"Before illness, humans are so small. This is something that I've only recently come to understand." The man kept coughing. His body was about to collapse. "I used to be a hot-tempered person, but the cancer slowly whittled away at my edges. In the battle with it, I realized that humans are actually very fragile."
"Don't go any further. Why don't you stop and rest for a while? I'll arrive at Jiujiang's World Trade Center soon. If there's anything else, we can talk when we meet." Chen Ge lied about his location. He gestured at the driver, urging him to drive faster.
The search result showed that the national school that was built next to the railway was near Southern Jiujiang. It was not that far from where he was.
"I've stayed where I am for a long time already. It's time for me to move forward." The man's voice was shaking. Every time he coughed, it would affect his whole body. The pain was indescribable. "I know you're doing this for my own good, but I also wish to see other sceneries. That's why I'm going to that high place."
Chen Ge did not know how to persuade the man. After all, he was not a professional psychologist.
"There's nothing left when you're dead. Calm down and think about the unfinished business in your memory. Think about the precious people in your life. They're still waiting for you. Every moment that you spend with them is important to them." Chen Ge drove very fast. He was getting anxious, and he kept waving at the driver.
The driver was a smart man. When he heard what Chen Ge said, he realized the severity of the problem, and he drove faster.
They soon passed the children's theme park and headed toward the edge of Southern Jiujiang.
Of the suburbs in Jiujiang, Western Jiujiang was the largest, and Southern Jiujiang was the most convenient, but it was the smallest.
The man's voice on the phone lowered. He seemed to treat Chen Ge as his last listener, and he told Chen Ge many things about himself.
The taxi sped down the road. The buildings on the sides became shorter, and the number of pedestrians decreased.
Chen Ge sat in the car, multitasking. While chatting with the man on the phone, he stared out of the car and compared the map to find the national school.
The man on the other side of the phone coughed more and more violently, as if he was going to cough his lungs out. This was not an exaggeration. Just from the sound, Chen Ge could feel the pain the man was suffering.
"Hold on! I'll be right there! " Chen Ge was burning with anxiety. The voice on the other side of the phone was so real. He felt that there was still a chance to save everything.
"It's okay. I'm used to it." The man coughed for a long time before he managed to squeeze out a sentence. His voice sounded very strange, with a kind of relief, a trace of relief, and a trace of reluctance.
He tried to articulate every word clearly, even though doing so would hurt his swollen throat and the swelling on his neck. "I'm already very happy that you're willing to talk to me for so long. You should go back. I'm not at the place you mentioned, so don't come looking for me. I'll walk the rest of the way alone."
The wind grew louder, and Chen Ge held his breath. He was afraid that he would hear the whistle on the phone.
When the whistle came, it would be the moment the man reached his' destination '.
Several minutes later, the driver dropped Chen Ge at his destination.
At the end of the street was an antique courtyard. This was the former home of a scholar in Jiujiang, and the national school was right next to this courtyard.
The driver was very smart. He did not interrupt Chen Ge and the man's conversation. After he stopped the car, he pointed outside and then at the meter.
Chen Ge was in a hurry to find the man. He took out a few notes from his pocket and handed them to the driver. Then he opened the door and rushed out with his bag.
On the other side of the phone, the man's consciousness became blurry. His voice was intermittent, and his words were incoherent. He was in a dangerous state.
"You haven't finished your story. You were talking about the first time you met your wife. What happened after that?" Chen Ge did not dare stop the man from thinking, so he tried to get the man to continue.
Walking out from the street, one could see the iron cabinets in the distance. There were railings on both sides, but part of the railings were missing. It should have been taken down by the nearby residents for convenience.
Where is the man?
This was the place that matched the signal of a train whistle and a Chinese Academy. The call had not ended yet, so Chen Ge did not dare make too much noise. He ran as fast as he could outside the barrier, and the wind howled in his ears.
The train track in the dark looked like a ladder that led to the other side of the world. It was endless, reaching into the deepest part of the darkness.
"This ladder will not lead to heaven …"
He had no idea when the next train would arrive. The only thing Chen Ge could do was try his best to find the man and bring him to a safe place.
Chen Ge had no idea whether what he was doing was right or wrong, but he wanted to try his best to make the man reconsider.
Holding the phone in one hand and the large bag in the other, Chen Ge ran down the track alone. "Calm down, you have to calm down!"
Chen Ge had failed to save the first two victims, so he would not miss this one.
The coughing came again. The man's body seemed to have reached its limit. He stopped moving and did not move forward.
"I'm almost there." The man's voice came out from the phone. "I still miss them. I should have spent more time with them."
When the man spoke, Chen Ge's pupils narrowed. He used Yin Yang Vision and saw a shadow far away.
The man was sitting in the middle of the track, and before him was the track that seemed to have no end.
'It's him?'
Chen Ge ran toward the man, and slowly, a spot of light appeared in the dark.
The wind howled, and the man's voice came out from the phone. "I can see the place that I want to go. It's light, the light that is slowly approaching …"
"Quick! Get out of there! "
Chen Ge knew what that light was. The train was coming!
He dropped the bag and charged at the shadow.
The sound of the train became clearer, and Chen Ge got closer to the shadow.
He ignored everything else. There was only one thought in his mind, and that was to pull the shadow away.
Running at full speed, Chen Ge saw the speeding train. He bit on his lips until they bled, but he forced himself to move forward.
If there was a third party there, it would look like Chen Ge was purposely running toward the oncoming train.
"Get out of the way!"
In the blink of an eye, Chen Ge had already reached the shadow.
Before the train reached him, he reached out to grab the shadow.
His palm was cold, and before he could think, Chen Ge grabbed the thing and rolled out of the track.
The train passed by him, just a few seconds away from him.
His whole body was soaked in cold sweat. Chen Ge had not felt so afraid even when facing a Red Specter.
The wheels rolled over the track, and the sound was heavy. It was not until the train passed that Chen Ge sighed in relief.
"Are you alright?"
He quickly turned to look at the shadow that he had grabbed earlier. When he lifted his head to look around, he realized that the shadow was standing on the other side of the track, maintaining a distance from Chen Ge.
"Why did you save me?" The voice that came from the shadow was similar to the voice on the phone.
"Do I need a reason to save someone?" Chen Ge asked in return. He hung up and walked toward the shadow.
As he got closer, the face of the shadow started to change. Drops of blood seeped out from his skin, slowly dying his shirt red.
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