Lin Ze was puzzled.
He couldn’t understand why, upon hearing the news that Shen Jie might have turned into an alien, Zong Lin seemed unaffected.
Wasn’t it said that Shen Jie and his partner were very affectionate?
Not being affected was of course impossible.
But Zong Lin knew in his heart that for alien like Lin Ze, who still retained their brains and a small amount of intelligence, the more they showed emotional flaws, the more they would be found weaknesses to be exploited, delaying time with rhetoric.
Throughout history, villains had died from talking too much. For heroes, it was the same.
Shen Jie was in a very dangerous situation.
He had to race against time to get people out of the hospital as quickly as possible.
Before this, he didn’t have time to consider the possibility of Shen Jie being killed.
Pale Spear and blue-green mist intertwined, thunder roared in the sky, and the huge energy fluctuations made everyone nearby feel terrified.
In a place where Lin Ze did not notice, due to repeated penetrations, a thin spatial crack was forming at the densest part of the mist in his chest.
—-
Inside “Despair Hospital.”
Shen Jie and Chen Shushu were heading towards the first-floor lobby.
He was responsible for killing.
Chen Shushu was on the side responsible for cheering on.
As the system watched, it suddenly felt that the current scene seemed a bit off.
Clearly, his host was just a bystander in the story, so why was the protagonist now cheering on from the sidelines?
[Have you noticed,] the system hesitated before speaking, [If this continues, the protagonist will end up being useless. Originally, his awakening of abilities was delayed by seven years. I think you need to properly train him a bit.]
[His ability evolution direction is very special, and he will be a powerful aid to humanity in the future.]
Shen Jie: “I am a researcher, not a headmaster.”
[Well, although that’s true,] the system knew exactly what reason would have the greatest persuasive power on his host, and silently whispered into his ear: [Chen Shushu was also originally chosen by your partner as his disciple. His judgment couldn’t be wrong, right?]
“Hmm… Alright, you make a valid point,” Shen Jie reluctantly nodded.
Then he motioned to Chen Shushu with his finger.
Chen Shushu immediately trotted over, “Brother Lian, what do you need?”
Yes, in just a short time, Chen Shushu’s address had changed from “benefactor” to “Zong Lian,” and now to “Brother Lian,” actively bringing their relationship much closer.
The system couldn’t help but comment on this: [Heh, switching from “big brother” to “Brother Lian” so quickly, such a typical flattery tactic. Host, don’t spoil him.]
“Can you give me a hand?”
Shen Jie raised his knife and pointed at the nurse’s head screaming on the ground.
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While it was swift and efficient for him to use the knife to pierce through, cleaning the brain wasn’t as easy as cleaning blood; it took some time and effort.
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The system commented, [Although it’s to trigger his ability, I feel like he’s trying to prove something to you.]
Shen Jie swung his knife and chopped off the head of a mutated nurse, saying, “I already have my number 1.”
System: [I know…but your “son” doesn’t have one now.]
Shen Jie paused with his knife and calmly asked, “Why can’t my son be number 1 himself?”
System: [???]
His host’s question seemed perfectly reasonable.
It suddenly recalled the first time it saw Shen Jie’s appearance. Shen Jie’s reflection on the subway’s glass door showed his tall figure, long legs, and handsome face, clearly a type 1 at first glance.
Definitely not a natural 0.
So how did his host end up harmoniously getting involved with Zong Lin?
On their way to the lobby, Shen Jie and Chen Shushu encountered many survivors. For safety reasons, Shen Jie instructed them to hide in the rooms first, and when they found the real exit of the hospital, they would notify them to gather and escape.
In a treatment room on the second floor, they saw several survivors who had been placed here by Chen Shushu before. They were still alive, grateful expressions on their faces as they watched them enter.
But Aunt Jiang was nowhere to be seen.
Chen Shushu asked, “Where’s Aunt Jiang?”
One survivor replied, “She said she heard her daughter crying and went out to look for her.”
Another survivor nodded and added, “Yes, that’s what she said. But it’s strange because none of us heard any little girl crying. But she was determined to go out. At that time, we couldn’t make too much noise to stop her, so we could only watch her leave. We’re really sorry.”
