Fourth World: Wandering Ghost.
There's only three of them left inside of this monitoring room as Shu Ying commanded his people to go outside.
He watched the young man's closed eyes as he was holding his wrist and the woman's forehead on the left. There's a calm expression on the young man's face.
"Close your eyes and empty your mind Brother Shu." Shu Ying couldn't help raising the corner of his thin lips when he heard the nickname that the young man called him. He shut his eyes and did what this young lad asked him to do.
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As Shu Dan felt the surging energy on his body he transferred it to Shu Ying the scene change the usual darkness slowly had a light
A woman opened her eyes and squinted in the sunshine streaming in through the open window. She stretched, feeling more relaxed than she had since . . .
She sat up and looked at the clock. It was after eight. Little baby had slept through the night. For the first time.
Just like her young son.
She flipped the covers back and stood. She snatched her robe from the back of the chair and slipped it on. She wouldn't think about her infant son. The doctor said it wouldn't happen again. The odds against it were astronomical.
Her newborn son was nearly six weeks old. Her infant daughter was almost two months old. It was different this time. It had to be.
Shu Ying saw the initial names on the woman's bedside table, Its Mary,Jane,Billy and John. He could guess that this is the family name he followed the woman who had just slipped her feet into her fuzzy slippers, ticking off all the ways the situations were different. Billy had been sick. Jane had never even had a sniffle. Billy had been fussy. Jane was nearly the perfect baby, only crying when she was hungry or wet.
She must be both hungry and wet right now, but little Jane was silent.
Just like Billy.
No, God wouldn't do that to her again. She couldn't bury another child. She wouldn't.
She stepped toward her bedroom door, remembering Billy's skin, how gray and cold it had been. At first, she'd thought maybe someone was playing a mean trick on her. But then she'd lifted him. Seeing his face. Those gray lips and lifeless eyes.
Maybe it would have been different if she hadn't been alone when she'd found his tiny body. Maybe if John had been there. But John had gone on a business trip.
Mary turned and looked at the empty bed. Her side was a jumble of blankets. John's side was untouched. He was on a business trip. Again.
He'd rushed home that day two years earlier, assured her it wasn't her fault. How could she have known?
How indeed? How did a good mother sleep through her own child's death? How did she dream of beaches and butterflies while her son passed into eternity?
If Jane was dead, Mary would join her. Somehow. She couldn't live through this again.
She stepped into the hallway and took a first step. A good mother would run, but she could hardly force herself to walk. She inched her way down the hall.
She glanced at the stairs. What if she went to the kitchen, made some coffee? Never found out the truth?
She pushed the thought away and continued past the staircase, paused at the nursery door, and laid her hand on the cold metal doorknob. The clock ticked loudly in the hallway, like a steady heartbeat.
She stepped into the room and approached the crib. And there, sprawled on her back, lay the most beautiful sight she'd ever seen.
Jane's eyes opened at the sound of Mary's approach, and she smiled.
The scene then changed when Jane went outside carrying the cold small body of Billy. There was an unusual smile on her face. She heard that the elevator had a malfunction today and the other people living in this building had gone back to their family.
She throttled her way to the elevator that had been slightly opened and the elevator room couldn't be seen she gently shake her arms as her smile never fades before she stretched out her arms to the open elevator dropping the cold body of billy she watched it with joy on her face as she saw her son's body falling down to the dark abyss.
After so many days passed based on what Xiao Dan saw outside of the window, The woman was standing outside of the balcony carrying her daughter Jane who's crying. She gently shakes her arms to stop her from crying.
Mary's eyes had a vague sadness as she watched her daughter crying that her husband didn't come back. It seems like the business out there will take longer to be finished.
When her phone rang she answered it and laid it to her ears so she can hear the voice of the person on the second line. There was a turbulent shock on her body. She couldn't believe what she just heard.
Her husband died from the airplane crash as he was going back to their home land where his family is staying.
Her frail arms lost its strength which caused Jane to fall and hit her head on the ground. When Mary realized what she just did she ended the call and carried her bloody daughter in her arms.
Jane wasn't crying, her gray lips and lifeless eyes staring at her.
That's how Mary knew she just lost her loving family, making her crazy.
*****
Xiao Dan's long eyelashes trembled slightly and adjusted his eyes to the light, his doe eyes flickering towards the dark eyes of the man beside him.
"...Brother Shu '' it took some time for him to speak due to the shock of what he just saw in this woman's memories.
"En, She will be punished, she still broke some rules."
Even though the woman didn't do it on purpose she still broke the laws and regulations in this country, Xiao Dan nodded his head but there's still a worry in his eyes that the man can see.
"Don't worry that much, I will give her A criminal lawyer. I'm not that heartless." Shu Ying added which made the young man startled a bit.
"Ah? I didn't think about that." He dumbfounded, said and shook his head. Shu Ying wanted to laugh but there's still things that he needed to clean.
****
As they were both having a small conversation, Shu Ying's mobile phone rings which caused them to stop. He fished out his phone and answered it.
[Where are you, I have been waiting in Chengdu Restaurant for 20 minutes i still couldn't see your shadow]
A loud rounded voice can be heard clearly even Xiao Da who's sitting besides him could clearly hear the woman's voice.
Ahh? who's this? is Mr Shu had a lover?...Xiao Dan wanted to ask the older man but he couldn't do so. It's not his business anyway.
"We're coming." Shu Ying Shortly answered, "Hey , wouldn't your lover get tired of you if this is how you talk to her?" Xiao Dan can only sighed in his heart whenever he imagines the face of that woman.
[Okay don't make me wait for too long.]
The call ended quickly when the woman from the other line, Shu Ying, cast a glance at the young man who's peeking at him with curiosity.
"It's not my lover, She's an old acquaintance, after retiring for too long she decided to come back and her marriage life wasn't good." Shu Ying barely explained it with his usual stoic face but Xiao Dan understood him so he nodded his head.
"Oh okay i get it."