Chapter 6: Strange Dreams
"You are welcome to take the No. 17 bus, the car starts, please put the handrail, the front to the station, the central hospital."
Listening to the cold mechanical prompt in his ear, Lin Xuan's consciousness gradually sobered up.
Before he could open his eyes, he felt a jolt under his feet, and after his left hand subconsciously grabbed something like a railing beside him to stabilize his body, he had time to open his eyes and look around.
Looking at the familiar surroundings around him, he couldn't help but widen his eyes.
"Wait, where is this?"
A trace of confusion flashed in Lin Xuan's eyes, he remembered that he seemed to have passed out at Jia Ming's house just now, and then as soon as he woke up, he found himself on a bus.
He was now standing on the steps of the door of the bus with his left hand holding the guardrail, with a closed door behind him, and a slight bump under his feet indicated that the vehicle was moving, Lin Xuan lowered his head and looked at his right hand, and a coin was lying quietly in his palm.
Lin Xuan raised his head again and looked straight ahead, there was a driver sitting in the driving seat at this time, his face was sideways and half of his body was covered by the shadow behind him, and he couldn't see the specific facial features clearly. In front of Lin Xuan's right was an iron box for collecting coins, on which was pasted an old yellowed note, the words on which were crooked and unclear, but they were roughly recognizable.
"Please put in a dollar when you get on the bus"
"Dangchang"
Lin Xuan raised his right hand, decisively threw the coin in his hand into it, and slowly walked into the car.
As a criminal policeman, Lin Xuan really needs to be cautious and take every step carefully, and at the same time, he also needs to observe many details. But this does not mean that he will hesitate when things happen, on the contrary, he never hesitates when he should be decisive.
For example, now, the situation is obvious, he is now on this moving bus, and he will not be able to get down in a short time. And Lin Xuan combined his last memories and the current picture to come to the conclusion: he should be in a dream now, because he couldn't have been sent to a bus by a colleague after passing out.
It's not that he hasn't dreamed, but this dream is different from other dreams...... Inexplicably real, everything around him is very clear, as if he is already standing in this bus, since he doesn't know when he will wake up, it is better to take a walk and take a look.
The aisles on the bus were very empty, and there were a few strangers sitting sparsely on the seats, and strangely all of them were all with their heads bowed and seemed to be asleep, their faces were shrouded in shadows, and their faces were not visible, motionless and did not make any sound.
"Click, click......"
The footsteps of Lin Xuan walking in the aisle echoed in the silent car, which was clearly audible, but none of the people around looked up, and the whole car was full of weirdness.
Scanning the surroundings, Lin Xuan's gaze suddenly stopped on a figure sitting in the back seat of the car and out of place with other people, because he couldn't see his face clearly from a distance, he could only recognize that this was a man.
Why is he out of place, because the people around him are making a move, that is, bowing their heads, and Lin Xuan saw that he was the only one sitting by the bus window with his face sideways looking in a certain direction outside the window that had been opened.
"What is he looking at?"
Following the direction he was looking, Lin Xuan subconsciously turned his head to look out the window, but all he saw was pitch black, and there seemed to be something hidden in the darkness.
Because he couldn't see clearly, Lin Xuan subconsciously took a few steps forward to the man's side, and then looked out in the direction he was looking at.
At this time, he realized that it was not completely dark outside the car, and he could see a street lamp standing on the side of the road far away from the car through the window.
The dim light illuminated a small area below, and there was a black shadow standing faintly under the street lamp, and the moment he saw the black shadow, Lin Xuan's pupils shrank suddenly, and one hand unconsciously rested on his heart, and he only felt a faint pain in his chest.
"No, it's not the dark shadow."
After just observing for a short while, Lin Xuan shook his head with some disappointment, this black shadow definitely didn't stab him, this was his intuition, but in this way, it was even more strange, this black shadow ...... What is it? Why under the car?
Does it make any sense?
Constantly thinking about the reason in his mind, Lin Xuan's gaze moved downward, and he looked at the man in front of him who was motionless and looking out of the window.
He was dressed in a casual suit, clean and neat, with a gold-rimmed glasses on his face......
Wrong!
Thinking about it, Lin Xuan suddenly woke up, this dress was too familiar to him, wasn't this the clothes he wore when he first met Jia Ming?
But isn't he gone?
Why is it in my dreams?
There were many questions in his mind that could not be answered, he put down this question for the time being, and looked at the "Jia Ming" in front of him again, as before, he was still looking out the window, but Lin Xuan had already seen a dark shadow outside the window, and there seemed to be nothing else.
Window...... Is there anything special about the dark shadow outside the window?
