Congratulations, I've Diagnosed You as a Consumable

"I didn't buy a ticket."

Those four casually spoken words seemed insignificant amid the deafening roar of the chainsaws.

But in a rule-based horror story, those words were an absolute causality weapon!

[Midnight School Bus] Escape condition: shout "I didn't buy a ticket" three times to avoid being forcibly boarded. The prerequisite, however, was to cover one's eyes with a pure white cloth.

Su Bai hadn't covered his eyes at all. He hadn't even finished shouting it three times.

But he wasn't a passenger. He was the owner of the bus! He was the creator of the horror story!

The instant he spoke those words, the Midnight School Bus's core rule produced a bizarre reversed judgment!

Hum-!!!

A spatial distortion force ten times stronger than before erupted directly from beneath Su Bai's feet.

The two chainsaws, which had seemed certain to strike, stopped dead just one millimeter from Su Bai's scalp.

The director holding the chainsaws discovered in horror that an irresistible force had forcibly turned it around!

The chainsaws that had been swinging at Su Bai were forcibly redirected, chopping straight toward the Midnight School Bus nearby!

Screech-!!!

The Midnight School Bus once again let out an earth-shaking screech of brakes.

This time, the sound was filled with endless greed and fury.

"What..." The director's hollow voice was full of astonishment.

It couldn't control its body at all. Like a baseball that had been thrown, it flew helplessly toward the bus's open doors.

But it was a third-tier Anomaly!

"Break! Break... for... me!!!"

In midair, the director frantically burned the black heart inside it.

A vast third-tier power of rules battered the school bus's chains of forced pulling.

Crack! Crack!

The sound of shattering glass rang through the air. Two rules of different levels were colliding fiercely!

After all, the Midnight School Bus was only a peak second-tier horror story. Facing a third-tier Anomaly fighting for its life, its Forced Boarding rule finally began to loosen.

Bang!

Only a meter from the school bus's door, the director forcibly broke free of the chains and crashed heavily onto the floor.

It gasped for breath. A tiny crack had appeared on the black heart inside the glass medicine bottle.

It had paid a heavy price to break free of the rule.

But before it could feel relieved.

Su Bai's voice rang out again, eerily.

"Venomous Bee..."

The director froze.

Who was Venomous Bee? It didn't recognize the name at all.

But hearing a name suddenly called out in this enclosed space, it instinctively sought the source of the voice, driven by its nature as an Anomaly.

It turned its enormous glass head.

The instant it turned.

Hum-!

[The Thirteen Steps core rule two: Roll-Call Response, judgment successful!]

Anyone who heard a name called and turned around within the labyrinth Domain would have a part of their body forcibly taken away!

Although they weren't inside the labyrinth now, with the divine kingdoms fully connected, the Thirteen Steps' Domain perfectly overlapped the operating room.

"Aaaagh-!!!"

The director let out an earth-shaking scream.

It discovered in horror that the arm holding the enormous chainsaw on its left had vanished into thin air in an instant!

There was no spray of blood, no tearing of muscle.

It had simply vanished, cleanly and neatly, as though rubbed out by an eraser.

And on the Thirteen Steps, more than ten meters away, that thick arm covered in black hair lay quietly on the moss. It then dissolved into a pool of pus and blood, which the steps greedily absorbed.

"My hand! You... what did you do?!"

The director went completely mad.

Not only had it failed to kill this high school student, but he had also toyed with it in the palm of his hand like a monkey, using all manner of inexplicable rules!

It was a noble third-tier Anomaly!

"I'll... take you down with me! Die... we'll die together!"

The black heart inside the director's glass head suddenly began to swell rapidly, giving off a dazzling dark red light.

A terrifying energy powerful enough to destroy heaven and earth brewed wildly inside it.

It was going to self-destruct!

The self-destruction of a third-tier, half-formed Anomaly was powerful enough to level the entire Benevolent Heart Hospital along with the surrounding blocks. Even if Su Bai hid in his divine kingdom, its core would suffer irreversible damage.

Outside, the streamer Brother Long saw this and closed his eyes in despair.

Viewers in the livestream also began posting "rest in peace" in the comments.

However, Su Bai stood where he was, watching the black heart swell bigger and bigger like a balloon, and curled his lip in disdain.

"Take me down with you? A shoddy medical consumable like you thinks it's worthy of taking me down with it?"

Su Bai pulled the rusty machete from his backpack and pointed its tip at the director from a distance.

"Since you like playing with self-destruction so much."

"Then I'll make it quick for you."

Su Bai took a deep breath, his gaze turning cold as a blade in an instant.

"Hongdou!"

"School bus!"

"Steps!"

"Suppress it... with everything you've got!!!"

Rumble-!!!

The divine kingdom core inside Su Bai went into overload at that moment.

Across the twenty square kilometers of wasteland, dark matter pollution of 99.5% purity poured back into the Operating Room of Despair like a tsunami!

The entire space trembled violently and wailed.

Hongdou became a vast red net that blotted out the sky, binding the director's body tightly. Her extreme resentment corroded its white coat like powerful acid.

The Thirteen Steps rose from the ground and crashed down on the director's head like a mountain. The terrifying pressure of the Spatial Labyrinth pinned it to the ground, unable to move.

The Midnight School Bus, meanwhile, let out its wildest roar.

The fourteen evil spirits in the bus actually charged straight out of it!

