I Forged the Myth of the Ancient Overlords
Chapter 147 - 147 146. Beyond the Door_1

Chapter 147: 146. Beyond the Door_1 Chapter 147: 146. Beyond the Door_1 It was a song that transcended understanding.

Lu Ban couldn’t comprehend the language used; the noise-like singing formed complex and irregular melodies, evoking a sense of oppression so intense that merely listening felt akin to drowning, breathless.

If a common person were to hear this song, they would likely become disoriented, hallucinating and losing all sense of reason.

Even Lu Ban, who was chosen by the gods and had seen much of the world, couldn’t help but furrow his brow, wishing to drive the melodies out of his mind.

Moreover, Lu Ban heard that the song was actually coming from the ugly monster within that container.

It was as if it were humming a lullaby.

Lu Ban saw many tubes next to the container, linked to different devices, one of which, like an oxygen mask, seemed to allow the soft-bodied monster to spread through these tubes and flow into a human body.

Amidst that maddening song, Lu Ban saw a series of footprints stretching from the door towards the container and stopping abruptly next to it.

He had almost understood everything.

“Is this what the ritual summoned?”

Director Zhao Gongping and the man named Corea had summoned this thing from a Foreign Domain using a ritual found in some unknown manuscript, but they hadn’t summoned it completely—only a part of it, or perhaps its offspring?

This being seemed to possess the power to raise the dead, simply by infusing its flesh and blood into a deceased body, which would allow the deceased to rise again; however, this was not genuine resurrection, but rather the foul creature from a distant land controlling the dead bodies, accessing their memories, and mimicking their actions, turning them into walking corpses.

Zhao Gongping had relied on this to perform many exquisite surgeries, which is why the intensive care unit was on the fifth floor. When accidents happened, those wealthy who had paid exorbitant medical fees and were clinging to life were taken to the room at the end of the corridor. The eye-filled monster would secrete gray “cement,” which flowed through the tubes into the oxygen mask, to be inhaled by those near death.

The transformation could last for quite a long time.

That is why He Bishong would see patients, who couldn’t even walk, suddenly standing up and waving at her.

This was probably because they had received treatment and had mutated into monsters, but since they hadn’t fully adjusted to their new bodies, they appeared sluggish and dull.

Such control couldn’t last long, hence many patients who underwent treatment died not long after.

And Xu Xiao, she encountered another problem.

“The liquid secreted by this monster might just be the cement used to construct this hospital…”

Lu Ban thought of an even more terrifying fact.

Why the summoning ritual needed living stakes was certainly not a matter of simple feudal superstition; it was because sacrifices had to be offered to this monster.

The corpses and souls of those workers, along with the “cement” secreted by the monster, were poured into the foundation and walls of this hospital. Those workers who died grotesquely within the walls were the raw materials for the summoning of this monster!

At the same time, the hospital became part of the monster, and what Lu Ban saw in the container was just a tangible part of the monster. Its true form was the hospital itself!

That’s why the demolition of Nanhua Private Renji Hospital had faced repeated setbacks; it was the monster trying to protect itself.

And the strange space Lu Ban was now in was inside of the monster!

Over the years, the people who disappeared from this hospital, like Xu Xiao and Liu Qingjiang, have become the nourishment for the monster, fostering its growth. The laughable Zhao Gongping still thought those things were presents for him, when in fact, they were nothing more than the shed skin of the monster as it grew.

And those who disappeared, contaminated and eroded by Pollution and Corrosion, became the monster’s puppets. Those like Director Zhao Gongping, who often came into contact with the monster, were subtly dominated, ultimately meeting a terrible end.

Within that ceaselessly writhing mire, some new life was incubating, ready to break through the soil at any moment.

Director Zhao Gongping was just an unlucky guy who was used. The real mastermind should be the man named Corea, who coaxed Zhao Gongping into building the hospital and bestowed upon him the ritual capable of summoning the monster.

However, Lu Ban had almost never come across this name in the hospital’s records. He seemed to have vanished like air, existing in no record.

“It seems I must deal with this entity.”

Lu Ban watched the monster in the container, all its eyes focusing on him, oozing malicious resentment. He discovered that the walls around him began to melt like flowing magma, engulfing him.

If he were to be wrapped up in this “cement,” Lu Ban felt that it probably wouldn’t be much different from what happened in Dried Water Town – it would take some luck to survive.

However, Lu Ban noticed that the cement flowed sluggishly, like an animal not yet awakened. The melodious parts of the song emanating from the container grew weaker, while the frenzied murmurs became increasingly clear. At the same time, the flow of cement quickened.

“A lullaby… Melody Shard?”

Lu Ban suddenly understood.

“When Du Danping visited here back in the day, he must have also noticed the oddities of this place. But at that time, he wasn’t able to completely destroy the monster and could only leave behind this piece of music to temporarily suppress it, hoping it could be resolved later.”

“Regrettably, due to the accident during rehearsal that day, Du Danping perished and couldn’t completely solve the problem. Over the years, as time passed, the power of the melody continued to erode and weaken. Coupled with people like Zhao Gongping constantly provoking the monster, it was finally close to awakening.”

“The demolition was the last trigger; it fully recovered from its half-asleep, half-awake state. Now, even if Du Danping’s Melody Shard still existed, it could no longer suppress the monster about to be born. It will descend upon the world in full force, devouring others.”

In the midst of the increasingly chaotic murmurs, Lu Ban realized that to survive,

he had to completely eradicate the monster.

At this moment, in the real world.

A subtle vibration emanated from the structure of Nanhua Private Renji Hospital.

Common people hardly noticed, even the security guards at the door were clueless, only feeling the ground tremble faintly, as if a subway were passing by.

It was the darkest time of the night, yet for some unknown reason, the two guards felt as though something was ready to break through the ground.

They became dazed, stunned, stiff, only able to blankly gaze at that building.

Suddenly, a clear Cry resonated in the ears of everyone nearby.

It was the first cry of a newborn.

It was the symbol of hope.