Blood poured from Chen Nan's nose. In his daze, he pressed down on it to stop the bleeding.
Only after quite a while did the torrent of blood finally stop. But it did nothing to quell the worry in Chen Nan's heart.
Had his condition gotten worse? Could he hold on until the very end?
Could it be that his transmigration had only been for the sake of punishing Wang Yifu and the others for their crimes?
Was this the will of Heaven?
Countless questions filled Chen Nan's heart.
At that moment, his entire body was weak, cold sweat streamed down him, and his heart palpitated as he trembled. He knew he must have hypoglycemia.
Though he did not feel overwhelmingly hungry, he still had to replenish his energy.
He forced himself to get up, changed out of his school uniform, and put on another set of clothes.
He slung his bag over his back and slowly headed toward an alley.
There were many places to eat around Renxin Maternity Hospital, and many of them stayed open until midnight.
Even in the dead of night, snack shops here remained open to welcome customers.
Chen Nan casually entered a small shop. The clerk inside was startled the moment she saw what he looked like.
"What happened to you? Are you all right, child?" the female clerk asked.
Chen Nan managed a smile. "I'm fine. Please make me a bowl of sweet soup. I'll wash up in the restroom, then come back and order."
"The restroom is over there." The female clerk supported Chen Nan to the restroom before going to prepare the sweet soup.
The shop was run by a husband and wife. The female clerk was actually the proprietress, while the chef was her husband.
She called toward the kitchen, "Make a bowl of sweet soup first. This child's face is white as a sheet."
Before long, her husband brought out the sweet soup and asked what had happened.
Naturally, the female clerk could not explain anything. Even after Chen Nan came out, they continued to look at him curiously.
After finding a seat, Chen Nan drank the sweet soup the female clerk brought him and felt much better.
After thanking her, he said, "Just cook me a bowl of noodles. Add some greens, meat, and an egg."
The female clerk agreed, then went to tell the kitchen to prepare it.
Before long, the noodles arrived, and the female clerk began fiddling with a laptop nearby.
As Chen Nan ate, he considered his condition.
What exactly was wrong with his body?
This nosebleed had clearly been caused by overusing his abilities.
But the previous two times when his vision had gone dark and he had fainted had both happened after eating a late-night meal.
Was there some connection between them?
If there was one, it was that after each abnormal episode, he had experienced hypoglycemia.
But the issue was that this time, the hypoglycemia had resulted from overworking his brain.
Although the brain accounted for only a small proportion of the human body, its metabolism was extremely active, and its blood flow and glucose consumption were the highest in the body.
Therefore, it was entirely understandable that overusing his brain had caused hypoglycemia.
But the last two times, his physical abnormalities had occurred after he ate noodles. He had not used any abilities at all, so why had he shown symptoms of hypoglycemia?
It truly was very strange.
Was it an illness, or something else? Chen Nan had no definite answer.
He shook his head and stopped thinking about it, then finished the large bowl of noodles.
His body felt increasingly comfortable. He looked at the female clerk and then noticed the laptop.
So he asked, "Auntie, could I borrow your computer for a bit? I can pay you."
The female clerk was stunned at first, then smiled. "Just use it. Why pay? Just pay for the noodles."
As she spoke, she brought the laptop over.
Taking the laptop, Chen Nan smiled and said, "Thank you," then took out the earphones that came with his phone.
He plugged them into the laptop, put the other end in his ears, then took out the document pouch and removed the USB drive inside.
He inserted it into the computer and opened it. There was a recording inside.
After Chen Nan finished listening to the recording, he put away the USB drive, took out another one, and listened to that as well.
Now that he had a complete grasp of the situation, Chen Nan returned the computer to the female clerk, thanked her, then took out ten yuan, placed it on the table, and left.
The moment the female clerk saw that Chen Nan had left ten yuan, she immediately ran outside and called after him. Chen Nan did not even turn his head as he quickly departed.
"What a strange child, but he's truly kind-hearted!" the female clerk said with a sigh, holding the ten yuan.
How could she not sigh? Ten yuan could buy five bowls of noodles with all the trimmings.
Chen Nan walked down the street. At such a late hour, being outside alone would only grow more dangerous.
But what should he do now?
He had no fully formed plan in mind.
Places like stations and parks should have been fairly good spots to rest. Most drifters chose such places.
But his enemies would likely think of those places too. So they might not be safe.
After turning it over and over in his mind, he thought of one place that seemed rather good.
So he walked along the street until he spotted a public restroom and went inside.
