CHAPTER 109: CHAPTER 109: INJECTING THE MEDICINE

Ethan’s eyes widened a little. He coughed and got everyone’s attention. Then he said:

"Well, I believe you. That fake cop asked me if I saw the two kidnappers’ looks."

Right away, Ethan’s words caught the attention of the two men in black. They took a step closer without thinking.

The man in black asked excitedly: "So, what did you tell him?"

Ethan said: "I felt something was wrong with the cop, so I said I didn’t see anything. But he didn’t believe me and asked me several times."

The woman in black realized something important. She said right away: "So, you actually saw the kidnapper’s face?"

Ethan nodded and quickly described the man who was holding the little girl:

"He was about thirty. He had pale skin, was around 1.8 meters tall, and was skinny. He had thick eyebrows, high cheekbones, a hooked nose, thin lips, and a clear scar on his mouth."

As Ethan was talking, the woman in black took out a paper and a pen. She kept drawing, and soon she made a sketch based on the description.

Ethan looked at it and said: "Yes, that’s him."

The man in black and the woman in black looked at each other. Their expressions seemed much more relaxed now.

Just as Ethan thought they would leave soon, the man in black reached into his pocket with his right hand.

Ethan watched quietly, his eyes accidentally landing on the IV stand nearby.

At that moment, the man pulled out a pen from his pocket, held it in his hand, and looked at Ethan.

He asked: "By the way, did you see the two kidnappers doing anything strange?"

Ethan looked confused and said: "Strange? What kind of strange thing? I was so scared at the time. I only remembered the man’s face. I didn’t notice anything else."

"Wait... I think I saw something like a dream. The security guards shot the kidnapper, and the bullets hit him. But there was no wound on his body at all."

"It must have been my imagination. I must have been too nervous."

Ethan knew that most people would think they had made a mistake after seeing something like that.

After he finished speaking, the man in black nodded and pointed the pen at Ethan, saying: "Okay, look here."

Ethan and the blonde nurse both looked over instinctively.

A bright white light flashed. Both of them instinctively closed their eyes.

When the nurse opened her eyes again, she looked at the man in black and asked: "Who are you? Why are you in Ethan’s room?"

Ethan also felt confused. He seemed to have forgotten something. He looked at the two men who had suddenly appeared in the room, then his eyes went to the IV stand.

The two men in black looked at each other but said nothing. Then they turned and left the room.

The nurse watched them go and said: "Those two are really strange."

When she turned back to look at Ethan, she saw his hand again and gasped: "Mr. Ethan, what happened to your hand?"

"You’re hurt. I’ll go get some medicine for you."

After saying that, she paused for a moment, as if she had already said those words befor

The blonde nurse didn’t think too much and started to treat Ethan’s wound.

As for Ethan, he was looking down at the bleeding finger, his brain working fast.

He remembered that the cut on his finger had already healed a lot and shouldn’t be bleeding anymore.

Had he accidentally touched the wound?

No, that couldn’t be right. Even if he had touched it, only one finger would bleed.

What was going on?

Ethan tried hard to remember, but he just couldn’t. It wasn’t until the nurse finished treating the wound and said to him:

"Mr. Ethan, the wound is almost done. I’ll go to the bathroom to wash my hands, then I’ll put on some bandages. That should be fine."

Bathroom!

Ethan’s eyes widened suddenly. When he heard the word "bathroom," he instinctively reached out and grabbed the nurse’s hand, saying,

"Wait."

The nurse looked down at her hand, which Ethan was holding. A faint smile appeared on her face as she said,

"Mr. Ethan, not now. I still need to go..."

"Right, what was I going to do again?"

At that moment, they heard other nurses’ voices outside the room. The blonde nurse quickly left.

Ethan took a deep breath, got out of bed, locked the door from the inside first, and then walked to the bathroom door.

He slowly opened the door and looked in. Nothing special was there.

Just as he was feeling confused, he heard something flowing in the bathtub.

