Chapter 92: Afterword 1
At six in the evening, Nanshan Hospital.
In the open-air parking lot, a beautiful figure leisurely got out of a red car. She was casually wearing a light brown long windbreaker, the lapels overlapping, and the belt loosely tied, just enough to cover the black, close-fitting combat suit inside.
Walking around the car halfway, she saw a slight dent in the rear bumper and stopped to ponder.
Then she looked at the message on her phone, looked up at the several buildings in front of her, and finally headed toward the direction of the brightly lit “Emergency” sign.
When Shu Yao entered the hall, the emergency room was bustling with people, and there were patients standing in the rooms with the signs for internal medicine and surgery.
So many people, yet she still saw at a glance the figure in the white coat in the room marked “Surgery 1.”
A medical mask covered most of her face, and even her beautiful, long black hair was completely covered by a blue gauze cap. Only her eyes and the skin around them were slightly exposed.
But Shu Yao felt that even the little bit of skin she exposed was shining.
She leaned against a nearby pillar, her arms crossed, her light-colored pupils brazenly staring at her person.
It had been more than half a month since the battle where the [Martyrs] had tried to occupy Nancheng but had all been annihilated—
Now, she, who was working in the special department, was actually idle.
After the [Lighthouse] and the [Martyrs] had given up on descending, the [Parasites] that had previously landed in large numbers, the ones that were still on land now, had to be more careful. They either had to register their identities with the special department and be supervised, or they could only pray that they would not be caught after committing a crime.
With the pressure of field work greatly reduced, Shu Yao timely submitted her resignation. Because the important enemy had disappeared, she felt that staying on would not be of much help.
However, the leader warmly persuaded her to stay.
He promoted her.
He gave her a special office and even gave her the title of consultant, a sinecure. She would only be required to go out on a mission when the field team encountered a particularly troublesome character, or when other cities had a major problem that could not be solved.
And the one who had replaced her in running errands was the flower fish, who had performed well before and had barely gained the leader’s appreciation. Recently, he had been having a headache over the matter of selecting team members.
Even so.
When he heard that Shu Yao was getting off work on time today and was going to pick up her girlfriend, thinking of how her driving skills had been honed in what kind of crisis situations, and that she had basically wrecked a car every time, which had led to her only getting her driver’s license in the past half a month, the flower fish worriedly suggested:
“Sis, I’ll take you there. I can take a taxi after I drop you off at the hospital.”
Shu Yao coldly refused him. “No.”
She was very confident. “I can do it. What kind of big scene haven’t I seen?”
And then, during the evening rush hour in Nancheng, where the traffic was like a river, she was on high alert, not even daring to turn on the music, wishing she had eight pairs of eyes, always paying attention to those who wanted to cut in and those who changed lanes without signaling.
And so.
When she was parking just now, she hadn’t judged the distance well, and the back of her car seemed to have hit a not-so-obvious stone pillar.
Shu Yao began to seriously consider whether her girlfriend’s [Restore] ability could be used on this new car.
…
She was so lost in thought that she didn’t even notice the figure who had been in surgery just now and had already confirmed that the patient needed to be hospitalized, had at some point walked up to her.
“Didn’t I say I was working late today and you didn’t have to come?”
Compared to Shu Yao’s current leisurely life of being a kept woman, Lin Ran was much busier.
According to her, because she had promised someone that she would be a good doctor, after she had resolved the matter of the [Lighthouse], she had, with the reason of “having luckily survived a shipwreck, drifted to a deserted island and struggled to survive for several months, and was finally discovered and rescued by a passing domestic fishing boat,” returned to Nanshan Hospital again.
And she had become even busier than before.
Because she had also gone to the special department’s [Parasite] management department to register, and from then on, she was just an ordinary little octopus that had been officially registered.
And then the research and development department of the special department had incidentally set up a special research institute in Nancheng, and had specially hired her to dissect some new marine creatures, or the well-preserved bodies of [Parasites].
In short.
Now Shu Yao could no longer carry her cute girlfriend with her at work.
Nor could she, like on the morning after the matter had just ended, kiss her beautiful girlfriend, who had transformed from a little pet octopus, at will on the sun-drenched lawn.
Although the two of them hadn’t been able to sunbathe for long that day.
Because Situ Jin had just gone to instruct the kitchen staff to deliver breakfast, and had just happened to witness that unforgettable scene with the tray in her hand—
And then Shu Yao and Lin Ran had stood in a row, accepting Miss Situ’s questioning.
By the time Situ Jin had heard that the little octopus at the auction was the same big octopus that had shocked her on the cruise ship before, and that her good sister’s girlfriend, whether in human or octopus form, had only ever been this one in front of her.
She couldn’t help but applaud. “Good, good, good. First, she found love on a blind date, and then she played a nurturing game. Such a wonderful story, and you didn’t even tell me, the matchmaker, right?”
If we were to talk about reason.
Situ Jin felt that the two red threads of these two new guests were both tied by her!
Shu Yao: “…”
She lowered her head. “I was wrong.”
The young lady glanced at her. “Since you know you were wrong, then tell me more details that I like to hear to make up for it. I’ll let you go when I’m satisfied.”
Later, she even called Xuan Zhu over to listen to the gossip.
The past was unbearable to look back on.
Shu Yao immediately regained her attention and smiled at the person in front of her. “Because I was idle at home anyway. It’s okay. You can finish your work first.”
Lin Ran was indeed not done yet.
When she had come down for a consultation just now, she had just sent a message to Shu Yao, telling her about her upcoming arrangements and plans, and her original intention was to let her go home and rest first.
