I made a gesture to Shi Heshang and the other two to keep quiet, and quietly hid behind the cardboard box.
After a while, a medical staff member in a white coat walked in from outside the door. The man first looked at the box at the door, and then moved towards me little by little.
I made two gestures in the direction of Shi Heshang, telling them not to act rashly. The man seemed to be looking for something, but I always felt that his walking posture was very uncoordinated, as if he was missing a muscle. Although he could still move, he couldn't do it freely.
When I was about to take a closer look, the man suddenly turned his head and looked at me. I quickly shrank back behind the box, but the man moved quickly towards me with the sound of tapping footsteps.
Shortly after I put my right hand on the handle of the knife, the man suddenly turned around when he was near the cardboard box, turned his back to me and walked towards the place where Monk Shi was hiding.
Monk Shi was squatting behind a pile of cardboard boxes. As long as he didn't look up, the man couldn't see the monk squatting on the ground ready to go. But the man stopped in front of the cardboard boxes, staring at the box in front of him and muttering the name of the medicine to himself.
We were not afraid of a medical worker, but we were afraid of exposing our position. Monk Shi and his men could only half-squat behind the cardboard box without moving. Monk Shi had practiced martial arts, so it was absolutely no problem for him to squat for an hour or so, but Chen Lei behind him could not do it. After just a few minutes, sweat broke out on his forehead and his body began to tremble slightly.
There was not much space behind the box, but two people were standing there. If Chen Lei moved his hands and feet, he would be discovered immediately. If the man didn't leave, Chen Lei might pounce on Shi Heshang at any time.
I quietly took out a big coin from my pocket and wanted to throw it far away to make some noise to distract the man's attention, but before I could do anything, the man had already raised his hand and touched the paper box in front of him.
The man wanted to take the medicine, but Chen Lei, who was behind the paper box, couldn't hold on and fell on Monk Shi. The monk gently straightened his body, used his back to support Chen Lei, and pushed him back to his original position.
I just breathed a sigh of relief, but I saw the sleeve of the man holding the medicine slide down his arm, and a wooden stick as thick as a mop emerged from his sleeve.
Oh no! I was shocked. The man's arm suddenly sank down along the paper box, and pressed against the monk Shi's abdomen through the paper box, and punched out fiercely. The other party's punch went straight through the paper box and went to the monk Shi's heart. The money I held in my hand also fell out of my hand.
The ghost-killing coin wrapped in Xuanming Qi spun several times in the air and then suddenly accelerated. The violent Qi also spun out from the edge of the coin. In an instant, the ghost-killing coin turned into a whistling knife wheel, suddenly cutting into the opponent's arm, spinning wildly with the sound of sawing wood, advancing a few inches, and sawing off the opponent's arm.
The moment the wooden arm fell down the paper box, Shi Heshang, who had reacted, also swung a stick from behind the paper box. The moment the copper stick, shining with a golden glow, struck at the opponent's head with the force of thunder, I drew out my long knife and rushed towards Chen Lei behind the monk.
Before I could stand firm, the sound of the copper stick smashing the head suddenly rose beside me. The violent blood light just flashed in the corner of my eyes, and a green gas burst out from the broken forehead of the corpse, wrapped around Shi Heshang's copper stick like a spirit snake, and swam along the direction of the long stick to Shi Heshang's arm and quickly swam to his shoulder. Although Shi Heshang made several consecutive palm strikes and kept slapping along his arm, he still couldn't keep up with the speed of the green gas. He watched helplessly as the green gas passed over his shoulder and shot towards Chen Lei behind him.
Only then did I feel my feet were firmly on the ground.
I saw the green gas flying towards me and chopped at Chen Lei's head without hesitation.
The green gas came as fast as lightning. If I tried to intercept it halfway, I would most likely miss the opportunity. Only by slashing at the predetermined location in advance could I intercept the green gas and save Chen Lei.
I was sure that the green gas was targeting the top of Chen Lei's head, but I couldn't tell whether it was the top of his head or his eyebrows. I could only take the risk and chop down towards the top of Chen Lei's head.
The sharp blade flashed in the sky, and the cold blade wind instantly blew away Chen Lei's hair, but the green gas went straight to Chen Lei's forehead.
It's bad, I made a wrong judgment! I wanted to put away my knife but it was too late, so I could only chop it down without changing the momentum. When I couldn't stop the green gas, all I could do was to prevent Chen Lei from turning into a ghost. Even if it was unfair to Chen Lei, I couldn't let a ghost suddenly appear in front of me.
