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Chapter 297 - 264: Reincarnation?

Chapter 297: Chapter 264: Reincarnation?

"Have you already been there?"

"No shit! Not only have I been there, but I also know some really bad things happen if you go into the morgue after 9 p.m.! You know you can’t beat me, so you’re trying to play dirty, huh?!"

When Ji Xiang heard Xia Ya say this, he actually felt relieved.

"You’ve got it all wrong. The morgue is indeed dangerous for you, but with me leading the way, it won’t be."

However, no matter how eloquently Ji Xiang tried to tempt her, Xia Ya was definitely not going with him.

"Alright." Since she wouldn’t go, Ji Xiang couldn’t force her and continued, "If you’ve been there, you must have seen those corpses, right?"

Xia Ya didn’t deny it and admitted that she had seen everyone, including Ji Xiang and Yang Tao.

"Oh, good. Then you must have seen the identity tags on the corpses as well," Ji Xiang’s eyes twinkled mysteriously.

"Yeah, I saw those too."

"That’s good. Aren’t you curious about anything?"

emm...

"Why did you die once?" Xia Ya tentatively asked.

Ji Xiang’s face darkened. "Apart from that, aren’t you curious about anything else?"

"Birthday! It’s our birthdays, man!"

Oh!

Birthday!

Xia Ya immediately looked like she had an epiphany.

"Remember now?"

"And what about birthdays? Can you explain in detail?"

Ji Xiang: ...

Is this big sister’s brain a bit off?

Well, that’s... fine!

"Fine, we’ll talk about birthdays later. What do you think about these repeated corpses?"

Ji Xiang switched from being proactive to asking Xia Ya.

"I think..." Xia Ya shared her initial suspicions with Ji Xiang, mainly suspecting that the hospital was secretly conducting cloning experiments.

"What if I told you that all these corpses come with a ’refresh’ feature? How would you explain that?"

Refresh?

What does that mean?

"Could it mean..."

"That’s right. Every single person here has died more than once, including me! It’s just that the bodies refresh every three days!"

Seeing Ji Xiang looking triumphantly, Xia Ya wondered inwardly if this was something to be proud of.

"So, what you’re saying is, you guys have actually died countless times, but all the bodies just disappeared?"

"That’s exactly it!"

Ji Xiang looked exceedingly smug, as if he was immensely pleased with his grand discovery, a stark contrast to his autistic demeanor during the day.

"Moreover, I’m different from the others! I discovered that only I can remember these things. Everyone else, including the director, is unaware of the ’reincarnation.’"

Reincarnation?

If Xia Ya could somewhat grasp the meaning of "refresh," then "reincarnation" thoroughly baffled her.

Really?

An eight-star Kaidan doesn’t need to be this intense, right?

Now it’s got high-caliber stuff like reincarnation?!

"Hard to understand?"

Xia Ya: "?"

I don’t get it at all?!

"Don’t you see? They all have no memory. Only I, continuously reborn with memories, am the chosen one! Plus, I can tell you’re not like those useless patients; you’re special. Together, we can definitely create a win-win situation!"

Though she didn’t want to dampen Ji Xiang’s enthusiasm, Xia Ya felt it necessary to point out that she still didn’t understand.

"This reincarnation thing you’re talking about, is it powerful?"

"It’s not about being powerful, it’s just that... you know, it’s special. It goes through a reincarnation every three days, it’s like a nightmare..."

Ji Xiang paused, then continued speaking.

"Uh, sorry for going off topic, but here’s the thing, do you know the feeling of being ’trapped in reincarnation’?"

Unlimited death.

Or watching the people around you die endlessly, only to be resurrected again and again.

Ji Xiang still remembered the first time he saw his dead parents come back to life, the horror that made him doubt whether his previous experiences were false or just a dream.

But having died over and over again, he was certain that everything he had experienced was real.

As for leaving the hospital, you needed to complete the so-called "tasks."

Haha, these people’s memories refresh every three days—they could never leave this hospital!

"Wouldn’t it be okay to just be straight about this kind of thing, like explaining it clearly to your parents?"

Ji Xiang shook his head.

He indicated that he had tried all sorts of methods in countless cycles of reincarnation, including telling his parents and the hospital director—even trying suicide multiple times...

"You have to understand, I have autism. Who would believe me about reincarnation? And neither my parents nor the hospital director are good people..."

"Then you could take them to the morgue, isn’t there an identical corpse of them there? Seeing the corpse, wouldn’t they understand?"

"It’s no use."

Ji Xiang said he couldn’t go to the morgue; he had tried many times before. Once the freezer was opened, no one could survive.

And every time the hospital’s doctors and nurses brought a body, they did so subconsciously, laying the body on the bed outside, never opening the freezer.

At last, Ji Xiang added,

"If you don’t believe it, you can take them to the morgue tomorrow and see if they go mad, see if they... tear you apart."

Xiao Ya immediately shook her head, refusing. What a joke.

She couldn’t reincarnate and revive with these people—death for her was truly death. There was no need to take such a huge risk.

Of course, after Ji Xiang said so much, Xiao Ya was of a skeptical attitude because she had previously accessed Ji Xiang’s memories, and there was no such thing as reincarnation at all.

Maybe, try accessing them again?

Just do it.

"Original God, activate... oh no, Mind Reading, activate!"

...

"Hehehe, don’t come any closer! Otherwise, don’t blame me for being merciless under my knife!"

A middle-aged man, holding a scalpel, fiercely threatened Jiang Xiao.

Below him lay a body that had long since gone cold, initially thought by Jiang Xiao to be the boss "Niu Wuliang".

Unexpectedly, this chap had just appeared today and was gone by night.

And the hostage, held by the knife-wielding man by the neck, was Doctor Qin Shou, who had been stabbed seventeen times in the abdomen.

Hmm.

A frenzied seventeen stabs, avoiding all vital points.

The man warned Jiang Xiao not to come closer and to surrender quickly, while he pushed the sharp knife a bit deeper into Qin Shou’s neck.

Jiang Xiao: ...

"But, dude, aren’t you mistaken about something?"

Jiang Xiao: (๑･`д･´๑)

"Why do you need me to surrender when you’ve taken a doctor hostage? What do I have to do with this prisoner?"

The man: ...

Live Room: ...

"It seems... extraordinarily reasonable..."

"Not at all." Qin Shou became frantic, yelling, "Bro! We’ve at least met before, can’t you be a little less absolute? Save me! As a professional doctor, I think I can still be saved, wow!"

Saving was impossible, it wasn’t going to happen in this lifetime.

Instead of saving him, Jiang Xiao even urged the man to get on with it and finish so he could have a real man-to-man duel with him.

At last, Jiang Xiao sighed helplessly and said,

"Hey, it can’t be helped, I’m not smart; I even tried to use my intelligence to solve the problem, but..."

"But now I’m not pretending anymore, I’ve laid my cards out; if you have any accomplices, it’s best to call them over—I want to take on ten!"

Hmm?

The knife-wielding man was stunned.

Have people become so arrogant nowadays?