Chapter 532 Hospital Admission

Chapter 532: Hospital Admission

Jie Ying took the lead and walked toward the nurse's station. She reached the counter and pressed a hand against its seemingly ordinary surface.

Apart from the nurse in white with her head down behind the counter, everything looked perfectly ordinary, just like any regular hospital: the file boxes piled up behind the counter, a few pens casually tossed aside, a slightly yellowed landline phone, and even a computer displaying the hospital's system interface.

But the moment Jie Ying's fingertip touched the counter, the corridor's brilliant white lights began to flicker wildly!

*Why does it always have to be like this? Whenever something abnormal happens, the lights just have to flicker incessantly? Can't these Eerie Entities come up with something more creative?* Le Shiya's voice echoed in Su Bai's mind, laced with a mix of helplessness and sarcasm.

Su Bai was in complete agreement.

However, everything in the Nightmare World is saturated with the power of the Red Moon. The existence of Eerie Entities is not isolated; they are inextricably tied to the territories they occupy, like a symbiotic bond as close as shared flesh and blood. When an Eerie Entity stirs, the space it inhabits is affected as well, much like the flickering lights before them.

In a sense, such changes aren't deliberately crafted "special effects" to create a horror atmosphere; they are instinctive reactions of the entities themselves.

Moreover, in the Nightmare World, certain buildings and vehicles are Eerie Entities in their own right. So, the flickering lights in train carriages or rooms, the vibrations of walls—these can be considered the "breathing" and "heartbeat" of those entities.

Yet, just as Su Bai was mulling over the cause of the light changes, he sharply detected the energy fluctuations in the air become abruptly wrong in the very next second!

A powerful, unfamiliar surge of Red Moon power swept toward them like a tidal wave, spreading rapidly through the entire corridor. It felt as if they were instantly enveloped in an intangible haze. The flickering lights in the hallway seemed to take on a bloody hue!

"Welcome, everyone, to the Newborn Department of Hospital No. 666." An excessively gentle voice, so gentle it sent chills down the spine, came from the direction of the nurse's station.

The voice carried an unnatural softness, as if deliberately polished. Every syllable was smooth and fluid, seemingly capable of seeping into one's very marrow, evoking an inexplicable unease.

Su Bai's eyes remained blind, but accustomed to the darkness, he could faintly perceive the shifting light and shadows around him. Combined with Le Shiya's descriptions, he quickly formed a mental image of the space before him. During their walk, Le Shiya had meticulously described the hospital's layout—the arrangement of room numbers, the relative positions of the utility room and washroom, distances to corners, and so on. Therefore, the moment the voice sounded, Su Bai instinctively turned to "look" towards the nurse's station.

It was precisely when the nurse began speaking that the immense surge of Red Moon power erupted from in front of them without warning!

In that instant, Su Bai clearly felt his entire body engulfed by an intangible tide. The faint auras of the other players he could previously sense became insignificant under the impact of this power.

This power was stronger than the current Su Bai.

A slight chill ran through Su Bai's heart. Since his rebirth in this life, he had rarely encountered an Eerie Entity so powerful it could induce such a suffocating feeling—the last time was in Fog City, facing the Fog City Lord.

The current Su Bai was far beyond his past self in terms of physical strength, possessed power, and even his understanding of power. Yet, even so, within this unfamiliar force, he still felt an indescribable sense of rejection, as if a foreign object was trying to invade his body. Even though Su Bai managed to adapt to this power the next second, that sense of discomfort could not be completely dispelled.

Even though it was all the power of the Red Moon, it seemed they could not simply coexist so easily. At this point, Su Bai also understood why the Misty Shop had needed to first devour the Fog City Lord's power before converting it for his body.

Of course, the most pressing question now was... The Reverse Birth Corridor was part of Hospital No. 666, so the presence of such a powerful Eerie Entity wasn't surprising. But why would such a powerful energy fluctuation appear at this moment?

Wasn't it the nurse at the station who was speaking?

It couldn't possibly be that the entity occupying the Reverse Birth Corridor—one as powerful as, or possibly even more powerful than, the Fog City Lord—had a hobby of working behind a nurse's station, could it?

This gave rise to an indescribable sense of incongruity within Su Bai.

"Next, I will arrange wards for each of you." The nurse's voice remained eerily gentle, her tone steady and soft, as if completely unaware of the immense energy she had just released.

She continued, "Please come forward to receive your respective medical records when your name is called."

"Ward 1406, Bed 1, Le Shiya. Symptoms: Intermittent episodes of lethargy, during which all motor functions are lost."

"Ward 1406, Bed 2, ... Su Bai. Symptoms: Loss of vision in both eyes."

"Ward 1407, Bed 1, Feng Xuelan. Symptoms: Language dysfunction; involuntarily voices inner thoughts one is unwilling to share."

"Ward 1407, Bed 2, Tian Yue. Symptoms: Hallucinations, uncontrollable, potentially unable to distinguish reality from illusion."

"Ward 1408, Bed 1, Jie Ying. Symptoms: Loss of hearing in both ears."

"Ward 1408, Bed 2, Chi Yan. Symptoms: Gradually developing uncontrollable symptoms of extreme thirst."

"Ward 1409, Bed 1, Xiang Feiyu. Symptoms: Amnesia."

"Ward 1409, Bed 2, Xu Rui. Symptoms: Intolerable, severe pain in both feet, making walking difficult and mobility restricted."