C29 Healing Injury

I left the office without waiting for the end of the shift, suffocated by the enclosed space, the green and red dots on the Taoist's two sheets of paper and the murders they represented stabbing into me like spikes, frightening me but also full of curiosity, a book without an ending, a sex without an orgasm, two human instincts — curiosity and vigilance — popping into my head for a moment, this one asking me to get to the bottom of the matter, digging out the truth, the other yelling at me — it's going to end your life!

I left the company in a panic, as if I had gone through a war. No one stopped me, and I thought that in the eyes of others, I must have looked like a dying man with a ghastly pale face. I sat in the car and wandered aimlessly along the road. I didn't dare go back to my two hundred square meters empty and empty house, as only the sunlight and the noisy traffic could give me an illusory sense of security, but I found that I had nowhere to go. I called the Taoist director and San Mao countless times, but one of them kept turning off the phone while the other never answered.

When the sun inevitably sets in the west, I return to my new city by instinct like an old horse, and when I realize it, the car is already passing the gate of the neighborhood, and I wake up like a frightened beast, but just as I'm about to accelerate away from here, a figure suddenly pounced on my car!

I slammed on the brakes, causing the tires to squeak. The ABS started instantly and the car shuddered to a halt. Luckily, the car was not too fast. The person was led by the car and threw to the edge of the isolation belt and lay still. I got out of the car and walked around the front of the car. MaggieQ was trying to get up, biting his lip. A black wound was oozing blood on his right shoulder.

"You, you, you, you … What's the matter with you? " I cried out.

"Quick, help me up!" MaggieQ held out a hand to me.

I hurried over and put her hand around my neck. I put my other hand on her waist and pulled her up from the ground. When I touched her skin, I could feel that it was slick with sweat and her skin was cold to the touch.

"My bag …" MaggieQ hung over my shoulder and pointed reluctantly at the road in front of me. I followed her finger and saw a black woman's handbag lying on the ground.

"Get in the car first. I'll pick it up after you're done!" I shouted.

"Go to your house!" MaggieQ said to me in a commanding tone as I stuffed her into the back of the car, picked up the handbag myself, and got into the cab.

"But your injuries aren't light, you need to go to the hospital …" I turned to her.

"No!" MaggieQ firmly shook his head and said, "Go to your house!"

I didn't know if MaggieQ's firm tone had infected me, or if my own intense curiosity had prevailed, but I didn't even hesitate. As a senior car insurance collector, I didn't even think of calling the police.

In the underground garage, I pulled into the parking space and turned to look at MaggieQ. She was pale and slumped in the back seat, her bloody palms smearing blood all over my leather seat.

"Do you have clothes?" MaggieQ asked me through clenched teeth, her whole face contorted in apparent agony.

"Yes, yes …" I got out of the car, pulled a vest from the trunk, and helped MaggieQ out of the backseat.

MaggieQ placed her vest in front of her to block the blood, then slung it over my shoulder as we walked toward the elevator. When we got in, she turned around and threw herself at me.

"Don't talk!" MaggieQ whispered in my ear.

I started, then remembered that there was a camera in the elevator, and that if the security guard saw me bringing in a girl covered in blood, it would cause unnecessary trouble, so I lowered my head and buried my face in MaggieQ's long hair, pretending to be a couple in love. However, the fragrance of a young lady's body coming from the tip of my nose and the softness of her body pressing against mine made me feel a little enchanted. It was only when the elevator door opened did I come back to my senses.

"Bring me a pair of scissors and a kettle of water. Put the towel inside and cook it. Also, bring some paper towels as well …" As soon as I helped MaggieQ into the room and lay down on the sofa, she told me exactly what she needed.

"Oh, oh …" I hurriedly took the items and boiled the water.

"Cut the clothes!" MaggieQ ordered again.

"Ah?" "Oh …" I was stunned for a moment before I calmed down. I knelt down on one knee in front of her and started cutting off the sleeves of her T-shirt with scissors, all the way to her collar. The cloth that connected her chest and back was pulled down on both sides of her body, and the clothes in front of her chest were already sticky with blood, sticking tightly to her skin.

"Wipe it with a tissue!" MaggieQ added.

