Ghostly Eyes [Tomb Raiders]

Li Qiu didn't doubt him, so he obediently sat opposite the old man. The old man took a sip of tea leisurely and said, "Speaking of my conscience, isn't my attitude just now very indifferent? That young man has been lying in the hospital for several months. I’m so casual about giving gifts.”

"What to give is not the important point, the important thing is that etiquette is less important than people's meaning," Li Qiu comforted, "Besides, the relationship between people is divided into distances, probably the patient is not an acquaintance of the old man, if it is only superficial It's understandable to give gifts like this."

"Yeah, not an acquaintance, but I met occasionally when I was in the hospital." The old man touched his wrinkled chin and recalled: "I am a man with sons and daughters. The young man is different, he wakes up every day, he is always alone, and no one has ever visited him in the hospital for several months, just seeing his eyes makes me feel too uncomfortable and depressed."

"So this gift was bought for him?" Li Qiu rolled his eyes, "The old man is so kind."

The old man sat up slightly and couldn't help laughing: "Look at what you said, then you can recommend a few for me, suitable for young people, not too expensive."

"Ok, no problem."

Li Qiu walked to the counter and took off the gift boxes from the shelf one by one.

"By the way, does your store deliver? I want to send the gift box directly to the hospital and put a blessing card, but don't mention my name."

"Of course, the old man does not leave his name when he does good deeds, so leave the delivery to me. Tell me the address of the hospital, and I will arrange the delivery for you."

The old man cleared his throat and said quietly, "No. 72 Linjiang Street, Taihe Hospital, bed 702."

With a shattering sound, the crystal tea bottle in Li Qiu's hand fell to the ground and shattered.

The old man stood up from the rattan chair, tilted his head meaningfully, stared at Li Qiu's stiff back, and repeated lightly.

"Taihe Hospital, 702 beds."

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Today, Ah Jiu Western Restaurant is open as usual, there are not many customers, and the proprietress is away, Xiao Cai lays down in front of the counter boredly, flicking Lianliankan on her mobile phone to kill time.

At some point, a figure appeared in front of Xiao Cai.Xiao Cai frantically put away the phone, looked up, and almost threw the phone out again: What's going on, how could there be a group of policemen in their small western restaurant!

Two or three policemen in uniform surrounded the front desk tightly, and the leader showed his ID card and said gently: "Hello miss, we are the policemen from the police station in this block, and we would like to ask you to cooperate in handling a major cultural relic missing case. "

Xiao Cai's heart was beating like thunder, he swallowed his throat reluctantly, and said softly on his noodle legs: "Brother policeman, we are all good citizens in our shop, never, never dare to do illegal things, did you find the wrong place!?"

The policeman was amused by her like this, "Don't be nervous, I just ask you to cooperate with the investigation, because some witnesses said that the lost cultural relics appeared in your store for the last time, so I would like to ask, have you received any special cultural relics in your store recently? Antiques, antiques, or leftovers from other customers."

Xiao Cai shook her head quickly. They are a restaurant, not a cultural relics exchange, so she is very sure of this.

The policeman continued: "It's a green Buddhist jade."

Xiao Cai paused for two seconds, and his mouth instantly opened into a duck egg—Buddha Jade!The buddha jade that the handsome guy used to temporarily compensate for the overlord's meal that day!

Ten minutes later, the policeman took the undamaged jade from Xiao Cai's trembling hand, smiled with satisfaction, and pointed to the monitoring equipment above his head: "If the machine is not broken, please let us check the monitoring records of that day."

"You, you want to arrest him...?" Xiao Cai's lips trembled, she couldn't associate the kind and sincere Li Qiu with the cultural relics thief in the news, it was rare that she fell in love with a handsome guy, why did this happen again.

It's a pity that the police didn't understand Xiao Cai's broken girl's heart, they kept their eyes on the surveillance records, and when Li Qiu appeared on the screen, they took pictures to record.

"Miss, don't worry, before we get clear evidence, he is just a third party who accidentally handled cultural relics. If he is really an accomplice, he must be very clear about the value of this Buddhist jade, so how could he be so casual?" Then use this jade as a mortgage for a king's meal."

After hearing this, Xiao Cai's little heart fell into his stomach a little bit, but he couldn't suppress his eager curiosity, and said: "The gentleman said that this jade... seems to be worth [-] yuan?"

The policeman shook his head with a smile, "Twenty thousand, you need to add three zeros after it."

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SMS

Sender: Li Qiu

Sent content: Today he asked me to meet, and the blind date has been going well so far.

After closing the phone, Li Qiu took a deep breath and walked into the familiar Taihe Hospital in front of him.

Carrying an exquisite tea gift box in his hand, like every sick visitor, he took the elevator to the long hospital corridor.

As soon as the door of Room 702 was pushed open, the glare of the sun rushed towards him. It took Li Qiu a few seconds to get used to the light. The only hospital bed in the room was empty, and it was neatly tidied up without any wrinkles. No one has stayed for a long time.

Sure enough, Ah Jiu had been away for a long time.

