31. Snake (3)
This man, he should have died......
Zhu Zhi took a step back in horror, trembling all over, and glared at the man in front of him. The man was also looking at Zhu Zhi intently, and after a while, the man suddenly smiled and spoke, his voice ethereal and inexplicably empty: "I remember you." ā
It was obviously such a simple sentence, but it made Zhu Zhi's heart full of horror, Zhu Zhi's face turned pale, and he took a step back, trying to stay away from this man. At this time, a nurse pushing a trolley passed by in the aisle, and when the nurse saw Zhu Zhi, she shouted at Zhu Zhi, "Doctor Zhu, what are you doing here?"
Zhu Zhi saw the nurse, as if grasping a life-saving straw, quickly stepped forward and grabbed the nurse's arm, and pointed to the man sitting in the chair next to him, covered in blood, he asked the nurse, "Xiaole, can you see him!?"
The nurse who was called Xiaole looked at the place where Zhu Zhi pointed his finger, thought Zhu Zhi was joking, and said with a smile: "Doctor Zhu, don't make me amused, there's nothing there!"
"No way......! That man, he's just sitting there, don't you see?" Zhu Zhi spoke with a little tremble, his face turned from iron blue to pale, and he was sweating profusely.
Maybe seeing that his face was really bad, Xiaole said worriedly: "Doctor, are you too tired? Or are you uncomfortable? Why don't you ask the director for a leave? You have been too busy lately." ā
"No...... I don't need to ask for leave!" Zhu Zhi's tone was also irritable, and his voice was raised in vain, startling Xiao Le, who asked thoughtfully, "Doctor, what's wrong with you?"
Zhu Zhi shook his head vigorously, he staggered to the side and took two steps, and then ran directly towards the other end of the corridor, ignoring the shouts of the nurse named Xiaole behind him, he ran forward desperately, he felt that something must be wrong, or someone was joking with him.
After all...... In this world, there can be no ghosts!
Zhu Zhi rushed all the way forward, rushed down the stairs to the hospital hall, and ran bumpily and panickedly along the way, bumping into many passers-by, attracting all kinds of scolding.
Zhu Zhi was powerless to care, and when he walked to the hospital hall, he saw many pedestrians coming and going in the hall.
But it seems that there are more ghosts as well.
The ghosts are easy to distinguish in the light, they have no shadows, their feet don't touch the ground, their bodies are transparent and hazy, and most of all, most of them remain the same as they did when they died, or they are blurred with flesh and blood, or with severed limbs and arms, so conspicuous that they can be distinguished from the crowd at a glance.
Zhu Zhi stood in the hall and rubbed his eyes vigorously, but no matter how he rubbed them, those ghosts just didn't disappear, they were still in front of him, beside him, wandering around him or making strange noises. The others didn't say anything about it, only Zhu Zhi could see those ghosts, which made him full of horror.
"What's going on...... What the hell am I? This can't be, there must be something wrong with this......" Zhu Zhi tried to calm himself down, he knew that this was probably not a simple hallucination or dream, he pinched his cheek and felt pain, he knew that his brain was awake now, more awake than ever.
Then he suddenly remembered his sister Zhu Shuyi, and the spell that his sister dropped when she left.
Zhu Zhi reached into his pocket and touched the yellow talisman in his pocket, his fingers touched the talisman paper, the paper was slightly rough, the paper was very thin, and at the same time it seemed to have a strange temperature, and then Zhu Zhi thought to himself: No?
Could it be that this yellow talisman is real...... Does it really work?
Can I see ghosts?
But how can there be such a bizarre thing in this world......
Zhu Zhi raised his head and looked at all kinds of souls floating around in the hospital hall, there were many of them, some were wandering in place, some were standing still in the corner, some were very clear to see, and some were so blurred that there was only a faint white figure.
...... in this world There really are ghosts!
Zhu Zhi felt as if he had opened the door to a new world.
