[GB] Boss Ruan, your husband doesn't want you anymore.

Ruan Qian'an took off her gloves and looked at Li Ang with a puzzled expression: "?"

Li Ang replied, "I noticed that there were fewer patrols, so I went to inquire what was going on and found out from the control room that Huo Jingmo had been taken into custody by Wu Qing."

"Moreover, Wu Qing took away most of the troops, and they are probably going to be detrimental to Huo Jingmo."

Ruan Qian'an frowned: "What's going on? Didn't he already cooperate with Wu Qing?"

"Why do we still need to control him?"

Ruan Qian'an suddenly widened her eyes as if she had just realized something: "No wonder no one intervened during my long surgery."

"Li Ang, you stay here with these experimental subjects. I'll go by myself," Ruan Qian'an said, stopping Li Ang from following.

Ruan Qian'an mentally reviewed the map, considering her location relative to Huo Jingmo's, and calculating her fastest possible speed and the time required.

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Huo Jingmo's mind was foggy; he could only hear his own breathing, which sounded especially loud in this place.

A beam of bright light shone on Huo Jingmo's face, causing him to be momentarily blinded.

After he adjusted, he realized his situation. He was tightly bound to the bed, and the cold bed gave him goosebumps.

Huo Jingmo looked around and saw several people wearing masks and holding scalpels. He widened his eyes slightly and looked at them in disbelief.

He struggled and shouted, "What are you doing? Let me go!"

But no one answered him. Instead, one of them lifted Huo Jingmo's clothes, exposing his stomach, and examined it.

Something was being applied to his belly. Huo Jingmo's belly was slightly protruding and had a small shape, and one could only sense that the little baby inside was growing well.

Huo Jingmo's violent struggles made them frown, and one of them looked at him with displeasure and finally spoke.

The man threatened Huo Jingmo in a rough, hoarse voice, "Don't move, or you won't survive if you cut it crooked."

The man's words successfully threatened Huo Jingmo, who indeed dared not move and his body instantly stiffened.

Huo Jingmo's voice trembled: "What exactly do you want to do?"

At this moment, a person walked in from outside, and even just seeing his eyes, it was clear that it was Wu Qing.

Huo Jingmo roared at the newcomer, "Wu Qing, let me go right now! There's no such thing as a person who goes back on their word like you!"

"What are you trying to do to me? I don't have what you want on me. Let me go, do you hear me?"

Huo Jingmo only heard Wu Qing chuckle and say, "This thing you have is a treasure, how can you say you don't have it?"

Huo Jingmo began to struggle again, because he had already guessed from Wu Qing's eyes what Wu Qing wanted from him.

Huo Jingmo struggled to speak and said, "The child? You fucking want the child in my belly, don't you?"

Wu Qing nodded: "You finally figured it out, Mr. Huo."

Huo Jingmo's mind raced as he considered various possibilities: "What do you need an unborn child for? Or are you going to abort the child I'm carrying?"

Thinking this, Huo Jingmo felt a dull pain in his heart for some reason and said, "I also wanted to abort this child, but I just didn't have the time."

"So you don't need to resort to such methods, I can cooperate with you."

Wu Qing smiled but remained silent.

Huo Jingmo then asked in confusion, "How did you know I was pregnant?"

Huo Jingmo felt a bit stupid after asking that question. If Wu Qing wanted to harm him, why wouldn't he investigate the people around him thoroughly?

Moreover, he had investigated everything about Ruan Qian'an thoroughly.

Wu Qing spoke up at this moment: "Who told you I was going to abort this child?"

Huo Jingmo's eyes widened slightly, his face went blank for a moment, and his trembling lips couldn't utter a word.

Wu Qing slowly opened his mouth and said something unbelievable: "You know that some things can be ripened by force, right?"

Theoretically, it's possible to artificially accelerate the growth of a fetus in the womb. I've conducted many such experiments, and the success rate isn't high, but the survival rate is about one in ten.

So now I'm going to accelerate the growth of the baby in your belly, so it can grow bigger.

Huo Jingmo's face turned pale at those words: "How could there possibly be such technology? Don't talk nonsense."

Huo Jingmo's voice trembled slightly as he spoke.

Wu Qing smiled somewhat strangely: "Of course, the cost that the mother body will have to bear during the process of artificial ripening is incalculable."

Wu Qing touched Huo Jingmo's stomach and said, "If you didn't want to abort the child, I wouldn't have resorted to this method."

