Chapter 540 Is the “Innate Holy Body” real or fake?
"call……"
To Orange Cat's relief, the indescribable dimness finally stopped outside the firelight, and the figures also stopped.
However, before he could fully exhale, he saw a hand covered with old man's corpse spots reaching out from the darkness into the firelight.
The next second, a sizzling sound was heard, and the old man's palms were instantly roasted and cracked, oozing oil.
After a low, growling scream, the figure in the dim light withdrew its hand.
"call……"
The orange cat slowly released the air that had been choking on it.
Can……
As more and more figures gathered from all directions of the hospital because of the fire, Orange Cat felt the indescribable chill in his heart intensify again.
Looking at the other side, the maid was standing loyally beside Brother Shunzi, with no intention of moving.
Orange Cat has no idea what this person's methods are.
However, his strong intuition told him that this guy who looked like a robot and was motionless was definitely not a weakling.
In fact, if you come into conflict with it, you might be the one to die!
"Oh, I hope it can be quick. If there is any problem, I really may not be able to handle it..."
The orange cat sighed nervously.
Now he felt that what he was facing was not a few or a dozen anomalies, but the hospital itself ... It was hard to tell whether it was "will" or something else.
…
At the same time, Colin closed his eyes and quickly fell asleep peacefully.
However, even in his dream, he could still clearly feel his consciousness, similar to the "lucid dream" in the general sense.
"I feel like I'm about to wake up. No, it feels like I'm in another place..."
Colin made a frowning motion.
He knew that if he opened his eyes this time, he would be able to reach the seventh floor smoothly.
But I inexplicably found that I couldn’t open my eyes!
"What happened? Did someone stop me?" Colin's mind raced, realizing that an accident might have happened.
It was at this time that some glowing mist began to emerge in the dream consciousness world...
Everything was shrouded in fog.
Something has invaded his dream world!
"boom!"
Flames erupted from Colin's consciousness, protecting him.
"Fortunately, in this situation, the power of the bonfire can still be used."
As Colin secretly breathed a sigh of relief, his consciousness focused on the depths of the fog before him...
Although he couldn't see anything, his strong intuition told him that there must be something inside.
"What the hell?"
While wondering, Colin suddenly heard a whisper coming from the depths of the thick fog.
At first, it was very vague and faint, like the buzzing of a mosquito, inexplicably irritating, but as he focused his attention, the sound gradually became clearer...
"Help me, help me, help me..."
What is the content of the request for help?
Ke Lin was stunned for a moment, then opened his mouth and tried to communicate: "Who are you?"
Although the specific origin of this sound is still unclear, it is likely related to something in the hospital, so you can try to see if you can get some information from it in advance.
"Help me, help..."
"What can I do for you?"
"Help me, help me..."
“…”
"Help you..."
Colin suppressed the inexplicable urge to swear, pursed his lips, and gave up the idea of communicating with him.
This thing shouldn't be able to communicate...
However, the other party's cry for help...he couldn't help but think of the old man in the company's internal group.
I don't know if there is any connection between the two...
"Help me, help me..." The whispers came again and again.
But due to some kind of barrier, we can't communicate at all...
"If you can't help, just wait to die."
Colin didn't waste any more time on this thing. As his thoughts flashed, flames burst out from his body and spread directly in all directions, forcibly cutting off this place.
The next moment, Colin opened his eyes and saw a familiar yet unfamiliar department.
I was still lying on the hospital bed, but everything around me had become distorted, like an oil painting that had been heated, as if it was about to melt at any moment...
When those dark red shadow patches on the fourth layer were seen again on this layer, they began to become somewhat three-dimensional, revealing strange outlines.
And it seemed to be emitting an inexplicable malice...
At this moment, his mind seemed a little confused and unclear, seemingly due to the influence of the dream about thick fog.
"Brother Shunzi, are you awake?"
A somewhat surprised voice came from the side. Colin looked sideways and saw the Holy Body staring at the door while speaking.
This posture is a bit strange...
Colin looked in the direction he was looking, then raised his eyebrows and saw a face without any facial features and covered in blood behind the observation window of the ward door, staring inside through the observation window.
The skinless human face looked hideous and terrifying. The two rows of teeth exposed to the air kept opening and closing, as if making invisible sounds, and the bloodshot eyes stared at everything in the room.
As if noticing Colin's gaze, the skinless man suddenly banged his head against the door.
The sound of "bang bang bang" continued to come through the door, echoing in the empty corridor, making people feel uneasy...
"What the hell?"
Colin was surprised, and felt an indescribable familiarity from the face of this bloody thing.
It's like we've met before...
Moreover, when he turned his head to look at the strange things outside the door, he inexplicably felt a sense of danger emerging from behind him.
