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Bai Zhun was taking a late afternoon nap, and as soon as the oriole "died", he immediately woke up, not knowing where Huo Zhenye was, so he himself reported it.

The rickshaw driver was waiting in front of the door, Bai Zhun got into the car, and A Xiu hurriedly followed.

The rickshaw quickly ran out of Yuqingli and stopped in front of the Sacred Heart Hospital.

Huo Zhenye had just finished making the phone call when he heard Xu Yanwen whisper behind him. He lifted Huo Zhenye's suit and saw the puppet-like Xiao Kai wrapped in the suit.

Xu Yanwen took out his stethoscope: "Brother Huo, whose child is this?"

"This child was kidnapped, and he was already like this when he was rescued."

Xiao Kai was lying on the hospital bed, still in a stiff posture, with his hands tightly attached to his legs, and his body was straight. If it wasn't for his head, he would turn everything around, just like a corpse.

Xu Yanwen heard Xiaokai's heartbeat, and found that his heartbeat was abnormally slow. A child's heartbeat would be faster than an adult's, but Xiaokai's heartbeat was only half of a normal heartbeat.

"It must be rescued immediately."

Before Huo Zhenye could speak, the door was pushed open, and Bai Zhun came in in a wheelchair, his eyes sweeping towards Xu Yanwen.

Tsk, it was quite close, he frowned, and said to Huo Zhenye: "Aren't you alive and well?" Then why call to save your life?

Huo Zhenye pointed to the child on the bed: "What should I do?"

Bai Zhun glanced at him, frowned, rolled the wheelchair to the side of the bed, and stretched out his hand to caress Xiao Kai's forehead. The body under his palms lost temperature, and the child's vitality was rapidly draining.

Losing the living soul is a little troublesome.

"Is there a way?" Huo Zhenye ran in with Xiao Kai in his arms. His clothes were slightly disheveled, his hair was wet with sweat, and he looked at Bai Zhun with concern.

This child is only five years old and has a short lifespan. He has never done any evil, and he will not save him when he dies.

Bai Zhun glanced at him, and he closed his eyes, agreeing.

Huo Zhenye relaxed and smiled, and he was relieved.

Xu Yanwen pushed Huo Zhenye away, he was always polite, now seeing them delaying the rescue time, he frowned anxiously: "Brother Huo, you have studied medicine yourself, so you should know the importance of first aid, why do you..."

Bai Zhun got out of the wheelchair, Huo Zhenye nodded: "Then help me, please."

Xu Yanwen and the nurse pushed Xiao Kai into the emergency room.

"Have you ever studied medicine?" Bai Zhun asked suddenly.

Huo Zhenye coughed, a little embarrassed, he went to England to study medicine.

"It turns out that you also hold a knife." Bai Zhun smiled faintly, and then became serious, "It's not troublesome to save him. His relatives will call out his soul for him. The sooner the better."

The longer it is lost, the less likely it is to find it. Even if it is found, the three souls and seven souls will be incomplete, and the person will become a dementia.

"But... Xiaokai's family are all religious."

Bai Zhun scoffed: "Why? The stuff of foreigners is faith, but the stuff of our ancestors is superstition?"

Xiaokai's parents rushed to the hospital after hearing the news. They heard that his son's heartbeat was still slowing down despite trying to rescue him, and his mother fell to the ground crying.

Huo Zhenye had no choice but to play the role of "magic stick". He walked up to Xiao Kai's father and said, "Mr. Cheng, if this method doesn't work, do you want to try another method?"

Before Mr. Cheng could speak, Mrs. Cheng jumped up and took Huo Zhenye's hand: "Mr. Huo, we can do anything, and we are willing to try any way."

"Xiao Kai is like this, he has three souls and seven souls, and he has to call his soul to his relatives."

"Calling the soul?" Mr. Cheng's expression changed, which was simply too ridiculous.

Huo Zhenye grasped the contempt in his expression and said, "Wouldn't it be ridiculous to light a pewter to pray? Little Kai doesn't have much time."

Mr. Cheng still hesitated, but Bai Zhun became impatient: "Can you save me? If not, I'm leaving."

