Chapter 141 Qingqiu (I)
The weather was getting colder, but Lu Ren was still not allowed to leave the hospital. Although he had not experienced out-of-body experiences in the middle of the night, Lu Ren found that he was always experiencing mental blankness when he was idle. Sometimes, after lunch, he would sit in front of the window to bask in the sun for five minutes, but when he came to his senses again, he found that it was already time for dinner .
This kind of blank time is growing day by day, and Lu Ren is a little scared. If it continues like this, his trance time will slowly become a day, a month, a year, or even ten years.
In this regard, Dean Bai Ze came to see him once.
At that time, Dean Bai Ze placed his hoof on his forehead and closed his eyes to think for a while.
Bai Ze was silent for a while, then he said slowly: "The wound on the soul is inflamed."
When Lu Ren heard this, his scalp went numb: "Will the wound on the soul also get inflamed?"
"Of course, after all, you were injured in the underworld, which is where evil spirits, turbid air, and yin energy gather. It is indeed possible that the three energies entered your body." Bai Ze sighed, "Alas, I didn't expect that human souls are so fragile that they can't even resist these turbid energies."
Bai Ze has a new understanding of the extent of human weakness.
Lu Ren had no idea about soul inflammation or foul air.
Lu Ren asked blankly: "Is it serious?"
Bai Ze raised his head and looked at him with his rectangular goat eyes. Then a smile appeared on the goat's face. Bai Ze spoke in a kind tone and said in a warm manner: "There is good news and bad news."
After hearing this, Lu Ren swallowed his saliva and asked, "What's the bad news?"
Bai Ze restrained his expression and said seriously, "It's very serious." This is inevitable. Even if it is a physical wound, if it becomes inflamed and is not treated in time, it will be fatal. Moreover, the inflamed part of Lu Ren's soul is more important than the body. If it is not treated properly, he will not be able to rest in peace even after death, and he may never be reborn.
Lu Ren couldn't help but cover his eyes with his hands and asked hesitantly, "What's the good news?"
"Our hospital is currently calling for body donations. If you are willing to donate your body, you can feed several hungry little monsters at once."
There is no good news at all.
The story of hungry little monsters is true. Recently, the 18th Hospital has cooperated with a monster welfare home. The welfare home is full of lonely monster cubs. Christmas is coming soon, and the monster cubs have made wishes to taste the legendary human flesh.
One by one, the little kids lined up and knelt in the yard, clasping their hands devoutly in front of their chests: "Please, Santa Claus, we are not greedy, just a small taste will be enough."
Although no one knew why a group of local monsters wanted to make wishes to a foreign old man, their simple wishes still touched many adult monsters: "How pitiful! They never had anything good to eat since they were young. They even had to pray for something as disgusting as human flesh. When I was a child, the human world was in the most chaotic time of war, with corpses everywhere. I didn't want to eat it after eating it a few times."
If the little monsters in the welfare home knew that Lu Ren was expected to donate his body, they would probably jump for joy. There is no better news in the world than this.
But for Lu Ren, the shocking news was nothing more than this.
Lu Ren covered his face and remained silent for a long time. Bai Ze just stood quietly beside Lu Ren, lowered his head, raised his head and looked at him, also without saying a word.
After a long while, Lu Ren's slightly choked voice came out from between his fingers: "Dean."
Bai Ze responded softly: "Yeah."
Lu Ren: "I think I can still save him."
Bai Ze hummed, then said, "Lu Ren, you are asking too much."
It’s okay, it’s just a stretch, not a fantasy.
One day later, when Lu Ren turned around from his blank spiritual world, he saw Tushan Qiluo standing in front of him. After the repeated bombardment of the combat group in the past two days, Lu Ren was now a little traumatized by the visit, and he subconsciously looked at Tushan Qiluo's hands hanging on both sides of her body.
Tushan Qiluo did not bring any souvenirs.
Lu Ren looked at Tushan Qiluo in confusion and asked, "Team Leader Tushan, why are you here?"
In fact, the relationship between Tushan Qiluo and Lu Ren was not bad, but as a typical tsundere, Tushan Qiluo always liked to be unilaterally hostile to Lu Ren and create some minor troubles for Lu Ren that did not cause any harm.
Tushan Qiluo glanced at Lu Ren with a noble and cold look, and then slowly said: "Don't get me wrong, I'm not here to see you. Dean Bai Ze asked me to come here, saying that your situation is a bit tricky and needs my help."
Lu Ren was stunned for a moment, then he reacted and confessed honestly: "Oh yes, the wound on my soul is inflamed."
After hearing this, Tushan Qiluo's face suddenly turned bad: "The wound is inflamed?!"
Lu Ren nodded.
"You..." Tushan Qiluo was about to continue speaking when she heard Dean Bai Ze's voice coming from the door: "Ah, Master Tushan, you are finally here. If you had come a few days later, Lu Ren would have become a fool."
Lu Ren, who heard about the development of his illness from Bai Ze for the first time, said: "?"
Has my condition become so serious?
Tushan Qiluo turned around and bowed respectfully to Bai Ze: "Dean."
Bai Ze said politely: "Young Master, you are too polite."
Tushan Qiluo glanced at Lu Ren, then said to Bai Ze: "Dean, please don't call me Young Master. You should be very clear about the relationship between me and Qingqiu. I also understand why you asked me to come here today. Qingqiu Qingchi can indeed nourish the soul, but Qingchi is a forbidden place in Qingqiu. Only the clan leader can enter..."
