“Run!”

Someone roared, and immediately the scene descended into chaos. Plates crashed to the floor, and people scrambled to escape.

But Tang Qisheng didn't. He remained standing, reaching out to grab Zhu Jie beside him, wanting to keep her from moving.

Fortunately, Zhu Jie made the same choice. The two of them stood there hand-in-hand, facing the wall, unmoved by the strange noises behind them.

Because they both clearly heard the shout from earlier, and it didn't belong to any of them.

However, someone did run. The monster behind them chased after the fleeing person, gradually moving away. The dense and bizarre scraping sound made their scalps crawl.

After a few moments, Tang Qisheng and Zhu Jie suddenly became excited. Light gradually returned to the darkness before their eyes; their vision was returning!

After a few more minutes, their eyesight was almost completely restored. Although things were still a little blurry, they could at least find their way back to the ward.

But the instant they turned around, the scene before them sent a chill down their spines. The floor, the walls, even the ceiling, were all covered in bloody handprints.

The handprints were small, clearly belonging to a child. But what kind of monster would leave so many bloody handprints?

A freak covered in children's hands?

This place was not to be lingered in. Taking one last deep look at the operating room, Tang Qisheng grabbed Zhu Jie and headed back the way they came.

The return journey was uneventful, but as they approached their ward, they noticed that two of the surrounding ward doors were open, and two were closed.

Because everyone had been dragged away, all the ward doors had been left open. The two closed doors meant that someone had returned.

As for the remaining two open doors, either the people inside had panicked and gotten lost, or they had been caught by the monster. The consequences were unimaginable.

Returning to their own ward, Tang Qisheng nodded to Zhu Jie after confirming that no one was hiding in the room. Zhu Jie, who was guarding the door, immediately closed it.

After so much tossing and turning, Tang Qisheng and Zhu Jie were mentally and physically exhausted. Neither of them wanted to say a word. They simply sat on the bed, leaning against each other.

After a long while, there was still no sound in the hallway. Tang Qisheng sighed helplessly and slowly closed his eyes. He knew that the two doors would never be closed again.

"It's a pity that we still haven't figured out the identity of that special patient, and… and the monster that appeared behind us!" Tang Qisheng still felt lingering fear when he mentioned the monster. It came from a deeper level; perhaps the monster was the most terrifying existence in this hospital.

As soon as he finished speaking, Zhu Jie, with a pale face, looked up at him, forcing a smile. Then, she slowly took out her phone from her pocket. "I turned on the camera when that thing came, but I don't know if it caught anything."

"You turned on the camera?" Tang Qisheng's face showed surprise, then his brows furrowed tightly. "How could you be so reckless? You'd lose your life if anything happened!"

Zhu Jie still faced Tang Qisheng with that pale face, shaking her head weakly. "But I don't want you to risk everything alone. Besides, you said we owe Jiang Cheng and the others too much. If we can't find any more clues, they'll be in danger."

Opening the phone, the video was very shaky at first, but as the picture gradually stabilized, a huge figure slowly approaching in the corridor deeply shocked the two of them. Zhu Jie unconsciously clenched her fingers. She had never seen such a terrifying sight.

This… this was indeed a monster. Its whole body was scarlet red, and from a distance, it looked like a constantly wriggling, rotten mass of flesh.

The monster's massive body almost filled the entire corridor. Its entire body was covered in tentacles, and it used these tentacles to move.

But as the distance grew closer, they also saw the monster's true face. The monster's massive body was completely composed of the bodies of children. These children were haphazardly pieced together, like a patched-up rag doll, and the constantly swaying tentacles on the monster's body were tiny children's arms.

The monster was using countless tiny arms to move forward along the walls. The scene was so bizarre that words could not describe it.

Tang Qisheng's forehead showed bulging veins. He wanted to find the child who supposedly left the clue, but… but this monster contained at least dozens of children. Which… which one was he looking for?

And another thing, wasn't it said that this hospital didn't admit children? How could this monster be explained?

The video continued. The monster used countless arms to grab the offerings from the plates and frantically stuff them into the children's mouths.

Tang Qisheng understood. These children, sewn together, were not a complete whole in the true sense. They were extremely ferocious in their competition for food. Each child controlled different arms, and these arms would compete with each other. The heads of the children close to each other would also bite each other.

Tang Qisheng suddenly recalled that he had seen a similar description in an ancient book. It was said that those who were extraordinarily greedy would be sent to a place called Tuoluodi (an underworld hell for the greedy) after death. There, these people would be sewn together with rough needles and thread, turning into a huge ball of flesh.

Tuoluodi was full of gold, silver, jewels, fine wines, and delicacies, but only those parts of the large ball of flesh that were close to the ground could enjoy them. Therefore, those who did not get to enjoy them would frantically wave their arms and twist their bodies to make the ball of flesh roll.

So day after day, year after year, no one on the ball of flesh had the opportunity to enjoy the delicacies and treasures of Tuoluodi. They constantly wasted away from hunger and extreme greed for wealth, eventually turning into bone-thin monsters.

But they could not die, because there was no death in Tuoluodi, only despair more terrifying than death. This was the punishment for their insatiable greed.

"Tuoluodi…" Tang Qisheng felt a burst of pain in his nerves. He didn't know if this monster, which was extremely similar to the one in the book, was a coincidence or something else.

Soon, the video broadcasted the shout "Run!"

The scene suddenly became chaotic. Figures flickered constantly, and the monster also went crazy. The picture shook incessantly. The fleeing people collided with each other, and some people bumped into Tang Qisheng and Zhu Jie. But suddenly, Tang Qisheng, staring at the screen, seemed to have discovered something. He reached out and grabbed the phone, then dragged the progress bar forward bit by bit.

Until the very last moment, when the picture froze, Zhu Jie slowly opened her eyes wide. A blurry figure appeared in the picture.

It was a large rag doll, as big as a person, running towards the end of the corridor, countless arms reaching out to grab it from above.