Who says vengeful ghosts can't go on blind dates?
Chapter 40: An Encounter at the Ghost Hospital
At this moment, the faceless female ghost and Jiang Xiaowei had completely opposite feelings.
Jiang Xiaowei felt like she had seen a savior, but the faceless female ghost felt like she was in hell.
"Jiang Xiaowei? What are you doing here?"
The faceless female ghost froze for a moment.
Seeing that Ren Zhizhe didn't seem to see through her immediately, she immediately started to have wicked thoughts.
Jiang Xiaowei and Ren Zhizhe didn't actually have much contact.
In other words, she actually had a chance to fool them.
"Ah, I'm here for a medical checkup. By the way, what are you doing here?"
The faceless female ghost was trying her best to distract Ren Zhizhe.
"Me? I'm here to visit my blind date."
Ren Zhizhe first stated his attitude and position.
Then, he asked Jiang Xiaowei with a puzzled look:
Why are you talking to me with your back turned?
"What?"
The faceless female ghost was taken aback.
She remembered.
Her face was on the back of Jiang Xiaowei's head. When she spoke with other vengeful ghosts, she habitually faced them with her own face towards them.
In Ren Zhizhe's eyes, this meant always speaking with his back to others.
She overlooked this.
For a moment, the faceless female ghost didn't know how to explain.
You can't say that this is her "positive" side, can you?
If he turned around, Ren Zhizhe would most likely have noticed that something was wrong.
Is there still a chance? Is there any way to salvage the situation?
"Because I was carrying something, I didn't have time to turn around."
The faceless female ghost was carrying a bag containing her own vengeful ghost body.
This is a body bag.
"I see. What's in this bag? Why did you bring this to the hospital?"
The faceless female ghost's alarm bells rang loudly.
Ruined.
How should I put this?
At this moment, she had an impulse to directly invoke the rules of murder and fight Ren Zhizhe to the death.
But she held back. The faceless female ghost tried her best to suppress her malice and continue spouting nonsense.
"These are my own things," the faceless female ghost said in a low voice, trying to make her tone sound normal. "Some personal items."
"Personal belongings?" Ren Zhizhe tilted his head, his gaze falling on the body bag as if trying to identify something. "You're sick and you're carrying so much stuff, aren't you tired?"
"This... is indeed a bit heavy," the faceless female ghost said vaguely.
Clearly, this body was already struggling.
"You're not going to be hospitalized too, are you?" Ren Zhizhe asked, seemingly out of nowhere.
"Hospitalized? Yes, yes, that's right, that's it."
The faceless female ghost continued speaking, following Ren Zhizhe's words.
She hadn't even noticed the "also" in Ren Zhizhe's words. Now, all she could think about was how to get out of this mess.
Did you manage to fool them this time?
Before she could even catch her breath, Ren Zhizhe's next words left her speechless once again.
"Then why did you bring a bag instead of a suitcase?"
"I……"
The faceless female ghost realized that she could no longer explain herself.
The faceless female ghost felt like a rat cornered against a wall, every excuse she made was easily shut down by Ren Zhizhe.
"The suitcase... is too expensive." She practically forced out those words through gritted teeth.
This was the only excuse she could think of.
But this is clearly not the optimal solution. As expected, Ren Zhizhe frowned upon hearing this.
He took a few steps toward Jiang Xiaowei.
He felt the other person was strange.
Not only is his way of speaking so strange, but his behavior has also become somewhat bizarre.
"Feed? You..."
He reached out his right hand towards Jiang Xiaowei, seemingly wanting to touch her shoulder.
This scene immediately triggered the faceless female ghost.
The faceless female ghost mistakenly thought that Ren Zhizhe was about to launch an attack!
At this moment, she didn't care about anything else and reflexively pressed her face against Ren Zhizhe, stubbornly preparing for a fight to the death.
Ren Zhizhe's hand froze in mid-air.
He tilted his head, watching the strange behavior of "Jiang Xiaowei" in front of him—instead of turning around, she pressed the back of her head against him.
What are they doing?
Do you want to fall back into his arms?
This... isn't this inappropriate? Wouldn't this be considered a crime committed in front of one's wife?
Ren Zhizhe didn't understand. But he still used his right hand to support her, stopping the faceless female ghost from doing this.
The moment she was touched, the faceless female ghost immediately activated her killing rules, but those rules were immediately suppressed.
Jiang Xiaowei has finally regained control of her body!
"I'm sorry! Just now... uh, I must have been too nervous. Anyway, I apologize for anything."
She immediately seized the opportunity and turned her body around.
"Uh, why do you look so haggard?" Ren Zhizhe didn't reply, but looked at Jiang Xiaowei's face with some surprise.
It wasn't until Jiang Xiaowei turned around that he realized how much weight she had lost.
Is this why you came to the hospital?
