What's wrong with stealing some of your yang energy!

Li Xuewen and Bai Ling rushed out of the car, and when they squeezed into the crowd, the hospital patrol car had arrived with its red and blue lights representing ominous signs.

Two medical staff shouted "Let's go" and rushed into the crowd, one raised his body and the other lifted his feet, put the person down and gave first aid, but the leader opened his eyelids and his face quickly sank.

Two people and one ghost sat outside the emergency room in a daze.

Everything happened so suddenly that Li Xuewen couldn't help but feel his mind go blank when it was the first time he received such a life-and-death order.

In the past, Li Xuewen boasted of being highly knowledgeable and able to handle everything from helping people with their fortune-telling and horoscope readings, choosing a company's location, and rectifying the Feng Shui Bureau.

But when he really came into contact with things that could not be dealt with purely with theories in books, he was horrified to find that he was like a "vegetable chicken" that he loved to ridicule, and was at a loss.

Xie Yihai's psychological quality is actually a bit stronger than him, his big hand has been holding Li Xuewen's, and the warmth is continuously transmitted from the rough palm to the cold part.

"Relax, sister Xue," he comforted in a deep voice, "it's fate, if something like this happens... there's nothing we can do."

"But!" Li Xuewen lowered his head in pain, "If we hadn't asked him to take the bus again, maybe he wouldn't..."

Bai Ling looked uncomfortable, and he was also sad, but he could see it openly: "Brother Xuewen, it's not like that, he doesn't believe in these ghosts, if we don't come to investigate, the police will treat this as an accident, and this The group of drivers will run this bus in the future, and there will still be accidents."

Li Xuewen lowered her eyes and did not speak.

Xie Yihai winked at the worried Bai Ling, the two got up and walked to the other side to talk.

"Let's hear about him, don't look at him grinning and flaunting his power all day long, in fact he has a delicate mind." Xie Yihai lit a cigarette with a weary expression, "Sorry, I'll smoke one."

Bai Ling shook his head and said it was all right, he was not afraid of choking.

Sparks danced dazzlingly in the drowsy environment of the ward, and white smoke slowly drifted away.

Xie Yihai took a long sigh of smoke: "Since the accident in his family, his sensitive heart has become even more serious. He looks strong and calm, but in fact, everyone can see how painful he is."

Bai Ling couldn't help asking: "I've been hearing you say 'that thing', what is it..."

Xie Yihai glanced at Li Xuewen, raised the corners of his mouth helplessly, and patted Bai Ling's head cautiously like Li Xuewen: "Okay, I'm really overwhelmed, and I will pass on negative energy to you. Don't be so curious about children, be good, Go play somewhere else."

Bai Ling pouted dissatisfiedly, walked around from under his hand to the other side, and protested with his fist: "I'm not young anymore, I want to know too, brother Xuewen looks so pitiful, I can persuade him if you say it .”

"Persuasion?" Xie Yihai smiled wryly, "If persuasion can make him come out and get his revenge, why don't we try?"

Xie Yihai remained silent after all, and Bai Ling could vaguely feel the careful and prudent care between the two brothers.

The lights in the emergency room went green.

The two medical staff walked out in silence, but the rescue was ineffective, and Xiao Liu died of myocardial infarction.

His family couldn't accept this fact. The gray-haired old woman fell to the ground crying, and the resolute old man burst into tears, and went to help the old woman in panic. Sigh.

Li Xuewen got up from the chair silently, and walked out of the corridor without looking back.

His expression was unprecedentedly absent-minded and dazed. He was almost tripped by a passing child and stumbled out of the hospital gate.

"Brother Xuewen!" Bai Ling was in a hurry, throwing off his little feet and chasing after him, "Why are you so desperate to live and die! Xiao Liu's death has nothing to do with you! If you want to blame it, it's better to blame him for transferring him to work Where is the supervisor of the temporary dispatcher!"

This logic is actually difficult to argue with.

Is it a pity that Xiao Liu died?pity.

But therefore not allowing any driver to cooperate with the investigation?I can't justify it.

Therefore, when Li Xue heard about this tendon, she couldn't get over it.

He felt that he was too weak and incompetent, and he couldn't let Xiao Liu show himself.

He thought, what would happen if Brother Chong was here, would Brother Chong solve the case immediately, and Xiao Liu would not die so wrongly.

