Chapter 16: Equivalent to Death Warriors in Ancient Times

Huo Yunjiao took the document and threw it on the folding table in front of her hospital bed.

She didn't care to understand her own condition, not in the slightest.

Getting the information he wanted, Mr. Huo lifted his lips slightly, his tone gentle, with a dismissal: "I see, thank you Professor, I'm fine."

He couldn't get out of bed now, his body felt empty as if someone had hollowed it out and it would take a month to recover.

His father was still in the country, so there was no need for him to worry.

With his father's presence, there was no rush to return to the country.

But he needed to understand what had happened yesterday.

Just as Professor Brent left the hospital room, Huo Yunjiao called out to the door: "Come in."

The hospital room door was opened from outside, and a stern-looking bodyguard entered.

"Master Huo?"

The bodyguard stood respectfully, three meters away from the hospital bed.

Huo Yunjiao leaned against her pillow, exuding an aura of lazy and austere nobility.

His handsome face, almost demonic in its beauty, emphasized his sickly appearance, his demeanor humble and elegant, the epitome of a nobleman's casual demeanor.

When his face was expressionless, he gave off an aura of aloofness, elevated and unreachable.

Once the bodyguard entered the room, a slight aura of pressure emanated from Huo Yunjiao's whole body.

His slender and fair fingers tapped lightly on the folding table of the hospital bed.

Again and again, his movements were slow, rhythmic sounds ringing through the hospital room.

Huo Yunjiao glanced at the bodyguard with a languid gaze, and with a carefree tone: "What is the second master doing?"

The bodyguard nodded his head, his tone respectful: "Knowing that you are safe, the second master has gone to change clothes. He has said that he may be late as he needs to handle some company and Hidden Department affairs."

Huo Yunjiao, being the real controller and manipulator of the Huo family was unable to easily go out due to his physical condition.

Huo Yirong, his cousin, was his right-hand man, handling all matters for the Huo family openly and covertly.

Huo Yirong was the head of Huo Group and also managed the Huo family's Hidden Department.

The existence of the Hidden Department was to ensure the safety of the Huo family members, carry out assassinations, gather intelligence, and serve surveillance functions.

Everyone in the Hidden Department was a trusted member of the Huo family, belonging to the family, bestowed with the Huo surname.

In ancient times these people would have been the equivalent of bodyguards who would sacrifice their lives for their masters.

The members of the Hidden Department were all exceptionally skilled, masters of many martial arts, appearing and disappearing mysteriously.

They were all carefully selected and meticulously trained to become all-round elites in the Hidden Department.

Huo Yunjiao's lips curved in a nearly invisible smirk :"Call him and tell him to come here, I have something to talk about."

With that one sentence, he disrupted all of Huo Yirong's plans.

What Huo Yunjiao wanted to know more now, was who that woman last night really was.

He didn't believe in coincidences, and wondered if everything that happened was premeditated or spontaneous.

In this world, coincidences were few and far between.

"Yes, sir."

The bodyguard immediately took action.

...

Capital City, Shengshi Academy.

Night had fallen, and a thin mist mysteriously descended.

Under the moon's pale yellow light, the thin mist shrouded the solemn and dignified school, making the entire campus seem like it was covered with a layer of gauze, obscured and unclear.

The quiet night was cold, quite different from usual.

Any person walking on the campus would have felt a sense of eerie fear.

Girls' dormitory, fourth floor.

Ling Xiaoxuan, Qin Ruan were staying in the same dorm room tonight.

Qin Ruan finally found a way to keep Ling Xiaoxuan at the school.

She gave Ling Xiaoxuan an excuse she couldn't refuse.

Qin Ruan informed Ling Xiaoxuan that she had had a dream, a dream where a ghost tormented her, warned her that it would come for her at night. She had to be prepared.