Something amiss

Chapter 274: Something amiss

"Stay here!"

Qin Ran looked at the thin mist hanging over the sanatorium in the distance and spoke to Shiqi.

His [Mysterious Knowledge] told him that this mist was the physical manifestation of negative energy that had reached a certain concentration.

It was common in places such as the Desolate Mountain Cemetery.

But there was only one possible explanation for it appearing in a suburban sanatorium...

Everyone inside the sanatorium was dead!

And whatever had killed everyone in the sanatorium, it was not something he could afford to take lightly.

Qin Ran set down his enormous backpack, pulled out the straps on the case containing [Words of Arrogance], and slung it onto his back. After taking a few essential items from the backpack, he climbed out of the pickup.

"Don't turn on the headlights. Back up to the junction we passed earlier. Don't open the door until I show up... and you've confirmed that it's really me!"

Qin Ran gave him those instructions.

Shiqi gestured that he understood, then took out a bottle containing some kind of powder and began sprinkling it around the truck.

Qin Ran was not surprised.

Having encountered supernatural incidents and become the person responsible for handling them, it would have been strange if Shiqi had no tricks of his own.

Qin Ran watched the truck start up again and retrace its route to the junction about three hundred meters away, where a sign pointed toward "Gode Sanatorium." Then he turned and headed toward the sanatorium.

The last light of sunset disappeared completely a moment later.

Night fell.

The mist, which had been thin before, grew a little thicker the instant the moon rose.

The entire sanatorium became even more silent.

Even the wind seemed to have stopped.

Yet the thickening mist