Chapter 85#
Ability User#
[To be honest, I really never thought these two people would know each other.]
[I never thought so either.]
[Ning Weichen and Ye Sheng… feel like they are from different worlds, two completely different styles. Ye Sheng is the kind of aloof school hunk character in campus novels, poor family background, cold personality, never uses words when he can use actions. While Ning Weichen’s family background, appearance, and education are all there, instantly reminding people of the upper-class society full of debauchery and materialism. These two, one follows the slum cool guy script, the other follows the wealthy forced love script. Hmm, I’ve already started imagining various canary literature.]
[Hahahahahaha dying of laughter, canary literature.]
[…Canary? Ye Sheng? Are you joking?]
[Don’t get excited, just saying.]
[Really just starting with a picture, the content is all made up. No kissing, no hugging, no ambiguous actions, is it necessary to imagine so much?]
[Anyway, I can’t ship them, the status gap between these two is too big. I think the way Ning Weichen looks at Ye Sheng is completely like looking at an ordinary classmate.]
[Ordinary classmate? Are you blind?]
For a time, two groups of people argued heatedly on the forum. Until the director happily borrowed an account and released the picture he took at the Third Hospital.
The director said: [Stop arguing, their relationship is indeed quite good. Ye Sheng got lost in the obstetrics building, and it was Ning Weichen who brought him out.]
In the photo, in front of the blue obstetrics building, Ye Sheng was holding a piece of paper stepping down the stairs, his thin lips pressed into a line, frowning tightly.
Beside him, Ning Weichen lowered his head, the corners of his lips hooked up, his peach blossom eyes smiling, quietly listening to Ye Sheng speak.
The light sunlight fell on their faces through the clouds, with an indescribable harmony and gentleness.
The director knew this picture was ambiguous, thought about it, and quickly explained.
[Oh, what Ye Sheng is holding is a map Ning Weichen drew for him, not a pregnancy checkup report. Don’t misunderstand!]
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[Director, when you say this, do you believe it yourself?]
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The theme of the promotional video is “Secret Love”, mainly about the heroine’s secret love journey. It doesn’t matter if there is a male lead later.
Because Xie Wenci was hospitalized, the male lead was gone. Huang Qiqi simply made drastic changes to the plot, making the latter part a monologue for the heroine alone. A group of people began to shoot scenes all over Huaian University. Filming corridors, filming classrooms, filming the library.
As an extra, when Ye Sheng said he would show his face once, he really only showed his face once.
The rest of the holiday was all used to investigate the Jiahe Mall matter.
Ye Sheng discovered that when Jiahe Mall was built, there were actually many urban legends.
“Jiahe Mall was originally called Jiahe Plaza (Guangchang). Because the character ‘Guang’ looked too much like the character ‘尸’ (corpse), the developer found it creepy, so they changed the name.”
“When the mall was just built, strange things happened frequently. Nearby residents could hear babies crying every night. Besides that, moving mannequins, children bouncing balls, rotting old ladies in elevators, foolish beggars, were all ghost stories that came out back then.”
“Coincidentally, the Huaicheng Radio Station and the mall are in the same area, receiving ready-made submissions every day. During that time, the radio station reported strange things every day, making people panic. The mall couldn’t even open.”
“Later, the Huaicheng police cleaned up that area once, and these bizarre rumors gradually disappeared.”
Ye Sheng thought to himself, the Huaicheng police the driver mentioned should be the Non-Natural Bureau.
The driver looked about forty or fifty years old, beaming with joy and said: “Sigh, handsome guy, you asked the right person. I used to live in the Jiahe Mall area.”
Ye Sheng chose to take a taxi to get some information from the locals. He didn’t expect to accidentally meet someone who used to live near the mall.
Ye Sheng frowned: “You used to live there?”
Driver: “Yeah, why would I lie to you!”
“I still remember there was a private gynecological hospital there when I was a kid.”
“Next to the hospital was a small park, and next to the park was a playground. Back then, that area hadn’t become an economic center yet, there weren’t so many high-rise buildings. Every day after school, my friends and I would chase and play through the streets and alleys.” The driver shook his head and sighed: “Sigh, I miss it.”
“As a result, the government started some development plan later, wanting to build a large plaza there, and demolished all the nearby residential buildings. My parents took ten million in demolition compensation and moved into Xinghu District with me in grief.”
The driver squeezed out a tear or two, recalling the unbearable past, sighing and lamenting: “Since then, my cold childhood has turned into a string of warm numbers.”
Ye Sheng: “…”
Driver: “…”
Uh.
The driver realized he had slipped up and immediately added: “Oh no, wrong, said it wrong. From then on, my warm childhood turned into a string of cold numbers.” The driver laughed awkwardly to make up for it: “Sigh, look, people can’t recall the past when they get old, so sad that I’m delirious.”
Ye Sheng didn’t see any sadness in him at all. However, he still nodded, supporting the sentimental driver, and asked: “Then do you know about the two Mrs. Qins who died under medical treatment at Cheng’en Gynecological Hospital back then?”
The driver nodded: “Of course I know this. The Qin family, hey, the number one wealthy family in Huaicheng, any random incident can make headlines.”
“But two Mrs. Qins died, and the head of the Qin family didn’t worry, didn’t trouble the hospital. Ordinary people like us can only gossip and watch the fun.”