Chen Nan entered the women's restroom. Since it was the middle of the night, there was no one inside.
The women's restroom was filled with individual stalls and was quite clean. Though unpleasant odors were unavoidable, Chen Nan could not afford to care about that now.
After hiding in one of the stalls, he locked it from the inside. It had a seated toilet. Chen Nan lowered the lid, sat on it, placed his backpack on his knees, bent over, and rested his head on it.
Gradually, Chen Nan fell asleep.
This night's sleep was destined to be terrible, shattered into a complete mess.
He did not fully wake until morning, when a sanitation worker came to clean.
There was no need to mention how uncomfortable his body felt. He had to wait for the sanitation worker to leave before he could get out.
But as he waited, the morning rush for the restroom slowly began, and Chen Nan could only continue squatting inside.
It was only after around nine o'clock that he found an opening and left.
Once he reached the street, the gentle breeze dispersed the smell clinging to him, and only then did Chen Nan think about getting something to eat.
As he ate breakfast, Chen Nan pondered several matters.
Suddenly, his phone rang. It was Butterfly Loves Flowers.
A voice came through the phone. "Everything has been arranged. You can use it anytime."
Then the call ended.
Chen Nan deleted the call record and pondered it. Both locations had been set up. It should be time to draw in the net.
However, he needed to find somewhere to charge his phone, and where to go remained a problem.
At that moment, Chen Nan's heart was like duckweed adrift on the water, unable to settle.
Because for all he knew, any person he encountered on the street might launch a fatal attack against him.
Everything was uncertain, and he had no means to deal with it.
Chen Nan did not believe in fate, but it seemed that now, he could only hand himself over to it.
He decided to find a place with as little foot traffic as possible, and it could not be the sort of place run by pure businessmen.
After thinking it over, he could only look for another privately rented room.
Because the Wang siblings were essentially an evil force, yet they both possessed the nature of businessmen.
Then inns, hotels, entertainment venues, large restaurants, and the like might have channels through which information flowed between them.
Chen Nan believed that in order to catch him, they would put effort into this as well.
But private rentals were a different matter.
For Chen Nan, the greatest difficulty was still his age and identity.
He did not know whether he could find another landlord like that female landlord. Of course, it would be even better if he could find a greedy landlord.
As the saying went, any problem that money could solve was not really a problem.
In any case, he still had enough money on him, and by the time it ran out, his plan should be complete.
Since he was going to find a place to stay, he could not delay for even a moment. After breakfast, Chen Nan immediately set out.
It had to be said that in this world, few people were not tempted by money.
Not far from Renxin Maternity Hospital, Chen Nan rented a room.
This family owned two apartments. They lived in one, while the other was rented out by the day to earn a little extra money.
In truth, if someone owned several apartments, this was quite a good business to run.
Especially for a rental like Chen Nan's, many middle steps could be cut out. Thus, the owner's earnings were pure profit without any discount.
Before moving in, Chen Nan naturally had to look around and see whether there were any animals that could help him.
Fortunately, there were around seven or eight dogs nearby. Not all of them were strays; some were free-roaming dogs kept by local residents.
Chen Nan communicated with each of the dogs mentally, and he could then count them as his friends.
If anything happened again, these friends would definitely rush to help without hesitation.
That was not to say dogs were more loyal than people. After all, some dogs were timid, but setting aside the difference between dogs' and humans' abilities, at critical moments, dogs were still more reliable than people.
Humanity, that hit you where it hurt, didn't it?
No need to lose heart. It just meant our IQs were high, so naturally we could not compare with beasts when it came to loyalty.
Chen Nan continued sending these dogs out to investigate everywhere, then return to report to him.
Since the effective range of mental communication was fairly large, Chen Nan did not need to meet them in person to receive their reports.
After receiving the dogs' information, Chen Nan could roughly determine that the area was relatively safe.
He also decided that from this moment onward, he would never leave the room again.
Because when renting the room, Chen Nan had paid the owner additional money to get him two cartons of instant noodles.
Besides that, there was a crate of eggs, canned ham, and apples.
The apples could be kept in the refrigerator and would last him for a while.
The so-called fake news about instant noodles being devoid of nutrition had already disappeared from Earth.
On Kabudan Planet, there had never been such a claim in the first place.
Chen Nan would sit steady on the fishing platform. All that remained was to wait. It was like this:
The spider had already woven its web; the fishhook baited with fragrant lure had already been cast into the water. What came next depended on fate and patience.
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