"What am I doing..." Jiang Xiaowei's voice became much softer.
Because of hunger.
Because of thirst.
Jiang Xiaowei added in her mind. Of course, she didn't say these words aloud, otherwise she would have had to put in a lot of effort to explain.
"I came to see a doctor. But," she hesitated for a long time, thinking about her current situation, and decided to take a gamble, "I still ran into some trouble."
"trouble?"
"Yes." Jiang Xiaowei took a deep breath.
She thought about it for a while, and hesitated for a long time.
In the end, Jiang Xiaowei told the truth about her need for money.
She's in terrible shape right now and needs to get back to the real world as soon as possible. Whether it's drinking water or eating, she just wants to get back.
To get back, you have to complete the bizarre game's task—asking customers for tips.
Now that she's in the haunted hospital, she'll never have the chance to go to the Northern Wilderness Hotel to ask for tips again.
However, the eerie game did not indicate that the mission had failed.
Considering the length of time spent in this game instance, she believes that there should be food available for human consumption in the Northern Wilderness Hotel.
She had to find a way to get back to the Northern Wilderness Hotel as soon as possible. But before she could go back, she had to get rid of the vengeful ghost on the back of her head.
This hospital should be able to handle this vengeful ghost on the back of its head, right?
The faceless female ghost was in a great hurry after entering the ghost hospital. However, even so, Jiang Xiaowei still took the opportunity to observe the surrounding vengeful spirits.
She discovered some other vengeful ghosts who were also parasitized.
The vengeful spirits were all speaking loudly, which is why Jiang Xiaowei pieced together the information that their brains had been parasitized by another vengeful spirit and that they needed to come to the hospital to resolve the problem.
If being parasitized in the brain is possible, then the faceless female ghost on the back of her head... should be able to be dealt with too, right?
But to get treatment at the ghost hospital, you have to pay money. Unfortunately, Jiang Xiaowei didn't have any ghost coins on her.
So, she decided to try asking Ren Zhizhe for money to get rid of the vengeful ghost on the back of her head.
"Borrow money?" Ren Zhizhe pondered silently.
This is a very sensitive topic.
In the past, he would have definitely refused outright.
But considering that Jiang Xiaowei had mentioned her family troubles before, he thought about it for a while.
He didn't want to be entangled in baseless rumors.
What do you need the money for?
Ren Zhizhe decided to ask for clarification first.
"To cure illness."
"To treat illness?"
Ren Zhizhe immediately sensed that the argument was full of flaws.
He wanted to ask the other person why they hadn't prepared money before coming to the hospital.
Surely they can't be coming to the hospital to ask someone for money, right?
However, seeing that Jiang Xiaowei's haggard appearance didn't seem to be faking it, he hesitated for a moment.
"What illness does it treat?"
"Uh, it should be... anorexia." Jiang Xiaowei wanted to say something else, but considering her current state, she chose a symptom that seemed more fitting.
Because of anorexia, he became emaciated from hunger.
"Anorexia?"
An extremely absurd explanation.
But suddenly, Ren Zhizhe remembered that Jiang Xiaowei didn't drink coffee when they first met.
He hesitated for a moment.
There's no way around it, this explanation is just too outrageous, to the point that it seems almost true.
In the end, to avoid any possible and unnecessary trouble, and considering that they knew each other after all, he still handed over a hundred-yuan ghost coin.
Why 100 yuan? Because he casually touched a 100-yuan ghost coin.
"Sigh, I'll keep it. As for paying me back... that's unnecessary."
As long as you stop bothering him and trying to extort money from him, that's fine.
[Rewards settlement in progress...]
The eerie game's notification sound rang out.
Jiang Xiaowei was taken aback.
She just wanted to borrow money to get rid of the faceless female ghost on the back of her head, so why did the weird game suddenly determine that she had completed the dungeon mission?
Waiter...guest...could it be because Ren Zhizhe was once a guest of the Beihuang Hotel?
Are former guests still guests?
This is really troublesome.
If we bring this vengeful ghost from the back of the head back into reality, wouldn't we be completely doomed?
Jiang Xiaowei trembled a few times in fright.
However, seeing that she hadn't been teleported back by the eerie game for a long time, she belatedly remembered the game's mission.
This eerie game mission allows you to stay in the eerie world for a while longer. After completing the mission, you will need to manually confirm before you can return.
Therefore, she still has a chance.
The faceless female ghost has never recovered since being suppressed by Ren Zhizhe's rules.
But Jiang Xiaowei knew this was only temporary; she had to remove the other party's rules from her before they were restored.
"Thank you... I have to go now."
Jiang Xiaowei left immediately.
Ren Zhizhe didn't interfere any further. But for some reason, his dissatisfaction with the shady real estate agent seemed to have increased a little.
