Ghost World Office

Tao Ye was burned to death in his previous life.

At that time, he was carrying out an assassination mission in an old apartment, and for some reason, someone suddenly shouted——

"on fire!"

Residents fled downstairs along the only staircase in the apartment. In the chaos, Tao Ye's assassination plan was forced to be suspended.

Being squeezed in the crowded crowd, Tao Ye suddenly saw a little girl sitting in the corridor crying.

Whatever it is, Tao Ye thought, without stopping to go downstairs.

But somehow, he returned to the floor where the little girl was.But when he got back there, the little girl was gone.

The thick smoke in the corridor was like a turbid river, mixed with the sound of crackling and whimpering like waves, making Tao Ye feel dizzy.

At this moment, he suddenly felt a little regretful... It wasn't that he regretted coming back, but that he didn't smoke less.Because he felt that he was gradually out of breath, and his brain sent fewer and fewer signals to his body, and eventually became silent.

Without any drama, Tao Ye was smothered in thick smoke and fell down in the corridor.

Lying on his back like this, at the last moment before he completely lost consciousness, Tao Ye saw a burnt beam fall from the top of his head.

Then there is endless darkness, and the pain of being scorched by flames.

Will he lie down and die like this this time?

A strong sense of unwillingness welled up in Tao Ye's heart.

This time was different, Dan's goal was Tao Ye's soul, so naturally he would not be satisfied with beating his body to death.

Even if Tao Ye's body dies, Dan will not let Tao Ye's soul go.

During this short period of time, Tao Ye thought about many things, including what Lu Yi once said to him——

"Strictly speaking, we're not living people, are we?"

However, even Tao Ye, who had already died once, did not want to die again.He wanted to go back to the dormitory to play games, he wanted to scold Zhang Minghe again, he wanted to...

Light the scented candles you bought at the mall earlier.

Because the smell is very good, like the smell of Lu Yi.

At this moment, a pain more severe than a broken rib appeared.The pain ran through every nerve of Tao Ye, burning every inch of his body like a raging fire.

As the pain intensified, the basement of the museum suddenly fell into absolute silence.

Enduring the pain, Tao Ye opened his eyes wide, the scene in front of him made him forget to breathe——

There is a bright fire flowing in the space, and this fire is attached to everything, which makes everything in the museum glow red and blue.

However, amidst the flames, the temperature in the museum did not change.Although Tao Ye felt that all the cells in his body were burning, he clearly felt that the air in the museum was not heated by these flames.

Those monsters had stopped moving and froze in place.

From their bodies, blue flames continued to emerge.In just a few seconds, these monsters turned into white ashes.

In the process of being reduced to ashes, the monster didn't even realize what happened, and its body was engulfed by blue flames.

After this, the absolute silence disappeared.

It was replaced by Lao Xu's voice. Tao Ye couldn't hear what Lao Xu said. He only felt more and more bleeding in his chest cavity, and his consciousness became more and more blurred.

Ashes were flying in the air, like a never-ending snowfall.

so tired...

Tao Ye's body was getting heavier and heavier, even if he was lying down, he seemed to be sinking into the center of the earth.

The pain had already numb his nerves, but he could still smell, besides the burnt smell, a clear but heavy woody fragrance surrounding him.

……

In the middle of the night, the CBD of City S is brightly lit.Tower after skyscraper, gleaming with icy reflections of steel and glass, soared into the sky.

In this bustling and icy city center, there are several buildings that were built in the last century, and these buildings now belong to Yuanliao Hospital in S City.

In the VIP ward on the top floor of the inpatient building of Yuanliao Hospital, only a low-wattage bedside lamp was lit.

The dim light illuminated a small area, and Tao Ye was lying on the hospital bed in the center of the light.

The nursing equipment behind the hospital bed made regular electronic and mechanical sounds, adding a bit of sound to the quiet night.

"Lu Chu, this matter is not easy."

Shen Zhu sat on a small stool beside the bed, peeled an apple with a knife, and said to Lu Yi who was sitting on the other side of the bed.

When she spoke, her brows were tightly furrowed, as if something was on her mind.

Lu Yi looked down at Tao Ye on the hospital bed, Tao Ye was still in a coma.

Under the light, his slender eyelashes fell on the lower eyelids, casting a feathery shadow on the skin of his cheeks.

"It's not easy to do." Lu Yi seldom spoke in such a strong tone.

Shen Zhu's action of peeling apples stopped for a while, and then continued to peel. She pondered for a moment and said:

"Although Dan has seriously threatened our normal work in the world, it is not a good time to close the net."

Lu Yi's eyes still fell on Tao Ye, behind his soft eyes, there was an undercurrent of emotion.

"You call this being threatened by your normal work?" Lu Yi asked Shen Zhu coldly, as if he was blaming her for not being absent from the museum's operation, or blaming himself for not arriving in time.

