Chapter 137 Guardian Spirit 5

The director of the orphanage is quite old and has not been in good health. She was just hospitalized some time ago. Seeing her hospitalized again, and she broke her leg, Xie Yinian's heart instantly tightened.

He hurriedly replied to Zhuzi, asked for the address of the hospital, put on his coat and prepared to go out.

Yao Rong asked, "Where are you going?"

Xie Yinian made a bitter face and told Yao Rong what happened.

It was too coincidental that something happened at this critical moment. However, seeing Xie Yinian's anxious look, Yao Rong did not stop him: "Go ahead."

Being interrupted by Yao Rong, Xie Yinian's mood calmed down a lot.

He wanted to ask Yao Rong if she wanted to go with him, but he was worried that she would get involved with Zhuzi and the dean. He hesitated for a moment, but in the end, he said nothing.

Yao Rong smiled and said, "Go quickly. Be careful on the road."

Xie Yinian pursed his lips, holding the evil-repelling talisman Yao Rong gave him and ran to the street, scanned a shared bicycle, and hurried to the hospital.

Half an hour later, Xie Yinian rushed to the hospital with sweat all over his head and met the dean lying on the bed.

"Director Granny!"

The director's right leg was already in a plaster cast, and her forehead was also wrapped with several white bandages. She was eating a banana with her head down. When she heard Xie Yinian's voice, she raised her head and said helplessly: "Why are you in such a hurry? I told Zhuzi that you are busy recently and asked him not to tell you about this matter. He still didn't listen to me."

Xie Yinian wiped his face casually and walked to the director and sat down: "If he doesn't tell me now, I will know in a few days."

Another teacher from the orphanage also came over and echoed: "Yes, Nianzi is a filial child."

The director patted Xie Yinian's hand and asked with concern: "Why did you suddenly move a few days ago? Did something happen?"

Nianzi grew up under her care.

Everything is good, but he likes to keep things in his heart.

Although he didn't want them to worry, such a child is inevitably sensible and pitiful.

Xie Yinian naturally couldn't tell the dean the truth, so he peeled an apple for him: "What could happen to me? But you, how could you suddenly fall down the stairs?"

The dean sighed: "When I was going downstairs, my eyes went dark and I accidentally stepped on empty air. The doctor said it was hypoglycemia."

Xie Yinian looked at the medicine in the tray, which did contain glucose, and asked about the injury.

"The doctor said it's not serious. Take good care of yourself and you'll be fine in a while."

"I've been here for such a long time. Where's Zhuzi? Why hasn't he come back yet?"

The dean smiled and said, "He went to buy me food. Maybe he was delayed by something."

The dean looked a little tired. Xie Yinian was worried that she would have sequelae from hitting her forehead, so he asked her to have a good sleep and asked the teacher to take good care of her. Then he got up and walked out, intending to find a doctor to ask about the dean's injury.

As soon as he walked to the corridor of the ward, Xie Yinian's phone suddenly rang: "Zhuzi, what's wrong... Paying the hospital bill, right? OK, I'll take the elevator down now..."

Xie Yinian walked to the elevator entrance and pressed the down button.

After a short wait, the elevator reached his floor.

In the elevator, besides Xie Yinian, there was only a young woman wearing a coat and listening to music with earphones.

The air-conditioning in the hospital was turned on high, and the elevator was even colder, giving people goosebumps. Xie Yinian pulled at the collar of his coat and suddenly remembered something.

He wore a coat in the middle of summer to cover the wound on his neck. The woman behind him wore a coat because she couldn't stand the air conditioning.

With this thought, Xie Yinian subconsciously glanced at the woman.

But he saw a bright color stabbing at him from the side.

Xie Yinian's pupils suddenly widened, and he subconsciously dodged forward, narrowly avoiding the attack.

After failing to hit him once, the woman rushed towards Xie Yinian again. Her movements were as stiff as a puppet on a string, yet incredibly fast.

The elevator was too small, leaving little room for evasion. Xie Yinian dodged twice before being forced into a corner.

The woman raised the fruit knife in her hand and stabbed it towards his heart. Xie Yinian gritted his teeth, only able to see the pair of dull eyes behind her hat.

Suddenly, Xie Yinian felt a heat in his heart.

The talisman in his chest pocket burst into a beam of light and shot towards the woman.

The woman let out a sharp, inhuman cry of pain, and strange black smoke rose from her body.

Her movements became stiffer and slower, but she still struggled to rush towards Xie Yinian again.

At the same time, the elevator dinged and

the door opened.

Xie Yinian didn't have time to think, and took the opportunity to push the woman's body away and ran out.

"Nianzi, I'm here." He

had just run a few steps when the dark-skinned Zhuzi came towards him with a silly smile on his face that Xie Yinian was familiar with.

The footsteps behind him approached again, and Xie Yinian's face turned pale and he shouted loudly: "Don't come over! Run!"

Zhuzi was stunned, as if he had discovered the woman with a knife chasing after Xie Yinian, and was so scared that he stayed where he was.

Xie Yinian was afraid that something might happen to him, so he rushed over to pull him away, but his wrist was clamped the moment he approached, and then he was thrown hard.

