"Ah—ah—ah—"
A few crows flew past Mo Fei's head. Mo Fei shivered involuntarily, but she shook her head and continued to walk forward, hugging herself.
"It's... so cold here..."
As Mo Fei walked, she observed her surroundings. Unwittingly, she spotted something like a landmark.
"Jing... Jing Er Road..."
As soon as she spoke, Mo Fei seemed to recall something and abruptly looked up towards the end of the alley.
"Let's swing the oars~"
She saw several children, laughing and chattering, approaching from the other side of the alley. They were all wearing the same school uniforms, boys with buzz cuts and girls with bob cuts.
But they had no other facial features. Their vacant faces only showed mouths that opened and closed. However, what grew within these mouths were not baby teeth and childish tongues, but "teeth" formed from broken art knives and "tongues" made of thorny branches.
"The sea reflects the beautiful white pagoda~"
As the children drew nearer, their song seemed to surround Mo Fei, as if sung right by her ears.
"Ah—stop singing!!" Mo Fei's eyes widened, and she knelt on the ground, covering her ears tightly with her hands, but the singing did not diminish in the slightest.
The children surrounded Mo Fei, who was curled up on the ground. As if playing a game, they ran around happily while singing the increasingly eerie nursery rhyme.
At some point, the singing stopped.
Mo Fei slowly opened her eyes and tentatively tried to peek through her arms to see if the children had left.
Through the gaps between her arms, she saw the children gathered directly in front of her. They opened their mouths in unison, "looking" at Mo Fei and saying:
"Mo Fei!—"
"Ah!!—"
At this moment, Mo Fei was inexplicably wearing the same school uniform. Although she was much taller than these children, she seemed to have forgotten how to use her limbs, constantly screaming and struggling to shuffle backward.
"Mo Fei, why are you so pretty?"
"Mo Fei, why don't you look much like your brother Mo Chuan?"
"Mo Fei, you're just a pitiful worm, born but not raised!"
"Mo Fei, can you give me your pencil? Your brother will buy you a new one anyway."
"Mo Fei, can you give me your brother's contact information..."
"Mo Fei, you..."
These children spoke one after another, their small hands grabbing Mo Fei's arms protecting her chest and shaking them incessantly. Tears welled up in Mo Fei's eyes as she cried out, "Don't come any closer!!—"
In her panic, Mo Fei summoned her Night Fiend Sword and began to hack wildly at the children in front of her without any pattern.
The expected scene of blood and gore did not materialize. The "children" were cut into six streams of purplish-black energy by the Night Fiend Sword, which then drifted into the air before seeping into Mo Fei's eyes, ears, brow, nose, mouth, and heart respectively.
Mo Fei cried out in agony and completely fainted, her Night Fiend Sword falling to the ground with a crisp sound.
...
"Quick, the patient's heartbeat rhythm is becoming more irregular. Xiao Li, bring the equipment; Xiao Wang, use your abilities to stabilize the patient's condition."
In the early morning hours at Qingzhou Army Hospital, Mo Fei's heart rate monitoring device suddenly sounded an alarm. A group of doctors, after finding their rescue efforts ineffective, promptly transferred her to the emergency room for ability-based treatment.
Although the patient's other vital signs were not critical, her alarming blood pressure and heart rate forced the attending physician to exert maximum effort to stabilize her life first, and then try to understand the cause of her illness.
Adrenaline levels high, heart rate high, breathing rate accelerated, blood pressure elevated, but body surface temperature decreasing...
There seemed to be no problem, yet it felt almost like... being startled?
The attending physician seemed to have an immediate realization and quickly said to an assistant, "Quickly check this patient's file to see if she's an ability user. If so, tell me her ability type!" He then pushed the doctors around him back and said, "Everyone step back, call security immediately! Just keep the patient on basic respiratory support, turn off and remove all monitoring equipment!"
With that, the attending physician walked towards the emergency room door. A young assistant, carrying a box of emergency supplies, asked, "Teacher, why..."
"Don't speak, wait for Xiao Li's report."
As soon as the attending physician finished speaking, an assistant called Xiao Li arrived with a file, saying, "Teacher, she's an ability user..."
"Ah!!—"
A miserable female scream echoed throughout the entire emergency room.
The attending physician's pupils constricted. He immediately said, "Let's go!" and then slammed open the emergency room's mechanical door switch. He then quickly fled outside with two assistants.
The security guards who had just arrived were stunned but didn't think much of it, directly entering the emergency room.
The last doctor in the emergency room was about to pack up the equipment when Mo Fei, next to him, let out a scream that nearly scared him to death. He turned his head and saw that Mo Fei had, at some unknown time, sat up on the bed, her pair of crimson eyes scanning her surroundings.
In Mo Fei's perception, the walls of the emergency room were covered with mouths identical to those of the children from before. As they opened and closed, teeth made of knife blades gleamed with cold light. Twisted and eerie nursery rhymes, emotionless accusations, and questions filled with jealousy... each character was like a fine needle piercing directly into Mo Fei's brain, causing her such pain that she couldn't think.
The exclamations beside her intensified Mo Fei's pain. She glared with her crimson eyes and saw a "faceless" person in a white coat "looking" at her. Under the intense mental stimulus, Mo Fei directly summoned her Night Fiend Sword and attacked the "faceless" one:
"Death's Stab!"
With a delicate shout, Mo Fei jumped off the operating table. Just as Mo Fei's Night Fiend Sword was about to touch the physician's face, a security guard pushed the physician aside, then raised his shield to defend, forcefully taking the blow.
*Duang~~~~*
The riot shield in his hand was pierced with a large gash. The security guard, seeing this, broke out in a cold sweat. He quickly grabbed the physician, who could no longer move his legs, by the collar of his shirt and retreated in a hurry. At the same time, other security guards swarmed forward, surrounding Mo Fei.
Mo Fei looked at these heavily armored "faceless monsters" before her. Knowing that she couldn't fight so many alone, Mo Fei casually summoned a mass of purple demonic energy, which transformed into a hat that appeared in her hand. She casually put it on, and her entire body turned into a shadow and disappeared into thin air.
"Where did she go!?" "Everyone on alert!" "Immediately notify all medical staff to remain in place or find nearby rooms to hide. The hospital is entering Level One security status!"
Amidst the clamor, the security guards cautiously moved towards the exit of the emergency room, all the while guarding against Mo Fei's sneak attack.
...
Hospital Ward Building.
Mo Chuan, carrying a bag of steamed buns and congee, walked towards Mo Fei's ward.
"Attention all personnel, attention all personnel. The hospital is now entering Level One security status. All patients and medical staff are requested to immediately seek nearby rooms to hide. Do not leave your rooms until the alarm ends. Repeat, the hospital is now entering Level One security status..."
"Fei'er!"