magician in town

Chapter 17 Clinic

Chapter No.16

Drowsy, how long has he been floating in the dark?Luo Qi has been floating on his back on a big river, with only vague starlight above his head, the two banks pass by suddenly, and the big river flows continuously.For a long time he just stared blankly at the cold starlight above his head, rising and falling with the waves of the river, like a floating corpse in the Ganges.

Later, he vaguely heard the sound of horseshoes, and an ancient warrior with long black hair was chasing him along the river on a war horse.The samurai might be screaming, but the sound was muffled in his own throat, and Roach couldn't hear anything.

The sound of horseshoes faded away, and various figures appeared on the shore.There was an ascetic monk with a bag on his back and a bamboo hat, walking on the rough road with his head buried.A figure with a hood and a cloak, what appears to be an ancient scroll in his hand.Someone sat cross-legged on a walking chariot and was carried by four people. That person only looked up at the stars, as if he was screaming loudly.

At the beginning, Roach was curious, but after a while he became bored. He was already very sleepy and wanted to sleep all the time.He no longer looked at the figures on the side of the road, and began to hope that he could fall asleep. He looked at the starlight above the sky, and could vaguely recognize the brilliance of the Polaris.His thoughts became cloudy, as if the sand was about to dissolve in the river.He almost fell asleep, until the loud sound of the waves hitting the rocks woke him up, and a ray of light pierced straight through the thick darkness, which was not natural light.He saw a lighthouse, and the shadow of a huge city behind it.

He couldn't help but want to go there, he moved his limbs, his body dissipated like blue smoke, and turned into a standing shape with his thoughts.He stood on the sea, stepping on the rushing tide, he was thinking aimlessly, recalling who he was and where he should go.

Suddenly, he realized that there was someone behind him.

He turned his head and saw a woman standing behind him. For some reason, he was not surprised.The woman was a step away from him, wearing a sweater and jeans, with a hood covering her head blocking her eyes.

He tried hard to recall for a while, and a name was on his lips. "Guan Xinyue?"

The woman was unmoved, for some reason, he also knew she was not.

She was born very thin, and the skirts of her clothes trembled in the sea breeze, as if she was shivering.

"You..." Roach said, asking softly with warmth that came out of nowhere. "Is it cold?"

He saw a smile on the corner of the girl's mouth, soft and naughty.His heart warmed, and he stretched out his hand forward.

"Roach!" A familiar voice stopped him.

He froze for a moment, then raised his head and saw Du Zhengyi appearing on the other side.He looked gloomy, with his hands in his trouser pockets. "Don't touch her," he said, with the usual, genius impatience, as if scolding a stubborn mustard bump.

Roach became upset and didn't want to listen to him anymore.

"Don't touch her." As if seeing his thoughts, Du Zhengyi repeated it again, and walked between him and the girl in the hood, separating them.There are thousands of hectares of waves under his feet, and the way he walks is very ethereal.

Roach looked at him, his eyes were gloomy and quiet in the darkness, and he looked back at Roach with the usual impatience and unusual indifference.

"Go back," he said, his concise style still unchanged.

But Roach just knew, "You are not Du Zhengyi."

This man was colder and more depressed than Du Zhengyi.Most of all, he exudes the coldness of death.

"Are you dead too?" Roach heard himself ask.There was a sharp pain in his chest, and he suddenly recalled the countryside, the woods, the summoned beast, and the trigger point of all these.He wanted to carefully examine all the chains, which one caused Du Zhengyi's death.That was his idea, and he was responsible. Could it be that he killed both of them in the end?

But once the gate of memory was opened, all the memories of his life flooded into his brain at the same time, and his brain was overloaded.He yelled and had a terrible headache.

"Roach!" A pair of hands pressed his shoulders.

It was Du Zhengyi's urgent voice, which was more human than before.

He opened his eyes suddenly, his body was no longer as light as blue smoke, the intense white light stimulated his eyes, gravity seemed to pressurize his muscles at an extreme speed, and he gasped violently.As if his soul had been thrown back to his bulky body, he struggled to adapt, and all the pain he should have had returned after the injury.He almost threw up.

"Turn off the lights! You idiot!" He heard Du Zhengyi curse impatiently.

