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Even though Ji Dong had seen a lot, hearing such an answer still brought chills all over his body.
A body with an ankle tag that could bounce around like a flexible big raccoon was already terrifying in itself; not to mention that it was also elusive, incredibly powerful, and couldn’t be seen by anyone except Ji Dong, which was petrifying.
“So you mean it’s a zombie?”
Mr. Dagen made the most reasonable speculation based on human common sense and his experience of watching horror movies, but then immediately denied it.
“No! If it is simply a zombie, it shouldn’t only be visible to Ji Dong. That’s not scientific!”
Everyone stared at him with contempt, thinking that the existence of a zombie wasn’t even scientific. This urban legend was clearly haunted. Why was he still fixated on whether it was scientific or not?
“But if that really was an ankle tag tied to a corpse…”
Fan Luming quickly figured out the key point and his eyes sparkled with excitement.
“If we can see the information on that tag, won’t we be able to identify that thing?”
“Exactly!”
The ankle tag strapped to the deceased was used as an identification marker. It usually has the body’s basic information, including their name, gender, and age, as well as the certificate number and cause of death. If they could see these, it wouldn’t be difficult to discover the identity and background of the deceased.
“Xiao’niao, do you have a way to see what’s written on that tag?”
Upon hearing this, Ji Dong’s eyebrows immediately drooped, while his almond-shaped eyes widened with shock and grievance.
This task was really challenging. It made him want to scratch the wall and shout: “I can’t do it!”
Yes, it was too daunting. The humanoid monster may not look ferocious on the outside, but it was unbelievably agile and moved surprisingly fast. Its joints were entirely different from those of a normal person, easily twisting in any direction by one or two hundred degrees. It was not restricted by space and could move effortlessly on the ceiling or walls.
Although Ji Dong’s eyesight had been enhanced, surpassing that of an ordinary person, it didn’t mean he could see the tiny prints on the monster’s ankle when it moved at a high speed. Moreover, that thing was wearing a set of loose patient’s clothing. When standing, the length of the pants was enough to cover the ankles.
Pondering over it, Ji Dong felt that unless he risked his life to grab onto the calf of the humanoid monster, then forcefully lift up its pants to see the tag, then there was no hope of obtaining any information.
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Ren Jianmo asked again, “Was my cut deep?”
Ji Dong nodded vigorously. He thought Ren Jianmo was really amazing. With just the position of an arrow, he accurately delivered a heavy blow to the invisible monster.
“The feeling in my hand is a bit off though.”
Ren Jianmo slightly lowered his head, his long hair slipping down onto his shoulders. “My knife should have gone in more than ten centimeters deep. At that depth, it should have definitely hit the clavicle, sternum, and ribs, but I didn’t feel the hardness of cutting through bones…”
Nodding, Ji Dong answered with a bitter expression.
“That monster is not your ordinary walking corpse. Otherwise, it wouldn’t still be jumping around when I shot an arrow on its forehead!”
The supernatural [Film] couldn’t be explained by common sense, which meant that a simple physical approach was not enough to get rid of that monster.
“But my knife can hurt it…”
Ren Jianmo looked at Ji Dong, a glimmer of light flashing in his heterochromatic eyes.
“And you can see it, right?”
Ji Dong was startled as if struck by lightning.
“Yes!”
Ji Dong slapped his thigh and excitedly laughed, “I’ve come up with a great idea!”
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An hour later, Ji Dong, Ren Jianmo, and Mo Tiangen were walking in the outpatient building of the hospital, while the Fan siblings were nowhere to be found.
At this moment, Ji Xiao’niao has actively taken on the role of “bait,” trying to lure out the humanoid monster. Meanwhile, Ren Jianmo and Mo Tiangen acted as his bodyguards, helping him survive the upcoming attacks.
However, it seemed that the monster was intimidated by Ren Jianmo’s nearly chest-piercing blow and did not appear even after the three of them strolled around the outpatient hall for an hour.
“Otherwise, let’s go upstairs and take a look?”
Ji Dong glanced at his watch. It was already 3:28. It would take them an hour to return.
In other words, even if Ji Dong and the others didn’t challenge any other haunted locations tonight, they had to get their hands on the poker card in the Tzu Chi Hospital before 5 o’clock at the latest.
Otherwise, not only would they have wasted the entire night, but the situation for the whole team would also become precarious.
With only an hour and a half left, Ji Xiao’niao couldn’t help but feel anxious.
