The Gentleman at the End

Chapter 72: Chapter 71: Departure from the Post

At the moment he crushed the mouse, it also marked the end of Mr. Lee’s life,

Before Yi Chen’s eyes, the name formed from Ancient Living Text writhing on the body—[Jesmin Lee (Severe Patient)]turned from flesh-colored to grey.

The mice that had been nestled within Mr. Lee’s body also stopped breathing at the same moment, remaining in his body like rotting flesh, paradoxically more like human organs.

The rat-like physical body also became lifeless, with its fur losing its shine, and the Moon Seal on the neck completely dimmed.

Phew…

Yi Chen slumped to the ground, gasping for breath.

Even the little grape had succumbed to transient weakness, dissolving its disguise on the left hand, half-buried in its original shoulder area.

He unhesitatingly jabbed a syringe symbolizing vitality into his neck, attempting to activate the plant life within him, slowly mending the severe damage to his right side caused by the rat’s tail bite.

Although his right side was gravely injured, in comparison, Yi Chen’s condition was indeed the best among the three of them.

He immediately turned to his side, where Juliana had already fainted, breathing faintly.

The life and death confrontation that took place in the basement of the Clinic, what Yi Chen found most unbelievable was not

how strong Mr. Lee was nor how horrific and extraordinary his rat-like physical form was.

It was his own teammate, Miss Juliana, who, in such a grievously wounded state, could still depend on sheer willpower to force her body to move, forcibly using a syringe to awaken the last shred of potential within her and severing Mr. Lee’s arm at the crucial moment.

“Miss Anna, don’t die!”

Yi Chen no longer cared about his own injuries, his hands placed on Juliana’s completely caved-in and flesh-corroded abdomen.

New sprouts of vegetation drilled into it, trying to stabilize the injuries as much as possible.

Edmund, too, with his ruined left hand, knelt on the other side of Anna.

He took out a bottle of orange medicine with the Feather Emblem, not from the Organization but his own family,

first spreading as much of it as possible on the wound before injecting the remaining medicine into her body through the roots.

At the treated site, new flesh visibly grew and checked the encroachment of Pathology,

“With this, at least Anna’s life can be saved… The medicine will last a day, enough time for us to hurry back to Zion.”

“Edmund, your hand?”

“This is nothing,” he minimized, “as long as I can return to Zion, I can ask the family doctor for repairs… Well done, William! This mission was too risky, I won’t allow the Gentleman Team to take such great risks again.”

Yi Chen, however, shook his finger, “No… everything is going according to plan, without deviation!

The cost had been calculated from the start; having no one dead is already the best outcome.

Wait for me a moment, we’ll leave shortly.”

Now that Anna’s situation was relatively stable, Yi Chen still had one important thing left undone.

His palms were placed on Mr. Lee’s rat body.

He spread the plant’s roots into the body as much as possible, branching them out to ensure a connection to all the dead mice brains,

and of course, Mr. Lee’s brain was the most important.

He was extracting the marrow fluid.

≮Jesmin Lee, Severe Patient’s brain, 8% damage,[High-Quality].

Consuming the marrow fluid can supplement brain power, invigorate the spirit, substitute sleep, and acquire relatively complete Memory Fragments

There’s a moderate chance to enhance the Intelligence Attribute≯

An indescribable exhilaration swept through his brain,

Yi Chen even tensed his body during the process, his dilated eyes flickering with rat-like shadows, his face breaking into an exaggeratedly ecstatic smile.

The book Emblem on the back of his head also writhed non-stop due to the influx of the brain marrow.

『Central Tasting complete, brain nutrition replenished, [Intelligence] has been increased by 0.5. Now performing effective memory recombination and implantation…』

Memory Fragments were sorted and reordered, ultimately integrated by the brain, yielding two significant pieces of Memory information.

1.[Jesmin Lee’s Life Journey (focusing on Clinic life)]

2.[The dark secret behind Twilight Clinic]

Among them, the first Memory Display presented Mr. Lee who had been the youngest apprentice at Twilight Clinic, and also the most timid.

