A lively, moving mass of black sludge.
Speaking of which... the black-haired young man narrowed his eyes and fell into deep thought.
The black sludge that seemed to have never attacked anyone would only run away when exposed to so many sights. What was in the small bottle Qiao Jiang gave him last time was... After thinking about it, Bai Su felt that it was difficult to judge.
To make a judgment, we must first clarify whether Qiao Jiang at that point in time was recognized as a human being by the mud or by some other entity... Forget it, it's not very important anymore.
Everything you eat has been eaten by yourself, so there is no need to compare.
Bai Su lowered his eyes and watched as the humans gathered around it in an orderly manner, used their back-up moves, and finally covered the mud with an opaque jar.
A lot of scraps of various materials were scattered nearby, either damaged by the mud or broken through containment.
When the humans finally removed the remaining silt, everyone breathed a sigh of relief. Then Xia Chengyin, who should be the commander-in-chief, waved his hand and after a few instructions, the people in the crowded corridor finally dispersed.
One wave of people brought transport vehicles, lifted up the mountain of silver spikes that had completely solidified on the ground and could be compared to some kind of work of art, and pushed them away. Another wave of people brought items such as seals and moved the opaque jars. After sealing it tightly, it was carefully sent away.
Ten minutes later, only Xia Chengyin and Bai Su, who was not a member of the team directly under today's operation, were left in the corridor.
The former had a lot to say, and he moved his mouth a few times, but what he finally said was: "If possible, don't shoot next time."
"Um?"
"I checked the surveillance camera before I came up." After Xia Chengyin watched the whole process, he couldn't say that his aim was accurate. He could only say that he was gifted.
The posture was perfect, it could be said to be a textbook standard, but judging from the results, it just missed hitting one of our own.
"Ah." Bai Su shrugged, "I saw that one was looking forward to it, so he deliberately moved the muzzle away."
The short-haired police officer glanced at him without comment.
The medical staff gradually came back after the crisis warning was lifted. An older nurse came over and asked Xia Chengyin how to deal with the patients in the nearby ward.
"...Let's wait until daytime." The short-haired police officer rubbed his temples. "The visibility is not good at night, and it would be too troublesome to move around. We will let you know tomorrow for details."
The older nurse said yes.
Before she left, she glanced at Bai Su, probably wondering why she hadn't seen this black-haired young man before.
What Bai Su is facing now is a ward door, which is no different from the ones downstairs. If there is anything special, the wall looks like golden lines drawn on it have penetrated through the gap between the door and the wall.
The nurse and doctor hurriedly walked in, and after a long examination, they came out and shook their heads.
"I haven't woken up. The situation is the same as before."
"In this case, you can go and rest first, and we'll talk about it tomorrow."
After the wave of medical staff left, the corridor returned to calm.
Seeing no one around, the short-haired police officer took out a cigarette without paying attention to the no-smoking sign posted nearby.
After lighting the fire and taking a long breath, the human policeman stood at the window to let the smoke disperse so as not to trigger the smoke alarm.
Tonight's roundup of the doppelgangers is not a thrilling one, because only one appears, but there are so many victims. If they appear in large numbers in the future, it will be troublesome to deal with them.
And...if it's not discovered in advance.
The short-haired police officer withdrew his gaze from the moonlight outside the window and returned it to the black-haired young man. The latter felt that someone was looking at him and turned his head.
What does the world in Bai Su's eyes look like?
This thought came up more than once. After detecting the broken branch of the implanted wooden Buddha in Bai Su's head, he had a question, what has become of the world in the other person's eyes?
The human policeman took a puff of his cigarette, and this time he asked out his curiosity.
"Huh?" The black-haired young man made a suspicious nasal sound, "Officer Xia, do you want to ask me what I see now?"
Just as he was about to say that Bai Su had misunderstood, the black-haired young man turned back and looked at the ward door, pondering for a moment.
"Are there golden lines crawling into the door? There are also some words between the lines. They are too blurry for me to see clearly."
After hearing Bai Su's answer, Xia Chengyin turned to look at the empty ward door and wall, and slowly made a series of ellipses in his heart.
He might know what Bai Su was describing.
In order to prevent the doppelgangers from attacking, of course they reinforced and protected the patients where the relevant patients lived. What Bai Su described was the preparation they made.
