The power is contaminated, Feng Qiwu
"Wait, what do you mean by a week?" Xie Qi immediately grasped the key point. He subconsciously pressed the homepage of his phone to check the date and time - but it was useless to check it. He didn't even remember what day he went up the mountain.
The otaku who doesn't need to go to school or work has no pressure in life. He just eats and waits to die every day and has no habit of keeping track of dates.
In this regard, Lu Xuedu is much better than Xie Qi. His brother Lu Xuezhou has been in poor health since childhood and has to go to the hospital for routine physical check-ups every month. Xie Qi remembers that the critical illness notice has been issued several times.
Lu Xuedu's dream when he was a child was to become a doctor, but this dream eventually became wishful thinking because of his poor academic performance, and Lu Xuedu could only be a nanny in the game.
After the three children grew up and moved out, this day became a regular family gathering day for the Lu family. No matter how busy they were, they all had to show up at the dining table and stay until breakfast the next day.
Come to think of it, today seems to be the Lu family's family gathering day.
Sure enough, when I listened carefully, the background noise from Lu Xuedu's side was very noisy. He should be in the hospital accompanying his brother for a check-up.
"Anyway, I'm glad you're okay. Let's talk about the situation when I get back." Lu Xuedu was actually relieved. He had witnessed the turmoil in the Xie family over the past month and was really worried that something might happen to Xie Qi. "By the way, if you don't have anywhere else to go, you can stay at my place first. The password is still the same."
He deliberately joked, "Do you need me to call a moving company for you?"
"We are all young masters, who are you looking down on? No matter what Xie San does, he can't let the bank freeze my account, right? I have been staying in the Xie family for all these years and have applied for so many cards, just waiting for this day." Xie Qi has been thinking about his own way out since a long time ago. Old Mr. Xie is willing to spend money to support them, but that doesn't mean that the new head of the family who will take over will be willing to support them, a group of half-brothers.
Facts have proved that this is indeed the case. Xie Qi's considerations are very far-sighted. Although he only has that hospital in his name now, the assets he can take out are enough for him to live for the next half of his life.
Lu Xuedu lived in the city's finest and most private building, boasting the nation's strongest security system. Many celebrities and politicians lived there. If Xie Qi hadn't been listed by Lu Xuedu as one of only two candidates on his whitelist, he wouldn't have been able to get in.
By the way, another person on the white list is the cleaning lady, who comes three days a week and also has to cook, after all, the young master’s ability to live is almost zero.
Although Xie Qi was prepared, he still took a deep breath when he opened the door and saw a messy living room.
After a quick tidy up of the room and putting away the luggage, it was already noon. Xie Qi, now free, thought about the tickets. A closer look revealed that the dates were all different, but Xie Qi was certain he had only been in the hospital for two nights.
"Another dimension?" This was the first thing that popped into Xie Qi's mind.
He opened his phone, found a previously saved webpage, and clicked on it, only to be prompted with an error message. Xie Qi tried to replicate his previous behavior and find the URL again, but he could find the forum, but he couldn't find the post or the poster.
It seemed like it was blocked, or maybe the post didn't even exist. Xie Qi looked up the chat history with Lu Xuedu again and found that the chat was frozen a week ago.
"Am I... sick?" After Xie Qi searched for medical advice online, he was diagnosed with schizophrenia and was advised to be sent to a mental hospital for treatment immediately.
Xie Qi, who couldn't figure it out, simply stopped thinking about it and ordered a takeout. However, when he was looking for a drama to watch while eating, he saw a familiar person flash by in the noon news.
Xie Qi used the remote control to turn the video back.
"The World Medical Summit opened successfully in Beijing yesterday. Ten invited world-class medical leaders and hundreds of outstanding young doctors arrived as scheduled. A Nobel laureate delivered a speech at the opening ceremony, stating..."
At this moment, the camera quickly swept across the summit attendees, and when it saw a hint of green, Xie Qi immediately pressed the pause button.
Green hair, green skirt... such a vibrant green, and the pair of antique glasses on the bridge of her nose, it was Feng Qiwu, whom she had met once in the hospital.
