I didn't expect this operation to hit a snag right from the start.

If we can't even find the person, how can we proceed?

While I was still pondering a solution, Wang Xiaohuan said, "Xiao Chengzi sent people to hack into the hospital's computer system, and there's no Luan Jingfan among the hospital's current or retired staff."

Feng Ruoxing asked, "What about long-term inpatients?"

"None!" Wang Xiaohuan said, "Everything related has been checked, even registered caregivers and property management. We can't find that person at all."

Wang Xiaohuan said, "Could that person be so old that they can't be found in the system?"

In this digital age, there are only two possibilities for someone who can't be found in the system. One is that she died before the system was perfected, before the system had a chance to record her data.

The other possibility is that the other party used a false name.

I looked at Ye Yang, "Leng Gou, I've got a sweet job for you."

"Go observe, inquire, and figure out if there are any unmarried, pretty doctors or nurses of about the same age in this hospital."

"This kind of gossip is best suited for a repressed guy like you!"

"Get the job done well! This is related to your dog's life!"

Ye Yang left with a straight face, taking Feng Ruoxing with him. I felt so good! So this is how it feels to find an opportunity to rile someone up!

I smiled and looked at Wang Xiaohuan, "Let's go too. They're looking for a person; we're looking for a ghost."

I slept in the car until night before taking Wang Xiaohuan to the northeast corner of the hospital.

According to the hospital's orientation, this is the hospital's ghost gate.

Wang Xiaohuan said, "I've inquired. This is where the hospital's mortuary is located. The bodies of deceased patients are sent out from here, through the back door. There's a willow tree at the back door, facing the crossroads. These are all to make it easier for the ghosts to leave."

"When this hospital was built, a master must have set up a feng shui arrangement."

I glanced around and said, "We need to find another place. Ghosts and ghost messengers often pass through this place; it won't hold wandering souls. We need to find a place that can lock up wandering souls."

"I saw a place during the day! Follow me."

"But..." Wang Xiaohuan was about to say something, but seeing that I had already left without looking back, he quickly chased after me.

I waited for him to catch up before saying, "Did you see the three people standing under the willow tree just now?"

"They're also performing a ritual to summon ghosts." I pondered, "Their methods are a bit special. I seem to have heard of them somewhere before. Which sect are these people from?"

Although I could tell that those people were sorcerers, I didn't take them to heart.

Since there were sorcerers working there, I took the initiative to avoid them, which was already following the rules of the jianghu (martial world). I didn't need to think about anything else.

I led Wang Xiaohuan to a dead end between the hospital building and the courtyard wall and placed two white candles on the ground.

I had just lit the white candles when I heard someone say, "Someone is performing a ritual here. Pack up your things and get out!"

I turned around with a frosty expression to look at the speaker. He was one of the three people who had been performing a ritual to summon ghosts at the back door of the hospital.

The three people on the other side blocked the entrance of the alley in a triangular formation.

This posture clearly indicated that they didn't want to settle things peacefully.

I said coldly, "Friend, didn't you hear what I just said?"

The words I had just said to Wang Xiaohuan weren't concealed at all; I was actually saying them for those three people to hear.

When people of the jianghu meet, taking a step back is giving you some respect. But you can't retreat silently. I was reminding them that I had already arrived.

According to the rules of the jianghu, if they were handling something, I wouldn't interfere. If I went somewhere else to handle something, they couldn't come over and interfere.

These people were shameless!

Wang Xiaohuan asked coldly, "Why?"

The leader said, "We were here first. You're not allowed to do anything in the entire hospital."

Wang Xiaohuan said, "The secret mark? Take out the secret mark and let me see it?"

The order of arrival in the jianghu depends on the mark.

You say you were here first?

Okay!

But you have to leave a mark to notify your fellow jianghu practitioners that someone has arrived here first, please give face and convenience.

If there's no mark, then don't come over and make a fool of yourself.

Unless they intend to fight.

As soon as Wang Xiaohuan spoke, one of them walked over, drew a cross on the wall with a dagger, and looked at Wang Xiaohuan triumphantly, brandishing the dagger. "You want a secret mark? Here it is."

Before Wang Xiaohuan could speak, I said, "Where's the secret mark? I don't see it?"

The man glared and pointed downwards, "Are you blind? Isn't the secret mark right..."

Before he could finish speaking, I grabbed his neck and slammed him against the wall. As blood spurted out around him, Wang Xiaohuan's fist also flew towards the other person's eye.

The other person was knocked to the ground by Wang Xiaohuan on the spot. By the time he straightened up, one of his eyes was already swollen.

The remaining person didn't even have time to draw his knife before Wang Xiaohuan broke his wrist and forced him to kneel on the ground with his head pinned down.

The leader shouted, "We're from the Six Doors (government agency)! Please, give us some face! Give us some face!"