As the car stopped, Li Zhengguo pushed the door open and got out. The nurse at the information desk in the lobby saw him and told him that his mother was in the dean's office.
"Mom? Are you alright?"
Li Zhengguo hurried to the dean's office and saw his mother lying on the examination bed with many silver needles in her chest and head. He anxiously inquired.
Li mother blinked her eyes, unwilling to speak.
Ouyang Meihua said, "Her blood pressure is high and her heart rate is fast. Yuan Man has been called to go to the county to do a cardiac color ultrasound and a head CT scan."
Li Zhengguo turned to look at Yuan Man.
Yuan Man nodded, "It's better to check. Grandma suddenly felt flustered and panicked, and she doesn't want to talk."
Li Zhengguo paused and sat down by the examination desk, "Let me see."
As soon as Yuan Man took his pulse, he immediately frowned, "Your symptoms are very similar to Grandma's."
Li Zhengguo withdrew his hand and walked to Li mother's side, "Mom, shall we go to the county for a check-up?"
"No."
Li mother refused, "I want to wait for Tiantian at home."
When she first felt the chest tightness, she felt it wasn't an illness, but a bad premonition. She wanted to see her younger daughter-in-law to feel at ease.
Li Zhengguo persuaded, "Tiantian is busy, and her phone is unreachable."
Hearing this answer, Li mother still felt uncomfortable, "I'll wait for her to come back. If I still feel uncomfortable after she returns, then I'll go to the county for a check-up."
When the secretary found them, he saw County Mayor Li and the County Mayor's mother receiving acupuncture together. He worriedly advised County Mayor Li and the old lady to go to the county hospital together.
They were both refused.
The next day, mother and son went directly to the clinic in Kushan for acupuncture. County Mayor Li was too dispirited to go to work, so he took another leave of absence.
Thus, the news of County Mayor Li's discomfort spread. Many people brought gifts to visit. Li mother was so annoyed that she sent her younger son to work.
Then she closed the door to visitors.
"Tiantian, come home, Mom misses you."
Li mother sat on the sofa, her eyes vacant, mumbling to the yard.
Looking at their dazed mother, Li Min and Ouyang Meihua were both anxious.
Li Min asked her elder sister-in-law to call Yan Yan, but couldn't get through.
Li Min personally called Li Weihao. After she got through, she complained:
"Hurry up and ask your mother to come back. Your grandmother misses your mother so much that she's becoming obsessed. She refuses to go to the hospital, and only goes to the clinic for a few needles every day, saying she wants to wait for your mother to come back."
Li Weihao covered his mouth as he walked out of the hospital, "Aunt, please persuade Grandma to go to the hospital. My mother has taken on a mission and gone abroad. She won't be back for a long time."
"Gone abroad?"
Li Min exclaimed, "So she's far away, no wonder your grandmother suddenly..."
Before Li Min could finish speaking, her own mother snatched the receiver from her hand.
"Hao Hao, where did your mother go? I miss her so much these past few days."
Li Weihao suppressed the sob in his throat, "My mother has gone abroad, across a big ocean, it's very far."
"Grandma, please listen to your aunt and go to the hospital for a check-up. If there's nothing wrong, everyone will be at ease. If there is something wrong, seek treatment early. Mom is too busy, she can't take care of you."
Across a big ocean? No wonder she couldn't sense her younger daughter-in-law anymore?
Li mother sighed, "Send your mother a text message and tell her to take care of herself. She's already dozens of years old, why is she still going on missions? She doesn't lack food or drink, she should just retire."
"I'll go to the county hospital for a check-up tomorrow. Don't worry, it's just your aunt being overly nervous and making random calls."
Listening to Grandma's nagging, Li Weihao's eyes filled with tears.
After hanging up the phone, he punched the flower bed. With a "crack," a large section of the flower bed wall fell off, and the bricks and cement on the ground turned into small fragments.
"Wei Hao."
