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Chapter 1279. The Emotional Mental Hospital (9)

Fang Ming's screams were mostly swallowed up by the sound of the rain, leaving only short, breathy sounds.

He staggered backward, clutching his bleeding shoulder. His once composed face was now filled with terror and panic.

The monster formed from his shadow, with drops of his blood still clinging to its mouth and two bottomless black holes in its eye sockets, was slowly approaching him.

"Fang Ming!" Lin Xi immediately turned and rushed over. "Don't stand there, focus, and calm down!"

But it's too late.

The monster quickly approached Fang Ming and soon merged with him.

—Holy shit!
—Is Fang Ming dead?
—Obviously not. Didn't you check if they're still alive?
—He must have been devoured by a monster. The person now is not Fang Ming, but a monster.

Fang Ming's shoulder wound was healing visibly. He shook the rain off his head and picked up the water that had just been thrown on the ground.

"What happened?" Wang Lei looked at Fang Ming in confusion. "He was perfectly fine, so why did he suddenly lose control of his emotions?"

“It must have reminded him of something unpleasant on that rainy day, amplifying his negative emotions,” Lin Xi said thoughtfully. “Also, the sculpture in the basement might be strange too.”

“I felt something was wrong when I was in the basement. When I was staring at the statue, all I could think of were the images of being attacked by patients’ families in the past. I almost lost control and started to fight!” Yu Chen said.

—The case is solved; Yu Chen is a doctor.

—Oh, the angels in white!

— Yu Chen has a rather artistic temperament; I thought he was a writer or something.

—Writers aren't necessarily artistic; they might be quite wild.

——That’s right.

Liu Yun's face also turned pale: "Me too. Just thinking about what would happen to my daughter makes my heart pound, it's ten times stronger than when I was releasing my grief earlier..."

“Statues can amplify negative emotions. Fang Ming had been keeping his feelings to himself, and his emotional base was already unstable. Once amplified, he completely lost control.”

As soon as Lin Xi finished speaking, Fang Ming's body began to become transparent. Unlike the people who had been teleported before, his transparency was mixed with black patterns.

Fang Ming glanced at everyone one last time, his lips moved, but he disappeared completely into the rain without making a sound, leaving behind only a pool of blood stained with black paint.

The shadow monster, having lost its host, also vanished into black smoke.

—Holy crap, Fang Ming is just gone like that?
—Can statues amplify emotions?

—It seems like rain can too.

—I thought the statue was weird when I was in the basement, its gaze was creepy!
—What do we do now? Go back to the basement and smash the statue? But what if there are other traps?
The rain was getting heavier, and broken bricks were starting to fall from the hospital roof.

Lin Xi wiped the rain off her face.

“We have to go back to the basement. If the statue isn’t destroyed, everyone’s negative emotions will eventually get out of control, and then no one will survive.”

“Yes, everyone has negative emotions. If they are amplified by wireless networks, it can be really troublesome,” Huang Jingjing said.

"That's good, then we can go back." Wang Lei said, turning around and walking back.

Lin Xi quickened her pace and walked ahead with Wang Lei.

Yu Wenjing held the umbrella in one hand and clutched the bone in the other, without saying a word, and followed closely behind.

Liu Yun pulled Chen Xiaoqiang along, with Ma Xiaofeng following behind them.

Huang Jingjing and Yu Chen were behind.

The rain is getting heavier.

The heavy rain was like a soaked black cloth, making the ground in the yard shine.

As soon as the group stepped into the lobby of the outpatient building, they were hit by a blast of cold air mixed with the smell of disinfectant and mildew.

The lights in the corridor were broken, but fortunately there was a green emergency exit indicator light in the distance that flickered on and off, casting shadows of everyone that were sometimes long and sometimes short.

Wang Lei pulled a broken mop handle from the corner of the wall to use as a weapon.

"This lousy place doesn't even have a light." It was raining outside, and the unlit corridor was very dark.

Lin Xi turned on her flashlight, and the beam swept across the corridor wall, where the words "mental disorder" and "emotional instability" stood out starkly.

Suddenly, a deep purple halo appeared on the ground ahead, with something wriggling around its edge and making a soft hissing sound.

"What is that?" Liu Yun asked.

You could feel Chen Xiaoqiang's hand tremble slightly.

"Don't be afraid," Liu Yun comforted him.

However, everyone's negative emotions were amplified to some extent. Chen Xiaoqiang was already timid, so he was definitely even more afraid now.

Lin Xi shone his flashlight on the circle of light, but before he could say anything, the circle of light suddenly exploded with a "bang".

Countless black monsters emerged from the ground and charged towards them.

"Get out of the way!"

Lin Xi suddenly realized that a pale blue halo had appeared on the ground to her right.

Very big.

"Jump into the blue circle!"

Everyone reacted quickly, running towards the blue circle of light.

Soon, they all ran into the aperture.

The black monsters rushed outside the circle of light and immediately turned into wisps of black smoke and disappeared.

—Holy crap, that scared me to death!

—So many monsters appeared all at once.

—Is the blue circle a safe zone?
But we can't just stay in the aperture and not move!
—Aren't monsters the embodiment of everyone's emotions? How come so many of them suddenly appeared?
—It's a manifestation of the emotions of other patients in the hospital.

Lin Xi stared at the halo on the ground. The pale blue halo was still flickering slightly, while the purple halo that had just appeared with many monsters had turned into black smoke and dissipated.

"Attention everyone, circles of light will appear randomly on the ground; blue ones should be safe zones."

Wang Lei shook the water droplets off the mop handle.

"Who cares what district it is, just keep moving forward. We can't stay stuck here."

He had just taken a step when three halos of light suddenly appeared on the ground to his left, one crimson, one deep purple, and one light blue, arranged in a straight line, blocking his path.

At the same time, chunks of cement from the ceiling began to fall, crashing into the crimson circle and instantly igniting blue flames.

"Crimson is also a danger zone!"

As Wang Lei spoke, he took a step back. His clothes were scorched by the sparks, and he quickly patted them out with his hand.

"It seems that the different colored danger zones have different attack methods, and they are not necessarily all emotional monsters. Everyone must look carefully before entering," Huang Jingjing said.

“The blue thing is moving,” Yu Chen said. “If we don’t leave, will it go further away, or disappear?”

“Let’s walk through the blue circle of light.” Wang Lei straightened his clothes and immediately walked towards the blue circle of light.

"Hurry up, I feel like Wang Lei is getting too far away from us." Liu Yun said, taking Chen Xiaoqiang's hand and walking inside as well.

Others followed suit.

The flames within the crimson halo burned ever brighter, the heat waves making one's cheeks scorch, and a viscous black liquid began to emerge from the deep purple halo, slowly spreading like asphalt.

Ma Xiaofeng was standing next to the crimson halo, and sweat was pouring down his face.

He could only try his best to hide inside.

But this blue halo wasn't as big as the previous one. It was just right for the few of them to stand inside; it felt like there wouldn't be enough room for one more person.