However, normally those lines would not be seen by anyone except when they are activated.
There was a vague feeling that something was wrong, but Bai Su had already moved on to the next topic.
"By the way, Officer Xia, can I go in and have a look?" Bai Su pointed to the closed door of the ward, "There's someone I know inside."
Xia Chengyin heard about it and heard that the man inside still fell in front of Bai Su's house.
He couldn't remember exactly what happened, and he couldn't remember it if it wasn't the focus of the case.
The short-haired police officer waved his hand holding a cigarette, gesturing for people to come in.
The black-haired young man nodded to the person, stepped forward and opened the door.
Considering the distance between them, Bai Su didn't show any signs of worry. He stepped on the golden lines that looked like a magic circle and walked to the bedside.
The human young man on the hospital bed slept peacefully, probably because he had forgotten all his memories, and there was no painful emotion on his face.
At most, I may occasionally experience shortness of breath due to elevated body temperature, but the rest of the time is stable.
So calm that I don’t know what happened tonight, and I won’t know it when I wake up tomorrow.
If no one stopped him, he might be like the round-faced boy, smuggled out by the supernatural in a quiet hospital in the dead of night, and then wait for death in a deserted street.
If you are lucky, the special department will collect his previous whereabouts, find the way in the streets and alleys, and then borrow Bai Su himself... Oh, I don't think you need to borrow it. I heard that the special department thinks that the accuracy of the Taoist compass is also good. It is more convenient to borrow a compass than to borrow Baisu himself.
Anyway, if you are lucky, you can be moved back.
Bai Su used the word "mo" correctly. He didn't even have his own consciousness, so he could only use the word "mo".
The black-haired young man was looking at the person with his head lowered. Perhaps by coincidence, the patient who was sleeping peacefully suddenly opened his eyes.
It's like waking up from a dream, but if you ask him what he dreamed about, humans can't answer.
The unfocused eyes were open aimlessly. The man on the hospital bed seemed to be able to only respond to changes in light and shadow. When Bai Su moved around, he turned his head slightly.
The range of head turning is limited to leaning from left to right, and then from right to left.
After walking back and forth twice, Bai Su, who felt that it was not interesting, stopped and leaned towards the person on the bed.
He brought his face closer, but the other party didn't react at all. He just stared blankly ahead, his breathing rising and falling slightly.
This looks...vegetative? Maybe he will move a little more than a vegetative person.
"Xiao Jiang?" Bai Su called softly, but the human didn't respond.
Seeing that the person showed no intention of falling asleep in a short period of time, Bai Su pressed the button on the wall beside the bed. As the red light turned on, the people in the hospital also received the news.
Xia Chengyin, who had not left, was the one who arrived before the medical staff who had just left. The short-haired policeman stubbed out his cigarette and used his fist to destroy the traces of the corpse, and quickly pushed the door open and entered.
"What's wrong?" Xia Chengyin walked in and looked around, but found nothing unusual. He slowly lowered his guarded fist, "Why is he awake?"
The short-haired police officer looked around and saw only the man lying on the hospital bed with his eyes open and staring at the ceiling.
At most, at most, after he blocked the light after entering the door, his head tilted toward him.
Bai Su spread his hands and expressed what he didn't know.
Doctors who hadn't even covered their buttocks with their stools poured into the ward again, and they started working again in front of Xiao Jiang, a community worker who woke up.
During the work, they invited two irrelevant personnel out.
Unrelated Person No. 1: ... Let’s have another cigarette.
Irrelevant Person No. 2: Although, the ward is so big, can it be okay if there are just a few more people?
The little nurse who was chasing people put her hands on her waist and said, "What are you talking about with the smell of cigarette smoke? Get away quickly, I don't even care that you are smoking in a no-smoking area!"
Unrelated person No. 1, who was smoking, walked away dejectedly, moving one meter away.
The uninvolved person No. 2 also moved a few steps and stood closer than Xia Chengyin.
After saying that, the little nurse turned around and went in. After a long time, she took a box of things out of the ward. When she passed by Baisu this time, she suddenly stopped.
"You..." the little nurse opened her eyes wide, "do you come to this hospital often? I feel like I have seen you several times."
