"But regarding the Spirit Tide..."
Before Hyacine could finish, Hong Guoguo interrupted her directly.
"Sister Hyacine, Sister Zhaoran... did she fall into a small-scale Spirit Tide?"
Hearing this, Hyacine froze for a moment, then spoke in disbelief.
"How did you know?"
"Someone... someone told me..."
Hong Guoguo's voice choked up, thick with a nasal quality.
She took a deep breath, trying hard to calm her emotions, and began to recount everything that had happened at the clinic twenty minutes ago...
Time rewound to twenty minutes prior.
"Excuse me, are you the doctor of this clinic?"
Hearing this question, Hong Guoguo temporarily recovered from her dejected mood.
"Sorry, our doctor just went out."
"Buck, your recommendation was a bit unreliable..."
Hearing what the young girl said, Lin Zhenyi sighed and spoke to Buck with a touch of helplessness.
"This... I did my research in advance." Buck was also at a loss. "I saw everyone praising this clinic at the time, saying it was the best one and that any injury or illness could be cured here."
"Curing any injury or illness is basically a scam," Lin Zhenyi sighed. "If that were true, Genesis Tech would have already come to take this doctor away."
"Let's go."
Following that, he turned, intending to leave.
"How can you just casually say Sister Hyacine is a liar!"
But at that moment, Hong Guoguo's voice cut in.
She had heard that entire conversation!
She looked at Lin Zhenyi angrily and said:
"Sister Hyacine is extremely strong in both medical skills and combat. I won't allow you to slander her like that!"
Hearing Hong Guoguo's voice, Lin Zhenyi frowned. He turned around and said:
"Since you say the Sister Hyacine you speak of can indeed cure any injury or illness, then how could Genesis Tech possibly let her go?"
As for the claim that she was very strong, he ignored it directly.
In his view, if someone had great medical skills, they likely possessed a healing-type superpower, making it improbable for them to be very powerful in combat.
Let alone resisting Genesis Tech.
However, Hong Guoguo's next sentence left him stunned.
"What does Genesis Tech count for!" Hong Guoguo crossed her arms, looking very disdainful. "That company tried to recruit Sister Hyacine before, but she rejected them."
"In the end, they tried to forcibly tear down Sister Hyacine's clinic, so Sister Hyacine just wiped them out."
After speaking, she pointed in a certain direction.
"There used to be a building over there, a branch of Genesis Tech. Just a few days ago, it was turned into a giant pit by Sister Hyacine."
"Hiss..." At this moment, Buck gasped. "Zhenyi, there really was such an incident here."
As he spoke, he pulled out his terminal and showed the news of the destroyed Genesis Tech branch to Lin Zhenyi.
After finishing it, Lin Zhenyi was momentarily dazed. After a while, he turned to Hong Guoguo and said:
"You mean... that giant beast that controlled lightning and blotted out the sun is the Sister Hyacine you mentioned?"
"Of course she is!" Hong Guoguo made no attempt to hide it and admitted it directly.
"This is getting more and more ridiculous..." Lin Zhenyi sighed, muttering in a very low voice. He didn't believe Hong Guoguo's words, but he still bowed to her. "My apologies, I didn't understand the situation. But since the doctor of this clinic isn't here, we'll have to leave for now."
After speaking, he let Buck support him as they left.
"Goodbye."
After waving farewell, Hong Guoguo didn't dwell on the matter further.
Although she heard Lin Zhenyi's quiet mutter, it was actually within her expectations.
After all, if Sister Hyacine hadn't admitted it herself, she wouldn't have believed that giant beast was Hyacine either.
"Now that Sister Hyacine is gone and Sister Zhaoran is still busy, I should go find Sister Cipher first."
After muttering to herself, she prepared to lock the clinic door.
But just as she said those words, something unexpected happened.
A hand suddenly rested on her shoulder. Before she could react, the voice of one of the men from earlier rang out again.
"What did you just say? Zhaoran? Cipher? You know them?"
"Nya!"
When you clearly know there's no one in front of you and turn around to do something else, only to have someone suddenly appear behind you and pat your shoulder the moment you turn—
Forget a sensitive cat-girl; even a normal person would be scared half to death.
Thus, Hong Guoguo was scared out of her wits by the sudden shock. Like a startled cat, she lunged forward and slammed into the door panel with a loud bang.
"Hiss... Ow ow ow ow ow!" She clutched her aching head and shoulder, turning around while still shaken.
After seeing that the person was Lin Zhenyi, who had returned, her anger immediately flared:
"Why did you suddenly appear behind me to scare me! You think just because you're a space-type ability user you're so great!!!"
She instantly judged that this person was likely a space-type ability user, as she had encountered this situation before when she was with Lu Zhaoran.
But because Lu Zhaoran had scared her many times like that, she at least had some defense from being scared so often.
But now, she truly had no defense at all!
"Sorry, sorry..." Lin Zhenyi apologized repeatedly.
Seeing his sincere apology, Hong Guoguo could only suppress the urge to curse and asked crossly:
"You said I know them. What's wrong? Do you know them too?"
"I do..." Lin Zhenyi's expression dimmed instantly, his voice a bit bitter. "Lu Zhaoran... she was once my junior."
"Ah!" Hong Guoguo's eyes widened in surprise. "Are you that person Sister Zhaoran mentioned before..."
"Lin Zhenyi."
Before Hong Guoguo could finish, Lin Zhenyi stated his own name.
"Right! That's the name." Upon hearing those three words, Hong Guoguo reacted immediately. "But didn't Sister Zhaoran say you were already dead?"
Lin Zhenyi choked for a moment but quickly explained:
"There was a misunderstanding. At that time, many people indeed believed I was dead..."
"Oh oh, I see." Hong Guoguo scratched her face. "Then why don't you stay here for now? Sister Zhaoran is busy with a mission right now; she should be back in a few days."
"Lu Zhaoran, she..."
Hearing Hong Guoguo mention Lu Zhaoran's name again, Lin Zhenyi trailed off after those words, his eyes filled with sorrow.
Hong Guoguo easily detected the change in Lin Zhenyi's expression.
Immediately, a bad premonition surfaced in her heart.
"What... what's wrong?"
Hong Guoguo took a deep breath and asked cautiously.
"She... fell into a small-scale Spirit Tide. She might... never come back..."