I Forged the Myth of the Ancient Overlords
Chapter 149 - 149 148. Newborn_1

Chapter 149: 148. Newborn_1 Chapter 149: 148. Newborn_1 The elevator doors closed, and Lu Ban felt the noise from outside diminish.

He looked at the girl in the mirror and asked,

“Obstetrics… Are you the only child born in this hospital?”

Nanhua Private Renji Hospital didn’t have an obstetrics department, a fact that Lu Ban had never understood.

This had no direct connection to the monster’s events; having or not having an obstetrics department theoretically wouldn’t affect Zhao Gongping’s ability to use the monster’s power to “revive” those people.

But the truth was not so simple.

If it were only the monster’s power at play, how could those who were Corroded and Mutated leave messages for Lu Ban, how could they drive away the host who came to the fifth floor?

So, there must be some force here, battling against the monster.

And that force, was this little girl.

In Lu Ban’s arms, within the red-covered notebook, on the initial torn pages, the blood and stain smeared sheets began to reveal words.

It was clearly a woman’s handwriting, gentle, dignified, filled with endless affection.

“I can feel the movements in my belly, that’s our child, she’s kicking me, telling me how she feels.”

“Even though the doctor told me I’m very weak and that even normal childbirth could be dangerous, I still want to keep this child, it is the last inheritance he left me.”

“There’s always a strange feeling in the hospital, as if someone is watching me, I’m the only patient in the department, perhaps it’s because the fees here are too expensive, everyone goes to public hospitals to give birth, but only the doctors here can take care of my health condition, they told me, my child will be the first born in this hospital, I feel very happy, a child brings hope, a new life, a continuation of my memories with him.”

“Only, my health is getting worse, I was frail and often ill to begin with, and now, it’s as if this child is sucking away all my strength, often I don’t even have the energy to get out of bed, I know I look haggard, the nurses won’t let me look in a mirror. Right now, I can only try my best to hold on, for this child, at least let her have happiness.”

“Director Zhao cares a lot for me, he says it’s not easy for a girl like me to carry a child, he will surely use the best treatments to ensure the safety of me and my child. The way he looks at my unborn child is very benign, I think, if he were still here, maybe he would look at our child with the same gaze.”

“My belly is getting bigger, but the rest of my body is getting thinner, I’m losing hair by the handful each day, my hands are so thin it’s just skin and bones, I haven’t felt what it’s like to walk in a long time, sometimes, I wonder if giving birth to her is a mistake, but I quickly reject such thoughts, my child, is the person I love most in this world, no matter what, I have to let her come into this world, even if it costs my own life.”

“Director Zhao came to see me, he says my condition is not optimistic, I might need to move to the intensive care unit, I’ve been brought to the fifth floor, it’s very quiet here, he says I’m the first batch of patients to stay on the fifth floor, but I have no extra strength to be sentimental, just surviving is already taking all my effort.”

“Today I met a strange person, he seemed to have entered the wrong room, coming to my ward, he played a tune for me on a harmonica he seemed to have pulled out of nowhere, incredibly, I actually felt much better, and the child in my belly wasn’t so restless anymore, the melody was lovely, I’ve written it down, but the person left quickly, then the nurse came rushing, seeming very worried, she said there might be someone wandering in the hospital causing mischief, but I think he was a good person.”

“With a sudden bout of abdominal pain, I knew, it was time for her to be born, I was taken to the operating room, where the lights were bright, and there were many devices and instruments I had never seen before, I was in pain, as if my innards were being gnawed at by something, my vision blurred, with a pain beyond human bearing that almost made me pass out.”

“Director Zhao personally delivered my baby, my fuzzy consciousness could only feel pain, endless pain, pain that made one question life, yet even amidst such suffering, I did not regret giving birth to her.”

“After an agonizingly long pain that felt like an eternity, I suddenly felt a sense of loss, as if something important had disappeared. I saw Director Zhao’s face light up, I knew, my child, she was finally born.”

“I smiled with relief, wanted to speak out, wanted to see my baby, then I heard my child’s first cry in this world, it was… it was… Indescribable, a deep yet piercingly strange sound, like the spread of fear from the throat of a dying creature, I bowed my head, and saw, saw my child.”

“Inside the massive transparent glass container, that heap resembling filthy sludge, that monstrosity with countless eyes and sharp, fang-filled mouths, was something even more bizarre than a monster.”

“Your child is very healthy,” Director Zhao’s face was frenzied as he said to me.

“My child… my child… Is this, my child?”

“I felt all strength drain from my body, my lungs unable to take in air, and it was then, through the ceiling’s light fixture, that I first saw what I had become.”

“A huge wound gaped in my abdomen, all my organs devoured, my body now as desiccated as a mummy’s, hair long gone, eyes sunken, like someone on the brink of death, no, I was already a dead person.”

“My child… my hope… all my hopes… I don’t accept it, I don’t accept it, I don’t accept it!!!”

The text in the notebook ended here, and from these words, Lu Ban could feel a fierce love transformed into a thick despair.

Whenever he reached this point, he truly wished that ghosts really existed in this world.

“You are the real baby, Zhao Gongping’s ritual replaced you with that monster, but you still survived, within the body of that monster, like a miracle. I don’t know by whom or what power you were kept alive, but you did indeed just barely hang on through the body of that monster,” Lu Ban told the little girl.

The little girl didn’t answer but began to hum a tune.

Amidst the overflowing concrete, inside the monster’s gaping maw, under the surveillance of a myriad of eyes, that gentle, kind, love-filled chant flowed into Lu Ban’s ears.

He knew, this was the true melody left by Du Danping.

Du Danping, unable to fully kill that monster, left behind a tune that offered hope to those who followed.

Amid the melody, Lu Ban heard a different sound.

“Good Fortune Comes, wishing you Good Fortune Comes, good fortune brings both joy and love…”

It was his cell phone.

The caller ID showed, it was Song Yunyan’s secretary, Li Zijian.

Lu Ban answered the call, the secretary’s voice panicked. At this point, Lu Ban felt it was like the voice of an angel.

“You finally answered the phone, listen to me, there’s been an earthquake, it seems to have originated from the hospital, are you really okay? Hello, hello, hello?”

Lu Ban let out a self-mocking chuckle without answering Li Zijian’s question and simply said aloud.

“Detonate the explosives, hurry, as soon as possible, blow this hospital to the skies!”