"I can save their lives, but you must serve me for a year, during which you must not drink alcohol, eat meat, or lose your virginity. After the year is up, they will be free from worry."
The former can be obeyed, but the latter, virginity?!
Cao Ming got up, his eyes wide, "I'm not anymore!" He's been an adult for a long time, he can't be a virgin.
"Virgin blood is what I want." Yuan Zhuan sneered and turned to walk out.
Cao Ming's face flushed red. Seeing the person leave so resolutely, he dared not hold back his composure any longer. His eyes were still red and bloodshot from crying. "I promise, don't go!"
So what if he's a virgin? It's just a little blood. His family can get through this safely. So what if they want his life? He's all alone. With his older brother around, he and his sister-in-law can take good care of their parents.
Yuan Zhuan stamped his foot. "Come here, these are for you."
These are amulets for safety. "These two yellow ones, your brother and sister-in-law, should put them under their pillows so no one can touch them. These ten, before midnight, should be given to ten other car accident victims besides your brother and sister-in-law. Remember, whether these ten people survive or not depends on whether your brother and sister-in-law survive, since they are the most seriously injured in this accident. There can be no mistakes. If these ten amulets are not properly placed, they will not survive either. Do you understand?"
"Why?" What do the other people have to do with his brother and sister-in-law?
"Because these ten people are the indispensable talisman soldiers of the Soul-Stabilizing Array. Their souls belong to their respective positions, separated from their bodies as living souls, yet still connected to their bodies. Only under the effect of the talismans can they connect their soul threads, mutually restraining each other and forming a protective array to deceive the messengers who come to collect their souls. If they stay past four in the morning, they will all survive; otherwise, they will all perish. Find a way to make their families believe you and release the talismans, otherwise..."
After saying that, Yuan Zhuan left so quickly that even Cao Ming didn't have time to react.
"But..." In the blink of an eye, the person in front of him disappeared, startling Cao Ming so much that sweat broke out on his back.
The heavy stack of talismans in his palm made him feel somewhat at a loss, but thinking about the consequences, he dared not delay any longer and had to find someone!
In the blink of an eye, the lights in the emergency room suddenly went out, and the doctor wheeled the person out of the hospital bed. Both surgeries were completed at the same time.
"Cao Nan's family members."
"Here!" Cao Ming shouted.
"They're out of immediate danger, but they need to be moved to the ICU. You're alone, and we probably won't have enough staff. If everything goes well after tonight, then they'll be truly saved." The doctor's gaze swept down the corridor, noticing that he was the only family member outside.
"Okay, doctor, I'll notify the other family members right away." The couple were taken to the same intensive care unit, and the doctor left.
With red and swollen eyes, Cao Ming stuffed the talismans into the pillowcases of the couple. After stuffing the talismans in, the other talismans in his palms felt strangely hot.
Opening my palm, the stacked talismans showed no unusual signs, but they were incredibly hot.
Cao Ming had no choice but to put it in his coat pocket.
Wang Chuanke was sleeping when he received a call from his friend. Hearing that his older brother and sister-in-law had been in a car accident, he was startled awake and all his sleepiness vanished.
"I'll be right there." After hanging up, Wang Chuanke made another call, received a response, and quickly got up and went out.
They are all close friends who grew up together. Although they hang out together, they always support each other when something happens. Their parents are also elders who know each other.
That night, the entire hospital department was in an uproar because a patient's family member had bribed the person in charge of the matter, and made a bizarre request: that the head nurse on duty stuff talismans under the pillows of ten seriously injured patients.
The head nurse looked at the talisman in her hand with a stern face, recalling Cao Ming's words, "I know that the head nurse has never had a boyfriend, so this important task can only be completed by you."
She wanted to swear, really, really filthy! Ugh!! You brat, don't let yourself get into her hands one day!
At midnight, Yuan Zhuan stood on the top floor of the People's Hospital, watching as the soul lines in the inpatient department connected to form a star array, and the melancholy in his eyes dissipated.
The formation is complete!
The watch reads twelve o'clock, just ten minutes away.
With a long sigh of relief, Yuan Zhuan's tension dissipated.
If Cao Ming fails to meet her demands, the number of casualties will increase by at least twelve, because all twelve people died violent deaths!
"Can you protect them?" The system looked at its host's small frame. It remembered that she had said that she only had one-tenth of her strength left. This time, she had twelve lives. It didn't know if it could protect them.
"Why don't you do it?"
system:……
On the roof of the People's Hospital stands an ancient stone bell. Every midnight, it chimes with a sharp, death-snatching sound. Those near death are said to hear it, and it's been dubbed the "death bell" by many patients. This is why, despite the large number of patients at the People's Hospital, very few are actually hospitalized—everyone is afraid of dying!
