Nie Ying, who was leaning at the door, said: "After Miss Leng died, we temporarily placed her body in the courtyard and found an ice coffin to preserve her body. But just three days ago, her body suddenly disappeared."
"Could it be that...she's alive?"
Li Nanke asked.
The mysterious disappearance of corpses is not necessarily a bad thing.
Back then, Leng Xinnan was able to survive without a piece of her heart, which meant that she was different from others and could not die so easily.
"Her heart is gone, how could she still be alive... Wuwu..." Little Rabbit burst into tears, "Even if she is alive, why did she run away secretly?"
Li Nanke couldn't understand this, but he never believed that Leng Xinnan would die.
How could that woman who was so careful about even liking him die so easily?
They haven't officially gotten married yet.
They don't have children yet.
Li Nanke shook his head vigorously, fearing that he would accept the slightest bit of fact that the other party was dead.
He suddenly felt his heart hurt.
The pain was so painful that it was difficult to breathe.
It felt like something was being torn away bit by bit from the bottom of his heart.
"By the way, you said Sister Leng gave me her heart? How did she give it to me? Didn't Madam leave at that time?"
Li Nanke thought of the key point.
The three women in the room looked at each other, and Gu Ying said: "It seems... you poached it yourself."
Um?
Li Nanke fainted again.
"Wasn't I already killed by my wife at that time? What nonsense are you talking about?" Li Nanke was puzzled.
Gu Ying said sadly, "We can't know the specific situation. At that time, Miss Leng locked her body and yours in the room. When we discovered something was wrong and broke in, she was already dead.
Her heart has been completely dug out, and you... your hands are full of blood, and your heart has been dug out, but the heart inside... is beating.
Without thinking much, I used a needle and thread to help you sew up the wound..."
Listening to Gu Ying's statement, Li Nanke held his head with both hands, as if his head would explode in the next moment.
What happened in these short ten days?
How come each one is weirder than the other.
It’s understandable that Madam would kill him.
It is understandable that Leng Xinnan gave his heart to save others.
But he was a dead man, but he dug out the heart of the woman he loved and pressed it on his body.
Is this reasonable?
Is this scientific?
Well, talking about science in a place like this is retarded.
Li Nanke was about to collapse.
Why was it that nothing happened after the last earthquake, but so many tragedies happened this time?
He "lost" two of his most beloved women in a row.
Is it punishment?
Or a warning?
"You should have a good rest first." Gu Ying knew that the man was not feeling well at the moment, so she suppressed her sadness and comforted her softly. "Maybe you are right, Qiu'er will not kill you, and Miss Leng will not die."
Li Nanke stared at the beam blankly, not knowing what he was thinking.
Seeing that Little Rabbit was still crying, Gu Ying tugged on her sleeves and left the room together.
Nie Ying looked at the man on the bed, sighed, and gently closed the door.
"what happened?"
Li Nanke tried hard to get his stagnant brain moving.
He recalled the words of the mysterious girl in Mengdie Taoist Temple over and over again.
"Only death can lead to life..."
Li Nanke slowly introduced some speculations, "Although the girl denied what the old Taoist priest said, it seems necessary to die every ten days. If I don't do this, I may remain in a coma.
I swallowed the Heart of Red Rain before, thinking I wouldn't have to die, but this was only treating the symptoms and not the root cause.
Now that so much time has passed, the effect of the Red Rain Heart is gone, so I have to die again every ten days as before.
Madam knew the truth from somewhere, so she killed me with a sharp awl.
But ten days have passed, and killing me has no effect. I can only let Sister Leng use her own heart to save me..."
Li Nanke felt that his speculation was close to the truth.
But the question is, why would he take out Sister Leng's heart when he was dead?
This is too heartless.
Li Nanke decided to ask the girl again.
He endured the pain in his heart and got up from the bed and put on his clothes.
I stumbled open the door and saw the three women in the courtyard.
"Nanke, you..."
Gu Ying quickly came over to help.
Li Nanke waved his hand to indicate that he was okay, looked around and saw an ice coffin placed under the corridor.
Is he really dead?
Li Nanke's heart hurt again.
He took a few deep breaths and said to Nie Ying: "Come with me to the government office. I want to investigate someone."
"good."
Nie Ying came over and helped him.
The two got on the carriage and arrived at the government office.
Li Nanke asked officials from the Household Registration Department to take out the record information of all medicinal shops in the capital.
Because of Nie Ying's status, the officials did not dare to neglect and quickly brought the record book.
Li Nanke searched page by page.
Finally found the name I wanted.
Dong Zhongqing!
The owner of Jiuyun Medicine Shop.
They have a son and a daughter, named Dong Liangjun and Dong Xiaosu respectively.
"Dong Xiaosu..."
Li Nanke tapped his fingers lightly on the yellowed pages and silently wrote down the name.
He continued to browse, and selected the names of some medicinal shops and wrote them down on a piece of paper, before leaving the government office with Nie Ying.
"Why are you looking for a medicine shop?"
Nie Ying helped the man onto the waiting carriage on the roadside and told the groom the address of Jiuyun Herb Shop.
Li Nanke didn't answer and looked outside through the car window.
Perhaps because of the second earthquake, there were fewer pedestrians on the road.
There are more night patrols and shadow guards patrolling.
The once prosperous capital city was filled with a depressing atmosphere.
Occasionally, Li Nanke could still see the confusion, despair and fear deliberately suppressed on the faces of some people.
"How long is it until New Year's Eve?"
Li Nanke asked softly.
"Twelve days."
Nie Ying frowned and replied.
Li Nanke closed his eyes, leaned against the carriage a little tiredly, and murmured: "It can't be stopped, it can't be concealed, and there is no hope... Are these people alive or dead? After taking Red Rain, are they still themselves?
"
Nie Ying couldn't understand what the other person was saying, so he hesitated and asked, "Should I take Hongyu?"
Li Nanke was silent for a while, then shook his head slightly, "I don't know either."
"You and I have entered the world of Red Rain before. If the end comes, I may not need to take Red Rain to survive."
Nie Ying expressed her optimistic attitude.
"It's different." Li Nanke wanted to explain, but didn't know how. He sighed, "You'd better not take Hongyu now. I'll tell you the answer on New Year's Eve."
"Are you so sure the end will be on New Year's Eve?"
"I'm not sure."
Li Nanke opened his eyes and said helplessly, "Hongyu has clearly told us that it will come on that day."
"What's the meaning?"
Nie Ying felt that her brain was very insufficient.
At this time, the carriage stopped in front of the Jiuyun Medicine Shop.
Li Nanke got off the carriage with difficulty, and when he saw that the door of the medicine shop was closed, the hope in his eyes dimmed.
"Are they really all dead?"
He asked Nie Ying to force open the store door.
The medicinal materials inside were scattered all over the floor, as if this place had experienced a disaster.
Nie Ying went to the nearby shop to inquire and came back and said: "The owner of this medicine shop and his son and daughter disappeared during the earthquake and have not been back for ten days. The clerks and outsiders in the shop stole and robbed everything that should be done.
It’s all over.”
Li Nanke nodded, took out a bottle of Red Rain and drank it, preparing to open his X-ray eyes to see what he could discover.