Chapter 255
Chapter 255
“What a shame. I didn’t expect there to be more than one.”
Even Guiwa was surprised. This Fiend had an elaborate trick up its sleeve. He had thought the young Fiend was remarkably strong, managing to spread a Fiend Domain over such a wide area in only three years. It turned out that this was a composite Fiend Domain formed by multiple Fiends.
Such a domain was extremely difficult to create. Every Fiend had to share the same desire. If even one of them changed its mind, the Fiend Domain would collapse.
If there had been only one Fiend, Xiaoshuai’s analysis would have been correct. He could have appealed to its love for its family and persuaded it to let them go.
Unfortunately, this was a composite Fiend Domain. What gave one Fiend the right to recover its memories, fulfill its wish, and quit? The other Fiends would never tolerate that.
“Sigh… Better think of another way to coax Liu Ye into growing up again.”
…
Meanwhile, elsewhere in the hospital, Liu Ye strode forward with a band of psychiatric patients banging gongs and drums behind him.
Boom, boom, boom! Boom, boom, boom!
“Report!”
A child of five or six trotted over. She wore an enormous paper hat and paper clothes with the pinyin for soldier written across them. The moment she reached him, she tripped and landed flat on the floor.
“Boo-hoo…”
The little girl’s eyes instantly filled with tears.
“Don’t cry. You shall be rewarded with a sip of milk.”
One of the psychiatric patients beside her bobbed his head and handed over a baby bottle.
The girl accepted it, gulped down a large mouthful, then wiped away her tears.
“Reporting to the boss! Up ahead, I learned that two tall ones and four short ones ran into a room.”
“Which room?”
“Uh… I forgot to ask.”
Liu Ye: “…”
He was desperately short of talent! If only Advisor Qi were here. Hm? Who was Advisor Qi?
But there was nothing he could do. This was the only dependable person in the whole hospital. The rest could barely count, let alone scout a route.
Honestly, Big Brother made him worry all day long.
Thinking of Big Brother made Liu Ye very sad. Big Brother, Brother Biao, and the others had disappeared. None of the other people here were any fun. Every last one of them seemed stupid.
“Sigh!”
Liu Ye patted his little belly. He was hungry, but there was nothing to eat anywhere nearby!
As soon as the thought occurred to him, the space ahead changed. A huge arrow appeared, pointing to the side.
Liu Ye immediately sprinted in that direction on his short little legs.
Not long afterward, a resonant voice echoed through a certain room. It was a vast auditorium. None of the people inside had noticed the changes outside; they were entirely absorbed in the speaker onstage.
“As long as you believe in God, God will grant your wishes! Then God’s messenger will appear and lead you all to the eternal kingdom!”
The speaker was dressed as a priest. He drew the eye at once, and a voice deep in your heart seemed to tell you that he could be trusted. The moment he finished speaking, the people below burst into thunderous applause.
Online, however, the audience erupted.
“Holy shit! Who am I looking at? The superstar Feng Heng? How did she end up in there too?”
“The famous director Huo Jun, the owner of Li Real Estate, Li Li, Cui Xiaoshan of Cui Jewelry, a shareholder of Shark Live… Damn, these are all major figures!”
“They all look so young. Does that mean they went there all those years ago?”
After Xiaoshuai and the others’ earlier experiences, everyone online knew what kind of hospital this was. Now that they knew these people had visited it back then, and for nothing good, the public’s image of them collapsed instantly.
Meanwhile, their real-world counterparts watched the livestream with grim expressions. None had expected this thing to implicate them by broadcasting everything that had happened back then.
Their teams went mad, desperately churning out press releases.
But it was already too late.
Inside the Fiend Investigation Bureau, a staff member hurried in carrying a mountain of documents.
“Director! Bad news! The shares of the companies appearing in the livestream are plummeting. Several have already hit their daily limit down. The films and television shows starring those celebrities or directed by those directors have been banned from release outright. Our current total losses have reached this figure…”
Swan took the document and glanced at it. She instantly turned her head away, then quickly switched off her phone.
She could already imagine how the people handling the economy were going to lose their minds.
She looked to John for help. John spread his hands.
“Don’t look at me. My family is still being liquidated. Even if I wanted to take over, I don’t have the money. Besides, too many things collapsed this time…”
Swan felt a pounding headache coming on. Liu Ye really lived up to his reputation as a nuclear warhead: wherever he went, everything collapsed. Who could have imagined that a simple livestream would have consequences like these?
Xiaoshuai and the others were currently wrapped in a mass of Red String. They were safe for the moment, but no one knew how long it would last.
With Xiaoshuai unable to contain the situation, they had no idea what might be unleashed next.
Swan immediately ordered someone to send over the Priest’s file.
“The man onstage is named Wei Chuan, nicknamed the Priest. He doesn’t believe in God, however. He appears to worship a god called Asa, which is supposedly omnipotent and omnipresent. He used that belief to establish a cult in the real world. Its initiation rites were rather… well, you know. The man was eventually arrested for organizing… gatherings, murder, and other crimes. He was later diagnosed with mental illness and confined to a psychiatric hospital. But he didn’t stop there. Until that hospital was abandoned, people continually visited to hear his sermons and attend the gatherings he organized.”
The surrounding staff stared at the file with lecherous expressions.
“Hey, isn’t that the one I like? How did she also…”
“Right? I heard some people even danced… you know, right in public. Damn, there’s video footage too.”
“Hey, don’t spread rumors. Something like this requires evidence. Send me the video so I can examine it critically!”
As they chatted, a shadow suddenly appeared before them. They turned around to find Swan staring at them calmly.
“…”
Bang!
“Hurry up! Send people to bring back a few of the people in the video. Ask them what happens next.”
“Yes!”
Several staff members shouted in unison, enormous lumps swelling on their heads.
Onstage, the Priest smiled at the audience.
“That concludes today’s sermon. Now, please enjoy the sacrament.”
The curtain behind the Priest drew open, revealing a long table… with absolutely nothing on it!
Seeing the expressions of the people below, the Priest froze. Then he turned around and found that the table, which should have been laden with food, held nothing but plates.
“Where’s the food?”
The Priest glared at his assistant. The assistant panicked and hurriedly replied.
“I prepared it! I put it right on the table!”
At that moment, they heard a noise beneath the table. They lifted the tablecloth and found, of all things, a small child holding some bread and munching away. Food crumbs covered his face.