Hospital 444
Chapter 707: Original text - 16 The Hunted Hunter

Chapter 707: Original text: Chapter 16 The Hunted Hunter

Renice Dailun stared at the Demon Sheep Head hanging from Mephisto Faust’s chest.

This cursed object, known as the "Seven Sins Skull," was covered in ancient inscriptions and emanating a nauseating aura.

"Aluga said something interesting when she married me back then," Renice tried to use psychological warfare, "She said her father smelled like rotten milk."

Mephisto’s expression immediately twisted into a grimace.

"Lumian Dailun!!!"

"You know about the great race of Is within my body, don’t you? Renice Dailun’s soul was replaced by me at birth. I myself... according to LGBT terminology, have gender dysphoria."

Ophelia’s Hunter’s Knife was already unsheathed, but her movements suddenly hesitated—some distant memory was interfering with her judgment.

The experience of facing an evil spirit for the first time at the age of three suddenly became clear, that instinctual childhood fear of ghosts crawling up her spine.

"Mental reversion of the great race of Is?" Mephisto pressed his wife’s shoulder, "Don’t look into her eyes!"

Meanwhile, on the other side, a large number of Curse Object Department doctors in yellow hazmat suits were preparing to extract Fang Xiaomeng’s blood to create meme pollution cursed objects.

The ferocious spirit curse object within Fang Zhou was a rare spatial type—its essence could exist not even within his soul structure but in the dimensional gaps, making it difficult for the Curse Object Department’s hazmat suit ghosts to dissect and extract his curse object at the moment.

Virgil Faust appeared amidst this chaos.

His blue eyes glowed faintly in the dark, like luminous jellyfish in the deep sea.

He had long seen through what kind of person Lelia was and understood that she didn’t love him. The moment she died, he felt no sadness at all, only a sense of release from some past curse.

He was no longer Virgil Faust.

What he saw as the beauty of love was merely a tool used by the ugly Faust family. His body and soul were purely consumable items. What they needed was a "Five-level Abyss Invasion Curse Carrier," never a person named "Virgil."

At this moment, the bound Fang Zhou only saw the movements of the hazmat suits suddenly become uncoordinated, with one individual’s left hand suddenly attacking the right hand, like a puppet whose strings had gotten tangled.

Virgil utilized the dimensional overlapping ability of his eyes, enhanced to a semi-high-dimensional state by Suyuan Mountain.

Virgil’s voice echoed strangely, as if coming from multiple directions simultaneously.

He reached out and touched the incubation chamber that held Wen Xiaoshu. Instantly, seven or eight overlapping shadows of parallel time layers appeared on the glass surface from a high-dimensional perspective—some chambers were bloodstained, some empty, and in the rightmost reflection, Fang Xiaomeng appeared drained of blood.

Blood suddenly seeped out of the red hazmat suit’s helmet!

When Virgil’s blue eyes met it, the executioner saw countless instances of himself being killed. It wasn’t a prophecy; it was reality happening in other three-dimensional time layers.

His epilepsy attack came suddenly and violently, his convulsing body knocking over the tray of dissection tools.

Subsequently, Virgil rescued Fang Xiaomeng. Fortunately, not much blood had been drawn yet.

"Go," Virgil tore off Fang Zhou’s binding straps, "while Director Mephis is being restrained..."

Suddenly, the red hazmat suit stood up again, his body twisting like the static of an old faulty TV, quickly transforming into a tall figure in a white hazmat suit!

The Curse Object Department was never like this back when it was controlled by the Dailun Family. After Faust took power, once the Curse Object Department doctors put on these hazmat suits, they turned into something neither fully human nor ghostly.

The red hazmat suit was the deputy director of the Curse Object Department, and when transformed into a white hazmat suit, he was the director!

A cold-glowing Ω symbol was on the chest of the white hazmat suit.

Virgil immediately pushed Wen Xiaoshu towards Fang Zhou and stood in front of them. When the white-gloved hand was raised, Virgil’s blue eyes suddenly started bleeding tears!!!

Renice’s laughter echoed from the mountaintop. Ophelia’s Hunter’s Knife was only three inches away from her throat, yet it wouldn’t strike down.

