Chapter 7
Inside the dim and quiet hallway, the youth in the white T-shirt silently touched the bronze bell on his left wrist.
The fingers gently rattled.
Lian Xi looked at the person in front of him fully focused, he pinched his fingers tightly and was about to exert force to rattle that bell!
Suddenly!
“Dingdong——”
Lian Xi froze, turning his head to look at the lift door.
The incandescent light sprinkled in the lift clattered down in a cascade, illuminating the hallway.
Inside the door, the short roommate had one hand in his pocket and one hand holding a delivery box. Su Jiao saw Lian Xi and was surprised, “You opened the door to pick me up? So polite!” Saying this, he walked out of the lift.
Lian Xi’s lips opened and closed, and in his afterglow, he saw Liu Lang’s soul rubbing shoulders with this Su Jiao and entering the lift.
Su Jiao: “But then again, that … that Lian Xi ah, how did you know I was coming back?”
The lift doors closed behind Su Jiao.
In the closing gap, Liu Lang tilted his head and revealed a twisted smile towards Lian Xi.
Lian Xi’s eyes narrowed as he looked at Su Jiao, “I happen to be going out.”
“Not welcoming me ah….” muttered Su Jiao, “What are you going out for?”
Lian Xi: “Something’s up!”
Dropping this sentence quickly, Lian Xi flew to the lift entrance and pressed the lift. Seeing that the lift Liu Lang sat on had already arrived at the ground floor, after waiting for five or six seconds, Lian Xi waited for another one. He rushed into the lift and hurried to the ground floor.
Running out of the door of the flat in big strides, he looked around.
……
Found it!
Only to see a man in a suit with a hobbling gait walking slowly towards the entrance of the block with his head down.
His steps were slow, his legs stiff.
But he barged along as if he didn’t see anyone driving on the road beside him, and didn’t realize that he often stepped one foot into a flower bed. This unseen way of walking, as a matter of fact, made him run into a little girl who was listening to music and running.
The little girl was suddenly bumped that she almost fell down. She cursed, “Have a problem…” The voice suddenly stopped, she looked around, but she could not see a person, and suddenly her back was cold: “What the hell, where is the person …?”
Fearful in her heart, the little girl hurriedly ran away.
Liu Lang was hit by her, but finally got a little angry. He reached out to grab the little girl’s clothes: “You haven’t apologized to me yet.”
The little girl, however, had already run far away.
Liu Lang was stunned and hurriedly chased after her. But his limbs were stiff, and even if he ran, he was much slower than a normal person. His eyes only had the little girl who ran far away, and seeing that he was about to bump into an old grandpa who was out buying vegetables, Lian Xi immediately raised his left hand and shook the bell.
“Don’t move if you don’t want him to die!”
The wrist abruptly stopped, and Lian Xi turned his head to look at the visitor.
Only to see the short roommate standing behind him.
The two of them exchanged glances.
Su Jiao’s gaze was fixed and solemn as he looked towards Liu Lang’s fading back.
“This guy is actually still fucking alive!”
***
As the sun set in the west, under the sky’s gorgeous evening sun, two handsome young guys squatted in the shade of a roadside tree, one holding a cup of KFC Coke, their eyes dripping as they watched people across the road.
Passing pedestrians turned around to look at them twice from time to time.
Their first glance is to see that the two are quite handsome.
The second glance is to see doing nothing, squatting on the side of the road to drink coke and still look around, certainly not a good person!
Liu Lang’s spirit walked slowly on the opposite side of the road.
People can’t see him, but they can bump into him. Those who were “hit” by him could not be angry at all, but only felt tingle: anyone who was hit by the air would be numb. However, the only thing Liu Lang could do was to “bump” people.
He just kept walking around, mostly unconscious, occasionally a little bit of energy, and soon numb from being hit by someone.
“Getting to know each other again, Su Jiao, from that part of Shandong, you know.”
Lian Xi: “….”
I don’t understand!
Su Jiao squeezed his eyebrows, “Brother is so bold, you’ve taken root and lived in Su City, don’t you want to live in a different city?”
Lian Xi’s heart fluttered, pretending to be calm, he asked back, “Why would I want to live somewhere else?”
Su Jiao froze: “What kind of place is Su City, you don’t know?”
Lian Xi’s tone was calm: “Quite okay.”
Su Jiao: “….”
“Kneel for big brother!” Su Jiao drinking cola while spitting, “Alas, when I was first admitted to the graduate school of the University of Suzhou City, I was saddened to death. In my major, the ranking of the University of Suzhou City is very high, and I’m quite sure. But if I really want to come to Su City, I’m still a bit scared.”
Lian Xi pretended to be unconcerned while quietly stretching his ears.
Who would have thought that Su Jiao’s words would turn, “By the way brother, do you know this guy?”
