The Unruly Immortals

"Where's my head?"

Upon hearing Li Huowang's query, Li Sui thought Li Huowang was asking himself and hurriedly replied, "Dad, I know, it fell on the ground back in the city. Should we go back and pick it up?"

Li Sui's words seemed to drain Li Huowang of his last breath. His body went limp, and he collapsed face-forward onto the ground.

"Dad? Dad, what's wrong?" Li Sui worriedly nudged Li Huowang's corpse with his antennae, but there was no response. He didn't understand why his dad was not moving.

Was it because he didn't have a head? But dad didn't have a head before either, and he still ran such a long way; it shouldn't be because of the lack of a head.

It was at this moment that Li Sui suddenly noticed that the little toy his dad had given him was moving.

She picked up the little leather man with her antennae, and, as it caught the wind, it quickly grew to the height of a person. Its face was Li Huowang's, but its body was deflated, just a thin layer of skin.

This flat and lightweight Li Huowang instinctively crawled to the ground, pressed his mouth against the shadow beside his own corpse, and began to suck vigorously.

As he sucked the shadow into his belly, the skin bag inflated rapidly like a balloon. Before long, a completely naked Li Huowang with a head appeared beside his own corpse.

Looking at the headless corpse on the ground, Li Huowang, who had narrowly escaped death, gasped with lingering fear.

When his head fell off, he was blind and hadn't seen who took it, but it was most likely the resurrected warden from the Astrological Bureau.

The Astrological Bureau indeed had a backup plan. If it weren't for this magic artifact to guard against, he really might have ended up here for good.

"Next time I face the Astrological Bureau, I must be extremely careful. Their methods are too weird and dangerous. A slight negligence can easily lead to death."

As Li Huowang was thinking about these things, everything around him began to tremble. He had just speculated that someone from the Astrological Bureau was ambushing him when, suddenly, everything around him turned into a bleak white.

Dressed in two Binding Clothes, Li Huowang lay quietly on the hospital bed, blankly staring at the white energy-saving light above his head that wasn't turned on. "Back again…"

Li Huowang belatedly realized that he had been resurrected through a borrowed skin but Li Sui was still inside the belly of his previous body. Without it suppressing the illusion, this false world unsurprisingly reappeared.

"Li Sui, Li Sui," mumbled Li Huowang, his voice muffled by the gag. "Hurry, get inside my belly, help me go back."

Having said that, Li Huowang immediately threw his head back and opened his mouth obstructed by the fabric as wide as he could.

The surveillance camera in the upper left corner of the ward, with its red light flashing, immediately pivoted towards Li Huowang who was tied to the bed.

Perhaps because his mouth was gagged and he couldn't speak clearly, Li Sui didn't bring him back to reality.

"Li Sui! Stop dawdling, hurry up!" Seeing that there was no response, Li Huowang grew anxious.

He knew that it wasn't just Li Sui that was missing from his belly right now, even the black spindle wasn't there. If anyone looked his way at this moment, his identity as Xinsu would be exposed!

With a "clang," the door to the ward was pushed open by someone.

When Sun Xiaoqin walked in with the meal box and saw Li Huowang staring at her intently, tears of excitement threatened to spill from her eyes.

"Son, son, are you awake? You're finally awake, aren't you?" Sun Xiaoqin rushed over, cradling Li Huowang's head and examining him over and over again.

As Sun Xiaoqin removed the cloth from Li Huowang's mouth, he was just about to pretend to be insane to bluff his way through, but looking at the worried face before him, he found himself unable to utter a single word.

"It's okay, it's okay, as long as you can see people, that means your condition is gradually improving. One day it will get better. Come, eat something, let's eat first," Sun Xiaoqin said, wiping away her tears as she picked up the meal box from the ground and held it in her embrace.

The four-tiered meal box was unscrewed layer by layer, revealing a meat dish, a vegetarian dish, a soup, and a starch.

Picking up a short-handled plastic spoon, she scooped up half a spoonful of white rice, soaked it in the egg soup, and then followed with a slice of pork belly, bringing it to Li Huowang's lips.

Looking at the foreign substance from the real world in front of him, Li Huowang opened his mouth to let the spoon enter.

"Good boy, my son is the best, I know you'd always want to eat when it gets to this time. Compared with the patients in the other beds, my son is much easier to take care of," she said.

After swallowing the food in his mouth, Li Huowang asked, "Mom, how did you get in here?"

Hearing Li Huowang finally respond, Sun Xiaoqin bit her lower lip hard, but fearing she might frighten her son back to silence, she suppressed her excitement and said, "This place they call a hospital is really more like a prison, the food is terrible. I came to take care of you because I was afraid you wouldn't eat well."

"Normally... normally it's not allowed, but the prison warden is a decent guy. When I told him my son behaves best when he's by my side, he agreed right away. There are still good people in this world."

Li Huowang nodded quietly and opened his mouth again to eat. But after a few chews, he saw Sun Xiaoqin behaving oddly, glancing around nervously.

She scooped out a small handful of rice from the main dish and walked over to a vent covered with a fine mesh, blocking the entire listening position with the rice grains.

Then, Sun Xiaoqin sat back down at the bedside and whispered into Li Huowang's ear at the lowest volume, "Son, if you are awake next time and I'm not with you, and anyone asks about the gold, you must say it's grandmother's dowry! Did you hear me?"

"If you must, you can just keep your mouth shut and say nothing. Never ever mention that you got the gold from under the bedding! People are wicked these days! Never ever tell them, okay?"

Li Huowang wore a smile of helplessness, "Mom, did you spend the gold?"

"What are you talking about, silly boy! That's your grandmother's heirloom dowry! We should not touch it unless it's absolutely necessary!"

"Don't worry, this place is government territory. It won't cost much; your dad can still earn money."

"Mom, the gold is yours to spend, don't be frugal with it. Besides, it's all an illusion; I can have as much gold as I want—"

At this point, Li Huowang froze, seeing his mother once again, a deeply frightening question suddenly jumping into his mind.

In the past, he had always believed the world was not real because he was able to bring gold and the Jade Pendant from the real world and because too many coincidences and abrupt events had occurred here.

But if what Zhuge Yuan had said wasn't wrong, if Xinsu truly had the ability to turn the false into truth and create something out of nothing, then was there a possibility that the gold and those abrupt incidents were actually altered by his unwitting use of Xinsu's power?

Or, was there a possibility that this real world could be real as well?