Just as the blade was about to fall, Chen Lei's head suddenly tilted back a few inches, and my blade almost touched Chen Lei's forehead. The green gas chasing behind happened to be sent to the blade, and was cut off by the Luosha with full of true energy, but Chen Lei's nose tip was also lifted up by my blade.
After the blood, knife, and green light converged in front of Chen Lei, there was a loud bang. In a blink of an eye, the phosphorescent fire completely covered a half-meter radius. As the flowing fire and blood fell along Chen Lei's body to the ground, the latter covered his nose and screamed and sat on the ground.
"Monk, go check on Chen Lei!" I threw Chen Lei to Monk Shi, rushed to the body that he had smashed to death, and cut open the clothes on the body with a knife.
The body on the ground, except for the unrecognizable head, was still flesh and blood. Below the neck, it was all made of sticks and boards, and the tying technique was extremely crude. It looked like a straw man in the field with a few more joints. Only the arms were designed with elbows and wrists like normal arms. The forearms of the body were simply a pair of chopped-off human hands supported by a mop handle about a foot long.
When I was squatting beside the body and hadn't gotten up yet, Monk Shi shouted, "The tip of Chen Lei's nose is gone. What should we do?"
I stood up slowly and said, "Take Chen Lei with you, and let's go out and turn ourselves in."
"What did you say?" Monk Shi asked, "Why should we turn ourselves in?"
I shook my head and said, "Let's not talk about whether we can get away with the kidnapping of Chen Lei in the ward. We can't explain the corpse in front of us. It's easy for us to get out now, but it will be difficult to close the case after we get out. If we don't go back, we will lose the competition. Turning ourselves in may give us a chance of survival."
I said, "We'll take Chen Lei out in a while and have the doctor sew up his nose first. When the police come, Chen Lei will tell the truth and say that he encountered a ghost and asked us to come and catch it."
Monk Shi stared at me for a long time and asked, "Is this reliable?"
"We have to try it no matter whether it's reliable or not! Apart from turning ourselves in, we have no other choice. Let's take a gamble!" I stood up, picked up the nose on the ground, and took Chen Lei out of the warehouse.
The police came before Chen Lei's nose was completely sewn up. Chen Lei had told them in advance that they must take him back to the police station when they came. The police took away Shi Heshang's and my weapons and waited for a while before taking us back.
Not long after I was locked in the interrogation room, a policeman came in and asked me my name before directly saying, "Tell me the truth. What's going on in the hospital?"
I said calmly, "Chen Lei is one of my employers. I just went there to catch ghosts."
The policeman was so angry that he laughed: "Are you telling me a story? If you don't tell the truth, I will punish you severely."
I said slowly, "I am telling the truth. Actually, I was hired by Guan's company at first..."
After the two police officers in charge of recording the statement finished listening, the older one couldn't help but frowned: "You said you are a sorcerer who specializes in catching ghosts. Do you have any proof?"
I smiled and said, "I really don't have any proof. However, I can prove my identity with the glass of water in front of you."
When the police looked at the teacup in front of him in astonishment, I suddenly raised my hand and released a stream of Qi. The icy Xuanming Qi shot out several meters before hitting the teacup on the table. The several-inch-high teacup slid on the table for a while before stopping.
The young policeman was stunned for a moment, then his face darkened: "Don't think you can fool people with your magic tricks."
I said calmly, "Turn the cup upside down and take a look."
The policeman flipped the cup in the air, and a lump of ice immediately fell out of the cup. I froze the tea in the cup with one finger, which is definitely not something that can be done by magic.
The two policemen looked at each other for a while before they looked at me. I said calmly, "I came back with you just to explain everything. Otherwise, you wouldn't be able to catch me."
The older policeman sat down with a half-believing look on his face. “Aren’t you a sorcerer? I just lost my wallet today. Can you tell me if I can find it back?”
"Give me three coins." I took the three coins from the policeman, shook them in the air a few times and threw them on the ground. "Your wallet is not lost. Your colleague must have been playing a joke on you and hid it in the locker on the far left of your locker room. You will know when you go and take a look."
The policeman turned and left, but soon returned with a wallet in his hand: "I am willing to believe what you said, but what you said is too unbelievable. I can't be sure of anything."
I said, "You can contact Guan's company about this matter. Last night, a sorcerer fought with ghosts at Guan's. I think this is not difficult to investigate."
The policeman turned around and said, "Xiao Le, go contact Guan's company and see if they have any explanation."
The young policeman named Xiao Le nodded and left the interrogation room. He came back after a long time and said, "Boss, Guan's company denied hiring Wu Zhao. They also told us not to trust people who are deceiving us under the name of Guan's company."
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