Chapter 23 - Abandoned Hospital (7) (1/2)

Everything had happened in an instant. It was only when Da Gao’s headless body collapsed next to the squat toilet and the blood from his body had reached their feet did they manage to return to their senses. Faced with such a nightmarish and horrific scene, the Meng sisters covered their mouths to suppress their cries and began to tremble like a leaf.

“Da Gao!”

Ji Yun Xiao’s face was deathly pale, and his eyes were red. He looked like he was ready to rush over but Cheng Zhi Chu was able to react in time and hold him back: “Don’t go over!”

“Slap.”

The hand that reached out from the black hole was covered in blood. It pressed against the tile on the floor, leaving a bloody hand print.

Then, another long and slender dried up black limb stretched out from the hole. Just the forearm itself was about half a metre long yet it was only about two fingers thick. The skin was so dark that it looked like it was scorched. It exuded a horrid stench as blood contaminated filthy water dripped from it onto the floor.

“Huff…….huff……….”

Loud breathing sounds could be heard coming from inside the hole. The two long arms pressed onto the floor tile and it looked like something was trying to squeeze out from that small hole. At the same time there was the sound of metal hitting something hard. It was so faint that several of them couldn’t make it out very clearly.

“Clang! Clang clang!”

Meng Xi pulled out the gun from her chest pocket and fired a few shots at the black limb. That things movements stopped for a few seconds and then it let out an ear shattering screech. After being provoked by her, it became even more violent and it increased its speed of crawling out from the hole.

“Squelch……….Squelch…..”

After hearing a sound that sounded like something stepping onto mud, that thing stretched out more arms and finally managed to climb out.

Its entire body was pitch black. It had ten arms and its body resembled that of a thin spider. It had a human head and neck but it was obscured by thick hair. Only a mouth filled with fangs that were still dripping with blood could be faintly seen behind it.

It stepped over Da Gao’s body on the ground and its sharp limbs instantly punctured through the bleeding corpses’ abdomen. It let out a screech and lowered its body closer to the ground before gathering up all its power to rush over to Cheng Zhi Chu and the others.

At this moment, Meng Xin activated the protective shield card and a transparent cover emitting pale blue light enveloped everyone.

“Thud!”

The monster rushed over like a bullet and crashed directly into the protective shield, making a loud noise. The shield shook and the light that it emitted dimmed a little as fresh blood stains were left onto it following the collision.

It wasn’t successful in its first attack, so it let out a cry and once again crouched down onto the ground.

Although you couldn’t see its eyes, Cheng Zhi Chu could still feel its bloodthirsty eyes looking at them. He couldn’t help but feel terrified and fearfully take a small step back.

This is the man-eating monster………….The man-eating monster the nurses mentioned!

Cheng Zhi Chu realised that the ghost stories circulating the hospital had turned into reality at this very moment. His expression contorted several times as he desperately tried to recall whether the stories that he had heard mentioned anything about how they could deal with the man-eating monster.

But the system no longer gave him any memories or tips. Apart from knowing that it was the man-eating monster, the rest of his mind was blank.

What made Cheng Zhi Chu even more fearful was the fact that Da Gao’s earlier departure from the group was very strange. It was as if he had seen something that didn’t exist. The man-eating monster probably has the ability to generate hallucinations and what he and Meng Ke saw before was probably also because of it.

If the man-eating monster could generate hallucinations, it would be several times more difficult to deal with .…….

“Guys, look at that arm………….”

Meng Ke turned on her flashlight and pointed it at one of its limbs. A silver light reflected back, and it appeared and disappeared behind the dark hair as it let out a metallic sound. It was the key that they were looking for.

Cheng Zhi Chu’s face turned even more pale. So to say, in order to get the key, they cannot just run away, they would need to kill this man-eating monster first!

“Swoosh———–Clang!”

The man-eating monster once again rammed into the protective shield. This time the impact was greater, and it used its teeth to fierce bite onto the shield.

The blue light above them flashed and it produced an electric current. It let out a loud screech of pain before retreating back again and crouching low against the ground. At this moment, a small crack had already formed on the protective shield and it could probably only support two more attacks at most.

Meng Xin gripped tightly onto the card with a forehead covered in cold sweat. She didn’t dare to act rashly.

Earlier she had fired a few shots at the man-eating monster, but the monsters outer shell seems to be very hard and the bullets had no effect at all. She was worried that if she made any further ineffective attacks it would instead anger it and the shield would break faster.

How should they kill it……..

Cheng Zhi Chu gripped onto the emerald necklace hanging from his neck. The necklace can command a ghost or monster to do one task but on the condition that the strength of the ghost of monster does not exceed those of the users.

The man-eating monster looks like it’s far stronger than him and the necklace probably wouldn’t work………..but he still has to give it a try!

Cheng Zhi Chu felt cold sweat forming on his forehead. In order to increase the chance of success, he had already drunk the luck potion that he had bought in advance. He then lifted the necklace up and pointed it in the man-eating monsters’ direction. He took a deep breath and said.

