Chapter 17: Terminal Illness
I don't know when I actually fell asleep, and when I opened my eyes again, there was no one in the room. Look out the window, it's already dark, strange, why haven't they come back yet?
Let's turn on the lights first. I tried, and although my body was heavy, I was still able to move. He slowly got out of bed and walked towards the door.
After walking a few steps, it was quite relaxed, which couldn't help but make me happy! It seems that I finally don't have to stay in bed every day, and I, Tao Yong, are finally back!
At the moment, my mind turned: it is better to go out for a walk, and if you move more, you will recover faster.
I opened the door and entered the hallway, but I didn't see any lights or a single figure. What's going on?
I couldn't help but laugh in my heart: No...... It's a dream again, right? At that moment, I pinched my thigh with my hand, and immediately grinned in pain! It doesn't seem to be a dream, where did that person go?
As soon as I was muttering in my heart, I saw a person come out of the next room. Dressed in the same hospital gown as me, it seems that he is also a patient here.
Seeing that he looked like a man, I walked up to him and patted him on the shoulder and said, "Dude! Why is it so dark here, the power goes out? ”
But he ignored me and went on.
I thought it was strange, so I walked a few steps and ran in front of him to stop him and asked, "Why don't you ignore people?" ”
I saw his face right now, and I was so scared that I took a few steps back! I saw that his face was as pale as paper, without a trace of blood, and a pair of eyes stared blankly ahead, as if he completely ignored my existence.
At this time, there was a sudden cry in the nearby ward, and someone was shouting, "Oh my God, why did you leave me behind?" ……”
I quickly dodged away to let the buddy pass, and then ran to the door of the ward and looked inside, only to see a person who looked exactly like the man just now lying on the bed, his face was as dead as ashes, and he was already lifeless. But I can't see who is crying!
Could it be that what I just saw was a detached soul?!
When I turned around, I saw a circle of white shadows surrounding me, all of them were like the person just now, their faces were pale, their eyes were violent, and they stretched out their thin and long arms to grab me, and they said one after another: "It's because of you that we have become like this, and you return our lives!" ”
No, it was definitely a dream, and I reacted immediately. Wake up! Wake up!
But those arms were already rapidly approaching, and I could almost feel a cold breath rushing towards my face!
I was so shocked that I stretched out my hand to resist it, but suddenly there was a faint fragrance wafting in front of my nose. This fragrance is familiar, but it is not tea or medicine...... It suddenly occurred to me that this was the fragrance on Meng Yiling's body!
Grasping the only clue to this connection to reality, my body shook and woke up, my forehead dripping with cold sweat.
As soon as I opened my eyes, sure enough, Meng Yiling was sitting next to me! Seeing my expression, he asked strangely, "What's wrong, have a nightmare?" ”
I immediately asked her eagerly, "Were there any casualties in that explosion?" ”
Her face changed when she heard this, and her eyes flickered a little and said, "Hmm...... More than a dozen people were injured, and the manager of the warehouse on the second floor was too seriously injured and was not rescued later. ”
I listened to the blow in my chest as if I had been hit hard, and my heart was in turmoil, and I muttered: "Is that manager, is it a man, about 180 tall, very burly, with a square face and big eyes, and a scar near his chin?" ”
Meng Yiling was stunned for a moment when she heard this, and said, "He was admitted to the hospital with you, I saw it at the time, it seems to be about the same, how do you know?" ”
If, if all this was really caused by the Blood Curse, then wouldn't it be me who was responsible for this accident? First of all, Wang Jianguo was injured, and then so many casualties were caused, what will happen next? Suddenly, my heart ached as if it had been torn apart.
Seeing that I closed my eyes and didn't speak, she guessed my thoughts, and quickly said: "Don't think about it, the accident investigation has been concluded, and it is caused by the aging of the parts of the oxygen cylinder, although it is ...... Although it was an accident, it was also related to the negligence of the manager......
After being silent for a long time, I suddenly opened my eyes and asked her, "Yiling, do you think the subject that my father is studying is really playful?" ”
She was a little surprised by the sudden change of topic, but she still replied to me firmly: "Well, it's not just a play." ”
As soon as I heard this, a great hope suddenly germinated in my heart, and I asked impatiently, "How do you say that?" ”
Meng Yiling looked into my eyes and said seriously: "Actually, your current situation is not suitable to discuss this matter, but in order to reassure you, I will still talk to you about it first." You promise me that you won't think too much about it after listening, and everything will be said when your body recovers. ”
"Good!" I replied happily.
At this moment, there was a knock on the door, and Tian Ge and Wang Jianguo came back. When they saw Meng Yiling and I talking so closely, they immediately looked embarrassed, and they didn't know whether to come in or go out for a while.
Meng Yiling turned back to them and smiled and said, "Come in, let's discuss it together." ”
Everyone sat down separately, and Meng Yiling said: "I have been thinking about this matter of yours for a long time, and I have also checked a lot of information, because I was inspired by Mr. Tao before, and I have done a lot of research, and now I feel clearer." ”
"She had listened to my father's lectures, so she called him Mr. Tao." I explained to Tian Ge and Wang Jianguo, for fear that they would associate it with me.
