Cyber Ghosts

Liu Shuai knew what Hao Ning was thinking, who must have misunderstood Zhou Yuan as a living dead. He shook his head and explained: “Unlike what you think, there is another characteristic of the living dead. It completely has no independent thoughts. It would do whatever others want him to do. It neither ask nor revolt. Just think about Zhou Yuan at that time. Completely different, right?”

Hao Ning thought about it carefully. That was true. Zhou Yuan’s mind was the most independence at that time. He didn’t care about anybody else thoughts. He said what he wanted to say and did what he wanted to do. He was completely different from the living dead depicted by Xiao Hong. So, he glanced at Zhou Yuan and smiled: “That’s right. Those who have no independent thought or the soul are called the living dead. And those who have the strong independent mind and the soul should be called the dead living, who anybody wants to kill if seeing.”

Zhou Yuan knew that Hao Ning is satirizing himself. He watched the ceiling without a word.

“Stop joking.” Liu Shuai waved his hand, hoping Hao Ning stop talking nonsense. He continued, “If it was really a living dead, the problem is serious. Because those people just seem to be dead, but as long as others want, they can waken them again. In that case, it will inevitably cause panic.”

“Right.” Xiao Hong nodded. “Maybe the destructive power of those people is limited, but the pressure on the whole citizens is enormous. At that time, everyone will be worried. I’m afraid that H city will be in chaos.”

“What should we do then?” Hao Ning understood. It wasn’t a problem of several living deads, but the panic resulted from these living deads. “Then kill them?”

“Useless.” Xiao Hong shook his head. “Didn’t you listen to Jienan? There are millions of people who play the game without sleeping. Just think about it. If those people are like this, then there’ll appear millions of living deads in the Celestial Empire. What’s it like?”

“My God!” Hao Ning was shocked. “Isn’t that the zombie besieged in the Doomsday movie? Who knows a mobile game would become the real Resident Evil?”

“Well, let’s not scare ourselves,” Zhou Yuan thought and said, “Just wait first.”

After that, they gave a shy smile to Yun, and quickly caught up.

Yun didn’t mind at all. She responded with a smile as well. Jienan’s eyes were almost near to Yun’s ears root. He extremely hoped that Hao Ning could stand away all day and need not care about what Hao Ning said at all.

They six went to a ward. There were three patients in it. The number was different from what Xiao Hong said. It must have some new patients in that period.

Both Mr. Hu and Zhang Dalong were inside. Mr. Hu was followed by two doctors, saying something in a low voice.

Like Qili in hospital at that time, these patients had something on their body. But the difference is they were still playing the game even in the hospital bed.

Liu Shuai looked at the display screen beside him and looked at the patient. His expression suddenly changed. Then after seeing the condition of the second patient, Liu Shuai’s face was even more alarmed. When seeing the third patient, Liu Shuai scratched head, frowned, and stared at him, mumbling some words.

At this time, the third patient’s cell phone suddenly fell down on the bed. His eyes were closed, and expression hadn’t changed. It seemed that he was sleeping. The apparatus nearby rang, where all the signals became a line. Hao Ning understood, which meant on TV: death.

Now, everyone looked at Liu Shuai, who looked crazy. He waved his hands and cried: “Not me, not me. I didn’t glare to kill him.”

“Nonsense,” Xiao Hong whispered, “How can you do that…”

“Don’t be nervous. It has nothing to do with you,” said Mr.Hu, who looked serious. He said to another doctor. “Go and have a look.”

The doctor walked to Liu Shuai, who quickly ran back with hands sweaty for nervous. That doctor looked at it carefully, checked it, sighed and nodded to Mr. Hu.

“One more,” Mr. Hu shook his head, “How come these strange things happen?”

“What happened?” Zhang Dalong apparently did not know and quickly asked, “Did he die because of playing the game?”

“Well…” Mr. Hu frowned and didn’t talk. Liu Shuai thought about it and suddenly said to the doctor nearby, “Can I take a look at their previous test data?”