Memories from the past suddenly became incredibly clear. The trembling in her hand the first time she killed a living person was perfectly replicated at that moment.

"Stop!" Mephis crushed the bronze sheep head on his chest, and seven wisps of black smoke burrowed into Ophelia’s seven orifices. Her sharp hunter’s gaze returned, but Renice had already appeared in front of Mephis.

Her pale fingers gently brushed across Mephis’s forehead, and this action made Mephis’s whole body stiffen.

"Your daughter died in great pain." Renice’s voice suddenly turned into Lelia’s, "Do you want to know the last thing she saw?"

The wind on Suyuan Mountain suddenly carried the scent of blood.

Virgil led Fang Zhou’s family towards the dimensional gap he had opened, and the four of them disappeared into the dimensional crevice like diving into mercury.

The white hazmat suit’s glove grasped at nothing, and for the first time, a tremor appeared in the electronic voice under the mask: "Coordinates lost."

Virgil’s High-dimensional Walking ability had gained unprecedented strengthening.

The battle at the mountaintop had just begun.

Lelia’s dying memories were continuously flooding into the minds of the Mephis couple through Renice’s ability. Ophelia’s Hunter’s Knife clanged to the ground as she saw her daughter being pierced through the chest by the Devil’s Eye, with Klein standing three meters away, watching coldly.

"This is fake!" Mephis’s retort was weak.

The fragments of the Demon Sheep Head cut his palm, and those black smokes, which were claimed to control human nature, were gradually extinguished in the mental trap Renice wove.

In the depths of the canyon.

Virgil emerged from the dimensional rift holding the unconscious Fang Xiaomeng. Fang Zhou’s blood curse object was regenerating wildly, but his full attention was on the mountaintop.

"Is Dai Lin there?"

Fang Zhou looked at Virgil, "Why did you save us?"

Virgil gave a self-mocking smile, "I’m merely redeeming my lost self. What I entrusted my life to was nothing but a joke."

Memories kept surging...

Once, Lelia was an immaculate muse in his mind. He had paved countless corpses for her with the devotion of a lifetime. Now, he wanted to reclaim his past self, and his only glory then was the Colt M1911 handgun used by his grandfather in the Pacific War, kept in a drawer.

To him, it seemed like a memory from a previous life.

Meanwhile, on the battlefield.

Mephis’s voice was low and cold: "Ophelia, you’re no match for her. Stay here; I can’t face her with my hands tied. Leave first, go kill Dai Lin!"

Ophelia did not reply, just slowly raised the Hunter’s Knife, bloodlight burning along its edge. She turned and left, vanishing like a specter.

Renice didn’t stop her, merely watched Mephis quietly, "You’re sending her to die?"

Mephis sneered, "She’s a Hunter, never failed."

Ophelia’s silent steps passed through the chaotic spatial layers of Suyuan Mountain, the bloodlight on her knife illuminating her ghastly face.

As the strongest Hunter of 666 Hospital, High-dimensional Walking was as familiar to her as strolling through her own backyard.

She quickly found her target.

Dai Lin was on the mountaintop, the Pandora’s Eye continually opening and closing, blood seeping continuously from the corners of his eyes.

He realized that the Pandora’s Eye was constantly eroding him, but he dared not move easily in the chaotic spatial layers. They must bring a resident doctor from the apartment to find a way to take the Pandora’s Eye back to the apartment! Then, they would win!

"Finally found you."

Death’s whisper approached.

Ophelia raised the Hunter’s Knife.

However, just as the blade was about to strike—

An attack that should have hit for sure instead saw the Hunter’s Knife break!

Unbeknownst to her, Gao Heyann stood before Dai Lin, her white hair billowing in the wind, the patterns of the Causality Curse object flickering on her arm.

Ophelia’s pupils contracted sharply: "It’s you... Natsume Banjiu!"

Gao Heyann’s gaze was icy: "That name died long ago. I rewrote the past; your Hunter’s Knife has been used for too long, worn down, it finally broke."

