When I was very young, there was a small abandoned western-style building in the back street of White Elephant Street, which I heard was built by the French. There is a small forest behind the small western-style building. Back then, Di Baotian and I sometimes liked to go there to play after school from private school, and occasionally we would forget the time, so we would go home very late.

My mother, in order to keep me from being so playful, made up a story to scare me, saying that the Frenchman who repaired the building hanged the rest of the family before leaving, and then threw them into the woods, so that now in the grove, after dark, some hanged ghosts with long tongues came out to roam and catch the children who couldn't come home.

I have to say that this story of my mother really scared me for many years. So much so that when I was a teenager, I was still terrified of the long-tongued hanged ghost in that grove. And before, when I heard Matsuko talk about the female ghost with the long tongue, I hadn't even immediately connected with the hanged ghost in my childhood memory, but now I suddenly saw it in the light of the flashlight, and I was so frightened that I didn't even have time to scream, so I staggered back a few steps.

This retreat hit Qin Bukong's leg. He woke up suddenly, and then saw my posture, and in the direction of my flashlight beam, he also saw the long-tongued female ghost standing inside.

Qin Bukong jumped up suddenly, and immediately put a Gu bell on his fingers, Ding Ling shook it vigorously, and his mouth was still reciting words in the local dialect. I admired him for being able to react in such a short period of time, and when the Gu bell rang, a sound of wind passed by my ears and went straight in the direction of the female ghost.

I couldn't see the Gu thing, but I saw that the female ghost was motionless, looking at us in the same position, but the dishes and chopsticks and quilts on the bedside table next to her were all shaken to the ground as if they were suffering from an earthquake. I knew that Qin Bukong was using his Gu to confront this female ghost head-on at the moment, and I should also help, but my things were all on the stool I was sitting on just now, so I rushed to the side of the stool at once, ready to pick up my bag to resist, and saw that the switch of the light in the ward was next to me, so I turned on the light at once.

Most of the hospitals are long fluorescent lamps with ballasts, and when the electricity is on, the lights will flicker a few times. I was pretty sure I could still see the ghost even when it flickered, but when the lights were fully on, the ghost vanished, leaving only the lids of the cups that had fallen from the bedside table to the floor, and because the momentum had not disappeared, it was still spinning back and forth, rubbing against the ground, making that creaking sound.

And with the light, I could see the old sick man in the back bed, who was sleeping quietly as if nothing was happening, but his right hand was stretched out of the bed from the quilt, hanging flat, palm facing up. On the inside of his thin wrist, there was a blood stain about the size of a pigeon's egg, and even on the bed sheet, there were some blood stains, I walked over vigilantly, the female ghost had disappeared without a trace, I looked closely at the blood stain on the inside of the patient's wrist, and found that it was not actually his wound, but it was indeed his own blood. After I wiped the blood away, there was an area the size of a coin on the inside of my wrist, and it was like beads of sweat, and some beads of blood the size of rice grains slowly appeared.

Generally speaking, bleeding is wounded. But this one didn't, but under the light under the skin, it could be seen that there were traces of bruises. It felt like a dark red rash on the skin after gua sha.

At this time, a nurse on night duty tapped the door twice at the door, and then said to us, patients and families, it is already very late, please don't make a sound, this is a hospital, other patients are still resting! The tone sounded a little impatient, probably because when the thing fell to the ground just now, the movement was quite loud.

Qin Bukong made a "shhhh So I silently picked up the things that had been knocked over on the ground, and then put them back on the bedside table of the old patient, and then returned to Qin Bukong's side, but still facing the side of the inner bed.

That night, I didn't dare to turn off the lights anymore, and I didn't feel sleepy anyway. This female ghost actually crossed us directly to the inside without knowing it, and as for why it chose our ward, and chose an unrelated patient in the adjacent bed, in Qin Bukong's opinion, it seems to be a kind of contempt and provocation for us. This made me and Qin Bukong unable to accept it, thinking that it was insulted, and what made me even more unacceptable was that although I knew that it was a ghost, the appearance of that beautiful female nurse had been haunting my heart, until I saw such a beautiful person turn into a skeleton with light and eyeballs, which made me even more unacceptable.

That night, there was no sleep. Since Songzi was woken up, because he was more scared than me and Qin Bukong, he had been shrunk in the quilt and trembled slightly, in order to avoid scaring him, Qin Bukong and I didn't say anything, just silently guarded, but it was the old sick man in the bed, and he slept until dawn.

After dawn, Qin Bukong asked me to go through the discharge procedures, and I asked him, now that this ghost has come to the hospital, if we just leave, will there be any more trouble in the hospital? Qin Bukong raised his eyebrows and said, who can manage so much, we can't help if we stay here. I said that people can't be so selfish, if that's the case, this female ghost was brought to the hospital because of us, what if we hurt others, what about those unarmed patients who don't know how to deal with it? I'm already sick, so if I'm scared like this, I can't be scared to death?

Qin Bukong asked me impatiently, then what do you want to do? Hero, stay here and catch this ghost? I said that I have seen the real body of this ghost, if I am not mistaken, I should have seen the woman in the cave at the beginning, but because the "ghost" itself will change into the appearance that others like, so the one we encounter now should be just an illusion, since it is an illusion, the ability is definitely not as strong as the real body, and it may not even really exist here, which is why the ghost appeared last night, but your Gu bell has not sounded, and when you release the Gu object to attack, the other party is also motionless.

Qin Bukong didn't speak, I then added, think about it yourself, you Qin Bukong is also a master, over the years, you may have encountered a ghost who didn't react to your tricks at all? Even if it's a rookie like me, if you put a few tricks casually, even if you can't hurt the other party, you will never be able to shake it in the slightest.

Qin Bukong's silence was obviously because he had also thought about this issue. So he said, "All right, let's stay one more night tonight, and if we can't extinguish this illusion tonight, we'll leave tomorrow." Seeing that he gave in, I couldn't continue to be unforgiving, so I agreed to him.

So on this day, because the pine nuts had stopped taking medicine, the nurses were just doing routine rounds. And I didn't see that beautiful female ghost all day, although I knew it was a little strange, but I really missed her in my heart, as if her soul had been snatched away, and when I thought about it, my heart beat faster. So much so that during the day, when Qin Bukong and I took turns sleeping to prepare for a vicious fight that might occur at night, I even dreamed of the female nurse in my dreams.

In the dream, she smiled, I could see my whole body in the dream, I was being pulled by this beauty, as if in a small bamboo forest, there were only two of us around. And her smile is the kind that people can't refuse, when I was about to see her more clearly, she turned her head away, leaving me with a ghost, and also gave me a kind of regret that I couldn't stop, this feeling almost ran through my entire dream, but the strangest thing was that I knew that I was dreaming from beginning to end.

So much so that when Qin Bukong woke me up, I lost my temper at him for a long time.

Qin Bukong and I were both awake that night, he still hung a Gu bell at the head of the pine nut bed, and we secretly opened the curtain in the middle and turned on the light to make sure that we would not be caught off guard.

Waited until two o'clock, almost the same time as the first night of the ghost encounter, there was still no abnormality in the ward, and Qin Bukong said let me guard first, and he went to pee. There is a toilet on each side of the corridor on each floor, and at this time, most people are already asleep, and the men's toilet is also looser than the women's toilet, so there is no possibility of not finding a place. But Qin Bukong's trip took a little longer.

I wondered in my heart, could it be that I was peeing and sprinkling, and suddenly wanted to make a big one? When I thought of this, I was a little relieved, and when I was putting my legs on the bed and looking for a more comfortable posture, the seven-inch Gu bell at the head of the bed actually jingled and jingled.