Escape from the Ghost

The taxi stopped at the gate of the central hospital, and Song Yi followed Lin Ying through the outpatient building and went straight to the third floor of the inpatient department.

The corridor was bustling with people, and the patient's family was busy. Song Yi went up the stairs and asked, "How is your brother now?"

Lin Ying looked lonely, her eyes flushed and said: "The brain has been opened twice. After the car accident, I have been in a coma. Recently, I just transferred from the ICU to the general ward. The doctor said that I don't know when I will wake up. Play music, watch the news, and tell stories to him. You can’t leave him in the hospital, and I won’t leave him again, so I took a leave of absence. I have no other relatives, and this is the only brother left..." She lowered her head as she spoke. , and didn't care about looking at the road, his shoulders twitched.

Song Yi became worried when she saw the girl crying, sighed and was thinking how to comfort her, when she raised her eyes, she saw a man, wrapped in a khaki shabby velvet jacket, running towards her with his head down.

Song Yi grabbed Lin Ying: "Be careful!"

But before he finished speaking, the man rushed forward sullenly and bumped into Lin Ying. Lin Ying was knocked backwards, and was hugged and half-embraced by Song Yi to help her up. Tall, with long hands and feet, but really pitifully thin.He took a few steps back and fell directly to the ground, holding his chest and panting violently.

Seeing the man fall, Lin Ying hurriedly pushed Song Yi away, saying, "I'm fine."

As soon as she stood still, she didn't care to look at herself, she ran over to help the man up and asked, "Are you okay?"

The man had messy hair and a gray face. He wore a thick medical mask. His eyes were deeply sunken into the eye sockets, and the eyeballs were covered with bloodshot eyes.He waved his hands and panted, "I...I'm fine...cough cough..." Before he could finish speaking, he coughed violently.

The man looked gloomy and secretive because of his illness, but instead of being alienated, Lin Ying kept holding the man's hand, her knuckles tightened, as if she was more nervous than the man herself: "Are you really okay? I Send you to the clinic for a checkup."

After she finished speaking, she was about to drag him away. The man coughed even more anxiously, and the spectators around him gradually stopped.Song Yi stepped forward to stop Lin Ying, and comforted him in a low voice: "Don't worry, let him feel it for himself."

The man took a deep breath, looked at her after a while, with soft eyes, and said, "Don't worry, I'm really fine."

"That's good..." Lin Ying let go of her hand and stared at the man in a daze.

The man was leaning on the wall, trembling, and wanted to stand up. Song Yi and Lin Ying stretched out their hands to help him, but he politely waved his hands and refused, stood up unsteadily, and said, "Thank you."

Lin Ying looked at the man and nodded, put down his hands, and watched him walk out of the corridor while leaning on the wall.

Seeing the man walking away, Song Yi said, "Who is that?"

Lin Ying closed her eyes, continued to walk to the ward, and said: "Patient, I went to the hospital every day a while ago, and he was always alone. Once I saw that he missed his meal, so I brought him a meal." In the meantime, they had come to the door of the ward.

Song Yi was considering whether to go in, Lin Ying turned around, smiled and said: "Just send it here, it's very sick inside, so don't go in."

"Ah."

Lin Ying was a flower, and she was always radiant and beautiful when she was in school, but at this moment, her face was full of exhaustion, which made Song Yi feel a little uncomfortable, and said, "Take care of yourself."

When Lin Ying heard this, she immediately felt tears welling up in her eyes. With red eyes and lowered head, she got into Song Yi's arms, sobbing: "You have to take care of yourself too, no... don't... forget Me." She knew that after this separation, there would be no chance to see each other again.

Lin Ying cried pear blossoms and rain in Song Yi's arms. Song Yi's face was embarrassed, his mind was blank, his body stiffened and he patted Lin Ying's shoulder. He didn't know what to say. People passing by couldn't help but look at them. Whispering.

