C5 Chapter 5

Yuan Fann rubbed his eyes to make sure he wasn't seeing things. Then he stood up excitedly.

"Oh my god!"

This involuntary cry made Soong Chaoxi feel a wave of helplessness in her heart. She was so excited to see a person. Yesterday, when he saw her at this time, he still looked very disappointed.

Was she that bad?

"Let's go out and say hello?"

Soong Chaoxi sat in her chair and looked up at him, as if she had already seen through his thoughts. She stood up and went outside first, followed by Yuan Fann. Just as he was about to push open the glass door, he saw the golden wind chime that was still on the ground. He picked it up. Then it hung on the door, and the wind chimes began to rattle.

He could reach the other side after a few steps. The road in the middle was unusually clean. There was no junk in sight.

Soong Chaoxi knocked on the door. The man inside looked at her with the same puzzled expression as Yuan Fann. She pushed the door open. She felt a familiar sense of escape.

There was nothing special about it, no stairs to the second floor, a couch and coffee table on the left side of the door, and a counter on the right that looked exactly like the one in the bookstore.

"You are..."

Yuan Fann immediately replied with a smile, "My name is Yuan Fann, and she is Soong Chaoxi. We just arrived here yesterday."

He pointed behind him, but the man was still staring at the bottle in his hand. "I'm Jing Yi. A... doctor."

A doctor, a pharmacy. It was indeed a good match. Soong Chaoxi thought that perhaps it was because she liked to read books that she appeared in the bookstore.

"Please take a seat."

Jing Yi's voice was low and hoarse. He didn't look very energetic. Yuan Fann sat across from him and was about to ask him how he felt when he noticed that his hands were covered with black lines of varying thicknesses.

"May I ask what happened to your hand?"

Could it be a tattoo? Yuan Fann subconsciously looked at his hand. Then, he heard the other party reply, "I don't know. This wasn't there before. It appeared as soon as I came here. "

She turned around and saw that everything around her seemed to have been frozen. There were neatly arranged bottles of medicine. It was just like the books in the bookstore across the street. Although they could be picked up, it felt like touching a corpse.

Was it related to the cause of death? Poison or beatings? Yuan Fann tried to guess, but he forgot what he was supposed to say.

"Ah, right. I forgot to tell you. This place... seems to be a world of the dead. Both of our hearts stopped. What about you? Do you feel that something is wrong?"

The other party put down the medicine bottle in confusion and placed his hand on his chest. "I don't feel any heartbeat either."

"Then, then what about breathing? Can you feel air or pain?"

"Not really. But I seem to be able to smell something."

Yuan Fann looked at Soong Chaoxi and his expression asked, Can you? Soong Chaoxi shook her head regretfully. Like Yuan Fann, she could not smell anything. But she could hear and see. What did this mean? Her nose was damaged when she died?

"Am I really dead?"

Jing Yi looked at the two of them with sadness in his eyes and his voice was low and sad.

He didn't seem to be at a loss because of the suddenness of the situation. Soong Chaoxi guessed that he probably understood why she had died as well as she did.

Soong Chaoxi didn't like this sad scene. She lowered her head, not knowing how to face it. She thought about what had happened in the past.

Before what she thought of as a true death, this little bit of time had been a kind of recompense for her past misfortunes. It had allowed her to feel that she wasn't so unlucky and mediocre, but this way of comforting herself was unacceptable to many people.

"I suppose so, but I think it might be better. After all, I firmly believe that the world after death should be dark and unconscious."