Shen Zhu shook her head, and put the peeled apples in the fruit bowl on the bedside table.In the fruit bowl were four or five peeled apples, all oxidized to various shades of brown.

"We don't have enough clues." Shen Zhu didn't give up her persistence because of Lu Yi's toughness.

No longer talking, Lu Yi pushed back the broken hair scattered on his forehead, sighed, and looked at the city lights outside the window.

Shen Zhu's emotions became a little agitated instead, she tried her best to lower her voice, and continued:

"Lu Chu, I know that you value Tao Ye for your reasons, but you can't disrupt the plan of the Human World Office because of him."

Lu Yi didn't even move his eyes, still staring at the flickering lights outside the window, without speaking.

It was the first time for Shen Zhu to see Lu Yi like this, and she was still not angry:

"We all know that there is a special imprint on Tao Ye's soul, but Tao Ye's power of law is pitifully small. Road, at least tell us what is going on with him. Also, the ashes in the museum today ..."

"enough."

Lu Yi interrupted Shen Zhu coldly, glanced at her, and said coldly, "Go back."

Shen Zhu frowned tightly and got up from the stool, grabbed the satchel on the side, and said very quickly:

"I'll come see Tao Ye tomorrow."

After speaking, she stepped on her high heels and left the ward.

Less than ten seconds after Shen Zhu left, Tao Ye opened his eyes and stared fixedly at Lu Yi.

Lu Yi also noticed that Tao Ye woke up, and an imperceptible joy flashed in his eyes:

"woke up?"

Tao Ye rolled his eyes with difficulty, and said in a hoarse voice:

"Director Lu, what is the brand you mentioned just now?"

In fact, Tao Ye woke up before the conversation between Lu Yi and Shen Zhu started.It's just that he felt that the atmosphere in the ward was not right, so he kept pretending to be asleep.

Lu Yi's Adam's apple rolled up and down, and after a while he asked, "You heard everything."

Yes, I must have heard it all!I am not deaf!Tao Ye complained in his heart.

"Why did you keep it from me?" Tao Ye continued to ask relentlessly.

After being sent to the hospital, Lu Yi has used the power of discipline to alleviate Tao Ye's injuries.So although the broken rib was still aching, Tao Ye's spirit was not bad.

"Because you shouldn't know." Lu Yi's answer was surprisingly cold, completely different from the gentleness of the past.

Tao Ye closed his eyes, feeling a thirst in his throat.He glanced at the kettle on the bedside table out of the corner of his eye, and said to Lu Yi:

"Director Lu, I'm thirsty."

Lu Yi frowned, and said to Tao Ye, "You just finished the anesthesia, and the doctor said you can't drink water yet."

Tao Ye curled his lips hard to express his dissatisfaction: "It's like a different person between you and before."

Indeed, before Lu Yi treated Tao Ye, it was not like a superior treats a subordinate.Lu Yi's extra care and tolerance towards Tao Ye often gave Tao Ye an illusion——

Did Lu Yi ever owe him tens of millions, or the kind that he couldn't repay?

And now Lu Yi, like Tao Ye owed him tens of millions, speaks with barbs and coldly.

"I've always been like this." Without looking at Tao Ye, Lu Yi tried his best to avoid Tao Ye's eyes.

Tao Ye took a deep breath, trying to make himself more comfortable, but at the same time he didn't want to inhale, his broken ribs also ached.

"Hmm..." Tao Ye snorted softly, wrinkling his nose painfully.

Seeing Tao Ye's appearance, Lu Yi hurriedly got up like a nervous reflex, and gently placed his palm on Tao Ye's wound through the quilt.

In an instant, a warm current passed through the quilt and into Tao Ye's chest, and the pain he felt just now eased a lot in an instant.

Staring at Lu Yi's distressed eyes, Tao Ye felt a little more relaxed.

Surviving a catastrophe does not necessarily have future blessings, but it will probably make people see it more openly than before.

Staring at Lu Yi's dark pupils, Tao Ye asked mysteriously:

"Do you like me?"

"Ah?" Lu Yi's words were full of doubts, but his eyes were full of panic when the secret was discovered.

Tao Ye clearly felt that Lu Yi's hand on the quilt froze suddenly.

Before Lu Yi could react further, Tao Ye endured the pain and stretched out his hand to hold Lu Yi's hand, repeating the question just now:

"Do you like me?"

Lu Yi's eyes flickered, and his eyes flicked back and forth between Tao Ye and the fruit plate on the bedside, and his normally fair and bloodless face was a little more bloody.

After holding back for a long time, Lu Yi couldn't say a single word.

Tao Ye's hand holding Lu Yi's palm increased strength, and the warmth of Lu Yi's palm passed through the skin and flowed into Tao Ye's consciousness along Tao Ye's nerves.

At the moment when the museum was about to be shot to death by a monster, Tao Ye's mind was full of Lu Yi.Tao Ye didn't know why this happened, but he knew very well that the warmth he was holding could give him a boundless sense of security.