"Ling'er, do you feel that there's something strange here?"
"Indeed. The yin energy here is quite strong. But it's normal. Hospitals are places with relatively heavy yin energy. Even when strong sunlight shines in, there will still be a murky qi that can't be penetrated. So there's no need to worry too much." Bai Ling'er said casually.
I rubbed my nose with my hand. I still felt that something was off. Standing in the lobby, I wondered whether I should go in or not.
"Look at that woman. Her soul is about to separate from her physical body." Bai Ling'er pointed at a woman who had just been sent to the emergency room by an ambulance. At the moment, her whole body and face were covered in blood. It seemed that she had just been in a car accident and was in critical condition.
After a while, just as Bai Ling'er had said, a wisp of soul separated from the woman's body. She watched her physical body being sent into the emergency room, completely unaware of what had happened.
"Isn't this a common occurrence in the hospital?" Bai Ling'er said to me.
"Where will she go now? Will she go directly to the underworld?" I asked, looking at the blood - covered woman.
"Not for the time being. She has to wait for the seven - day return of the soul before she'll realize that she's dead. After that, the ghost messengers will take her away. She'll climb the Terrace of Last Look, drink the Meng Po's soup. What her next life will be depends on the judgment of the underworld."
"But..."
I looked at the blood - stained woman and always felt that something was strange. Did I know her?
While I was still pondering, Li Xue, who couldn't see anything, naturally thought that I was overthinking.
"Are you thinking too much? We'll just go to the ward and sit for a while, then come out. What problems can there be in broad daylight?"
Li Xue wrapped her arm around mine and naturally pulled me inside.
I glanced at Bai Ling'er. She looked around, narrowed her slender eyes, and said, "Lan Lan, let's go home."
Saying that, she grabbed my hand and ran towards the side door beside the hospital.
I grabbed Li Xue's hand tightly with my other hand and took her with me to run outside.
Li Xue was pulled along inexplicably and kept asking, "Lan Lan, what's going on? What happened?"
"There's no time to explain now. Just follow me and run outside."
There were a lot of people in the hospital. When we were running, we often accidentally bumped into others. We didn't have time to apologize and just ran away. There came a series of curses from behind.
I kept turning back to apologize to them. However, in the crowd, I saw a tall man take away the blood - smeared soul.
But Bai Ling'er was in such a hurry to take me away that when I turned back again, the two of them had been swallowed up by the crowd.
I didn't know what Bai Ling'er had seen. I just followed her and ran out of the hospital building.
Li Xue was quite fat and didn't exercise much on weekdays. Running like this was definitely too much for her.
She forcefully shook off my hand and refused to run anymore.
I had no choice but to stop and check on her. Li Xue was leaning on her knees with both hands, out of breath and struggling to speak.
"Don't run... I can't run anymore. Oh my god... I'm so tired. Why are we running?"
"Get in the car quickly and leave here. I'll explain everything after we're out."
Bai Ling'er turned back, looking helpless. She grabbed my hand again and stuffed me into the taxi beside us.
In this situation, there must be something wrong. I couldn't leave Li Xue alone.
"Li Xue, get in the car quickly. I'm not joking."
Li Xue gasped a few times and then got into the front passenger seat of the taxi.
"It's too late. Driver, go quickly." Bai Ling'er said to the driver.
The taxi slowly started and was heading towards the hospital gate.
"What on earth is going on?" I asked Bai Ling'er anxiously.
At the moment, her face was extremely serious. Seeing such an expression on her face, I knew that this matter must be no simple matter.
"Someone is going to die soon."
Just as her voice fell, there was a loud "bang" in front of our taxi. The front windshield was smashed to pieces by something.
The taxi driver immediately hit the brakes. The car trembled. Li Xue, sitting in the front row, let out a shrill scream.
"Ah..." The scream was so ear - piercing that it almost penetrated the eardrums. Her head tilted to one side and she fainted on the spot.
I saw a person lying on the windshield in front of Li Xue. At the moment, this person was lying upside - down in front of the broken windshield. The whole face was like a cracked watermelon. The red and white mixture spread out along the cracks of the glass. The two unclosed eyes stared at the inside of the car venomously. The blood in the mouth spurted out like a water gun, staining a large area of red. It dripped into the car along the cracks of the glass and happened to drip on Li Xue.
This scene was so shocking that not only the taxi driver but also I felt my whole body trembling. I was so scared that I didn't dare to move in the car.
It was not until the taxi driver shouted and opened the door to run out that I came to my senses.
I immediately ran out of the car. First, I took a look at the person lying on the taxi. This person was definitely not going to survive.
The most urgent thing was to pull Li Xue out. At the moment, I didn't care about anything else. I forcefully opened the car door and tried to pull Li Xue out by her shoulders.
However, the front of the taxi was dented by the falling person. Li Xue's leg was stuck inside and couldn't move. As soon as I pulled hard, she woke up in pain.
"Ah, it hurts so much. Is my leg broken?" Li Xue was covered in blood.
"No, no. It's not your blood. Don't worry. I'll save you out right away."
Looking at Li Xue's painful expression, I was extremely anxious.
"Ling'er, come and help me save her quickly." I turned around to look for Bai Ling'er. However, at the moment, besides a group of on - looking patients from the hospital, I didn't see Bai Ling'er.
At such a critical moment, how could Bai Ling'er disappear?
I stood up and looked into the crowd, but still couldn't find her.
At the same time, the fire brigade had arrived at the scene, and many emergency medical staff had also come from the hospital.
I was covered in blood. I took a few steps back and watched them rescuing the injured.
"How did she fall?" The on - looking people beside were whispering.
"I don't know. It seems that she fell from the ward. What serious illness does she have? Why is she so desperate?"
"I heard that she seemed to be possessed. She was crying and laughing in the room, and then jumped from the hospital."
"It's a pity. I heard that she's a college student, a sophomore at Longcheng University."
When I heard this, my scalp went numb. A student from our school? Who was she?
Covered in blood, I ran forward, trying to see clearly who the person who had fallen on the car was.
As the staff came one after another to clean up the scene and picked the broken body off the car window, I vaguely saw the patient number tag on the person's wrist.
My heart skipped a beat, and I turned pale with fright.