"Didn't you see him? He must still be in this mall!" Security guard Li Daxing lost control of his emotions. He grabbed the flashlight and moved towards Han Fei and Li Long.
"When I walked to the fifth floor, I kept talking to him, but he didn't respond to me, but I could clearly hear the footsteps behind me. He should have been following me!"
"Why is it missing?"
"The sound of footsteps was still there when I turned around, but he could no longer see it."
More blood seeped out from the corners of Li Daxing's mouth. His lips had been bitten by himself, and his entire face was frighteningly white.
"We have been on the third floor and have never been to the fifth floor..." Li Long had a cold face. He tried to communicate with Li Daxing, but was interrupted by Han Fei.
"Don't go there. Didn't you hear what he just said? The footsteps were still there when he turned around, but his companion could no longer be seen. He was sure that he would never see his companion again, which meant that his companion had been hidden.
He picked it up and hid it in a place where no one could find it." Han Fei stared at Li Daxing's belly. He didn't want to think about it, but Li Daxing's behavior was really weird.
After hearing Han Fei's dissuasion, Li Long followed Han Fei's gaze and looked at Li Daxing's belly. He instantly understood what Han Fei meant.
"Do you think the other security guard was eaten by him?" Scar-faced Li Long froze on the spot, then subconsciously started to move away from Han Fei.
Security guard Li Daxing is very abnormal, but Han Fei's thoughts are also extremely terrifying. This is definitely not the way ordinary people think about problems.
Sandwiched between Han Fei and Li Daxing, the scar on Li Long's face twitched slightly. Only now did he understand why the seniors on the road forbade them to cause trouble in this shopping mall.
"I want to find him! Have you seen him, right? Tell me where he is? Tell me! I really need to see him!" Li Daxing opened his mouth, which was full of wounds and blood, and he waved his flashlight.
He rushed toward Han Fei, and when he was about to run in front of Han Fei and Li Long, he seemed to suddenly see something, and his expression changed instantly.
"Why are you here again? Why are you all back!" Speaking words that no one could understand, Li Daxing turned around and ran into the depths of the mall.
After a false alarm, Li Long wiped away the cold sweat with his remaining fingers. Tonight's experience was a bit too heavy for a street gangster: "Are there no normal people in this shopping mall?"
As soon as he finished speaking, he turned around and found a family of three standing at the gate of the shopping mall. It seemed that Li Daxing ran away after seeing this family of three: "When did these three people arrive?"
Ding dong, ding dong sounded, and the family of three seemed not to notice anything unusual in the mall and entered the thrift store directly.
"You stay outside, I'll go in to receive the customers!" Han Fei left quickly, leaving Li Long alone.
The gangster looked at the water-stained and muddy shoe prints on the ground, a little confused. The three members of the family were all wet, as if they had just been fished out from the bottom of the river. Their skin was soaked and turned white, and their eyes were swollen like goldfish.
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"Kids, we meet again." Han Fei stared at the little boy in front of him and slowly moved his eyes behind him.
Beside the boy, stood a couple. The two were very loving, as gluey as each other, and a large part of their bodies seemed to have melted together.
"Uncle, I want to redeem my toys."
"I've been keeping it for you until you come back." Han Fei took out the cardboard box hidden under the counter, and all the boy's toys were inside.
"Thank you, uncle!" The boy took out several soaked hundred-dollar bills from his father's pocket, and then pulled out a puppet from his own pocket: "Uncle, this is for you!"
Han Fei hung the soaked money on the counter. He was more concerned about the little puppet.
"Okay, now we are settled." The boy smiled happily. He jumped up and down holding the cardboard box of toys, while his parents followed him silently.
The family of three left "happily", and Han Fei made his first business here.
After accounting, Han Fei stuffed the puppet left by the boy into his pocket.
Money is proof of transaction and should be given to the boss; puppets are proof of friendship and should be kept by oneself. This is called the distinction between public and private.
"What did the boy mean when he finally said we were settled? After the old things are sold, can't the past obsessions be picked up again?"
Ding dong, ding dong...
The store door was opened again, and an old man with white hair appeared at the door.
Han Fei had met this old man last night. She wanted to donate the red sweater she knitted, but the package containing the sweater contained a lot of bloody feathers and animal skins.
"Grandma?"
Just like last night, the old man placed the package at the door of the store, then walked around the store, and finally walked to the shrine tremblingly.
