Next, Shen Hai raised his foot and, carrying Xu Tingfang's curled-up corpse, walked straight into the monster blocking the alley entrance, ignoring it entirely.
But when his whole body struck it, the seemingly solid, hideous monster turned into a cloud of gray mist with a bang.
Countless "black lines" scattered and fled. "Frog Eggs" rained onto the ground, squirmed a few times, then turned into a puddle of foul-smelling sewage.
The alley entrance opened up, and the Nursing Home was right before him.
[Nine-Bend Alley], cleared.
Clatter-
A phone tumbled to the ground.
Shen Hai looked down. Xu Tingfang's hands, tightly clasped against his chest, had quietly opened.
His expression calm, Shen Hai said softly:
"How stupid."
It was late at night.
Strange sounds kept coming from the fog, sounds that grew more terrifying the more one thought about them. Qin Manjiang followed the barely visible concrete beneath his feet.
Only when the view ahead suddenly opened up did he raise his head.
When he did, he saw someone walking back from the opposite direction-
Shen Hai.
Both men froze.
Qin Manjiang carried the unconscious Yu Ruoli on his back; Shen Hai held the dead Xu Tingfang in his arms.
The two men stood before the Nursing Home, beneath the dark, low-hanging sky, with a terrifying atmosphere weighing over them.
"Is she dead?" Qin Manjiang's eyes dimmed.
Yan Xiao had said he would not let anyone in Fu City's [Eye Realm] die.
Yet deaths still kept happening.
"She left a phone behind. That's worth something, at least." The corner of Shen Hai's mouth lifted, as though he did not care.
Qin Manjiang glanced at Xu Tingfang's phone, now in Shen Hai's hand, and suddenly asked, "Then her corpse has no value anymore. Why haven't you thrown it away?"
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