Under everyone's cover, Du Peilin finally managed to escape the head nurse's pursuit.
"Xiao He, come out with me for a while?"
Du Peilin watched as the needle was reinserted into my grandpa's arm and motioned to me. "I guess you have a lot of questions you can't answer, right?"
"Don't go!"
My grandpa sat up abruptly from the bed.
"Grandpa, you just focus on getting your injection. We'll just have a chat in the corridor."
Since Du Peilin had taken the initiative to find me, I couldn't show any timidity and let him look down on me!
I followed Du Peilin out of the ward. He took long strides and headed straight downstairs.
"Hey, do we have to go that far?" I stopped in my tracks.
I wasn't timid, but I wasn't going to put myself in a dangerous situation either. There were a lot of people in the corridor, and there were also familiar nurses and doctors. If we stepped out of the main entrance of the inpatient department, and if Du Peilin wanted to do something, as a single girl, I wouldn't be able to protect myself!
"There are too many people, Xiao He."
Du Peilin turned around, with an expression of pain on his face. "You helped Zifeng, so I definitely won't do anything to you now."
"Then, when do you plan to do something to me?"
My heart skipped a beat, and I immediately took two steps back.
"Don't you know that you're not human?"
As Du Peilin spoke, he looked around.
"You're the one who's not human!"
I knew what he meant, but I deliberately pretended to be stupid. I wasn't going to tell him about the phone call from Zhao Zifeng.
"Ugh! You're a zombie. You'll kill people!"
Du Peilin stared at me. "Do you know why the Du family has been trying to catch you? Because you're like a time - bomb. Once you regain your true nature, you'll kill countless lives."
"Which eye of yours saw me as a zombie?!"
I stared back at Du Peilin defiantly. "Do zombies jump around like me? I have blood pressure and a heartbeat. I feel pain when I'm injured..."
"It's an illusion!"
Du Peilin interrupted me calmly. "Everything about you now is just an illusion created by Du Wenzhong to cover up for you."
"Nonsense!"
I still stubbornly refused to admit it. "I've lived for twenty years. Are you saying it's all fake?!"
"Twenty years?"
Du Peilin sized me up. "Did Du Wenzhong report your age? It seems quite appropriate..."
Saying that, he took out his phone from his pocket, tapped on it a few times, and then waved it at me. "Come on, take a look. Does it look familiar?"
"... I'm not going to look!"
My intuition was always accurate. There must be something on Du Peilin's phone that would shatter my perception. All I wanted to do now was be an ostrich and maintain my current life.
"Why are you so lacking in curiosity?"
Du Peilin was speechless. He took two steps towards me, trying to get closer.
Just then, my phone rang. "Don't come any closer!!"
I had already retreated to the area next to the nurse's station. Du Peilin noticed that the nurse sisters at the service desk were staring at him with unfriendly looks, so he had no choice but to spread his hands and stop moving forward.
"Hello?"
It wasn't the usual WeChat call, but an unfamiliar phone number.
"Miss Du, this is Ji Chen."
It was Ji Chen's gentle and energetic voice on the other end. "Regarding Yang Fan's matter, I've already asked the boss. He said you can handle it as you like, so I've found a lawyer. Yang Fan is currently in a vegetative state, and there shouldn't be much of a problem with bail."
"Ah! Thank you..."
I didn't expect Ji Chen to be so reliable. I hadn't even had the chance to mention this to Si Jiangchen, but he had already taken care of it.
"You're welcome, Miss Du. I've already said that this kind of small thing is just a piece of cake for our boss."
Ji Chen thought for a moment and then said, "Since you're in a hurry, I'll arrange for the lawyer to notify the family members. Then you can just go with the family members to visit Yang Fan."
"That... that's great! How long will it take?!"
Judging from the current situation, the One - Eyed Buddha Mother might not necessarily come back to the uncle in Bed 1 who had been marked...
After all, she didn't get any benefits last night. Instead, her clone was injured by my talisman.
I was really afraid that she would find another dead soul to possess, just like the little nurse who had haunted Dr. Lu, and come out to do evil!
I glanced at Du Peilin standing not far away. Just after I had distributed a dozen or so talismans in my grandpa's ward, he already looked as if his heart had been gouged out. If I asked him to distribute talismans to everyone in the entire building, I'm afraid he would immediately rush out of the door and run away!
Ji Chen was silent for a moment on the other end of the phone, as if communicating with someone else, and then quickly replied to me, "The family members can apply for a visit as early as this afternoon!"
"Then... please hurry up!"
I didn't want the people in the hospital to be under the threat of a terrifying death.
"Okay, just wait for my call!"
Ji Chen responded and then hung up the phone.
"Are you really not going to look?!"
Seeing that I had hung up the phone, Du Peilin came closer again and asked, "I'm trying to help you regain your memory!"
"You don't need to help me regain my memory. Just do something for me!"
I stopped him from bringing his phone closer to me. "Consider it as the reward for me helping Zifeng!"
"Ah!! You still want a reward?!! Do you know how much those dozen or so talismans cost?!"
Du Peilin almost gritted his teeth in anger when he heard my words. "They were drawn by my senior brother. Each one costs several thousand! That should be enough to repay the favor!!"
"You're lying! It just takes a little effort. It doesn't cost any money!"
I didn't expect Du Peilin to exaggerate like this. Those drawn talismans weren't worth much. Their prices were just set casually.
"No cost?!! These are the works of my senior brother Lu. He's a master of refining magical tools. His magical tools are extremely hard to come by!"
Seeing that I looked down on his talismans so much, Du Peilin immediately protested. "I bought these talismans at 7,000 yuan each. Humph!! Look at this..."
Saying that, he pinched a small gray clay bottle out of his pants pocket with two fingers. "It's a powerful tool for capturing souls! Each one costs 30,000 yuan!"
"You're lying!"
I became even more convinced that there was no truth in his words. I also took out my soul - bottle from my pocket. "It was made by Master Lu Tianchang himself. The wholesale price is 5,000 yuan for ten! It looks much better than yours..."
"Impossible!!" Du Peilin's eyes widened. He wished he could stare a flower out of the bottle in my hand. "How could my senior brother be so kind?!! 5,000 yuan for ten?! Did he give them to you for free?!"
I looked at his incredulous expression and found it both unexpected and funny.
It seemed that Master Lu never showed any mercy when it came to tricking his junior brother!!
With this mutual acquaintance, I seemed to feel that Du Peilin wasn't as terrifying as I first thought...
"Hey, Xiao He, why do you have a living soul of a man on you?!"
Du Peilin had called his senior brother Lu Tianchang several times, but each time his call was mercilessly hung up. Only then did he give up. He put away his phone, turned around, and looked at me. "The first time I saw you, I thought you were very evil. You were raising little ghosts and living souls!"
"Where do I have a living soul of a man on me?"
I was stunned. What was parasitizing on me was clearly just a male ghost who had drunk pesticide!