The Forbidden Hospital Shows Its Might, Blood Wolf's Plot

"Defend! Defend, now!"

The bald captain bellowed himself hoarse, his greatsword blazing with fire as he chopped viciously at the first mutated orderly to pounce down.

Bang!

The flaming greatsword struck the orderly squarely on the shoulder, cleaving through most of its body and sending black, foul blood spraying out.

A normal second-tier dependent that had suffered such a grievous wound would have been unable to fight, even if it survived.

But to the bald captain's despair, the cleaved orderly did not fall. Instead, it let out a chilling "giggle."

Countless strands of dark red flesh writhed in its open wound, winding tightly around the bald captain's greatsword as though they were alive!

"What the hell is this?!" The bald captain tugged hard at the greatsword, but it did not budge.

Immediately afterward, the orderly raised the enormous rusty syringe in its hand and plunged it into the bald captain's thigh without hesitation.

"Argh!!!"

The bald captain let out a scream. He felt an intensely cold, corrosive black liquid being injected into his body through the syringe at a furious rate.

The berserker battle aura he was so proud of crumbled instantly before the liquid, as if it were made of paper.

And that was only the beginning.

The dozen or so remaining mutated orderlies, like a pack of tireless machines incapable of feeling pain, swarmed over the other four mercenaries.

Although these mercenaries were experienced fighters, they had never faced monsters like these.

Cut off their heads, and they could still move.

Cut off their limbs, and they would bite with their teeth.

Most terrifying of all, the potent dark matter contamination they carried would rapidly corrode divine power and flesh at the slightest touch.

"Captain! Help! They ate my dependent!"

"There's no way these are a student's dependents! They're Anomalies! Pure Anomalies!"

In the valley, screams, the roar of chainsaws, and the sound of flesh being torn apart mingled together, creating a hell on earth.

On the cliff.

Lin Que and Shen Yueli were utterly dumbstruck.

They stared blankly at the brutal, bizarre, one-sided slaughter below, feeling as if their entire worldview were being pinned to the ground and rubbed raw.

"B-Brother Bai..." Lin Que swallowed, pointing at the mutated orderly below that bore Wang Meng's head. "I-is that Wang Meng?"

"Yeah." Su Bai leaned against the tree trunk, casually unwrapped a piece of chewing gum, and popped it into his mouth. "Didn't I just say so? Making use of waste, eco-friendly recycling. He loved fighting so much when he was alive. Would you say I've helped him find a new job?"

Lin Que sucked in a sharp breath. Alongside the awe in his gaze as he looked at Su Bai, there was now a trace of deep fear.

Turning an enemy's corpse into a monster orderly that felt no pain and was covered in contamination?

Was that something a damn high school student could do?!

This was ten thousand times more sinister than anything those cultists did!

Shen Yueli's hand trembled slightly as she gripped her staff.

She took a deep breath, forcing herself to calm down.

"Su Bai, just how many more things like that are hidden in your Divine Kingdom?"

"Not many. Just a hospital, a bus, and a flight of stairs," Su Bai replied casually.

The corner of Shen Yueli's eye twitched.

A hospital? A bus? A flight of stairs?

You call that a Divine Kingdom? You clearly moved an entire horror movie set into your belly!

In less than five minutes.

The battle in the valley was over.

The five intermediate second-tier Blood Wolf mercenaries had not even had a chance to escape before the dozen or so mutated orderlies tore them to pieces.

Severed limbs and blackened blood covered the ground.

"Good work. That's a wrap."

Su Bai snapped his fingers. The dozen or so blood-soaked mutated orderlies immediately stopped moving, obediently lined up, and walked back through the rift in the Divine Kingdom to resume standing by in the [Forbidden Hospital].

Su Bai leaped down from the cliff, walked over to the pile of shredded flesh, and deftly stripped off the five mercenaries' spatial rings.

Then he kicked the nearby corpse of the peak second-tier "Berserk Black Bear," along with the mercenaries' remains, into the rift in the Divine Kingdom.

"Hospital production line, put a rush on these. This bear has a good skeleton; it should make a pretty useful heavily armored security guard." Su Bai gave the system the order in his mind.

[Ding! High-quality exotic beast corpse and second-tier False God remains received.]

