Chapter Five: Protecting Chrysanthemums

  "Big brother, don't scare me." I took a glance at the muscular black-clad man and found his eyes to be extremely lecherous, instantly giving me goosebumps all over my body.

  "Are you trying to scare me?" the man with glasses said.

  To protect Chrysanthemum 'Flower', I betrayed my own antique shop.

  Finally, I signed the confidentiality agreement, packed up my things, wrapped up some "private" items, and was about to leave when the bespectacled man spoke up and said, "You'd better take that sword on the wall with you, it's not included in the contract."

  Yeah, the sword of King Goujian of Yue is still in the store, how could I leave a bronze sword worth millions there? I must have gotten my brain messed up these past few days.

  I went back and put the sword in a wooden box and threw it into the car. I drove straight home.

  When I opened the 'door', my whole body shook, as if I felt something was wrong, and my whole body's vigilance seemed to be raised to its highest point.

  I quietly closed the door, because I smelled a strong pungent smell in the house again, this smell was very familiar, because I had just smelled it yesterday.

  "Ah……” I felt something was off, why were my feet wet and squelchy? So I looked down and was suddenly shocked to see that it was blood. Fresh blood spread throughout the entire room, the whole house was stained with blood, extremely terrifying, dazzlingly bright red.

  Seeing this scene, I was so scared that I sat directly on the ground, sitting like a fool.

  It wasn't until the alarm sounded in his ears, buzzing loudly.

  At that moment, the cries by my ear, all the decorations, appeared in my mind, pain accompanied me.

  Until a strong beam of white light shone into my eyes, hurting so much that I reflexively closed them.

  "Chen Yuesong, you finally woke up."

  I heard someone talking and opened my eyes again, staring blankly at the person in front of me. He was wearing a uniform, a familiar police uniform.

  Am I under arrest?

  I moved my body and tried to get up, but he pressed me down with one hand. He said, "Don't move for now, just lie there and rest."

  Seeing that he didn't have any malice towards me, I relaxed a bit and looked around. This was a room, just like a hospital ward.

  "Where is this?" I moved my mouth and squeezed out a sentence.

  "In the hospital." he replied.

  "What's going on?"

  It wasn't until then that I learned from him that the one who called the police was Little Wang from next door, who found me sitting alone on the floor after work and already not in my right mind.

  "What happened?" I asked again.

  "Don't you know?" He looked at me with a somewhat suspicious expression, wanting to see something from my face.

  I shook my head violently, trying to recall the events that had occurred, but it made my head feel like it had been hit hard from behind, and I scrunched up my eyebrows to suppress the pain.

  Right after that, a hurried footsteps sound came, and walking in was a beautiful female nurse. She saw I woke up, holding a very long needle in her hand, which scared me pale.

  In that second, the fear in my heart was magnified several times by a magnifying glass, and I shouted at the nurse: "What do you want to do?"

  I always feel that what she's holding in her hand is very dangerous, and I don't know what she wants to do.

  "Hold him down." The nurse suddenly spoke up, her eyes becoming somewhat frightening.

  I hadn't even had time to struggle when the man in uniform pinned me down, I threw a fierce punch at him but he dodged it with ease. The next second, a needle pierced my arm and I could clearly feel my consciousness becoming increasingly blurry, I didn't even have the strength to sit up anymore, the person in front of me suddenly turned into two, three.

  "Is the situation still like that?"

  "Back to Feng's team, his mental state was unstable, as if he had rejected the control of the 'drug' after being detached."

  By this time I couldn't see anyone, only heard them talking, seemingly discussing something about my physical health.

  They say I'm mentally unstable, damn it, if that nurse's eyes hadn't changed suddenly, how would I have gotten so agitated as to want to hit someone?

  It turns out that my idea was right, they are not good people.

  I often hear that the patients in mental hospitals are actually mentally normal, but were driven mad by their medication. This thing won't happen to me, will it?

  Thinking of this, I'm scared to death, what are they trying to do?

  The nurse walked back and forth in the room anxiously, saying, "We can't leave him here, it's a danger to others."

  "Later I will take him away." The person called Feng Du finally spoke up.

  "Alright."

  Right after that, I heard some heavy footsteps. Judging from the frequency of the footsteps, it should be two people. In a daze, I seemed to have been held up by someone. With great effort, I opened my eyes but couldn't see anything, just complete darkness.

  This is such a long coma that when I wake up, it's like it's been a century.

  I lay on a soft and wide 'bed', covered with white quilt, the light in the room was gentle, so it didn't hurt my eyes when I opened them. I slightly moved, and my whole body seemed to be bandaged, making me unable to move easily, accompanied by waves of pain.

  A gentle voice came over, a female voice: "He's awake."

  A series of footsteps approached, a man with his head down looked at me, I struggled to sit up a bit, but was pressed down by a powerful hand: "You lie there, don't get up."

  I looked back and saw a familiar face, Tang Guangze. I don't know why, but my heart suddenly felt at ease and calmed down.

  Tang Guangze knows my background clearly. He knows that I killed the old beggar, also knows about the blood characters on the wall, and some things about the sword of King Goujian of Yue.

  "Get out, all of you." Tang Guangze waved his hand, and then everyone left.

  Sat down beside my 'bed', and asked in a low voice: "Chen Yuexong, can you hear me talking?"

  I nodded slightly and opened my eyes to look at Tang Guangze.

  "It's me, don't worry, you're safe now."

  "Where is this?" I said in a low voice.

  "This is a safe house, you're safe now."

  "Why did they treat me like that?" I asked in puzzlement.

  Why did those people wearing police uniforms spray me with that 'drug' water?

  Tang Guangze listened and smiled lightly, saying: "They think you're crazy, don't you really know what happened?"

  "What should I know?" I looked into his eyes, trying hard to recall recent events that had happened to me.

  "There's a lot of 'pork' piled up in your house, and there are moving blood characters on the wall. They all think you're severely mentally split, so they sent you to 179 Hospital."

  "What?" I exclaimed, immediately looking around and trying to figure out if this was a psychiatric hospital.

  "On the way, I had someone rescue you, as for the safety issue, your injury was caused during the journey."

  Hearing this, I let out a sigh of relief and calmed down. I looked up at Tang Guangze and asked, "Why did you save me?"

  "You know, I'm the only one who can understand your predicament. They used to treat me like that too. After all, no one would know what it's like to go through such an experience." Tang Guangze spoke up, his face turning somewhat unsightly as he said this.

  "Does my mom agree to send me to a mental hospital?" I asked without thinking.

  "He still doesn't know where you are, and your family shouldn't be dragged into this, or else it will end up like me, the consequences are unbearable." His face suddenly turned painful, as if he had remembered something sad.

  "You...?"

  He abruptly interrupted me and said seriously: "Just don't follow in my footsteps."

  "My family, they're all dead. This is a curse, the curse of Goujian's sword is even more terrible than I imagined. At first, I thought it was nothing, but when people around me died one by one, I realized it was true. Before, I didn't believe in curses and that sort of thing either, but what happened made me have to believe."

  Tang Guangze was like a man lost in thought, his face filled with an inexplicable sense of terror.

  "It will never stop cursing, never has."

  "I originally had a happy family, a beautiful wife, and an adorable daughter. I felt extremely happy, but this sword took everything away from me."

  I quietly listened to him speak, only to feel like I had fallen into an unknown world, like a lost child who couldn't find the way back home.

  That bronze sword can kill people and also control people, what kind of world is this?