Chapter 1607
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Chapter 1607 The Disappearing Sixth Patient
Fog.
A exploration ship sailed across the calm waters, heading straight into the depths of the fog.
Lin Qiye stood at the bow of the exploration ship, the fog rolling over his figure. The once bright sunlight gradually dimmed, leaving only the ship’s lights piercing through the fog, extending to the distant sea surface.
Lin Qiye was very familiar with this exploration ship. The last time they went to sea to search for the [Ark], they were on this very ship. Later, after they returned from hell, Da Xia sent people to salvage it.
Memories surged in Lin Qiye’s heart. He sighed deeply and was about to turn around when a faint light flashed past above his head.
He looked up, but there was nothing above except for the hazy gray fog.
“Could it be that I really have aftereffects?” Lin Qiye muttered to himself in confusion.
Counting from the day before yesterday, this was the third time he had experienced hallucinations, which made him wonder if his soul and body hadn’t fully adapted, causing his senses to become disordered.
As Lin Qiye was pondering, Number 27 slowly approached from behind.
“How much longer?” Number 27 asked.
“We’ve been sailing for a day and a half, we should be arriving soon.”
Number 27 nodded, “You mentioned earlier that you wanted to ask Chloe something personally. What exactly is it?”
Lin Qiye hesitated for a moment, but still spoke up: “I want to know why she appears in the Han Dynasty archives… and whether she has any connection to me, or if we’ve met before.”
“I can answer the first question right now,” Number 27 said slowly. “It’s not surprising that she appears in your Han Dynasty archives because back then, she was a missionary for the Western Holy Church, traveling the seas on behalf of the Holy Lord, spreading their teachings… Not just in the Han Dynasty, but her footprints can be found all over the world.”
“During the Han Dynasty, she was already Yerande’s proxy?” Lin Qiye asked in surprise.
“That’s right.”
“But how could she live for so long?”
“She made a covenant with time. Years leave no trace on her, so naturally she doesn’t age.”
“A covenant with time?” Lin Qiye’s mouth fell open in shock. “What kind of ability is that?”
“Amazing, isn’t it?” Number 27 smiled. “When I first met her, I was also stunned. The things she can do go far beyond this… Although she never explained her abilities to me, after traveling together for so long, I can roughly guess.
She can form ‘covenants’ with anything in the world, and once established, these ‘covenants’ must be fulfilled.
She once made a ‘covenant’ with the wind, and the wind stayed around her, becoming her eternal protection; she made a ‘covenant’ with fire, and fire became a weapon that kills for her; she made a ‘covenant’ of reunion with those near death, and no matter how long the body has decayed, on the day the ‘covenant’ takes effect, the deceased will be reborn…”
“She can even bring the dead back to life?”
“Yes, that’s why I say, if she uses her ability properly, she is the embodiment of ‘omnipotence’.” Number 27 paused. “Of course, all of this comes at a price.”
“What’s the price?”
“I don’t know.”
Lin Qiye couldn’t help but marvel, “What a monstrous ability… So this is 001?”
“This ability is powerful, but it’s not what truly makes her formidable,” Number 27 said seriously. “She has a very special constitution – she can gradually change the faith of those around her as time passes.”
“Change their faith? Faith in what?”
“Faith in her.”
Hearing this answer, Lin Qiye froze.
“Wherever she stays for a long time, whether plants, animals, or humans, they will be attracted to her, becoming her devout followers, worshipping her as their faith and deity.”
Lin Qiye’s mouth hung open, and it took him a long while to recover. “No wonder she could be a missionary for the Western Holy Church… With this ability, gathering followers for the Holy Church would be too easy.”
This ability, combined with the ‘ageless covenant’ made with time, made this red-haired girl essentially a faith-harvesting machine. Given enough time, she could potentially turn every living being in the world into her follower.
Neither the power to change faith nor the mysterious power of ‘covenants’ was comparable to any forbidden domain or divine domain that Lin Qiye knew of… Perhaps this was why she became 001.
“So what exactly is your relationship with her?” After much hesitation, Lin Qiye carefully asked.
“Not the kind of relationship you’re thinking of,” Number 27 shook his head. “About seven or eight years ago, when I was walking through the fog as the God of Assassins, I accidentally encountered her. Her power astonished me, and I believed then that her power might be the key to saving this world.”
“Saving the world?” Lin Qiye asked puzzledly. “In what way?”
Number 27 extended his hand, pointing to the dead sea below, then to the gray sky above.
Lin Qiye was stunned for a while, guessing Number 27’s meaning, and asked in shock, “Is that really possible?”
“I asked her that too… but she just smiled without answering,” Number 27 sighed. “Later she invited me to travel with her, saying that someday she would show me what I wanted to see… so I agreed.”
“Why does that sound so mysterious?”
“She is mysterious, in every aspect…” Number 27 continued. “Because of this promise, I traveled with her for about three years, until she suddenly disappeared five years ago. Since then, I’ve been searching for her all over the world.”
Lin Qiye nodded. He already understood most of what happened after that.
“I’ve told you everything you wanted to know,” Number 27 turned to look at him. “I also have a question.”
“What is it?”
“That hospital,” Number 27’s gaze grew serious. “What exactly is that hospital that [Chaos] took from inside you?”
Lin Qiye was slightly taken aback. After much hesitation, he gave a simple explanation about the hospital’s existence, but omitted many details, including the process of treating other patients and extracting abilities.
After listening, Number 27 frowned slightly. “You mean [Chaos] disguised himself as a patient in the sixth room and was hiding in your mind all along?”
“That’s right.”
“You just said that in the later rooms, the patients had weaker divinity… correct?”
“Yes.”
Number 27 paced for a while, as if thinking of something, and gave Lin Qiye a peculiar look.
“What is it?” Lin Qiye asked curiously.
“Haven’t you considered one question?” Number 27 slowly said. “If [Chaos] was disguised and hiding in the sixth room… then where is the original patient of that room?”
Lin Qiye stood frozen. “The original patient?”
“You said the door plate of that room originally had a ‘?’ on it, right?” Number 27 spread his hands. “Doesn’t this mean that this room actually had a patient originally?”
These words fell on Lin Qiye’s ears like a thunderbolt.
The sixth hospital room… originally had a patient?
Lin Qiye had never considered this possibility. The existence of [Chaos] had directly misled his thinking, making him believe that the seventh hospital room had always contained [Chaos]… but in fact, after the door plate forged by [Chaos] fell off, it did reveal a symbol.
Lin Qiye had thought that the “?” meant there was no patient, but thinking carefully, if there was no sixth patient, the door plate should have been empty.
So where did the original sixth patient of this hospital go?
Was he killed by [Chaos], who then took his place?
Lin Qiye’s mind went blank. By the time he hazily came back to his senses, Number 27 had already returned to the cabin.
Lin Qiye rubbed his throbbing temples, sighed deeply, and stepped toward the cabin…
Regardless of the truth, the hospital was now in [Chaos]’s hands. Even if he wanted to find out what happened to the sixth patient, he no longer had the ability to do so.
Lin Qiye walked into the bathroom of the cabin, turned on the faucet, and washed his face with cold water, trying to wash away those jumbled thoughts.
Just then, something flashed past above his head again.
Lin Qiye’s eyes narrowed. This time he jerked his head up, but instead of looking directly above him, he looked at the mirror in front of him.
It wasn’t an illusion. There was indeed something flashing above his head… and this time, Lin Qiye clearly saw what it was.
His pupils trembled violently!
—”Lin Qiye treatment progress: 44%”
