Chapter 161 The lingering sound
In an instant, everything went dark.

Countless scattered perspectives emerge.

In the collapsed hospital, there were empty eyes that had lost their light and spirit, dissipated lives and cold bodies. There were cracked walls, falling dust, and shrill cries coming from afar.

"Try again, doctor, try again."

The patient, whose body was covered with tumors, pulled at the doctor's clothes in vain. The doctor, who was also in a state of embarrassment, froze in place, stammered his lips, lowered his head tiredly, but was unable to utter those few words.

"It doesn't matter if I die. At least, please save her..." On the hospital bed, the desperate patient used up his last bit of strength to hold the hand of his wife on the other bed, but he was unable to reach her.

The patient in the other bed was already silent.

Then he burst into tears.

Death comes from wailing.

The mournful cry echoed, but failed to attract anyone's attention.

In the collapsed and chaotic hospital, no one even turned back to look... because that kind of screaming had already enveloped everything at this moment.

In the makeshift operating room, the surgeon paused and put down the knife.

"He's bleeding heavily. There's no hope. Give up."

"But... there are still patients..."

"All the medicine and equipment are gone! Where's the rescue team?! Where's the promised supplies?!"

The furious doctor screamed, his eyes bloodshot, and asked, "How can we save her? How can we save so many patients out there? By lying?"

Everyone is begging me, begging me to hold on a little longer... I have tried my best, I have tried my best! But who can tell me, how long can I continue to lie like this? "

There was no response, only faint sobbing.

The sound of tears falling to the ground.

The dim fragments of light fell into the dust and disappeared, like a soul that jumped from the edge of a cliff, trying to touch the sky, but fell into the abyss again.

Tears merged into blood, reflecting the scarlet sky.

The flames spread and thick smoke billowed like pillars, supporting the gray-black sky.

There was a sound of falling.

It was as if the sky was falling apart.

The world fell into darkness, never to return.

Of this, only the remnant remains.

Yacheng, heavy rain.

Ten minutes after Shi Xu entered Beishan District, a speeding SUV had stopped outside the tightly sealed square.

When Wen Wen jumped out of the car, she looked up and saw the pouring rain in the sky and a blurry vortex faintly emerging in the thick rain.

He has been trapped by the force field that emerged in mid-air.

Can't go forward anymore.

This is the entrance to Shixu.

Under the command of the craftsmen from the Third Department of the Security Bureau, engineering vehicles were clearing the way and quickly completing the evacuation, and then preparing to tow the shackled Shi Xu to an uninhabited area.

The worst outcome could have been avoided.

She breathed a sigh of relief.

"Where's the search and rescue team?"

Wen Wen waved her hand to refuse the umbrellas offered by others, and walked straight to Tong Shan, who was at the front: "Have you started dispatching?"

"At present, the Time Ruins is already in a locked state. The internal state has started a cycle. I am afraid it will not open again before the end."

Tong Shan stood under the vortex and sighed slightly: "Good news, after inspection, the alert level of Shixu is probably at the transformation stage, and has not yet reached the stage of rebirth or transcendence.

Moreover, Ah Hua is still safe, and the life lock at home has not been triggered. The Xingxin Association has provided help, and Fourth Uncle has just returned from Chaocheng. If the life lock is triggered, he can provide assistance at any time. "

"Okay, stop laying the groundwork."

Wen Wen knew all too well that Tian Yuan and his gang were used to suppressing things before praising them. She opened and closed the lighter in her hand repeatedly in annoyance, "Let's just talk about the bad stuff."

"The bad news is that Shixu's departure might have been an accident, but coming to Yacheng was not."

Tong Shan finally turned around, expressionless: "When the drifting began, the Haizhou garrison had already made arrangements, and the Ship City Security Bureau was responsible for implementation.

But at the beginning, it was heading towards the sea, not towards Yacheng, so that the people from Taiyi Ring and Ship City came back empty-handed after they boarded the ship and went out to sea.

Halfway along the way, it suddenly turned and headed straight towards Yacheng."

"Is there something in Yacheng that attracts Shi Xu?" Wen Wen frowned.

"impossible."

Tong Shan shook his head decisively: "The premise of attraction is that there is an observable 'gravity' between them. But at such a long distance, if there is a gravity that can easily attract an entire time ruin to drift over to Yacheng, the Star Core Association would have sounded the alarm long ago. Maybe the whole Yacheng would be temporarily rifted.

According to its trajectory, it should have headed straight for the Municipal Square, but due to other reasons, it deviated from the direction and was intercepted by us outside the Beishan District."

Wen Wen's face gradually turned cold.

"That is to say... someone did this on purpose?"

Someone wants to send it to Yacheng, to a densely populated area, and then after it worsens, it will explode completely... By then, at least two districts will be completely razed to the ground, and half of Yacheng will be polluted.