Standing stupidly in the hospital hall for a long time, the pedestrians coming and going next to Zhu Zhi would occasionally look at him with some curiosity, and the onlookers were a little strange in their hearts, what's wrong with this doctor, just standing here motionless, isn't it stupid?
Only Zhu Zhi knew that there was a turbulent wave rolling in his heart.
Just when Zhu Zhi was a little distracted, an unexpected period happened.
Zhu Zhi suddenly found that these chaotic and numerous ghosts in the hall seemed to be in a collective commotion, all of them scattered one by one, scattered as birds and beasts, and some of them would make strange screams, they scattered and floated towards the dark corners, one after another disappeared into the darkness, I don't know where to hide.
These ghosts look like they're running for their lives, hiding from something.
Then Zhu Zhi saw a ghost floating down the stairs behind him, and the appearance of this ghost, Zhu Zhi looked quite familiar.
Isn't it the vicious case that happened in the Xikou Hospital a few days ago, the murderer who made trouble in the hospital with a gun?
Two days later, both doctors, nurses and patients in the hospital were still talking about it, but the culprit of the incident had already been shot dead by the police on the spot.
The murderer was shot in the head by the police, and his body is still temporarily placed in the hospital morgue, waiting for forensic dissection and verification.
Unexpectedly, the next day, he saw the ghost of this murderer appear in the lobby of the hospital!
Maybe he noticed Zhu Zhi's gaze, the murderer over there turned his head to look at Zhu Zhi, Zhu Zhi's heart jumped, and he immediately turned his head and pretended that he didn't see the other party. Zhu Zhi's heart was beating like a beat, his breathing was fast, he squeezed the yellow talisman in his pocket, pretended to be calm, and then walked to the side of the rows of public seats in the hospital hall and found a place to sit down.
I'm going to have to throw this yellow charm away, or tear it apart.
Zhu Zhi thought that if it was because of this Huang Fu that he saw the ghost, then it should be fine to tear off the Huang Fu.
Thinking like this, Zhu Zhi naturally took out the rune paper in his pocket, pinched it with both hands and wanted to tear it apart.
But the bad thing is......
"Can't tear it?" Zhu Zhi tried it several times, and the material of this rune paper is too amazing, right? Obviously, there is only such a thin one, and its texture feels the same as ordinary white paper, but it just can't be torn, Zhu Zhi pulled left and right, and the yellow talisman was crumpled by him, and it was still undamaged.
Zhu Zhi said to himself: "Let's throw it away......"
He looked left and right for the garbage can, but when he looked up, he realized that the ghost of the murderer had now drifted to his side before he knew it.
The black mist was agitating in the place close to Zhu Zhi, Zhu Zhi even saw that his arms were submerged in the black mist, I don't know if it was a psychological effect or what, Zhu Zhi felt that the place where his arm was contaminated by those black mist was very cold, like his hands were soaked in ice water full of ice cubes, and he felt numb after soaking for a long time.
Zhu Zhi didn't dare to look at the terrible ghost around him, he tried to take a deep breath to calm himself, even if this yellow talisman could make him see ghosts, anyway, ghosts couldn't hurt him, ghosts were all nothing, even if they really existed, they were just some untouchable energy.
Therefore, as long as Zhu Zhi pretends not to see it, he will be fine.
Zhu Zhi swallowed his saliva, he wanted to stand up, and then calmly find a trash can and throw away the hot yellow charm in his hand, but just when he was about to get up, the ghost of the murderer next to him seemed to have made up his mind, he just didn't want him to feel better, so he floated directly in front of Zhu Zhi, face to face, and it was very close to him.
The murderer was shot in the head by a police officer on the left side, and the bullet entered his left temple and pierced the right side, because the huge impact caused by the bullet's spin caused a huge crater in the right side of the murderer's head. Blood and cerebral plasma flowed all over his right cheek, and his right eye seemed to be affected so it was full of blood, and he stared at Zhu Zhi tightly with his only remaining left eye, as if he was observing him.