They became fourteen black arrows and burrowed madly into the director's body through the wounds Hongdou had torn open, devouring the source of its divine power from within!

"No... don't..."

Under the combined suppression of the three great horror stories, the director's heart, swollen to its limit, was forcibly pressed back down.

Its self-destruction had been forcibly interrupted!

"You... who... are you..."

The director lay in a pool of blood, staring with its only remaining eye at Su Bai as he approached step by step.

Su Bai walked up to it and looked down at the third-tier monster that had once regarded itself as invincible.

He raised the rusty machete in his hand and aimed it at the glass medicine bottle head.

"Me? My name is Su Bai."

"I'm an ordinary student in class seven, senior year, at Linhai No. 3 Middle School."

"I'm also... the owner of this wasteland."

Su Bai raised his blade and brought it down.

Crack!

With the crisp sound of breaking glass, the enormous glass medicine bottle was chopped apart. The instant the black heart inside was exposed to the air, Su Bai grabbed it.

Squish!

Black fluid splattered everywhere.

The third-tier, half-formed Anomaly, the Benevolent Heart Director.

Had fallen.

"Congratulations, I've diagnosed you as a consumable."

Su Bai shook the black blood from his hand, turned around, and spread his arms.

"System! Clear the area! Stock up!"

Boom-!

With the director's death, the Domain of the Operating Room of Despair collapsed completely.

The real morgue on Benevolent Heart Hospital's third basement level was exposed before Su Bai's Wasteland Divine Kingdom.

The corpses piled like mountains, the medical instruments emitting dense pollution, the director's massive remains, and the vast divine kingdom essence contained within it.

All were mercilessly swallowed by the enormous black rift.

[Ding! Successfully devoured third-tier, half-formed Anomaly 'Benevolent Heart Director'!]

[Ding! Successfully absorbed a large quantity of high-purity pollution sources, resentment-filled corpses, and medical instruments!]

[Divine kingdom area has surged... current area: thirty square kilometers!]

[Detected sufficient scene materials and rule essence in host's possession.]

[Hidden horror-story building: the 'Forbidden Hospital' prototype has been generated and is developing...]

Listening to the continuous notifications in his mind, Su Bai felt every cell in his body cheering and jumping for joy.

Thirty square kilometers!

Although there was still a gap between him and an S-rank genius like Gu Chengfeng, who had eighty thousand square kilometers, this was thirty square kilometers of heavily polluted forbidden territory!

A single brick pried out of it could poison an ordinary dependent to death.

What's more, the prototype of a new large-scale horror-story building had also begun developing—the "Forbidden Hospital"!

Once the hospital was fully built, the horror-story system under his command would form a perfect closed loop. The school bus would go out and capture people, the steps would trap and wear down enemies, Hongdou would pick off individual targets, and the hospital would turn enemies' corpses into new monster consumables in assembly-line fashion.

This was a fucking perfect Anomaly industry chain!

"I'm rich, really rich." Su Bai grinned and shoved the rusty machete back into his backpack.

With a thought, he slowly closed the divine kingdom passage.

The suffocating black fog of pollution at 99.5% purity rapidly dispersed like a receding tide.

The Midnight School Bus, Hongdou, and the Thirteen Steps all returned to the wasteland as well.

Benevolent Heart Hospital, one of Linhai City's three great forbidden places that had once struck fear into countless people at the mere mention of its name, was now terrifyingly quiet.

There were no more roars from Anomalies, no more icy miasma.

All that remained were ruins strewn across the ground and a few exploration streamers huddled together, trembling with fright.

Su Bai dusted himself off, walked up to Brother Long, and nudged his foot with his own.

"Hey, stop playing dead. Get up and pay."

Brother Long shuddered violently and opened his eyes. When he saw Su Bai's harmless-looking smile, he was so frightened that he dropped to his knees.

"B-Big Brother! No! Great Immortal! Divine Immortal! We were wrong! We'll never dare come to a place like this to livestream again! Please don't drag us onto the bus!"

Brother Long kowtowed as he begged for mercy incoherently.

The millions of viewers in the livestream all breathed a sigh of relief, and the comments began scrolling wildly again.

[They survived! Brother Long and the others actually survived!]

[Divine Immortal, my ass! This is clearly a living king of hell! He tore down the whole Benevolent Heart Hospital by himself!]

[That was terrifying! Those last few moves—he could even forcibly interrupt a self-destruction. This kid's strength is definitely more than it appears on the surface!]

[Where are the people from the City Appearance Bureau? Aren't they coming to clean up? With all this rubble, it'll probably take them months.]

Just then.

A piercing chorus of sirens suddenly came from outside the hospital.

More than a dozen heavy explosion-proof armored vehicles bearing the City Appearance Bureau's insignia broke straight through the cordon around the hospital and drove in like a mighty torrent of steel.

The vehicle doors opened.

Bai Lan, dressed in a black trench coat, charged in with Zhang Lei and dozens of fully armed Abnormality Division officers, braced for a formidable enemy.

When they rushed into the outpatient building with their psionic guns raised, ready for a brutal battle.

Everyone froze.

In the lobby.

There were no mutated doctors, no corpse tide, and no terrifying pressure from the director.

There was only a boy in a school uniform, squatting on the ground with a QR code in hand, smiling at the exploration streamers.

"Scan the code or cash? I just saved four of your lives, and I also helped bring you so much traffic. Charging each of you a hundred thousand isn't too much, is it?"