193: Chapter 20 Fierce Battle in the Hospital 193: Chapter 20 Fierce Battle in the Hospital Upon waking up the next morning, Inoue Chizuru found the ropes binding her hands and feet had been untied.

She quickly got up and darted about the house.

Once she confirmed that those people had left, she ran to the foyer, picked up the landline phone, and was about to dial 110 to call the police.

But the moment she got through, a hand pressed on the phone, hanging it up.

“Mom, what are you doing?” Inoue Chizuru looked at her mother in confusion, “Even though they didn’t hurt us, they are bad people.”

Her mother didn’t say anything but pointed at Inoue Kotomi, who had just come downstairs.

She was carrying a bulging mountaineering bag, half-zipped, revealing stacks of Japanese yen inside.

“Are we going to surrender this money too?” Seeing Chizuru fall silent, Kotomi knew it was fine, then pushed open the half-closed door and ran onto the street.

Her right hand clutching a note.

“Cherish yourself and struggle to survive, from a person striving for life!”

“I will.” Standing on the sunlit street, tears streaming down Inoue Kotomi’s face, the figure in her mind was growing more substantial.

Tang Zheng had no idea that a girl was thinking about him.

Last night was in the past for him, and as he waited at the rendezvous point, his mind was filled with the plan of the next move.

At eight o’clock sharp, Zhang Hao and the poachers arrived late.

They walked unsteadily, their feet weak, and even sang tunes they didn’t even know, attracting many strange looks from passersby – they looked like four drunks who had been drinking all night.

“Looks like your relationship has improved quite a bit?” The man with the wrench looked at his amputated arm, then at the colorful lipstick marks even on the grotesque face of Scarface, feeling a mix of envy, jealousy, and hate.

However, Hu Meng stormed up to Zhang Yifeng in complaint, only to be pushed away by him, who was drunkenly clamoring for more sake.

“What do we do?

We can’t do anything with four drunks.” Lin Weiguo was also frowning; why on earth did they get stuck with these four?

“Ah, the plan failed.

Why wouldn’t the alien show up?” Little Fan Fan drew circles with her toe, looking gloomy.

Still, the problem needed to be solved, “Let’s find somewhere to let them sleep for a while.”

“Go buy a few buckets of water to pour on them, then find a car.

We can’t afford to waste time.

If things go smoothly, we can head to Tokyo in the afternoon.” Tang Zheng walked over to Zhang Hao, searching for the memory eraser on him.

“What are you doing?” Zhang Hao wasn’t too drunk.

He shouted in a daze, trying to fend off Tang Zheng’s hand.

Tang Zheng furrowed his brow, slapping Zhang Hao directly across the face, then knocked him out with a chop before he could get angry.

Scarface trembled at the sight, it was clear he was pretending to be unconscious.

“Getting carried away.

If I were malicious, you all would be dead.” If it weren’t for the visibility of the Beetle Chariot, Tang Zheng would’ve summoned it directly through the card.

After spending fifteen minutes asking for directions and hijacking a minibus, the group arrived at the Lucky Convenience Store.

“Little Fan Fan wants to go.” Little Lolita was about to jump off the bus, but Tang Zheng grabbed her collar and tossed her back in.

“Keep an eye on her, wait here, Bai Guo and I will go.” Tang Zheng glanced at the driver who was tied up in the back of the bus, then got off the bus with Bai Guo.

He was scared by the sudden attack of the alien, and was carrying the Thunderstorm rifle and the Bronze Sword on him.

Anyway, people would just think of them as cosplay props.

It wasn’t long since the convenience store had opened.

It was quite deserted, and Tang Zheng was the first customer.

He acted as if shopping, strolling around the shelves, silently searching for the target.

There were four store clerks, all wearing blue aprons and work hats printed with the store’s name, busy restocking shelves and sweeping the floor.

A female cashier was bored at the counter, resting her chin on her hand, lost in thought.

“Seems like Chikashima Airi isn’t here?” Bai Guo whispered.

“Hmm, hope she doesn’t have the day off.” Tang Zheng thought it was unlikely the girl would be off, given how seriously Japan takes work hours.

“Go and ask.”

Tang Zheng casually picked up a few snacks and tossed them into the shopping basket, heading towards the cashier.

“How come Chikashima Airi hasn’t come to work yet?” Tang Zheng spoke in a familiar tone, perfectly expressing the surprise to not see an old friend.

“Airi-chan?

Her sister has been hospitalized, she’s been caring for her for the past few days.” The female cashier answered before raising her head to ask in confusion, “Who are you?”

“I’m a brother of her classmate.” Tang Zheng handed over the money, diverting her attention, “Do you know which hospital?

I should go and visit.”

“Nantan Hospital.” The girl put the snacks into a plastic bag and handed it to Tang Zheng, asking, “I’m also her classmate but there’s no Chinese-Japanese mixed-race kid in our class, is there?”

“Really?

Look here.” Tang Zheng took out the memory eraser.

When the cashier’s gaze shifted over, he pushed the button with a click.

A flash of white light burst forth, and her face went blank.

“This seems to be a bit tricky.” Tang Zheng got on the bus and recounted the situation.

“If soft measures don’t work, we go hard.” Scarface had stopped playing possum.

