Hess's Labyrinth

Chapter 280: Hess's Labyrinth

It wasn't just Rock.

There were others from Gode Sanatorium, too, dressed in doctors' coats, nurses' uniforms, or patient gowns. They were gathered into nine piles of varying sizes, with things resembling blood vessels embedded in their bodies, constantly draining something from them and channeling it all into their respective black tentacles.

The black tentacles grew thicker and stronger, their length increasing again and again.

The people being drained seemed to have lost consciousness completely.

They were piled together like corpses.

There was still a difference, though.

Rock alone sustained one black tentacle, while the others needed as many as a dozen people, or at least seven or eight, to sustain a single tentacle.

"Because of his 'talent'?"

Qin Ran murmured.

The greatest difference between Rock and these people was his talent for spellcasting.

Of course, what concerned Qin Ran most was what the appearance of Rock and these people meant.

The person who had cultivated and raised evil spirits at Gode Sanatorium was here.

He had his sights set on the Sunshine Mary, too!

The explosives stockpiled in the sanatorium had been intended to breach the Sunshine Mary's defenses.

But Qin Ran's arrival had disrupted all his plans.

So he had contacted those Mystery Side figures with ulterior motives whom Qin Ran had killed, intending to kill...

"No!"

If he wanted to kill me, he wouldn't have stood by and watched me kill those people!

Even if they weren't strong, they could still have kept me occupied and taken a great deal of pressure off him. Yet he simply watched them die...

As these thoughts raced through Qin Ran's mind, his gaze fell on the Sunshine Mary nearby, and his entire body jolted.

A possibility occurred to him!

The Sunshine Mary!

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