“??”
The ghostly face couldn’t understand a word he was muttering, yet instinctively sensed it was far from kind words...
**It** had completely lost patience, and a decision had already taken shape in its mind!
You’re the one!
In the blink of an eye, the blood threads binding John surged wildly again, weaving into an airtight scarlet net in an instant that wrapped him tightly from head to toe.
And that ghostly face, like a wax figure exposed to high temperature, melted slowly, turning into a pool of scarlet blood that dripped all over the floor...
Inside the bathroom,
The blood all over the floor surged and converged like a tide, rushing straight toward John’s chest.
Before John could feel the slightest pain, his vision went black and he fell into a deep coma completely.
Right in the center of his chest, a blood-red tattoo shaped like a ghostly face quietly took form...
Ferocious, manic, exuding an eerie and hair-raising aura of omen.
In the next moment, the ghostly face vanished suddenly, as if merging into his flesh and blood completely...
......
“The beach turns black, crabs climb the treetops, and when the time comes, they will all speak...”
A familiar phone alarm rang out suddenly.
John, dazed and groggy, frowned and opened his eyes slowly.
“Huh?”
His mind was blank, and he stared blankly at his surroundings—everything in front of him was both familiar and somewhat inexplicably strange.
“Why am I... sleeping in the bathroom?”
He rubbed his throbbing head, his expression suddenly sharpened, and he raised his head abruptly to look at the mirror in front of him.
Obviously, he finally recalled the terrifying incident from last night.
But at this moment, the mirror was spotlessly clean, without the slightest trace of blood.
He examined his reflection in the mirror cautiously, but found no abnormalities at all.
“Still so handsome, no problem at all...”
He scratched his slightly messy brown hair, and as if suddenly thinking of something, he even started gesturing at his reflection in the mirror, playing rock-paper-scissors.
Half an hour later,
He finally let out a long sigh of relief—the movements of the figure in the mirror were exactly the same as his, indeed nothing strange.
“Strange, could everything last night have just been an illusion?”
He muttered to himself, his gaze sweeping over the toilet tank, and his heart tightened suddenly.
The silver cross pendant that had been on it was gone without a trace.
“No... something’s wrong! The cross is gone!”
He quickly lowered his head to look at the floor, and sure enough, found a few pieces of silver metal debris in the gaps of the tiles—obviously the remains left after the ghostly face chewed the cross to pieces.
John quickly lowered his head to examine his body. He remembered that before he fell into a coma, that pool of blood had merged into his chest completely.
But he checked back and forth several times, and still couldn’t find the slightest trace of the ghostly face on his body.
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“No, I must go to the hospital for a check-up!”
He was still on edge. After all, just because he was immune to bloody and terrifying scenes didn’t mean he wasn’t afraid of death...
......
In the morning,
John held a stack of medical test reports showing “all normal” in his hand, frowned tightly, and his mind was in a mess, not knowing what to do.
From a scientific perspective, there was really nothing wrong with his body.
But the problem was,
What happened last night couldn’t be explained by science at all!
“Should I find a priest to perform an exorcism for me?”
John muttered, touching his chin. But when he thought that the evil thing last night had even chewed and swallowed the sacred cross, he immediately dismissed the idea.
“I’m afraid priests aren’t reliable either, and I don’t have extra money to mess around with. Forget it, forget it—life and death are fate, wealth is heaven’s will...”
With his connections, he couldn’t get to know any truly capable exorcists at all.
The only one who was somewhat related was probably that fortune-telling charlatan, **Old Luke**, who set up a stall in the square...
The naturally optimistic John simply stopped dwelling on it and turned around to head for the bus stop.
But just as he took a step forward, he caught sight of the police station next to the hospital out of the corner of his eye.
“How about... reporting to the police?”
His eyes turned quickly, thinking rapidly in his mind, then he lifted his feet and walked in.
