When Shen Jie and Jian Mingze returned to the threshold space, the head nurse had already resurrected, swinging its tentacles wildly.
A petite girl with twisted braids was pressing her hands against the ground, raising a long barrier of earth to block the head nurse’s attacks. She turned back with some panic and said, “Brother Jian, you finally came. The head nurse has resurrected, and it seems stronger than before!”
[After the “Malevolent Corpse” resurrect, it will enter a berserk state, during which their attack and defense will increase by 10%.]
Jian Mingze asked, “Do you know how to stop the head nurse from resurrecting?”
“Yes,” Shen Jie said, “I need someone to assist me in predicting the location of something.”
Then, Shen Jie quickly briefed them on the relevant information about the “Incomplete Soul Box” in a few words.
As for how he learned about the head nurse’s weakness, Shen Jie didn’t mention it. Although several members of the Seventh Squad were slightly puzzled, they didn’t ask during the critical moment.
Zhu Ping’an felt somewhat uneasy. “My level is not sufficient. The success rate of cross-tier prediction is less than 30%.”
If the prediction failed, hundreds of people outside would lose their lives. So, the pressure on him would be immense.
Jian Mingze reached out and patted his shoulder. “It’s better than doing nothing. Just do your best.”
Zhu Ping’an nodded. “Okay, I’ll do my best.”
He placed the divination plate flat in his palm, thought for a moment, and then with a pained expression, took out a talisman from his pocket. He bit his fingertip, letting blood drip onto it.
The blood-red characters on the talisman lit up, and the edges began to burn.
Zhu Ping’an flipped the talisman onto the divination plate and closed his eyes, starting to chant the incantation softly.
“One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, big brother helps me… Aba aba ababa, mother watches me… Heaven and earth spirits… Father shows yourself…”
What is this?
Shen Jie couldn’t help but ask, “Is this person really reliable?”
The system quickly responded: [Absolutely reliable. Their family is all superpowers with the “Fate” ability, and Zhu Ping’an is the youngest son. Although his superpowers are not of a high level, he can rely on the familial bond for assistance. As for the incantation he’s reciting now… um, it’s just like what Chen Shushu shouted before, ‘I am 1,’ just a guiding phrase to assist in activating the power.]
At this moment, Jian Mingze lowered his head and said to him, “Little brother, are you ready?”
The time limit for maintaining the threshold space was approaching, and cracks in space were continuously forming around them.
It seemed that before long, the entire space would collapse.
“Let’s go.”
Shen Jie raised his long knife.
The blade gleamed like snow, illuminating his face.
Even if it could resurrect, so what?
His knife could kill the head nurse once, it could kill it a second time.
It was just a low-level alien after all.
Meanwhile, in the infusion hall.
Chen Shushu rushed towards the pharmacy, only to find the pharmacy door tightly closed and locked.
He picked up the big hammer in his hand and hammered the iron lock several times, violently breaking it open. Then he rushed to the table and quickly searched through each drawer.
Thirty seconds… one minute…
Sweat dripped from Chen Shushu’s forehead.
Finally, he found the head nurse’s registration information from the duty log in the drawer on the side.
“Found it!”
His spirits lifted, Chen Shushu quickly noted down the head nurse’s information and turned around to sprint back to the location of the door he had just come from, only to see a girl with twisted braids standing guard there.
The overlapping spatial door was not stable, oscillating in a surreal manner, causing even the walls of the hospital on this side to release dust.
Upon seeing him, the girl’s eyes lit up. “Did you find the head nurse’s information? Hurry, come in!”
She then grabbed his arm and pulled him inside.
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The purple-haired youth didn’t look up at first, but when he did, Chen Shushu was taken aback—his face was tinged with blue, and he had two fangs protruding from his mouth, resembling nothing short of a zombie from a horror movie before the apocalypse.
