Chapter 1578
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Chapter 1578 Its Game
Boom—!
With a tremendous crash, Lin Qiye’s figure smashed into the first floor of the ward, breaking through several walls before collapsing in the billowing dust.
He supported himself with one hand, slowly rising from the rubble, looked at the bloodstains in front of him, and shock appeared in his eyes!
“How is this possible…”
“Yes, yes, yes… exactly that expression! Confusion, shock, bewilderment, terror… it’s wonderful! Truly wonderful!!” [Chaos]’s voice drifted through the air as he approached Lin Qiye step by step. That “benevolent” face twisted into a strange, manic grimace!
“Lin Qiye, did you really think you were the master of this place?”
Lin Qiye stood frozen.
“This hospital never belonged to this world; it’s merely an object that drifted here… What makes you think you’re its master?
Is it because of the white coat you picked up in the director’s office? Because you opened the doors to these patients’ rooms? Because you gave yourself the title of ‘Director’? Or because you were the first to arrive here? Oh no… strictly speaking, you weren’t even the first, were you? It was that little girl called Jinian?
Aren’t you curious?
The white coat, that girl wore it too; the patient rooms here, that girl opened them too; the patients here, several of them communicated with her as well… Why? Did the hospital first recognize her as its master, then recognize you?
Don’t be foolish. This hospital never had any master! Anyone who comes here could do all these things!
The only reason you’ve had exclusive control of the hospital for so long is because it was hidden in your mind by that girl. No one else could touch it or enter it! You’re nothing but a pioneer, a lucky person who claimed this hospital as your own!”
[Chaos]’s words penetrated Lin Qiye’s mind like thunderclaps, reverberating loudly.
Indeed…
There was no absolute connection between himself and this hospital.
During those years of blindness, this hospital existed in his mind for so long, yet he couldn’t even open its doors until his mental power broke through the “Lamp” realm. Only then did he enter, find the white coat in the director’s office, and discover the note left by Jinian.
He opened one patient room door after another, voluntarily treating the patients to gain their abilities… Throughout this process, there was no indication, no proof that he was the master of this place.
Even the imprisoned “Mystery” soul in the dungeon wrote:
“As a mythical creature killed by your own hands, you have the right to decide its fate…” rather than “As the master of this hospital, you have the right to decide its fate…”
Looking at it from this perspective, many things actually made sense. For example, why could patients see what Lin Qiye saw after their treatment progress reached 95%?
This wasn’t a sharing of vision, but because the hospital existed in Lin Qiye’s mind, the scenes outside the hospital that patients saw were what Lin Qiye saw. And when their treatment progress reached 95%, they were about to shed their identity as “patients,” so they could see the progress bar above their heads and even attempt to communicate with the hospital.
“No… even if it doesn’t recognize a master, you shouldn’t be able to hurt me! You’re a mental patient here!” Lin Qiye frowned as he spoke.
Lin Qiye clearly remembered that within this hospital, neither patients nor staff could harm him. Nyx, Merlin, Gilgamesh… all of them were the same. This should be the hospital’s protection mechanism.
[Chaos]’s lips curled upward slightly. He pointed at the chess board covered in black pieces in front of him.
“This hospital does indeed have its own thoughts. You’ve treated so many patients, and sometimes it does help you… But don’t forget, I’m different from you!
It comes from outside the world, and so do we. Moreover, I am the Crawling [Chaos]. Given enough time, I can seize part of its power, even make its consciousness fall into slumber…
Haven’t you noticed? Recently, has anything about this hospital seemed different?”
Lin Qiye seemed to realize something. “It was you? You’ve been secretly preventing me from recruiting new staff? You’ve been altering the rules here? That chess board… doesn’t represent changes in the outside world, but the degree of your control over this hospital?!”
During the National Fate Island incident, Lin Qiye discovered he couldn’t recruit more staff. He originally thought there was something wrong with those “Mystery” souls themselves, but now it seemed that wasn’t the case.
“This chess game is interesting, isn’t it?” [Chaos] laughed sharply. “I placed my progress in controlling this hospital right in front of all of you, yet none of you could guess its meaning… It’s always so amusing to see your confused expressions!”
“If you’ve been hiding behind the sixth patient room door all along, why didn’t you take control of the hospital during those years before I entered it?”
Hearing this question, “Yeland’s” expression froze, then turned into a cold smile without answering.
A gleam flashed in Lin Qiye’s eyes as he glanced at the rooms on the second floor of the ward, as if he had guessed something.
“I understand now… You were wary of the patients in the previous rooms, weren’t you? If they discovered your actions, Nyx, Merlin, Bragi, Sun Wukong, Gilgamesh – they wouldn’t have let you off. If they joined forces, you might not have prevailed.
So you only dared to act in secret, and were almost discovered by Gilgamesh. Only after they all left the hospital did you dare to stand here openly.”
Having figured this out, Lin Qiye’s expression became calm. At least this entity before him wasn’t infallible or without weaknesses.
By now, Lin Qiye had basically pieced together the cause and effect of everything.
“Was Eden’s situation also your doing?”
“Hehe… do you know how difficult it is to find a soul loaded with life energy here? I went to such lengths to secretly devour her soul and restore my power, only for you to snatch it away with that broken cup… We still need to settle this score properly.” [Chaos] sneered.
It matched Lin Qiye’s guess – Bragi’s sudden discharge was indeed [Chaos]’s handiwork.
At that time, Bragi and Eden were probably one entity. Somehow, he extracted Eden’s soul and devoured it. Without Eden as a second soul, Bragi naturally left the hospital with 100% treatment progress.
When Lin Qiye returned to the hospital, [Chaos] altered the panel information to avoid detection, which explained why Eden’s name disappeared…
Later, when Bragi made a wish to the [Holy Grail] for Eden’s return, the monster that appeared in the sky was none other than [Chaos]’s true form! However, after that incident, the [Holy Grail] suffered extreme backlash and shattered on the spot.
