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Qiao Jun stared blankly at the lights in the operating room that had been turned off, and next to his ears were the voices of Zhou Yi's parents asking the doctor to question, from sharp and piercing to gradually blurred.

What did the doctor say just now?Zhou Yi...wasn't saved?

Qiao Jun took a step back in a daze, turned around slowly, and shuffled out.He didn't know where he was going, but he just felt the pain in his heart and subconsciously resisted to continue standing at the door of the operating room.

When turning around the end of the corridor, Qiao Jun saw Fu Li.Fu Li gave him the windbreaker outside. He was only wearing a thin white shirt. He held a bag of medicine in his hand, and the figure walking towards him was like a beam of light in the mist. People suddenly found their way.

Qiao Jun paused and walked towards Fu Li.

Qiao Jun walked up to Fu Li, and Fu Li stopped.

"What's wrong?" Fu Li looked at Qiao Jun who was standing two steps away, and asked.

As soon as Fu Li asked this, Qiao Jun's eyes suddenly turned red, and he slammed into his arms without saying a word, and buried his face in the socket of his shoulder.

Fu Li was caught off guard by the bump, and took half a step back. Before he could frown, he felt the warm and wet skin on the side of his neck, and Qiao Jun's body trembled slightly.Fu Li raised his hand, preparing to push the person away, and then lowered it.

"Zhou, Zhou Yi...he couldn't be saved...the doctor said...he couldn't be saved, he was saved..." Qiao Jun buried himself in Fu Li's arms, sobbing and mumbled, "Why didn't he be saved? Is it me? Is it too late? I, I brought Zhou Yi out earlier...Zhou Yi...Zhou Yi can be rescued? I clearly said I would protect him, but in the end...in the end I failed to protect him ..."

Fu Li raised one hand to avoid the wound on Qiao Jun's back, half-circled him, patted his shoulder, and said softly, "It's not your fault, you've done a good job."

"Zhou Yi, Zhou Yi is my friend...I failed to protect him well...I didn't do well...I couldn't even protect my friends..."

Qiao Jun hugged Fu Li tightly, grabbed the fabric of his back with both hands and cried loudly, like a child who has encountered the saddest thing in the world.He cried out of breath and hysterically, but the sadness that was pent up in his heart didn't flow out with the tears at all. Instead, it was squeezed in the bottom of his heart and became more sour and stinging.

Qiao Jun had never felt so uncomfortable before.

Not when he was scolded by the old man Qiao when he was a child, not when he was cheated by fake beggars under the overpass and left on the street, not when he was punished by Fu Li for copying, even when the old man Qiao passed away—he was sad, but he was not like this. Feeling uncomfortable with nowhere to vent.When the old man Qiao was alive, he often said that birth, old age, sickness and death are normal in life, and there is no need to be overly sad. It is enough to remember the good life before life, but the old man Qiao never told him what to do when his life was taken away halfway. .

He seemed powerless to do anything but cry.

After the ground wolf was caught, the Guangyang Tiangong Bureau immediately reported it to the National Security Bureau, and immediately launched an interrogation of the ground wolf after the commissioner of the National Security Bureau was dispatched.The identity and purpose of the Demon Emperor is a sword hanging above his head, which may bring disaster to human society at any time.

"Then Lu Shu is the ancient monster Lu Shu, right? I checked the information two days ago, and it looks like a horse, with tiger stripes and a red tail, exactly the same as Lu Shu's original form on the cross-river bridge." A special task force The young man followed Zhao Xiangbei to the meeting, and asked Zhao Xiangbei, "The leaders of the National Security Bureau will have a meeting later. Shall we clarify Lu Shu's identity?"

"If the leader of the National Security Bureau doesn't say anything, we will pretend not to know." Zhao Xiangbei said, "The identity of the ancient monster is a central secret in the monster's household registration. When we checked the user registration system before, we were not restricted. Is it? The higher-ups don’t want us to know, and if they know it, they pretend not to know.”

"Speaking of the household registration of the ancient monster, why did you keep it a secret from us? Isn't our Tiangong Bureau in charge of monsters? The ancient monster is also a monster, why can't we know?"

Zhao Xiangbei glanced at the young man beside him, "I just want to ask you a question. Two ancient monsters fought over a disagreement. Would you like to mediate?"

The young man shook his head quickly, "I don't want to!" He thinks his life is too long before he wants to mediate between two fighting ancient monsters!

"That's it. We don't have the ability to take care of those ancient monsters."

"When you say that, I suddenly feel insecure. If those big ancient monsters make trouble that day, why don't we kneel down and call Dad?"

"I heard that the central government had an agreement with those ancient big monsters. The central government kept the identities of those ancient big monsters secret. If those ancient big monsters committed crimes, they would take action and deal with them according to the rules of their monsters." Zhao Xiangbei said. .

"What if they are unanimous to the outside world? For example, this time the Demon Emperor was actually organized by them..."

"They are really going to endanger human society, and the people above will definitely not let them go." Zhao Xiangbei said, "In short, just pretend not to know Lu Shu's identity, and try not to look for him in the future. I feel that he doesn't seem to be I am too happy to deal with the people from our Tiangong Bureau, and it is just an unavoidable accident to cooperate with us to capture the ground wolf."

"What? Is he afraid that we will become Fahai?"

"Maybe it's true." Zhao Xiangbei smiled, pushed open the door of the conference room and walked in.

Time flies, and in the blink of an eye, a week has passed since the day the ground wolf was captured.

