Chapter 21: God's Dimension

“This is…”

Three minutes later.

“Supervisor Zheng, Supervisor Zheng!”

Wang San, a colleague from the company, strode in, pushing the door open directly.

“What that bitch Zhao Lei just said… Huh? Where is he?”

Looking at the empty office and the coffee still steaming on the desk, Wang San spoke in confusion.

(The wind rises again, the leaves fall, yet the longing only grows deeper.)

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Zhang Jie walked out of the hospital.

At this moment, he looked much younger than the Zhang Jie Li Xiaomian had seen.

The terrifying scars were no longer on his face.

Looking up at the bright sky, Zhang Jie could not suppress the upward curve of his lips.

Laughing loudly while tears streamed down his face, he walked out of the hospital gates.

Amidst the stares of the passing crowd, a nurse who had just finished her shift in the mortuary watched him.

She murmured to herself, “Is he finally gone? I hope you won't come back again.”

Like an ancient curse.

The two who had endured a long-distance military romance ultimately failed to end up together.

Love in a hospital is tragic nine times out of ten.

After that, the nurse on duty never saw Zhang Jie again.

Rumors spread that the man had died for love and had since vanished without a trace.

Only the corpse in the mortuary remained, an unclaimed body.

A month later.

“Huh? Where is the corpse?”

“Where is corpse number 039? Call the police, the body is missing!”

Hearing the commotion behind him, a man with long silver hair, dressed in black from head to toe, stepped slowly into the elevator.

His gaze beneath the brim of his hat carried a hint of coldness.

He said in a low voice, “That gentleman's perverse sense of humor is truly terrible!”

(Love rises with the wind; when the wind stops, the heart remains unsettled.)

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The God's Dimension.

Wrapped in telekinetic force, five broken humanoid entities floated in mid-air.

Chu Xuan, whose waist had been severed by the Xenomorph Queen's tail.

Zheng Zha, whose arms were twisted by genetic collapse.

Zero, whose half of his head had been blasted away.

Zhan Lan, whose bones were exposed and corroded.

And Li Xiao, who had fought until the very end, with broken limbs and an exposed spine.

The "severely injured" Zhang Jie watched this scene expressionlessly.

As time ticked by second by second.

The bright red blood from their bodies dripped down, drop by drop.

He knew that if he delayed for even one more minute—no, perhaps even ten seconds—these five would likely not survive.

*Creak!*

Perhaps hearing the commotion outside.

Beneath the sphere of light, twenty doors stood in the void.

One of them was pushed open from the inside.

An Eastern woman with delicate features and a beautiful figure in a cheongsam stepped out with graceful strides.

When she saw those five people, and saw the blood-stained Zhang Jie, she instinctively burst into tears.

This time, she ran forward with great strides and hugged the man standing in the light and shadow from behind.

The sobbing Eastern woman stroked the dark brown, overgrown scars on his face.

She cried out

“Jie, let it go. I don't want you to go on like this!”

“Rather than living in constant fear every day, I would rather die with you!”

“Don't be like this anymore, please?”

Zhang Jie took a deep breath, turned around, and pushed the woman away, speaking slowly.

“God, full restoration. Deduct the reward points from me!”

Before Zhang Jie's voice had even faded, perhaps because the God was already prepared.

Five thick pillars of light projected out almost simultaneously, enveloping them.

From within the sphere of light, white and green specks of light danced continuously outward.

The flesh on the five people began to churn violently; bones, muscles, and blood were created out of thin air.

Wrapped in telekinetic force, Zhang Jie also slowly floated upward, simulating a white light identical to the others to shroud himself.

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Zhan Lan had the lightest injuries; she was the first to wake from the pillar of light.

Next were Zhang Jie and Zero.

Seeing the familiar surroundings, the group finally breathed a sigh of relief.

However, remembering something, Zhan Lan quickly looked up.

Only after seeing Li Xiao, Zheng Zha, and Chu Xuan in mid-air did she let out a long breath, her heart finally at ease.

After landing, Zero also woke up one after another, as if struggling out of a nightmare.

However, as Zero and Zhan Lan looked at the three who seemed to have only half their bodies left, their hearts grew increasingly silent.

As for what they were thinking, it was not for outsiders to know.

Zhang Jie's expression changed several times, but he quickly regained his smile.

“Great, everyone survived. If it had been three more seconds, all six of us might have died directly from our injuries.”

“This is the most dangerous time, and the time with the most survivors, among the five horror movies I've experienced!”

“It's simply wonderful!”

Zhan Lan and the other woman stared intently at the three whose flesh was churning within the pillars of light.

Compared to the two with missing limbs, Li Xiao seemed to be the first of the three to open his eyes.

It felt like spring sunshine, a warmth from the depths of the soul.

When he heard someone shouting through the haze

“God, full restoration…”

Only then did he feel relieved, knowing he had finally survived this crisis-ridden first horror movie.

Floating in mid-air, Li Xiao could take in the entire surroundings.

This famous God's Dimension was likely a plaza of nearly a thousand square meters.

The ground seemed to be metal, yet also like stone.

A blindingly bright white sphere of light was suspended directly above his head.

And the pillar of light he was in was being projected from this light orb.

Below him, the fully restored Zhan Lan was comforting a young girl of about fifteen or sixteen.

The girl was crying inconsolably; if not for Zhan Lan's support, she might have fainted from crying long ago.

Meanwhile, Zhang Jie was holding a classical beauty with an Eastern charm, whispering something into her ear.

Seeing this, Li Xiao understood instantly.

It seemed these were Na'er, created by Zhang Jie, and the little girl created by Zheng Zha.

In a neighboring pillar of light, Zheng Zha also woke up. After looking around, his face darkened.

Looking at the few remaining pillars of light, he sighed with grief for the fallen

“A pity. The Overlord didn't make it back alive, and we almost died ourselves.”

Looking at Zheng Zha in the pillar of light, Li Xiao comforted him

“We did our best. No one expected the Xenomorph Queen's vitality to be this powerful.”

Zheng Zha looked at the little girl beneath him and sighed.

As the specks of light repaired their bodies, Chu Xuan also slowly regained consciousness.

However, compared to Li Xiao and Zheng Zha, despite waking up later, he was actually the first to complete his restoration.

The white specks of light did not stop after repairing Li Xiao and Zheng Zha's bodies.

Because on the exposed skin of Li Xiao and Zheng Zha, it looked as if countless tiny mice were wriggling.

They scurried incessantly through their bodies. The two men, who had been talking and laughing, suddenly widened their eyes, their veins bulging.

Their entire bodies seemed to be experiencing the aftereffects of the Genetic Lock again, their expressions becoming distorted and terrifying.

“Opening the Genetic Lock twice in a short period... If they hadn't returned to the God's Dimension, they would have turned into a pool of bloody sludge due to genetic collapse long ago.”

Seeing this, Chu Xuan looked up and spoke.

The white dots in the pillars of light gradually transformed into a pale green glow, slowly flowing into the two men's bodies, as if weaving something together.