This actor is full of tricks.

Chen Fu was quite the braggart, claiming he could drink eight jin of baijiu (a type of Chinese liquor), but in reality, he got completely drunk after less than one bottle. He hid in a toilet stall, straining his throat and making dinosaur noises, and eventually just fell asleep on the toilet. Lin Jue slapped him several times but couldn't wake him up.

With no other option, Lin Jue found a small hotel, booked a room, dumped the other person inside, and then slowly rode his bicycle toward the mental hospital.

Previously, due to his weak strength, he had never visited the mental hospital. Now that his strength has increased, the mental hospital has also become stronger and has even disappeared without a trace.

The mental hospital is located in a remote area of ​​Sanjiang North City, far from the city center. Within a five-kilometer radius of the hospital, it is a ghost town surrounded by barbed wire. All the people who used to live nearby have moved away, making it a deserted restricted area.

Lin Jue parked the car against the wire fence, picked up the "No Entry" warning sign that had fallen to the ground, and found a gap to squeeze through.

Upon entering this area, the temperature suddenly dropped. All around were modern buildings, but they were all deserted. The buildings stood in the dead of night, casting large shadows under the dim moonlight.

The air was filled with a foul odor, the stench of decay. It was unclear whether some animal had died there or if there were undiscovered carcasses hidden there.

The surroundings were quiet and deathly still, with no other sound except for Lin Jue's light footsteps.

"This place is even more desolate than Yangtao Street. Everyone within five kilometers has been evacuated by the Inspection Department, which shows just how great the threat posed by that hospital is."

As Lin Jue walked, he observed his surroundings. The buildings were hidden in the darkness, and behind each window seemed to be a vengeful figure, staring at him menacingly.

“This place is perfect for hiding. Could there be patients who escaped from the mental hospital hiding here? After all, the darkest place is often the most dangerous place.”

A ball of flame rose from Lin Jue's palm, shot upwards, and exploded in the air into a dazzling firework, illuminating the night sky.

By the light of the fire, Lin Jue saw a pale, bluish face pressed against the window of the tenth floor of the tall building to his left, staring blankly at him.

"Very weak black energy, similar to Yan Jun who hasn't broken through, a monster below level E."

Lin Jue glanced at it briefly before looking away. This strange creature posed no threat whatsoever, and he had no desire to make a move.

He continued walking forward, and after walking a few hundred meters more, he noticed something was wrong. There seemed to be a second set of footsteps in the darkness, following his footsteps at the same time. If you didn't listen carefully, you wouldn't be able to hear it at all.

"It seems something's watching me. The Investigation Division didn't take this route to the hospital, otherwise these strange things would have been cleared out long ago..."

Lin Jue's expression remained unchanged, and his steps were steady. As the footsteps behind him grew closer, he suddenly turned around and attacked.

It was a monster with a rabbit's head and a human body, like two different dolls sewn together by a very naughty child. Just as the monster was about to make a move, Lin Jue turned around and punched it, sending it flying. It twitched a few times on the ground and then fell silent.

"Another stitched-up thing. Did it escape from that hospital? Did I go too far? I should have left it alive." Lin Jue walked up to the rabbit head and gave it two hard blows, but it didn't react at all. It seemed to be truly dead.

"What a waste of such good ingredients..."

He sighed and looked into the deep darkness of the night. This stretch of road might not be peaceful; no one knew how many dangers lurked in this place.

He simply enveloped himself in flames to intimidate the monsters that wanted to harm her, and sped away. During his journey, he did notice many prying eyes, but the monsters wisely withdrew their gazes upon seeing the flames on his body, knowing that this living person was not someone they could provoke.

However, less than a kilometer from the Jing She Hospital, an eight-legged monster took action. This monster resembled a humanoid spider, crawling darkly on the ground and leaving behind a trail of foul-smelling saliva.

This monster's resentment was astonishing; it was a C-rank monster that, relying on its strength, tried to ignore the flames on Lin Jue's body and capture him directly.

But he was soon reduced to a charred corpse, with Lin Jue breaking off all eight of his legs, leaving only two.

Upon questioning, it was revealed that this guy wasn't a patient who escaped from a mental hospital; those legs simply grew back on their own after his strength broke through his limits.

The journey became much more peaceful after that. That spider was probably the most dangerous creature on this road. When they approached the mental hospital, Lin Jue slowly stopped. This was the source of all the stench and the reason why the area within a five-kilometer radius had become a ghost town.

What came into view was a low wall covered with ivy, and an electric fence used to prevent patients from escaping, but it was no longer of any use.

There was still some distance to the hospital gate, so Lin Jue didn't choose to go through the gate. Instead, he burned the ivy and electric fence in front of him and climbed over in a few quick movements.

Upon landing, Lin Jue felt a slight pain in his head and a strong sense of rejection in his body. This body had spent eight years in this hospital, suffering endless torment, and instinctively resisted coming to this place.

He shook his head, suppressing his discomfort, and looked up.

Before them lay a wasteland, and in the center of the wasteland was a huge pit. The mental hospital seemed to have been uprooted, and even the underground parking lot had disappeared.

"What kind of power could make such a large complex of buildings disappear? The same goes for that school. Is the dean behind it all?"

Lin Jue stood at the top of the pit, looking down at the bottom. There was no construction debris at the bottom, not even steel scraps. If you didn't know, who would have thought that this place used to be a hospital?
Soon, Lin Jue's eyes, which had been darting around to survey his surroundings, stopped and fixed their gaze on the deepest part of the pit.

There was a figure that had appeared there at some point, wearing a blood-stained hospital gown with his back to him.

The black energy was extremely dense, even more so than what He Wen carried!

The figure felt very familiar to Lin Jue, and he subconsciously called out, "160230!"

The figure seemed to have heard the sound, but did not turn around and disappeared from Lin Jue's sight in the blink of an eye.

Disappeared?
"Is it 160230? It looks like him. Looking at him is like seeing myself, but it doesn't feel quite right. He's a bit bigger, and the black aura is several times denser. Could he be another clone?"

"Why run away when you see me? We all come from the same source. We can go inside the raincoat and have a good heart-to-heart talk."

"Speaking of which, how many clones are there exactly? And is the original body this one or Number 1? Could it be that I've created a clone?"

(End of this chapter)