[Forbidden Hospital Flesh Reorganization production line activated. Estimated output: one early third-tier 'stitched monster chief surgeon' and five second-tier 'heavily armored orderlies'.]

Hearing the system's notification, Su Bai clapped his hands in satisfaction.

This was what it meant to use war to sustain war.

Every time an enemy came to feed him a kill, they helped him expand the forces of his Divine Kingdom.

"Brother Bai, you're way too practiced at this..." Lin Que and Shen Yueli had jumped down as well. Looking at the clean ground, where not even a drop of blood remained, Lin Que could not help commenting.

"You'll get used to it." Su Bai toyed with the five spatial rings in his hand, casually erasing the spiritual imprints on them.

He sent his spiritual power inside for a quick look, and his eyes immediately lit up.

"Oh, these mercenaries are loaded. Besides cash and potions, they even had an internal map of the secret realm."

Su Bai took a parchment scroll out of a ring and spread it on the ground.

The parchment scroll showed the terrain of Mist Canyon in detail, with several specific areas even marked by red circles.

Shen Yueli came over and glanced at the map, her delicate brows knitting slightly.

"This is an energy-detection map for internal military use. How did the Blood Wolf Mercenary Corps get something like this?"

"Look at these red circles." Shen Yueli pointed to several red dots on the map, scattered deep within the canyon. "These red dots mark the lowest places in the canyon, where dark matter is most likely to accumulate. Why did they circle these places?"

Su Bai narrowed his eyes and studied the map carefully.

Suddenly, near the edge of the map, he spotted a line of small writing in code.

"Channeling formation complete. Blood sacrifice scheduled to begin at midnight tonight to awaken the 'Mist Lord.'"

After reading the line, Su Bai's expression turned cold.

"Blood sacrifice? Awaken the Mist Lord?" Lin Que jumped three feet into the air in fright. "Brother Bai, what is the Mist Lord?"

Shen Yueli's expression also turned exceedingly grim.

"The Mist Lord is the legendary Anomaly bound to this secret realm. It's said to be a terrifying being with one foot in the fourth tier. Because it was so powerful, the Great Xia Nation's military experts forcibly sealed it in the deepest part of the canyon."

"Has the Blood Wolf Mercenary Corps gone mad? They actually want to awaken a monster like that? Once the Mist Lord wakes up, every student in the entire secret realm will die!"

Su Bai sneered and put the map away.

"They haven't gone mad. They took the Gu Family's money to kill me. But if they killed me alone, Principal Chen Tianxing would definitely pursue the matter to the end once everyone got out. If all the students in the secret realm died in an exotic beast uprising and at the Mist Lord's hands, though, it would be an 'accident' no one could be held responsible for."

"The Gu Family played a dirty hand. To kill me, they're willing to drag thousands of students to the grave with me."

Trembling all over with fright, Lin Que gripped Su Bai's arm tightly.

"Brother Bai, let's hurry and crush our teleportation talismans to get out! Forget the assessment. Staying alive is more important!"

Every student who entered the secret realm had been given an emergency teleportation talisman that could be crushed to escape when their life was in danger.

Su Bai pulled his teleportation talisman from his pocket and squeezed it hard.

Nothing happened.

"It's no use." Su Bai threw the talisman on the ground. "From the moment we entered the secret realm, they had already sealed off the space by some means. Since these mercenaries dared set up such a huge scheme, how could they possibly have left us a way out?"

"Th-then what do we do? Just wait to die?" Lin Que fell into despair.

Shen Yueli tightened her grip on her staff, determination in her eyes.

"We can't just sit here and wait for death. We have to find where they set up the channeling formation, destroy it, and stop them from awakening the Mist Lord."

"The class president is right." Su Bai gave Shen Yueli an appreciative look. "But destroying the formation would be so boring."

Su Bai looked at the red dots marked on the map, a near-mad greed flickering in his eyes.

"An Anomaly bound to the realm, with one foot in the fourth tier..."

"If I could get it into my Divine Kingdom, wouldn't that settle the question of who should be director of the Forbidden Hospital?"

Su Bai clapped his hands, turned, and headed toward the deepest part of the canyon.

"Let's go, you two. At midnight tonight, we'll give the Blood Wolf Mercenary Corps a big present."