Chapter 4: Strangers
From the moment he entered the dean's room, the door disappeared from this room as if it had been swallowed by a dark whale, and Huo Fatzi, who was standing outside the door, also panicked at this time.
"What about people?!"
Huo Fatzi rushed to the door all of a sudden, and without hesitation, he shone it in with a strong flashlight, and it was only then that he realized how weird this office was.
Any light will be sucked out by it, or ...... Devoured by it.
When the flashlight shines through, it looks like it's shining on a reflective black wall.
Nothing can be seen except black or black.
"How is this going on......"
Huo Fatzi frowned, he didn't expect things to develop like this, what is the situation here?
In all fairness, Huo Fatzi is not the kind of investigator who has no knowledge, before he became a small leader, he had seen countless strange cases, what kind of demons and evil misfortunes have not been seen?
But this time, he opened his eyes.
The dean's office seemed to be torn apart from the real world and turned into an independent space, and Huo Fatzi also had the courage to stretch his hand in a few times, which felt very strange to the touch.
It seems that the palm of his hand is not in the air, but in a pool of cold and sticky water, and the sticky and slippery but cold and biting feeling makes Huo Fatzi's heart more and more bottomless.
Spirits..... Really capable of doing this?
Or is it not a spirit at all?
"Xiao Chen! Can you hear me! ”
Huo Fatzi didn't care about the danger here, and shouted a few times into the office, and the expression on his face became more and more nervous.
"Xiao Chen, are you okay! Xiao Chen! ”
Unlike Huo Fatzi's panic, when Chen Xian found that the door of the dean's room had disappeared, he behaved unusually calmly.
Chen Xian seemed to be accustomed to this situation, but he just took a few steps back, looked carefully, and made sure that he couldn't find the location of the gate, and a trace of realization flashed in his eyes.
No wonder the corridor outside the door is as clean as new, and there is no trace of the fire in the slightest, it turns out that this is the case......
"I didn't expect the spirit body here to be so powerful, to make such a powerful domain." Chen Xian looked left and right, and couldn't help but be amazed.
In the old legends, there was often a saying that ghosts hit the wall, saying that there were unclean things that had charming eyes, causing people to lose their sense of direction, keep spinning in place, and couldn't get out of the place where the ghost hit the wall.
It turns out that this is the case, but in modern times, it should be called a "domain".
The most basic domain, which is a common ghost hitting the wall in legends, will make people lose their sense of direction, but it is not absolutely perfect, and there are ways to get out.
As for premium domains...... For example, this is the case now.
In fact, from the very beginning, Chen Xian and the others walked into this realm created by spirits, and the corridor outside where no traces of fire could be found was part of the domain.
In short, a "domain" doesn't have to be a fictional picture.
The more powerful the spirits are, the higher the Dao walks, the more real the "domains" they can create, and even achieve the effect of constructing another reality.
"It covers a wide area..... Chen Xian estimated the area of the previous corridor in his heart, and couldn't help but be amazed, it was the first time he had encountered such a large-scale domain.
In addition to sighing, Chen Xian also looked away and looked ahead.
The "creature" sitting at the desk writing was very human, and it was a living one, with its chest rising and falling with its breathing, and a faint pulse beating under its dry skin.
But no matter how much it looked like a human, Chen Xian could smell the dead breath on its body.
It was definitely a spirit, but compared to what had been seen before...... Seems to have some more activity?
That's right, it's like being a living person, and it's hard to describe that feeling in words.
Looking at the thin and shriveled figure, Chen Xian thought silently for a while, then raised his feet and walked over slowly, the expression on his face was as calm as ever, as if he was used to this kind of picture.
Prior to this, what Chen Xian said to Huo Fatzi was not nonsense, he was indeed not a religious cultivator, and he did not understand those so-called yin and yang spells at all.
Therefore, when encountering this situation, Chen Xian has only one way to break the "domain".
Get rid of the spirits that create the domain, and even the real realm will be wiped out.
"Can you hear me?"
Chen Xian walked up to the strange man, stretched out his hand and shook it in front of it, his movements were casual and relaxed, and he didn't seem to be afraid that it would bite into it.
"Rustling ......"