Although they didn’t have to explain to Aunt Jiang that they hadn’t found Xiao Ya, Chen Shushu couldn’t feel happy.
When they encountered the mist on the subway, they worked together to overcome the difficulties, barely surviving. How could something happen again the next day?
“Let’s go,” the white-haired young man beside him spoke up, and Chen Shushu reluctantly nodded.
Soon, the two arrived at the lobby on the first floor of the hospital.
The lobby, which had been crowded before, was now only a mess and chaos, with dark red bloodstains on the ground.
The dim lobby was quiet, with no aliens or living people in sight.
Chen Shushu was startled and was about to say something when he saw the white-haired young man pressing his index finger against his lips and shaking his head.
The infusion hall of the hospital was on the left side of the lobby. They would enter through the corridor and turn a corner to reach it.
The two walked quietly towards it, and they could see the lights inside, with white light casting angled shadows at the corners.
The door to the infusion hall was a double glass door.
Shen Jie quickly glanced inside with his back against the wall. He saw that the infusion hall was as bright as daylight, with all the seats filled with patients, and all of them were receiving IV drips.
Receiving IV drips in the infusion hall sounded normal.
But what was abnormal was that the patients weren’t receiving the usual IV drips injected into their hands. Instead, they were receiving huge syringes suspended above their heads.
The needle tips had deeply pierced their scalps, and the syringes were being pressed by the black tentacles hanging down from the ceiling, with suction cups attached to the end of the syringes, forming a simple suspension + injection device.
The view from the exoskeleton was extremely clear, able to see even a small bug a kilometer away. Therefore, Shen Jie could observe that although the patients had their eyes closed, their eyeballs were frantically moving, with veins bulging on their faces and necks.
[These are the patients brought here by the nurses for ‘injection,'” the system spoke. “After all, the liquid in the nurse’s syringe is limited, and when there are too many prey, there is not enough supplies to inject them all. The head nurse supervises the pharmacy where the infection fluid is produced and can replenish tue nurses’ supplies at any time.]
[As the final boss of the above-ground building, the mutated head nurse transforms into an A-level ‘Malevolent Corpse,’ possessing some characteristics of the Undead Soul Corpse. Its vitality is stronger than that of ordinary ‘Mutated Corpse.’ To kill the mutated head nurse, not only its brain and heart need to be destroyed simultaneously, but also the ‘Incomplete Soul Box’ needs to be found and destroyed.”
“According to the records of the escaped ability users, the ‘Incomplete Soul Box’ is located in the infusion hall on the first floor, but its specific location is unknown. The head nurse holds two keys, one for the hospital’s main gate and the other for the passage to the underground test site. It was these ability users who obtained the key to the main gate from the head nurse’s hand, enabling them to successfully escape from the hospital.”
[Most of the time, the head nurse will stay in the pharmacy of the infusion hall. Move carefully, observe carefully, and don’t be discovered prematurely.]
Chen Shushu felt the air ahead becoming somewhat viscous.
Out of instinct as a “Soul” ability user regarding danger, he sensed a particularly decayed energy flowing inside the infusion hall, making him feel somewhat suffocated.
Then he saw Zong Lian raise two fingers and gesture him to go inside.
Chen Shushu pushed aside his fear, nodded firmly, and followed Zong Lian around the corner, only to see the eerie scene of “drip needles” inside, feeling a chill running down his spine.
Among these patients, many were people he had seen in the hall before!
The liquid in the huge syringe was injected into the veins through the scalp, and the swollen green veins surged on the patients’ faces like tiny snakes.
There were no screams, but their expressions did not look painless no matter how you looked at them.
Chen Shushu’s gaze wandered, suddenly stopping on the face of a patient among the densely packed seats.
Black and white interlaced hair, wrinkled corners of the eyes, a face wrapped in bandages, wearing a red jacket similar to her daughter’s.
It was Aunt Jiang!
Shen Jie: “Can these people still be saved?”
[Unable to determine. Because there haven’t been any “patients” who have been injected escaping from the hospital, there is no treatment data.]
