【Qijie】The Kingdom of Eternal Life

No matter what, the little girl could not calm down in Xiaojie's presence. After several attempts, Xiaojie had no choice but to get out of the ward temporarily.

The nurse was obviously also puzzled: "This kind of thing has never happened. Although she is a little shy, she is still obedient."

Xiaojie scratched his hair: "Really, a little sad."

In fact, this kind of situation is really very rare for Xiaojie.It’s not an exaggeration, basically children and small animals love to cling to him. Strange’s child Zoe liked him very much before, and when he left, he reluctantly pulled his trousers and asked his father when he would come again Play.Thinking about it carefully, this may be the first time Xiaojie has been rejected by a cub.

The nurse comforted him a few words, and brought him the little girl's previous examination report: "She just had the examination yesterday, and she may be a little tired."

Xiaojie smiled and looked down at the medical report.Because the little girl has not yet fully recovered, this examination is relatively simple. Leaving aside the physical injuries, the sentry's various abilities seem to be still in a somewhat unstable, even riotous state. The evidence is the lack of comprehension.

"Have you asked the guide to sort it out?" He asked.

"Yes." The nurse replied, "once every two days."

Xiaojie nodded, glanced to the end, and saw that the doctor who issued the report marked an additional sentence in red pen with some scrawling: "Suspected awakening of emotional perception, follow-up observation."

emotional perception?Is it really emotional perception?

Xiaojie rubbed his forehead lightly.

He looked at Qi Ya who was sitting by the bed and communicating with the little girl in the isolation glass window.When the latter faced the child, the natural coldness between his eyebrows turned into gentleness. Although the little girl's reaction was very slow, he still repeated his words very patiently, like the nurse just now. .The little girl gradually stopped screaming, stared at Qi Ya without blinking, and then spoke.

Xiaojie looked at the picture, then lowered his head and kicked his boots.

A bell came out of his uniform pocket.He answered the phone: "Hello?"

"Ah, ok, I'll go back to the tower and get it now."

He tilted his head and smiled at the nurse, "When Qi Ya comes out, tell him for me, I have something to go back to the tower."

After the little girl showed such great resistance to Xiaojie, she barely cooperated with herself. This unexpected development made Qiya feel a little surprised.

That guy Xiaojie obviously looks better at dealing with children than him.

And Xiaojie was the one who saved her...

No matter how you think about it, the little girl's emotions have nothing to do with the "surprise" or the simple "accident" of seeing her savior.In fact, what she showed should be the complete opposite of these two words...

Qi Ya has seen such emotions on many people's faces before.

panic.

This situation is somewhat confusing to Qi Ya.His original idea was to stand aside and watch him communicate with the little girl, and to add something during the questioning.It turned out to be his own job now.

Qi Ya was a little nervous.Although the little girl didn't show any resistance to him like she did to Xiaojie, in the end he couldn't expect a little girl who had just awakened as a sentinel and was instinctively resistant to everything in the outside world to be able to respond to his questions. Cooperate more.It took Qi Ya nearly 120 times more patience to finally finish asking the scheduled questions.

Regrettably but also expected, because the little girl was too young, the things she suffered were too cruel and painful, so her brain instinctively blurred that painful memory. She couldn't even tell the details, so she could only give a rough idea.Moreover, because of her comprehension barrier, she also had problems with her ability to express herself. Among the ten sentences she said, five or six of them had to be guessed and guessed.After such an exchange for half an hour, the person who asked the question was tired, and the person who answered was also tired.

He hesitated for a moment, but decided to ask one more question at the end.

"You just..." He slowed down again, "Why did you scream at that brother?"

The little girl stared blankly at him, and Qi Ya repeated his question.

After repeating it, perhaps finally understanding the meaning, the little girl's originally calm and relaxed shoulders slowly shrugged and became stiff, and the whole person was obviously immersed in a thick fear.

Qi Ya frowned, and just about to say something, she heard her tremblingly say: "He is terrible."

Her voice was extremely floating and hoarse, like a few dried and broken leaves put together together."He's horrible," she repeated.

……

Xiaojie is scary?

If it wasn't for the inappropriate occasion, Qi Ya might have laughed out loud just hearing this sentence.

Xiaojie is scary?

Little girl, you may have misunderstood the word terrible.In fact, I was the scarier one.

only……

He shook his head.

The smell of blood on Xiaojie's body was too strong. Although he may have changed his clothes, compared with the fresh, clean and light lemon smell on his body before, this bloody smell was particularly out of place.Perhaps with the little girl, compared to him who hadn't killed anyone for a long time, the hostility in Xiaojie's body was probably more obvious.

There is also... the little girl's mutated emotional perception ability.

What emotions did she perceive Xiaojie?

Qi Ya breathed a sigh of relief, seeing the little girl was still sitting on the bed, and looked at him dumbfounded, completely lacking the freshness that should be at this age, paused, fumbled in his pocket twice, and took out three or four chocolates , bent down and put it in the palm of her open hand.

The little girl followed his movements stupidly, shifting her eyes to her palms, and then back to his face.

Qi Ya sighed inwardly, squatted down again, and looked into her eyes: "This is edible. It's very sweet."

