0185 Escape Again
At the hospital entrance, a slender, tall figure walked step by step toward the security booth.
"Miss, is there anything I can help you with?" The security guard on duty saw her standing motionless outside the guard booth and went up to ask.
Jiang Jifan frowned slightly, her expression weak. "Uncle, I had a fight with my family. He got angry and left me alone at the hospital. My eyesight is poor, so I can't go back by myself. Could you lend me your phone to make a call?"
The security guard saw that she was wearing thin pajamas and shivering from the cold, and indeed looked like she had just come out of the house, so he believed her halfway and kindly lent her his phone.
She read out the number from her memory and asked him to dial it for her, but after several attempts, there was no response.
Jiang Jifan's expression was solemn.
The only person who can help her now is Xing Yeye, but if even she doesn't answer the phone...
Seeing her worried expression, the security guard assumed she was upset because the other party hadn't answered the phone, so he asked, "Miss, where do you live?"
"My home isn't far from here." After a moment's thought, she added, "Uncle, could you please take me to the hospital across the street?"
She needs to leave here as soon as possible.
If he were found to have left his post without cause, he would be in big trouble. The security guard was caught in a dilemma. In the end, he couldn't bear to see a weak woman waiting alone in the freezing cold, so he said he would go and discuss it with his other colleagues.
Jiang Jifan could only stand there, risking being discovered, and wait.
"Let's go, young lady." The security guard acted quickly, not keeping her waiting long.
Despite her blindness, she was surprisingly agile, walking faster than him, as if something was chasing her.
"Young lady, where are you going?" After walking about a kilometer from the hospital, the security guard asked her breathlessly.
Jiang Jifan used his ears to distinguish the sounds of people and vehicles coming and going, then stopped and asked him, "How far is it from here to the hospital?"
The security guard stopped with her, took off his hat to wipe the sweat from his forehead, looked around, put his hands on his hips, frowned, and replied, "It should be about a kilometer."
"Okay, uncle, thank you. I can go back by myself."
The security guard was puzzled. It was freezing cold, and she had no one to look after her. How could she go back alone?
"This road is very close to my home, I know it well." Jiang Jifan told him not to worry, thanked him again, and resolutely walked away.
The security guard opened his mouth as if to say something, but hesitated for a moment before saying nothing and watching her leave.
"Old Li, where are you?!"
"What's wrong?"
Halfway back, the security guard was suddenly called by a colleague. He thought the colleague was looking for someone, but what the colleague said surprised him greatly.
They were indeed looking for someone, but it wasn't him they were looking for.
After hearing his colleague's words, the security guard's eyes widened, and a startling guess popped into his mind.
On the dimly lit sidewalk, a thin figure stood alone.
Jiang Jifan is blind and can only rely on her hearing to judge the road conditions nearby. Because she cannot see, she cannot walk as easily as a normal person. She walks with a stumbling and unsteady gait, so several kind passersby have come up to ask her if she needs help.
Human hearts are unpredictable, and she no longer trusts any strangers other than herself. She shook her head in refusal and continued walking briskly.
Meanwhile, the hospital was in complete chaos, and all the hospital's surveillance footage, including every hidden corner, was accessed and exposed.
In the final footage from the surveillance camera, Jiang Jifan was escorted out of the hospital by security guards.
The relevant department head at the hospital couldn't help but feel a little nervous.
It would have been fine if the patient had left on their own, but in the end, they were taken away by the hospital's security guards. Now they really can't explain themselves.
The security guard, surnamed Li, rushed to the monitoring room, barely catching his breath, and hurriedly explained, "I felt sorry for her, a young girl, so I thought I'd help her out..."
Nearly an hour had passed, and Tantai Qing was as anxious as an ant pacing on a hot pan. His previously good patience had completely worn off. He interrupted the security guard and asked, "Where did you two finally part ways?"
The security guard gave her a location, and Tantai Qing rushed out the door before they could react.
At midnight, the number of pedestrians on the road had gradually decreased.
The winter nights in City B were especially cold. Jiang Jifan, wearing only a thin set of home clothes, turned blue from the cold and shivered like a leaf.
