Qian Fu

Bang! Bang! As Li Huowang kept drawing closer, the pounding grew louder and louder.

At last, cautiously peering through the thick glass reinforced with wire mesh, Li Huowang saw where the noise was coming from.

It was a patient in a straitjacket. Bearded and unkempt, he arched his body and threw his head back, smashing it against the metal bed beneath him again and again.

The impacts were loud, but the bedframe looked very thin, so it did not seem to rebound with enough force to hurt him any worse.

"What... what kind of mental illness is this?" Li Huowang stood there with a slight frown, curiously studying the man inside.

The man was tall and powerfully built, at least over six feet. His twitching features and strange habit of crying one moment and laughing the next made it impossible for Li Huowang to guess what was wrong with him.

"Since he's locked in there, he should be taking medicine, right? Could it be a side effect from some psychiatric drug?" Li Huowang guessed wildly.

Just then, the man in the ward suddenly stopped smashing his head. His eyes, showing far too much white, fixed straight on Li Huowang beyond the glass. "Hahahaha!! It's you! You're here?"

Li Huowang thought for a moment, then nodded. "Yeah, I'm here."

"Good that you came! I've finally been waiting for you! I never expected that before I could get out and find you, you'd come looking for me!!"

"Oh? Is that so? Are we close?"

"Hahaha!! Close! We're close as can be!!"

After idly chatting with the severely ill patient for a few moments, Li Huowang saw nothing especially unusual about him and grew a little bored. He turned to leave.

"Little Li! You have to be careful!! They're looking for you! There