The door to the control room slid open automatically, revealing a small cleaning and disinfection cubicle; behind this cubicle was the control room itself.
Su Cheng's expression relaxed slightly. "Weren't you looking for something to complete your mission? Didn't you also need to get what's inside Yan Yu's stomach out? Hurry up."
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Chapter 62
After Su Cheng kept watch outside for half an hour, Yan Yu's surgery finally ended.
" Su Cheng?"
Hearing the sound, Su Cheng went into the control room and smelled a faint odor of blood.
Yan Yu sat in a chair, drinking the white bottle of restorative medicine from the apartment. Her face was slightly pale, but her condition was much better than expected.
Su Cheng patted her shoulder, "Are you feeling alright?"
Yan Yu gestured for Su Cheng to lower her head and whispered in her ear, "I just unlocked the Gene Lock First Stage."
Su Cheng was somewhat surprised, "Is this a case of turning misfortune into blessing?"
"Sigh, forget it." Yan Yu sighed with a touch of sadness.
Su Cheng then Song Yichi, who was still wearing his surgical gown and examining the intact blood clots in the dish.
The piece of flesh was about the size of a fist, stained with blood, but covered with tiny purplish-red blood vessels.
The more she looked at it, the more familiar it seemed; it looked so much like chunks of meat from a school lunch...
This piece was smaller and "fresher," and it didn't transform into other foods; it only had the smell of blood and no strong aroma.
Could it be a source of nutritious meals?
Su Cheng felt even more disgusted when she recalled the way Li Li chewed the meat.
Whether the pregnant woman was genuine or not, after ingesting the strange placental tissue, it grew rapidly, was then removed by the hospital, and then fed to a new pregnant woman?
wrong...
What is the point of doing this?
There must be a missing link in the process, which is the part of the placenta that is now processed into something that can transform and has a fragrance.
Song Yichi: "This thing is like a living being inside the body; it will even try to avoid you. But once it leaves the body, it's no different from an inanimate object."
"What's the point of this? Why does this growth appear after eating the nutritional meal...?"
Su Cheng: "I think it's like a nutritious meal."
Song Yichi paused for a moment, his expression becoming even more puzzled. "Giving people this stuff to eat just makes new ones grow, over and over again? What's the point?"
"Have no idea."
Yan Yu asked from the side, "So what should we do with this?"
"Can I keep it for now? I want to find some equipment to analyze its composition." Song Yichi added, "I'm very curious about why it can multiply so rapidly in the mother cell."
"OK."
Yan Yu: "I have no objection either."
Next, Su Cheng and Yan Yu decided to return to the inpatient department first, while Song Yichi took off his surgical gown, cleaned up the scene, and dealt with the pieces of meat before leaving.
The meeting continued in the cafeteria afterwards.
Only after the two of them were alone in the elevator did Yan Yu continue talking about her Gene Lock:
"My First-Stage Gene Lock skill is Mental Barrier. Besides enhancing the five senses, its effect is to strengthen defense against external mental stimuli."
Su Cheng understood, "It sounds more like it's targeting the paranormal."
Yan Yu nodded, sighing softly with barely concealed disappointment, "But it's not what I'm looking for. People are truly never satisfied. I used to think that as long as I had it, that would be enough..."
The two exchanged only a few words before the elevator doors arrived at the inpatient department.
As the elevator doors slid open, a chaotic cacophony of noise filled the air.
"Ah! Help! Help me first!"
"Never mind her! I'm going into labor—save me first!"
Screams echoed throughout the ward.
Su Cheng recognized Li Li's voice and quickly walked out. At this moment, all the nurses and doctors in the inpatient department were gathered in Li Li's ward.
"Bang!"
Something jumped out of the window and hit the ground with a dull thud.
Mo Yiyi, who had been watching from a corner, saw Su Cheng and the other person and quickly came forward to summarize the current situation:
"A pregnant woman stabbed her mother-in-law with scissors and is now emotionally agitated and about to give birth prematurely!"
As soon as Mo Yiyi finished speaking, Li Li was wheeled out of the ward on a stretcher.
Bright red blood stained the entire cushion beneath her.
"Ah! It hurts! It hurts so much--" Li Li cried out in pain.
Doctor Wu and the nurse pushing the gurney remained calm and showed no signs of anxiety. They walked silently and straight toward the elevator without looking to the side.
Su Cheng saw a wisp of Red Resentment wrapped around Li Li's body.
She quickly returned to the elevator and stood at the corner. Yan Yu followed without saying a word, Mo Yiyi and the other woman hesitated for a second before following as well.
Doctor Wu and the nurses acted as if they couldn't see the four of them, pushing the stretcher into the elevator and filling it to the brim.
Su Cheng and Doctor Wu were pressed completely back to back, but Doctor Wu seemed oblivious.
But she sensed an unusual stiffness and coldness in the other person, as if she were pressed against a hardened corpse.
No one pressed the elevator button, but the elevator was going up automatically.
Aside from Li Li's low moans of pain, there was no other sound in the elevator. Apart from Su Cheng and the others, Doctor Wu and the nurse wore identical, indifferent expressions.
Su Cheng looked up, but the bloodshot eyes that were always hidden by the air conditioner vent were not there.