His cowardice was innate, but he was very intelligent and had his own Thoughts.

Despite being looked down upon by Doctor Macaul, he would sometimes provide efficient assistance to the Clinic, such as stabilizing and swiftly transferring materials with rat swarms, destroying certain confidential materials that could not be made public.

He had long discerned the dirty dealings behind the Twilight Clinic, guessing it was only a matter of time before trouble arose.

Yet, he hadn’t expected that the Organization would not catch up before the Clinic itself faced internal problems.

When the “False Moon Event” broke out and spread to the Clinic.

He, due to controlling the rat swarm and simultaneously gazing at the moon with multiple eyes, suffered an inevitable infection,

he did not choose to keep fighting but instead used his identity and familiarity with the Clinic to steal a bottle of “Dusk Thin Silver Liquid”.

Utilizing the traits of the old rats, he hid in the Clinic’s basement and narrowly escaped death.

Facing the pathological transformation of his body, he injected the secret medicine in desperation.

Little did he know that the “Dusk Thin Silver Liquid” not only failed to contain the pathological change but in fact caused it to increase exponentially.

It deepened his compatibility with the Moon Seal, turning him into a severe patient who could even communicate with the ‘moon’ to a certain extent.

Similarly,

due to the mismatch between himself and the secret medicine, the severe side effects of the medicine caused him to stick to the basement, unable to leave.

To avoid being discovered by the Gentleman Team, which was sent to retrieve the secret medicine,

he tried to communicate with the moon and obtain its power, inadvertently creating a “Same Space” that covered the range of the Clinic… Of course, such actions also bound him more tightly, as breaking free required absorbing more Moon Transformation essence.

Thus, there was his encounter with Yi Chen and Edmund.

“This guy… didn’t use his cleverness and caution in the right place, but was always running away, his cowardice etched in his heart hastening his accelerated death.

However, the real problem still lies with the Clinic.”

Yi Chen did not immediately inform Edmund about the secrets of the Clinic.

He took out the burlap bag he had prepared in advance and packed Mr. Lee’s body in a notably professional manner.

This relatively intact patient’s body, if it could be taken back to Zion, might yield a higher quality Pathological Crystal.

Yi Chen dragged the massive rat-like corpse,

Edmund carried Anna on his back,

they extinguished the flames at the ward’s door and stepped out.

Due to Mr. Lee’s death, all threats in the underground area had been eliminated… But the theater owner also disappeared, potentially returning to the surface of the Clinic.

Taking the elevator slowly upwards,

Yi Chen and Edmund exchanged glances, their facial muscles struggling to form smiles.

At least it’s all over, and everyone is more or less alive. @@novelbin@@

Edmund said in a low voice, “Mr. Lee is dead, and the moon above will inevitably fade away… once we get up and meet with Dagbert, just one sleep will take us back to the Original World.”

“Yeah.”

Click!

When the elevator arrived,

a figure like a fortress blocked their way,

Dagbert, wielding a heavy sword, stood guard at the elevator entrance like a war god, the Clinic’s hall littered with the severed limbs of Non-Normality patients.

Similarly, his body was full of wounds; his strength was already spent, relying solely on his willpower to wait here for his teammates’ arrival.

“Is everything… done below?”

“Yeah.”

With the affirmative response, Dagbert’s massive body collapsed to the floor,

after a brief inspection and infection treatment, no serious injuries were found, it was mostly the coma induced by fatigue.

However,

it was at this moment that Yi Chen felt a slight discordance,

he stepped on the remnants and severed limbs of the Non-Normality patients, feeling the residual warmth within, and walked towards the entrance of the Clinic.

Like a living creature, the strong moonlight instantly fell upon him, feeling as though a pale hand was touching his skin.

The moon hanging in the night sky not only did not disappear but became rounder and larger,

more like a white organic life form.

At the same time,

Clap~ clap~ clap!

Outside the Clinic in the forested hill, a round of applause was heard, along with a voice Yi Chen had heard in the sewer.

§Good-Job§

Accompanied by the approaching clapping,

a silver-haired youth slowly emerged on the hillside.