Song Yi silently lowered her head to hide her face, but Lin Ying finally stopped crying, pushed him away, and said in a low voice, "Let's go." After speaking, she opened the door and entered the ward.

Song Yi looked at his hand that was still hanging in mid-air, and put it down with a bitter face. When he turned around, he saw Li Zhaoling standing at the door of the corridor, and he was a little embarrassed.

Li Zhaoling remained expressionless and said nothing.

"That..." Song Yi approached, thinking about whether to explain.

Li Zhaoling interrupted coldly: "Let's go!"

He turned around and left, Song Yi hurried to catch up, heaved a sigh of relief, he glanced at Li Zhaoling's profile, and felt that this person seemed to be colder than usual.

Li Zhaoling was walking, suddenly stopped, and said coldly: "Counting Zhao Yu, you really can eat both men and women."

Song Yi looked at Li Zhaoling's back with gloomy eyes and a sharp tone: "Are you investigating me?"

Li Zhaoling turned around, his eyes met, the air suddenly froze, and it was like an ice pick that was directly inserted into the chests of the two of them.Song Yi took a step forward, emphasized his tone, and repeated: "How do you know about Zhao Yu and I?"

Li Zhaoling frowned. He felt that he must be crazy. As soon as he entered the corridor, he saw Song Yi and that girl hugging each other. controlled.Without saying a word, he turned and went down the stairs.

Song Yi walked a few steps quickly, grabbed Li Zhaoling's sleeve, and said, "How many things have you investigated about me? Is it because of your general?"

Li Zhaoling felt a "thump" in his heart.Every time I come into contact with Song Yi, there are always some unexpected things.Of course, the names that disappeared on the death notice will be tracked down, but at this moment, he didn't know how to explain these curious prying eyes, so he could only vaguely say: "Before the Zhantianji is lit, no one can One hundred percent sure that you are the host."

"Then why investigate me?"

Li Zhaoling's gaze changed slightly, and he suddenly pushed Song Yi away, saying, "Be careful!"

A figure rushed up, passed between them, and ran upstairs.This man was too fast, Song Yi was bumped lightly by him, turned his head to see the back, only to realize that it was the tall and thin man who was hit by Lin Ying in the corridor just now.

"It's him……"

Song Yi raised his hand to support the arm that was hit, his eyes were empty and he was stunned.

Seeing his dumbfounded look, Li Zhaoling asked, "What's wrong?"

After a long time, Song Yi murmured, "I...I saw him, he...jumped off a building..."

The noise in the corridor of the hospital was instantly switched to the pause button, and everyone remained motionless and stood in place with the last movement.The world seems to have become a huge electronic screen, which can be turned on and off at any time.A glittering golden scroll slowly emerged in the air, opening bit by bit.Li Zhaoling lowered his head, looked at Song Yi who was full of surprise, hesitated for a moment, then waved his sleeve and stretched out his palm.The golden light shone, and a few words appeared faintly on the scroll: Chen Wei, male, 36 years old, 16:05, fetching souls.

In an instant, everything around returned to normal.

Song Yi looked up and saw the electronic watch hanging in the nurse's station. On the bottom of the black screen, the bright red fluorescent characters were as scary as blood, and the words 16:04 were clearly written.

Song Yi's face was pale, and he said hoarsely, "No..."

Li Zhaoling grabbed his wrist and said, "Song Yi, listen, precognition is not a kind of ability, because you are the host, so you have the perception of the netherworld, you can see the people they want to kill in advance, don't be afraid. "

Song Yi raised his head, with panic still in his eyes, and asked Li Zhaoling, "What should we do now?"

"Go to the rooftop."

Song Yi forced himself to calm down, and ran to the rooftop with Li Zhaoling.

