The Exploration Streamers' Despair, the Veteran Driver Appears

In front of the outpatient building at Benevolent Heart Hospital, a pungent smell of burnt rubber and a heavy stench of blood now filled the square, which had once been covered in mutated weeds and rubble.

The rusty iron gate, which weighed several tons, lay scattered across the ground like a crumpled ball of paper.

At the center of the gate's wreckage sat a massive, battered black bus, wreathed in eerie green ghost fire.

Several lengths of iron railing that had not been completely shattered still hung from its front, making it look like an ancient beast that had just burst out of its cage.

The layer of bloodstains that could never be wiped clean from its windows gleamed a chilling dark red in the moonlight.

In an abandoned ward on the third floor of the outpatient building.

The mutated attending physician's four stitched-together heads all stared at the eerie bus below. Though it had no reason, as a peak second-tier Anomaly derivative, it instinctively sensed that the dark matter contamination emanating from the vehicle was frighteningly pure, even more terrifying than their hospital's "director"!

Brother Long and the other three streamers also stared blankly out the window.

After a brief pause, the bullet comments in the livestream erupted like a waterfall.

[Holy shit! Holy shit! What kind of vehicle is that?!]

[It smashed right through Benevolent Heart Hospital's iron gate? Could that be a heavy armored rescue vehicle sent by the City Appearance Bureau?]

[Bullshit! Does the City Appearance Bureau's rescue vehicle look like it was dragged straight out of hell? Look at those headlights, they're green ghost fire!]

[We're screwed, this is one evil devouring another! Brother Long and the others were just about to be dissected by the doctor, and now an even fiercer Anomaly school bus has shown up!]

Just as everyone was reeling in shock.

"Hiss-"

The bus's dent-covered door slowly slid open to either side with a piercing hiss of escaping air.

A foot clad in a clean Warrior sneaker stepped out of the bus and onto the miasma-covered rubble.

Immediately afterward, a teenager in the blue-and-white uniform of Linhai No. 3 Middle School, with a black backpack on his back and a baseball cap on his head, sauntered off the bus.

He stretched and surveyed the sinister, horrifying main building of Benevolent Heart Hospital before him, its walls covered in dark red bloodstains, then nodded in satisfaction.

"This decorating style, all this greenery, that authentic smell of formalin. Tsk, tsk, tsk, it really is worthy of being one of the three great forbidden zones. It looks much more stylish than my Wasteland Divine Kingdom."

The teenager's clear voice echoed across the deathly silent hospital square, carrying a casual, teasing air utterly at odds with his surroundings.

The exploration streamers upstairs were all dumbfounded.

Brother Long rubbed his eyes hard and murmured in disbelief, "A... high schooler?! He drove that ghost bus into Benevolent Heart Hospital all by himself?!"

The viewers in the livestream went crazy too.

[Who is this kid?! Does he have a death wish? That's a forbidden zone!]

[He's wearing a school uniform? From Linhai No. 3 Middle School? Holy shit, could he be Su Bai, the guy everyone's been talking about lately who killed ten thousand berserkers in an instant in a simulated battle?!]

[That's him! I've seen his picture! But what's he doing here? Is he here for a practical combat assessment?]

[Clearing Benevolent Heart Hospital solo? This isn't a fucking practical combat assessment, he's here to deliver takeout!]

Su Bai did not care in the slightest what anyone else thought.

He reached back and patted the bus door, then spoke to the faint red figure in the front passenger seat. "Hongdou, stay on the bus and keep an eye on those fourteen old men. Don't let them run around. I'm going upstairs to bring down a few passengers."

After speaking, Su Bai turned the brim of his cap backward, pulled the rusty machete he had bought on the black market out of his backpack, and swaggered toward the entrance to the outpatient building.

"Roar-!"

Su Bai's brazen behavior thoroughly enraged the low-level mutated monsters roaming Benevolent Heart Hospital.

Amid a burst of piercing shrieks, more than a dozen "mutated patients" in tattered hospital gowns suddenly sprang from the dark corners of the lobby.

Their bodies were horribly twisted. Some had three arms, while others had gaping mouths split open in their chests, and a powerful stench of decay rolled off them. Like a pack of bloodthirsty zombies, they bared their fangs and claws and lunged at Su Bai.

