The Taste of Ghosts in the World

There aren't many customers in the supermarket right now, so Qi Mu pushed the trolley leisurely through the shelves.

"Longan... longan... ah, here it is." He stopped, reached out to take out a can, looked at the packaging carefully, and then put it into the cart. Feng Baisui despised him for dawdling, and floated beside him and said, "Look So what are you doing carefully?"

"It depends on the production date." This is Qi Mu's long-term shopping experience, "If you are not careful, you will have diarrhea."

Feng Baisui took the canning bottle in his hand, threw it into the cart without looking at it, "Don't look at it, it's something for the old man anyway, it doesn't matter if you eat it to death."

Qi Mu helplessly stopped his evil hands, and reminded: "We are outside, can't you keep a low profile?"

Feng Baisui raised his eyebrows, "I've kept a low profile to the point where no one can see me."

"It's because others can't see you, so the canned food just flew in by itself!" Qi Mu pushed the cart to change a shelf, and warned: "Don't cause trouble for me."

Feng Baisui simply folded his arms and followed behind idly.

After buying something, Qi Mu put the bag on a bench and asked Feng Baisui to watch over it while he went to the bathroom.

When Qi Mu was washing his hands, a woman came out, walked to the sink next to him, and turned on the faucet.

A small cry floated into Qi Mu's ears, as if it came from the side, he raised his head suspiciously, only to see the woman in the mirror in front of him also raised her head and looked at him.

Seeing that she didn't respond, Qi Mu thought he heard it wrong, and was about to leave after turning off the tap, but he heard the woman ask in a low voice, "Did you... hear anything?"

Qi Mu was stunned, turned to look, her hand was trembling slightly on the sink, and asked again: "Did you hear anything?"

"You mean crying?"

The woman's eyes widened all of a sudden, and she pulled Qi Mu's sleeve in disbelief, "Can you hear it?! Is it the cry of a baby?"

Qi Mu's heart trembled, he only felt that there was something wrong with the voice, and he listened carefully again, the crying sound was always there, thin and intermittent, it was indeed like a newborn baby.

Seeing Qi Mu nodding, the woman was obviously relieved, but immediately became panicked, and said unsteadily: "But... there are obviously no children here." As she spoke, she cautiously raised her eyes to look around.

Qi Mu lowered his head, and saw a very small baby lying on the ground, holding the woman's trousers with his small hands. The blood and mucus on its body stained the floor and flowed slowly along the cracks in the bricks.

The woman looked away without realizing it, as if she didn't know what was under her feet.

Qi Mu immediately understood, and said to her: "Maybe we all heard it wrong, just now there was water, so I couldn't hear clearly."

The woman shook her head lightly, then let go of her hand and smiled apologetically, "I'm really sorry."

Qi Mu waved to her and pushed the door to go out. Feng Baisui got impatient for a long time and said with a stinky face, "It's so slow."

Qi Mu wanted to make some excuses, but out of the corner of his eye, he caught sight of the woman coming out after him, so he dragged Feng Baisui away in a hurry.

When we arrived at the hospital, old man Zhang was sitting leisurely on the hospital bed watching TV. When he saw Qi Mu, he asked with a smile, "Where's the condolences?"

Qi Mu put the deadly heavy bag on the bedside table, and said angrily, "You want canned longan."

Old man Zhang happily took out a can and began to pry the lid off.

Seeing his energetic appearance, Qi Mu asked in disbelief, "Are you still sick?"

"Why not?" Old man Zhang shook his beard, and said as a matter of course: "Old people are also mortal bodies, and eating bad stomachs is common."

"That's because you're eating recklessly..." Qi Mu frowned, "Since you're all sick and don't eat something nutritious, what's so good about this sugar-water mixture?"

Old man Zhang shook his finger triumphantly at him, "Shallow, too shallow. You young people won't understand."

"..."

Qi Mu secretly said in his heart, there is no need to understand the old man's evil taste.

Seeing that he was eating with gusto, Qi Mu said: "Then you eat, we will leave first."

"Wait!" The old man stopped him, took out two talisman papers, and said to Feng Baisui: "The thing you asked me to do last time is already done, this kind of talisman is the most complicated, and it is difficult for old eyes .”

Qi Mu asked Feng Baisui suspiciously: "What do you ask him to do?"

Feng Baisui nodded to the old man, but did not answer. The old man handed the talisman to Qi Mu mysteriously, "You should bleed on this, you need both."

"Blood? Why?" Qi Mu felt that the two of them seemed to have done something without telling him that they wanted him to donate blood. He couldn't help wondering, "Aren't you going to curse me?"

"Ridiculous!" the old man stared.

"What the hell is that for?"

Old man Zhang explained: "These two talismans are actually a formation that allows the two of you to communicate with each other, but to establish this connection, you must swallow your blood."

"Why do you need to contact each other?" Qi Mu asked blankly.

Feng Baisui was unhappy, "If you run into trouble again while I'm not around, are you going to be my companion?"

Qi Mu muttered, "Even if I call you, will it be useful?"

