students, and receiving medals for good deeds. To the outside world, the incidents in their families seemed merely unfortunate, but in his eyes, the four kids had "leveled up."

Hiding emotions, disguising identities, using cruel means to achieve their goals, while also gaining sympathy and support from outsiders, it was evident that by the time they left Seventeenth Hospital, they had completed a psychologically twisted evolution. Their increasing age only made it easier for them to carry out their plans.

And coincidentally, they all disappeared or died in the same decade.

Xu Huo was clear in his mind—they hadn’t died but had been taken away.

Missing memories, erased records, nonexistent people, suddenly vanishing asylums—who could do all this?

Xu Huo walked along the bleak path outside the sanatorium and stopped to light a cigarette when he saw leaves falling from the trees. He took a seat right there on the roadside.

Xu Zhi had also died ten years ago.

If Chang Bei and the others had been taken away, someone should have come for him too, but he was still well and alive.

"Ga ji—!" Several cars came speeding in and screeched to a halt near him. As the car doors opened, a group of muscular men got out. Buzz Cut, who was leading them, threw his cigarette butt down and stepped on it, then spat out and chuckled, "Xu Huo, it really is you, kid."

Without looking up, Xu Huo said coldly, "I’m not free to talk to you right now."

Buzz Cut slapped his forehead, "Haven’t seen you for several years, and you still have that damn temper. Look at you, you got away clean, but resulted in me being dragged into chasing debts. That would have been fine, but just as I was about to catch Zhang Dong, you had to make a call and get me tangled up with the Special Defense Department. Their vanguard team came and took him away, and I didn’t even get the debt back. So, how are we going to settle this account?"

"Brother Jie, is this the Xu Huo you were talking about?" A slender man standing next to Buzz Cut sized up Xu Huo. "He looks quite ordinary, I heard you guys were friends ten years ago?"

"Pah! Bullshit friends!" Brother Jie rubbed his buzz-cut hair. "If it hadn’t been for this kid having some skills, would I brother up with a kid whose balls hadn’t even dropped yet?"

"Xu Huo," he called out, "the mess you caused in the underground market got me the first time, and now you’ve done it again today. What, want to settle both the new debts and the old ones together?"

Xu Huo stood up to leave, but the slender man stepped in front of him first. "You’ve got great gambling skills, how about betting one last time with me?"

"I’ve quit," Xu Huo said.

The slender man sneered, "I heard you gambled away your own brother’s life..."

Before he could finish, he was sent flying through the air, then before he could hit the ground, a blur chased after him and pinned him down on the car. The force was so great it caved in the car door!

The slender man spat blood onto Xu Huo’s shoes and then his head was lifted up, his face magnified in Xu Huo’s vision.

"Still not dead with that, looks like you’re a player," Xu Huo’s gaze was chilling as he pinned it on the man’s face. "Who told you that I gambled away Xu Zhi’s life?"

Clearly not expecting to be taken down instantly, the slender man, out of shock and anger, said, "I won’t let you go..."

"Bang!" An abrupt loud noise cut off his words as Xu Huo kicked him repeatedly onto the car, listening to the sound of the man’s bones breaking one by one. He said, "You don’t have to say anything, I have plenty of time."

After speaking, he pulled the man out of the car door and forcibly administered a bottle of Self-Healing Potion, then shattered his leg with a kick, and proceeded to break his fingers.

"Ah!!!" The slender man’s screams were incessant. As Xu Huo reached for him, he yelled out, "It was Brother Jie! He’s the one who said it!"

Xu Huo let go of the man in his hand and turned his gaze towards Brother Jie.