Lin Xuan kept thinking about it, and at the same time raised his head and glanced out the window again, but when he saw the black shadow again, his back was suddenly drenched in cold sweat.
"The location is different...... It's getting closer. ”
Lin Xuan solemnly looked at the dark shadow in front of him that was closer than just now, and his heart couldn't help but tighten.
You have to know that the car is always moving, what is the concept of getting closer......
Just when Lin Xuan was a little distracted, he saw that the black shadow outside the car window suddenly disappeared in an instant, and when he reappeared, it had already moved to a distance of about a few hundred meters away from the bus.
Lin Xuan thought that this was the end, but the time interval between the black shadow's movement was getting shorter and shorter, and the distance from the bus was getting closer and closer.
100 meters......
Fifty meters......
Twenty meters ......
"Bang"
The car window in front of Lin Xuan's eyes suddenly shuddered, as if it had been suddenly slapped by something, and then a swarthy face composed entirely of black shadows occupied the window in front of Lin Xuan's eyes, although it had no eyes on its face, Lin Xuan opposite him could still clearly feel that the thing in front of him was staring at him, his big black mouth opened, and the corners of his mouth grinned to the position near the root of his ear, revealing a terrifying smile to Lin Xuan.
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The eyes opened little by little, and the first thing that caught my eye was a warm light, and the warm breeze gently blew the curtains, and entered the ward through the window, and the sound of sparrows chirping outside the window was vivid.
Looking at the blue and white striped hospital gown he was wearing and the room that was filled with a little smell of disinfectant water, Lin Xuan immediately realized that he was in the ward now.
Lin Xuan casually picked up the disposable water cup filled with water on the small cabinet next to him and took a sip gently, then turned his head to the left and looked at the early morning scenery outside the window, feeling slightly at ease.
The dream just now was really a little real, so real that he didn't dare to be completely sure that it was a dream until the last moment, and the fright he received was also real.
He had already experienced a night of strange events, and when he went to sleep, he dreamed of a dark shadow outside the bus window, and even though he had slept once, he still felt physically and mentally exhausted.
"Awake?"
Hearing that there seemed to be movement in the room, the Zhou team outside knocked on the door and walked in and stood beside Lin Xuan's bed, after he glanced down at Lin Xuan, who had black bags under his eyes and red eyes, he said to Lin Xuan, who was a little distracted in front of him:
"Because you suddenly fainted during this mission, maybe because you were too tired these days, the team discussed it and decided to give you a few days off to rest and rest, and you should cherish it."
After speaking, Team Zhou stared at Lin Xuan for a few seconds before speaking, "Are you okay?" If you are in a bad state, don't be reckless, and if you can't hold it in the future, tell me, and it's not that you won't be given leave. ”
Hearing Team Zhou's words, Lin Xuan's heart couldn't help but warm, Team Zhou said that it was a fake after the discussion in the team, but how could he not know that the matter of giving fake must have been raised by Team Zhou, since Team Zhou had spoken, there was naturally no need for others to refute.
After going through so many things, he really needs to rest for a few days, and he silently remembers the favor of Team Zhou.
After finishing talking to business, Team Zhou said goodbye to Lin Xuan and left in a hurry, when Lin Xuan saw him leave the room, he found that there were still a small number of people waiting outside the door, and they were cautiously looking inside, and as soon as Team Zhou left, they all rushed in excitedly.
"Brother Lin, Brother Lin, are you okay, I was scared to death when I heard that something happened to you, it's okay if you're okay."
A little fat man in a blue police uniform squeezed his eyebrows at Lin Xuan exaggeratedly as soon as he entered the room, and at the same time, his fat little hands patted his chest in shock, as if he was relieved.
The little fat man's name is Song Yuan, his name is quite domineering but he is actually very timid, and this group of people who poured in didn't need to think about it, they all heard that Lin Xuan had come to visit his colleagues after he passed out.
As soon as this group of people came in, they cared about Lin Xuan in all kinds of ways, and talked to Lin Xuan in a gossipy manner, making the whole room noisy as if they had opened a vegetable market.
There was also a patient lying on the hospital bed next to Lin Xuan at this time, who looked like a young man in his twenties.
When he heard the noisy voices of concern around Lin Xuan and saw more and more fruits on the cabinet, he couldn't help but lie on the bed and turn his back silently to retain his last stubbornness.
He subconsciously tightened the thin sheet on his body, and felt the indifference of this world more and more.
Oh, I'm not rare.
Lin Xuan, who was smiling and dealing with the enthusiastic colleagues in front of him, suddenly glanced at Sui Xinyu, who was a little overwhelmed with his head down and twisting his fingers behind the crowd, and looked very nervous and tangled, and he suddenly remembered that he owed this girl a favor last time.
