The Taste of Ghosts in the World

With the high-speed falling movement, Qi Mu's heart was also hanging in the air. His hands and feet were cold, and he took half a step back, leaning on Feng Baisui's chest, as if he had suddenly found a support. Qi Mu groped and grasped involuntarily. Hold each other's hand.

Feng Baisui also held him back, and whispered in his ear: "Don't worry."

Qi Mu really wanted to say how to rest assured in this situation, but the words were still in his throat, but the elevator stopped abruptly.

People were silent for a while, and after a while, a young girl asked in a low voice, "Really stopped?"

"Stop...stop!" Someone replied excitedly.

The people who survived the catastrophe began to cry loudly, and some of them sat on the side with weak legs, unable to speak.

Qi Mu didn't dare to relax, and asked Feng Baisui softly, "How long can you last?"

"I don't know, at least for now."

Hearing his unhurried voice, Qi Mu relaxed a little.

An hour later, everyone in the elevator was rescued.

The hospital solemnly apologized to the victims, saying that the cause of the accident was that the elevator had been in disrepair for a long time, the power system was in poor contact, and the derrick was too old. stop.

Fortunately, apart from the woman who died tragically, there were no other casualties, and this issue was not further investigated.

The police and the media would arrive soon, Qi Mu didn't want to stay any longer, and walked out of the hospital building, a woman hurried past him.

The blood on her body is really impossible to ignore, and coupled with the somewhat dislocated upper and lower body, Qi Mu couldn't help but take a few more glances. Although they talked in the elevator, it's best to keep a distance now.

So he lowered his head as if he didn't see it.

But soon, the woman turned around and passed Qi Mu again.

After repeating this three times, Qi Mu finally stopped and asked her, "What are you in a hurry to do?"

The woman also stopped and looked at him, with a dazed expression on her face, she said in a daze, "I don't remember... I only know that there is something important to do, but I don't remember what it is."

Died miserably in order to do something, and even forgot what it was after death...

Qi Mu didn't know what was going on in his heart, so he sighed and said to her, "Think about it slowly, I hope you can remember."

"Thank you." The woman nodded and hurried away again.

Qi Mu glanced back at her back, couldn't help thinking of the feeling of dying just now, and still had lingering fears in his heart.

Feng Baisui floated aside, mockingly said: "What? Are you scared?"

Qi Mu gently called his name: "Feng Baisui."

Feng Baisui didn't have time to answer, he just felt a huge force pulling him, his figure suddenly disappeared in place, and the next second, he appeared on the other side.

Is this the effect of the formation?

They were stunned for a moment, and they all lowered their heads to look at the bamboo tube on their chests.

Qi Mu smiled, patted him on the shoulder, and said, "Thank you."

Feng Baisui hadn't recovered from the dizziness just now, he snorted with a black face, and floated to the front.

The next day, Qi Mu received a call from old man Zhang, saying that he had run out of canned longan and asked him to bring some more.

Despite complaining, Qi Mu still went, passing by the old man Zhang's next door, he looked inside, the woman was still there.

It's as if no one has ever seen her...

After thinking about it, Qi Mu went in, put two bottles of canned food on her bedside, and said to her: "I bought too much, you can eat some if you want."

"Thank you." The woman smiled and asked him, "Are you here to visit the patient?"

Qi Mu nodded, "It's next door. What about you?"

The woman said: "I came here to recuperate, but it never recovered. It has been like this since I gave birth."

Qi Mu was surprised, "You are so young, you already have a child! Boy or girl?"

The woman's expression darkened suddenly, and she said softly, "It's a boy, but he died at birth."

"Ah, I'm sorry." Qi Mu subconsciously looked at the baby at the end of her bed, the small body was lying on the quilt, and the soft crying sounded again.

The woman seemed to have heard it too, noticed his gaze, and asked nervously, "Can you hear me? The cry of the baby?"

Qi Mu hesitated, wondering if he should tell her.

The woman's eyes were eager, "Tell me the truth, can you hear me?"

Qi Mu finally nodded.

After getting the answer, the woman lowered her hand weakly, "I thought I was crazy... I thought it was my hallucination... When the child was only five months old, his father broke up with me. I thought we would definitely get married, but we broke up... At that time, I was dizzy and wanted to kill the child, but I was too embarrassed to go to the hospital, so I did it myself at home, strangled it with bandages...doing strenuous exercise...I tried everything, and there was blood once, but the child was still there.

After that time, I figured it out. I wanted to give birth to the child by myself, raise him, and be with me, and then I started to get pregnant with peace of mind.When it came time to give birth, the situation was very dangerous. I struggled for two days, and finally gave birth to him. Maybe I hurt him during the growing period. The baby was born without breathing...

From then on, no matter where I went, I could always hear the cry of the baby, as if the child followed me at all times... I regretted and was afraid, and I didn't dare to let others know, and I didn't know what to do..."

The woman covered her face and cried, "I know he is punishing me...I lost him because I didn't want him..."

Qi Mu didn't know how to comfort her, so he could only pat her on the back lightly.

"He has just been born, so he probably doesn't know what hatred and punishment are. I guess he just wants to be with his mother, so he will always follow you." Qi Mu looked at the little baby at the end of the bed, "He didn't mean anything malicious. of."

The woman raised her head, her eyes were blue, her whole face looked haggard, "Is he there? Is he here?"

