Chapter 183: Back to Reality 2

"..."

Yu Xiao and Zhao Lan were silent at first, and then shocked. Could it be done this way?

After all, Zhao Lan had some social experience. She advised, "It's not impossible... But participating in the Olympics requires more than just strength. I think it's best to go to college. It's a lifelong thing."

Zhou Xiaozhen listened patiently, and then said, "But it seems that outstanding Olympic athletes will be recommended to college."

"..."

Zhao Lan was speechless after hearing this. Yu Xiao thought for a while, and reminded, "If you want to go this way, it's not impossible. I just want to say, don't be too exaggerated, don't express yourself beyond the scope of normal humans..."

The three talked for a while, and the nurse knocked on the door twice again. They finally turned off the lights and went to sleep.

Lying on the familiar bed again, with Zhao Lan and Xiaozhen by her side, this feeling made her feel at ease even though she no longer needed to sleep.

Yu Xiao reached out and touched his chest, where the nightmare was. He didn't know if the nightmare could see the situation outside, it would be great if he could also see what the real world looked like. As he was thinking, Yu Xiao fell asleep without realizing it.

The next morning, a nurse came into the ward early to draw blood for them. If today's tests are normal, they can be discharged from the hospital.

Yu Xiao pressed the pinhole at the crook of his arm, and Zhou Xiaozhen yawned. Zhao Lan said sleepily, "I'm so hungry. I had some snacks last night. Let's go eat later."

Zhou Xiaozhen nodded dazedly. The nurse drew blood, packed up and left. She walked to the door and looked back at the three people meaningfully.

Yu Xiao raised her eyebrows. That look was unusual. There must be something wrong.

She got out of bed, combed her hair and said to the two of them, "You guys wash up. I'll be out for a while."

They went to bed late last night. Zhao Lan and Zhou Xiaozhen didn't get enough sleep. They yawned and nodded when they heard it. Yu Xiao walked out of the ward and walked quietly towards the nurses' station. When she got closer, she could hear the nurses in the nurses' station chattering, and they looked very emotional.

Yu Xiao leaned against the wall and listened carefully.

Then she heard the nurse who had just drawn blood say, "It's them! It's them! I just saw..."

"Really?!"

"Oh my God, this is amazing, I didn't notice they had been in the hospital for so long..."

She was eavesdropping attentively when a patient passed by, watching Tik Tok on his phone. Suddenly he raised his head, glanced around with empty eyes, and then fixed his gaze on Yu Xiao's face.

The patient looked at Yu Xiao, then at his phone, and then looked at Yu Xiao with awe in his eyes.

Seeing Yu Xiao looking at him, the patient lowered his head and walked forward. Yu Xiao crossed her arms over her chest, raised her chin, and said, "Who told you to leave?"

The patient froze immediately, then turned stiffly, staring at Yu Xiao with wide eyes in fear.

Yu Xiao said, "What are you looking at?"

...

Zhao Lan and Zhou Xiaozhen were much more sober after washing their faces. As they were getting ready to go out for breakfast, Zhou Xiaozhen said as she changed her clothes, "Sister Lan, do you think my idea last night is feasible?"

"I think it's feasible." Zhao Lan asked, "Have you decided what sport you want to do?" Zhou Xiaozhen

thought about it carefully. Football, basketball, gymnastics, and long jump were all too technical. Even if she was strong and had a good physique, she might not be able to handle them. So Zhou Xiaozhen said, "How about lifting weights, or throwing lead balls, iron cakes, etc.?"

Zhao Lan: "...Okay."

"Bang!"

The door of the ward was suddenly pushed open.

Zhao Lan, who was taking care of her skin, was startled. Seeing that it was Yu Xiao who walked in, Zhao Lan smiled bitterly and said, "Xiao Xiao, calm down."

"Now is not the time to be calm." Yu Xiao said to the two of them, "We are famous."

"Ah?" Zhou Xiaozhen looked confused.

The Douyin video was playing dynamic music. It was a night market barbecue stall. The protagonists in the middle were three young girls in hospital gowns. The girl in the black hat just pinched the beer bottle lightly, and it was crushed into pieces. Then someone at the next table handed her a glass, and she took it and squeezed it again, and the glass broke with a "crack"...

Needless to say, the three girls in the video were them. What they did at the barbecue stall last night was recorded and posted online.

Zhao Lan took a look at the clicks, which had exceeded 100,000, and suddenly her eyes went dark.

"It's over." Zhou Xiaozhen grabbed her bald head in pain, "Are we going to be caught and studied?"

