Chapter 116: My Baby Is Gone
Word Number:202
Author:梦里的漩涡
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Release Time:2026-01-10
Down in the first-floor cafeteria, I shoveled the lukewarm food into my mouth, eating in huge, desperate gulps. I was starving, beyond the point of caring about my manners or how I looked. I had no inhibitions left. If I looked like a mess, so be it. I didn't care. They watched me eat, and I acted like they didn't exist. As I kept my head down, a stray lock of hair fell across my face, and it hit me just how disheveled I must have appeared. But again, it didn't matter. In less than four minutes, the container was empty, save for a few stray grains of rice. Once I finished, Lin Cheng and I followed the old man to a black van, and we began the drive toward the city. The police I’d seen earlier had already cleared out. I’d watched it happen before I even left the building; the commander had received some kind of order and pulled his men back. They had been eerily quiet as they retreated. "Are you ready for this, Xia Ning?" the Professor suddenly asked from across the seat. I thought about it for a second, then gave a curt nod. "Yeah.