Hospital 444
Chapter 496 - 23 Lu Mange (12)

Chapter 496: Chapter 23 Lu Mange (12)

Lu Mange was shocked when she saw the box open.

The opening of the box meant that there was a ghost!

So, she instinctively took a step back in fright!

"What’s wrong, Mang Ge?"

Hearing Lin Lu ask this, Lu Mange didn’t know how to respond.

Was the Lin Lu before her eyes really... a Malevolent Ghost?

But what happened next took Lu Mange completely by surprise.

The box in her hand, as if possessed by some force, actually began to pull Lu Mange’s body, turning her whole person around!

This made Lu Mange almost unable to believe it, and then, the box continued to pull her body forward!

The direction it pulled her in was behind her, towards the floor-to-ceiling window curtains!

The box kept guiding her towards the direction of the curtains!

"Mang Ge, what are you doing with that box? What’s inside the box?"

Lu Mange looked at the floor-to-ceiling window curtains before her, and suddenly, she realized something.

Behind the curtains of the floor-to-ceiling window, there was someone!

There was someone behind them!

Indeed, upon getting closer, she faintly discerned the silhouette of a person behind the curtains!

There was... a person hiding behind them!

She was absolutely certain of it!

"Lin Lu, behind this... there is... someone!"

What happened next was something Lu Mange never could have imagined.

The box began to emit some eerie, strange sounds.

The noise grew louder and louder, and soon, not just Lu Mange, but even Lin Lu had heard it.

"What in the world is inside this box?"

At this moment, Lu Mange looked at the floor-to-ceiling window curtains before her, too scared to pull them open.

But at the same time, behind the curtains, there suddenly began to bulge outwards, forming a hand-like shape, as if it was about to snatch the box from Lu Mange’s hand!

"Ah!"

Lu Mange was so scared she wanted to step back, but what shook her even more happened at that moment.

The bulging curtain, just as it was about to touch the box, stopped. Right after that, the entire curtain was forcibly opened and fell to the ground!

"Aaaah!"

Lin Lu and Lu Mange were completely stunned.

It was a person.

But could it really be called... a person?

It was a "person" whose head had been torn open from the middle.

Yet the torn-open head was empty inside.

And that face, it was clearly Li Zhixiao’s.

Soon, Lin Lu and Lu Mange could see everything clearly. This... was a human skin!

An empty human skin!

"Skin???"

She crouched down, horrified at the sight.

How could this be?

This scene reminded her of the "Painted Skin" story from "Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio."

The Malevolent Ghost draped human skin over its body, disguising itself as a person! In the end, a Taoist priest intervened and destroyed the ghost, leaving only a painted skin behind.

She looked at the box in her hand. Could it be that this cursed object had ultimately subdued the ghost, leaving behind only the ghost’s skin... could it?

"What on earth is going on here?" Lin Lu felt her skin crawl, and looking at the human skin, she clutched her head tightly and said, "I remember now, at first, I didn’t know what happened, it seemed like I had some hallucinations..."

"Hallucinations?"

"Yes, hallucinations. I had hallucinations..."

She looked at the human skin in front of her, as well as the dagger in her hand...

Hm?

A dagger?

She looked closely and saw, where was there any human skin on her hands?

"When I entered the hospital room, I saw... I only just remembered... a Malevolent Ghost was lying on Li Zhixiao’s bed, and then draped the human skin over itself! The silhouette of that evil spirit was just like what I saw when I was a child..."

Lu Mange looked towards Lin Lu, utterly creeped out.

"So, did that Malevolent Ghost kill Zhixiao in the car accident, skinned him, and then kept pretending to be him by my side the whole time? So, does that mean Zhixiao wasn’t suffering from psychosis but it was the spirit that finally stopped performing in front of me?"

"I... I don’t know..."

Suddenly, the human skin of Li Zhixiao that was before her eyes began to bloat at the waist area!

This scene terrified Lu Mange and Lin Lu out of their wits.

Without any hesitation, the two women immediately rushed to the door behind them! But when they reached the door, they couldn’t open it no matter how hard they tried!

"What do we do now?"

Right after, they suddenly found the room growing darker!

Turning around, they saw the floor-to-ceiling window curtains, which had already been torn and ripped apart, were somehow drawn closed again!

The room once again plunged into pitch darkness!

"The... the ghost..."

Was the ghost now behind the curtain?

"No, no, no, this can’t be happening!"

And the twelve hours weren’t up yet! They couldn’t call emergency services! If they called for outpatient services, the ambulance would not arrive that quickly!

What should they do?

Depend on the box in their hands?

Could they survive with the box in their hands?

"Lin Lu, there really are ghosts in this world! Ghosts! We... I... huh?"

After that, she witnessed a strange scene.

She saw that there were odd marks appearing on Lin Lu’s forehead.

A black inverted cross!

"Lin Lu, your... When did you get that tattoo on your forehead?"

At this moment, Lin Lu’s hands were tightly grasping her face.

"No... something’s not right... it’s not like this, it’s not like this, what I saw in the hospital room wasn’t a hallucination..."

"Hm?"

"I truly saw you dead... Mang Ge. You were really dead..."

She looked at Lu Mange beside her and said, "I can see... back then, your body was just like this..."

"No, that’s not right, the Mang Ge I saw is from another dimension... not you, you are not the Mang Ge I knew from that dimension," Lin Lu examined Lu Mange carefully and continued, "That is why I saw, I saw a scene that I shouldn’t have seen..."

"What are you talking about, Lin Lu? What dimension?"

"Netherworld... Mang Ge, there’s a deeper level to this world, called the Netherworld..."

Then, she moved step by step towards the curtain in front of her, raising her hand.

She had nothing in her hand.

But still, she lifted it and with a fierce motion, slammed her clenched fist into the curtain!

However, there was a gap in the middle of her clenched fist, as if she was actually gripping something!

Once, twice, three times, four times...

She began to believe that there really was a dagger in her hand!

Meanwhile, Lu Mange behind her couldn’t understand her best friend’s current behavior at all!

But still, the curtain kept bulging out more and more.

Something was about to burst through the curtain!

But right at that moment, something unexpected happened.

Out of the nearby wall, an ambulance suddenly emerged!

The ambulance crashed hard into Lin Lu and whatever was behind the curtain!

In that moment, Lin Lu also lost consciousness completely!

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