Then when the camera scanned over again, her figure was already visible, and the seat where she had been sitting was also empty.
Feng Qiwu, female, doctor of medicine, married. One of the 2019 Capital Top Ten Outstanding Young Doctors and recipient of the Medical Award...
Xie Qi searched around online and found that the encyclopedia entry about Feng Qiwu was just a few lines long, half of which was about various awards. There wasn't even a photo of her. The reason she was emphasized as married was because she said in her only interview that she and her husband were childhood sweethearts and that she chose to become a doctor because she wanted to cure her husband's illness.
With just this little information, it's impossible to tell what's going on.
"If we use the hospital's network, we should be able to find something." Xie Qi blurted out unconsciously, and paused in pressing his brows.
Ding-ling-ling! The visitor system in the entrance hall rang.
"Hello, your takeaway is in the elevator, remember to pick it up." The person in the video was not a delivery man, but a person wearing a security uniform downstairs.
This community is very confidential. Not only can reporters and paparazzi not get in, but deliverymen and couriers can't get in either. Every time they deliver something, they put it in the security room, which then delivers it to the owner.
Lu Xuedu was obviously a regular customer, and the security guards were already familiar with him and used to him.
Xie Qi took a while to get the takeaway, and when he came back he found two more people in the living room.
A white-haired old man and a man wrapped in a thick windbreaker. The latter was showing the former a house. Like the master of the house, he was introducing the furnishings of the room to the old man. He was so immersed in the scene that he didn't even notice Xie Qi coming back.
"Lu Xuedu?" Two faces were reflected on the mirrored TV background wall. Xie Qi paused for a moment. He saw the hospital gown underneath the man's windbreaker. "Or... Brother Xuezhou?"
The three children of the Lu family each have their own unique personalities, but they all have one thing in common: their faces are very similar. So similar, that when Lu Xuezhou felt lonely in the hospital, he would wear a wig and switch identities with his sister Lu Xueyi to go to school.
Neither the teachers nor the parents could notice anything unusual, and this matter was not stopped until both children began to develop and the physical differences could no longer be concealed.
When the third child, Lu Xuedu, was born, both siblings were already adults. The media was in an uproar, saying that Lu Xuedu was actually the illegitimate child of his older brother or sister, and that the Lu family had lost their morals and was trying to raise their grandson as a son to cover up the truth.
Even though the Lu family held a press conference to clarify the matter and issued a lawyer's letter, such rumors still persist.
When Lu Xuedu was young and ignorant, he actually believed it. He was in tears for half a month. When his brother was given a critical illness notice after surgery, he told his family righteously, "I already know the truth. Grandpa, grandma, and aunt, you don't have to hide it from me. Now that dad doesn't have much time left, I will definitely be a filial son to him and make him smile in his grave!"
The sad atmosphere at the scene suddenly stopped, leaving only silence.
Seeing that his family members looked unhappy, Lu Xuedu turned his head and looked at his sister Lu Xueyi, "Could it be... I am actually your child?"
He was conflicted for a while. After all, in the heart of the little Young Master Lu, he would rather have a sickly, smart and humorous father, rather than a mother with a bad temper who was just arrogant.
But he still readily changed the address and emphasized again, "Don't worry, Mom, my uncle doesn't have any children, and I can still be a filial son. I don't mind."
No one cared whether Lu Xuedu minded or not. With his sincere heart, he gained the only family mixed personality correction package in his life.
"Brother Xuezhou, why are you here? Where's Lu Xuedu? Is he okay? What were the results of the examination?" Xie Qi came in after changing his shoes. He looked at the two people opposite him in silence, a little puzzled. "Huh? What's wrong? Is there something on my face?"
Xie Qi felt his scalp tingling under their incredulous gazes.
"You—" The old man seemed to be about to say something, but was interrupted by Lu Xuezhou, "Nothing, the test results are still the same. I couldn't stay in the hospital any longer, so I left first."
Xie Qi was not surprised. Perhaps because Lu Xuezhou had been sick since childhood, he did not like staying in the hospital. The Lu family would turn a blind eye to his occasional willfulness and nonsense.
