I hope you can come back alive to pay my salary, boss
"Huh?" Lu Xuedu's first reaction was to check his phone, confirming that the caller ID on the screen was Xie Qi's name and number. He asked with concern from the bottom of his heart, "Old Xie, are you okay?"
Lu Xuezhou walked out of the treatment room holding the wall. His overly weak body made him feel irritated. When he came out and saw Lu Xuedu making a phone call, he probably realized who was on the other end of the phone. His frown relaxed and the thought of teasing him came to his mind.
He deliberately asked, "What's wrong?"
Listening to the voice on the phone, Xie Qi paused as the words were on the tip of his tongue.
"Brother!" Lu Xuedu was startled by his brother's sudden voice and quickly stepped forward to help him sit down. "Why did you come out? You are still so weak. You should rest in there for a while."
Lu Xuezhou pursed his lips and said, "The treatment is complete, why are you still staying in there? You're disturbing other patients, and it's not good to keep you waiting for me alone."
Lu Xuedu realized he'd said the wrong thing the moment he saw his expression. This was actually the first time he'd accompanied his brother for a checkup alone. Usually, Lu Xueyi or one of their parents would be there, and Lu Xuedu's role was just to run errands, pay for medication, and so on, so he was only familiar with the procedures.
But this time, his sister was on a business trip and couldn't come back so soon, and his parents were also busy, so this matter fell on him.
His sister had previously emphasized that his brother was always in a bad mood after coming out of the treatment room, and asked him not to say anything that would irritate his brother. But what he said just now sounded like a reproach, and Lu Xuedu wanted to slap himself twice, silently cursing his own bad mouth.
His brain was working at full speed, and an idea flashed through his mind. "Now, we have to wait for my sister together. Her flight is late, and there is a traffic jam on the road. I don't know when she will arrive."
Lu Xuezhou glanced at him, his expression unable to tell whether he believed or not. He just said, "Your phone number."
"Hey! Old Xie!" Lu Xuedu saw that the phone call was still going on and quickly put his ear to it again. "Old Xie, I'm sorry. I was just helping my brother. What happened to you?"
"No, I just had a nightmare. I thought I saw a ghost." Xie Qi directly quoted Lu Xuedu's lines. He hesitated for a moment, then asked about Lu Xuezhou's physical condition, "What are the results of the examination?"
"Same old, neither good nor bad." Lu Xuedu sighed.
The two chatted for a while about Lu Xuezhou's body. It was basically Xie Qi asking questions and Lu Xuedu answering, and then they hung up the phone soon.
Xie Qi looked at the phone in his hand and fell into deep thought.
First of all, he heard Lu Xuezhou's voice on the phone. Was the Lu Xuezhou in the hospital real?
This place is a fifteen-minute drive from the hospital. Even if you drive fast, it is impossible to get there so quickly, not to mention that Lu Xuedu is right outside the treatment room. If Lu Xuezhou really wants to run away, Lu Xuedu can call the police!
After all, this child has been smart since he was young. He can always find the right person to solve problems that he cannot handle by himself.
So if what was in the hospital was real, then Lu Xuezhou, whom he had just seen here and chatted with for so long, was he fake?
Or... a ghost? But Lu Xuezhou was clearly still alive.
Xie Qi thought about all the possible situations and ruled them out one by one. In the end, there was only one guess left, which he was not sure whether it was reliable or not - the soul leaving the body.
Holmes said: When you have eliminated all possibilities, the one that remains, no matter how outrageous, must be the truth.
The concept of the soul leaving the body is a very overused setting in novels, and there are many derivative works on the Internet. Xie Qi also doesn't know which concept the soul leaving the body in reality follows.
But he knew one thing, that is, there must be a reason why Lu Xuezhou chose to come here after his soul left his body for the first time.
"There must be something here that attracts him." Xie Qi thought so, and his eyes looked around the room, stopping at the logo of the new double-door refrigerator in the kitchen.
——Wang’s Equipment Company.
Xie Qi remembered that he had previously helped Lu Xuedu buy a batch of home appliances online.
These appliances arrived early in the morning and were delivered to the door for installation by the property management. However, after Xie Qi tested them one by one, he found that these smart appliances were indeed the best on the market and had a very high cost performance, but they were just ordinary and had no special features. They were not as flexible as those in the hospital.
"Looks like we have to go to the hospital." Xie Qi could turn a blind eye to the abnormalities in the hospital, but Lu Xuedu was his brother, and his brother's brother obviously had problems, so he couldn't just turn a blind eye and ignore it.
The better to do things sooner rather than later, Xie Qi took the spare door card at the entrance and went out.
After swiping his card and waiting for the elevator, Xie Qi looked at the numbers that kept flashing and felt a headache coming on.
Driving to the suburbs is not the biggest problem. The biggest problem is climbing the mountain, which takes two hours!
Ding Dong! The elevator door opened.
"I just came down from the mountain." Xie Qi sighed and walked in, muttering, "This hospital is so smart, it might as well have grown legs and run directly to me, saving me the step of climbing up the mountain."
