Rebirth: 100 Days Before Doomsday - Chapter 67

Chapter 67: Dr. Kian’s Attacker

Grace knocked on the bedroom door and entered when she heard the person on the other side of the door giving her permission to step into the room.

She closed the door behind her and turned to face the man on the bed who was finally looking much healthier compared to how he looked five nights ago.

“How are you doing now?” She asked as she made her way closer and took a seat on the edge of the bed beside him.

Dr. Kian smiled at her as he replied, “Thanks to all the care I have received these past few days, I’m doing really great. Ms. Rebecca is a great doctor.”

And he wasn’t lying. Color had finally returned to his face. The small wounds and bruises were almost healed. The only wound that still needed attention was the big cut on the left side of his abdomen. It was a deep cut made with some sort of sharp object. Good news was that while serious, it was still an external injury that hadn’t affected his internal organs.

“How did you end up like this?” She finally asked the question she had been wanting to ask everytime she came to meet him during the past few days, but held herself back because she knew he wasn’t in a good enough state to talk.

He didn’t answer immediately. Instead, he kept his gaze focused on his hands for a while before finally looking up at her and saying, “Let this matter go. It’s not-”

“What happened, Dr. Kian?” Grace repeated, her tone more serious than before and it silenced him for another couple of moments. He was clearly surprised by her seriousness, and eventually gave a nod of his head a moment later before finally revealing exactly what happened to him on his way to Sunspire City.

“I thought about your offer for a long after after we ended the call that night. After giving it a deep thought, I was able to understand your concerns. But it wasn’t that easy to get out of the city as all the public transportation has been halted for the time being.”

Listening to that, Grace realized exactly how stupid she was when she asked him to arrive at her doorsteps within two days. She completely overlooked the part that there were no means of transportation that could help him travel the distance between the two cities in the current harsh weather. She wanted to apologize, but she waited to let him finish speaking first.

“Fortunately, I have a speedboat in my garage. It has been sitting there for years and I was even planning to sell it… who would have known that it will come so handy all of a sudden.” He shook his head while speaking the last sentence.

“Is that how you arrived here?” She asked while thinking about how he would have crossed the long distance between the two cities with a speed boat. With how dangerous the rain was, this sounded like an extremely dangerous scenario.

Dr. Kian nodded his head before speaking, “I’m not sure how I survived all those dangerous sinkholes that have appeared almost everywhere. When I stepped out of my house, it felt like the entire country is flooded. There’s water everywhere and I haven’t seen even an inch of land throughout my way from Capital City to here.”

Even if she wanted to comfort him, there wasn’t anything she could really say. The last thing she wanted was to give him any false hope when she knew exactly what was coming their way in the future.

“Since I used a speedboat and the journey to here wasn’t really smooth, it wasn’t until late afternoon of the second day when I finally arrived at Sunspire City. I couldn’t help but notice that despite the slight flood and the continuous rain, the situation here is so much better compared to the capital city and what I noticed throughout my way to here.”

Grace knew exactly what he was talking about. Though there was no overlooking the fact that the streets of the Sunspire City had been started flooding since the past week and situation here was also worsening with each passing day, there was still a huge gap between the situation here and the other cities.

“When did you get injured? And how?” She asked, realizing that he had gone silent. She knew for sure that he got attacked by someone and she wanted him to tell her exactly what happened to him.

Did he got attacked by someone for his speedboat? She wondered as she waited for him to answer her questions.

Dr. Kian silently looked at her for a minute or two, and Grace noticed how he looked both uncomfortable and slightly embarrassed which left her equally surprised and curious.

“Dr. Kian?” She called him when he continued to stay silent, forcing out a deep sigh from him.

“When I was on my way here, I came across a supermarket and thought about buying some food for you. I left the money there and bought a lot of food. But I… I ended up getting attacked when a group of people noticed the food. They tried to steal the food and the speedboat, and when I fought back… they used a knife…”

He trailed off after that, but there wasn’t anything else that needed to be said. When Grace spoke, her voice was so cold that she surprised him once again. “Were you attacked in this residential area?”

Slowly, he nodded his head in a positive response. “I’m sorry, Ms. Blackwood. I couldn’t bring any food, lost my speedboat as well, and… even got injured. I know that I have caused you a lot of trouble.”

She sighed softly as she shook her head, dismissing his apology. “Don’t worry about food. I have more than enough stocked up to feed you for a lifetime. As for the speedboat, it will help us in finding your attackers later. We need to teach them a lesson. As for you getting injured, you are indeed stupid for that. What if I didn’t have a doctor with me? What would have we done then?”