Urban Night Returner

In Binhai City, the traffic flow decreased significantly at 8 o'clock in the evening.Shen Gu drove back from the nursing home, and there were glutinous rice balls in a cage on the back seat of the car.Shen Zhiyun compared cats to grandchildren, Shen Gu could not visit her, but Tangyuan had to go once a week.Not to mention, Zhong Lecen's medical skills are good, Tangyuan has now fully recovered, jumping up and down at home every day with great energy, still meowing when he sees Shen Gu, and sleeping in a nest, but now he insists on sleeping in a cage, only In the cage, Cai reacted calmly to Shen Gu's approach.Shen Gu was really a little puzzled by the trouble—could that unlicensed doctor really know something?

Shaqi, when he was a soldier, someone in the team said that to him.At that time, his old captain, Li Yue, was still alive. He once said that he was born with evil spirits, and he was born with a gun.But that was half-joking, and one evil spirit is not the other evil spirit. As a special soldier, Shen Gu knows that everything is possible, even if there are no ghosts and gods. If you want him to believe in that young magic stick, it is really...

Whoever wants to come.Just as Shen Gu thought of Zhong Lecen, he caught a glimpse of a figure standing on the side of the road, looking around and wondering what he was doing.The weather in early spring is still cold, and there are not many pedestrians on the road at this time. Apart from him, there is only a woman in red standing a few tens of meters away. It is far away, and the sky is dark, so she can't see clearly. But in this weather, she She was actually wearing a skirt, which still looks very thin. She really loves beauty and is not afraid of the cold.

A taxi passed by, the woman waved, and the car stopped.Shen Gu noticed that Zhong Lecen was standing by the lamppost, when he saw the woman getting into the car, he suddenly jumped to the side of the road and waved desperately to the taxi behind, regardless of whether it was empty or not.It's a pity that there were people in the car, so naturally they didn't stop.Shen Gu drove the car over, rolled down the window and looked at him: "Taxi?"

Zhong Lecen bent down to take a look inside the car, and immediately opened the door and sat up: "Mr. Shen, please help me and keep up with the taxi in front."

Shen Gu stepped on the accelerator: "Which one? The car that the woman in the red dress is sitting in?"

Zhong Lecen turned around abruptly: "Did you see it?"

Shen Gu was slightly surprised: "What did you see?"

"See someone get in the car?"

Shen Gu was even more surprised: "Of course, otherwise why did the taxi stop?"

Zhong Lecen's expression became excited: "What did you see?"

Shen Gu frowned: "Why are you excited? Can't you see it?"

Zhong Lecen seemed to jump on him: "Yes, I didn't see it. What did you see?"

Shen Gu looked at him in disbelief: "Didn't you see it? A woman was wearing a red dress, a very thin one. It was only 50 meters away from you. How could you not see it? And, if you didn't see it, why don't you tell me?" What am I doing with that car in front of me?"

Zhong Lecen stared at him blankly, and said for a long time: "Mr. Shen, do you have yin and yang eyes?"

"Yin-yang eyes?" Shen Gu was turning the steering wheel, and almost slipped his hand, "Doctor Zhong, don't you feel a little—" talking nonsense?

Instead, Zhong Lecen became serious: "Mr. Shen, can you tell me your date of birth? Oh no, we'll talk about this later——"

Shen Gu watched him quickly take out a piece of yellow paper from his pocket, looked up and looked ahead, and immediately felt that something was wrong.They have already driven on the east-west overpass. At this time, there are very few cars on the bridge, but the taxi in front drove in an S-shape as if drunk, turned a few times, and then suddenly accelerated and rushed out of the bridge. past.Zhong Lecen quickly folded the yellow paper a few times, opened the window and threw it out.Shen Gu watched in amazement that the yellow paper suddenly ignited in the wind, turning into a stream of flames and rushing in through the rear window of the taxi.With a squeak, the taxi slammed on the brakes, and the front bumper almost touched the guardrail beside the bridge.Shen Gu slammed on the brakes, but Zhong Lecen had already jumped out of the car and rushed towards the taxi before he could stop.

Shen Gu got out of the car, still unable to recover.There were yellow lights installed on the guardrails on both sides of the overpass, just as Zhong Lecen opened the taxi passenger's door and leaned in, the lights beside Shen Gu suddenly turned green.The keen sense developed between life and death made Shen Gu instinctively raise his hand to block it - he didn't see anything, but felt as if something was rushing towards him.

