Chapter 103: Trapped
Li Nuowei smiled and took out his mobile phone from his pocket, scanning the payment QR code on the back seat to pay the fare.
When the other got out of the car, Ma Hong tried hard to suppress his excited heartbeat until he saw the other close the car door; only then did he finally slowly relax his nervous heart.
But at this moment, Ma Hong noticed that Li Nuowei, who had gotten out, made another strange move; he did not head directly into the hospital but instead walked toward the flower selling girl setting up a stall at the hospital entrance.
Ma Hong could not guess what Li Nuowei was really up to; he wanted to drive away immediately, but with the entrance of Second Central Hospital crowded with people and dense traffic, he was temporarily stuck there.
When Ma Hong finally waited for a hard-won chance to move freely, he could no longer suppress his joy and stepped on the accelerator to leave.
However, just as he was about to cross the zebra crossing, a petite figure suddenly rushed out from behind the front of a small bus parked to the side.
Ma Hong instinctively slammed on the brakes and turned the steering wheel; under the out of control speeding, the taxi crashed straight into the guardrail beside it, breaking through the guardrail, with the front of the car smashed to pieces.
Ma Hong, in the driver’s seat, due to this sudden change, collapsed into a pool of blood; one foot was almost broken but still pressed on the brake, while most of his lower body was trapped in the crushed and deformed front half of the car.
“This… what’s going on…” Ma Hong was unwilling in his heart; he heard an unsettling anomaly from inside the car’s engine at the front, he felt his life heading toward the end of annihilation, he could not believe it, “How… how could this… I am clearly the model everyone praises and regards as the Deity’s most loyal believer, I… I should receive the blessing and live to a hundred.”
Ma Hong hazily lifted his head for a glance; he wanted to know what the girl who had suddenly darted out looked like.
He saw the girl who had nearly been hit staring at him in terror, her little face pale, her whole body trembling, with an empty flower basket hanging on her small arm.
Ma Hong looked at the girl in some shock because this younger sister was exactly the flower selling girl Li Nuowei had just interacted with, and her flower basket was completely empty.
The younger sister held large denomination bills in her hand, standing at the roadside in a crisp yet at a loss voice, looking in terror at him lying in the pool of blood.
Thump thump.
Ma Hong heard the knocking on the window beside him; he wanted to move his arm to roll down the car window, but in the reflection on that window, he saw Li Nuowei’s calm face; although the other did not show obvious happiness or excitement, the joy in his eyes could not be hidden, genuinely delighted at the sight of this scene.
He saw the other open his mouth and say something silently.
Before losing consciousness, Ma Hong read the other’s deliberately clear lip movements: “I told you, I still have a chance; now that you’re out of the picture, his chance of survival is greater.”
Ma Hong only felt a surge of absurdity, and it was at this moment that he finally realized who the “friend” Li Nuowei had mentioned really referred to.
He looked at Li Nuowei, sneering nonstop, and let out a low voice, saying: “Even without one of me, everything will continue as usual, just like unstoppable time moving forward; when the stars return to the correct positions, my god will descend upon the world again and rule the entire Earth.”
Li Nuowei read Ma Hong’s lip language; he revealed an eerie smile that only Ma Hong could notice, turned around, and left the car accident scene, heading toward the hospital.
Only a loud explosion was heard outside the hospital, accompanied by the crowd’s terrified screams; Li Nuowei nodded in satisfaction, thinking to himself: The annoying guy is gone, and now I can finally have some peace for a while.
Li Nuowei entered the hospital and went straight into the Inpatient Department; carrying a bag of flowers as if entering a place with no one around, he arrived at the 7th floor of the Inpatient Department and headed directly to the hospital room with bed 7014.
Looking at Drake lying unconscious on the hospital bed, Li Nuowei smiled slightly, inserted the flowers into the vase on the bedside cabinet, and said: “There’s still plenty of time; you don’t need to rush.”
Li Nuowei caringly tucked Drake in, then moved a chair over, sat beside Drake, and quietly waited for Drake to wake from his coma…
The Mystic Investigators on the small island discovered that the strange events were still ongoing; the entire small island was shrouded in a strange magnetic field, and even the Mystic Investigators’ cutting-edge communication tools could not transmit news of their entrapment on the small island to the outside world.
Additionally, they gradually discovered that the land under their feet seemed to be moving; they could no longer slowly see the pier on the opposite shore from the landing point, and the small island was like a boat floating on the water, gradually drifting away from the coast.
Mist was rising from the water surface around the island, with thick fog enveloping and devouring the entire small island; seabirds no longer flew over everyone’s heads, as if those sensitive lives had sensed danger from the thick fog.
As if in a land of death under the thick fog, the hearts of all the Mystic Investigators were filled with unease.
The development of the situation far exceeded Yu Lianyun’s expectations and was heading toward out of control.
Although everyone knew this was all related to the long-vanished Anhai Divine Society and inseparable from that alien great fish disguised as a coastal people’s protective deity, those trapped in the situation could not find a method to break through for the time being.
“Captain Yu, still no contact.” After multiple failed attempts to establish communication with the outside, Shang Wei reported to Yu Lianyun; he glanced at the Mystic Investigators with unstable mental states nearby and asked in a low voice, “What do we do next?”
“If the organization cannot contact us for more than a day, they will notice the anomaly in our situation and likely send support to rescue us,” Yu Lianyun said, her firm eyes scanning everyone present. “So for that, we must survive on this island as long as possible for one day.”
“One day…” The Mystic Investigators heard this small number but felt as if they had heard a long eternal period, lacking confidence.
On this small island full of crises, they had no confidence in surviving here unscathed.
The seawater at the island’s shore was terrifyingly calm, like dead water where even aquatic creatures could not survive; even without entering the water, everyone felt unable to breathe just looking at it, their heartbeats accelerating, forcing them to hurriedly leave the shore.
Gloomy clouds and misty fog concealed the terror’s truth; Yu Lianyun and the others moved through the village ruins shrouded in thick fog, with the white mist and gradually lowering frost adding a sense of defeat and eeriness to the colors and atmosphere of the island’s buildings.
To wait for rescue, they now at least needed to find a suitable shelter.
The terror of those mermen had only been witnessed by Shang Wei among those present, and he had merely glimpsed a corner of a merman’s full appearance before he could not restrain the urge to escape, as if those monsters could bring humans an uncontrollable sense of fear.
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