The Gentleman at the End-Chapter 647 - 645 Fall Down

Click~ The girl’s head that had been folded at her back was reattached to her neck,

"Thank you, please follow me~ This time we can walk out via the stairs."

After expressing her gratitude politely, the girl took the lead, her face’s Magic Cube continually rotating as she did so.

Catherine had never seen such a strange ’person’ before,

She was certain that the girl had not contracted any plague, but her entire face and brain had been ’excavated’ and replaced by a peculiar Magic Cube.

Such a bizarre posture, even amidst patients, was unprecedented,

although it could be achieved through physical modifications, it definitely couldn’t appear as ’natural’ as it did with the little girl, and the Magic Cube embedded in her face seemed to possess multiple functions.

This was Catherine’s first encounter with a superpower not from the Old World, aside from the Black Liquid in William’s brain,

At that instant, she was extremely excited, her tongue licking the pitch-black surface of her lips, while greedy emotions began to overflow within Catherine. She started to ponder if she could bring some ’superpower’ back from here.

After all, the Old World had lost an ancient war, and in Catherine’s eyes, these external worlds were stronger, and she was fortunate to have early access to them. Such an opportunity must be seized.

With that thought, Catherine hurried forward.

She walked in sync with the little girl, maintaining a relative stillness, bending down to look at her face, observing the occasionally rotating Magic Cube structure.

"Fang... Fang, how was your face formed?"

However, Catherine had spoken in the language of the Old World, which the little girl couldn’t understand at all; she simply tilted her head slightly and formed a question mark with the creases on the Magic Cube’s surface.

Catherine quickly switched languages,

She had invaded William’s brain more than once, also using William’s nightmares in addition to combining Madness Brain and absorbing some other elements, including memories and language.

Although she was still not quite adept, she managed to utter similar syllables and understood the meaning. freewebnσvel.cøm

"Hello~ may I ask how your face was formed?"

"This?" Fangfang didn’t hesitate, pointing to the Blood Flesh Magic Cube between the recesses on her face, "My favorite thing since I was little has been the ’Magic Cube,’ and I have even won awards!

When I was seven, I won the provincial championship for both one-hand and two-hand speedy restoration of a tier-three Magic Cube, and my parents bought me many Magic Cubes to keep at home.

However, my classmates at school called me a freak because I spent a lot of time on Magic Cubes each day and had no common topics with them.

One day, I brought a Magic Cube to school, but it was stolen by a classmate after school. I tried to snatch it back, but during the struggle, the Magic Cube flew out and landed precisely on the road.

I didn’t think much at the time, I instinctively ran to pick it up, just as a truck was coming towards me.

I could feel the huge and heavy tires rolling over my head, perfectly pressing the Magic Cube into my face, crushing my eyes, nose, mouth, and brain together with the Magic Cube.

Although I couldn’t control my body, my consciousness continued to exist, I didn’t die, and even felt happy in that state.

Moreover, I was convinced that I wouldn’t die because my mother said that because I had won an award, a consecrated Divine Statue was placed in our home. As long as our family devoutly worshipped it daily, the statue would protect us for life from the ’cycle of birth, aging, sickness, and death’.

The ambulance arrived quickly.

I faintly heard the doctors communicating with my parents, and after they signed some kind of agreement, I was taken here by ambulance and have been kept for nearly a year and a half."

This answer made Catherine’s eyes shine with an unusual luster; it was clearly not a superpower caused by illness but something entirely new.

However, William focused on a different point.

He was more concerned about the latter part of the speech, the ’fact that the little girl was given a Divine Statue for her award’—her transformation into her current state was probably linked to the Divine Statue and her intense obsession with the Magic Cube.

Catherine wanted to ask more but was interrupted by William,

"Fangfang, does the Divine Statue and Shrine in your home look like the ones in the hospital, and what are the differences?"

"The difference is huge! My family’s Divine Statue has a large head, the palms corresponding to its four arms are attached around the head, and the statue has no face, giving a very gentle impression.