With a soft pop, Shen Gu felt that his hand seemed to be patting on a piece of leather. The lighting flashed suddenly, and then returned to bright yellow. Shen Gu looked at his hand, the palm was black, like It was as if it had been covered with soot. He wiped it with the other hand, but it didn't come off.

Zhong Lecen ran over from the taxi, saw the black on Shen Gu's hand, and showed a surprised expression again: "Mr. Shen——"

"What is this?" Shen Gu frowned.He has no obsession with cleanliness, but the black looks very thick, and there is a faint fishy smell, like coagulated blood.

Zhong Lecen pondered, and took out another piece of yellow paper. This time, Shen Gu saw it clearly, and there were some strange symbols drawn in red on the paper. He wiped the paper lightly on Shen Gu's hand. The sponge soaked up the water, and it was all printed on the yellow paper.Zhong Lecen folded it and shook it, and the paper lit up.The flames were green, and the wind was strong on the bridge, but it didn't blow the flames.In just a few seconds, the yellow paper was burned out, and there was not even a little paper ashes left.

Shen Gu silently watched the series of phenomena that violated the laws of physics, and then asked calmly, "What happened to the driver?"

Zhong Lecen looked back: "He will feel that he is too tired to take a nap, and he won't remember anything." Sure enough, the window glass rolled down, and the driver stretched out his head to look around with a pale face, and returned the car to the driveway , drove away at a turtle speed.Zhong Lecen looked at the rear headlights, "It is estimated that he will not dare to drive tired for a long time."

Shen Gu opened the door: "Get in the car." He has too many questions to ask.

"That woman—" Shen Gu thought about his choice of words, "What is it?" Anyway, she definitely can't be a person.

"It's a wandering soul. However, it's a wandering soul with hostility. Ordinary wandering souls don't have the ability to manifest themselves."

"Since it is visible, why can't you see her?"

Zhong Lecen lowered his head, and after a long while, he said sullenly: "I can't see. Wandering souls can only show their appearance to the target person, other than that, only those who have opened the eyes of the sky or are born with yin and yang eyes can see, I can't."

Shen Gu squinted at him: "Aren't you a celestial master?" Is there a celestial master who can't see ghosts?

Zhong Lecen's expression became even more depressed, and he raised his hand to take off his glasses, stared at the thin pattern on the frame for a long time, and sighed softly: "I'm not a celestial master, so I'm not qualified."

Shen Gu reckoned that he probably poked this person's sore spot.After Zhong Lecen took off his glasses, the bright cinnabar mole was revealed, like a drop of blood and tears under the dim light of the headlights.Shen Gu noticed that his eyes were beautiful, with long and thick eyelashes, which trembled slightly like butterfly wings when they fell down, covering the bright black pupils.With this pair of eyes, his inconspicuous facial features suddenly came to life. The Taoist said that the finishing touch is the finishing touch, but it is different.

"Since you can't see it, how do you know which car you want to follow?" Shen Gu changed the subject.Although Zhong Lecen's gloomy appearance is very interesting, it is not very kind to hold on to other people's sore feet.

"I saw the door of that car opened by itself, and then the driver turned on the empty car light, indicating that something was in the car." Zhong Lecen raised his head without much energy, "I wanted to save her, but who knew I didn't see it?" Sure, she escaped from the car and wanted to get on you."

"What about now? You saved her?"

Zhong Lecen looked at Shen Gu in surprise: "You don't know? You have already broken her up."

"Break up?" Shen Gu frowned, "What do you mean it's broken up?"

"It's just that the soul is gone."

Shen Gu looked at his hands, and there was still a cold feeling on his hands: "In this way, the ghost is gone? According to you, this ghost still has some skills, why is the ghost gone?"

Zhong Lecen was even more puzzled than him: "This ghost has already hurt two or three lives, and she is very hostile. Ordinary people are unable to resist her upper body, but Mr. Shen can beat her to death... But since Mr. Shen's birthday Judging from the horoscope, there should be no such ability..."

Shen Gu parked the car on the side of the road: "First it was evil spirit, then it was yin and yang eyes, and now it is what kind of soul flying away, what else do you want to say?"

Zhong Lecen flinched under his gaze, and whispered: "It's not what I want to say, it's Mr. Shen, you are indeed like this."

