Chapter 69

July 25, 2014, 29th day of the sixth lunar month, 05:11 AM, sun and moon without light.

A birdwing butterfly flapped its wings lightly, bypassed the hospital's already paralyzed security system, and arrived in front of the power distribution room on the basement level.

Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe took a claw hammer from the toolbox hanging on the wall, smashed the fully sealed glass cabinet, and physically disconnected all circuit breakers and transformers in the power distribution room.

Instantly, the power of the entire hospital was cut off, one LED light after another went out, the MRI room stopped turning first, and medical facilities such as oxygen generators and centrifuges were paralyzed one after another. The entire hospital suddenly fell into eerie darkness and silence.

At the same time, in the east of the earth, the half-sun that had just climbed out of the horizon was still emitting gentle soft light the second before, and the next second all the light disappeared. The entire 'world' was shrouded in darkness, and the sun went out, just like every LED light in the hospital that went out due to power failure.

On the commercial street in the center of Taoyuan City, a tall and thin figure walked out of the hotel in a hurry. He ignored the pitch-black darkness around him and went downstairs directly.

Master Yeyao's walking posture was quite relaxed, as if this lightless darkness was the destination of his life. His tall and thin figure like a bamboo pole melted into the shadows like a ghost, disappearing.

A few minutes later, Master Yeyao appeared on the roof of a building just one street away from the hospital and did not continue to move forward.

"The special concession can perceive the existence and movement of all shadows within a certain range. It's about enough to get here. It's easy to be discovered if you get closer." Master Yeyao took out his phone, lit up the screen, and looked at the current time.

In the pitch-black darkness, even the slightest light appeared dazzling. The thin light of the phone screen was blocked by Master Yeyao's thin figure, casting a blurred human shadow on the floor. Because the human body was close to the light source, the shadow cast was exceptionally tall.

But strangely, this tall and burly human shadow was incomplete.

Master Yeyao's body was very normal, without any functional defects or disabilities, but his figure was just thin. But the shadow his body cast on the floor was incomplete: there was a huge gap on the right thigh, the left hand was disabled, the connection between the arm and the palm was broken, there was a circular gap on the left shoulder, as if a piece of meat had been gouged out by something, the right hand was relatively intact, the right leg...

Master Yeyao's shadow was covered with scars, full of shocking injury marks and deep gaps, but his body was intact, just thin.

This incomplete shadow only existed for a few seconds. After confirming the time, Master Yeyao turned off the phone screen and still had no intention of continuing to approach the hospital—the street lights on the road were still on. As long as he tried to cross the road, once his shadow appeared under the light source, there was a high probability of being discovered by the special concession.

"Really tricky." Master Yeyao shook his head, but a smile appeared on his face under the mask.

At least the seller didn't lie to him. The ability of the special concession indeed perfectly fits his needs. This is exactly what he urgently needs. As long as he kills that person and gets the special concession, the death countdown on his body will stop... or even reverse.

But soon, this smile was restrained. Master Yeyao looked at the hospital building opposite across the street, his brows slightly frowned: "What's going on?"

The sound of car horns and noisy human voices rose one after another from all directions. Taoyuan City was plunged into panic and chaos due to the extinguishing of the sun. The sound of whistles on the road was loud, and dense windows were lit up on high-rise buildings, like Christmas trees decorated with decorative light strips, lighting up the city from the night.

Taoyuan City had never had such a brilliant scene before, as if it had entered an ocean of neon.

But in a brilliant neon, only one place was pitch black, and that was the destination of Master Yeyao's trip, the Taoyuan West Branch of Qinzhou Medical College.

"The lights in the hospital are all out..." Master Yeyao frowned tightly, hesitating for a moment.

The power outage in the hospital was undoubtedly done by the last two survivors and the young man who broke into the game. And what made Master Yeyao hesitate was their motivation for doing so.

A person holding a special concession is equivalent to having an extra sense, and the activation condition of this sense is light. Without light, there is no shadow, and the rules of the special concession are in name only, which is equivalent to letting Master Yeyao approach the hospital directly without any defense. This is a stupid act of self-mutilation. Without a sufficiently heavy reason to drive it, it is difficult to make such a decision.

So what is the reason that drove them to make the decision to turn off the lights? A possibility surfaced in Master Yeyao's mind: "Maybe they did this to... save their lives?"

"Assuming that one of the three of them has already solved the rule of 'cannot be looked at directly', and knows that I am about to approach in person, then they turn off the lighting now to make the hospital fall into darkness, maybe they want to limit the triggering of this rule by reducing visibility..."

Quite smart.

According to Tu Yu, they all came into contact with strange events for the first time during the Bishuiwan Manor incident. Before that, they were just ordinary people. That is to say, being hunted by himself is the second time the person with the special concession has come into contact with the strange.

Being able to start solving the rules shortly after coming into contact with strange events, and an ordinary person having such strong psychological quality and logical ability... If he doesn't die, it's not impossible for a familiar face with the code name special concession to appear in the circle of Ascenders.

"It's a pity that the direction of action is wrong, and all efforts are in vain." Master Yeyao shook his head, turned around, and disappeared into the shadows.

A black shadow quickly crossed the road along the wall and slipped into the hospital.

In the hospital, Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe was walking in the corridor with Bai Zhi, holding a shotgun in one hand and a flashlight in the other, intending to meet Feng Feng Yushu who was still on the second floor.

Perhaps it was the tense atmosphere before the storm, neither of them chatted much, silently passing through the corridor emitting a faint sweet smell, and walking towards the stairs—the power was out, so they could only take the stairs.

Neither of them noticed the hurried footsteps, but in the pitch-black darkness on the first floor of the hospital, a group of shadows flowed secretly, quietly following behind them.

Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe and Bai Zhi went up the stairs. In the darkness behind them, a pair of eyes opened quietly. The left eye was golden like amber, and the right eye was silver-gray like metal. The beautiful eyes with flowing light looked straight at the tall and straight man's back beside Bai Zhi.

So Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe's footsteps stopped.

"Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe, what's wrong with you?" Bai Zhi turned around and asked.

"I..." Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe's voice was low and hoarse, his hands trembling, the flashlight in his palm dropped to his feet with a click, and rolled down the stairs.

But the shotgun held in the other hand tightened unconsciously.

"I must... kill..."

Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe held the gun with both hands and aimed the muzzle at his chin: "I must kill..."

Then a gunshot exploded Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe's head into a blood flower filled with the smell of gunpowder, and pink-white brains and bright red blood spilled on Bai Zhi.

The heavy smell of blood in the air already explained the content of the Thought Steel Seal branded on Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe: 【I must kill Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe】

Launching tomorrow

(End of chapter)