The little girl blinked her eyes, probably finally discerning the specific meaning of this sentence from the disturbance of her facial features, she peeled off the gold foil with her thin fingers, and slowly stuffed the chocolate into her mouth.When he raised his hand, a section of his wrist was exposed under the sleeve of the hospital gown, and it was covered with scars and pinholes.

Qi Ya paused for breath.

He thought of Xiaojie sitting under the lamp peeling oranges.

Even if the light was dim, it could not erase the same mottled scab on that hand.But their owner obviously didn't care, and while peeling the oranges, he casually talked about those experiences, probably he didn't take those things to heart at all, as if it didn't hurt at all.

Qi Ya asked, "Does it hurt?"

This sentence was very soft, but the little girl seemed to hear it for some reason, she stopped chewing chocolate, looked up at him, and nodded after a while.

Qi Ya stroked her withered and yellow hair, turned around and pushed open the door of the ward.

Yes.

He touched his arm under the shirt lightly.Because time has passed long enough, those scars have long since lost consciousness.

Think about it and know, it hurts.

Qi Ya walked out of the ward, but he couldn't see Xiao Jie in sight, he frowned suspiciously, and was about to take out his mobile phone to make a call, when the nurse passed by with a disinfection cart: "Ah, Mr. Qi Ya, Mr. Xiao Jie Said that he went back to the tower first. He should have sent you a message." She probably wanted to rush to do something, so she saluted and hurried downstairs.

Qi Ya glanced at the phone in his hand, indeed.The message was sent about 10 minutes ago, saying that he will be back soon.Qi Ya thought about what would happen, but after much deliberation, he seemed to be unable to figure it out.If Daisy was to be interrogated, it would be unreasonable to interrogate him now, the time was too short, and it was even less likely that he would be left behind.So it's probably a trivial matter.

Thinking about it, if Xiaojie's going back is not an important matter, he should be on his way back to the hospital by now.Do you want to make a call and tell him to wait directly at the tower?Anyway, the recording of asking the little girl had to be backed up to Kurapika.

As he went downstairs, he swung the recorder lightly between his fingers. Just as he was about to dial the number, he suddenly saw the nurse pushing the disinfection trolley into the room in the corridor opposite.

Qiya's eyesight was not as good as Xiaojie's, but it was not bad, so when the door opened, he saw a little boy sitting on the hospital bed inside.

Very familiar.

Qi Ya stopped turning the recording pen, frowned, and took a few steps forward to a relatively hidden position where he could see the scene in the opposite room more clearly.

The little boy sat on the bed, his face was pale, but he still smiled and greeted the nurse.The nurse was obviously familiar with him, and while greeting him with a smile, he attached various instruments to his body.The little boy lay down very cooperatively.

After he lay down, Kiya could no longer see his face through the glass window.He turned around and walked in the opposite direction of the camera, replaying the facial features in his mind over and over again.

Where did you see...?

what.

He remembered.

Strange Dogu, A-rank Sentinel.The spiritual guide is the musk ox.The man who once went out with Xiaojie to investigate the human trafficking case, was detained in the experimental base together, and escaped with serious injuries.Dark skin, blue eyes, curly hair.

That little boy is his child.He had seen Strange in his ward when he and J-Jack visited Strange in the hospital.

Compared with his bedridden father, at that time, although the little boy was relatively quiet and didn't speak much, his face was rosy, and his limbs had the unique feeling of a lotus joint. He was a very healthy boy no matter what.

The situation of the little girl is quite special. She is a Sentinel who has just awakened, suffered heavy damage in the spiritual field, and now has mutated. She is the only survivor who was rescued from that mission, and she is almost a living clue.The hospital assigned her the single ward with the best conditions as a matter of course.It can be said that these floors are all single wards of similar layout, quiet, open, well-lit, and surrounded by white noise systems.This is the case in her room, and the conditions in her ward downstairs will not be much worse.

Seeing the expression on the nurse's face talking with the boy, it was obviously very familiar.Which means the boy has been here for at least a while.

Speaking of it, this matter is actually not a big deal. It is normal for a child to have a sudden illness. Maybe it is just appendicitis that requires surgery.But Qi Ya just faintly felt that something was not quite right.

People who are often bathed in blood and wandering on the edge of life and death will indeed have some unfounded intuitions at some moments.

There was nothing unusual on his face, he was still playing with the recorder, and when a nurse passed by, he asked her with a slight smile: "Excuse me, sorry, may I ask..." He was brief asked a bit.

The nurse asked, "Is that the ward?" She was a little confused, "Do you know that boy?"

"Ah." Qi Ya said, "My colleague's child, I saw it a few weeks ago, and it was fine at the time. I was surprised to see it here. Is it serious?"

The nurse's suspicious expression eased a lot, but she still didn't reveal any more information: "Sorry, we can't disclose the patient's information to people other than relatives."

Qi Ya slightly raised his eyebrows: "... I was rude."

He was good-looking, his eyelashes drooped, and there was a small and shallow shadow at the bottom of his eyes, looking a little disappointed.

The nurse blushed and shook her head: "No, no, it's okay." She hesitated for a while, and finally said: "Well... Actually, he will have an operation soon. You can ask his relatives about the specific situation. "

She bowed and quickly ran away.

Qi Ya stood there thoughtfully, and glanced at the door of the ward from the corner of his eye.

surgery?