Chapter 105: Alarm
Yu Lianyun felt her consciousness leave her body and enter the mist, but moving was even more difficult than physical movement. Her eyes saw the things in the thick fog.
Humanoid creatures with dull expressions, covered in dark blue-black reverse scales, fins inserted into their faces, limbs, and backs, stood outside the house. Their mouths were filled with complicated interlocking fangs that rubbed against each other, and foul-smelling saliva dripped like a suspended river. They waited like soldiers for orders from their leaders, desperately enduring their famished stomachs.
Yu Lianyun just glanced at these mermen and felt that these hideous creatures could no longer be shaken from her mind. Even if she escaped their pursuit in reality, they would invade human dreams like a nightmare.
At this moment, she finally understood Shang Wei’s feelings. These mermen truly possessed some kind of mental pollution ability, even if they themselves might not be aware of their strange influence on humans.
Hai Da… Hui Ke…
A low roar like muffled thunder resounded in the mist, surging into every nerve of Yu Lianyun like high-voltage current, making her whole body tremble uncontrollably. She shook, incredulously lifting her head. It was only then that she finally noticed a massive harmful beast, capable of shaking heaven and earth, lurking behind the rolling thick fog. It opened its eyes in the darkness, emitting dazzling scarlet demonic light.
This… could this be the Sea God of Anhai?
Yu Lianyun jolted awake from the nightmare. She felt that in that instant just now, she seemed to have been seen by it, even if it was just her inspiration’s sensation.
“Go, from the back door, force a breakthrough!” Yu Lianyun’s heart beat uncontrollably faster. She pointed in the direction of the farmhouse back door and said to everyone.
“Yes.” Everyone immediately obeyed the order and followed Yu Lianyun to flip out through the backyard window, rushing into the thick fog.
Although everyone didn’t know what had happened to Yu Lianyun just now, she was a tough survivor from multiple heavenly grade major incidents. Without an escape plan, following her advice was the best way to stay alive.
Rushing into the mist, the mystic investigators gradually saw the shadows surrounding the farmhouse—those shadows of monsters with faces like hanging a pair of yellow headlights.
The moment he saw the figures, Shang Wei’s scalp immediately tingled again, his face twisting with tension: “It’s mermen, those humans transformed by Mermaid Disease!”
Hui Ke!
As if seeing prey walking into the net, the mermen in the thick fog excitedly roared one after another, and the existence in the depths of the fog responded to its kin’s excitement at seeing prey, conveying what seemed to be an “attack” order to every merman with a deeper, louder voice.
Hai Da Hui Ke!
Li Nuowei looked outside the window. Tonight the moon was bright and stars sparse, the night tranquil, but the wind blowing in from outside seemed to carry an unsettling sound.
“Time’s about right.” Li Nuowei murmured. He got up and walked to the vase full of orchids, reached into the flowers to grope around, and pulled out a gleaming fruit knife. This was something he had swiped this morning from the neighboring fruit stall when buying flowers from the flower selling girl; it still carried the sweet scent of pineapples it had peeled.
The blade reflected the moonlight, the knife face flashing with silver light, emanating a chilling aura.
Li Nuowei lightly walked out of the hospital room. During this time, the other patients in their beds and their caregivers in the room didn’t notice his actions. He came and went as naturally as a breeze.
Li Nuowei, gripping the fruit knife, arrived at the hospital corridor. He encountered no nurses or security on the way. When he quickly turned a corner, a little nurse pushing a cart of medicine bottles and potions had just come out of a room somewhere on the floor and entered a hospital room. Then, a pair of patrolling hospital security personnel also arrived on this floor. They perfunctorily illuminated the dimly lit corridor with their flashlight beams, casually checked around, and soon went down from this floor.
About two seconds after the security personnel left, Li Nuowei emotionlessly appeared again holding the knife, directly turning into the safe passage stairs and going up to the eighth floor.
After arriving on the eighth floor, he stood in front of the fire door of the eighth floor safe passage like an eerie standing corpse, motionless, murmuring countdown numbers from his mouth.
Seventeen… three, two, one!
The instant Li Nuowei counted to zero, he slowly pushed open the fire door and arrived at the corridor of the twelfth floor hospital rooms in the Second Central Hospital.
This floor was terrifyingly quiet, with no lights turned on, extremely still. Only the hospital room of bed 12017 had its door ajar, light from inside spilling through the door crack onto the corridor outside. Looking closely, one could see a pale hand twitching on the ground, and a faint unusual bloody smell drifting out from the door crack.
“Hope I’m still in time.” Li Nuowei, holding the fruit knife, walked toward that hospital room.
It seemed the existence in the hospital room sensed Li Nuowei’s approaching presence, so it stopped its sneaky actions in the room, no longer making rustling or chewing sounds.
Bang!
However, the existence in the hospital room had not anticipated that Li Nuowei would suddenly accelerate with clear intent, charging in without hesitation and kicking open the hospital room door with one foot.
Hai Da!
The forcefully kicked-open door swung wide, and behind the door came a sound of collision and squeezing along with a scream.
Hearing the scream was like hearing immortal music to Li Nuowei; his face twisted ferociously with excitement. He grabbed the door handle, crazily pulling and pushing, shoving and kicking with hands and feet, slamming the female merman with a bluish face and fangs behind the door, making her scream continuously, her two claws fractured and twisted.
Having deformed the door, the female merman lost her ability to resist. He immediately closed the door, yanked her long hair, and silently laughed maniacally as he raised his hand to stab, thrusting the fruit knife in and out of the female merman’s neck repeatedly. Instantly, blood gushed like a fountain.
The female merman’s eyes, not yet fully transformed into bulbous double pupils, showed an incredulous expression, staring dazedly at this human male who had suddenly appeared and neatly stabbed her to death. The light in her eyes gradually faded, pupils dilating.
Thud!
The headless corpse of the female merman collapsed limply. Li Nuowei casually tossed the monster head he had sawed off with the fruit knife onto the ground and murmured, “Such a pity. I can’t save you every time, but there’s no way around it—it’s just too late.”
As he spoke, he walked to the side of a white-clad nurse who had one arm gnawed off. Looking at that pale but still sweating and gasping face, Li Nuowei showed a slight smile: “Good, this time you have a chance to live.”
Then, Li Nuowei, covered in blood, walked out of the hospital room. Passing the fire alarm, he used the fruit knife handle to smash the protective plastic shell and triggered the alarm. Immediately, the entire inpatient building was stirred by the fire warning sound, and lights successively came on in the dim hospital rooms one by one.
Drake, who had been slumbering half the day, also slowly awakened amid the fire alarm and the curious clamor of people.
