Chapter 997: Dream?

"Mom..."

"Mom..."

Lu Mian heard cries coming from the darkness around him, shrill and pitiful, as if scratching at his heart and soul.

Suddenly, black flames suppressing madness and destruction ignited on Lu Mian's body.

These flames spread all around, burning the darkness, burning everything hidden in the darkness.

Those cries suddenly became sharp, and then dissipated quickly.

Lu Mian sneered:

"If you had called me 'Dad,' I might have had a bit of reluctance and pity, but 'Mom'? Who are you trying to fool?"

Just as he muttered this, the darkness around him shattered inch by inch.

Lu Mian woke up accordingly, opened his eyes, and saw the ceiling hanging with a chandelier, hidden in the deep night.

"Was I dreaming just now?

"The fetus in Li Keji's stomach died at the hands of its 'mother,' the resentment hard to dispel, it entangled me, and was thoroughly burned away by me?

"Your 'mother' is Omebella, what does that have to do with me, Lu Mian?"

Lu Mian grumbled a few times, reached for his phone from the side, selected "Intis Group Green," and used the voice input method to say:

"I heard the crying of my child. He encountered a disaster leading to death.

"It should be that someone is helping Li Keji have an abortion."

After sending this WeChat message, Lu Mian copied the corresponding content and sent it to Lü Yong'an as well.

It was only ten or twenty seconds later when Lü Yong'an replied:

"Shall we rush to Red Moon Hospital now?"

Lu Mian brought the phone to his mouth and shook his head:

"It's too late, the matter is already over.

"Rushing over in a hurry is very likely to step into a trap set by the enemy.

"Since the matter is already irreversible, let's wait until tomorrow, wait until the day after tomorrow, wait until we are sure there are no ambushes around Li Keji, then go to investigate the situation, find the saboteur, and think of a way to remedy it."

"The Son of God is wise." Lü Yong'an replied in a pedantic tone.

At this time, Green also replied, expressing the same meaning as Lü Yong'an, and Lu Mian chose to copy and paste what he had said.

After pacifying Green, Lu Mian was about to go back to sleep when he suddenly saw Lü Yong'an send a new message:

"Son of God, I just saw a person standing outside the hospital by the window."

"Who?" Lu Mian understood that the reason Lü Yong'an mentioned this must be that the person was someone he knew, or very important.

After a few seconds, Lü Yong'an replied:

"It's Zhou Mingrui."

Zhou Mingrui? His action is so strong; he only found out during the day that the envoy's corpse appeared in the underground morgue of Dawn Hospital, and he wants to sneak in to investigate at night? Wouldn't this be too reckless? Or is it just a preliminary observation? Lu Mian perked up, completely losing his sleepiness.

He brought the phone to his mouth again and used the voice input method:

"Don't worry about it for now, notify me when Zhou Mingrui enters the hospital."

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Outside Dawn Hospital, Zhou Mingrui, still wearing a sky-blue T-shirt, pretended to be on a phone call while casually looking around, focusing on the emergency center.

After understanding the matter of Danitz's death and confirming the relevant details through public reports, Zhou Mingrui felt that Dawn Hospital seemed to have significant problems, especially the underground morgue.

Therefore, when the night deepened, he took a taxi over, preparing to pretend to see an emergency, but actually take a tour inside Dawn Hospital to see if he could discover anything.

He hadn't thought about investigating the underground morgue today; before collecting enough information, he didn't intend to take risks that might be very large.

While Zhou Mingrui was saying things like "Okay," "No problem," "Fine," "Can," "Just like that," his gaze swept across the emergency center, swept across the patients and family members coming in and out, and he couldn't see any problems.

He wasn't actually at Dawn Hospital for the first time; he had come to see a doctor twice before because it was one of the few hospitals closest to Intis Group and his residence, and it belonged to the kind that had just opened for a few years. Regardless of emergency or outpatient, there weren't many people, no need to queue for too long, and no need to worry about not being able to book an appointment online.

—The district-level hospital closer to his residence, he felt was not very reliable, and the other few old-brand hospitals were crowded with people.

"The only difference from the last time I came is that Dawn Hospital's reputation is getting bigger and bigger, and more and more people are coming to see doctors... It's a pity that when I listened to heavy metal before and my body had problems, I thought there weren't many people here and I could come to see a doctor. Fortunately, I recovered halfway through..." Zhou Mingrui remembered the experience of coming to the emergency room more than half a year ago, and also remembered taking sick leave to Dawn Hospital a few weeks ago, but the car hadn't reached the destination yet, and the illness was gone.

Thinking of this, his heart suddenly moved:

"That sick leave made me miss the formal meeting with Zarathustra...

"And I didn't actually enter Dawn Hospital...

"It wasn't a coincidence that I heard the song "Impact" at that time; was there occult power mixed in the melody and sound of this song?

"Does this indicate that Zarathustra and Dawn Hospital really have problems?

"But when I came more than half a year ago, nothing happened, and I didn't find any abnormalities...

"Are the problems of Dawn Hospital gradually deepening?"

While Zhou Mingrui was muttering, his gaze moved from the emergency center upward, looking at the whole building.

Suddenly, he heard his own heartbeat.

"Thump!

"Thump!"

Zhou Mingrui inexplicably felt fear, which made his heart feel as if it had been fiercely pinched by an invisible hand, uncontrollably accelerating its beating.

"Thump!

"Thump!"

He felt that the building seemed to hide the thing he feared and dreaded the most, just like the source of his fearful emotions.