As she said that, she grabbed Yu Xiao's arm, "Sister Xiao, what should we do? Please save us!"

Yu Xiao's mouth twitched, and she thought to herself, what can I do? She thought for a moment and said, "If someone really comes to us, we will never admit it and say that we are acting for the fire."

"That's the only way." Zhao Lan said as she took the phone and started to scroll through the screen below the video.

"Is this acting?"

"If it is acting, then the acting is too good. How realistic are those people next to them?"

"Do they have internal strength?"

"Why are they still wearing hospital gowns?"

"Could they have escaped from some secret research institute?"

"I know this place. It's next to the People's Hospital of City A. They are all patients of the People's Hospital..."

Zhao Lan raised his head with a serious expression, "I think it's better for us to be discharged as soon as possible."

"But the results of our examination today are not out yet." Zhou Xiaozhen said.

"Leave the hospital first, and come back in the afternoon to get discharged." Zhao Lan said worriedly, "I don't think it's good for us to stay here any longer."

Yu Xiao thought so too, so the three of them quickly changed their clothes and left the hospital together. The three of them had breakfast in KFC, and Yu Xiao enjoyed it very much. Zhao Lan saw it and felt sad, "Look at how greedy Xiao Xiao is, you haven't eaten fried chicken for a long time, right?"

"Yeah." Yu Xiao nodded, "This kind of junk food tastes like this, I really can't get it in the hospital."

Zhou Xiaozhen ate ice cream and was worried, "Can I still participate in the Olympics like this?"

"I think I can." Yu Xiao said, "As long as I don't act too exaggerated, it shouldn't be a big problem."

"That's good." Zhou Xiaozhen was immediately relieved, and she began to think seriously about whether she should lift weights, throw lead balls, or throw javelins in the future.

After breakfast, they couldn't go back to the hospital, so the three decided to walk around the street together.

Yu Xiao walked on the street, and remembered what Zhou Xiaozhen said last night, whether she would feel strange looking at the people on the street now. To be honest, there was no strange feeling. Yu Xiao just felt very friendly. Although she didn't know those people walking around, they were all human beings like herself.

Zhao Lan squeezed her hand, and she said, "I feel that my left hand seems to be stronger than my right hand."

Looking at Zhao Lan's white left hand, Yu Xiao remembered that Sister Lan's left hand had become a ghost before she was discharged from the hospital. She thought about it, and said with some worry: "How about this, I'll draw a talisman for you, in case there's something wrong with the evil spirits?"

Zhou Xiaozhen looked around, "Go back to the hospital to draw the talisman?"

Yu Xiao narrowed her eyes, and she saw an old fortuneteller sitting under the tree in front of her. She said, "Let's go to the front and take a look."

There was indeed an old fortuneteller sitting in front of her, wearing shabby clothes and sunglasses, sitting on a small stool, with a small table in front of him, on which were the Eight Diagrams, copper coins, yellow paper, and cinnabar pens. There

was also a man standing next to the fortuneteller's stall, with his head down, as if he was talking to the fortuneteller.

Yu Xiao walked to the side of the stall, and the man and the old man immediately turned to Yu Xiao. Yu Xiao started to touch her body, but after a while she gave up and took out her phone and said, "Grandpa, can you pay with your phone?"

The old man looked up and didn't look at Yu Xiao, as if he had a problem with his eyes. He asked, "Girl, do you want to have your fortune told?"

"I don't." Yu Xiao said, "I want to borrow your cinnabar and yellow paper."

"Oh." The old man was very easy to talk to, and nodded, "Use it, girl, use it, it's free."

"Thank you, Grandpa." Yu Xiao was very happy, thinking that the world is really beautiful. Zhao Lan and Zhou Xiaozhen also came over. Yu Xiao squatted on the ground, dipped a pen in cinnabar, and began to draw lines on the yellow paper.

The man standing next to him suddenly exclaimed, lowered his head and watched Yu Xiao draw the talisman seriously.

Yu Xiao drew two Laojun talismans. She stood up with the talismans and said to the old man again, "Thank

you, grandpa." The old man smiled and waved his hand. Yu Xiao turned around, and the man behind her called her, "Wait a minute."

"Huh?" Yu Xiao turned back again.

He was a middle-aged man in his forties, with a well-maintained figure, fair skin and good looks. The most important thing is that he has a good temperament and looks very elegant in a blue polo shirt.