No, I'm afraid it's not just Yacheng.

"Ten minutes ago, the Chaocheng Security Bureau also sent an urgent message, saying that a Time Ruins had also appeared within the city. However, because Yacheng had suffered a disaster before, they had made preparations in advance and had successfully intercepted it. However, they were unable to enter the Time Ruins for the time being, and they had to assign personnel to guard it to ensure that the worst situation would not occur.

There have also been some unusual movements in Ship City and River City. The other small cities are not in any situation for the time being, but they are also worried that they will be destroyed, so they have begun to request support from the surrounding big cities. "

Tong Shan said, "This is using the lives of ordinary people in Haizhou to kidnap the manpower of the Security Bureau... Just two incidents have caused panic in the entire Haizhou.

Who can you think of with such a handwriting? "

Wen Wen didn't say anything. She remained silent, smoking with her head down.

The flickering flames were dampened by the rain.

It twisted and shattered between the clenched fingers, and the debris fell into the rain, and followed the rolling muddy current into the fetid darkness.

The sound of the rainstorm stopped in an instant.

There was only dead silence.

"The evil cult..."

Wen Wen's eyes were dark, she looked up at the rain that was frozen and suspended in the stasis zone, and sighed silently: "First it was the Dragon Festival, and then it was these crazy people.

How come we can never kill all these lingering creatures?"

Everything that is gone is gone without a trace.

In just a brief moment, Ji Jue staggered, took a step back, and gasped.

From the records of the past, return to the interior of the ruins.

He raised his hand to stop Tong Hua from speaking.

"Go back to the office first."

After the two of them returned to the office safely and smoothly, Tong Hua saw that Ji Jue had tied the chain directly to the door. Then, he took out the blood bottle from his pocket and pulled out the skeleton spirit cage from his waist. At this moment, the light in the skeleton's eyes had turned green and red. It was unknown how much he had pocketed.

At this moment, using the blood rich in vitality and spiritual essence as material, Ji Jue directly dipped his blood and began to splash it on the wall.

After the physical enhancement, the fingers were closer to gold and iron. Under the enhancement of Miaoshou Tiancheng, he used his fingers as a chisel to carve a circle of spiritual circuits on the wall, from left to right and from top to bottom.

Even the floor and ceiling were not spared.

After just a few minutes, the originally neat and solemn office turned into a cult club with blood and scarlet patterns everywhere.

If you just point out that this is where we prepare to sacrifice to evil gods and evil fools, I'm afraid some people will believe it.

"In an emergency, we should deal with it as soon as possible."

After finishing the task, Ji Jue clapped his hands and placed the skeleton directly between the spiritual energy circuits. Instantly, the spiritual energy flowed and spread, blocking the entire office inside and out.

Such a perfunctory measure is simply a joke for the isolation of the workshop, but if it is just for the sake of closure and avoiding prying eyes, it is enough.

"Okay, you can talk now."

Ji Jue asked: "What else did you find in the fragmentary records?"

"This Shixu floated over from the cave in Quancheng."

Tong Hua sighed and sorted out the messy discoveries, "If my guess is correct, the place we are in now is the last hospital before the destruction of Quancheng decades ago.

But half a month ago, this place was just a nest of many monsters. Its transformation into a ruin must have only started recently."

"..."

Ji Jue remained silent, understanding what she meant.

If this hospital had been a ruin for decades, why did it suddenly transform into a ruin? Perhaps the environment in the cave had become so corrupt that good and evil were entangled, resulting in irreconcilable contradictions and distortions.

But the problem is, even if it turned into Shixu, how could it suddenly drift and then run to Yacheng to get close to the enemy and start a big fight?

Even if my cousin dragged the copy directly over.

But how did it float to the area of ​​Yacheng?
You have to know that Yacheng is not close to the ruins of Quancheng. It can even be said that it is at the two ends of the entire Haizhou. It did not go to the closer Chuancheng, nor to the more well-connected Chaocheng. After passing through a small city like Jiangcheng, it actually went straight to Yacheng?

Ji Jue still remembers Zhao Zhou disappearing before his eyes.

Isn't he an outsourced person hired by the Security Bureau to patrol the periphery of the Quancheng ruins?
There are too many mysteries, but those mysteries are too far away from Ji Jue, so he has no time to think about their meaning. At present, just trying to survive in the Time Ruins is already a full effort.

Until now, I have only been able to survive temporarily under the pressure of hospital rules, superiors, colleagues and patients.

However, there is still no clue about the existence of the lord and the core.

After hesitating for a moment, he took out the soul-calling bell from his pocket.

After the operation, he finally got a short rest before Director Qian came to cause trouble again, but that didn't mean he could rest easy.