Xiaokai's elder sister grabbed her father's sleeve, her eyes were clear, and she was silent from the beginning. She said to her father: "I saw that there are gray shadows under Xiaokai's bed."

There were balls and balls surging, she was crying while talking, Mrs. Cheng hugged her daughter, and looked at Bai Zhun in surprise.

"If you lose your soul, there are naturally other things that want to get in." Bai Zhun said sadly, and glanced at the family after he finished speaking.

Mrs. Cheng didn't care what her husband thought, she immediately said to Bai Zhun: "Sir, I am willing, I will call."

"You can't." Bai Zhun glanced at her and shook his head.

"Why? Isn't it just a close relative?" Mrs. Cheng burst into tears, clutching her lapel with one hand, for fear that her son would just disappear.

"You just had a serious illness, so you're not stable." The three souls were unstable, shouting like that, killing themselves too.

Mrs. Cheng had indeed been ill. She was still bedridden until she received the news. When she heard that her son had been found, more than half of her illness was cured.

Bai Zhun even knew that Mrs. Cheng was sick, so they believed it.

Mr. Cheng said: "Then I'll come, tell me how to shout?"

"You can't do it either, you're too angry and scared the soul away." Bai Zhun nodded the little girl, "You are suitable."

Mr. Cheng stayed with him in the hospital to see the doctor rescue his son, so as not to let him die. Mrs. Cheng took her daughter back home with Bai Zhun and Huo Zhenye.

He set up an incense altar at home, drew a circle with the incense ash from the furnace, and asked Cheng Junyi to stand in the circle. This is the place Xiaokai is most familiar with, and there are people he is most familiar with.

"Take one of his favorite things."

Cheng Junyi picked out a toy car, and Bai Zhun tied a red rope around her waist.

Cheng Junyi was only ten years old, and she tried not to cry. Before walking into the circle, she took out a milk candy from her pocket and handed it to Bai Zhun. It was something she brought to the hospital specially for Xiao Kai to eat.

Bai Zhun looked at the milk candy, the parents of this family are not very good, but the children are a bit smart.

Just when Huo Zhenye thought that Bai Zhun wouldn't want it, he saw Bai Zhun stretch out his hand, took the milk candy, gently unwrapped the candy wrapper with both hands, and stuffed the candy into his mouth.

While sucking sugar, he said to her: "Don't be afraid of anything you see, you can't go where the red rope holds you."

Cheng Junyi stood in the circle, and when the incense burnt, she fell asleep, thinking that she must not sleep with her brother, but at the same time, she couldn't hold it anymore.

With his head down, he closed his eyes and fell asleep.

When I opened my eyes again, the circle was gone, and so was the red string.

She firmly remembered that she wanted to find her younger brother, so she ran out the door in a few steps, stomped downstairs, and went to the place where Xiaokai often played to find him.

Mrs. Cheng saw her daughter bowed her head, and then the door of the house opened by itself. She was startled and suspicious. Just as she was about to close the door, Bai Zhun said, "It's open."

After closing the door, the two siblings will not be able to come back.

When Mrs. Cheng heard this, she quickly put her body against the door and stared at the daughter and the incense in the circle without blinking.

Mr. Bai said that once the incense goes out, no matter whether he can come back or not, he will bring his daughter back.

Cheng Junyi ran along the alley to the street, everything was gray in her eyes, the sky was gray, the ground was gray, the buildings and shops were also gray, and the passers-by were all gray, only her body had a little red light.

All the passers-by turned around and stared at her.

Cheng Junyi gritted her teeth and didn't cry, she was terrified, but she kept running and running, but she couldn't find her brother anywhere.

She opened her mouth and shouted: "Xiao Kai! Xiao Kai!"

Those gray people approached her, reaching out to touch her, but there seemed to be something on her body that frightened them, and the gray shadows bounced away before they touched her.

Cheng Junyi ran very fast, and she didn't feel tired at all.

She ran around the house, and went to the park where the family would go on Sundays, but there was no Kai.

Cheng Junyi finally went to the church. The huge cross was emitting a white light. She couldn't find Xiao Kai, but she saw Song Mingjie.

