"Ms. Lin Tan Tan... a national top-class therapist... the world's only person with five supernatural powers... passed away at the National Central Hospital at the age of twenty..."
"Lin Tan Tan... died at the age of twenty..."
Ye Xiao could not hear anything. Only these few words kept circling and repeating in his mind. He stood there in a daze, just like the many other people around him.
These people were shocked and sad. Some lamented that he died so young, some sighed and said it was so pitiful, and some covered their mouths and cried.
But no one knew that there was a man who was suffering a million times more than them. He stared at the huge screen, not at the host's sad face, but at the portrait on the side of the screen.
She was a girl who looked particularly young, with a beautiful fair face and a slight smile. She seemed to be looking at her from a very far distance, and her calm gaze had a reassuring power.
Ye Xiao's eyes blurred in an instant, he recognized her. Although her face was not exactly the same, he knew that it was Lin Tan Tan, his Tan Tan!
What appeared on the screen next was an interview at the hospital, the body lying on the hospital bed, the family, colleagues and leaders crying and grieving, and then some footage of Lin Tan's life was replayed. The news finally gave high praise to his contribution to the country, and so on.
Ye Xiao's eyes were filled with blood, and all those voices turned into a buzzing background. He clenched his fists and looked up suddenly: "What do you mean? Why did you send me here?"
Strangely, his almost roaring voice did not attract the attention of those around him, as they were still immersed in their own sorrow or discussions.
These people... can't see him.
Ye Xiao's eyes focused and he understood. Either he was not a real person who came here, but just a soul or a consciousness, or everything here was fake.
A familiar voice sounded: "Don't you want to see her? I brought you here."
Then a person appeared beside him, and it was indeed Xu Tianjin.
Xu Tianjin looked at him with a smile. He clearly had the face of a young man, but he had a kindness and tolerance that was unique to older people. Was this him throwing away all disguises and revealing his true face
Ye Xiao looked at him, panting.
Xu Tianjin sighed: "But I can't bring you to this world easily, so everything you see now is a projection."
"Or you can understand it as a projection of a fragment I grabbed from that world here."
Ye Xiao's eyes moved, and he heard two meanings.
First, this place is indeed fake, but it also really happened. Second, the person in front of him is not an ordinary person. He seems to have very powerful abilities, but those abilities are not so great that he can do whatever he wants. At least he can't let himself really enter Tan Tan's world.
Ye Xiao suddenly calmed down. The other party must have a purpose for doing this. It couldn't be that he just wanted him to see what happened here.
Xu Tianjin praised: "You are very smart and quick to react. You understood and calmed down so quickly. Not bad."
Ye Xiao asked: "What exactly do you want to do? Let me see this. How will it help me find Tan Tan, or..." His voice sank and became hoarse, "Is she still there?"
"There's no rush for this question. Don't you want to see her? Go see her."
Ye Xiao's body stiffened: "You mean..."
"It's just what you think."
A moment later, Ye Xiao arrived at the gate of the central hospital.
His expression was very complicated. Although it was just a projection, everything here was very real. He could even touch things here, but the other party couldn't feel it. Everything happening here could not be affected by him.
He walked into the central hospital.
Here I would like to talk about the hospital mentioned. She said that she stays here most of the time, and only leaves here to go home and reunite with her family during a few longer holidays in a year. Most of the time, even during holidays, it is her family who come here to see her.
She said she was lazy and she was very busy with a lot of appointments.
She was a little proud when she said it, but she didn't tell him that she had been like this since she was fourteen, and that she was lazy because she couldn't stand up, so traveling was inconvenient and boring. Also, once she went out, she would easily be attacked or asked for help, and she would even need an entire army to protect her closely, mobilizing a large number of troops...
Ye Xiao walked silently, holding a book that Xu Tianjin had casually given him. The book recorded Lin Tantan's life. He sometimes read the book, and sometimes looked up at the scene in the hospital. When he arrived at the destination, he raised his head from the book, his eyes were bloodshot and painful.
What hurts more is the heart.
She had never told him that she, a person with five abilities, was so special and that her life was so difficult. She also had not told him that she had always lived under the shadow of death.
He went upstairs and met many people along the way. He went straight through their bodies. At this time, these people really looked like projections. Finally, he came to a room with the word "Mortuary" written on it.
He was silent for a moment and walked straight through the door.
The temperature inside was extremely low and the light was dim. A girl was lying quietly on the bed. Her face was lifelike, and she still had her last peaceful and tranquil smile on her face.
Tears welled up in Ye Xiao's eyes uncontrollably. He slowly approached her and looked at her quietly for a long while. He stretched out his hand and touched her cheek very carefully and tremblingly. It was so cold that it chilled every bone in his body.