Unlike the unrelated person No. 1, who was smoking nearby because of work contacts, the young nurse's impression of this fair face belonging to a black-haired young man... seemed to have first appeared as a patient.
And more than once, the black-haired young man as a patient was hospitalized several times.
Later, the other party came as a visitor.
A while ago, when the hospital was still admitting ordinary patients, I saw this young man with black hair coming.
Probably the identity transformation from outsiders to special department employees has been completed. To put it simply, they have been recruited.
The little nurse thought for a moment and said, "The people you visited before have not been discharged from the hospital yet. If you want to see them, please go during the day."
Bai Su nodded and asked doubtfully: "How many are there?"
"That's right." The little nurse agreed, "One on the third floor, one on the fifth floor...these are the two people I remember."
"Fifth floor?" Bai Su blinked, who is here?
The little nurse looked through his memory and named it. Bai Su had no impression of that name. Instead, it was some complaints the little nurse mentioned later that reminded him of it.
It seems to be the human named Lao Hei.
This was Bai Su's first thought, followed by an inner sigh, so is this human being not dead yet?
Asking the original question seemed a bit like asking for a beating, so Bai Su followed the little nurse's words and said, "He is still in the hospital? Has the situation improved?"
"Alas..." the little nurse sighed faintly, "Actually, the body has recovered, but..." The luck is still the same.
Under the cautious treatment of the hospital, no more medical accidents occurred, but the patient also did not dare to go far.
Here, after an accident, he could be quickly pulled into a place like the operating room. If he was careful, he could complete the entire process of discharge, admission, and re-hospitalization.
In other words, the human named Lao Hei is almost bound to this hospital.
After considering the danger level of Lao Hei, the special department still put him in the hospital.
After all, it's just a bomb that will blow up on you. As long as no one seeks death and gets together with the other party, it's within control.
Bai Su nodded while listening, feeling once again the vitality of human beings.
The little nurse shook her head: "He is still in the hospital anyway. If you want to visit him, remember to keep... keep your distance."
The little nurse didn't realize at this moment that the relationship between Bai Su and this old black man came from the first time the other party was hospitalized, and Bai Su did not visit the other party after the fate of mankind declined.
The black-haired young man did not correct this, coping with the sudden social interaction of humans.
The little nurse was about to end the topic and leave when suddenly there was a violent vibration under her feet. The human female body shook unexpectedly and almost fell down.
Bai Su immediately looked out of the window and saw wisps of black smoke coming from below.
Bai Su:?
The black-haired young man was a little confused. What were humans doing? Was it an enemy attack? He didn't seem to feel any supernatural being coming to his door, right?
Except for the silt that was just caught, there should be no other visitors to the downtown hospital tonight.
The nurse and unrelated person No. 1 smoking a cigarette on the side ran very fast. They rushed downstairs while Bai Su was still looking at the window.
The black-haired young man staying upstairs propped himself up against the window frame, listening to half of the hospital becoming lively. People who went to check on the situation were crowded there, and human voices could be heard noisily.
"what's the situation?"
"I don't know. I ran over when I heard the sound."
"Did the supernatural being from before escape?"
"...No, I asked, and the group of people who walked away didn't notice anything strange."
"This is strange...it can't be an ordinary malfunction, right?"
Human whispers were carried up by the wind, and before the thick smoke dissipated, they could only be heard discussing some peripheral situations.
The black-haired young man stretched out his hand and touched the outer wall, and soon, a round sphere fell down.
A white silk thread hung dangling from the window, and before humans could see it clearly, it swayed to the next floor.
After the thick smoke was controlled, humans were able to walk into the scene of a suspected small-scale explosion.
Surprisingly, the shock was not an attack like the imaginary conspiracy theory, but... it was just an accident caused by a malfunction of medical equipment.
But the plot looks a bit familiar.
The medical staff, who always felt a sense of déjà vu, checked the previous records and found two other accidents with similar causes in Curry.
The special department crossed out the first case after reading it. That was the time when the ghost baby appeared. The second case was what they were looking for. The original name of Lao Hei who was just talked about was clearly written on the paper.
People outside the door, you look at me, I look at you.
After a while, someone asked in a low voice: "No way?"
Don't you mean that that person is just an exception?
(End of chapter)
