Granny Ma gave a mocking chuckle. "Come to think of it, I've heard about this. A woman died in the stairwell of this hospital. She'd originally had a urinary tract infection, but later they diagnosed her with something like parasites and said she needed surgery. It wasn't just that woman—lots of people died back then. After she was scheduled for surgery, she ran out of her room ahead of time and died in the stairwell. It was a horrible death. The hospital administrators thought the place was inauspicious, so they renovated it and stuck a talisman in a concealed spot in the storage room on that floor. You can see certain things, right? You can see the yin energy and ghosts that have already faded away, too, can't you?"
Mo Xiaoling didn't answer.
I thought Granny Ma's story sounded familiar. I might have heard of a hospital like this, or perhaps I'd even been here before.
"Last year, someone jumped off the building here, too. A perfectly healthy young man, and all he had was a broken bone. No one knew why, but he jumped." Granny Ma continued.
I jolted as the memory suddenly came back to me.
That's right! Zhou Kaiwei, the tenant from Workers and Peasants Sixth Village! He'd rented Chang Youcai's house, and at the time, an evil ghost that wanted to take over someone else's body had been trapped inside it! Workers and Peasants Sixth Village had been plagued by strange incidents around then, too. The entrance to the otherworldly space outside the agency had been changing periodically, and many ghosts from long ago had entered the village, destined to be used to fill the entrance to that otherworldly space. Zhou Kaiwei could dream about ghosts, though his ability wasn't as clear as mine. It was