"What, doesn't your chest hurt anymore?" Lao Mo quipped, and I glanced back at him.
"Ouch, now that you mention it, it does hurt a bit."
Lao Mo rubbed his chest, making a rather cheeky gesture. I was speechless. I slapped him on the chest.
"Ouch! Old Qin, are you trying to kill me?"
Lao Mo had been hit by the ghost and spat blood. However, due to his cultivation, his body was resilient. He would be fine after a period of rest. But the slap from me made him cry out in pain. A passing nurse glared at us.
"Keep it down, you two. This is a hospital."
Despite our ruthlessness and lack of mercy when dealing with ghosts, we immediately deflated under the nurse's scolding. We both apologized profusely.
Thus, Lao Mo and I chatted by the operating room for a while. Master Jiang was brought out, but he was still unconscious. Lao Mo and I went to take a look. His face, neck, and even chest were wrapped in bandages, and he was hooked up to several IV drips.
Following the doctor's arrangements, we were admitted to a ward. The ward had two beds. The other bed was occupied by an old man and his three family members. This was typical for hospitals, as only a few could afford private rooms.
At this moment, Lao Mo nudged me with his arm. "Look, a beauty."
Everyone appreciates beauty. Hearing this, I instinctively looked up. I saw a rather pretty young nurse standing at the doorway with a tray of medicine, talking to another nurse. I took a quick glance; the nurse was quite tall, about 1.7 meters, with a good figure, voluptuous curves. Her features were delicate and refined. She looked young, perhaps seventeen or eighteen.
Besides being beautiful, she looked familiar, though I couldn't quite place her.
"What do you think? Isn't she beautiful?" Lao Mo asked with a smile.
I narrowed my eyes. "I feel like this woman looks familiar. I think I've seen her before."
Lao Mo rolled his eyes at me. "Get out of here! She's just a young nurse. Where could you have possibly met her?"
Lao Mo didn't believe me. Just then, the nurse walked into the room with her medicine tray. As soon as she entered, she looked up and saw Lao Mo and me. She didn't react much to Lao Mo, but upon seeing me, she clearly froze. She stared at me, looking surprised.
"You, are you that person who jumped off the building last time?" the nurse suddenly asked.
Her words made me suddenly recall. This nurse was the one I encountered when I came to the hospital to help Deng Xiaodi, the younger brother of the female ghost Deng Xiaoxiao, regain his spirit. I had to jump from the third floor and flee to avoid alerting the enemy. Her name was something like Chen...
Thinking of this, I glanced at her name tag. Chen Yao. Yes, it was Chen Yao.
With that realization, I gave a wry smile. "We meet again."
Hearing my conversation with the nurse, Lao Mo looked astonished. "Whoa, you actually know her?"
"Of course," I replied, shrugging.
After a moment of surprise, Chen Yao hurried over. Then, in a secretive manner, she said to me, "You, you really are, a Taoist priest?" She looked curious and serious, revealing her small canine teeth, which made her look quite cute.
"The real deal," I answered seriously.
Chen Yao gasped. "You're amazing. After you left last time, with that talisman, the patient who had been in a coma for so long actually woke up. I told the hospital management about it, but they didn't believe me..."
Although Chen Yao and I had only met once, seeing me this time, she showed excitement and enthusiasm. Her initial nervousness and fear were gone. But then again, I hadn't harmed her the first time we met. I had only sealed her acupoints with my Taoist energy. After saving the patient, I had fled through the window...
I said apologetically, "I'm sorry I scared you that day."
Chen Yao shook her head like a rattle drum. "No, no, it was truly magical. By the way, we have several other patients who are severely injured from car accidents and are in comas. Would you go and place some talismans for them too?"
I felt awkward. Did she really think talismans were universally effective? Deng Xiaodi's condition was that his three souls and seven spirits were not gathered, but his physical condition was fine. That's why the talismans could wake him up. Severe car accident injuries? That was an entirely different matter.
Perhaps sensing my awkwardness, Chen Yao smiled. "We can talk about that later. I'll change the patient's dressing first." With that, she put down the medicine tray and began to change Master Jiang's IV drip. Simultaneously, she said excitedly, "Oh, what's your name? After that day, I kept thinking about meeting you again. You're really amazing. Not only can you save vegetative patients, but you can also jump from that high up on the third floor and be fine. It's truly unimaginable..."
This young nurse, despite her age, was quite gregarious. Seeing me again, she prattled on endlessly. Even Lao Mo was astonished by her. But since she was Master Jiang's attending nurse, I answered her questions casually. I introduced myself, and we formally met.
However, at the end, Nurse Chen Yao lowered her voice and said to Lao Mo and me, "To be honest! I didn't believe in ghosts before. But after meeting Brother Qin last time, I do now. After all, if there are real Taoist priests, there must be ghosts! After my observation, I found that the locked morgue in our hospital has a problem. I heard the head nurse and some senior doctors say that place has been haunted..."