The ultimate blue sea

Chapter 33-The Vagrant's Road

The next day, as soon as Xue Xiaolu pushed open the hospital room's door, she saw an empty room, without a shadow of a human figure. The curtain rustled, blown to one side by the breeze coming in through the open window. The covers were pushed aside and long cold.

Xue Xiaolu thought, That's done it! She turned and ran out to find Lu Qingbai.

Lu Qingbai was sitting in his office drinking tea. The unfortunate thing was, Hu Bugui was also there. Xue Xiaolu's expression immediately became visibly pained. She took a deep breath and quietly said, "Reporting—we've lost them."

Lu Qingbai picked up a folder and smacked her on the forehead. "What kind of report is that? Who's lost?"

Xue Xiaolu swallowed and looked cautiously at Hu Bugui. "Reporting to the captain—he...he's gone."

Listening to her evasive speech, Hu Bugui was at first frowning. At this point, he suddenly realized with a start who she was talking about. He pushed aside Lu Qingbai, who was in his way, and charged out.

Lu Qingbai nearly burned himself with the hot tea he was holding. "Hey! What are you doing?"

Then he turned to Xue Xiaolu. "Is he really gone?"

Xue Xiaolu gesticulated: "Really! The window guard rails were pulled into a hole this wide."

Lu Qingbai listened expressionlessly, feeling that his back molars were beginning to ache. Xue Xiaolu asked, "Dr. Lu, is there anything on him we can use to track him?"

Lu Qingbai's back molars ached even more. He sucked in a breath and shook his head. "The blocker self-destructed, the communicator was removed by that blue seal, and the shock ring broke when Teacher Cheng activated his second energy crystal. I said we should secretly plant something on him, and Chief Hu overheard—he looked like he wanted to eat me alive. Would you dare to bring that on yourself?"

Xue Xiaolu shook her head like a rattle-drum.

Lu Qingbai sighed. "Come, let's go look."

They went one after another towards the in-patient department. From far away, they saw Hu Bugui leaning on the doorframe of Su Qing's hospital room, standing there staring blankly.

Xue Xiaolu couldn't quite bear it. She whispered, "Look at Captain Hu's expression."

Lu Qingbai was in complete agreement: "As though his parents had died."

Xue Xiaolu shut her mouth, profoundly understanding that nothing good would come out of her superior's mouth.

She had heard others describe what had happened. With her powerful imagination, in her eyes, Hu Bugui simply became a wronged husband subjected to unspeakable suffering through the toying of the will of heaven, finally abandoned by the one he loved. He gave off an air of suffering like "contemplating the vastness of the universe, I weep in my lonely sorrow1"—he was so melancholy he could be turned into a song.

Lu Qingbai took a glance at her imbecilic features and knew that this young lady was having another attack. So he ignored her and walked right over to say to Hu Bugui, "What do we do? Send people to search?"

Hu Bugui nodded and looked at Lu Qingbai with a grave expression. "Remember that information about the double core must be kept strictly confidential. Nothing can leak out."

Lu Qingbai raised his eyebrows. "Captain Hu, that isn't what General Xiong said. The higher authorities are very concerned about this matter. From him, we're likely to be able to find a direction for human evolution, and also, given his physical condition, if he's well trained, he'll be a great help if he joins us. You don't know what kind of special abilities the double core system will give him. Also..."