Chapter 143: Infantile Soul Loss Syndrome (Part 2)

  At this time, the child's father came out and saw Xiao Yu hurry up and asked: "Doctor, isn't it here?"

  "Hmm," Xiao Yu nodded.

  "The doctor said to go along the way we came home last night!" The child's mother said to the young man.

  The young man rode the tricycle carrying them, walking along the way they came home last night. All the way, Xiao Yu's yin-yang eyes were open and did not close, but Xiao Yu did not find anything unusual.

  "The car can't get in, let's get off and walk!" The young man took Xiao Yu to a small alley that only two people could pass through side by side with his tricycle, and said to Xiao Yu as he turned back.

  Xiao Yu got off the tricycle and looked at the small alley in front of him. The alley was filled with stagnant water, emitting a foul smell. Two rows of tents made of wooden sticks and canvas were set up on both sides of the alley. In the distance, there were several dilapidated blue-brick houses with earthen walls standing precariously, as if they might collapse at any moment.

  The child's father led the way, with Xiao Yu carrying his medical kit behind him. At the end of the alley, a towering garbage mountain was piled up, and every time the wind blew, a nauseating smell filled the air. However, the people here seemed to have gotten used to this kind of life, and when Xiao Yu walked past these tents, several families were even eating inside them.

  Xiao Yu had lived in the deep sea for almost five years, but he never knew that there was such a place in the deep sea. The living conditions of the people here gave Xiao Yu a profound shock.

  In these tents, most of them have a wooden board set up on the ground as a bed, and except for this one bed in the whole house, all around are piled with plastic bottles and cardboard boxes, leaving only a single path that can be passed through to the bed inside.

  Every time Xiao Yu walked past a tent, the people inside would stare at him with wooden and dull eyes, as if they had become numb to everything outside.

  "The bus is coming, the bus is coming......" Suddenly, a voice came from a loudspeaker in the distance.

  The people who were originally sitting in the tent, numb and dull, like wolves that had been hungry for over a decade, suddenly found something delicious to eat, and they all rushed out of the tent, running towards the depths of the cave. Xiao Yu dodged the swarming crowd, fortunately managing to dodge into another nearby tent, narrowly avoiding being knocked down by these frantic people.

  The child's parents also hid in the tent where Xiao Yu was, and the child's mother saw these frantic people, her eyes shining with excitement, and she even wanted to follow the crowd to run away. However, when she remembered that she was currently taking care of her son, her excited gaze dimmed.

  Xiao Yu looked at the crowd rushing by and couldn't help but ask: "What are they doing?"

  "People here make a living by picking up trash, and now the truck that delivers trash has arrived, everyone is going to pick things up!" said the boy's father.

  After all the people here have left, this narrow alley filled with sewage has fallen into an atmosphere of absolute quietness.

  The boy's father led Xiao Yu to continue walking deeper into the alley, stopping in front of a blue-brick earth house with its gate wide open.

  The boy's father led Xiao Yu into the yard, and as soon as he entered the yard, Xiao Yu suddenly felt that the whole sky had darkened. It turned out that the top of the yard was covered with a wooden frame and canvas, making the entire yard pitch black without any light. In this sixty or seventy square meter yard, several simple tents were also set up.

  These tents were also empty, Xiao Yu's yin-yang eyes opened and never closed, Xiao Yu carefully turned around in the yard.

  Xiao Ye had always suspected that the child might have contracted a rare disease - pediatric soul loss syndrome. This symptom is now rarely seen in society, because there are few places in modern society where evil spirits can hide.

  Xiao Yu was still skeptical at first, but now that he saw the environment here, Xiao Yu confirmed this idea.

  These places that hide dirt and filth, at night the gloomy air easily gathers, to a certain extent it will produce hallucinations. This kind of hallucination has little effect on adults, but for children, especially those under one year old who are sleeping, the impact is quite severe.

  Because the child is awake, his consciousness will be stronger, and these evil spirits are not enough to affect him. However, after he falls asleep, his consciousness weakens, and these evil spirits will invade his consciousness, becoming the things that interest him the most.

  Children under one year old generally cannot walk, but they will instinctively chase after the things they love the most, so their souls follow these things and float out of their bodies.

  Xiao Yu began to wander around the yard, suddenly Xiao Yu found that in a corner, an infant's soul was floating around as if chasing something. Xiao Yu took a closer look at what the child was chasing and it turned out to be a mineral water bottle transformed from yin evil energy. Every time the child's soul floated forward a bit, the mineral water bottle would also roll forward a little.

