Frey snorted heavily, "You know a fart, the name of that flower is Little Red Flower." ”

Qiu Xuan: "That's quite abstract. ”

Frey didn't understand her sarcasm, but that didn't stop him from glaring fiercely as usual. "If you knew what this flower was, you wouldn't say that, not only wouldn't, but you'd be shocked."

Qiu Xuan: "What do you say, I'll listen." ”

Frey: "I'm not going to tell you, that's what I said. ”

Qiu Xuan has always had an illusion of déjà vu about him, like the old veteran with a stinky and hard temper he met in the world where the plague originated. Thinking of her old friend, she was in a trance for a few seconds, and she couldn't bring up any anger towards Frey.

She reached into the scope of the accompanying space and silently touched the little flower that Qin Jiuyuan had given her before. She didn't have to hear an answer from Frey's mouth, after all, even if he didn't say it, it would be more convenient to ask him directly after Qin Jiuyuan woke up.

"When I was your age, the Church library was already halfway through the collection." As if thinking she had nothing to say, Frey touched the gray stubble on his chin and glanced at him with a smug look. "Young man, one day you will know that in this world, only knowledge will be your most loyal treasure. If you were willing to put more effort into improving your knowledge, you wouldn't be so passive and helpless when facing me now, and you wouldn't even know what a little red flower is. ”

Qiu Xuan: "Yes, yes, you're right. ”

Frey: "...... Tut. ”

They left the door of the emergency room one after the other, and there were already professionals who came in to disinfect and make sure that they were put into use again, no matter what, they couldn't occupy the clinic that people used to save lives.

Frey walked silently ahead, and Qiu Xuan kept a distance not far from his back feet. Finally, after turning to get on the elevator, Frey cleared his throat and said in the face of the relatively cramped space: "'Little Red Flower' is the original teaching flower. ”

Qiu Xuan looked up.

The elevator design structure of the city hospital is different from what she has traditionally recognized, and the entire space is divided into two floors, with a two-way mirror in the middle. Given that Qiu Xuan and Frey were standing on the same side, she could clearly see each other's expressions from the reflective surface.

She couldn't tell the emotion for a moment.

Frey seemed to be stuck in a memory, or perhaps he was just getting tired and old from long-term high-intensity surgery, but he fixed himself in the relatively narrow space on one side of the elevator, and said in an overly flat tone: "That's not what you can see casually on the street, don't you notice, young man?" There are all kinds of flowers in this world, but none of them are bright red except for the rose. ”

Qiu Xuan really didn't care, because she didn't think about it at all, but after Frey said this, she thought about it carefully, and found that she really hadn't seen bright red flowers in any place where plants might appear.

Frey: "Because it is the first generation of teaching flowers before the rose." ”

Qiu Xuan instinctively felt that she was about to hear a long and thick story, which was once a truth that people believed in, but now it was just a "story" that existed in the mouths of others.

Frey stood still and turned around, the elevator door opened in front of them, and Qiu Xuan glanced at it, and the floor display paused at the number "13".

"It's just some old thing, its history is as smelly and long as that of the bounty hunters of the past, and I can't finish talking about it for three days and three nights, and I don't want to waste my time with you here. You just need to know that the one in your hand, although I don't know where the kid got it, may really be the last one in the world right now. ”

Frey looked back at her, his eyes looking tired, even like an old man who knew his limit was near. "Alright, now take that stinky boy out of my hospital, and you can go straight to the Central Church, where someone will be able to keep him...... Seraphim. ”

He suddenly opened his mouth and shouted to Qiu Xuan, "Seraphim, if you really want to change your fate...... I can't help you with anything, I can only give you one piece of advice. ”

Qiu Xuan listened attentively, "You say." ”

"Watch out for the 'roses.'"

Qiu Xuan's footsteps paused in front of the elevator door, and she raised her head to look at the calm eyes of the old man in the cramped space. The latter stayed inside the elevator, opened his mouth as if he wanted to say something, and the next second it turned into a silent sigh, and finally said nothing.

