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Chapter 108

“It’s haunted… it’s really haunted!”

The weather has been bad lately, always gloomy. The houses in this neighborhood are all old buildings with gray, drab brick exteriors. Occasionally, a few families plant some greenery, but in this season, there’s no green, only orange-yellow clinging to the wrinkled walls, making them look even older.

“But there are too many, it wasn’t this serious before.”

“Gone? Where did they go?”

“Just gone, no idea where. Anyway, one morning when he woke up, his neighborhood was empty, just him.”

“Then he’s quite lucky.”

Spring was approaching, stuffy, gloomy, and damp. Jiang Yu listened for a while, then turned back to the front desk to search for information.

It wasn’t fake. The police issued a notice early in the morning, stating that more than five hundred people had gone missing from a certain neighborhood.

More than five hundred people disappeared overnight… Where did they go?

He turned his head and suddenly noticed a little boy standing at the clinic entrance. He was dressed warmly, suggesting his family wasn’t well-off, and he had a thick scarf around his neck. His face was a little pale, and he stared blankly at the door.

He looked like he had been standing there for a long time.

“Little friend, are you sick?” Jiang Yu asked him.

The little boy nodded blankly.

The little boy shook his head and held out a crumpled hundred-yuan bill.

It didn’t look like a serious illness, and a hundred yuan was definitely enough. The doctor waved him in.

The attending doctor wanted to scold him, but seeing the child there, he said nothing. He poured a glass of water and handed it to him, “Little friend, what’s wrong? Where do you feel uncomfortable?”

The little boy took the glass, still looking blank, and poured the water into his mouth. Hearing the doctor’s question, he pointed to his throat.

“Your throat is uncomfortable? Is it hard to speak?”

The little boy slowly shook his head, indicating he didn’t want to.

“Take it off, I’ll dry it for you,” the doctor persuaded him, while placing his hand on the little boy’s neck, coaxing him, “If you don’t take it off, you’ll get even sicker.”

The scarf was wrapped several times around his neck. As he unwound it circle by circle, he suddenly felt a little puzzled—strange, no matter how thin a normal child’s neck is, could it be this thin? How many times was it wrapped? Wouldn’t it cause suffocation?

Distractedly, he finally unwound the last circle—

And then, he was stunned.

Below the head, above the shoulders, the neck that should have been there was missing.

This child didn’t have a neck! His head was floating in the air!

He had just been talking to this child for a long time! And had agreed to see him!

The doctor’s face instantly turned pale, and he took two steps back, every hair on his body standing on end. He saw that the little boy’s floating head had a quiet smile on its face.

Then, the smile on that face grew wider and wider, his mouth almost stretching to both ears…

Jiang Yu, who had walked far away, heard a piercing scream.

*

The young man in front of him didn’t say anything, just nodded.

What a great philanthropist…

“This batch of goods is pretty good,” Xiao Chen pinched a mannequin’s face, rotated its head, and found that its flexibility wasn’t bad. “They all look a little different.”

They worked for a long time to load all of these mannequins. Afterwards, they still had to be responsible for repairs, filling in damaged areas, and re-sculpting the ones that didn’t look good. Fortunately, there weren’t many damaged ones in this batch, so it seemed that the work afterwards would be easier.

That patch of skin suddenly cracked open.

The first piece of debris fell down. Then, almost all the mannequins began to crack, popping and crumbling.

The putrid smell of rotting human flesh gradually spread.

*

“How did they pass out?” Jin Fugui looked at Jiang Bai with a hint of awe.

Lin Chu explained, “They started to change as they listened, so we had to knock them out first. We also sprinkled a lot of glutinous rice.”

Jin Fugui clicked his tongue.

The only one who learned it was Lin Chu.

But she didn’t say it. Instead, she followed the crowd, shaking her head and saying she didn’t quite understand yet.

“Jiang Bai, what are you looking at?” Lin Chu held a bowl of rice. She saw Lu Yanli staring at the horizon and asked curiously.

Lu Yanli shook his head, “Nothing.”

But Lin Chu felt that what he was looking at was definitely not that simple. So she held her bowl and stood on the balcony as well, looking into the distance.

“The scenery here is indeed quite good,” Lin Chu sincerely commented.

Good enough… that she couldn’t help but think of her best friend who died in a certain village, and couldn’t help but feel sad.

Dying in this inexplicable other world, there wasn’t even a chance to collect the body.

Wait… another world?

She stared at the horizon.

Why… did she seem to see a familiar shadow?

No, no, this town, according to its geographical location, is in the east, so it’s not impossible to be near the sea, and there’s nothing extraordinary about seeing the coastline… or maybe?

She stared at the coastline appearing on the horizon in a daze.

After dinner, Jin Fugui suggested going out for a walk.

“In the past two days, I’ve heard that another neighborhood has disappeared. Staying in one place might cause problems, so it’s better to go out and walk around,” Jin Fugui said.

Lu Yanli didn’t have much of an opinion. After he went, the others followed as well. In the end, the whole group went for a walk.

It looked as if it had just been through a war.

“After that damn Lu Yanli was caught, it’s been a lot quieter,” Jin Fugui sighed, “I don’t know who killed him, but whoever it was, they did a great job!”

The Lu Yanli who was mentioned didn’t say a word, just nodded slightly to show his agreement.

“Brother Jiang? What are you doing here?” Lin Chu asked in surprise.

Jiang Yu said, “We encountered ghosts, so we had to run away.”

Jiang Yu shook his head, “It was in the clinic where I work. In a moment of urgency, I could only choose to escape first.”

Jiang Yu: “Yes, what’s wrong?”

He suddenly came to his senses, realizing that the other party was accusing him of not reminding the others in the neighborhood.

Jiang Bai didn’t die, probably deducing that they were the ones who sent him to the school, and was probably feeling very unbalanced at the moment.

But… to be able to successfully escape from the school meant that he must be extraordinary.

Just as they finished speaking, both sides reacted at the same time, suddenly turning around!

At both ends of the road, a figure walked towards them.

The faces of both figures were almost identical to Jiang Bai!

Only one shop on the street had its doors open. For some reason, without thinking, everyone rushed in.