Sure enough, they showed expressions of sudden realization. I was ashamed in my heart, although I had fooled these two enough, in fact, I couldn't even reach the old man's feet.
Meng Yiling continued: "You said before that you suspected that the Xunzong Blood Curse was implanted with a virus in the body, and there is some truth to this statement, but it is not a virus, but a logo, and this logo makes you different from the rest of the people. ”
"What's the difference?" I asked curiously.
"It's not that we can see the difference," she replied, "but the world can feel it." ”
"How does it sound like I'm like a big guy!" I was silly.
"On the contrary, it should be said that this logo makes the world see you as an outlier." Meng Yiling corrected.
I've always been an outlier, and this has been expressed by countless people I've teased and tortured. I thought helplessly.
"I told you before that man is the law of the earth, the earth is the law of the sky, the heaven is the law of the Tao, and the Tao is the law of nature, and these things are actually the same thing. In fact, this idea was not originally created by me, but was proposed by your father back then.
Extending to you, if the world, nature, and all the environment are like a person, then you are an abnormal existence in this person's body, to use an analogy, it is like ...... Cancer cells are the same. Meng Yiling said this, and couldn't help but look at my expression cautiously.
But my expression was now like that of a believer worshipping the gods, looking at her ignorantly, with reverence, and devotion.
"You are also a medical student, you should be very aware of this mechanism, once the human body feels the abnormality in the body, it will activate the immune system to destroy it, but the immune system sometimes does not distinguish between friend and foe, and will destroy normal cells together. In the eyes of traditional Chinese medicine, people with cancer will have cold hands and feet, and the normal balance of the body will be completely broken, because the excessive activation of the immune system will consume a lot of qi and blood, and eventually the vitality will be exhausted and die. Meng Yiling explained.
"But according to the silk book, it should have begun to appear when I was an adult, didn't the ancients become an adult when they were teenagers, and now that I am so old, why did I just start making trouble?" I asked.
Meng Yiling was not asked at all, but replied as expected: "I haven't been to your hometown, but I found its map, is it surrounded by mountains on three sides and a river on one side?" ”
Did, I nodded.
"My master is proficient in the art of Feng Shui, and I also know a little bit, this Feng Shui pattern is called 'Lock Dragon Bureau'. It means that before the dragon soars into the sky, there will be a period of lurking, and lurking in this kind of dragon locking game is the most beneficial to hide the dragon qi and accumulate strength. I guess it's because you're living in this environment, and the marks on your body are suppressed. She said.
Yes! I slapped my thigh in annoyance, startling all three of them.
"I'm afraid that Uncle Zhao won't let me come out before, and I'm afraid that so many things will happen to me as soon as I come to Beijing, and I should have known that I should have been staying at home and not coming out!" I shouted.
Meng Yiling shook her head and said, "It's useless, no matter how long the incubation period is, it will eventually come out." There is a story in traditional Chinese medicine, which is about a Jin Jinggong who was seriously ill in the Spring and Autumn Period, and one day had a dream that said that there were two villains discussing that as long as they hid in the middle of the 'ointment' and 'belly', the medicinal power would not be reached. Later, Jin Jinggong's illness was indeed incurable. That's how the word terminally ill comes from. "Cream" refers to the cellulite at the tip of the heart, and "belly" refers to the diaphragm connected by the bladder meridian. ”
When I heard this, I was immediately deflated, according to her words, my alien has been discovered by the immune system, not only is it useless for me to come out of my hometown, but it is also useless to go back now.
"But," came to my mind in the blink of an eye, "how do I know that these things have happened to me as ordinary accidents?" Or is it really because there is some mark in the body? ”
This time, Wang Jianguo, who was next to him, accosted: "Could it be that your ancestors left silk books and blood furnaces just to give a hint to future generations?" If it was really an ordinary accident, it might have been in vain. ”
"But how did such a powerful sign come about? And what is the purpose of leaving this? "I still want to struggle.
Sure enough, Meng Yiling also shook her head and said, "I don't know this." ”
I remember that Uncle Zhao also said at that time, this matter has to be solved by myself in the end, if Meng Yiling knew everything by relying on the current clues alone, then this problem would have been solved by a certain god for thousands of years.
One last question, I asked, "So what can I do now?" ”
"You've been listening to this for a long time, it's time to rest." Meng Yiling suddenly stood up and said. But I saw that it was clearly written on her face: I don't want you to know about this now.
Before I could protest, she had already turned to Tian Ge and Wang Jianguo and said, "Let's go, let's go out and let him sleep for a while." Then he dragged them out.
I was lying there, my mind in turmoil, this accident had affected so many people, and I definitely didn't want it to happen again! But as long as I live for a day, it seems that the incident will not subside! If it is because of me that the world is terminally ill, then who is it that causes me to suffer from this "terminal illness" that is difficult to choose?