"Why do you always come here so late? Can you walk home by yourself at night?" Han Fei always felt that something had happened to the old man, so he carefully accompanied the old man: "Grandma, the package you sent last time,
Our clerk here will clean it for you."
The old man turned around numbly. She looked at Han Fei's face for a long time and suddenly raised her arm.
A faint musty smell floated into Han Fei's nose. Seeing the old man's hand getting closer, Han Fei did not dodge.
The calloused hands finally came to rest next to Han Fei's face. The old man's cloudy eyes were filled with tears, and she opened her mouth as if to say a name.
"Grandma? What do you want to say?"
Before Han Fei could react, the old man suddenly bumped into the shrine, and she tried her best to push the shrine down.
"Don't be impulsive!" Han Fei quickly stopped the old man. He was much stronger than the old man, but he didn't dare to use force for fear of hurting the old man.
The old lady didn't say a word. She scratched the nailed door of the shrine, her face full of tears.
She kept making strange noises in her throat, and she didn't even care that her fingers were scratched with blood.
After a lot of effort, Han Fei was able to control the old man.
He picked up the fallen black cloth and covered the shrine again. Only then did the old man slowly calm down.
"As expected, there is no normal person in your store, from clerks to customers." Li Long stood at the door of the store. He stared at the old lady and did not dare to enter the store casually: "I have some impressions of this crazy old lady. His son used to seem
I work in a department store.”
"His son works here? That's not right. I remember Oriole said that this old man has no children."
"I also heard that the old man's son was one of the first employees of the thrift store. Later, he died in an accident. As a result, the old man went crazy. She always felt that her son was locked in a shrine and seemed to have made a thousand pieces.
Doing good deeds can save your son." Li Long has been on the streets all year round and is quite familiar with these strange things.
"Have you done a thousand good deeds? Where did you find out all this?" Han Fei saw that the old man had calmed down. He let go of his hand and was about to pour a glass of hot water for the old man.
"Senior on the road, we call him Brother Snake. He is the one who told us not to mess with your shopping mall. We should not offend anyone in this city but the owner of the department store." Li Long didn't have any good impression of Han Fei at first, but
Judging from Han Fei's attitude towards the elderly and some small things that happened before, Han Fei is considered a good person.
What he said when borrowing money, "I am a good person," really came from the bottom of his heart.
While Li Long and Han Fei were talking, the old lady, who had regained her composure, walked tremblingly outside the store.
The old man was almost halfway into the coffin, and still insisted on doing one good deed every day. At this time, the outside was completely shrouded in darkness, but the old man didn't care at all, and slowly disappeared into the night with his cane.
"Can she walk freely in the night?" Han Fei frowned slightly, and he remembered Li Long's words again: "Is the old man's son really locked up in a shrine?"
Han Fei's mind was filled with doubts now. If Li Long hadn't lied, why would the old man's son be imprisoned in the shrine? How did she know that doing a thousand good deeds would free her child?
"When I lifted the black cloth of the shrine underground, I heard the voices of several people behind me. They were all men, women, old and young. Were the old man's children among them? They all died because of the shrine, or in other words, they all had sex with the shrine.
Through some kind of transaction, their souls have been marked with a price!"
The shrine in the thrift store was just a decoration. The real shrine was underground. After carefully covering it with black cloth, Han Fei moved a chair and sat at the door of the store.
"Every step of the way outside the shopping mall is killing people, and inside the shopping mall is also the Asura Hell. Where is the answer to this world?"
Holding his hands together, Han Fei tried his best to calm down, regulate his emotions, and recover his mood values quickly.
When Li Long saw that Han Fei was slowly becoming normal, he also relaxed a little.
After laying out the newspaper with great effort, Li Long, who was wearing a suit, sat at the door of the store again. The two of them just guarded the door of the store without disturbing the other.
"Do you eat melon seeds?"
"no thank you."
At 3:50 in the morning, Han Fei's mood value finally returned to 50 points.
He glanced outside and saw that it was almost dawn.
"Li Long, I have to go to the hospital. Do you want to continue guarding the store here, or do you want to come with me?"
"I'm here to collect debts, and you asking for my opinion like this makes me feel very passive."
"Then you come with me, it's too dangerous here." Han Fei helped Li Long up. Of course, such an excellent "partner" cannot be abandoned casually. Good steel must be used on the blade.
