Chapter 87: The Disguiser You Are Not Duan Junheng
Lin Zhuyue and Shi Can arrived at Yunze Medical Clinic and, under the guidance of the staff, successfully entered the ward where Duan Junheng was.
There was a square bandage about 4 cm long and wide on Duan Junheng's forehead. According to Fu Xingwei, there was a wound with three stitches under the bandage.
Besides the head wound, Duan Junheng also sprained his ankle. Looking at the two armpit crutches beside the bed, one could tell how badly it had sprained his ankle. But it wasn't a big deal; it was just a sprain. Even a severe sprain was better than a broken ankle.
Duan Junheng didn't say anything, but just watched Lin Zhuyue and Shi Can enter the ward quietly and silently.
For some reason, when they were stared at by him, Lin Zhuyue and Shi Can inexplicably felt a sense of pressure and became nervous, even though it was just a look.
Lin Zhuyue picked up the thermos in his hand:
"Teacher, we brought you food."
Because he had stayed in Yunze Medical Clinic many times, Lin Zhuyue was already familiar with the wards of this clinic.
She placed the thermos on the bedside table and propped up the guardrails on both sides of Duan Junheng's bed. After that, she picked up a small table from behind the head of the bed and placed it on the guardrails of the bed. In this way, a bedside dining table was completed.
Shi Can was also busy. He was in charge of turning the mechanism at the end of the bed that could lift the headboard. As he turned it, he said:
"Teacher Duan, if you feel the headboard is raised to the right level, just tell me and I'll stop."
Duan Junheng said, "That's fine."
Shi Can stopped and stood up. He took out a bottle of hand sanitizer from his bag, squeezed some into his hand, and handed it to Duan Junheng.
Shi Can rubbed his hands dry, opened the thermos, took out the four food boxes inside, opened them one by one, and placed them on the dining table above the bed.
White rice, scrambled eggs with tomatoes, blanched choy sum, and bone soup.
The kitchen of Shi Can's house prepared a simple but nutritious meal for Duan Junheng.
Shi Can opened the box containing chopsticks and spoons and placed it on the small dining table, right in front of Duan Junheng.
Duan Junheng picked up the chopsticks and took a few bites.
Shi Can patted Lin Zhuyue who was about to sit on the accompanying chair:
"Lin Zhuyue, haven't you been taking Chinese medicine to regulate your body for a while? Doctor Ding happens to be in the clinic right now. Go down and ask him to take your pulse and see how the treatment is going. If it doesn't work, take a few more doses of medicine."
Lin Zhuyue gets scared when it comes to traditional Chinese medicine.
Chinese medicine isn't just bitter; it can also be sour and spicy. My goodness! Coffee beans don't even have that many flavors! Of course, coffee can't even compare to Chinese medicine.
Duan Junheng said, "Go down and take a look. Your health is the most important thing."
"Okay, I'll be back in a minute."
Lin Zhuyue stood up and walked towards the ward door. After leaving the door, he did not forget to remind her,
“Shican, if anything happens, call me up.”
Shi Chan responded.
The door of the ward was finally closed, and through the door, one could faintly hear Lin Zhuyue's receding footsteps.
"The footsteps sound so dull."
Duan Junheng, who was scooping up the bone soup, commented,
“It’s like carrying a heavy burden.”
Shi Chan, who was sitting in the accompanying chair and playing with his phone, said:
"Isn't it a heavy burden?"
The afternoon sun filtered through the thin curtains, being mostly filtered out, leaving only the remaining dappled light and shadows that fell into the second-floor ward. However, the ward did not become warmer, but instead had a chill that came from nowhere.
Duan Junheng looked sideways at Shi Can and asked:
"Do you wish her to be relieved of this burden?"
"From a personal perspective, I hope so. However, we can't always consider things based on personal feelings, nor should we make decisions based on them. Moreover, decisions will change with changing circumstances."
Shi Can turned off the phone screen, raised his head, and looked at Duan Junheng in a neither humble nor arrogant manner. After a moment, Shi Can smiled and asked,
"You are much older than me and know more than me. There are some things that I don't need to explain, right?"
Shi Can was still on guard against this new head teacher who seemed a little strange to him, so he did not explain his inclinations clearly. He just said a few ambiguous words and let Duan Junheng figure it out on his own.
Duan Junheng jumped to the next topic:
"You took such good care of her."
"What do you mean by taking too good care of me?"
Shi Can thought this new head teacher was really interesting. He tilted his head slightly, suppressing his displeasure, and said,
“I always feel like it’s not enough.”
The atmosphere in the ward hadn't yet solidified, but there were already some unpleasant flames. Whether these flames could expand and ignite the white room depended on the further conversation between the two people in the ward. Duan Junheng's words were serious:
"Complex environments can make people smart, dangerous environments can make people strong, and only hardships can make life grow at the fastest speed. A comfortable environment will only destroy it."
