CHAPTER 351: CHAPTER 330: I’LL TAKE YOU HOME

"Put your clothes on!" Xiao Lin didn’t dodge but slightly tilted his body, grabbing her ankle with one hand and pulling her forward. Lian lost her balance and fell into Xiao Lin’s arms: "How many times have I told you not to kick immediately? Your lower body skills aren’t quite there yet."

Xiao Lin knew Lian well. She wasn’t a woman who enjoyed fighting. Although she was excellent with mechanics, her combat skills seemed childish in Xiao Lin’s eyes.

"Who are you really?" Lian struggled several times but couldn’t escape the man’s embrace, and the scent coming from him puzzled her. She should know him, at least she recognized his scent.

"Military Doctor!" Xiao Lin replied to her again. Just as he grabbed her ankle, he seemed to have caught onto something, but in a blink, she had slipped away from his arms, taking his clothes with her.

"What do you want?" Lian put on her coat, and the familiar scent increasingly seeped into her mind, confusing her thoughts! Should she know him? Taking a deep breath, this scent seemed to have never changed, and it felt even warmer.

"I’m here to take you home!"

"Home?" Lian tilted her head, seemingly unfamiliar with the concept of home: "This is my home, Fourth Master is here."

"This is not your home. You must come with me." Xiao Lin impatiently leaned forward. He couldn’t find the needle, and it was clear Lian’s entire bodily functions were fine. There was an expert here, just like him, who also understood the body’s meridians. Just now, he realized there was a blocked meridian within Lian, and the so-called amnesia might be pseudo-amnesia. Perhaps Lian’s brain had suffered a severe blow, causing temporary neurological confusion and memory mix-up. If given certain drugs, it was entirely possible to overturn a person’s brain memory. The downside was that long-term use of this drug was needed to control brain tissue and couldn’t keep the brain in a high rhythmic activity for an extended period.

Xiao Lin believed that this person called Fourth Master was fully capable of doing these things. The drugs he developed showed this person was not simple.

"You..." Seeing Xiao Lin approaching, Lian immediately jumped onto the sofa, unaware of where the clothes rack in her hand had gone, and she looked around for a weapon for self-defense.

"Lian, I won’t hurt you!" Xiao Lin spread his arms wide, exposing himself without any defensive measures.

Suddenly, Lian laughed, a peculiar laugh, and before Xiao Lin realized the problem, it was too late. With his body completely open and in a defenseless posture, Xiao Lin was knocked to the ground.

Lian hopped over to the man, squatted down, rubbed the fallen Xiao Lin with her hand, and then looked up to smile at the person standing by the side.

"来了!" The person standing extended a hand to Lian, helping her up from the ground: "Why didn’t you kill him?"

The standing person didn’t answer, just watched as the unconscious Xiao Lin was carried away.

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Opening his eyes, Xiao Lin twisted his neck, feeling a heaviness in his head and a sharp pain at the back of it, probably hit by a heavy object earlier, leaving a wound. Damn, that was a heavy hand. Trying to touch the wound at the back, Xiao Lin realized he was restrained.

There was the sound of dripping water nearby, and the air was moist, indicating he was still somewhere within the mountain. Raising his head, the glaring bright light pierced his eyes, making it difficult to keep them open. The rope was tight with slight elasticity, indicating it was cotton material. Such a rope has elasticity, making it harder to open the grip by force.

As his eyelids adjusted to the light, his eyes began to gradually accept the outside world. Upon fully opening his eyes, Xiao Lin’s first view was a world of white, completely white.

"Are you the Military Doctor?" Fourth Master’s voice came from the balcony, like a mechanical sound that Xiao Lin heard.

"I am."

"How do you prove you’re the Military Doctor?" Fourth Master raised an eyebrow.

"How do you prove I’m not?" Xiao Lin retorted, knowing the person was behind him to prevent him from seeing their true face.

"Many have come pretending to be the Military Doctor, but those people have all been thrown into the crevice in front of you."

"Living here requires a lot of courage. Aren’t you afraid those people will climb out and seek revenge?" Xiao Lin didn’t believe in ghost stories. Though this place was often rumored to be a haunted valley, with ghostly cries heard at midnight, and ghost shadows seen floating in the air, Xiao Lin found humans more terrifying than ghosts.

Fourth Master chuckled twice, stepping behind Xiao Lin: "Everyone says this place is haunted, and if that’s true, I’m the leader of these ghosts." While speaking, fingers touched Xiao Lin’s back: "As a man, you’re already quite good."