After all, that was a humanoid monster, and Ji Dong was apprehensive about it. If it still had human intelligence, perhaps it has already seen through their plan to lure it out, which was why it chose not to appear anymore and hid instead.
“Hmm, let’s go and take a look at the second floor.”
Ren Jianmo and Mo Tiangen also felt the same way.
So the three of them found the stairs leading to the upper floor. Mo Tiangen was at the front, Ji Dong in the middle, and Ren Jianmo at the back, forming a single file as they walked towards the second floor.
They chose a suspended handrail staircase. They were all very cautious, especially Ji Dong, who kept looking back every few steps, afraid that the monster would suddenly appear from a corner and catch them off guard.
It took them about two minutes to climb one floor. It wasn’t until all three of them stepped onto the corridor of the second floor that Ji Dong finally breathed a sigh of relief.
However, danger would always come, when you least expected it.
In the next second, a figure leaped down from the stairs on the third floor, flying directly over an entire floor’s height. Then, just as it was about to continue falling, it reached out and grabbed onto the handrail of the second floor’s staircase. With a push and a leap, it pounced towards Ji Dong’s back.
This moment truly revealed the terrifying nature of the supernatural [Film].
If it was according to the norms of physical laws, where such a large “person” moved rapidly toward another person, it would definitely create a sound of rushing wind.
However, even though Ji Dong could see the figure’s true form, he couldn’t perceive its presence through any means other than his eyes.
Hence, Ji Dong didn’t even have time to scream.
He could only quickly lower his waist and bow his head, narrowly avoiding the hand that was about to grab his neck. Then, he twisted his body in an attempt to create some distance from the monster.
But it was already too late.
A pair of steel-like claws clamped onto his shoulder, deeply embedding their ten fingers into his flesh. The force was so great that Ji Dong felt like his shoulder blades were about to shatter, and tears uncontrollably streamed down his face.
Then, his body was forcibly dragged down. He tilted backward and rolled down the stairs.
Ji Dong probably rolled down more than ten steps, colliding with the railing of the platform along the way before finally coming to a stop.
He struggled to get up, but the monster pressed firmly on top of him, refusing to let go.
“Help!”
Struggling, Ji Xiao’niao shouted, “It– It’s–It’s pressing down on me!”
At that moment, Mo Tiangen and Ren Jianmo had arrived. They couldn’t see the monster’s figure, so they had to rely on Ji Dong’s posture and words to determine its approximate location.
In this situation, Ren Jianmo couldn’t use his knife at all.
Fortunately, Mo Tiangen had already pulled out his [Universal Foldable Stick Chair] from his waist and unfolded it. With a swoosh, he swung it towards the spot where Ji Dong’s arm was being pressed.
His [Universal Foldable Stick Chair] truly lived up to its reputation as a collectible from the [Peach Blossom Spring].
He didn’t know what it was made of, but it had four metal rods with a foldable metal mesh in the middle. It also felt quite heavy, weighing around twenty kilograms. And the folding stool was unbelievably sturdy and solid.
Teacher Dagen once tested it on the training field, smashing dozens of bricks with it, but the folding chair didn’t even have a single dent, remaining as new as ever.
This was the first time Mo Tiangen used his “weapon” in a real battle.
Sure enough, the chair firmly slammed down and smashed into something. Ji Dong suddenly felt the pressure on him lighten as the creature in the patient gown was swept away by Mo Tiangen’s folding chair.
The body crashed into the railing, rebounded, and rolled down to the next set of stairs.
“Holy crap!” Ji Dong didn’t care about the intense pain the monster’s claws inflicted on his shoulders. He promptly leaped up, took out his prop, had it transform into a longbow, pulled the string, and shot an arrow toward the monster, who was still tumbling rapidly.
The arrow pierced into its left calf, slightly deviating from his original target. But he didn’t have the time to be frustrated. Instead, he calmly drew the bowstring again. Taking advantage of the moment when the monster had just rolled onto the next platform and its body stopped rolling, he shot another arrow. This time, the arrow accurately hit the corpse’s right foot.
“That’s the spot!” Ji Dong quickly shouted.
In fact, it went without saying that by the time he fired his second arrow, Ren Jianmo had already flashed past him, jumped down more than ten steps in one leap, and rushed to the monster.
Immediately, with a swift motion, Ren Jianmo’s knife sliced down along Ji Dong’s arrow, directly cutting off the monster’s right ankle!
Ji Dong clearly saw that on the fallen right foot, there was a thin, plastic ankle ring attached. It was exactly what they were looking for!
