Chapter 26: You Understand Humans, But Not Silicone

Pfft!

Fang Xiu pulled out the scalpel, and a jet of blood shot out from Wu Dahai's neck, splattering the wall.

Bang!

Wu Dahai's bulky body collapsed to the ground.

At that moment, the colleagues suddenly froze, each standing stiffly in place like zombies, their faces as pale as the dead—even Zhao Hao was no exception.

The next second, the colleagues moved, their bodies twisting in an eerie manner, their necks and spines bending into an exaggerated, inhuman curve.

Their muscles writhed and swelled like boiling water.

"Are they transforming?" Fang Xiu muttered to himself, "Then interrupt the spell."

He wasn't going to stand there like a fool waiting for them to transform, as they do in TV dramas.

Fang Xiu unleashed his full power, his agile form resembling a leopard, as he charged toward the crowd.

One slash, two slashes, three slashes...

Silver light flashed across the scene.

When Fang Xiu stopped, his figure had already reached the other end of the office area.

In just one second, he had traversed the entire office area and opened a hole in each person's neck.

Pfft, pfft.

Blood fountains erupted almost simultaneously from the necks of his colleagues, multiple fountains blooming together like vibrant, blood-red flowers.

Bang, bang, bang...

The sound of bodies hitting the ground echoed continuously.

At that moment, the sound of cracking bones echoed behind Fang Xiu.

"The female doctor? I've been waiting for you."

He turned around to see the familiar female doctor standing behind him. Her long limbs hung from the ceiling, her thick black hair cascading down, drool dripping from her blood-red mouth, and her eyes, which were nothing but white, staring intently at Fang Xiu.

Suddenly, the female doctor lunged at Fang Xiu like a ghost.

But this time, Fang Xiu did not resist. Instead, he stood calmly in place, waiting for the female doctor to attack.

Swish!

The female doctor's pale, eerie hand slashed viciously toward Fang Xiu's neck.

However, the next moment, something surprising happened. The female doctor's hand passed right through Fang Xiu's neck, as if it had passed through a cloud of air.

"Have you had enough fun? If you're done, come out," Fang Xiu said calmly.

In an instant, the female doctor vanished, along with the bodies littering the ground, and even the entire sales office shattered like a mirror.

Behind the fragments lay the emergency exit of Qing Shan Mental Hospital.

A bright safety exit sign hung on the wall.

Beside Fang Xiu, Zhao Hao and the other two lay sprawled on the ground, their faces twisted with fear, covered in chaotic wounds, and lifeless.

Fang Xiu slowly rose from the ground. In the darkness, a pair of crimson, eerie eyes stared straight at him.

Those eerie eyes seemed to have no true form, shrouded in a swirling mass of formless black smoke.

"A dream? So this is your ability," Fang Xiu said calmly.

A hoarse, unsettling voice emanated from the black smoke-enveloped eyes.

"How did you see through the dream?"

"Your dream is very realistic, and you understand humans well, but unfortunately, you don't understand silicone."

"Silicone?" The eerie eyes seemed confused.

He asked again, "Why aren't you afraid?"

"Oh?" Fang Xiu raised an eyebrow, "So you rely on fear to kill? In your dreams, the more fearful you are, the faster you die. No wonder there's a death list, and the dead come back to life to make me work.

To be honest, seeing a brand-new strange entity again makes me happy, but I really dislike the dream you just created. How dare you create a world without strange entities? Isn't that something a strange entity should do?"

The Black Smoke Strange Eye didn't speak, but stared intently at Fang Xiu, as if trying to memorize his appearance.

The next moment, it began to fade away slowly, disappearing without a trace.

Fang Xiu looked at the three dead bodies of Zhao Hao and the others, having already pieced together the cause and effect.

This was a strange entity that could manipulate dreams, and it was the female doctor he had scared away.

If his guess was correct, the female doctor was the weakest strange entity in the entire Qing Shan Mental Hospital.

Because the way she became a strange entity was different from the others.

The other strange entities seemed to have been transformed into strange entities through experiments.

But the female doctor had never conducted any experiments; she had simply been infected by a scalpel and turned into a strange entity. There was a fundamental difference between the two.

This can be seen from the fact that the female doctor has no special abilities and her killing patterns are extremely simple and rigid.

Oh, and the female doctor isn't completely without any special traits—at least her legs are exceptionally long, over two meters in length.

Due to the differing factors that led to their transformation into strange beings, their strengths are vastly different. When the female doctor encountered a true strange being, she was immediately scared away.

This strange entity that manipulates dreams must have escaped from the opened ward.

While everyone else was resting, it used some unknown method to put them to sleep, then silently entered their dreams and created fear within them.

The more fearful you are, the faster you die in the dream.

Unfortunately for it, it encountered Fang Xiu, a man who does not fear the strange but instead fears not seeing it.

To be precise, when Fang Xiu discovered the strange entity had vanished in the dream, he was not afraid but rather collapsed in despair.

Fortunately, the strange entity, in an attempt to scare him, deliberately created various strange events, reigniting Fang Xiu's desire to live.

Additionally, the strange entity didn't understand silicone, which Fang Xiu had figured out.

Of course, the main reason for the strange entity's failure was that Fang Xiu simply didn't feel fear.

Fang Xiu walked over to Zhao Hao, who was holding his own neck with both hands, his face turning purple.

He reached out to check his breath, confirming that Zhao Hao was indeed dead, and had killed himself.

Such a thing was impossible for a normal human being, but the existence of the strange entity was abnormal to begin with.

Suddenly, Fang Xiu pulled out a scalpel and stabbed it into his own neck. As blood flowed out continuously, his consciousness gradually faded into darkness....

....

At the emergency exit sign.

"This is the emergency exit!"

"The way out must be here!"

Two colleagues looked at the emergency exit sign with surprise.

Zhao Hao, standing nearby, also looked surprised.

This time, Fang Xiu did not choose to rest to recover his spiritual energy. Since that strange ability controlled dreams, the best method was to not fall asleep.

Earlier, everyone had fallen asleep unknowingly during their rest, so this time they wouldn't rest—they'd just keep moving.

"Let's go!"

Fang Xiu spoke calmly, then led the way toward the emergency exit, with Zhao Hao and the others following closely behind.

Bang!

The door to the emergency exit was pushed open, and everyone filed inside.

It was still pitch black, but once they emerged from the darkness, they found themselves back outside the Bai Liu Academy.

Fang Xiu looked at the empty street, then at the empty sky, and immediately pulled out his scalpel, slicing it across his own neck.