Ophelia’s lips curled into a cold smile: "Using the Causality Curse given by 666 Hospital against us? How ironic. Have you forgotten that your sister is on our side?"

Gao Heyann replied coldly: "My sister believes she is redeeming father’s sins and has chosen to side with you. I am under no obligation to join you and be a lackey for the director because of her. The name Natsume Banjiu doesn’t exist anymore, I only have one sister now, Gao Menghua."

Ophelia drew out a new Hunter’s Knife and swung it again, aiming for Gao Heyann’s throat.

Gao Heyann sidestepped, within her perspective, the lines of causality instantly wove into a net, attempting to shatter the Hunter’s Knife once more, but failed.

"The Causality Weave inside you was made by our 666 Hospital..." Ophelia sneered, "Did you think we wouldn’t leave a backup plan?"

Ophelia’s figure suddenly blurred, and the Hunter’s Knife slashed simultaneously from seven different angles!

The lines of causality around Gao Heyann trembled furiously. She saw three possible futures—

Left shoulder severed; right leg pierced; heart impaled.

Modifying the future involving life and death couldn’t be done easily. At least, escaping unscathed was unrealistic.

She had to choose the lightest injury within an instant.

"Left shoulder!"

She swiftly turned, the Hunter’s Knife slashing into her left shoulder, blood splattering. She quickly dodged away afterward!

Dai Lin tried to assist, but Gao Heyann shouted: "Control the Pandora’s Eye well! Wait for my sister and others to join you, and then bring the Pandora’s Eye into the apartment!!!"

Dai Lin looked at the panting Gao Heyann, the lines of causality entwining around her from a high-dimensional perspective.

Under the suppression of 666 Hospital’s meds, his ability to neutralize cursed objects still couldn’t activate.

She knew that Ophelia’s combat experience far exceeded her own, making a direct confrontation very challenging.

She had to change her strategy.

Gao Heyann suddenly closed her eyes; in Dai Lin’s high-dimensional field of view, he could only see lines of causality gathering in her palm.

"What are you doing?" Ophelia sneered, "If you surrender now, I may still pardon you. Dai Lin killed my daughter; I must have him dead!!!"

Gao Heyann didn’t respond, instead, she drove the entwined causal lines into her own chest!

In the high-dimensional perspective, causal lines across different parallel spatial layers entangled quantumly, integrating into Gao Heyann’s body!

She began to activate Causal Reversion!

In an instant, Ophelia’s vision was forcibly dragged into Gao Heyann’s memories—

The Department of Cursed Objects laboratory at 666 Hospital, where Natsume Banjiu was bound to the operating table, and the red hazmat suit was planting the Causality Curse object piece by piece into her soul. She screamed, struggled, but no one responded.

Ophelia’s Hunter’s Knife trembled slightly.

She felt as if this was her own personal experience.

Gao Heyann opened her eyes, blood seeping from her mouth: "I’ll load part of my past experience into your past."

A Causality Line suddenly pierced Ophelia’s temple, forcibly implanting that memory into her mind. Ophelia’s pupils dilated, and the Hunter’s Knife slipped from her hand.

"What... have you done to me?"

Gao Heyann, gasping for breath, "Made you feel... everything I have felt."

Ophelia’s mental defenses crumbled. Her hunter’s will disintegrated under the erosion of causality.

But in truth, forcibly loading such illogical causality couldn’t succeed, it could only give Ophelia a momentary illusion.

But a momentary illusion was precisely what Gao Heyann needed.

She didn’t hesitate, picked up the fallen Hunter’s Knife, and quickly stabbed it into Ophelia’s heart.

"Good night, madam."

Ophelia’s body slowly fell, the light in her eyes completely extinguished.

The weakness of the hunters was their heavy reliance on high-dimensional will; their three-dimensional bodies wouldn’t undergo much change.

Gao Heyann succeeded in killing Ophelia, but the counterattack from this tactic was also severe.

Gao Heyann fell to her knees, the backlash from the Causality Curse making her body ache intensely. But she didn’t collapse, instead crawling with difficulty to Dai Lin’s side to check his injuries.

In the distance, the battle between Renice and Mephis continued.