Free Web NovelChapter 308: Chapter 306: Something’s Wrong with the Livestream
But this comment was still drowned out by the enthusiastic flood from the other netizens.
The girl in the video was sobbing and sniffling. After a while, it seemed she had cried her fill. She sniffled and said, "Thank you, Doctor Wen, for saving my life. You’re truly the best doctor in the world. I have to leave right away, before this town is swallowed by the mist."
With that, the girl hung up.
That was probably the shortest call-in ever.
[Doctor Wen, what exactly is the mist?]
[Doctor Wen, is the mist real or fake? Don’t tell me it can actually swallow the world?]
In the video, Doctor Wen looked at the dense flood of comments and was very pleased.
"Patience, everyone. Let’s connect with our second lucky viewer."
A smile touched Doctor Wen’s face in the video. It was an exceptionally beautiful face, but the smile seemed a little strange.
This time, the connection was established quickly. The call was with a young man.
The man had an ordinary appearance and a panicked expression. "Doctor Wen, help me! Please, help me! My girlfriend is dead! And they want to kill me! I don’t want to die! I want to live! I want to avenge my girlfriend! Everyone says you’re omnipotent, Doctor Wen. Please, get me out of here!"
The man’s surroundings were rather dark. If you looked closely, it seemed he was hiding in a closet.
[Shouldn’t you call the police for a murder? Why are you calling Doctor Wen? That logic is so weird!]
[You’re hiding because you’re afraid of being killed, but you dare to join a live stream call? You’re just fooling yourself while telling everyone exactly where you are.]
[This is the first time I’ve seen someone so brain-dead! But he’s in such a pitiful state, Doctor Wen should help if she can. It’s a human life, after all.]
"My friend, tell me in detail. How did your girlfriend die?"
The Doctor Wen in the video didn’t seem to be in a hurry at all.
"Doctor Wen, they threw my girlfriend into the mist to die! I saw it with my own eyes!"
As the man spoke, he started crying again.
[Why is it the mist again????]
[There isn’t really a man-eating mist, is there? Waaah, I don’t want to die! Why hasn’t the government issued a notice?]
The Doctor Wen in the video fell silent for a moment, then looked at the man. "My condolences. It’s not impossible for you to survive, but those people are looking for you. They want to use you to continue testing the mist, so escaping will be difficult."
"Then what should I do? Doctor Wen, I don’t want to die, I really don’t want to die! I’m begging you, save me!"
"Alright. Since fate brought us together on this call, I can save you this once."
[Wait, this is a hopeless situation. How is Doctor Wen going to save him?]
[And he’s in another country, right? Can Doctor Wen use Flying and Earth Drilling to get over there?]
*
At that moment, Xu Jiali and Song Jiayan were trembling, and though they were scared, they didn’t seem to have many regrets.
After the mist disappeared, the path ahead had become complicated again.
The grass and trees were so tall they blotted out the sky.
It blocked their line of sight.
The two of them walked forward cautiously, hand in hand.
Suddenly, THUD, THUD!
They both slipped.
Everything went dark.
When they opened their eyes again, they were inside a dark pit.
The pit was much deeper than they were tall. The soil inside was damp, filled with dead leaves and rotten branches.
After turning on their phone flashlights and getting a clear look at their surroundings, Xu Jiali and Song Jiayan stared at each other in dismay.
They tried every method they could think of to climb out of the pit, even standing on each other’s shoulders, but they were still just a little short.
Panting, they sat down on the damp soil at the bottom of the pit and fell into a long silence.
’Silence is tonight’s Kang Bridge...’
"Song Jiayan, why don’t we call the police for help?"
Song Jiayan nodded. He’d had the same idea.
"But... is there service here? We lost our connection after leaving the little monkeys, right?"
Song Jiayan took out his phone to check. He wasn’t holding out much hope, but—
"Jiali, look! Is this a signal?"
Song Jiayan excitedly handed her the phone.
Xu Jiali leaned over to look. When she saw it clearly, she got excited too.
"It looks like a signal! Let’s try it!"
Song Jiayan nodded and started to make a call, while Xu Jiali tried to connect to the internet. She actually managed to open Weibo.
The first thing she saw was #DoctorWenIsStreaming.
The number one trending topic!
’Sister Wen Ying is streaming?’
Xu Jiali was a bit confused. ’Has Sister Wen Ying already gotten out?’
’Did we somehow get separated?’
With this in mind, Xu Jiali opened SharkTV. A large, conspicuous banner for Doctor Wen’s stream was right at the top.
She tapped on it.
"Song Jiayan! Song Jiayan, look! It’s Sister Ying!"
Xu Jiali was so excited she almost cried.
Song Jiayan, who had been about to make a call, heard this and immediately leaned over. He looked at the Wen Ying on the screen. Sister Wen Ying was on a call with a viewer, and she was... ’telling fortunes?’
After watching one call-in, Xu Jiali frowned. "Song Jiayan, don’t you feel like something’s off?"
Song Jiayan shook his head. He hadn’t seen Sister Wen Ying’s streams before, so he wasn’t sure.
"I just feel like something is wrong. That’s definitely Sister Wen Ying in the video, but her background doesn’t look like it’s in the town, does it? And it doesn’t look like she’s in the woods, either. Where is she?"
Song Jiayan didn’t know.
"And look, Sister Wen Ying wouldn’t say ’my friend.’ But here she is, calling this person ’my friend.’ And all this talk about the mist... it feels like she’s promoting something!"
"The mist?" Song Jiayan thought of their near-death experience from just a moment ago.
"This mist couldn’t be the same one we ran into, could it?"
"You thought of it too? The one we encountered before... it wasn’t a man-eating mist, was it? Listening to these two callers, the mist sounds terrifying. It eats people and can swallow a whole town, like a monster that devours you whole, bones and all. But why isn’t this person calling the police? He’s a whole country away. How is Sister Wen Ying supposed to save him?"
"I know Sister Wen Ying can tell fortunes, and she was definitely doing that for the first caller. But for the second one, no amount of fortune-telling can save him, right? Listen, you can hear the sound of lots of people walking in the stream now! Is something about to happen to him?"
Song Jiayan nodded.
But then, in a rather dramatic turn of events, the people who came in couldn’t find the man hiding in the closet.
They didn’t even open the closet to look.
After the sounds disappeared, the man cried and thanked Doctor Wen, saying she was like a second parent to him. If Sister Wen Ying hadn’t used a Mystical Skill to shield the space, he would have definitely been caught!
Doctor Wen just gave a wry smile. "You should go now. Any later will be too late. I’m helpless inside the mist. If any of you encounter the mist, just run if you can."
Xu Jiali was getting frustrated. Suddenly, her tone became urgent. "No, this is really not right! When Sister Wen Ying does call-ins, the first thing is that they have to pay! But neither of these two callers paid! And Sister Wen Ying would never just shield someone’s space on a live stream! She’s not that reckless!"
[Xu Jiali’s Main Account: This person is not Doctor Wen!]