Bai Ling was short-legged and was too tired to catch up with Li Xuewen's long legs: "The blame is on the black hands behind the spicy chicken! If it weren't for him, we wouldn't have died so many! We came to solve the case to do good deeds, Don't blame yourself any more!"

Li Xuewen paused in her footsteps, and finally stopped.

Maybe it was because he was exhausted watching Bai Ling's little short legs chasing after him.

Bai Ling bent down, gasped for a few breaths, and wanted to continue outputting nonsense, but Li Xuewen let out a soft "hmm".

He said, "You're right. Fuck that man behind the scenes!"

The setting sun hit Li Xuewen's face, and those thick black eyes were rippling with a fragile watery light.

The three of them took a taxi straight back to the bus terminal.

At this time, the sky was completely dark, and the night of the Five Rings was silent, and the tall and shallow outlines of buildings in the distance were hidden in the darkness, like dormant monsters.

Three rows of giant chandeliers lit up at the bus terminus, and it was still bustling with various shifts coming in and out, whistling and shouting one after another, and it was the only popular place around.

Everyone was busy with the work at hand. Seeing that the three of them got out of the taxi and got on the K132 from the departure station, they just glanced curiously, and then turned away numbly.

K132 is an additional flight in the same year as K128, and the first three stations overlap.

The driver was an uncle with a sunburned face. He was chewing on a cabbage bun.

"Where are you guys going?" Uncle's hoarse voice over the sound of the engine, "I haven't seen you before."

several?

Bai Ling was taken aback, if he wanted to summarize the number of people, shouldn't it be "the two of you", isn't the quantifier "several" usually used for three or more people?

Something flashed through his mind, but he was not sure, and asked softly: "Are there many old passengers who often take your car?"

The uncle really answered.

He nodded: "My car is on the wrong route, and there are few people on it. But it happens to pass by the dormitory of the Second Hospital, and the next stop will be all doctors and old nurses from the Second Hospital, and they are the only people who come back and forth."

Li Xuewen was surprised that the uncle could see Bai Ling, and wanted to say something, but Bai Ling made a "shh" gesture and made him hold back.

Bai Ling met the uncle's tired eyes through the dim rearview mirror at night, and said, "Have you heard about the K128 road?"

Uncle has a meal.

He opened the car window with his free hand, and took out a pack of cigarettes from under the seat. After a while, the smell of burning inferior tobacco leaves dissipated, and he said, "How many of you are reporters?"

Bai Ling nodded vaguely: "It's quite a big trouble, isn't your driver afraid to leave at night?"

"What's there to be afraid of?" The uncle gave an unexpected answer, "It's just a few troublemakers who wanted to extort money. They died when they got off the bus and blamed the bus. The number of passengers has dropped by more than half in the past few days. .”

He suddenly coughed violently, his fairly broad chest was shaking back and forth, as if he was about to cough out his lungs in the next second, the strength of the chest piercing made people tremble with fear.

"Are you okay?" Bai Ling couldn't help asking, "Have a cold? Go see a doctor."

The uncle waved his hand: "Thank you, little brother, for your concern. The old problem is not in the way. It's pharyngitis, and I smoke a lot."

Li Xuewen couldn't help but said: "You really should take a look when you have time, I don't hear it right, it doesn't look like a normal pharyngitis. Don't... it's lung."

The uncle is a neat person, he laughed a few times: "Okay, listen to you scholars, you have to go and have a look after two days of shift. How dare you get sick these days, half a month's salary is gone after going in and out, this month The salary commission is so small..."

After a short greeting, we soon arrived at our destination, the second mental hospital on the next stop.

This "second", I don't know what to pay attention to. There are two mental hospitals in Yanjing City, one is this "second" and the other is "third". There is no first place, and it is said that some inexplicable things will always happen to the first place, so they all start from the second place.

As soon as Xu entered the gate, he could really feel the difference between the mental hospital and the ordinary hospital.

The air was filled with a nervous smell of sulfur and disinfectant, and it was very quiet. The doctors and patients who came in and out occasionally were in a hurry and their faces were numb.