"There really is a problem..." Zhou Mingrui's pupils dilated rapidly.

He had also come to the emergency room at night more than half a year ago, and had also gazed at the main building of Dawn Hospital, but at that time, there was absolutely no feeling that a terrifying thing was hiding inside.

Zhou Mingrui steadied himself, closed his eyes, and regulated his breathing.

After his heartbeat calmed down, he looked at the Dawn Hospital building again.

"Thump!

"Thump!"

He felt the sudden eruption of fear again, instinctively believing that there was something in the depths of Dawn Hospital that he didn't want to face and was afraid of encountering.

Zhou Mingrui subconsciously wanted to turn and leave, but finally endured it.

"Do a preliminary observation first, do a preliminary observation first...

"Escaping cannot solve the problem, escaping cannot solve the problem..."

While talking to himself, Zhou Mingrui's right palm, which wasn't holding the phone, hung down naturally, clenching and relaxing, relaxing and clenching.

Ten seconds later, he pretended to hang up the phone, took a step, and walked toward the entrance of the emergency center.

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Dechuang Garden, Room 2303.

After Franca and Jenna fell asleep, they quickly regained consciousness.

This was something that would inevitably happen when Beyonders entered the "Shaman" world of Luo Shan, and neither of them was surprised.

But the next second, what entered their eyes was not the solidified storm, wandering spirit bodies, and translucent barriers, but a dimly lit corridor.

The walls of the corridor were painted with white pigment, and under the dim light, they emitted a little green.

"Where is this?" Franca blurted out in astonishment.

Why did Luo Shan's "Shaman" world disappear?

Jenna, while surprised, thought of a possibility:

"Could it be that something happened to Luo Shan? Because she confirmed that Huang Jiajia and the others were even more fake?"

That made Luo Shan face the fact that this was a dream city even further.

"But didn't Anthony say that Luo Shan's emotions had initially stabilized?

"What stimulation did she receive after returning home?" Franca responded with doubt.

"No matter what, find Luo Shan first. This might be the 'Shaman' world after mutation." Jenna looked left and right, and concentrated on listening.

Facing a situation different from usual, Franca instinctively put her hand into the "Traveler's Bag," preparing to take out her Beyonder items.

Suddenly, she was stunned for a moment:

"No!"

Seeing Jenna cast a glance, Franca said with a serious expression:

"The 'Traveler's Bag' is still here, and the items inside are also still here."

Jenna's gaze froze instantly, understanding what Franca wanted to express:

Only by spirit body travel could one enter the "Shaman" world where Luo Shan fought monsters, and spirit bodies obviously wouldn't carry the "Traveler's Bag" and corresponding items; even if they did, they were just illusions created by the dream, with no actual ability!

"This isn't Luo Shan's 'Shaman' world? What exactly have we encountered?" Jenna frowned.

She tried to use meditation to leave this place and let her spirit body return to her body.

But this had no effect at all.

"We aren't spirit body traveling, entering Luo Shan's dream or 'Shaman' world; we were directly transferred to this place." Franca gave her conclusion, "Why, I didn't feel anything at all..."

Just as she finished speaking, she suddenly heard Luo Shan's voice from a room in front:

"No, don't, I refuse!"

After a few seconds, the door of that room was pulled open, and Luo Shan, wearing pajamas, rushed out.

Luo Shan saw Franca and Jenna, stopped, and asked in astonishment:

"You are here too?"

Franca and Jenna first lowered their heads, examining their own clothing, discovering they were both wearing nightgowns, and then the former said to Luo Shan:

"Where is this? Why can't we be here?"

"This is my dream... I dreamed of you?" Luo Shan looked blank and confused.

Franca and Jenna looked at each other and asked after deliberation:

"What dream did you have?"

"I dreamed that someone was chanting strange words in my ear, dreamed of many fragmented scenes, there was a pregnant woman with a bulging stomach, the flesh on her face and one eyeball seemed to have been grabbed off, there were head-like tumors growing on both sides of her shoulders, there was also a man whose heart had been dug out, there was the crying of an infant...

"Finally, I dreamed of such a corridor, dreamed that I was in a room, and a voice said to me..." Luo Shan, who was recalling the dream, suddenly stopped.

"Say what?" Jianna asked in pursuit.

Luo Shan hesitated for a few seconds and said:

"Said, said it could help me fake the real, replace the me outside, that way, even if the dream shattered, I could live truly...

"I, I can't accept it, how could I, how could I harm an innocent person?"

Hearing Luo Shan's words, Franca and Jenna's pupils dilated at the same time.

The former swallowed a mouthful of saliva with difficulty and said:

"Do you remember the strange words at the very beginning of the dream?"

Luo Shan tried her best to recall:

"It seems, it seems to be 'The real can become fake, the fake can become real, The Fool that doesn't belong to this era, The mysterious ruler above the gray fog, The King of Yellow and Black who wields good luck...'"

At this moment, Jenna and Franca seemed to have turned into statues.

Franca suddenly "woke up" and said in a deep voice:

"Quickly confirm what place this is!"

"Isn't this my dream..." Luo Shan said in a low voice.

"Can you be this clear-headed in your dreams usually?" Jenna asked while looking for signs that could be identified.

"Yeah..." While Luo Shan was muttering in confusion, Franca and Jenna simultaneously discovered a bulletin board on the wall in front.

The two took steps, rushed over, and with the help of the dim light, they saw four large characters on a certain part of the bulletin board at a glance:

"Dawn Hospital".

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 998 =====