Chapter 175 174. A Slaughter
Hope was alreayd waiting for him at that spot, hiding in ths bushes. As soon as Shane arrived, she pulled the man down, almost making him fell to his face.
Shane was thankful that he was working out in the cell. Otherwise, he would really have fallen to his face right now. He stablized his body and glared at her.
"What the heck you're doing?"
"Waiting for the fools to take the bait." Hope pulled out a remote that she got from God knows where and pressed the red button. "Just wait and watch the show."
She looked like a little devil that had come out to play, and she had already started to act all crazy. She chuckled and waited for her plan to work.
Suddenly, the entire place was shrouded in darkness. Not a single speck of light could be seen as the people inside the mental institute started screaming. Those were the patients.
Hope licked her lips and asked, "Shane, tell me one thing. What's the lock made of?"
Shane thought for a while and said, "Electricity."
"Exactly," Hope replied in excitement. "So as long as I cut off all the possibilities of getting back the power, guess what will happen?"
The locks would open, resulting a greater havoc. The guards would be too busy to take care of Hope.
Shane suddenly looked at Hope with an admiring gaze. "I didn't know you were so ruthless."
With this step, not only the patients will escape, but many individuals might die. It could be said that the majority of the patients here were critical who had committed serious crimes of murder. So they couldn't be left alone no matter what.
They were all of high priority. And when they escaped, guess what they would do first?
They would all do what they yearned to do: killing people.
Shane looked back at the building behind him for a moment as if he was pondering something.
Hope snorted. "You aren't regretting killing them, are you?"
Shane immediately shook his head. "That's not it."
He fell into silence as he took a deep breath. Honestly, he didn't feel anything in his heart. It was as if he had turned to a stone that couldn't feel sympathy for anyone. Even if a group of people died right before him asking for help, his heart still wouldn't be moved.
It was almost as if he had turned into a program itself that had lost its ability to feel anything. This was a scary emotion. So he didn't share it with the girl.
He immediately urged her. "C'mon. Let's go."
Hope narrowed her eeys, but she didn't urge the man to speak anymore. She nodded as the two of them waited for the entire building to end up in a messy state.
As expected, the doors unlocked as the patients escaped one after another. They acted like prisoners who were finally given freedom. The officers and doctors tried controlling the crowd and even used tranquilizers, but the situation had already gotten out of their hands.
Patients ran here and their as if they were hungry. They all started laughing and howling at the top of their voices.
The foreheads of the guards were covered with sweat as they stared at the corridors filled with patients.
One guard spoke through his speaker, "Hello, Group A, what's your situation?"
The group A included all the guards at the ground floor. So when he contacted them, almost everyone started yelling curses through the speakers, almost making the guard deaf. At last, the chief of the group A cut off the connection and talked to the guard from the upper floor.
"It's not good. The patients have already reached the ground floor, trying to open the door."
The guard on the upper floor cursed under his breath. He stared at the chaotic scene in front of him as he said, "What do we do? When will the power be back?"
"The officials are on their way. Let's get to the bottom of this situation first, shall we?"
The guard nodded. Just as he was about to say something, he saw a patient stabbing on hi sback with a knife. He choked as he stood there frozen. His entrie body was shrouded with hints of pain as he held the speaker.
He turned to look at the person who killed him only to receive another few stabs.
His entire body fell to the ground as he screamed at the top of his voice. "HELP!!!!"
But he didn't get another chance to speak at all. The patient accurately stabbed at the man's neck and continued to stuff the knife into the man's body. The scene ended up in a bloody mess of blood and flesh. Even bones seemed to be broken and scattered on the floor with the blood, but the patient still didn't stop.
He laughed at the top of his voice and continued stabbing everywhere.
The chief guard at the ground floor was shocked after hearing the voice. His heart filled with terror as he turned to glance at the havoc corridor in front of him.
He felt like his death was also near.
A moment later, someone stabbed his body with a knife.
Screams filled the entire building. The mental institute didn't look like a normal hospital filled with patients but a playground for a devil. Every nook and corner of the building was filled with screams and sounds of slaughter.
Shane waited for a while then turned to Hope. "The police might arrive. Let's go before they see us."
Hope nodded and wiped her fingerprints off the remote before throwing it somewhere into the bushes. Even though she wiped it carefully, she didn't care even a single bit if they would be caught.
After all, their main objective was to destroy this world together.
Hope directly grabbed the man's wrist and dragged him out of the place. The two of them ran for quite a while. Neither of them talked as they ran. On their wayt, they also stole normal clothes from a house and went on their way.
It was only when they felt like they were out of city did they stop.
Shane leaned against a tree and looked around.
They were already in a jungle area filled with trees and a wide road.
He wiped sweat from his forehead and finally glared at the girl. "What the f*ck is going on? Care to explain?"
He was sure that Hope was just making things difficult for him. So that was why she did what she did. But when he looked at the girl, her face was paler than usual. She almost looked like she had been on the verge of falling unconscious.
She clutched her chest and took deep breaths. Her brows furrowed. "Shane. I'm sorry."
After saying that, her body fell forward, unconscious.
Shane hurriedly grabbed the girl and sighed. He stared at her for a long time, wishing to shake her awake, but she was still asleep. So he had no choice but to princess carry the girl and find a safe place to stay for the night.
Damn it. What a headache.
If she knew she was going to cause him trouble, why would she fall unconscious on him at such a point? He had a belly full of questions to ask, but he couldn't anymore.
At night.
He couldn't find anything else. So he found a big tree and climbed onto the top, carrying the girl's body on his back. Even though it was a difficult task, it wasn't that hard. He was able to finish his task as he reached the branch he was aiming for.
He finally put the girl's body on the branch and relaxed his shoulders. His body stretched as he leaned back against another branch and closed his eyes. He slept through the night in that condition.
Soon enough, he felt a gust of freezing cold wind passing through his body. He instantly opened his eyes and glanced at Hope, who was only wearing one thin cloth that couldn't even cover her thighs properly.
He cursed under his breath and removed his shirt, putting it over the girl's body. Even though it wasn't enough, he wasn't going to go full naked for the girl.
The rest of the night passed by just like that, but at the end, Hope was still not awake. This time, Shane couldn't stand back and let her be like that. He checked her forehead, which looked perfectly normal.
He frowned.
Just what was going on? Did she exert her energy too much to the point of falling unconscious?
He sighed. He would have to find a doctor soon enough.
After thinking about this, he grabbed her again and dragged her body at his back while walking toward the road. He took a lift on a truck passing by and told the driver to just leave them be if a doctor's place passes by.
The driver agreed and took them to another city.
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