The doctor was wondering who he was. Seeing Yun nodded, he handed a stack of documents in his arms to Liu Shuai. Liu Shuai looked at the patients and the documents. He felt more and more strange and shook his head. Finally, he returned the stack of paper to the doctor, shook his head again and said: “How come these strange things happen?”

Because of the dead patient, everyone went out and left it to medical staff.

Mr. Hu took everyone to a deserted office. Hao Ning looked at the nameplate on the office, which wrote “Xue Xiaoyun”. It seemed that this was Yun’s independent office. Suddenly, Hao Ning stunned: Xue Xiaoyun? Is Yun’s last name Xue? Is she Xue Muhua’s… When thinking here, he recalled Mr. Hu’s behavior yesterday. Suddenly, he understood something.

Everyone went into the office, as well as Hao Ning. Just sitting down, he asked Liu Shuai: “What do you think?”

“Yep?” Let alone Liu Shuai, everyone else was suspicious. Mr. Hu didn’t ask others but only asked Liu Shuai, a non-medical man. Whoever felt incredible.

“Oh, please don’t misunderstand,” Mr. Hu said at once. “I called a friend, Chen, who lived in Chang An, last night. We talked about it. He’s good at cranial nerve but had no idea about it either. But one of his students is in S city, and he met many strange things. That student’s last name is Liu. Even his appearance is hard to recognize, he still has something special—I guess it’s you, right?”

Liu Shuai blushed. Mr. Hu’s friend must be his teacher Chen. With Mr. Chen’s character, he was certain to tell Mr. Hu that he was a bald guy, easy to identify. Mr. Hu knew that if he said like Chen, it seemed like teasing Liu Shuai. So, he euphemistic said that Liu Shuai has some special characteristics… Since Mr. Hu explained, Liu Shuai had to frown and said: “According to the reports and the physical examination data of them, it is not like normal sudden death.”

“Normal sudden death?” Zhou Yuan couldn’t understand this very strange sentence. Hao Ning also wondered, “It is abnormal to suddenly die. How can it be called normal sudden death?”

“How can I explain it to you?” Liu Shuai thought for a while, “Sudden death is abnormal, but there are still some physical indicators, such as heart-related data is different from the ordinary, fainting, etc.. But these people’s are so normal, normal that-”

Then Liu Shuai winked Xiao Hong. He continued. “…that even some legendary witchcraft couldn’t do it. It’s just like a completely healthy person suddenly was turned off the switch and fall down for no electricity. Such strange things couldn’t be explained whether in the point of view of medical or oddity of the past.”

Hao Ning understood what Liu Shuai implied. Liu Shuai meant that these people are neither normal sudden death nor living dead, nor caused by other witchcraft that he had known. So, he became so curious.

“I see.” Zhang Dalong nodded. “That’s why Mr. Hu asked Liu Shuai first. You wondered if Liu Shuai knew something making sense according to his expertise or some other aspects, right?”

“Yes.” Mr. Hu shook his head. “I’ve learned medicine and been a doctor for so many years and have seen lots of medical or weird things. But I never heard of such a thing. So, I want to ask if Liu Shuai has other ideas. Now it seems-”

“I’m sorry,” Xiao Hong suddenly stood up. “Can we take a look at the bodies of these people?”

“You…” Mr. Hu looked a little weird on hearing Xiao Hong’s words. He thought for a while with eyes closed. Then he said to Yun, “Take them to see.”

“Grandpa!” Yun frowned at this time. “It doesn’t confirm the regulations…”

Hao Ning understood what Yun wanted to say. Corpses were usually placed in the morgue of the hospital. How could they be casually seen by everyone?

“I guess Xiao Hong may have some thoughts?” Mr. Hu didn’t deny it. After seeing Xiao Hong nodded, he continued, “It doesn’t matter if you look at it. But that place is always be avoided. It’s ok if you don’t feel afraid.”

Xiao Hong smiled. He stood up, pulled Hao Ning and others to follow behind Yun. Seeing they were going away, Jienan eagerly looked at Zhang Dalong, and then looked at Mr. Hu. Mr. Hu signed: “Go if you want. Don’t be scared.”

