Artifact Report

Chapter 182 Jin Xueli: The positions of enemies and friends change rapidly

For a brief moment, Jin Xueli and Morandao were stunned.

Mo Landao didn't expect that someone would suddenly stop him outside the door; but Jin Xueli didn't understand why Han Liuyue threw all the burdens on her shoulders all of a sudden - was she crazy?
In the brief silence brought about by suspicion, confusion and surprise, the first person in the ward to react was the slender patient.

Attracted by some almost inaudible subtle movement, Jin Xueli looked up and saw an arm stretching across the room in mid-air. In the blink of an eye, with a "click", it pressed tightly against the door.

At this point, even if Han Liuyue is willing to open the door, can she still push it open?
"It's so weird, so jealous, so unfair. I want to get out too. How did you get to the other side of the world? I smell you, there's no mistaking your scent. You are something from the nest, what are you?"

Jin Xueli's heart dropped to her stomach.

...What happened to Han Liuyue?
Did she get bitten in the nest?
"None of your business. I want that man, Chase Monroe."

Outside the door, Han Liuyue said quietly, "Don't get in my way. As long as you let him out, you can do whatever you want with the remaining two hunters. I don't care."

Well, no matter who makes concessions in this negotiation, neither he nor Morando will end up with anything good?
Jin Xueli lay on the ground and looked around. She found that Morando's plastic water gun, the purpose of which was unknown, had just been thrown by a resident to the ground next to his own bed.

She exchanged glances with Morando.

The slender man pretended to consider it for a moment, then smiled. "Then why don't you just come in and rob them yourself? What are you afraid of? Are you afraid that if you return to your lair, you won't be able to leave?"

...I don’t have time to worry about Han Liuyue.

Jin Xueli silently made a gun gesture to Morandao, and opened and closed her other hand on the "gun muzzle" several times, representing the splashing of water, and pointed behind herself - she didn't actually hope that Morandao could understand, but the latter actually understood and nodded at her.

Without waiting for Han Liuyue to answer, the slender patient spoke again, his voice suddenly becoming thicker:
"I've decided. All three people in this room belong to me... Whether they're illusions or flesh and blood, I want them all. I want them all. Who cares about you? Who wants to cooperate with you? This world should revolve around me. My desires are the most important thing, the most important thing."

Oh no, it looks like it's getting serious.

Just as the thought came to his mind, the patient's other arm swept across half of the ward like a whip and attacked Morando in the corner.

As the air cracked, the skin on its arm also cracked.

Accompanied by the whistling wind, tumor-like faces swarmed out from the cracks in the skin, shouting one after another in the wind:

"Why should I share with others? I hate it most. Everything belongs to me, it's all mine. All the fake things in the world, money, food, resources, and deaths, should be hoarded by me. Even if I can't use them, even if I waste them all, I won't share a single bit with others."

This resident... is really human.

Morandao also anticipated that the patient was going to attack - she shouted "Go quickly", jumped and rolled onto the bed next to her, and her arm almost brushed past her head and hit the wall, causing the entire ward to tremble and fall with dust.

He dodged the arms, but seemed unable to avoid the faces within them.

Jin Xueli only heard her suddenly scream in pain, but she had no time to see what was going on - while the slender patient's attention was not on her, she quickly rolled under Chai Si's bed, grabbed the plastic water gun, and jumped up with a hammer in one hand and a water gun in the other.

As soon as she saw it clearly, she took a deep breath and exclaimed, "Mo Landao!"

Morandao was unable to dodge, and on his back and shoulders, three or four blurry, tumor-like human faces stood up like mushrooms after rain.

"You have beautiful eyes, beautiful face, and beautiful skin. Give it to me, give it to me, I want it, I want it. Look, I don't even have any hair."

Morandao punched the face of the person pressing towards her, pushing it back a few centimeters - only a few centimeters, because the end of its neck connected to her right shoulder, melting a piece of cloth.

She couldn't hit the faces that grew diagonally on her back and waist.

"It's your turn," the slender patient held the door with one hand and waved at Jin Xueli again with the other.

Jin Xueli didn't care about Moran's words and rushed between the beds. Her shoulder hit Chai Si's bed, causing it to slide a few steps away.

The residents' arms passed over her head, rolled up the curtains, and tore off the slide rails; from the chaos, several human faces fell in clusters, like giant mushrooms jumping on one leg, and rushed towards Jin Xueli.

She swung the hammer, knocking the face of a person who was rushing towards her away, and kicked away another face. Half of her body was under the bed, and half of her body was outside the bed. She shouted, "Molando! Can you still hold on? Cancel the connection quickly!"