The irritating white light disappeared, leaving only two black holes in the afterimage of his retina, but he knew it was only a temporary burn.He was lying dizzy, with a pair of hands in the real world pressed firmly on his shoulders, it seemed that he must have been struggling very vigorously just now.

"Du Zhengyi?" he called with his eyes closed.

"It's me." Du Zhengyi responded, and tentatively let go of his hand, "You're fine, and you'll recover in two days."

"Du Zhengyi?" He called again, and Du Zhengyi squeezed his shoulder in response, probably thinking that he was not only half-blind, but also had ear problems.

He then asked, "Are you dead?"

The fingers on his shoulders froze for a moment, and after a few seconds, Du Zhengyi answered him solemnly in that low voice, "Not yet."

Luo Qi grinned, Du Zhengyi always had a latent sense of humor, and from time to time he broke through the disguise and surged to the surface.Roach wanted to say more, but his throat was on fire, and he moved his mouth like a fish.A straw suddenly protruded into his mouth, and he took a tentative sip, and the cool boiled water poured into his throat like nectar.He decided to barely count Du Zhengyi as having a conscience.

Roach drank the water and fell asleep again.This time he dreamed that he was standing in a green world, everywhere was green, the mountains and forests were green, green moss grew on the stones, and even the tree trunks were covered with green vines.A deer poked his head out from behind the stone Buddha lamp. He walked down the green steps. The steps could never be finished, and the deer was always ahead.

This dream was so exhausting that he woke up.This time he felt much better, and he slowly opened his eyes. There was only one lamp in the room, and it was adjusted to a very dim light.It seemed that the night was very long, and he didn't sleep for long.

He turned his neck and looked at the surrounding environment. He was surprised to find that the wall was green, and there was a mass of dark green in most of the light green paint. Looking carefully, the dark green part actually depicted a tree. big tree.No wonder he had that green dream, it seemed that he had caught a glimpse of his surroundings the last time he woke up.He looked down and saw a huge Thomas the Tank Engine under the big tree, taking up a quarter of a wall.Thomas made a white grimace, which sent a chill down his spine.

He quickly turned his eyes away and continued to observe the furnishings in the room, becoming more and more surprised.He saw cots with injection shelves next to them, and a toy kitchen cabinet full of stuffed animals against the wall.It appears he either had his legs amputated or he was occupying the only full-size bed at the children's hospital.

His ears were slow to recover, or his brain had just been restarted, starting up the motherboard and hard drive first, and the sound card had just started up.He heard two muffled voices talking, just around the corner from the back of his head.

He turned his neck around with difficulty, and saw two men sitting on a high stool in the corner. There was a bar by the wall with two plastic teacups in the shape of small animals on them. The two of them drank slowly like drinking s things.He could tell at a glance that one of the men was Du Zhengyi, and the other man, Luo Qi, didn't know him, but he was wearing a white coat like a human doctor.For a while he suspected that he hadn't woken up at all and was still dreaming.Taking a closer look, he realized that what they were leaning against was not a bar, but a place similar to a nurse's station, with a small metal cart next to it, which contained medical supplies.

Presumably the person who heard Du Zhengyi scolding when he woke up last time should be that doctor, and they should be acquaintances.The room was dimly lit, and the man was sitting in a darker corner, unable to see his face clearly, only what seemed to be a curl on his head.Now there are still men with curly hair. Except for the out-of-date mage, I can't think of anyone else.

Roach wanted to call them, but his throat was stuck together like an expired sticky plastic balloon. He turned his neck but didn't speak, and simply turned his ears to hear what they were talking about.Both of them kept their voices low, but from the frequency and tone of their conversation, Roach knew they must be arguing.It's a pity that although those sounds can float into his ears, they are messy like noises when they enter his ears, and there is no meaning at all.He had been in a coma for too long, and the recovery of the language center was a bit slow.

It took him a while before he slowly caught some fragments of words.After a while, Curly suddenly raised his voice, as if annoyed, "You are fully aware of the operation mechanism of the psychic beast. It is necessary to send it back for inspection."