“Before we get out of this hospital, you are not allowed to hurt us in any way.”

The moment his words fell, a green glimmer of light was emitted from the jewel on the necklace. At the same time a painful groan came from within the man-eating monsters throat. However, after just struggling for a few seconds, it continued to act as fiercely as ever and once again it slammed against the protective shield.

“Bang————!

【Invalid Operation.]

Fuck, this really isn’t working!!

Although he had expected this, when he saw the result Cheng Zhi Chu was still angry to the point that he almost spat out blood. For a moment he had forgotten about his fear and just felt that he was completely humiliated by this necklace.

With the third impact from the man-eating monster, the protective shield trembled, and it was covered in cracks. If just a small force was applied externally, it would immediately break down.

After colliding with the shield several times, the man-eating monster also didn’t look like it was in a good state. The energy consumption from attacking the protective shield wasn’t little. It gasped for air as the eyes hidden under the hair glared at them fiercely. It then suddenly turned around and began to feed on Da Gao’s body seemingly trying to recover some of its energy.

This scene occurred before Ji Yun Xiao’s eyes allowing him to wake up from his daze. Trembling fiercely and with red eyes filled with ferocity, he pulled out a weapon in the shape of a crossbow and fired out an arrow at the man-eating monsters head,

The arrow landed right in the centre of the man-heading monsters head but, before the sisters could celebrate, that arrow fell to the ground with a clatter. It didn’t even pierce inside and only left a small, white scratch on the outside.

“Growl————”

The man-eating monster roared at them and then continued to bury its head and eat the body. When it tore open the abdomen, the internal organs flew everywhere.

“What on earth is its weakness?”

Meng Ke was terrified to the point that her body trembled. She stuttered: “If even the head is not its weakness then how can we kill it?!”

“……….Maybe we can use poison.”

Bai Yi’s tone was very calm, almost to the point of indifference. He took out a bottle from his backpack and handed it over to Ji Yun Xiao.

“It’s a living thing. You just need to coat the arrow with the poison, shoot it into the corpse and let the toxins spread. When it eats the body, it would also be poisoned.”

Hearing him say that, Cheng Zhi Chu looked up at him in shock. His attention was then quickly drawn over to the clear plastic bottle in Bai Yi’s hands.

Why is it a mineral water bottle again? Does Bai Yi really like to use mineral water bottles to store things? How does he tell if a bottle is filled with holy water or with poison………?

“………….”

Ji Yun Xiao’s hands that held onto the crossbow tightened. His handsome face went pale and his voice trembled as he spoke brokenly: “I……”

“It’s too cruel, how can I…………”

The two sisters saw Ji Yun Xiao’s anguished expression and felt very uncomfortable inside.

Although reason tells them that this is the only way but, as someone who likes Ji Yun Xiao, they also know that although Da Gao may just be Ji Yun Xiao’s bodyguard by name, but they are also good friends. If you ask him to use his friends’ body as bait, it really is……….

They couldn’t help but glance at the remnants of Da Gao’s body. They clenched their teeth and just as they wanted to speak up and push the responsibility over to themselves, Bai Yi surprisingly spoke up and didn’t give them the chance to speak: “I also think that it is very cruel.”

His eyes were dark and there was an undetectable hook at the edge of his lips. With a low voice he said:

“If that’s the case then we would need one of us to be bait. While the others try to restrain the monster, they would need to look for opportunities to pour the poison into the monsters mouth. We…..”

“Let me do it.”

Ji Yun Xiao had a resolute expression as he pursed his lips and said without hesitation: “Let me be bait.”

“No, Xiao Xiao. How can you be the bait?!”

The two sisters were shocked. They quickly wanted to stop Ji Yun Xiao: “No, you can’t. Let us——“

“Thank you but I was the one who vetoed against the safer option so it must be me.”

Ji Yun Xiao gentle shook his head. His eyes were still red and a little sad but he revealed a faint smile: “And I also don’t want to see you take risks for me.”

The two sisters trembled with faint tears in their eyes. Cheng Zhi Chu took this scene in and felt a fierce struggle inside him. Although he is very scared, he had just drunk the luck potion so even if he had used the cursed item and had failed, he would probably be more likely to succeed in things like this.

When he was about to discuss it with Bai Yi, he suddenly heard a strange sound and immediately raised his head.

The man-eating monster who was still eating from the body also heard this sound and its movements suddenly stopped. It then suddenly let out a terrified cry and quickly threw away the limb in its hands.

It didn’t even look at Cheng Zhi Chu and the others. Waving its many limbs around fervently, it desperately rushed over to the squat toilet and drilled its head inside.

But because it had eaten a large majority of the corpse, its abdomen wasbulging, and it got stuck in the hole. No matter how hard it tried, it couldn’t squeeze through. Like a very pitiful bug, its lower body was exposed outside the squat toilet and it could only struggle around pathetically.