Maybe it was because it was late at night? The sound of two people's footsteps in the silent corridor was clear enough to wake everyone up.
The sound of the two footsteps was getting closer and closer, and hearing it only made Xu Zhe feel irritated.
Because one of them is so familiar to me, so familiar that I feel sick and want to vomit just by looking at that confident smiling face.
Sure enough, the footsteps stopped in front of his door, and a crisp knock came into the house.
The rest was dead silence, Xu Zhe had not yet let go of Wu Qian's hand.
"You are such an ignorant person... If I don't respond, will you just leave?" More than five minutes passed, and Xu Zhe sighed helplessly.
"Haha, Mr. Xu Zhe is really good at joking." Still with that annoying smile, Yaqi, dressed in a suit, opened the door and walked in. Behind him followed the boy dressed in a kimono, holding a fruit basket in his hand, "I heard that Mr. Xu Zhe was ill, so I came here specially to visit him."
Then, Yaqi naturally took the fruit basket from his subordinate and placed it on the bedside. Without being asked, he sat on the sofa beside him.
The boy was very quiet. He didn't say a word and waited respectfully by his master's side.
Xu Zhe saw the alertness in his eyes. If he made any inappropriate move, this guy would take his life immediately.
"What are you doing here?" Wu Qian's dislike became more obvious, with hatred in her tone.
"There is a contradiction in your companion's question. Didn't I just come to visit him?" Yaqi smiled, but there was no humiliation in his smile.
"Really? I don't think there's anything wrong with her question. Only thieves are active at this time. You seem to be here at a very inappropriate time to visit a patient." Xu Zhe's humiliation is always explicit and mean. "Besides, you are the CEO of a founding group and you come to visit a patient with only a basket of fruit? Isn't that ridiculous?"
"Hehe, that's indeed a bit rude. Well, I didn't bring any gift money, so you just have to accept it reluctantly." Facing this unforgiving master, Yaqi was always extra open-minded. He casually took out a checkbook, wrote for a while, and handed it to Xu Zhe.
"One... one million?!" Wu Qian couldn't help but gasp after just counting the zeros. She looked at the figure on the sofa viciously, "What exactly are you up to? This check alone is enough to accuse you of bribery."
"Then thank you in advance." On this side, Xu Zhe put the check into his pocket without hesitation, but his expression did not show any joy because of the money.
"Why did you really accept it?!" Wu Qian felt dizzy and angry...
"What am I afraid of? If he dares to send me off, why shouldn't I dare to accept it? Besides, all these injuries were caused by his people. What's wrong with paying for the medicine?" Xu Zhe was particularly righteous even when he collected the money himself.
“Mr. Xu, you are wrong. The ghost is not my man, but a subordinate of another senior executive in the company. I didn’t know he would cause trouble for you…” Yaqi acted particularly innocent.
"Eight-headed snake, since we are all sensible people, let's make things clear..." Xu Zhe was tired of this meaningless circle, his face darkened, and the ward was chilling. "If you didn't know that guy would come after me and kill me eight times, I wouldn't believe it. The ghost standing next to you is the best proof. The one who filmed it with the DV that day was professional enough, and his hands didn't even shake during the whole process."
"Haha, you finally found out... Yes, I knew about this, but I didn't help him at all." Yaqi was still trying his best to show his innocence.
"Well, tell me the real purpose of your coming. I'm not in the mood to chat with you." Xu Zhe still didn't appreciate it.
"What a pity. This was supposed to be our last meeting in a short period of time, and we wanted to leave a good impression on each other. But in the end, your hostility towards me remains unabated..." With a helpless sigh, Yaqi stood up from the sofa with regret and walked slowly towards the door.
"What's wrong? Are you missing home? Are you ready to go back?" Xu Zhe didn't think there was such a good thing, he was just casual.
"That's true. We don't want to play with Country Z anymore." Yaqi didn't deny Xu Zhe's words, but Xu Zhe became nervous for no reason. "You should take good care of your injuries. The 'One Hundred Demons Night Parade Banquet' will officially start in half a month... By then, even I won't be able to control the development of the whole thing, and this city will be completely destroyed. No matter how strong you are, you are just one person after all...
Do you think you can save people faster than the ghosts kill people
Or do you think you are the savior of the world?"
"Yaki..." Seeing that familiar figure had already reached the door, Xu Zhe took the initiative to call out to that annoying person for the first time, "I'll ask you for the last time, what exactly do you want to express? I always feel like you haven't finished what you want to say..."
"You..." Yaqi turned his head, the smile on his face seemed to have never changed, "If possible, I hope you can take the people you care about and leave this city, the farther the better. Maybe in this way... we may have a chance to meet again..."
The white wooden door closed as the figure left, and the huge room fell into deathly silence.
"Is he trying to intimidate us?" Wu Qian looked at Xu Zhe blankly, hoping to get some comfort. Unfortunately, she couldn't find anything on Xu Zhe's cold face...
"He's serious this time... He's going to bloodbath this city..." Xu Zhe could only get this information from Yaqi's words just now. In fact, he also thought that this was just a meaningless threat. But it was precisely because he knew the horror of Yaqi's true strength that he understood... He could definitely do it...
"What should we do now?" Wu Qian still believed that Xu Zhe could solve everything as usual.
“I don’t know… I really don’t know…” Xu Zhe hesitated for the first time, his fists clenched so tightly that he almost bleeds.
The night was spent in this tense atmosphere...
That night, Xu Zhe did not sleep. He turned off the lights and leaned against the head of the bed without saying a word.
