Chapter 171#
Hunting 22#
No one on the high platform spoke, waiting for the doctor’s answer. However, before the doctor could speak, one of the patients let out an abrupt laugh. The patient’s eyes stared straight at the doctor, their neck twisting stiffly at an awkward angle as they spoke in a strange tone: “Doctor, do you have to tell others about such things?”
“The doctor will be treated as a tool for venting by everyone.”
Heena’s mouth twitched. “Why do you guys have to make it sound so weird?”
“Heehee… looking forward to it…”
According to the patients’ words, the doctor revealing his unique traits would lead to serious consequences. But the doctor did not remain silent just because of the patients’ attempts to stop him.
“As a doctor, do you think I am like you, unable to distinguish who is trustworthy?” the doctor said slowly. “Or perhaps, do you want to be electrocuted again?”
As his voice fell, a length of pure white electrical wire suddenly appeared in the doctor’s hand. The broken end of the wire revealed metal conductors twisted into two strands, which were currently sizzling with sparks.
The patients looked at that length of wire, their expressions shifting between uncertainty and fear, but there was an even greater sense of faint, underlying excitement.
As the sound of sparks rang out, Anphi’s gaze also turned toward the wire. So this person hasn’t disconnected, Yu Feichen thought.
The doctor noticed Anphi’s gaze and held the wire out toward him. “Do you want to take a look?”
Anphi shook his head politely and friendly, saying, “The structure is very special.”
The doctor said, “Thank you for the compliment.”
The doctor wanted to know more about the person in front of him.
After witnessing all sorts of normal people and patients, it was rare for anyone to make the doctor feel curious.
But in this circus, he had encountered two subjects worth observing.
One of them was this silver-haired youth called “Anphi.” Anphi seemed to possess a transcendent status within the entire circus.
But what piqued the doctor’s interest was not Anphi’s transcendent status, but rather… they seemed to share something in common.
This was also why he was willing to speak about his special ability.
Yu Feichen watched this scene with a cold, scrutinizing eye.
The doctor had been staring at Anphi for too long—it had already been five seconds.
He shifted his body slightly, blocking the doctor’s gaze toward Anphi.
The doctor opened his mouth, intending to explain his ability.
Right at that moment, a girl’s scream suddenly drifted from the distance.
The scream carried a heavy sense of psychological breakdown, echoing for a long time among the pitch-black streets and alleys, tearing through the silent veil of night.
Yu Feichen looked toward the source of the cry.
It was a place separated from the circus by three streets, within a complex of labyrinthine, abandoned buildings.
Based on the texture and emotion of the sound, it should be a hunted prey.
Yu Feichen stepped directly off the high platform. The time limit on his wings had not yet expired; his silhouette rose into the night, moving toward that cluster of buildings.
This was a dilapidated residential area where all the wooden structures were precarious, and slimy moss crawled over the bricks and granite.
In the damp corners, there were even traces where snakes had crawled by.
Inside a small attic that had long fallen into disrepair, Dusha covered her ears tightly, her mind a complete blank. She used every ounce of strength in her body to let out uncontrollable, broken screams.
It was as if by doing this, the entire world would be left with only her existence and her voice alone, and no one else would ever appear again.
But when the air in her lungs was completely exhausted and she could no longer make any sound, the surrounding noises and movements still surged up like a tide, flooding into her brain.
There were people to the west, seemingly three of them. There were also two to the east. They were all chasing her.
Further away… even further away… more and more movements were heading toward her. How could there be so many hunters?
Her throat burned with a stinging pain. She finally realized, with a sluggish reaction, that in her extreme terror of being hunted, her screams had instead attracted even more hunters.
Now, they were all closing in.
The sound of boots stepping on moss.
The sound of someone climbing the stairs.
The clattering sound of firearms knocking against things as people moved.
The sound of heavy breathing, the sound of talking…
Dusha used even greater force to cover her ears, as if she wanted to physically crush her own head, but it was to no avail. The sounds ruthlessly filled her world.
Hearing that far exceeded an ordinary person’s was a gift given to her by an NPC in a previous instance. Relying on it, she had lived quite well in the Evernight, always able to find the safest places.
But now, it had become the source of her terror.
Dusha didn’t know what had happened to her.
She only knew that ever since entering the peril-filled City of Mists, an uncontrollable fear had entwined itself around her. By the time the hunting stage began and she became the prey, under the weight of immense fear, even normal thinking became difficult.
The sounds outside grew closer.
Dusha wanted to flee, but the emotion of fear made her entire body stiff. She wanted to take a step, but her whole person collapsed uncontrollably to the floor.
The sounds were closer still.
The sound of wings gliding through the wind suddenly echoed from the roof of the attic. Another person had appeared…
Dusha stared with hollow eyes, her entire body shaking uncontrollably as she crawled across the floor on all fours.
“Creak—” The sound of a window being pushed open.
Tears of terror flowed from Dusha’s eyes, her teeth chattering. She scrambled desperately in the opposite direction of the sound—toward the door.
But in the next moment, she heard that there was someone outside the door as well.
Terror reached its absolute peak at this moment.
Yu Feichen entered through the attic window and immediately saw the extremely bizarre state of the girl in the room.
In the next moment, the attic door was kicked open, and a snowy blade-light fell toward Dusha, who was crawling toward the door!
Amidst the wind of the blade cutting through the air, Dusha’s pupils dilated. She held her head and let out a silent scream.
But in the next moment, what she heard was the sound of blades clashing, a brief sound of fighting, and someone’s cry of pain.
The fight happened very suddenly and ended very quickly.
In her dazed perception, Dusha felt herself being picked up and taken toward a place of brilliant lights.
The highest point of the circus.
Heena looked at this girl Yu Feichen had rescued, made a tentative sound, and then reached out to stroke her hair.
Dusha trembled neurotically, falling backward.
Heena sighed. “She’s been scared out of her wits.”