I wiped her shoulder with a paper towel, and as the blood began to drain away, her wound slowly became visible. It was a flat wound about two centimeters wide. It wasn't a gun shot! I thought to myself, It's probably a dagger or something. At this moment, the sound of boiling water came from the kitchen.

"Bring boiling water to wash your wounds!" MaggieQ's voice had a calmness I couldn't understand, as if it wasn't her at all.

I rushed into the kitchen to get the kettle, poured water and towels into the washbasin, and, ignoring the scalding water, kicked the towel into a half-dry position and continued to clean MaggieQ's wound.

The wound was about four to five centimeters below the shoulder blade, which was the thickest part of the pectoralis major muscle. I carefully cleaned up the blood around the wound, trying not to drag the wound along with me. In the process, I discovered that MaggieQ's body was very well-proportioned. When I washed down to the bottom of the wound, I saw the curve of her chest, and I became a little distracted. Even my breathing became a little ragged.

"Enough!" MaggieQ said suddenly.

Startled, I thought she had seen through my vile thoughts, and quickly drew back my hand and looked up.

"Bring my bag." MaggieQ said in a very calm voice.

Relieved, I took her handbag.

"Open it. There's a first aid kit inside. Take it out."

I unzipped my handbag and found that there was indeed a small, black-and-gray pistol lying next to a white plastic box with a red lid.

I shook my head, trying not to think about the gun and the story behind MaggieQ's wound. I opened the first-aid kit and held it out to her.

"Sew the wound!" MaggieQ took a curved needle with stitches from the box and handed it to me.

"I... "I don't know how to …" I hastily waved my hands in panic.

"Can you sew buttons? It's about the same as that! " MaggieQ put the needle in my hand.

"Ugh …" Would you like a painkiller? "I have …" I stammered.

"Let's finish sewing before eating!" MaggieQ rolled his eyes at me and simply said.

I could no longer evade her, so I went back to my knees, one hand holding her wound, the other holding a trembling needle that stabbed into her flesh.

"Go deeper!" Otherwise, it'll be pulled out immediately! " MaggieQ said through clenched teeth.

Forget it, just treat her like a piece of meat! I made up my mind and stabbed a needle into her skin. The curved needle immediately popped out from the other side of the wound. MaggieQ's body trembled visibly, but she didn't even make a sound.

"Let's go back to the past and tie a knot over there …" After I passed through the needle, MaggieQ said weakly.

I didn't even have the courage to look up at her, so I hastily sewed up the needle and started the next one, following her directions. She taught me, and it took us about ten minutes to sew up the wound, by which time MaggieQ and I were both soaked with sweat.

MaggieQ took a breath freshener spray from the first-aid kit and sprayed it on the wound. Then she took out a few pills and swallowed them.

I let out a sigh of relief and slumped down on the sofa beside her. It took me a long time to regain my composure. When I was full of questions and wanted to ask her, I found that she was already asleep.

I shook my head and smiled wryly. I got up and took a blanket from the bedroom and covered her with it, then sat down on the sofa opposite her. I looked at this mysterious woman and thought about all the strange things I had experienced in the past two days. From seeing that monster who had been reborn after dying with half of its neck cut to the Daoist's warning, to seeing her lying on my sofa covered in blood … What had happened? Who is this woman? Where did the monster come from? Why does the Taoist want me to run away? As I thought about this, my eyelids grew heavy, and I finally couldn't take it anymore and fell asleep.

When I woke up, the first thing I saw was that there was no one on the sofa opposite me! I jumped to my feet and shouted twice, but got no response. I ran around the bathroom and the bedrooms, but there was still no one there. I returned to the living room and foolishly looked at the sofa where MaggieQ used to lie. It was still a mess, with bloody towels and tissues strewn all over the floor. If it wasn't for those, I really would have thought that treating her just now was just a dream of mine. This woman mysteriously disappeared from my life once again.

I looked at my watch and it was already midnight. The ghost city had become increasingly quiet. In a tall building, there wasn't even the sound of dogs barking. I felt a chill in my heart and hurriedly packed up my things before returning to my bedroom to sleep. When I knelt on the floor to clean up the bloody tissue, I suddenly felt a peculiar feeling behind my back. I turned around to find a pair of eyes staring straight at me through the glass window!