After she left, he didn't look at Lin Tantan's body any more. He regarded it as an unrelated object and told himself that Tantan was gone and that was not her corpse.
But when he saw the body in front of him, he finally couldn't hold it anymore.
When he didn't know and in a place he couldn't see, Tan experienced everything in his life in this body, joy, pain, happiness, and suffering. He grew up from a tiny baby into a beautiful and lovely girl, and finally left this world in this body.
Her tears, her smiles, every minute and every second she spent, what she had thought about in her mind, what she had hoped for, what she had liked, what she had hated, he knew nothing and had no part in it. He could only search and pursue dryly in books and in words.
Ye Xiao was heartbroken. He slowly leaned over and tremblingly gave the little girl a kiss on her cold forehead.
"Let's talk..." My talk.
Suddenly the door opened and many people walked in. In addition to the people from the hospital, there were also many people in uniforms. The two sides seemed to be handing over things. The latter group came in, carrying an ice coffin, and moved the body on the bed into it.
Ye Xiao forgot that this was just a projection and stopped them, “What are you going to do!”
However, his attempt to stop them was in vain. These people still passed through his body and carried the corpse down. Ye Xiao subconsciously wanted to grab them, but his hand passed through the body.
He suddenly fell silent.
He couldn't stop it, he couldn't do anything. The most he could do was touch it cautiously. If he used a little force, it would go right through, and this was already a stolen privilege.
He watched in silence as the men closed the ice coffin, covered the little girl's face in front of him, and then they took her away.
He croaked, "Where are they taking her?"
Xu Tianjin suddenly appeared beside him. "Tan Tan signed an agreement before her death that she would donate her body to the country after her death. She said that she was the only person in the world who could survive with five types of superpowers. Her body has extremely high research value. Those people will hold a grand memorial service for her, and then take her to the safest and most secret place. Her body will be dissected open, the energy core in her cranial cavity will be taken out, and every part of her body will be sliced and studied repeatedly. Many countries even hope to use a large sum of money to buy a certain organ or part of her body for research."
Ye Xiao shouted: "Stop talking!"
Xu Tianjin looked at him, sighed, and said quietly, "Tan Tan knew about this situation before she died, but she still signed it because she knew that even if she didn't sign it, the country would not give up her body. She couldn't let her family or close people cremate her or bury her secretly, and she couldn't find a place to blow herself up, which would only offend the country. Even if the country didn't take action, there would be many people coveting her body. In comparison, it's better to let the government take over."
Xu Tianjin's voice dropped. "Since her supernatural powers had declined and her health had deteriorated, many people were waiting for her to die. A whole regiment of soldiers was sent to surround the hospital and guard it. She was even told that it would be best not to go home, let alone die at home, otherwise there was a high chance of an attack on her way there or back."
"Since then, she has never set foot outside the hospital."
"When she was little, she told me that if she was going to die one day, she wanted to travel around and see the world. She wanted to sit by the window on a rumbling antique train and close her eyes while looking at the sea of flowers outside. She wanted to lie on the grass on a snowy mountain where the air was crisp and cold and watch the bright starry sky gradually fall asleep. She wanted to swim in the deep and mysterious seabed and touch the fishes. She wanted to find a bunch of beautiful corals and curl up in them. She wanted to sleep in a big shell... Those were the most romantic ways to die that she could think of."
"In the end, she could only stay in a small ward, facing a small window. Unfortunately, I, an irresponsible old man, could no longer help her..."
Xu Tianjin sighed deeply: "Sorry, I like to nag when I get old."
Ye Xiao sat on the ground leaning against the hospital bed with his head lowered. He seemed to be swallowed up by the coldness and darkness of the morgue. He looked more like a corpse than the one just now.
There was silence for a long time, as if all the space was swallowed by silence, leaving only his heavy breathing. He finally wiped his face, stiffly raised his head slowly, and said in a hoarse voice: "Who are you?"
Xu Tianjin smiled faintly: "Tan Tan mentioned it to you before, she has a very good teacher."
Ye Xiao's pupils trembled, and he exhaled after a long while: "She said that her teacher helped her a lot, but then he suddenly told her that he was leaving. After that, she never saw him again. She missed him very much... But her teacher should not be like you."
"Of course, I just borrowed this young man's identity and memory." As he said this, Xu Tianjin's face and figure changed, and he became a kind-looking, gray-haired old man with a gentle and profound smile.
Ye Xiao looked at him for a long while, his eyes still full of suspicion.
The old man didn't wait for a response, thought for a moment, and slapped his head: "Ah, see I forgot." Then his figure changed again, this time into a middle-aged woman with the same kind and friendly face, "I used this image as her teacher at the time."
Ye Xiao: “…”
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