C55 — Nightmare Ward

Zhuo Yu clearly saw black blood bursting out from the monster’s body, and through the shape of the smoke, he was sure that a big hole was punched through the thing’s shoulder blade.

Seeing that the strange black footprints had  disappeared, Liu Jingyun returned to the asphalt pit and started to rescue people. However, they arrived too late. Those people had no chance of survival and they couldn’t even struggle anymore.

Because as the monster left, the asphalt began to cool down and the NPCs were suffocated to death in it.

Liu Jingyun couldn’t bear to look at this scene any closer.

“Where are Du Zihao and Ruan Weiwei?” Zhuo Yu felt that the current situation wasn’t good. The one who was just dismembered and killed was definitely someone from Desire Sea, and Ruan Weiwei would definitely come back to look for her teammates, so…

Liu Jingyun understood what the captain meant. She quickly climbed up the tree, shuttled between the treetops, and soon arrived at the fence.

The situation in front of her was somewhat horrific. Three living people were strung up on the rusty spiked railings, and at the moment they were breathing out more than they were breathing in. Du Zihao could still hold on a little bit, his abdomen was pierced. He saw Liu Jingyun and wanted to open his mouth to call for help, but no sound came out.

A red-haired woman was almost dead. Even though she took out the first aid spray, she didn’t have the strength to press it. Liu Jingyun urgently treated her injuries.

As for Ruan Weiwei, she had already fainted.

Liu Jingyun called her teammates over.

Zhuo Yu looked at Du Zihao, who had already regained his strength, and couldn’t help but think of the pain he felt when he had used the Tiancong Cloud Sword to perform a cesarean section.

“Save me!” Du Zihao’s eyes lit up when he saw Zhuo Yu, and his vitality and desire to survive ignited. He hadn’t forgotten that Zhuo Yu had a healing staff.

“But…” Zhuo Yu pretended to be embarrassed: “This staff uses mental power. If I die, your injuries will return to their original state, and you will still not survive.”

Du Zihao didn’t even think twice: “I will protect you; I will never let you die!”

The most important thing now was to survive!

So, Zhuo Yu took out the snake staff from the space. The long snake, which hadn’t seen fresh air for a long time, kept swimming on the staff and hissed at Du Zihao.

A faint green light flashed, and several dying people finally survived, and Ruan Weiwei also woke up from her coma.

Zhuo Yu thought this was really a good deal, he didn’t have to do anything; he just took advantage of Brandt’s leak, and these three people now had to protect him.

How come this ​​Desire Sea was even weaker than the Tianxiang Guild!

Ruan Weiwei had already started to cry, but was impatiently interrupted by Mo Mingyan: “Okay, stop crying. Haven’t you realized yet that he has been playing tricks on you!”

The tearful woman immediately stopped crying, looked expressionlessly at the people who came to rescue her, and sighed in relief; she wasn’t destined to die.

Mo Mingyan’s brother died and was sent to the Flame Source. She felt very bad, but she still forced herself to look at Zhuo Yu: “I didn’t expect that you would save us in the end.”

Zhuo Yu raised an eyebrow.

“Don’t pretend. Now that all the NPCs are dead, the ones left are all actors. I don’t believe that you, who brought three bodyguards with you, are an NPC.” Mo Mingyan said indifferently, “I haven’t even competed with you yet, and I’ve already lost.”

“It’s none of my business, it’s that monster.” Zhuo Yu didn’t refute, instead he just avoided the question.

Mo Mingyan snorted coldly: “Some things are not convenient to talk about on set. If I can go back alive, I will tell you something you want to know.”

Zhuo Yu looked at her calmly.

Mo Mingyan bit her lower lip and added, “Let’s make a deal.”

“Haha, I always make deals with others, but this is the first time someone asks me for help. Tell me.” Zhuo Yu finally showed some interest.

“Ruan Weiwei and I will guard your safety and will never go against you in this film, but in return, you have to help me complete the task. I don’t want to return to the source of the flame.” Mo Mingyan looked at Zhuo Yu stubbornly.

Zhuo Yu shrugged: “Why do you think you have the right to trade with me? If we want to overcome the Desire Sea guild, isn’t it easy?”

Mo Mingyan frowned, thought for a long time, and finally said: “I am from the East.”

She was reminding Zhuo Yu that she had accepted funding from Chief Judge Dongfang and that this matter was related to the Chief Judge.

As expected, Zhuo Yu understood what she meant in one second.

Zhuo Yu still remembered that No. 1 had reminded him that the Eastern Chief Judge would try to trip him up again like he had done with the Soul Hunters. Wasn’t that a bit too persistent?

“Get up.” Zhuo Yu nodded: “I accept your proposal, but I want to know what your mission is.”

Mo Mingyan sighed deeply and chose to chat privately nearby.

[Private chat with strangers]

[Mo Mingyan: You already understand. I want to use the information about Chief Judge Dongfang in exchange for a chance to survive.]

[Zhuo Yu: Don’t blame me for speaking frankly. I’m really curious about why he sent you here.]

The implication was that they were simply no match for Knight Flame.

[Mo Mingyan: Because I have a special ability.]

[Mo Mingyan: We all have control abilities. Ruan Weiwei can control men, I’m sure you’ve discovered that, and my ability is divination. I can use divination to predict many things, including a person’s past and future. This talent existed before I entered the film set.]

