Chapter 990: Father and Daughter

After Lu Mian heard the sound of the out-of-control vehicle hitting the curb, he immediately pressed the car window and poked his head out.

He looked at the intersection ten or twenty meters away, as well as Mr. Cui who had been knocked flying further away and tragically run over.

Almost simultaneously, he saw several figures emerge from different hiding spots, rushing toward the deceased and the vehicle involved in the accident.

Lu Mian then picked up his phone, took two photos with a click, and muttered to himself:

"Damn, there's a car accident!

"That driver is driving like a race car, he wouldn't be drunk, would he?"

He looked like a bystander preparing to share on Moments and short video accounts.

At this moment, the dented vehicle in front that had caused the accident completely stalled and could not be started; the car door opened, and a man stepped out, swaying unsteadily.

"Damn, he really is drunk. Don't drive if you drink, don't drink if you drive!" Lu Mian filmed the video, cursing while filming.

Only after the ambulance had towed away Mr. Cui's body and the police in charge had taken the driver away, leaving behind only the traffic police surveying the scene and the tow truck standing by, did Lu Mian sit back in his car, as if deliberating how to share what had just happened in various groups.

Not long after, Anthony, who had also disguised himself, carried a large bag of things, came out of the 24-hour convenience store on the side, opened the door, and got into the car.

Lu Mian started the car and drove away from this place.

They didn't bring Ludwig and sent the little boy to Jenna's place—if a seven or eight-year-old boy appeared at the scene where Zarathustra was shot and where Mr. Cui had a car accident, even if the appearance looked different at a rough glance, it would be very suspicious.

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Dechuang Garden, inside Room 2303.

Lu Mian sat on the single-seater sofa and said to Franca and Jenna:

"After midnight, I'll go find Li Li Keji again."

He paused and added:

"During this day, did Lu Mianna show any abnormalities?"

Jenna remained silent for two seconds and told everything about Lu Mianna's dazedness, her inner impulses, the bad luck on her body, the blowing in the wind on the rooftop, her words during card games, and many detailed performances, without concealment.

Lu Mian listened attentively without interrupting, his expression gradually softening.

After Jenna finished speaking, Franca opened her mouth and hesitated for a moment:

"If you are kicked out of the dream again, you will be greatly restricted after entering for the third time, just like the 'Mystic Queen'."

Lu Mian remained silent for a long time and said:

"I know."

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At the edge of a lake, inside a four-story villa.

Huang Huang Beibei returned from outside and walked into the magnificent hall.

Her classmates would always say when they came to visit, why is your house decorated like a palace, isn't it strange?

Huang Huang Beibei could only shrug helplessly at this; this was her father's preference.

"Where are my dad and the others?" Huang Huang Beibei asked the butler standing in the hall.

She usually lived on campus, and if she didn't encounter a big holiday, she only chose to go home on weekends.

The butler answered respectfully:

"Young Master Huang Xia is exercising in the underground basketball court, Young Master Huang Bo is assembling a four-wheel-drive car in the toy room, Madam has gone out to attend an art salon, and Master is in the tasting room."

Huang Huang Beibei nodded, walked to the side of the hall, and took the elevator down to the first underground floor.

There was a large wine cellar here, with a sturdy collection room, and a tasting room where one could see the swaying water waves of the indoor swimming pool.

Huang Tao was sitting on the sofa, holding a glass of pure malt strong liquor with ice cubes, tasting it leisurely.

"Back?" Seeing Huang Huang Beibei come in, he smiled.

"Why are you drinking again?" Huang Huang Beibei sat opposite him.

Huang Tao smiled and said:

"I'm old, there aren't many hobbies left."

Huang Huang Beibei didn't persuade him again, watching her father take another sip of the tempting strong liquor, and grabbed a few peeled large pine nuts from the dried fruit dish placed on the table and put them into his mouth.

After finishing what was in his mouth, Huang Tao asked:

"What about your classmate? Didn't come to visit?"

"Her cram school's biology teacher had an accident, she was busy dealing with it and didn't have time," Huang Huang Beibei said simply.

Huang Tao laughed:

"You mentioned it before, really, if you want to do experiments, go apply for a job in the corresponding laboratory, why be a biology teacher?"

Speaking of this, Huang Tao looked at Huang Huang Beibei and sighed:

"Why don't you like living at home? It's clearly still some time before school starts, yet you moved into the dormitory in advance."

This isn't my problem... Maybe in Mr. "Fool's" cognition, I am separated from you, and we meet less and part more... Huang Huang Beibei explained dutifully:

"Participating in a project."

Huang Tao didn't press. He was just complaining. He turned and said:

"How is that children's book company of yours doing?"

"Not bad." Huang Huang Beibei recalled and said, "The children's book market is the most profitable field in the physical book market. The repackaging and redesign of many classic fairy tales also have realistic needs, and we are also cultivating our own children's book authors and picture book painters."

"In this area, domestic start-up is too late, not mature enough, and lacks enough good works. You guys have a lot to do," Huang Tao praised his daughter. "At the same time, pay attention to introducing copyrights. You can't leave those excellent children's books abroad alone and leave them to your competitors."