  Xiao Yu's eyes revealed a hint of weirdness, how could such a small soul like these things? Suddenly he thought of the excitement that flashed in the child's mother's eyes when the garbage truck came earlier. Xiao Yu understood why it was this way.

  Xiao Yu's fingers lightly pointed forward, and the mineral water bottle transformed from the gloomy aura suddenly dispersed.

  The child saw the thing in front of him disappear, revealing a dazed expression. Such a small child didn't understand anything and knew nothing, chasing after the mineral water bottle was just an instinctive reaction.

  "Hurry up and call out your child's name!" Xiao Yu saw the child looking bewildered, floating there motionless, and hastily shouted to the child's parents.

  "Oh... baby, baby......" The child's parents heard Xiao Yu's cries and were stunned for a moment before hastily shouting.

  Although they didn't know what the reason was, the doctor had them call out the child's name. Now both of them trusted Xiao Yu very much, and the child's father also felt that his son shouldn't be simply sensitive to something.

  However, since the doctor didn't say anything, he didn't ask. In this vast and unfamiliar city, he gradually transformed from an inexperienced young boy into a man. So for the sake of this family, he sometimes had to learn how to pretend to be stupid, which was his self-protective instinct.

  As the shouting, the originally confused child's soul gradually had a spirit in his eyes, running towards the child's parents. The child's soul had just run to the side of the two people when the child's body suddenly produced an instinctive suction force, and the child's soul slowly floated back into his physical body.

  The child's soul had just touched his body, and with a 'whoosh' sound, his soul was sucked into his body.

  "Waaaahhh... Waaaahhh..." Just as the child's soul had just entered his body, he burst into loud wailing.

  "Alright......alright......haha......The child cried......the child woke up!" Upon hearing the child's cry, the child's parents burst into excited laughter, and although they were laughing, tears streamed down their cheeks.

  Xiao Yu looked at the overjoyed couple and felt happy in his heart. No matter what the reason was, he could be considered as the first person to bring good luck to Wan Sheng Tang's opening day. Wait, it hasn't even opened yet! Thinking of this, Xiao Yu couldn't help but burst out laughing.

  "Thank you, doctor!" After the couple had laughed and cried, they suddenly remembered that Xiao Yu was still beside them and quickly thanked him.

  "You two remember, from now on if you come back late after the child has fallen asleep, when turning corners on the road and when arriving at the entrance of your home, you must remember to shout out the child's name saying 'I'm back', got it?" Xiao Yu said to the couple.

  Xiao Yu's words left the couple extremely puzzled, but neither of them asked why, they just kept nodding in agreement.

  Now Xiao Yu is very mysterious in the eyes of both of them, they feel that Xiao Yu is even more mysterious than the village's fortune teller.

  "Alright, you two go back and take good care of the child, I'm leaving!" Xiao Yu instructed the pair before turning around and walking away.

  "Doctor, wait! I haven't paid you yet!" The child's mother saw Xiao Yu walking out of the hospital and suddenly remembered that she hadn't paid the medical fee.

  When Xiao Yu heard his mother's words, he shook his head and walked out of the courtyard to the outside. Looking at this alley with polluted water flowing everywhere, Xiao Yu could imagine what the alleys next to it would look like.

  Xiao Ye walked through the alley, occasionally looking around. There were several children aged four or five in some of the tents, but these children's bodies and faces were covered with dirt, and their complexions were all yellowish, obviously malnourished.

  "Doctor, doctor, wait for me!" Just as Xiao Yu was about to leave the alley, a young man's voice sounded from behind.

  Xiao Yu turned his head and saw the young boy's father running towards him from a distance, waving at him while he ran.

  "Haha, never mind, I'll go back myself. You go take care of the mother and child instead!" Xiao Yu said with a light smile as the child's father rushed over.

  "It's nothing, doctor. It's just that Lingling asked me to see you off. She said I couldn't come back until I've seen you home!" The child's father said with embarrassment, rubbing his head.

  Xiao Yu looked at the young man in front of him, and thought to himself that he was more like a boy than a man. Those sincere eyes made Xiao Yu think for a moment before saying: "Alright then! Thanks!"

  "No trouble, no trouble! I can't be in the front when it's not my turn, and then move to the back when I'm done, that's too unfair!" The man heard Xiao Yu's words and quickly waved his hands with an embarrassed expression.

  "Your surname is Liu, right? Then I'll call you Little Liu!" Xiao Yu remembered that the boy's boss called him Little Liu.

  "My surname is Liu and I'm called Liu Er Xi!" Liu Er Xi said while pushing his tricycle.

  "Or do you have an older brother named Liu Daxi?" Xiao Yu couldn't help but blurt out when he heard that the child's father was called Liu Erxi.

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