Chen Shushu looked at Aunt Jiang in the distance, anger driving him to clench his fists, he wanted to rush over, but suddenly his shoulder was grabbed by someone.
“Wait for my signal. When I gesture, then you try to save people,” Zong Lian whispered lowly in his ear.
The boy’s voice was like a clear spring, slightly calming Chen Shushu’s mind, which was clouded by anger.
They were at the rear entrance of the infusion hall. The pharmacy was in the front of the infusion hall, but from afar, they could see that the pharmacy window was empty, with no sign of the head nurse. There weren’t even any other nurses.
But that was not normal.
In theory, a place holding so many “prey” should definitely be guarded.
Moreover, the place where nurses appeared the most before was also the first floor lobby.
Shen Jie held the knife, toned down the sound of his movements, and stepped towards the pharmacy.
As he was nearing the pharmacy, suddenly, a dark crevice opened in the smooth white wall beside him.
It was a fluctuation of the “Space” ability!
Shen Jie instantly sensed it, and the knife in his hand also rose. But from inside came a very gentle human voice.
“Please wait, don’t act just yet.”
A slender, fair hand reached out from inside.
– It was a human hand.
Shen Jie’s knife stopped just an inch away from that hand.
“Who?” He uttered a syllable.
The gentle voice from inside continued, “I am Jian Mingze, the captain of the ‘Dawn’ squad. Today, my team and I were conducting psychological tests at the Psychological Treatment Center when we unexpectedly encountered the mist. We are currently searching for a way out.”
“Most of the aliens on the first floor have already been dealt with by me and my team, and now we are confronting a particularly troublesome anomaly. To ensure the safety of the survivors in the infusion hall, I have pulled the head nurse into a temporary threshold space constructed by my ability.”
“…However, because it was an unexpected encounter with the mist, our team is not fully equipped, lacking attack-type users. If you are a B-rank or higher attack-type user, we really need your help. The door in front of you is the temporary node I have opened for you to enter the threshold space.”
With that, Jian Mingze added.
“Also, if you want to save the people in the infusion hall, please never forcibly pull out the syringe from their heads. The injection needle of the syringe will extend thorns, which will directly kill the patient.”
—-
Inside the threshold space.
Compared to the other Mutated Nurses, the ferocious head nurse was like a massive mountain of flesh, towering over ten meters high, with a face full of coarse muscles and a savage expression – yes, unlike the nurses whose faces were completely covered in bandages, the head nurse had a complete human face.
Its chest burst open, countless fleshy tentacles protruding from within, each wielding a giant syringe, continuously launching attacks at the few people moving around in the space.
One after another, earthen walls kept rising from the ground, blocking the head nurse’s syringe strikes.
“Jian Ge! I can’t hold on much longer!”
A girl with braided hair on both sides and beer glasses urgently turned back, then hurriedly said to a young man crouching beside her, shielding his head under the earthen wall, “Zhu Ping’an, are you capable or not? You said you could figure out someone to help us. Where are they now?”
The young man beside her raised his head with a wry smile. “Jian Ge already went to get them, didn’t he, Guigui? Stay calm and help me block the attacks first… My butt just got stabbed by a needle! It hurts like hell!”
Jian Mingze kept using his “Space” ability to dodge and maneuver continuously, drawing most of the head nurse’s attention, while also using one hand to open a portal, his forehead and eyebrows covered in sweat.
Just at this moment, he heard a faint voice from outside the portal.
“Alright.”
Jian Mingze felt someone holding his hand.
The hand was slender, with delicate knuckles.
A young man stepped in.
His hair was as white as frost, his pupils crimson, his features beautiful yet cold.
The striking appearance, along with some familiar contours, momentarily stunned Jian Mingze, prompting him to murmur involuntarily.
“Zong… Captain?”
Mwuahahaha more people witnessing Zong’s son!!!!!!!
The system is learning how to coax Shen Jie lmao
People gonna be so confuse abut Zong lian 😂
People : Zong lan you have such an extraordinary son !
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Let their son become an official entity 🙏