The key at present is to first explore the structure of the entire hospital.

The risk of doing this is too great. After all, no one knows what ghosts are lurking in the depths of the hospital, or whether the attending physicians have a sense of territory...

You always need some consumables.

Hey~
A crisp sound echoed from the closed office, and the blood-colored spiritual circuits on the surrounding walls suddenly lit up, blocking the ringing sound within the room.

Then, Ji Jue began to feel lucky that he had done enough preparation...

In the originally empty office, countless figures suddenly appeared one after another, and the faint wailing sounds overlapped together, making people dizzy.

There are so many soul fragments in this office alone.

Then, Ji Jue shook the bell for the second time, and many residual spirits gathered in the bell and entangled on the bell tongue. When the third ring sounded, translucent spiritual spiders the size of fingers fell from the bell one after another.

At the beginning, it was as big as a palm or a fist, but as time went on, it became smaller and smaller, until finally, it was as big as a fingernail and inconspicuous.

"Alas--"

Tong Hua subconsciously pushed the chair back a little.

At this moment, Ji Jue was surrounded by strange spiders of all sizes. The density was enough to make anyone who was afraid of insects scream on the spot.

The restless spiders that inherited the cruelty of the residual spirit were almost unable to suppress their restraint and wanted to attack and eat Ji Jue's soul, but the moment they climbed onto his body, they retreated frantically as if they were on fire, trying to keep their distance. However, they were restricted by the bell and could not escape.

"The record book."

Ji Jue stretched out his hand: "Give me two, ordinary ones will do, but they must be more stable."

Tong Hua didn't ask him what he was going to do. She took a deep breath, grabbed a notebook, and tore off two pages of paper. As her spiritual energy flowed, a ray of silver light instantly appeared on the two pages and quickly disappeared. However, after she started writing, she suddenly felt the urge to write.

After Ji Jue took it, he decisively tore it into pieces.

With the help of Zi Feigong's forging and the primacy of spirit, each tiny fragment retains the essence of the record book, but the quality has dropped to the limit, and it can be said that it is not far from being scrapped.

Then, Ji Jue raised his hand and pointed upwards.

Suddenly, many spiders quickly crawled over the debris, holding the debris, climbing along the wall, pushing open the ceiling gypsum board, rushing out from the opened spiritual blockade, and disappearing into the darkness.

There was only the rustling sound, like drizzle, gradually fading away.

Ventilation ducts, ceilings, central air conditioners, electrical wiring pipes...the omnipresent spiders of all sizes went in all directions.

Ji Jue sighed with regret.

Unfortunately, I didn't bring the bottle of mercury with me. Without mercury as a carrier, the lifespan of the pure spiritual creation is too limited, so I can only use it in a rough way.

Must be as soon as possible.

Limited by his own abilities, he couldn't manually control every spider, so he could only issue vague instructions, dividing them into several different directions and letting them climb along the pipe. If they were discovered, they would directly self-destruct. Before their spiritual essence was exhausted, he would print the route on a piece of paper and send them to a fixed location.

Half an hour later, Ji Jue rang the soul-calling bell again. This time, a slender centipede crawled out along the ceiling and soon returned, rolling up the debris piled in the ceiling of the hall.

However, the number of pieces of paper brought back was only three-quarters of the number given away.

Either they were discovered, caught, or something unexpected happened and they were unable to reach the designated location.

But it is enough.

Relying on the fragments of the record book at hand and the interpretation of the children's paintings, every ten minutes, the general outline and layout of the hospital's main outpatient building appeared on the paper in front of the two.

From the top floor of the seventh floor to the morgue and equipment room in the basement, there are several areas that are completely blank, which are worth further attention or exploration.

However, none of the spiders sent to the inpatient building were able to return.

In the scene outside the window, the hospital building covered in flesh and blood was still echoing with wailing and crying, shouting at the top of its lungs, as if it would never stop.

"We are now on the fourth floor, the obstetrics and gynecology department, and the dermatology and health care departments."

Ji Jue recalled the buttons in the elevator and the instructions on the wall at the elevator entrance, trying to fill in the names of the departments he remembered, but Tong Hua's memory and observation skills were obviously better. He quickly wrote down the floor instructions that he had only seen once, and marked them next to each floor: Internal Medicine, Emergency Department, Surgery, First Aid Department, Otolaryngology Department...

The main structure of the entire hospital gradually became clear.

The first floor has been completely turned into ruins, and part of the second floor is occupied by a ghost thing of unknown origin, and the entire floor is closed.

Some areas on the third floor still have departments, and the fourth, fifth, sixth and seventh floors are all relatively well preserved, with many departments and sections listed on them.

Then, there is only one urgent investigation direction left...

The two looked at each other and immediately understood.

——Archives room!

(End of this chapter)