While it was true that high-level ability users often exhibit abnormalities when unleashing their powers to the fullest extent, but this seemed a bit…
Chen Shushu swallowed hard and said, “Zhang Shihe.”
Zhu Ping’an nodded. He had used a prop to activate his ability, and his contagion value was slightly higher than usual.
Oh mighty big brother, please increase the chance of success for this prediction—
Chen Shushu didn’t know what the purple-haired youth was up to. After all, Zong Lian had only assigned him a task to follow through. But he believed that Zong Lian had to have reasons for what he asked, and it should be more urgent than rescuing the people in the infusion hall.
In this regard, Chen Shushu felt that Zong Lian was really similar to Shen Jie. They both had a convincing and compelling aura that made people unconsciously follow them.
Shen Jie was more reserved, while Zong Lian was a bit more outgoing. It was as if some restraint had been lifted.
Chen Shushu’s gaze passed over the earthen wall protecting them, looking towards the shaking central space battlefield.
Then, he witnessed a scene that he would never forget—
A young man with white hair fluttering, his windbreaker billowing, like a bird flying through dark clouds, his blade flashing with thunder and lightning, piercing through the head nurse’s chest.
The head nurse, just resurrected, raged impotently, its tentacles flailing wildly, but it couldn’t stop the young man’s strike.
Boom!
Dust filled the air.
The head nurse fell once again.
As the space flickered, Shen Jie and Jian Mingze appeared in front of them.
“How is it?” Shen Jie asked about the situation.
Zhu Ping’an couldn’t respond; he was still pouring his power into the divination plate. His face turned blue with veins popping out, and his purple hair was almost standing on end in urgency.
The divination plate kept trembling, and the talisman that could activate the superpower had burned out. Only a faint wisp of smoke was lingering in the center, wavering weakly.
After a minute of this stalemate, Jian Mingze’s expression turned grave. “There are only thirty seconds left before the threshold space collapses.”
Behind them, the nurse leader’s body twitched again, causing Chen Shushu to shrink back in fear.
At the same time, the system’s warning sound rang out.
[Head nurse remaining resurrection time, 30s.]
The system looked at the swaying smoke with a hint of disappointment. [As expected… Attempting a prediction across two levels was too much of a stretch, wasn’t it?]
[Head nurse remaining resurrection time: 10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5…]
As the countdown reached 5, the smoke on the divination plate suddenly trembled, changing direction and connecting remotely with some sensed aura outside.
Zhu Ping’an opened his eyes, his face lit up with joy. “I… I’ve found it!”
He leaped up from the ground, extending his dark green nails and pointing ahead. “Follow the smoke. Wherever the smoke is, that’s where you’ll find what you’re looking for!”
However, the threshold space had already begun to shake.
[Head nurse remaining resurrection time: 1s.]
The threshold space ruptured, and the positions of the two sides were about to overlap. The head nurse’s massive tentacles were raised towards the group—
Even if the location was determined, it was already too late to rush to destroy the “Incomplete Soul Box” now.
Jian Mingze tried to send a spatial teleportation, but the chaotic rupture of the threshold space disrupted his ability, only sending him to another corner of the threshold space.
Xu Jiagui placed her hand on the ground, ready to activate her ability at any moment, providing the last bit of protection she could for the patients outside who couldn’t move.
Zhu Ping’an stared blankly at the gradually shattering space, his face showing a hint of tears.
It was his fault, if only he had been faster…
However, at that moment, a bright light suddenly flashed before his eyes.
It was Shen Jie’s knife!
The snow-white long knife was thrown like lightning, faster than the speed of space collapsing, following the direction of the smoke, piercing through the space gate, and accurately inserting into the “Incomplete Soul Box” placed inside a patient’ body.
[Head nurse remaining resurrection time: 0.3s.]
[“Incomplete Soul Box” was destroyed.]
[Head nurse resurrection failed.]
The system issued three consecutive prompts.
