The trade of human specimens in China is in a gray area, and there are commercial specimen production companies, which also require the purchaser to be a medical institution with certain qualifications, and the specimen can only be used for scientific research purposes, but just like various underground trading markets around the world, there is always no shortage of people and things on the edge of the law in the actual operation process.

The specimens owned by Xu Haijun are entirely from formal sources.

He applied to Yaocheng Medical University to borrow specimen resources from the university, and was approved, and he had the right to use those brain specimens.

Such an application has obvious flaws and is not strictly managed. Xu Haijun took the specimen home, and there was no one to supervise it. When Xu Haijun dies, it is also worrying how these specimens will be disposed of.

If it weren't for Officer Qian's carefulness today, I'm afraid that these specimens would have been buried by piles of documents, until one day one day one of Xu Haijun's heirs remembered to dispose of Xu Haijun's relics, and they would be turned out. At that time, it was unknown whether the people who handled Xu Haijun's relics knew that the ownership of these specimens belonged to Yao Medical University. If that person is not so careful, it is extremely probable to throw the specimen into the trash

Officer Qian read the application for the specimen and closed the file.

Xu Haijun seems to have become interested in the brain in the process of studying psychology and the effects of human emotions on the body, but this interest came to an abrupt end after applying for specimens. The timing was the time when he was diagnosed with a tumor. Whether he gave up his research because of his own illness, or because he had never been interested in surgery, he stopped and continued, which can only be answered by asking Xu Haijun himself.

The answer to this question should never be found.

This incident has little to do with the case, and Officer Qian will not regret it.

He took the specimen to heart.

After all, it's not a formal thing. Xu Haijun's son didn't know about it, and he wouldn't necessarily notify Yao Medical University in the future. Officer Qian can ask someone to ask Yao Medical University, and if the specimen should be recovered, it will be recovered. Finally, someone donated organs, and if they were sealed in the dust in the home of a paralyzed old doctor, it would be wasted.

Officer Qian looked at the other documents in the notebook and found nothing.

Xu Hong also used a cooking machine at this time to make liquid food for Xu Haijun. The blender is a little noisy, but it is extremely powerful, and in just a few moments, it cooks and breaks the food into a paste.

Xu Hong always takes care of Xu Haijun first and then prepares his own meals.

He took a small bowl and syringe into the bedroom, sat in front of Xu Haijun's bed, and carefully filled him with food.

Xu Haijun ate extremely slowly, almost relying on his instinct to breathe and swallow to eat those things.

A meal, the amount is not large, but it takes Xu Haijun a long time to eat. In order to ensure Xu Haijun's daily nutrition, Xu Hong needs to feed him several times a day.

Officer Qian came out of the study and looked at Xu Haijun's situation.

Li Yun was next to Officer Qian.

It was obvious that he was eating, but Xu Haijun's mood at the moment was no different from before.

All that was left of him was a shell, more like a dead man than an angry demon. And for Li Yun, who could sense the senses and emotions of others, Xu Haijun, who obviously still had a heartbeat and breathing, was closer to death at this moment than any corpse he had ever seen.

This is permanent death.

The body is not extinguished, but the soul is gone.

Li Yun shuddered.

He had already burned some evil spirits, and he had seen many victims die tragically, but there was no situation that scared him more than the current Xu Haijun.

It seems that this is the real death. Everything he had seen before was nothing but a playhouse, and grief and despair had become weightless in the face of nothingness.

For creatures like humans, being alive is not just about having a heartbeat and being able to breathe.

The colors seen by the eyes, the music heard by the ears, the aromas smelled by the nose, the bittersweet and sour tastes of the tongue, and the body temperature of the same kind touched by the fingers...... The thoughts, the emotions, the thinking brain that comes out of all these perceptions...... Together, these are human beings.

You can miss one of them, or even lose most of them, but when all of them are gone, even if the various organs of the body are still working, it is difficult to call it human.

Even ghosts have emotions and desires that are strong enough to affect reality.

Xu Haijun has nothing.

"He's not brain-dead, is he?" Li Yun suddenly spoke.

What he said, only Officer Qian could hear.