Judging from the ability of that evil thing last night, the world was probably far more complicated than he imagined. Maybe the authorities had already dealt with such supernatural events.
If he reported the truth, maybe he could ask professional officials to help him exorcise the evil...
Ten minutes later,
Two uniformed policemen looked at John in front of them and asked routinely:
“Hello, I heard you want to report a case? What exactly is the matter?”
John’s expression turned serious, and then he said slowly:
“Well, what I’m going to say, please don’t be afraid.”
“Young man, don’t worry, we’ve seen all kinds of scenes.”
“I encountered a ghost!”
“......”
The two of them froze for a moment, then looked at each other, obviously not reacting.
**Jack** scratched his nose and asked:
“Uh, what’s the ghost’s name?”
“??”
John’s mouth twitched, and he said unhappily: “A ghost! Something non-human! The kind that appears in horror movies, elusive and possibly deadly!”
“......”
The two looked at each other again, and the office fell into silence instantly.
After a while, it was still Jack who came to his senses and asked slowly:
“Was it fierce?”
“It’s not a matter of being fierce or not. It’s the kind that’s very special, very special...”
Recalling the scene last night, John couldn’t help but get a little excited, and his speech speeded up a bit:
“Last night when I was washing up, I was talking to myself, and suddenly my reflection in the mirror nodded at me! Then he started laughing, laughing silently like that...”
“Young man, calm down first!”
**Tom** beside him tried hard to hold back his laughter, and said with a strange expression:
“Is it possible that you were the one making these movements, so your reflection in the mirror followed suit?”
“......”
John’s mouth twitched, and the veins on his forehead jumped: “No, do you think I’m crazy?!”
“Young man, that... of yours is showing...”
Tom pointed to the hem of John’s shirt.
When he was gesturing just now, the pocket on his chest had become loose, and a piece of paper was exposed, on which was clearly printed **Blackwater Town Psychiatric Clinic Medical Record**.
“Damn it...”
John froze for a moment, then calmly stuffed the medical record back into his pocket, and said solemnly:
“I’ll say it again, this has nothing to do with my mental state!”
“Everything I said is the truth!”
“......”
Jack and Tom looked at each other, their eyes becoming more meaningful.
At this moment, a steady voice came from the door:
“Don’t worry, continue talking.”
“Captain!”
The two policemen stood up instantly, with a look of respect in their eyes.
“You two go out first.”
The middle-aged man in uniform nodded, then his gaze fell on John, sharp yet gentle.
Soon, only the two of them were left in the office.
“I’m Brian, captain of the Criminal Investigation Team of Blackwater Town Police Station. You can talk slowly.”
Unlike the strange expressions of the previous two, Brian put on a posture of listening carefully, not paying the slightest attention to the exposed medical record.
John nodded, as if he had found a bosom friend, and said quickly:
“At that time, I was so awesome, I picked up a plunger and covered that ghostly thing’s face...”
“??”
When Brian heard this, his originally serious expression couldn’t help but freeze for a moment.
Could this be something a normal person would think of?
But John didn’t notice his abnormality at all, and continued talking to himself:
“But that thing was really stubborn, it actually climbed out of the mirror directly...”
“Continue.”
Brian’s expression changed suddenly, he picked up the pen on the desk, and silently recorded his words.
Soon,
John told him the entire experience of last night in detail.
Brian did not interrupt or question him from beginning to end, but recorded every word he said.
“Officer, do you... do you believe what I said?”
John was a little surprised. After all, this sounded really absurd.
Brian smiled, neither nodded nor shook his head, just closed the notebook and said:
“I have recorded everything. If you encounter a similar situation again, you can call me directly.”
“Okay, thank you.”
John nodded, rubbed his hands together, and showed a hint of expectation:
“Well, Captain Brian, can the police station... arrange a professional like an exorcist for me?”
“??”
Brian’s expression froze instantly.
You want the police station to arrange an exorcist for you?!