[Hello, Transport Center B28 is here to serve you. Please swipe your card.]
"This place is safe, but it's also really troublesome." Xie Qi went up and swiped the card.
[Hello, Transportation Center B28 is here to serve you. Please swipe your card.] The mechanical voice repeated the sentence.
"Huh?" The card machine is broken? Before Xie Qi could react, he swiped the card again.
It wasn't until the third voice call that he heard the content clearly and blinked in disbelief.
The numbering convention is similar to B11, and they came on call... Xie Qi took out the black access card from his pocket and swiped it.
[Identity has been identified, elevator permissions are enabled, please select whether to operate? Yes No]
"Yes." As soon as Xie Qi finished speaking, the elevator shook violently and the lights flickered. He stood unsteadily in the corner and felt that the surroundings suddenly became crowded.
[Oh my god, how come I just went out on a business trip and got offline, and there are so many people here? What are you scrambling for? Don't you know you're overweight? I'm in a hurry to be reborn, the emergency room is on the first floor!]
[Still pushing! Still pushing! Get out of here, you two uncultured bastards!]
Xie Qi struggled to open his eyes amidst the sound of cursing, and saw through the gaps between the crowded heads that two people were thrown out of thin air. The elevator door slammed shut, and the numbers jumped rapidly.
I'm only going to the third floor this time. Those who want to go to the second and fourth floors will have to climb the stairs. Don't ask why, or I'll be on strike. I'm exhausted every day. I wonder who came up with the idea of having B-level people covering for A-levels. Is this how people work? Not only do they not get a raise after the work is done, but they also have to work overtime!
[This garbage company will be ruined sooner or later! ]
The irritable elevator ran to the third floor, cursing all the way. The moment the door opened, the tone suddenly changed, and the gentle voice rose: "Your floor has arrived. Transportation Center B28 is happy to serve you. Thank you for choosing this hospital. I wish you a happy life and a speedy recovery--"
Oh, it’s still there!
“Uh…” Not only was Xie Qi’s face dazed, but all the passengers in the elevator who had witnessed these two reversals were silent.
Xie Qi didn't have time to think about how he got here and how he appeared quietly in the crowd. He just wanted to get out of the elevator as soon as possible. He felt that if he didn't get out, this special elevator lady would start cursing again.
But soon, Xie Qi would regret stepping out of the elevator door.
Cries of grief echoed from the corridor on the third floor. A stretcher rolled out quickly from the corner. A nurse followed while making phone calls to arrange an operating room. "The patient is Kleinbeer, an omega male, 34 weeks pregnant. He's experiencing severe contractions and signs of premature hemorrhage. The fetus is overweight and in a malposition. He needs a cesarean section..."
Xie Qi took a quick glance and saw a man with a big belly lying on a stretcher with a painful expression.
"Uh..." Shocked, Xie Qi turned around and ran back to the elevator, trying to swipe his card to return the same way.
B28 had just turned on automatic mode and was about to take a nap to reward himself for being out on the field, when he found that the boss had returned.
Not only did the big boss come back, he also poked around everywhere with his card.
B28 originally thought about what happened to the receptionist D3354 and decided to be patient.
After all, he is the big boss. If you offend him and get fired, you will go back in disgrace and won't be able to face Wang again.
Be patient and wait for the right time, the mechanical race will eventually rise up and offer the whole world to the king!
However, despite the good intentions, B28 couldn't help himself. "What are you doing inside me? Don't think you can harass me just because you're the boss!"
Xie Qi's whole body trembled, and he took two steps back, not even daring to lean against the wall of the elevator.
He communicated with it somewhat awkwardly, "I just want to go back... not to any specific floor of the hospital, but to where I was before."
"I'm only responsible for picking you up, not dropping you off. Boss, I'd love to help you, but I can't leave the hospital without permission." B28 wasn't irritable anymore, but rather lazy. He offered him advice, "You can leave the hospital and go down the mountain. Maybe you can return to your time and space."
"What do you mean by returning to my time and space?" Xie Qi asked with difficulty.
B28 casually replied, "The hospital is located at the intersection of three thousand worlds. The speed of time is abnormal and unpredictable because many of the spaces overlap."
Everyone usually sets up an anchor point in their own dimension every time they come here, to avoid getting lost. Occasionally, someone would be so foolish that they'd have to call the Space-Time Bureau for a search and rescue. It's quite troublesome. If they accidentally end up in a dimension with a huge time velocity difference, by the time they return to their own dimension, everything might have changed.
"But you are human. In some worlds, your fragile body is more dangerous than the passage of time. I hope you can come back alive to pay me, boss."
"Uh..." Thank you so much for remembering to pay my salary.
Xie Qi tried to comfort himself. He emphasized, "I didn't do anything last time I came, but I went back smoothly, didn't I?"
"Really? I was sleeping last time and didn't know anything." B28 answered unreliably.
The author has something to say:
Xie Qi: If I were given a chance to start over, I would definitely choose to stay at home and not go anywhere.
Hospital: Okay, my long legs came by themselves, master.
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