Infinite Puzzle City

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Li Xuyin cautiously walked out of the ward, and looking at the empty corridor outside, he immediately breathed a sigh of relief.

As tomorrow's plan drew closer, Li Xuyin's excitement grew.

“I can leave this awful place soon and become a beginner like everyone else. The treasures I’ve secretly hoarded over the years are enough to make me successful in the outside world.”

Thinking of his bright future, Li Xuyin couldn't help but take a deep breath, feeling that even the smell of disinfectant in the hospital was sweet.

She immediately quickened her pace with a smile, but unconsciously slowed down when she reached the door of the duty room.

He cautiously peeked out and saw Xiao Ran sitting in the duty room. He swallowed hard and called out at the door, "Dr. Wu, I'm going back to the rest room now."

After saying that, without waiting for Xiao Ran's response, Li Xuyin hurriedly left, not noticing at all that his figure was leaping past the door of the duty room.

A white paper figure quietly floated down from Xiao Ran's shoulder. The paper figure somersaulted in mid-air and landed lightly on the ground. Then it turned around and ran into the duty room. With a few quick steps, it leaped up and climbed up Xiao Ran's trouser leg to Xiao Ran's hand.

Xiao Ran held the paper figure in her hand; this was one of the Zhou family's secret paper figure techniques: paper clones.

This is a technique created by a senior member of the Zhou family based on the "Scripture of Spirit Crossing".

However, the drawback is obvious: one must attach a wisp of one's own spirit to the paper figure and then control it wholeheartedly without any distraction. Few people in the Zhou family have succeeded, so it was recorded in the Turin Book and few people have tried it.

This shortcoming isn't something Xiao Ran doesn't have, but it's something she doesn't need at all.

His current profession is paper craftsman, and his professional skill is paper manipulation. With the blessing of paper manipulation, he only needs to devote a wisp of his spirit to it, and he doesn't need to meditate to maintain it at all.

Just now, when he met Li Xuyin in the corridor, Xiao Ran seemingly casually patted him on the shoulder and stuck the paper figure to his back.

Suddenly, the paper figure trembled in Xiao Ran's hand, and a wisp of light flashed from it. This wisp of light was the spirit that Xiao Ran had attached to the paper figure.

Now that this wisp of spirit has returned to Xiao Ran's body, Li Xuyin's every move just now is fully displayed in front of Xiao Ran.

Of course, his conversation with Zhang Qi was also included.

"That's really surprising."

Upon hearing Zhang Qi's voice, Xiao Ran's eyes gradually turned cold.

Xiao Ran always harbored suspicions about Zhang Qi, but originally, as long as Zhang Qi didn't affect her, Xiao Ran wouldn't have any thoughts about her.

Now it seems that Zhang Qi and Li Xuyin are entangled together, and their desire to escape is probably not as simple as it seems.

There seem to be three factions in the hospital right now: the Changchun Association, myself, and Zhang Qi and Li Xuyin, these rats hiding in the gutter.

However, besides the three forces, there are two other forces: one is the little girl who appeared in the dream, and the other is the thing that the little girl mentioned is about to wake up.

Zhang Qi and Li Xuyin were clearly on the little girl's side, but for some reason, Xiao Ran felt something was off.

Apart from the Changchun Association, which is currently operating openly, everyone else is secretly waiting for tomorrow's uprising.

"Hmph, you want to fish in troubled waters, but I have no intention of giving you the chance."

Xiao Ran grinned coldly.

No one knew better than him how to fish in troubled waters, and no one understood better than him how to deal with guys who wanted to fish in troubled waters.

After a moment's thought, Xiao Ran had already made up her mind.

As agreed with Xiao Ran, after completing the second shift of ward rounds, Li Xuyin went to hide in the break room.

Xiao Ran didn't stay in the duty room. Under the pretext of ward rounds, she wandered around the hospital at will.

Only someone as skilled and daring as Xiao Ran would not easily wander around at night, even if they were a member of the Changchun Association.

After all, the Changchun Association only obtained partial authority and did not truly and completely control the hospital's operation mechanism. When encountering hospital ghost stories, they also had to act in accordance with the rules of ghost stories.

As she walked to the intersection, Xiao Ran glanced up at the overhead camera and quickly slipped out of its range.

He casually took out a piece of yellow paper, squeezed it a few times in his hand, and a paper flower quietly took shape in his hand.

Immediately afterward, Xiao Ran used her paper manipulation technique to quietly place the paper flower in a crack in the wall.

One, two, three.

Every few steps, Xiao Ran would toss out a paper flower.

After walking around the entire hospital, by the time Xiao Ran returned to the duty room, the sky outside had turned from night into a hazy, gray day.

Jin Chanzi yawned and walked in looking utterly bored.

These past few days in the hospital, Jin Chanzi has gained some weight. Every day, various nurses come to feed him snacks in different ways, and the food in the hospital is indeed quite good. Jin Chanzi is happier here than he is in Bone Spirit Street.

"Go and inform the old demon Qinghai that we are about to make our move."

Upon hearing Xiao Ran's words, Jin Chanzi suddenly jolted and turned to look at Xiao Ran: "Tonight?"

"No!"

Xiao Ran shook her head and looked out the window. "I should say now."