Lu Ren understood that there was a pool in Qingqiu that could heal the wounds on his soul, so Bai Ze asked Tushan Qiluo to come over. He wanted Tushan Qiluo to take Lu Ren to Qingqiu to heal his wounds.
But Tushan Qiluo didn't seem too happy.
Lu Ren didn't say anything, he just listened quietly. He thought that Tushan Qiluo had no obligation to save him, and he couldn't force Tushan Qiluo to save him just because he knew her.
He was waiting for Tushan Qiluo to make a decision, and also waiting for the unpredictable fate to give him a fair verdict. So Lu Ren just lowered his head, staring at his toes in a daze, seemingly not caring at all about this debate about his life and death.
Tushan Qiluo was still talking to Bai Ze, but her eyes kept glancing at Lu Ren: "You should know that the Qingqiu Fox and Tushan clan are now on the verge of civil strife. If now..."
Tushan Qiluo's voice became softer and softer, and finally she stopped talking. She knew that no matter how many reasons she had, she could not convince herself to leave a life to die.
She pursed her lips and looked at the ground, and then a voice in her heart told her: "I must not become like 'them'. Otherwise, what is the point of me leaving Qingqiu?"
After making the decision, Tushan Qiluo sighed. She understood that she had chosen a wrong path. Then she turned around neatly and said to Lu Ren in a concise and clear manner: "I will pick you up tomorrow. You should get ready and rush to Qingqiu as soon as possible."
Tushan Qiluo said, without staying in the ward, she quickly left the 18th Hospital. She stood downstairs of the hospital and found that it was snowing. The fluttering snowflakes playfully got into her neck, icy and cold, but despite the cold wind, Tushan Qiluo felt warm in her heart.
She felt fortunate.
Today, when she had to choose between the right approach and the easy approach, Tushan Qiluo was lucky enough to make the right choice. Her life was too long, and she faced too many choices, which led to Tushan Qiluo not being able to guarantee that she would always make the right choice.
But at least today, she did not make the wrong choice.
Tushan Qiluo's eyes were red with excitement. She walked into the pure white with her head held high, determined and fearless.
Of course, Tushan Qiluo's determination was completely shattered by Lu Ren the next day.
As agreed, early the next morning, Tushan Qiluo went to the 18th Hospital to pick up Lu Ren. When she pushed open the door, a huge black shadow flew straight towards Tushan Qiluo. The well-trained Tushan Qiluo dodged the attack of the black shadow quickly. She looked carefully and found that the black shadow that had just attacked her was a chicken.
Tushan Qiluo frowned, then turned around and saw the scene in the ward - the ward was full of flying chicken feathers, and there were at least a dozen chickens running around in the ward. They were real chickens, raised in the countryside, purebred native chickens.
Lu Ren was grabbing one of the chickens and stuffing it into the mustard seed space that Si Yuan had given him. However, the chicken didn't seem to be convinced. It spread its wings and soared up. Its two claws were like iron hooks and scratched at Lu Ren's head, raising feathers all over the ground.
Fortunately, there was a chaos fragment perched on top of Lu Ren's head. The fragment quickly grabbed a chicken's foot and threw the fighting chicken into the mustard seed space.
Tu Shan Qiluo suppressed her anger and asked Lu Ren with veins on her forehead, "What are you doing?"
Lu Ren said sincerely, "Aren't we going to Qingqiu with you to get treatment? It's not good to go empty-handed, so I plan to bring some local specialties. I heard that foxes love to eat chickens, so I bought a few more chickens."
Actually, Lu Ren had not planned to buy so many chickens. He just asked the mountain ghost if he could buy two chickens for him. As a result, the mountain ghost, who was unfamiliar with the place, asked the dragon girl where to buy chickens in the city. When the dragon girl heard the whole story, she immediately thought that giving only two chickens was too stingy. If people knew that her son was so stingy in giving gifts, it would be a disgrace to their Weishui Dragon Palace.
You know, the Dragon Girl's family monopolized the seafood market in the city. So the Dragon Girl specifically asked the human employees working in the seafood market to go to the countryside and buy a truckload of native chickens.
Unloading address: Ward 503, 5th floor, Livestock Infectious Disease Prevention and Control Center.
Although Lu Ren was completely shocked when he saw a room full of native chickens, he still humbly accepted the Dragon Girl's kindness. Lu Ren was not so tactless as to appreciate the Dragon Girl's kindness, but he still had to transfer the money to her.
"Just consider it as money to save my life." Lu Ren thought so and thanked the deliveryman politely.
When the deliveryman heard that the person receiving the goods this time was the young owner of the seafood market, he was a little curious about how a young owner suddenly appeared out of nowhere. But when he went to take a look, he found that the person was quite polite and even kept persuading him to eat apples.
But when the deliveryman left, he couldn't help wondering, "Why did a healthy person end up living in the Livestock Infectious Disease Prevention and Control Center?"
Of course, Tushan Qiluo had no way of knowing these anecdotes. She was now taking deep breaths, trying her best to control herself from smashing Lu Ren's dog head.
At that moment, Tushan Qiluo suddenly understood that some choices in the world don’t matter whether they are right or wrong, as long as they can make themselves feel happy.
After figuring out the key, Tushan Qiluo pressed her joints until they crackled, then closed the door of the ward with a grim smile.
