Chapter 158 - Not a Bad Person

The sudden giggling from Guangru shocked the grown men around them. They all s.u.c.k.e.d in cold air as they threw their gazes at Liu Xiaodan. More when the big nurse began to arch her back. The huge vertical mouth opened and spat out a few things. It's just that… most of what she vomited were the gear and other things on Two by then. The organic part was already dissolved, but a few chunks were stuck to the items.

Six straight up dislodged whatever was inside his stomach at the side. Seven covered his eyes with his hand as he looked away. Ten, Five, and Eight were stunned as they saw a familiar tactical gear pile on the ground. Why did that look exactly like theirs? The oldest one among them, Ten, put Eight down and walked to take a look at the gear. He then slowly picked up the helmet with a number 2 on it.

"Holy shit, he was eaten..." Ten controlled his urge to throw up as he was already hungry. Five then moved closer and ducked down to check the other contents. He used his rifle to move the pieces. "F.u.c.k, I can't find a thumb—"

"The f.u.c.k is wrong with you?!"

"I just want to get out of here!"

Seven then ran to pull away the two as the three saw that the so-called student floated away from Liu Xiaodan's back and moved to the pile. Her huge hand seemed to be like a magnet that pulled up the chunks of meat. Then, she opened her mouth that unhinged like a snake's and ate the meat. After a few seconds, she started gagging. Plok! Out came a whole hand from her mouth.

He just finished emptying his stomach, and yet Six went at it again after witnessing what that student had done. Even Liu Xiaodan was looking away the entire time the two ghost kings were recovering whatever they could from the dead.

Five shrugged Seven's grip and slung his rifle onto his back. He picked up the slimy severed hand and searched the objects for the detonator. 

His actions made Ten and Seven disgusted and would warrant kicks from them if he dared to get near. Ten then turned to the ghost kings. "Are these… your pets?"

"...not really, they're just imprints from the power I've consumed. Soon, that yoga woman would show up as well." Liu Xiaodan didn't hide from them as they would be alarmed if he kept a secret. Besides, it was easy to tell that these two Kings were not really Kings. "You don't have to be scared of them. They will only respond to my commands, not to an urge to eat living beings..."

"What the f.u.c.k are you exactly?" Five murmured as he struggled to look for the detonator in such a very dim setting. "You're not a ghost, not human either. I have been working here for like seven years, and I have never heard of anything like you."

Ten scrunched his face. 'You lasted seven years?'

Liu Xiaodan didn't answer, but it was because he had no idea what to say. As much as he knew, he was a normal child that could see the paranormal. However, after coming here, his view of his physical body had been thoroughly distorted. Tch, even just staying in Wangguan actually ripped away that 'human' tag on Liu Xiaodan.

However, Five turned to him as if waiting for an answer. Liu Xiaodan shrugged: "Let me ask Nurse Yun when he gets promoted."

"I don't know about you, but that Nurse Yun is surely dead after they find out that we can't take you down at all." Five hummed in passing, but he felt something pushed him from the side. He gasped as he fell into the bloody pool of Two's remains. "Hey, who the—?!"

He couldn't talk anymore because it was the student's face that nudged at him and was now an inch away from his own face. Five almost lied down on the pool to avoid her. "Don't get me wrong! They really do change nurses when the subject gets out of their hands! They blamed the nurses for not making the patients trust them! And no! I don't know who that Nurse Yun is or if he already had a gun against his head!"

Guangru hummed as he tapped his small fingers against his chin. "I think he's telling the truth, Baba. I constantly hear them scold Nurse Yun every time you run around. Don't worry though. Nurse Yun is still alive. He's only very worried at the moment because the Treatment Hall is closed down… with you inside.

"Also..."—his round dark eyes glinted red—"if they touch him, they will die."

"Let's keep it that way, please?" Liu Xiaodan sighed. "I will hate it if Nurse Yun gets hurt because of us..."

Yun He might not be the best person out there, but he was just a human like everyone else. No one wanted to die, but some people still struggled to maximize what they could do to the best of their power. Moreover, it must be very hard for Yun He to stomach the truth that he wasn't working in a facility where the patients would get better; he was actually working in a hospice where he could only comfort the patients until they died.

"Found it!" Five shook something in his hand and proudly showed off the detonator to the people around him. He then flipped the guard and used the severed hand to activate it. However, he then frowned. He turned to Liu Xiaodan. "Yo, Boss. I don't have an idea which path is in front of us. Just pick a number and let's see if Two"—he waved the severed hand—"can detonate it."

Liu Xiaodan glared at Five, and the soldier was reduced to a cowering dog. The father then turned at the wall in front of them, not knowing what to say. All he knew was that this was not Area 7—that's for sure.

"Area 34..."

A weak voice caught their attention, and Ten ran to attend to Captain bathing in blood. He then carried Captain with one arm over his shoulder and quickly sit him down next to Eight. Captain didn't take a look at Liu Xiaodan. "If you want to leave through that wall, detonate Area 34."

Liu Xiaodan's gaze turned cold. "Why should I trust you?"

Captain chuckled. "You have five of my men here, and they just want to leave as well. Why would I not tell them the way out?" He then raised his head as he tried so hard to breathe. "I met some of those things earlier, but they didn't get near me. Were you trying to spare me? Tch, after devouring Two and killing Three and One, you still wanted to play the good guy?"

"I'm not a bad person. I just don't want to die."