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In the deserted corridor, the cries, screams, and wails of patients could be heard from afar, sending shivers down one’s spine.
The white-haired youth was sprinting down the unchanging corridor.
His cold brows furrowed, his black coat billowing in the wind.
Suddenly, three nurses in pink uniforms appeared at the end of the corridor.
They had seductive figures, each holding a huge syringe about half a person tall, filled with dark red viscous liquid that was unsettling to look at. Their heads were wrapped in bandages, their faces devoid of features, except for a black cross branded deeply into the center of their faces, surrounded by burnt and twisted flesh and scars.
Upon seeing their prey approaching, they instantly emitted a piercing, mocking laugh, striding towards Shen Jie with syringes in hand, their speed resembling that of a 180 km/h Maybach with the accelerator slammed down.
The system couldn’t help but hold its breath.
In just a hundred meters, the two sides almost instantly engaged. Three thick and long syringes stabbed towards Shen Jie simultaneously, gleaming with cold light, blocking all directions within a lateral 180-degree range.
But faster than the nurses were the youth’s blade.
With lightning speed, the sharp long knife thrust out from his hand, its bright blade instantly slicing through the nurse’s throat.
Blood sprayed, dotting his white hair and cheeks.
The nurses’ heads fell to the ground, but their bodies continued to rush forward. The youth’s blade didn’t stop; his waist bent backward to an extreme arc, allowing the syringes to graze his cheek as he threw the long knife into the air, caught it in a reverse grip, and thrust it backward, delivering three consecutive stabs—
The nurses’ uniforms were backless—truly backless, with a huge gap directly splitting open from the middle, revealing a network of veins crisscrossing their bodies like tree roots, as well as blood vessels connected to the center, a black heart that pulsed continuously.
This was also the nurses’ fatal weakness.
When he made his move, Shen Jie didn’t look back.
Plop, plop, plop.
The consecutive sound of three balloons being punctured, along with the sticky blood splattering onto his hands, indicated that all three attacks had hit their mark with precision.
As their hearts ruptured, the nurses’ heads on the ground emitted piercing screams in unison, and the crosses in the centers of their faces suddenly opened wide, revealing sharp fangs growing inside, like a bouncing ball rushing towards the youth—
Then, one by one, they were stabbed in the middle of the head, their brains brutally mashed.
Shen Jie pulled the knife out from the nurse’s head, wiped the blood off his face with his fingers, his expression icy.
“I still couldn’t control the force.” He murmured softly.
The youth’s voice was different from Shen Jie’s own, not as gentle and melodic, making it harder for people to trust, but rather more thin and cold. Like shattered ice striking against a blade.
Shen Jie looked down at the long knife in his hand.
Having been an ordinary person for seven years, accustomed to days of being delicate and weak, suddenly equipping an exoskeleton with strength exceeding a hundredfold was somewhat unfamiliar.
Otherwise, the blood from the nurse’s neck wouldn’t have sprayed so far, and he wouldn’t have gotten dirty.
Although he knew that only the exoskeleton had been contaminated, which made it slightly more acceptable for those with cleanliness issues, but still— it was hard to accept.
He felt like going home to take a shower.
[Ding! Congratulations, host, for successfully dealing with three B-grade aliens ‘Mutated Corpse.’ Mission completion increased by 3%, mission score increased by 30.]
The system issued a mission prompt.
From shock to numbness to now silently applauding, ten minutes had passed.
Who would have thought?
Originally thought to be a thrilling game of hide and seek escape, it turned out his host was playing on a different level altogether.
The system still remembered when Shen Jie walked out of the operating room initially and asked it: [Are there only nurses on the general floors?]
It naively replied at the time: [Yes. ‘Mutated Corpse’ have the widest range of activity in the hospital and are widely present throughout. There are also some special mutated individuals, but they do not exist on normal floors.]
[Host, I strongly advise you to proceed with caution, evade the nurses’ detection, search for survivors, and lead them to find the exit of the maze and escape the hospital together.]
Shen Jie: “You just said that there are at least six thousand people trapped. With so many people searching for the exit together, the movement would be too conspicuous, and it would be impossible to conceal, right?”
The system remained silent for a moment before saying: [There won’t be that many. In fact, the number of survivors has been rapidly decreasing since the mist first spread.]
[In the book, the only survivors who managed to escape from the “Despair Hospital” were just a few people, without exception, all of them were superpower users. Other ordinary people… all fell.]
We’re sorry for MTLers or people who like using reading mode, but our translations keep getting stolen by aggregators so we’re going to bring back the copy protection. If you need to MTL please retype the gibberish parts.
[Nurses are cunning hunters, very fast, and travel in groups. As long as ordinary people make the slightest movement, they will be detected and forcibly infected. Some people die from mutation, but others become new “nurses.” In the end, in the upper floors of the entire hospital, there are only rotten bodies and crowded groups of nurses left, nothing else.]
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System: [Huh?]
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[Host???]
The system felt it was going to be scared to death by Shen Jie sooner or later.
Didn’t they agree not to make any noise?