Feng Baisui looked at him unkindly, "At least it's more useful than you."

"..."

Qi Mu picked up the fruit knife and hesitated for a long time, Feng Baisui urged: "Hurry up."

He just scratched lightly on his finger, and the dark red blood dripped down and landed on the talisman paper. The blood seemed to be absorbed, and it disappeared little by little.

"This should be okay?"

Old man Zhang nodded, then took out two small bamboo tubes strung with red thread, rolled up the talisman paper and stuffed it in, sealed the two sides, and waved to Qi Mu, "Come on, put it on."

Qi Mu hung one of them around his neck, "Is this also part of the formation?"

"No." The old man squinted his eyes in satisfaction, "This is specially cut by the old man, does it look good?"

"...you're so boring." Qi Mu commented, he looked at the other one, then at Feng Baisui, and asked the old man, "Let him hang on like this?"

"Burn it, burn it." Old man Zhang stuffed the lighter into Qi Mu's hand.

"This is a hospital..." Qi Mu reminded in a low voice.

"Then go to the toilet, no one will see." Old man Zhang pushed him.

Qi Mu had no choice but to go reluctantly.

Five minutes later, they all put on the unique small bamboo tubes specially made by old man Zhang.

Old man Zhang said to Qi Mu: "No matter where you are in the future, just call his name, and he will appear immediately."

Qi Mu turned the bamboo tube over and over in the palm of his hand, and suddenly laughed as he watched.

"What are you laughing at?" Feng Baisui asked.

"It's nothing." Qi Mu said with a smile, "I just think you look like a summoned beast."

"..."

Coming out of old man Zhang's ward, Qi Mu walked through the next room, the door was not closed, he glanced subconsciously, the woman he met in the supermarket was sitting on the hospital bed inside.

She nodded to Qi Mu, and Qi Mu returned it.

While waiting for the elevator, Feng Baisui asked, "Know you?"

"It's not acquaintance. We met in the supermarket just now. She seems to be haunted by a baby ghost." Qi Mu replied casually.

At this time, the elevator came, and he walked in. Just as the door was about to close, someone shouted from a distance: "Wait! Wait!"

Qi Mu opened the door, and a woman hurried in, thanking him out of breath.

The elevator closed the door and began to descend slowly.

Old man Zhang's ward was on the tenth floor. When the number flashed to "seven", he stopped suddenly. After waiting for a while, the door did not open.

"What's going on?" someone asked.

"Is there an accident?"

As soon as the voice fell, as if responding to that person's words, the lights in the elevator flickered and then went out.

"Ah!" The woman's voice began to scream.

At this time, the calmer person urged: "Press the help button!"

Qi Mu fumbled for the button for a long time, but couldn't find it.

An elderly man said: "This is an old elevator, there is no distress button."

"What should I do?"

There was a sudden chaos in the elevator, and there were curses, calls for help, and even crying in the darkness.

The man before said again: "Try to see if you can push the door open, and then ask for help."

So a few men pried open the door together, worked hard for a long time to push the elevator door open, and found out that they were stuck in the middle of the two floors, the elevator sank halfway, and the floor of the upper floor could be seen. The light leaked in from above, and the light improved a lot.

"Anyone? Come and help!"

"Is there anyone?"

Everyone shouted for a while, but there was no movement. It was already past the off-duty time, and there were not many people left in the hospital, and most of them were concentrated in the outpatient department, which was another building.

"What should I do?"

"Wait, someone will come."

No one spoke in the elevator for a while, and only the sound of suppressed sobbing could be heard in the silence. Anxiety and fear began to spread in the small space.

Qi Mu has never encountered such a situation, but since he encountered it, he can only wait for rescue honestly. After the meal time, someone should come back to work the night shift. If there is no accident, they will definitely be rescued.

Feng Baisui didn't want to wait, and said to Qi Mu impatiently, "Why don't I drag you out from above."

"No." Qi Mu shook his head, "It's best not to take risks at a time like this."

Feng Baisui curled his lips, "It's really troublesome to be alive."

"If you think it's slow, go out by yourself, I'll wait here." Qi Mu said angrily.

Feng Baisui snorted coldly, stopped talking, but did not leave either.

Qi Mu looked at the people around him boredly, and found that the woman who came in last had been looking at her watch since the accident, with an increasingly anxious expression on her face, as if there was something urgent.

Qi Mu didn't pay much attention to her at first, but the woman suddenly stomped her foot, threw her handbag onto the floor outside the elevator, and began to crawl outside.

Several people rushed to pull her, "Don't go out! It's not safe!"

The woman struggled to get rid of those people, half of her body had already leaned out, and the tragedy happened in an instant.

The elevator jerked suddenly, the woman felt something was wrong, and wanted to climb out quickly, but then the elevator began to descend rapidly, the woman let out a series of horrific screams, and the people who pulled her came to their senses. A stump was still twitching, and blood sprayed their heads and faces.

Watching the woman's body broken in two, piercing screams one after another, the scene outside the wide open door quickly changing, and the faces of the people in the elevator showed the despair before death.