In a friendly and cooperative manner, Officer Qian asked Xu Hong for Li Yun.

But Xu Hong didn't know anything about this, and she didn't have the same answers when she answered Officer Qian's questions before.

He really didn't know about Xu Haijun's condition, but according to the instructions of Xu Haijun's son and daughter-in-law, he took care of Xu Haijun's body regularly every day, and he never thought about Xu Haijun's current situation.

Li Yun fell silent again.

Officer Qian had already given up asking for news from Xu Haijun.

Although in terms of time, it is very likely that Xu Haijun had seen the evil ghost who was still alive at that time in the hospital, and even communicated with the evil ghost in medical research for reasons of interest, but the current Xu Haijun could not be a witness at all.

Officer Qian took advantage of Xu Hong's feeding of Xu Haijun, walked around the house, and after still not finding it, he said goodbye and left.

Li Yun naturally followed and left.

The two found a place where no one was talking.

Officer Qian did not have 100% trust in Li Yun, but his intuition after many years of being a police officer told him that Li Yun should have no selfish intentions in this matter in the Central Hospital. As for those things in Jinrong Building, Li Yun kept his mouth shut, and there seemed to be something unspeakable.

Li Yun's unspeakable concealment is easy heart.

From a legal point of view, what Yi Xin did can probably be called legitimate defense.

She has been "justified defense" for hundreds of years, and the black impermanent predecessor knows everything about the new media, but she has never regarded Yi Xin as a criminal, which shows the "legitimacy" of her killing multiple ex-boyfriends.

Rationally, emotionally, Li Yun can't tell whether Yi Xin's search for a scumbag every time is intentional or unintentional. Her room full of collections is astounding. Once or twice can be said to be a coincidence, it can be said that it is easy to be unlucky and blind, and I am looking for a scumbag, but three or four times...... With more than 100 years of adding to the collection, it's hard not to be suspicious.

Li Yun had no choice but to take care of Yi Xin himself.

He didn't know how far he could go, and he wasn't that concerned about it.

Yi Xin is "legitimate defense", and those evil ghosts are proper intentional killing. The medical records found by Lin Youde and Officer Qian alone are shocking and incriminating evidence, and the people it killed in 20 years have already caught up with Yi Xin's collection for 100 years.

Officer Qian did not ask about Li Yun's concealment.

He knew that he could not do anything about an existence like Li Yun for the time being. Even if he knew that the real culprits of the arson were employees of New Life Media, it would be difficult for him to bring them to justice. In terms of the choice of priorities, he made the same judgment as Li Yun, and decided to use Li Yun to solve the murderous serial murderer in the Central Hospital first. As for the abnormal company of New Life Media, it may be possible to find a way to find black and white impermanence and let this regular manager of the underworld deal with it.

Officer Qian is not aware of the rules of black and white impermanence and their attitude towards the new media, nor is he confident in black and white impermanence. It was just one of his ideas.

After the door of the new world was completely opened to him, he accepted the new world very quickly, but he was not able to figure out the way so quickly to survive in the new world.

Li Yun and Officer Qian talked a few words about the evil ghost, but they both regretted that the clues were interrupted, and they both pinned their only hope on Lin Youde's portrait.

Officer Qian and Lin Youde will be responsible for the matter. Li Yun, the ghost, became the only patrol officer, hoping to meet the evil ghost in the central hospital.

Before that, Li Yun still had some things he wanted to do.

He didn't tell Officer Qian about his intentions.

After Officer Qian left, he returned to Xu Haijun's residence.

Xu Hong had already finished feeding Xu Haijun and was eating lunch by herself.

Li Yun entered the study, selected the paper Xu Haijun had read recently, and connected his consciousness to Xu Haijun's empty spiritual world.

He felt unwell.

Resisting the urge to withdraw from his emotions, he silently read the contents of the paper in his mind.

The voice of the outside world may not be transmitted to Xu Haijun's brain, but Li Yun can read the content of the paper directly in Xu Haijun's heart, and such a voice should be perceived by Xu Haijun.

Unless, Xu Haijun's empty soul has no possibility of recovery.

