I followed the girl closely, and in the dead of night, the hospital lights were still the same. I walked through the oppressive hallway, past the nurses' station, and occasionally met the sleepy-eyed nurse on duty, still ignoring my presence, as always. I feared that the sound of my footsteps had alarmed the girl, and I was afraid. Because the girl was staring at me so clearly, and she had a ridiculous conversation with me, maybe she was the only one who could see me tonight.

I hid behind the girl, kept a distance of ten meters, and followed the girl's steps downstairs. Her steps were calm and steady, and she smacked in her high heels. I suspect she is no ordinary person, and it is very strange that in the middle of the night a young girl walks alone on the dimly lit stairs of the hospital. When the light appeared around the corner again, she disappeared from my sight. I had no choice but to look mechanically from ward to ward from room to room from place where she had disappeared. Suddenly, the silence of the middle of the night was broken by a crying in the distant ward, and I peeked in. A group of people in the ward were weeping around a bed, and they deliberately lowered their voices as the nurses comforted them. The girl stood on the side of the bed, and suddenly looked in my direction and looked back, with an indifferent expression that made me feel creepy. She waved me in, as I was the only one outside.

I walked over to her side and saw the magic through the crowd. The girl took out an iron chain from her waist, threw it into the air and circled it, ignoring the crowd around her and quickly threw it at the old man on the bed, all in one go. Before I could step forward to stop it, I saw the old man lying on the bed hooked by the shoulders and rushed out of the same old man, like a clone copy and paste, and stood up directly. He should be surrounded by his relatives, all of whom are deeply trapped in the pain of losing their loved ones, unable to extricate themselves. The old man looked back at himself in amazement, looked at his sad and sad relatives, and in a moment it seemed that he had an epiphany. The scene in front of me is exactly the same as what happened to me not long ago, like an initiation. It was only then that I realized that when I got out of my hospital bed, I was the legendary out-of-body soul, and I was terrified to think about it.

The girl looked sideways at me and said, "I died of a heart attack, and although the old man did not die, he did not suffer too much before leaving." She turned to the old man and said in a straight voice: "Your time limit has arrived, follow me to the underworld to report." ”

The old man only took a few seconds, his expression was gloomy, and he said goodbye to his relatives with his eyes. Then she calmly followed the girl to the nurse's station in the middle of the corridor outside the ward. The girl drew a beautiful arc in the air with her hand, and in an instant an ancient and imposing red lacquered gate appeared on the wall opposite the nurse's station. The door slowly opened, and the old man walked in, showing a serene smile, and then the door slowly closed and disappeared in an instant.

The nurse on duty, who was sitting at the nurse's stand, dozed off and ignored her. I took two steps forward and lay on the wall where the old man disappeared to verify again, and the unexplained strange phenomenon that happened in front of my eyes, but there was no trace of the red lacquered door on the wall, and my hands still couldn't touch it. The girl was calm, her expression was indifferent, and the corners of her mouth twitched slightly, as if waiting for me to ask a question.

"Are you really too bad in soul? You are such a young girl, I am a Marxist materialist, am I really going to be brainwashed by you? I ...... dignified, "I don't have enough confidence and ask tentatively."

"You are a famous barrister in Qingcheng, everyone loves you, and flowers bloom, okay. I'll correct you one more time, and one last time. I'm a soul ferryman, and my name is Bai Susu. The girl was a little impatient and interrupted me.

"Okay, Bai Suzhen, let me tell you a secret, in fact, I am Fahai. Your name is domineering, but it's a goblin name, right? Tell me that everything I see is a dream, isn't it? You may just be a little girl who has a crush on me in real life, and I guessed it, right? "Of course I know that she is a soul ferryman, and her name is Bai Susu. As far as I can remember, tonight was our first meeting, and we had nothing to do with each other, let alone a crush. I just want to rely on the humor and slanted jokes of my nearly thirty years of life among the flowers to ease the tension. Actually, I'm starting to wonder if I'm in an awkward position right now, whether she's a real ghost or not, at least she does look like a girl in her twenties. I don't dare to say that there are countless readers, at least I have rich emotional experience, especially when dealing with this kind of casual and ignorant girl, there are still some tricks.

Sure enough, Bai Susu was a little annoyed, and she said indignantly: "You are really a blind and arrogant person, where do you get your confidence?" Crush on you? Are you challenging my authority? I'm a soul ferryman, my name is Bai Susu, do you hear clearly? What does Fahai do? ”

The dozing little nurse opened her eyes to see that the empty corridor on the monitor screen was empty, and when she looked sideways at the patient's call button behind her, she continued to nap lazily.

"You don't seem to be in a hurry to get me to the underworld, are you, Soul Ferryman?" Bai Susu didn't say anything, and I then boldly said my conjecture: "I still have a heartbeat in the ward, and I'm not dead yet, right?" And you didn't drag me out of my body with your big iron chain, I'm not in the same situation as that old man, am I? ”

"What a big iron chain, that's called a soul hook chain. It's too depressing to stay in the hospital for a long time, so let's change places and talk slowly, come with me. ”

I followed Bai Susu as he strode down the stairs, and I felt very light, my cadence was much faster than usual, and it was effortless. Soon we came to an empty street lamp downstairs in the hospital, Bai Susu and I really didn't have a shadow, and it seemed to passers-by that we didn't exist at all. The willows on the side of the road swayed in the wind, but I didn't feel a trace of coolness.

The two of us stood facing each other, Bai Susu stared at me for a long time, and there was a little curiosity in her eyes. Under her flying and domineering appearance, I still feel like a young and lively girl in the flower season. She said to me earnestly: "People are destined from birth and life, and they are written in the book of life and death. No matter how much you fight, you can't resist the arrangement of fate. ”

"The Book of Life and Death? I have seen it in Journey to the West, and what Sun Wukong made trouble with in the underworld is not the book of life and death. It's a shame that a young talent like me died prematurely, and I haven't reached the scheduled date of death yet, right? ”

"Almost. You are in a special situation where you have an out-of-body soul due to the fault of someone else, earlier than the date expected in the book of life and death. The period you are in now belongs to the bardo period, and your soul is called the bardo body. I've been a soul ferryman for a while, and I've only encountered you three times with you. ”

I was confused, I didn't know why. She then added: "Forget it, you don't understand it if you talk too much. In short, there must be a reason for your arrangement. Now you have two options, the first is to report with me to the underworld according to my guidance. Based on the karma you have accumulated in this lifetime, do an accounting to determine where you should die. Then go through the six realms of reincarnation and reincarnation. ”

I told her categorically: "Didn't you just call me to death, I'm not interested in that, second?" ”

"You're not interested, I have to explain the situation, it's my job. In your case, one of the three people I met chose the former. He felt that he no longer had any nostalgia for the world, and he was willing to be reincarnated. She pondered for a moment, her eyes lit up and she said words that rekindled the flame of hope for me: "Second, as long as you find three people who truly love you within seven hundred and forty-nine days, then you can return to your physical body." That is, whether the value of your life has transcended the boundary between life and death, until you are brought back from the dead. ”

"Collect three hearts and summon the dragon? If you don't say it sooner, I'll be scared all night. I'll just say, even if the court sentences the death penalty, there is still a chance to fight for a reprieve. "My excitement is beyond words. I think that if we don't die in this catastrophe, we will have a blessing in the future.