Chapter 26: The Man On My Mind
“Last night, Tianfu City experienced a magnitude 6 earthquake. This earthquake caused large-scale collapse in Shudao Forest. Experts speculate that there may be an unknown Hollow Zone beneath Shudao Forest. To prevent possible aftershocks that could cause further collapse danger, alert lines have been set up around Shudao Forest, prohibiting people from entering or exiting the forest at will…” Yu Lianyun stared blankly with dull eyes, looking somewhat demented at the news on the television.
On the hospital beds to her left and right lay Li Yingqi and He Jia’an, both with the same expression.
It wasn’t until three nurses pushed a small cart loaded with medicine bottles and syringes into the room that the three people’s lost gazes slowly converged.
“Do the three of you feel a bit better physically now?” After the three shapely young nurses entered, a slightly older head nurse with a more plump figure also walked in. She smiled and asked the three.
He Jia’an touched the tip of his nose and probed the sunlight shining in from outside the window with his hand. He could now feel the warmth of the sun, but he always felt a trace of unreal coldness. He replied, “It feels like a dream…”
As he spoke, countless memories of life-and-death experiences flashed through He Jia’an’s mind, along with this most unforgettable terrifying experience. He rubbed his brow in some pain.
“Sorry, did I hurt you?” The young nurse doing the skin test on He Jia’an saw his struggling expression and immediately apologized nervously.
“No, it’s not related to you.” He Jia’an realized his appearance had caused a misunderstanding for the young nurse. A stiff smile appeared on his pale face. “I’m just a bit dizzy. I’ll be fine after sleeping. Um.”
Of course, He Jia’an knew he couldn’t fall asleep at all now. As soon as he closed his eyes, he would see the scenes of heaven collapsing and earth splitting, horrific and inhumane, from his memory.
On the other side, Li Yingqi replied somewhat sullenly, “I’m fine…”
Her trauma was in her heart. Witnessing Wei Jiang’s tragic death was destined to be an indelible knot for her. Taking the Death Return Pill, sudden reduction in lifespan, accelerated aging—those were negligible in comparison.
The head nurse nodded to the two who answered, her gaze then turning to Yu Lianyun.
Yu Lianyun’s breathing was not calm. The electrocardiogram beside her perfectly probed her rippling heart. Her left hand, lifted by the young nurse for the injection, suddenly unconsciously grabbed the young nurse’s forearm.
“Ah!” The innocent young nurse cried out in pain, pulling the consciousness-confused Yu Lianyun back to reality. She hurriedly apologized to the young nurse, “Sorry, I didn’t mean to, I…”
The head nurse took in all three’s performances, nodding secretly with a hint of worry hidden in her eyes.
They had been found naked in the collapsed pit and brought back to another medical base of the Mysterious Group for emergency treatment and check-ups. It was discovered that these people who had directly faced the Abnormal God’s incarnation on Earth had basically no physical problems and showed no signs of abnormalization. But without exception, they all suffered huge psychological trauma.
And mental and spiritual trauma was often the hardest to cure.
In the eyes of the head nurse and the Mysterious Group’s medical department staff, those who could become Mystic Investigators were already the batch with the strongest mental resilience and psychological counseling abilities. Yet even they couldn’t bear the truth now. One could imagine how terrifying this experience was. It was unknown how long it would take for these valuable and respectable people to walk out of the haze in their hearts.
However, in fact, among the three in the hospital room, besides He Jia’an and Li Yingqi, Yu Lianyun had not suffered the so-called mental blow from this anomaly event.
Yu Lianyun’s daze was simply due to mental sluggishness, delayed reaction, and being startled by a male soul that suddenly appeared before her.
At this moment, no one could see this figure that suddenly appeared in the room, even though it was a Tiger Group member most familiar to them—Wei Jiang, who had died not long ago.
He, who died in the state of “half-paralyzed and gut-wrenching,” still appeared in that form now. How could this not scare Yu Lianyun, how could she not overreact?
