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Chapter 134 Discharge!

"Commander, I'm very happy to accompany you in the hospital, but I feel that I can't take up the hospital's resources any longer. I'm almost well now and I have to be discharged first." Ling Dengxian changed into the clothes that Angel brought him from Penguin Logistics, and said goodbye to the girl who was still resting in bed with a sincere look on his face.

In the past few days, people from Penguin Logistics, including Mr. Yis, have come to see him. When he was "fighting" with the Angel, Lin Yuxia was reading a book quietly beside him, eating and glancing at the melon from time to time.

"First, what's so happy about accompanying me in the hospital? Second, you still have internal injuries. Are you sure you don't want to rest for a while?" Lin Yuxia frowned and moved her eyes from the book to him.

Ling Dengxian shook his head firmly: "Mr. Great Emperor has been very good to me, I have to fulfill my duties, don't worry about the internal injuries, I have my own way."

"...Let me remind you, there are enough beds in the hospital, and the hospitalization fees are not actually your responsibility." Lin Gerui at the side coughed lightly.

"Dad, actually it's because I told him yesterday that the imported bed I bought for him has been delivered to Penguin Logistics." Lin Yuxia looked at him with disdain, closed the book in her hand, and said unhappily: "If you're ready, get out of here. I'm not as tough as you, so I can't go out and exploit you. I'll give you a break these two days."

"...Goodbye. Goodbye, old man." Ling Dengxian quickly slipped away to avoid being stared at by the Rat King's strange eyes.

"This young man..."

"He was the one who took the damage, but he recovered faster than me..." Lin Yuxia's impression of Ling Dengxian's Bai Yan was still that he was used in combat.

"...Yuxia, don't you think it's a bit strange?" Lin Gerui put down his cane and thought deeply, "In that environment, it's not that I don't care about you, but the amount of those Originium bombs was very large, and the concentration of the Originium dust they stirred up can be imagined. The reason why Bai Ge was not infected can be said to be a unique luck, but you were..."

"Dad." Lin Yuxia closed her eyes, "What was inserted into my abdomen was a piece of Originium fragment."

There was silence between the two for a moment. Lin Gerui tapped his cane and said, "It's best to keep this to ourselves."

"He didn't ask for anything in return, so we can't harm him."

"I know, but you 'have to' know this. Because you are the Rat King." Lin Yuxia sighed, looking at the empty bed next to her, feeling indescribable.

"Come to think of it, Yuxia, you just said 'get lost'...you don't usually talk like that."

"...His problem has nothing to do with me." Lin Yuxia's face darkened. After proving her innocence, the same feeling of disgust came over her again, with the same unknown origin.

What's wrong with me……

"By the way, Dad, Bai Ge and he..." Lin Yuxia told her father about how Ling Dengxian helped some disadvantaged groups in the slums in a strange way. Those two people were just two of them, and Ling Dengxian's approach was simply a drop in the bucket.

"He told me to ask No. 7, saying I might not understand."

"...Yuxia, I know about this. I originally hoped that you could understand it, but since you asked, it doesn't hurt to give me some advice." Lin Gerui said in a low voice, "The environment in Longmen slums is quite bad. It's true that the gangs obey us, but they can still oppress the lives of the lower class. We just occupy the largest part of violence, and we are also the underworld in essence. If a weak person obtains too much property, what do you think will be the result when surrounded by wolves?"

"…But what he did was almost meaningless…"

"He gave a lot of people hope. As a non-infected person, he showed goodwill. Those people sought help, but they didn't dare to ask for too much. If they wanted to solve the problem fundamentally, they had to reform. But right now, he just couldn't stand it anymore and couldn't convince himself to turn a blind eye."

"..." Lin Yuxia really didn't expect that Ling Dengxian, who looked listless all day long, thought this way.

"We, the older generation, are laying the foundation and preparing for this. Wei Yanwu has already endured a lot of pressure, and the next task will be taken over by you young people... Of course, I don't want to stop you from going to Victoria for further studies. I can still do these things without any problem." Lin Gerui relieved her pressure at the end. He didn't want to lock his daughter's life in advance. As the Rat King, it was still possible for him to let his daughter have a free life.

Lin Yuxia slowly calmed down and opened the book again. It was rare that she didn't have to worry about Longmen's affairs, so she could read the book that she could only read when she had time.

When she is discharged from the hospital, she will have more to do to fulfill this responsibility.

After being discharged from the hospital, Ling Dengxian did not go straight to the dormitory. After all, he did not lose his mind because of the bed. It was just that the meals in the hospital were too light. He still planned to go out for a good meal to celebrate his discharge.

As for the internal injuries, they have healed.

Although Bai Yan's recovery from bone injuries was slow, he had nothing to do for the past two days and recovered quite quickly if he focused on it. He asked Kesong to bring his diary to him and he kept writing it.

"Waiter, please order some dishes." Sitting in the restaurant after a long time, Ling Dengxian was very glad that his salary card was not lost.

The short girl from Liberi responded and ran over with a menu in her arms. She said nervously, "Hello, hello. What can I do for you?"

"Can I see the menu?" Ling Dengxian said that there was no menu prepared on the table.

"I'm sorry! Here you go!" The girl from Libori handed over the menu with an expression of "Oops, I forgot again."

"Let me see, these are all. Can I use the Penguin Logistics salary card for payment?" Ling Dengxian asked first just in case.

"Yes... All restaurants in Longmen are fine. Ah, but probably not in the downtown area."

Downtown refers to the slums, which is a nicer term. Ling Dengxian shook his head: "The ones over there... can't even be called restaurants. They are struggling to run their business."

"Forget it, let's talk about that later, let's pay the bill first..."

"it is good……"

"Insufficient balance." The mechanical female voice sounded very embarrassed at this moment.

"Sir..." It turned out that the girl was even more nervous than Ling Dengxian.

"Um... I haven't asked for your name yet?"

"Just call me Snow Pheasant...what's the matter?"

"It's like this, you see I'm from Penguin Logistics, I'm guaranteed, right?"

"Well, it seems so."

"Ms. Xuezhi, do you know why my balance is insufficient?"

"Why?" Snow Pheasant asked innocently.

"Actually, to me, money is just like a stranger you bump into on a corner."

"What, what do you mean?" Xue Zhi was successfully led astray by Ling Dengxian.

"Haha, you see, the person you meet at the corner may be your benefactor for the day. If you meet or bump into him or her, you may delay for a while and avoid a disaster - such as a car accident. Or he or she may be your calamity star and start your bad luck for the day. Or maybe some other extraordinary things will happen..."

"But in reality, most of the time, isn't it just passing by?" Xuezhi felt strange.

"Yes," Ling Dengxian replied with a smile, "Isn't it the same with money?

"When you meet someone, they will always give you different impressions: a small romantic encounter, the beginning of a storm, a history of bad fate... But as you said, most of them are just chance encounters. Why hold on to them? Money is always flowing. Life is the same. As long as you keep moving forward, you will always meet more corners and more people."

"Is that so..." Snow Pheasant seemed to understand.

"So...can you lend me some money? Come to Penguin Logistics to find me later and I'll pay you back." Ling Dengxian's true intentions were revealed.

"what?"