Lian Xi: “….”
What kind of mentality do you guys have!
Every time I eat melon, I only eat half of it!
Can you finish the melon before you talk!!!!
While cursing a large amount in his heart, Lian Xi looked calm. He looked across the road at Liu Lang and shook his head, “Not count as an acquaintance.”
Su Jiao smashed his mouth, “This is not good ah. You know what’s going on with him here.”
“Probably know.”
“If I didn’t stop you just now, what do you want to do?”
Lian Xi lowered his eyes to look at the bell on his wrist and faintly said, “Shake it.”
Su Jiao followed his gaze and looked towards the bronze bell on his wrist that gave off an ancient aura.
There are a lot of capable people in this world, most of them are children following their father’s business, or a single lineage, hundreds or thousands of years quietly passed on. It was only a very small number of people like him who had a wide range of disciples in this school. He had seen this bronze bell worn on Lian Xi’s wrist back when he first moved, but he hadn’t recognized it as a magic weapon at all and hadn’t taken it seriously.
It didn’t matter if he didn’t recognise it though.
Most of the magic weapons were killing weapons.
Su Jiao: “Your friend is still saved!”
Lian Xi: “Not a friend.”
As the words fell, Lian Xi threw the finished coke cup into the rubbish bin, patted his trousers and stood up.
Su Jiao: “???”
Su Jiao: “You have a solution?”
Lian Xi: “What solution?”
Su Jiao: “Then why are you standing up?” You’re not going to stare anymore?
Lian Xi’s voice was calm, his gaze was far away: “It’s half past seven, go home and live stream.”
Su Jiao: “….”
***
Lian Xi’s live broadcast time is from eight to twelve in the evening.
He sat in front of the computer, playing the game quietly. Once twelve o’clock arrived, he said goodbye to the only three living people in the live broadcast room and went straight off the air.
He pushed open the door of his room to go to the kitchen to pour some water, and the moment when the door opened …
Lian Xi: “…”
Only to see the short roommate standing in front of the door, looking at him faintly: “A human life, really don’t care?”
Lian Xi: “…”
Breathlessly, he went into the kitchen to pour a glass of water, and when he came out, his roommate was sighing, “Alas, I finally understand how you people in Suzhou City live your lives. As long as you don’t care, you’re sure not to get caught by those two guys! It can still be played like this, I already learned it!”
Lian Xi: “…”
You say what it is then what it is, ba.
By the way, I know you won’t continue to tell me which two guys are “those two guys”, so just pretend I know.
Su Jiao saw that although he did not say anything, but also did not go, so continued: “I remember Yuan Mei’s ‘Zi Bu Shi’ recorded this kind of situation.”
Lian Xi: “Sui Yuan Suoji (Sui Yuan Poetry talks)?”
Su Jiao was surprised, “You know?!”
Lian Xi nodded.
Yuan Mei had told a personal experience of his in ‘Zi Bu Shi’ – Sui Yuan Suoji (随园琐记).
In the past, he did not believe in ghosts in the world, nor did he believe that people had three souls and seven spirits, but one day, he suddenly became seriously ill with a high fever. In a daze, he felt that there were six or seven people lying on the bed, each crying and shaking him, trying to wake him up. When his fever went down a little, there were fewer people; when the fever was over, they were all gone.
It was then that he realized that these people were his ‘three souls and seven spirits’. [three immortal souls and seven mortal forms in Daoism, contrasting the spiritual and carnal side of man]
Lian Xi: “There is a separation between yin and yang, ordinary people can not see ghosts, nor can they touch them. But Liu Lang… is also that man, his soul, ordinary people can’t see it, but can touch it.”
Su Jiao: “Right, because he’s not dead yet, he still has the breath of yang on him!” After a pause, he said, “But the longer the soul is away from the body, the harder it will be to go back. If it is away from the body for double seven—the 49-day mourning period after a person’s death, in which a memorial ceremony is held on each seventh day, until the 49th day which brings the period to an end or forty-nine hours, it will really be dead. We have to hurry. Where does this friend of yours live?”
Lian Xi: “I’m not friends with him.”
“Oh right, right, right, I forgot again. Then where does he live?”
“Don’t know.”
“Huh?”
“Because not friends.”
Su Jiao: “……”
God, not a fucking friend!
Justified, unable to refute!
Lian Xi pondered for a moment, “But in modern society, when this situation generally occurs, it is reasonable to say that he could only be in one place.”
Su Jiao: “What?”
Lian Xi glanced at him, “The hospital.”
….
Lian Xi did not know why he ran to the hospital in the middle of the night.
It was reasonable to say that he was not familiar with Liu Lang at all, and he didn’t even know what the man’s real name was.
But it was obvious that Liu Lang was injured.