If the connection is not cancelled, they will have nowhere to escape when the ward door is blocked; if the connection is cancelled, at least they can escape into the nest.

"no!"

Morandao was at least able to speak, though every word seemed to be uttered with pain: "If the connection is cancelled, the three of us will be thrown into a random place in the nest—"

Jin Xueli was stunned.

If the unconscious Chai Si was thrown alone to a random location in the nest, he would basically be beyond rescue; but this was not the most serious problem.

"These faces are drilling into my body. I don't have time. If I am thrown into the nest now--" Morandao was interrupted by her own unbearable scream of pain before she finished speaking.

She didn't have to finish her words, Jin Xueli understood.

Those faces that parasitize on humans are essentially products of the nest; generally, products of the nest can only exist within the nest.

Since Morando was parasitized, the best and fastest way to rescue him was to immediately cross the door and return to Blackmore City - just like bacteria being soaked in alcohol, most of the nest products would decompose and disappear in the human world.

But if you fall into the nest, who knows how long it will take to return to the human world?
There was no time left for either Morando or Chase.

Jin Xueli was stunned when a human face pounced on her chest; the resident pulled Chai Si's bed away with his arms, exposing her and the human face to the light again.

She hasn't been infected yet, so she should avoid skin contact, right?
Jin Xueli's scalp was throbbing with fear and panic, and she caught a glimpse of a light blue from the corner of her eye. She grabbed the curtain that was knocked down by the residents, covered her face with it, wrapped it up, and threw it hard to the floor. After dodging another blow from the residents, she realized belatedly that Morandao had also rushed to her side.

"Give me all the weapons!"

She turned her head and found that the face on Morandao's shoulder could no longer be called a human face - it seemed to have been hit hard by something heavy, and became a concave meat bowl.

Even in his horrific condition, Morando seemed to maintain his sanity and composure.

"I'll hold it back," Moran shouted, "you take Chase and open the door!"

Her face was almost pale and her body was covered with human faces, but she still managed to notice the detail that Jin Xueli had unlocked the wheels of the hospital bed.

Jin Xueli's hesitation only flashed for a moment before she threw both the hammer and the water gun to her.

Next, his back was completely in Morando's hands.

Once she made up her mind, Jin Xueli no longer hesitated.

Without even glancing at the resident, she bent down, grabbed the bed, and pushed it towards the door; Morando didn't even look at Chai Si, brushed past her, and rushed straight towards the resident behind Jin Xueli.

The resident really swung an arm towards him - for some reason Morandao had done something, but the attack was aborted halfway, and was replaced by a dizzying and disgusting howl from the resident.

"My feet! My feet my feet my feet!"

Jin Xueli held back her stomach juices.

It was just a dizziness; even if she died, she would die while running.

Behind him, Morando's roar echoed throughout the ward: "Chasi is over there! He's holding the door, open it for us!"

"Open the door quickly!"

Jin Xueli pushed the bed, and Chai Si's head swayed beside the bed. The ward door was just a few steps away. "We're coming!" It was at this moment that she heard the shrill voice.

It was not until she heard it that Jin Xueli suddenly remembered that the little man had never left Chai Si's mouth.

At this moment, its upper body emerged from Chai Si's mouth, with its arms tightly wrapped around its chest, but it was impossible to tell what was in its arms.

"I got it! The 'Rumor' artifact was so unhappy. It kept struggling to get back into his mouth, but I was holding it tightly. It couldn't get away!"

The first priority for residents is indeed a "false image".

As soon as the little guy shouted, the slender patient immediately wanted to get it as soon as possible.

The other hand seemed to be entangled by Morandao; when Jin Xueli hurriedly looked up, she saw that the hand that was originally pressing the door, which seemed to have grown countless tentacles, let go of the door and grabbed towards Chai Si's face.

Isn't the opportunity to get out here?

Honestly speaking, at this point, Jin Xueli would be content as long as she handed over a living firewood clerk to Han Liuyue in exchange for a chance to survive.

As for whether the tongue artifact can be maintained, that is not her responsibility. She can give it to a slender patient.

But she never expected that at this moment, there was someone in the ward who didn't think so.

When the slender patient grabbed Chase's face, Morando also strode over - in less than ten seconds, she looked almost the same as a corpse that refused to admit its death.

...How much does she get paid? Why is she working so hard to get fake images?
The resident's hand grabbed Chai Si's face and the little man in his mouth first.