Song Mingjie was also dusty, but he was standing under a cross in the church yard. He saw Cheng Junyi and smiled at her.

"Song Mingjie! Have you seen my brother!" They were all members of the choir, they lit candles and sang together at Christmas, and Song Mingjie even gave her a Christmas present.

Song Mingjie waved to her, and Cheng Junyi followed behind him. They ran to a garden house. He stood at the door, pointed to the door, and told Cheng Junyi that her brother was here.

Through the garden door, Cheng Junyi saw that Xiao Kai was indeed inside. The floor-to-ceiling glass door was open, and Xiao Kai was playing with another child.

Xiaokai rode a bicycle, turning round and round in the garden.

Cheng Junyi shouted through the door: "Xiao Kai, come here!"

Xiao Kai vaguely heard his sister's voice, he turned his head and stared at the door for a while, as if he saw his sister, but he didn't move.

Cheng Junyi was in a hurry, she pushed open the big iron gate, and just as she was about to step in, the red rope around her waist suddenly gave off a red light, holding her tightly and not letting her move forward.

Cheng Junyi jumped up and shouted inside: "Xiao Kai! Come here! Look at your car!"

She raised a hand, but the car was no longer attractive to Kai, there were toys all over the floor, which he had never played with, candles were still on the cake, and they were about to sing happy birthday.

Xiao Kai couldn't hear his sister calling him at all, another child ran around him, and when he ran to the door, Cheng Junyi grinned and showed a weird smile.

Cheng Junyi was scared and anxious, she began to resist the rope, desperately trying to run into the garden, she wanted to bring her brother out.

But the rope was tightly tied around her waist, Cheng Junyi reached out and untied the rope, the red rope was hanging on the ground motionless, Song Mingjie looked at her in surprise.

Cheng Junyi ran in, picked up Xiao Kai, and slapped him on the forehead: "Xiao Kai! Why are you so disobedient!"

Xiao Kai suddenly woke up. He looked at his sister stupidly, then at this strange house, and held his sister's hand tightly: "Sister, I'm afraid."

Cheng Junyi rubbed his younger brother's head again, and led him out.

The child who had been standing in the shadow with a blurred figure suddenly laughed. A shadow divided into many paths and blocked the siblings. The iron gate that had just been opened was slowly closed.

The incense stick was only an inch long, and the red string had been trembling slightly from the beginning, and then suddenly softened.

Bai Zhun frowned, and said to Mrs. Cheng, "Call your daughter by her name and scold her loudly."

Mrs. Cheng couldn't open her mouth at all. Bai Zhun glanced at her and woke her up. She opened her mouth and scolded: "Cheng Junyi! Where are you going crazy! Why don't you bring your brother back for dinner!"

Cursing and crying bitterly.

The voice pierced through the gray fog and rang above the sky. Cheng Junyi grabbed her younger brother's hand and rushed towards the big iron gate, which was about to be closed.

Seeing that it was too late to go out, a small leather shoe pushed open the big iron gate.

Song Mingjie left a gap for them, he handed the red rope to Cheng Junyi, and waved goodbye to Cheng Junyi.

The incense ash broke, the girl opened her eyes, and Mrs. Cheng hugged her daughter, and she stroked her cheek and body.

Cheng Junyi seemed as tired as a long-distance run. Panting, she smiled and told her mother: "I sent Xiaokai to the hospital."

A loud voice sounded outside the window: "Mrs. Cheng, Mr. Cheng is calling, your son is awake!"

The call was made to the small shop at the entrance of the alley, and everyone in the alley heard the yelling, and they all congratulated through the windows: "Congratulations, Mrs. Cheng, finally you don't have to worry."

Bai Zhun's lips were pale and listless, Huo Zhenye took off his suit, put it on him, and hugged him up again.

Hold him in your arms, put your lips against Bai Zhun's ear: "You sleep for a while, I will take you back."

Bai Zhun clearly still had more energy, but he closed his eyes for a moment.

The author has something to say: Bai (blush: I'm just being lazy, nothing else

Huo (laughs: nothing else, what does it mean?

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