[Host!! Quickly return to the operating room and hide by closing the door! The nurses will come immediately to investigate when they hear the sound. As long as you hide before they discover you…]
Shen Jie interrupted, puzzled: “Why should I hide? Didn’t you say they are only B-grade?”
The system was speechless: [Host, even though the exoskeleton is sturdy, there is still a possibility of damage when besieged by B-grade aliens. Besides, you don’t have any abilities at the moment…]
Even if it’s a B-grade superhuman, dealing with the same level of aliens is not going to be easy.
“But I have a knife,” Shen Jie said.
[A knife is only for your self-defense…]
Shen Jie sighed.
So, humans in this world still rely too much on superpower users.
The humans he once knew didn’t even need exoskeletons. With supreme breathing techniques and swordsmanship alone, they could kill S-grade aliens.
He waved his knife and didn’t follow the system’s advice to return to the operating room. Instead, he confronted two nurses who had come to investigate after hearing the noise from around the corridor.
It did take some effort at first.
After all, the “Mutated Corpse” possessed some of the characteristics of Undead Soul Corpse, making them much tougher than ordinary aliens. Especially their brains, protected by thick skulls, it took a lot of effort to pierce through.
But later, when he discovered that chopping off their heads first and then piercing their hearts would drive the remaining heads crazy, causing them to open their mouths and allow the knife to penetrate their brains without resistance, the process became much faster.
Watching the host dispatching one alien after another, the system couldn’t help but fall into existential doubt—
It had just intended to give the host a bit of defense and strength buff, so why did it feel like it had unleashed a great demon lord from its seal?
So, there must be something wrong with its host!
Come to think of it, it seemed like it had never really understood what its host did before crossing over…
Trembling, the system asked: [Host, may I ask what your occupation was before crossing over?]
A martial arts champion dominating the nation? A ruthless swordsman traversing the rivers and lakes? A urban assassin prowling in the darkness of the night?
Or perhaps, a once-in-a-century genius in the cultivation world, a formidable fighter in the fantasy continent, or the supreme ruler of the demon realm?
Oh, the thought alone is terrifying!
The system fully utilized its imaginative thinking acquired from a pile of online novels.
But it heard Shen Jie calmly respond, “Unemployed, just drifting along and waiting to die.”
The system: […]
It doesn’t believe its host for a second!
—-
Hospital 16th floor.
Chen Shushu was sprinting for his life in the corridor, with nurses chasing after him, emitting sinister laughs.
Although their figures were tempting, he really couldn’t handle it— “Ah! Don’t come over here!”
A huge “Ah” character appeared, blocking the central road, but it only held the nurses back for a moment before being forcefully broken through.
Chen Shushu used his ability to spray words while exerting all his strength to run. The hospital corridors around him all looked the same, he had no idea where he was running to.
However, as more and more nurses were attracted by his voice, he saw nurse figures appearing in all three directions at the intersection. Chen Shushu had no choice but to change direction and flee for the last possible escape route.
—-
Ten minutes ago.
Chen Shushu was in the lobby of the Psychological Treatment Center, accompanying Aunt Jiang to record in a notebook the details of what to pay attention to when Xiao Ya received treatment.
From when to change medication, how many times a day, to what Xiao Ya usually likes to eat, wear, and do, everything was meticulously noted down. Aunt Jiang was almost filling up the entire notebook.
Nurses in regular hospitals might have grown impatient long ago, but the nurses in the Psychological Treatment Center seemed very experienced. Nurses in pink uniforms surrounded them with smiling faces, patiently listening to Aunt Jiang’s needs.
Aunt Jiang’s previous worries and anxieties were slowly dissolving in such patience.
Although all the nurses were beautiful, Chen Shushu’s attention was completely captivated by the card handed to him by Shen Jie.
The most painful thing in the world is to just realize that you have fallen in love, only to find out that your crush is already married.
And now, they are even going on their honeymoon.
Damn it! Which pig stole away his tender cabbage!
Suddenly, Chen Shushu noticed the lights above flickering.
At first flicker, he thought it was just his imagination.
But as the frequency of the flickering lights increased, and a layer of mist seeped out from the walls and gathered around him, distorting the scene around him, he immediately understood what was happening.
No way…
Why is it that whenever he rarely steps out of the house, he encounters a mist outbreak again?
Isn’t this supposed to be the city?
Why does he feel like he is in the wilderness trying to survive?
In the blink of an eye, he had already moved from the lobby of the Psychological Treatment Center to a more spacious hospital hall.
The hall was not illuminated, shrouded in darkness, with only the faint moonlight seeping in through the closed glass doors.
At this moment, there were many other patients from the Psychological Treatment Center who, like him, had been suddenly pulled into the mist, all looking at each other in bewilderment.
Strangely, all the nurses in pink uniforms who were in the lobby just now were nowhere to be seen.
Did they not get pulled into the mist?
Mrs. Jiang also realized that something was amiss while she was engrossed in her records. She lifted her head, looking around at the unfamiliar surroundings. Having just experienced the mist, she naturally understood what the current situation meant.
