Hospital 444
Chapter 685 - 17 Two Possible Paths of Life

Chapter 685: Chapter 17 Two Possible Paths of Life

This is an extremely counter-intuitive affair.

But this is precisely the balance constituted between the living and the lost souls. Supernatural ghost incidents have never had too much impact on the human population growth or decline, far less than the death toll brought by plagues, famines, and wars. This is the balance created by curses. Ferocious Spirits can cause mass human deaths, but they have no malice towards humanity. The more powerful the Ferocious Spirit, the weaker its intelligence. Once transformed into a Cursed Spirit, it will be bound by the Curse Rules, with the human casualties it causes being limited to a certain degree. Consequently, mainstream human society does not believe in the existence of real ghosts.

Even if... theoretically, without the restrictions of Curse Rules, eight to ten Cursed Spirits could completely annihilate the global population within a day.

"These rule restrictions ensure the normal reproduction of humanity, until the day Salgeni Medel made that mistake." Renees continued, staring at the curtain in front of her, "The lost souls who suffer from the Abyss Invasion might transform into the Karmic Obstacle Ghosts that shouldn’t exist, which then turn into Malevolent Ghosts!"

"So, the Demons Department is curbing the aggravation of Abyss corruption in this three-dimensional time layer?"

"Curbing all this is the apartment, and a curse power that transcends above the Cursed Spirits." Renees mentioned "apartment", her fingers trembling subconsciously, "The apartment also carries out killings according to the Curse Rules... However, in reality, without any rules restricting it, the apartment could, in an instant... remember, in an instant... cleanse this planet of all its human life."

Hearing this, Dai Lin’s heart instantly tightened.

"However, if the Dean completely invades our time layer..."

"Yes. If that happens, you and I, all of humanity will demonize, becoming Abyssal existences with no true selves. Within the restrictions of the rules, humanity will not be completely wiped out; however, under the allowances of the same rules, it could also lead to the extinction of humankind."

This time layer is but one among the countless three-dimensional time layers, with innumerable parallel spatial layers akin to multitudes of carps crossing the river. 444 and 666 Hospital belong to derived temporal layers of the same spatial layer, which can’t coexist within the three-dimensional plane; that’s how this time layer has sustained until now.

"Our time is running out." Renees continued, "The only hope we have to stop the Dean’s invasion into this time layer is Suyuan Mountain. The Demon that Salgeni Medel captured back then... is our only hope to block the Dean."

The Demon captured by Salgeni, discovered by the Dean back then, allowed the Dean, existing in the fifth dimension, to sense the presence of this fourth-dimensional Demon. That Demon became a beacon, constantly transmitting the coordinates of this three-dimensional space constituted by our timeline to the Dean.

The apartment attracts the Dean to invade this time layer; it’s an Early Activated Blood Letter Task. If the Dean’s invasion succeeds, the Blood Letter Task’s victor is the Dean. If the Dean’s invasion fails, the Blood Letter Task’s victors are all the occupants who have ever entered the apartment and still survive; the Dean would then be permanently sealed and confined by the apartment.

The apartment restricts the Dean’s sensing of coordinates transmitted by the Demon, a miss is as good as a mile; the Dean’s invasion is in another three-dimensional time layer constructed by a different timeline of this spatial layer, which is the layer where 666 Hospital exists.

"Traitors like Yin Wuque who act as guides quite indeed must be eliminated before the Suyuan Mountain Blood Letter Task begins," Dai Lin clenched his teeth tightly, "If he doesn’t die, we’ll be at a disadvantage!"

Following that, Dai Lin asked, "What should we do next? Is there a way to leave here?"

"Facing a Quasi-curse spirit directly will be beneficial for your growth," Renees pointed at Dai Lin, "If used well, a Level Six Abyss Invasion Curse can make you the strongest asset for our human camp in the battle at Suyuan Mountain."

"Human camp..."

Dai Lin thought of what Han Ming had said about "for the sake of all humankind". He wasn’t exaggerating at all! Who would have thought, himself just a surgeon, now actually bears the survival of seven billion humans!

If the human camp loses...

This three-dimensional space will be completely devoured by the Abyss...

Humanity will be wholly assimilated by Demons, likely no longer possessing independent personalities and consciousness, instead being replaced, becoming the essence of the Abyssal Demon’s curse itself.

Just like a Cursed Spirit.

Without any intellect, gone were both goodwill and malice, it would continue to curse beings of other parallel spatial dimensions.

Renees believed that only in three-dimensional space could life proliferate and survive, with a low-dimensional physical body and a high-dimensional soul constituting life itself, which has stable matter.

It’s exactly because the matter is stable that the duplex-structured soul can possess independent intellectual and personal characteristics, as well as likes, dislikes, and self-awareness. This is what distinguishes humans from ghosts. Like Yin Wuque, who, in pursuit of immortality, sold his soul to a demon, can no longer be considered human.

He is even more evil than Cursed Spirits!

Of course, as Renees had said, Yin Wuque, who had fused with the Dead Soul Tomb, was indeed not easy to kill!

Suddenly, Dai Lin noticed that the shadow appeared again on the curtain!

"Renees..."

Since his memory had almost been reset, Dai Lin felt no strangeness towards the woman before him, because in his memory, she had always been Renees Dailun.

"Here it comes again..." Renees looked at the shadow outside the curtain.

"But there’s still a problem," Dai Lin suddenly said, "Even if the Quasi-curse spirit’s intellect gradually fades away and pulling the curtain affects the Quasi-curse spirit’s vision, but... this is a curtain, not some kind of barrier, logically it shouldn’t be able to stop a Quasi-curse spirit."

"Intellect includes the most basic self-awareness. For a Quasi-curse spirit, the awareness behind the curtain that can be seen once the curtain is drawn or when intruding into the curtain might already be lost. But when a Quasi-curse spirit transforms into a Cursed Spirit, although the intellect will be completely lost, it will also transform into the curse itself; by then, the curse itself will drive the Cursed Spirits to kill us."

Dai Lin realized...

Now, it is the curtain that obstructs the vision of the Quasi-curse spirit, so the Quasi-curse spirit cannot detect the presence of living people behind the curtain!

Therefore...

They could survive!

But if there’s no way out, and the Quasi-curse spirit transforms into a Cursed Spirit, the curtain becomes meaningless. By then, it won’t be Evil Spirits that are killing, but the curse itself! The loss of intellect is not something that can happen to a curse.

"If that’s the case, the escape route in the Blood Letter Task should be a way to survive under the Curse Rules!"

"That should be it."

So...

Firstly, the transformation of a Quasi-curse spirit into a Cursed Spirit is an irreversible process.

A Quasi-curse spirit and a Cursed Spirit are not the levels of cultivation from online novels; a Quasi-curse spirit will become a Cursed Spirit with a hundred percent certainty, the difference is just a matter of time.

Therefore, the way out is either to delay the speed with which a Quasi-curse spirit becomes a Cursed Spirit or it’s possible to continue surviving after it transforms into a Cursed Spirit!

Only these two possibilities!