"That's good. Director Qi's safety is in your hands, but don't expect me to fight ghosts. I'll try my best to buy you some time."

"How are Yu Yu and Cao Yang doing?" Huai Yi asked in a message.

"They're both alive and hiding in the hospital. I've already told them that the ghost is disguised as you, so try to avoid meeting." Jiang Cheng replied.

"Understood."

The exchange ended there. For Jiang Cheng, Huai Yi's credibility was still in question, so he wouldn't tell him specific information.

For example, the real location of Director Qi's hiding place.

"Almost there." Lin Wan'er, who was driving, said, "The hospital is up ahead."

The hospital, shrouded in the night, resembled a crouching beast. From their current position, they could only see a massive shadow.

The surroundings were very quiet. Lin Wan'er stopped the car a few hundred meters from the hospital.

After turning off the headlights, the two quickly moved towards the hospital.

The lobby on the first floor of the hospital was lit, but there was no one inside.

Director Qi had said earlier that he saw Huai Yi standing at the entrance.

Now the ghost had disappeared again.

Could it be that his caution had worked, and the Huai Yi who had been contacting him via text was actually the ghost?

After hearing what he said, it left the hospital and went to the hotel to find Director Qi?

Originally, Jiang Cheng wanted to call Director Qi directly, but he felt it wasn't safe, so he sent a text message instead.

Soon, he received a reply.

Following the instructions, they quickly found Director Qi huddled behind a tree.

Seeing Jiang Cheng and Lin Wan'er, he was so excited that he almost cried, "I finally waited for you! You don't know, I was scared to death when that Huai Yi came out just now. I thought he was coming for me."

"You said Huai Yi left?" Jiang Cheng asked.

"Yes, shortly after our call. He was standing there before," Director Qi said, pointing to the hospital gate, "But somehow, he looked at his phone for a while, and then left in a hurry."

Looking at his phone was impossible. What Director Qi described was probably the ghost texting him.

Sure enough.

Huai Yi was already dead.

The Huai Yi who had been exchanging messages with him earlier was the ghost in disguise.

The ghost's target was Director Qi. After learning that Director Qi wouldn't come to the hospital, the ghost left. He just didn't know how it would find the hotel, since there were so many.

But it didn't matter. The key to survival in this mission lay with Director Qi in front of him.

As long as they could successfully protect him through today.

That is, October 16th in this world, then the prophecy would be broken, and they would have cleared the mission.

As for whether the ghost would disappear, Jiang Cheng didn't care and couldn't control it.

He only hoped that Lin Wan'er and he could live safely.

And leave this world.

Before, he was thinking of getting some information about the door from Huai Yi, but he was useless and died when he died.

His Qilin Arm looked pretty good, and anyone who didn't know better would think he was a weightlifting hunk. Jiang Cheng now had reason to suspect how his Qilin Arm was developed.

It was dark nearby, giving people an inexplicable sense of unease. Jiang Cheng's eyes scanned the surroundings. "Let's go," Jiang Cheng suggested, "Let's go inside first and meet up with the others."

"Okay, okay." Hearing that he could leave, Director Qi nodded repeatedly.

In order to hide here, he was covered in scratches, large and small. It seemed that he had tried to hide in other places before.

Director Qi followed closely behind Jiang Cheng. After walking for a while, Director Qi asked, "Where are we..."

Jiang Cheng chose a relatively remote route and circled around the hospital gate.

"We're going through the side door," Jiang Cheng said.

From the last time with Zheng Xiazi, Jiang Cheng knew that there was a side door on the side of the hospital. The main entrance was too conspicuous, especially since the lights were on.

Looking at the empty, brightly lit hall, Jiang Cheng felt a chill.

It looked too much like a trap.

Perhaps... the ghost never left, but was guarding near the gate, waiting for them to walk into the trap.

Arriving near the side door, Jiang Cheng observed, and the group quietly entered.

It was very quiet inside. The people in the hospital seemed to have disappeared. The nearby doors were all closed, including the one where he had drank with Zheng Xiazi.

Each door was in the shadows, as if there were stories hidden behind them.

Carefully coming to the second floor from the stairwell, Director Qi suddenly stopped in the middle of the hall between the two corridors, his mouth open, his face turning pale.

"The... the elevator!"

The elevator had unexpectedly come up without anyone noticing, and it had stopped right on the second floor.

The event happened suddenly. Before Jiang Cheng and the others could react, the elevator door opened with a "ding", and there was no one inside the elevator.

Jiang Cheng immediately pulled Director Qi back. Director Qi's legs were shaking non-stop. Jiang Cheng was practically dragging him.

What was even stranger was that the elevator door was open and showed no signs of closing, as if someone inside was constantly pressing the open button.

As if in response to Jiang Cheng's guess, a few seconds later, half a face peeked out from behind the elevator door.

It was Huai Yi!

Jiang Cheng turned around, pulled Director Qi up, and was about to run. It seemed they had been tricked. The ghost never left.

What Director Qi saw before were all illusions, a smokescreen.

"Wait," Huai Yi's voice came from behind, with a hint of fear, but more of a desire to explain, "Don't run, I'm a human, I'm the real Huai Yi, I... I'm not a ghost!"

Running with a person was much slower, especially since Director Qi was like a puddle of mud. He hadn't run a few steps before Huai Yi caught up.

Jiang Cheng hardened his heart, suddenly threw Director Qi behind him, and turned around to meet him.

"Don't do it!" Huai Yi immediately raised his hands, "Brothers, we're on the same side!"

Jiang Cheng's kick didn't lose momentum and directly knocked Huai Yi to the ground, but Huai Yi rationally didn't fight back, just covered his chest and waved his hands repeatedly, "Brother, don't... don't..."

"He should be human," Lin Wan'er said.

"Of course, I'm human. If I were a ghost, I would have attacked already," Huai Yi complained, "I just came out of the morgue. The elevator couldn't be used before. Just now, it finally started, so I came up."

Seeing that Director Qi was safe, Huai Yi's face clearly improved.

Jiang Cheng took out his phone and dialed Yu Yu's number, but it was hung up after only two rings.

"Hung up on me?" Jiang Cheng stared at the phone, feeling a little surprised. This was different from his attitude of being willing to sacrifice himself just now.

He tried to call again, but it was hung up again.

Jiang Cheng faintly felt that something was wrong.

A moment later, he received a message from Yu Yu.

Following the instructions, Jiang Cheng opened the WeChat interface, where a person named Xiaoyugan was requesting to add him as a friend.

After passing the request, a video was sent over.

The scene was relatively dark. After watching for a while, Jiang Cheng realized that the background was the open space in front of the hospital. The video should have been taken not long ago.

Judging from the angle, it was taken holding the phone, looking down from the window.

In the darkness, a car drove up, and a person wearing a windbreaker got out in a panic and ran towards the hospital gate.

The video gradually became clearer because there were lights on at the gate. As the person in the windbreaker got closer, everyone could see the face of the person who came.

It was Director Qi!

He finally disappeared at the limit of the video.

As he ran into the hospital gate in a panic, the video suddenly stopped.