Hospital 444
Chapter 568 - 30 Hai Yunlan’s Determination

Chapter 568: Chapter 30 Hai Yunlan’s Determination

Hai Yunlan looked at Su Wen and Nian in front of her, her body still trembling.

"My dad..."

Her body was nearly at its limit.

Everything came back to her...

Dad...

"Brother-in-law, if it were you, could you have made a different choice?"

After her uncle said these words to her dad, Dad fell silent for a while, then said, "I understand you, big brother. But if it were me... I wouldn’t! To live is to hold certain things as more important than life or death! If... if we could find out the names of the Wumianhui members..."

"It’s no use! There have been those who wore masks to attack and kill isolated Wumianhui members, but they were quickly identified! Proclaimed criminals, their entire families had to publicly condemn them during their parade, or else they would meet the same fate!"

Dad...

Dad!

She remembered everything.

Including... her dad, who had turned into a black skeleton.

That was the year Hai Yunlan turned sixteen.

Two more years until the female ghost appeared behind her.

That year, she would never forget.

She was studying in the classroom when suddenly the door opened and the homeroom teacher walked in.

"Yun Lan, your dad... something’s happened to him."

That day.

The Wumianhui were parading a "criminal."

"This man is a criminal! He dared to use violence against our Wumianhui members, to wear a mask and ambush our isolated members! We have sentenced him to death. Now the mark of darkness has appeared on him! Before he descends to hell, take a good look at his face! Remember well, the criminal’s name is Hai Jinlou! You all may punish the criminal without worry, he has until eleven o’clock tonight before he can convey his name to the spirits behind him!"

That man was Hai Yunlan’s father.

His clothes were torn, an abnormally distorted and disgusting black mark emerging on his chest.

The black mark looked as if the skin there had completely rotted away, making one feel nauseous at a glance.

"The criminal shall descend to hell!"

"The criminal should die!"

No one present dared to object; instead, they eagerly threw stones, rotten vegetables, and stinking eggs.

If the mark of darkness appeared on a person, the earliest it would take was half an hour, and at most four hours, before evil spirits would claim their life, turning them into black skeletons.

Thus, naturally, no one was afraid that Hai Jinlou before them would seek revenge.

Moreover, to sympathize with him might attract the Wumianhui’s attention. No one dared take the risk.

When Hai Yunlan arrived at the scene, this was what she saw.

Her mother and uncle had already been taken there.

"As family of the criminal, how do you judge the criminal?"

Seeing Song Ran arrive, the crowd dared not throw anything, fearing that Song Ran would recognize and hold a grudge against them.

The Wumianhui members arrogantly sneered at Song Ran before them, "Speak! Your husband, he’s a criminal! A criminal who defied our Wumianhui!"

Hai Yunlan saw this scene, especially the black mark on her father’s chest.

But, she was afraid.

The Wumianhui members were all armed with guns, each equipped with a revolver, and the person in charge even had a shotgun slung on his back.

What’s more, they also had already ascertained the names of her family members.

They could turn them into criminals at any moment!

"What kind of skill is it to bully my family!" her father roared at that time: "Come at me if you’ve got the guts! And you all, are you really content living like this? Everyone, stand up, take off their masks, resist them! Why? Can’t you do it?"

At that moment, her mother suddenly pointed at her father and cursed, "You, who defied the Wumianhui, you criminal, why did you have to drag us down with you! I, Song Ran, have nothing to do with you, Hai Jinlou, from this day forth!"

...

Under a banyan tree.

A black skeleton hung above.

At the time, due to my father’s peculiar actions and speech, Wumianhui summoned hundreds of people here to hang my father from the banyan tree, demanding that everyone watch with their own eyes the moment he turned into a black skeleton.

Including his wife and daughter.

When the time came, the black spots began to spread all over the body. And only the person affected could see, crawling out from the black spots, that terrifying ghost come to claim their life.

Just a moment.

A living person would be turned into a black skeleton.

It was a three-story-tall banyan tree located on a spacious street in the residential area of the town. People passing by would always see the black skeleton hanging there.

Step by step, she approached the black skeleton.

"Dad... I, I can’t believe I forgot, how could I forget it all..."

The day of her eighteenth birthday.

According to her mother, her exact birth time was 5:43 AM.

Hai Yunlan set three alarms and woke up at 5:30 that day.

She walked up to the mirror and stared at the wall clock.

She waited for the moment to come.

Finally...

After the time arrived...

A massive amount of a black strange material appeared behind her.

If Dai Lin were there, he would have recognized it at first glance, as it was the most typical characteristic of a Karma Ghost: Karma Force!

And if it were Song Ran, she would have said it was original sin! The appearance of such a thing was a precursor symptom of the Abyss’s assault.

However, Karma Force is a very difficult substance to control and consolidate, and the Curse Item Science finds it hard to create Karma Force cursed items.

The coalesced black material gradually took shape.

A ghostly female figure with dark purple skin, ragged clothes, and hair covering most of her face, clung tightly to Hai Yunlan’s neck with her arms, pressing firmly against her back.

Most people, even those prepared, would be terrified out of their wits upon first seeing this scene.

But Hai Yunlan remained calm.

She turned her head and looked carefully at the terrifying face of the ghost behind her.

She raised her hand, wanting to touch the ghost’s hair, but her hand went straight through the ghost’s head.

The ghost’s face was mostly obscured by hair, only allowing a glimpse of her eyes. Because her hair couldn’t be moved aside, there was no way to know what she looked like. For most of the day, the ghost was completely still, but during a fixed period each day, she would ask for a name.

As long as she didn’t answer, the ghost would keep asking nonstop until midnight that night, only stopping then. And unless she said a name, the ghost would haunt Hai Yunlan endlessly until her death.

Most people in the town wished to rid themselves of the ghost. Terrifying aside, no one knew if the ghost clinging to them would bring misfortune or shorten their lifespan. And the only way to get rid of the ghost was to say a name.

Any name would do, even someone on the other side of the Earth. But it could only be one person, someone whose name and face you knew.

The name must be the full name, the pronunciation accurate, and while speaking, one must imagine the person’s face. Once the name was said, the ghost would disappear. But since the ghost was only visible to oneself, no one knew if they had activated their own back-attached spirit.

"Good... very good..."

She had no way of knowing which Wumianhui member directly cursed her father that year.

The number of Wumianhui members in Heisong Town was a mystery, and the group might even include individuals not originally from Heisong Town. She couldn’t possibly kill them all with just one ghost.

So, the only way was...

"Only the Faceless Leader holds the complete list of Wumianhui members."

Supposedly, joining Wumianhui required a very secret method, sponsorship by an existing officer, and passing the membership test before a mask was given out. The people of the town had never utterly confronted Wumianhui head-on because Wumianhui always kept open the possibility for them to join. Once joined, by donning a mask, no one would know they were wolves in sheep’s clothing, and they could do whatever they wouldn’t dare to think or do under normal circumstances.

"The Faceless Leader must have the full list of all members’ names; otherwise, it would be hard to keep control over them. And surely, only a very few trusted sub-leaders would know the identity of the Leader."

Once she knew the identity of the Faceless Leader...

She could negotiate with that person.

Using the disclosure of his true identity as leverage, she would force him to hand over the complete list of Wumianhui members to her.

Once the list went public, the townspeople, who had long harbored deep hatred towards Wumianhui, could finally seek their vengeance!