Chapter 16: Undercurrents lurk

"This one!"

"Seven Hearts."

"I wiped it, I really guessed it, so change this one!"

"Well, I think about it, Block Three?"

"Hey, that's right, I don't believe it, come again!"

"Ace of Spades!"

Xie Feichen, who was standing on the stage, closed his eyes tightly, let the volunteer in front of him take away the poker in his hand, smiled and said accurately the number of the playing card that the other party drew immediately, without any mistakes.

Since it was only an evening party held in the department, the scale was not large, and the entire large classroom was only about 100 people in the three classes of the department, so it was not very formal. After all, it was just a spontaneous rehearsal by the students, except for the dramas and sketches rehearsed by Guo Xiaoxiao and others that made the audience quite interested, the rest was some regular programs such as singing and dancing, but Xie Feichen performed a few small magic tricks after he came on stage, which heated up the atmosphere a lot.

"Wait, I know, thank you, this poker card must have been marked, and you will know it when I touch it when I draw it." The buddy who volunteered to go to the stage on the opposite side suddenly shouted after trying a few times and being guessed correctly, although he was not in the same class, but the three classes in the department often attended classes together, and he could also call Xie Feichen's name.

"Really? Are you sure? Xie Feichen smiled: "Then let's have some difficult ones." ”

As he spoke, he stuffed a large handful of pokers into the other party's hands, turned around and walked a few steps on the stage, and said leisurely with his hands behind his back to the buddy: "Come on, draw again." ”

Is that okay?

The audience in the audience was surprised, and they all paid attention to the movement on the stage, and the buddy was also surprised, but he drew a card in his hand unambiguously, carefully protected it in his palm, and shouted: "Okay, I don't believe that Lao Xie has a perspective eye, so if you can guess it, I will really convince you!" ”

"Then you just kneel down, brother pinched his fingers and counted, and he knew that your kid was smoking plum J!" Xie Feichen turned his head and showed a smug smile, only he could see it in the whole classroom, a translucent geist was wandering behind this buddy, if he didn't have this peeping ability, he wouldn't have to get the red light of Koko in the final exam if he didn't have any energy to study.

"I'm X, thank you, you really have a hand!" This guy naturally didn't know that there was a ghost next to him to make a dark line, and he couldn't help but burst out in shock, and showed the card to the audience, which was plum J.

There was also a commotion in the audience, and suddenly a boy shouted: "I said Linzi, you shouldn't be Lao Xie's trust, right?" No wonder you run so fast when you pick volunteers on stage! ”

"Get out of here, you kid is the one who supports you." Lin Zi on the stage scolded with a straight face, and the big guys giggled and made a fuss.

Xie Feichen, who had finished the magic show, walked off the stage lightly, and shrugged his shoulders at Guo Xiaoxiao: "How is it, Miss Guo Er, are you still satisfied?" ”

"It's not as good as I imagined, but you're barely able to pass it." Guo Xiaoxiao sighed lightly, and her face showed a look of resignation.

Xie Feichen smiled lightly and didn't care, it's not that he can't play more exciting tricks, and to be honest, he also wants to see how surprised this group of classmates will be when they see a group of lively paper figures fighting or surrounded by a group of ghost fires, but Xie Feichen is just obscene in his heart, after all, when he thought of such a looming mysterious organization as the Spirit Research Society in the school, he wisely canceled the plan to perform those tricks that might cause a sensation and attract attention, and chose a tepid and somewhat bland program.

In a ward of the Second Municipal Hospital, two nurses holding sheets are making rounds.

"Sister Lin, this person was just transferred out of the intensive ward yesterday, right?" One of the young nurses, who had just joined the company, asked suddenly as she glanced at the unconscious patient on the hospital bed.

"Hmm." Another older nurse hastily recorded it in her notebook and replied casually: "The young man who was just sent in a few days ago couldn't find any serious injuries on his body, just deep fainting. ”

The unconscious patient on the hospital bed was Hu Kaikang, his eyes were closed at this time, his face was pale, his breathing was intermittent, and he looked weak. Although Xie Feichen didn't kill him that day, he just threw him alone in the warehouse, but that place was a remote place carefully selected by Hu Kaikang in order not to be disturbed when he held the demon summoning ceremony, not to mention that there were not many people at night or even during the day, so Hu Kaikang, who was so distracted by Xie Feichen's ghostly brain that he almost became a vegetative person, lay down for more than two days before being discovered, which can be described as self-inflicted. However, although he was dying when he was sent to the hospital, Hu Kaikang did not have much trauma except for the turmoil of his soul by the ghostly qi, but he was extremely weak due to not eating water for many days, so he was quickly transferred out of the intensive care ward after his physiological indicators stabilized.

