Dr. Lu filled out two visiting passes for the ICU and handed them to Si Jiangchen.
I originally thought Si Jiangchen wouldn't do such a boring thing.
But he just smiled, took the passes, and went to the automatic payment machine to pay the fee...
"Since you have a boyfriend, don't always think about running around. Spend more time with your grandpa."
While Dr. Lu asked the nurse to take us to put on sterile gowns, he still nagged beside me.
After two rounds of disinfection, Si Jiangchen and I entered the ICU ward.
My grandpa, Du Wenzhong, could be considered an old patient here. Since his condition was stable, he was arranged in a bed against the wall.
I walked behind Si Jiangchen, and in my palm with the sterile glove, I held the small yellow porcelain bottle containing the soul.
The nurse in charge led us to the bedside and then left to take care of other patients.
On the white hospital bed, Du Wenzhong's face was sallow. The old man, relying on a ventilator and a nasogastric tube to maintain his life, really seemed to be at the end of his rope.
"Grandpa, I'm here to see you... But don't be angry when you wake up."
I mumbled to myself, but my fingers didn't hesitate to pick off the yellow talisman on the bottle mouth.
A cold aura immediately rushed out of the bottle and condensed into a faint human figure above the hospital bed.
"You little rascal!! Just you wait!!"
My grandpa's gnashing - teeth face suddenly rushed in front of me. "How dare you trap your grandpa in a bottle like a monster! I'll deal with you when I wake up! And him!"
"Enter the soul, return to the body, command!"
How could I wait for him to scold me more? I had already joined my fingers in a sword - like gesture, grabbed his soul, and slapped it into the unconscious body on the hospital bed.
"Plop!"
The moment the soul entered the body, Du Wenzhong's eyes suddenly opened wide, and then his body trembled violently as if trying to push out the soul that had just entered.
"The mysteries of heaven and earth, the root of all qi. The body has a golden light, covering and reflecting your body..."
I knew early on that the soul - refining would strongly reject its own body. I had already pinched the soul - stabilizing spell, grabbed the medical cotton swab beside the bed for nursing, and "snapped" it into two pieces. I stabbed the broken end into my grandpa's forehead and drew a cut about half an inch long. Then I dipped the flowing blood and drew a spell.
"Hey, what are you doing?"
The nurse patrolling in the ward immediately noticed my strange behavior and rushed over shouting.
Seeing the bloodstain on my grandpa's head, she grabbed my wrist. "How could you hurt the patient! He's your relative!!"
Dr. Lu was just handing over his shift with a colleague. Hearing the commotion, he also rushed over. Seeing the strange blood - drawn spell on Du Wenzhong's forehead, he angrily stared at me and asked, "Du Xinghe, is this why you came to see your grandpa?"
"Dr. Lu, please listen to me. I'm trying to save my grandpa!!"
I didn't want Dr. Lu to misunderstand me. He was a good man, but he would scold me severely for not visiting Du Wenzhong. If he thought my soul - stabilizing act was me trying to kill Du Wenzhong!
He would definitely hand me over to the police!
"Is this how you save someone? You're not a doctor!"
Dr. Lu frowned. "If you wanted to save him, why didn't you do it earlier? Why did he have to stay in the ICU for so long? Du Xinghe, you really disappoint me!"
Saying that, he told the nurse beside him to call the security office from the nurse's station.
"Dr. Lu! Really, my grandpa can wake up now!"
I anxiously stretched out my hand to block in front of the nurse and Dr. Lu, almost crying.
Logically, since the three souls had returned to the body, my grandpa should have woken up immediately. But there was no movement on the hospital bed for a long time. My grandpa still remained motionless and unresponsive.
"Please wait a moment."
Si Jiangchen, who had been standing beside me without saying a word, suddenly said, "Dr. Lu, the patient has indeed woken up."
"Ah?!"
Si Jiangchen had the majesty of a superior. Although he looked younger than Dr. Lu, his words made Dr. Lu have to think about it.
I didn't understand. Si Jiangchen clearly couldn't see the soul. How did he know my grandpa had woken up?
I saw Si Jiangchen walk to the bedside, stretch out his finger, and gently swipe it across my grandpa's throat.
With a "heh", my grandpa actually grinned and laughed, and at the same time, he shrank his neck.
"Du Wenzhong!! You're already awake. Why don't you open your eyes?!"
I immediately understood what Du Wenzhong was up to!
This old fraudster must be angry that I didn't listen to him and trapped him in the soul bottle, so he was throwing a tantrum with me...
"Wu!!"
I finally couldn't help but cry softly. I was both happy and angry.
Dr. Lu and the nurse were also extremely surprised. They quickly went to my grandpa's bedside and conducted a series of examinations.
"He's awake. He's really awake!"
Dr. Lu was the head of the ICU ward. Naturally, he knew my grandpa's physical condition. When they did the routine check - up in the morning, my grandpa was still unconscious with no conditional reflex.
Now, just after one night, my grandpa had miraculously woken up.
Even though he closed his eyes again immediately after laughing, the instruments monitoring his physical data couldn't be deceived!
"Du Xinghe, tell me how drawing such a symbol can wake up a long - term comatose patient?"
Dr. Lu looked at the blood - drawn spell on my grandpa's forehead eagerly, then at me, with a look of mystery on his face.
"Uh... it's a kind of witchcraft of us charlatans... uh, no! It's psychological suggestion..."
I really didn't know how to explain the relationship between the soul and the body to a doctor who believed in science.
"Since he's awake, let's go."
Seeing me at a loss for an explanation, Si Jiangchen came over, grabbed my arm, and saved me from the awkward situation.
"No! Where are you going?!"
Suddenly, Du Wenzhong, who had been pretending to be dead on the bed, did a backflip and jumped up, grabbing my clothes. "You unfilial girl. Your grandpa is about to die, and you still dare to run around?"
"I didn't run anywhere! Who told you to pretend to be dead to scare me!!"
Seeing Du Wenzhong, who was full of energy, scolding me from the moral high - ground, my little bit of uneasiness immediately disappeared. "You clearly just didn't want to see me and made Dr. Lu scold me!!"
"You can't quarrel here!"
Dr. Lu and the nurse had never seen a patient who had been connected to a full set of life - support systems one second and then jumped up from the bed the next.
The two quickly blocked between my grandpa and me and finally managed to stop the fight between the grandfather and the granddaughter.
Du Wenzhong covered his head and fell back onto the hospital bed again, groaning "ouch" and "ouch". "I'm dizzy. My heart is pounding. I'm going to be so angry with my granddaughter that I'll die! I should have just followed the soul - capturing ghost to the underworld instead of waking up..."
As he spoke, he even sang like those rural old ladies.
His voice was cadenced, like performing a grand opera.
This embarrassed me so much that I almost wanted to find a hole to hide in! This was a special care ward that needed quiet. I wasn't someone without public morality... Such a ruckus would affect other patients' conditions!!