Soul Patch

Chapter 310 Why Return to the Capital?

Just as Morita was about to speak, those strange characters suddenly appeared in front of him again.

[The system detected negative emotion, value range -10, mild]

[Source of negative emotions: Kenichi Matsuyama]

Morita paused slightly, then said, "I got it from Ameko last night."

Amiko?
The geisha next to Sato?
When did Morita start having contact with that woman?

[Kenichi Matsuyama, Negative Emotions -15, Mild]

I got a stone from Ameko, what's there for Matsuyama to be unhappy about? Didn't he see how much I paid for it...? Morita's face darkened.

When Saki and Dr. Sakuragi heard that Morita had woken up, they gathered around the bedside.

Dr. Sakuragi placed the back of his hand near Morita's forehead to check his temperature, examined his pupils and tongue coating, and finally placed his hand on Morita's wrist.

After about a minute, he said with delight: "Not bad, all vital signs are stable."

Hearing the doctor say this, Eiko Kawashima was even happier and thanked Dr. Sakuragi repeatedly.

She turned and took small steps downstairs.

Seeing Kawashima Eiko go downstairs, Dr. Sakuragi followed her down.

A few steps away, Dr. Sakuragi spoke up: "Kawashima Eiko, Morita will be fine after a few days of rest. Young people recover quickly."

Kawashima Eiko bowed slightly and nodded to him: "Thank you, Dr. Sakuragi. I'm sorry to have troubled you. It's all thanks to your timely arrival today. Otherwise, if Morita had lost too much blood, the consequences would have been unimaginable..."

As she spoke, a look of sorrow appeared on her face.

Dr. Sakuragi checked the time and quickly said, "Eiko Kawashima, I'll head back now. Please call me anytime if you need anything regarding Morita's injury."

Kawashima Eiko thanked him again before seeing him to the door.

……

A dozen kilometers north of Kawashima Eiko's seafood wholesale storefront is a villa area called Imperial Villa Garden.

Yingzi also owns a villa over there.

When she and her husband lived in the villa area, they were neighbors with Dr. Sakuragi.

After her husband passed away, she felt that living in the huge villa was too empty, so she simply moved to live in the shop.

A white Lexus slowly drove into the Imperial Villa.

After crossing the lush central road and passing the fountain, we turned into the townhouses on the right.

Dr. Sakuragi threw the car into the garage and ran out quickly.

Standing at the entrance of his own villa, he glanced at the villa next door.

That was the villa owned by Eiko Kawashima, but it was already rented out.

It was rented to a couple.

Sakuragi pressed the keypad and stepped into the room.

He walked through the dressing room and shoe cabinet without stopping, then went to the kitchen, picked up a plate, and headed straight for the basement connected to the small living room.

There was a lock on the basement door. He carefully pressed his ear against the door for a moment before gently opening it.

The basement was cluttered with items, and it looked like it hadn't been cleaned in a long time.

He walked toward a corner of the basement.

Go closer, and you'll see an iron door in the corner of the basement, with a hole in the door.

He placed the tray in front of the iron gate.

Clang, clang, knocked on the iron gate.

He then turned and left.

As Dr. Sakuragi climbed the ladder, the heavy lock on the basement door rattled loudly for a while, and then the basement fell into a deathly silence.

A rustling sound came from inside the iron gate, and an eye peered warily out of the doorway.

The basement was empty, with only fine dust floating in the air.

That person came and went... She finally lowered her guard and her gaze fell on the plate outside the iron gate: on the plate were a few pieces of sushi, a slice of salmon, and a small dish of caviar.

He slowly reached out, grabbed the food, and shoved it into his mouth.

……

M City Airport

Yang Shanshan looked at Wenjie with a puzzled expression, as if she wanted to say something but hesitated.

"Just ask me whatever you want!"

"You just said you left a note for your 2019 self... but the 2019 self saw the note but couldn't save Li Shiman."

As Yang Shanshan spoke, she took a sip of milk tea and chewed on the sago pearls in it.

Wenjie looked up at Yang Shanshan and realized that when she had just opened the straw, the milk tea cup was too full, and she had accidentally spilled it all over her clothes.

He pulled out a tissue and wiped Yang Shanshan's chest.

Emmm...it's really soft.

Yang Shanshan blushed.

Wenjie crumpled the tissue into a ball and played with it in his hand.

Seeing that Wenjie didn't seem inclined to answer, she nudged him and said, "Go ahead and say something?"

"You want to ask why we still need to go back to the capital if the note didn't work, right?"

"Oh, yes, yes, that's exactly what I meant."

Yang Shanshan nodded like a bird catching an insect.

"Because of...this."

As Wenjie spoke, he pointed to Yang Shanshan's pocket.

Yang Shanshan reached into her pocket and touched the small, wrapped object. Two words came to mind: spirit stone.

Wenjie meant it was because of the spirit stone.

Yang Shanshan pondered seriously, then her face fell, and she stuck out her tongue: "We went to the capital because Li Shiman is there. We're not sure if Li Shiman can be saved yet. We just need the spirit stones we have. We don't necessarily have to go back to the capital."

Are women's thinking linear? Can't they just follow one line forward or backward, or even change to another line...? Wenjie thought to himself.

He looked up at Yang Shanshan, whose cheeks were sunken as she sipped her milk tea. Her crystal-clear face seemed even whiter and smoother than the milk tea, making one want to take a bite.

He reached out and ruffled Yang Shanshan's hair, patiently saying:
"Shanshan, we met up with Li Shiman because she also has a spirit stone. Now a spirit stone has appeared in the capital, so we're going to the capital. If that spirit stone appears in Shanghai, we'll go to Shanghai."

That's the idea. Our goal has never been Li Shiman, but the spirit stone that James entrusted to her for safekeeping... Wenjie leaned back in his seat and closed his eyes.

Something about this logic just doesn't feel right... Yang Shanshan's mind went blank for a moment, and she carefully considered what he had just said.

"Uh... Wenjie, how did you know that another spirit stone had appeared in the capital?"

Wenjie suddenly opened his eyes and stared at Yang Shanshan with a half-smile.

Yang Shanshan looked down at herself in surprise... Apart from the collar of her clothes getting wet from drinking milk tea, there seemed to be nothing wrong.

"What...what are you looking at?"

Yang Shanshan tossed her hair and asked, a little embarrassed.

"It's nothing... I just remembered what you said: Spirit stones have a spirit!"

"Oh," Yang Shanshan suddenly realized, and said mysteriously, "Was the spirit stone obtained through a system notification message or some other method...?"

Just as Yang Shanshan was about to ask for more details, a sentence suddenly flashed through her mind.

She immediately shut up.

I'm so stupid, do I even need to ask?
James once said that the magnetic field of that Chinese spiritual stone was even stronger.

She didn't hear this herself; it was Li Shiman who relayed it. This indicates that the magnetic fields between the spirit stones are interconnected.

The United States and China are located halfway around the world, a distance that can be felt.

It's not easy for Wenjie to sense the magnetic field of the spirit stones from the capital city in M ​​City.

(End of this chapter)