The adopted son Shi Que had mentioned was probably Doctor Chi, the pediatric specialist at the Mortal World Entrance Hospital. He, too, had been born with deformities.
Doctor Gao knew Doctor Chi very well. He was the first friend Doctor Gao had made at the Mortal World Entrance Hospital, and they had both once undergone treatment from the Director.
Doctor Gao remembered that Doctor Chi had originally been sent to the Mortal World Entrance by his father. To treat his pica, the Director fed him nothing but various medicines every day, while Doctor Gao secretly brought him normal food.
In Doctor Gao's eyes, Doctor Chi wasn't sick at all. He ate perfectly normally, and his values were sounder than even the Florist's, yet his father thought he was gravely ill.
Only after getting to know him better had Doctor Gao learned that Doctor Chi's father was a "vegetarian." He ate only "vegetables"—fresh "vegetables" harvested from the "Forest."
Not only did Doctor Chi never eat vegetables, he openly opposed his father and went around spreading certain ideas. That was why he had been sent to the Mortal World Entrance.
According to Doctor Chi, his father was a deeply twisted demon. His physical deformities were merely superficial; his psychological deformities were a million times worse.
Yet such a man had become one of the deputy team leaders of the Ethics Oversight Group. Countless residents owed their lives to his help, and even the police had to speak respectfully to him.
Doctor Gao had once found this incomprehensible, but by Mr. Shi Que's logic, he had indeed done nothing wrong. He had always been doing "good deeds" and preparing "good meals."
Doctor Gao wasn't sure whether Mr. Shi Que had some connection to those eight unpredictable beings. If Shi Que had nothing to