"Did you meet the dean? What about others! Where did you go?!"
Fatty Huo asked a little excitedly, looking around in the dean's room with a flashlight, trying to find that extremely important figure to him.
The dean must be the leader of this psychiatric hospital, and it is impossible for him not to know the whereabouts of the key, so as long as he is caught, everything will be taken care of logically.
"I ran through the wall." Chen Xian kept one hand in his pocket, raised the other hand, and pointed to the direction where the dean disappeared before, speaking in a helpless tone, "Actually, this area is full of The ghosts it created hit the wall, and we were fooled by it from the beginning."
With that said, Chen Xian took Fatty Huo out of the office and came to the corridor before.
The scenery of this corridor has changed, or in other words, this is its truest appearance.
The walls are full of traces of being burned by the fire. The walls that were white and brand new before are only blackened by the fire at this moment, exuding an unpleasant and pungent burnt smell.
"Before I felt something was wrong... I also wondered if this could be a domain... But it all looks too real... I was deceived by it..."
Chen Xian stood in the corner, gently wiping the blackened marks on the wall with his hands.
He has seen many spirit bodies over the years, but most of them have loopholes in the domains created by them, and it is easy to get rid of them without much effort.
But the domain created by the dean is terribly real. Before entering the office, he can't detect it at all, and can't see any loopholes. He can make the domain so real... Is the dean really that strong
Chen Xian was thinking about it in his heart, feeling a bit out of line.
Judging from the situation of close combat, the dean is quite strong, this is the truth.
Before meeting the dean, the strongest and most agile opponent in Chen Xian's eyes should be the corpse he met in Ningchuan funeral home half a year ago.
In Taoist terms, the monster with corpses should be called the Nine Corpses.
"People who died in vain are buried in the eyes of the shadows, and the filth gathers in the altar and does not disperse. One of the three souls flies away, and the light of the fetus is hidden in the seven souls. .”
Nine Corpses is an extremely difficult monster to deal with, at least in Chen Xian's eyes, as long as its air valve is not broken, this thing is similar to a perpetual motion machine, it knows no fatigue or pain, and can keep fighting with all its strength forever.
Moreover, the corpse aura on it is extremely corrosive, not to mention the flesh of a living person, even ordinary metal objects will be corroded by this corpse aura very quickly.
This is also one of the reasons why Nine Corpses are the most difficult to deal with.
The spirit body that became after the dean's death is not weaker than the Nine Corpses, but it does not have the highly corrosive corpse aura of the Nine Corpses, but is better at creating "domains".
This corridor was previously covered by the domain made by the dean. Apart from the office, the area here is at least three to four hundred square meters.
Being able to expand the domain to three or four hundred square meters, and to control every detail, so that a senior stranger like Chen Xian could be blinded, shows how exaggerated the dean's ability to build domains is.
This kind of ability seems weak, and it is difficult to cause substantial harm to people, but in Chen Xian's eyes, this kind of ability is the most troublesome for him.
He is not afraid to fight head-on, but he is afraid that in such a troublesome situation, it will take a lot of work to find the right owner.
"Have you had contact with the dean before?"
Fatty Huo wanted to find a breakthrough from Chen Xian. After all, the dean became a spirit body after his death, and the only person who knew it best was Chen Xian.
"Yes." Chen Xian nodded.
Fatty Huo asked cautiously, "Did he say anything?"
"Some interesting words."
Chen Xian grinned, with a little curiosity that couldn't be concealed on his slightly green face.
"The reason why the mental hospital catches fire, and why they die, seems to be because of a mental patient."
Speaking of this, Chen Xian was also a little interested. What kind of terrible patient could scare the dean like that
Even if the dean is dead and turned into a spirit body, he is still so scared... Chen Xian is really curious, because he has never encountered such a situation.
"I don't recommend continuing the exploration work. Even if I want to continue, I can't take you with me anymore."
When Chen Xian said this, his expression was rarely serious, and he also expressed his helplessness for the current situation.