But if you listen carefully, in the distance, there is a "dong dong" impact sound with a large amplitude, and a series of laughing and fighting sounds, like auditory hallucinations, and it seems to be shouting in the ear, separated from the sound insulation layer of the hospital, turning into an unstoppable sound. Real echo.

The light has been in disrepair for many years, and it is a depressing grayish yellow. There are moths and insects lingering on the light, making buzzing and neighing.

Bai Ling wrapped his coat uncomfortably: "It's so quiet... Isn't it time for dinner now? Why don't family members come to the doctor to deliver meals?"

"Most of the mental hospitals are long-term inpatients, and the patients eat in the group cafeteria." Li Xuewen pushed his glasses pretending to be calm, and pointed to the map on the wall. "The cafeteria is quite far from the hall, near the back door. ……normal."

The business card that Xu Tianfeng gave only said "Psychiatry Attending Physician" and did not mention the department. The map shows that the departments are divided into very detailed areas, closed areas, and released areas, which are divided into elderly areas, men's areas, female areas, and youth areas. , there are still several areas that are relatively small, and the names are not displayed.

Li Xuewen made a phone call and answered it quickly.

"excuse me, you are……?"

"I was investigating the bus just now," Li Xuewen cut to the chase, "We are in the lobby on the first floor now, do you have time?"

Xu Tianfeng was straightforward: "Okay. I'm patrolling the room now——Xiao He, please help me to greet——I'll send a nurse to escort you."

Soon, a little girl in a pink nurse uniform came over, like a fresh graduate.She smiled: "Hi, I'm Xiao He from Director Xu's department, come with me."

The little guy has a pretty pink face, a sweet smile, looks like he knows how to do things, and has a soft voice. Xie Yihai is not good at dealing with girls, so he was at a loss, almost walking with the same hands and feet, and was laughed at by Li Xuewen.

But the relaxed atmosphere disappeared after turning the corner——

Along the road leading to the women's area of ​​the enclosed area, there are four or five transparent entertainment rooms wrapped in tempered glass.

In the first entertainment room, there are six ping-pong tables lined up, covered with colorful cartoon cushions, and the wallpaper is very new with light contrasting colors, but...

The two patients' clothes were messy, and they "cracked" and "cracked" the table tennis table.But they didn't hold the racket, they hit it with their hands, the route of the ball was weird and distorted, they couldn't get on the table, and they all scrambled on the ground.

The ping-pong balls hit the ground, the wall, and even the glass cover, making nervous repeated beating sounds, which were extremely ear-piercing, but the two patients were enjoying themselves.

A person threw the ball vigorously to the ground, the ball bounced to the ceiling in an instant, fell to the ground, and went up again. The two patients screamed strangely and cheered with unknown meaning.

On the cartoon cushion, two elderly people are tied to the rocking chair with black broadband, and they can only shake slightly on the rocking chair.

An old man with a dark face showed three missing teeth, and smiled eeriely: "Hehe...hehehe...you missed the ball again, you missed the ball again!"

"Miss the ball, miss the ball, idiot!... Hee hee hee!"

The old man next to him shook his head, his mouth was slanted and his nose was crooked, his saliva flowed all over his neck, and he made meaningless "heh", "heh"...

Bai Ling was so frightened that he rushed to Li Xuewen's back, Li Xuewen kept reassuring him, "I'm not afraid", "I can't get out", "What's so scary", but his face turned pale and his steps were messy.

Xiao He, who was walking in front, smiled, with a very sweet smile in the dark corridor, under the light of the bright glass, it was strange.

"I'm sorry, the road plan is unreasonable. I was too scared to get used to it when I first came to the hospital."

The lights in the second entertainment room are off, and the outlines of large objects inside are blurred; in the third entertainment room, a doctor is playing the piano, which is very melodious and clean, if it is not for the patients lying on the ground or giggling or howling.

Finally, the fifth entertainment room is not transparent, its area is twice the size of the previous one, and the door is half-closed. Xiao He gently knocked on the door: "Director Xu."

"Enter."

But he saw Director Xu facing them with his hands behind his back. In front of him was the other half of the big room surrounded by iron fences, and there were many people moving around inside.

Looking carefully, there are many desks lined up inside, like the ones in schools.

The patients were all women, some ate around the table, some got together and didn't know what to do, and there were even two holding hands facing each other, as if they were playing house.