Even if patients are admitted to the hospital, they will go home to rest at night and refuse to stay in the hospital no matter what. If it weren't for the fact that the injured in this car accident were really inconvenient to move, many family members would have wanted to take the person home.
As midnight struck, a clicking sound echoed in his mind. Cao Ming jumped up from his seat in fright, startling the two people sleeping on the sofa next to him, who also sat up abruptly, clutching their wildly beating hearts. "Mingzi, what are you doing? Is something wrong with our brother and sister-in-law?" Wang Chuanke and Wang Wang got up and went to the bedside, looked at the monitors on the couple's bedsides, observed their expressions, and then breathed a sigh of relief.
"Did you hear a click?" The night was so quiet that you could hear your own heartbeat.
Cao Ming stared at his two friends, still shaken, hoping they would give different answers. Maybe it was just his imagination?
"My goodness, Mingzi, don't scare me, okay? I'm easily frightened." Wang Chuanke, the quickest-witted of them all, remembered the legends about the People's Hospital.
A look of horror crossed his face. "You really heard a click?" Wang Chuanke's eyelids drooped involuntarily. He looked at his watch in the dim light. The hour hand was indeed at twelve o'clock, and a minute hand had already passed.
!! !! !!
You could clearly hear the gurgling sound of someone swallowing.
The atmosphere in the ward froze. The three of them looked at each other, glancing at their watches and then at each other in perfect unison.
"It can't be true, can it?" Wang Wang clutched his chest, looking like he was about to faint.
"Maybe." Cao Ming plopped back down on the stool, suddenly remembering what Yuan Zhuan had said: it had to be finished before midnight.
A fierce, eerie wind arose, stirring up countless gods and ghosts.
Outside the window, all was quiet.
In a ward on the thirteenth floor of the People's Hospital, three young faces were pressed against the window, staring out in terror.
"Have you heard the rumors?"
"I heard it, but why aren't the flowers, plants, and trees moving at all?" The howling wind in my ears was like a typhoon, and the sound of branches lashing against the window was deafening. The roar before the storm was incredibly real.
If they hadn't seen it with their own eyes, they would have thought it was pouring rain outside.
but……
"Shall we go down and take a look?" Seeing that it was indeed true, they now had no way of being sure.
Yuan Zhuan, who was on the rooftop, had long anticipated the curiosity of the men. "Don't leave the ward, don't open the window," he shouted, his voice booming like a bell, striking Cao Ming's mind. The latter trembled uncontrollably.
"Mingzi, what's wrong with you?" Wang Chuanke and Wang Wang asked, puzzled.
"Don't go outside, don't open the windows. Otherwise, we'll all die."
Chirp... Chirp chirp...
Yuan Zhuan held the array flag, looked up at the sky and earth. In the darkness, flocks of birds and beasts transformed from Yin Sha flew in the air, covering the sky and emitting piercing cries!
The evil beast summons the soul!
Then ghostly soldiers arrived!
Cold sweat broke out on Yuan Zhuan's back. She had thought that because so many people had died violently, the messengers coming to guide them would be the Black and White Impermanence, but she never expected it to be the Yin Beast summoning their souls! The Yin Beast's senses were all-pervasive, and the soul-fixing array she had set up might not be able to protect the twelve people at all.
The summoning of souls by Yin Beasts is a privilege reserved only for the departed souls of those who have slain countless lives. Even their living souls are powerful enough to shake the Yin energy, drawing it into their bodies for their own use. Each Yin Beast is a consequence of their sins, appearing only to guide them, imbued with a binding force to prevent them from becoming demons. These are the souls most valued by the highest authority in the underworld!
Even when she was in complete victory, she could barely escape with her life.
"You can't defeat her." The system detected her abnormality.
"It's a Yin Beast summoning a soul. Even I couldn't withstand it in my past life, not even my father could." Cold sweat poured down his face. He wanted to escape, but his feet seemed rooted to the spot, unable to move.
"Cao Ming, go check if any of the other ten are murderers or big shots from the battlefield! Hurry! I can only hold out for five minutes at most! If it's more than five minutes, with twelve people and me, none of them will escape!"
Cao Ming heard Yuan Zhuan's voice in his mind. He didn't even have time to be surprised by Yuan Zhuan's ability to transmit his voice. He hurriedly told him, "Keep an eye on my elder brother and sister-in-law. Don't let them go out." Then he rushed out of the ward.
Cao Yu had just stepped off the operating table and hadn't even had a chance to catch his breath or change out of his surgical gown when the office door was flung open. "Second Uncle, help!!"
His eldest nephew, Cao Ming, rushed in like a madman!
"You came from the battlefield, who told you that?" Cao Yu leaned back in his chair, arms crossed, his eyes blazing.