A door of the ward seemed to isolate another world.Lin Ying came out with a basin in her hand, washed the towel, wrung it dry and took it in her hand. Sitting on the edge of the bed, she carefully traced Lin Ming's pale and thin face, her eyebrows with just the right thickness, and his handsome and unique eyebrows. With the mouth and nose of the ventilator, his face is slightly sunken.

She was very patient again and again, and the back and forth were within the distance of a slap, brushing past and then back, and whispered: "Brother, obviously so many people have died, why are you still awake?"

A drop of tear ran down Lin Ying's chin and dripped onto the back of Lin Ming's hand. She took the towel and gently stroked it, a secretive smile flashed across her face.

Outside the window, a black shadow suddenly fell and hit the ground, and the surrounding frightened voices came and went:

"what……"

"Ah... yes...someone jumped off the building!"

"Call the police! Call the police!"

Shouts erupted, passed through the windows, and fell into the ward.Lin Ying walked to the window, glanced at it indifferently, closed the window and went back into the room, playing light music on the stereo.

A warning tape was erected around the corpse at a distance of 30 meters, isolating the entire open space behind the shady side of the inpatient department, and uniformed policemen were everywhere to evacuate the crowd.

Panting, Gao Xiaoshuai ran towards Xia Houyong, and said nervously: "The whole road in front of the hospital is blocked, there are people pointing everywhere, and we evacuated several times, but we just don't want to leave."

Xia Houyong took off his gloves, stuffed them in Gao Xiaoshuai's arms, and said: "When I jumped off the building, many people watched, and it was a crowded place. In this way, the forensic team will push the body into the mortuary of the hospital first after the scene of the forensic examination. Release it as soon as possible, and just stay on the scene on the roof."

"Yes!" Gao Xiaoshuai handed the folder in his hand to Xia Houyong, and said, "The basic information has been obtained. The deceased Chen Wei, male, 36 years old, was a patient in the hospital and had been treated here for half a year."

"What disease?"

"Lung cancer."

Xia Houyong frowned, and said in a deep voice, "Terminally ill...jumping off a building? By the way, where is the person who called the police? Although some witnesses confirmed that it was suicide, the statement must be complete."

Gao Xiaoshuai said: "Several people called the police at the same time. The first person who answered the phone was a 53-year-old woman who had a heart attack. She was walking in the small garden downstairs of the inpatient department. The body fell right in front of her eyes. , and insisted on calling the police, but as soon as she hung up the phone, she was sent to the emergency department, by the way, you also know the two people who sent her to the emergency department for registration."

Xia Houyong had a bad feeling: "Who?"

"Just the pair of teachers and students I met at Mucheng University, but it's also strange. Last time, that kid was dying to eat that teacher. This time, he actually followed each other to the hospital. Don't let anyone beat someone up. Right? Whoops..."

Xia Houyong stretched out his hands to cover handsome Gao's head, and said, "You have a rich imagination, go write a book, you'll just make up nonsense stories all day long!"

"Group leader Xia, where are you going?"

Xia Houyong waved his hand at him and yelled, "Piss!!!"

Gao Xiaoshuai covered his head and curled his lips, what face does this mustache have to criticize him?I have never seen a less decent policeman than this man.

The emergency department is busy 24 hours a day, and this meeting is also bustling.Xia Houyong walked around the crowd and saw two people sitting in the corner of the waiting room at a glance, one with a black face like a living sculpture, and the other with a white face like a living dead.He walked over and said, "You two look so unloved, no wonder people die everywhere." Turning his head, he said to Li Zhaoling, "Didn't I tell you to stay away from the scene of the crime."

Li Zhaoling said with a cold face, "I can call someone else to report to the police."

Xia Houyong suddenly felt that the muscles on his face were stretched and hurt, and Li Zhaoling's implication was obvious, "This emissary has already done this, you should be content with it."

Xia Houyong approached and said in a low voice: "The soul has disappeared."

