Volume 3: Death in Progress Chapter 73 Verification and Regression
The night passed quickly. Zhang Fengyu and Qiao Yan were very nervous that night. After all, they couldn't be sure whether the ghost had really let them go. Fortunately, nothing happened that night.
Cheng En has woken up after the operation, but Li Xuan was seriously injured. The doctor said that without a miracle, she might never wake up in this lifetime. Li Xuan has become a vegetable due to the extremely serious brain injury.
Zhang Fengyu didn't care about this. As long as the mission was completed and they returned to the death base, Li Xuan would be fully recovered. However, Qiao Yan's eyes were filled with tears, obviously she was thinking of her son who was still lying in the hospital bed.
Her son is 12 years old. He stepped on empty air and rolled down the stairs. Since then, he has become a permanent vegetable. Unlike Li Xuan, who can wake up if there is a miracle, her son is a living dead and will never wake up.
The doctor has advised her to give up, but she believes that sooner or later her son will wake up and call her "Mom" affectionately. She will not give up on him. It is because of the high medical expenses every day that Qiao Yan works so hard. She is reluctant to wear clothes and drink, and spends all the money on her son. Her husband has repeatedly advised her to have another child. She has also thought about giving up, but she can't because she can no longer get pregnant. This kind of pain can be said to erode her fragile nerves every day.
Now she came here again. Based on her understanding of her husband, he would definitely not care about his son's life or death. Thinking of this, she felt as if a knife was twisting her heart.
Seeing Qiao Yan's painful expression, Zhang Fengyu also called out softly, "Ms. Qiao?"
Qiao Yan was also startled when she heard Zhang Fengyu calling her. She knew she had lost her composure and quickly wiped away the tears from her eyes: "Ah, I'm sorry, what did you say just now, Fengyu?"
Zhang Fengyu saw Qiao Yan like this and thought she was still feeling guilty about Li Xuan, so he quickly advised her, "Ms. Qiao, Li Xuan is fine. As long as she returns to the Death Base, she will wake up immediately. As long as she has a breath left, she can be cured immediately there."
“Is it possible to be in a permanent vegetative state?”
Zhang Fengyu nodded and said, "Of course, no matter what disease or injury, it can be cured!"
After hearing this, Qiao Yan's heart moved. She originally thought that the Death Base could only heal external injuries, but it turned out that it could even heal diseases. She suddenly thought that if she took her son to the Death Base, would he get better?
Thinking of this, Qiao Yan also asked casually: "Feng Yu, can this curse be entered freely by choice?"
Hearing Qiao Yan's question, Zhang Fengyu shook his head: "I don't know about this, but I think there should be a way, but I don't know what it is."
Hearing what Zhang Fengyu said, Qiao Yan nodded sadly. Even if this curse could be entered freely, so what? Would she let her son face a life like hell after waking up? It would be better to die quickly.
Zhang Fengyu was also puzzled by Qiao Yan's words: "If this curse is a random selection, then it stands to reason that there should be foreigners in this death base, but the information that Brother Wang gave me at the time showed that there was no foreigner, they were all Chinese. Could it be that this curse is only spread within China? Do ghosts only exist in China? This doesn't make sense! Could it be that the death base we are in is only a regional range?"
Zhang Fengyu had countless guesses about the cause of the curse and the death base, but he could not be sure of any of them, especially the places where they carried out their missions, such as the Women's Village, the Men's Village last time, and Hongzheng City this time. He had never even heard of them, as if someone had made them up . With this idea, Zhang Fengyu suddenly thought of something.
"Ms. Qiao, I'm going to be out for a while. I'll leave Li Xuan and Cheng En in your care!"
Qiao Yan was a little confused about what Zhang Fengyu was going to do, so she asked, "Feng Yu, what are you going to do?"
"There is something I need to verify." Zhang Fengyu said and pushed the door open and walked out.
There were many people in the hospital, including busy nurses and family members of the inpatients. Zhang Fengyu also stopped a family member of a patient and asked, "Hello, may I ask, what other cities are there around Hongzheng City?"
The man looked at Zhang Fengyu suspiciously and said casually: "There are Liyue City, Changlin City, Huanyu City..."
Zhang Fengyu had never heard of any of the cities this person mentioned. After this person finished speaking, Zhang Fengyu asked, "Well, have you heard of Beijing?"
