Chapter 248: Still Not Working?

After a while.

The corridor's space was like a twisted‑dry towel, suddenly released.

The blood‑stained orthopedics ward before Ouyang Feng vanished in an instant, replaced by the familiar yet cavernous main hall of the Hospital's main building.

Jiang Yuan, Liang Wen, and the Li Qi who was already so frightened he nearly wet his pants, all stood not far away.

"We've come back again?" Liang Wen sounded incredulous, then looked at his palm, "So that's it... defeating the boss is the condition for leaving?"

Li Qi gasped heavily, his body covered in scars, lacking even the strength to speak.

At this moment, Ouyang Feng merely raised his hand, feeling the ever‑rushing, violently charged power surging within his body.

The feeling was exquisite.

At that instant, from the hall's ceiling, a monster with a swollen belly and spider‑like limbs clinging to the wall silently swooped down, targeting the defenseless Liang Wen!

"Watch out!" Jiang Yuan warned, his Shadow beneath his feet boiling, ready to strike.

Swoosh!

A white afterimage flashed by.

Ouyang Feng didn't even turn around, simply flicked his arm backward casually.

The sharp bone blade, emitting a slicing roar, precisely cleaved the ambushing monster in half!

The foul, rotting entrails and green blood rained down onto the floor.

Ouyang Feng slowly turned, his expression cold.

Jiang Yuan was somewhat surprised.

"Captain Ouyang, you've become a Trickster too?"

Ouyang Feng nodded, the blade turning into bone and retracting into the fissure of his arm, slightly blood‑stained.

The group pressed onward toward the top floor.

This time, Ouyang Feng led the way.

His steps were heavy, exuding a terrifying aura that warned strangers to stay away.

Hospital top level, Director's office.

On the massive mahogany door hung a copper plaque scarred with scratches.

Ouyang Feng hesitated not a moment, kicking it with a foot.

Boom!

The entire door panel shattered into pieces.

The scene beyond the door made everyone hold their breath.

It wasn't an office.

But a massive "greenhouse" stitched together from flesh, blood, and machinery.

At the room's center, a grotesquely bloated, shapeless figure was tethered by countless thick, needle‑filled tubes, suspended mid‑air.

Its skin was a rotting gray‑green, riddled with pus pockets and corpse stains; the corpulent body subtly rose and fell, each breath causing the attached tubes to pulsate.

The moment they stepped into the room, the massive Meat Mountain slowly opened its eyes.

They were a pair of cloudy, malicious eyes.

Goo‑dong... Goo‑dong...

The entire Hospital, at that moment, came to life!

The floor beneath their feet turned soft and springy, walls oozed viscous digestive fluid, and countless tentacles of meat fibers dangled from the ceiling.

It was like a monster's stomach!

Countless flesh walls pressed in from all directions, trying to digest them completely.

"Finally, something worthy arrives."

Ouyang Feng cracked his neck, his bones emitting a sour‑tingling snap.

He thrust his legs powerfully, launching himself like a cannonball straight toward the terrifying Meat Mountain hovering in mid‑air!

Ouyang Feng's bone blade swirled in the air into an impenetrable death storm, slashing fiercely at the rotting monster's body.

Puff! Puff! Puff!

The blade's sharpness exceeded imagination!

The monster's seemingly tough, rotting hide was easily cut, deep wounds exposing bone appeared instantly, and black‑green, foul, pus‑laden blood gushed out!

Success!

A surge of accomplishment rose in Ouyang Feng's heart!

The tangible feeling of slashing an A-level Weirdness thrilled him! It made him swell!

This is power! This is the power he has earned!

Yet the gravely wounded rotting monster showed not a hint of pain on its face.

It merely tilted its head, its cloudy eyes indifferently watching Ouyang Feng as he unleashed fury upon it.

The next second.

"Eee—"

An invisible, formless, soul‑piercing shriek erupted from the monster's throat.

Buzz!

Ouyang Feng's movements suddenly froze.

An indescribable, excruciating pain burst in every cell of his body without warning!

It wasn't pain from his own wound.

It was the sum of all the tortures endured by hundreds of thousands of patients in this Hospital over countless years!

Electric shock, slicing, beating......

All the pain, in this instant, was magnified thousands of times and poured entirely into his soul!

"Ugh—ahhh—!"

Ouyang Feng let out a wail unlike any human voice.

The Ghost Spine that had just fused inside him began to violently backfire under the onslaught of this massive pain!

The newly formed bones tried to break free from his flesh, and the ferocious consciousness raged wildly against his mind!

His body convulsed violently in midair, twisting into a Weird shape, on the brink of collapse.

Like a fly that had been electrocuted.

The rotten monster stared at him, and on its plump face, for the first time, a expression resembling mockery appeared.

Then it lifted a plump arm.

Snap!

Crisp as if slapping a mosquito.

Ouyang Feng was slapped away, flying like a cannonball, crashing hard into the writhing flesh wall beside him.

His whole body was embedded, leaving only his head exposed, his pallid pupils scattered, nearly losing consciousness.

Again, he fell into the Abyss of despair.

Just as the rotten monster raised its arm, preparing to crush that eyesore of a bug completely.

A figure stepped in front of it.

It was Jiang Yuan.

He shielded Ouyang Feng within the wall, lifted his head, and calmly stared at the massive beast.

Then, he stepped forward.

Just one step.

The whole world stopped.

The flesh wall that had been wildly writhing halted.

The nauseating stench and oppressive pressure also vanished.

In its place came a kingly authority.

The Shadow behind Jiang Yuan was no longer flat.

It was as if a tsunami infused with life surged wildly, swelling dramatically!

A towering figure bearing a massive axe, its whole body made of Shadow, stepped forward first.

The Butcher!

When its crimson gaze locked onto the rotten monster, the haughty creature's massive body involuntarily shivered.

It was the instinctual fear of the lower being toward the superior!

Immediately after.

Behind The Butcher, countless faceless caretakers clad in tattered Patient Gowns, twisted stitched corpses, and all manner of Weird things Jiang Yuan had once devoured surged out like a tide!

An army composed of monsters!

An army that obeys only Jiang Yuan, a death legion!

The rotten monster couldn't even muster a thought of resistance and turned to flee!

But it was already too late.

Jiang Yuan made no unnecessary movements.

He simply raised his hand, gently, and swept it forward.

The Shadow army behind him instantly transformed into a sky‑blocking, sun‑obscuring Abyssal maw, which in one bite swallowed the massive rotten monster!

Creak... creak...

After a long, teeth‑aching chewing sound.

Everything returned to calm.

The battle ended.

It was as simple as eating and drinking.

In the dim flesh wall, Ouyang Feng strained to open his eyes, just in time to witness the crushing scene.

He watched that back, surrounded by ten thousand demonic Shadows, god‑like in appearance, and saw the Weird that even his life‑risking effort could not move being devoured in one bite by the opponent's summoned Shadow army.

He abandoned his human identity, gaining what he thought was great power.

Only to realize in the end.

He was merely a regular ant that had become a slightly stronger ant.

The chasm he thought he could chase across had now become an insurmountable heavenly trench.

Why......

Why still doesn't work?