The murderer had just died for two or three days, and his soul was not particularly transparent, Zhu Zhi wanted to ignore him and pretend that he hadn't seen anything at all, but this was impossible. The murderer was too close, and the black qi on his body was entwined everywhere, and Zhu Zhi couldn't ignore it.
Perhaps it was also because he realized that Zhu Zhi could indeed see himself, the murderer smiled at Zhu Zhi, and made a hoarse strange sound from his throat, he stretched out his hand as if he wanted to touch Zhu Zhi, and touched Zhu Zhi with his hand that was full of black gas and could almost be called a "black hand......
However, Zhu Zhi was not stupid, he had an idea at this moment, let go of the yellow talisman he was holding in his hand, and let the talisman paper naturally fall to the ground.
The moment the hand left the yellow talisman, the murderer in front of him disappeared.
Not only did the murderer disappear, but the other ghosts in the hospital hall also disappeared, Zhu Zhi felt the heavy depression around him, as if the aura spreading gray-black/hue suddenly left him, the entire hospital hall became bright, and the noise of the surrounding crowd gradually poured into Zhu Zhi's ears, making Zhu Zhi feel the beauty of this world like never before.
Then Zhu Zhi's body was paralyzed in an instant, and the whole person sat softly on the chair, subconsciously relieved, but the heart in his chest was still beating wildly, and the sound of the heartbeat was even so loud that it sounded like thunder in his ears.
After a long time, Zhu Zhi, who almost came back to his senses, finally thought of the yellow talisman that he threw on the ground, the effect of this thing was so good that it was a little terrifying, Zhu Zhi never expected that Zhu Shuyi really didn't lie to him at all, these so-called gods and strange things are true!
Although Zhu Zhi was a little unacceptable.
In fact, no one can accept it for a while, Zhu Zhi has lived for more than 30 years, has always grown up in an excellent educational environment, believes in science, the pursuit of reasonableness, he never believed in the superstitions of the older generation, never believed in any demons and monsters in this world, his belief has been insisted on to this day, but was broken by a small rune paper.
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Later, Zhu Zhi sat on the chair and thought about it for a long time, but he couldn't put his mind down.
The effect of this broken rune paper is too good, if it is littered, it will not be good for people who don't know what is going on to pick it up, so after thinking about it, Zhu Zhi wants to bend down and pick it up, it's a big deal to endure the situation that the streets are full of ghosts, and turn around and call Zhu Shuyi to ask her to take the rune paper away.
Zhu Zhi, who had made up his mind, lowered his head again, looking for the rune paper he had just dropped all over the ground, but a wave of unevenness rose again, Zhu Zhi squatted there and looked under the chair for a long time, and he didn't see where his yellow rune paper had gone.
It's strange, it shouldn't have been lost very far.
Zhu Zhi just threw the rune paper to his side lightly at that time, the paper could not float far away, and there was no one else in the seat next to him, so it was impossible for someone to pick it up so quickly.
Zhu Zhi, who was squatting next to the seat and looking left and right, suddenly saw a rabbit puppet under the public seat in the back row.
That's right, it's a rabbit puppet, a rabbit puppet that is not too big or small, pink, and wears a small red flower skirt, with two big pink ears.
When Zhu Zhi squinted his eyes and looked closely, he would find that the rabbit puppet was sticking to his evil yellow rune paper!
Zhu Zhi didn't have time to think about how his rune paper could float onto a rabbit puppet, and he didn't have time to think about why a rabbit puppet was placed under the chair of the public seat, maybe a child had fallen, but he just wanted to pick up his rune paper now.
So he walked around a row of seats, walked to the middle of the back seats, and crouched down to pick up the rabbit puppet under the chairs.
After touching it with his hand for a long time, Zhu Zhi didn't touch anything, he bent down and looked under the chair again, but found that the rabbit puppet was ......
