Amidst the laughter of the two, Bai Xi remained silent for a moment, lost in thought.
The same excellent medical skills, the same hidden inner self; one suddenly lost his life, the other suddenly changed his disposition. Was it a coincidence, or was there a deeper mystery?
"Thank you for answering my questions. I shall take my leave."
With that, she turned to go.
Chen Yi watched Bai Xi's retreating back and suddenly thought of something else. After a moment of hesitation, he still spoke, "Oh, right, there was one other thing that was quite strange about He Mu."
Bai Xi immediately turned back, looking at Chen Yi. "What is it?"
Chen Yi said, "He clearly strongly opposed before..."
Before he could finish, he suddenly stopped. His entire gaze turned blank.
Seeing him spacing out, Bai Xi assumed he was thinking and asked, "Opposed what?"
Hearing Bai Xi's words, Chen Yi suddenly looked up at the person opposite him, and in the next second, he began to convulse.
He convulsed violently, falling backward, white foam continuously spewing from his mouth, and his eyes began to roll back.
This scene caught everyone off guard. It wasn't until Chen Yi fell to the ground that others reacted.
Bai Xi felt somewhat helpless. "What in the world is going on?"
If the person before her were a terrorist, she could subdue them directly.
If the person were a hostage of terrorists, she could also rescue them.
But the person before her was convulsing on the ground, and she had no idea what she could do.
Bai Xi's words finally jolted the doctor next to Chen Yi awake. The doctor snapped back to reality and immediately knelt down to check Chen Yi's condition. "Chen Yi, Chen Yi, can you hear me?"
As he spoke, he pried open Chen Yi's eyelids to examine his distress.
Just then, the foam in Chen Yi's mouth turned bright red. Fresh blood mixed with foam flowed out of Chen Yi's mouth.
The man grew more panicked. He reached out to pry open Chen Yi's mouth, but he couldn't budge it for a long time. He was even knocked to the ground by Chen Yi's convulsions. "It's over! He's bitten his tongue! Someone, please help me! Help me pry his mouth open!"
When people convulse, they are insensible. Therefore, they don't feel pain even if they bite themselves. If they bite down hard, and blood enters the airway, blocking the trachea, they will die.
Bai Xi immediately stepped forward and clamped Chen Yi's mouth shut. Blood flowed out of his mouth like a opened sluice gate.
The man quickly rushed over, used something to press down on Chen Yi's tongue, and stuffed a large piece of cotton. "Miss, please help me hold him down. I'll go get a sedative!"
Bai Xi immediately delivered a sharp chop to Chen Yi's neck, but the person did not stop convulsing.
The man said, "His nervous system has an abnormality. This convulsion is involuntary. I'm going to get a sedative now!"
With that, he turned and ran.
Bai Xi no longer spoke, merely holding Chen Yi's mouth tightly with her hands, preventing him from harming himself further, but she had no other way to alleviate the situation.
If Han Mo were here... he would likely have other methods.
A short while later, the man returned and injected the sedative into Chen Yi.
Bai Xi frowned, still not loosening her grip. "What happened to Doctor Chen?"
The man's expression was clearly frightened. "It should be epilepsy, but I never knew Chen Yi had epilepsy! And if he had epilepsy, he wouldn't be able to be a surgeon. What's going on? Is this a sudden onset of the condition?"
Seeing the man's bewildered look, Bai Xi didn't press further. "What else can we do now?"
The man shook his head forlornly. "We can only wait now. Miss Bai, you can release your hand. He will gradually recover."
Bai Xi watched as the person's convulsions gradually subsided and released her hand. "Do you know what his unfinished sentence was?"
The man gently shook his head. "I know what Chen Yi was talking about, but I really don't know what he was about to say."
Seeing his blank expression, Bai Xi knew that further questioning would be meaningless, so she stopped asking.
Just then, the ambulance arrived.
Since it was in the hotel lobby, many people witnessed the event. The hotel lobby manager had called an ambulance after the incident.
The doctors from the ambulance got out, and the two of them placed Chen Yi on a stretcher and carried him away. Chen Yi's colleagues naturally followed the ambulance. He was sent to Haidao City Central Hospital, and his doctor colleagues accompanied him.
Bai Xi stood in the hotel lobby, her fingers still stained with Chen Yi's blood, somewhat dazed.
Chen Yi had said earlier that He Mu's personality changed drastically a month ago. He wore metal-rimmed glasses, was generous, and liked to mask himself with a smile. His medical skills and pharmacology had become more profound. This reminded her of someone... Han Mo.
However, what did Chen Yi's unfinished words represent?
He said He Mu had one more change from his past, but he only said half of it before convulsing. What exactly did he want to say?
And he had convulsed before he could finish speaking. Was this just a coincidence?
Watching the direction of the receding ambulance, Bai Xi saw the glaring sun. The mysteries in her heart became more chaotic, yet a thread of a clue was faintly emerging, as if it were the beginning of everything.
The weather was clear and bright, the scorching sun hanging in the sky, making one's heart feel as if it were burning.
Bai Xi returned to the Haidao City Border Defense Forces three days later.
The mutated individuals were now all recovered. Externally, they were not much different from ordinary people, and little of their bestial forms could be seen on their bodies.
And the boy who had been transformed into a snake was the one who had transformed the best. At this moment, no trace of his bestial form could be seen on him. He was thoroughly cleaned, a very handsome boy, completely different from the terrifying form Bai Xi had first seen.
However, he sat alone in the corner of his bed, hugging his knees, quiet, his eyes lowered, making no sound. If it weren't for the faint rise and fall of his body from his shallow breathing, one might think he was a small, lifelike doll.
Shangguan Wen, seeing Bai Xi looking at the boy, also showed a hint of concern. "After treatment, everyone else can engage in simple communication, but he... he's always like this. They have memories of their own mutations... so most of them are not in good spirits."
Bai Xi's eyes turned icy.
Having memories of their mutated state was equivalent to having memories of themselves becoming monsters and killing others.
Most ordinary people would feel fear and unease after killing someone. These people were also ordinary, so it was normal for them to feel this way. However, killing strangers was more about fear, especially since they couldn't control themselves at the time.
And this snake-like boy... the one he personally killed was his father, who loved and doted on him!