Chapter 60: Chapter 35: Darkness Beneath the Hospital

The old alliance leader personally visited Tongdu, kindly advising against family monopolies and suppression, urging unity to resist the Evil God, but many families continued with their clandestine activities. Consequently, the old leader divided the areas outside the Tongdu center into twenty-eight special administrative districts, allowing the families to manage them.

To see who manages well and who poorly.

Out of the twenty-eight districts, only ten families heeded the old leader’s advice, while the rest either oppressed the civilians or disregarded their humanity.

The old leader’s wrath was like a thunderstorm; in one night, eighteen families were wiped out.

Among these eighteen families, seven were thousand-year-old families with legendary bloodline talents, but they perished all the same.

Now, the ten families managing the districts are on edge, taking their responsibilities seriously, fearing they might anger the old leader.

“Du Sha District’s Second Women’s and Children’s Hospital.”

Li Cunxu looked at the sign and snorted coldly.

Other districts have only one women’s and children’s hospital, but Du Sha District has two.

The first is a regular women’s and children’s hospital, while the second is specialized for abortions.

As dragons are inherently lascivious, so are serpents.

The atmosphere of the Medusa Clan was not well-regarded in this respect, leading to a top-down emulation, making Du Sha District particularly open, with many abortions.

Li Cunxu donned a human skin mask, changed into a different outfit, and disguised himself as a middle-aged man, anxiously wandering through the hospital.

He wasn’t really wandering aimlessly; his true purpose was reconnaissance.

“What do you mean you didn’t go for an abortion? You lied to me? Fool, how can you joke about this?”

Finishing his reconnaissance and familiarizing himself with the hospital’s layout, Li Cunxu, disguised as a middle-aged man, pretended to receive a phone call and hurriedly left.

As night fell, the night was as dark as ink, the bright moon hung high above the hospital, its cold light scattering through sparse clouds, casting dappled shadows on the hospital’s white outer walls and towering spires. The dim lights inside the hospital contrasted with the dark exterior, seemingly hiding unknown secrets.

Occasionally, a duty nurse hurried through the hospital lobby. Li Cunxu, cloaked in invisibility, treaded lightly in silent shoes towards a little-known corner elevator.

There were four elevators, and Li Cunxu stepped into the fourth one.

Li Cunxu looked at the elevator buttons.

Levels negative one and two were parking garages.

The negative third floor was the morgue.

The negative third floor was the lowest, but in reality, it wasn’t. This hospital hid a negative fourth floor.

Li Cunxu took out the Blood Demon Treasure Pearl, activating its Blood Demon disguise, the aura of a Blood Cultist permeating the elevator, revealing the button leading to the negative fourth floor.

This step was critical; without the Blood Demon Treasure Pearl revealing the button to the negative fourth floor, none of Li Cunxu’s plans could proceed.

The elevator descended to the negative fourth floor, and the elevator doors opened.

What came into view was dark red blood quietly flowing in the enormous blood pool, tiny bubbles rising continuously from the bottom, popping with a soft plop on the surface, with infants’ pale little bodies floating quietly in the blood. The air was thick with the rusty smell of blood and decay.

This was the Blood Infant Pool, packed with the skeletal remains of countless aborted infants.

In a game, seeing the Blood Infant Pool didn’t bother Li Cunxu since it was unreal in the game, but in reality, anger surged within him, impossible to extinguish.

Blood Cultists deserved to be torn limb from limb.

The creation of the Blood Infant Pool was naturally the handiwork of the Blood God Sect, collaborating with the abortion hospital in their bid to summon the Blood Infant Divine Son under the Crimson Blood God’s banner.

The high abortion rate in Du Sha District was due, not just to the Medusa Clan’s overly open tendencies, but also the Blood God Sect’s secret machinations, leading young girls into premature pregnancy and abortion.

However, the Blood God Sect’s aspiration to summon the Blood Infant Divine Son would never come true.

For the Blood Infant Divine Son had long ago been secretly slain by the old leader, unbeknownst even to the Crimson Blood God, let alone the Blood God Sect.

“The elevator door opened, are the deliveries here?”

“No one came out, why did the elevator door close again?”

“Go check it out.”

The small boss among the Blood Cultists tossed down his playing cards, pointing at the underling who had won his money.

Li Cunxu, cloaked in invisibility, observed the blood-red robes on the four, only one of whom had a blood mark on his chest.

Robes without blood marks signified the Black Iron rank, those with one blood mark signified Bronze rank…

The Blood Infant Pool was guarded by only one Bronze-ranked Blood Cultist.

Li Cunxu was slightly surprised; he had planned to disguise as a Blood Cultist using the Blood Demon Treasure Pearl, but it seemed unnecessary now.

Recalling the peculiarity of the Blood Infant Pool, Li Cunxu understood why only one Bronze-ranked Blood Cultist was present.

The Blood Infant Pool amassed countless infant grievances, coalescing into a curse.

The Blood Infant Curse.

Once entangled by the Blood Infant Curse, one would become pregnant, expending vast life force to nurture a Blood Infant.

After ten months of gestation, the Blood Infant would claw out of the bearer’s belly, consuming them afterward.

The Blood Infant Curse was uncontrollable, indiscriminate, affecting allies and enemies alike, even entrapping Blood Cultists.

Even for Silver-ranked Blood Cultists, though the birth of a Blood Infant posed no threat to them, they had no desire to experience pregnancy.

The little Blood Cultist underling got up to inspect, opening the elevator door, peeking inside but finding nothing out of the ordinary.

“Boss, nothing unusual.”

“Who’s there?”

Just as his words fell, the small boss among Blood Cultists turned quickly and shouted.

A round explosive pearl suddenly popped out, hitting the small boss’s chest, releasing intense light from the broken pearl. Red flames enveloped three of them in an instant, the blast wave sweeping all around.

Hearing the explosion, the Blood Cultist underling trembled, immediately realizing an attack and aware that the Blood Infant Pool had no stationed experts; the experts were on the upper floors, and the Blood Infant Pool was covered by a stealth array, unheard from the outside, necessitating immediate reporting above.

“Xiaoruan, Grass Blade.”

Sensing the threat behind him, the underling turned his head, pupils contracting sharply—whose grass blade was two meters long?

The grass blade swept past, and the underling’s head fell lightly like an apple.

“Silver Sword.”

Xiaoruan threw a small, plump hand, and a silver-white sharp sword pierced the underling’s head.

The Silver Sword had a slaying effect on undead creatures with extremely low health, and the body structure of Blood Cultists was quite similar to vampires, categorized as undead creatures.

As the explosive dust settled, three Blood Cultists, including the Bronze-ranked small boss, lay dead all around, their limbs scattered everywhere.

Glancing at the Blood Infant Pool filled with bone remnants, Li Cunxu smirked, “They got off easy with such a quick death.”

As the dust settled, the silhouette of a two-meter-tall Ironhide Pig appeared.

The Ironhide Pig bore no blast scorch marks; it was released a second or two after the explosive pearl detonated.

When a Beast Master dies, the Beast Taming Space shatters; if before death one fails to release the pet beast in time, it is swept into the spatial turbulence, likely sliced into countless pieces by the turbulence, occasionally and luckily surviving, to be randomly teleported somewhere.

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