"I'm sorry, but I don't think so."
Shi Chan folded his arms and said,
"I will do my best to protect her and give her the best."
Duan Junheng's eyes were gloomy: "...Really?"
Not long after, Lin Zhuyue came back.
She did not show too much joy in front of Duan Junheng, who was injured and bedridden, but the brilliance in her almond-shaped eyes could not be hidden.
Shi Chan asked, “How is it?”
Lin Zhuyue made a "yeah" gesture to Shi Can from an angle where Duan Junheng couldn't see, and her tone was very proud:
"I don't need to continue taking Chinese medicine."
Lin Zhuyue and Shi Can stayed in the ward for the whole afternoon.
Duan Junheng paid more attention to Lin Zhuyue than Shi Can, but not much more. Lin Zhuyue was very considerate of Duan Junheng. She knew that Duan Junheng was a strict person, and people like him were not good at chatting.
Lin Zhuyue and Shi Can confirmed that Duan Junheng's IV had finished for the day, packed up their lunch boxes, and left Yunze Clinic. In about half an hour, Wen Miyan and Ye Yangjia would arrive at the clinic with dinner to visit Duan Junheng.
Shi Can wanted Lin Zhuyue to stay overnight at his house.
The housekeeper seemed to be aware of this. When Lin Zhuyue and Shi Can went to the clinic, he had already taken Lin Zhuyue's cat from the dormitory to the Shi family mansion.
The excuse he gave was also very reasonable:
"Ms. Lin, this week is a practical week, and you and the young master still have to go on a long trip for a mission. It's so hot, and sometimes it rains heavily, so it's not convenient for me to go to your dormitory to feed the cat, so I just brought your cat here to take care of it."
"That's right..."
Lin Zhuyue said politely to the housekeeper,
"Thank you for your hard work."
That very night, after Lin Zhuyue took a shower, dried her hair, and fell asleep comfortably with the air conditioner on, she was woken up from her bed by Shi Can who hurriedly pushed open the door of her room.
Lin Zhuyue asked irritably, his eyes half-closed:
"……what?"
In her dream, there was a large flock of Call ducks. She was petting the ducks while thinking about which one to catch and give back to Shi Can. She had already found the target duck and was about to pounce on it when she woke up.
"The yellow seal on the box containing Qin Sibo's soul has been broken, and the soul inside the box has disappeared."
Shi Can stuffed a refreshing mint candy into Lin Zhuyue's mouth.
"Chen Junhao also escaped."
Lin Zhuyue was completely awake.
Lin Zhuyue asked, "Did he escape from Tiancheng?"
Shi Can nodded, confirming Lin Zhuyue's question:
"Yes, they have already escaped from Tiancheng."
Lin Zhuyue felt that things seemed to be getting more and more outrageous:
"How did he do that? He had to cross the sea to leave Tiancheng, so he didn't have a boat, did he?"
Shi Can answered Lin Zhuyue's question very well:
"He left through the portal to Qinling Mountains. He knocked out the spiritual master guarding the portal and damaged it. As a result, the Spiritual Master Mansion was unable to track him down in time, and they had no choice but to seek help from the police and firefighters in the cities near Qinling Mountains."
"So... is there anything we can do?"
Lin Zhuyue grabbed Shican's wrist and asked,
"You woke me up for more than just to inform me, didn't you?"
"Everyone thinks that the disappearance of Qin Sibo's soul was caused by Chen Junhao. It was Chen Junhao who stole him and ran away with him."
Shi Can broke free from Lin Zhuyue's hand that was holding his wrist, and held Lin Zhuyue's slightly cool fingertips with his other hand, and said,
"However, Qin Sibo's soul is still in Tiancheng."
Lin Zhuyue's eyes suddenly widened.
Is Qin Sibo's ghost still in Tiancheng?
Where is he in Celestial City?
What is going on here?
Shi Can clenched Lin Zhuyue's hand, pulled her up from the bed, and said:
"Just change your clothes, and then we'll go find Qin Sibo's ghost."
It will rain heavily tomorrow.
Therefore, the weather tonight was particularly gloomy. There were no stars or moon in the sky, only clouds blown by the hot wind. Those clouds were dark and seemed as if they would fall from the sky at any moment and crush all the houses in the city.
Shi Can turned on the high beam, drove the car, and took Lin Zhuyue to Yunze Medical Clinic.
The doctor in the clinic had known them for a long time. When he saw them rushing to the clinic in the middle of the night, he immediately went up to them and asked:
"What's wrong? Are you feeling unwell again? Do you have a fever?"
Shi Can waved his hand and refused:
"No, let's go see 'teacher'."
After saying that, Shi Can didn't wait for the medical staff to react, and pulled Lin Zhuyue towards the single ward he had visited during the day.
