"At present, it seems that Qiao Nian is affected by some kind of poison, but you don't have to worry too much. Qiao Nian's health is very good. I wanted to wait until this period of time has passed before telling you, but it's all my fault..."
As Uncle Hong said this, he raised his hand towards Hong Zhi as if to hit her. Hong Zhi deftly jumped to the side with an expression of "I was wrong, but I still make it".
"That's it," Jasmine finally breathed a sigh of relief, "It's okay. How is Qiao Nian's current condition?"
"She is fine, but she still has symptoms of fear. However, we believe that Qiao Nian's fear is not because of being frightened, but because of the poison," Uncle Hong said, "It is a kind of poison that we have never seen before."
poison, so it is expected that it will take some time before we can send Qiao Nian back to Fuxuan."
Jasmine sighed and nodded.
Qiao Nian had no hope. Xiaolan bit her lip and lowered her head to think hard. She couldn't think of a solution. Suddenly, the phone rang.
It's the Taoist priest's phone number.
The Taoist Master helped Jasmine onto a chair, raised his hand and took out his cell phone.
"It's a fool," the Taoist priest glanced at the screen report, then answered the phone, "Fool, what's wrong?"
"Taoist! Come here quickly!" Qin Yin's voice resounded throughout the living room, almost deafening the Taoist, "Hurry! Jiutian is gone!..."
***
The rain outside had lightened up a bit, and a few people huddled under umbrellas and hurried toward the main building.
Jasmine was supported by the Taoist Priest and Hong Zhi. She was anxious, but her feet kept bumping and slipping. After a while, they officially entered the threshold of the courtyard of the main building and saw the people gathered in the hall at a glance.
"Taoist Priest! Jasmine!..." Qin Yin hurriedly reached out to greet them, "Come here quickly!"
Several people hurried over and saw everyone forming a circle. In the center was Bao Mu, who was squatting on the ground and trying to smell it.
"What's going on?" the Taoist priest asked.
"What happened is this," the fool explained, "I was afraid that Jiutian would do something stupid, so I kept following him. After he entered the main building, he went directly to a lounge inside. I wanted to follow him,
But I thought it would be good to leave him alone at this time, so I didn’t follow him. They came over just now and asked me where Jiutian was. I knocked on the door and found that the door was not closed, and Jiutian was not in the room.
It’s in.”
"When did he go out?" Xiaolan asked.
"That's the problem," said the fool, "I have been waiting at the door of the lounge, and I haven't come out at all for nine days."
Xiaolan immediately turned to Jasmine and said, "Jasmine, is there any other exit from the lounge?"
Jasmine shook her head, "The rest rooms in the main building only have one door."
"Where are the windows?" Hong Zhi asked without any timidity.
Everyone raised their eyes to look at this strange girl.
"Oh, this is our Shuanglin person. This is Hong Silin. We all call him Uncle Hong. This is Hong Zhi. You... you can call her whatever you want." Li Muyuan stood up and introduced.
"What she said makes sense," Xiaolan said, "Did Brother Jiutian go out through the window?"
"There is no sign that the window has been opened," the fool said, "and the rain outside is so heavy, why did Jiutian climb out of the window?"
Hong Zhi said, "Is he really going to do something stupid?"
Uncle Hong covered Hong Zhi's mouth and dragged her aside with an apologetic look on his face, "I'm sorry, everyone, my apprentice speaks so freely..."
After hearing this, other people also became obviously worried.
"It's impossible. If Brother Jiutian wanted to commit suicide, he wouldn't have taken action earlier. Why did he choose this time?" Xiaolan said, "Besides... Brother Jiutian is not that kind of person at all."
"Baomu, what are you smelling?" the Taoist leader lowered his head and asked.
"The smell of Jiutian," Baomu smelled and moved, "I can only smell a faint smell. It should have been left by him when he passed by for the first time. It has almost dissipated."
"Let's go to the lounge and take a look." Xiaolan said.
Everyone squeezed into the lounge, which was decorated just like the other rooms. There was only a solid wooden door leading to the corridor, and both windows were closed tightly, not a drop of rain seeping in.
"It seems that this window has not been opened," the Taoist priest said, standing by the window and inspecting it carefully. "It is still raining outside. If the window had been opened, there would definitely be traces of raindrops hanging on it."
However, the window frame at this time was extremely dry.
"What should we do?" Qin Yin drooped his hands, "Can we lose a living person in Jiutian?"
It seems, indeed...
The Taoist priest walked around the rest room, turned to Baomu, and asked, "Baomu, can you distinguish the smell of Jiutian?"
Baomu nodded and said, "Yes, it's also a faint smell. This is the place where he last appeared."
Baomu pointed at his feet.
"Here?" Several people came over.
Baomu stood in the southeast corner of the lounge. There was no furniture around him, just a simple open space.
"Well," Baomu said, "the smell here is the strongest."
"Then Jiutian disappeared here?" Qin Yin squatted down and knocked on the tiles on the ground, "Can this be opened?"
"The tiles can't be opened," Jasmine said helplessly, "and we don't have a basement here."
Just, disappeared into thin air?
"Brother Fool," Xiaolan asked, "When Brother Jiutian is in the room, can you hear his voice outside the door?"
"I can hear some," the fool nodded. "I just remember that he seemed to move his chair. After being quiet for a while, he stood up again and started walking around the room. As he walked, something suddenly sounded...
…Oh! I remembered it! Before Jiutian’s footsteps disappeared, I seemed to hear a strange sound.”
Everyone became energetic instantly.
"What sound?"
"It's a bit like...a ringtone," the fool tried hard to describe. "I thought it was his phone ringing at the time. Yes, now that I think about it, after that ringtone rang, I didn't hear it again for nine days.
movement."
"Ringtone..." Jasmine pondered, "What kind of ringtone?"
"It's just... very light, very far away..." The fool adjusted the vocabulary in his mind, "and very regular... I can't remember clearly, I only heard a short sound."
"What kind of bell is that?" Qin Yin stepped on the tile, "Doorbell? Bell?"
"It doesn't look like..." The fool narrowed his eyes, "It's coming from a far away place... It's like..."
Ring ring... ring ring...
"Yes! That's the sound!" The fool's eyes suddenly widened.
Everyone was shocked.
Ring bell…
A faint and brisk sound of bells came from the other side of the wall.
A few seconds later, in front of everyone, a figure walked through the wall and slowly walked towards them.
"Oh, you're here," the man smiled immediately when he saw their faces, "Let's go, I'm here to pick you up."