298: Chapter 297 Your Life Belongs to Me

Zhang Chi stared at Chen Mengyi and asked in a concentrated voice, "You said, sixteen minus three equals fourteen?"

"Wha... what's wrong?"

Seeing Zhang Chi suddenly distance himself, his face full of vigilance, Chen Mengyi couldn't help but feel bewildered: "Is there something wrong?"

"Then... what should sixteen minus two equal?" Zhang Chi's expression was extremely gloomy.

Chen Mengyi blurted out subconsciously: "Of course it's fourteen..."

As soon as the words left her mouth, Chen Mengyi's face turned deathly pale. At that moment, she realized something was wrong, her eyes filled with fear: "Why... how could I..."

Clang! The long blade left its sheath. Zhang Chi narrowed his eyes, sweeping his gaze across Lin Jie and Chen Mengyi, and said in a deep voice, "Both of your spirits may have been contaminated; perhaps in the next moment, you will transform into Specters and become monsters."

"We two are fine, it's just that our cognition has gone wrong!"

Lin Jie's painful face eased significantly, and he said repeatedly: "There is an extra person among us survivors. I can't remember who exactly is the problem... But before this, I assigned a number to everyone. Let me think again; as long as the numbers match up, it will be fine..."

"Cognitive error? Heart Bewitchment!" Zhang Chi's expression was startled, and he suddenly felt something was off again: "Why is it so quiet outside?"

Just then, a man of medium build appeared outside the door. He was covered in blood and stumbled, falling outside the room.

"Li Tengfei?" Lin Jie exclaimed, recognizing him as one of the survivors, and simultaneously remembered his number: "What happened to you?"

"Lin Jie! Everyone in this hospital has gone crazy..." Li Tengfei lay outside the room and shouted: "Run quickly, don't stay here!"

Zhang Chi's expression changed drastically. He stepped forward quickly and arrived at the door: "Where is one of my teammates? And what about the other security personnel guarding you?"

"They are killing each other; they've all gone crazy!" Li Tengfei lay on the ground, looked up, and cried out.

"What did you say?" Zhang Chi's figure trembled, his eyes splitting with rage.

He turned his head abruptly and waved to Lin Jie and Chen Mengyi: "You two follow behind me. I'll take you away first..."

While speaking, Zhang Chi had already leaned over, preparing to help the stumbling Li Tengfei at the door up.

"Something's not right..." Lin Jie, who had just gotten out of bed, suddenly felt his scalp tingle. Immediately after seeing Zhang Chi's action, his heart skipped a beat, and a very uneasy feeling lingered in his mind.

"Don't go out!" Lin Jie shouted: "Don't trust him..."

Lin Jie's warning was already too late. As soon as his words left his mouth, Zhang Chi had already touched Li Tengfei on the ground, his figure suddenly stiffening as if he had been struck by a immobilization spell.

"Hehe! You've fallen for the trap!"

The blood-covered Li Tengfei suddenly grinned, revealing a sinister smile. He suddenly opened his bloody mouth wide and bit into Zhang Chi's neck. In an instant, blood flowed, and a large chunk of flesh was bitten off.

Accompanied by the crunching sound of tearing, Zhang Chi remained motionless, letting Li Tengfei gnaw on his body.

First, he tore off the neck, and warm blood spurted onto Li Tengfei's face, making his excited expression appear even more eerie.

But what was eerie was that Zhang Chi's body still maintained the crouching posture, ready to help.

Subsequently, Li Tengfei hugged Zhang Chi's head and gnawed on it again, the entire face already bitten into a bloody mess.

Immediately after, Li Tengfei's mouth suddenly opened wide, actually stuffing the entire head into his mouth, making a crunching sound.

While chewing, red and white fluids overflowed from the corners of his mouth.

Such a bloody scene left Lin Jie and Chen Mengyi stunned in place, their bodies trembling uncontrollably.

"Lin Jie, what should we do now?" Chen Mengyi's face was deathly pale, her legs weak: "Can we escape now?"

"No! No!" Lin Jie's aged face, which had recovered a little, now showed even deeper furrows: "No matter what we do, it's death..."

Lin Jie tightly grabbed Chen Mengyi's arm, watching helplessly as Li Tengfei ate Zhang Chi clean in less than a minute.

"It's you two's turn!" Li Tengfei stood up, his mouth stretched to his earlobes, emitting a sinister and weird laugh: "Which one should I eat first?"

Slap! Slap! Slap! Li Tengfei walked very slowly, and every time his soles stepped on the ground, it was accompanied by blood splashing.

The white hair on Lin Jie's head had already fallen out for the most part, but he still grabbed Chen Mengyi, who wanted to run away now, and gritted his teeth, saying: "Illusion! This is all an illusion! Let's just pretend we don't see any of it, try not to have any emotional fluctuations. As long as we do nothing, we will definitely survive!"