He didn’t want to lie down with a bunch of drunkards.

Carrying a large bouquet of carnations in one hand and a bag of fruits in the other, Tang Zheng walked into Nantan Hospital.

To avoid revealing his identity due to excessive personnel, everyone else stood by.

Besides patients, the most visible were the nurses in pink uniform skirts.

Occasionally a few doctors would walk by.

Tang Zheng asked for some information at the front desk with a calm face, then directly went to the sixth floor.

He was in luck this time.

As soon as he opened the door to room 608, he saw Chikashima Airi, a roughly eighteen-year-old girl from Japan, sitting by the bed talking to her five-year-old sister.

Her slightly curled ponytail looked exactly like the photo.

She was good-looking and was telling her bored sister, who was holding a toy bear, some interesting stories to cheer her up.

There were six beds in the ward, but only the two of them were there, which saved Tang Zheng a lot of trouble.

He decided to cut straight to the chase.

The sister looked curious when she saw a strange Chinese man opening the door and walking in, while Chikashima Airi was frowning.

Seeing the weapon on Tang Zheng, she considered him a strange person.

“May I ask who you are?” Chikashima Airi stood up, positioning herself in front of her sister, even though she didn’t think she had any value to be hurt.

“We are from China, here to protect you for a month.

Can we talk slowly?” Tang Zheng handed the bouquet to her younger sister with a smile, then placed the bag of fruits on the bedside table and picked up an apple.

He quickly drew a straight knife from his right hand, lightly twisted it, and a long strip of evenly sized apple peel was peeled off, “Here you go, little sister.”

He breathed a quiet sigh of relief.

It seemed he had arrived just in time.

She hadn’t been attacked yet.

“Thank you, big brother.

You are amazing.” The cute sister held the apple with both hands and smiled warmly, “Why do you need to protect my sister?”

“Because an alien wants to kill her.

We were sent from the future to prevent this death.” Tang Zheng told the truth.

After all, the little sister would definitely not believe it and would only think he was joking.

“What an exciting story, what’s next?” Chikashima Airi’s sneer indicated that she thought of him as a madman.

“It’s time for an injection and medicine.” Before Tang Zheng could answer, a nurse came in with a trolley full of medical tools, followed by a doctor in a white coat.

“Injection again, I hate it.” Little sister put a gloomy expression on her face, then started to act coquettishly, “Big sister, I don’t mind the injection, but I want to eat Mapo Tofu.”

“I’ll buy it for you at noon.” As Chikashima Airi lovingly stroked her sister’s hair, she saw the Chinese man glancing out of the window, then suddenly rushing at her with a grim face.

He took out what looked like a futuristic weapon from his back.

Just as she was about to scold him for acting crazy, the nurse’s belly bizarrely exploded, and a horrendous multi-legged creature was sprayed at her.

Meanwhile, the doctor tore off his human skin disguise and turned into a humanoid creature, pouncing at her with incredible speed.

Chikashima Airi instinctively lay on top of her sister, without a moment to think about these strange events.

Then she saw the Chinese man stepping in front of her first.

Bang!

Tang Zheng swung the Thunderstorm Assault Rifle and ruthlessly smashed it into the airborne facehugger.

With a smack, it flew backward as if it had been hit by a baseball bat, hitting the wall and turning into a pile of broken flesh.

The alien creature pounced.

Tang Zheng didn’t have time to adjust the muzzle of his gun, and seeing it’s open mouth, it was clearly about to spit acid.

He swiftly stretched out his right hand, firmly grabbing its throat.

As his left hand blocked its tail from stabbing his right shoulder, his right arm continued to exert force, fiercely throwing it to the ground.

The alien’s wails were choked back into its throat, only letting out a hissing sound.

However, Tang Zheng realized his strength was insufficient.

He couldn’t squeeze its trachea, so he quickly lifted his right foot and kicked its belly.

With a hiss, the alien’s hands just barely scraped past Tang Zheng’s chest.

Then Tang Zheng raised the muzzle of the gun with one hand and pulled the trigger.

Bang!

With the firing of the thunderball, the alien creature exploded into a mess of blood and flesh in mid-air, splashing everywhere.

“Are you guys okay?” Tang Zheng quickly walked to the door, looked left and right to make sure no one was coming, then ran to the window to check.

“What on earth is going on?

What are they?” Chikashima Airi was terrified, her face devoid of any color.

“Aliens.” Tang Zheng gave a straightforward answer, and returned to the door, “No time, I have to take you to a safe place because I have no way of knowing who among these people are real and who are disguised aliens.”

“Little sister, what’s wrong with you?” Chikashima Airi couldn’t care less about Tang Zheng, she realized that her sister had fainted.

“When the aliens appear, unrelated ordinary people will be forced to sleep.

That’s because their target is you.” Tang Zheng connected the communicator, “Old Lin, we’ve located the target girl, but we’ve also encountered an alien attack.

I’m going to evacuate her now, send Scarface to wait in the hospital lobby.”

Chikashima Airi didn’t dare to delay, because what was happening right in front of her made her believe Tang Zheng.

She immediately began to pack her things.

“You go handle the hospital procedures.” Chikashima Airi was still not fully processing what was happening.

(To be continued.

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