Roach was surprised in his heart.Of course, the lion should be sent back for inspection, what is the end of it, how can it be worthy of the title of psychic beast, mad dog is nothing more than that.

Du Zhengyi didn't answer, Roach didn't know what he was hesitating about, why he pampered a lion like this.

"Du Zhengyi!" Curly must have gritted his teeth.

"What do you want me to say?" Du Zhengyi's leisurely voice made people itch. "I don't have the time to take it back, and I will never go to the committee to file any complaints. I don't have that time to waste."

"Then I'll take it back!" Curly said.

"No," Du Zhengyi flatly refused, "Then the committee will ask me to go back and testify. Those people have nothing to do with foreign workers."

Curly let out a sigh, which was a sigh that Du Zhengyi couldn't help, but then Roach's name popped up. "Luo Qi obviously has a problem, you understand it in your heart."

what?

Roach's eyes widened in shock, suddenly realizing they weren't talking about "it" but "he," they were talking about Roach.His heart was pounding, what the hell were they talking about?That bastard brute is fine, what's wrong with the almost-eaten man?Is he smelling too good or what, are they going to have this victim-blaming thing on him?

"I don't understand." Du Zhengyi said in a deep voice.

"Your subconscious mind has already attacked him," Curly said, his voice also lowered, and the two seemed to be confronting each other. "Your surface consciousness has no idea what happened three years ago, but your subconscious mind remembers that your subconscious mind knows he is dangerous."

"It's ridiculous. He didn't go to college three years ago, and he can't even light a bonfire well. Do you think he was the one who attacked me three years ago? A brat with low self-esteem?" Du Zhengyi said . "Is this the first day you met me?"

Luo Qi stared blankly at the dim ceiling of the children's ward, and he didn't know which sentence he heard shocked him more. It was the nonsense that Curly accused him of, or Du Zhengyi actually saw through him and said lightly. It broke the sore spot that he thought he had covered up well.

"Let Teacher Pei save some time." Du Zhengyi finally said, "I don't want him to worry about my shit anymore."

"Fuck? Du Zhengyi? How dare you say it!" Curly seemed to be on fire.

But Du Zhengyi stood up, as if he wanted to show with action that this conversation was over anyway, he suddenly glanced at Roach.

It was too late for Roach to pretend that he hadn't eavesdropped.Du Zhengyi walked over to him, brought him a plastic cup by the way, and put a straw to feed him.He drank the water, glanced at his little frog cup, and gave Du Zhengyi a thumbs up.

"You slept for a whole day, now is the second night." Du Zhengyi said without waiting for him to ask.

Roach reacted for a while, thinking about the time he lost, and suddenly opened his mouth.

Du Zhengyi said, "It's fine over there, don't worry, I can control those dogs."

Roach gave him another thumbs up, and carefully moved his body on the bed. He didn't feel too much pain, but some places were a little numb, but that might be because he had been lying down for too long. "Where is this place?" He tentatively used his voice and asked in a low voice.

"China Good Children's Clinic." Curly's aggressive voice just now became limp, and he walked towards him slowly, "China Good Children welcomes China Good Children—the slogan."

Roach raised his eyes and realized that the curly was very tall.His skin was very fair, and he was wearing a pair of gold-rimmed glasses with only lower frames. He was looking at Du Zhengyi narrowly over Du Zhengyi's shoulder, "If you hear what we just said, don't worry about it."

Is it impossible not to care?

"Are you a doctor?" Roach asked him dryly.

"Yes," Curly said cheerfully, "I'm a pediatrician, and I also work part-time to help rescue my own family members. I do both sides of the business. But it doesn't make much money to do a job like yours. It's not interesting, just to make friends."

"Thanks for saving your life, `friend,'" Roach said.

"You're welcome." The white-faced little curly-haired man answered him happily, giving him a smirk. "I heard that Du Zhengyi attacked you with his psychic beast?"

Luo Qi saw Du Zhengyi turning his head and looking at him, as if threatening him to shut up, he pretended to look at Du Zhengyi and smiled, looking like a hob meat who was not afraid of being cut by a knife or an axe.

Roach also turned his gaze back to Du Zhengyi's face. He already felt a little hungry, but he could hold on for a while.

(End of this chapter)