Chapter 33: A Moonless Night
"Is that all there is to it?" Gu Fangyan shouted at the two people in front of him.
Cheng Xinuo brought two boxes of luggage, one of which was for clothes and some daily necessities such as sunscreen and sunglasses for travel. The other box had never been opened before, and nine times out of ten it was filled with some shady weapons and equipment. Gu Fangyan threw them all into the trunk and slammed the door shut.
Cheng Xinuo poked his head out of the driver's seat and made an "OK" gesture at him.
At this time, the alley is dimly lit, except for some scattered street lamps on the aisle, the only light source here is the roof of the Audi, and the blazing white light illuminates almost the entire alleyway, a ready formation.
The temperature at night was still unusually muggy, but as Luo Fan said, there was a deep thunder hidden in some invisible clouds, which invisibly brought a hint of depression.
Cheng Xinuo had just inserted the car keys when he turned his head to find someone sitting in the passenger seat and looking down to open a box.
"What's this, your courier?" she asked.
"The equipment I bought from the forum trading area in the afternoon has just arrived. Ling Chenxuan took out a stack of kraft paper tied with leather bands from the box, he carefully untied the leather bands and unfolded the kraft paper, and a neat stack of spirit talismans was revealed, with various attributes and functions.
"Those people are quite real," Cheng Xinuo wanted to complain about the staff who were in charge ......of packaging and replenishing the consignments at the moment, but he didn't know that he thought that he was sending old banknotes that had been pressed at the bottom of the box for many years.
"The number of spirit runes consumed before is too much, and tonight is destined to be a fierce battle, and these spirit runes can help us solve a lot of trouble. Ling Chenxuan quickly counted the number of spirit runes like a seasoned businessman, and after confirming that they were correct, he put them in the inner pocket of his coat.
The previous windbreaker had been rotten into strips of cloth and was stuffed into Cheng Xinuo's suitcase indiscriminately, and Ling Chenxuan did not have the habit of carrying clothes with him, so Gu Fangyan kindly took out a coat from the wardrobe and put it on him.
Although the style of the clothes is slightly old, as long as it is put on Ling Chenxuan's humanoid hanger, no matter how old-fashioned the clothes are, they can wear a sense of high-end.
When everything was ready, Ling Chenxuan fastened his seat belt and inserted the Spirit Knife into the gap between the seat and the door. "Let's go. ”
"Order, order. Cheng Xinuo followed and fastened his seat belt, and the engine roared after the car started.
The rear door was opened, and Gu Fangyan sat in the car silently, he shrugged his shoulders and shrunk himself in the corner of the back seat. He noticed that the glass of the car, which had been shattered by bullets, had been completely replaced at some point, and the glass texture was like lead ink.
"I'll go, this can't be bulletproof glass, right?"
As soon as he turned his head, Cheng Xinuo stared at him in surprise, and even Ling Chenxuan looked sideways slightly, as if he had gotten into the wrong car.
"That, Xiaoyan, in fact, you don't have to go this time, and we won't force you. Cheng Xinuo muttered worriedly.
"It's not...... Sister Xinuo, I don't mean anything else. Gu Fangyan's expression was slightly embarrassed, "I'm just going to see if I can help." ”
"Let's go together. Ling Chenxuan was silent for a long time, and then said suddenly.
"Okay, senior, of course I don't have anything to say. Cheng Xinuo looked at Gu Fangyan who was cowering in the corner with a smile, and even the cold lines on Ling Chenxuan's face softened.
Gu Fangyan thought to herself, can you big brothers not show that kind of expression when they see their son finally grow up...... He's really gambled most of his grit.
To be honest, he regretted it a little the moment the car started, he was afraid that he would never come back if he went this time, and that fear seemed to seep out of his bones, and even his teeth were trembling slightly.
The air was extremely hot tonight, and it was clear that there was a rainstorm that was ready to start, Gu Fangyan suddenly felt that the atmosphere around him was very familiar, so familiar that it made people's hearts palpitate, as if he had returned to the afternoon when he was at school, and the sky was turbulent.
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Huaijiang Hospital.
It is a newly built hospital with a tall dome that is somewhat Western style and most of the facilities are brand new. Due to the lack of sufficient popularity of the hospital, and the fact that it was the time when the patients were the fewest at the moment, the whole hospital was quiet, and only a few doctors with record books hurried by in white coats.
The hallway was filled with the smell of perfume and alcohol, and Ming leaned on the handrail of the stairs to the third floor, the rattlesnake instructions he recalled, the corner of the C3 section, and looked up for the number of each ward one by one.
The whole space was white, with white lights, white tiles, and a doctor in a white coat, and the scene in front of him reminded him of the underground laboratory before, and a trace of anxiety rose silently in his heart.
Eventually, he stopped at the door of Ward 14 and hesitantly pushed open the door.
The small room was only an iron bed, the long sheets were dragged to the floor, and the white-haired girl lay quietly on the hospital bed, covered with a milky white quilt, and her slender white arms were exposed. There is a large bouquet of blooming roses on the cabinet next to it, which is beautiful and beautiful in such a clean space.
At that moment, Ming was in a trance, the antelope in his memory always seemed to be lying on the hospital bed like now, her complexion was already paler than ordinary people, almost melted into the ward full of disinfectant water and white sheets, he wanted to hug her tightly, only then could he really feel their presence in each other.
Antelope was playing with her fingers with her head down, and Ming slowly approached her with his hands behind his back.