There was a visible wound on his soul’s forehead, he had been injured, so one of his souls had left his body.
To search and come for him.
Why did he come to him?
How is it that at a time like this, when he is about to die, he still thinks about signing?
Lian Xi comforted himself: Forget it, the trouble has come to my door, so let’s take care of it.
Consider it as a compliment for this man’s professional dedication to, “You have to sign it even if you die!”
There are hundreds of hospitals in Suzhou.
There are seven third-rate hospitals alone.
Running to the entrance of the first hospital, Lian Xi and Su Jiao remembered something.
“Do you know people in the hospital?”
“Do you know people in the hospital?”
“….”
“….”
Su Jiao reasoned, “You’re not from Su City!”
Lian Xi glanced at him, “Aren’t you also Chinese?”
Su Jiao: “???”
Lian Xi said lightly, “Why don’t you know any doctors?”
Su Jiao: “…”
Su Jiao muttered in a low voice, “Why does this guy suddenly resent people?”
Lian Xi glanced at him and took out his mobile phone to call a DiDi, app-based transportation company (abbr. for Dīdī Chūxíng [滴滴出行]).
Su Jiao: “What for? Did you think of a solution?”
Lian Xi ignored him.
Just because he wasn’t talkative and didn’t like interacting with other people didn’t mean he wouldn’t dislike people.
Trying to find someone he didn’t know in a hospital without the help of a doctor friend was simply impossible. Not to mention, there were hundreds of hospitals in Su City.
But when he walked to the entrance of the hospital, Lian Xi remembered something.
Liu Lang had given him a business card!
Returning home, Lian Xi rummaged through his room for half a day and finally found that business card.
[Jewellery Guild Broker]
Liu Lang
QQ：13123XXX2
WeChat: ….
Email: ….
Mobile phone: ….
Lian Xi: “….???”
It’s gone?
This, really gone?
Not even a real name?
Out of all the contact information, there was only one mobile phone number that seemed to be useful. But Lian Xi already had his mobile phone number, and had already called him once this evening when he was stalking Liu Lang, but no one answered at all!
Lian Xi hadn’t thought of looking for the big anchors that Liu Lang had signed up with online, or even directly looking for people from the Jewel Guild to see if they could contact Liu Lang or his family.
But Lian Xi sent a private letter to the big anchors, and it was like a stone dropped into the sea.
Sending an email to the Jewel Guild’s people, they replied in seconds, and clicked to take a look.
[Hello, Jewel Guild will review your self-referral application within five working days.
Please pay attention to the mailbox …]
Who wants to self-nominate!!!
Seeing that all the methods had been thought of, there was no way out.
Lian Xi was silent for a long time and walked over in front of Su Jiao.
“Actually, there is another way.”
Su Jiao: “What?”
Lian Xi: “I really am not friends with that person, nor am I familiar with him.”
Su Jiao: “Ah?” Why are you saying this all of a sudden?
Lian Xi: “This method may need your help.”
Su Jiao: “…”
“Can I refuse?”
Lian Xi looked at him slyly, “A human life, really don’t care?”
Su Jiao: “….”
Don’t think that I don’t know this is what I said to you!
When Su Jiao heard Lian Xi say the solution, he stared at Lian Xi with amazement in his eyes: you can actually think of this kind of good idea?
But he then said: ”Why should I be allowed to go! I’m not convinced! At least … we play rock-paper-scissors (game), whoever loses goes!”
Half an hour later.
In front of the entrance of the Wu Men Local Police Station in Su City.
Su Jiao, depressed, lifelessly walked into the police station.
Lian Xi followed closely behind him.
At two in the morning, the outside world was quiet, but the police station was bustling with activity.
Two drunken fighters were being held down by the police on duty, apologizing to each other. A man who hit a curb with his car, waved his hand and said, “Take a test! Feel free to test! You can say I have poor skills, but you can’t say I drink then drive! Hurry up, draw blood and blow in turn. He…he…didn’t expect it, right? I didn’t drink! I’m just a vegetable!”
The policemen: “….”
I have never seen a dish so confident!
Su Jiao swallowed his saliva, hardened his heart, clenched teeth, the heart silently recited “a human life, a human life”, and then unhesitatingly rushed up.
Both of Lian Xi’s hands were inserted into pockets, followed behind him.
Su Jiao this rush, but the only one idle old police officer startled, even an old police officer in plain clothes beside him also froze for a moment. He raised
up, narrowed his eyes and swept Su Jiao up and down
.
How thick Su Jiao’s nerves were, he was oblivious.
“It’s like this, police uncle, quickly help me! I have a good chatting net friend. He, he suddenly said he wants to commit suicide! What should I do? You guys go save him!”
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CC: In terms of guessing, I haven’t been afraid of anyone yet! [Golden light possessed!