บท 193: The Not-Great Escape

"Er… hello?" Jingwei croaked out, trying his best to translate what he wanted to say in English. He could understand the language, but speaking it when his brain was already scrambled was harder than expected. "Where…Where am I?" 

The nurse gave him a motherly smile, her blue eyes twinkling. Jingwei could see that her blonde hair was tied into a neat bun. 

A blonde, blue-eyed nurse that spoke English? Clearly he wasn't in Shanghai - he wasn't in China at all! 

"You're in UCLA Medical Centre," the nurse said warmly. 

Jingwei blinked. From the word 'medical', she must have been talking about the name of the hospital, but that told him nothing! 

"Where?" Jingwei repeated weakly. 'Please let this be a bad dream.' Jingwei thought to himself. 'Maybe this is just some far-flung part of China that had European-looking nurses. Or maybe she was an immigrant. Yeah. That's it.'