19: Chapter 19 The hospital smells a bit strong! Commander Lin, your button has popped open again!

Jiangzhou City, southern rich district.

Angel Plastic Surgery Hospital.

This was a typical European-style castle building, its outer walls painted a dreamy pink, with towering spires and huge floor-to-ceiling windows reflecting blinding light under the sun.

A massive white marble angel statue stood at the hospital entrance, its arms spread wide and wearing a compassionate smile, as if embracing every Soul that longed to become beautiful.

However, if one looked closely, they would find that the angel's eyes seemed sculpted a bit too narrow and long, and the upward curve of its mouth revealed an indescribable eeriness, as if it were mocking something.

"Screech—"

The taxi stopped at the hospital entrance.

Su Yang pushed the door open and got out, looked up at this castle filled with the scent of money and desire, and couldn't help but smack his lips.

"Tsk tsk, to build a hospital like this, the boss must have quite a girlish heart."

"However..."

Su Yang's nose twitched slightly, and his brows furrowed.

Under the cover of the rich floral scent from the green belt and high-end perfume, he still smelled a nauseating, fishy stench.

That smell was just like cheap rouge powder sprinkled over rotting meat, cloying enough to make one retch.

"You're here!"

A cold voice came from ahead.

Inside the cordon, Lin Bing was walking over quickly.

Today, she was still in her capable SWAT uniform, with her service pistol and tactical knife tucked at her waist, wearing military boots, looking heroic and spirited.

"Yo, Officer Lin."

Su Yang whistled, his gaze lingering for two seconds on the waves rising and falling violently due to her rapid breathing.

"Not seeing you for a day feels like three autumns. It seems Officer Lin has been eating well lately; this scale... seems to have grown again?"

"Su Yang!"

Lin Bing's pretty face turned cold; she instinctively reached up to pull her zipper higher and glared at him fiercely.

"When is this, can you be a bit more serious?!"

"I am very serious."

Su Yang shrugged, looking innocent. "Caring for a partner's health is also part of the job. After all, if you're carrying too much weight, it's not convenient to run, is it?"

"You! Shut up!"

Lin Bing was so angry her teeth ached; if she weren't currently needing this guy's help, she would really want to draw her gun and shoot him.

Taking a deep breath, Lin Bing forced down her anger and pointed to the hospital building behind her, saying, "Enough small talk, the situation is even more complex than I imagined."

"We have blocked off this area for two hours, but... the two teams of officers sent in to search have all lost contact."

As she said this, a trace of anxiety and fear flashed in Lin Bing's eyes.

"There was only static on the radio, and the last thing transmitted... was a very strange laughter, sounding like a woman laughing, or perhaps... a fox calling."

"A fox?"

Su Yang raised an eyebrow.

"Let's go, let's go inside and take a look first."

Su Yang didn't show the slightest fear and crossed the cordon directly.

Lin Bing hesitated for a moment and instructed her subordinates, "You all stay outside, and no matter what sounds you hear, do not go in! If we don't come out after half an hour... request support from headquarters and use heavy weapons!"

After speaking, she drew her pistol, disengaged the safety, and followed closely behind Su Yang.

...

Pushing open the heavy carved door, a gust of cold air rushed at them instantly, giving Lin Bing goosebumps.

The lobby was magnificent, with a huge crystal chandelier emitting soft light, the floor covered with thick carpet, and walls hung with photos of successful plastic surgery cases—each one a generic, beautiful influencer face, smiling at visitors.

However, in this dead-silent environment, those smiles in the photos looked creepy no matter how you looked at them.

"So quiet..."

Lin Bing gripped her pistol, back-to-back with Su Yang, observing their surroundings vigilantly.

The huge lobby was empty, the front desk computer screen was still on, and a cup of steaming coffee sat next to it, as if the people here had been working a second ago, only to vanish into thin air the next.

"Master, the smell here... is very pungent."

Su Qingcheng, who had been hiding in the jade pendant, suddenly transmitted her voice, her tone carrying a hint of disgust.

"Pungent?"

Su Yang's lips curled slightly. "Looks like we've met a peer."

"Is anyone here?"

Su Yang suddenly shouted, his voice echoing in the empty lobby.

"Su Yang, are you crazy?!"

Lin Bing was startled and hurriedly tried to cover his mouth. "We are in the dark, the enemy is..."

"Welcome to Angel Plastic Surgery Hospital..."

Before she could finish, a gentle, somewhat cloying voice suddenly came from behind the front desk.

Lin Bing turned abruptly, pointing her gun over.

She saw a young woman in a pink nurse's uniform slowly stand up from behind the front desk partition.

