894 A Million Times for You 256 (2/2)
Even though she had already prepared herself mentally, she could not help but tear up in sympathy for the innocent victims when she saw the piles of corpses.
She felt a lump in her throat as well.
She could not manage to make a single sound.
After taking a quick glance and discovering that there were no wandering spirits in the room, she and Jin Qingyan hurriedly retreated.
They proceeded to the next makeshift room.
They continued to check every single tent, all the way until the last one.
An Xiaoning could already sense something unusual before they even reached the room.
She instructed Jin Qingyan, ”Don't go in, there are spirits inside. I'll go and take a look.”
He handed her the bag he was carrying and said, ”Here.”
An Xiaoning took it from him and removed her raincoat, which she passed to him. She then walked toward the last tent.
Jin Qingyan was planning to wait for her at the area where the soldiers were standing. Noticing that she'd stopped in her tracks after taking a few steps, he asked, ”What's the matter?”
An Xiaoning turned around and walked toward him again. She said softly, ”The spirits are out.”
Jin Qingyan walked away with her.
While walking, An Xiaoning saw in her peripheral vision the reapers taking the spirits away.
After they left, she entered the tent, only to discover that there were no longer any spirits in sight.
Their next stop was the local hospital.
There was a serious case of overcrowding in the hospital.
As soon as they arrived on the second floor, An Xiaoning caught sight of a spirit belonging to a young man, who was running away with all his might.
Spirits would usually behave that way when they're being chased by reapers.
However, it seemed that that was not the case at the moment.
The male spirit wasn't being chased by the reapers or ghost children working for them. Instead, he was being chased by a woman whom An Xiaoning knew was not a reaper, because the reapers she had seen previously were all males donning the same uniform.
The woman did not seem like a new spirit, and she quickly caught up with the man who was trying to escape.
The moment the young man was caught, he knelt in front of her straight away, trembling uncontrollably from head to toe.
Puzzled, An Xiaoning grabbed Jin Qingyan's hand and walked toward them.
An Xiaoning stood still at a spot that was about a few meters away from the spirits and leaned against the railing while talking to Jin Qingyan, pretending as if she did not see the spirits at all.
In fact, she had been keeping her eyes fixed on them.
The woman seemed extremely haughty and arrogant. She lifted her foot and stomped it down against the young man's head, causing his face to be plastered onto the ground.
Staring condescendingly at the man beneath her foot, she remained silent while a sinister smile hung from her lips.
An Xiaoning had no idea if they knew each other or if they had a feud with each other. Hence, she had been keeping quiet and remaining still.
The man had his hands pressed against the floor and was facing An Xiaoning. Thus, An Xiaoning could clearly see the look of pain and agony on his face.
He seemed to have known that there was no way for him to escape and did not struggle at all.
Just as An Xiaoning thought the woman would continue with her unruly acts, the latter moved her foot away and removed the red scarf on her neck, which she then wrapped around the man's neck. She tightened her grip and pulled him away.
An Xiaoning touched Jin Qingyan's fingers, after which they followed closely behind.
An Xiaoning witnessed with her own eyes what being immoral really was like.
An elderly lady was walking slowly with a piping-hot bowl of instant noodles in her hands that she had just made. However, the female spirit smacked the bowl of instant noodles away from the elderly lady's hands, causing it to fall onto the ground. The bowl of instant noodles that the elderly lady had obtained through painstaking means was gone just like that. There went her meal for the day. How wicked!