To reassure Yu Yi, he downplayed the risks. But implanting and removing a chip were entirely different matters. The Temporal Management Bureau’s technology far exceeded all known time-space technologies. The chip was extremely small and could be implanted via injection, but removal required opening the skull to extract the tiny biological chip.
Although only drilling a small hole in the skull, any surgery carried risks, especially in an underground clinic with incomplete equipment and medications. But he was willing to take these risks to avoid being tracked by the bureau’s chip positioning.
From the moment he took Yu Yi from her own time-space, they had no way back.
Yu Yi watched Meng Qing enter the “No Unauthorized Entry” room, still somewhat worried. She thought this “surgery” must be simple for them.
She waited for a long time without seeing Meng Qing or Left Hand emerge. The man who initially opened the door kept trying to chat her up. Yu Yi kept her head down, and he eventually stopped talking. Suddenly, she heard the door open and looked up to see Left Hand coming out with a furrowed brow.
Yu Yi’s heart skipped a beat: “What’s wrong?”
Left Hand completely ignored her, walking past her directly and returning to his bedroom. Yu Yi followed him and saw him open a hidden compartment in the wall, taking out a flat silver metal box. As he crouched to retrieve the box, she noticed the blood on his white robe and became worried about Meng Qing. She asked urgently: “What happened? Wasn’t the surgery successful? Is he in danger?”
Left Hand’s face darkened, and he didn’t speak. He strode to her, and Yu Yi tried to move back but was too slow, getting bumped on the shoulder and almost falling. Left Hand didn’t look back, rushing back into the operating room.
Yu Yi followed, nervously pushing open the “No Unauthorized Entry” door, but there was another door inside, and she couldn’t see anything.
She stood outside waiting before Left Hand emerged again, looking exhausted. Yu Yi was about to speak when Left Hand smiled: “Don’t worry, he’s fine.”
Yu Yi’s heart relaxed, but then he continued: “But you might have some trouble. I’m not entirely sure, but if it’s true, I might be in trouble too. I don’t know who implanted the chip in his brain, but they’re definitely a cunning bastard!”
Yu Yi looked at him, confused.
Left Hand sat directly on the floor and explained: “There were two chips in his brain, one outside and one inside. The problem was that these chips were connected by extremely fine nano-wires, so thin that even instruments couldn’t detect them. When I removed the first chip, I broke the wire. At that moment, several pieces of equipment in the operating room instantly stopped working. This is a setup to kill someone!
Yu Yi listened with a half-understanding expression and asked, “So how is Meng… Qing now? If you say he’s fine, why do you also say we’ll be in trouble?”
Left Hand looked at her: “What does it mean when several medical devices stop working simultaneously? Powerful interference! What does interference indicate? His brain chip sent out a very strong signal.”
That line was just a switch, and pulling it would send an alert. No matter which bastard did this, he definitely knows Meng Qing’s location now.”
He looked at Yu Yi and sneered coldly, “Understand now? He just had surgery and hasn’t woken up, and I have all my belongings here and can’t move. I don’t want to run. You should escape before that bastard’s people arrive.”
Yu Yi shook her head: “I won’t leave.”
Left Hand looked at her in surprise: “Did he have surgery for you?”
Yu Yi shook her head confusedly: “I don’t know.”
“Suit yourself,” Left Hand shrugged, taking out a cigarette and lighting it, muttering, “Might as well smoke a few more while I can.”
Yu Yi walked in front of him and said, “They’re coming to arrest me. If I go with them, they probably won’t trouble you. Do you have a place to hide Meng Qing? Please hide him, and we’ll say he’s already gone. His brain chip has been removed, so they can’t determine his exact location anymore, right?”
Left Hand stared at her for a moment, then threw away his half-smoked cigarette and suddenly jumped up, urgently calling to the man he saw at the door: “A Dong, come help quickly!”
They pushed the still anesthetized Meng Qing out of the operating room, took the elevator downstairs, and hid him in a building across the small alley.
Left Hand and A Dong returned to the clinic in just a minute or two. Four people—three men and one woman—silently appeared in the corridor. When they saw Yu Yi, they walked directly towards her.
Yu Yi tried to stay calm and stood straight to face them.
The woman spoke first: “Yu Yi, you’re under arrest. Where is Meng Qing?”
Yu Yi trembled slightly and asked indignantly, “What right do you have to arrest me? I haven’t done anything.”
The woman simply asked again coldly: “Where is Meng Qing?”
“He’s gone.”
The woman raised an eyebrow: “Impossible. He just had brain surgery.”
“Someone took him away.”
The woman sneered: “Why didn’t they take you with them?”
Tears welled up in Yu Yi’s eyes, and she cried out aggrieved and unwilling: “I begged him to take me with him! But he said Meng Qing’s condition was all my fault, and he couldn’t let me implicate him anymore. He told me to find a place to hide myself, but I don’t know anyone here. Where could I possibly hide?”
The woman paused, looking at the three others. This was an unexpected situation, but fortunately, they had caught Yu Yi. As long as they captured Yu Yi, the operation would not be considered a failure.
The four split into two groups, two watching Yu Yi while the other two thoroughly searched the clinic. Finding no Meng Qing, they took Yu Yi away.
Left Hand didn’t say a word throughout, and only after they left did he mutter almost inaudibly: “A born actor, with real skill and idol potential.”
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Left Hand also glared back at him: “I told her to run from the beginning, but she insisted on staying. If she hadn’t stayed and lied, they would have definitely searched here and taken you away.”
Meng Qing shouted: “Even if I get caught, nothing serious will happen to me!” He was only obstructing an arrest operation, which would at most cost him his executor qualification and a few years in prison. Yu Yi was completely different, as she had committed a serious crime of changing the course of history.
Left Hand yelled: “How would I know that? They were clearly drawn here by the brain chip in your head, and I already said she refused to leave! Don’t you dare get angry with me. I’m not taking the surgery fee, so get the hell out of here!”
Meng Qing and Left Hand stared at each other for a while. Meng Qing sighed and raised his single hand: “Sorry, I shouldn’t have gotten angry with you. I’ll transfer the surgery fee to your account right away, and I’ll leave soon.”
Left Hand snorted: “Since you’re paying, you can stay a few more days. Stay in bed these days and avoid intense physical activity.”
Meng Qing shook his head: “I was going to leave anyway.” Although it was a cranial surgery, the wound was small, and now except for a slight dizziness when shaking his head, he had no other sensations.
Left Hand coldly said: “I won’t stop you if you want to die.”
He threw him two boxes of medicine, “Take two red pills a day for five days. Take one blue pill a day for two days.”
Meng Qing looked at the instructions on the red box and twisted his mouth: “It’s not one pill a day, and you can’t take more than five consecutively?”
“Didn’t you see the ‘follow medical advice’ part? If you take medicine according to the instructions, why would you need a doctor?”
Meng Qing laughed: “Yes, Dr. Left.”