Subconsciously turning his head, he saw the Holy Body of Ashes also staring outside and said quickly:
"I woke up just now and didn't see you, so I went out to look for you, but I got entangled by this thing. It seems to be an anomaly. We need to deal with it quickly..."
Before he could finish his words, his voice suddenly got stuck, as if his neck was being strangled.
The man who beat the Holy Body was stunned for a moment, and found that Colin appeared beside him at some point, strangling his neck with one hand.
Colin pulled hard and knocked the guy down with one hand, slamming him to the ground with a "bang". Then he continued to pinch the man's neck with one hand and pressed his knee down on the man's chest.
The ash-beating Saint, who was subdued by the American style, wanted to resist, but found that he was completely suppressed and could only shout helplessly:
"Brother Shunzi, what's going on? Are you crazy?!"
"You're pretending to be quite good. Let me see what you are made of."
After saying that, Colin stretched out his hand and pinched the face of the "Innate Dust-Breaking Holy Body" in front of him. Sure enough, the skin and flesh were separated immediately. He grabbed the other's chin with his nails and tore it hard, and the entire face skin was torn off directly.
When Colin saw the thing behind, he was stunned. It looked like a wooden man?
The wooden figure's surface is engraved with instructions for various meridian points, making it look like a common prop in a traditional Chinese medicine clinic...
"Ahhh, my face hurts so much, are you crazy?!" The wooden man screamed in horror, stretched out his wooden hands, and used terrifying strength to try to snatch back his face and scalp.
Colin kicked it away but failed to kill it.
He was a little unsure whether killing this thing would affect the real Holy Body...
"Also, what's going on? How come when I woke up, the Holy Body seemed to have disappeared..."
Colin stood aside, holding a leather hood that looked like a soft, deflated balloon and still dripping with blood, looking at the wooden man, wondering what the mechanism of this anomaly was.
"Is that thing outside the real person?" Colin thought about it and felt that the headgear in his hand seemed to match.
But before he could open the door and let people in to verify, he saw the wooden man whose real-life leather suit had been pulled off actually shook off the flames that bound him and stood up. He wanted to launch an attack, but he didn't know what he saw and suddenly froze.
Colin looked in the direction it was looking and found a mirror there...
"How is it possible? Why is there wood under my face? Impossible! Ahhhh!! My hands, why are my hands turned into wood too!"
The wooden man, without his leather hood, fumbled around his face with his hands, seemingly finding something wrong, but as he fumbled around, he realized that his hands were also wrong.
"Ahhh! No, this is not my body. What kind of curse did you cast on me?"
"Give it back to me! Change my body back! Give it back to me now..."
"You're not Brother Shunzi! You're a fake, you're a fake! You damned bastard, change me back! Change me back!"
The wooden man seemed unable to accept his own appearance. He suddenly started yelling like a madman and pounced towards Colin with a ferocious look on his face.
However, before it was halfway there, a huge flaming hand grabbed it.
Colin turned his head, looked at the door, stretched out his hand, and a ball of fire surged over, directly blowing the door open.
Starting from the collarbone upwards, all the people whose skin had been peeled off rushed in. He opened his mouth to speak, but no sound came out. Then he pointed at the hood in Colin's hand, as if hinting at something.
"Don't worry."
Colin took a look, took out a seal, and said, "Fire Tree."
After saying this, the shadow of a huge flaming tree appeared in the air behind Colin. On the thick trunk of the flaming tree, the old man's face emerged. He lowered his head and responded loyally:
"I am here."
"Can this be handled?" Colin pointed at the bloody man who was trying to communicate.
Although the other party had encountered something, judging from the feedback given by the campfire perception, the person was not wrong and it was indeed the Holy Body that was beaten to ash.
"He was cursed and stripped of some of his flesh, blood, and abilities..."
"Can you recover?"
"Yes, although it involves some advanced special effects, the level of use is very low. All we need to do is return the stolen flesh and blood and then eliminate the source of the pollution."
"Well, then you start."
Colin handed it to Huo Shu, who claimed to have the credentials of a senior Bonfire physician.
The tree roots took the blood-drenched hood like hands and pulled it open. After comparing it for a moment, the "fire tree" tentacles rolled up and put it back on the ash-beaten holy body. Each tiny branch began to perform delicate stitching work...
This kind of stitching work would be very effective if done by a maid, but unfortunately, she seems to be away.
During the manipulation, the puppet, suppressed by the madness, struggled and screamed frantically:
"Give it back to me! You damned abnormals! When Brother Shunzi comes here, you will all die! You will all die!!"
"You can't fool him! You damned heretics and criminals!"
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"How can this anomaly really regard itself as its own?"
Colin felt an inexplicable sense of absurdity when he heard what this thing said.
