Chapter 181: Why Must We Have Met Before?

After Yin Lishang was sent to the hospital, a series of strange things happened.

First, it was about her own body. The doctors in Yundu gave her a full-body checkup, and the results were terrifying: heart failure, allergies, pulmonary fungal infection, gastric ulcers, severe endocrine disorders, osteoporosis, muscle fiber dissolution... Common diseases and rare diseases could all be found on her. Any one of them could easily take a person's life, but they were all gathered on Yin Lishang.

Zhang Yunwen, who was called to the consultation room, asked the doctor with concern: How is that little sister now?

The doctor said we might have to use her name to name this unprecedented situation.

In the end, even the dean was alarmed. The group of old professors from Yundu Medical University, who usually couldn't be invited no matter how hard one tried, came to the hospital in a group with their disciples and grand-disciples, arguing with red faces and thick necks about a lot of things Zhang Yunwen couldn't understand.

Fortunately, although their views were different, they had one consensus:

—Every second this little girl lived in the world was a miracle.

The twin sisters Zhang Han-ying and Zhang Yunwen were stunned at the time and immediately wanted to contact Yu Zi Qian to tell him about this, but they couldn't reach him no matter what, because Ning Zhe was taking the college entrance exam during those days, and even after he finished the exam and went home, he didn't actively contact them.

In addition to the "miracle" on Yin Lishang herself, after she was strongly requested by the dean to be hospitalized, a series of unimaginable strange things began to happen one after another in Yundu Municipal Hospital.

Such as:

People who were seriously injured in car accidents, who were clearly critically ill on the way to the hospital, would suddenly have their precarious vital signs stabilize as soon as they entered the hospital, successfully holding on until they reached the operating table.

Old people in the intensive care unit who were already receiving hospice care, whose families had clearly prepared themselves mentally and even booked the furnace slot at the crematorium in advance, had their weak vital signs, like candles in the wind, never extinguish.

People who had already been declared dead simply wouldn't die, forcing their children, who had already spent all their savings, to sell their property and houses to pay for the high costs of the intensive care unit.

Similar things kept happening in Yundu Municipal Hospital until a few days ago.

"The day before yesterday, my sister and I saw a black luxury car parked in the hospital parking lot. Lishang's attending physician went downstairs to greet them in person and led the people in the car all the way to her ward, not knowing what they did."

Zhang Yunwen said, minimizing the video call interface, sent a photo to Ning Zhe on the other side, and then switched the video back to full screen: "The doctor said Lishang had a highly contagious and dangerous disease and wouldn't let us enter her ward to visit. And this is the photo my sister secretly took. The person in the black Zhongshan suit in the photo is the one I mentioned."

Ning Zhe clicked on the photo and looked at it; he was not surprised by the content.

The secretly taken picture was not very clear. Because it was taken in a state of motion, the human outline in the photo was a bit distorted. Zhang Han-ying also didn't turn on the flash when taking the picture, making the environment in the underground parking lot look particularly dim.

But none of this affected Ning Zhe's recognition of the protagonist in this photo: the young man who was led out of the car by the attending physician in a white coat and was walking up to the hospital building.

"Lan Shiwen." Ning Zhe's tone remained flat, without the slightest ripple: "It's really him."

Lan Shiwen had a very close relationship with the Yundu government. His girlfriend was the daughter of a local high-ranking official, so he was half an official person. Yundu was his territory, and Ning Zhe was not surprised that Lan Shiwen was the first to come when something happened.

"How is the situation there now? Is Yin Lishang still in the hospital?" Ning Zhe asked.

Zhang Han-ying nodded and said: "Yes, but Yundu Municipal Hospital has begun to gradually suspend operations since that day. The patients and medical staff in the hospital have been transferred to other hospitals in the city in batches. Only those critically ill patients who have had strange things happen to them, and the doctors and nurses responsible for them, are still in the hospital."

"And you?" Ning Zhe continued to ask.

Yu Zi Qian is concerned about me... The uneasy feeling in Zhang Han-ying's heart immediately dissipated, and she said softly: "We were also evacuated at first. After returning to the hotel, several people in police uniforms came to our door to do some strange checks... After the checks were completed, they left.

Before leaving, they also said that we could enter the hospital to visit Yin Lishang, but we needed to apply for an appointment in advance."

That was the general situation.

"What should we do? Yu Zi Qian, I, I don't know what happened..." Zhang Yunwen looked at Ning Zhe's face on the screen with pleading eyes and begged: "Can you come over quickly? My sister and I don't know what to do..."