The elevator door closed in front of the two, and Qiu Xuan was left alone on the thirteenth floor of the city hospital.

“……”

She stood for a moment, then turned and ran in the direction Frey had indicated. She hadn't run a few corners, and her figure suddenly stopped in the hallway, one palm grasping her arm, not very strong, and not so easy to break free.

"Run for what?"

Qin Jiuyuan sat in a wheelchair and looked up at her. Qiu Xuan looked down at the other party's strength, and glanced up and down for a long time. "Frey said you should still be awake from the anesthetic...... Why did you get off the ground so quickly? ”

"Get down to the ground...... Qin Jiuyuan didn't know what he was muttering there, he raised his hand and pressed his temple, his face was still ugly as before, but it was much better than when he fell on the operating table. I haven't asked you yet, how did you get out of St. Canaan? I know...... You escaped from the hospital, right? ”

Qiu Xuan's face was expressionless: "Saint Canaan exploded." ”

Qin Jiuyuan: "...... What the? ”

"Just as you were on your way out on your mission, someone set a fire to the central auditorium, and most of St. Canaan was set on fire. Originally, everyone thought it was the Carson sisters, but Chainsaw told me that the real arson was Seraphim...... By the way, why didn't you tell me? Qiu Xuan stopped, her eyelids drooping and looking down. I wasn't the only seraph in St. Canaan, there was another person in front of me, the middle-aged man who set the fire. It is equivalent to saying that I took his place and entered St. Canaan in advance. ”

Qin Jiuyuan: "Who is the chainsaw?" ”

Qiu Xuan: "...... What the? ”

"'The chainsaw tells you who set the fire', which is that chainsaw? Why did he tell you? The other party looked up with some difficulty while sitting in a wheelchair, and could see that getting out of bed just after the operation was still too reluctant for a patient who had just connected his legs, but Qin Jiuyuan didn't seem to care about these at all.

"The Chainsaw Man is 'Field,' and that's what he was given in St. Canaan...... But what does this have to do with my question? Qiu Xuanhu wondered, "Are you pretending to be jealous or are you deliberately changing the subject?" ”

The cardinal was about to bounce out of his wheelchair, his eyes widened, and his face finally had some blood.

"I'm not involved in doctor-patient romance," the man said righteously. "You can't insult my work ethic, and the clergy can't fall in love, I still have that integrity."

Qiu Xuan: "You'd better be." ”

As he spoke, he walked around to the back and grabbed the handle of the wheelchair, and walked towards the exit of the safe passage in the former's question. There is a freight elevator compartment, and under normal circumstances, no one will use the elevator unless the normal elevator is occupied.

The two silently waited for the numbers on the elevator display to slowly jump down. Suddenly sitting in the wheelchair in front of the human: "I didn't deliberately hide it from you, the day you came was the day 'Seraphim' was discharged from the hospital. However, something suddenly happened. ”

He seemed to sigh lightly, "The seraphim before you has been very stable in his treatment for the past year, he is very cooperative, and his condition is not very serious, so he recovered quickly." But on that day, we found out that his illness began to return. ”

Qiu Xuan frowned, she suddenly remembered that in the spiritual world of the steel wool ball at that time, the old nun had also told herself that Seraphim had been treated and was ready to be discharged. But the next second the old nun's words came out, Seraphim began to fantasize about illness again, so no one took her words seriously at that time.

"As a last resort, we had to leave him in St. Canaan for a little longer to observe and treat, and no one expected him to do such a thing."

Qiu Xuan reasoned out his thoughts in combination with his words, and an idea suddenly surged in his heart. She paused for a moment and opened her mouth to speak of another question that was now before them.

"What's next for you?"