Li Yun looked forward to Xu Haijun waking up.

Not only to investigate the evil spirit, but also to dispel an unspeakable fear in his heart.

He didn't know where that fear came from.

There is not a strong sense of fear, just like Xu Haijun's nothingness at this moment, and that feeling of nothingness is the source of fear.

Li Yun suddenly remembered the capital city he had seen.

He hadn't been to Xudu, but through the consciousness of Zhang He, a cultivator with ability, he had a glimpse of the appearance of Xudu City.

Towering walls and exaggerated gates, and the zombies that surround the city walls...... Person......

Those walking corpses are all fresher than Xu Haijun. They are not human, but they have human obsessions, desires, and emotions.

That form is not the final destination of the living or the dead.

It's not burned to the ground.

Becoming a ghost or reincarnating as an adult, the same is not true.

This unprovoked death is the end of everything.

Li Yun gathered his mind, calmed himself down, and continued to read the paper.

He struggled to hold on to the paper, turned a page, and continued to read aloud.

Obviously he didn't make a sound, but he gradually felt that his mouth was dry.

However, Xu Haijun's heart still did not react.

The voice of the outside world could not be transmitted into Xu Haijun's brain, and the voice in his heart could not touch Xu Haijun.

He's really gone.

There is no soul......

No, the soul is still there.

The piece of nothingness that Li Yun touched was the soul of Xu Haijun. However, the most important consciousness in the soul is gone, as if it has been erased by some invincible force.

Li Yun's heart trembled.

He stopped reading.

He remembered the impermanence of black and white and what Yin Shikang had talked about.

After death, the soul has several places to go, one is to enter the capital, and the other is to stay in the yang world; The soul that stays in the yang world can choose to be reincarnated actively, or it can choose to wander in the yang world; It is very likely that the soul wandering in the yang world will slowly have a mental breakdown and become a demon due to the lack of social interaction; There are also people who suffer greatly when they die, who have deep attachments, and who immediately become evil spirits and lose their reason and consciousness. And also......

There are also those who have never been to the capital and have never stayed in the yang world, and nothing has been born in the cold body......

Where did those souls go?

Judging from the traditional bizarre tales, myths and legends, all living beings have souls, and after death, the spirit and flesh will be separated, and the flesh will return to dust and earth, feeding back to nature, and the soul will go to heaven and earth, according to different legend systems, each has its own place.

The reality is otherwise.

Where do the new souls born of new life come from?

This seems closer to the description of life and death in "science".

Birth is the birth of the flesh, starting from the fertilized egg, according to the law of biological growth, the development of the flesh, and the brain is the organ to produce and preserve independent thinking;

Death is the death of the body, the loss of the heartbeat and breathing, the organs and tissues of the body no longer work, among them, the brain stops working, and the mind and consciousness are lost.

That's all.

There aren't so many mystical things.

Death is death.

If so, what is his current existence?

When Li Yun thought of this, he only felt a chill rushing up from the soles of his feet, rising into his brain, making his mind freeze.

It took him a long time to get back to normal.

He had a vague intuition, not so real, but he was very sure that this state of Xu Haijun was the worst kind of foreshadowing for him.

Li Yun left Xu Haijun's house in a bit of a panic.

He wandered around the streets for a long time, and before he knew it, he had come to the central hospital.

He pulled himself together and suppressed his previous thoughts.

What he had to do now was to find the demon and not let him harm anyone more.

He was desperate to catch the demon. This mood was strange to him, like an inexplicable instinct.

Li Yun paused.

Is this urgency really because he feels his own death, the impermanence of black and white and their indifference, and the tragic experience of his parents?

It seems like that, and it seems like it's not just that.

Li Yun suppressed these thoughts with some irritability, and buried them deep in his heart along with Xu Haijun's affairs, not wanting them to surface again.

No matter how eager his mood is, he can't find the evil spirit, he can't find it.

The evil ghost seemed to have learned to be obedient and hidden, no longer attacking Fang Xiaotian frequently and persistently, nor attacking others.

Fang Xiaotian's body recovered quickly, and his spirit was much better.