Wei Jiang also seemed somewhat dazed. He didn’t know why he appeared here, only vaguely remembering that he died, then his vision brightened, and when he came to, he was here.
But one thing he could confirm now was that he discovered there was no underworld in this world. So after death, one might become a soul like him, with no place to go and possibly no next life.
Soon, Wei Jiang noticed that everyone in the hospital room couldn’t see him, except Yu Lianyun. Her gaze that wanted to look but dared not, continuously evading, was hard to ignore.
“Xiao Yu, can you see me?” Wei Jiang asked probingly.
Hearing the question, Yu Lianyun’s eyes quickly swept over him once, then she nodded darkly in response with a preoccupied look, as if worrying about something.
Wei Jiang’s face immediately lit up with joy as he wanted to drag his mutilated lower body and crawl forward.
Seeing this, Yu Lianyun suddenly panicked and reached out to stop him, shouting, “Don’t!”
Everyone in the hospital room was startled by Yu Lianyun’s sudden cry. All looked at her in shock. The young nurse who had been unable to inject her due to Yu Lianyun’s excessive movements now felt somewhat aggrieved and said, “I… I haven’t injected yet. You… can you trust me a little, okay?”
Hearing the young nurse’s resentful words, Yu Lianyun had bitterness she couldn’t express and could only say sullenly, “Sorry, I… I’m just a bit nervous. I’m quite afraid of needles, um.”
“I remember you graduated from medical school, right?” The head nurse looked at Yu Lianyun eerily.
Yu Lianyun’s face flushed red, overwhelmed with shame and frustration.
Among the gazes present, only Wei Jiang understood Yu Lianyun’s feelings. Because when Yu Lianyun stopped him from approaching, he horrifyingly discovered that two oval shadows suddenly split under Yu Lianyun’s bed. They respectively transformed into the form of the red wedding dress female corpse and her father’s form. Two black-brown figures as if walked out from ink, lurking menacingly at him, their eyes filled with desire like appetite, their bodies emanating a terrifying aura.
At this moment, Wei Jiang finally fully understood that Yu Lianyun’s earlier “don’t” was not only said to him, but also to the two Blessing Incarnations clinging to her like maggots on rotting bone.
He shouldn’t approach, and they two shouldn’t think of eating him.
Thinking that he had almost died again, Wei Jiang immediately felt it was so hard. Being a person was hard enough, and even being a ghost after death was hard?!
After that, Yu Lianyun found an opportunity to go to the toilet to finally have a chance to talk to Wei Jiang.
In this mere Nine-Chi Confined Room, Yu Lianyun felt utterly hopeless, surrounded by “people.”
The two Blessing Incarnations were face-to-face with her, gazing maliciously at the wretched spiritual body of Wei Jiang.
Before Wei Jiang could speak, Yu Lianyun preempted, “I don’t know why I can see you, or why I’m haunted by the Blessing without release, but overall, surviving this time was all thanks to the Blessing…”
Wei Jiang stared dazedly at Yu Lianyun speaking at an unprecedented speed, waiting half a day for her to finish before saying, “That… actually, I just wanted to say, can you not tell Xiao Li and Captain He about my existence.”
“Of course, that’s your choice.” Yu Lianyun breathed a sigh of relief.
After speaking, Yu Lianyun, sitting on the toilet, looked at Wei Jiang seriously and said, “I don’t know how to help you now. Your form of existence is fundamentally different from the Blessing. To the Blessing and some anomaly creatures, you might be an extremely rare delicious food. So to protect you, after discharge, I’ll take you to Laitai City to meet Boss Lin.”
“That seller of Blessings?” Wei Jiang was puzzled, somewhat uneasy.
Judging from the result of this anomaly event.
Ranked by ability strength: Blessing > Flesh and Blood Lycoris Abnormal God > Three-handed Ice Giant.
And the mysterious shop owner Yu Lianyun mentioned, whom he had never met, seemed to be an existence that could casually handle even Blessings. So, how terrifying was that Boss Lin’s true form?
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