Li Zhaoling didn't answer, but looked through the crowd and landed on the purple-clothed girl at the door.He raised his hand and snapped his fingers, time suddenly broke, and everyone stopped moving.They came out of the emergency room, came to the open space outside the inpatient department, and walked towards the corpse together.

Xia Houyong checked around and said, "Did that Nether in the museum do it?"

Li Zhaoling thought about it, and said: "Not sure. Even if the ghosts harm people, it is impossible for the soul to disappear inexplicably. But the strange thing is that this person was so ill that he only had half his life left, and he was procrastinating just getting treatment in this hospital." Half a year. Even if you die, you won’t have the strength to run away by yourself. I felt something was wrong, so I notified Su Ningzi and asked her to come to Zhang Ling to ask for directions.”

Su Ningzi just finished inspecting the corpse and came over.

Xia Houyong asked: "How is it?"

Su Ningzi took out the purple handkerchief in her pocket, wiped her hands and said, "You look haggard, your energy has long since disappeared. If you lived and died normally, it would probably only happen in the past few days. Now you have fallen to pieces, and your body is basically useless." It's useless, and the soul has disappeared without a trace, I have to go to the place where he jumped off the building."

It's spirit, life and death, she speaks lightly and calmly, coupled with a girlish baby face, there is always an indescribable awkwardness.Compared with the first contact, Song Yi was much used to it. He followed Li Zhaoling and Xia Houyong to the rooftop together.

Su Ningzi stood in the center of the roof, with the palm of her right hand facing outwards, and pushed forward, "Scary" flew out from the palm with purple lightning, circled around the roof of the roof, and entrenched on Su Ningzi's body again Before, there was a faint light.Su Ningzi grabbed the whip, "Scary"'s little tail twitched enchantingly twice, and when her neck tilted, she let out a sigh of relief.

Xia Houyong asked: "How is it?"

Su Ningzi looked at the whip, narrowed her eyes, and said, "It really disappeared..."

Li Zhaoling looked around from the rooftop and said, "What do you mean?"

Su Ningzi put away her shock, looked at Li Zhaoling solemnly, and said: "If you want to completely disappear the soul, there are only three possibilities. The first one is that you have decided to die, and the spirit body is destroyed. This kind of situation requires the soul itself to carry the power of darkness in order to transform into a ghost."

Xia Houyong looked at Li Zhaoling, and said: "You, the biggest dark boss in the world, is standing there, even if you are full of resentment, you can beat the world, let him see the reality clearly, let alone a sick child, it is impossible to have such Great skill, what about the second one?"

"Blood sacrifice is to be offered as a sacrifice to other undead."

Li Zhaoling said in a cold voice, "The blood sacrifice process is complicated, especially if it is inseparable from the extremely heavy ceremony. It is impossible. What is the third method?"

Su Ningzi said with a calm face, "Cultivate the soul."

Song Yi frowned: "Cultivate the soul?"

"Nursing dead souls with living souls. Even the ghosts cannot kill people directly. They can only use illusions to make people in trouble more desperate, helpless, and lose the courage to live. After these people die, they can absorb The soul's death aura strengthens itself. The so-called nourishing soul means that Nether uses the power of other souls to maintain a 'alive' state and return to the human world."

Song Yi frowned and said, "Isn't this the same as the host? You people are really persistent." Everyone silenced after listening.

Li Zhaoling approached him, and said in a deep voice: "Soul nourishment is to nourish the dead soul with the living soul. It goes against the sky after death. In order to counteract the backlash, it requires those who donate their souls to be willing. As for the host... it's you." life..."

Song Yi glared at Li Zhaoling, stopped talking, and went off the rooftop alone.

Xia Houyong watched Song Yi's lonely back gradually disappearing at the entrance of the corridor, he couldn't bear it, and said: "The ghost after resurrection is at best a puppet. Who knows what will be the result of the so-called rebirth of the host? Li Zhaoling, are you sure you want to do this?" Go down?"

Li Zhaoling replied coldly, "This is fate."