Chapter 102: One Hundred: Trapped (Supplementary Update)

One Hundred: Trapped (Supplementary Update)

Li Nuowei smiled as he took his phone out of his pocket and paid the fare by scanning the payment QR code on the back of the car seat.

As the other party got out of the car, Ma Hong struggled to suppress his racing heartbeat; only when he saw the car door close did he finally slowly relax his tense inner self.

It was just that Ma Hong noticed at this moment that Li Nuowei, having exited the car, made a strange move: he did not walk directly into the hospital, but instead headed toward the flower-selling girl who had a stall at the hospital entrance.

Ma Hong could not guess what exactly Li Nuowei wanted to do; he wanted to drive off immediately, but the entrance to the Second Central Hospital was not only packed with people but also dense with traffic, and he was temporarily stuck there.

When Ma Hong finally waited for the rare opening in traffic, he could no longer suppress his joy and stepped on the gas to leave.

However, just as he was about to cross the zebra crossing, a petite figure suddenly rushed out from behind the front of a small bus parked on the side.

Ma Hong instinctively slammed on the brakes and turned the steering wheel; out of control from speeding, the taxi crashed into the guardrail on the side, shattering the guardrail and leaving the front of the car mangled.

Ma Hong, who was in the driver's seat, collapsed into a pool of blood due to the sudden turn of events; one leg was nearly severed but still pressed against the brake, and the lower half of his body was largely trapped in the crushed and deformed front of the car.

"This... how could this be..." Ma Hong was unwilling to accept this; he heard an unsettling, strange noise coming from inside the car's engine, and he felt his life heading toward the end of annihilation. He was incredulous, "How... how could it be... I am clearly an exemplar highly esteemed by everyone, considered the most loyal believer of the Divine Lord. I... I should have received a Blessing and lived a long life."

Ma Hong lifted his head in a daze and glanced over; he wanted to know what the girl who had suddenly "popped out" looked like.

He saw that the girl who had almost been hit was looking at him with a face full of terror, her small face pale, her whole body trembling, and an empty flower basket hanging from her forearm.

Ma Hong looked at the girl in some shock, because this little girl was exactly the flower-selling girl Li Nuowei had just interacted with, and her flower basket was empty.

The little girl was holding a large-denomination banknote, standing by the side of the road, crisp and clear, at a loss, looking in terror at him as he lay in a pool of blood.

Tap, tap.

Ma Hong heard the sound of knocking on the window beside him. He wanted to move his arm to roll down the window, but in the reflection on the glass, he saw Li Nuowei's calm face. Although the other party did not show a look of excitement or joy, the happiness in his eyes could not be concealed; he was truly and sincerely happy from the bottom of his heart to see this scene.

He saw the other party open his mouth and say something silently.

Before losing consciousness, Ma Hong read the deliberately precise lip movements: "I said it, I should still have a chance. Now that one of you is removed, the probability of him surviving is even greater."

Ma Hong only felt a sense of absurdity, and it was at this moment that he finally knew who the "friend" Li Nuowei spoke of referred to.

He looked at Li Nuowei, sneering incessantly, and made a low sound, saying: "Even if one of me is gone, everything will still continue as usual, just like the unstoppable forward movement of time. When the stars return to their correct positions, my God will descend upon the human world once again and rule the entire Earth."

Li Nuowei read Ma Hong's lip-reading; he revealed a sinister smile that only Ma Hong could notice, turned, and left the scene of the car accident, walking toward the hospital.

A loud explosion was heard outside the hospital, accompanied by the terrified screams of the crowd. Li Nuowei nodded with satisfaction, thinking: The annoying guy is gone, and I can finally have some peace for a while.

Li Nuowei walked into the hospital and went straight to the inpatient department. As if entering a place where no one else existed, he carried a bag of flowers to the 7th floor of the inpatient department and walked straight toward the ward where bed 7014 was located.

Looking at Drake, who was lying on the hospital bed in a coma, Li Nuowei smiled slightly, inserted the flowers into the vase on the bedside table, and said: "There is still plenty of time, you don't have to be in a hurry."

Li Nuowei thoughtfully tucked the quilt in for Drake, then pulled over a chair, sat down beside Drake, and waited quietly for Drake to wake up from his coma...

The Mysterious Investigators on the island discovered that strange occurrences still did not cease. The entire small island was shrouded under a strange magnetic field, and even the cutting-edge communication tools of the Mysterious Investigators could not transmit the news of them being trapped on the small island to the outside world.

Furthermore, they gradually discovered that the land beneath their feet seemed to be moving. They could slowly no longer see the pier on the opposite shore from the point where they landed on the island; the small island was like a boat floating on the water, drifting further and further away from the coast.

The water surface around the island was rising with mist; the thick fog shrouded and swallowed the entire island. Sea birds no longer flew over their heads; those sensitive lives seemed to have sensed the aura of danger from the thick fog.

As if placed in a kingdom of death under the thick fog, the hearts of the Mysterious Investigators were exceptionally uneasy.

The development of the situation far exceeded the expectations of Yu Lianyun and was heading in a direction out of control.

Although everyone knew that all of this was related to the extinct Anhai Divine Society and could not be separated from that giant alien fish disguised as the patron deity of the coastal people, they, being in the midst of the situation, could not find a way to break through the encirclement for the time being.

"Captain Yu, still unable to connect." After multiple failed attempts to establish a communication link with the outside world, Shang Wei reported to Yu Lianyun. He glanced at the Mysterious Investigators beside him who were in an unstable mental state and asked in a low voice, "What should we do next?"

"If the organization cannot establish contact with us for more than a day, the organization will discover the abnormality of our situation and will very likely send support to meet us," Yu Lianyun said, her firm eyes scanning everyone present. "So for this, we must survive on this island for as long as one day."

"One day..." The Mysterious Investigators heard this small number but felt as if they had heard of a long eternity, lacking confidence.

On this island fraught with crises, they had no confidence that they could survive here unscathed.

The seawater on the shore of the island was terrifyingly calm, as if it were dead water in which even aquatic creatures could not survive. Even without entering the water, everyone felt unable to breathe and their heartbeats accelerated just by looking at it, forcing them to leave the shore in a hurry.

Gloom and misery covered the terrifying reality. Yu Lianyun and the others traveled through the village ruins shrouded in thick fog. The white fog and the frost that gradually brought low temperatures added a few shades of defeat and a bizarre color and temperament to the buildings on the island.

In order to wait for rescue, they now needed to find a suitable place of refuge at the very least.

As for the terror of those fish-men, among those present, only Shang Wei had witnessed it, and he had only caught a glimpse of a corner of the full picture of the fish-men before he could not help but want to run away; it seemed that those monsters could bring an uncontrollable sense of fear to humans.