Qi Mu thought for a while and acquiesced.

"Can you let me see him? I want to see him!" The woman grabbed Qi Mu's clothes.

Qi Mu was in a dilemma, "...I can't help it."

The woman let go of her hand in disappointment, and said softly, "I'm scared...every time I hear crying, I'm scared...When I close my eyes at night, I feel the crying is next to the pillow, but when I open it, there's nothing..."

She took the bedside bag, found an embroidered cloth bag from inside, and opened it, "This is his umbilical cord. I keep it all the time, and I will take it out to look at it from time to time. I want to apologize to him personally and ask him to forgive me." I... don't torture me anymore..."

From the cloth bag, Qi Mu smelled a faint rancid smell, and the baby seemed to be very interested in his umbilical cord, and slowly crawled towards the head of the bed.

Qi Mu wanted to say something, but didn't say it.

After leaving the woman's ward, he carried the can to old man Zhang and talked about her incident by the way.

"Umbilical cord..." Old man Zhang stroked his beard, "As long as you burn that thing, the brat won't be able to find her."

"why?"

"Because the umbilical cord is the only link between the baby and the sun, she always carries it with her, so the little ghost follows her." The expression on the old man's face is unpredictable, "This kind of baby has not opened its eyes yet, so it cannot be recognized visually. Target, if the connection with the Yang world is broken, they will naturally not be able to affect the living."

So Qi Mu made a special trip to the next ward to tell the woman this method.

"Burn it?" After hearing this, the woman held the cloth bag with reluctance in her eyes.

Qi Mu said lightly: "I'm just telling you this method. If you want to keep him, just pretend you didn't hear it. If you can't stand it, just burn it."

The woman thought for a long time, so long that Qi Mu thought she would not agree, and when she was about to leave, she slowly asked, "Do you have a lighter?"

Qi Mu had no choice but to go to the toilet again and secretly burned the umbilical cord.

Sure enough, as old man Zhang said, after losing the umbilical cord, the baby suddenly lost its purpose, fell off the hospital bed, and wriggled aimlessly on the ground.

Qi Mu gave Feng Baisui a wink and asked him to pick up the child.

Feng Baisui glanced at the slime on the kid's body, frowned, pretending not to understand what he meant.

Qi Mu sighed, bent down to pick up the baby, and said to the woman: "He won't pester you anymore, and you can start over from now on."

The woman nodded and asked him, "Is the child... still there?"

Qi Mu paused for a moment, the touch in his arms was real, the baby was very light and small, and the slippery little hand was holding his arm, he looked into the woman's eyes, filled with complicated emotions.

"It's gone." Qi Mu said.

"It's gone..." The woman lowered her eyes, feeling a little lost and relieved.

Saying goodbye to her, when she walked out of the ward, the woman said to Qi Mu, "Thank you." But her eyes were on his hands.

After going out, Feng Baisui asked him: "How do you deal with this brat?"

"I don't know." Qi Mu turned into the safe passage. Since the elevator accident last time, he had a psychological shadow. He would rather climb the stairs than experience the feeling of weightlessness again.

After leaving the building, she saw the dismembered female ghost, she was still busy for no apparent reason.

"Do you remember?" Qi Mu greeted her.

The female ghost stopped, and after a moment of bewilderment, she said: "No." Then she saw the baby in Qi Mu's hand, "This is it?"

"Dead children."

"It's so small..." The female ghost stared at the baby intently, and after a while, said slowly, "I remember..."

"what?"

"I got off work late, and I have to pick up my son from the kindergarten."

"Then now your son..."

The female ghost looked very worried and said, "Can you accompany me to see him?"

Qi Mu thought there was nothing wrong anyway, so he agreed.

When they arrived at the kindergarten, there was already a circle of eagerly awaited parents outside, and Qi Mu finally squeezed into the crowd, only to see many children walking out in line.

"Which one is your son?"

"Let me see." The female ghost searched around, pointing at the little boy who walked at the end, "That!"

The kid kept his head down until a man walked by and knelt down to talk to him.

"It's his father." The female ghost smiled, "I usually pick him up. He's very busy at work."

At this time, the man led the boy past them and heard the child ask, "Dad, why didn't Mom come?"

"She was busy, so I came instead. Don't you like Dad?"

"like!"

"So what do you want to eat tonight?"

"Want to watch cartoons!"

"eat first……"

The father and son gradually walked away, and the female ghost stayed where they were, watching their backs, and did not speak.

"Aren't you going to take a look?" Qi Mu asked.

The female ghost shook her head, "The two of them are doing well, I'm relieved."

"So are you going back to the hospital now?"

"I'm not going back, I'm going to reincarnate." The female ghost looked down at the baby in Qi Mu's arms, "Give him to me, I'll take the baby with me."

Qi Mu handed the baby to her, and the female ghost took it carefully, as if holding her own child, she shook the baby's wrist to them both, and then slowly disappeared from sight.

"Mind your own business." Feng Baisui said to Qi Mu.

Qi Mu spread his hands, "I don't want to either... Anyway, it's not a big trouble, so let me help you by the way."

He thought for a while, and then said, "But you're right, we won't go to see that old man in the future, it can save a lot of trouble."

"I shouldn't have gone in the first place." Feng Baisui clasped his hands.

Qi Mu chuckled, and said unkindly, "Let him eat to death."