Chapter 19
"Have you noticed? There hasn't been a single car since we entered the fog," I said.
They thought about it for a moment and said, "That's true. Even if there are few cars on this road, we can still see some. It's not an uninhabited area. Even if it were, it's impossible not to see a single car."
"It's no use staying here any longer. Why don't we just drive away?" said Mao Jianming.
So we got in the car and drove on.
Zheng Yunyun sat next to me, fear in her eyes.
We drove for a long time, but the red mist still didn't dissipate. Sometimes I suddenly saw an old woman waving at me on the right side of the road.
The old lady had a pale face and dull eyes, and she just waved her arms mechanically.
Then she disappeared again. Just when I thought I was dazzled by the red fog, she suddenly appeared in front of the car. I slammed on the brakes and the jeep slid five or six meters onto the road.
Mao Jianming and Zhang Song also quickly stopped the car and got out to see what happened to me.
I said I seemed to have hit someone, and then we looked back, and there was nothing on the road, but I had clearly seen that I had hit the old lady. Now, let alone the old lady, there was nothing but skid marks.
Since entering this red fog, everything has become strange. We searched for a while, but still found nothing.
"Maybe I'm dazzled." I whispered to myself.
"Li Bin is missing!" Mao Jianming said suddenly.
We hurried to find Li Bin, but visibility was already low in the red fog, and now that he had disappeared, it was difficult to find him. However, his hands were tied, so we had no idea how he had quietly opened the car door and disappeared.
"What should we do now?" Zheng Yunyun asked, with tears clearly in her voice.
I held her hand and said, "Don't be afraid, let's try again."
I searched for him for a long time, but still couldn't see him. A living person just disappeared right before our eyes for no apparent reason. I felt it must be related to this red fog.
"Ah!" Zheng Yunyun screamed and hid behind Zhang Song.
We didn't know what she was doing, but then we saw her pointing under our car. There, a man was lying there. His hands were tied behind his back, his chin resting on the ground, and he was looking at us with a strange smile on his face.
"Li Bin!" Mao Jianming exclaimed.
We then slowly approached him, step by step. He seemed unconscious, just smiling. Finally, Zhang Song and Mao Jianming pulled him out, and then I saw a disgusting scene: his entire chest had been rubbed so hard that his ribs were exposed, and you could even see his lungs vibrating with his heart.
"It's so itchy, haha." Even in this state, he was still laughing.
"It's so itchy, it's so itchy." He is like a madman now.
We have no idea why he became like this. Could it be related to his entry into Eshan?
"We have to find a hospital as soon as possible!" said Mao Jianming.
In desperation, we had to drive again. In this environment, driving fast is very dangerous, but thinking of Li Bin's current condition, we had to step on the accelerator.
We drove on the road all day, and as the sky gradually darkened, the red fog dissipated. Looking at the sky reappearing before my eyes, I breathed a sigh of relief. If the red fog continued like this, I would probably go crazy.
Li Bin's condition was grave, so we drove through the night without stopping, searching for a hospital. As luck would have it, we saw a sign on the right saying "Huanshan County." We immediately exited the ramp and headed straight for Huanshan County.
Looking at the street lights on both sides of the road, I felt that I was finally out of danger.
However, this was not the case. As we were driving towards the county hospital, the streetlights suddenly turned into lanterns made of white paper. This change caught us off guard. Even if we were slow to react, we knew that we had encountered something unclean!
We quickly turned around and headed back, and that's when I noticed something that terrified me. Since I was driving ahead of him, the U-turn put me behind him. Otherwise, I wouldn't have noticed that Li Bin, who was sitting in the back seat of Mao Jianming's car, had turned into a paper figure.
Zheng Yunyun also saw this strange scene and screamed.
With her scream, the entire county, including houses and infrastructure, turned into paper.
I didn't dare to stop, I stepped on the accelerator and the roar of the engine rang in my ears.
What completely devastated me was that Mao Jianming and Zhang Song, along with the car they were driving, had all turned to paper figures. I looked to my side, and Zheng Yunyun had vanished. Then I felt two hands reaching behind my neck. A cold sweat broke out. In the rearview mirror, I saw a paper figure sitting behind me, its hands resting on my neck.
I slammed on the brakes and hit my head hard on the seat.
When I opened my eyes, I found myself sitting in a car, and Zhang Song and Mao Jianming had already carried Li Bin into the emergency room.
Zheng Yunyun was also waiting for me outside the car. Seeing that I didn't get out of the car for a long time, she looked at me in confusion.
It turned out that we had arrived at the county hospital.
But was everything I just experienced an illusion?
"Let's go, why are you standing there like an idiot?" Zheng Yunyun said anxiously.
"Oh, I'll be right there." I turned off the car in a daze, got out and went to the emergency room with Zheng Yunyun.
At the hospital, since it was nighttime, there were only five of us and the emergency room doctor. They were also shocked when they saw Li Bin's condition, unsure what was wrong with him, so they sedated him. The doctor said his condition required emergency surgery. Since we had no family members, Zheng Yunyun signed the consent form. Then we watched as the doctor hurriedly wheeled him into the operating room.
The four of us sat outside, no one spoke.
I was thinking about what had just happened. They saw that I looked unhappy, so Zhang Song asked me, "What's wrong?"
I shook my head and said, "Nothing."
"Just tell me what's going on." Zhang Song said.
"What do you think? Are we cursed when we go to Eshan this time?" First Zhang Yu died, and now Li Bin has become like this, and all the professors who entered Eshan are dead.
After hearing what I said, Zheng Yunyun suddenly became afraid. She cried and said, "Will we become like Li Bin? I just saw it."
She stopped here.
"What did you see?" Mao Jianming asked her.
She glanced at Mao Jianming and said, "I saw Li Bin turned into a paper man behind you."
After saying this, I felt a chill on my back.
I thought it was just my illusion, but I didn’t expect Zheng Yunyun saw it too.
It seems that it is no accident that we have experienced so many strange things along the way.
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