Artifact Report

Chapter 179 Jin Xueli: The Ghost Ship Enters the Dock

At that moment, two thoughts popped up in her mind, and Jin Xueli couldn't tell which came first.

First, because Morandao scared her so much, she stopped in the middle and turned around quickly before she could pounce on Chai Si. When her peripheral vision moved across the bed like a camera, Jin Xueli suddenly realized that a row of gray-white strip-shaped shadows was tightly attached to the lower side of Chai Si's bed.

That glance was as fast as a flash of light. When her eyes fell on Morandao, a light bulb suddenly lit up in her mind, illuminating an answer.

...It turned out to be its hand.

The resident on the other side of the bed cried out in pain, but quietly stretched out an arm, reached under Chai Si's bed, and reached to Jin Xueli's side, waiting.

If she had not been stopped by Morandao and rushed forward, she would have already delivered herself into the hands of the residents.

The second thought was, as the culprit, Morando actually had the nerve to yell at her?
"Are you still staring at me?"

Morando's blue eyes widened in disbelief. She leaped out of bed with the swiftness and agility of a cat. "Did anyone invite you here? What does this have to do with you?"

"Then what does this have to do with you?" Jin Xueli retorted, keeping a wary eye on the residents.

"My involvement in this matter has nothing to do with you."

"Your relationship with this matter has nothing to do with me, so what does my relationship with this matter have to do with you?"

"I'm sick!"

The resident suddenly shouted angrily, making both of them shut up.

Its long face moved like a rattle, turning left to look at Morandao, then right to look at Jin Xueli. It seemed to know that the trap would not work, so it quickly pulled its hand back from under the bed and put it back on Chai Si's chin.

Chai Si, who had just stopped twitching for a short while, suddenly turned into a dead fish that had been electrocuted.

Jin Xueli sighed and looked at him worriedly.

He had no access and had never entered the nest. Unlike hunters, who had been there many times and gradually developed a tolerance for the things in the nest. It was said that ordinary people who had the misfortune of having their first physical contact with the residents for various reasons would even go into shock.

Although Chai Si did not go into shock, he had been poisoned and fell into a coma. It was unknown how many minutes he could hold out from the residents.

...Besides, vomiting while lying flat on your back would definitely cause you to choke to death. This problem was more urgent than shock.

"You, I'm talking, don't be distracted!"

The resident pointed a slender finger at Jin Xueli and shouted, "You actually hid your companions? No problem, I'll kill you all, kill you all, and that's it. After killing you, I can slowly study your weapons."

"and many more,"

Morando raised a hand, as if asking a teacher for an answer. "I'm not in the same group as her."

One of the resident's eyes - the one that had been hit by Jin Xueli and had a shallow dent in it - turned towards Morandao.

...The opportunity has come.

To be honest, Jin Xueli herself admitted that she was sometimes quite impulsive.

If she didn't do something immediately after thinking of it, she would feel restless as if ants were crawling all over her body; even worse, her body would move before her brain could finish thinking about it - like now.

While the residents were distracted, she rushed to the bedside, dug her fingertips into Chai Si's shoulders, hooked him and pulled him down hard.

Chai Si was still as heavy as before, but this time Jin Xueli was not trying to take him away, but to pull his upper body off the bed and let him fall headfirst towards the ground - this was much simpler.

At the same time she desperately pulled his upper body off the bed, the air in the ward was suddenly filled with a vibrating buzzing sound from the sound of a gunshot.

Jin Xueli's heart nearly jumped out of her throat. She looked up and saw the resident stumbling back two steps, shaking his hands continuously. A bullet was squeezed out by the skin of his palm and rolled to the ground, making a crisp sound and still wrapped in wisps of white smoke.

When he turned around again, Morandao was holding a Desert Eagle in his hand, and he still didn't dare to lower the muzzle of the gun.

The two looked at each other, and their eyes separated immediately, indicating that they had already exchanged information.

…Just now the resident must have been about to grab her, but was stopped by Morandao’s bullet.

The bullets could not kill the residents, but their strong kinetic energy could still serve to block and injure them - although it did not seem to do much harm to this resident.

It’s okay, at least Morandao still has a conscience.

"It hurts so much! And you still say you are not in the same group?" the residents shouted angrily.

The sound of liquid splashing on the floor made Jin Xueli subconsciously look at the source of the sound and immediately breathed a sigh of relief.

It was worth it for her to take such a big risk and drag Chai Si into a state where he would die like Marat.

He was upside down at this moment, and the blood, gastric juice and foam in his mouth rushed out together - it seemed that he had not eaten today, so he did not vomit much - and he even washed out the little man as well, half of it.