Xie Yinian hit his head against the wall of the corridor, still dazed, and saw the pillar approaching him, with its palm already covering his neck and slowly tightening.

Xie Yinian looked at the familiar yet unfamiliar pillar, and his eyes went dark. At the critical moment of life and death, he actually felt a little absurd: Why do you have to strangle his neck every time you kill him! Can't you try a fresher way of killing people! Wearing a coat every day in the hot summer is also very painful!

At this moment, a familiar figure fell into Xie Yinian's eyes.

Yao Rong first stabilized Zhuzi's body, then kicked away the sharp blade in the young woman's hand and knocked her unconscious with his backhand.

A hanged ghost floated out of Zhuzi's body, but before he could escape, Yao Rong grabbed his neck.

Zhuzi's body went limp, and the hand that was pinching Xie Yinian's neck loosened, and he fell heavily to the ground.

Xie Yinian didn't have time to hold Zhuzi up, and he himself was exhausted and couldn't stand steadily, and slowly fell down.

Just as he was about to fall to the ground, Yao Rong reached out and held him up steadily.

The usually cold voice sounded a little apologetic.

"Sorry, I'm late again." After

Xie

Yinian left the basement, Yao Rong also left.

She went to the orphanage first, and sure enough, in the stairwell of the orphanage, she sensed the breath left by the ghost's activities.

After confirming that the director fell down because of the ghost, Yao Rong guessed Zhang Tianshi's layout.

She didn't delay for a moment and rushed from the orphanage to the hospital.

However, Zhang Tianshi was indeed painstaking.

Yao Rong had just stepped into the hospital when she fell into Zhang Tianshi's formation.

In order to make Yao Rong feel helpless and unable to save Xie Yinian, Zhang Tianshi even extracted the souls of some patients in the hospital as the eyes of the formation.

If Yao Rong used brute force to destroy the formation, these souls would naturally dissipate along with the formation, and the owners of the souls would die even though they should not have died.

Yao Rong's formation skills were no worse than those of the talisman, so there was no need to use brute force to break the formation, but it delayed her for some time. It was not until the exorcism talisman was activated that she successfully broke the formation and saved Xie Yinian in a dangerous way.

There was a sound of a door opening not far away, as if someone heard the noise and wanted to come out to check. Yao Rong put Xie Yinian under the recliner in the corridor, and captured the ghost that possessed the pillar and the ghost that possessed the young woman, and then walked towards the stairwell.

However, just after leaving the hospital, Yao Rong hid her body and returned to the hospital.

Who knows if Zhang Tianshi has any backup plans.

At this juncture, she had to protect Xie Yinian first.

Other things, wait until he wakes up.

***

Xie Yinian, Zhuzi and the young woman were just moved to the same ward and lying down, and the police came right after.

Jiang Guang looked at the video in the elevator with a frown: "Have you found out the identity of the woman with the knife?"

The subordinate said: "We have found out. She is the daughter of a patient on the 12th floor. Her name is Xia Ziqian. She came to visit the patient today. Before the incident, she said she was going downstairs to pay the hospital bill and took the fruit knife away. The patient said that he called her several times at that time, but she didn't respond."

"The boy who was chased is called Xie Yinian, and the other dark-skinned boy is called Zhu Bin. They grew up in the same orphanage, are of similar age, and have always had a good relationship."

Jiang Guang asked: "Why did Xie Yinian and Zhu Bin come to the hospital."

The subordinate said: "The director of the orphanage fell down the stairs at noon today and was injured. They came to visit the patient."

Jiang Guang narrowed his eyes.

The subordinate lowered his voice slightly and whispered in Jiang Guang's ear: "Captain, this case is probably related to those things again."

They were all from the First Brigade of the City Criminal Police Detachment. They had handled many cases, so they naturally knew a lot of things and had worked with Tianshi several times.

Jiang Guang nodded and watched the video in the corridor again. The more he watched, the more he frowned: "Have you found out the identity of the woman who saved Xie Yinian?"

Obviously, this woman appeared for quite a while, but the surveillance only captured her back. Not to mention her face, even her profile could not be captured.

Is this a coincidence, or did this woman deliberately avoid surveillance? The subordinate shook his head: "We haven't found her