"This mental hospital is much more troublesome than I imagined. You have seen the domain made by the dean before..."
At this point, Chen Xian sighed.
"If it separates me from you again, during that time, I can't guarantee your safety. If you meet other spirit bodies, the possibility of death is very high."
Fatty Huo didn't dare to take Chen Xian's words lightly, after all, everything he saw before was evidence.
Not to mention the dean, the hundreds of spirit bodies he met before were enough to frighten him.
Without Chen Xian's protection, how could the risk not be high when entering the target area to search and investigate under such extreme circumstances
After thinking for a while, Fatty Huo said abruptly, "If possible, I would like to continue searching the scene until I find that key."
"Is the key so important?" Chen Xian couldn't help asking, and his heart was full of doubts. It's just a cultural relic. Is it necessary to find it at this time
"The key is a cultural relic named by the superior to retrieve it. Lao Zhou sent me a message to tell me the seriousness of the incident. If the key cannot be found in time, let alone me, it will be other people involved in this case. The people who are involved must also be held accountable... "
"Your superiors are quite unreasonable." Chen Xian frowned.
"Being reasonable is not a superior." Fatty Huo sighed.
After all, Fatty Huo lighted a cigarette heavily, with an uncertain expression on his face.
"Since everyone died in this fire, there is a high possibility that the key is still in this mental hospital and has not been transferred by them."
Fatty Huo said, with a trace of worry in his eyes: "But that key is very fragile. After all, it is an ancient cultural relic. It is incomparable with our modern keys. It will bend under a little force, and it will be broken if it is more forceful. risk..."
At this time, Fatty Huo fell silent, smoking a cigarette sullenly, without saying a word.
"You want to find that key so much?" Chen Xian asked.
"Even if I don't want to, the superior's thinking is the same as my thinking." Fatty Huo said with a wry smile, "Sometimes you have to listen to what your superiors say. If you don't follow the rules, who knows what they will do with us. After all, the internal changes in recent years have been more complicated. …”
Chen Xian took a deep look at Fatty Huo, and suddenly smiled.
"Okay, let's keep looking."
Hearing what Chen Xian said so simply, Fatty Huo couldn't help being stunned for a moment.
"Aren't you afraid that this task will be risky?" Fatty Huo couldn't help asking, after thinking for a while, he decided to speak out what was in his heart, and his expression was very ashamed, "The nature of this case is relatively complicated, if you don't protect it well Me, causing me to die or encounter other accidents, you will also be held accountable, you should think about it."
As soon as the words fell, Fatty Huo took a deep puff of his cigarette, as if he had made some decision, and looked at Chen Xian with complicated eyes.
"Why don't we withdraw and start the search after the follow-up support arrives. After all, you are innocent. If something happened to me and you were involved... it wouldn't be worth it!"
Hearing these words, Chen Xian just smiled and didn't say anything.
He lowered his head, pulled out his right hand that had been in his trousers pocket, and looked at it calmly, making sure that the wound pierced by the pen before had disappeared, and then looked away.
"Uncle Huo, I'm not helping you for free. If possible...can you satisfy my curiosity?"
Chen Xian touched his ribs that had returned to their original shape, and there was a sense of interest in his smile. Taking this opportunity to show favors to Fatty Huo, he asked the question that he had always wanted an answer to.
"The key shouldn't be as simple as an ancient cultural relic, right? I don't believe that you were asked to come here and risk your life for an ancient cultural relic."
Hearing this, Fatty Huo couldn't help turning his face away, and looked at Chen Xian vigilantly.
"Why are you asking this?"
"Just curious."
A smile appeared on Chen Xian's youthful face, he touched his nose subconsciously, and looked at Fatty Huo with some embarrassment, seeing that he was a little embarrassed, he took the initiative to speak.
"I won't say it's inconvenient, I'm just curious, nothing else."
Hearing this, Fatty Huo took a puff of cigarette, looked at Chen Xian carefully for a while, and finally looked away again.
"That's a skeleton key."