Player of the Uncanny
Chapter 689

She Was a Player

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"Take your medicine."

Qin Manjiang returned to the ward and said to Li.

He hardly dared meet Li's eyes. After returning last night, he had already felt that something was wrong with her gaze, and just now, Xinxin had brought that up again-the occupations and illnesses of the seven people in this hospital were not fixed.

Could Li's illness have changed, even though her appearance had stayed the same?

Doppelgänger Syndrome made sufferers suspicious of anyone who approached them. It was an extremely terrifying form of persecutory delusion, and Li would strike first against anyone she considered dangerous.

If Li had changed, how could he find out what illness she had now?

Li said nothing. She simply stared silently at Qin Manjiang, took the medicine, and swallowed it.

Although she was very strange, she did not resist taking the medicine, which made Qin Manjiang breathe a sigh of relief.

But just as Qin Manjiang was about to leave the ward and join the others, Li suddenly began to cry!

Qin Manjiang's scalp prickled. It felt so eerie... She had just taken the medicine, and her eyes were still full of that eerie look, her expression abnormal too, yet tears kept streaming down her face, and her lips were opening and closing slightly.

What was wrong with her?

Qin Manjiang watched her lips closely. Ever since Yang's reminder during [Yellow Springs Opera], he had made a conscious effort to learn lip-reading. Although he could hardly call himself proficient yet, he could now recognize some simple sentences.

With a terrifyingly eerie expression and eyes full of venomous hatred, Li now had tears all over her face, yet the words her faintly trembling lips formed were: "Run..."

Run?!

Qin Manjiang could hardly believe it. Was that really what she was saying?

*She... what

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