"The first ---- was the day my mother was in a coma, eleven years ago."

Chen Xiaodonkey replied, falling into memory, as if he saw the scene when he returned home that afternoon, but suddenly found his mother lying on the bed, unconsciously covering his neck with both hands, breathing hard but unable to breathe.

At that time, he was crying profusely.

If it weren't for the luck of meeting a passing Noro, my mother might have died by then.

"Eleven years ago." Lu Nan repeated, writing in his notebook, "What about the second time? ”

"There was a gap of five years from the first time, which was six years ago."

"Six years ago---- well, what about last time?"

"Two and a half years ago."

Chen Xiaodonkey gave the answer, his mother's sudden critical illness was the fundamental reason why he was desperate to spend all the money he had defrauded in the past few years, and he must come to Shanghai.

"The interval is getting shorter." Lu Nan memorized the time nodes a few times, stared at the notebook and began to think.

Chen Xiaodonkey said anxiously: "Professor Lu, you said that there is a discrepancy between my mother's situation and what is written on the case, what is the discrepancy, you give me a correct word!" ”

Lu Nan knocked on the notebook and said, "I didn't do a check, all I can give you is a guess." ”

"Then tell me your guess!"

Lu Nan glanced at Chen Xiaodonkey, who was a little irritable, and said: "Your mother's brain activity seems to be decreasing, and the rescue is presided over by me, from the beginning to the end of her critical illness, I suspect that her brain activity has fallen off a cliff." Of course, I can't give the specific data without instrumental testing, and this is just my feeling, speaking from experience, and it is normal if I feel wrong. ”

Chen Xiaodonkey frowned when he heard this, he didn't understand Lu Nan's words very well, but from Lu Nan's serious expression, he could probably guess that this was definitely not good news.

"Decreased brain activity? What do you mean? ”

"The situation is getting worse." Lu Nan organized the language and tried to express it as popularly as possible, "Now the way to judge death in medicine is not as simple as no breathing and heart stopping, brain death is the only criterion for judging life and death, and the brain dominates everything in the body, so once the brain activity is reduced, it means ----"

"Means the person is dying?" Chen Xiaodonkey understood and cut off the conversation.

Lu Nan nodded, he has been a doctor for so many years, he has seen a lot of life and death, but he doesn't have much feeling, but after a pause, he corrected Chen Xiaodonkey again: "Actually, the correct statement is that ---- is accelerating death." ”

"If your mother's condition decreases brain activity with each NDE, and that's happened three times before, so I suspect she's not doing it anymore."

“……”

Chen Xiaodonkey was silent for a while and asked, "How much time do you think my mother still has?" ”

Lu Nandao: "If you don't do a check, no one can give you an accurate answer, but then again, it's still what I told you before, this is experience, and sometimes you can't do it." ”

"Understood." Chen Xiaodonkey nodded, but he understood one thing in his heart, Professor Lu Nan's experience of the country's top doctors, in 99% of cases, represented the final answer, and he simply said: "What kind of tests do you want to do?" How much? ”

"I'll arrange it, you don't have to worry about the cost." Lu Nan looked at him and said, "But I have one condition." ”

Is it waiting here?

Chen Xiaodonkey understood, shook his head regretfully, and said: "Professor Lu, you may be disappointed, change the conditions, I really don't know the situation of my friend." ”

Lu Nan was stunned, and said helplessly: "Then don't mention the conditions, you wait for my news, there will be results in these two days, and I will let the doctor here in Tongji inform you when the time comes." ”

"Thank you!" Chen Xiaodonkey got up and thanked him.

"That's right, Xiao Chen." Just as Chen Xiaodonkey was about to leave, Lu Nan shouted to him again, "The Red Cross Hospital is on par with Tongji's medical strength, so can you tell me why you chose Tongji again?" You ran away overnight, but it was not easy to toss the whole hospital! ”

Chen Xiaodonkey paused, thought for a while, and explained: "Because of some things on the rivers and lakes. ”

"I see." Lu Nan didn't ask any more.

After Lu Nan's farewell and leaving, Chen Xiaodonkey went back to the ward to take a look, and his mother had been sent back, and she was lying there safely at this time.

