Chapter 18 Standoff

While Lao Liu and Jing Henyun were locked in a standoff, Ye Yang, Feng Ruoxing, and I were already heading towards our respective goals.

Although Feng Ruoxing had entered the hospital, she didn't know where the archives room was and had to search floor by floor.

In those old-style buildings, there were generally no windows in the corridors, so even during the day, there was hardly any light. Everything depended on electric lights.

Without sunlight, yang energy couldn't rise. This was why old buildings were prone to hauntings.

It wasn't surprising for a person to feel cold all over when walking alone in a corridor without sunlight.

If you felt a cold breeze blowing past you, you had to be careful.

Where did the wind come from in a place with no windows?

At this time, you shouldn't be curious and insist on finding the source of the wind.

If you looked up and saw an air vent, that might be better.

But what if you looked up and saw a person clinging to the wall?

Even if you saw an air vent, how would you know that someone wasn't hiding behind it, blowing air at you?

Feng Ruoxing had been cautious and on guard since she entered, paying attention to the rooms on both sides of the corridor with every step she took.

When she reached the third floor, she suddenly stopped.

She distinctly remembered seeing the same woman twice already!

On the first floor, Feng Ruoxing had seen a woman in a hospital gown standing at a table pouring water through the window in a ward door. The woman, with her back to the door, had short hair.

When Feng Ruoxing passed the second floor, she saw a woman of the same figure in the same room, but this time, her hair was draped over her shoulders.

When Feng Ruoxing reached the third floor, she saw the woman for the third time. This time, her hair reached her waist.

As Feng Ruoxing stopped in front of the ward door, the woman pouring water slowly turned around, revealing a face covered by long hair.

If Feng Ruoxing hadn't been staring at the woman, making sure she had turned around, she almost couldn't tell if she was seeing her back or her front.

A faint voice came from under the woman's hair: "Come in! Come in and talk to me."

Feng Ruoxing hesitated for a moment, then pushed the door open and walked in.

As Feng Ruoxing took a step forward, the woman took a step back. When Feng Ruoxing reached the bedside, the woman retreated to the window.

Feng Ruoxing looked at her and said, "Didn't you want to talk to me? Why aren't you coming over?"

The woman pointed to Feng Ruoxing's neck and said, "You have that woman's blood hanging around your neck. I dare not get close to you."

Feng Ruoxing looked down at the glass bottle around her neck: "Then let's just talk like this! Anyway, we can hear what each other is saying."

The woman stood at the window, blocking half of it with her body: "I can't stand at the window for too long. If I stand for too long, the people outside will see me, and he will come and take me away."

Feng Ruoxing asked, "Who are the people outside? And who are you?"

The woman seemed to think for a long time: "I forgot who I am. I don't remember who is outside either. Anyway, that person is very powerful. People standing at the window will be taken away by him."

"Are you a cleaner? When you wipe the windows, don't ride on the windowsill. If you stretch your feet out, that person will be able to grab your feet."

"Last time, the person who wiped the windows was dragged down like that."

Feng Ruoxing said, "I'm here to find someone. Do you know a woman named Luan Jingfan?"

"That woman!" The woman laughed: "The person you are looking for is a madwoman. No one dares to provoke her. She has already been locked up."

Feng Ruoxing was shocked: "Where is she locked up?"

"I don't know!" the woman said faintly: "People in the ward can't get out. I don't know where she is locked up."

Feng Ruoxing pressed, "Then how do you know Luan Jingfan is locked up?"

"Someone told me!" The woman's laughter became more and more strange: "There are many people in this room with me. They are not patients. They can enter and leave the ward. They can come and talk to me when they are free."

"Right now, there are more than just the two of us in the room."

"There are people sitting next to you, people under the bed, and people behind you. They are all listening to our conversation!"

The woman suddenly pointed at Feng Ruoxing's back and laughed "Haha": "Look, turn around and look, someone is making faces behind your back, how interesting, hahaha..."

If it were an ordinary person, knowing that there were people all around them, and their feet were within easy reach of others, they would have been scared out of their wits.

However, Feng Ruoxing calmly said, "It seems there is nothing else to talk about between us. See you next time!"

The woman was stunned: "You... you don't want to say anything else?"

Feng Ruoxing shook her head: "I don't know where the person I'm looking for is. I can't understand what you're saying either. Let's not talk."

Feng Ruoxing was deliberately testing her. The woman's words should be partly true and partly false. It was probably true that she couldn't leave the ward. The other words might be false.

Feng Ruoxing felt that the other party was trying to find a way to get her to take her out.

She was waiting for the other party's next reaction!