This actor is full of tricks.

After a brief incident, the group continued on their way, traveling a few more kilometers before Wheel King signaled for them to stop.

Qian Hao parked the car on the side of the road. Not only did Zhuanlun Wang notice the abnormality, but everyone in the car realized that something was wrong.

Several strange corpses lay on the road ahead, seemingly having been dead for some time. Their bodies were shriveled and their deaths were extremely gruesome.

"Were these the strange creatures that originally roamed here? Were they killed by those patients?"

Lin Jue examined the corpses; the wounds on them were all different, clearly indicating they came from different enemies.

"Be careful." Lin Jue lowered his voice. As soon as he finished speaking, a cold glint flashed in the mist not far away, heading straight for him.

Lin Jue moved several meters to the side, and the cold light tore through the mist and plunged into the ground, instantly emitting billowing black smoke. The asphalt road surface melted rapidly, just like snow meeting the scorching sun.

It was a crossbow bolt, and it was clear that it was contaminated with some kind of terrible toxin, which could even corrode the road surface.

With lightning speed, Lie Zeng charged straight into the direction from which the crossbow bolts had come and disappeared into the mist.

Not long after, a miserable scream rang out from the mist, and half a minute later, Lie Zeng dragged a half-dead figure back.

It was a patient wearing a blue and white striped hospital gown, and in his hand was a bronze short crossbow, the very weapon this guy had just used to launch the sneak attack.

This guy's legs had been broken by the Rift Demon, and bone fragments were protruding from his knees.

"Boss, I checked, there's only one." Lie Zeng threw the patient in front of Lin Jue. The words "Sanjiang Yongning Mental Rehabilitation Hospital" were clearly written on the patient's hospital gown.

It really was a patient from that hospital!
King Yama and his entourage also gathered around. The patient was lying on the ground, his face contorted in pain, clearly indicating that the monk had struck him hard.

"Lie Zeng, really, why did you hit him so hard? This guy definitely didn't do it on purpose." Lin Jue walked up to the patient, stared at the words on his chest, and laughed, "You agree, right?"

The patient was too preoccupied with the pain to hear Lin Jue's words. Lin Jue suddenly slapped him across the face: "I'm asking you a question! Can't you hear me?"

The Wheel King and the others who were watching the commotion immediately looked strange. This guy had just told Rift to go easy on him, but as soon as he finished speaking, he almost knocked someone's teeth out with a slap.

"You will all die! You will all die!" The patient, with blood streaming from his mouth, laughed maniacally, clearly showing that his mental illness had not been cured.

His voice echoed through the mist, and Xiao Lin suddenly looked up at the mist to the side: "Something's approaching! A lot of it!"

"It's those patients!!"

The fog churned, and patients dressed in blue and white stripes rushed out. Roughly estimated, there were at least a hundred of them, and voices could be heard from the fog in the distance, indicating that more patients were approaching.

"With so many patients, it seems the mental hospital must be hiding nearby." King Yama's eyes swept around: "You take care of these patients, I'll go check out the area."

"Okay!" The group agreed. Although there were many patients, their strength was not that great. The ghost's strength was only at the DC level, and the human's strength was about the same. They could be easily dealt with.

But Lin Jue felt something was off. Everything was going too smoothly, unbelievably smoothly. How could they have been found so easily after hiding in the mental hospital for so long? He felt there was something strange about this, like a trap waiting for them to fall into it.

But only their own people knew about their actions. The guys at the mental hospital had been hiding in the fog, so how could they have foreseen and set up a trap in advance?
Lin Jue frowned, reached out and grabbed a patient by the throat, asking, "Is there a mental hospital nearby?"

"Die! Die...die!" Even though the patient's face was flushed red, he still managed to squeeze out vicious words from his throat, as if he had completely gone mad.

It wasn't just this one; all the patients were like this. They seemed to have completely lost their minds, as if they were infected with a zombie virus, and all they knew was to attack.

There's absolutely no point in asking this.

Lin Jue crushed the patient's throat bone and threw the body aside.

It must be said that their team was very strong. They almost immediately scattered the patients upon clash, but the sounds from the distant fog were getting closer and closer, and more patients were approaching.

And the earth was still trembling, as if some enormous creature was rushing towards them.

As the fog parted to both sides, the scene inside was finally revealed.

There were over a hundred patients, their faces contorted and their movements bizarre, like puppets on strings, charging towards Lin Jue and his companions.

Besides these patients, there were several enormous creatures at the very back, each the size of a room, and their appearance was utterly repulsive, each resembling a human body that had been shredded and reassembled.

It was the kind of monster Chen Fu had mentioned. Lin Jue remembered that Chen Fu had said before that when the Sanjiang Inspection Division went to investigate the mental hospital, they encountered a monster with a strength of B-level. The monsters Chen Fu described were exactly the same as the ones in front of them.

"Could the mental hospital really be nearby?" Lin Jue frowned. King Yama had already gone to check the area and should bring back news soon.

"Let's get started." Xiao Lin said softly, "Leave those monsters to me, you guys deal with the rest. Make it quick and get back to King Yama as soon as possible."

Everyone knew they couldn't delay any longer, so they all started to act. Only Lin Jue remained still, pondering the suspicious points involved.

Everything was too coincidental and too smooth. Something was definitely amiss. The mental hospital must have some ulterior motive!
"Hmm? Lin Jue, come and see if this guy is one of your Sanjiang people?"

Just as Lin Jue was thinking, Qian Hao suddenly called out to him. Lin Jue turned his head and saw Qian Hao throw a large block of ice over, inside which was a patient frozen.

When Lin Jue saw the patient's face clearly, he was suddenly stunned and blurted out: "Huang Yong!?"

The patient frozen in ice was none other than Huang Yong. Last time, when Sanjiang launched an operation against the mental hospital, the mental hospital and most of its investigators disappeared without a trace, including Huang Yong.

I never expected that the other party would actually appear here now.

"You're from Sanjiang, right? I've been to Sanjiang once before, I have a vague impression of it." Qian Hao kicked away two patients blocking his way and approached Lin Jue.

“He was my former teammate.” Lin Jue’s expression was complicated as he smashed the ice in front of him. Now that he had seen Huang Yong, he couldn’t just stand by and watch him get killed. (End of Chapter)