Hospital 444
Chapter 253 - 44 Leng Mu

Chapter 253: Chapter 44 Leng Mu

"An island boy is dead."

In the room at the Rose Inn, Dai Ming and Pan Yizhen organized the information they had gathered so far.

"The woman in the painting is called Leng Mu," Pan Yizhen said as she looked at her notes. "I asked some other islanders about her and unexpectedly discovered... she’s quite a well-known figure in Han Tie Town."

Dai Ming nodded. "That’s fortunate for us."

Having been turned away at Ji Danyang’s, Dai Ming had felt somewhat dejected, but now they had a new lead at last.

"We currently have the Reverse Blood Curse that Doctor Fang placed on us, which can protect us..."

As the deputy director of the Department of Fierce Spirits, Fang Zhou’s status provided Dai Ming and Pan Yizhen with significant psychological comfort.

However, the last time Fang Zhou contacted them, he said he was in some trouble and couldn’t make it to the Azure Island for the time being, advising them to keep a low profile for now.

The problem was...

Dai Ming didn’t know when the soul-deficient curse might endanger his life, so he decided to start investigating on the island. That way, once Doctor Fang arrived, he could quickly provide him with information.

...

Ji Danshu sat silently by the seashore.

She used to come to the sea with Leng Mu often.

Leng Mu was an orphan, and furthermore, her paternity was unknown. Her mother was from off the island and had seemingly come to the island due to an out-of-wedlock pregnancy; it was unclear if she had any family left.

People not born on the island could not reincarnate, but giving birth on the island significantly increased the chances of having a reincarnated child.

However, being from off the island, Leng Mu’s mother was unaware of this fact and didn’t know she would give birth to a baby who was the reincarnation of an islander. Unfortunately, she bled profusely during childbirth, and because she had a rare ’panda blood’ type, she died from the complications.

She seemingly never knew her blood type was rare until her death. If she had known, why would she come to a small island to give birth?

The islanders contacted her relatives, only to find out that her parents had also passed away, and as she had not left any assets, the other relatives were unwilling to adopt the child.

However, this was exactly what the islanders had hoped for. In the years before Leng Mu’s birth, families that had lost relatives wanted to adopt the child, as she could possibly be a deceased family member reincarnated.

In the end, she was adopted by the Leng Family from Han Tie Town. The couple of the Leng Family had lost a daughter to a heart disease, and the time between their daughter’s death and Leng Mu’s birth was a brief period of just under seven months.

It was common on Azure Island for bereaved families to come to the maternity ward looking for their deceased loved ones. However, most couples were hesitant to let their child become another family’s member, at least until the child’s memories returned.

In special cases like that of Leng Mu, several grieving families competed for her custody. Eventually, they all acquiesced to the Leng Family’s grief for their lost daughter. To confirm whether the child they were raising was indeed their lost daughter, the people of the Leng Family had to endure the lengthy ordeal of waiting eighteen years for past-life memories to possibly emerge, which was itself a severe psychological struggle.

So, for the Leng Family, adopting this child was more about seeking psychological comfort. After all, until the child’s memories returned, they couldn’t truly feel the resurrection of their daughter.

And Leng Mu, she had the exact same name as their deceased daughter.

But...

As Leng Mu grew up, her personality became very gloomy and antisocial, completely different from the Leng Family’s lost daughter. While it’s said that reincarnation can change a person’s personality, it’s hard to imagine it changing so drastically under the same environment and with the same parents raising her.

It was natural for the Leng couple to begin to wonder: Maybe she isn’t our daughter? Then, perhaps our daughter was another newborn, or not yet born?

Under such psychological impetus, the Leng Family couple would gradually lose their affection for their daughter. If their daughter had truly died, they might have transferred their love to Leng Mu, but their own child could have been born into another family on the island, being raised by another pair of parents...

Leng Mu, with her cold demeanor, was especially fond of the sea. She didn’t play with peers and rarely spoke, always sitting by the seashore, staring at the ocean. She could sit there all day long without eating, drinking, or sleeping.

Such abnormal behavior gradually sparked rumors that the child was not normal, and other parents warned their children not to go near Leng Mu. And Leng Mu’s foster parents, losing any affection for her, sought to find their daughter’s reincarnation elsewhere on the island, neglecting their foster daughter entirely.

Ji Danyang and Ji Danshu were also warned by their parents to steer clear of Leng Mu and not to play with her.

Leng Mu hardly ever cut her hair. Her long hair often covered most of her face and even sometimes completely obscured her eyes.

Everyone felt more and more that she was not normal.

When Leng Mu was about in her teens...

She somehow acquired an easel and paints and often painted in front of the sea.

Some, out of curiosity, went to see what she was painting. However, they were all terrified.

Her paintings...

Were always themed around death and horror.

The subjects she painted were the kinds of evil spirits that only appeared in the deepest nightmares. And all these spirits resided deep in the sea.

The key was that she painted too well, always bringing her creations to life.

Just then, a big wave came crashing toward them, almost hitting Ji Danshu.

The blowing sea breeze made Ji Danshu shiver.

"Why are you here alone?"

She heard her husband Hai Jian Shi’s voice behind her, and then he draped a coat over her shoulders.

"I just wanted to be alone and quiet for a bit."

"Danshu..." Hai Jian Shi sat next to her and said, "You shouldn’t grieve too much."

"I know..."

Though she said so, Ji Danshu buried her head deep into her knees.

Back then... she was the only peer willing to approach Leng Mu.

Even though her paintings were terrifying, having grown up exposed to numerous corpses with her undertaker father, Ji Danshu had grown accustomed to it.

Latter, she even started to learn painting with Leng Mu. It was then that she discovered her own talent in art. Nevertheless, painting was just a hobby for her. It seemed that Leng Mu... was the one who really loved to paint.

And she... seemed to have never recalled her former life.

Just like herself.

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