The door to the ward had frosted glass. Although I couldn't see what was going on inside through the glass, I could tell if the lights were on. The ward was dark, with no lights on, which almost certainly meant the patient was resting.
But Shi Chan just grabbed the door handle.
He pushed open the door and walked in holding Lin Zhuyue's hand.
Beside the bed, a beautiful, translucent child sat facing the door. He swung his legs and hummed a nursery rhyme softly, a blood symbol painted on his forehead, his eyes dull. However, tears continued to accumulate in those dull eyes and flowed down his face.
Lin Zhuyue recognized the ghost: "Sibo..."
The man who was supposed to be lying in bed was now standing by the window with his back to them, staring into the dark night. The man with a sprained ankle stood straight, his crutches still stuck in the gap between the bedside table and the wall, unused.
Duan Junheng didn't turn around and asked:
"How did you find yourself here?"
"Because I don't believe Chen Junhao has the ability to escape on his own, nor do I believe he has the ability to steal Qin Sibo's soul right under the nose of the Spiritual Master's Mansion."
Shi Can summoned the ultimate blade and pointed it at Duan Junheng's back.
"Coincidentally, I also discovered that you are not Duan Junheng. The Shi family investigated Duan Junheng before he became the class teacher. He doesn't eat scrambled eggs with tomatoes, but you ate it very happily this afternoon."
"Your skill in concealing your presence is so great that I barely noticed my new homeroom teacher was possessed by a ghost."
Lin Zhuyue also understood many things at this time.
Duan Junheng was possessed by a very powerful ghost.
What good would it do for this powerful ghost to deliberately cause the possessed body to break its leg and be hospitalized?
Most likely to create an alibi.
Therefore, some bad things that happened after he was hospitalized and seemed to have nothing to do with him were most likely his doing.
Qin Sibo disappeared, in fact, he was stolen. In order to reduce his suspicion as much as possible, he had to give an explanation for Qin Sibo's disappearance, and this explanation was Chen Junhao.
Chen Junhao escaped and stole Qin Sibo, the fierce ghost he had painstakingly cultivated. How reasonable is this explanation? No one would doubt it.
As a fugitive, Chen Junhao will never appear in front of the Spiritual Master's Mansion again, and he has no way to plead with the Spiritual Master's Mansion that he did not steal Qin Sibo's soul.
What a perfect fabric plan!
Lin Zhuyue asked: "Who are you?"
Duan Junheng, who was standing by the window, fell to the side and hit the ground with a thud. By the window, where Duan Junheng had been standing, only a translucent black shadow remained.
Shadow turned around.
He was wearing a black Tang suit, his cheeks were as clean and pale as porcelain, his features were handsome, and he exuded a deep, mysterious, sharp and dangerous aura.
Lin Zhuyue was surprised and asked, "Minghui?"
Shi Chan took a breath and asked, "Is it you?"
The evil ghost in front of them was the lord of the famous ghost city Minghui. Lin Zhuyue and Shi Can had been trapped in Minghui for a period of time by him. Minghui's face was no different from a nightmare to them.
Without a second thought, Shi Can summoned another ultimate blade. He had been beaten by Ming Hui before, and knew the power of the Ming Hui City Lord. If he didn't fight with all his might, both he and Lin Zhuyue would die.
Shi Can asked: "You possessed Duan Junheng, sneaked into Tiancheng, and became the head teacher of our class. What exactly do you want to do?"
"do what?"
Ming Hui looked at Lin Zhuyue from a distance and said,
"Be a teacher, teach students, and collect some treasures at the same time."
When he said "baby", Qin Sibo jumped off the bed with lifeless eyes.
"This child is a good material for being a demon. You might not see one in ten years."
Ming Hui walked up to Qin Sibo and said,
"Yet you're thinking of removing the curse from him and sending him to the afterlife. What a waste of a gift from heaven."
Vast spiritual power erupted in the ward, and golden petals floated around Lin Zhuyue like fluttering butterflies.
Ming Hui showed no fear at all. He looked calmly at Lin Zhuyue who was about to attack him and said:
"If you don't want me to touch this child, I won't touch him, but I won't give him back to you easily either. You must find a way, with your own strength, to win him from me."
Lin Zhuyue asked: "What do you mean?"
"As your homeroom teacher, I will assign you four tasks. If you successfully complete all four, I will return this little evil spirit to Tiancheng and will never bother you again."
Ming Hui took two steps forward and changed the subject.
"However, if there is a mission you haven't completed, you must honestly accept me as your master. The current Spiritual Master House is not qualified to teach you. Only by becoming my apprentice can your talent not be wasted."
Shi Can gripped the absolute blade tightly, looking for an opportunity to strike.
However, Minghui had no flaws.
Ming Hui turned around and returned to Duan Junheng's body. He stood up by the windowsill and said to Lin Zhuyue:
"By the way, if you successfully complete the four tasks I gave you, I will tell you where the 'key' is."
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