Li Wanting stood in the hospital corridor with Xuan Xuan, holding her hand.
Li Weihao quickly walked over to them, "Why did you come out?"
Li Wanting looked at her husband's moist eyes, "Did something happen at home?"
"No."
Li Weihao shook his head, "Grandma misses Mom. She's not feeling well and doesn't want to go to the hospital. Aunt called to look for Mom, and I coaxed Grandma by saying Mom went abroad."
"Wuwuwu."
Xuan Xuan started crying, "I want to go back to accompany Great Grandma."
Li Weihao squatted in front of his niece, "What about your Grandma here?"
"Grandma has you all to accompany her."
"But are you sure you can keep a secret? Your grandfather is not as easy to fool as your Great Grandma."
"Wuwuwu."
Xuan Xuan leaned sadly into her maternal uncle's embrace, "When will Grandma wake up?"
"Soon."
Li Weihao gently patted his niece's back, "As long as Xuan Xuan calls Grandma by her ear every day, Grandma will definitely wake up."
"Okay, wuwuwu."
...
In the intensive care unit, various instruments beeped. Xuan Xuan, wearing a sterile gown, stood beside her grandmother, who was covered in tubes, and softly called out:
"Grandma, Great Grandma misses you, Grandpa misses you, Xuan Xuan misses you too. Please wake up soon, Grandma."
Outside the intensive care unit, Han Lu, Li Weiyan, Li Weihao, Li Weibao, and Li Weixin all watched from outside the window.
They longed for the person lying there to suddenly open her eyes.
...
Time slowly flowed by. The patient in the intensive care unit had been moved to a VIP ward, but her eyes remained closed.
It was already four months later when Zeng Jingrong finished handling all the aftermath. The incident occurred abroad, making many things difficult to handle.
Fortunately, the US side denied that the laboratory, full of sin and evil, belonged to their country.
He only needed to negotiate with the Association of Superpower Users.
The foreign Association of Superpower Users did not belong to any country, so there was no need to escalate the issue to a state-to-state level.
However, he seized the opportunity to expand the scope of the incident. Under the guise of searching for the two missing superpower users from China, Cheng Yuebo and Shen Wei abroad, he exposed the superpower user experimental bases he had discovered in various countries.
The high-level officials of various countries were shocked by the incident at the laboratory in the Devil Desert on the plateau. They were also afraid that superpower users in their own countries would conduct similar experiments. They took a firm stance and ordered their respective superpower user associations to cooperate with the investigation by the Chinese special team.
As a result, quite a few zombie-like experimental subjects were indeed found.
Where did these experimental subjects come from? They were all superpower users from the Devil Desert laboratory who had taken enhancement potions and become violent.
The superpower user associations of many countries, after their superpower users became violent from taking potions, began to research the potions themselves.
After this grand investigation by him, many low-level superpower users, after understanding the inside story, were so scared that they withdrew from the superpower user associations and joined their respective national armies...
Zeng Jingrong sat by the hospital bed, looking at Tian Jing, who seemed to be asleep, and felt a pang of pain:
"Tiantian, do you know? Those superpower users who took potions to upgrade not only fell directly to below level three, but they couldn't even gather energy anymore. In other words, they became useless."
"My superpower team members who went to support me also dropped in level, and using their powers felt very clumsy. But after practicing in the dungeon, their energy flow became smooth. However, it seems impossible to improve further."
"But it doesn't matter. Our levels are far beyond those of foreign superpower users, and with Ranran, a level six existence, we still have considerable deterrence."
"Heaven is fair. They cruelly used bloodthirsty methods to increase their levels, and then heaven took it back from them."
"Hurry up and wake up. If you don't wake up, I don't know how to deal with Zhengguo."
"Your mother-in-law's health is also deteriorating. Aren't you going to see her?"
"I'll give you three days. If you don't wake up, I'll send you back to the Li family."
"I think they would rather see you with their own eyes and take care of you themselves, than to worry and guess like this."