Xie Qi just thought that Lu Xuedu had sent his brother here to relax, so he didn't ask any more questions to avoid causing any counterproductive effects. Instead, he looked at the old man and asked, "Who are you?"
"I met him outside. He seemed to have run away from home, so I invited him in to see me." Lu Xuezhou said lightly.
The old man immediately retorted, "I didn't run away from home. I just didn't want to be found by my family, and I got lost!"
Xie Qi: "..." What's the difference!
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"Grandpa!" This was Xie Qi's third request. "Do you remember anyone's phone number at home? Phone! Cell phone! This is it!"
He was almost shoving the phone into someone's hand.
The old man only had one reaction to this, "Huh? What did you say?"
"Uh..." Xie Qi helplessly held his forehead, "Looks like I can only call the police."
"Why call the police? I'll be back soon. If you have the time to get scolded, you might as well light a couple of incense sticks for me."
Xie Qi: "Grandpa, your ears are sharp now." Maybe he is pretending not to hear, or he just doesn't want to go home?
The old man ignored him and turned to ask Lu Xuezhou with great interest, "Have you tried it? I heard they say the ones at Kaifu Temple are the best."
Lu Xuezhou said, "The ones at Kaifu Temple are just average, the ones at the hospital are the best."
Xie Qi paused as he was typing the number.
"They sell these in hospitals? How come I've never heard of them?" The old man was a little unconvinced, his face full of suspicion. "Didn't you say before that this was your first time out of body? How could you have eaten this?"
Lu Xuezhou: "Is it okay if I've eaten it in my previous life?"
The old man was surprised. "Didn't they say you have to drink the laozi soup to be reborn? Why didn't you drink it?"
"It's expired." Lu Xuezhou said casually.
The old man was even more surprised. "Is there any expired Mengpo soup?"
"Money can make the devil work, and connections can make the devil work. No matter whether you are alive in the world of the living or in the underworld, as long as you are alive, you will have desires. This is the same in any world." Lu Xuezhou chuckled and expressed his philosophy of life.
The old man suddenly realized and said he had learned something.
After listening to the whole thing, Xie Qi looked at him with an indescribable expression: "..."
Lu Xuezhou said, "If you need it one day, remember to treat me to a meal."
Xie Qi, who was only in his early twenties, immediately waved his hand, "No, no, I hope I won't need it for the time being, at least for the next forty years."
On TV, the midday news broadcast ended.
"I should go now. If I go back late, my family will be worried." Lu Xuezhou stood up and walked out.
Xie Qi hurried to see him off, and then he heard the old man sitting on the sofa suddenly say, "I think I'm leaving too."
Then he smiled and said, "I think I might be able to use it soon."
As soon as the words fell, a dazzling holy light appeared out of nowhere. Xie Qi seemed to hear a female voice chanting something in an unfamiliar language. He opened his eyes with great effort and vaguely saw a huge green tree in the holy light. There was a hollow in its trunk, and a black thread was wrapped around a beating heart.
Everything happened in an instant. When the holy light disappeared, the old man was no longer in the living room.
"Ah!!" Xie Qi was silently shocked. He turned around suddenly, but Lu Xuezhou was no longer at the door.
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In the dark room, in the huge magic circle, the young man in the wheelchair fluttered his eyelashes and finally opened his eyes.
His blood-red pupils were as clear as gemstones, reflecting the woman's face entangled in black lines. He sighed as he opened his pale lips, revealing the fangs hidden within. "It took you half an hour to find me this time."
"Your power is indeed contaminated, Feng Qiwu."
The woman with long green hair pursed her lips and took out a syringe and a bottle of red serum.
"It's time to get the injection." Her expression was calm, but her last tone was trembling.
Meanwhile, Xie Qi, with his pupils trembling, took out his phone and called Lu Xuedu, "Brother, I seem to have seen a ghost."
The author has something to say:
I was so tired yesterday that I slept from 8pm till now. When I woke up, I found that I had set the time wrong. It was set to midnight tomorrow.
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