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Chapter 518: The Cursed Hospital (Sixteen)
Chapter 518: The Cursed Hospital (Sixteen)
"Haven't I made myself clear enough?" The hospital director's menacing grin spread across his face. "With that Cleaver in your hand... what exactly do you think you can do?" He roared, "You don't belong in my world at all! Why don't you just crawl back to wherever you came from while you still can? Huh?"
With a metallic clang, Feng Bu Jue's blade came down toward the hospital director's neck.
Feng Bu Jue wasn't about to listen to this nonsense. The main quest specifically said to kill the hospital director - this boss definitely had a weakness somewhere.
But... the blow felt like it had struck iron, the Cleaver bouncing off with a sharp rebound.
The copper coins covering the hospital director's body weren't just for show. When he was alive, his flesh had been as tough as bronze and iron.
"Damn it!" Feng Bu Jue cursed inwardly. The shock from the impact numbed his arm, even chipping the edge of his Cleaver.
"Hmph... Since you won't help me open the door willingly... then die!" The hospital director's massive bulk lunged from behind the desk. His thick arms wrapped around Feng Bu Jue's throat as he spat, "Once you become a ghost completely, I'll show you what real suffering feels like! Hahahaha..." He broke into maniacal laughter. "You little pretty boy bastard, I'll make you regret seducing my nurses! Making me late for work!"
Each word came with tightening pressure on Feng Bu Jue's throat. The suffocating force made his vision blur. This mental anguish would only accelerate Lester's physical death. Once Feng Bu Jue's "Otherworld traveler" vitality value hit zero, Lester would truly die, transforming from a living being into a ghost. At that point, the player's consciousness would be teleported away, and Lester's fate... was obvious.
"That money was all mine! Mine!" The hospital director kept screaming, his voice rising. "Did you think I built this hospital out of charity? To save lives? You little bastard! This is business! Don't you understand? I curse everyone who comes here until they can't leave... until they die and free up a hospital bed. Then I fill it again, of course with whoever pays me the most." His face twisted with cruel glee as he squeezed harder. "Oh right... your girlfriend, what's her name again... Fei Ou Na? That idiot sister of Chad's. You think she died naturally? No! Because you useless boyfriend and her equally useless brother could only afford basic treatment... I added something special to her medicine... gave her an early release."
The hospital director had completely lost his mind by now, forgetting he was even confronting an "Otherworld traveler." Gripping Feng Bu Jue's throat, years of pent-up resentment finally erupted. Facing Lester's face, he couldn't help but spew forth all the venom he'd stored for years.
"This isn't working... I'm going to die at this rate..." Feng Bu Jue struggled desperately, his mind racing for a solution. "Did I trigger some death flag in the game? How do I kill this boss...? His strength is way beyond mine!" He checked the game menu again - his item slots and skills bar were still locked, his psionic weapon unusable... truly a hopeless situation.
As his vitality value dropped below 20%, teetering on the brink of death, salvation finally arrived.
Crash!
A golden brick on the floor exploded from a sudden impact. A massive arm, thick as a human thigh, burst up from beneath the floor tiles, gripping the hospital director's ankle with deadly precision.
"Seriously? This plot device had to wait until I'm almost dead..." Feng Bu Jue thought bitterly.
The next second, the hospital director released Lester, staring down in shock. "Who? This can't be!" He started pounding on the giant arm with his fists.
But his blows were like scratching through cloth - completely ineffective.
With a thunderous roar, the arm's owner tore through the floor, emerging into the room.
"You bastard!" Chad's second head snarled obscenities as he flipped up, landing solidly. With one hand, he gripped the hospital director by the legs and lifted him upside down. "It's time you paid for your crimes!"
Bang! Bang! Bang!
Fists the size of rice cookers rained down on the hospital director's body. It sounded like someone pounding a sandbag with a sledgehammer on a copper drum.
"You... you brainless idiot... you oversized fool..." The hospital director's body cracked and splintered from the inverted beating.
"That's right", Chad replied calmly. "I've never been smart, always getting pushed around. But my best friend never laughed at me, and neither did my sister. They always supported me, sharing both good times and bad. We might be ordinary people with meager incomes and no social status... but we lived happily. Unlike you, who hurts others for selfish desires."
Chad lifted the hospital director high above his head with both arms. "In this world, I only had two family members left. You've already killed one. I won't let you take another."
With a furious roar, Chad tore the hospital director's incredibly durable body in half.
For a brief moment, Feng Bu Jue thought he was safe.
Then came...
"Ahh!" A thick plume of black smoke erupted from the torn body of the hospital director, accompanied by a terrifying shriek. "I'll take you all with me!"
This boss still had one last counterattack left...
"Run!" Chad's second head turned toward Feng Bu Jue. "I'll hold him off, go!"
The system prompt arrived simultaneously. [Main Quest Updated: Escape the Hospital]
There was no time for hesitation. Feng Bu Jue sprang forward, diving headlong through the hole in the floor. This was the only escape from the third floor. He had no choice but to jump, even if it meant instant death.
Of course, the system wouldn't design such a cruel scenario. After falling two or three meters, Feng Bu Jue landed safely without losing any vitality.
"Thanks, Chad!" As soon as he landed, Feng Bu Jue looked up and shouted.
Looking up, he saw a horrifying sight. A massive cloud of black mist poured like a living thing through the ceiling's hole, surging toward him.
"Stay alive, Lester!" Chad and his sister's voices called down from above before being swallowed by the darkness...
Feng Bu Jue sprinted, pushing himself to the limit.
Now wasn't the time to worry about stamina consumption. He just needed to reach the first floor lobby at full speed...
"Taking the elevator is definitely out of the question..." Feng Bu Jue remained calm even in crisis. Within seconds, he determined his direction and mentally mapped an escape route. "The one-way passage to the first floor should be..."
He ran fast, but the black mist behind him moved just as swiftly. From within came the hospital director's ghostly howls: "Don't think you can escape, you little brat!"
"Go to hell, you pile of crap!" Feng Bu Jue shouted back defiantly even as he fled for his life.
After sprinting for over a minute, he approached the one-way passage leading to the second floor.
"Just need to turn that corner ahead... and I'll be on the first floor!" Feng Bu Jue mentally encouraged himself. He desperately needed this psychological boost, as he could clearly feel Lester's body nearing its limit.
Suddenly... as he rounded the corridor corner, a new despair awaited him.
The corridor ahead was filled with ghostly figures. And these ghosts... their forms were nearly fully physical...
(End of Chapter)
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