"What... what’s going on?"
Li Xun gasped for breath as he looked around.
After surveying his surroundings, he found himself lying on the tiles of the fifth floor,
and the things he saw earlier, including a coffin, a morial tablet, his own corpse, seed to all be hallucinations, now vanished without a trace.
More importantly, Tie Xiong, Tie Shanshan, and the others were nowhere to be found either.
"Uncle Tie?"
"Uncle Tie, are you there?"
He struggled to prop himself up, continuously calling out Tie Xiong’s na.
The entire fifth floor seed like he was the only one there, all empty and deserted.
Aside from his own echoes, there was not a single sound.
"Oh no! Sothing’s happened!"
Li Xun took a deep breath, realizing that he must have been caught in a trap!
With no other choice, he had to drag his body along, beginning to search for Tie Xiong and the others.
If there is no one on the fifth floor, then head up to the sixth floor!
How could there still be no one on the sixth floor?
Go check the seventh floor!
Still not a single person on the seventh floor.
What about the eighth floor? Still no one!
After climbing all the way to the rooftop, Li Xun’s face was full of disappointnt.
The entire inpatient building seed to have only him, no matter what he did, how he shouted, no one else would respond.
Just as he was about to turn around and go downstairs, a sudden cold wind blew.
"Hiss!"
Li Xun drew in a sharp breath.
The cold wind left his scalp tingling, and all the hair on his body stood up.
At the sa ti, on the once empty rooftop, there suddenly appeared the figure of an elderly man.
As he looked at the figure, it felt very familiar.
But all of a sudden, he couldn’t rember who the person was.
"What’s going on? Why is this figure so familiar, but I just can’t recall?"
Li Xun felt like his head was about to explode but couldn’t recall who the person was.
The old man slowly turned around, his face full of wrinkles, his expression blank and bewildered.
A pair of lifeless eyes stared right into Li Xun’s eyes.
"Sima... Sima Xuan?"
As he saw the old man’s face, Li Xun imdiately rembered the na.
"Master Sima?"
"Master Sima Xuan?"
He tried calling out the na a few tis.
But Sima Xuan remained in that dazed, dull state, showing no reaction.
What the hell is going on?
Li Xun furrowed his brows and couldn’t help but curse.
"Everyone is going to die... everyone is going to die..."
Suddenly, Sima Xuan opened his mouth, chanting the sa phrase repeatedly.
After repeating it more than ten tis, Sima Xuan slowly turned around and took a few steps forward, seemingly ready to jump.
"Master Sima!"
Li Xun instinctively ran two steps forward, trying to reach out and stop Sima Xuan.
But as he reached the edge of the rooftop, Sima Xuan stumbled forward and fell straight down.
Li Xun gritted his teeth and quickly stretched out his hand, grabbing Sima Xuan’s sleeve.
He thought he could pull Master Sima Xuan back up, but he forgot about the setting he was in.
Sima Xuan robotically lifted his head, the muscles on his face twitching slightly, forming a bizarre smile.
Seeing that smile, Li Xun felt a chill deep within, as if he had fallen into an ice cave.
In a blur, he suddenly felt the ground beneath him give way.
By the ti he realized it, he was falling rapidly from a high place.
Looking up, he saw Sima Xuan still standing at the edge of the rooftop, with that strange smile still on his face.
"This ti... I fear I’m truly going to die?"
Li Xun had already envisioned the horrific scene of his body turning into a bloody pulp from the fall.
But just then, a red light suddenly pierced through the dense and impenetrable dark clouds.
"Uncle Tie!"
Seeing this, Li Xun couldn’t help but show a look of joy.
The next mont, the red light directly entered his nostrils and mouth.
"Cough, cough... cough, cough..."
Li Xun suddenly felt like he was choking, coughing violently a few tis, then opened his eyes again.
He found himself lying in a coffin.
Around the coffin was Tie Shanshan and the others, all looking worried.
"Brother Li, you’re finally awake!"
Tie Shanshan let out a long sigh of relief after seeing him wake up.
"What... what happened to just now?"
Li Xun imdiately sat up from the coffin, shook his head, and asked Tie Shanshan.
"I don’t know!"
Tie Shanshan shook her head and said, "We were exploring this floor earlier and when we turned around, you were suddenly gone."
"We looked for quite a while but couldn’t find where you were."
"In the end, it was my dad’s spell that revealed you were lying in this coffin."
After speaking, she picked up the morial tablet placed to the side.
Li Xun glanced at it and found that the coffin he was lying in had his na on it.
"Uncle Tie, thank you so much!"
"If it weren’t for you, I might have really died!"
After jumping out of the coffin, Li Xun imdiately thanked Tie Xiong.
"We’re all on the sa side, no need to be so formal."
Tie Xiong reached out and patted Li Xun’s shoulder, smiling.
"Brother Li, how did you end up in the coffin?"
Tie Shanshan asked curiously.
"I’m curious too!"
"After I saw my own morial tablet, I walked over to take a look."
"Who would have known that when I got closer, there was a corpse inside that looked exactly like ."
"Just as I was wondering, that corpse suddenly ca to life and started strangling ."
"I used all my strength and finally managed to break free from its grip..."
Li Xun recounted everything he had experienced in great detail.
"You say you saw that old man Sima Xuan?"
After hearing his story, Tie Shanshan asked with a frown.
"Yes!"
Li Xun nodded, "I went through the whole inpatient building and couldn’t find you guys."
"Then sohow, I ended up on the rooftop of the inpatient building."
"I saw Sima Xuan standing at the edge of the rooftop, and I called out to him several tis but he didn’t respond."
"When he turned around, his expression was just like those bloody faces on the fourth floor, blank and vacant..."
Tie Shanshan nodded slightly, muttering to herself, "So, does this an Sima Xuan is dead too?"
"That’s right, I rember there’s a tablet with ’Sima Xuan’ written on it here too..."
Saying this, she imdiately started searching for the tablet.
Eventually, at the southeast corner, she found the tablet with the na "Sima Xuan" written on it.
"Dad, do you think the corpse inside this coffin could be Sima Xuan?"
Tie Shanshan turned to ask her father.
"It’s very possible!"
Tie Xiong stepped forward forcefully, pushing open the lid of the coffin...
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