Bai Yanliang... will he be alright?
The two of them both looked towards the street.
The ghost had no intention of hiding its form at all.
It moved slowly down the street, as if strolling.
The sound of its footsteps, though light, clearly pierced their ears.
Gu Pingsheng and Feng Xiuxue, following behind it, could hear it distinctly.
Gu Pingsheng remained silent, but doubt surged in his heart.
With that kind of movent speed, the noise it caused shouldn’t be so loud. Why could its footsteps be heard the mont it appeared?
It was almost as if it was warning them, "The ghost is here, pay attention."
Unreasonable... too unreasonable...
Although ghosts are inherently irrational beings,
their behavior, abilities, and hunting thods are coherent under certain rules.
In other words, the footsteps shouldn’t be so clearly audible to them.
Why is this...
Gu Pingsheng was plunged into deep confusion.
Not only did it not kill him, it also made sounds instead, and... so far, its moving speed is at a normal human standard.
What exactly is this ghost doing?
Feng Xiuxue and Gu Pingsheng were staring unblinkingly at the back of that fierce ghost.
Where is Bai Yanliang hiding?
As this thought crossed their minds, they both unconsciously tightened their grip on their phones.
Should they... call him?
If Gu Pingsheng wasn’t beside her, Feng Xiuxue would likely call Bai Yanliang at once.
But... Gu Pingsheng’s presence gave her pause.
Because the impression Gu Pingsheng left for people in Fog Gathering was quite similar to Li Mu’s.
Both of them are traditionally good guys, always willing to help if they can.
At least... on the surface, that’s how it seems.
With such thoughts in mind, the ghost’s footsteps gradually moved further away.
Then, under the astonished eyes of Feng Xiuxue and Gu Pingsheng, it left South Gate Street.
"Did it not find Bai Yanliang?"
Gu Pingsheng’s voice was filled with doubt.
Feng Xiuxue didn’t answer, but her eyes flickered.
Bai Yanliang...
Why didn’t the ghost stop on South Gate Street?
What did Bai Yanliang do?
No...
Feng Xiuxue thought of sothing, she looked at Gu Pingsheng, and asked, "How exactly did it discover us?"
Gu Pingsheng looked back at her, "You were discovered too?"
Feng Xiuxue nodded; it was aningless to hide it now.
"I’m sure it looked directly at the bush I was hiding in, without taking any unnecessary steps."
Gu Pingsheng looked at her and said nothing.
"You must have seen my situation more clearly than I did."
He turned his head away.
Feng Xiuxue’s expression remained unchanged, she said, "I witnessed it heading directly towards the signboard where you were hiding. Technically, from its angle, it shouldn’t have been able to see you without getting closer."
"But it just inexplicably discovered ," Gu Pingsheng said.
"Did you... do anything unusual?" Feng Xiuxue asked Gu Pingsheng.
"No," Gu Pingsheng shook his head, "When I noticed it appearing in the street where I was hiding, I imdiately hid behind the signboard and didn’t move at all."
Move?
Feng Xiuxue grasped onto sothing.
"You didn’t move either?"
With that, Gu Pingsheng imdiately understood Feng Xiuxue’s point.
He looked up at the end of South Gate Street and nodded, "Hmm... I didn’t move either."
"Could it be... we were wrong? Instead of not moving, we need to keep moving to avoid being discovered?" Her knee wound throbbed again, reaching an astonishing level of pain, prompting sweat to pour down her forehead.
Gu Pingsheng frowned, noticing her abnormality, "What’s wrong with you, you’re sweating continuously."
Feng Xiuxue wanted to say she was fine, but her words held no convincing power under the current circumstances.
"The wound... is very painful."
In the face of the fear of death, pain often becos insignificant.
But even in this situation, Feng Xiuxue was in so much pain that she turned pale and broke out in a full sweat, which was indeed weird.
Gu Pingsheng looked down, imdiately surprised.
"Your wound is still bleeding!"
Still bleeding?
Feng Xiuxue imdiately looked down at her knee.
Blood...
Bright red blood... had soaked through the entire bandage!
A strong surge of fear drove Feng Xiuxue to yank off the bandage and throw it far away.
However, once the bandage was removed, the wound on her knee was fully exposed.
And the sight of this wound was terrifying enough to almost suffocate her.
Even Gu Pingsheng, who was a doctor, gasped!
Feng Xiuxue’s knee should only have had a minor scrape, but now... her kneecap was clearly visible!
The white bone, covered with blood and flesh, lay exposed in the wound.
No wonder she was so pale and drenched with sweat from the pain...
Every step Feng Xiuxue took rubbed flesh and bone against the bandage...
The intense pain was sothing she had bravely endured until now.
And looking at her knee, which was supposed to have just a small wound and was now gaping open, with exposed bone, Feng Xiuxue’s face turned even paler.
Through many missions, she understood... that she had unwittingly fallen into the ghost’s trap.
"Do you have painkillers?"
Feng Xiuxue looked up, fixing her gaze on Gu Pingsheng.
The intense survival instinct in her eyes was intimidating enough for Gu Pingsheng to avoid eye contact.
"Yes."
"Just take two, not too many." After pulling two painkiller tablets from his pocket, Gu Pingsheng said this.
Feng Xiuxue silently took the pills and tossed them into her mouth.
She glanced at her exposed bone, tore her clothes, and wrapped it again.
So painful...
As the fabric touched the grotesque wound, Feng Xiuxue still nearly passed out from the pain, sweating profusely.
Painkillers take ti to work, there’s no instant relief.
But she gritted her teeth and tied the wound tightly once more.
I’m not defeated yet...
I’m not dead yet...
Even if the wound expanded to the entire leg, with all the bone exposed, as long as I’m not dead... there’s still hope...
Feng Xiuxue stood up, fixing her glare at the corner where the fierce ghost had vanished.
"Let’s keep following it."
With that, she started walking, her legs appearing unhard.
Gu Pingsheng watched her back.
His alertness towards Feng Xiuxue reached an extre level.
This woman, such terrifying willpower...
If she survives and lives to the end, she will undoubtedly be a formidable person.
With this thought in mind, Gu Pingsheng followed her footsteps.
As for where Bai Yanliang was hiding, and why he had not appeared to "witness" the ghost with them, he temporarily shelved these questions.
...
anwhile, at the Eighteenth Middle School.
Bai Yanliang and Zhang Yun encountered their first trouble.
An elder wandering in the corridor.
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