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Outside the window, the wind and rain were raging.
Lin Ze’s gentle expression changed slightly. His lips pulled back to reveal a smile as he said, “You were asking about Tong Tong, right? He did indeed graduate from college, majoring in electronic information. Now he’s working in the inner city.”
Shen Jie sat quietly at the table, his hands folded, watching Lin Ze intently.
Lin Ze was not the first psychologist for this body; he was recommended by the Psychological Treatment Center as the successor after his previous psychologist retired.
Their communication was initially quite difficult during the first year.
The parents of this body had passed away many years ago, leaving only him and a recently born younger brother to fend for themselves.
Growing up in the cold and distant city with the burden of taking care of his infant brother at the age of seven or eight, he naturally developed a guarded and cautious demeanor.
For a psychologist, the first step was to open the patient’s heart and establish a relationship of trust and communication.
Coincidentally, Lin Ze also had a younger brother.
Lin Ze’s brother, Lin Tong, appeared to be a very obedient and adorable little boy in the photos.
He went missing twelve years ago one midnight.
Lin Ze had been searching for him ever since.
As for the younger brother of this body, Shen Jie, he awakened his supernatural abilities at the age of ten. Due to his unique abilities, he joined the City Defense Bureau team at the age of eleven, becoming one of its special members.
Then, he disappeared during the battle with the “Nest Egg” and never returned.
It was not surprising that two such individuals would become friends.
However, Lin Ze later found his younger brother, while Shen Jie couldn’t even see his brother’s body.
Shen Jie said, “It’s been a long time since I last saw Tong Tong. Whenever you’re free, we can go out for a meal together.”
But Lin Ze sighed and said, “Tong Tong is too busy with work in the inner city lately, always complaining to me on the phone about the boss forcing overtime. When we have a chance, we’ll definitely get together. After all, we’ve been friends for ten years, right?”
Its words were friendly, attempting to draw closer the relationship, but its eyes remained fixed on the pills in his hand without moving.
Although Lin Ze’s performance had no flaws, Shen Jie had already sensed Lin Ze’s strong malice and intent to kill.
He was naturally sensitive to these things.
There was something wrong with the pills.
Not taking them meant he couldn’t leave.
Taking them meant the same thing.
“Of course,” Shen Jie said, tearing open the aluminum foil packaging of the pills and gesturing to Lin Ze with them. “I’ll go to the lounge and get some water.”
He stood up and walked towards the lounge.
Each therapy room was equipped with a rest area behind a mahogany partition.
Lin Ze didn’t stop him, still sitting in his seat with a gentle expression on his face, as if a mask had already been embedded into his flesh.
In the lounge, there was a small bed, a mahogany wardrobe, and a water dispenser.
There were no windows, only a small ventilation duct high up connecting to the outside.
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Glancing at it, Shen Jie suddenly looked up at the mineral water barrel.
Then, his gaze met a pair of floating eyeballs in the blue water barrel.
System: [WTF]!
The eyeballs had been forcibly gouged out, floating unsteadily with some pale flesh attached around them, presumably soaked in water and swollen.
It was easy to guess what those white specks in the water were.
Shen Jie frowned, disgust evident on his face as he placed the cup back on the dispenser’s drip tray. He casually tossed the two pills into it as well.
The white shells of the pills instantly dissolved upon contact with water, and the red granules inside swelled up upon contact, becoming translucent and shimmering.
They looked like the eggs of some creature.
System: [!!!]
[It’s an S-class infectious substance, the ‘Egg of Metamorphosis,’ originating from the notorious fallen area, ‘Ant King’s Garden.’ I didn’t expect this thing to be transported into the city… Fortunately, you didn’t ingest the pills just now. And don’t touch them later.]
“Right. Get me some disinfectant gel,” Shen Jie said. He was a stickler for cleanliness.
[…Understood, host. No problem, host.]
A small bottle of disinfectant gel landed in Shen Jie’s pocket.
Shen Jie took out the gel and rubbed it in his hands.
The scent of alcohol emanating from it helped soothe his nerves a bit.
Zong Lin was downstairs, and he didn’t want to lose control and be noticed.
“Didn’t you say you were going to get some water?”
Lin Ze’s voice suddenly rang out.
It didn’t know when it had arrived at the door, poking its head in and peering at him with a gentle and concerned expression on its face behind the black-framed glasses.
However, the only window in the therapy room was outside the rest area door. Lin Ze was standing with his back to the light, so logically, his entire shadow should have been projected into the room.
But now, the only thing reflected on the floor was a head and the neck connected to it.
That neck looked a bit long.
Like a string holding a balloon.
The system swallowed nervously: [Host, I have a feeling… it seems like it doesn’t want to play along.]
“Well, I did intend to drink water, but… the water dispenser doesn’t seem very clean,” Shen Jie said calmly, glancing at the cup on the water dispenser’s drip tray.
The cup was filled with red eggs, swelling as they absorbed water, spilling out of the cup and almost overflowing the tray.
“It’s the rainy season, a time for insects to breed. I think it’s time to give the water dispenser a thorough cleaning,” Shen Jie remarked.
Lin Ze: “Really? Let me see.”
Saying so, it extended its neck to peer beside the water dispenser.
As for its actual body, it remained seated on the office chair outside the door.
The neck, estimated to be over six meters long, hung in the air like a white noodle.
Human necks certainly couldn’t stretch that long. It was evident that Lin Ze had indeed decided not to play along.