She had considered bringing a coat before she left, but she had no idea where the clothes were placed, only a vague idea.
She was afraid that she would wake Tantai Qing while searching, so in the end she didn't dare to take the risk.
"Oh my goodness, why are there so many mounted police all of a sudden? Has something happened...?"
Jiang Jifan stopped in his tracks upon hearing what the passerby said.
With her keen senses, she immediately sensed something was wrong, her heart tightened, and she resolutely changed the direction of her escape.
Meanwhile, Tantai Qing was driving on the roads near the hospital, searching for Jiang Jifan's whereabouts.
The pitch-black road made it difficult to judge, so he could only patiently drive slowly, trying to identify the pedestrians coming and going on the road.
After searching for half an hour without success, just as he was about to turn the steering wheel in another direction, Tantai Qing suddenly saw that thinly dressed figure at the bus stop across the street.
"Jifan!" Tantai Qing immediately stopped the car on the side of the road, got out and called her.
Jiang Jifan, who was walking aimlessly, paused when he heard his voice, and then immediately took off running.
Her aimless running made Tantai Qing's heart pound. He scolded himself for being so impatient and immediately took off to catch up.
In the dead of night in City B, a man and a woman were running wildly down the street.
She looked thin and frail, and it was a mystery how she could run so fast, as if she was using all her strength to escape from him.
"Jifan! Don't run! It's dangerous ahead! I beg you!" Tantai Qing pleaded helplessly, her voice trembling with sobs.
As he watched the increasing number of vehicles ahead, he hated himself for not being able to run faster.
Jiang Jifan ignored his advice and started running with a determined look in his eyes, like a fugitive who had just broken free of his shackles. Even if there were mountains of knives and seas of fire ahead, he would forge ahead without hesitation.
Even a physically strong person would inevitably get injured running like that, let alone someone like her who suffers from an eye disease.
As expected, Jiang Jifan fell down again and again, got up after falling, and fell down again and again until his skin was torn and bleeding.
In the end, all she could smell was blood.
"Beep beep beep!!"
She didn't know where she was going, but all around her were honking horns. The repeated falls gradually slowed her down. Jiang Jifan was afraid that he would catch up with her if she kept falling, so she gritted her teeth and made a sudden turn.
"Screech—" The sound of a car screeching to a halt rang out in front of me.
Immediately afterwards, a man got out of the car, pointed at Jiang Jifan who was slumped in front of the car, and cursed, "You fucking looking to die in the middle of the night!"
Seeing that the vehicle in front had an accident, the vehicles behind all stopped.
At this moment, Tantai Qing finally caught up. When he saw the scene in front of him, he felt his vision go black. He quickly ran to her side, knelt down, and checked her body for injuries with trembling hands.
The man's cursing continued. After a whole night of this, Tantai Qing was already irritable. Hearing the vulgar language coming out of his mouth, she was filled with anger and anger. She raised her head, lowered her eyebrows, and shouted angrily, "Shut the fuck up!"
The man was stunned and suddenly stopped talking.
"What are you all doing!" A traffic policeman on duty rushed over from the other side and saw that the vehicles behind were completely blocked. He then directed the man to drive his car to the side of the road to avoid obstructing traffic.
When it was finally discovered to be a misunderstanding, and seeing that neither party had suffered any loss, the traffic police let them go.
The two people on the sidewalk had messy hair and were dressed in rags, looking exactly like two madmen.
"Jiang Jifan, you really fooled me so badly."
Tantai Qing picked her up horizontally, and seeing that she was still struggling, he held her tightly.
He stared at the bridge not far ahead, feeling a sense of desperation, and said in a deathly calm voice, "If you keep causing trouble, we'll die together."
Jiang Jifan immediately calmed down.
After the chase of several hundred meters, Tantai Qing was exhausted. Fortunately, after carrying her for only a few hundred meters, they ran into Li Yan, who had come looking for them in his car.
"President Dan!"
Seeing the two disheveled people, Li Yan quickly got out of the car and opened the back door for them.
Tantai Qing used the last of his strength to shove her into the back seat.