After closing the store door, Han Fei ran towards the hospital under Li Long's guidance.
The Third People's Hospital is not too far away from here, and whether it was because it was almost dawn or because of the little boy's doll, Han Fei didn't encounter anything too scary.
As soon as he and Li Long entered the hospital, they saw Li Hu, a fat man in a suit with plaster on his hands. He looked pitiful and helpless in his fierceness. He was the only one in the entire hall.
"How is the situation with Oriole?"
"I don't know. I don't quite understand what the doctor said." Li Hu took Han Fei to find the doctor, but they were stopped by a nurse before they even entered the room.
"Which one of you is the patient's friend?" The nurse looked at Li Hu with the mountain tiger tattoo and Li Long with the scar on his face. She always felt that they were not good people and she did not dare to let such people enter the ward.
None of the three men responded. Finally, Han Fei came out and said, "I am a colleague of Oriole. How is she doing?"
"Basically she is out of danger, but she seems to have been severely stimulated on her brain, which has caused her to fall into a deep coma. We can't guarantee when she will wake up. It could be tomorrow morning, or it could be a few weeks.
After that." Seeing Han Fei's elegant appearance, the nurse happily communicated with Han Fei: "Which of you will pay for the medical expenses, ambulance expenses, emergency room expenses, hospitalization expenses, and follow-up treatment expenses.
"
When he heard that he needed to pay money, Han Fei also stopped: "Can't you contact her family?"
"We notified the person in charge of the shopping mall, but they haven't arrived yet. According to the person in charge, Oriole's mother died early and her father suffered from Alzheimer's disease. She seemed to have divorced due to domestic violence some time ago. If his ex-husband knew about her
She's in a coma, let alone taking care of her, it's better if she doesn't try to take over everything from her."
The nurse's words reminded Han Fei of something. When he borrowed Oriole's mobile phone to call the deliveryman's father, he secretly looked at Oriole's chat history.
There is a person in Oriole's address book who is noted as being worse than a pig or a dog. That person has been threatening her and saying that he will kill her whole family.
"Then her situation should be considered a work-related injury, right?" Han Fei asked in a low voice.
"We asked Zhu Wei, the person in charge of the mall, who showed her the contract and said that Oriole had resigned three days ago. She did not leave the mall because she had to bring in new people." The nurse became impatient: "She may not leave tomorrow morning.
I just woke up, can you pay the medical expenses in advance so that we can start follow-up treatment as soon as possible."
Normally, you pay first and then receive treatment. Emergency treatment is a special case, but after the condition improves, the hospital will definitely still charge.
The two gangsters took a step back consciously. Han Fei held the 20,000 yuan he had just borrowed in his pocket and licked his dry lips: "How much is it approximately?"
"The initial treatment is three thousand, turn left on the first floor to pay."
"Is this just an upfront cost?" Han Fei moved his steps. He now felt that everything was too coincidental.
He had just borrowed money from a loan shark, and something happened to Oriole here, and the money he borrowed hadn't even been covered yet.
"Is this the random mission choice? Did the owner of the shrine also make his own choice?"
The original owner of the shrine was forced to sign the IOU. In that case, he would not use his own money to help Oriole.
"Could it be that the owner of the shrine did not choose to help the oriole, which led to its death? If this is the case, then the right choice should be to save the oriole."
Moving forward quickly, Han Fei decisively handed over the money, but he didn't wait for the system prompt.
It was almost dawn, but there was no progress in the mission.
"Money can save a person's life. This is a hospital, and the name of the mission is choice. Besides whether to save the oriole, are there any other choices in the hospital? Is it related to the mother of the owner of the shrine?"
Han Fei frowned and thought about the task prompts carefully.
Seeing Han Fei's extremely painful look, the two gangsters rarely disturbed him. They thought Han Fei was distressed because of the payment. After all, they also knew that Han Fei's own mother was sick in bed and in urgent need of money.
"This guy is really a single-minded fool. If he didn't owe us money, maybe we could become brothers." The resentment in Li Hu's eyes dissipated a lot. If he was beaten in a street fight, he could only say that his skills were inferior to others.
There is no need to hold grudges all the time, of course the main reason is that he is afraid of being beaten.
"He is a good man, but he is so poor that all he has left is kindness."
The three of them stood at the payment desk. Not long after, the hospital elevator door slowly opened, and a man wearing a nurse's clothes and a face tattoo on his neck slowly walked out.