Jiang Yi stepped on the ground hard, and a black cockroach-like insect was trampled by him, he raised his foot and found a trace of yellow slime on the sole of his leather shoe and on the ground.

"When did there be so many bugs in the hospital?" This is not the first time Jiang Yi has seen this kind of never-before-seen insects in the hospital, these filthy creatures seem to have appeared overnight, under the bed, in the corner of the wall, under the table...... They can now be seen in various dark corners of the hospital, and the uncle in charge of sanitation sprayed insecticidal water in the hospital for two days in a row, but it had no effect.

Jiang Yi was now standing at the door of Intensive Care Ward 304 on the third floor of the First People's Hospital, he took out the key from his arms and inserted it into the keyhole of the 304 door.

Jiang Yi once again pushed away the nursing ward of the unknown girl on the fifth floor, holding a basin of freshly beaten warm water in his hand, and a pink towel he had just bought on his shoulder, and his eyes were the pale and cute little face, her eyebrows were slightly wrinkled, and her small mouth was pursed, as if she was having some terrible nightmare.

This is the second day after she was admitted to the hospital, her body temperature has dropped below 34 degrees, approaching the death threshold of 33 degrees, her heart beats only a little more than 40 times per minute, and her breathing is less than 10 times.

"It's you again," Jiang Yi heard someone laugh in his ear, "Doctor Jiang, you've come to see this little girl more than a dozen times in the past two days." ”

"You can't be in love with her, are you?" On the hospital bed to the right of the girl, a middle-aged bald man with a hanging needle in his left hand half-sat on the bed and said with a grin at Jiang Yi, he was still reading a copy of Linyang Daily in his right hand.

The girl didn't pay any medical bills at all, and no family members and friends showed up, so she could only squeeze into a ward with other patients, Jiang Yi remembered that this patient seemed to be called "Luxi City"? Jiang Yi doesn't remember very well what kind of illness he had, after all, this is the so-called "intensive care observation ward", and most of the people who live here are marginal groups who are seriously ill and cannot afford the consultation fee, so it can be said that most of the people who live on this floor will be directly transferred to the morgue in a few days, so Jiang Yi does not care too much about these people.

"She's really beautiful, but this kind of little girl who hasn't graduated from high school yet, isn't it too beastly if I can do it?" Jiang Yi put warm water in front of the girl's bed, lifted her light weightless body from the hospital bed, dipped a towel in hot water, then unscrewed it, and gently washed the girl's face.

He looked at the girl's delicate and bewitching side face, and whispered, "I just think she should be important to a very important friend of mine, and that friend of mine can't take care of her now, and it's my responsibility to take care of her." ”

"Is that friend of yours named Yuan Xi?" Luci asked.

"How do you know? I don't think I've ever talked to you about him, have I? When taking care of this girl in the past two days, Jiang Yi did chat with Lu Xicheng a few times and became familiar, but he was sure that he had never talked to Lu Xicheng about this best buddy in college.

"Since Li Xinyue suddenly fell ill the day before yesterday and left, only me and this little girl are left in this ward, I look at her all day except reading this newspaper, and I naturally listen to the dream words she says in her dreams word for word." Lucieu's right hand was playing with the silver cross necklace around his neck, and he had a heartless smile on his face.

Jiang Yi is only looking at this patient seriously for the first time now, he should have been a very handsome man, and now his messy beard and knife-like face can still be seen in the demeanor of the past, but his bald head caused by chemotherapy makes him look completely aesthetically unaware, and his gaze makes Jiang Yi feel difficult to grasp.

Jiang Yi could hardly describe this gaze, this gaze that bordered on despair and enlightenment.

Jiang Yi felt that it was not surprising that a person with this kind of gaze would not be surprised no matter what kind of thing he did.

"What did she say?" Jiang Yi felt that putting this girl next to this man's hospital bed might be too dangerous for her, and he planned to change the girl's hospital bed immediately.

"She said, Yuan Xi has never existed, Yuan Xi has never died, O lost, never go into the depths of the taboo, behind the taboo is the abyss." At that moment, a restless glow flowed through Lucie's eyes.

"Have you seen that text message?" Jiang Yi instantly thought of the text message that everyone received in the morgue, I don't know why, after receiving the text message, everyone tacitly remained silent about this strange and incomprehensible text message, as if this text message was a curse, and anyone who talked about it would suffer an unwarranted disaster.

"No.4, the dead never die,

How can the living be alive,

'Gone' is a mystery that has ever been answered,

The barren void opened the eyes of chaos,

O lost, never go into the depths of the taboo......"

The last sentence of this text message is now spoken by this man, and a messy prefix is added to it, and when it is read out, Jiang Yi feels as if he is the ghost hidden in the text message, and now he finally shows a little hideous fangs.

"Ahh Lu Xicheng's nonchalant expression was not moved in the slightest, and Jiang Yi couldn't tell if he was telling the truth or lying.

At this moment, a black bug suddenly crawled out from under the girl's pillow, and the head of this worm had a human eye, which crawled up the girl's delicate earlobe, shook the tentacles on its head, and the next moment it was about to burrow into the girl's ear.

Jiang Yi didn't think about it, and immediately forcibly grabbed the insect out of the girl's ear with his hand, threw the insect aside, and the insect was thrown to the ground by him, and it disappeared.

"Did you see that? The bug? Jiang Yi turned his head to look at Lu Xicheng's hospital bed, but there were no hanging needles on the side of the bed, and there was no one on the bed, the quilt of the hospital bed was neatly folded, and the newspaper that Lu Xicheng was still reading just now had been neatly folded on the bedside table, Jiang Yi picked up the newspaper and swept it casually:

"Lu Xicheng, a well-known entrepreneur in Linyang City, suffered from advanced lung cancer, died of chemotherapy, and passed away this morning, and the major shareholders of the Night Star Group, which he founded, with a market value of 3 billion, began to compete for shares......

The date is "June 23, 2008".

Jiang Yi's head sounded with the words on the text message: "The dead have never died, how can the living talk about ...... alive"

Just now, he was chatting with a ghost who died eight years ago?

"There is a car coming after the rain, driving through the pale ...... twilight" When Jiang Yi was in a cold sweat behind his back, the mobile phone belonging to Yuan Xi in his trouser pocket suddenly played the music of the mobile phone ringtone, and it was a calm and steady male voice singing affectionately.

Now, who will call Yuan Xi?

When Jiang Yi was answering the phone, he didn't notice that a thin figure in a coat flashed in front of the door of the ward behind him, and a pair of flickering eyes slowly closed and retreated into the darkness.