Shen Gu said calmly: "I trained military dogs before, do you understand?"

Zhong Lecen blinked and immediately understood: "You mean military dogs are not afraid of you? But military dogs are different from ordinary pets."

Shen Gu continued to be patient: "Do you know what I used to do?"

Zhong Lecen whispered, "Aren't you training military dogs?"

Shen Gu felt that his forehead was about to jump blue veins: "I have been a special soldier. If I had yin and yang eyes as you said, then I would have been able to see a lot of ghosts."

Zhong Lecen was completely out of shape, and there was a bit of admiration in his eyes: "No wonder Mr. Shen has such a strong evil spirit, and only those who have really been on the battlefield will have it."

Shen Gu felt that he was a bit of a chicken and duck talking: "This is not the point. Dr. Zhong, the point is that if I have yin and yang eyes, then I should have seen many things that I shouldn't have seen, but I never have."

Zhong Lecen frowned: "But Mr. Shen clearly saw that woman just now."

This time it was Shen Gu's turn to be speechless.Zhong Lecen looked at his gloomy face, and said in a lower voice, "It takes a chance to open the eyes of the sky, maybe Mr. Shen didn't have this chance before... Ahhh!" He sneezed and rubbed his hands.

"Cold?" Shen Gu found that he was wearing a lot.

"Standing for too long..." Zhong Lecen sniffed embarrassedly, "I'm a little afraid of the cold."

"How long have you been standing?" Shen Gu turned on the heater.

"Probably, 4 hours..." Zhong Lecen said uncertainly, and coughed twice.

Shen Gu glanced at him: "Since you can't see the ghost, why are you here to catch it?" If the taxi stopped not far from him, he might not be able to find the ghost even if he stood here all night.

Zhong Lecen smiled: "I can't help it. I'm from Zhong's family, so I can't just ignore ghosts when I know they are harming people."

Shen Gu was a little surprised: "How do you know that there are ghosts that harm people?"

"There have been several accidents on this road in the past few days."

Shen Gu read the newspaper: "Didn't it say drunk driving?"

"That's what the newspaper said, and the driver himself thought so. But I have a friend who also drove a taxi, and he happened to run into two of the accidents. One was a bridge head that killed a person. According to the driver who hit the person, it was the man. I suddenly rushed down from the sidewalk and ran a red light, but a boy at the scene said that a woman in a red dress pushed him down, but no one else saw it, and the police didn’t believe it.”

Shen Gu immediately thought of the red dress on the woman he saw: "Did your friend see it?"

"No. But in the second crash, he saw a woman in a red dress get out of the taxi that caused the accident, and disappeared in a flash. He also drank some alcohol that day, and the driver did not mention that there were passengers in the car. He thought he was wrong, but the connection of the two things shows that he was not wrong."

"That friend of yours has yin and yang eyes? Why can he see one time and not the other?"

Zhong Lecen shook his head: "He doesn't have yin and yang eyes. But he drank alcohol that day. Alcohol is a very strange thing that excites people's nerves. In fact, the so-called opening of the eyes of the sky or yin and yang eyes is to a certain extent the maximum It mobilizes the potential of the human body and has a better ability to perceive the surrounding things. Therefore, some hallucinations after drinking may not be hallucinations, but other people can't feel them, so they regard them as hallucinations."

Shen Gu didn't answer.Regarding this almost absurd theory, coupled with the scene he witnessed tonight, he could neither refute nor agree with it.

"Where do you live? I'll take you back."

"Oh—" Zhong Lecen looked around, "Where is this?"

"Isn't this Taitung? It's very close to your clinic."

"Ah—" Zhong Lecen laughed awkwardly, "I, I don't know the way. That night—it always looks different."

Shen Gu shook his head: "Where do you live?" Even if it is different, Taitung still has landmark buildings, at least when you see Liqun Commercial Building, you should know that you are in Taitung, right?Road idiot.

Zhong Lecen mentioned a place, which also belongs to the old housing area that will be demolished. The streets are narrow and twisted, and it is difficult for cars to get in.Zhong Lecen got out of the car and turned around to thank him.Shen Gu waved his hand, and was about to start the car when suddenly a person came out from the shade of a tree and bumped into Zhong Lecen.Shen Gu frowned, Zhong Lecen had already opened his hand to catch the man: "Su Wan, Su Wan? Why are you drinking like this again?"

