The Last Gentleman-Chapter 225: Rainy Night

[Sunshine Hospital]

Even with the patient samples Yi Chen had captured, the analysis work was still problematic;they couldn’t determine what the pathogen was, not even the type of illness.

They still referred to the causative agent as the “Death Factor.”

All they knew was that this black liquid-like unknown pathogen was akin to a “connecting medium” that could connect and beautify various dead materials, recreating the appearance and memories from before a suicide’s death without needing the body, deceiving the eye.

They also came to a dreadful hypothesis—

If all the residents of Levinholm were to die, the entire city would be replaced by such deceased.

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Sunshine Hospital immediately contacted all the temporary morgues storing bodies,

asking the gentlemen to organize the deceased’s appearances and addresses tonight, and tomorrow, they would specifically investigate the homes of the dead, attempting to capture more deceased patients.

Furthermore,

Mr. Helvoye had made further autopsy breakthroughs.

Using the patient Yi Chen brought back, he analyzed samples of the black liquid that had connecting properties.

It was quickly discovered that this black liquid only remained liquid while attached to animal carcasses, maintaining its role as a “connecting medium.”

Once the attached object was removed, the black liquid would immediately evaporate into a gaseous state, losing its color and turning completely transparent, making it difficult to capture with the naked eye.

Watching the quickly vaporizing liquid, a spark of inspiration flashed through Helvoye’s mind.

“Lotson, follow me;I think I know how this gas is produced!”

Back in the operating room.

Old Mr. Helvoye wheeled in a containment chamber used to imprison patients,

He first locked a brain-transplanted living dead inside, and placed tools such as blades and poison inside the chamber—tools that could be used for committing suicide.

Once everything was ready, the two of them left the operating room and closed the door and windows, creating a perfect space for the living dead to commit suicide.

After waiting ten minutes and reopening the door.

The living dead, into whom a brain transplant had been performed, had indeed killed themselves,

They immediately drew the gas out of the containment chamber for analysis, and its components matched completely with the gas obtained from the vaporization of the black liquid.

“Just as expected!

The ‘last breath’ exhaled by the suicide seeing the symbol is indeed this pathogen.

This gaseous material carries the memories from the deceased’s life. After being exhaled, it temporarily attaches to the surrounding environmental materials, slowly looking for opportunities to assemble with the rats in the sewers, passing insects, or birds outside the house, or even the rotten meat in the kitchen.

Through connecting, modifying, and camouflaging foreign materials, it gradually reconstructs the deceased themselves and bestows memories, deceiving the eye.

As the number of deaths increases, more and more of the dead will appear, eventually taking over the entire city of Levinholm.

For now, the ‘last breath’ only serves a connecting role, it only affects dead animals, making the constructed deceased disguise themselves as citizens living normal lives.

The real threat of death might not have arrived yet! When the dead reach a certain number, death will fully descend.

Moreover, the source transmitting the “symbol” remains unclear;this time, what lies behind the incidents is definitely something the organization has never encountered since its establishment.

It’s crucial to report this matter;if necessary, they might really need to abandon Levinholm City.”

Just as Helvoye was fully focused on the death issue,

a large syringe filled with fresh blood pierced into his neck directly, and his veins quickly filled his body, seizing ownership of his body.

“Hmm!?”

The gentleman’s clothes on Helvoye instantly reacted, trying to protect the master and clear out the blood from his body.

However, the clothing, with a skin content exceeding 50%, suffered an invasion from the skin level, rendering it completely ineffective.

[Two hours later]

Dean Dis drafted a city-wide “Dead Search Order” and distributed it to all stations, rushing to the operating room immediately afterward.

When he knocked on the operating room’s iron door,

Helvoye and his assistant Lotson were still tinkering with the living dead.

“Any new findings from the autopsy with the black liquid from the combined disease patients?”

While performing a craniotomy, Helvoye turned his head, his voice sounding normal through the medical mask, “We haven’t found any connections yet.”

“Okay, it’s getting late tonight, don’t stay up too late.”‘

With the dean’s departure.

