Chapter 257: Death Pool

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[Hippocrates Hospital] The origin of the Clinic, the site for Doctor Selection, and the center for organizing, analyzing, and storing information on illnesses, it is also the area with the highest medical standards within the Organization. Even internal staff can only enter and exit the Hospital at specified times. It is even more complicated for outsiders who wish to enter the Hospital, as they need to go through various cumbersome procedures and layers of approval. However, Yi Chen, standing in front of the gate, merely showed a special business card to the guard and was immediately led inside, even having security personally guide him. “Vice Director Visari instructed us that if you come, you should be taken straight to his office building, and any related procedures will be handled by us afterward,” the guard explained. “Thank you for the trouble.” [Pathogen Center] A massive, sealed white square building, one could feel a palpable force field shielding when approaching, as the white building material itself had powerful shielding effects. All intelligence regarding Pathological conditions, various types of diseases, research conducted by Gentleman Doctors, and important documents and reports are all stored in book form within. It is rumored that many of the Patients captured alive are imprisoned here, with Death Doctors under Visari’s command responsible for the research. This building lacked any obvious entrances or exits;rather, some white walls were adorned with black, door-like frames. As Yi Chen approached one of these black frames, under the security’s gesture, he immediately felt a special force field scanning his body, emitting a radio voice: “Special visitor William Behrens, information has been backed up, green passage granted! Please follow the arrows on the ground to Vice Director Andre Visari’s office. Do not deviate from the guide;otherwise, you will be subjected to isolation.” The black frame temporarily disappeared, and Yi Chen immediately stepped through it. Equally white corridors, the ground revealed green arrow symbols that gradually changed shape to give directional reminders. After winding his way for a while, the corridor transitioned from white to black, finally arriving at what was so-called the office, or more accurately termed a “collection room,” pervaded with the Death Aura of various mixed biological substances. Ordinary Gentlemen, even apprentices, need to wear isolation suits and special masks in advance when coming here;otherwise, prolonged exposure to such an environment would accelerate Physical aging. On the contrary, Yi Chen felt a sense of homecoming, even finding the air here ‘fresher’ than any place in Zion. He took several deep breaths, and wisps of Death smoke surfaced in his pupils. “How do you like my office? Once you break through your Limit and obtain your medical license, you can set up an office next door with the same decor and connect it to my laboratory equipment. The atmosphere of Death won’t be much different,” said Doctor Visari, his voice coming from the side. He was still wearing his bird-like mask, standing in front of the office’s characteristic [Corpse Tank], Similar to a fish tank but over ten times larger in size, it almost covered the entire wall. It was filled with a clear liquid that could effectively preserve quality and prevent Pathological spread, with various rare Sick Object corpses either lying at the bottom, hanging on artificial rocks, or floating at the surface. Besides the Corpse Tank, there were various corpse specimens hanging on the walls. In the center of the office, a two-meter-long iron spike stood in the corner, fitted with various heads, each with a different shape but all maintaining an open-mouthed appearance, continuously exhaling the Aura of Death. Yi Chen did not directly answer whether he wanted to be a Doctor, but instead said, “Not bad at all, Vice Director Visari. But could you tell me about the door behind you?” “It’s a secret passage that leads straight to my Workshop. I spend most of my working hours there, dealing with the Dead on a daily basis, using their bodies to explore the Essence of Death Medicine. Are you interested in becoming a Doctor?” Visari asked about the Doctor for the second time, and Yi Chen could no longer evade the question. “Well… I’ve already promised to become a Candidate for the First Gentleman, so we’ll see if that doesn’t work out.” Yi Chen’s response left Visari in a brief silence, then the bird-like mask contorted to a kind of serious tone he rarely used: “Is this a personal choice