But Yu Xiao didn't know him. She recalled carefully and made sure that she really didn't know him. Yu Xiao asked, "Is there anything?"

"The talisman you just drew." The middle-aged man pointed at the talisman in Yu Xiao's hand, "Did you create it yourself?" "

No." Yu Xiao said, turned around, greeted Sister Lan and Xiaozhen, and left.

The middle-aged man looked thoughtful as he watched the three people's backs getting farther and farther away. The old man sitting on the small bench said, "Those three girls are not simple." The

middle-aged man asked, "Why do you think so?"

The old man smiled mysteriously, then took out his mobile phone from his pocket and opened Douyin. The

middle-aged man's expression twisted, "Aren't you blind?"

The old man: "Hehe."

"The three of them are very popular now." The old man opened the video of the barbecue stall squeezing the wine bottle and showed it to the middle-aged man, "Here, look." The

middle-aged man took the phone and his expression became more and more solemn. He raised his head, but the three people had disappeared.

He looked at the video carefully again and asked, "Is this a video recorded last night?"

"Is it?" The old man said, "I don't know. I'm old and can't play with the things of the young."

The middle-aged man threw the phone into the old man's arms and walked away. The old man asked loudly, "Where are you going?"

"Go find them!" The middle-aged man said and walked away quickly.

Yu Xiao pasted the Laojun Talisman on Zhao Lan and Zhou Xiaozhen, but the talisman didn't react at all. She breathed a sigh of relief. It seemed that the Yin Qi was no longer Yin Qi after leaving the hospital, but turned into something she couldn't understand for the time being.

"How is it?" Zhao Lan asked, "Is everything okay?"

"Yeah." Yu Xiao nodded, handed the talisman to the two people, and said, "Keep it as a souvenir."

Zhou Xiaozhen took the talisman in her hand with great interest, looking at it left and right, "This is a talisman drawn by the big boss of the world of the dead. Can it protect you?"

"It has some self-defense effect." Yu Xiao said.

"Then I'll keep it close to me." Zhou Xiaozhen said happily, "I suddenly feel that my future is bright."

"Why?" Yu Xiao asked, "Because you can participate in the Olympics?"

"More than that." Zhou Xiaozhen pinched the talisman and said with a wink, "If you draw more talismans for me, I can be a ghost catcher and a haunted house sleeper."

Yu Xiao: "..."

Zhao Lan put his hand on Yu Xiao's shoulder and said, "Xiaoxiao, the talismans you draw are all useful and real talismans. If you are short of money in the future, you can also sell talismans."

Yu Xiao: "..."

You sell talismans in the hospital, and you have to sell them again after you are discharged?

"I don't want to." Yu Xiao was in a complicated mood, "I will never sell talismans again."

The three of them have been walking outside and eating outside at noon. It was not until the afternoon that the three returned to the hospital to handle the admission procedures.

When they were packing up, the nurse said, "Someone came to see you this morning."

"Who?" Zhou Xiaozhen asked.

"I don't know him either." The nurse suddenly laughed, "He was a very handsome uncle. By the way, he also left you his number."

The nurse handed the number to Zhao Lan. The three of them took a closer look. Yu Xiao shook his head and said, "I don't have this person in my address book."

"Neither do I." Zhou Xiaozhen's eyes rolled, "Could it be a reporter?"

Zhao Lan's scalp tightened, "It's possible, let's get out of the hospital quickly. If you have nothing to do for the time being, you can stay at my house tonight."

Zhao Lan's house hadn't been cleaned for a long time, so Yu Xiao and Zhou Xiaozhen helped to clean it. Zhao Lan took the rag and said apologetically, "I'm sorry, I live alone in my house, and no one has been cleaning since I was hospitalized."

Yu Xiao, who was mopping the floor, realized, "Doesn't your adopted brother come here often?"

Zhou Xiaozhen, who was sweeping the floor listlessly, suddenly perked up, "What brother? Sister Lan, you're so good at playing?"

Zhao Lan's face turned red instantly, thinking, did you even say this when I was in the Sixth Hospital?

"What do you mean by sponsoring? Xiaoxiao, stop talking nonsense. I am sponsoring him."

"What's going on?" Zhou Xiaozhen was so anxious that she winked at Yu Xiao, "Sister Xiao, tell me quickly, tell me quickly."

Yu Xiao glanced at Zhao Lan, "Sister Lan, can I tell you?"

Zhao Lan felt embarrassed and didn't know how much she had said to Yu Xiao in the past. So she said, "What is there to say? Sweep the floor quickly."

