Translator: CinderTL
She could barely be recognized as a woman, dressed in an old-fashioned hospital gown with blue and white stripes.
The woman's face was turned to the side, her hair disheveled, but what startled Huai Yi even more were her terrified eyes and the finger she had raised to her lips.
"Shh..." The woman was warning herself and Lin Wan'er beside her not to speak!!
Huai Yi immediately understood—she was the Mad Nurse.
The one hiding under the blanket on the bed was the Ghost!! If he had lifted the blanket or made any further contact earlier, both he and Lin Wan'er would have been in danger.
Judging by the Mad Nurse's posture, the earlier rustling sound must have been the noise of her crawling on her hands.
This Ghost... truly relentless.
Now that it had been exposed, Huai Yi prepared to leave immediately. But as he slowly stepped back, he noticed out of the corner of his eye that Lin Wan'er hadn't moved.
Why wasn't she leaving? What was she doing? A surge of anger rose in Huai Yi's heart. If it weren't for this woman's reckless decision to open the door to Room 906, they wouldn't have fallen into the Ghost's trap.
Although Lin Wan'er had ultimately exposed the Ghost, it was still her fault that they were in this mess.
After some thought, Huai Yi decided to go back and pull her away. It wasn't out of kindness, but because he believed she was different from Du Feng.
Someone like Du Feng, who was both foolish and selfish, could die for all he cared. But Lin Wan'er was different. Aside from this one reckless act, her previous performance had been commendable.
She could keep up with his train of thought, see through the surface to the root of things, and even say things that inspired him.
That was rare.
Her survival was valuable, both for him and for the entire team.
If he wasn't mistaken, the mission was nearing its end, and during this time, the Ghost would become increasingly frenzied and terrifying.
Having someone like her by his side was beneficial.
Moreover, it seemed that Lin Wan'er knew Jiang Cheng. As for Jiang Cheng, Huai Yi always found his behavior rather peculiar.
He didn't seem like a newcomer. It was highly likely that he, too, had experienced Nightmares.
Though his thoughts were many, they flashed through his mind in an instant. Just as Huai Yi's fingers were about to touch Lin Wan'er's arm, his expression turned strange.
He noticed that the Mad Nurse under the bed wasn't looking at him, or at Lin Wan'er, who was closer, nor at the Ghost on the bed.
Instead, her gaze was fixed on the window.
Even in the dim light, Huai Yi could see the intense fear in the Mad Nurse's eyes, almost tangible.
She seemed terrified of the window.
What was there? Huai Yi followed the Mad Nurse's gaze. The area near the window was shrouded in a thin darkness, with about a third of the window exposed and the rest blocked by a thick curtain.
Fortunately, there was no greenish face or anything like that floating outside the window. Huai Yi had already braced himself to be startled by a sudden Ghost Face.
"Phew—" Huai Yi exhaled silently, beginning to suspect that his mental stress was too great.
The Ghost was already on the bed. How could it possibly be outside the window? It was just his nerves getting the better of him.
A gust of wind from nowhere swept by, bringing with it a chilling cold.
The next second, before Huai Yi could look away, his pupils trembled slightly, then abruptly contracted as if he had noticed something.
He saw that the thick curtains by the window were lifted slightly by the wind, revealing a pair of feet pressed together, tinged with a leaden gray.
It wasn't until Lin Wan'er reminded him that Huai Yi snapped out of his terror. The two slowly retreated until they were out of Room 906.
After closing the door, Huai Yi was still trembling with fear.
Stronger than the fear, however, was his confusion. Once they were a safe distance from the room, Huai Yi leaned against the wall, gasping for breath.
His gaze toward Lin Wan'er was also different from before.
"How... how can there be two Ghosts?" Huai Yi whispered, his voice low. "That's impossible. Outside the hospital, there was clearly only one Ghost that attacked me."
"If two Ghosts had attacked together, I wouldn't have made it back alive."
Huai Yi's thoughts returned to the moment he was attacked by the Ghost outside the hospital. The wound on his abdomen, which he had only disinfected and bandaged hastily, was now throbbing with pain.
According to their previous deductions, the Ghost should have been only Xiang Nan.
Or rather, the Ghost truly involved in this matter was only Xiang Nan. They only needed to deal with Xiang Nan.
So who was the other Ghost?
Who had he overlooked? After a moment, Lin Wan'er looked down the corridor, sensing nothing unusual, and then turned her gaze back to Huai Yi. "It might not be a Ghost," she said.
"What do you mean?" Huai Yi frowned.
"Didn't you see the feet behind the curtain?" Huai Yi spoke quickly, "I saw them clearly. Those feet were pressed together, with a layer of leaden gray on them. They definitely weren't the feet of a living person!"
Huai Yi had some authority on this matter, after all, he had some experience dealing with Ghosts.
"I'm not talking about the one behind the curtain," Lin Wan'er replied without hesitation.
Hearing this, Huai Yi pondered for a moment. As time passed, his emotions stabilized. "Are you saying the one on the bed... is a person?" Huai Yi looked up and asked.
"Yes," Lin Wan'er said.
The clues in his mind reassembled and then shattered. If what Lin Wan'er said was true, and the person on the bed was indeed human, then they must know something about this.
"It's Zhao Ru!" Huai Yi seemed to have figured it out and suddenly spoke.
This wasn't hard to guess. In the entire hospital, the only person who could cooperate with the female Ghost was Zhao Ru, after all, she was Xiang Nan's daughter.
And from the beginning, it was she who had pointed the finger at Director Qi.
Zhao Ru was also the nurse assigned by the hospital to take care of the madwoman in Room 906. Her conditions were more convenient than anyone else's.
Of course, this was likely something she had actively pursued.
For the sake of the plan's success.
After catching his breath, Huai Yi felt much better, and his mind became clearer. "I admit what you're saying makes sense," Huai Yi exhaled and said. "But there's one thing I don't understand. Why did they control this Mad Nurse? What's the purpose? She's already insane."
If there was any resentment, they could have just killed her.
Huai Yi had no doubt about Xiang Nan's ruthlessness, having experienced it firsthand.
If they only controlled her but didn't kill her, then the purpose behind it was worth pondering.
"Perhaps the Mad Nurse has something that Xiang Nan wants, or something she's eager to destroy," Huai Yi stroked his chin, continuing to speculate along this line of thought. "It could be an object, or maybe just some piece of information she happened to learn."
In any case, judging from the level of importance that Xiang Nan and Zhao Ru placed on it, the clue held by the Mad Nurse was of great significance.
It was highly likely that the Mad Nurse had managed to survive until now solely because of this clue.
This could be considered her Lifesaving charm.
There will be an additional update tonight, so my fellow cultivators can consider keeping me company.
(End of the Chapter)
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