However, the business must continue.Li Qiu put the gift box neatly on the hospital bed, and gave it to bed 702 as a gift as the old man instructed—even though there was no one on that bed.

After finishing everything simply, Li Qiu sighed and stroked the clean pillow nostalgic.He used to sit by this bed many times, stroking the unconscious brows and eyes of that person over and over again like this, but now things are different, and people are strangers.

Li Qiuku sat by the bed and reluctantly left the hospital until noon.The weather is hot, and the business of the tea house is also deserted. Li Qiu happened to be free to sort out the new goods, and he got it in the middle of the night without paying attention. Just when he was about to close the door and go home, the landline in the shop suddenly rang strangely. .

Ringing the phone in the middle of the night felt inexplicably terrifying.Li Qiu hesitated for a moment, but still picked up the phone.

It turned out to be the old man in the daytime.

"Sorry, I called you at this time. I couldn't sleep all night. I just thought of something and wanted to trouble you."

"If you ask about the tea gift box, I have already been sent to the hospital during the day."

"No, it's not that one. I want to give another gift box that is exactly the same, and it's still for bed 702."

"No problem, what time do you think you need it?"

"Just now, send it over now."

"Now..." Li Qiu's gaze fell on the digital watch in a daze. Now, at three o'clock in the morning, send a gift box to the hospital?

The old man didn't seem to realize that there was anything wrong with this, "Can't you? I remember that you didn't limit the delivery time during the day, so I thought any time would be fine. And since you answered the phone, it means that the store is still closed now, right?" ?”

Li Qiu was silent for a long time, gritted his teeth: "Okay, I'll give it to you now."

The old man smiled with satisfaction, and then hung up the phone.

Back and forth, even Li Qiu himself did not expect that he came to Taihe Hospital again.It's just that at this point in time, the entire hospital building is pitch black, there isn't even a single light on duty, it's pitch black, gloomy and terrifying.

Is there a power outage?This situation is really rare.

However, the hospital is connected to important medical equipment, and there is usually a backup power supply. Li Qiu touched the door of the hospital based on his memory, turned on the light of his mobile phone and walked inside.

It's just this power outage, the elevator might not be available, Li Qiu worried secretly towards the pitch-black safety stairs.Suddenly, he found a cold green light flickering at the end of the corridor. If there is light, there is someone. Li Qiu was overjoyed and ran over without thinking.

At the end of the first floor is the security monitoring room, but there is no one in the room, only one monitor is working dutifully, simultaneously playing the screen of every corner of the hospital at this moment.

"Is anyone there? Security guard?"

Li Qiu yelled a few times, but no one answered for a long time, just when he was about to quit, he suddenly saw a picture.On the surveillance screen at the top of the wall—the surveillance screen monitoring the hospital roof, a familiar figure appeared.

Li Qiu's lips trembled, and he murmured: "... Ah Jiu?"

Although the light was very dim, Li Qiu could still tell at a glance that the person who appeared on the hospital rooftop at midnight was Ah Jiu who left the restaurant without saying goodbye.

rooftop? !Li Qiu woke up in a jerk, and rushed to the screen, and saw Ah Jiu wearing a thin shirt, walking up to the edge of the roof step by step, and finally standing on the weak drainpipe on the roof, looking down.

What is he going to do!

Li Qiu didn't have time to think, his body obeyed instinctively and acted first.This hospital building is thirteen floors high, Li Qiu rushed up it regardless, running too fast and too fast, his throat was full of nauseating acid water.But he didn't dare to stop, he climbed to the top floor with trembling legs, and rushed to the rooftop staggeringly.

The iron door on the roof was locked, Li Qiu slapped it hard, and shouted anxiously: "Ah Jiu! Cough cough...Ah Jiu, can you hear my voice! Open the door quickly! Cough cough..."

No one responded.

Li Qiu was as anxious as an ant on fire, wishing he could break open the thick iron gate with his body, the image of Ah Jiu Ruruo wandering on the roof of the building was replayed in his mind repeatedly, and he could not retreat.

Suddenly, Li Qiu found an open door on the side, which was a utility room, and the direction of the window was facing the rooftop.Li Qiu rushed to the window in a hurry, but was disappointed to find that the window of the utility room was still three or four meters away from the roof, and it was impossible to pass without a ladder.

Li Qiu yelled a few more times, but still no one responded, he couldn't wait any longer, turned over and jumped onto the air conditioner outside the window, trying to move towards the roof.

The horizontal distance of three or four meters is nothing on flat ground, but it is astonishingly difficult to cross the cliff under the height difference of the thirteenth floor.Li Qiu had never tried such an adventure in his life, but his worry about that man finally overcame his reason and made him risk his life regardless.

Li Qiu tried not to look down, repeatedly memorized the location of the rooftop, closed his eyes, and jumped forward.

Originally, everything was well calculated, but he didn't want to spend too much energy climbing the stairs just now, his weak feet could not provide enough strength, Li Qiu only had time to grab the roof with both hands, and his lower body suddenly slid down weightlessly.

On the roof of the thirteenth floor, Li Qiu was hanging on the edge of the roof, precariously.