“Brother Zhang,” Mr. Hu said to himself seeing these men leaving. “Your friends are strong…”

“Oh?” Zhang Dalong’s eyelids jumped. He didn’t expect that Mr. Hu wasn’t so cared about the illness. “Mr. Hu also notice that?”

“Yes.” Mr. Hu shook his head and looked at the report in his hand. “I felt that this’s just the beginning. If it can’t be well solved, I’m afraid it won’t only be a disaster for your company…”

Zhang Dalong’s expression changed. Mr. Hu spoke very carefully. Such a man at this age wouldn’t talk indiscriminately. He quickly asked: “How come?”

Seeing out of the window, Mr. Hu said: “Just some spur-of-the-moment feeling. I don’t know as well.”

For the first time, Zhang Dalong listened to Mr. Hu’s vague answer. He was quiet for a moment and asked: “Is there any solution?”

Mr. Hu looked at the door, neither affirming nor denying: “Depends on them. I’ll help these young guys if necessary.” Then he looked at Zhang Dalong and said, “I’m afraid you have to try to help them…”

After that, Mr. Hu looked straight into the sky, seeming to see through the sky.

Those guys followed Yun to the elevator to the morgue. Before Yun entered, Xiao Hong stopped her: “Yun, the Yin in the morgue is too heavy. Just let us enter.”

“Doesn’t matter. There’s no yin at all. Just psychological factors.” Yun smiled and waved. “How can we doctors be afraid of this?”

“But he’s afraid -” Hao Ning quietly pointed to Jienan, “Look at him.”

Yun looked back and found that six people had become five people. Jienan stood far from the elevator and looked at them from afar, smiling awkwardly. Yun was curious and waved hands to Jienan, saying: “What are you standing so far? Come here.”

“Okay.” Jienan’s face twisted and squeezed an ugly smile, moving there step by step.

“Oh… well,” Yun understood. Unexpectedly, Jienan had practiced a lot of kung fu skill. But he was still afraid of this kind of place. Yun sighed and said to Hao Ning and others, “You go first. I stay with him here.”

Then Yun slowly went to Jienan and held him standing beside.

“Well, Yun,” Seeing the four guys had gone, Jienan pointed the bench next to him and said, “Shall we sit down and have a talk?” You are maybe tired.”

“Isn’t you’re tired?” Yun smiled and looked at Jienan. Jienan was seen through and became blushed. But he still insisted: “How come! I practiced kung fu. I’m afraid of nothing! I just worried that you are tired. ”

“OK. Sit down,” Yun didn’t expose Jienan. After sitting for a moment, she suddenly remembered one thing: “Oh, I remembered that the place where you were sitting just had a corpse lying last night.”

Jienan seemed to be boiled and bounced immediately. Looking at Yun’s smile, Jienan regretted it and said: “Let..let me stand and talk.”

Yun smiled, looking down at the report on her hands.

“Yun,” Jienan knew that he was too embarrassed. He whispered, “Do you think that I am too useless? So–”

“Jienan,” Yun knew what he wanted to say. She looked up at him. “One of the training that our doctors had received is to look at the corpse scientifically. This is not something that anyone can do. You just weren’t trained professionally. How can you say that you are useless?”

Listening to Yun said that, Jienan scratching his head and laughing: “Right. Right. Hahaha.”

“But, Jienan,” Yun continued. “I’m not a fool. I know your feelings for me. Do you think we are really suitable?” I’m a doctor, but you are an Internet practitioner. You don’t understand my world, and I can’t go into your world either. So even you love me so much that we become together one day. Can we really go on?”

On hearing Yun’s word, Jienan was stunned, “I, I haven’t thought so much, I just want to -”

“Want to get me first?” Yun smiled and stood up. Her little body scared Jienan to back two steps. Yun just shook her head and said. “Females, caring for the offspring, tend to think more than males. Although I don’t think it’s well suitable for humans. The man I want in my heart is the one who can stay with me for a long time, not just be together but have no common interests for a lifetime. Do you understand?”

“Yun…” Jienan opened his mouth but said nothing.