The expression on Antelope's face immediately brightened when he saw him, and his big eyes shone brightly. Ming found a chair and sat down next to her bed, taking out a ragdoll bear from her back.
The Ragdoll Bear was bought from a small shop on the road, and the price was very cheap, and the production of the Ragdoll was quite crude, with hollow eyes and no eyeballs, and even the mouth was randomly sewn with black wool. Dan Ming has a soft spot for this funny toy, which stands alone on the cargo shelf, as if it was destined to wait for him to arrive.
Antelope took his puppet and raised it to his eyes, blinking his eyes and looking at the bear, and pouted slightly for a long time, "It's a little strange......
Ming rubbed her head, "I'll give it to you, if I'm bored in the future, I'll talk to it more." ”
Antelope's head was swaying as he rubbed it, but she looked at him with a smile and let him crumple her hair with a look of obedience.
There was not much of a smile on his face the whole time, he just rubbed and carefully smoothed the antelope's hair, which was soft, like the fluff of a sheep.
"Brother, are you leaving?"
"You know, I told you a long time ago that the doctors help you see the doctors, and I help them do the work, because we don't have the money. Ming's fingers ran through the antelope's hair in small pinches, and his movements were mechanical and stiff. His gaze was hollow, as if he were looking through her at something far away.
Antelope nodded slowly.
"I'm probably going to be away for a while, and you have to take care of yourself during this time. An uncle in a suit must have visited you before, right? After that, he will take you to the welfare center in the city center, he is very rich, and he will give you enough pocket money every month, you can use this money to buy your favorite toys, snacks or cosmetics, and buy anything by the way, as long as you like. ”
"Now that you're well, you can go back to school, no one will laugh at you anymore, and when you're an adult, you'll be able to choose the university and city you want to go to. I saved a little money in the bank in the city center, and there was a noodle restaurant nearby, where I worked and I had a good relationship with the owner, and if one day you feel tired or you haven't been able to find a suitable job, it's free to eat there. Ming whispered.
The antelope nodded blankly, his eyes as confused as a deer.
"Brother, can't I see you anymore?" she frowned, crying.
"Didn't I tell you, silly girl, that one day I'll come back to see you. He smiled at her.
Suddenly there was a thunderclap in the sky, which shook the windows and then followed by a torrential downpour, a dense curtain of rain pouring down, knocking on the windows and crackling.
The fierce thunder startled Antelope's body, and she suddenly cried, "But what if I want you?"
In the thunderstorm, Ming hugged her tightly, and there was a ragdoll bear in between.
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The sudden torrential rain blocked the view of the Audi, the wipers swayed sharply, and the dense rain walls crackled the body.
"It's raining. Cheng Xinuo, who was in charge of driving, said.
A soft female voice came from the car radio: "...... Recently, there has been frequent rainfall in the local area, and the temperature difference between day and night is significant, so please pay attention to adding appropriate clothing, especially college entrance examination candidates, you must pay attention to your body, arrange your work and rest time reasonably, and prevent the occurrence of diseases......"
Gu Fangyan sat in the back seat and stared sideways at the sudden rainstorm outside the window, it really looked like that afternoon, the raging rain curtain knocked on the car window, and the sight in front of him was white.
"We don't have a GPS positioning system, are you sure to track the location of the guardian?" Ling Chenxuan also stared at the car window in a daze.
"Don't worry, senior, although we don't have GPS function, my perception ability is not for fun. Cheng Xinuo stepped on the accelerator suddenly, and the high-speed car crossed the rain curtain, like a sharp blade.
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When the antelope fell asleep, Ming carefully pushed the door out, and the moment the door opened, a *** in a suit was in the corridor, as if he had been waiting for a long time.
"Have we made the most of this brief goodbye? Rattlesnake said lightly.
Ming glanced at him, "It was a wrong choice to hand over my sister to you people. ”
"But you don't have a choice, do you?" Rattlesnake led him downstairs, "Cherish the time you had just now, it's still unknown if you'll ever see each other again." ”
"I sympathize with you brothers and sisters, it is not easy for everyone to survive, and you will never see each other again in the original plan. Rattlesnake patted Ming on the shoulder, "She must have liked the doll you gave her." ”
Ming followed him downstairs in silence, he only felt that the steps were long at the moment, as if he would never be able to walk to the end.
"I'm just asking one question. After a long silence, Ming suddenly said, "Why am I not allowed to carry the enchantment, I don't even know what it looks like." ”
"The Ghost has a long-term plan, they want to gather all the enchanters and the Guardians. "They have their own chess game, and we can't interfere with it." ”
"Do they want to form a legion?" Ming quipped.
Rattlesnake smiled and pushed open the door to the hospital hall for him. Thunder and lightning flashed outside, and two men in black waited in the rain with black umbrellas. One of them handed the rattlesnake a plastic bag that appeared to contain a silver needle.
"Look what we found, a miniature tracker. Rattlesnake shook the bag, "They found it on your saber, it's mounted on the back of the knife." ”
"Exorcists are not cops, and they sometimes have no bottom line just like us. ”
Ming didn't answer his words, he looked up at the sky, and hundreds of millions of raindrops fell from it, he had never seen such a dark sky, as if it had been covered with a layer of dark silk.
He slipped into the black Humvee under the umbrella, rattlesnake closed the door for him, and the car drove silently into the night at high speed, blending into the traffic.