yet." "Where is she?" "We checked the surveillance at the hospital entrance and found that she left the hospital after saving the patient." The tightly closed door was pushed open from the outside, and another subordinate walked in, leading a middle-aged man in a Taoist robe and a young man with a distinguished temperament. "Captain, people from the Xie family of the Tianshi League have arrived." The Xie family's ancestral home is in City D. Usually, when the Criminal Police Detachment has any supernatural cases, they deal with people from the Xie family. Jiang Guang turned around and recognized the middle-aged man: "Master Xie Zuo, you're here so quickly." Xie Zuo was born with a smile on his face and looked particularly friendly: "Captain Jiang, it so happened that my nephew and I were handling some things nearby today. We received a call from the Criminal Police Detachment, so we came here together." The young man looked no more than eighteen or nineteen years old, and smiled faintly: "Hello, Captain Jiang, my name is Xie Chuan." Jiang Guang didn't know the identity of this young man, but since he was accompanied by Xie Zuo in person, he thought that this young man's status and strength in the Xie family were not simple. He told him everything and also mentioned all the doubts he had noticed. Xie Zuo and Xie Chuan played the video. The video looked dangerous, but in fact, from Xie Yinian entering the elevator to escaping from the elevator and being rescued, the duration was less than one minute. Xie Zuo winked at Jiang Guang. Jiang Guang asked his subordinates to leave, and only he and the Xie family were left in the room. Xie Zuo then said: "The young woman with the knife and the dark-skinned boy were indeed possessed by ghosts." "Inside the elevator, the attack should have been fatal, but it was blocked. The boy named Xie Yinian must have been wearing a high-level amulet to ward off evil spirits, which blocked the fatal attack for him and gave him the opportunity to escape from the elevator." "But this woman whose back is only exposed..." Xie Zuo stared at her back for a long time. For some reason, he felt that she looked familiar. In fact, it was not only this woman who made him feel familiar, but the boy who was almost killed also looked familiar. Xie Chuan added: "She captured those two ghosts." Xie Zuo nodded and asked Jiang Guang: "Where is she ? I want to ask her about the situation." Jiang Guang shook his head: "We can't find her yet . " He sat up from the bed and subconsciously raised his hand to touch his neck, only to notice that a diaphragm needle was inserted into the back of his right hand. Not just him, but also the young woman and the pillar beside him. But I didn’t see Ms. Yao. The nurse walked into the ward with the potion in hand. Xie Yinian was just about to ask where Yao Rong was when he saw three people walking in behind the nurse.

Looking at the Taoist robes on Xie Zuo and the peach wood sword in Xie Chuan's hand, Xie Yinian swallowed his doubts and became alert.

It was not until Jiang Guang, who came with him, took out his ID and explained his identity that Xie Yinian felt relieved.

Jiang Guang's questions were relatively simple, and Xie Yinian answered them one by one.

Immediately afterwards, Jiang Guang changed the subject and looked directly at Xie Yinian. His eyes were extremely sharp and full of oppression, which was the temperament cultivated from years of being on the front line to fight criminals: "Do you know this woman named Xia Ziqian?"

Xie Yinian only then knew the name of the woman with the knife and shook his head and said, "No."

"You grew up with Zhu Bin. This time you came here because the director of the orphanage who took you in fell down the stairs. Do you know why he and Xia Ziqian wanted to kill you?"

Xie Yinian didn't know how to answer for a moment.

Xie Zuo smiled, walked to Zhu Bin's bed, patted Zhu Bin on the shoulder, and stuffed a talisman into Zhu Bin's pocket: "Your friend has a lot of yin energy. In the next few days, you need to get enough sun for four hours every day and wear this talisman all the time."

Then, he stuffed a talisman into the woman named Xia Ziqian.

The last talisman in his hand was handed to Xie Yinian.

Xie Yinian quickly took it and thanked him.

Xie Zuo said happily: "Can you take out the talisman on your chest and show it to me?"

Xie Yinian had just taken the other party's talisman, so there was no reason to refuse.

He reached out to touch it, only to find that the talisman had turned into powder. He said embarrassedly, "It seems to be broken."

"It doesn't matter." Xie Zuo used a paper cup to catch some talisman powder, sensing the residual breath on it, "The person who drew this talisman is extremely skilled in talismans. Where did you get it from?"

Xie Yinian said carefully, "Someone else gave it to you."

Xie Zuo smiled, "Is it the girl who just saved you?"

"...Yes."

"Then it seems you have known each other for a while."

"...No, we just met a few times."

"Do you know her name?"

Xie Yinian blurted out, "I don't know."

Xie Zuo did not doubt his words, but lowered his eyes, wondering what he was thinking.

Xie Chuan, who had been silent since entering the house, suddenly spoke: "You have a lot of yin energy, and there is still some residual formation aura. You have come into close contact with ghosts more than once."

"And the scars on your neck are all caused by ghosts, which means you have been attacked by ghosts at least three times."

His voice suddenly became cold, his eyes were cold, and he looked directly at Xie Yinian: "How did you escape this time? We saw it from the surveillance video. How did you escape the first two times?"

Xie Yinian pursed his lips and looked at Xie Chuan unavoidably.

As early as Xie Zuo and Xie Chuan entered the door, Xie Yinian guessed that they were Tianshi.

They came with the police, and obviously registered with the official, and it is very likely that they are members of the legendary Tianshi League.

Logically, he should be honest with them, tell them everything he had experienced in the past few days, and seek help from them.

But...

thinking of the words "Sorry, I'm late" that rang in his ears before he fainted, Xie Yinian's thought at this moment was not to confess, but

to conceal the truth appropriately.

Before he was about to be killed, it was not these two Heavenly Masters who saved his life, but Ms. Yao, who seemed dangerous and not of my kind.

He can ask them for help and tell them all about Master Zhang's plan.

But he can't let them know about Ms. Yao's existence.

He can't let her fall into danger because of his words.