The man he called Su Wan didn't look very old, but he had a stubbled face and a haggard face. He seemed to be in his 40s and [-]s. His suit was crooked, and he had a bottle of beer in his hand, pouring it on Zhong Lecen. , while also lifting the bottle and pouring it into his mouth.Zhong Lecen supported him with one hand, and grabbed his wine bottle with the other: "Su Wan, can you stop getting drunk all the time and not go to work tomorrow? And it's not good for your health."

Su Wan suddenly threw the wine bottle on the ground: "What do you know! Lao Tzu, I quit! Do you know what that supervisor said, saying that Lao Tzu used bad colors, bah! He knows nothing! I'm so angry, I'm quitting!"

Zhong Lecen supported his body that was going straight down: "All right, if you don't do it, then let's go. Let's go back and talk about it first. Don't make trouble outside."

Su Wan turned his head bluntly: "Where's the wine? Where's the wine!" He suddenly turned back and punched Zhong Lecen, "Where did you hide my wine!" He was half a head taller than Zhong Lecen, and Zhong Lecen It was already a little difficult to support him, so he had to turn his face to the side for this punch, and took it hard with his shoulders.

Shen Gu frowned, jumped out of the car, pulled Su Wan over, turned around and asked Zhong Lecen, "Which floor do you live on?"

Su Wan blinked his eyes to see the person in front of him clearly: "You, who are you! Get out, get out!"

Shen Gu tore off his tie, tied his flailing hands repeatedly, bent down and carried him on his shoulders: "Which floor do you live on?"

Zhong Lecen stared dumbfounded at Shen Gu lifting Su Wan up, and hurriedly said a floor, leading the way.The corridor was narrow and full of sundries, Su Wan kicked and scolded all the way, alarming several houses to open their doors and come out to see, so Zhong Lecen had to apologize from left to right.

Zhong Lecen lived in a small place, only about [-] square meters, with one bedroom, one living room and one bathroom. There was a sofa bed in the living room, not much furniture, and it was kept very clean.Shen Gu threw him onto the sofa, and Su Wan rubbed his hands on his face in pain.Zhong Lecen hurried to the bathroom and twisted a hot towel to wipe his face.Shen Gu stood aside and watched: "He drank like this all day?" Who is this person Zhong Lecen?

Zhong Lecen smiled wryly: "No. Probably in a bad mood today."

Shen Gu snorted coldly and said nothing.Drinking to drown his sorrows is the last thing he despises, especially when he gets drunk and beats people up.

"your friend?"

Zhong Lecen nodded.Su Wan was being honest this time, and fell asleep on the sofa with his hands still tied.Zhong Lecen knelt down to take off his shoes, untied his tie, and then pulled off the quilt to cover him. Only then did he realize that there was someone else in the room, and stood up embarrassedly: "Thank you. That, have a drink water?"

Shen Gu shook his head: "No need. I'll leave if I'm fine."

Zhong Lecen stood up to see him off, before he reached the door, Su Wan was already writhing on the sofa: "Le Cen, Le Cen—" There was still a bit of crying in his voice.

"Hey—" Zhong Lecen stood at the door in a dilemma.Shen Gu shook his head again: "No need to send it off, I know the way."

After all this commotion, it was almost ten o'clock when Shen Gu got home. The door of 502 was still ajar, and as soon as the solid key sounded, Pang Fengyun came out of the room: "Brother Shen——"

Seeing his hesitant expression, Shen Gu stood still and said, "What's the matter?" He worked overtime almost every day during the city building activities these few days, and it seemed that he hadn't seen this group of young people for several days.

Pang Fengyun lowered his head, looking haggard: "Brother Shen, I want to discuss something with you... Can we defer the rent for one month?" Every time it is due to pay, never default.

Shen Gu looked at him: "What happened?"

"Luo Wei is in the hospital. She fainted on the street today. The doctor said that there is something wrong with the mitral valve of the heart and needs surgery. Our advertising bill will not be settled until next month, and now... a little bit of turnover .”

"Understood." Shen Gu took out his wallet and took out the salary that he had just raised this month to give him, "You don't have to worry about the rent, you take it and use it first, and then pay me back when you are active."

Pang Fengyun looked at him gratefully: "Thank you, Brother Shen. Luo Wei will have surgery the day after tomorrow, and I will go to the hospital to take care of Lu Wei. He has been staring at him for two days."