Hospital 444
Chapter 292 - 28 Shadow in the Fog

Chapter 292: Chapter 28 Shadow in the Fog

This scene left everyone present with their minds a complete blank.

Then, Xia Meng’s piercing scream finally snapped everyone out of it!

"Ahhhhhh!"

"It’s, it’s her!"

"Run, run for it!"

In an instant, all the people, including Li Ruping’s sister Li Yanping, were pale as ghosts, fleeing from her side as fast as they could.

"This, this this..." At this moment, Ge Jiayan had completely collapsed on the ground, his legs had gone weak, while the people around him scattered like birds and beasts, rushing out of the meeting room!

Leading the pack was Su Wenqing, with Li Yanping close behind.

As the group of people hurried out the door, Li Ruping herself turned deathly pale, and then, she completely fainted away!

Dai Wei was fleeing with the others at this point, and without the candles, it was naturally pitch black outside.

In their panic, everyone was running down the corridor toward the front door, but then they realized...

They couldn’t find where the front door was!

"What’s going on!"

"The door should be here, right? Why is it gone?"

"Did we take the wrong path?"

"The window, let’s climb out!"

"Yes, the window, the window!"

"Everyone, stay calm!"

Just then, Uncle Li finally spoke up.

"Have you forgotten? Jia Yan is still inside!"

Uncle Li and Ge Jiayan were close in age, and they had a good relationship, often gathering to play mahjong together. At this point, it was only he who thought of Ge Jiayan.

"Uncle Li," Chang Min immediately waved his hand and said, "I, I don’t dare to go over there! Would you dare go back?"

"Yes, yes..." At this moment, Xia Meng’s face was still extremely pale, clearly recalling her elder sister’s tragic death.

At this time, among everyone, Jiang Shan, the tallest, clearly looked terrified, with no courage to run back.

"Li Yanping!" At that moment, Su Wenqing, who was closest to Li Yanping, quickly moved away from her and shouted, "You, don’t come near me! Your sister, your sister has killed the village chief!"

At this point, Li Yanping was also covered in blood, her body trembling with fear. Hearing Su Wenqing say this, she quickly responded, "I, I don’t know anything about why... the village chief’s head..."

"Do we need to kill Li Ruping?" Li Jun spoke at this time: "If we kill her, that will end everything, right?"

"Kill? Who will do it? You?"

Clearly, Li Jun was the one most eager to pin the role of the extra "person" on Li Ruping, so that he, as the team leader, wouldn’t have to take responsibility for it.

"I don’t care anymore, I’m leaving first!"

Obviously, Su Wenqing was the most cowardly of them all, he ran to a nearby window, ready to open it and escape.

"Wait a minute..." Uncle Li obviously noticed something odd: "Why isn’t anyone here? The village chief should have arranged for people to watch us, right?"

Upon thinking about it, Dai Wei realized, yes, why was there no one?

As Su Wenqing reached the window and was about to open it, he let out a huge scream with an "Ah!"

Everyone immediately rushed over, and then they saw a horrifying scene.

They could see several fresh blood handprints smeared all over the window glass!

Seeing the blood handprints before him, Dai Wei’s face also looked extremely ugly.

What was this all about?

"This... this..."

Just then, a voice suddenly came from the other end of the corridor: "You, you can’t leave!"

Everyone looked over, and then they realized it was Ge Jiayan staggering toward them.

"You, you can’t leave this place!" Ge Jiayan pointed at everyone present and said, "Before it’s found out who killed the village chief, no one can leave!"

Su Wenqing spoke hastily: "Isn’t it Li Ruping? It’s already very clear, right?"

"Nobody saw Li Ruping kill someone!" Ge Jiayan, truly the village chief’s brother, had calmed down and was thinking astutely now: "Li Ruping herself passed out in fright!"

"Ah? She passed out?"

"Could she be faking it?"

Ge Jiayan then said, "I don’t know if she’s faking, all I know is we can’t rule out someone forcefully shoved the village chief’s... onto her! So, right now no one can leave the guesthouse!"

