Even hybrid monsters have their day

Chapter 297 Disappearance

"Who said she's dead? She's not dead!" Peng Yuxian shouted, completely disregarding the occasion, leaving Geng Miaowan and the others dumbfounded.

The operating vehicle didn't stop, passing by Geng Miaowan. She saw Peng Yuxian pull up the white sheet covering the face of the person lying on it, revealing a pale, bloodless face.

Peng Yuxian and Qiu Pi followed the operating vehicle, while Geng Miaowan and Xu Ruwen stood there blankly.

If the woman on Buzhou Mountain bore a striking resemblance to Geng Miaowan, then the woman who had just been pushed away was almost identical to her. If Xu Ruwen hadn't been absolutely certain that the person standing next to him was Geng Miaowan, he would have definitely thought the one pushed away was her.

No wonder Qiu Pi mistook him for someone else.

This was the first time Geng Miaowan had ever seen someone so similar to herself, like looking in a mirror. Even the nurse pushing the cart couldn't help but stop and pause as she passed by.

Geng Miaowan originally wanted to go and see what was going on, but since she was not related to the person, it would be inappropriate to follow them rashly. She only stayed in the hospital for a while before leaving.

However, whether it was a coincidence or not, just as she reached the hospital entrance, she saw Qiu Pi also about to leave the hospital.

He saw her too, they smiled at each other, and then left the hospital together.

Geng Miaowan noticed the gloom in his smile and asked him if he was interested in having a drink. Qiu Pi, having experienced such a dramatic change, also wanted to have a drink, so Geng Miaowan asked Xu Ruwen and Huangfu Aohan to keep an eye on Peng Yuxian while she and Qiu Pi went to a nearby bar.

It was already past 11 p.m.

Having grown up abroad, Qiu Pi was good at expressing her emotions. After a long chat, she understood what had happened.

"I'm sorry to have made you laugh at me, I poured out so much of my troubles to you." Although Qiu Pi grew up abroad, he spoke Mandarin very well.

Geng Miaowan didn't know whether she should laugh or not, so she lowered her head and took a small sip of the wine in her glass. She said, "I should be the one apologizing. I know you're feeling sad right now, yet I still brought this up."

“No. No, thank you so much for listening to me for so long. The ice incident hit me hard, and if it weren't for you being there to listen, I think I would have been suffocated by this sadness,” Qiu Pi said. He downed a full glass of beer in one gulp, his demeanor as relaxed as if he had only drunk a glass of water.

Geng Miaowan tried to comfort him, "I believe Lu Bing also knows that you didn't do it on purpose."

Qiu Pi remained silent for a long time before finally saying, "Whether it was intentional or not, it has already caused an irreparable tragedy."

He looked up at Geng Miaowan. Under the light, her face resembled Lu Bing even more. For a moment, he couldn't tell whether the person in front of him was Geng Miaowan or Lu Bing.

He shook his head, trying to shake off the strange feeling, and stood up, leaning on the table for support. "It's getting late, I think I should go back."

Just then, the bar's clock struck midnight. Geng Miaowan sensed a strange fluctuation of spatial energy, and in an instant, the scene before her eyes changed completely, as if someone had switched the channel on a television.

The bar was still the same bar. However, the people inside suddenly changed, and even the music changed in an instant, without any warning.

But everyone seemed perfectly normal, either raising their glasses in celebration or dancing energetically, without a moment's pause since they arrived. Qiu Pi, however, acted as if he had never even been in the bar.

Even the bartender who poured her drinks seemed to have transformed into a completely different person. Geng Miaowan was utterly bewildered; what was going on…?

She didn't sense any demonic aura here; the only thing she felt was the slight fluctuation of spatial energy from just now.

Geng Miaowan paid the bill. After leaving the bar and failing to find Qiu Pi, she had no choice but to meet up with Xu Ruwen and Huangfu Aohan.

"So, did you find anything?"

“We were following Peng Yuxian, but he suddenly disappeared from our sight.” Xu Ruwen said strangely what he had seen. Ever since Huangfu Aohan appeared, everything related to conversation had been attributed to him. “I didn’t sense anything suspicious about him, but he really just disappeared from Aohan’s and my sight.”

"What? Peng Yuxian has also disappeared!" Geng Miaowan exclaimed in surprise.

"Also?" Xu Ruwen immediately grasped the key point. "What do you mean by 'also'? Did you also see someone disappear? Qiu Pi?"

Geng Miaowan nodded. "We were drinking in a bar, but the moment the clock struck twelve, he suddenly disappeared."

"That's strange? Did you sense anything unusual?"

"No, everything seems normal. The people who suddenly appeared all look human. The only strange thing is that the spatial energy fluctuated the moment the bell rang."

"We are too..."

"By the way, tell me what you saw while following Peng Yuxian?"

“We followed Peng Yuxian. He didn’t go home, nor did he go to collect Lu Bing’s body. Instead, he walked alone, looking lost and disoriented, out of the hospital…”

Xu Ruwen recounted everything he had seen. After listening, Geng Miaowan asked, "That's it? Did you see clearly what he was doing standing there?"

“Ao Han quietly went over to take a look. It seemed he was squatting there crying, completely immersed in grief, crying like a child who had lost his beloved toy.” Geng Miaowan glanced at Xu Ruwen and felt that his description was actually quite apt. “Then, he disappeared.”

After discussing it for a while, the two felt that the matter was inextricably linked to fluctuations in spatial energy. However, they didn't know who caused the fluctuations, where the people who disappeared had gone, or where the people who appeared out of nowhere came from.

Since it was late at night, they decided to find a place to rest first and make plans for tomorrow.

The city wasn't particularly big, nor was it small; the chances of bumping into someone on the street were slim, so they decided to take the initiative. It didn't matter which person Qiu Pi and Peng Yuxian found. (To be continued.)