To be honest, if it weren't for the power of "Fire Bearer", it would be difficult for him to tell who was who at the first moment. Even at this moment, if it weren't for the reflection of the "bonfire", he might have been suspicious.
Was the Holy Body of Ashes really usurped and turned into a wooden man?
As the body of the Holy Body of Ashes recovered, the voice of the wooden man, whose body was covered with blood and various meridian acupoint markings, became increasingly hoarse, and then began to disappear.
What had been looted began to return.
When everything was over and he had confirmed from the Fire Tree that everything was fine, Colin burned it all down to ashes.
"Huh, Brother Shunzi, thank you..." The holy body that had recovered a lot said with lingering fear.
To be honest, when he was locked outside the door, he was really worried when he saw the wooden man who had peeled off his entire scalp and put it on his head, and then turned into himself and talked to Brother Shunzi, he was really worried.
Even he couldn't tell whether the people inside were real or fake, let alone Brother Shunzi, who had not even worked together for three hours?
Fortunately, Brother Shunzi was not fooled...
"Actually, there's nothing to worry about. It's just that it's quite similar. Even without a bonfire, I should be able to tell the real thing from the fake by my sense of smell, the aura of the company... Well, tell me what happened."
Colin waved his hand, indicating that he wanted to get to the point.
Soon, from the narration of the Holy Body, he understood exactly what had happened.
About half an hour ago, after the Holy Body woke up, he found himself alone in the room and did not see him appear.
I could wait at first, but if I stayed any longer, I would be alone in this hellhole.
He was feeling a bit restless and prepared to go out to look for Colin. However, not long after he left the house, he encountered some strange creatures. While trying to avoid them, he ran into a Traditional Chinese Medicine department that seemed harmless at first glance but was pitch black.
And happened to hide under a wooden puppet model...
"That thing reached out and touched my scalp, and I felt dizzy for a while. When I came to my senses, my entire scalp was pulled out and put on itself. Then it became me..."
"Then it tried to attack again, but I blocked it, and we were in a stalemate."
"But then it suddenly ran away. I followed it and found that it returned to the room where I appeared. Then, I saw you, Brother Shunzi, appear . It must have wanted to attack you..."
The Holy Body of Ashes recounted his desperate experience. Although his face skin was a little uneven because it had just been stitched, he still showed a deep fear.
If Brother Shunzi hadn't been there this time, he didn't dare to think about what would have happened to him.
"It's not an attack. He wants to continue to deprive you of your social relationships in reality and truly replace you..." Huo Shu spoke from the side, denying the last words of the Holy Body of Ashes.
Upon hearing this, the Holy Body of Ashes hissed. It didn't expect that the thing was so vicious.
Not only did she steal his face, she also wanted to take away everything else...
"But it's actually meaningless. If you were an ordinary person, it might really take away everything from you. But as a company employee... at least it can't take away your company identity. Even higher-level beings can't do it. After all, this is a direct certification of the 'agreement'. If it really does that, then you won't have to consider the trivial matter of having your identity deprived..." Huo Shu said affirmatively.
"Okay, since there are no problems now, it's not particularly important. Um, according to you, I showed up about half an hour later than you did?"
Colin interrupted Huo Shu and looked at the Holy Body of Ashes. He knew that his late appearance was probably due to the sudden "fog dream".
"Yes." After receiving the response, Colin thought about it and continued to ask the other party if he had had a similar dream.
“I never dreamed…”
Dahui Saint immediately shook his head to indicate that he was not sure. He appeared here as soon as he woke up, and his body felt very strange, as if it was unreal. But it was unreal, but it also seemed real, and it was difficult to tell.
At least the excruciating pain after having my scalp pulled out was incredibly clear...
My head is still buzzing and my face is itchy and painful.
"It should be the company's trick. I don't know the details, but our real bodies are still on the fourth floor."
Colin took a moment to reflect and gave a simple answer.
"Still on the fourth floor? Then..."
Seeing that the Holy Body of Ashes had relaxed somewhat, Colin interrupted and warned, "Of course, although we are not real bodies, it is best not to get into trouble here. Otherwise, even if we don't die, there will be great negative consequences."
After a pause, Colin clapped his hands and said, "Okay, we've been delayed for quite some time. Now let's go to the consultation hall and check the rules."
"Hmm..." The Holy Body nodded without objection.
By the seventh floor, he could no longer provide much useful knowledge. After all, their initial exploration had almost completely failed on this floor...
All I can do is follow Brother Jun Shunzi and see if there is a chance to see my former teammates again.
Just as the two were about to leave, Colin suddenly stopped and looked towards a corner of the room.
The "mental maniac" who was tied up on the fourth floor was also found in this room...
