Hospital 444
Chapter 565 - 27 The One Behind You...

Chapter 565: Chapter 27 The One Behind You...

"Is it similar to that red balloon?"

Dai Lin immediately recalled the red balloon incident from before.

The mysteriously appearing red balloon still presented numerous puzzles for Dai Lin that he simply could not understand or solve to this day.

The red balloon would suddenly appear, and then, through the balloon, one could realize a wish. However, to fulfill the wish, there was a price to pay.

"That balloon, is probably..."

Abyssal Curse!

In the end, the Karma Force of humans is nothing but a materialization of a curse.

Most of the time, after death, souls lingering in the world already demonstrate that people still harbor strong emotions towards the world of the living. Sometimes it is attachment, at times injustice that cannot be settled. But in most cases, what prevents people from moving on is hatred.

Hatred is an emotion that lasts longer than love. A person can lose their love for someone in just two or three years, but can hate someone for a lifetime.

Human desires...

Or human hatred...

Both can drive the birth of Malevolent Ghosts.

This type of curse is also the most troublesome for Paranormal Doctors.

...

"Don’t hate anyone."

"Hmm?"

"This town... seems to have such a rule."

At this moment, Nian, who had finished her day’s singing performance, began chatting with Hai Yunlan.

Nian seemed to have no recollection of Hai Yunlan, but Hai Yunlan was certain she had met her during some period in the past.

However, when Hai Yunlan said this to Nian, the latter showed an extremely astonished expression.

"Why do you ask that?"

"This town, it seems to always discourage the concept of revenge, right?"

"You don’t know why?"

Why...

Hai Yunlan mostly knew.

This town had some sort of ability to control curses artificially.

This is correct, isn’t it?

Nian scrutinized Hai Yunlan carefully, then suddenly said, "I feel like I’ve seen you before..."

"You’ve seen me? Do, do tell me more!"

Nian glanced at the bartender, Dan Ka, not far away, and said, "I kind of remember seeing you at some point... It was when the Wumianhui people were here collecting protection fees. When they came, they brought a girl with them. It was clear the girl was brought here against her will. And then, I remember you were with them, you were sitting right there. At that time, you were paying attention to the Wumianhui side."

Paying attention to this side...

"I remember, one of them seemed to be a minor Wumianhui leader. To drink, he dismantled the lower part of his mask..."

So the mask could be dismantled in part?

"Then he started drinking. Maybe because he had too much to drink, he began to utter obscenities, increasingly vile and unbearable to hear. Listening to that talk, it was ever more intolerable. Everyone knew what would be the fate of that girl."

Yes, this was the way of the Wumianhui.

"At that time, you kept staring at this side. I could tell you wanted to save the girl, but you were powerless."

Nian then said... after they forcibly got the girl drunk, they dragged her out of the bar.

After saying that, Nian did not elaborate further.

"At that time, you also followed them out."

Hai Yunlan realized, might everything she had done have been to save that girl?

"That girl ended up dying in the alley behind the bar," Hai Yunlan bit her lip.

Right.

Her memory loss started after that incident.

So...

She asked, "Can you take me to see where her body was? You should be off work by now, right?"

"Yes."

"Take me there, please."

"Okay."

Before leaving, Hai Yunlan didn’t call Su Wen along.

In her lingering memories, she was certain that one among Su Wen, Dan Ka, and Nian was the Faceless Leader. Of this, there was no question.

However, she couldn’t determine which one of them it was.

"That girl was at the bar for the first time. At that moment, there were about seven or eight people from Wumianhui, among whom a little leader specifically requested the boss to bring out the foreign liquor stored in the bar. They opened several bottles, desperately forcing the girl to drink. It was obvious that the girl was a lightweight; they just kept pouring high-proof liquor into her."

"Animals..."

Doubtless, by the time the girl was dead drunk, she naturally lost all ability to resist.

In such a situation, what their actions would lead to didn’t need to be spelled out. Yet nobody could manage these animals.

"Do not entertain any thoughts of harming others or seeking revenge on anyone."

This was a sentence found in every textbook on her bookshelf.

This town, all the education, was consistently instilling one thing: opposition to revenge.

Do not harm others and do not take revenge on anyone. Then, doesn’t that just leave one to be bullied by others?

Walking along, they reached deep inside the alley.

Nian lifted her hand, pointing to a spot ahead.

"The body was later collected by someone. It’s unknown where she has been buried."

"The police..."

"The police will never identify the killer. Because everyone knows it was the work of Wumianhui. In this town, everyone fears them, because nobody knows what lies behind the masks of the people from Wumianhui. Conversely, anyone outside Wumianhui is not allowed to wear anything that might cover their face."

"So, if one knows what a person from Wumianhui looks like..."

"You also need to know their name. Knowing a person’s appearance and name is needed to curse someone. For half a century, we were born with this ability to curse others. Oh, I want to ask you, what time is your...?"

...

Dai Lin successfully arrived on Black Reef Island.

He never expected to have the ability of instantaneous teleportation, but after further analyzing the Spatial Curse Item that Maria had implanted into his body, he was now able to point to a location on a map and go there... of course, this was under the condition that it was an area with frequent activity of powerful malevolent spirits.

At that moment, however, he witnessed a shocking scene.

With his Devil’s Eye, he could clearly see the terrifying scene of Heisong Town.

"How, how could this be?"

In front of him, every person walking through Heisong Town had a terrifying female ghost clinging to their back, completely identical in appearance and with half of her face obscured by hair!

Just then, suddenly someone stopped in their tracks.

Subsequently, the female ghost’s neck began to tilt forward, her face stretching out in front of the passerby, opening her mouth and uttering these words.

"Whose... name...?"

...

"The female ghost on your back, at what time every day does she demand you say the name of the person you’ve cursed?"