Chapter 450 - 448: Coffins and Memorial Tablets
"Don’t worry, leave it to me!"
Tie Xiong took a look and immediately knew that Zhao had already lost a lot of his vital energy.
And he happened to be skilled in this area.
After taking out the Evil Ghost statue again, he recited a few more spells.
The red light appeared once more, and as it continuously entered Zhao’s body, his face finally regained some color.
Not long after, Zhao slowly opened his eyes.
"Group Leader Tie, thank you so much!"
Seeing Zhao awake, Captain Fu immediately looked delighted and quickly expressed his gratitude to Tie Xiong.
Tie Xiong smiled faintly and waved his hand.
"Cap... Captain..."
"Group Leader Xu..."
Seeing Captain Fu and Group Leader Xu beside him, Zhao managed to squeeze out a weak smile.
"Zhao, weren’t you supposed to stay in the first-floor lobby? Why did you end up here and nearly got eaten by that monster?"
Captain Fu immediately asked.
"I... I don’t know either!"
Hearing this, Zhao lightly shook his head and said, "Right after you left, the black mist outside the inpatient department suddenly surged in, and we had no time to escape."
"As soon as I touched the black mist, I immediately passed out."
"When I woke up again, I found myself being tied up by the monster’s intestines."
"I struggled hard, but no matter how much I exerted myself, I couldn’t break free from the intestines’ hold."
"In the end, I felt my head grow heavy, and then I knew nothing..."
After hearing Zhao’s account, the people present exchanged glances with each other.
It seemed that after they left, there was an immediate change in the first-floor lobby.
"That’s odd, didn’t Dr. Mi die directly upon entering the black mist?"
Tie Shanshan looked at Zhao, now more or less fine, and asked with a frown.
The other four also nodded in agreement, which was exactly what puzzled them.
"Nurse Chief Lin is dead too!"
Li Xun reminded with a hint.
In front of everyone, Nurse Chief Lin had pulled off her own head, a scene too unforgettable.
"Could it be that only people from Hemei Hospital die immediately upon entering the black mist?"
Group Leader Xu also proposed his viewpoint.
"Let’s keep moving forward!"
"The mastermind insists on being cryptic, it’s difficult to understand them."
Tie Xiong said in a deep voice.
"Indeed, the answer to all of this can likely only be found by meeting the mastermind!"
Captain Fu nodded in strong agreement.
The group of five, plus Zhao, casually wandered around the third floor. Seeing no other new discoveries, they proceeded up the stairs to the fourth floor.
As soon as they reached the fourth floor, each person’s face turned grave again.
The walls of the entire fourth floor were covered with blood-red human faces.
These blood-red faces had their eyes closed, some male, some female, some old, some young.
And each face looked different from the others.
When Tie Xiong and the others appeared, countless blood-red faces simultaneously opened their eyes.
"You all must die..."
"You all must die..."
The blood-red faces, using different voices, chanted the same sentence.
This scene was intensely shocking, yet incredibly eerie.
"Group Leader Tie, what... what should we do?"
Group Leader Xu’s body was already trembling uncontrollably.
"Save me... save me..."
Within the chorus of voices, there was one unusual voice.
Tie Xiong and the others looked in the direction the voice came from and saw a distinctive blood-red face.
The other blood-red faces had no expression, mechanically chanting the same sentence.
This blood-red face, however, bore an expression of pain and struggle.
"Isn’t this Sun Zhen?"
Li Xun stared at the blood-red face for a while, then exclaimed in shock.
Upon hearing this, the group took another careful look, recognizing it as the shifty-eyed Sun Zhen they had encountered in the first-floor lobby earlier.
Upon seeing Tie Xiong and the others, Sun Zhen seemed to see a savior and continuously cried out for help.
"Save me... save me... you all must die..."
Just as Tie Xiong pondered how to rescue him, Sun Zhen’s expression suddenly became vacant, just like the other blood-red faces.
His calls for help were also replaced by the chant of the other blood-red faces.
At this moment, Sun Zhen seemed to be completely assimilated by the other blood-red faces.
"Let’s go, keep moving up!"
Seeing this, Tie Xiong could only sigh helplessly.
He led everyone and continued up the stairs.
When they reached the fifth floor, the group was stunned once more.
In front of them were rows of caskets.
At the head of each casket was a "Fu" character, along with a tablet and three burning incense sticks.
The entire fifth floor was filled with a strong scent of incense, making everyone sneeze uncontrollably.
"Huh? There’s my name here!"
Tie Shanshan’s gaze swept across, sharply noticing a casket on the east side, topped with a tablet bearing her name.
"Mine too!"
Li Xun pointed to a nearby casket on the right, its tablet also inscribed with "Li Xun" in large characters.
"Interesting!"
Tie Xiong also found his own casket and tablet.
Everyone who came to the inpatient department tonight seemed to have a matching casket and tablet.
"What’s with having my casket and tablet here?"
"Is there another me inside the casket?"
Curious, Li Xun walked over to his casket where his name was written.
Then, his face showed surprise.
All the caskets he passed by were completely empty.
Yet, inside his casket lay a corpse.
To his shock, the corpse’s appearance was identical to his own.
"What the hell! There’s actually another me lying in this casket!"
Li Xun couldn’t help but curse at the sight.
But at this moment, the corpse inside the casket suddenly opened its eyes.
As Li Xun was dazed, the corpse abruptly reached out and tightly choked his neck.
"Cough cough... cough cough..."
"Uncle Tie, help... save me..."
Li Xun felt his neck was about to be crushed, breathing becoming increasingly difficult.
With his last ounce of strength, he tried to call out to Tie Xiong for help.
But when his peripheral vision scanned around for Tie Xiong’s position, he found that there was no one there!
Panic-stricken, Li Xun looked around, finding nothing but rows of caskets, no sign of any people.
As the corpse’s hands continued to tighten, Li Xun’s struggles grew weaker, and weaker.
The shadow of death completely enveloped him...
"No... I can’t just die like this..."
At the brink of death, Li Xun’s desire for survival became unprecedentedly strong.
He gritted his teeth and summoned his last ounce of strength to break free of the corpse’s hands.
And then...
He suddenly awoke...