Blood also started seeping between Helvoye’s mask and his eyes began to look strange, muttering, “A Transcender’s body is truly hard to control…”

As ‘Helvoye’ and his assistant stepped out of the operating room, a flash of thunder light flickered in the sky, the intense light piercing through the window and shining on his face.

In that instant, another unfamiliar middle-aged face appeared.

If anyone had seriously read through the record of the illness at Holy Grail Mountain Mountain, they would recognize at this moment that the face corresponded to the Baron who resided in the vicinity of Holy Grail Mountain, connected to the Root of Septicemia.

“This city is really dangerous;I must finish my business quickly and leave. Otherwise, I’ll be dragged into this vortex of death.”

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Sunshine Hotel – 19th floor deluxe room.

Lying on the sofa, Yi Chen was awakened by a clap of thunder. His vision, still slightly blurry upon opening his eyes, caught a glimpse of a dark shadow.

As his vision cleared, the outline of the shadow at the window also became gradually discernible.

A hanged woman,

her white dress soaked by the heavy rain, continuously dripping water from its hem,

her damp, dark blonde curly hair lay drooping over her shoulders,

her eyes bulging as if they were about to burst forth, a blackened tongue hung out of her mouth,

her arms hanging by her sides began to spread out. Once her arms lined up horizontally, the hanging woman would take the form of a cross, with the noose around her neck corresponding to a circle.

Just as her arms were about to flatten,

Whirr— a flash of moonlight passed.

Yi Chen, who was supposed to be lying on the sofa, was now kneeling on one knee in front of the woman, his right hand holding an axe in Full Moon Form, finishing a slashing motion in an instant.

The Moonlight Slash, effective against spiritual beings, ripped the woman into two, with copious amounts of black liquid pouring out from inside her body, devoured entirely by the rats generated by the moonlight.

“Hmm? Sending a dead body to attack me right away…that’s a bit too much.”

Yi Chen stood up;his thumb pressed the button on the axe handle, restoring the axe to its place at his waist.

Hearing the noise, Barry immediately put on his armor and came to the window, where now there was nothing left.

“What happened?”

“There was a dead body on the window ledge just now.”

“What!?” Barry, who was initially somewhat groggy, suddenly perked up.

“We might need to take turns keeping watch for the rest of the night, Barry you…”

Thump, thump!

Sudden knocking at the door interrupted their conversation.

Just as Barry put on his helmet and approached the door with his shield, behind him came Yi Chen’s warning: “Don’t look through the peephole…”

But Barry, pulling out a Mithril Heavy Hammer bearing his family’s crest, threw it with all his might.

The door was shattered, and the heavy hammer embedded itself deep into the wall across the corridor.

The smashed wall was still oozing black liquid;If someone had peeked through the peephole just then, they would have seen the pattern of a cross on the wall.

Scared, Barry retreated back into the bedroom, using the heavy shield as a makeshift door to barricade the entrance.

“Damn it! Who comes knocking in the middle of the night like this;won’t they let people sleep…”

“Forget about sleep tonight;let’s quickly go down to the hotel lobby and inform the gentleman on duty about what happened here.”

“Alright.”

Barry retrieved his shield and casually hung it on his back.

However, the crest on the shield had unknowingly changed into a cross pattern, exactly when Yi Chen saw it… CLANG! He immediately swung out an iron chain, knocking the shield away.

“Barry, your shield?”

“Ah? Were you just attacking me?”

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Barry’s voice changed,

and as he turned around, his bucket-style helmet developed a cross-shaped slit, revealing a sinister smiling face inside, constantly seeping black liquid.

“William, you might as well just kill me, then kill yourself!

Stop struggling, no one can leave this city alive;everyone will die…”

As soon as the words fell, Barry lunged at him like a madman.

At that moment, Yi Chen, sensing a discord, used the Thorny Iron Chain in his palm, lashing it against his own body.

Crack! He awoke with a start.

Yi Chen sat up from the sofa, the back of his hand pierced by the thorny Iron Chain, sharp pain throbbing through his heart.

The sound of Barry’s snores combined with the noise of rain outside filled the room;no sign of death approached.

“Interesting… Has it started to influence my mind too?”

Yi Chen had had nearly enough sleep, so he just sat on the sofa meditating until dawn.