Wu Qian could only sit quietly on the sofa beside her, not daring to disturb Xu Zhe's meditation.
It was the first time that Wu Qian saw Xu Zhe looking so serious, and she was really scared.
The next morning, Wu Qian was obviously not as heavy-hearted as Xu Zhe, and she fell asleep on the sofa. It was not until the early morning that she was awakened by the sound of someone rummaging around.
Before his hazy vision cleared up, he saw Xu Zhe wearing that untied black windbreaker and packing his things with one hand.
The reason why it was only one hand was because the fractured right hand was still hanging above the neck with a white bandage. The always stubborn Xu Zhe now looked like a wounded soldier.
"What are you doing?" Wu Qian didn't understand.
"Discharged from hospital..." Xu Zhe answered lightly.
"Discharge? But doctor, you have to stay in the hospital for observation, and your hand is still..." Wu Qian tried to stop him.
"Do you think we still have time to waste like this?" Xu Zhe suddenly stopped what he was doing and looked at Wu Qian on the sofa with extreme seriousness. Just one glance made Wu Qian speechless.
He continued to follow behind Xu Zhe, helping to carry his backpack. He watched Xu Zhe send away the nurses and doctors who wanted to stop him, and then took him into a taxi.
Wu Qian still doesn't understand what Xu Zhe wants to do...
The car was driving very fast, all because of Xu Zhe's repeated urging. When they returned to the headquarters, before Wu Qian paid, Xu Zhe had already gotten out of the car and walked towards the office.
It's better to jog than to walk.
Carrying a heavy backpack, Wu Qian had to run fast to catch up with Xu Zhe.
They returned to the office of the Paranormal Investigation Division and just as they opened the door, Boss Ouyang was standing there unexpectedly, holding a large bunch of lilies in one hand and a snow-white handkerchief covering his mouth and nose with the other.
"Xu Zhe? Why are you back? I was just coming to see you." Ouyang was a little surprised to see Xu Zhe, but when he saw Xu Zhe's serious face, he knew something must have happened.
Without waiting for Ouyang to turn around and return to his desk, Xu Zhe stated the purpose of his return as soon as he stepped into the office.
"I want to evacuate all the citizens in the city." Xu Zhe's tone was calm and he didn't mean to be joking.
After hearing this, everyone looked at Xu Zhe blankly...
"Are you serious?" Sitting back in his seat, Ouyang looked directly at Xu Zhe. He had already gotten the answer, "It seems that you are indeed serious..."
"Is there any problem?" Xu Zhe asked calmly while sitting on the chair opposite Ouyang.
Wu Qian could only silently close the office door, return to her seat, and watch everything that happened.
"It's not that there is a problem, but it's simply impossible to do it..." Ouyang's answer was clear and simple, "You have to know that this is not a village or a county town, it is a large city in the central part of China with a population of 46 million...
Even the president of a country doesn’t have such great power…
Besides, the city is now in a relatively stable state, and people’s lives and survival are not threatened…”
"Threat?" Xu Zhe sneered, "It's not just a threat. Yaqi has issued a death warrant. Half a month later, the hundreds of ghosts hiding in this city will collectively erupt. Please remember that the hundreds of ghosts are just a type of them. No one knows how many have come here..."
"But even so..." Ouyang sighed helplessly, "Even so, there are things we can't do because we are human beings... Unless a crisis really comes, this country will not recognize it, just like it doesn't recognize our value..."
"It's not completely impossible..." Mouse suddenly interrupted, holding his head, "When encountering a super-large disaster, the kind of disaster that humans cannot resist, evacuating a city is also a non-starter..."
"What are you kidding? This is a city in the central part of the country, how could there be so many disasters? Are you praying for a tsunami? Or a hurricane?" Tiechui was smart enough to find the loophole in Haozi's words.
"Fool, do you know what an early warning is? An early warning means something that hasn't happened yet, but there is enough evidence to prove it is about to happen. Tsunamis and hurricanes can be observed with the naked eye, but of course I can't do that. But if it's an earthquake or something, I can still hack into the Earthquake Bureau's system and modify the files." A smug smile appeared on Haozi's face.
"Good boy, you only know how to do it. Hurry up and do it!" Tiechui is very powerful when it comes to doing these illegal things.
"No one is allowed to mess around!!!!" Suddenly, the angry roar sobered people up. The section chief who usually looked kind was the head of a section after all. "Do you still think you are civil servants of a country? What are you doing?! We may take advantage of the local area, but we must not harm the interests of the country. Invading the country's mainframe system and causing the citizens of a city to migrate? Do you think this is a joke? After tracing it, even I can't save you. This is a crime that can be executed without trial!"
The office was quiet, and the people who were originally smiling and cheerful were now stunned.
"Boss, have you made up your mind?" Xu Zhe asked softly, his voice as delicate as humming a sad song.
"Well, there's nothing we can do about it. From now on, you're expelled from the Paranormal Investigation Division. I'll pass the detailed information to your superiors within three days and get their approval. Pack your bags and get ready to leave..." Eight years of relationship, eight years of working together.
When the figure with one hand covering his mouth stood in front of the bed in the mental hospital, Xu Zhe was still wondering who he was
And now, eight years later, the same confrontation happened again, but I was ruthlessly kicked out of the team...
"I'm sorry, this department must survive at all times, and the interests of the team cannot be harmed because of one individual." Ouyang lowered his head, as if to express his apology.
Xu Zhe slowly stood up, took a deep breath, and walked towards his seat.
The only sound in the huge office was the heavy footsteps echoing...