"Stay safe, I'll be there as soon as possible." After Ning Zhe finished speaking, he cut off the video call.

Looking at the gray "Call Ended" interface, the sisters breathed a sigh of relief one after another, looked at each other, and both showed heartfelt smiles.

"Sister, Yu Zi Qian is coming to find us."

"Hmm, let's go pick out a few sexy clothes first, and give him a surprise when the time comes..."

They didn't care about Yin Lishang's life or death, nor did they care about what kind of strange events were happening in the hospital. Zhang Han-ying and Zhang Yunwen only cared about when they could return to Yu Zi Qian's side.

Under the enslavement of the Thought Steel Seal, they loved Yu Zi Qian more than they loved themselves.

Ending the video call with the twin sisters, Ning Zhe didn't go to find Chen Yaming, who was walking in front, but went straight to the parking lot outside the town, used Zhang Yangxu's key to unlock a "Lady of the Lake" parked there.

Getting in, locking the door, taking out the laptop placed on the passenger seat, unplugging the power, and cutting off the network, Ning Zhe skillfully typed the access address of the Ascension Network in Word and pressed Enter.

—The Ascension Network was a very magical website, and it was even doubtful whether it was a website. This address could not be jumped through a browser; one only needed to type the specified code on any computer to access it directly.

It didn't even need a network.

Logging into the Ascension Network and entering Yu Zi Qian's user personal page, several new private messages were in the unread state with red dots. The senders were 【Duo A】 and 【Ting Yao】 respectively.

Ning Zhe didn't look at those private messages but went straight to find Lan Shiwen, one of the administrators of the Ascension Network, and sent him a message:

【Regarding the things happening in Yundu Municipal Hospital, don't you have anything you want to say to me?】

Lan Shiwen replied in seconds:

【Asking me only now, it seems your news isn't very well-informed.】

【This matter started because of you. You shouldn't have entrusted a ghost to mortals to look after, and let them bring the ghost into a crowded place like a hospital. You almost caused a disaster.】

【Yunzhou has authorized me to handle this strange event with full authority. I am continuously paying attention to the progress of things in the hospital... At least as of two weeks later, there have been no deaths in the hospital. This is one of the reasons why I am still willing to talk to you properly now.】

Ning Zhe was silent for a moment and replied:

【It was indeed my negligence. I apologize to you. I am going to Yundu now to wrap up this matter.】

Seeing that Yeyao's attitude was good and that he didn't intentionally release the ghost to hurt people, Lan Shiwen's tone also became calmer:

【You have been a Gridder for less than five years. In the past few years, you have mainly dealt with Gridders and Endowed Ones and rarely directly participated in strange events of this level, lacking the corresponding cleanup experience. It can't be blamed on you that the handling of this special ghost was poor. I also have responsibility; I didn't fulfill my supervisory obligations.】

【Regarding the incident at Chuyun Villa before, the people of Yundu owe you a favor, so this time I will help you clean up your mess.】

【Come to Yundu, I'll wait for you.】

Ning Zhe let out a long breath and replied: 【Okay】.

Then, Lan Shiwen sent a few more messages:

【By the way, Yeyao, do you remember the long-lived old people in Yanglao Village who were emaciated?】

【After you left Yanglao Village with that ghost, they all died.】

Ning Zhe thought for a moment and replied: 【I probably know the reason】.

Ending the conversation with Lan Shiwen, Ning Zhe cast his gaze on the private messages sent by the other two users. "Duo A" and "Ting Yao"—both of them had sent private messages to Yu Zi Qian before.

Among them, Duo A was an employer who entrusted Yu Zi Qian to help him kill someone, the vice president of the Yanzhou Merchant Association. However, Ning Zhe hadn't gone because he was busy with the college entrance exam and other things, and now he was sending messages to urge him.

Ting Yao was interesting. He sent a private message to Yu Zi Qian's account to ask for help, and he wasn't asking Yu Zi Qian for help, but 【Ning Zhe】.

Ning Zhe looked up at the historical messages. Ting Yao had sent two private messages to Yu Zi Qian's account.

The first one was sent earlier: 【Ning Zhe, please help me!】.

The second one was sent last night: 【I know you aren't Yeyao. Ning Zhe, can you help me?】.

