Chapter 957: Chapter 949: The Look of Worry
At this mont, soone from below ca forward, saying that soone important from the office was here, and the head of the prison was asked to go imdiately.
The warden looked troubled, and Liu Rui imdiately said, “You go ahead and take care of your matters first; we’ll continue watching here for a while and leave when we’re done.”
The warden couldn’t think of a better solution, as he dared not offend either of the two in front of him, unaware of who had co looking for him from the office. Before leaving, he took a last glance back at Liu Rui and Xiao Yifei,
looking visibly uneasy.
After the warden left, Xiao Yifei just wanted to ask Liu Rui what his next plans were but hadn’t yet spoken when he felt a heavy blow to his head, everything turned dark, and he lost consciousness. Just before passing out, he saw Liu Rui standing before him and heard him say sothing, but by then, he was too disoriented.
When Xiao Yifei ca to, the first thing he did was check his phone, finding that he had been unconscious for about forty minutes. Instantly, he realized Liu Rui’s intentions of knocking him out—he must have entered the prison. Despite being an adult, how could he act so recklessly? His actions felt akin to a lamb rushing into a pride of lions.
Forty minutes had passed; Xiao Yifei climbed from the floor, ignoring his throbbing head, and urgently retraced his steps. Finally, on the way back, he saw two prison guards walking toward him. Xiao Yifei hurriedly asked if they’d seen the person who ca with him.
Both prison guards looked bewildered, saying, “We don’t know. The warden just sent us over to check up on you because you hadn’t returned for so long. We even thought you got lost!”
“This is bad, he must’ve slipped into the prison! Let in now, I need to find him,” Xiao Yifei said anxiously. He was holding out hope for Liu Rui not venturing alone inside, but it now seed certain he was already there.
“This is not sothing we can decide; let us report it to the warden. Most people wouldn’t dare enter that area,” the two guards said.
Upon finding the warden, Xiao Yifei was t with refusal. “Without ard protection, none of us dare enter recklessly, especially you as a civilian. If anything were to happen to you, we couldn’t bear that responsibility.”
Xiao Yifei continued pleading beside him for a long ti, but the warden wouldn’t budge. Helplessly, Xiao Yifei rembered that the old commander had told him to call in case of any trouble, so he dialed the commander.
Explaining the situation, the old commander asked to speak with the warden on the phone.
“Let him go in; if anything happens, I’ll take the responsibility,” said the voice on the line.
Given the command from above, the warden couldn’t insist further. He had rely received orders from his superior earlier that Liu Rui and the others would co; he hadn’t expected Xiao Yifei to directly contact soone so authoritative, which caught him off guard. It seed the person imprisoned might be soone formidable.
“Think carefully. You’re about to enter an unsupervised area, and if you encounter any peril or misfortune, we won’t be able to rescue you promptly,” the warden reconfird, unable to imagine what could happen after Xiao Yifei entered.
“I’ve thought it through, I can’t leave Liu Rui in there alone. I promised his grandpa that I’d take care of him; if anything goes wrong, I can’t face him afterward,” Xiao Yifei replied.
Thus, Xiao Yifei, led by a guard, entered the unsupervised area of the prison, and after the guard pointed the way, he departed, without saying a word.
Upon entering, Xiao Yifei felt a cold wind sweep across his back, his body trembling—probably due to psychological reasons. The place seed to exude a weird aura; he feared criminals might ambush him from anywhere.
Recalling previous scenes he’d witnessed, those inside were tolerable; at least there were guards on duty. But this place appeared entirely uncivilized, with only a few residential buildings barely considered decent. Who knew what kind of people lived there?
Finding Liu Rui was Xiao Yifei’s imdiate priority. But faced with the vast area, where should one start looking? Cautiously, Xiao Yifei entered a building, and before the door opened, a foul stench mixed with various odors hit him. He wondered how people managed to live here.
With one foot still outside, he hesitated whether to step in, but the urge to find Liu Rui prevailed. Holding his breath, he stepped inside, a great challenge indeed for a doctor with mild cleanliness phobia.
After walking a few steps, Xiao Yifei quickly realized where the sll was coming from—an elderly man, roughly seventy, lay on a shabby iron bed, surrounded by items on the floor looking like food. Xiao Yifei couldn’t be sure they were edible; they appeared like a dark, unappetizing heap.
“Are you new here? What did you do wrong?” The old man assud Xiao Yifei was a new prisoner, understandably; who else would dare venture into such a place except Liu Rui recklessly? Liu Rui entered to save his father. Why was Xiao Yifei here? To protect Liu Rui? Xiao Yifei pondered.
He couldn’t quite fathom the reason, as if so unconscious voice insisted he had to co, so disregarding everyone’s advice, he arrived at this place, uncertain of what may unfold.
“Ah, I’m not. I’m here looking for soone,” Xiao Yifei responded briefly upon gathering his thoughts.
“You do understand that once you’re in here, there’s no way out, unless you’ve got so unresolved issues compelling you to co here,” the old man said.
Looking at the elderly man’s apparent struggle to move his legs, Xiao Yifei asked professionally, “Mister, is there sothing wrong with your legs?”
“You must be a doctor, noticing it as I sat on the bed. Right, my legs suffer an old ailnt; when it gets cold, the joints ache, but it’s nothing major,” the old man replied, recognizing the young man before him as likely extraordinary.
As Xiao Yifei approached, the old man instinctively shrank back, asking, “What do you intend to do?”
Xiao Yifei explained, “I want to check your legs for you—I’m a doctor. Let’s see if I can help in any way.”
“Why would you help —a complete stranger? You must realize everyone here has committed grave errors in society. What’s the point in saving soone like that?” the old man questioned.
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