Her figure was excellent; the nurse's uniform had been altered to be very short, revealing a pair of long legs clad in white silk stockings. Her face was meticulously made up, with big eyes, a high nose bridge, and "smiling lips," perfect as a mannequin in a display window.

"Two guests, are you here for a procedure?"

The Young Miss nurse placed her hands folded in front of her, wearing a standard professional smile, her voice sweet.

"We recently launched a Rejuvenation Package; just one injection will let you return to being eighteen again."

"Police! Hands up!"

Lin Bing shouted sternly, "Who are you? Where did the people here go? What about the police officers who went in earlier?"

Facing the dark muzzle of the gun, the nurse didn't show the slightest panic, not even blinking an eye.

She maintained that perfect smile, tilted her head, and looked at Lin Bing.

"This Young Miss officer, your skin is a bit rough, and you have dark circles; looks like you stay up late a lot, right?"

"Do you want to try our hyaluronic acid filler? I can give you a twenty percent discount."

"I'm talking to you!"

Lin Bing felt something was wrong; this woman's reaction was too abnormal.

"Don't be nervous, Officer Lin."

Su Yang pressed down on Lin Bing's gun muzzle, walked up with a smile, and leaned directly onto the front desk, less than ten centimeters from the nurse's face.

"Young Miss, forget the hyaluronic acid; I think your nose job is quite well done, it looks real."

Su Yang reached out his hand and actually touched the nurse's face directly.

"Of course, this is our director's exclusive technique..."

The nurse didn't dodge; instead, she pushed her chest out further, a hint of seduction flashing in her eyes.

"Little brother, if you want to get it done, I can take you to the VIP room and have the director give you a personal consultation."

"VIP room?"

Su Yang's fingers gently traced the nurse's cheeks, which were as smooth as plastic. Suddenly, his movements stopped, and his fingers clamped down hard!

"Ah!"

The nurse let out a short, sharp cry.

"But Young Miss, your skin... doesn't seem to be stuck on right."

Su Yang sneered, pinched a piece of skin behind the nurse's ear with two fingers, and ripped it hard!

Riiip—!

Accompanied by a hair-raising sound of tearing fabric, that exquisite, perfect "human face" was actually torn off by Su Yang as if he were peeling off a face mask!

"Ah!!! My face! My face!"

A shrill scream instantly rang through the lobby.

Lin Bing watched in terror as, beneath that torn-off "human skin mask," there was no bloody, fleshy face at all. Instead, it was... a weasel's face, covered in yellowish-brown fur with a pointed snout and monkey cheeks!

In those mung bean-sized eyes, there was nothing but malice and resentment, staring fixedly at Su Yang.

"Stinking Daoist! How dare you destroy my painted skin?!"

"Ugh..."

Looking at that ugly beast face paired with the pink nurse's uniform, Lin Bing's stomach churned, and she almost threw up.

This was the sweet and lovely nurse from just now? This thing is a monster?!

"Just as I thought, a yellow weasel."

Su Yang threw the human skin mask in his hand onto the ground with disgust.

"I was wondering why it smelled so pungent; turns out it's a nest of things that steal chickens and dogs."

"You're courting death! I'm going to eat your heart!"

The weasel spirit was enraged, its originally slender palms instantly transforming into beast claws with sharp talons, swiping at Su Yang's chest with a fishy wind! It was extremely fast!

"Su Yang, look out!"

Lin Bing instinctively wanted to shoot. But Su Yang was faster than her.

"Slap!"

A crisp sound of a slap. The weasel spirit, which had just been baring its fangs, was knocked to the ground by Su Yang's slap, half of its beast face beaten crooked, and a few sharp teeth flew out mixed with blood.

"Eat my heart? Do you deserve to?"

Su Yang stepped on its chest and applied a little force, and the sound of bones cracking came from it.

"Speak! How many more beasts like you wearing human skin are in here? Where did you take the girls you kidnapped?"

"Hehehe..."

The weasel spirit, being stepped on, didn't beg for mercy but instead let out a strange laugh.

"You... are all going to die... Grandmother... Grandmother is enjoying a feast... you... will also become new skins..."

"Grandmother?"

Su Yang furrowed his brows.

Bang!

Just then, a loud noise suddenly came from the corridor deep in the lobby. Immediately after, there was a burst of dense gunfire and screams.

"That is... the SWAT officers who lost contact earlier?!"

Lin Bing's expression changed. "They are still alive!"

"Let's go!"

Su Yang applied force with his foot, snapping the weasel spirit's neck, and a flash of golden light reduced it to shredded meat.

"Let's go see what kind of thing this 'Grandmother' really is, daring to stir up trouble in my territory!"