[Host! Well done! You successfully prevented the head nurse’s resurrection! Task progress increased by 30%, task evaluation upgraded.]
As the Incomplete Soul Box shattered, the head nurse let out one final unwilling screech, all its tentacles disappearing completely, and its massive body turning into a puddle of filthy water, scattering away.
Everyone returned to the infusion hall.
“Holy crap!”
The first to speak was Zhu Ping’an. He turned around, looking at Shen Jie with admiration and gratitude on his face. “You’re really something! Truly worthy of being Captain Zong’s own son!”
Shen Jie: “?”
Beside him, Chen Shushu: “???”
Captain Zong’s son? Was this purple-haired person referring to Zong Lian? But isn’t Zong Lian Shen Jie’s son? They have the same surname. Could it be Shen Jie’s wife?
Jian Mingze also smiled. “Thanks to you, Brother Zong, we avoided a potentially devastating battle with the head nurse today. Now, let’s first save the people here and then figure out a way out.”
It was unclear whether it was due to the head nurse’s death, but the tentacles clinging to the IV drips lost their vitality, no longer pushing infected fluid into the patients’ bodies. However, the IV drips remained inserted into the patients’ heads, and the unconscious individuals had not yet to awaken.
Since forcibly removing the IV drips would extend thorns and damage the brain, Jian Mingze decided to start by cutting off the inactive tentacles from the patients’ heads. Then, he laid the patients, along with the syringes, flat on the ground and transported them out one by one for treatment.
The head nurse’s body was inside the pharmacy room.
Without the “Incomplete Soul Box,” it was just a slightly chubby nurse. Its ferocious face had returned to its original state, now appearing surprisingly gentle and kind.
Shen Jie recognized her; she was a nurse he had seen before in the lobby of the Psychological Treatment Center.
This body had a good memory and basically wouldn’t forget people and things it had seen. So he remembered that at that time, unlike the other voluptuous and beautiful nurses gathered around Aunt Jiang, this head nurse just stood in the distance, her expression somewhat hesitant, but ultimately she didn’t come over.
Unexpectedly, after the mist spread out, she was the first to be infected as a level A alien.
The head nurse’s weakness was the “Incomplete Soul Box,” but he never quite understood why it had to be specifically “Incomplete.”
Pondering, Shen Jie took out two keys from the head nurse’s pocket.
According to the system, one of them should be the key to the hospital’s main gate, and the other should be the key to open the door of the fire escape leading to the Underground Experimental Chamber.
He returned to the lobby and tried them out; the hospital’s main gate opened.
The cold wind swept in from outside, and as far as the eye could see, there was a vast expanse of white fog.
[Host, as long as you walk out of the main gate, you can leave the ‘Despair Hospital’.] The system reminded. It actually hoped that Shen Jie could leave the mist as soon as possible.
“After going out, can I come back in?” Shen Jie asked.
The system was silent for a moment before responding, [Most likely not. This is the domain of the Undead Soul Corpse, and only it can control the entry and exit of external beings. When it dies, the entire domain will be completely destroyed and cannot be re-entered.]
“In that case, why did it place a ‘key’ that can lead to outside in its own domain?” Shen Jie questioned.
[I don’t know, host. But this key is safe, and the exit is real. This has been verified by the superpower users in the original book,] The system replied.
Shen Jie thought for a moment, then went back to hand the “key” to Jian Mingze, asking him to arrange for the survivors in the infusion hall and upstairs to evacuate. Then he went alone to the fire escape door on the first floor.
Similar to the heavy door he saw on the 16th floor earlier, it was covered with crooked English words written in blood.
As he inserted the key into the lock and was about to turn it, a voice suddenly sounded behind him.
“Where are you going?”
It was Jian Mingze.
Shen Jie replied, “To take care of some things.”
The people trapped in this hospital were not only the surviving patients upstairs.
There were also missing doctors and children.
Furthermore, within the unknown Underground Experimental Chamber, the hidden ‘Soul Box’ still remained, capable of destroying Lin Ze.
