Hospital No. 444

The feet stepped on the icy ground, making crisp sounds from time to time.

Everyone is slow and steady, trying to keep the same pace as possible, neither too fast nor too slow.

Everyone tilted their bamboo poles toward the fog, and the porcelain doll was the only one that could give them a sense of security.

Ten minutes passed.

They followed the fog and gradually walked towards a mostly abandoned farmhouse.

David looked at a country road in front of him and suddenly remembered the scene when he and his cousin played there when he was a child. Everything that happened at that time, now... is still vivid in my mind.

Is it possible that this heavy fog...will disappear one day in the future?

In the past ten years, many villagers have been praying that maybe when they wake up one morning, the fog will completely disappear without a trace. But obviously, this is all wishful thinking.

"Look..."

At this time, Lin Tai pointed to a house in front of him.

That house was half covered in fog and half outside.

This situation looks very strange.

"Can we just avoid it?" David asked.

"No." Lin Tai said, "If that happens, it will exceed two meters."

"What should we do?"

"Into the house. Through the window."

Does this really have to be the case?

At this time, at Dai's house.

David's parents were sitting around the table, while Dai Lan was hiding in the room, secretly checking on his parents.

"Don't worry too much." Dad noticed Mom's worry and said, "Now, I can only believe him."

"I just remembered Lei San's time..."

"That rarely happens."

"Yes... I should be thinking too much."

When she said this, her hands were shaking violently.

The couple will never forget the chilling words Lei San said when he found them.

"It's so weird. When the count was being counted, there were actually ten people counting! Ten people! Inexplicably, there was an extra tenth person! But as the captain, I looked at the other nine people thoroughly, and I couldn't see Who is the tenth person who comes out!"

"How is it possible... tell me, which nine people! I also went when the lot was drawn during the day, and I remember clearly which people were drawn."

"I, I also think I'm going crazy..." Lei San cried and said, "Those nine people are Niu Jun, Luo Yujun, Zhang Heng, Lin Xie, and Yun..."

He named eight people in one breath. David's parents remembered these eight people clearly. They were indeed the people who were drawn by lot today, that's right!

So who is the last one?

"The other one is... Ge, Ge Niancheng!"

David's parents were stunned when they heard the name.

"Lei San, you..."

"I remember that Ge Niancheng was indeed chosen in today's draw!"

"That's right, he is the son of the village chief! When he gets married, I will be his witness!"

"Yes! These nine people, including me, are ten people! A whole ten people! You think, how is this possible? Since the fog closed the village until now, we have drawn lots to select eight people every day, plus one for each Captains who are fixed every month! There can never be ten people! Never!"

Such a strange situation made everyone feel extremely terrifying.

"Is it possible that everyone is collectively confused and can't tell the difference between nine people or ten people?"

"How is that possible! For example, Luo Yujun, he is the math teacher in our village!"

For a moment, the three of them fell into silence.

"The stone tablet says that the extra tenth person must be found within a month. Otherwise, a terrible disaster will occur!"

Before Lei San, patrols had only experienced attrition, and there had never been too many patrols!

However, David’s mother remembered that it had happened in the past that she, as the captain, only remembered that someone had reduced staff. She even reminded her repeatedly so that others could remember who had reduced staff.

This white mist seems to have the effect of distorting human minds.

"Could that be it?"

David's father put forward a hypothesis: "That fog made us all... lower our IQs, and we can't even distinguish between nine and ten...?"

"But don't we know clearly now?"

If we follow what is said on the stone tablet, it seems that there was a possibility of "an extra person" happening.

But these people, except He Yun, are all villagers in the village! Many of them are also old acquaintances of David's father, such as Luo Yujun and Zhang Heng, who used to be mahjong friends.

As for He Yun, although he was the only outsider, everyone in the village remembered his situation clearly. He arrived suddenly the night before the heavy fog came, when the Shen family was holding an engagement banquet.

"Tell me, what happened? Something unusual must have happened, right?" David's father asked Ge San: "In the past few years, nothing like this has ever happened."

"let me see……"

After reminiscing, Ge San said: "Actually, this time it went very smoothly. Ge Niancheng was also very brave. Although he was young, he was really capable of getting into trouble. At that time, most of his porcelain dolls were removed. , I’m a little worried about him.”

"Most of it? Then in the end..."

"In the end, his porcelain doll only had one leg left. It was a near miss."

"Only one leg? Is it so thrilling?"

"Yes... I think so too. He is the village chief's son. If something happens to me, I... I can't explain it to the village chief. I was quite happy that there was no danger, so I counted the number ten Personally, my heart went cold. I immediately went to the village chief to report this matter. The village chief told me to keep quiet for now. He said he would investigate. But, I’m afraid! I’m the captain and I’m out of trouble. If this kind of thing really brings disaster to the village...I, I...how should I be responsible!"

…

Recalling this, David's father's hands trembled subconsciously.

"Who the tenth person was has never been found out. Therefore, the village chief had no choice but to let Lei San be responsible."

"Be responsible with your life..."

"If we don't do that, people will keep dying in the village."

"Yes... I still remember the horror of those people in the village when they died..."

At this time, Dai Lan heard these words through the crack in the door, and his face became extremely pale.

"Guilan, I understand now. There must have been nine people patrolling at that time. But when the patrol ended, there was a tenth person, a tenth bamboo pole, and a tenth porcelain doll. I don't know Why, we think that person is from the village from the beginning!"

"You really...think that?"

"That person is still in the village!"

"This...isn't possible? At least it can't be Nian Cheng, right? Jianguo, we have watched this child grow up!"

"It's possible for anyone. Even Nian Cheng is no exception. I will find that person, I will!"

"Speaking of which...why does everything have something to do with He Yun?" David's mother Zhang Guilan also had a bad impression of this person: "Back then, Lisheng and Wen Xin were about to get engaged, and he had to come to snatch the bride. Five years ago, he Went on patrol with Lisheng. Lisheng died, but he survived. Everyone in the village suspected that he had killed Lisheng, but only Wen Xin believed in him. But... this also happened to Lei San. Before."

That incident was a big deal back then. Because of the death of his friend Lisheng, Ge Niancheng almost beat He Yun to death. Su Wenxin insisted that He Yun would not avenge his personal revenge and use Bai Wu to kill Shen Lisheng. Because there was no evidence, the village chief could not let the doctor from the city die in the village, and eventually exiled him to the edge of the village near the white mist. Su Wenxin would rather sever ties with his parents than go to accompany him. To this day, the village continues to curse these two people.

"I said that everyone is questionable. No matter He Yun, Nian Cheng, anyone...no exception!"

David's father... Dai Jianguo said decisively.

The tenth person is hiding in the village. That person... came from that fog, and was the same kind as those unknown things!