Knowing his second uncle well, Cao Ming understood his reaction and asked, "Uncle, which ward is he in? Has his condition worsened?"
Cao Yu didn't speak this time, but narrowed his eyes and said warily, "Don't ask questions you shouldn't ask."
"Second Uncle, I have something to tell you..."
"No need to explain, he won't believe it. Go out now, turn right, go to room number three, and confirm his name."
"Where are you going?" Cao Yu was baffled when his nephew suddenly started walking out halfway through his sentence. This kid was getting more and more crazy.
"Second Uncle, I have something to say. By the way, my eldest brother and sister-in-law were in a car accident and are in the intensive care unit. Could you please go and check on them?" Before the words were finished, the person had already disappeared, leaving Cao Yu startled. He got up and rushed to the intensive care unit with hurried steps. He had been performing surgeries all day. Although he had heard about the multi-vehicle collision, he was too busy with his own surgeries to pay attention to anything else. He never expected that Cao Nan and Yan Wen would be involved in this multi-vehicle collision. If his eldest brother found out, his health might not be able to withstand it.
Thinking of this, his thick eyebrows furrowed.
On Cao Ming's side, he never expected that there would be four guards at the entrance of the VIP ward. As soon as he appeared nearby, four pairs of eagle-like eyes shone like blades at him.
He paused, his eyes darting around.
Even a fool could tell that he couldn't get through here; he might as well go find his second uncle.
“Yuan Zhuan, there are guards at the gate, I can’t get in.”
"Understood. Please double-check whether he is the patient from this car accident."
This time, Cao Ming got the answer from the head nurse alone.
"No, Yuan Zhuan."
Upon receiving the unexpected answer, Yuan Zhuan exhaled a breath of turbid air, and flung out array flags from his hands. The soul threads began to wander again, changing formation several times.
She only seeks to protect those who died violently, and has nothing to do with this powerful figure. It seems the ghostly soldiers this time are not here for the souls of those injured in the car accident.
As the formation shifted, the chilling aura that had descended upon us dissipated considerably. At the same moment, dozens of shadows appeared in the night sky, accompanied by the sounds of carriages and chains clashing—the ghostly soldiers had arrived!
Perhaps Yuan Zhuan on the roof was too conspicuous, so much so that when the ghost soldiers appeared, the leader saw Yuan Zhuan at first glance.
acquaintance!
"Daughter of the Yuan family, what are you doing here?!"
They've been recognized.
Indeed, it's perfectly normal for the leaders of this generation to meet again.
"I had a sudden inspiration last night and, following my heart, I found this place. It is spacious and quiet, so I decided to cultivate here." Yuan Zhuan stood up and bowed, forcing himself to lie.
"You can cultivate Yin Sha Qi?" A cold, serpentine gaze swept over Yuan Zhuan from head to toe, and he felt goosebumps dancing all over his body.
Clearly, this was a suspicion that she had gone astray. "No, no, General, I was just looking at the full moon tonight, so I drew upon the moon's spirit to infuse my body. I didn't expect to happen to encounter you on business."
Yin Jiang did not utter a word, but even though Yuan Zhuan lowered his head and did not look at him, he could still feel Yin Jiang's sinister gaze following him like a shadow.
"System, I'm taking out a loan to open an online store!" Feeling that she was about to be exposed, Yuan Zhuan could no longer care about her debts. She had to be prepared and have the power to fight back.
"good."
Upon hearing the system's response, Yuan Zhuan nearly fainted from the pain, his mind going blank.
Why does it hurt so much?
"I didn't say it didn't hurt."
Damn it...
Even with a terrible headache, Yuan Zhuan dared not let the spiritual energy on the array flags dissipate even a little. If there was the slightest mistake at this moment, all their efforts for the night would be in vain.
"They're gone," the system voice announced.
Opening his eyes, Yuan Zhuan saw the leading Yin general chaining the hands of an elderly man with a full head of silver hair, and then they ascended into the air. The black sedan chair was quietly lowered, and the old man turned and sat inside. Just as the black curtain was about to fall, the old man's surprised gaze fell on Yuan Zhuan's face. In an instant, the black curtain obscured the old man's face, and the Yin beast hovered on the sedan chair, following them. Not long after, the thick ink in the sky began to fade, slowly returning to a deep blue, dotted with stars.
"Huff huff huff..." After the pain subsided, Yuan Zhuan did not move, but closed his eyes to rest.
To be on the safe side, this formation needs to be maintained until four in the morning, and as the core of the formation, she naturally cannot leave.
Just when Yuan Zhuan thought the danger was over, a kind and gentle voice suddenly rang in his mind, "Little girl, you're quite good at Taoist arts at such a young age. We'll meet again if fate allows."
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