According to Officer Qian's analysis of the victims' cases, the ghost's crime is very irregular. He took the case and asked the attending doctors of those patients who died suddenly, but the common denominator of those patients was that they recovered well before death, and they basically died suddenly when they were about to be discharged. Other than that, there are no other clues. If you want to find the next victim according to this condition, the hospital is full of recovered patients who are about to be discharged, all of them potential victims. Moreover, Fang Xiaotian did not meet this condition when he was attacked. Before Lu Yu was killed, he had just been admitted to the hospital, and he was still early to recover and be discharged.

It is difficult to delineate the law of the evil ghost's crime, even if it is the selection of his motives and research goals, it is impossible to find a clue for the time being.

In less than a week, Officer Qian was able to continue the investigation calmly and calmly, and Lin Youde was already a little depressed because of the long vacation. Fortunately, Lin Youde's professionalism is still there, and he is not so resistant to the boring work of touching and visiting.

Li Yun is becoming more and more irritable.

Song Yingying couldn't stay even more.

But Uncle Li, sometimes he lives in a hotel near the hospital with his ID card, or goes to the central hospital for two walks, and sometimes puts down his ID card and follows Li Yun to patrol the central hospital, and he is at ease with the current situation. After adapting to this new environment and new rules of life, he still has the time to look at the new comments and private messages received by the account "Strange Stories".

"Huh...... Xiao Li, take a look at this submission. Isn't this similar to the one we're looking into now? Uncle Li showed the phone to Li Yun.

Li Yun glanced at his phone, "Uncle Li, don't you be in a hurry about this work, right?" ”

He wasn't that interested in the work of New Media.

The boss, Xue Xiaolian, and Yi Xin all have this dispensable attitude, the former is not seen all day long, and the latter two are above board, Li Yun has been greatly affected by these three monsters, and regards the serious work on the surface as a pastime after tea and dinner.

Uncle Li is an old-fashioned person, and he is an old man who is used to seeing and experiencing life and death, so he is not so anxious about eliminating evil ghosts and saving people's lives. In terms of primary and secondary work, the elimination of evil spirits is secondary. Of course, if someone is in imminent danger, he still saves them first.

"Not that. This contribution, you look at the content. Uncle Li said what he just said again, "If it's other submissions, I'll sort it out myself, so I won't trouble you first, and I'm not in a hurry to post it on Weibo." ”

Only then did Li Yun cheer up and read the submission carefully.

The content of the contributions from the strange account "The sky is bright, the stars are not dark" is a traditional weird story: hospitals, psychiatry, brain experiments, ghosts, specimens...... Even the final ending is very "weird". He has a sense of adding to his introduction, as if he is trying to strengthen the authenticity of the strange story through this self-proof, which makes people doubt that he is really an old patient who has been hospitalized for a long time, as he describes himself.

If it was in the past, such a submission, Li Yun took a screenshot and sent it out, and when he completed a job, he got the KPI that no one in the company cared about. Now, the more he looked, the widening his eyes became.

"Xu Haijun has brain specimens at home...... It can't be that coincidental, right? Wait a while, there are no such ghost stories in the central hospital. Li Yun frowned.

Officer Qian and Lin Youde's visit and investigation were meticulous, especially after referring to the opinions of Song Yingying, an "old ghost", while holding the portrait and asking the doctors and nurses, they would also ask more about the legend of the hospital.

The two of them have been recognized by almost everyone in the central hospital as crazy. I don't know if Captain Huang heard the news over there, and how long he can endure the two of them on vacation.

There is no doubt that the central hospital is a "calm" place for any population, no matter how much one asks. Even with the sudden death of so many "healthy" patients, there are still no ghost stories circulating in the hospital. In contrast, the Three Courtyards can be described as a place of real danger for a group of demons to dance wildly.

"Isn't this talking about the central hospital? This demon wandered from other hospitals to the central hospital? Li Yun immediately had a guess.

"It's also a possibility. If you follow the brain specimen, it may be the specimen of Xu Haijun......"

"But there was nothing on that specimen, and I didn't feel anything bad." Li Yun shook his head, puzzled.