Explaining it would be too troublesome, and Shen Jie didn’t intend to waste time explaining.
However, Jian Mingze was indeed a clever person. Since Shen Jie proposed the method to kill the head nurse earlier, Jian Mingze knew that the young man in front of him had to have grasped many misty pieces of information that they hadn’t collected yet. Now that they had found the exit but he hadn’t left, and instead had come to this obviously dangerous door, there had to be a reason why he couldn’t leave. Thinking of this, Jian Mingze sighed.
… This kid is really like Captain Zong Lin.
“How could I watch you go in alone to a dangerous place?” Jian Mingze said.
“… ”
Shen Jie’s expression was very indifferent: “Why do you care about me?”
Jian Mingze smiled gently, “I think we should already consider ourselves as companions. Isn’t it normal for companions to care about each other’s safety?”
“I’ve already asked Jiagui and Ping’an to arrange for the survivors of the hospital. If you have anything you need to do, we can do it together.”
—-
In front of the hospital gate.
Xu Jiagui pushed her thick glasses up on her face and looked skeptically at the white fog shrouding the outside.
“Can we really get out of here?” She asked.
“Don’t worry,” replied Zhu Ping’an. “I feel like there’s no danger ahead, so there shouldn’t be any problem.”
As an “Fate” ability user, Zhu Ping’an’s intuition was always accurate.
Behind them were the survivors gathered into groups. They were organized and working together. Each group carried a comatose patient, evacuating in an orderly manner.
Zhu Ping’an rubbed his zombie claws. His infection level wasn’t low, and he wanted to quickly get out to receive suppressant treatment. So he said, “I’ll take the lead. You cover the rear.”
“Okay,” Xu Jiagui replied.
Zhu Ping’an took a deep breath and stepped forward.
The surrounding space immediately began to fluctuate and change.
In almost the blink of an eye, Zhu Ping’an found himself standing on an empty street.
Torrential rain poured down on his face and body, with lightning and thunder filling the sky, and behind him was the gate of the Psychological Treatment Center.
Zhu Ping’an realized that this was the real world.
The son of Captain Zong was indeed trustworthy!
He had really made it out!
—-
Zong Lin withdrew his spear from the shattered heart.
This was the ninety-ninth time he had pierced Lin Ze’s heart.
The Undead Soul Corpse was damaged and then restored, and Lin Ze had long been numb to the pain. However, compared to the prolonged suffering it had endured in the past, these injuries were bearable.
It knew its power was insufficient, but it could at least destroy this place. Destroy the guardian of the city standing before it.
And the “King” who would soon descend upon this world would help it further, to destroy this world.
It was eager to welcome the arrival of the King—
Just then, a young voice suddenly came from below.
“Report to Captain Zong! We are members of the Dawn’s Seventh Squad. Most of the survivors from the sudden mist outbreak have completed evacuation.”
“Your son and Captain Jian are still in the mist, but rest assured, he’s fine, just as fierce as you! Please continue to focus on the battle!”
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Haha I can’t wait to see how he reacts to having a son suddenly 😂
😂😂 cursed son is cursed
zong lin is just going to wonder where did this son pop from
Imagine getting a big son so suddenly xD
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Zong Lin: ??? When did i gain a son?
ahaha captain zong suddenly gained a son 😂
I wonder if Zong lin will have the chance to meet his son 😂
Kkkkk how can he rest assured having a son pop out from nowhere?
Oh loll the rumors are about to go from “Captain Zong had a son when he was a teenager and has been raising him in secret this whole time!” To “Teenage Captain Zong got a girl pregnant, but then she ran off and didn’t tell him about the child!” XDDD
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Captain Zong: “whose son?”
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Zong Lin: ? I’m very innocent, don’t slander me, my wife is still waiting.
Zong Lin: Wha… son? Where’s my wife! Hahahahahaha.
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