Chapter 6 Value

Yang Na took a small step back in panic when she saw Li Huowang's move. "What are you doing? The nurses at the station can hear us talking."

As soon as her words ended, the sound of the nurses chuckling came through the speaker. "Haha, it's okay, we can't hear you, Little Li, you got to hang in there~"

"Sisters, can you not be so gossipy? Focus your extra attention on the ICU instead."

After shouting at the speaker beside his bed, Li Huowang pulled Yang Na to another corner of the room.

He pulled out the Jade Pendant from his pocket and stuffed it into her palm, then whispered instructions into her ear, which made her eyes widen more and more with his every word.

"How is that possible, this——" She didn't finish her sentence when Li Huowang quickly covered her mouth with his hand.

Their eyes met, and Li Huowang looked at Yang Na with a fervent desire in his eyes.

"Help me, everything I'm saying is true. Even my parents outside don't trust me; they all think I've gone mad. You're the only one I can turn to, the only one in the whole world I trust. I really haven't lost my mind!"

After looking at Li Huowang for a few seconds, Yang Na finally bit her lip and nodded her head. When she left, her eyes were red, and she kept looking back every few steps, seemingly very worried about Li Huowang's mental state.

Li Huowang watched her leave with complicated feelings. He didn't care what others thought of him, but it was different with Yang Na.

"Nana, just believe me this once, just once!"

Waiting always seemed long, and Li Huowang paced restlessly in the room.

In the meantime, he saw more hallucinations, but Li Huowang quickly recovered. According to the doctor, it wasn't good, but he was afraid he would miss Yang Na.

One day, two days, three days passed, and with each passing day, Li Huowang's emotions grew more susceptible to loss and fear.

"Little Li, your little girlfriend is here to see you~" Upon hearing the nurse's announcement, Li Huowang sprang up from his bed like a carp and dashed towards the entrance of the ward.

In the garden within the hospital, Li Huowang and Yang Na met. They embraced each other excitedly.

Yang Na suppressed her voice and shouted in his ear, "Huowang, really, the Jade Pendant is real!"

"I'm not sick!! Hahaha!! I'm not sick!!" Li Huowang, overcome with excitement, hugged the young girl's slim waist and spun around in the air repeatedly.

After a long excitement, they finally calmed their emotions.

"Helping me didn't interfere with your life and studies, did it?" Li Huowang asked, caring for Yang Na who was sitting beside the flower bed.

Yang Na didn't answer directly but changed the subject. She stretched out four pale, slender fingers to Li Huowang. "Do you know how much that Jade Pendant is worth? This much!"

"Four... thousand?"

"Four hundred thousand! And I think he definitely underquoted it. If we ask a few more places, it will surely be even higher."

"Four hundred thousand... four hundred thousand..." Li Huowang laughed foolishly. Not only could this offset the cost of his treatments over the years, but it could also leave him with some extra cash. More importantly, this was just the beginning.

"Yang Na, are you ready to become a little rich lady?"

Li Huowang's teasing made Yang Na blush slightly. "Stop joking, this is too weird. Are you sure it won't harm you?"

"No worries, what could possibly happen to me? I'm doing great. If this is the case, I guess I might have to delay my treatment a bit. This is a treasure; I can't be cured too quickly."

Hearing this, Yang Na's expression tensed up, and she said to Li Huowang anxiously, "Huowang, these are two different things. I don't want the money, but your treatment must not stop, and neither should the medication. Promise me, or I won't help you anymore."

Many reasons to refute her sprang to Li Huowang's mind, but looking into her concerned eyes, a warm current surged through his heart. "Okay, I promise you."

Yang Na smiled, reached out and gently patted his head. "That's a good boy, you stinky little brother."

Just as the two were discussing how to cash in the Jade Pendant, several burly middle-aged men with riot forks hurried past them.

"What happened to Master Zhao? What's going on?" Li Huowang asked, puzzled, one of the familiar faces.

"Don't ask so much, Li. You'd better hurry back to your room. And if you see Old Liu, report it right away, that guy must've been spitting out his medicine again." The man said in a rush and then turned to run up the stairs.

"Isn't the intensive care area surrounded by two layers of iron bars? How could Old Liu escape with his small frame?" Li Huowang wondered, looking over in that direction.

He had stayed there for a while when he couldn't distinguish between hallucination and reality, and it was not a pleasant memory.

Seeing the other patients being escorted back to their rooms by nurses, Li Huowang turned to Yang Na and said, "It's a bit chaotic here. You go back first. Call the hospital tonight, and we'll keep in touch over the phone."

"Mmm, take good care of yourself here, and remember what you just promised me." Yang Na said, turned and walked toward the distant hospital entrance.

"Four hundred thousand..." Li Huowang muttered as he walked back to his room; when he realized the Jade Pendant was indeed worth that much money, his mind began to race with many new ideas.

What does it matter if it's a hallucination or reality? If that thing over there can be worth so much money, who cares if it's a hallucination or reality?

He had barely taken a few steps when a familiar shriek echoed from behind. Li Huowang turned around and saw a bald, skinny old man knocking Yang Na to the ground.

Seeing this scene, rage surged through Li Huowang, and clenching his teeth, his expression became fierce as he charged over. "Old Liu! That's my girlfriend; let her go!!"

"Whoosh whoosh whoosh~" The sound of something cutting through the air suddenly rose, and a hexagonal tile that had been kicked up flew over, hitting Li Huowang squarely on the head.

Dizzy, Li Huowang fell hard to the ground, his vision gradually blanketed in red as his head cracked open.

Through his blood-red vision, Li Huowang saw a pair of swollen feet bound by hospital clothes pass before his eyes, stepping toward the struggling, screaming Yang Na.

Listening to the heavy footsteps getting closer to Yang Na, a buzzing sound filled Li Huowang's mind, leaving only one thought—he couldn't let them hurt Yang Na!!

He trembled as he pulled out a pill given to him by Master from his pocket, mixing it with his own blood and stuffing it into his mouth.

In an instant, an extremely hot current gushed from his stomach, entering Li Huowang's limbs, and he immediately felt an overwhelming strength; his groggy head became crystal clear.

"Bang!!" A fist flew out and smashed into a chubby chin, and in an instant, a mouthful of yellow teeth loosened and flew out, leaving only a few in no time.

The bloodied Li Huowang ignored the fat man who couldn't get up from the ground and strode over to Old Liu, kicking him firmly in his scrawny chest.

"Crack crack." The sound of bones breaking resounded, and the bloody Old Liu's body flew out like a noodle.

Looking at Yang Na on the ground covering her eyes, weeping into her torn sweater, Li Huowang bit down hard on his gums until they bled.

His eyes bloodshot, Li Huowang glared fiercely at the two men lying motionless beside him, stomped heavily on the concrete floor with one foot, and pounced toward them like a cheetah.

"Huowang!! Stop!! What are you doing!"