299: Chapter 298 It Seems Like a Sword Can Open the Heavens

Hearing Lin Jie's words, Chu Xuan nodded slightly: "Then let's hurry; we must finish this quickly."

It was already 7:15, approximately 45 minutes until the nuclear explosion.

Although Chu Xuan was not familiar with the procedures for launching a nuclear missile, he knew it must require a complex series of processes; at the very least, "Revelation" could not launch one on a whim at present.

Otherwise, in the previous dream, there would have been no need for the opponent to wait so long after he killed the Debt-Collecting Ghost, until nearly eight o'clock, to use such a method to kill him.

Precisely because of this, Chu Xuan decided to stay in the capital; although it was risky, it was not an act of impulse.

"The twenty-fifth floor!"

At this moment, Lin Jie, located within the coverage of the darkness, seemed to be in a strange state. His already pitch-black and slightly messy bangs covered his eyebrows, and as they drifted slightly, the pair of eyes revealed were neither fully open nor fully closed.

"I feel the guidance of heaven's secrets. That Specter seems to be setting up some kind of special ritual, wanting to turn this place into a Forbidden Ground as special as St. Lianna Hospital!

If we want to resolve this in a short time, we must rush over as soon as possible. Otherwise, once it succeeds, it will be very difficult for us to leave here. We would have to pass the trial of some rule to leave, and killing it would be even more troublesome."

Chu Xuan looked down at Lin Jie.

He discovered that the Domain of darkness cast through the cloak had a significant defensive effect against the S-rank Specter's Domain. Although the corresponding consumption increased, even a low-level Transcendent like Lin Jie could remain unaffected, and its value far exceeded Chu Xuan's initial expectations.

In a flash of thought, just as Chu Xuan was about to act, his body suddenly paused, and he asked: "What is this Specter's death rule? Can you sense it?"

"It currently... has no death rule!" Lin Jie suddenly opened his eyes, gritting his teeth as he said: "Brother Chu Xuan, we should still take the fire escape; it's only two floors up..."

"No need for such trouble."

Chu Xuan spoke indifferently, looking upward. In an instant, a metallic clang rang out, and a Slash appeared.

Bang!!

Amidst the loud noise, the ceiling above shattered with a boom, breaking through three floors in succession.

"Let's go!"

Chu Xuan grabbed Lin Jie's shoulder and leaped, jumping directly from the current twenty-third-floor hospital room to the twenty-fifth floor.

In this hospital room on the twenty-fifth floor, a patient was sitting on the bed, blankly smiling foolishly, completely unaware of the violent commotion. His left hand held an apple, and his right hand held a fruit knife.

As the blade sliced, it wasn't fruit peel falling, but chunks of flesh.

The bed had long been soaked in blood, and the patient's left hand holding the apple, along with the entire arm, had already had most of its flesh sliced away, revealing the ghastly white bone within.

Yet, this patient seemed to feel absolutely no pain, leaning against the wall with a foolish grin, murmuring weakly: "I want to eat an apple, eat an apple..."

Accompanied by a corner of the darkness covering him, the patient's whole body suddenly shook. His eyes showed Confusion, followed by the sudden realization of pain, as if he had finally felt it. He woke up abruptly, looking at his flesh-stripped arm and wailing in agony.

Then, his head tilted to the side, and he passed out.

For this scene, Chu Xuan didn't spare a second glance and took Lin Jie out of the hospital room.

The long corridors at both ends were already crowded with people—patients, family members, nurses, and doctors. Some were screaming shrilly while self-mutilating, while others were biting each other like wild beasts.

The scene was full of Confusion.

"Over there!"

Lin Jie scanned both sides and immediately pointed to the right: "It should be in the tea room at the very end on the right..."

"Hmm."

Chu Xuan took the lead and walked forward. As they got closer, he felt the darkness being suppressed more severely, and the spirituality value consumed increased. At this moment, the two-meter radius of darkness was already consuming 4 points of spirituality value per second.

At this moment, a strange scene appeared.

As Chu Xuan and Lin Jie rushed past, everyone in the corridor affected by the darkness woke up in an instant, but when the darkness left, these people became dazed again.

However, they were no longer as crazed as before, but instead subconsciously looked together toward the two figures—one tall and one short—faintly visible in the darkness, as if they had been hit by an immobilization spell.

"Save us! Please, save us!" As they were about to reach the tea room, a large crowd surged out from within, numbering over thirty people—hardly a number that a small tea room could contain.

These people all rushed toward Chu Xuan, their faces showing painful pleading: "I beg you, save us, don't keep going forward..."

"These people are all trapped in a deep illusion. We cannot be touched; otherwise, even in this darkness, we will be affected and trapped here..."

Lin Jie's expression changed slightly. He looked up at Chu Xuan and said repeatedly: "You can expand the range of the darkness to suppress all these people and make them unable to move, but this should place a significant burden on you..."

Speaking of this, Lin Jie paused, a hint of struggle flashing in his eyes, and he gritted his teeth: "Brother Chu Xuan, these people are beyond saving; kill them all!"

"Indeed, they are beyond saving."

Chu Xuan's eyes flashed. He raised his hand and pointed forward, and four Slashes wreathed in faint Black Flame shot out, crisscrossing. Like autumn wind sweeping away fallen leaves, the scene was instantly filled with flying flesh and blood, and the corpses were incinerated completely.

These people failed to hinder Chu Xuan's pace in the slightest, and they soon arrived outside the tea room.

Looking inside, it was full of twisted, intertwined, colorful patterns, like Van Gogh's starry sky. The brilliant stars were like eyes, blinking from time to time, giving one a feeling of dizziness and fascination.

When they arrived here, although the darkness was not being suppressed further, it seemed to have completely lost its effect. Even Chu Xuan felt a faint sense of discomfort looking at it.

After a brief hesitation, Chu Xuan did not decide to leave Lin Jie here and go in alone, instead saying directly: "We'll go in together."

"Brother Chu Xuan, I don't know exactly what will happen inside... but I can sense that once you step in, you might face some kind of choice. The optimal choice is to kill everything you can see inside. If necessary, kill me too!" Lin Jie suddenly looked up, saying with a solemn expression.

"Let's go in."

Chu Xuan was noncommittal and grabbed Lin Jie, stepping into it in one stride.

It was like passing through a film of water.

Upon entering, he immediately felt a whole new world; the world was colorful, as if he were in a painting, feeling like a lifetime away.

Especially the stars in the blue sky, flickering uncertainly like blinking eyes, were breathtakingly beautiful.

"So beautiful. If only I could stay here forever..."

The moment this thought arose in Chu Xuan's mind, he suddenly realized: "Stirring emotions, Heart Bewitchment, is it?"

In a flash of thought, Chu Xuan raised his hand and unleashed a Slash covered in Black Flame, striking abruptly toward the sky. As it tore through the sky, it was like a jet-black ray of light that suddenly severed this curtain of heaven and earth.

As if one sword opened the heavens.