Hospital 444
Chapter 341 - 28 The Coming of the Moment of Terror

Chapter 341: Chapter 28 The Coming of the Moment of Terror

"Tomorrow, before five in the morning, is the final deadline."

That night, Peipei and Yueyin could only sit together at the table. The table was filled with coffee.

Now, there was little they could do.

All sorts of amulets, crosses, they had worn them all around.

What they could do now was only to wait.

The security in this complex was still pretty good, and there was surveillance all over the buildings. If it were humans trying to break in, it definitely wouldn’t be easy. But if it was some non-human entity...

"If the deadline passes without completion, I will personally come to find you, to demand the price."

The words on the note made Yueyin’s scalp tingle.

And for Peipei, if something bad really happened to Yueyin, then she would be the next in line.

Understandably, she could not help but feel anxious.

Midnight passed.

Looking at the clock, and at the extremely tense Yueyin across from her, Peipei said, "Have you thought it through? We could actually go to some 24-hour nightclubs or something, in that kind of bustling place..."

"No!" Yueyin shook her head frantically, "Going to such a chaotic place would be even more dangerous! Staying at home and locking the door is at least safe. If that thing can break through locks, it doesn’t make any difference whether there are many people or few. No matter how it tries to intimidate me, I absolutely won’t harm my mother! I absolutely won’t!"

The room fell silent all at once.

"When did you start having that idea?"

"What... time?"

"Lan Ying."

In the days prior, Yueyin and Peipei had tacitly agreed not to mention Lan Ying at all.

But now, inevitably... this question was laid out on the table.

"I, I don’t know..." Yueyin lowered her head, unable to look directly at Peipei.

The clichéd plotline from TV dramas, where two best friends fall for the same guy, was rife but became exceedingly awkward in reality. Few people would react like the characters in dramas—one the sweet and naive saint, the other a vicious and limitless villainess.

"You’ve known him for a bit longer," continued Peipei, "For his sake, you’re willing to go to these lengths; do you really... like him that much?"

"I applied to this university for him. It was like I was crazy... In high school, my grades were really bad, so my parents got me a math tutor to give me extra lessons. The lessons were at that teacher’s home, where every Saturday, about five or six students gathered, to receive extra coaching from him. That’s when I met Lan Ying."

"You never mentioned this to me."

"Because you never asked me anything about Lan Ying. Even when I joined the soccer team’s cheer squad, you did it with reluctance."

Peipei picked up a coffee from the table, subconsciously glancing at the clock again, knowing that at most only two or three minutes had passed.

The silence in the room was so profound that the ticking of the clock’s hands seemed piercingly loud.

"I never really had any particular aspirations or dreams about the college entrance exam. Studying hard and doing question banks, for me, was truly painful. Especially math class, I could never understand why we had to spend so much time learning algebra, geometry, stuff that most people never use in their whole lives for work. Right until that day, I went to the math class and saw Lan Ying..."

"His math grades were actually pretty good."

"I remember that quite clearly."

There was another moment of silence before Yueyin continued, "So I wanted to get into this W city university, his choice of school. Otherwise, after the exams, we’d be in different cities. It was my only chance, so I used all my strength to study and, by some fluke, I managed to get in."

"You make it sound quite inspirational. But why didn’t you dare to confess to him in your senior year? Even in the end, you resorted to... that thing to get Lan Ying?"

As Peipei spoke, a tear welled up in her eyes.

Why...

Why...

Yueyin’s hand gripped the coffee cup tightly. Of course, she knew the answer to this question—she knew better than anyone.

"He doesn’t like me. I can see that. And I’m well aware of the result if I confess to him. Even though I joined the soccer society and watched so many games, just to have some common topic with him. I... I was even willing to risk for him, to give him the chance to become a professional soccer player, I..."

"Do you really think that way?" Peipei pointed out sharply, "Let me tell you what you think. You know very well how... indecent your actions were. So, although you got your wish, your conscience is conflicted and struggling; you obtained him through supernatural force, and this will haunt you for life. You will never be able to escape this guilt, so you want to compensate him. No, to be precise, you want to use this method to alleviate your guilt."

Yueyin bit her lip tightly.

She found she couldn’t refute Peipei.

"I’m not like you, Yueyin. I would never manipulate and alter Lan Ying’s will. I will find a way to save you, Yueyin, but if, if we survive, if we both can make it, I will compete with you," Peipei said.

With that, Peipei held Yueyin’s hand.

"Before that, let’s just try to survive."

"I, I understand..."

Dai Lin watched this scene from next door and said to Milan, "Shouldn’t we go make direct contact with them now?"

"No need to rush into contact," Milan replied, picking up a cup of coffee and taking a sip, "We’ll play it by ear. In the worst-case scenario, you can still go back to the hospital, can’t you?"

"You can’t come back to the hospital with me, Milan."

"No problem," Milan assured confidently, "I’ll be fine."

Then, she placed her coffee cup back on the table and said, "To end up in this situation over a guy is foolishness itself."

"Indeed, it’s not worth it."

Not worth it...

She had advised her second brother the same thing, back then.

However, it was to no avail.

The Darren Family was nearly extinct, and once she died, there would no longer be any blood of the Darren Family in this world.

Time continued to slip away, and the hour of five in the morning was getting closer and closer.

By then, Dai Lin had started to be on full alert as well.

It was now 4:30 AM.

Only... half an hour left!

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