The blurred vision gradually became clearer, and Ling Ling found himself in the darkness, with only a closed door, and a little light could be seen through the crack in the door.

There was no sense of reality under her feet, Ling Ling remembered that she was dead, so she was now a soul? So...... Is this hell? Or paradise?

"Ahem, you are a soul now, but you are not dead, and this is not hell, nor heaven, but a gap between time and space."

An ethereal male voice sounded in the air, and it was soft, like a young man.

"What does it mean I'm not dead? What the hell is the space-time rift? Who are you? ”

Ling Ling asked in a series of questions into the darkness, the current situation made her a little confused.

"How can I answer if you ask me so much at once!"

The male voice complained suddenly, and realized that his tone was wrong, coughed lightly, lowered his voice, and continued to say seriously,

"See that door? Push it away. ”

Surrounded by unknowns and strangeness, Ling Ling was in a quandary at this time, and she pushed open the closed door to find the answers to those questions.

The door was pushed open, and a strong white light suddenly appeared in the darkness, Ling Ling couldn't help but cover her eyes with her hand, she removed her hand and slowly opened her eyes to look at her surroundings.

Sunlight shines through the pure white curtains, the surrounding walls are painted with pure white paint, and in the middle of one of the walls hangs a television, and opposite the TV is a hospital bed, next to which in addition to flowers are placed an electronic clock and monitor.

On the hospital bed, a girl in a hospital gown slept quietly, with an oxygen mask on her face, a monitor in one hand, and a bandage around her head.

Ling Ling only felt that the person on the hospital bed was very familiar, and when he took a closer look, he realized that the person lying on the bed was the self before the crossing!

The electronic clock on the side showed 12 o'clock at noon, and when she looked at the date again, Ling Ling was a little dazed, it was actually the eighth day after she was injured in the crew!

"Different time and space have different time and space timekeeping methods, and a year over there is a day here."

The voice floating in the air came clearly from her ears, and Ling Ling turned her head to look, only to see a short-haired man wearing a light gold cloak, tall and with an attractive temperament appearing beside her.

He wore a string of crystal clear pocket watches around his neck, engraved with the same pattern as in the mutton fat jade ring, and the short hair on his forehead covered some of his thick eyebrows, and the deep golden eyes under the short hair reflected the girl on the hospital bed.

"You know what I'm thinking?" Ling Ling asked him.

He seemed to think Ling Ling's question was funny, "My Ninth Master is the guardian of the gap between time and space, no, it's the guardian spirit, you mortal thoughts, I still don't know?" ”

"Then you answer my question, I ...... now What's going on? Am I not dead? ”

For the current situation, Ling Ling's mind was extremely confused, and she desperately wanted to know what was going on.

"No, you are dying, the soul vessel saved you, to be exact, Bai Feiye saved you."

"What do you mean?"

The man who claimed to be the ninth master frowned impatiently, pointed to the mutton fat jade ring on the girl's finger on the hospital bed,

"I remember you're not stupid! Use your brain, your soul vessel is there, originally you didn't have the qualifications to cross again, you should die there, it was Bai Feiye who used his blood to evoke his soul vessel, as a medium, your soul had a chance to cross over, and it didn't die. ”

Bai Feiye's soul vessel can be used as a carrier for her soul? Can the rings be shared?

Hearing Ling Ling's thoughts, before she could ask, the Ninth Master replied one step ahead of her,

"Only when the soul is matched can the same soul vessel react, you and him are a matching pair in the soul book, so his soul vessel is useful to you."

"You said I had a chance to cross over again, so I could still ......"

"You can't!"

Sensing Ling Ling's thoughts, he immediately retorted to her,

"Your side of the body has been mortally wounded, although because you are still in the gap between time and space, but once you return to your original body, that side of the body will die with it. And that body can hardly carry your soul anymore, so you have to go back to the body in the hospital bed! ”

"Really, there's no way to get me back?"

Looking at himself lying on the hospital bed in front of him, Ling Ling suddenly felt a little strange.

In eight years, she got used to the life there, the people there, and everything there, and now let her go back to the beginning and start over, how can she accept it!

Bai Feiye is not fake, Twelve is not fake, Father-in-law, Master, Grandma and all her friends are not fake, how could she forget them and start all over again!

As the guardian of the gap between time and space, he knew all the lives of the people who matched the soul vessels, and at this moment, Ling Ling's sad and helpless thoughts were extremely strong, and when they were transmitted to the ninth master's mind, he actually had a trace of feeling,

"Ling Ling, you weren't the soul of that world in the first place, so you can't treat everything you experienced there as a dream?"

"A dream?"

Ling Ling tugged at the corner of her lips, and a tear slid down her cheek and immediately dissipated.

"I was there really, vividly in my purpose, and you made me think it was a dream? Oh, my love, my children, my friends...... Do you want me to think of them as imaginary characters? ”

“……”

The Ninth Master fell silent, since the appearance of the gap between time and space, he has been guarding this place, and has seen all kinds of lives that have been crossed by soul vessels, but it is indeed the first time he has encountered a person like Ling Ling.

"You're a god, so there's really no way for me to go back?"

Seeing that he didn't speak, Ling Ling calmed down and begged him again.

He remained silent, just waved his hand in the air.

The closed door of the ward was suddenly pushed open, and a pair of middle-aged men and women walked into the ward, the woman carried the hot water basin, the man came to the bedside to carefully check whether the monitor next to the bed was normal, and the woman gently wiped the face and limbs of the girl on the bed with a wrung out hot towel.

Both of them had the blue color of staying up all night, and their eyes were a little red, revealing exhaustion.

"Dad...... Mother? ”

Ling Ling looked at them with wide eyes and shouted at them in disbelief.

"They can't hear us,"

The Ninth Master, who didn't speak, spoke slowly, and he said solemnly to Ling Ling,

"Life is fair to everyone, and if you want to go back there and continue to live, you have to pay the same price. I can make the body that can't carry your soul accept your soul again, but you in the hospital bed must be exchanged for death. ”

Ling Ling looked at her parents who were taking care of her unconscious in a daze, they hadn't seen her for eight years, they were still the same as in their impressions, they hadn't grown old, they were just a lot haggard.

"You don't deserve to die in the hospital bed, if you insist on going back there, it will be against the principles of heaven."

Ling Ling was suddenly a little overwhelmed, once she thought that just like Wei Fanhua said, she would continue to live in the original world, at least accompany her parents......

If she returned to herself in the hospital bed, would she never see him again......

Thinking of this, her heart is really uncomfortable, these years, she has accepted the fact that she has crossed over, accepted everything there, and the life she longs for the most is to have him, there is a life of twelve......

But if she goes back, what will happen to her parents! Looking at their haggard faces, Ling Ling was really uncomfortable, without her, would they be lonely in the future, would they have no one to accompany them?

Ling Ling never thought that he would encounter such a dilemma!

Sensing Ling Ling's inner struggle, the Ninth Master sighed lightly, and with a wave of his palm, the ward was instantly swallowed up by darkness.

"It stands to reason that our Patronus is not allowed to act without permission, whether you accept it or not, in order to conform to the principles of heaven, I should send you back to your original body."

As he spoke, he raised his chin as if he had made up his mind and raised his eyebrows at Ling Ling and smiled,

"However, who called me a handsome and reasonable ninth master! It's not like I've never done anything that goes against the principles of heaven, and for the sake of you're the first person to appear in my custody area and travel back and forth,"

He waved his palm again, and then two closed doors appeared in front of Ling Ling,

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