Her notebook slipped from her hands as she instantly looked towards the direction of the stairs.
“Xiao Ya! Xiao Ya is still in the treatment room upstairs!”
She wanted to run upstairs.
Chen Shushu quickly stopped her.
“Aunt Jiang, the mist space is different from the real space. We are probably not inside the Psychological Treatment Center anymore. We can’t confirm Xiao Ya’s location based on the previous situation.”
Aunt Jiang murmured, “I saw it… the mist was green just now, almost turning blue.”
What green mist signifies was something anyone with knowledge of mist observation would know.
Chen Shushu also felt uneasy, but he still said, “So we must remain calm and not act recklessly.”
But staying calm is never that easy.
For ordinary people, advanced mist was almost a deadly trap.
Many people had already collapsed in tears.
Someone grabbed the hospital fire axe and began madly smashing the glass of the hospital door.
However, the glass, though it seemed easy to break, was actually stronger than metal. Despite the heavy blows of the fire axe, there was not a single crack.
The commotion attracted the monsters. When those vanished pink-uniformed nurses reappeared before them, their faces branded with crosses, wielding syringes to stab into people’s hearts, everyone panicked.
“Run!”
Screams, cries, and the chaotic sound of people running filled the lobby.
The nurses chased with sinister laughter, syringes in hand.
Unable to break open the hospital doors, Chen Shushu shielded Aunt Jiang as they retreated continuously upstairs.
As Aunt Jiang and a few survivors hid in a room without any nurses, the sinister laughter of the nurses could be heard from outside again.
Following the previous pattern, they would inevitably break into the ward after hearing the sound, unless someone diverted their attention.
Chen Shushu hurriedly said to them, “Stay here, do not make a sound, I’ll go out and lead them away.”
Aunt Jiang, tearful and desperate, murmured, “Xiao Ya…”
Chen Shushu grasped her hand, “I will bring Xiao Ya back.”
He straightened his chest and walked out of the ward, feeling almost like a mighty hero.
—Then he was chased by the nurses, fleeing all the way to a place he didn’t know where.
—-
Chen Shushu sprinted with all his might.
However, at the end of his field of vision, a scarlet iron door suddenly appeared, with crooked black English letters on it that read “KEEP OFF!”
Countless vein-like red light tubes extended from this door, looking menacing and terrifying.
There was no other way around.
Chen Shushu abruptly stopped in his tracks, frantically twisting the doorknob.
It wouldn’t budge.
The last resort was a dead end.
The nurses were almost upon him, shattering the characters he had shouted out like bubbles.
Chen Shushu leaned against the door, feeling like crying.
Was he going to die today?
He had only been a hero for less than ten minutes.
He had only watched half of his favorite anime at home.
The ordered figurine hadn’t arrived yet.
Mom, he wants to go home—
Just as the nurses were about to sprint towards him, a chilling gleam of light suddenly pierced through their necks.
“Squat down!”
A cold, stern voice of a young man abruptly rang out.
Chen Shushu shuddered all over, quickly crouching down to protect his head.
All he heard was the sound of weapons scraping against flesh, and then he felt a thick, warm rain falling on his head.
A head rolled to his feet.
It was the grim face of a nurse wrapped in bandages, and now the cross in the center of its face had opened its fangs, screaming as if it were about to bite him frantically.
Chen Shushu was almost scared out of his wits.
In the next instant, a brighter gleam of light flashed before his eyes.
The blood-soaked long blade descended like lightning from above, piercing through the wildly twisting head and firmly pinning it to the ground.
The hand gripping the handle was slender and pristine, adorned with dark red blood meandering across its surface.
Chen Shushu slowly lifted his head.
He saw a silver-haired youth.
The contours of the youth’s face were even more coldly beautiful than his voice, stunningly so, and the blood-red pupils looked down upon him, seeming somewhat familiar.
“Hey, it’s time to get up,” the youth said.
ShuShu is back 💖
This is soooooo addictive!
Thank you for the chapter! ❤
Thank you for the translation, the story is so interesting!
So will Chen shushu develop a crush on exoskeleton’s Shen jie ? 😂
new crush for chen shushu? 🤣
Thank you for the update ❤️💯
I think the author is addicted to breaking Chen Shushu’s heart 😂💔
Thank you for the translation!!
Oh, falling in love with Shen-Long ‘son’! Kkkkkkkk
Oh boy, what Long, it’s Zong, I’m getting the novels mixed up!
Don’t worry ShuShu you still got that comedy ex-protagonist halo, so you won’t die… at least not until the final arc xD (why does ShuShu sound like a dog’s name?)
LOL chen shushu is living up to the name of a “useless companion” 😭😭😭
New love ~ New heartbreak ~ 🤣
It’ll be great if MC or the system can mess with his body data and fake that he’s now a super power user. I want to see Shen Ji freely show off his and Zong Ji’s son to others 🤣
nooo lmao is he gonna have a crush on the younger version of Shen Jie 😭 poor guy can’t catch a break