Lu Xu just returned to the dormitory with Eighth Sister, Xu Haoming rushed up to him impatiently and asked: "Brother Xu, did you know that Sister Manman would come as an outside aid?"
"I really didn't know this, I didn't hear them say it before." Like other trainees, Lu Xu only found out tonight that Yu Manman would actually come to participate in the program.
Before he could say too much, Bai Ze called. Lu Xu put Eighth Sister down, pointed at the phone to his roommate, and then went to the corridor to answer it.
"You heard about Manman's temporary mentor in the past, right?"
"Yes, the program team just mentioned it. So did you arrange this schedule for Senior Sister?"
Bai Ze is the only agent of Yaoguai Entertainment Company, and he arranges all the schedules of the company's artists. Yu Manman had a lot of announcements, and she suddenly adjusted her schedule to come here, which clearly showed that she wanted to build momentum for Lu Xu.
Bai Ze immediately denied: "No, it was Manman who proposed it herself."
Now Lu Xu is already a hot contestant in "The Birth of an Idol", but other people in the company always feel that they need to give more guarantees to the "junior brother".
"You don't have to worry about it. Your program is very popular, and Manman's visit can be regarded as a promotion for herself. By the way, how is your mission progress?"
At this time, it has been a while since Lu Xu joined the program team, and it seems that he will be able to debut soon, but he has never mentioned anything about the mission.
Ji Xiunian's face appeared in Lu Xu's mind, and his mood was inexplicably complicated: "It may not be over for the time being..."
"Then I will start to arrange all the work arrangements in the future. By the way, the advertising fees for your endorsement of DR and the copyright fees of "Hymn of Death" have been transferred to the company account. I saw that you haven't licked your personal account yet. Send the account to me later and I will transfer it to you."
Bai Ze said an amount, which sounded considerable.
Lu Xu didn't even think about it, and then said: "You don't have to give it to me, find a reliable organization to donate it all."
"Huh?" Bai Ze didn't expect him to be so straightforward, but he couldn't help but confirm it again, "Donate all?"
"Yeah, donate it." The nature of Lu Xu's work determined that he didn't have high material desires, and there was no special need for money. But before he finished speaking, he suddenly thought of Xie An, and then changed his mind, "Wait, Mr. Bai, I'll send you an account number later, you can deposit some money into it, and donate the rest."
Xie An has been wearing the same work suit for many years, and he is reluctant to change it even though the style is no longer suitable for the times.
He lives in a storefront rented by the organization. It is convenient to work next to the hospital, but it always feels cramped for such a big man to curl up inside.
No matter what, I will save some money for him first, and then see what to do after he comes out.
Lu Xu was thinking about it, and a message suddenly popped up on the Death God Home app -
[A new customer is about to ascend to heaven downstairs in Building 3 of the inpatient department of the People's Hospital. Do you want to accept the order? ]
In order to allow Lu Xu to perform his tasks with peace of mind, Xie An took all the orders in the jurisdiction by himself. Now that Xie An was taken away for investigation, Lu Xu had to do it.
Lu Xu was very familiar with the operation interface, and without hesitation, he clicked to accept the order, then said goodbye to Bai Ze, and then immediately pushed the door open and went in.
"Brother Xu..." Xu Haoming wanted to say a lot to Lu Xu, but he saw him waving his hands and entering the bathroom like the wind.
Xu Haoming was stunned on the spot: "Brother Xu, what do you mean by this?"
Han Tianyu laughed at him on the side: "What can it mean? People have three urgent things, I guess you have an upset stomach."
"Oh oh." Xu Haoming touched his head, feeling a little embarrassed, "I'm stupid, hahaha."
***
It was 9:30 in the evening, and the visiting hours of the inpatient department had long passed.
In order to ensure that the patients rested, the wards were already in a semi-closed state at 8 o'clock in the evening, and there were few people in the lobby.
Many wards have turned off the lights for rest, and the entire building is dimly lit.
The air in the huge inpatient department is hot and dry, and the surroundings are so quiet that you can clearly hear the whispers of summer insects.
Suddenly, a scream broke the tranquility: "Help, someone jumped from the building!"