Now the little man's two bare legs were hanging on Chai Si's chin, and his upper body was still hidden in his mouth.

When he woke up, he really didn't know how to describe this scene. Forget it, let the little man hang for now. She really didn't want to catch it with her own hands, otherwise it would cause any unexpected trouble. The most urgent thing was to get her weapon back.

In the brief moment that Jin Xueli was distracted by Chai Mala, Morandao was trying to gain cooperation from the residents.

"...I also hope you can take the artifact away, because that man is my opponent. It's useless for me to hold the artifact, but I don't want it to stay on him either."

She's just trying to cheat people here. She must be planning to rob the robbers - but should she tell me now?

Well, reminding the residents of this doesn't seem to do me any good, does it?

While she hesitated, Morandao continued, "You think she's in the way, right? How about this: I'll help you get rid of her, and you take the fake image. In exchange, you won't attack either of us. How about that?"

Drive away?

These words were quite unpleasant, as if she were a stray dog ​​- Jin Xueli glared at her.

"Why don't I remember that I'm dead and asked you to decide my funeral for me?"

Morandao ignored her, but rubbed his short hair hard a few times, creating ripples and waves, as if hoping to calm his anxiety.

She always dressed like a teenager, wearing loose clothes and pants - if Jin Xueli hadn't had sharp eyes, she would have missed the faint bulge in her waist under her loose T-shirt.

You have a gun on you? You're hiding it very discreetly.

"Don't listen to her. She can't fight. If I force her with a gun, she'll leave." Morandao stared at the resident and asked, "You don't want to push me too far. Should I cancel the 'connection'?"

Jin Xueli had already been slowly backing away, but upon hearing this, she couldn't help but ask, "What connection?"

Unexpectedly, residents also had the same question: "What connection?"

"Didn't you notice? Although this ward is still a nest, it's a part I plucked off and connected to the human world. Because this was originally a ward, with the same properties and area, the nest ward can cover and replace it - like a ghost ship entering the dock."

Jin Xueli suddenly realized.

Is this one of the reasons why they had to transfer Chai Si to another hospital, even at the risk of being discovered by the Kai family? Another reason was probably that it would be easier to kill people after the transfer.

In the den, there are two kinds of inhabitants: those who are uninterested in the artifacts, and those who see them like a hyena smells carrion.

Morandao needs a second type of resident to help her create the fake images that she cannot produce, so that she can rob her fellow thieves.

The lucky resident who was chosen happened to live on the hospital site. She could directly connect the Nest Hospital with the Human World Hospital - this was of course not easy to do in a large public hospital with a lot of people coming and going.

Morando pointed to the ward door and said, "That is, behind that door is a hospital in Blackmore City. Regardless of whether there is a passage or not, any human who pushes open that door can enter this part of the nest."

The residents' eyes lit up.

Although they looked like heels, Jin Xueli could still see the light.

But why tell it this? Is she going to destroy the world?

"People can come in, but you can't leave," Morando said. "Not only can you not enter the human world, you can't go to other places in the nest either."

Heel blinked his eyelids. "Why?"

"Like I said, this is a section of the nest that's been plucked off. It's now neither connected to the nest nor completely connected to the human world... There seems to be a small gap between the nest and the human world. We're right in that gap."

The residents seemed completely absorbed in the topic and ignored even Chai Si.

An evil representative and a nest resident in the room seemed to be engrossed in their conversation; no one realized that Jin Xueli was moving slowly towards the corner of the room.

Her weapon lay a few steps away.

Jin Xueli kept staring at the residents, not daring to take her eyes off them.

Seizing one opportunity after another when it was not paying attention, she tiptoed and slowly moved the weapon closer to her side - she suddenly bent down and stretched out her hand, and took it into her hand.

"You were able to find such a tricky and rare artifact... that connects to the human world? Ah, ah, ah, even if I can't enter the human world, hearing this makes my heart surge."

As Jin Xueli stood up straight, she saw a tall, thin shadow, which stretched out a long arm and swung it in a semicircle in the air. It hit Morandao so hard at a speed that even the eyes could not follow.

"Give me that, too!"

　Jin Xueli actually has a little ADHD. I wonder if you can tell...

　　By the way, when I was typing this, I took a special look at Marat's death and found that his death was a little different from what I remembered. His head and shoulders were just tilted, not completely drooping like Tchaikovsky's.

　　But as long as you all have the picture in your mind...

　　What a lazy author, using the title of the painting instead of the scene description (.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)