Worldwide Awakening: My Soul Kinds Are Lost-Chapter 377: Boss Fight, I Steal Home_1
"I’ve always wanted to complain. Why do hospitals named Qingshan always have problems? They pop up in supernatural horror stories, and they’re in tales about the System of Qi too." Wang Linchi gazed at the Qingshan Charity Angel Sanatorium before him, really wanting to vent his frustrations. Is this place a chain, like the Yuelai Inn?
The Yuelai Inn is a chain of inns in martial arts settings, while hospitals starting with ’Qingshan’ tend to be a chain of lairs for strange bosses.
But given the situation, how do I sneak in? Wang Linchi observed the hospital’s eerie appearance. A multitude of Players and the Game System’s power enveloped it, steadily pushing the hospital back.
From the looks of it, the hospital had no chance of victory.
However, the Game System couldn’t take over the hospital quickly either. All the patients and medical staff within were Erroneous Sins, far stronger than the Players, and even more resilient in their undying nature. Players had to respawn after death, but Erroneous Sins, as long as they weren’t assimilated by the Game System, could rapidly recover from even the most grievous injuries. What was even more disgusting was that Erroneous Sins possessed a health-locking trait.
In a direct assault, the Game System definitely can’t take the hospital. The Dean, with the hospital’s power, would have a final stronghold even if forced to retreat; he wouldn’t lose. Players, however, would grow fearful after dying too many times—some might even suffer mental breakdowns. It seems the Game System is indeed at its wit’s end. It can’t fully integrate the hospital into an instance to leverage Its own advantages; otherwise, It wouldn’t resort to such a crude method.
Currently, the Game System had the upper hand, pressuring the hospital. Though badly battered, the hospital hadn’t suffered fundamental damage and was, in fact, persistently vexing the Game System.
Thank goodness. I thought I’d have to snatch things from the jaws of the Game System. The Dean’s Stone Heart definitely can’t be handed over to the Game System. Alright, I’ll figure out how to sneak in first. I just need to... Just as Wang Linchi was thinking this, he noticed the Game System was making a big move.
Will this even work?
Wang Linchi was skeptical. The Game System had directly enveloped everything around the hospital. That familiar structure was, of course, an instance barrier.
The hospital was indeed a tough nut to crack, like a turtle’s shell. But once caught, it would be like trapping a turtle in a jar. No matter how hard the shell, be it a tortoise or a soft-shelled turtle, it was likely destined for the dinner table.
"Hmph, such cliché tactics!" a cold voice sneered.
On the top floor of the hospital, thick chains emerged from behind a middle-aged man in a white medical uniform.
On closer inspection, each link of the chain was formed from human faces.
THUMP... THUMP-THUMP... THUMP-THUMP-THUMP...
A rhythmic heartbeat pulsed relentlessly. Wang Linchi knew it emanated from the middle-aged man’s chest.
The Dean. Wang Linchi licked his lips; he didn’t want to eat the Dean, he simply wanted to rob him.
The heartbeat grew louder. The instance barrier formed by the Game System began to show numerous cracks. However, the Game System’s power continued to pour out; cracks vanished only to reappear, an unbroken cycle that gradually sealed the entire game instance.
It looked like the Game System was prepared to invest heavily to forcibly bring the hospital under Its control.
Once it became an instance and Players were assigned to it, the hospital would inevitably be worn down by the Game System.
The hospital possessed a very special ability: it could create, control, and contain various Erroneous Sins. Normally, without the underlying framework provided by instances from the Game System, if so many Erroneous Sins gathered in the real world, they would have long since become entangled and unable to coexist peacefully. Yet, the hospital had managed it.
Wang Linchi even suspected that the hospital had played a part in the instance mechanism, which, combined with the Game System’s own capabilities, led to the formation of various peculiar instances.
Now, the Game System wanted more—for example, the method to control Erroneous Sins. The Game System currently only mastered creation and containment; the means of control, It had likely not yet obtained. Otherwise, It would have long since controlled a large number of Erroneous Sins to deal with the hospital.
