The ward door was usually left open, since this was hardly a private space. After a polite knock, the visitors outside pushed open the unlocked door.
As the ward door opened, Su Bai could still hear a nurse in the corridor reminding the visitors to leave it open.
The first person to enter was a woman Su Bai vaguely recognized, probably a friend of his mother's. A moment later, he noticed the boy in a high school uniform beside her. It was none other than Zhang Yibu, the boy he had met once on the Route 444 Last Bus.
Su Bai had chosen to lend the other newcomers a hand on the Route 444 Last Bus because he remembered that Zhang Yibu's mother, Aunt Zhang, was friends with his mother, Lin Wan. Both women ran shops on Commercial Street in Honghuai City, right next door to each other. When Zhang Yibu's mother had run into trouble before, Su Bai's mother had done everything she could to help.
So even though that devil Su Xuan had taken quite a lot of money from Zhang Yibu's mother, she had never made things difficult for Su Bai. She even came to the hospital often to look after his mother when he was busy, sometimes taking over the caregiver's work of massaging and washing her.
As soon as Aunt Zhang pushed the door open, she saw Su Bai standing by the window. Although Little Black Cat, Happy, was currently draped over Su Bai's shoulder, Happy was still a Cat Spirit, however lively. An ordinary human like Aunt Zhang had no way of seeing Happy.
Even Zhang Yibu, with his status as a player and the meager power he had absorbed during his few hours in the Nightmare World, could at most sense something strange