The crowd throughout the city was cheering, drinking, and eating. There weren't so many nights like this to celebrate and they were used to work more than having fun. Thus, they took the advantage of this racing for reveling beside their friends and families.
Among that folk, there was a woman with black straight silky hair. The wind with no permission pulled her hair back gently let it dance with the air. She was wearing a white coat; her brown nervous sights glued on the central skyscrapers' screen.
She was Dr. Melisa Wong and the only person who was disagreed with Bo's decision for participating in this tournament or even being a part of TECO. She believed that Bo could continue basketball, as he was also talented in that sport but Bo preferred racing that was his long-term dream.
Her stubborn sunshine didn't care about what his mother asked and went forward to catch what he wanted. Nothing could convince him to give up on this carrier.
She also was conning that he registered for Aligner's Academy and passed the tests with number A. Anyways, BO had made his last choice, and his father's path was his dream.
She reminded herself of his words, "I can take care of myself mom, please believe that I am not a child anymore so just let me find the route myself before darkness catches me." Until that day he was as good as his words and she didn't scold or complain to him but that day, she couldn't get rid of the knots in her stomach.
She gritted her teeth and took a sip of the coffee mug in her hand. Her son entered the Feral area where her husband died there. This revival made fear slipping into her heart, bringing quake to her joints that she couldn't swallow easily.
"Dr. Wong! I got you fried chicken and two extra hot sauces." The young temporary supervisor was beside her and she even didn't notice Mr. Zhao's return.
"Doctor, are you alright?" He tried more but her attention wasn't there and besides that when people cheered, his voice hovered in the air without being heard.
Supervisor Zhao waved his hand in front of her frozen sight and finally, those teary eyes shifted from the screen to Zhao and blinked. It seemed as if she just survived a chained nightmare that barely allowed her to purge out of it.
"Come on, Mr. Zhao! We better eat indoors." She turned her face off the skyscraper side.
"What happened? Don't you like here? I reserved a street table!"
"I changed my mind, as you said before mess hall was a better option. Quiet well!" She began to walk to the hospital's mess hall.
The young man held the food package with one hand pushed his eyeglasses up at the bridge of his nose.
"Dr. Wong! What about your son's competition?" He was amazed that she didn't look keen or eager to watch it and unlike it was woeful.
"Here is too noisy. It'll spoil my appetite, watching my son digging his grave regularly!" She confessed why she had changed her mind.
"Doctor, actually I believe that every job has its own dangers! You are bothering yourself too much." He babbled.
She smiled and glanced at him. "Is that so?"
He shrugged and she added, "You are still too young Zhao."
"Anyways, I don't like racing." He stated but his begging expression was saying unlike that, peeking at every screen on their way back to the hospital.
"Come on! Let's eat then I would like to show you something strange maybe your genius head could help me solve a matter."
Zhao was curious and had no intention to rub it back, straitening his shoulder, peering at her, he declared, "Please! Can you tell me now? Because I won't be able to swallow the food when I left in amazement!"
They crossed the way that folks were standing in groups there and got close to the mess hall door.
"Two hours ago the emergency team and some Cadickus brought us a werewolf body." She paused and sighed.
"Ahh, being a coroner is awful! And this case was horrible!" Doctor Wong added.
"Well, I couldn't be agreed more! It is hard, especially in Vita! Doctor, you had received such gifts from gods to endure it. I am grateful that you are here! No one ever takes me seriously but you are offering me experiences."
"As soon as your father gets back to his place, you will come back to your position as my intern so you need to learn now."
"Why would the hospital choose me for this supervisor position? I am entirely inexperienced." He growled.
"Don't complain! Your father suggested and it approved quickly because we needed someone like you!"
Doctor Wong opened the door of the mess hall and entered. The young staff was after her.
"Hello, Doctor Wong…" Three female nurses greeted and passed by.
"Hi girls."
Zhao pulled back a chair for Doctor Wong and they sat at the table. He put out the boxes of fried chicken, passing the first one with hot sauces to the doctor and having the other one for himself.
"Thank you, Zhao, I'm starving! Nervousness brings a beast out of me."
"Don't mention it and enjoy."
"Well, doctor! Can we talk about the details of the case that you mentioned?" He asked couldn't resist it anymore.
She nodded and added, "He was murdered as if the last case! The vampire that came in the morning." She poured the sauce on her food and continued.
"Something drained the whole blood, made the skin dry and glued to the bones. There was no heart!" She finished.
She didn't like to talk about it during supper but it already involved her mind and had to solve it soon and pass the result to the Cadickus. They emphasized that the case is important and the king's hunters dangled with it personally.
"Have you any pictures?" The young temporary supervisor asked.
"No, they prohibited it! Can you guess which creature can cause such a clean-cut?" She licked the sauce on her finger.
"Wasn't it knife mark? Did it give the same cut to the inward organs?" He glanced at her blankly!
"No, it wasn't a knife, I checked them various times and I was disappointed! It was a straight cut that separated the heart in one slash." She explained.
Zhao felt the tinge of disgust on her face and said, "Let's talk about it after dinner."