The strange man didn't react, he was unmoved by Chen Xian's voice and body movements, still holding his shriveled and sunken head down, holding a pen and writing something frantically in the notebook.
For this situation, Chen Xian still has a little headache, after all, he doesn't like to do things with spirits, and there is no need to be so complicated to be able to communicate with the spirits, but now it seems that ...... It seems that communication is not very possible!
"What do you write so attentively......"
Seeing that the strange man was so fascinated by writing, Chen Xian couldn't help but lean over and take a look at the worn-out record book.
It was densely packed with words.
There is no space between each word, which is very depressing to look at, and the content of the whole article is only four words.
It's four words that keep repeating.
"She's out!"
The handwriting on the notebook is quite sloppy, and even the sense of panic of the writer can be seen between the lines, the fear conveyed through the font, which Chen Xian has never encountered.
"She's out, she's out......."
Chen Xian looked at the four words that kept appearing on the paper, and he only felt confused.
She's out?
Who is she?
Could it be another spirit?
Chen Xian was thinking about this, and the strange man in front of him suddenly stopped.
It stopped writing, but looked down at the lines of writing in the notebook and laughed weirdly.
"Hee...... Hee-hee......"
Its laughter was intermittent, like a mentally ill person who had gone mad to the extreme, and its tone fluctuated greatly.
The hoarse and twisted sound continued to come through its throat, which was as dry as a dead twig, and its body trembled, as if it couldn't help but laugh, and its shoulders kept shaking.
"Can you hear me?" Chen Xian confirmed it again, bent down slightly, and shook his hand in front of it.
This time, Chen Xian got a different response.
I saw that the shriveled strange man raised his arm without warning, and directly pierced Chen Xian's palm with the pen he had used to write.
The whole process was in an instant, and even Chen Xian couldn't react.
"Hee-hee......-hee
The fountain pen was like a huge nail, nailed to Chen Xian's palm, and the skin at the wound was also dented, and the blood that exuded a fishy smell flowed out of the gap at the edge in an instant.
Feeling this piercing pain, Chen Xian almost instinctively raised his arm and smashed an elbow into the shriveled stranger's face.
Boom!!
After being hit by an elbow, the strange man let out an extremely terrible howl, and its whole body flew out uncontrollably, but in mid-air it suddenly gained its balance, like a wizened wild cat, and landed not far away on all fours.
Chen Xian glanced at the strange man who was eyeing him, and then looked down at the wound on his palm, without any expression on his face.
He could feel the pain, but he was unexpectedly not afraid of it.
The piercing pain was torture for ordinary people, but in his eyes...... Maybe it's really nothing.
Hold the pen and pull it out.
Chen Xian pulled the pen out of his palm expressionlessly, and the torn skin also turned over, and it was embarrassed to put it on the hole left by the pen, and the whole wound looked blurred and extremely terrifying.
At this time, the strange man lying not far away could no longer hold back, and let out a howl like a beast, it did not stand up, but began to run on all fours, and rushed straight towards Chen Xian.
Its speed was so fast that only a shadow remained, and it ran in front of Chen Xian almost instantly, and pounced on him with teeth and claws, as if trying to bite off his neck.
But it couldn't have imagined that Chen Xian's movements were faster than it.
Chen Xian didn't dodge, but stepped forward, grabbed the stranger's arm with his right hand, and gave it a shoulder smash with a flick.
When this shriveled monster landed, Chen Xian took advantage of the victory to chase after him and directly stepped on its neck with his foot.
If the actions of this strange man before were like a beast, then Chen Xian was no better.
In the strange man's terrible scream, Chen Xian slowly opened his mouth, revealing two rows of bright white teeth, and without waiting for the strange man to resist again, he bit down according to its wildly waved arm.
To the naked eye, the body of this strange man is very real, almost like a living person.
But after being bitten by Chen Xian, the lump of meat directly detached itself from the substantive state, and turned into a cloud of green smoke, which made him swallow it in his stomach.
From a scientific point of view, the spirit body is a kind of life in an abnormal state, and it is also an aggregate of unconventional material energy, and in the energy that they construct the body, except for 10% of the matter that is temporarily unknown, the remaining 90% is Yin particles.