The two of them stood in the safe passage where the air was relatively not so circulating and seemed a little dull, Qiu Xuan stood behind and said, "I heard that the Hunter Bureau has sent someone back to issue an arrest warrant, and Frey means that we will go to the Central Church together...... By the way, there's a guy in the Hunter's Bureau named Heckel, do you know him? ”

Qin Jiuyuan frowned, "Have you seen Heckel?" He's not something...... Good man, stay away from him when you see him later. ”

"I know, I just think he's a little weird." The elevator door happened to stay on the thirteenth floor, Qiu Xuan walked in, saw the moment the door closed, and thought for a while: "Does this mission have anything to do with him?" ”

The man was silent for a moment. "It doesn't matter, although he is a rotten person, but this time the border incident has nothing to do with him."

Saying this, he instead looked up at Qiu Xuan. "Actually, I didn't completely lose consciousness during the previous surgery, so I heard it...... What I'm really curious about is, why do you dare to push a 'blasphemer' like me to the Central Church? ”

"What does it matter?" Qiu Xuan lowered his eyes and looked at the reflection of the two of them on the mirror inside the elevator, "Anyway, I'm a 'mental patient', I don't believe in the so-called God of Light, so naturally I don't care if you are blasphemous or not." ”

The man was slightly stunned, then shook his head, and said patiently: "When this time comes, you can't say it casually when you step into the scope of the Central Church." What's more, the word 'witch' is still clearly hanging on your current case, so be careful that you will be dragged to burn the cross when the time comes. ”

Qiu Xuan snorted, "What age do you still pay attention to witch hunting, your church is really dreaming back to the Middle Ages." ”

This is too presumptuous, and it stands to reason that even if the person who said this is a "mentally ill" who cannot be held accountable, if he is placed in St. Canaan, he will be dragged to a lock up and locked up.

At this moment, however, a certain cardinal in a wheelchair is almost deaf, or asleep with his eyes closed. He didn't even say a word of "pay attention to his words", he coughed lightly, turned his head, and began to babble on and on, what the old man Frey must have given himself fake medicine, otherwise how could he be so dizzy.

Qiu Xuan: "The strap of your oxygen tube is around your neck." ”

Qin Jiuyuan: "......"

He silently pulled out the oxygen tube, and Qiu Xuan's fingers rested on the back of the wheelchair. I don't know if it was her delusion, but after the oxygen supply machine failed and stopped making a subtle sound, she faintly heard the sound of something dripping on the ground.

Tick, tick.

"What's wrong?"

Qin Jiuyuan was still fighting against the oxygen tube in front, and suddenly noticed something, turned around and asked. Qiu Xuan made a gesture of silence and listened with bated breath.

The sound of water droplets was gone again.

She glanced around the inside of the freight elevator, and from the slight noises she had heard, it was supposed to be dripping down from a high point within range of them.

However, the top of this freight elevator is sealed, and no one else can do anything except the insiders who have a key to open it, unless violent means are used, but it will inevitably leave some traces.

What could it be?

According to the urine nature of this kind of testing ground, if Qiu Xuan had to guess, the first thing that would come to mind would be the corpse. Someone killed someone and placed the body on the roof of the elevator, and then the blood seeped down the gap and dripped into the elevator like the sound of water droplets.

But now that she'd seen it, the top of the elevator was completely sealed, and no liquid could flow down.

Qiu Xuan looked around, and suddenly noticed that the elevator had stopped, and the number "6" was written on the display screen on the floor.

The door opened.

Standing outside were four patients dressed in city hospital gowns, visibly hospitalized, with no heavy objects in their hands. When I saw the elevator stop and saw Qin Jiuyuan and Qiu Xuan inside, I was stunned for a moment, probably because I didn't expect that there would be people who would take this kind of old freight elevator.

"Come out for a walk, you need to come back quickly, they say it looks like it's going to rain."

One of the patients standing in the front row did not recognize their identities, instead mistaking them for patients pushing wheelchairs out for a walk. He scratched his head in embarrassment, and then said again as if he was not worried, "What, can you pretend that you didn't see us today?" When the ward rounder asked, he said he didn't know, please, please. ”

The three patients behind him also explained with embarrassment.

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