[Zhuo Yu: Interesting]

[Mo Mingyan: The purpose of him asking me to come here is not to defeat you, but to use Ruan Weiwei to control you, and then let me predict your past. Although I accepted this task, I didn’t tell anyone. I kept it in my heart and planned to act according to the situation. Who knew that the time and space in that hospital were in disarray, and I had no way of predicting my survival, so I could only choose to form an alliance with you.]

[Zhuo Yu: I am just an ordinary person, why is the chief judge always wondering about me?]

[Mo Mingyan: You are definitely not an ordinary person, so I can believe that you can bring me more benefits than the chief judge.]

[Zhuo Yu: What’s so extraordinary about me?]

[Mo Mingyan: He wants to know about your previous life.]

Previous life?

Zhuo Yu actually didn’t know much about Chinese metaphysics, and he had never thought about whether he would reincarnate, but all the signs in front of him indicated that he might really have some connection with this set.

Not only did Number One seem to have known him for a long time, but also because of his missing soul, even the other chief judges who had never met him before began to pay attention to him

Zhuo Yu was a little puzzled.

Was his identity really not simple?

[Zhuo Yu: Let’s not talk about this for now. What is the system task of your Desire Sea?]

[Mo Mingyan: We are undercover agents funded by the Cornell Foundation. We have only one mission, which is to kill the five ghosts in this mental hospital.]

[Zhuo Yu: Which five?]

[Mo Mingyan: The pregnant woman who was dissected, the veteran who was subjected to waterboarding, nurse who was tortured to death, patient who was stuffed into an oven, and a journalist who had their heads chopped off.]

[Zhuo Yu: Is there any other information?]

[Mo Mingyan: No, I already know everything about you.]

Zhuo Yu thought for a moment. The pregnant woman should be Mary, the old soldier was probably the one he met, Rex, who had a scar on his face. There were still three people he hadn’t met yet.

Why was the mission from the Desire Sea guild like this, and funded by Arthur’s family? Could there be some hidden secrets in all of this?

But a hundred years had passed, and even Saint Rebecca had been abandoned for so long. Any traces of evidence might have been erased by time. His only way out was to return to that past timeline and uncover the truth.

Then another question came up—how could he return to that time?

He had to decode the secret behind the time disruption.

Ruan Weiwei had been staring at Zhuo Yu resentfully, as if accusing this big liar with her gaze. Zhuo Yu felt uncomfortable under her stare and could only pull himself out of his thoughts, ignoring her eyes.

“We should head back first,” Zhuo Yu said.

The group returned to the entrance of Saint Rebecca, but none of them stepped inside. Liang Sheng also came down from the fire escape.

Luo Musheng was picking at the tar on his hands. When he saw Liang Sheng, he quickly thanked him. If it hadn’t been for Liang Sheng’s shot, he probably would’ve been eaten by the monster.

Liang Sheng put away his g-un and nodded slightly.

“I need all of you to vote together,” Zhuo Yu said. “Right now, we have two choices.”

“First, escape without knowing anything…”

Before he could finish, Mo Mingyan interrupted him: “That’s not an option anymore. When we tried to escape, we found ourselves going in circles or we couldn’t leave the sports field at all. If we can’t solve the puzzle here, we won’t be able to escape.”

Zhuo Yu hissed: “Then we only have the second option left—to figure out what happened back then, why Saint Rebecca has this time distortion phenomenon, and why the dean became a monster. We need to retrieve the camera, continue the live broadcast, and complete the system’s task by filming the movie.”

“Everyone, I have a bold idea,” Zhuo Yu added.

“What is it?” Everyone looked at him curiously.

“Do you remember when we asked the viewers about the connection between ghosts and tar? One viewer answered that demons forbidden by god from entering the human world would wrap their feet in tar so it wouldn’t count as stepping on the human ground, thus finding a loophole.”

Everyone nodded; they recalled this detail.

“So, I also remembered the Key of Solomon, which records a demon who can control time. King Solomon made a pact with the seventy-two demons of Hell and could summon them. The second and third demons had the ability to travel through the past and future, and they were brothers.”

Qu Hongyi, who used to be involved in creative work, understood what Zhuo Yu was talking about: “Are you talking about Agares and Vassago?”

“Exactly,” Zhuo Yu nodded.

Du Zihao, frustrated, scratched his head: “So, what exactly are these two?”

“Agares is a very powerful demon duke whose power lies in inciting humans to commit crimes. His brother Vassago is kind-hearted and knows all hidden and lost knowledge. Both of them share the same ability—they can traverse time.”

“The monster I saw in the mirror, half-human and half-goat with wings on its back, clearly resembles a demon. I suspect that the evil in Saint Rebecca is related to demon worship.”

Everyone was startled. Qu Hongyi then added: “Yes, I’ve studied this history as well. At the time, medical techniques were very primitive, and the death rate for surgeries was extremely high. Often, demon worshippers or Satan’s followers would become surgeons, intentionally killing people on the operating table as live sacrifices and escaping legal punishment in the process.”

“So, how does this relate to going back to the previous timeline?” Du Zihao still didn’t understand.

“You need to go to the last point in the previous timeline. I was in the dean’s office, and Luo Musheng and the others were on the fifth floor…”

Zhuo Yu now had a goal. He needed to find all five people and use the dean’s favor to uncover the cult conspiracy behind Saint Rebecca.

“I already have a plan,” Zhuo Yu said with a confident smile.

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It’s been a while, here’s an extra chap