"Hey, Sister Lin, have you heard, this patient was found in a remote warehouse, I heard that the scene was very terrifying, several cats and dogs were bloodily skinned and cramped and thrown into a magic array full of spells, and the blood that flowed was spread all over the ground, and this person was lying in the middle of these cats and dogs." The young nurse looked curious and gossipy, and whispered mysteriously, with a little excitement in her voice: "You say it's weird, could this person be some kind of fanatic?" ”

After Hu Kaikang was discovered, the scene in the warehouse, which was quite strange to ordinary people, made the finder immediately call the police, but because there was no death, and Hu Kaikang had been unconscious, it was only the police from the nearby police station who went to the scene to make a record and did not follow up, and it was not treated as a major case. However, when the discoverer sent the person to the hospital, he half showed off and half made a foolish announcement, so that the mystery of the incident was soon publicized on a small scale, and the young nurse had obviously heard the corresponding rumors.

However, the much older nurse was not interested in this, and scolded the young nurse in a low voice: "Xiao Sun, don't care about all the mess all day long, concentrate on following me to record, next time you should take turns to make rounds by yourself." ”

"Yes!" The bored young nurse stuck out her tongue and shrugged her head.

After the ward rounds were recorded, the two nurses quickly left the room and walked towards the other wards, the footsteps gradually disappeared from near to far in the corridor, and the ward fell silent again, except for the ticking sound of the medicine in the medicine bottle.

Ga!

The door was pushed open again, and a young man with black-rimmed glasses slowly paced to the side of the hospital bed, he walked a little strangely, the joints on his legs were stiff and motionless when he walked, but his steps were silent when he landed, and he did not bring the slightest noise to this quiet room. The young man stood beside Hu Kaikang and looked at it for a while, if Hu Kaikang woke up at this time, he would be able to recognize that the young man standing by the bed at this moment was the person who introduced him to Professor Simon in the first place, Zhang Ye'an, the president of the Lingyan Society.

Zhang Ye'an checked for a while, then stretched out his hand to open Hu Kaikang's eyelids, looked at the suddenly godless eye under the eyelids for a moment, and then touched Hu Kaikang's eyebrows, temples, halogen and jade pillow respectively, and finally lowered his head and sniffed Hu Kaikang's head a few times, his face became strange, obviously sensing the residual ghostly energy.

"Does the negative energy rush into the brain, causing the soul to be impacted?"

Talking to himself and judging in his mouth, a small black snake slowly flowed out of Zhang Ye'an's cuffs, and if you look closely, you will find that the form of this black snake is very similar to the demon summoned by Hu Kaikang that day, it is composed of translucent shadows, but it looks much more pure and deep, and the small snake head composed of dark shadows glows with two fine bright purple rays. Driven by Zhang Ye'an, the snake squirmed lazily with its slender body, and it sank into Hu Kaikang's ear piercing.

After a while, the pulse in Hu Kaikang's body, which was originally breathing weak but steady, stopped beating, and the anger gradually dispersed, while the phantom snake quietly and silently slid back to Zhang Ye'an's palm, opened its narrow mouth and bit his fingers, feeding back the broken information drawn from Hu Kaikang's body to the master's brain.

Digesting the new messy memory fragments in his mind, Zhang Ye'an's eyebrows, which were tightly closed, beat slightly, and his brows were tightly tangled together, obviously not easy, and it took a while to open his eyes and reveal a disappointed look.

"The memory was so shattered that there was no useful information at all. Was it an unexpected backlash caused by the spell ritual, or was it something else? ”

Before coming here, Zhang Yean had seen the photos taken by the police station through some means, and naturally knew what Hu Kaikang was doing at that time, but he was not sure what factors caused Hu Kaikang to become a living dead. It is very likely that Hu Kaikang himself had some accident when he connected with the Phantom Realm, after all, compared to Hu Kaikang, who was not even an apprentice, Zhang Ye'an, who had already entered the house, knew better how mysterious and dangerous this alien plane full of cold phantom power was in the Phantom Realm, and it was not uncommon for anything strange to happen, even his mentor Simon, who had been immersed in this field for decades, only scratched the surface of his understanding of this plane.

But Zhang Ye'an couldn't rule out the possibility that Hu Kaikang was attacked by someone, after all, according to what he felt just now, although the dark power that remained in Hu Kaikang's head was similar in attributes, it was still slightly different from the power he usually felt in the shadow world. If that's the case, then the question arises, what is there for a teenager who can only play a few superficial tricks that are not in the flow, and what is worth the connoisseur's action - unless the other party is coming at the person behind Hu Kaikang.

(Fortunately, this guy knows almost zero, and even if it is leaked, he can't reveal anything, but this matter must be discussed with the mentor.) )

Zhang Ye'an's expression was a little obscure, and his eyes were cold: "If it's really for us......"