The car started slowly. He leaned against the leather seat, panting. He glanced at her, who was slumped to the side. He initially wanted to ignore her, but in the end, he followed his heart and reached out to pull her into his arms.
Surprisingly, she didn't resist. I don't know if she was tired of making a scene or completely desperate, and she didn't even bother to pretend anymore.
Tantai Qing touched her soaked back, and while instructing Li Yan to turn up the heat, he wrapped her in his own jacket.
"Tell the police that they've found the person and let them go back."
The moment she went missing, Tantai Qing used his connections to contact the local police station for help in finding her.
Li Yan agreed and, while waiting at the red light, gave instructions to the relevant personnel.
When they saw him carrying the person back, everyone at the hospital breathed a sigh of relief.
Tantai Qing roughly helped her undress and bathe. When he saw the several abrasions on her body, his heart ached and he couldn't suppress his anger. He questioned her again and again: "Why did you lie to me? Was it fun to pretend to be crazy? Do you know how I've been through all this time?"
So all those white hairs on his head were just for nothing!
He grew angrier and angrier as he spoke, to the point where he wanted nothing more than to strangle her...
Realizing what she was thinking, Tantai Qing paused, closed her eyes, sighed, and fell silent.
He silently washed her body clean.
Jiang Jifan didn't want to face him at all, remaining motionless like a mummy, her eyes closed the whole time as he rubbed her.
She wasn't just faking it all; she was genuinely driven to the brink of despair by him, and the only way she could vent her pain was by hurting others.
Jiang Jifan found it amusing that he still had the nerve to ask her that.
And what about him? Does he even know how she's been coping all this time...?
After she finished showering, Tantai Qing sat on the bed and dried her hair. Seeing her indifferent expression, he felt bitter and his eyes stung.
He put down the towel, pressed his forehead against hers, and choked out, "Jifan, I've lost to you."
"I promise you, I'll go home with you. Please don't run away again, okay?"
Jiang Jifan finally reacted; she opened her eyes, her eyelashes trembling twice.
During her escape, she kicked off her shoes for convenience, and both soles of her feet were pierced by stones and glass.
Tantai Qing asked the doctor to treat her injuries.
The doctor used tweezers to carefully remove the tiny shards of glass still embedded in the sole of her foot.
Jiang Jifan frowned deeply, but remained silent despite the pain.
Just to be on the safe side, the doctor had the nurse give her a tetanus shot.
"Jifan, don't do such dangerous things again next time." Tantai Qing gently put her legs, which were hanging over the edge of the bed, back onto the bed.
Even ordinary women face dangers going out late at night, let alone her. Tantai Qing couldn't imagine what the consequences would be if she didn't find her tonight...
Jiang Jifan knew her escape plan was full of flaws, but like a broken-winged bird that had been imprisoned in a cage and never saw the light of day, she finally got a hard-won opportunity one day. She had to seize this opportunity to "fly far away," even though the process was not safe for her.
"So it turns out it wasn't just you, Dr. Xu lied to me too," he said with a self-deprecating laugh.
Jiang Jifan neither agreed nor disagreed.
Xu Miao is her psychologist, how could she not see that she was faking it?
However, out of sympathy for women, she chose to keep it a secret.
Nevertheless, the perceptive Tantai Qing still became suspicious of her, and Jiang Jifan, sensing the danger, had to escape this wretched cage before he fully realized it.
Seeing that her face was pale from the cold and her limbs were cold, and she still hadn't recovered, Tantai Qing was both angry and in pain. She turned the heating in the ward to the highest setting and held her tightly in her arms to warm her up, angry that she didn't take care of herself: "If you're going to leave, you should at least take a coat with you."
With temperatures dropping below zero, Tantai Qing was genuinely afraid that if she arrived even a moment later, given her personality, she might freeze to death outside.
Having finally broken free from this cage, only to be dragged back, Jiang Jifan couldn't describe how he felt. He was shrouded in despair, as silent as the Dead Sea.
Seeing this, Tantai Qing sighed deeply, burying his face in her neck and inhaling her scent, as if only in this way could he feel a little better.
It's less about warming her up and more about keeping each other warm.
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