Hide and Seek: The Mad Girl Sees All novel Chapter 107

Chapter 107

Chapter 107

The SUV screeched to a halt about ten meters from the fog wall.

Lyra pushed open the door and stepped onto the cracked, dry ground. She glanced back at the driver’s seat.

“Zoe, check your Vital Flatne values,” Lyra said.

Zoe pulled up her status panel. “Spirit Flame 29, Soul Flame 31, Body Flame 31.”

“Soul Flame and Body Flame each dropped by 1, but Spirit Flame stayed the same,” Zoe added.

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Lyra leaned in through the window. “You’ve already lost two types of Vital Flame just by getting close to the fog. You need to get out of here. Don’t waste time.”

Zoe didn’t move.

“Zoe, hurry up and leave.” Lyra urged.

Lyra knocked on the door. “If you stay too long, you’ll lose all your Vital Flame. Who’s going to back me up then?”

Zoe’s hand rested on the steering wheel, the engine still running.

She glanced at Lyra, then at Jane, whose soul had suddenly shot out from the roof and was now floating outside the car.

Zoe gripped the steering wheel and sat up straight.

“Captain,” Zoe said.

“Yeah, Lyra replied.

“Lyra,” Zoe said.

“Yeah?” Lyra replied.

“Come back safe,” Zoe said.

Lyra grinned, showing her teeth. “Yeah.”

Jane’s soul nodded. “Don’t worry.”

The SUV turned around, its tires crunching over the broken road and kicking up a cloud of dust.

Lyra stood there, watching the car shrink into the distance. Then she turned around. The fog wall was just ten meters away.

Lyra pulled out her walkie-talkie. “Uncle Garrett, we’ve arrived. We’re heading in now.”

Garrett’s voice crackled through the walkie-talkie. “Got it. The video feed looks good, everything’s clear. Stay safe out there, Lyra.

“Got it,” Lyra replied.

She ended the call and clipped the walkie-talkie back to her belt.

Thirty-two kilometers away, inside the temporary command vehicle.

Garrett stared at the screen in front of the communications officer. The front camera feed showed gray fog filling two-thirds of the screen, with cracked black ground below.

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The rear camera feed showed the road they’d come from, winding off into the distance.

“Sync the video feed to the Command Center,” Garrett ordered.

The communications officer tapped the keyboard twice. “Yes, sir.”

As soon as the feed went out, the screen started to shake, static lines crawling up from the bottom, and the image kept flickering.

The communications officer looked up. “Advisor Hayes, Major General Vance is about to go in. The signal’s starting to break up.”

Garrett bent over, bracing both hands on the table, his eyes locked on the screen as it grew fuzzier and kept flickering.

At the fog wall.

Lyra put away her walkie-talkie and looked at Jane, who was floating right next to her.

“Jane, you ready?” Lyra asked.

“Ready.” Jane replied.

“Let’s go then.” Lyra had barely lifted her foot when Jane’s soul was already gliding ahead.

“I’ll go first,” Jane called out from up ahead.

Jane’s voice echoed as her soul slipped into the gray fog, her outline vanishing halfway inside.

Lyra hesitated for a moment, then stepped in after her. As soon as her foot crossed into the fog, a chill ran through her.

It was cold.

She rubbed her arms, squinting as the gray mist closed in from every direction, she could barely see five meters ahead.

Jane floated about two meters ahead, her soul’s outline even clearer in the mist. She just hovered there, unmoving.

Lyra walked up next to her. “Jane, what’s wrong?”

“Do you hear that?” Jane asked.

Lyra tried to listen, but there was nothing, not even the sound of wind.

“What?” Lyra replied, a bit confused.

| “It’s that buzzing,” Jane said.

Jane’s soul spun in the air, tilting her head left and right, trying to pinpoint where the sound was coming from.

Her voice suddenly rose. “This really is the real world.”

Her soul’s outline trembled violently.

“I can hear it, that buzzing! It’s exactly the same as what I heard when I was awake in the cat for those few seconds.” Jane exclaimed.

Lyra’s eyes lit up. “You sure about that?”

‘Absolutely! That buzzing is everywhere, just like last time!” Jane replied.

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Lyra rubbed her hands together. “Guess that’s a frequency only souls can sense. I don’t hear a thing

She tapped her ear, but all she got was the sound of her own fingers.

“Well, as long as we’re sure, that’s what matters!” Lyra said.

Lyra pointed ahead. “Come on, let’s keep going and see what’s further in.”

As they moved forward, the fog started to clear up, growing thinner with each step.

After about three hundred meters, Lyra stopped in her tracks.

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She saw them, the same figures she’d glimpsed through the binoculars before. Crowds of shadowy people, packed tightly together, row after row, stretching endlessly into the deeper fog until they disappeared from view.

All of them were facing outward, toward the perimeter, standing perfectly still.

Lyra lowered her voice. “Jane, do you see those ghosts?”

Jane’s soul hovered beside her, trembling slightly. “Yeah, I see them.”

They were packed so tightly together, stretching from left to right, filling the entire view, there was no end in sight.

Lyra asked again, “Are these anything like those Wraiths you saw back when you were inside the cat?”

Jane was silent for a couple of seconds. “No, they’re not the same.”

“The ones I saw before were all different. Some looked like people, some didn’t. Those were the kind of Wraiths you’d run into on a game mission,” Jane explained.

She stared at the rows of figures ahead. “But these…. they’re way too neat, way too quiet. It’s like something’s controlling

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