A Buddhist Kingdom in Dreams (IV)

Yang Jian hung up and turned to Wang Shanshan. "Stay here with my mom. I'll come back once I've dealt with this."

Wang Shanshan nodded. "Go on, don't worry. I'll explain to your mother."

"All right."

Yang Jian turned and left, walking down the path into the village before driving to Dachang City's airport.

He looked at the photo of Li Yang on his phone. Bright and cheerful, brimming with youthful energy, he looked several years younger than he had in the hurricane. This made Yang Jian even more certain that Li Yang was a ghost rider who had invaded the present from some point in the future.

And from Li Yang's final conversation with him, Yang Jian judged that this Li Yang was very likely a member of his team at some future point in time.

In DQ City, the night sky glittered with the city's lights.

"It's way too cold. This winter's temperatures are so much lower than in previous years."

"Yeah, I feel cold even with the heating on at home. I heard someone actually froze to death over in the eastern district recently."

People came and went along the streets, all hurrying along with their hands covered. Tiny snowflakes drifted through the sky, and a thin layer of white snow covered many patches of ground.

DQ City lay at the bottom of a basin. Even a light snowfall like this was rare enough not to be seen once in ten years.

Outside the intensive care unit of DQ City's First People's Hospital, Yang Jian stood observing an elderly woman through the glass.

The elderly woman was covered in breathing tubes, with medical devices Yang Jian could not name attached to her chest. She looked as though she did not have long to live.

Yang Jian spoke. "Director Li, tell me about Liu Jing's condition."

Li Jie, who stood beside him, hurried to speak. Even the hospital director had personally gone out to welcome the young man before him, and strict orders had come down from above to give him their full cooperation.

"Liu Jing already had a tumor. A fit of anger affected her heart and triggered several complications. Given her current condition, surgically removing the tumor would be very risky."

Li Jie handed Yang Jian an X-ray and pointed to a spot on it.

"Please look here. This is her heart, and there's a tumor directly above it. Under normal circumstances, this wouldn't be a particularly difficult operation for our hospital. But she now has multiple complications, and her constitution wasn't very good to begin with. At present, we can only treat her conservatively and plan the surgery after her physical condition has improved."

Li Jie explained everything clearly, afraid that any dissatisfaction on this important figure's part might cost him his position as department head.

Yang Jian nodded. Although he knew nothing about medicine, he had been observing the condition inside Liu Jing's body through his Ghost Eye. The tumor was exactly where the doctor had said, only a centimeter or two from her heart.

Yang Jian pushed open the door and walked in. Li Jie immediately followed.

"Um... Officer Yang, the patient is at a critical stage right now. It would be best not to disturb her, to avoid anything else going wrong."

Yang Jian nodded. "Go outside first. I'd like to stay here alone for a while."

Li Jie paused. "Understood."

Then he immediately turned and left, closing the curtains and the door behind him.

The scarlet Ghost Eye on Yang Jian's forehead slowly turned. He could clearly see the tumor's location. It was not particularly large.

Yang Jian intended to use his Ghost Domain to remove the tumor, just as he had performed abdominal surgery on Zhang Liqin back in Dachang City.

Deep scarlet slowly spilled out from beneath Yang Jian's feet. Watching the red light flickering through the gap around the door, Li Jie's eyes filled with shock.

It seemed the supernatural legends circulating among ordinary people were true. There had always been a group of people hunting those terrifying evil ghosts in the darkness.

The red light gradually covered the entire room. Although this was not Yang Jian's first time doing this, he remained extremely cautious, raising his Ghost Hand and slowly reaching into the area above Liu Jing's heart.

Everything went smoothly. Within a five-layer Ghost Domain, Yang Jian could rewrite reality. He could easily accomplish things that ordinary people would find inconceivable.

And unlike during the Hungry Ghost incident, he did not need to contend with supernatural forces this time.

With a gentle pinch of the Ghost Hand, Yang Jian removed a tumor from Liu Jing's body.

"Director Li, give Liu Jing a full examination as soon as possible. There shouldn't be anything seriously wrong with her now."

Hearing Yang Jian call him, Li Jie immediately opened the door and entered. Seeing the tumor in Yang Jian's hand, a shocking possibility suddenly flashed through his mind: Did he just take that tumor out of Liu Jing's body?

Li Jie immediately took out his phone and summoned the hospital's best medical staff.

Yang Jian stood by the window, waiting for Li Jie and the others to finish their examination.

The light snow continued drifting outside. A snowflake floated in through the window and settled gently on the back of Yang Jian's hand.

"Hm?"

Yang Jian raised his Ghost Hand and looked at the tiny snowflake on its back. Yet the instant he had touched it, he had actually felt a trace of cold.

Given Yang Jian's current state, even some ghosts with low terror levels could not make him feel a change in temperature, let alone the weather.

"Something's wrong..."

Yang Jian silently watched the snowflake, which seemed to have grown slightly larger. The instant his Ghost Hand touched it, he felt a faint freezing sensation. It felt as though his Ghost Hand had been suppressed, but not quite.

"The Ghost Hand itself is a ghost with extremely powerful suppressive abilities... but just now..."

"Officer Yang! It's nothing short of a miracle! The tumor inside Liu Jing has actually disappeared!"

Li Jie's astonished cry interrupted Yang Jian's thoughts.

Of course, his reaction was all an act. He had just seen the tumor in Yang Jian's hand, but he knew perfectly well what he should and should not say.

Yang Jian stepped forward and looked at Liu Jing, whose complexion was gradually regaining its color and whose eyes were now open. "Mm. Are there any other conditions?"

Li Jie immediately replied, "The symptoms she has are all complications. The actual source of her illness was that tumor. Now that it's gone, she'll recover after staying in the hospital for further treatment."

"Understood." Li Jie immediately called to the medical staff around him, "Everyone, come outside with me."

"One moment, Director Li."

Just as Li Jie was about to leave the ward, Yang Jian stopped him.

"The weather has been getting colder lately. DQ City doesn't seem very suitable to live in anymore. Have you considered moving to another city, Director Li?"

Shrewd as he was, Li Jie immediately understood what Yang Jian meant. Yang Jian was telling him to move out of DQ City as soon as possible. Although he did not understand why Yang Jian wanted him to leave, the words of such important figures often pointed to closely guarded secrets.

Coupled with the frightening rumors that had been circulating among ordinary people recently, he immediately made a connection.

He promptly said to Yang Jian, "I've actually been considering that recently, but I haven't decided where to go yet. I wonder if you have anywhere to recommend, Officer Yang."

"Shangtong Building, Dachang City. Just give them my name."

"Understood, understood!" Li Jie's face immediately lit up with delight.

"I won't disturb you any further. I'll pack my things and head to Dachang City right away."

Yang Jian turned, walked over to the window, and shut it. The falling snow was extremely abnormal. Now even he could feel a trace of cold.