Xu Tianfeng turned around: "I'm sorry, I can't leave for dinner. Those in the closed area have to eat indoors."

He pointed to the corner: "Shu Fangling is there. Shall I call her out?"

Looking in the direction, Shu Fangling squatted in a pool of colorful foam balls in the corner.

She was submerged in the colorful foam balls, leaving only her neck. From time to time, she struggled as if she was paddling with water. When she listened carefully, she could hear the words "Ah... help me, save me...".

Li Xuewen was stunned: "Is it normal when I saw her in the morning?"

Xu Tianfeng sighed: "She performed very well in the past two days. She passed the approval and went to the release area. Unexpectedly, she ran away after breakfast without being watched. This is another stimulus, and the situation is even more serious."

The "stimulus" that he didn't specify specifically was nothing more than the proposal during the dialogue to "take the K128 road with them again".

Li Xuewen recorded Shu Fangling's reaction with her mobile phone for a while. After eating, a group of patients curiously lay on the iron fence to watch strangers, like tourists visiting monkeys in a zoo. They are all adults, but they uttered an inexplicable "ahh!" The sound is very penetrating.

"You said earlier that another ordinary passenger was brought in? Where is he?"

Xu Tianfeng seemed to have expected that they would ask, so he called Xiao He who sorted out the toys: "Take them to Director Qi, and say that I called them. I have to watch here for a while, and I will find you later. "

Xiao He quickly put the box away, and responded sweetly.

Several people turned up and down the stairs.

The decoration upstairs is obviously old, the innermost bricks and tiles are peeled off from the wall skin, and the corridor lights flicker from time to time, and the flight paths of moths are fragmented.

Approaching the second floor, the sound of hitting the ground and laughter heard far below the first floor became clearer.

Xiao He explained that the second floor is the youth area, and there is a lot of movement, so be mentally prepared later.

Before the words were finished, a white ping-pong ball suddenly flew out from the stairway, bounced down the stairs with a "bang bang bang", and there was another burst of joyful cheers, and the three of them jumped down.

Xiao He's sweet face immediately changed, his eyes were staring, his mouth was tightly pursed, and his ferocious face seemed to be ten years old in vain.She pulled out a [-]-centimeter-long electric baton from the loose nurse's gown, and rushed upstairs in three steps at a time, shouting loudly: "Fucking mother, you are playing with your mother! Get the hell out of here! Fuck!"

Bai Ling wasn't frightened by the ping pong ball, but was startled by the little nurse's sudden voice, and suddenly trembled: "Oh my god, girls are so scary..."

Xie Yihai deeply felt the same way: "Little brother, you are right..."

It turned out that there was a group of teenagers in the hall, ranging from thirteens to fourteens to their twenties. The hospital clothes were different from the blue and gray on the first floor, but white and gray. From a distance, they were white and white, very dazzling.

After being warned by Xiao He's electric baton, the group of teenagers ran to the other side of the corridor, like a swarm of locusts leaving a wheat field, all joyful.It turned out that the sound of hitting the ground heard on the first floor was the stomping sound of these children running wildly.

A young male doctor suddenly walked over from the corner, Qingyue's voice sternly warned: "Be good! Don't want to sleep on the floor tonight!"

When he turned his head and glanced at Xiao He and the people behind him, he paused: "What's the matter?"

Xiao He explained his purpose, and the man nodded: "No problem, come with me."

He handed over a business card and called it Qi Hanting, a rather cultured name.He is also handsome and fair-looking, with a rigorous bookish air about science and engineering, like a fresh graduate, which makes people feel good after seeing him, which may be what his profession needs.

Qi Hanting said that there was an hour of rest in the closed youth area where dinner was empty, and he went to the toilet just now, but he didn't expect to be so messy.

Qi Hanting led the three of them into a small single room surrounded by iron fences. This is obviously an old building area. The three-story fence is somewhat rusted.

The incandescent lamp was particularly dazzling in the dim light, Li Xuewen frowned: "Can you tell us about his condition?"

"Fear of the dark, fear of doors, and fear of people," Qi Hanting said with a flat expression, "It's pretty standard depression, plus delusions of persecution, and mania."

The three of them stopped in front of a bright light, only to see a thin boy leaning on the only single bed in the 3X3 small single room and dozing.Hearing the sound of footsteps, his eyeballs protruded and he jumped up: "Don't come up, don't come up!"

