Chapter 209: The Bald Man Escaping From The Mental Sanatorium
Fengxiang City became a perilous city. Although the infant cries that spread throughout the city that day had faded away, the unknown Black Water left behind by the disappeared Giant Meat Block caused local soil degradation and water contamination after seeping underground, even leading to abnormalization phenomena in local creatures.
Of course, there is also the most obvious reason why Fengxiang City can no longer serve as a human habitable city: the fantastical colors that render the entire sky and cannot be dispelled, as if the city had lost the barrier of its atmosphere and was directly gazing at the stars of the Universe. Those colors contain some secret that humans should not yet pry into. If someone wants to investigate, gazing at the colors of that sky will cause them to gradually lose consciousness, their body will gradually lose moisture, as if their vitality and soul were taken away by those colors.
The anomaly event that occurred in Fengxiang City, just like the Night of Collapse in Cuizhu City a few years ago, once again showed the entire human race the mad side of the world they inhabit.
Madness, disorder, and indifference are the most natural rules and logic of the Universe. Humanity’s reproduction and development of civilization and order in the Universe is an accident within an accident. Now, humans have only glimpsed the tip of the iceberg—or even a drop in the bucket—of this great terror of the Universe. Everyone can only be forced to accept such a world, otherwise they cannot survive.
Fengxiang City launched a large-scale evacuation. The city’s residents had to leave the land and homeland where they lived, but this does not mean that everyone has the opportunity to leave the city.
After all, some among them have had “intimate” contact with the anomaly. Some have already infiltrated risks of abnormalization without knowing it, while others have been forced to betray the human species and become some kind of unknown creature that must be exorcised.
Therefore, this evacuation operation was destined not to go smoothly and continued intermittently for about half a year before finally being declared over.
But this does not mean that the Mysterious Group’s work on this land is over; it just means there are no more worries holding them back.
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“Group Leader, the investigation teams from all regions have fully assembled. The investigation team dispatched by our Mysterious Group and the seven-person squad dispatched by the New York region Anomaly Biological Foundation have already set off ahead, and the investigator organization teams from other regions are also entering one after another.” The slender and tall secretary was reporting work to the highest leader of the Mysterious Group, Wei Chengye.
Wei Chengye gazed outside the window at the gloomy rain, his expression neither sad nor happy. He always had this expression, as if he was constantly thinking about something, tireless and with little emotional fluctuation. After listening to the secretary’s report, he just nodded and then said calmly: “Keep track at all times and ensure good communication with all investigation teams.”
“Yes.” The secretary acknowledged. She gazed at the figure leaning on the chair who had suddenly fallen silent, hesitating in place without leaving immediately. After a long while, she couldn’t help but ask, “Group Leader, why do we still need to investigate? Couldn’t we… couldn’t we just clean it up directly?” She enunciated the words “clean up” very clearly.
Wei Chengye did not turn back. He just opened his mouth, which was stuck together by half-dried saliva, and stated like a narration: “Because investigation is necessary, and it’s very important to all humanity. Regarding what happened that day, none of us know. On the day that Giant Meat Block emitted infant cries, our people all died… perhaps all died, but the whereabouts of that Giant Meat Block remain unknown. Is It still in that city?”
“If It is not there, what should we do?” The secretary was silent for a moment before asking.
Wei Chengye interlaced his ten fingers over his abdomen, his thumbs caressing each other, his breathing seeming to quicken briefly, and said: “Perhaps we will carry out a cleanup.”
“What if It is there?”
“…” Wei Chengye did not answer, but the secretary noticed one of his legs shaking with unease at an accelerating pace.
The secretary fell into another silence, then as if remembering something, broke the suffocating quiet: “An inmate escaped from Liuhua Port Mental Sanatorium.”
Hearing this, Wei Chengye immediately exhaled and said: “Old He really couldn’t stay put after all.”
“After all, all his former subordinates have already sacrificed themselves, and the photos in his room have been cut down to leave only himself.” Deep sympathy showed on the secretary’s face.
“Is his illness cured?”
“Cured? It was never cured.” The secretary sighed, “Rather, his condition has never improved and has even become more severe day by day. Although he appears increasingly calm in his daily performance, in truth, every time it gets late at night and during dream time, the frequency of his nightmares increases higher and higher, and his night terror reactions grow stronger and stronger.”
“Do you know where he went?” Wei Chengye pondered for a moment before inquiring.
“It can be determined that he has not left the Shenzhou Region. After escaping the mental sanatorium, he got into a car that came to pick him up and left.”
“Pick him up?” Wei Chengye questioned the term. “Who can he still contact?”
The secretary furrowed her brows and said helplessly: “This is also what puzzles us the most. In the past, He Jia’an’s contacts with the outside world were limited to Yu Lianyun, and even those were rare. But for some reason, on the day he escaped the sanatorium, it was as if everything had been planned in advance. He escaped very smoothly, and now we can’t find his whereabouts.”
“What about the car?” Wei Chengye thought they could find the car via Sky Eye.
“We tried, but found that the car was not only using fake plates, but it was also discovered abandoned on the roadside in a forest. It had rained then too, washing away He Jia’an’s tracks after he got out of the car very cleanly. We can’t find him for the time being.”
Wei Chengye slightly opened his mouth, somewhat stunned, then irritably closed his eyes, leaned on the chair back to adjust his breathing. After a long while, he called out “Little Wu” to confirm if the secretary was still by his side.
The secretary had always stood faithfully by his side, waiting for Wei Chengye to speak, and said: “I’m still here.”
“As for Old He… let’s not look for him for now. Just let him go.” Wei Chengye’s words shocked the secretary.
The secretary: “…He Jia’an has been diagnosed with highly abnormalized spirit, with strong telepathy to the God of Yellow Sand. The risks on him are not small. Are you sure we won’t pursue?”
“Mm, let’s try to trust him.” Wei Chengye said calmly, then picked up the insulated teacup on the desk, paused while looking at the full cup of goji berries, and asked again: “Where was the last place his car appeared? Is there a possibility he went to Fengxiang City?”
“Unlikely. The car was heading in the opposite direction from Fengxiang City.” The secretary looked puzzled. “If he wasn’t going to Fengxiang City to look for Yu Lianyun’s whereabouts, then where would he go?”
