Chapter 12: The Last Wish
"Yes...... Ghosts! ”
I don't know who got up and screamed, and the two ran downstairs one after the other.
When they all left, the lights in the hallway flickered slightly, and a translucent and illusory ghostly figure gradually appeared.
Su Bai held an oil-paper umbrella and looked at the two female nurses who had escaped in a bit of a daze, and couldn't help but fall into deep thought.
"What's going on? Could it be that any human being has yin and yang eyes and can see ghosts these days?! ”
He originally just wanted to go to the second-floor ward after hearing what the female nurse said, but he thought that his invisibility would not be seen through, but the result was ......
Hey, it's not easy to do things these days!
"Wait......"
Something suddenly occurred to him.
He lowered his head and looked at the iron chain dragging on the ground in his hand, and the corners of his mouth twitched slightly.
"It seems that the next operation will have to put away the chains in advance."
Shaking his head with a wry smile, he didn't pay much attention to this little thing, and walked straight towards the 1208 ward that the female nurse said.
When I walked to the door, I could see through the glass on the door that it was dark and empty, and it was indeed emptied after the old man's death, as the nurse said.
But when he closed his eyes and opened them again, and his eyes became deep and pitch black, the scene in front of him had changed.
It's not the ghost cave of the imagination.
The room was no longer dark, but a warm glow, and a softly hummed lullaby came faintly through the crack in the door.
Su Bai hesitated for a moment, and the soul body walked through the door and entered.
The furnishings inside are no longer hospital wards, but more like a baby room for children, with a lot of toys on the floor, as well as pens and drawing books.
The figure of a slender and gray-haired old man sat half-crouched on the edge of the crib, humming a lullaby that had run away, while looking at the crib with a loving face.
Su Bai walked over step by step, and the old man didn't seem to notice.
But when he saw the crib, he couldn't help but be stunned for a moment, opened his mouth slightly, but was silent for a while.
In the crib is not an imaginary cute baby, but an old-fashioned old landline phone.
The microphones are always separated, and there is a faint busy sound of "beep toot" from inside.
The old man looked forward to it, and always took care of it as if he were a child.
Maybe I'm waiting for a long-waiting, familiar voice on the other end of the phone.
"Telephone...... Is it the last contact between the old man and his child......
Although he came to collect his soul, Su Bai felt some sympathy and sourness for such a scene in his heart.
"Pity the hearts of parents in the world ......"
He couldn't bear to break the old man's last dream for a while.
The broken phone line under the crib also seems to illustrate the harsh reality that the phone may never be connected.
But after all, he couldn't have been waiting here with the old man for the impossible future.
He sighed softly, "It's time to hit the road." ”
The old man was slightly shocked, and looked back at Su Bai who was standing behind him with some trembling, and when he saw the iron chain in his hand and the strange aura in his hand, he suddenly seemed to understand something.
The warm illusion around him gradually shattered like floor-to-ceiling glass, revealing the walls of the cold, dark hospital wards that were hidden, and even the old man's eyes, which had been glowing with a shimmer, slowly dimmed, and finally became cloudy.
"Ghost ...... What the hell? Originally...... It turns out that the legend is true, and there is really a ghost ......"
The old man muttered to himself, then looked down at himself, lost his soul: "Then I...... Am I already dead? ”
Su Bai flipped out the "Nanjiang City Directory", and the general information of the old man in front of him had already appeared on it.
Well, the sex is good, there is no great evil, he belongs to a good person, if the six reincarnations are still there, he should be able to be reincarnated in a good family in the next life to enjoy wealth.
Now the situation is different, and I can only grieve the other party.
He closed the book and said in a deep voice: "I am a ghost in the underworld, and I am ordered to detain souls. Your name is Ge Hongqiang, you are seventy-eight years old, and now that your life is over, don't continue to stay in the world to be a lonely ghost and a wild ghost, and go on the road with me quickly! ”
Out of sympathy for the old man, he did not use the rough way of tying people up with iron chains.
The old man turned around and hesitated, but unexpectedly fell to his knees and hit his head on the ground.
"I Ge Hongqiang still have one last wish...... Can you please ask the Devil-sama to be gracious and let me fulfill this wish before I go on my way? ”
"Wish?" Su Bai frowned slightly.
"Do you want to make a phone call with your son? No matter how busy you are, even after you are seriously ill, you are reluctant to come to visit, what is there to be nostalgic for this kind of unfilial son! ”
He looked at the telephone and guessed that possibility.
He himself is very disgusted with this kind of scum.
Unexpectedly, the old man shook his head.
"That kid is not bad-hearted, if he can't come to see me, there must be something important to delay, I understand him......" The old man bowed his head deeply and knelt on the ground, his voice vicissitudes.
"I just want to see how my son is doing outside...... If I could, I would like to tell him that this stupid boy sends so much money every month, and I can't use it up for an old man who is dying, in fact, I have saved it all for him, and I will treat it as his future wife. ”
"It's a pity that I didn't call him in the end."
The old man whispered.
There are no complaints and complaints in the tone, but it is full of uncontrollable worries and worries about being parents, as well as a trace of regret and love at the end.
I'm worried about whether my child will catch a cold, whether he will have enough to eat, whether he will be bullied......
Su Bai was a little moved.
I have to say that the child is so happy and lucky to have such a father, which makes him a little envious.
He thought of the pair of biological parents who abandoned him at the door of the orphanage in his previous life, and thought of his mother and sister who were waiting for him to take care of him in this life, and his heart twitched for no reason.
He pondered for a long time, then nodded slightly.
"Okay, I'll grant your wish."
In addition to the strict administration of justice, there are some human feelings.
What's more, he is the only one who has the final say in the current underworld.
The old man kowtowed gratefully two more times before slowly standing up.
At this moment, Su Bai vaguely felt as if he was being watched, and when he looked back, he saw an old woman's frightened face reflected on the glass at the door!
"Ghosts? Wrong...... Living! Is it the mother-in-law in the next ward? ”
Although the other party is already old and frail, he still has a bit of yang energy and is a living person.
He was a little glad that he was wearing a grimace mask, otherwise it would be troublesome if someone saw his true face.
And at the moment when the eyes of the two sides staggered, the old woman ran back in a panic.
When Su Bai walked through the door to the corridor, the door of ward 1207 next door happened to close with a "click".
"Looks like I really saw it." He fell into deep thought.
I had heard that young babies and old people could "happen" to see something unclean, but they didn't expect to be touched by themselves.