It felt like if it just squeezed or pulled, by the time it raised its hand, only the back of Chai Si's head would be left.

"Open the door quickly!"

Jin Xueli had no choice but to shout angrily, hoping to push Chai Si out before it was too late - but the bed was heavy, and the resident was holding Chai Si with one hand, so the few steps between her and the ward seemed as far away as a chasm.

Morandao, who had just arrived, suddenly raised the plastic water gun and aimed it at the black cracks on the resident's arm without saying a word.

A stream of black and dirty water, almost with anger, shot straight into the crack.

The face of the person in the crack of the arm was splashed directly by the black water; the crack was much deeper than Jin Xueli had imagined, and almost no black water was wasted, pouring all into the resident's arm - the air was suddenly filled with a wet and fishy smell of earth, a bit like spoiled beer that had been exposed to the sun for three days and then rained on.

……what?
The expected howling sound did not come.

The resident's hand was still on Chase's face, and nothing seemed to have changed - no, that was not right.

Jin Xueli suddenly realized that the residents were not moving.

The little man seemed to still be in Chai Si's mouth, and he said "Hmm?" in confusion.

When she turned her head, she found that the resident's face was right against her back, only a fist away.

Those two heel-like eyeballs were staring at Jin Xueli, motionless.

"What, what happened?" Jin Xueli's breathing was unsteady, afraid that a louder voice would break the fragile peace. "What did you spray in there?"

"Ayawoska,"

Morando gritted his teeth, walked over to Chai Si, and used Jin Xueli's hammer to slowly lift the resident's hand, as if trying to gently pry it away and then remove the figurine and the false image. "It's a bit like your hammer, it only works the first time you use it."

Jin Xueli was stunned for a moment before she remembered what Ayahuasca was.

"It's hallucinogenic. Does it have an effect on the residents as well?"

Morando seemed to have no energy left to talk to her.

She was also afraid of waking up the residents again, so she moved slowly and gently, even lowering her voice: "Don't stop me. This false image, I must -"

"You lied to me."

Han Liuyue's voice came faintly from the crack in the door.

"You're still some distance from the door... I didn't hear Brother Chai say anything. I don't know if he's still alive. Please let him say a few words to prove he's still alive, and I'll give you the—"

She had just interrupted Morandao's words, but she herself was unable to finish her words; she only heard a heavy muffled thud outside the door, followed by a series of sounds that seemed to be a series of skulls hitting the wall and bodies rolling on the ground.

Jin Xueli was stunned, and the next second, the door of the ward was kicked open.

"Sister Morando!"

The brown-haired love hunter was standing at the door, holding an iron rod from nowhere, and shouted: "I helped you open the door - eh? You -"

She didn't even finish her words.

The ward door slammed against the wall with a bang, startling the slender patient, who shuddered and uttered a "hmm", as if waking up from his hallucination.

...Now is the only chance.

"Han Liuyue!"

Jin Xueli raised her voice and used all her strength to push the bed towards the door before Morandao and the residents could react: "Hurry up and catch your brother Chai!"

The resident didn't seem fully awake yet, and his hands didn't exert much force. The bed rolled from under his hands, slid all the way to the door. The Love Hunter was startled and subconsciously dodged to the side.

At that moment, Jin Xueli suddenly realized that she seemed to have made a mistake.

Han Liuyue was most likely knocked down by the Love Hunter. There was no one outside the door to help Chai Si. What if Morandao asked the Love Hunter to block the bed?

Morando seemed to sigh.

That is the sigh a person lets out when he has given 120% of his effort but still has to accept an unsatisfactory result - tired, but with a hint of relief.

"Let's go," she whispered to Jin Xueli, "The residents are about to wake up."

At the same time, Jin Xueli was actually running towards the ward door - Chai Si's bed hit the wall at the door, knocking him off the bed and rolling on the ground.

It was not until then that Jin Xueli suddenly realized that the woman wearing a sun hat was sitting on the floor outside the door, but she had just been blocked by the Love Hunter.

...Who is that?
The straw hat woman reached out, grabbed Shibashi, and dragged him from the lair into the human world.

　For ayahuasca, I can’t write the Chinese translation, I can only write the transliteration, because I’m afraid of being blocked. If you are interested, you can search it yourself. It doesn’t affect the plot anyway.

　　I finally managed to get a little extra sleep yesterday, and today I've already produced over 4,000 words! Rest is truly the medicine of life.

　　I have opened a side game volume and I am going to ask the editor to put it before the main text. In the future, those who are interested can read the side game volume before the main text.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)