Ethan pulled back the curtain and saw something that made his heart stop — a dead police officer!

Ethan took a deep breath. He wasn’t very scared, but he was thinking:

Why did I instinctively stop the nurse from going into the bathroom? Did I already know there would be a body here?

Who was the body?

Was it him who killed it?

If so, why didn’t he just stab him in the heart or cut his throat? Why did he choose to stab him in the eye?

Unless killing him that way was the only way.

...

Ethan’s mind was working fast. He kept asking questions and coming up with different possible answers.

Three minutes later, Ethan turned on the shower and washed the blood off the body.

He took a fresh blanket from the room and then got some ice from the fridge in the luxury room.

He put the ice into the bathtub, covered the body with the blanket, and lit a mosquito-repelling incense.

He had a blank face as he closed the bathroom door and sat back on the bed.

Someone had erased his memory.

Ethan ruled out the idea that he had just forgotten on his own because of what the nurse had said: "What was I going to do again?"

That made him realize that he wasn’t the only one who had lost their memory.

Ethan took a deep breath. His feeling of unease grew stronger. Normally, he wasn’t someone who felt unsafe.

The monster handprint on the window last night, and the missing memory today, made him feel far from calm.

Ethan guessed that the reason he had lost his memory was probably connected to the monster he saw yesterday.

He remembered the monster had fallen from above. Ethan opened the door and went up to check the floor above. In the room above his, he found some things that looked like they belonged to a kid.

But when he asked around, no one remembered who had stayed in that room.

When he returned to his own room, he walked through the hallway and frowned slightly. He smelled a strong, strange odor.

He looked at the wall next to him and saw that it had just been painted.

After he got back to the room, Ethan saw the calico cat lying on the floor. He crouched down and looked under the bed. The iron cage had been forced open, leaving a big gap.

Ethan took a deep breath, patted the cat’s head, and then closed his eyes.

Ten minutes later, when he opened his eyes again, all his questions were gone. He whispered to himself:

"I never thought that this ordinary-looking pen could erase someone’s memory."

He now remembered everything.

The monster that left the handprint, the man who made people fall asleep, the fake cop with super strong skin, and the mysterious Man in Black...

All these things had happened so fast, and it gave Ethan a strange feeling. It was as if the world he had lived in for twenty years had suddenly become unfamiliar.

And unfamiliar things bring fear.

Ethan patted the cat’s head again and asked softly: "Do you feel anything wrong with your body?"

"If you do, say meow once. If not, say meow twice."

"Meow~ meow~"

Ethan didn’t hesitate anymore. He had already been through a life-threatening situation, and if he kept waiting, he would regret not improving his strength sooner.

The next moment, Ethan found a syringe. He injected the bottle of light blue liquid into his own body.

...

On the busy overpass, snow kept falling, making the road slippery.

Lion was holding the steering wheel, tapping the horn impatiently, trying to get the car in front to move faster.

The woman in a black suit sighed and said: "It’s no use being in a hurry. This snow might not stop for a while."

Lion said angrily: "I don’t care when it stops. Now that we know what the enemy from [Black Sea] looks like, we can use Ella’s ability to find him!"

"Lila, if we keep waiting like this, Jake’s daughter might be in danger."

A woman in black, named Lila, sighed. She knew they had to find Jake’s daughter as soon as possible, or the [Black Sea] organization would surely use her for something bad.

Their No-Face unit was already doing everything they could to stop the research of the Veritas Snow Group, but the enemy was just too many.

Besides the [Black Sea], there were also people from [Ghostfang] who were getting in their way.

Lila turned her head and looked out the window. She just happened to see an electronic screen on the overpass showing an ad for the best cancer hospital in Dolren City.

She frowned, thinking back to the patient named Ethan. Then she spoke slowly:

"Do you think Ethan’s description of the kidnapper was a bit too detailed?"

Lion asked: "Did it seem like that?"

Lila looked out the window at the ad. She felt something was wrong with the patient named Ethan — he was definitely hiding something.