“If you ask me, it’s really strange. The one who delivered the babies for the two Mrs. Qins back then was Dr. Liang Binhai, right? Dr. Liang can be counted as one of the top authorities in obstetrics and gynecology. He failed two surgeries in his life, and both were Qin family members.”
“My wife told me that the internal power struggle in a wealthy family like the Qin family is fierce. The two Mrs. Qins must have been framed and died on the operating table.”
Ye Sheng didn’t speak. They were indeed framed. Framed by a husband with asthenospermia, using folk evil prescriptions and secret techniques to force pregnancy and childbirth.
Ye Sheng said: “What kind of person is Dr. Liang Binhai?”
The driver said: “A very capable person. Many pregnant women with complex conditions in China fly specifically to Huaicheng just to find him. Women giving birth is like walking through the gates of hell. Choosing a hospital and doctor requires caution. Dr. Liang always does his best to protect the child’s safe birth.”
When Ye Sheng heard “protect the child”, he couldn’t help frowning. In TV dramas, there are absurd plots where doctors ask husbands “save the mother or the child”, but in real life during childbirth, if the mother has problems, doctors will definitely ensure the safety of the pregnant woman first, even at the cost of terminating the birth.
When Liang Haibin performed surgery on those two Mrs. Qins, as an authority in obstetrics and gynecology, did he really not discover the strangeness of their pregnancies?
One person dying in a hospital bed can be said to be an accident, so what about the other one?
Old Master Qin has now gone to prison. Interrogating him didn’t yield much, he only said he gave them medicine given by a Taoist priest, and they got pregnant after drinking it. And he insisted that both of them were willing at the time.
Old Master Qin didn’t know the changes in the bodies of his two wives after drinking that medicine, but as the chief surgeon, did Liang Binhai really not know? Thinking of the overwhelming and dense ghost children in the Qin family’s western-style building, and that bed with bloody handcuffs.
Ye Sheng felt that this person, Liang Binhai, was not that simple either.
The driver said: “I heard that Dr. Liang Binhai’s wife died on the delivery table. So pitiful. I think he must have felt bad when the two Mrs. Qins died.”
The driver took ten million in demolition compensation, lived in Xinghu District, and came out to drive a taxi just because he was bored and wanted to chat with people. Once a topic was brought up, he would talk endlessly, from Dr. Liang Binhai to his own wife, saying how difficult it was for his wife to give birth, how he cried anxiously outside the operating room, and then mentioning how promising his current child is, earning a million a year after returning from studying abroad.
Finally seeing that they were almost at Jiahe Mall, the driver immediately remembered that he was reminiscing about his childhood at the beginning. After going around in a circle, he returned to the main topic.
“Actually, I don’t like coming here. As soon as I see Jiahe Mall, I think of my lost home. The nostalgia for the homeland only exists in my heart from now on.”
When Ye Sheng got out of the car, he added in his heart: The nostalgia for the homeland only exists in the card from now on.
Ye Sheng had been in Huaicheng for so long, but this was his first time at Jiahe Mall. The Non-Natural Bureau had investigated and cleaned up this place back then. Ye Sheng walked around and didn’t find anything unusual.
Ye Sheng just wanted to call Cheng Ze to ask for clues. Suddenly he found two people secretly following him.
Ye Sheng glanced at the two people from the corner of his eye. Two young men. One tall and one short, wearing ordinary T-shirts and jeans. Ye Sheng frowned almost imperceptibly, hung up the call, deliberately quickened his pace, and came to the toilet. Sure enough, those two also followed.
There was no one in the mall’s men’s restroom. As soon as Ye Sheng went in, these two followed in. Ye Sheng turned on the faucet, lowered his head, amidst the sound of rushing water. He saw the two men look at each other in the mirror. Then, the tall man with silver ear studs stepped forward, supported his hand on the washbasin, and whispered: “Buddy, you are also an ability user, right?”
Ability user.
Ye Sheng raised his eyes, a pair of almond eyes looking sharply at him.
The tall man smiled at him: “Don’t be nervous, I’m here to cooperate with you. A big shot in the group said that Jiahe Plaza has become a dangerous place again recently. We two brothers plan to come and try our luck.”
The tall man tried hard to appear friendly.
“My brother and I don’t have a guild and have always acted alone. My brother is E-rank, and I am C-rank. I saw you wandering from the first floor to the seventh floor, looking around all the time, buying nothing. You should also be an ability user who heard rumors and came to try your luck——how about we cooperate?”
Ye Sheng raised his eyebrows: “Rumors?”
The tall man nodded: “Yes, strange stories seem to have started appearing again here at Jiahe Mall. The rank of the Anomaly should be C or D. How about we split the bonus exchanged from the Non-Natural Bureau after killing them?”
Actually, for ability users, the bonus is secondary, mainly the biological agents. The tall man tried hard to make himself look kind, but his eyes still couldn’t hide the malice. Exploring dangerous places, especially such dangerous places with unknown Anomalies, every step requires a scapegoat.
He took a fancy to Ye Sheng at a glance. He knew Ye Sheng’s ability rank shouldn’t be high.
Smiling, he gave a temptation that a newcomer simply couldn’t refuse: “My brother and I are in Huaicheng for the first time and need a guide. How about this, if we kill a C-rank Anomaly, five biological agents, I’ll give you one?”
Ye Sheng: “…”