Startled by his sudden attack, Li Xuewen took a step back: "Where are you going?"

The boy laughed again: "Get in the car! Don't get in the car! It's about to drive—hehe!"

Afterwards, Li Xuewen tried to ask a lot, such as what he saw on K128, but the boy's thoughts were confused and it was difficult to communicate. No valid information.

But others heard that this was nonsense, and the three who had experienced the strange gap understood that this boy might also be one of the members who escaped from death.

Qi Hanting showed a little impatience, and looked at his watch frequently. Li Xuewen and Xie Yihai exchanged glances, and proposed to go to the office for a chat. For some reason, the doctor who looked like a college student showed a faint expression of relief.

Bai Ling quietly leaned into Li Xuewen's ear: "You guys go first, I think something is wrong with him, I'll observe from here for a while."

Li Xuewen nodded imperceptibly, and said in a low voice: "Be careful in everything, if something goes wrong, hurry downstairs and wait for us on the first floor."

Bai Ling patted his small chest: "Leave it to me."

Bai Ling's intuition was right.

The moment Qi Hanting and the two brothers disappeared around the corner, the mad boy stopped muttering.

He slowly straightened up from his paralyzed half-lying position, pressed his ears against the wall, and seemed to be listening to footsteps.

Wow, this brother is a multi-talented talent in the new century. He can act, ventriloquist, and counter-investigation. He is very promising!

Ghost walked through the protective fence and sat down beside the mad boy.He noticed that the sheets on the single bed were very new, washed starched burlap, but there were faint scratches from sharp fingernails.

The boy made sure the footsteps were gone, and then—

"What do you want to ask me?"

Eh?

Bai Ling blinked, and pointed to himself in disbelief: "Ask me?"

"Otherwise?" The boy smiled on his delicate face, which was quite different from the grim drooling appearance just now, "You stay by yourself, don't you want to dig something from me?"

"Ah," Bai Ling stammered a little, luckily he should go to buy a lottery ticket today, but unexpectedly met two people who could see him without the help of things, he straightened his words, "Are you pretending to be crazy?"

"Yes, or not?" The boy raised the corners of his mouth slyly, "Do you believe a madman says he is pretending to be crazy?"

Bai Ling got stuck: "This... feels like you are normal now."

"What is 'normal' compared with? Now that you are normal, does it mean you will be normal forever?" The boy asked back, "I can see that you are normal?"

Bai Ling got stuck again, brother, you are actually a philosopher: "You, it must be abnormal for you to ask this. The talent to see ghosts with the naked eye is one in a million."

The boy didn't continue this topic, but leaned back and leaned lazily against the wall: "...just as you want to know, on the bus... I encountered a strange scene."

He showed a smile that was not a smile, and the incandescent lamp in the single room was so bright that people felt dizzy after staying for a long time, and his face was illuminated white and bright like a ghost.

Bai Ling shivered inexplicably, he stood up from the bed uncomfortably, and sat on the low stool ten centimeters away.

The low stool was wrapped in cotton and firmly fixed to the ground. The ground was covered with dirty water, and a few pieces of toilet paper were piled up in the dirty water, which looked very disgusting.

The boy continued: "A paper figurine holding scissors, a bus that circulates at the same stop, an unmanned hospital under the boundless darkness, right?"

Word for word.

Bai Ling nodded quickly: "How did you get out? I mean, since you escaped unscathed, why did you end up in the hospital?"

The boy shook his head: "I don't know. After I came out, when I told others about this, no one believed me. I wanted to keep this matter in my stomach for the rest of my life, but unexpectedly, the mental hospital came to me and locked me up. go in."

"You mean, the hospital locked you in forcibly! But why did they do this..."

"Who knows," the boy spread his hands wryly, "Maybe, I accidentally touched something."

The boy suddenly closed his mouth, and lay down on a half-slanted side, drooling with his mouth crooked and his eyes crooked.

Bai Ling was caught off guard and turned his head, but he heard the "da da" sound of high heels swaying in the distance from the corridor, as if a nurse was approaching.

"Let's go," the boy stared at his fish-belly eyes, and spit out words that made Bai Ling's hair stand on end, "If you don't go, it will be too late...they can all see you..."