Chapter 8: Summon Ghosts
Most of her line of sight was occupied by the shadowless lamp above her head, the doctor, and other instruments, only at the edges did Lu Jinzhao see a blurry figure.
In the entire operating room, there should only be one doctor, one nurse, her as the patient, and Jiang Yingzhi who came in to supervise and protect her.
Was it her eyes playing tricks?
Did the doctor, because of her request for a quick surgery, cause some damage to her eyes, making her see a foreign object?
Or perhaps… the transplanted dead person’s cornea was already taking effect?!
Lu Jinzhao felt a chill in her heart, wanted to open her mouth to say something, but found she couldn’t control herself.
She seemed deeply trapped in a dream, unable to exert any force.
Anesthesia?
Or some other reason?
Jiang Yingzhi made no move, meaning in her view, this surgery hadn’t shown any abnormalities yet.
Lu Jinzhao suppressed the anxiety in her heart, trying hard to keep her attention on the shadow figure at the very edge of her line of sight.
From its sudden appearance until now, about half a minute had passed, yet Lu Jinzhao still couldn’t see clearly what it looked like.
She could only vaguely make out that it was a human figure.
Not moving at all, standing by the operating table like a sculpture.
Even though she couldn’t see its eyes, Lu Jinzhao felt
—it was looking at her.
A cold, stiff gaze fell on her body, making her body involuntarily break out in goosebumps.
The sound of mechanical operations and the doctor’s occasional reminders to the nurse came from beside her ears; in others’ eyes, this was just a surgery proceeding smoothly.
No one except Lu Jinzhao noticed that shadow figure.
What should she do?
Just as Lu Jinzhao was frantically thinking of a method, the shadow figure suddenly swayed slightly.
Lu Jinzhao’s heart tightened, immediately becoming tense.
The swaying was very subtle, just like someone who had stood for too long feeling discomfort and moving slightly.
If not looking carefully, it was even hard to notice this slight arc.
But Lu Jinzhao couldn’t not look carefully; she was lying here, having staked her life on this surgery—any subtle movement, she would notice.
After pausing for about ten seconds, that blurry, black human figure swayed slightly again.
Lu Jinzhao heard her own heartbeat speeding up.
Because she discovered that it wasn’t meaningless swaying; with the two shakes, that figure seemed to be a bit closer to her.
It was originally standing by the operating table, now it was slowly bending down.
It was approaching.
“What is it going to do?”
Lu Jinzhao felt her palms should be sweating, but at this moment she couldn’t even clench her fists, nor wipe the sweat from her palms.
“Must stop the surgery.”
This ghostly thing was standing right by her operating table, Jiang Yingzhi and the others showed no reaction at all—clearly the ritual had succeeded, and she had started to see a ghost.
While thinking, that ghostly shadow bent down a bit more; its outline was no longer blurry, starting to become gradually clearer.
Lu Jinzhao’s heart skipped a beat.
She realized she couldn’t let it get any closer!
If her feeling was right, this black ghostly shadow had been looking at her since earlier.
But she couldn’t see it clearly, and it perhaps couldn’t see her clearly either.
It was bending down bit by bit just to see more clearly!
Once it saw clearly, what would happen—Lu Jinzhao didn’t dare to think.
Need to remind Jiang Yingzhi; she hadn’t noticed yet, but the abnormality had already occurred.
The ghostly shadow was approaching bit by bit, a chilling aura also enveloping with its approach; between breaths, Lu Jinzhao smelled the rotten smell unique to a corpse.
No need to consider anything else, this shadow in front of her… was absolutely a ghost!
“Move quickly, even just make a sound, give Jiang Yingzhi a signal.”
Lu Jinzhao anxiously urged in her heart; she was already doing her utmost to ignore the fear produced from first close-contact with a ghost, keeping her brain calm and issuing commands to her body.
Faster, move quickly.
Before that rotten, decayed face of its gets close to her!
The adrenaline from fear and tension took effect; under the intense stimulation, the originally uncontrollable body
First, her originally steady breathing gradually became rapid; under the doctor’s puzzled gaze, Lu Jinzhao’s lips slowly parted, then with difficulty, her vocal cords vibrated to produce a faint sound.
In the instant she made a sound.
That ghostly shadow, which had been approaching bit by bit, suddenly bent down sharply!
The rotten smell wind brushed across Lu Jinzhao’s face with its movement; almost instantly, Lu Jinzhao’s survival instinct erupted!
Her originally powerless hand suddenly lifted, quickly covering her eyes, even pushing away the doctor’s hand!
“Hey! What are you doing!”
She heard the doctor’s dissatisfied exclamation, but ignored it; at this moment, Lu Jinzhao’s heart and eyes were focused on only one thing.
Didn’t see it.
Good.
Lu Jinzhao breathed a sigh of relief.
But soon, perhaps the anesthesia’s effect starting to fade, or that ghostly thing’s influence, she began to feel intense pain bursting from her eyes, pain so severe she couldn’t help but make a sound.
“Sigh, look at you, I’m suturing you right now, now it’s messed up, definitely torn!”
The doctor sighed on the side, then hurriedly said: “It’s your own fault, don’t blame me.”
At this moment Lu Jinzhao could no longer hear what he was saying; the burning pain in her eyeball was about to make her lose her reason, and Jiang Yingzhi also noticed the abnormality from her actions and quickly walked over.
“What’s going on, an accident?”
Lu Jinzhao’s hand was covering her eyes, with blood flowing out through her fingers.
Seeing this, the doctor immediately fell silent, hesitated for a moment before doubtfully saying: “How is there so much blood?”
Cornea surgery, even if something unexpected happened midway, shouldn’t have such a large amount of bleeding!
“Don’t worry about it, doctor, first help me remove the thing in my eye.”
Lu Jinzhao didn’t dare let go of her hand immediately; enduring the pain, she had the doctor remove the imagined fixation strap, arduously sat up from the operating table, turned around, back facing the earlier shadow figure’s direction, then slowly lowered her hand and tentatively opened her eyes.
Nothing.
She didn’t dare look back, didn’t dare check if that ghostly shadow was still there.
She feared that upon turning back, she’d see a ghost face right stuck to her back.
“You this…!”
The doctor’s tone as he looked at her was somewhat shocked and uncertain, even Jiang Yingzhi gasped.
Lu Jinzhao didn’t know what they saw, but she could feel the blood flowing from her eye socket had slid down to her chin.
“Don’t waste time, hurry, I won’t trouble you, remove it and I’ll leave.”
Hearing this, the doctor immediately stepped forward: “Alright, alright, you said it yourself.”
Jiang Yingzhi unobtrusively moved closer, vigilantly looking around, yet still found nothing.
She realized that just now, unknowingly, Lu Jinzhao had probably walked once between life and death.
But what she didn’t know was that Lu Jinzhao’s current state was far worse than it appeared.
Her eyes, besides the burning pain, one eye had completely lost vision.
Ironically, the blind one was the eye that hadn’t had surgery.
Just like some kind of curse, the eye with the dead person’s cornea that was still bleeding could actually see.