Lin Xuan suddenly thanked with a smile on his face and half-jokingly said, "Sui Xinyu, thank you last night, otherwise I'm afraid I will be scolded to death by Team Zhou." ”
"Huh? Ah, it's okay, it's okay, senior, you're polite, I'm doing what I have to do. I don't know if it's a little distracted, when Lin Xuan just spoke, she didn't realize that Lin Xuan was calling her, and she was stunned for a while before she reacted.
Feeling the strange eyes of the colleagues around her and the ridiculous boos led by the little fat man Song Yuan, she suddenly blushed with shame and wanted to find a crack in the ground to get into.
Looking at Sui Xinyu's shy appearance, the corners of Lin Xuan's mouth rose slightly, this girl is a little cute.
But he could also feel Sui Xinyu's embarrassment, so he clapped his hands to attract the attention of others: Okay, everyone listen to me, first of all, I thank you for your visit and gifts, but I really have nothing to do now, and everyone needs to go to work to sort out the case, so I won't leave you more.
After hearing Lin Xuan's words, everyone said goodbye and left after a few polite words to Lin Xuan, and walked out of the ward quickly.
After all, Lin Xuan was right, they had a lot of cases to sort out every day, not to mention that there was another murder last night, and they really didn't have much time to spend here now.
Feeling that the people around her were gone, Sui Xinyu's hanging heart finally slowly let go, and she looked at Lin Xuan gratefully after breathing a sigh of relief: "Thank you, senior, for relieving me." ”
After speaking, regardless of Lin Xuan's reaction, he walked out with a flushed face.
Song Yuan, the little fat man on the side, looked at Sui Xinyu's figure gradually moving away, smacked his lips, and touched Lin Xuan with his shoulder: "Brother Lin, how good is this girl, don't think about it?" ”
Lin Xuan looked at the little fat man a little speechlessly: "Can you decorate something useful in your mind, think about these things day by day, learn more about how others investigate cases, and exercise more, don't lose your life if the case goes wrong." ”
Song Yuan pursed his lips and disagreed: "Isn't this with Brother Lin, what am I afraid of...... Ahem, I'm up to time, it's time to sort out the case, goodbye Brother Lin. Feeling Lin Xuan's increasingly unfriendly eyes, the little fat man Song Yuan couldn't help but laugh a few times, and casually found an excuse and ran away with oil on the soles of his feet.
"This little fat man ......"
Shaking his head, Lin Xuan didn't pay much attention to it, and then thought of the question that the little fat man had just asked, he looked at the door from afar, and couldn't help frowning.
So many strange things happened yesterday, and he himself was in danger, how could he take care of others?
"By the way, Brother Lin, I brought you breakfast and put it in that yellow lunch box, remember to eat it." Just as Lin Xuan was distracted, the little fat man Song Yuan suddenly walked back, and after reminding Lin Xuan, he hurriedly slipped away again.
"This guy ......"
Shaking his head, not paying attention, Lin Xuan picked up the yellow lunch box that Song Yuan said from the cabinet, and quickly opened it to eat breakfast.
But when he opened the lid, he frowned, and the lunch box was full of meats such as chicken, duck, fish and some other very greasy foods, and he lost his appetite when he looked at it.
After staring at the lunch box in his hand for a long time, Lin Xuan exhaled softly.
"If only there was porridge, how could you eat such a greasy thing early in the morning......" Lin Xuan put the yellow lunch box back on the cabinet with some regret, but on the way back, he suddenly saw a small blue lunch box next to him that he didn't know who sent it.
It seemed that it was also filled with breakfast, and Lin Xuan picked up a small blue lunch box.
After opening the somewhat delicate little lunch box in front of him, Lin Xuan found that it contained porridge and a few eggs, although the lunch box was small, there were a lot of tableware in it.
Looking at the porridge and eggs in the lunch box, Lin Xuan couldn't help but show a hint of surprise in his eyes, he actually chose to try it out without losing if he opened it, but he didn't expect that it was really porridge inside, and it could be regarded as having a heart.
Picking up the small blue lunch box, Lin Xuan glanced at the cartoon sticker glued outside, which said Delivery Person: Sui Xinyu. The handwriting is beautiful, and the words are like the person.
Lin Xuan looked at the name and put a spoon into his mouth to take a sip of porridge, it was quite delicious.
As he ate, the corners of Lin Xuan's mouth couldn't help but smile with satisfaction.
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After eating, Lin Xuan sorted out all kinds of items sent by his colleagues on the cabinet, took one and packaged it, and went directly to the hall on the first floor to go through the discharge procedures.
After being discharged from the hospital, he walked home briskly.