Max Level Return—I'll Protect That Fragile One

At this moment, the Medicine Farmer Star suddenly turned around and said to Xiahou Xiong, ”The upcoming scene will be too bloody and will scare everyone. Old Master Xiahou, please ask everyone to leave.”

She added, ”Please have the doctors stay.”

Upon hearing this, Xiahou Xiong hesitated for a moment before finally driving everyone in the family out.

But he and Luo Xiangyue still stayed behind.

Even though the scene was bloody, they wanted to stay and watch.

After clearing out the irrelevant people, the observation room suddenly became much more quiet and empty.

Huo Wen’an did not leave; he continued to stand with Ye Mingluo. When Xiahou Xiong looked over at him, Huo Wen’an smiled and said, ”I am Doctor Ye’s student.”

Thinking of some secret rumors he had heard recently, Xiahou Xiong gave Huo Wen’an a deep look and did not ask him to leave.

Successfully fooling Xiahou Xiong, Huo Wen’an looked up and happened to lock eyes with the Medicine Farmer Star on the other side of the glass wall. Through the gas mask, he couldn’t make out the other person’s features, but he felt a sense of familiarity.

Could it be that he had seen this Medicine Farmer Star before?

Xu Xingguang only glanced at Huo Wen’an before turning back to continue the surgery, but the corners of her lips beneath the gas mask tightened.

Liar.

Lying comes so naturally.

Men who love to lie are not obedient at all.

What Xu Xingguang was about to do was indeed very bloody; she actually opened Xiahou Huai Gui’s skull!

The pain of cutting bone far surpasses the pain of cutting skin.

Xiahou Huai Gui’s screams overwhelmed each other, causing Luo Xiangyue to tremble all over. Luo Xiangyue didn’t have the courage to continue watching; she shut her eyes tightly, with tears streaming down her cheeks.

Xiahou Xiong instinctively turned the Buddha beads on his wrist, praying repeatedly, ”Buddha, please bless our Huai Gui, he must successfully endure this.”

After removing that small piece of skull, Xu Xingguang stared at the slightly trembling piece of flesh, finally letting a smile show. She said with relief, ”So it was hiding here!”

The next second, she swiftly and skillfully used a sterilized iron hook to pluck into the flesh and hooked a hair-thin red tentacle.

Xu Xingguang promptly pinched the tentacle and, following it, forcefully pulled out the body behind it.

”Sealed jar!”

At Xu Xingguang’s command, the doctors beside her, who were stunned, quickly brought over a sealed jar.

A red shadow flashed by, and a bloody mass was stuffed into the sealed jar. Xu Xingguang, holding the jar, said to the assisting doctors, ”The surgery was perfectly completed, suture the patient’s wound.”

Glancing at Xiahou Huai Gui, who was barely breathing and unconscious, Xu Xingguang added, ”Only pain can keep him conscious, absolutely no anesthesia.”

”Yes.”

Witnessing Xu Xingguang extracting a blood-red monster from Xiahou Huai Gui’s body, Ye Mingluo, who was leaning against the wall, suddenly stood upright.

”There really is a parasite!”

Other famous doctors were also shocked and turned pale after seeing the Medicine Farmer Star pull out a parasite from Xiahou Huai Gui’s brain.

Upon knowing the surgery was a complete success, Luo Xiangyue immediately opened her eyes.

Xu Xingguang walked up to the glass wall with that sealed jar, speaking to Xiahou Xiong and Luo Xiangyue, ”Mr. Xiahou, General Luo. The surgery was very successful; your son’s life has been saved.”

Hearing this, Xiahou Xiong let out a long breath, while Luo Xiangyue couldn’t help but cover her cheeks, sobbing quietly.

Twelve years, her Huai Gui was finally rescued!

Xiahou Xiong excitedly stood up and bowed solemnly to Xu Xingguang through the glass wall. ”Miss Medicine Farmer Star, from today onwards, you are a great benefactor to the Xiahou family!”

Luo Xiangyue, too weak to stand, sat in her wheelchair and cupped her fist to Xu Xingguang as a sign of respect.

Nodding, Xu Xingguang held up the bottle and said to Ye Mingluo and the others, ”You can come closer and take a look.”

Upon hearing this, Ye Mingluo rushed forward first, with the other doctors following closely.

A group of authoritative figures in the medical field pressed up against the glass wall, watching the outside world with curious expressions like apes locked in a zoo.

Getting closer, Ye Mingluo finally saw the true form of the ’Corpse Centipede’ inside the sealed jar.

The Corpse Centipede had an octopus-like round head, covered with lumps that shimmered with a bizarre and dangerous red light.

But its tentacles were like centipede legs, densely packed, thin and soft, with a thin needle-like apparatus at the end of each tentacle, which was its mouthpart.

Over the years, it was these mouthparts that continuously siphoned off Xiahou Huai Gui’s life force.

Seeing the appearance of that thing, Ye Mingluo felt a wave of nausea and immediately retched. Meanwhile, other doctors hurried out to vomit uncontrollably.

Huo Wen’an stood quietly at the back of the crowd the entire time. Once the doctors ran out to vomit, he went to the window, staring intently at the object in the sealed jar.

So this is the culprit that tormented Xiahou Huai Gui for a full twelve years?

Just as Huo Wen’an wanted to examine it more closely, the Medicine Farmer Star turned away with the bottle in her arms and left.

Huo Wen’an frowned, not sure if it was an illusion, but he felt that this mysterious figure called Medicine Farmer Star intentionally kept a distance from him.

Could it be they really knew each other?

As soon as she exited the operating room, Xu Xingguang was warmly escorted to the small courtyard where Xiahou Xiong and Luo Xiangyue lived alone by the housekeeper Zhu Mountain.

On the way, he wiped his tears while exclaiming, ”Miss Medicine Farmer Star, you are a second parent to our Huai Gui! It’s truly a blessing from above that Huai Gui could be saved by you!”

Having already changed out of her sterilized surgical gown and back into her own clothes, Xu Xingguang was still wearing the fox mask.

Receiving such praise from the old housekeeper, Xu Xingguang did not refuse it, nodding as she said, ”Your young master is a blessed person, his fate wasn’t meant to end.”

”That is indeed the case.”

The old housekeeper accompanied Xu Xingguang for a while. Noticing the return of the elderly couple, he found an excuse to leave.

Upon seeing Xu Xingguang, Xiahou Xiong instinctively wanted to kneel down to her. Despite her young age, Xu Xingguang couldn’t accept such a grand gesture.

She quickly stopped Xiahou Xiong, speaking coldly, ”There’s no need for thanks. I saved your child’s life, and the Xiahou family gave me what I wanted. This was a transaction; we owe each other nothing.”

Xu Xingguang treated today’s event as nothing more than a very ordinary transaction.

As for becoming the Xiahou family’s benefactor, she wasn’t very interested.

After hearing Xu Xingguang, the elderly couple did not insist.

Luo Xiangyue looked at the glass bottle in Xu Xingguang’s arms and said, ”I’ve reported the existence of the Corpse Centipede to the President’s Order. A special vehicle from the Alliance Military Department is already waiting at the door. Miss Medicine Farmer Star, you can safely hand it over to the Alliance Military Department; we will handle its disposal and destruction.”

Xu Xingguang regarded Luo Xiangyue deeply and said, ”Weapons symbolize a country’s martial power. Creating powerful weapons to deter enemies and protect the populace is a good thing. But the thing in my hand shouldn’t exist at all.”

Her tone shifted, and Xu Xingguang said, ”General Luo, I will not easily hand this over to the Alliance Military Department unless they agree to destroy it in front of me.”