Even Uncle Huang squinted his eyes and watched me intently.
Yang Guan rushed towards me, reaching me in front of me. The expression on his mountain sheep face looked somewhat urgent and flustered.
He inspects me up and down and leans over to see behind me.
"Xian Shen's nephew, what's the situation you've encountered? Where's the Big Brother? Have you seen him?"
It is obvious that our judgment is correct.
Only I entered the ghost beat wall……
No, that's not right...
I felt a chill run down my spine and stared fixedly at Yang Guan's face!
"What did you just say?!" My voice was laced with hoarseness.
"What?" The steward was startled by my expression.
"Xian Shen's nephew, I ask you... what have you encountered..."
Before he could finish speaking, my voice had risen to a loud volume! Even some of my emotions seemed out of control.
"Repeat the last sentence!"
"Big Brother then? Have you seen him?" Yang Guan's face looked uneasy as he repeated it.
I twisted my head violently, staring at the hospital's iron gate!
The rusted iron bars exuded a cold, lifeless atmosphere.
The morning sunlight pierced through the layers of clouds, creating a gradient of red clouds that looked like steps or rippling waves.
The concrete playground was especially quiet.
The hospital building seemed especially eerie and cold. It appeared as though it was daylight, yet it still seemed like a malevolent ghost that devours people.
Cold sweat trickled down my forehead.
"Leader... gone?" My voice was hoarse to the extreme.
"Yes..." The steward's voice became even more restless.
He whispered an explanation of many things, which was roughly that after we entered the hospital gate in formation, there were immediately problems.
They found that I and the leader were missing.
Two able-bodied men simply vanished after passing through a door!
Everyone immediately left the iron gate, and there was no sign of us outside, confirming that we had all entered together.
Afterwards, the people of Huangsi were full of anxiety.
The Taoists seemed unbothered, saying that the operation should not be obstructed. The fact that two people were missing only further indicated there was a problem here.
Therefore, everyone explored the hospital building.
The purpose of Huangsi had changed; they wanted to find me and the leader.
The purpose of the Taoists was to eradicate the ghosts here, be it the epidemic ghost, the five hells ghost, or the prisoners in the twenty-eight hells; they all needed to be suppressed.
In the end, they found nothing.
According to the logic, this should be a very sinister prison. However, besides the heavy atmosphere of evil, they didn't find any ghosts.
Even more bizarrely, myself and the leader—just like evaporated—could not be found at all!
Later, they searched the building three times, even found a small building behind the building, but still didn't find us.
Han Shaizi left with the other Taoists.
They could only leave and ask Uncle Huang to figure out a way.
Uncle Huang dispatched Sir Yin to investigate inside, but there were still no clues, so he could only tell them that I and the leader were still inside the hospital.
Even Sir Yin couldn't manage to reach us through the medium of blood...
It was as if there was an invisible barrier preventing it...
After explaining it, Yang Guan became even more nervous.
The other nine strata of society gathered around, looking at me unnaturally.
Several gazes were fixed on the shoes I was holding.
My breathing became heavier, and my eyes turned slightly red.
It's all gone wrong...
Not just me who entered the ghost beat wall!
It was everyone who had been absorbed by Wei Yumin's soul!
Including the leader!
I took a step forward directly and walked into the iron gate.
However, when I went in, the sky was still bright.
Cold winds kept blowing on me.
The morning sun was still there, and even the scattered morning glow had disappeared, as a red sun was slowly rising behind the building.
The sinister prison here... is completely different from the abandoned building, Qixia Village's...
The sunlight can penetrate in?
"Xian Shen's nephew?" Yang Guan and the others followed in.
"Do you know something? Have you seen the leader?"
"What have you people actually encountered?"
"Where is the old gentleman?"
Yang Guan asked me several questions in a row, piling up on me all at once.
I closed my eyes.
Only after a great effort, I answered in a hoarse voice, "He should be inside there, but he hasn't felt it yet, hasn't met with us and doesn't know where he is."
"He? The old gentleman."
"You... were there with someone else? Where is that person?" Yang Guan's eyes showed more doubt, and he asked more quickly.
For a moment, I didn't know how to answer.
Especially with so many under nine strata of society from Huangsi around me, Shi Yu, and Uncle Huang.
If too many people knew about the leader's incident, it might be detrimental to Huangsi.
Even the leader's actual identity might be endangered.
I was never particularly close to Huangsi, and I still am not. I only think highly of the leader, feeling that he is worth deep friendship.
"Uncle Yang, the leader is fine. The 'him' I'm talking about is also the leader. This is very complex and involves some secrets. Can we step aside and talk?"
Under the current situation, I couldn't even enter the ghost beat wall in my impulsiveness.
It's not clear whether it's because the node was taken by me or because the sun came up.
In any case, I won't be able to go back to find the leader for a while. I need to first clarify the situation with Uncle Yang.
The faces of the many people looked a bit better.
Shi Yu didn't speak up, wondering what he was thinking.
Uncle Yang took a slight breath and made a gesture for an invitation.
We left the iron gate and got on a car.
During this period, Uncle Huang did not follow us but only nodded slightly to me as a gesture of understanding.
After getting into the car, Uncle Yang quickly closed the door and the windows, then in a low voice told me that the car had good soundproofing.
I coughed up a mouthful of phlegm and told Uncle Yang about the situation that occurred in the hospital.
I included everything, from the leader being absorbed by a thread of Wei Yumin's soul, to the things that happened with Wei Yumin, and our process of coming out, leaving no detail out.
I paid close attention to the changes in Uncle Yang's eyes during this time.
He didn't show any strange expressions, which made me feel more comfortable taking out the piece of human skin paper.
Uncle Yang's jaw clenched tightly, and his forehead veins bulged one after another.
"Big Brother... there's a strong possibility that he's like Xian Shen's nephew, and once he went in, he ended up somewhere else... He might be trapped? Or he might have been the first to encounter Wei Youming... and got injured? Or maybe he hid somewhere?"
"We have to go in again!"
In his words, Uncle Yang stared at the shoe in my other hand.
I did not refuse Uncle Yang's proposal because I also place great importance on the safety of the leader.
Just...
The situation was obviously not as simple as we had thought.
I originally thought that Wei Youming had been taken away by the vice-president.
We can find the leader again, but I think there shouldn't be any trouble.
But in fact...
We can't get into the ghost wall anymore.
Whether it's walking in directly with shoes after the sun sets, or hanging the shoes where they originally hung on the iron door.
No matter how we went in, we only entered the barren hospital building.
The atmosphere of evil was as heavy as before, but it felt like it wasn't in one place!
I don't believe in evil spirits, so I let Uncle Yang wait by himself and went inside again by myself. However, there was still no change, and I could still see their people behind me.
It seems that the leader and I have completely disrupted the node.
The ghost wall is truly the place of sinister prisons!