The hospital was miraculous, but in terms of sheer scale, it couldn’t compare to the Game System. Its ability to hold out this long was inextricably linked to its own power, the Dean, and his Stone Heart.
The Dean’s heartbeat could no longer stop the Game System, which was sparing no expense.
"You want to take me down with you?! Fine, I’ll grant your wish!" The Dean’s face was contorted with madness. The thumping of the Stone Heart grew more rapid and boomed even louder.
This was only the beginning. The Dean, dragging the chains behind him, leaped directly from the hospital’s highest floor. The chains lengthened continuously as he moved, and piercing wails emanated from them as they stretched.
Come to think of it, where did these chains even come from? Wang Linchi couldn’t quite figure it out; they seemed to be some kind of materialization, likely of something malevolent.
After landing, the Dean strode purposefully towards the instance barrier. Everything in his path—be it Players or the Game System’s power—was corroded by a black aura.
This resembles the corrosive state of highly concentrated Elemental Bloodline, though it seems more like a mutation, Wang Linchi thought, quickly recognizing part of the black aura’s structure. So, the Dean actually has Elemental Bloodline in him?
Humans didn’t possess Elemental Bloodline. It wasn’t that evolution had bypassed humans; they simply belonged to entirely different systems. Ever since the Sky Gods completely perished and Extraordinary creatures migrated underground, no Transcendents had remained on the surface. Thus, humans had actually evolved, unlike these naturally privileged Extraordinary creatures. Theoretically, the human species could evolve infinitely. But this was just a theory; reality was undoubtedly different. For instance, by relying on their own evolution, they might face extinction before even reaching the lowest threshold of Extraordinary creatures...
Wang Linchi had read various books in this world; these claims were supported by corresponding data and confirmed through a degree of dissection.
If it’s not innate, then it was transplanted later. Wang Linchi couldn’t help but think of the Stone Heart—the Dean certainly hadn’t been born with it. He had either obtained it by a stroke of luck or inherited it from his ancestors.
BOOM!
An instance barrier shattered, punched open by the Dean. But after landing the blow, his face visibly paled, and the chains behind him clanged discordantly.
A perfect chance! Seeing this, Wang Linchi knew this was the best opportunity to infiltrate the hospital.
The Dean looked weakened, but killing him wouldn’t be so simple. The chains behind him and the Stone Heart in his chest had yet to unleash their true power; the Dean was holding them back.
Wang Linchi silently circled around to the back of the hospital. Compared to the front, the back was much calmer.
Storming the hospital held little value for the Game System; this wasn’t a siege. The true objective was to suppress the Dean and thereby indirectly control the hospital through him. This was a direct confrontation. If subtle tactics could have succeeded, the Game System wouldn’t have dragged this out until now without taking the hospital.
And this, coincidentally, gave Wang Linchi an opportunity.
He silently slipped into the hospital. Currently, there were no patients or medical staff inside.
But there were Players.
There were always some Players who either didn’t fear death or enjoyed making reckless maneuvers.
Upon seeing Wang Linchi, the other Player paused, then visibly relaxed upon seeing Wang Linchi’s character name.
"Did you also accept the quest to find medical records?" the other Player asked.
Hearing this, Wang Linchi nodded decisively. "I did too. I thought it was a Unique quest."
"It’s hardly a Unique quest. Anyone who enters the hospital can trigger it," the other Player explained candidly.
As Players, they were all on an equal footing. Combined with the hospital’s isolation limiting the Game System’s power, the other Player naturally couldn’t discern anything amiss. Few would suspect Wang Linchi wasn’t a real Player. Besides, since Players could resurrect after death, their vigilance naturally decreased somewhat. It just meant being more careful next time, at worst.
This wasn’t entirely negative. With such a mindset, most Players were the fearless type. It was a double-edged sword: wielded well, it was a potent weapon against foes; wielded poorly, it could harm oneself.