Will it move on its own!?
Zhu Zhi noticed that the position of the rabbit puppet had changed! Just now he clearly saw that the position of the puppet was under this chair, but now he found that the puppet had changed its position, and at some point moved to the side of the potted plant on the edge of the public seat!
Zhu Zhi felt a little confused, he accepted the fact that a piece of rune paper could let him see ghosts, but what the hell is a rabbit puppet that can move on its own!?
Zhu Zhi stood up and walked towards the potted plant next to the chair, but when he walked over, he found that the position of the puppet had changed again, and somehow moved farther away, running to the grooming mirror in the corner of the hospital hall.
Zhu Zhi was afraid that he was more energetic than this puppet, he stared at the puppet intently, and strode towards it, and then something even more magical happened, Zhu Zhi saw with his own eyes that the rabbit puppet actually stood up!
Yes, it stood up!
It was obviously so soft and full of cotton, but it stood up, staggered and lay on the mirror of the grooming mirror, and patted the mirror with its paws very ridiculously, and when it patted the mirror, the mirror seemed to become a door, and then the puppet climbed in! It was as if it had fallen into a pool, and when it entered, there were even faint circles of ripples like water ripples on the mirror.
Zhu Zhi quickened his pace, and suddenly rushed to the grooming mirror, and when he got closer, he felt that the mirror didn't seem to be abnormal, although it was a very large mirror, but it was also a few years old, and the frame and mirror surface looked a little old, and some scratches could be faintly seen.
Zhu Zhi is also an old qualification who has worked in Xikou Hospital for several years, but he doesn't know anything about the mirror placed in the corner of the hospital hall, and remembers asking the director of the hospital before, and the director said at the time:
"I don't know, I don't know where it came from...... However, I seem to have heard someone say that the mirror was placed by the director of our hospital, and the director met a group of strange friends when he was young, and they said that they were going to travel far away, and the mirror could not be taken away, so they asked the director to keep it on their behalf, but there was no place for such a big mirror, so it was simply placed in the corner of the hospital entrance as a grooming mirror. ā
Zhu Zhi stretched out his hand and touched the mirror, the mirror was very cold, but the reflection was very clear, and it could illuminate the whole picture of the entire hospital hall, he had just seen the rabbit puppet enter the mirror, was that his illusion? Or was it some sequelae left by the rune paper?
"Do you want to come in?" a voice suddenly exploded in Zhu Zhi's ears.
Zhu Zhi was taken aback and looked around: "Who?"
No one answered him, but it was because his strange behavior of lying on the mirror and dancing attracted the fingers of many people around him.
"Doctor Zhu, what are you doing here?" At this time, the nurse Xiaole, who had just spoken to Zhu Zhi, came over, and saw Zhu Zhi lying on the grooming mirror with strange movements, she was angry and funny at that time, because Zhu Zhi had a very bad face when he talked to her just now, and he ran away inexplicably, Xiaole thought that something had happened to him, and he was worried about Zhu Zhi for a while, and now she saw Zhu Zhi lying on the mirror, and there were many onlookers gathered around, so she wanted to step forward and pull Zhu Zhi back.
But when she just stepped forward and grabbed Zhu Zhi's arm, Zhu Zhi suddenly went limp and fell directly to the ground.
Xiaole suddenly felt that this scene was a little familiar, she remembered that not long ago, there was also a ...... It seemed that a family member of a certain patient was also dancing in front of this mirror, and when she went over to ask what was going on, the person just fell to the ground like this.
Xiaole really hopes that there will not be a third time like this.
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He Qianjue squatted down, holding the chilling cicada in his arms with one hand, and poked Zhu Zhi's cheek lying on the ground with the other.
Zhu Zhi, who was woken up, opened his eyes, and the first thing he saw was the familiar ceiling in the hospital hall, and the second time he saw a long-haired beautiful man wearing a dark cyan ancient robe.