"Little brother! Run! Those are mutated patients who've been assimilated by the contamination. They carry corpse poison; if they scratch you, you're as good as dead!" Though Brother Long upstairs was like a clay bodhisattva crossing a river himself, he still could not help sticking his head out and shouting a warning to Su Bai.

"Corpse poison? Perfect, my bus could use a few security guards."

Faced with more than a dozen mutated patients charging at him with their bloody maws wide open, Su Bai did not even dodge.

He stood where he was, a cruel smile curling at the corners of his lips.

"System! Wasteland Domain, partial descent!"

Boom!

A ring of dense gray-black mist burst out beneath Su Bai's feet!

Dark matter contamination of 99.5% purity instantly formed an absolute vacuum Domain with a radius of ten meters.

The moment the mutated patients lunged into the black-mist Domain, it was as if they had struck an invisible wall of sulfuric acid.

"Sizzle-"

A piercing sound of corrosion rang out.

The mutated patients let out bloodcurdling screams. The mutated muscles and corpse poison they took pride in were like ice and snow meeting a raging fire before Su Bai's wasteland contamination, melting away at a speed visible to the naked eye!

Su Bai raised the rusty machete and walked into the horde of corpses as leisurely as if he were strolling through a courtyard.

His hand rose and the blade fell.

Crack! Crack! Crack!

There were no fancy moves, only the crudest, most brutal physical deliverance. Every swing of Su Bai's blade precisely chopped off a mutated patient's head.

Before the severed heads and broken corpses could hit the ground, the surging black mist beneath Su Bai's feet swallowed them whole, drawing them into the Divine Kingdom to become fertilizer for its expansion.

In less than thirty seconds.

The entrance to the lobby was spotless. The dozen or so mutated patients had not left so much as a drop of black blood behind; Su Bai had "cleaned" every last one of them away.

Su Bai even took out a tissue in disgust and wiped the filth off his machete.

"This hospital's sanitation isn't up to standard. There's garbage running around everywhere. Looks like I'll have to offer their director a few suggestions."

Upstairs, the exploration streamers who had witnessed the scene and the millions of viewers in the livestream were all struck speechless.

[This fucking... is a high schooler?!]

[He's chopping up mutated monsters with his bare hands, and when he's done, even their corpses are gone? Does he have some kind of interdimensional storage bag?!]

[That's insane! I just saw those monsters' bodies, and it looked like the black mist coming off him melted them!]

[No wonder he could kill ten thousand berserkers in an instant. This kid's contamination concentration is definitely higher than this hospital's!]

Just as Su Bai was about to enter the outpatient lobby.

In the abandoned ward on the third floor, the [mutated attending physician], which had been about to dissect Xiaoya, finally could not hold back any longer.

This intruder was slaughtering patients on its turf. It was a grave insult to it as their attending physician!

"Detected... a source carrying severe contamination... must immediately... forcibly isolate and excise!"

All four of the mutated doctor's faces let out a shrill roar of rage at once.

It shoved Xiaoya aside and smashed its massive body straight through the third-floor window. Holding its buzzing rusty chainsaw aloft, it plunged straight at Su Bai below like a rolling tank of flesh, falling from a height of more than ten meters!

"Little brother, watch your head!" Brother Long shouted at the top of his lungs.

That was a peak second-tier Anomaly derivative! The bloodstained white coat it wore had extremely powerful physical defenses that ordinary blades could not cut through. Moreover, its chainsaw carried a faint power of the rule of "Forced Cutting." The moment it touched something, even a demigod's shield would be torn apart!

Faced with the deadly chainsaw descending from the sky.

Su Bai slowly raised his head, watching the four-faced, misshapen head grow larger and larger in his field of vision.

Not only did he not retreat, he even tossed the machete in his hand straight onto the ground.

"Forcible isolation? Excision?"

Su Bai narrowed his eyes, a dangerous glint flickering in them.

"You're a quack who doesn't even have a complete rule, yet you dare spout nonsense in front of me, a creator of rules?"

Su Bai did not use divine power, nor did he summon Hongdou or the Thirteen Steps.

He simply raised his hand and snapped his fingers with a crisp sound.

Snap!

"School bus, time to pick up a passenger!"