Except that his face seems to be a little less bloodless, nothing else seems to have changed.

Chen Xiaodonkey sighed.

After making sure that the situation was normal for the time being, he went back to the restaurant, and made a special trip to the grocery store next door to find the boss who didn't know whether to call him uncle or uncle.

The boss is a talkative character, and the little unpleasantness in the afternoon has long been forgotten, and when he saw that Chen Xiaodonkey also made a special trip to thank him, he pulled him to drink a little wine.

Through conversation, Chen Xiaodonkey learned that the owner of the grocery store is surnamed Qian, called Qian Youfu, 59 years old this year, is a widower, he said that he originally had five children, but over the years, there are no four, and now there is only one youngest son left in the family who is fortunate to study at National Fudan University, because he is afraid that this little son will follow in the footsteps of his four brothers and sisters, so he made a special trip here to open a shop, in order to keep this little son in check, not to let him do those things that are easy to lose his life.

After a few cups of bamboo leaves in a row, Qian Youfu kept chattering, and Chen Xiaodonkey saw that this eighty percent was going to cry if he continued to talk like this, so he forcibly changed the topic.

"Uncle Qian, I asked you about something, but I don't know if you have heard of it."

"What's the matter? Let's start with that. ”

"I heard from a friend that there was an incident in Shanghai a few years ago where ---- paper people crossed the street?"

Help!

Qian Youfu's pinched wine glass fell to the ground.

"Uncle Qian?"

"It's okay, it's okay." Seeing Chen Xiaodonkey's searching eyes, Qian Youfu shook his head, but his tone suddenly lowered, "What are you asking about this?" ”

What's really in it?

Chen Xiaodonkey's eyes flickered, and he said quietly: "Harm, this god who doesn't listen to what his friends say, is he curious!" Is there really such a thing? ”

Qian Youfu said: "It's not okay to be curious about something, you have to be curious about it---- but this thing is real, not only does it exist, but it has also appeared several times, I calculate----- it was probably twenty years ago." ”

Chen Xiaodonkey immediately pricked up his ears.

"If you want to talk about the evil sect that appeared in Shanghai, there are a lot, I can't finish talking to you for hours, but the paper man crossed the street in such a big battle, there are really not a few times, the first time it appeared, it was on the night of the twenty-eighth day of the lunar month that year, it stands to reason that the New Year was coming soon, and the winter was also very cold, so there shouldn't be a few people on the street, but in the middle of the night, there were suddenly a lot of people setting up stalls in the south eighteen lanes on the outskirts of the city, and they were selling some strange things, which was quite strange. When the people around South Eighteen Alleys got the news, they all went there to see the Western scenery, not to mention, there were also foreigners who went to a few churches at that time.

However, those foreigners from the church were blocked at the mouth of the alley, and they didn't know what they were talking about, but looking at the posture, it seemed to be a warning, not letting everyone in, and those who set up stalls to buy things were not annoyed, just stuck in the alley, as if they didn't care about these things that affected their business.

But that's when something strange happened.

First of all, a man didn't know what was going on, and he looked like he was crazy, so he forced the church people to go to the alley to buy things, but he didn't stay at the mouth of the alley, so he kept running in, but a few minutes after entering, there was a scream in the innermost part of the alley.

This frightened everyone, and the church of the foreigners looked more anxious, a foreigner on the spot he was holding the kerosene lamp smashed into a stall man's body, as a result, the person did not say a word, before and after only a dozen seconds was burned into a pile of paper ashes, at this time the people who watched the excitement outside found out that something was wrong, some timid people ran away on the spot, only the bold ones were there to stay. Later, things seemed to be getting bigger, and the people who went to the official's house were completely chaotic in the South Eighteen Alleys, and several people died on the spot, and then those who set up stalls got together and began to parade the streets.

Later, as soon as the rooster crowed, those people suddenly disappeared, but just where they disappeared, someone saw dozens of palm-sized paper-cutting figures. And I have heard people say that in all the streets and villages that those people walked, there are one or two families who have lost their children, and some people say that most of the paper-cut people who are seen have no faces, but there are more than a dozen eyebrows mixed inside, ----and some of them look like people who died in South Eighteen Alleys, and some look like those missing children. ”