He increasingly felt that the matchmaker had been just going through the motions when introducing him to a potential partner for the first time.
Seeing Jiang Xiaowei leave, Ren Zhizhe continued to fetch water for Song Yufei.
During this time, he also coincidentally received a call from a shady real estate agent.
He almost thought Jiang Xiaowei's appearance was arranged by the shady real estate agent. But the agent called to discuss Song Yufei's discharge from the hospital, without mentioning Jiang Xiaowei at all.
Furthermore, Ren Zhizhe brought this up. Judging from the tone of the person on the other end of the phone, the real estate agent seemed completely unaware of the matter.
That was just a coincidence?
Ren Zhizhe didn't think about it any further.
He walked back with the glass of water containing the blood. After returning to Song Yufei's ward, he poured the blood from the glass into a small cup on the table and then handed the small cup to Song Yufei.
Song Yufei naturally drank it.
Still tasteless.
But according to the clown ghost, the pupil of one of her eyes has turned red.
There was no mirror in the ward, so she couldn't verify whether the clown ghost was telling the truth. She also didn't dare let Ren Zhizhe bring a mirror, so she hadn't planned to bother with it in the first place.
But after drinking a few more glasses, she noticed that her skin had become noticeably paler.
At that moment, she realized that what the clown ghost said was probably true.
If she continues to drink, some unknown changes may occur in her body... No, her body has already changed.
Originally, one of her eyes was an insect eye, but now the other eye has turned into a red pupil.
It was absolutely terrible.
"Oh, right. While I was getting water outside, that shady real estate agent called me and said you can be discharged today."
"Discharged from the hospital?"
"Yes." Ren Zhizhe nodded, then seemed a little confused.
He assumed Song Yufei had come to the hospital on her own. Furthermore, he assumed the people looking after her at the hospital would be her family.
But now it seems like the shady middleman brought her to the hospital?
This is a bit strange. What about Song Yufei's family?
Furthermore, it seems that he hasn't seen any of Song Yufei's family members visit her during this period.
Is it that they don't know about this? Or...?
Ren Zhizhe didn't plan to ask at this moment. However, he made a mental note of it and would definitely ask about Song Yufei's family situation next time they met.
"Oh, how about I take you home from the hospital?" Ren Zhizhe said to Song Yufei.
He planned to take Song Yufei home from the hospital.
The real estate agent called him, there must be something in mind.
"Okay." Song Yufei's eyes lit up.
Finally, I can leave this awful place.
She knew that staying in this hospital would only bring her closer to that half-human, half-ghost state.
Packing was quick, since she didn't have many personal belongings.
However, an unexpected incident occurred during this period.
Song Yufei originally intended to pretend that she had forgotten the clown ghost's head in the ghost hospital.
However, Ren Zhizhe has sharp eyes and immediately noticed that she didn't bring her "tumbler".
Left with no other option, Song Yufei had to leave the ghost hospital with the clown's head in her arms.
Like Jiang Xiaowei, she also froze for a few seconds when she saw the ghost car.
However, Song Yufei is much better than Jiang Xiaowei.
Perhaps because she was holding the head of a clown ghost, she didn't think a ghost car was anything special, not even as absurd as holding the head of a vengeful ghost, so she calmly got on.
"Where do you live? I'll take you home."
"My home..." Song Yufei was stunned.
Her home seems to be in the real world.
I guess saying it directly won't work, right?
"My home isn't in this city." She was quick-witted and immediately came up with a solution. "I'm temporarily staying at the Beixia Hotel."
"Beixia Hotel?"
Ren Zhizhe's expression suddenly became somewhat subtle.
Isn't that area a slum?
Song Yufei is actually staying there temporarily.
That wasn't a middleman... Oh, I see.
He seemed to understand.
No wonder it was the agency that took Song Yufei to the hospital. So the agency arranged Song Yufei's temporary accommodation?
You'll Also Like
-
Gundam, Gravity Elegy
Chapter 158 1 hours ago -
The wheelchair-bound warrior is speedrunning Hogwarts.
Chapter 472 1 hours ago -
Kamen Rider, but with a wild start.
Chapter 385 1 hours ago -
Investigate me, Zhao Dehan? Believe me or not, I'll take down Zhong Xiaoai?
Chapter 1030 1 hours ago -
Tang Wulin, you have already chosen your own death!
Chapter 583 1 hours ago -
Collapse Iron: I'm a Succubus in the Universe
Chapter 103 1 hours ago -
The SSSSSSSS-level Mad Dragon is released from prison!
Chapter 175 1 hours ago -
It was supposed to be a casual game, but the Long March dungeon brought tears to everyone's eye
Chapter 758 1 hours ago -
Right path to power
Chapter 488 1 hours ago -
Mythology Returns! Starting with Folklore and Strange Tales
Chapter 142 1 hours ago