Yang Jian hung up the phone, then turned to Wang Shanshan and said, “Stay here with my mom. I’ll come back once I’m done handling this.”
Wang Shanshan nodded. “Go. Don’t worry, I’ll explain things to Auntie.”
“Good.”
Yang Jian turned and left, passing through the small road into the village before driving toward the airport in Dachang City.
Looking at Li Yang’s photo on his phone—bright, cheerful, brimming with youth, several years younger than he had been back in the hurricane—Yang Jian became even more certain that Li Yang was a ghost controller who had invaded the present from some point in the future.
And from Li Yang’s final conversation with him, Yang Jian judged that this Li Yang was very likely a team member of his from some future point in time.
In DQ City, the night sky shimmered with the lights of the city.
“It’s way too cold today. This winter’s temperature is much lower than in previous years.”
“Yeah, I still feel cold even with the heating on at home. I heard someone over in the East District froze to death recently.”
People came and went on the streets, each of them cupping their hands and walking briskly. Fine snowflakes drifted through the sky, and many places on the ground were covered with a thin layer of white snow.
DQ City lay in a basin. Snow of this level was a rare sight even once in ten years.
Outside the intensive care unit of DQ City First People’s Hospital, Yang Jian stood beyond the glass, observing an elderly woman inside.
At this moment, the old woman’s entire body was filled with tubes, and several pieces of medical equipment Yang Jian could not name were attached to her chest. From the look of it, she did not have long to live.
Yang Jian said, “Director Li, tell me about Liu Jing’s condition.”
Li Jie, standing to the side, hurriedly spoke. The young man before him was someone even the hospital director had personally gone out to welcome, and the higher-ups had issued a strict order that they must cooperate with him fully.
“Liu Jing already had a tumor to begin with. Because anger attacked her heart, it led to the emergence of some complications. Judging from her current condition, the risk of surgically removing the tumor is very high.”
Li Jie handed Yang Jian an X-ray and pointed to one spot.
“Please look here. This is the old woman’s heart. Directly above it is a tumor. Under normal circumstances, this wouldn’t be a difficult operation for our hospital, but right now, the elderly patient has multiple complications on top of an already poor constitution. For now, we can only treat her conservatively and wait until her physical condition recovers before planning a surgical approach.”
Li Jie explained it very clearly, afraid that this important figure before him might be dissatisfied in some way and cause him to lose his position as director.
Yang Jian nodded. Although he did not understand medicine, he had been observing the condition inside Liu Jing’s body through his ghost eye the entire time. The tumor was exactly where the doctor had said, only one or two centimeters from the heart.
Pushing open the door, Yang Jian walked in. Li Jie immediately followed.
“Um... Officer Yang, the patient is currently in a critical period. It would be best not to disturb her, to avoid any further mishaps.”
Yang Jian nodded and said, “You go out first. I want to stay here alone for a while.”
Li Jie froze for a moment, then said, “Understood.”
Then he immediately turned and left, even closing the curtains and the door behind him on the way out.
The scarlet ghost eye on his forehead slowly turned. Yang Jian could clearly see the location of the tumor. It was not particularly large.
Yang Jian intended to use his Ghost Domain to extract this tumor, just as he had done when performing a cesarean section on Zhang Liqin back in Dachang City.
Dense scarlet light slowly seeped out from beneath Yang Jian’s feet. Li Jie watched the red glow flashing continuously through the crack of the door, his eyes filled with shock.
It seemed those supernatural legends circulating among the public were true. There had always been a group of people hunting those terrifying evil ghosts in the darkness.
The red light gradually covered the entire room. Although this was not Yang Jian’s first time doing something like this, he was still extremely cautious. Raising his ghost hand, he slowly reached into the area above Liu Jing’s heart.
Everything went very smoothly. Within the five-layer Ghost Domain, Yang Jian could rewrite reality. He could easily accomplish things that ordinary people would find inconceivable.
Moreover, this time was unlike during the Starving Ghost incident. He did not need to contend against the supernatural.
With a gentle pinch of the ghost hand, Yang Jian removed a tumor from Liu Jing’s body.
“Director Li, arrange a full-body examination for Liu Jing as soon as possible. There shouldn’t be any major problems with her now.”
Hearing Yang Jian call him, Li Jie immediately opened the door and walked in. Seeing the tumor in Yang Jian’s hand, a shocking thought suddenly flashed through his mind: Could he have removed this tumor from Liu Jing’s body just now?
Li Jie immediately took out his phone and called over the best medical staff in the hospital.
Yang Jian stood by the window, waiting for Li Jie and the others to finish their examination.
The light snow outside continued to drift down. A snowflake floated in through the window and gently landed on the back of Yang Jian’s hand.
“Hm?”
Yang Jian raised his ghost hand and looked at the tiny snowflake on its back. Yet in the instant he had come into contact with the snowflake, he had actually felt a trace of cold.
One had to know that in Yang Jian’s current state, even some ghosts with lower terror levels could not make him feel a change in temperature, much less the influence of the weather.
“There’s a problem.”
Yang Jian silently stared at the snowflake, which seemed to have grown slightly larger. The instant his ghost hand came into contact with it, Yang Jian felt a faint sensation of freezing. It felt as if the ghost hand had been suppressed, and yet not quite.
“The ghost hand itself is a ghost with extremely strong suppressive power, but just now...”
“Officer Yang! This is simply a miracle! The tumor inside Liu Jing’s body has actually disappeared!”
Li Jie cried out in surprise, interrupting Yang Jian’s thoughts.
Of course, his reaction was all an act. He had seen the tumor in Yang Jian’s hand just now, but he knew very well what should be said and what should not be said.
Yang Jian walked forward and looked at Liu Jing, whose complexion was gradually regaining color and whose eyes had already opened. “Mm. Are there any other conditions?”
Li Jie immediately replied, “The rest are all complications. The true lesion was that tumor. Now that the tumor is gone, she should be able to recover after staying in the hospital for treatment for a while longer.”
Yang Jian nodded. “Thank you, Director Li. I’d like to stay alone with Liu Jing for a while.”
“Understood.” Li Jie immediately called out to the surrounding medical staff. “Everyone, come out with me.”
“Wait a moment, Director Li.”
Just as Li Jie was about to leave the ward, Yang Jian called out to him.
“The weather has been getting colder and colder recently. DQ City doesn’t seem very suitable for living anymore. Have you considered moving to another city, Director Li?”
As a shrewd man, Li Jie immediately understood what Yang Jian meant. Yang Jian was telling him to move out of DQ City as soon as possible. Although he did not understand why Yang Jian wanted him to leave, words from such an important figure often represented extremely hidden secrets.
Coupled with the terrifying rumors that had been circulating among the public lately, he immediately connected it to something.
He said to Yang Jian at once, “I’ve actually had that thought recently, but I haven’t decided where to go yet. I wonder if Officer Yang has any recommendations.”
“Dachang City. Shangtong Building. Just give them my name.”
“Understood, understood!” Li Jie immediately beamed with joy.
“I won’t disturb you any further. I’ll pack up immediately and head to Dachang City.”
Yang Jian turned around, walked to the window, and closed it. The falling snowflakes were extremely abnormal. Now, even he could feel a trace of cold from them.