Chapter 5: The Hunt Under All Eyes

The moment Liu Guodong's mental defenses were completely reduced to zero, the thin membrane between reality and void was mercilessly torn apart.

Inside the operating room.

A vague silhouette slowly coalesced in the darkness.

The figure grew increasingly clear and solid.

It was the Cavity Person!

He wore the Patient Gown he had died in, his face pale and swollen, and where his eyes should be were two black‑blood‑filled hollows.

The most terrifying part was the huge, bottomless void in his chest.

"Cavity Person"... at last revealed his full, most horrifying true form before his enemy!

"Ah—!"

Liu Guodong saw the Cavity Person and forced a distorted scream from his throat.

He went mad.

He was completely insane!

Begging for mercy is useless! Repentance is useless!

This ghost wants his life!

Survival instinct overrode everything; he scrambled up from the floor, rolling and crawling, and burst out of the operating room toward the deep, long Corridor.

Run!

Run fast!

The hospital Corridor at midnight was empty, and the pallid emergency lights stretched his Shadow into a long smear, twisting it into a weird shape on the wall.

He fled for his life, his lungs burning, his heart pounding as if it would leap out of his throat.

But he dared not stop.

He could feel the bone‑chilling cold right behind him, shadowing his every move!

He glanced back.

The Cavity Person floated half a meter above the ground, following him at an unhurried pace.

It had no legs, just drifted, yet its speed was no slower than his.

It ignored all obstacles, sometimes slipping in through one side of a wall and out the other, cutting off his path.

Those hollow eye sockets, shedding blood‑stained tears, stared at him unrelentingly.

Elevator!

Liu Guodong saw an elevator not far away, its indicator light still on; it was his only hope!

He mustered all his strength and rushed forward, frantically pounding the button like a madman.

"Ding—"

The elevator doors opened slowly.

He rolled and crawled inside, then turned and slammed the close‑door button wildly.

"Close! Close quickly! Close it now!"

The metal doors began to close slowly under his roar.

The gap narrowed more and more, more and more......

At the very moment the doors were about to seal shut.

The elevator emitted a shrill alarm as an unseen force forced the doors shut, preventing them from closing.

Immediately, two ghastly, corpse‑spotted hands clambered onto the door frame.

Beyond the doorway was Zhou Xiaosheng's face, close enough to touch, brimming with lethal resentment!

Those two black, hollow eye sockets were almost pressed against his face!

"Aaaah—!"

Liu Guodong's sanity was utterly shattered by this hellish sight; he screamed, seized the moment the elevator doors opened, narrowly dodged the Cavity Person's collision, and rolled and crawled down toward the lower floor.

During the scramble, he saw a sign that read "Emergency".

"Emergency!"

"Right! To the Emergency Department Hall!"

There are people there! Lots of people!

The yang is strong; ghosts dare not go!

He felt as if he had grasped the last straw of salvation and, in a disheveled rush, barreled into the brightly lit Emergency Department Hall.

Inside the Emergency Department Hall at that moment were on‑duty doctors and nurses, as well as families of patients waiting in line for various emergencies.

Everyone was startled by the suddenly charging "madman".

He was a mess: his clothes in tatters, hair disheveled, one shoe missing, his face smeared with snot and tears, his expression terrified to the extreme.

"Help! There's a ghost! A ghost!"

Liu Guodong ducked behind a nurse, flailed his arms toward the empty space, and let out a mournful scream.

To the others, the usually lofty chief of cardiac surgery now resembled a severe patient who had escaped a mental hospital, raving at the air.

The scene became chaotic and awkward.

"Director Liu?"

"What's happened to him? Gone mad?"

"Quick! Call security!"

The on‑duty doctors and nurses exchanged glances, then reacted, and several burly security guards rushed forward.

"Let me go! You let me go! It's coming! It really's coming!"

Liu Guodong was held by two security guards, he struggled desperately, but to no avail.

He watched helplessly as the Cavity Person Zhou Xiaosheng ignored everyone in the Emergency Department Hall, pushing through the noisy crowd, step by step, slowly approaching him.

He could see the Grim Reaper.

But others could only see his madness.

