Exorcist's Self-Cultivation

Chapter 94 The Body Under the Streetlight

in the corridor.

footsteps gradually began to echo.

du wei did not chase after the footprints on top of the wall but chose to head downstairs directly.

the abnormalities of the psychiatric hospital started to materialize after nightfall.

however, they existed before that, not triggered by the arrival of du wei and the others, causing inexplicable events to occur.

therefore, combining what was seen in the afternoon, there are currently two places that can be deemed safe.

one is the clock tower building into which madam taylor, the director, had entered.

the other is the building where the mental patients stayed.

if these two places weren't safe, the people before wouldn't have remained unharmed.

moreover...

there were james and the others...

just as du wei had previously thought, the elite exorcists sent by the church weren't so impressive, but with their "well-equipped" gear, they shouldn't have fallen so easily to the evil spirit.

after all, using that camera against the evil spirit was incredibly simple.

as long as they captured a photo, the evil spirit wouldn't be able to harm people for a certain period.

in other words, du wei's situation was a bit more dangerous.

he had already mentioned that the meeting point was at the clock tower, and after dealing with the evil spirit, they would likely go there too.

"time to go!"

du wei said to himself and proceeded to descend the stairs step by step.

the entire stairwell was deadly silent, the only sounds being his own footsteps and breathing.

he even suspected that he was the only person in this building, and the other rooms were all empty.

...

a few minutes later.

inside the psychiatric hospital.

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the torrential rain continued.

du wei stood downstairs, pulled the hood of his raincoat over his head, hiding most of his face.

ever since he had boarded that eerie bus the previous time, he had acquired a waterproof garment with an attached hood, perfect for rainy weather.

it was clear this was a corpse.

its posture was also strange, with hands placed in front of its chest, seemingly in prayer.

du wei furrowed his brow, and in the state of spirit vision, he distinctly felt that faint, eerie presence.

"like the thing i just encountered..."

du wei stared at the corpse with a blank expression, his gaze remained calm but a hint of doubt surfaced in his mind.

he had seen this corpse before...

yes... it was the mental patient named ryan.

when he saw ryan earlier, he was very much alive; in no time at all, he had become what he was now.

even if ryan had mysteriously died for some reason after leaving the building where the mental patients were kept, the skin of the corpse had waterlogged swelling, which would take several hours at least.

the timeline simply didn't add up...

"unless what i saw at first was already a corpse."

this thought emerged in du wei's mind, but after thinking it over, he quickly dismissed it.

before nightfall, everyone du wei had seen or touched, except for mrs. taylor, the dean, were mental patients.

leaving mrs. taylor aside for the moment, this old woman who survived the fire was definitely hiding something.

and for the mental patients, it was unlikely that they had already been dead for a while.

because that would indicate an anomaly, it would mean the presence of an evil spirit.

with spirit vision at the third phase, no evil spirit could hide its identity in his presence.

the intelligence of evil spirits is limited to mechanisms, and up until now, the only one seen to possess intelligence was the masked evil spirit, which had taken on du wei's persona.

after analyzing all this.

du wei came to a very unsettling conclusion.

when night fell, the entire psychiatric hospital was split into two dimensions.

the psychiatric hospital during the day was normal, but at night, various unexplainable anomalies occurred.

another du wei that james and the others saw, as well as ryan's corpse.

and the owner of that eye they had seen at the entrance before.

"so this is the reason one must stay in their room after night falls? but i feel there might still be some secrets that i have yet to discover," du wei mused with a glacial gaze, staring at ryan's corpse for a while before deciding to detour towards the bell tower to take a look.

if there were no surprises, mrs. taylor should still be inside.

just then, ryan's corpse's head, following du wei's movement, twisted slightly.

their gazes met once again...