He taught his daughter seriously, looking like he wanted to make the Dawn Children's Publishing Company big and strong.

Huang Huang Beibei listened seriously, putting forward her own ideas from time to time, and the father and daughter discussed very harmoniously.

Discussing to the end, Huang Tao suddenly shook the liquor and remarked:

"Do you know what the greatest pain in life is?"

Huang Huang Beibei shook her head.

Huang Tao gave a self-deprecating smile:

"That is watching the people and things you cherish most, the life you yearn for most, occupied by others, while you can only be locked in a dark and oppressive prison."

Huang Huang Beibei looked at Huang Tao without responding.

Huang Tao didn't care either, and after having strong liquor with dried fruits, he drank by himself for a while.

He gradually restrained the expression on his face and looked at Huang Huang Beibei:

"If you find that you are just an illusory character in a dream, and at this time, someone attempts to wake up the owner of the dream, what will you do?"

Huang Huang Beibei remained silent for a few seconds and said:

"It depends on the specific situation."

Huang Tao smiled and said:

"Then to be specific, you clearly know that if the owner of the dream is awakened, you will disappear completely. Even if there is a next dream, the corresponding character that appears will no longer be the current you, but the person you value most supports waking up the owner of the dream, is willing to take risks for this, and even sacrifice themselves, what will you do?"

Huang Huang Beibei didn't answer.

She looked at Huang Tao and never spoke.

Huang Tao responded to his daughter's gaze calmly.

After a while, he drank the remaining liquor and stood up:

"I'm going up to handle things."

Huang Tao walked out from between the sofa and the coffee table, passed by Huang Huang Beibei, and stepped toward the door of the tasting room.

"Dad."

Suddenly, Huang Huang Beibei called him.

Huang Tao turned his body, and a smile had already appeared on his face.

"Is there anything else?" he asked.

Huang Huang Beibei also stood up and deliberated:

"I have always been curious, if we don't talk about science, what does it look like inside a mirror, and what is hidden in the depths of a mirror."

Huang Tao watched Huang Huang Beibei for a few seconds and said:

"Hidden is a great terror you can't imagine."

After speaking, Huang Tao turned his body, pulled open the wooden door, and walked out of the tasting room.

"Great terror..." Huang Huang Beibei stood in place, chewing on this word.

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Late at night.

Lu Mian used "Teleportation" to arrive near Red Moon Hospital.

He didn't rush to enter, changed into Lu Mianna's appearance, made disguises, and walked around Red Moon Hospital.

He saw that in the green belts around Red Moon Hospital, in the cracks of the corners of each building, mushrooms grew one after another like bamboo shoots after a spring rain, all kinds of mushrooms.

These mushrooms didn't occupy the living space of other creatures, nor did they endanger the structural safety of the buildings, just growing quietly and peacefully.

Growing so many mushrooms, no wonder Red Moon Hospital wants to launch mushroom set meals... It looks like they are all edible... Who wouldn't be happy to use free ingredients? After Lu Mian roughly confirmed the situation in the outer area of Red Moon Hospital, he hid in a concealed place, drilled into a mirror, and arrived all the way in the psychiatric ward.

He wasn't worried about being blocked or set up with traps by the dream city police in this mirror world, because this person Lu Mianna had no actual identity, and on the surface, she had no relationship with Li Li Keji. Unless high-level police officials like Ya Gaici received revelations from prophecy or divination that there would be clues here, it was unlikely that they would send people here to squat.

And with everyone suppressed to Sequence 7, Lu Mian, as a "Despair Witch," wasn't too afraid of having divination and prophecy pointing to his whereabouts.

After observing the entire ward for a while, Lu Mian jumped out from the mirror-like item and landed lightly.

He always held a mirror in his hand, using it to reflect light, create illusions, and blind the surveillance cameras.

Lu Mian then looked at the corridor lights emitting dim light and the steel doors sleeping in the dim environment, and his spirituality didn't give a warning.

Immediately after, he took a breath, didn't smell blood, and didn't smell other strange odors.

Only then did he gently pat Li Li Keji's metal door.

Bang, bang, bang, the knocking sound wasn't loud, echoing quietly in this area, not reaching the nurse station.

Li Li Keji's voice suddenly sounded, very low:

"Who?"

This time, there were no white and tender mushrooms coming to the window to peek, and no large amount of white mycelium drilled out of the door crack.

"Me." Lu Mian, draped in black hair, answered softly, "The person who asked you to help treat a vegetative friend before."

"You..." Li Li Keji still didn't appear behind the iron fence window of the door, seeming to be huddled in a corner of the bed.

"Does your research have any progress?" Lu Mian pressed.

"Have some ideas, have a pile of failed products, and have a semi-finished product. It still needs verification, I'm not sure what the final effect will be..." As he spoke, Li Li Keji's voice revealed a bit of confusion, "But some strange things happened, I might not have time to advance the experiment you want recently."

"What happened?" Lu Mian's spirit tightened suddenly.

There are actually things that can make Li Li Keji shelve the mushroom experiment?

After a few seconds, Li Li Keji answered as if talking to himself in confusion:

"I'm pregnant."

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 991 =====