"I'm sorry." The woman whispered, sounding depressed, "My husband disappeared a week ago. Sorry, I don't know where he went."
"Missing? May I ask what else do you know?"
"He, his friends said, Wayne went missing while he was in the hospital and I, I was really worried about him..."
As she spoke hesitantly, tears flowed down her face. Jenkins could only take some time to comfort her, declined the invitation to sit in, and walked back to the street again.
The purple thread disappeared the instant Jenkins saw Mrs. Barnard.
"I disappeared a week ago, so who did I see the other evening?"
He stopped suddenly, because at some point in front of him, two strange men appeared in front of him. Looking back, he saw that the same two strangers blocked his retreat.
"Oh, I was careless. As a gifter under the church, Barnard should naturally be monitored after his disappearance."
Thinking in his heart, Jenkins raised his hands above his head, "Gentlemen, what can I do?"
"Who are you?"
A man asked, this man looked familiar, he seemed to be one of the benefactors who followed Captain Bincy after the deity was sacrificed on the rainy night.
"I'm a friend of Wayne Barnard. We were classmates when we were studying, and we haven't seen each other for a long time. I was sent by the company to Nolan City to discuss business this time, so I remembered to visit him."
Jenkins made up nonsense.
"Sir, please forgive me, but Barnard disappeared a week ago. There are many things involved in this matter. We must take you back for review. Please forgive me if it causes any inconvenience."
His words are polite, but his actions are not polite.
Reaching out to grab Jenkins, Jenkins ducks sideways.
"Sorry, I have other things to do. Goodbye, gentlemen."
While talking just now, he retreated towards the side of the street, and then suddenly jumped to grab the upper edge of the low wall behind him, activated his ability and kicked his feet to climb over the wall.
The man who spoke hurriedly followed, but just as he jumped onto the wall, he was kicked down by Jenkins who didn't leave.
The remaining three people didn't know who the middle-aged fat man was, so they didn't dare to act rashly, so the three of them climbed up the low wall together, but there was no one behind the wall.
Four men in black jackets walked through an alley full of rubbish, passed drunks throwing up against the wall, and finally walked back to the main road from the other end of the alley.
"No, that drunk man just now was wrong."
"He can't be that fat guy with that face..."
"This alley is a dead end, how could that drunk man vomit in that kind of place, damn it, fell for it!"
Of course it was Jenkins. He knew that he might not be able to outrun the four people behind him, so he took back the black robe on the way to hide and put it on again, so he changed into a new image.
Turning over the low wall again, looking at Barnard's house from a distance, Jenkins changed his image again, turned and walked in another direction.
"Did you disappear when you went to the doctor?"
Jenkins thought in his heart, "So, the fact should be that he disappeared while performing a mission in the hospital. Hospital, mentioning this word, I haven't forgotten about the Nolan Fifth Public Hospital. Therefore, Mr. Barnard was ordered to guard the evil spirit. Sealed, and then possessed by evil spirits?"
He also thought about what Mr. Corpse said, "They will find out sooner or later". Could it be that the seal is actually useless
The incident of the evil spirit in the hospital happened from the beginning of Jenkins' time travel. Because the church is weak, the so-called evil spirits were sealed in the hospital. I thought it would be solved when the big troops came back from the open sea tomorrow, but I didn't expect to bump into myself now.
"Mr. Barnard saved my life."
He stopped and looked at the two roads in front of him, one left and one right. One of the main roads leads to my home, and there is the light of the kerosene lamp of the carriage in the distance. If you go this way, you will soon be able to fall asleep next to your kitten in bed; the other narrow alley leads to the hospital. The road has to pass through slums, and maybe you will encounter thieves and robbers trying to make a fortune on the road.
"But this matter is too dangerous for me to solve."
While hesitating, someone made the decision for him.
I don't know who patted him on the back.
When Jenkins turned around, he found a layer of white mist behind him. Mr. Barnard was standing in the mist, his clothes were wrinkled and dark, his pale face seemed to be covered with frost, and only the whites of his eyes remained, straight looked at Jenkins.
The spirit strike cane is too recognizable, so I didn't bring it out today.
"Mr. Barnard?"
While calling the name of the gentleman on the opposite side, he quickly backed away.
Barnard didn't move, but the white mist spread closely following Jenkins' actions. After a while, the surroundings of Jenkins turned into a vast expanse of whiteness.
He took a deep breath, called out the candle from the spirit and held it high in his hand. The fog was slowly dispelled, but the surroundings were no longer the spacious street, and the shadow of the deep and charming red and blue moons above the head was also lost.
This is a corridor. Judging from the taste and style, it is Nolan City Fifth Public Hospital. Jenkins has followed Captain Bincy to treat the wounded, so he is familiar with the decoration style here.
"Oh no."
He sighed softly, standing in place without moving, and there seemed to be a sound of "bang bang bang" in the distance.
After leaving Mr. Corpse's party, Jenkins became suspicious of the white mist hanging over the ruined hospital. He learned the truth about the white mist—[Spiritual Body Fog] from the materials his father asked him to study.
Just like [Fear], this is a special ability possessed by the spirit itself, but its effect is only to make the creature disoriented. Jenkins believes that Mr. Corpse relies on this to safely hide in the morgue.
Under extremely special circumstances, the red spell [Spiritual Fog] will mutate into [Evil Spirit Transfer], which is an ability that acts on space. It often appears in horror stories, pushing open the door of the bedroom and seeing a wasteland behind the door, or pushing open the door of the toilet with an oil lamp, and stepping into the door of a haunted house, this ability is the original form.
Jenkins still remembers that when he first became Papa's Apprentice, the novelists who suffered from the explosion of imagination before time travel naively asked such a question about space:
"Dad, is there any space equipment that can store items? For example, a suitcase is actually a zoo; a ring can hold the furniture of the entire house?"
"Dreams have everything, Mr. Williamette."
This is just the beginning of the warning.