"Are you awake?" He Qianjue leaned his face closer to Zhu Zhi, and Zhu Zhi sat up in vain, but He Qianjue was very sensitive and was not hit by his head.
"Who are you?" Zhu Zhi sat up straight and moved back, but his back happened to be leaning against the mirror behind him, he looked around and found that he was still in the hospital hall, but this hall looked a little strange, because it was empty except for Zhu Zhi and the man in ancient costume, and the layout looked a little weird.
He Qianjue didn't leave him much time to continue to look around, politely stretched out his hand to shake hands, and said, "My name is He Qianjue, it's a pleasure to meet you." ā
Seeing that he was about to shake hands, Zhu Zhi also subconsciously reached over and shook hands with He Qianjue, and after the handshake was finished, he felt weird: "Where is this?"
"Inside the mirror. He Qianjue smiled.
Unable to think about what the other party meant by "in the mirror", Zhu Zhi's eyes moved to the rabbit doll he was holding in his arms, and it was this moving doll that attracted him, right...... The puppet still has his rune paper on it!
Zhu Zhi carefully observed the rabbit puppet in He Qianjue's arms, and sure enough, he saw that the puppet had talisman paper on its body, so he said to He Qianjue: "That...... Are you holding your puppet in your arms?"
"yes. He Qianjue said, "His name is Han Cicada." ā
Zhu Zhi felt that there was something wrong with this man in ancient costume, but Zhu Zhi, as a doctor, did not show it, but said calmly: "You have a piece of paper attached to your puppet, it is mine, can you give it back to me?"
"You mean this?" He Qianjue picked up the rabbit in his arms, tore off the yellow rune paper from it, and asked Zhu Zhi.
Zhu Zhi nodded hurriedly: "Yes, yes, that's it!Can you give it back to me?"
"Are you sure you want to go back to this?" He Qianjue squinted at Zhu Zhi and smiled sinisterly and weirdly.
"It's mine, and of course I want to get it back. Zhu Zhi felt that this strange man gave him goosebumps, but when Zhu Zhi looked closely, he found that He Qianjue was very clear, not as vague and hazy as a ghost, so he thought that He Qianjue was at least a living person.
A living person dressed in ancient costume, beautiful but acting strangely.
"I don't build yƬ you take this and go. He Qianjue shook the yellow rune paper in his hand and said to Zhu Zhi seriously, "This kind of rune paper is not the rune paper used by cultivators, because the rune on the rune paper is written in the spell of the demon clan, so it should be regarded as a demon rune." ā
"It's very different from a cultivator's charm, and although it also has effects such as attacking, protecting, and supporting, if a human uses it casually, it will cause you some damage. ā
Zhu Zhi couldn't understand what He Qianjue said, but also through He Qianjue's words, Zhu Zhi realized that the strange man in ancient costume in front of him was not as simple as he thought.
"Who are you?" Zhu Zhi couldn't help but ask again.
"I'm He Qianjue. He Qianjue replied with a smile.
Zhu Zhi said: "I'm not asking your name, I want to know who you are and what are you doing?"
He Qianjue tilted his head, seemed to think for a while, and said, "I'm a monster, are you satisfied with that?"
Zhu Zhi rubbed his temples and said to himself: "I'm so tired, I'm so tired that I'm hallucinating, this qiÄ is all an illusion, yes!
"Do you have a sister named Zhu Shuyi?" He Qianjue looked Zhu Zhi up and down with the rabbit puppet in his arms, completely ignoring his self-talk and self-hypnosis, still squinting and smiling: "Did she also recognize a master named Yan Snake?"
He Qianjue's words made Zhu Zhi come back to his senses from self-hypnosis, and he looked at He Qianjue with suspicion and vigilance: "How do you know this?"
"That's not just what I know. He Qianjue smiled happily: "I also know how your parents died." ā
Zhu Zhi was even more inexplicable, his doubts were mixed with horror, and he glared at He Qianjue: "What do you mean?"