Chapter 107

Chapter 107

“Qiao Yu, what are you thinking about?”

Perhaps he had been too absorbed in his thoughts, because he hadn’t even noticed when Shang Yan stopped.

He quickly pulled himself back and gave a dry laugh. “I was thinking about how to achieve financial freedom without working, then live a life of pure indulgence.”

Shang Yan lowered his eyes, something like shards of ice caught in them. “Stop trying to fool me. Say it again.”

Qiao Yu looked at those crimson lips opening and closing in front of him. He leaned closer, yet kept the faintest distance between them, his voice as thin as a thread. “I was thinking about you.”

The almost-there brush of contact as he spoke was deliberate… seduction.

Shang Yan froze. It took him a good long while to snap out of it, and he immediately put some distance between them with a cold laugh. “Heh. You’d better be!”

Then, as if he were carrying his anger with him, he bent his elbow and smashed the seventh-floor glass window with a bang, then jumped straight into the pitch-black corridor on the seventh floor with Qiao Yu in his arms.

Unknown rustling and scraping sounds rose by their ears. The Ghost hidden in the darkness opened their eyes, restless and ready to move. Their scarlet eyes brimmed with a desire for destruction as they howled and roared… like hyenas, drawn by sound.

Shang Yan unhooked the grappling hook from the windowsill, his voice cold enough to carry no warmth at all. “Qiao Xiaoyu, hurry up and clear out those dangerous thoughts you were just having. Got it?”

Qiao Yu lowered his lashes instead, looking at the blood on the other man’s elbow. His voice was so soft it was almost inaudible. “Does it hurt?”

“It does.” Shang Yan turned around, his gaze falling on the end of the pitch-black corridor. “But jumping off a building hurts ten thousand times more than this, I promise.”

Qiao Yu: “……”

Excuse me, is it still not too late to trade in for a new boyfriend?

When you’ve been with someone like this for too long, they know what you’re thinking with one look. It really takes away all the novelty. (shrug.jpg)

Moonlight flickered in and out through the slow-drifting black clouds. At the end of the corridor, a dark figure faintly appeared.

Suddenly, a bolt of lightning split the sky, and in that instant, the pitch-black corridor was cast in a pallid glare.

At the same time, the tightly shut doors on both sides of the corridor creaked open one after another. The Doctor Ghosts, wearing white coats yet with strange, bluish-white faces, walked out in perfect unison, staring at them like predators eyeing prey.

And… and behind them, there were faint footsteps, slowly approaching.

Qiao Yu glanced back and saw that the Ghost behind them all had missing limbs. Their entire bodies looked as if they had been soaked in water, swollen to a horrific degree.

Pairs of malicious eyes fixed on them. The silver chain at Shang Yan’s cuff slipped out with a clatter.

Just as the situation was about to explode, Qiao Yu suddenly stretched out all ten fingers and curled them into claws. Then he bared his teeth at the Doctor Ghosts, pretending to be vicious. “Rawr!”

Shang Yan: “……”

Cute. I want to pin him in my arms and rub him a few times.

But I’m still angry. I have to stay in character.

How tragic.

-Cute. I want to rua him~

-Cute. I want to rua him +1

-Cute. I want to rua him +2

-Cute. I want to kiss him +3

-Painted Skin: Don’t think you can fool everyone just because you typed a +3. You want to kiss baby qy? As if you’re worthy!

-Sadako: Come here, don’t leave after school… ah, ptooey, stand still. I’m going to crawl through your TV.

-Li Xiaoqin: Why don’t you ask Phone Ghost for his number? We can just call him directly. Also…… has anyone seen my kitchen knife?

-I was wrong. I have sinned. I repent……

To the Ghost capable of keeping themselves lucid, Qiao Yu really was adorable.

But to the Ghost in front of them, who had no minds of their own and were controlled entirely by baleful energy… it was a naked provocation.

Almost instantly, the peace shattered. Qiao Yu was suddenly grabbed by the arm by Shang Yan and dragged behind him.
The silver chain seemed to swell against the wind, stretching and widening without end as it sent every snarling Ghost lunging toward him flying.

The Doctor Ghosts slammed into the wall with wails of agony. A thin layer of ice spread rapidly, freezing them all at the far end of the corridor.

At the same time, the mangled Ghost behind him had no intention of stopping either. The ones missing their limbs dragged themselves forward bit by bit with great difficulty, leaving long bloody streaks across the spotless white tile floor.

Others had been split open from chest to belly, their organs gone. They clutched their charred intestines and shrieked, clawing wildly at the air.

The scene was a complete wreck…

Just as Shang Yan was about to wipe them all out in one sweep, the familiar shift-change bell suddenly rang through the entire hospital.

The southern breeze blows cool and light

The nightingales sing through the night

The flowers beneath the moon all dream

Only Ye Lai Xiang releases its fragrance…

Almost instantly, the spaces seemed to show signs of merging again.

As the frost began to thaw, the frozen Doctor Ghosts were able to move freely in the blink of an eye. They sprang up with terrifying speed and charged again, their eyes filled with destruction and hunger.

The temperature in Shang Yan’s gaze plummeted. He lifted his eyes toward the end of the corridor.

Toward that faint, flickering black silhouette.

“Someone from the Blind School…”

Qiao Yu’s sharp ears twitched. A pair of bright black eyes peeked out from Shang Yan’s shoulder, studying the other party curiously. “So that’s the legendary Blind School?”

“Mm.” Shang Yan nodded. With his other hand, he gripped the middle of the silver chain, wrapped it several times around his left hand, then clenched his fist and punched away the Ghost that had gotten right up in front of him.

The black silhouette in the distance was too indistinct to make out, but from the person’s hunched figure, he seemed to be quite old.

Then, a flag suddenly appeared in the other party’s hand. Wisps of faint black qi swirled around him, shrouding his entire figure.

The hazy, flickering hospital began to solidify.

In the next second, a familiar electronic voice suddenly rang beside their ears.

[Warning: Due to outside interference, the Instance is currently merging. Countdown: 12 hours.]

[Please find the Review Card and escape the Instance as soon as possible. If you fail to escape within 12 hours, you will be erased.]

[Countdown-11:59:59]

Chi Shang, who had been asleep in bed, snapped his eyes open and stared in disbelief at the three lines of bright red text on the control panel.

Erased?

Why did something go wrong with this Instance every other minute?!

None of the streamers could sleep anymore. As time ticked by second after second, they felt like they were sitting on pins and needles inside their rooms.

Even though the corridor at night was overrun with Ghost, everyone had no choice but to withstand the pressure and try to go out to explore the Instance.

Chi Shang and Luo Ziwei thought the same. But even after they unlatched the door, they still couldn’t push it open.

The clattering sound of doors being yanked echoed through the empty corridor, producing layer after layer of reverberations, as though countless people were pulling on doors at the same time.

No-it really was a lot of streamers, just like them, yanking on their doors!

It seemed their doors had been… locked from the outside!

Just as everyone’s fear was about to reach its peak, the tap, tap, tap of footsteps suddenly came from beyond the door. Those footsteps moved at an unhurried pace until they arrived in front of Ward 604.

Then the head nurse’s strange, flat voice rang out. “Ward 604, the patient surnamed Chi. Diagnosis: leukemia. Your critical illness notice has already been issued from above. Prepare for surgery now.”

What critical illness notice?

Luo Ziwei stood in the center of the room wrapped in a blanket. After the head nurse finished speaking, he visibly weakened at an alarming speed. The soft flesh on his cheeks vanished at once, leaving him emaciated, gaunt, and haggard.

His legs gave out. His entire body fell backward, and his consciousness instantly sank into darkness…