I'm only three years old, how could it be a world-ending catastrophe?

Li Zheng's desperate, soul-searching cries echoed in the empty room.

Zhao Haidong stood frozen in place, his mind blank.

Although he knew that every second of hesitation at this moment could plunge the entire hospital, or even the entire Dongzhou City, into an irrecoverable situation.

Can……

The raised hand just wouldn't come down.

That's Li Zheng!

It was Li Zheng who had entrusted his back to him countless times on the brink of life and death, and who had shielded him from fatal blows!

It's Li Zheng, who was lying in the hospital bed yesterday, smiling and telling him, "When I get better, let's go out for a drink together!"

It's Li Zheng, who always advocates with him the need to eliminate all calamities and ferocious beasts and restore peace to the world!

How could he...?

How could you do that...?

"Director Zhao... Director Zhao..."

At this moment, Wu Ya, who had collapsed to the side, managed to speak.

"I understand how you feel... but now, for the sake of so many lives in this entire Extraordinary Hospital, and for the sake of the entire Dongzhou City, you shouldn't hesitate any longer!"

"Killing him is the best end for him!"

Her voice was incredibly weak, and there was still blood on the corner of her mouth. The spot on her chest where the lens had struck her was being violently intertwined with cold air and the power of calamity, causing her unimaginable pain.

But her eyes were calm, so calm that there wasn't a ripple in them.

If she weren't so badly injured that she could barely move a finger, she would have acted without hesitation.

She would even kill Li Zheng and then execute herself without hesitation.

Because Li Zheng's attack just now used pure calamity power.

Having been directly struck by that force, I too have been corrupted.

A corrupted superhuman does not deserve to live.

Therefore, she hoped Zhao Haidong could hurry up.

Hurry up and finish off Li Zheng before you execute me!

Meanwhile, Li Zheng, who was in the corner, was convulsing even more violently.

The lenses on his body began to multiply rapidly, and his eyes, which had finally regained some clarity, were gradually being replaced by scarlet.

He knew he was about to give up.

"Zhao Haidong!"

A roar consumed the last vestiges of his sanity.

"Get started!"

"Please, just kill me!"

"Please stop causing me pain!!!"

Li Zheng didn't want to become a monster.

He really didn't want to.

He would rather be shattered to pieces than harm anyone.

Hearing this final wail, Zhao Haidong slowly closed his eyes.

Two streams of hot tears, no longer able to be held back, silently slid down his weathered cheeks.

He slowly raised his hand.

The [False Decree] card reappeared in his palm.

Use it to give your brother one last moment of dignity!

however……

Just as Zhao Haidong was about to mobilize the last of his extraordinary power and use the [False Decree], it happened in an instant.

Click!

A crisp sound suddenly came clearly from another corner...

……

Jiang Luo is very unhappy right now.

He lay on the cold chair, wearing the metal helmet, and waited for a full minute.

The expected scenario did not occur.

There are no waterfalls, no rivers, and certainly no bird-woman aunt with wings on her back.

There's nothing there!

Jiang Luo didn't know if that bird-woman aunt's territory had been occupied by another calamity, prohibiting others from entering, or if something else had happened.

All he knew was that...

He was very hungry!

I'm so hungry!

The hunger that burned from his stomach to his soul was almost completely devouring his reason.

"What a piece of junk!"

Jiang Luo sat up irritably from the recliner, ripped off his helmet, and threw it on the ground in a huff.

boom!

The helmet bounced twice on the ground and rolled into a corner.

however……

next second.

The helmet he threw away remained firmly attached to the instrument, completely still.

The one he had just thrown out had already disappeared.

Jiang Luo was stunned.

This helmet...

Is it fake too?

How is this possible?!

If this machine can produce something as amazing as Aunt Birdman, then it must be even more amazing.

and so……

How could it be fake...?

and many more!

Several images suddenly flashed through Jiang Luo's mind.

He realized that he hadn't encountered a single living person on his way down from the rooftop!

He also realized that from the moment he stepped onto the rooftop, his elemental powers were inexplicably usable!

Think about it carefully...

Neither of these things is normal!

If this hospital had really been invaded by some calamity, it would never be as quiet as a ghost town now!

and……

Jiang Luo had witnessed the domain of the Ghost Child.

Once activated, the surrounding environment seems to undergo a dramatic transformation.

But from just now until now, everything in the hospital corridors, walls, and rooms has been perfectly normal.

Thinking of this, Jiang Luo immediately turned to the strange child beside him and asked, "Son, tell me, from the moment you saw me until now, have you activated your domain?"

The child didn't understand why his father suddenly asked this question.

But it still obediently shook its pale head and answered crisply, "No... Daddy, do you want me to drive? I'll drive right now!"

The light in Jiang Luo's eyes instantly sharpened.

really!

Everything went exactly as I had predicted!

here……

This is not the real world at all!

Instead, it was a new world built by that damned calamity using its domain!

Are you trying to trap yourself here and die?

Or is there another reason?

Jiang Luo didn't know.

He also didn't want to know.

All he knew was that the calamity was about to suffer greatly!

Jiang Luo clenched her chubby little fist and punched the air in front of her!

Click!

A crisp sound.

The air in front of him seemed to have a clear crack, like a mirror.

Spiderweb-like cracks spread rapidly outwards from the center of his fist.

Mirror?

Another mirror?

Could it be that……

Is this calamity another one of those stupid things called Nightmare in the Mirror?

Forget it.

forget about it.

Whatever!

Anyway, he wanted to get out of there as soon as possible and fill his stomach!

So Jiang Luo threw another punch!

Click!

The cracks began to spread outwards, becoming more numerous and denser.

In the end, the entire space resembled a mirror about to shatter, covered with spiderweb-like cracks.

Through those cracks, Jiang Luo could vaguely see the real world outside.

He saw the monster wearing a blue and white striped hospital gown, its body covered in lenses.

I saw Wu Ya slumped on the ground, her face deathly pale.

I also saw Zhao Haidong, who looked grief-stricken and desperate, clutching a tattered card in his hand.

original……

The calamity that Jiahao sensed was him?

Jiang Luo's mind flashed back to the scene at the children's playground the day before yesterday.

This man named Li Zheng was cut in half while trying to save them.

Surprisingly, he was still alive.

And...it seems to have become a calamity?

In other words, the "food" he had been searching for all along was him?

Jiang Luo felt a little uneasy.

Although he kept clamoring to eat the calamity, asking him to eat a hero who had become like this to protect ordinary people...

He felt a little hesitant to take the bite.

But if I don't eat, how am I supposed to get rid of this damned hunger?