of yours, or are you being forced by the First Gentleman?” “I chose to do this on my own.” “Are you willing to sacrifice for the sake of the continuity of human civilization?” Yi Chen shook his head, saying with an embarrassed face: “I don’t have such grand ambitions. I just want to use the status of the First Gentleman to negotiate directly with the Skin Market and gain more Knowledge about Skin. It’s mostly for my own sake.” “Are you serious? You must be very clear about what it takes to become the First Gentleman, right?” “Yes.” The bird-like mask with its metallic eye sockets stared into Yi Chen’s eyes, and upon receiving a definite answer, Doctor Visari gestured for him to come closer. “Did you bring the thing?” “I brought it, but I used two syringes earlier;I don’t know if that’s going to be enough.” Yi Chen placed the 3/4 full bottle of Dusk thin silver liquid on the desk. S~eaʀᴄh the novёlF~ire.net website on Google to access chapters of novels early and in the highest quality. “If you’re sure you want to break through here, even if the quantity of the secret medicine isn’t enough, I can supplement it for you… after all, I have privately collected quite a few death-related secret medicines. ‘Dusk thin silver liquid’—I have three full bottles here, which is more than enough for you.” “Good.” “Follow me, I have long prepared a special area suitable for breakthroughs for you, where no one will disturb you.” [Dead Workshop] Similar to a small workshop, with various operating tables, hydraulic tanks, and colorful solutions placed aside. In addition, there are many death apprentices here wearing bird-like masks, working on dead body dissections, modifications, and even juice extraction. When Visari arrived, they all stopped their work and bowed to him. He did not stop but continued towards a deeper lab, which even required Visari to personally unlock a round disc password lock. Hiss hiss hiss! Three hydraulic doors with different structures opened in sequence, and after passing through a narrow, long, side-body corridor, a pungent odor hit them. What appeared before them was an ‘indoor swimming pool’, except that the water was completely black, bubbling, and even had some dark gold oil stains. One could even see pieces of skin, fingernails, and hairs floating on the surface. However, Yi Chen didn’t feel disgusted. Instead, saliva overflowed from the corners of his mouth, which he quickly wiped away with his sleeve. He even couldn’t wait to jump into the pool and suck up the liquid inside to his heart’s content. “Thank you, Vice President! Say, is this the death convergence point for the entire building?” “Right. The essences that overflow from the dead and the residues from our experiments, I’m used to collecting them here… this is a whole ten years’ worth.” “Can I really use it?” “As long as you find it useful, feel free to use it however you want. After all, I also occasionally use it to make tea, take baths, and the like—there’s no way I could use it all up myself. Hurry in. When you fully enter the ‘membrane state,’ I’ll come back in and inject the secret medicine into you.” Yi Chen nodded, performed a standard dive into it, and when his head bobbed back to the surface, Doctor Visari had temporarily left. Yi Chen wasn’t in a hurry;first, he used the straws evolved from his garments to drink enough liquid, allowing Death Aura to permeate his entire body. Once everything was ready, he took out the Golden Box. “Huh! Let’s begin…” At this moment, even Yi Chen couldn’t help but feel his heartbeat accelerate. He opened the Golden Box, lifted the mass of biological brain within, and guided by an intuition in the dark, moved it towards his forehead. The solid-state Madness Brain actually rippled as it touched his scalp, directly penetrating into his cranial cavity and merging with Yi Chen’s own brain. [Madness] An ancient script, black and arranged like conduit pipes, emerged before his eyes, In the blink of an eye, although Yi Chen was supposed to be soaking in the death fluid, he found himself floating hundreds of meters in the air, surrounded by an open world full of tumors, oozing pus, floating illness tentacles, and a multitude of bizarre, diseased beings living strange lives. “Is this… the Old World before it was sealed off? These patients were once the residents of the Old World… They seem unable to see me.” Just as Yi Chen wanted to examine his own state, he found that he had no hands, and in fact, no torso or brain either. He had become a nano-scale shell-like virus or to be exact ‘Mad Shell’.

Chapter 257: Death Pool

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