"Which one should I eat first?" Li Tengfei had now arrived in front of the two, sticking out his long tongue to lick the fluid from the corners of his mouth, finally letting his gaze fall on Chen Mengyi: "Hehe! Let's start with you..."

"Don't pay attention to this! Don't be afraid of him! Don't resist or defend. As long as you don't believe it, he can't do anything to you. This is all fake! It's all fake!!" Lin Jie's eyes were bloodshot, staring fixedly at Li Tengfei in front of him, roaring lowly: "Recite with me... Prosperity! Democracy! Civility! Harmony! Freedom! Equality! Justice! Rule of Law! Patriotism! Dedication! Integrity! Friendliness!!"

Chen Mengyi closed her eyes and recited along.

The next second, a wet, soft long tongue suddenly licked across Chen Mengyi's cheek.

"Ah!!" Chen Mengyi screamed, broke free from Lin Jie's palm, and ran away towards outside the room.

However, just as she was about to step out of the door, Li Tengfei suddenly waved his hand, his arm instantly elongating, and grabbed her back, raising his head to bite into her lower abdomen.

A shrill scream rang out, and Chen Mengyi was eaten alive right in front of Lin Jie.

Tear tracks streaked across Lin Jie's aged cheeks. Like a centenarian who had reached the end of his life, he hung his head and whispered tremblingly: "Fake, this is all fake, I'm not afraid at all, not afraid..."

"Fake? Hehe, don't deceive yourself. Now it's your turn!" Li Tengfei laughed wildly, opened his mouth, and suddenly swallowed.

"It's all fake!" Lin Jie's whole body trembled incessantly, still repeating it continuously.

The next instant, the giant mouth swallowed, and Lin Jie's vision went pitch black in an instant, only feeling an unimaginable, violent pain throughout his body.

... "Lin Jie, are you going to be in this state forever?" A familiar voice sounded. Lin Jie's vision gradually cleared, and feeling the soft touch on his cheek, his expression was slightly bewildered.

He saw Chen Mengyi choking up as she raised her hand to stroke his cheek.

What's going on? Could it be that I haven't died yet? No... everything before was real, but have I been Rebirth now? Or perhaps, is this a guiding vision given to me by my Talent? Wait! I seem to have become even older...

Lin Jie looked down at the wrinkled, aged skin of his hands. After being stunned for a moment, he suddenly stood up and shouted loudly: "Run quickly, it's dangerous here, there is a Strange Creatures!"

This sudden standing up made him feel dizzy, and his waist twisted sharply, nearly collapsing to the ground.

"Lin Jie, what's wrong? We've already escaped, it's okay now..." Chen Mengyi held Lin Jie's arm and said.

Zhang Chi, in front of the hospital bed, suddenly had a grave expression: "What Strange Creatures are you talking about? Did you sense something?"

"There's no time to explain, let's leave here quickly!" Lin Jie's expression was anxious. He struggled to get off the bed, pulled Chen Mengyi, and walked quickly towards the outside.

"Alright, let's go quickly!" Zhang Chi pressed his hand on the scabbard at his waist and led the way out of the ward.

Lin Jie suddenly felt incomparably agitated in his heart. Just at the moment his footsteps were about to step out of the room, he suddenly stopped: "Wait a moment..."

"What's wrong, why don't you hurry up and go?" Zhang Chi turned back and urged.

"No!" Lin Jie paused at the door, turned his head abruptly, and looked at Chen Mengyi. He saw the latter hanging her head, her entire face seeming to be in a shadow.

As Lin Jie turned around, her eyes rolled up, revealing pale white eyeballs, and a weird smile appeared at the corners of her mouth: "Hehe! Do you believe it now?"

Zzz— The lights overhead flickered, as if short-circuited, and the originally gentle sunlight outside the window suddenly turned blood-red at this moment.

A blood sun hung high, the scenery outside the window became misty, as if countless weird giant shadows flashed by, and shrill howls sounded from time to time.

This originally quite bright intensive care ward instantly became eerie and terrifying.

Lin Jie's heart skipped a beat, and he widened his eyes: "No, this is still an illusion!!"

"It's too late!" Chen Mengyi's entire face instantly revealed countless blood vessels, her mouth split open, and she suddenly opened her big mouth, revealing the dense teeth inside.

Swallowing in one bite, Lin Jie's vision went pitch black again.

... "Lin Jie, are you going to be in this state forever..." In a daze, Lin Jie regained consciousness, just feeling a soft, tender palm stroking his cheek.

Again?! Lin Jie was stunned, just feeling as if his whole being had fallen into decay.

How many more times can I go through this? Heh! Hehehe... Lin Jie's mouth twitched, his eyes staring blankly.