Along with the scream, the sound of a heavy object falling to the ground reached Lu Xu's ears.
The person seemed to have jumped from the 24th floor, but was blocked by a crossbeam in the middle, so he did not die immediately when he landed.
Lu Xu looked at the new customer who was squirming in pain on the ground, lowered his eyes to confirm the information again -
[Xie Guihua, from Dongcheng, female, 53 years old. [She died of massive chest hemorrhage, brain hemorrhage, and fractures all over her body due to the severe impact of falling from a building...]
It didn't take long for Lu Xu to confirm the cause of death and for the client to ascend to heaven. When Lu Xu looked up, Xie Guihua's soul had already left her body, staring blankly at her own corpse.
Lu Xu walked up to her, called her name, and then introduced himself: "Hello, Ms. Xie, I am your exclusive god of death, and I am here to take you on your way."
Xie Guihua turned her head when she heard him speak, and after a long while she spoke to Lu Xu to confirm: "Am I really dead?"
"Yes." Lu Xu lowered his eyes and glanced at the body on the ground. The answer was self-evident, "I wonder how you felt about your first experience of death?"
Recalling the moment she just landed, Xie Guihua's muscles were twitching. She thought that being ill was painful enough, but she didn't expect that jumping off a building would be so painful: "I didn't expect jumping off a building would hurt so much..."
53 years of life is neither long nor short. In Xie Guihua's cognition, she studied, worked, married and had children like everyone else for the first 42 years, and her life was ordinary and happy. But who would have thought that since she was diagnosed with rheumatoid arthritis at the age of 42, her life would become a nightmare.
When she first got sick, she didn't feel anything. Whether it was morning stiffness or limb pain, it was within her tolerance range.
But as the disease progressed, the morning stiffness lasted longer and longer, and the limb pain gradually worsened until she had to endure the pain of needles and knives every day.
Seeing her increasingly deformed limbs and joints throughout her body, Xie Guihua became more and more desperate, and slowly developed depression.
Finally, in this summer, she had enough of this torture and chose to commit suicide by jumping off a building.
She thought jumping off a building would be a relief, but she didn't expect the pain of her limbs being torn apart would be a million times more painful than being sick.
Gravity was like a steel knife, shredding her body. The moment she landed, every muscle in Xie Guihua's body was suffering from the pain of tearing, and every organ seemed to be shredded by a crusher. Even though she
had escaped from the broken corpse, the pain was imprinted in the deepest part of her soul and could not be erased.
"I thought I would be free after death..." Xie Guihua muttered to herself, unable to help crying with her face covered. She didn't know whether she was sad for her living self or regretting her dead self.
"Well, since you're dead anyway, why not try to contact a new world?" Lu Xu checked the time and prepared to open the passage to send her off.
Xie Guihua was in a daze. After she came to her senses, she asked Lu Xu, "So, Lord Death, am I going to heaven or hell?"
"There is no heaven in China, only the underworld, but the scenery is much better than the paradise abroad." Lu Xu smiled gently and explained to her calmly, "But Ms. Xie, you must first go to the Ministry of Justice in the underworld to stand trial."
"Trial?" Xie Guihua was stunned and said in disbelief, "I have never done anything bad in my life, nor have I wronged anyone. What crime have I committed? Why are you trying me?"
"Murder," Lu Xu said slowly, just raised his finger and pointed at her, "You just killed yourself."
"I killed myself?" Xie Guihua was confused again, and looked back at herself lying on the ground unconsciously -
it seemed that she really killed herself with her own hands...
Before she set off, she kept looking back: "I took a shower and changed into new clothes in order to commit suicide. I wanted to leave in a dignified manner, but I didn't expect it to be so tragic..."
Because the floor was too high, Xie Guihua's body was now unbearable to look at. Lu Xu glanced at the scene where brains and blood were mixed together on the ground, and then smiled at her: "Okay, this is your first time to die and you have no experience. If you still have the memory in your next life, just don't do it again."
Xie Guihua didn't expect these words to come out of the mouth of the god of death. She looked at Lu Xu in shock, and suddenly felt that he looked familiar: "You are not that..."