"Bite"
The elevator doors opened.
Outside the door, it was as cold as an icebox.
In the pitch-black darkness, only the green light shone from the operating room door ahead, illuminating the straight path ahead.
The sides of the operating room were completely obscured.
This is very unusual... She possesses night vision and the Yin-Yang Eyes; she shouldn't be unable to see her surroundings.
"Prepare for surgery!" Doctor Wu's voice was hoarse as he and a nurse pushed the stretcher away from the elevator.
The wheels of the flatbed cart made a slight noise.
Li Li had fainted at some point, and her bleeding was abnormal; the blood soaked through the bed and dripped onto the floor in a trail...
Su Cheng remembered the elevator ghost had warned her to be careful in the operating room.
I didn't expect her to arrive here so quickly.
Mo Yiyi and Liu Yue rubbed their arms, feeling a chill seeping into their bones; the piercing cold made them shiver involuntarily.
Su Cheng walked ahead, following the stretcher into the operating room, followed by three others.
"Creak--"
The operating room doors closed slowly, as if blocking the group's way back.
"Rub"
The lights suddenly blazed on, causing my eyes to sting and feel blurry from the sudden brightness. It took me a while to see my surroundings clearly.
"Blade."
A woman's calm voice came from beside me.
Su Cheng's hand involuntarily lifted the scalpel handle from the operating table and handed it to the woman in surgical scrubs beside her.
The woman wore a surgical cap; her narrow eyes were calm and still, and a black mole stood beside her pale lips.
The woman, or rather the female ghost, was a doctor.
Su Cheng looked at her hands, which were covered in rubber gloves. She was also wearing surgical scrubs and had become an assistant nurse.
On the operating table sat Yan Yu, her eyes wide open, her lips agape but no sound escaping her lips.
Su Cheng wanted to move but felt as if she were bound by some force, only able to move when instructed by the doctor.
Didn't they go into the operating room with Doctor Wu? The one lying on the operating table shouldn't be Yan Yu, it should be Li Li.
The surgeon shouldn't be a woman, but Doctor Wu...
Who is this woman? Is she the one the elevator ghost mentioned that you should be careful of?
Is this a case of forced collective possession, or another instance of a ghostly illusion?
"Sizzle"
The blade sliced open her belly, the slight sound amplified infinitely, as if it were cutting her own skin at the same time, causing Su Cheng to frown deeply.
She silently recited the mantra, beads of sweat forming on her forehead, trying to break free of the shackles binding her, only to find herself being bound even tighter.
She looked at the female ghost who was frantically tearing at the bloody wound. This female ghost was much stronger than she had imagined, at least much stronger than Doctor Li in the clinic.
Amidst the blood and gore, the female ghost pulled the fetus out, held it up to Su Cheng's eyes, and laughed, "Look, isn't this child adorable?"
Su Cheng stiffly took the baby with both hands and then saw clearly that the palm-sized purplish-red fetus had a face that looked like Mo Yiyi and Liu Yue stuck together!
"Wow wow wow wow"
Mo Yiyi and Liu Yue opened their eyes at the same time. The four adult eyes looked at Su Cheng, and both mouths opened wide as they burst into tears.
Halfway through their crying, they suddenly opened their mouths wide as if choked, making a "hoarse" sound from their throats.
A black spider crawled out from the corner of their lips...
Su Cheng's hand trembled, and she almost dropped them to the ground.
However, she seems to be able to move again.
Su Cheng immediately placed the double-sided tire aside and recited the Fire-Attracting Art!
"Ah!"
Blue ghostly flames suddenly ignited the female ghost, burning through her body and soul, causing her to let out a shrill scream.
The illusion shattered like a mirror, making a "crack" sound.
Su Cheng felt as if she had been ejected from a confining cage, her consciousness regaining control of her body. She wasn't standing on the operating table, but at the door of the operating room.
Yan Yu beside him trembled slightly as if she was about to wake up, while Mo Yiyi and Liu Yue remained in a daze.
Li Li was lying on the operating table, being manipulated by a female ghost inside Doctor Wu's body during the surgery, while the nurses were also in a daze...
Doctor Wu suddenly turned his head, staring blankly at Su Cheng. Her face had been fused with the features of a female ghost, and her whole body exuded a deathly aura.
"Roar--"
The female ghost opened her blood-red maw and roared!
An invisible wave of energy surged toward Su Cheng, causing the entire operating room to tremble and the cabinets to sway precariously.
"Bang!"
A powerful golden light shield erupted around Su Cheng, colliding with the female ghost's resentment!
The golden light was dazzling, illuminating the entire room. The resentment was dispelled, and the female ghost's soul was forced out of Doctor Wu's body!
Su Cheng pressed her advantage, continuously unleashing her Fire-Attracting Art on the female ghost, causing blue flames to ignite and sparkle on her body...
The female ghost glared resentfully at Su Cheng, ignoring the burning pain in her soul, and with the placenta she had pulled from Li Li's abdomen, she slipped through the back door and vanished without a trace.
The operating room fell silent. Li Li was already dead; Doctor Wu and the nurse were nothing but empty shells lying on the floor...