He suddenly slapped Chen Mengyi's palm away and shouted hysterically: "Monsters! Monsters! You are all monsters! I'll fight you to the death!!"

Chen Mengyi was tackled and pressed onto the bed by Lin Jie, but her face was emitting a chilling smile: "Hehe! Do you believe it now?"

Along with the words spoken, the lights in the room buzzed again, sinking into darkness, and a blood-red color shone in from outside the window.

"I believe your grandmother!" Lin Jie gripped Chen Mengyi's neck tightly, cursing wildly, his whole person already fallen into madness.

But for some reason, the harder Lin Jie used his hands, the more difficult he felt his breathing to be, as if it wasn't Chen Mengyi's neck he was gripping, but his own.

But he couldn't care about so much now. The only thought in his heart at this moment was to kill everyone he could see.

Even if I die, I must fight once more in the end!

His vision gradually blurred, his consciousness about to sink. Just as Lin Jie felt his strength had been completely drained, a faint voice came.

"Hey, now is not the time for you to die."

Lin Jie felt a burning pain in his arm.

This burning pain clearly only appeared for an instant, but it felt as if it penetrated his Soul, and he suddenly woke up from his drowsy, misty state.

When his eyes gradually cleared, Lin Jie was shocked to find that, for some reason, he was actually gripping his own neck with both hands. Although he was no longer using force, his neck was still very uncomfortable, and his hands felt as if they were frozen.

"Cough, cough..." Lin Jie coughed repeatedly and lowered his hands with difficulty. He saw that there was clearly no abnormality on his right arm, but the burning pain was still distinct, simply heart-wrenching, and it felt as if his very Soul was being torn and pulled.

"Are you awake now?" The familiar voice sounded again. Lin Jie looked up and saw a calm-faced young man standing in front of him, his eyes as calm as water as always.

"Big Brother Chu Xuan..." Lin Jie's voice trembled, but immediately after, his expression revealed malice, and he gritted his teeth and roared: "You are not Big Brother Chu Xuan, this is still an illusion, a multi-layered illusion!!"

"Your emotions and cognition have been interfered with." Chu Xuan raised an eyebrow, immediately took out the night cloak, and cast the night Domain to cover a two-meter radius. Then, seeing Lin Jie's aged appearance, he thought for a moment and took out a spirit bead.

Chu Xuan's eyes flashed, filling the spirituality value inside to 1000 points, and then handed it all to Lin Jie.

"All of your consciousness can be interfered with, but the spirituality value can run through the beginning to the end. Absorb it all; it should be able to improve your current state, right? If not, then just upgrade and add to your stamina and spirit attribute!"

Lin Jie was slightly stunned, only feeling incomparably at ease in this darkness, all his emotions returning to normal.

He showed joy and hurriedly took the spirit bead.

But when he realized the amount of spirituality value inside, Lin Jie couldn't help but widen his eyes, looking at Chu Xuan in disbelief: "1000 spirituality value, all for me?!"

Chu Xuan's expression was calm: "In exchange, from now on, your life belongs to me."

"Alright!" Lin Jie gritted his teeth, almost without even thinking, and directly absorbed all the spirituality value.

A moment later, Lin Jie handed the spirit bead back to Chu Xuan. His aged face had miraculously restored to a youthful appearance.

However, when he turned his head again to look around, his whole body couldn't help but tremble violently.

Outside the window, the blood sun was still hanging high, a scene of doomsday.

Inside the room, Zhang Chi's headless corpse lay at the door, dying with eyes wide open, his hands still tightly gripping the long blade, appearing as if he had committed suicide by cutting his own throat.

Chen Mengyi's body was intact, but her eyes were wide open, and she had long since lost her breath, lying there by Lin Jie's bed as if she had been scared to death.

"They are all dead... all dead..." Lin Jie's pupils contracted, his lips trembled, his whole body shaking uncontrollably: "They died in the illusion..."

"These two are dead, but others haven't died completely yet, though they have all fallen into madness, trapped in the illusion; I'm afraid they won't live long. And every time one more person dies, it will increase the strength of that Specter."

Seeing that Lin Jie seemed to have signs of emotional breakdown, Chu Xuan immediately guided the hatred in his heart: "Although this place is not as dangerous as St. Lianna Hospital, according to my observation, to be able to possess a Domain coverage, it is at least an S-rank Specter. I can take you away without being affected by the Domain, but you will definitely be targeted next, and there will be quite a lot of trouble. Besides, if we just leave like this, I will lose a lot, and I see that you probably wouldn't be willing to let it go just like that, right?"

"Kill!" Lin Jie gritted his teeth, his eyes revealing madness: "I have sensed the guidance of the heavenly secrets; I know how to kill it! These monsters, they all deserve to die!!"

(One chapter posted today, 4000 words, goodnight, mwah.)