Qiao Jun and Fu Li still stayed in Guangyang City, carrying out the tasks received from the task bar, but the pace of investigation slowed down significantly.

Since the day Zhou Yi passed away, Qiao Jun's condition has not been very good.Two days ago, looking at the test paper Fu Li assigned to him, he would cry alone.It got better after that, but the whole person was obviously much quieter.In the past, Qiao Jun was evasive, loved to play, and liked to protest against Fu Li who oppressed him to study from time to time.And now Qiao Jun, when he assigns him homework, he will finish it quietly and obediently. Silly, bluffing.

Fu Li is a person who likes to be quiet, but he doesn't like the quietness of Qiao Jun at all.

Fu Li knocked on the door, pushed open the door of Qiao Jun's room, and saw him sitting in front of the floor-to-ceiling window with his knees crossed, quietly looking at the scenery outside the window, and he didn't know what he was looking at.

After Fu Li walked into the room and walked beside him, Qiao Jun turned his head and looked up at him.

"How's the wound on your back?" Fu Li looked down at Qiao Jun and asked.

"It's ready, the medicine you bought is very useful."

"Take off your clothes, let me take a look."

Qiao Jun stood up from the ground, took off his shirt, and turned around to let Fu Li look at his back.

Qiao Jun didn't lie, he was indeed healed.The recovery power of monsters is indeed much stronger than that of humans. In just one week, the wounds cut by the sand blasts entrained with demon powers not only healed completely, but also left no scars. Qiao Jun's back was white and smooth, as if he had never been Unharmed.

Fu Li looked from the shoulder blades of Qiao Jun's back all the way to his lower back, and felt that Qiao Jun's skin was so dazzlingly white.

"Have you finished watching?" Qiao Jun asked.

"En." Fu Li's eyes flickered slightly, and he quickly turned his gaze aside.

Qiao Jun put on his clothes again, turned around and asked Fu Li, "Do you want to go out to do the mission now?"

It is now close to the evening, and they all went out around this time before.

"I'm not going to do any missions today, just clean up and I'll take you to a place." Fu Li said.

Qiao Jun: "Where?"

Fu Li: "You'll know when you go."

Qiao Jun didn't ask any more questions and started packing his things.In fact, he didn't have anything to pack. He put on his coat, took his mobile phone, room card and origami swan, and there was nothing else.

Fu Li took Qiao Jun out and found a place to have dinner first.After dinner, after eight o'clock, he took Qiao Jun to take a taxi to the suburbs.

Fu Li took Qiao Jun to a cemetery in the suburbs. Qiao Jun remembered that Zhou Yi's cemetery was here, and he had visited it once before when he was buried.

"What are you doing here?" Qiao Jun looked at Fu Li puzzled.

Fu Li put one hand in his jacket pocket, facing the night wind, looked over the heavy tombstones, looked at the location of Zhou Yi's cemetery, and said slowly: "Today is the seventh day after Zhou Yi's death, and it is the first seven days of his death." .In the first seven days after a person dies, ghost messengers will take the dead soul home from the cemetery to have a look. If there is no nostalgia, the dead soul will be taken directly to the underworld, and then reincarnated. No accidents, this is Zhou Yi's last day in the world, I'll take you to see him off for the last time."

Qiao Jun followed Fu Li's line of sight to look at Zhou Yi's cemetery. After being quiet for a while, he whispered to Fu Li, "Thank you."

Fu Li looked sideways at Qiao Jun beside him, and wanted to say, after tonight, Zhou Yi's past is gone, so don't worry about his death anymore, but at last, remembering what Zhuang Shenglan said to him, he started to think about it again. He swallowed the words back.

Fu Li has never been good at comforting people. After Qiao Jun hugged him and cried in the dark for a while in the hospital, he made a rare phone call to ask Zhuang Shenglan what to do.

Zhuang Shenglan's answer was to give Qiao Jun some time, no amount of consolation would have any effect at this time, and when the time is right, guide him in a better direction.Although Zhou Yi and Qiao Jun haven't known each other for a long time, as a childish young man, Qiao Jun should get along very well with him. In addition, as long as Qiao Jun treats him well, he will wholeheartedly treat people as friends In terms of temperament, Qiao Jun should value Zhou Yi a lot.Moreover, Zhou Yi was killed, and Qiao Jun tried to save him but failed to save him. In addition to being sad and sad, coupled with guilt and self-blame, if he didn't guide him in a good direction, he might just be stuck in the shadows and couldn't get out.

After listening to Zhuang Shenglan's analysis, Fu Li thought for a long time before he thought of bringing Qiao Jun to see Zhou Yi off for the last time.

After standing in the biting cold wind for a while, Fu Li took out his phone and checked the time. It was almost time for the ghost messenger to lead the way.

Sure enough, after a while, the night wind picked up a bit of chill, and then a white figure came floating from a distance, ringing the soul calling bell.He quickly floated to Zhou Yi's grave, calling Zhou Yi's name one after another.At the third sound, Zhou Yi's translucent soul floated out of the cemetery.

Seeing Zhou Yi's figure, Qiao Jun raised his foot and was about to run there, but Fu Li held his shoulders, "You have to wait for the ghost messenger to take him back home, and then ask the ghost messenger to make room for you before you can talk to him. People walk the way of the world, ghosts walk the way of the underworld, and they are strangers to each other. He is the dead soul that the ghost messenger wants to take to the underworld. Without the permission of the ghost messenger, he can't see you."