Chapter 236 - 5.46 Ask Me Anything
In the end, they voted to move Joshua into another location. He was then put into a sterile capsule where the excess liquid he produced would be instantly sucked down the drain. Using the time before the system skill wore off, Lu Yizhou tied Yves up and threw him into another room. Fortunately they had the empty hospital all to themselves.
Lu Yizhou had offered to be the one to extract information from Joshua whilst Terra, Doctor Wyatt and General Ethan would be watching through the surveillance camera. Joshua woke up disoriented and as soon as he caught sight of Lu Yizhou who was sitting on the corner of the room playing with a sharp blade between his fingers, he instantly turned as pale as a ghost, pleading. "Don’t kill me! Please don’t kill me! I—I really didn’t want this to happen. I swear, the parasite is forcing me!"
Lu Yizhou would hate to spill blood in front of his lover and he was relieved that Joshua was cooperating. It seemed like the last attack from Terra had weakened the parasite, allowing Joshua to take over his consciousness once more. They took his blood sample — it was still crimson, to Doctor Wyatt’s surprise — and then he answered Lu Yizhou’s questions one by one, including the thing Lu Yizhou wanted to know the most — and that was on how to fight against the parasite inside him.
When Lu Yizhou exited the room after disinfecting himself, he joined the others in Doctor Wyatt’s office. Seeing Terra’s sleepy face, Lu Yizhou’s heart instantly melted as he pulled the guide to him so he could lean on Lu Yizhou’s shoulder.
"What do you think?" He asked Doctor Wyatt.
Doctor Wyatt mulled over his notes before answering. "If what Joshua said about a guide’s spiritual elements being used as a shield to protect the brain from the parasite was true, then we might be able to perform an extraction surgery on him with minimum damage. There’s a high possibility that he will pull through this. General Ethan has taken Lieutenant Yves’ blood sample. Luckily, he’s still in the first stage of infection. If we use the same method on him, the possibility of success is 70%. It’s better than nothing."
Lu Yizhou knew that Joshua and Yves would definitely survive this mishap but he still nodded, pretending he knew nothing.
"What are you going to do with the King?" Doctor Wyatt inquired.
Finally the question Lu Yizhou had been waiting for. "If..." He swept his gaze around, making sure that they knew the gravity of his words. "If the surgery succeeded on Lieutenant Yves, then it could be applied on me too."