Every day after worshiping devoutly at home, my brain becomes incredibly clear,

and ever since the statue came to our home, our family has never fallen ill, and my parents have stopped fighting.

The statues in the hospital are probably manufactured by the hospital, designed specifically for each patient and continuously drain their ’vital essence’ to make patients sleep at least eighteen hours a day, which makes management easier."

With careful observation of the shrine within the hospital room, I finally discovered the problem! The inner walls of the shrine were painted with talismans written in our blood,

but the most important aspect was the divine statue itself, which was mainly composed of decaying flesh of unknown origin. Intermingled among the rotting flesh was some of our brain tissue, collectively forming the divine statue itself.

While we were unconscious or sleeping, the hospital had excised small portions of our "frontal lobes," crushed them, and mixed them in with the rotting flesh to create the statue, thereby specifically restricting us."

As she spoke, the little girl was rotating her facial Magic Cube, and indeed, there were traces of excision in certain areas.

William and Catherine also reached for their heads, finding very shallow, inconspicuous craniotomy scars among their hair.

The little girl continued, "As long as the divine statue exists, patients cannot possibly escape. Yet, it’s strange that you two were able to break free from the statue’s constraints on your own..."

In fact, William had not broken free on his own. He had been in a dazed state throughout this period until Catherine had secretly slipped into his hospital room and destroyed the statue, at which point he recovered.

"Could it be because Catherine is blended with Deep Sea genetics, and her brain is a combination of human and octopus brain, that the removed part of the frontal lobe might just be unnecessary?"

When William looked towards Catherine, all he received was a mischievous smile.

"You better come with me. This hospital is very dangerous. I had been pretending not to understand and pretending I couldn’t use the Magic Cube’s ability, so I was kept in the hospital room for observation; otherwise, I might have been taken somewhere else.

Because of your escape, all the hospital exits have been sealed. The only place we can escape to is now the rooftop."

Upon reaching the staircase again,

under the little girl’s guidance, the atmosphere became different,

lacking the oppressive feeling of threshold spaces and the discomfort of endless cycles,

and fresh air flowed through the stairwell. You could even hear numerous footsteps moving up and down, as if the hospital’s security personnel were searching the staircase.

However, with the little girl’s rotation of her facial Magic Cube, the security personnel in the corridors could never encounter them, always wandering continuously on certain floors.

"Fangfang, can you alter the spatial structure?"

"No... I can only perform simple replication of threshold spaces. I can’t affect spaces with more complex geometries.

If I forcefully change the space, my Magic Cube could explode."

"Hmm."

After climbing more than twenty floors, they finally reached the hospital’s rooftop.

But just as the iron door was pushed open, in addition to the expansive rooftop and the starry night view, familiar faces appeared.

The female doctor who had been in charge of questioning William by his hospital bed, and two security guards whose faces couldn’t be clearly seen, stood beside her,

"I thought so~ wondering why we couldn’t find you two, you must have made a deal with Little Fang. I guessed you would come here; after all, the rooftop is the only exit where survival is possible.

Alright, the game of cat and mouse is over! Come back with me."

As she spoke, the security guards, their faces covered with white drapes, approached the trio. The guards were over three meters tall, with physiques as robust as bears, continuously emitting a white aura from their mouths and noses, slightly lifting their facial drapes.

The most bizarre aspect was the structure of their palms.

Their palms were three times the size of a normal human’s, and the surfaces were covered with structures resembling suction cups, seemingly best suited for ’grabbing people’.

But just as the two security guards approached and nearly grabbed the escaping patients,

Catherine, agile as an octopus, instantly wrapped around one’s body and sat on his shoulders, twisting the guard’s head 480 degrees to face the female doctor behind him.

As for the other guard,

Bang!

The burly body was knocked back several meters, landing beside the female doctor, with a fist imprint reaching his heart on his chest.

William looked at his still fairly good arm and fist, nodding in satisfaction.

Just as the female doctor was about to make a move, William had already pulled Catherine and the little girl to stand behind him at the edge of the rooftop.

"Till we meet again."

With a farewell gesture, William leaned back and fell from the rooftop.

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