The Gentleman at the End-Chapter 646 - 644: The Girl in the Hospital Room

Continuing to ascend the cramped and restrictive staircase,

the sense of oppression brought about by this threshold space was quite significant. After roughly ten floors, both William and Catherine felt somewhat uneasy, as if a weight was pressing on their chests.

Still, they clenched their teeth and continued upward, but after climbing a full thirty floors, they still could not reach the rooftop.

"This is fucking suffocating!"

Unable to hold back any longer, William cursed. In his normal state, merely by utilizing the Madness Brain, he would have been able to quickly permeate the current staircase and identify the problem. Now, however, he was helpless.

"Hahaha~" Catherine covered her black lips, unable to suppress her laughter, "So you have moments like this too, William~ Seeing you like this makes this nightmarish trip totally worth it.

If you can’t get out of the staircase, what are you going to do?"

"This way."

William immediately retreated to the stairwell, returning to the original corridor,

and through observing the similar hospital rooms along the way and noticing the slightly open iron door and the smashed divine statue, he was sure that their floor had never changed.

The two of them had been simply marking time for more than ten minutes.

"There really is something wrong with the stairs, but there’s also one other strange point.

The female doctor clearly mentioned ’level three alert’, which should mean enhanced monitoring in each area. But we’ve spent half an hour in the stairwell and not a single person has come looking for us."

With no better options, William’s gaze turned to the only remaining choice - the "elevator" on the other side of the corridor.

Yet an elevator, with its modern installations, would surely be riddled with surveillance cameras; once inside, they might become fish trapped in a jar.

"However, we can choose not to take the elevator and instead climb up the elevator shaft."

After saying that, he quickly approached the elevator door, forcefully prying it open to reveal the elevator shaft with the metal cable hanging inside.

When William tried to look down, he could only see down about ten floors before the elevator car blocked his view, leaving him unable to see what lay further below.

Looking up, he couldn’t see the top, submerged in pitch darkness.

"Just how tall is this hospital?"

William stepped into the elevator shaft with a stride and began climbing up the central steel cable.

Catherine, using her octopus-like legs, easily clung to the walls and climbed up, naturally much faster.

"Are you okay, William~ Hurry up!"

After ascending roughly twenty floors, looking up still revealed nothing but darkness.

William didn’t continue to waste his energy. He turned around, pried open the elevator door, and returned to the hallway, and as expected... he was back on the original floor, meaning that neither taking the elevator nor the stairs could get them off the current floor.

An unknown power had created an effect similar to a ’ghost wall’.

Even without the use of Madness Brain, William’s own Thinking ability was not weak. He leaned against the wall rapidly thinking.

"No matter what we do, we can’t leave the current floor. The stairs and elevator that seem to exist cannot fulfill their intended purpose.

Moreover, it seems that the hospital’s personnel are also unable to reach this floor; otherwise, given the time we’ve been wandering here, hospital staff would have already come to capture us.

This means that this floor has been ’locked’.

Unable to leave, unable to enter.

Who sealed it off?

According to the female doctor, she was going to track Catherine and me throughout the hospital. If they sealed it from the outside, they can’t get in either, which would prevent them from conducting various investigations and managing the patients. There’s no need for that.

So that leaves only one possibility."

Pressing five fingers against his face, William looked through the gaps at the current corridor, at each hospital room arrayed along this passage.

"Some patient has sealed off the floor we’re on, or used some method to prevent us from moving vertically. We need to find that person."

As William reached this conclusion, Catherine had already sprung into action.

She moved from one hospital room to another, sniffing the air near the doors and windows with her nostrils, and quickly found an answer.

"William, found it! It must be this guy."

Catherine always kept one eye open,

The staircases she walked and the elevator shafts she climbed all had a thick layer of tentacle mucus with a strong smell,

If someone was deliberately manipulating the ’spatial structure’ of the stairs or elevator to prevent their escape, they would inevitably be tainted with this odor.

As William approached, he too smelled a deep sea stench, "A smell, huh? Catherine, you’re quite clever."

"To replicate the threshold space and create an infinite loop, a method to temporarily trap the other party, I used to use it often when creating nightmares, couldn’t be simpler.

Having found the main culprit, I can finally try what it feels like to kill in this world."

The tentacles unlocked and pushed open the iron door. freēwēbηovel.c૦m

In the pitch-black hospital room that appeared before them, only the red candle on the shrine provided illumination, casting a pallid red light.

The patient imprisoned here was a little girl, or at least from behind she seemed to be a little girl between the ages of 8~10, in a red dress with black hair cascading over her shoulders.

She stood erect in front of the shrine, gazing at the divine statue, her back to the door.

Catherine’s right arm had already grown a tentacle as sharp as a lance, intending to pierce the little girl through.

"Wait, Catherine!"

William grabbed her, blocking the attack.

"What are you doing?"

"I don’t feel any killing intent, and your attacking directly just now could have been dangerous... let me handle this."

Catherine actually also sensed a strange danger, and since William offered, she stepped aside.

"Please, go ahead Mr. William, after all, you are the chief, aren’t you?"

William and Catherine swapped positions,

He didn’t touch the little girl directly, instead standing two meters away to negotiate.

"Since you have the ability to tamper with the stairs and elevator, preventing us from going to other floors, you should be able to report our situation here to the outside, to have the doctor come and capture us, right?

Why not do that? If you were to merit a reward, the hospital would give you one, right?

Or is it that you have no malice to begin with?"

Click~ Click~

The strange noise came from in front, as the little girl began to slowly tilt back her head, the sound emanating from her folding neck vertebrae.

She leaned back continuously, even tearing open her throat, until her head hung upside down at 180°, facing the two by the door.

Seeing the ’little girl’s’ appearance, both William and Catherine were momentarily stunned.

She had no face, or rather, her entire face had been hollowed out,

A Blood Flesh Magic Cube that was continuously rotating filled the girl’s facial cavity, apparently the very cube that was affecting the stairs and elevator shaft, creating the looping effect.

However, the little girl couldn’t speak, arching her head backwards seemed to be the only movement she could make.

And the Magic Cube embedded in her face was still oozing blood, seemingly in great pain.

Clearly, she was also suppressed by the divine statue, and by preventing William’s escape, she was hoping they would find this place and help her destroy the statue to gain her freedom.

William stepped towards the side of the shrine,

Then, Catherine’s voice came through: "Hey! Being a good Samaritan is no easy task, if you get bitten in return, you might end up dead, you better think this through, William."

Without responding, William simply smashed the shrine and the divine statue to pieces with a punch.

In an instant, the Blood Flesh Magic Cube on the girl’s face ceased bleeding, and her condition rapidly improved.

Even a mouth-like structure began to form in the center of the cube, "Thank you~ It’s amazing that someone can break free from ’God’s influence by their own will. You guys are really something.

Follow me, the hospital is currently under lockdown, but I will do my best to lead you out."

"What’s your name?"

"You can just call me Fangfang..."

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