As he spoke, he walked to the window, took out a piece of yellow paper from his spatial storage, and gently tossed it out the window. The yellow paper flew out of the window with a wisp of breeze, and suddenly burst into flames in mid-air, turning into sparks that scattered in the air.

"what!"

Jin Chanzi's gaze sharpened, and he walked to the window to look outside: "You want to set up pressure?"

"Strike first and you'll be strong; strike later and you'll suffer. If you're going to take action, then don't give these people any chance to pass on information."

Seeing this, Jin Chanzi no longer hesitated. He immediately dropped his lazy expression and turned to head straight for the dormitory building to call Qinghai Old Demon. "Strange, why do I feel so itchy?"

In the office building, Qilin couldn't help but scratch his arm a few times, but the more he scratched, the itchier it became, and he felt very uncomfortable all over.

"No, go take a shower."

After being scratched a few times, Qilin finally couldn't take it anymore and stood up, intending to go to the public bathhouse for a hot bath.

As soon as they stepped outside, they bumped into the caregivers, Avatar and his team.

As they walked, the group unconsciously started scratching themselves.

"What, are you itchy too?"

Qilin was stunned when he saw the actions of the Avatars.

"Hmm, I can't scratch it."

The Avatars nodded. They felt itchy all over, but when they scratched, they almost scratched the skin until it was red, but they still couldn't find the itchy spot.

As they spoke, Avatar and the others unconsciously wiggled their shoulders. The itch itself wasn't a big deal, but the fact that they couldn't scratch the right spot was incredibly frustrating.

"That's strange, could it be an allergic reaction?"

Qilin's first thought was whether something from the laboratory had leaked, causing their allergic reaction.

But then I realized something wasn't right; this had never happened before.

"Okay, you guys go ahead with your work, I'll go find out what's going on."

Qilin said as he walked downstairs.

When they stepped outside, they saw that it wasn't just them; the security guards at the gate and everyone else they saw on the street couldn't help but reach out and scratch themselves.

Qilin immediately had a bad feeling.

Just as they were about to go to the inpatient department to contact Master Gui, they had just stepped into the inpatient department.

I saw Xiao Ran walking out right in front of me.

"Hey, Fifth Brother, you..."

Qilin looked Xiao Ran up and down, and seeing that he seemed to be fine, asked in confusion, "Fifth Brother, you... aren't you itchy?"

Upon hearing this, Xiao Ran looked at Qilin with a half-smile and asked in return, "Are you itchy?"

"Ouch... Ugh, my whole body is so itchy."

The Qilin frowned and scratched its body repeatedly, the more it scratched, the more it itched, but it just couldn't find the right spot.

This feeling is just like the saying "scratching an itch through a boot," where what was initially just an itch on the body gradually becomes an itch in the heart.

"I have a way to stop you from itching."

At this moment, Xiao Ran said with a smile.

Upon hearing that Xiao Ran had a way to relieve the itching, Qilin didn't care about anything else and hurriedly looked at Xiao Ran: "What method is it? Fifth Brother, please tell me quickly, I... oh dear, I can hardly stand it anymore."

Xiao Ran put her hand on Qilin's shoulder and asked, "Do you know why you're itchy?"

"do not know."

Qilin shook his head.

Xiao Ran said, "Actually, the human body is like a sponge. The air, temperature, and water in the world must flow into our body continuously. Therefore, Taoist health preservation first focuses on nourishing qi. This qi is not only our own qi, but also the spiritual qi between heaven and earth."

Qilin felt a headache coming on as he listened to Xiao Ran's words.

He didn't want to hear any of this right now, and he didn't understand what Xiao Ran was trying to say to him.
"Fifth Brother, you..."

"Don't worry, let me finish explaining, and I promise you'll stop itching."

Xiao Ran put her arm around Qilin's shoulder and walked back with him as they talked.

“The Lost City is inherently filled with yin energy and death energy. If you stay in this place every day, you will be like rotten wood stained with filth. It’s fine on ordinary days, but if someone throws this wood into a furnace to burn, it will only produce thick smoke and a constant stench.”

Although the Qilin's aptitude was extremely poor, ridiculously so, its mind worked very quickly. Upon hearing this, it immediately understood what was going on: "So, we've fallen for some kind of strange tale?"

"It's not a ghost story. Someone simply stimulated the yang fire in your body. The yang fire is like a furnace, which will ignite the impurities in your body. The two clash, and you will become increasingly itchy."

Hearing Xiao Ran's words, Qilin seemed to understand, but also seemed not to understand. While he hesitated, his body became increasingly itchy: "No, Fifth Brother, you still haven't told me how to stop the itch?"

Upon hearing this, Xiao Ran sighed and said, "Why don't you understand? Just put out the fire, and the itch will stop."

"Is the fire out?"

Qilin didn't understand at first, but then his heart tightened suddenly: "Fifth Brother, you..."

Before Qilin could finish speaking, Xiao Ran's hand, which was on Qilin's shoulder, suddenly grabbed Qilin's chin and twisted it forcefully.

A crisp "crack!" echoed in Qilin's ears, and a sharp pain surged into his mind, as if his thoughts had been abruptly severed. But just as Xiao Ran had said, this time...

The itching is finally gone...

(End of this chapter)