Yin Qi particles are harmful to people, and if there are other aliens like Chen Xian, who directly swallow part of the body of the spirit into their stomachs, then it is no different from looking for death.
At worst, it will be eroded by yin qi, and at worst, it will be killed on the spot by yin poison.
In Huo Fatzi's department's alien registration file, only Chen Xian could do such a feat as eating spirits.
Temporary workers have numbers and codes, and Chen Xian's code name is also derived from this.
Alien eaters.
A person capable of consuming anomalous life.
"Bang!!"
With this muffled sound, Chen Xian was kicked out coldly by the strange man and landed on the desk a few meters away impartially.
Due to the excessive force of the impact, the slightly shoddy desk collapsed directly, and for a while, sawdust flew in smoke and dust, and the objects on the table were scattered all over the ground.
"Careless......"
Chen Xian quickly got up from the ground, there were obvious blood stains on the corner of his mouth, but he didn't care, he raised his hand and wiped it casually, then put his palm on his right rib and touched it lightly a few times.
There was an obvious depression in his ribs, and he should have broken a few ribs, and the severe pain made it a little difficult for him to breathe, but the expression on his face was still terrifyingly calm, as if it was not himself who was injured, but someone else, just took a few deep breaths, and stood up again.
"Who are you?!"
Just as Chen Xian was about to step forward to continue educating it, the shriveled strange man suddenly opened his mouth, although his voice was a little indistinct, but he could roughly hear the content.
The voice is hoarse, like the voice after the vocal cords have been damaged, and the tone fluctuates very much.
"Why are you in my office?!"
Hearing this deafening roar, Chen Xian stopped and looked at it with some surprise: "Regained your senses?" ”
From what it said, it can probably be judged that this strange person is the director of the Kiriyama Mental Hospital.
"You're not from our hospital...... Who are you! ”
The dean was still questioning angrily, and he pressed step by step, and began to take the initiative to move closer to Chen Xian's side.
But slowly, it realizes something.
"I ...... I'm dead? ”
The dean's footsteps paused, as if he had just discovered the changes in his body, and his face, which was as thin as old bark, instantly had a few more folds, and it lowered its head and kept looking at its body, and its tone became more and more alarmed.
"Right...... I remember...... She came out...... Everybody's dead......"
When the dean said this, his body suddenly trembled, and a humanized expression appeared on his already terrifying and sunken face.
Fear.
"Who's out?" Chen Xian asked subconsciously, he was still more concerned about this matter.
From the brief information revealed by the dean, Chen Xian can roughly know the changes in the hospital...... Including this fire, maybe it is all related to "her".
But who is she?
"Patient Thirteen...... She came out...... No, no, no! I'm going to hide! ”
The dean had lost his mind, and like a real mentally ill person, after Chen Xian gnawed off one hand, he only held his head with his remaining right hand, screamed wildly, turned around and ran into the dark corner.
When Chen Xian reacted and caught up, the dean had already disappeared.
For the spirit, it is not difficult to penetrate the wall, not to mention that this is the "domain" it has created, in this space surrounded by ghosts and walls, as long as it wants to escape, Chen Xian may not be able to stop it.
"Why don't you make it clear before you leave......"
Chen Xian stopped depressedly, and then he also noticed the changes in the dean's room, the darkness around him was gradually disappearing, and the door that had been covered by the darkness before also quietly recovered.
"Xiao Chen! Are you okay! Can you hear me! ”
Hearing the voice behind him, Chen Xian frowned, did not turn around, but quietly put the injured right hand into his pocket, he didn't want Huo Fatzi to find the wound on his hand.
Chen Xian raised his hand and touched his ribs, he could feel that the bones were "moving", and the concave ribs were swelling up again, and it would not take long to recover as before.
"Xiao Chen, are you okay?!"
Huo Fatzi had already strode into the office, standing beside Chen Xian as if he was facing a great enemy, holding a flashlight and constantly scanning left and right, for fear that there was still a hidden danger here.
"I'm fine."
Chen Xian smiled, his face was still full of kindness, his right hand in his pocket was motionless, and his body was standing straight, so that people couldn't see the abnormality of his ribs at all.
"I met the dean just now, but it ran too fast to catch it, sorry, Uncle Huo."