Those who held him down, those who regarded him as a lunatic, now became accomplices of the ghosts, nailing him firmly to this desperate stage!

"No...... don't......"

Liu Guodong's strength was drained, he went limp in the corner, his face showing only utter despair.

The Cavity Person came before him.

In a place where no one could see, it slowly raised its illusory hand.

Then, under Liu Guodong's horrified gaze, it slowly "inserted" its hand into his chest.

No wound.

No blood.

Liu Guodong only felt an indescribable extreme cold, instantly spreading from his heart to his whole body.

He felt the organ in his chest, the heart he relied on for life, its "life," its "concept," being gradually drawn away.

Just as before, when he pulled that living heart from Zhou Xiaosheng's chest.

Liu Guodong's body suddenly stiffened.

All his struggling and shouting came to an abrupt halt at that moment.

His pupils instantly dilated to the limit.

He slumped weakly against the wall, slid to the ground, his head drooping helplessly.

Vital signs instantly vanished.

"Not good! Director Liu seems to have had an accident!"

"Quick! CPR! Bring the ambulance!"

The doctors immediately launched resuscitation, applying compressions, electric shocks...... all means were used.

However, the electrocardiogram showed a flat line the whole time.

Finally, the on-duty emergency department chief, sweating profusely, announced the result.

"He's dead......"

Finally, the hospital's temporary appraisal concluded: acute heart failure caused by prolonged mental extreme tension and overstimulation.

That night, police cars with flashing red and blue lights slowly entered Jiang Hai City Second Hospital.

At the other end of the city, in Chu Che's apartment.

He relaxedly leaned back in the chair before his desk, in front of the dark‑blue screen that had just finished broadcasting the "trial" of Liu Guodong.

On the screen, a new line of prompt popped up.

【"Cavity Person" has completed a killing using the Murder Rule】

【Obtained "Karma": 500】

A stream of energy, many times purer than the initial 100 points of "Karma", surged into Chu Che's body.

Warm and cozy, very comfortable.

He felt the surging power within, happily closed his eyes, the corner of his mouth twitching into a faint arc.

"Surely the investment was right."

"Really...... what a great show."

He opened his eyes, slowly stood up, and walked to an iron cage beside the desk.

Inside the cage was a white mouse bought for experiments.

Chu Che's gaze fell on the white mouse.

Now he, too, had synchronized part of the Cavity Person's abilities.

By observing how the Cavity Person used its ability, he roughly understood its trigger mechanism.

Chu Mo leisurely extended his palm and then hummed a light, elegant melody.

The shadow of his palm enveloped the white mouse inside the cage.

The next moment.

The white mouse suddenly began squeaking wildly, frantically scrambling in the cramped space, banging the cage loudly, as if it had seen something terribly frightening.

This is "Fear Erosion".

Soon after.

The white mouse's fear had accumulated to a certain extent.

Chu Che extended his slender fingers, opened the cage, and gently stroked the white mouse's body.

The white mouse's body suddenly stiffened, collapsed in the cage, twitched twice, and instantly fell still.

It died.

Exactly the same as Liu Guodong's method of death.

Chu Che withdrew his hand and turned his gaze to a water cup on the desk.

He focused his mind.

The water cup trembled slightly, shifting left by a few centimeters.

Although the movement was small, it was indeed an interference with physics.

Whether it is an innate trait or a product of mutation, the Cavity Person also seems to have the ability to lock onto targets based on resentment; Chu Che does not test it here.

"This is the embryonic form of divine power......"

Chu Che looked at his own hands, his gaze radiating an unprecedented heat.

Just the first Weird granted him this incomprehensible power.

If he creates ten, a hundred, and merges all their powers… how strong would he become?

He began to look forward beyond measure, wondering what the scene would be like when he truly becomes a "god".

Meanwhile, in the hospital.

The "Cavity Person" who had completed his first revenge, watching the police‑blocked scene, still felt his lingering resentment.

The earlier phone call from Liu Guodong gave it a new direction.

Manager Li's assistant.

The accomplice.

The guy who arranged all this and handled my heart!

The next one is you.

After killing you… it's the mastermind who took my heart—Manager Li!