Chapter 15: Mannequin Model
The police officer looked at the wound wrapped around his abdomen, coughed twice, and said to the young girl in front of him.
“Miss, what’s your name?”
“Qin Liu, and you?”
“Chen Hao.”
The police officer named Chen Hao painfully propped himself up.
Although Qin Liu had bandaged his wound, the blood he had lost would not return to his body.
He was incredibly weak now.
“You shouldn’t move around yet. What if the wound splits open again?”
Chen Hao’s wound was very deep, and bandaging alone would not be enough to control it.
More professional suturing was necessary.
However, Qin Liu had no tools on hand. She could find a sewing needle to stitch Chen Hao up, but there didn’t seem to be anything like that around.
“Ugh…” Chen Hao groaned in pain, then continued, “This mall is very dangerous. Staying here will definitely attract the fierce ghost hidden in the darkness.”
“I need to find my other teammates as soon as possible and rendezvous with them.”
Chen Hao slowly shuffled towards the room door.
“Speaking of which… Miss Qin Liu, I can’t ask anyone else for help right now. Can you help me?”
Qin Liu naturally did not refuse Chen Hao’s request.
“Of course. Saving a life is better than building a seven-story pagoda. If I really encounter a ghost in this mall, I’ll slide in with a tackle!”
Chen Hao couldn’t help but smile when he saw Qin Liu like this.
He felt as if he was looking at his own daughter.
While the two were talking, the room door, which Chen Hao had been blocking, suddenly made a piercing sound of rotating bearings.
The door was pushed open a narrow gap.
An eerie and terrifying aura continuously spread into the room from this gap.
Under their gaze, a sticky, blood-dripping handprint inexplicably appeared on the door handle.
Seeing the terrifying red handprint, Chen Hao’s heart turned cold.
“It’s here.”
He never expected that the fierce ghost in the mall would find him so quickly.
Death seemed to grip his heart. Watching the door of the room open wider and wider, he froze in place.
Relying on Qin Liu?
But who else could he rely on now?
Relying on himself, who was half-crippled?
But… could this young girl in front of him really handle it?
The heavier the grudge, the stronger the fierce ghost’s power. Qin Liu, however, gave him the feeling of not being a ghost at all, but more like a person.
Chen Hao’s gaze was fixed on the direction of the door.
He glanced sideways at Qin Liu next to him.
The young girl didn’t pull out any weapons, nor did she react much.
In fact, she seemed even more frightened than he was.
As expected, fierce ghosts filled with grudges were quite difficult to deal with.
In Chen Hao’s memory, since he joined the Special Task Force, in less than half a year.
Many of his few comrades from the same period had already disappeared.
Some had died, and many whose bodies were found had missing parts.
Some had gone mad, constantly babbling nonsensical, terrifying sounds.
At this moment, he could directly feel the aura of death, that terrifying existence lurking beneath the sunlight.
The room door opened wider and wider, and Chen Hao subconsciously held his breath.
His teammates had disappeared without a sound, likely having been killed by the fierce ghost.
And now, with his inability to fight and a seemingly frail young girl, could they really escape from here?
Just as Chen Hao was contemplating, the room door was finally opened completely.
A cold and terrifying gaze fell upon him. That greedy, bloodthirsty look made his body tremble involuntarily.
The fierce ghost hidden in the darkness seemed to let out a sharp, excited howl.
However, when that gaze fell upon Qin Liu, the fierce ghost in the darkness suddenly froze.
The room fell silent.
The air seemed to carry an awkward atmosphere.
Then, the gaze moved away from Chen Hao.
It seemed the monster in the darkness had left.
But he suddenly turned back and silently closed the door.
He even wiped the bloodstain off the door handle clean.
Everything returned to normal, leaving Chen Hao in the room, unsure of what to say.
His gaze fell on Qin Liu, looking up and down at this very harmless-looking young girl.
And the lantern in her hand, emitting a faint glow.
Qin Liu felt his gaze and looked at the increasingly thick black mist in the mall. She then said to Chen Hao.
“Officer Chen, it seems he didn’t discover us. Let’s get out of here quickly.”
Chen Hao suddenly felt that the young girl beside him was the most terrifying fierce ghost in the mall, but did he dare to speak?
He did not dare.
One person and one ghost arrived at the mall’s passage.
Both sides of the passage were lined with clothing stores.
The dazzling clothes on the mannequin dolls, in this dense black mist, seemed to have come alive.
Chen Hao, who was staggering along, looked at the outlines of the dolls on both sides, feeling uneasy.
The black mist also carried a faint smell of blood, which was very fresh, as if it were from someone who had died not long ago.
“Ugh…”
The pain from his wound made Chen Hao wince.
Qin Liu, seeing him in so much pain, said.
“These are all clothing stores. How about I find a needle and stitch up your wound for now?”
“No… need.”
Chen Hao gritted his teeth and refused Qin Liu’s offer.
“In this situation, I need to get outside first and call for support from other teams.”
Saying that, the man continued to move forward.
He held the wall with one hand and pressed his injured abdomen with the other.
Blood dripped continuously onto the ground. Behind him were traces of bloodstains.
Qin Liu wanted to say something more, but he just waved his hand, indicating that he was fine.
With no other choice, Qin Liu could only follow by his side, carefully protecting this heavily injured person.
After walking for an unknown amount of time, Qin Liu felt the black mist becoming thicker and the smell of blood clearer.
But the source of the smell was not Chen Hao, but ahead…
In the hazy black mist, Qin Liu saw that among a row of stiff and lifeless mannequin dolls, a very strange mannequin appeared.
Why did this mannequin look so soft?
Its hands hung limply, its head drooped, and the entire person seemed to be nailed to a cross.
It seemed to be looking at her?
The smell of blood was emanating from this mannequin. Qin Liu held her breath and cautiously approached the mannequin.
The mannequin’s limbs were very contorted, and fresh blood seeped out from its joints, dyeing the precious branded clothes a bloody red.
As Qin Liu looked up further, she suddenly saw a horrifying scene.
A police officer, as if squeezed into the mannequin’s body by a hydraulic press, had his head replaced by the mannequin’s head.
Due to the excessive compression, flesh and internal organs were violently squeezed out from his facial features.
His death was extremely tragic.