It looked at the eggs wriggling and growing inside the cup, then slowly turned its head.
“You lied to me. There are no bugs growing in the water dispenser. These are the pills you threw away,” Lin Ze accused.
Shen Jie remained silent, calculating the time.
It had been half a minute since he sent the message. Given Zong Lin’s speed, he wouldn’t take that long to arrive.
So, there’s only one possibility.
The message didn’t go through.
The phone signal was blocked.
Lin Ze: “Why did you throw away the pills?”
Its expression seemed very puzzled, continuing with a three-part question, “Why don’t you trust me?”
“We both dissent from the city’s institutional rules. You once told me you wanted to change everything, that joining the research institute was about creating opportunities for change from within. But after all these years, what have you done?”
“You’re with those brainwashed idiots every day, prolonging their lives with suppressors. You’ve even partnered with the weapon created by the institute. Why?”
Its expression became manic.
“Of course, I don’t blame you, it’s your choice. I was once deceived by them too, but! But! What if this choice is wrong?”
“Hahaha… I was wrong, everything was wrong…”
“Come on! Hurry up and take the pills. Once we take the pills, we’ll have the power to change everything.”
After Lin Ze finished speaking, it cracked its mouth open to the ear and bit down on the edge of the cup filled with insect eggs, rushing towards Shen Jie.
Because of the speed, some of the eggs slipped from the edge of the cup to the ground and burst open, splattering red juice, filling the room with a strong foul smell.
[Host, quickly hide! The best position is to the left! Dodge to the side!]
In the blink of an eye, Shen Jie dodged to the side, taking a step to the front left of the wardrobe.
Lin Ze’s head surged forward, paused for two seconds, before stiffly changing direction, twisting its neck, and continuing to charge towards Shen Jie.
[Squat down! Dodge towards the door!]
Just as the head was about to get close, Shen Jie crouched low and sidestepped, causing Lin Ze’s head to crash directly into the wardrobe door.
Finally synchronizing with Shen Jie’s combat mindset, the system excitedly shed tears of joy and clenched its fists in excitement: [Now’s the chance! Escape outside!]
However, this time, Shen Jie didn’t immediately run out the door. Instead, he pulled out his phone from his pocket, activated pairing mode, closed one eye, aimed accurately, and threw the newly bought phone out through the small ventilation window in the wall.
Lin Ze’s head swiftly emerged from the wardrobe.
Simultaneously, the wardrobe door was also pushed open by it, and a human-shaped corpse rolled out from inside.
Shen Jie’s gaze sharpened.
The corpse, unknown how long it had been inside the wardrobe, was shriveled all over, resembling a strip of dried meat, with hollow eye sockets and no facial features.
— Because its skin had been completely peeled off.
Considering Shen Jie’s in-depth study of human anatomy and forensic medicine over the years, he frowned at the first glance of the body’s facial muscles, skeletal structure, and physique, tentatively calling out a name.
“…Lin Tong?”
Lin Ze’s head abruptly halted.
The cup filled with eggs dropped from its mouth.
Its expression, which had been smiling all along, suddenly twisted.
“Don’t call that name!” it gritted its teeth, “Don’t call Lin Tong’s name to this impostor! It doesn’t deserve it!”
[Host, watch out behind you!]
The wind howled behind him, and Shen Jie instinctively dodged to the side as a huge shadow swung past him from behind —
It was a jet-black tentacle as thick as an adult male’s arm.
Through the partition door, one could see that Lin Ze’s body in the seat had completely transformed.
Countless jet-black tentacles spread from its limbs, sealing off the windows and doors, infiltrating the walls. A dense, bluish-gray mist emanated from the heart area, and the space trembled.
[Lin Ze is activating its domain!] the system exclaimed anxiously, [There’s no time to run. This level of alien energy fluctuation is even stronger than before…]
[Host, listen to me. Lin Ze’s ability is Rank Three, “Undead Soul Corpse” from “Nature”. It possesses extremely strong infectiousness and must not come into contact with the infectious substances it produces —]
[And its domain name is “Despair Hospital.”]
Space shifted, and suddenly the sounds of children crying came from all around.
“Don’t come near…”
“Big sister, what are you going to do to us?”
“No, no. It hurts, don’t…”
Shen Jie heard a familiar voice from inside.
He recognized it.
It was the voice of Aunt Jiang’s daughter, Xiao Ya, who had just been admitted to the Psychological Treatment Center for long-term treatment.
The mist engulfed the sight.
The eerie heads and the tentacles spreading throughout the room disappeared.
Shen Jie found himself sitting in an operating room, on a metal surgical chair.
The completely transformed Lin Ze walked in from outside the door, but at this moment, he had reverted to the appearance of a normal human.
He looked even younger than when they first met.
His hair was all black, his face handsome, and his demeanor graceful.
“Shen Jie, did you hear the crying?” he asked. “My brother used to cry like that, but unfortunately, I didn’t hear it.”
Is it bad that i find the system to be super annoying? Like its not even endearing in the way its written 😭 It needs to stfu sometimes
I find it tolerable but only because I’ve come across ones that are so much worse. At least this one is quiet for chapters at a time and is sometimes kinda useful. ML
yes very useful the infinite sanitizer glitch system 😐👍
Yeah.. At least it doesn’t berate or threaten the uke all the time.. I’ve read systems way worse than it.. Totally infuriating type..
Oh boy, more crazy things happening!