These were a woman’s hands, small-boned with force exerted at the pads of the fingers but too fine in pressure points, making the cold fingertips cause pores to contract rapidly, sending a shiver through the hair when touching the skin. Xiao Lin had an inexplicable feeling, trying to look behind, but the person had significant strength, and the hand traveling over his back seemed to carry a sense of desire, arousing all his senses.

"But it’s a pity if you are the Military Doctor, then indeed it’s a pity."

"Unfortunately, I am indeed the Military Doctor." Xiao Lin faced the white in front of him, silently reciting heart sutras to calm himself down: "Isn’t the whole point of all your machinations to find me?"

"Hmm!" the person behind uttered a short syllable and withdrew their hand: "You say you are a Military Doctor? How can you prove it?"

"Proof! No one has asked me that before." Xiao Lin laughed, fingers twisting around the cotton rope, quietly exerting force: "I’m a doctor, with you tying me up like this, how can you verify my authenticity?"

The person behind seemed to find his words reasonable, unable to come up with a good reason for a moment, they fell silent. Xiao Lin exerted force with his ten fingers, lifting his entire body up, flipping backwards to face the person behind.

"It’s you?" The person behind hadn’t expected Xiao Lin to make such a move under these circumstances, she stood a bit dazed in front of the man: "Angel of the Empress Palace!"

In Xiao Lin’s eyes appeared a woman, pure and angelic, without expression or words, she simply used her big eyes to gaze at Xiao Lin.

"You... how did you do it?" She curiously circled around Xiao Lin, uncertainly testing the hanging rope tied to him: "According to the force points of human anatomy, it’s impossible!"

The Angel seemed to be talking to herself, her voice still mechanical, Xiao Lin couldn’t help but marvel, seeing her serious expression. From the perspective of someone knowledgeable in medicine, she could be described as a fanatic, reaching a level of expertise in a certain hobby. No wonder she could create things others couldn’t, it was a kind of passion, though unfortunately not used in the right place. If such a person could be utilized by Dragon Soul, then Lao Long would owe him a favor.

"Human anatomy may not allow it, but with the inertia of force and long-term training, it is possible." Xiao Lin kindly explained to her: "Fourth Lord!"

"Hmm?" Setting aside all the messy matters, this Fourth Lord was still a child, as seen from her physical development not yet reaching a woman’s peak period. Her beautiful eyes gazed at a certain point, as if forgetting all the people here and sunk into her own thoughts.

"Ah, I think I understand!" She suddenly raised her head, her eyes full of brilliance but immediately clouded over: "I believe you are a Military Doctor, but it’s still a pity."

"Oh?"

"You’re impressive, but I’ve already taken everything from you, escaping isn’t possible." The Fourth Lord sat back on her soft sedan chair, clearly fond of this chariot-like mode of transport, adorned with soft blankets and cushions that looked quite elastic: "Let’s make a deal."

"Let’s hear it!"

"I release Lian, and you take her place!" The woman raised an eyebrow.

"That sounds not too bad."

"So you agree?"

"But I don’t want to stay here." Xiao Lin said in a low voice.

A heavy punch landed on Xiao Lin’s abdomen, causing him to bend over, stretching his arms long: "Don’t go against me, they’ll get angry."

Xiao Lin looked around, realizing there were more people than just the two of them. He was curious about these people, tall and big, yet moving like silent ghosts.

"You’re skilled with drugs, what did you do to them?" Xiao Lin tightly stared into the woman’s eyes.

"Nothing, they’re just white mice."

Angel? Haha, Xiao Lin suddenly felt this term was aptly fitting for this woman: "Using drugs to control people’s brains, destroying their central nervous system, although without swords or knives, it still accounts for invisible bloodshed."

"Ah! You can see through it?" The Angel once again giggled with excitement, even her laughter sounded mechanical: "Indeed, they die easily."

Of course they do! Xiao Lin mentally commented, no person could withstand such drug invasion, especially in such large doses.

"You stay and help me."

"Fourth Lord, why are you in the Empress Palace?"

"What’s strange about that?" For Xiao Lin’s evasive question, the Fourth Lord did not continue to press. She was a smart woman, not in a hurry to find answers: "This place is always wild, not as comfortable to stay as there. Besides, the Empress Palace is my property, why can’t I be there?"

"Oh?" Xiao Lin didn’t expect that answer, was the previous information wrong? However, regardless of the aspect, it seemed interconnected. He then asked: "So when we appeared in the Empress Palace, Fourth Lord already knew of our presence?" (To be continued. If you enjoy this work, welcome to visit Qidian (qidian.com) to vote for recommendations, monthly tickets. Your support is my greatest motivation.)