"Okay, Ms. Xie, congratulations on ending your life and embarking on the road of ghost. I wish you a pleasant death experience." Lu Xu showed a professional smile on his face, lurking in the darkness, mysterious and evil.
Soon, footsteps were heard around, and there were faint voices: "
Where is the person, have you found him?" "No, he's probably in Building 3..."
"Hurry over, bring all the rescue equipment..."
The lights in the wards of the entire inpatient building lit up one by one, and the surroundings instantly became lively.
"Who jumped from the building?"
"Do you want to call the police or an ambulance?"
"Why call an ambulance? This is a hospital..."
Lu Xu submitted the order and left silently, with a smile on his face -
death may be lonely for an individual, but it is still lively after all.
Many people in the wards stood at the window and looked down. Among them, a dark shadow kept trembling and did not dare to show up until Lu Xu left.
However, Lu Xu left in a hurry and didn't notice the movement over there at all...
***
Not long after leaving the hospital, he took two more orders.
One was an elderly man who passed away at the age of 93.
He passed away peacefully in his dream. His family was next door, and it was estimated that they would not find out that their father had left until tomorrow morning.
The old man was very calm when he learned of his own death. He was quite happy and said that he could go to the underworld to find his old partner.
"We were a young couple, but she was in poor health and died forty years earlier than me. I have been alone for so many years. But it's still exciting to think about it. I'm old and I don't know if my wife can still recognize me..."
Lu Xu smiled and sent him on his way without saying anything to break his fantasy -
he had been gone for forty years, and it was estimated that he had been reincarnated and started a new life.
Many times, what people can't let go of after death is not the person himself, but the one who is still alive.
Another case was a car accident. A 25-year-old man crossed the road with his mobile phone in his hand, and crossed the road without waiting for the green light. As luck would have it, a commercial vehicle was trying to catch the yellow light, and the man stepped on the road to hell from the zebra crossing.
Lu Xu didn't care too much about his regret. After all, death is still a fact, and there is no chance to start over in life...
***
In the dormitory, Xu Haoming searched for news about Yu Manman with his mobile phone, and felt excited when he thought about meeting the goddess tomorrow.
"It's not easy for Manman to come here, should I prepare a small gift for her?" Without waiting for Han Tianyu to talk to Song Zhe, Xu Haoming went to the bathroom door and asked Lu Xu inside, "Brother Xu, can you help me find out what Manman likes?" After waiting for
a while without a reply, Xu Haoming added, "It's okay if it's inconvenient, of course it would be better if it's possible..." As
Xu Haoming spoke, he felt that the bathroom was unusually quiet. He couldn't help but hold the door with both hands and put his ear to the door to listen.
"Hey, you are a bit crazy." Han Tianyu was playing games and accidentally saw Xu Haoming lying in the bathroom. He couldn't help but laugh in disgust, "Brother Xu went to the bathroom and you followed him to listen to the noise. People who don't know would think you are a pervert!"
"No, no, I think it's too quiet inside.
It doesn't look like there is anyone there." Xu Haoming pointed to the bathroom and felt that the atmosphere was a bit weird. This time, even Song Zhe couldn't help but roll his eyes at him: "What do you mean there is no one inside? Didn't we see Lu Xu go in with our own eyes? He didn't come out, could he disappear?"
"Really no sound!" Xu Haoming was a little anxious, and he wanted them to come over and listen.
After studying vocal music for so many years, he is sensitive to sound. Xu Haoming thinks his hearing is still good.
"No, I don't want to crawl at the toilet door and listen." Han Tianyu pouted, then turned over and got out of bed, walked to the bathroom door and knocked, "Brother Xu, say something to wake up Haoming."
However, three seconds passed, and no one answered.
Han Tianyu knocked on the door again: "Brother Xu?"
Xu Haoming spread his hands, and there was still no movement inside.
"Could he have fainted in there?" It was really unreasonable for him not to speak for a long time. Could it be that Lu Xu fainted in there?
Considering this possibility, the three of them couldn't help but feel a little anxious.
"What should we do? Will Brother Xu be okay?"
"Bah, bah, bah, stop talking nonsense! " "
What should we do now?"
"What can we do? Hurry up and break the door to save him!"