Huo Jingmo's face turned deathly pale. He wanted to travel back in time and slap Wu Qing in front of him, telling her that he didn't want the child.

Wu Qing continued, "Of course, even if you want this child, I'm prepared to force it to mature."

Wu Qing looked at Huo Jingmo's face and smiled. He enjoyed these words that could destroy a person's heart.

Constantly breaking down Huo Jingmo's will gave Wu Qing a surge of pleasure.

Wu Qing tore off Huo Jingmo's sleeve, revealing his delicate skin.

All the surrounding instruments were activated and placed on Huo Jingmo.

Huo Jingmo tried to struggle, but the shackles binding him tightened even more.

For some reason, he was breathing heavily, as if the air around him was very thin.

A needle was inserted into Huo Jingmo's abdomen. Huo Jingmo now only hoped to pass out quickly.

But Wu Qing's words plunged him into despair: "Don't let him fall into a coma. Keep him awake, or the mother and fetus will die instantly."

The others responded, "Yes."

Then another person gave Huo Jingmo an injection on the back of his hand, and the IV drip was placed on the equipment stand.

Huo Jingmo's hazy consciousness gradually returned to normal.

As the needle was inserted into his abdomen, liquid was injected into the tiny body inside Huo Jingmo's abdomen.

As the little child grew up, Huo Jingmo let out a painful wail.

The intense pain made him dizzy: "Stop—ah!"

Screams echoed throughout the operating room, and Huo Jingmo was drenched in sweat.

Wu Qing felt no cruelty whatsoever; he only felt joy at the impending success.

Even with a mask on, the smile on his face was still visible.

All of these people were focused on Huo Jingmo, and they didn't even notice Ruan Qian'an sneaking in.

People around Wuqing were killed by having their throats slit before they could even make a sound.

When the machine stopped completely, Wu Qing realized something was wrong. Just as he was about to turn around to look at the person who had come in, a knife was pressed against his throat from behind.

Ruan Qian'an almost gritted her teeth as she said, "Stop."

Wu Qing dared not act rashly and could only listen to Ruan Qian'an.

Ruan Qian'an's eyes were filled with immense anger as she looked at Huo Jingmo's protruding belly.

"Pull the needle out!"

Wu Qing manipulated the instrument to remove the thin, long needle from Huo Jingmo's stomach.

Huo Jingmo squinted weakly at the newcomer and asked in confusion, "Qian An?"

It was Ruan Qian'an, disguised as Qian'an, who spoke up: "I saw you being held hostage here by him, so I came over."

Huo Jingmo was conscious, but his face was extremely pale and his whole body was trembling uncontrollably. He couldn't utter a single word.

He was enveloped in immense pain, yet he couldn't faint; the double torment nearly drove Huo Jingmo to the brink of collapse.

Huo Jingmo felt as if his waist had been broken in two, and all his organs felt as if they had been crushed and rotted.

Huo Jingmo groaned in pain, his voice sounding like a cat's meow due to his extreme weakness.

As the syringe was removed, Qian An's hand moved closer to Wu Qing's neck, leaving a bloody gash on Wu Qing's neck.

Blood trickled down, and just as Qian An was about to finish Wu Qing off with a single blow, Wu Qing hurriedly cried out, "You can't kill me, or Huo Jingmo will die too."

Qian An abruptly stopped.

Then, he chopped Wu Qing unconscious with a single chop, threw him aside, and removed the injection from the back of Huo Jingmo's hand. This injection was the drug that kept Huo Jingmo conscious.

As Qian An exuded a soothing aura, the restless fetus inside Huo Jingmo's belly, which had been scratching at his stomach in an attempt to break free, finally calmed down.

Because the pain of the fetus being forced to mature is no less than that of the mother.

The rapid growth of a child's bones also causes the child considerable pain.

The soothing aura emanating from Qian'an made both the mother and child feel much better.

What was meant as comfort to the mother was meant as suppression to the child; this aura made the unawakened child too afraid to move.

Huo Jingmo didn't know whether he had passed out from the pain or had fallen asleep because of Qian An's presence.

In short, I fell asleep amidst pain.

Blue light slowly emanated from Qian An's palm, and Huo Jingmo's stomach, which had almost burst, gradually healed.

Qian'an wiped away the tears that Huo Jingmo shed from the pain, but she herself couldn't help but keep crying.

She gently picked up Huo Jingmo and walked outside, her eyes filled with undisguised hatred.

Isn't she strong enough? Why can't she protect the people she loves?