But she had come to the hospital.
At this moment, Lin Ran was a little hesitant. “But I still have a patient in the inpatient department to see. Why don’t you go to my office and sit for a while first?”
Shu Yao raised her hands and put them on her shoulders, turned her around, and sent her in the direction she should go. “I know, I know. You go and get busy. Don’t mind me.”
Director Lin, who was always coming and going in the hospital, and whose body was stained with countless bacteria and viruses, looked at her girlfriend’s action and was at a loss for words.
Although she knew that her constitution was not ordinary now, and she would not be infected by these diseases, she still couldn’t help but add in a low voice, “Remember to wash your hands before you eat later.”
“Okay, okay, stop nagging, stop nagging.”
Shu Yao replied casually.
But her gaze fell on the back of her hand.
In a place where no one was paying attention, a tentacle in a mimicked transparent form quietly rubbed against the back of her hand, and taking advantage of the illusion that ordinary people would not notice this distorted air, it brazenly sucked a large heart-shaped mark on the most conspicuous part of the back of her hand.
【Cuddle! Yaoyao, cuddle!】
【Hug!】
【Kiss!】
【Like! Like my girlfriend!】
Compared to the master’s seriousness at work, the tentacles were not stingy at all in showing their clingy nature. For the girlfriend who had come to pick her up from work, they conveyed their full joy.
They even had the air of wanting to separate from the main body today, and let Lin Ran go to work on her own, while they would be responsible for staying and being intimate with their girlfriend.
Until Lin Ran had walked into the internal elevator opposite, Shu Yao still felt a tentacle tip trying hard to hook her pinky finger.
She chuckled and turned to walk toward Lin Ran’s office.
…
Perhaps it was because she had appeared at Nanshan Hospital too frequently recently. The nurse on duty knocked on the door for the third time, and when she still didn’t see Lin Ran, her gaze couldn’t help but fall on Shu Yao.
Recently, after Director Lin had returned to work at the hospital, the story of a beautiful woman randomly appearing behind her had spread throughout the surgery department.
Mainly because this beautiful woman not only came by herself every time, but also always bought snacks and fruits to share with everyone. Sometimes, if it was just lunchtime, she would also order a few more takeouts.
For example, at this moment.
Finding that the little nurse was staring at her a few more times, Shu Yao casually handed her the apple on the table. “Want some?”
Knowing all the rules of being on duty at the hospital, Shu Yao had been careful to only buy apples, and had not bought any Wang Wang gift packages.
The little nurse hesitated for two seconds, thinking that she had already met her several times. She took the apple and couldn’t help but show a gossipy look. “Are you Director Lin’s relative?”
Shu Yao looked at her curiously. “Do we look alike?”
It was said that a couple who had been together for a long time would start to look like each other, and over time, they would naturally have a couple’s look.
The little nurse thought for a moment and shook her head. “No, I just think you look very young, like you’re still in college, and you have a lot of free time, so I thought you were her cousin or something?”
Shu Yao, who had not gotten the couple’s look answer but had gotten the cousin identity: “…”
Her expression was subtle.
She didn’t know if she should be happy about looking like an 18-year-old college student.
Just then.
A clear and cold voice came from behind the nurse. “She’s my girlfriend.”
The nurse: “!”
She turned her head in surprise, her face becoming particularly awkward, as if she had been caught gossiping behind someone’s back. “Director Lin!”
She hastily remembered what she was going to say when she had knocked on the door just now, and quickly repeated it like pouring beans from a bamboo tube. Then she braced herself and brushed past Lin Ran, and at the end, she added to the two of them, “You two are very compatible. I wish you happiness.”
Probably the next day.
The whole hospital would be spreading the big news that “the beautiful woman by Director Lin’s side is her girlfriend.”
Before Lin Ran had even closed the door, Shu Yao had already laughed out loud and was leaning on the table.
Until only the two of them were left in the office, she was still holding her stomach, and turned her head to look at the person who had walked to her side. “What’s wrong, cousin? Why did you announce it so suddenly? You see how scared the little girl was—”
Lin Ran had not introduced her identity to her colleagues before because she knew that she didn’t like to receive too much attention, but that thought had been completely destroyed just now.
The person standing by the table couldn’t help but squeeze Shu Yao’s slightly red cheek from laughing, and her dark eyes drew near. “Don’t call me that.”
After a pause, she still couldn’t help but sigh faintly. “Is it because I’ve been working too much overtime lately, and it’s made me look old, or do I just look that old?”
Some monsters.
When they hadn’t taken back their power and were like an underage, they would shamelessly turn into a child to play the victim. Now that they had regained their memories and had also returned to human society, they began to be extremely concerned about the matter of age.
Not only did she care about the age of this human body, but she had also secretly converted the time between the abyss and this world several times.
Shu Yao straightened up and looked at her with blinking eyes.
In Lin Ran’s increasingly solemn expression, Shu Yao slowly drew out her tone. “You don’t like to be called ‘cousin,’ huh? Then it seems you also don’t like to be called big sister?”
She cupped her cheeks with both hands and looked at her girlfriend in front of her.
After a long while, she made a decision. “Then in the future, at home, you can just change back to the cute five or six-year-old look you had before. I’ll call you little sister every day. How about that? Do you like to be so young?”
Lin Ran: “…”
She admitted.
When Shu Yao had said the two words ‘big sister’ just now, she suddenly didn’t care so much about her age anymore—
And she even wanted to see her, in certain situations, crying and calling her big sister.