Clamping his teeth, Su Wenqing said, "I don’t want to wait here to die! You’re asking me to stay here, can you guarantee my safety? No! I have to leave!"

Then, Su Wenqing said no more; he flung open the window and dashed out!

Seeing Su Wenqing attempting to escape, everyone else immediately followed, preparing to run out through the window!

"No, you can’t escape!"

But at this moment, who would listen to Ge Jiayan?

One by one, everyone fled toward the outside of the guest house!

...

"The blizzard is so heavy."

Today’s patrol team had set out.

Though the blizzard significantly reduced visibility, it didn’t mean much to Dai Lin. Whether in a blizzard or heavy fog, his eyes could see everything clearly.

At the forefront of the team marched Ge Nian Cheng, the captain, with Long Zhiqiang right behind him.

"Zhiqiang," he said to the subordinate behind him, "you know what to do, right?"

"Understood!"

Ge Nian Cheng thought back to the tragic death of Shen Lisheng and gritted his teeth.

So many had died; even his uncle, Lin Tai, might have perished in the fog. Why should He Yun and Su Wenxin get to live safely? Why!

He turned his head to look at He Yun, Su Wenxin, and "Lu Zhengqiang" (Dai Lin), who he had strategically separated within the team.

Now, Dai Lin had become a thorn in Ge Nian Cheng’s side, a nail in his flesh.

However, Dai Lin was unconcerned; even Zhong Siming had perished before his gaze – Ge Nian Cheng and Long Zhiqiang posed no threat to Dai Lin whatsoever.

At the moment, all his attention was focused on the dense fog beside him, and the bamboo pole and porcelain doll in his hands.

Initially, Dai Lin believed the porcelain doll was definitely a cursed object.

But now, Dai Lin was not so sure anymore.

The porcelain doll seemed quite different from the cursed objects he had encountered before.

What exactly was this thing?

While it was always unclear to doctors how the Cursed Items Department managed to seal the curses within cursed objects, it was certain that the curses in those objects remained in a stable state. But this porcelain doll was different.

Using the Devil’s Eye, Dai Lin found that any scrutiny of the porcelain doll was like casting stones into the sea – it left no trace.

This did not seem to be the result of a curse.

At this moment, the team had just begun to move forward.

Ge Nian Cheng was aware of priorities; although his goal for this expedition was to kill He Yun and Su Wenxin, he also knew that at any moment within the fog, a terrible threat could emerge, so he had to choose a relatively stable period to act.

According to previous patrol experiences, most patrols did have a stable period of safety; otherwise, with patrols every day of the 365 in a year, the villagers would have long been extinct. However, it was difficult to determine when exactly this period of stability would occur. Ge Nian Cheng planned to strike during that safe period.

"Ahh!"

Just then, a female team member walking ahead of Dai Lin slipped, crashing forward!

"Ahh!"

She knocked into a male team member in front of her, who lost his balance and started to fall toward the dense fog!

"No!"

At this moment, Dai Lin could see clearly that at the instant the male team member was about to be knocked into the fog, a terrifying dark silhouette, like a shark sensing blood, was approaching him from within the fog!

Dai Lin’s left eye immediately launched an attack on that silhouette within the fog!

The moment the attack was initiated, the dark silhouette vanished without a trace!

And as the male team member was about to fall into the fog, Dai Lin had already grabbed him!

"Ah... I? Me?"

The male team member was scared out of his wits.

Dai Lin looked at the dense fog beside him.

He had seen it very clearly just then.

At the moment the man was nearly consumed by the fog, the shadowy figure close to the fog instantly transformed to mimic the man’s appearance, stature, and clothes precisely!

If the man had been killed by the shadow in the fog, there was no doubt that everyone would forget he ever fell into the fog.

Even the team captain would only remember a reduction in their numbers, unable to recall "how" someone was lost. In other words, the shadow could emerge from the fog and perfectly impersonate the fallen team member!

Had he not witnessed it with his own eyes, even Dai Lin, with his special vision, would have been unable to distinguish them.

In that instant, Dai Lin reached a terrifying conclusion.

In this village...

Just how many evil spirits originating from the fog had infiltrated already?

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