"Sister Lan, what do you mean?" Zhou Xiaozhen pointed at Zhao Lan, "If you and that brother are innocent, why don't you let Sister Xiao tell you?"

For a moment, Zhao Lan's expression was extremely wonderful.

Yu Xiao said, "Do I need to tell you this? Just look at Sister Lan's expression and feel free to guess."

Zhou Xiaozhen: "Oh~~"

"Xiaozhen, you are not yet an adult!" Zhao Lan was distressed, "You don't study hard, and what are you thinking about all day long?"

Zhou Xiaozhen shrugged, "Sister Lan, you don't have to worry about this, I think I can go to Tsinghua University."

Yu Xiao: "Hahaha..."

"..." Zhao Lan threw down the rag and turned away.

Yu Xiao asked, "Where are you going?"

"Order takeout!"

...

It was late at night, Yu Xiao raised his head and put down the pen in his hand. Zhao Lan lowered his head and looked at the painting that Yu Xiao had just drawn seriously. The painting showed a very young woman with long curly hair, lipstick, and a confident and bold smile.

"Is this the senior who was eaten by a monster to save me in the Wise Hospital?" Zhao Lan stared at the painting in a daze.

"Well, I saw it again before I was discharged from the hospital. My memory is very good now, so I won't make a mistake." Yu Xiao said, "It's a pity that I couldn't bring the necklace out."

Zhao Lan thought for a while and said, "She was a senior in the First or Second Hospital. She was at least 20 years old when she entered the hospital. If she were alive today, she would be about 40 years old. She was a person from 40 years ago..."

"Tsk." Zhao Lan said worriedly, "I don't know her name, I don't know anything, there is only a portrait, how can I find a person who has been dead for many years?"

This senior is different from Teng Jingzhi. Teng Jingzhi left a clear address, and Yu Xiao can buy a ticket to the city where Teng Jingzhi is tomorrow. But this senior is different. She only left a photo. Now the photo can't be brought out, and they only have the portrait drawn by Yu Xiao.

"Put it online," Zhou Xiaozhen said, "Maybe someone who knows her will see this painting."

Zhao Lan hesitated, "If I really find her family, what should I do?"

Yu Xiao was stunned. In the real world, they were completely unrelated. Xiaozhen might not even have been born when the elder died.

"Oh." Zhao Lan shook his head, "Why think about these things? I can even go to the tombstone to take a look."

The atmosphere in the room suddenly became gloomy, and at this time, there was a knock on the door.

"Knock, knock!"

Zhao Lan: "Who of you ordered takeout?"

"I didn't." Zhou Xiaozhen said.

"Who could it be at this late hour?" Zhao Lan said with a sense of crisis: "Xiaozhen, go to the peephole. If you can't see anything, don't open the door."

Zhou Xiaozhen turned and walked towards the door, saying as she walked: "Sister Lan, you are worrying too much. With the current fighting power of the three of us, what are you worried about?"

She opened the door directly, "Who is it?"

A middle-aged man in a polo shirt stood at the door. The man smiled at Zhou Xiaozhen.

Zhou Xiaozhen turned around and shouted inside: "Sister Lan, your dad is here!"

The man's smile disappeared immediately.

"My dad?" Zhao Lan was puzzled. "No one in my family knows that I bought a house."

She walked to the door and looked out, and said angrily: "This is not my dad at all!"

"Ah?" Zhou Xiaozhen shook her head, "Then whose dad is this? I think he looks familiar. Could he be one of your dads?"

The middle-aged man said with a dark face: "I'm no one's dad."

Yu Xiao walked to the door and saw the middle-aged man. She immediately said: "Aren't you the one standing next to the fortune-teller this morning..."

"Yes." Seeing that someone finally recognized him, the man was very moved, "It's me."

"Why are you here?" Yu Xiao's eyes became dangerous, "Are you following us?"

"No, no." The middle-aged man said, "I came to you because I have something very important to say."

Zhao Lan did not mean to invite him in, "What is it?"

The middle-aged man looked at Yu Xiao, lowered his head and took out a talisman from his pocket and handed it to him. Yu Xiao took it and saw that it was actually a Laojun talisman.

"Can you tell me who first created this talisman?" The man looked at Yu Xiao eagerly.

Yu Xiao took the talisman and asked, "Did you draw this?"

"Yes." The man's expression changed, and he said, "I don't know why, when I saw you draw this talisman, I felt very familiar with it. I can draw it after only looking at it once, and that feeling is like... as if I have practiced it thousands of times."