Ning Zhe thought for a moment, edited a message, and sent it over:

【First, I don't know who this Ning Zhe you are talking about is. Second, I don't know you, why should I help you?】

This time Ting Yao replied in seconds:

【Someone is hunting me down! I need your help. Only you can help me, Ning Zhe, please.】

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Ning Zhe said the same thing:

【You and I are not related, why should I help you?】

This time Ting Yao's reply was very short:

【The person hunting me down is called "Fen Wu".】

Ning Zhe replied in seconds:

【Okay, I'll help you.】

It was a pity that Ning Zhe couldn't ask Ting Yao for more information about Fen Wu. He didn't know why Fen Wu wanted to kill him, nor did he know where he was now. Everything was an unknown.

Ting Yao only sent a 【I will come to find you】 and went offline, leaving Ning Zhe very speechless.

A guy of unknown origin, strange and weird.

Ning Zhe sighed, sent a message to "Duo A" saying that he would kill the vice president of the Yanzhou Merchant Association as soon as possible, and then exited the Ascension Network and went offline.

"I have to go to Yundu as soon as possible... But before setting off, I have to prepare some things."

Drones, firearms, professional-grade photography equipment... It wasn't that Ning Zhe couldn't get these things with his ability, but due to regulatory regulations, it would be more troublesome and time-consuming to operate. It would be much better if there were specialized channels.

Ning Zhe happened to have obtained such a channel.

He directly listed the things he needed and sent them to Xia Chan.

After doing this, Ning Zhe ran all the way to catch up with Chen Yaming, who had already walked far away, and went with her to meet the moving company people, loading the things that needed to be moved from the house onto the truck one by one.

Xia Chan's efficiency was very high. That same night, Ning Zhe received a message saying "The things you want are ready," just waiting for him to pick them up in the city.

So Ning Zhe got on the moving company's truck and drove to the city area overnight, not letting Chen Yaming come along.

After entering the city area, Ning Zhe directed the moving company to drive the truck all the way into the golden area in the center of Taoyuan City.

The rushing Tao River split the whole city into two from east to west. The wide river surface made a U-shaped turn here. The house Ning Zhe bought for his grandparents was in this bend. The wealthy residential area called "Jiangcheng Junjing" was located here.

It was called moving, but there weren't actually many things to move, nothing more than some books, tea sets, daily necessities, and personal items.

A few large items, such as the camphor wood cupboard and bed frame, and dressing table that his grandmother particularly liked, were the dowry she brought when she married his grandfather back then.

And the desk and chair Ning Zhe usually used, as well as the coffee table in the house—these were all made by his grandfather himself when he was young. Now the old man couldn't do carpentry work anymore, so these things were even more precious.

There weren't many things, and the wealthy area also had a dedicated elevator for moving large items. The big guys from the moving company huffed and puffed and moved everything upstairs in one go, placed them according to Ning Zhe's requirements, settled the payment, and left.

The money was paid well, so the brothers were happy even working overtime late at night.

After sending off the moving company people, Ning Zhe left the house and took a taxi to the meeting address given by Xia Chan.

The address given by Xia Chan was a riverside park by the river. This park was rebuilt from the "Hengsha Ecological Park" that closed down two years ago. Many rare plants that were originally covered in the ecological park still remained in the park to this day.

Her people were waiting there with the things Ning Zhe wanted.

When Ning Zhe arrived here, he happened to run into a group of middle-aged women dancing square dances on the flower bed square in the center of the park. The BGM playing in the speakers was "I Hate Myself for Loving You."

"Strange, I seem to have heard this song somewhere." Ning Zhe walked slowly along the flower bed, thinking in his heart: "Where was it...?"

"Midnight gettin' uptight where are you."

"You said you'd meet me now it's quarter to two."

"I know I'm hangin' but I'm still wantin' you."

Ning Zhe walked through the lush flower bushes with doubts, and suddenly heard a hoarse human voice coming from the front, humming along with the music in the square.

Following the sound, he saw a girl with a single ponytail sitting alone on a bench by the flower bed, with a black travel bag slung over her shoulder, holding a large hydrangea flower plucked from the bushes behind her, viciously tearing off the pink petals on it. Looking miserable.

"The flowers here cannot be picked. Didn't you see the notice board?"

Ning Zhe approached and sat down next to the girl, glancing at the clear abdominal muscles on her stomach, as well as the treated bruises and scars: "How come it's you who came?"

"You think I wanted to come." Xia Yubing tore off a petal and threw it onto the bench seat, feeling depressed: "It was my aunt who insisted that I come to deliver these things to you, and I couldn't refuse her..."

"Then that really wronged you." Ning Zhe smiled and took the black travel bag she was carrying.

A day later, she was still as cowardly as ever.

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Volume Two: Song of Knotted Strings.

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