The man shook his head and asked in disbelief, "Beijing City? I've never heard of this. Is it Xinshi?"
“…”
Then Zhang Fengyu asked a few more people, but the answers were all the same. They had never heard of Beijing, but they were indeed Chinese, and it was 2012. The most incredible thing was that they also knew about the Mayan prophecy!
Zhang Fengyu's long-standing speculation was finally confirmed at this moment. This is not China at all! In other words, this is not on Earth at all, because they only know China, and don't even know what the United States, Russia, or even Asia is!
This made Zhang Fengyu even more puzzled. It was also the year of 2012, and the language was the same Chinese. The series of legends handed down from ancient times were also the same, including national heroes, anti-Japanese heroes, and so on, were all the same, but these people did not belong to them!
With doubt in his mind, Zhang Fengyu drove forward in one direction for one hour, two hours, three hours... until 11:30, when Zhang Fengyu stopped the car. It can be said that he had to stop because there was no road ahead. There was a fault in front of him, and behind the fault was a vague space. To explain it with words from novels, there was endless chaos outside the fault!
Such a scene shocked Zhang Fengyu extremely, because it was undoubtedly telling Zhang Fengyu a fact that he had to believe, that is, everything in Hongzheng City was specially created for them to carry out this mission!
"How could there be chaos outside the city, and how could there not be even one person here! Is all this fake? What on earth is this curse? Why can it create a city? Is this curse really the work of God, or the devil?"
Everything Zhang Fengyu saw in front of him felt unreal. If all this was an illusion, then they were dreaming. Would they wake up from the dream when they died? Or was all this not a dream at all, and although it seemed fake, it was real?
Regarding Zhang Fengyu's current speculation, perhaps only by committing suicide can he know whether he will wake up, but he dare not try it, because he does not believe that such a real dream can exist!
This curse is like a mystery, but it allows Zhang Fengyu to clearly feel its power. Originally, people cannot see ghosts, or even whether ghosts really exist is still a question, but in this curse, ghosts have a form, ghosts have god-like powers, teleportation, change, hallucination, memory tampering, and bodies that cannot be killed. They are called ghosts, but Zhang Fengyu can't feel any idealistic shadow at all, and he can even hit the ghosts away while driving. They are definitely tangible things!
"What is the meaning of this curse? To scare us? To kill us? Or to let us know something?"
Zhang Fengyu didn't know what the curse was trying to do by creating this wanted mission. If its purpose was to destroy humanity, then with its ability, wouldn't it be easy for it to pull all of humanity in? Zhang Fengyu couldn't guess.
He also couldn't guess the high-level death base. Why was there a hierarchy for such a thing? What was its significance? He would probably have to wait until he went there to find out.
"One day, I will solve all the mysteries!"
12 noon finally arrived. Zhang Fengyu's mind flickered for a moment, and then he appeared in the Death Base. Also appearing together were Qiao Yan, Li Xuan, Cheng En, and of course Chen Ping!
Zhang Fengyu was not surprised that Chen Ping survived, but Chen Ping was very surprised because only one person died in this mission, and the rest all survived. You know, the difficulty of this mission is 10 points of health points, with double death, but except for a newcomer who was killed before, all survived. How could he not be surprised? You know, he was almost killed by the ghost in this mission!
After returning to the Death Base, Cheng En was so excited that he rolled on the ground and shouted like a child, while Qiao Yan sat in her seat covering her strongly beating heart, and Li Xuan's eyes revealed gratitude when she looked at Zhang Fengyu and Chen Ping.
Chen Ping and Zhang Fengyu's eyes met in the air. What surprised Chen Ping was that Zhang Fengyu actually smiled and said to him: "Chen Ping, thank you this time. If you hadn't discovered that Zhao Liang was a ghost, we might have all been killed!"
"Yes, Senior Chen, it's all thanks to you this time!"
"Thank you Chen Ping!"
Everyone expressed their gratitude to Chen Ping. Looking at their sincere eyes, Chen Ping suddenly felt something unusual in his heart. He quickly turned his head to the side and replied calmly, "No need to thank me, thank Zhang Fengyu instead!"
Chen Ping came to his senses and thought to himself, "What a bunch of idiots!"
But he suddenly felt that his mood was particularly good, and he had a very comfortable and warm feeling...
