Before I returned the statue to Miss Christina, I secretly made a copy and left it at the end of the laboratory.
As time passed, I discovered that the Primordial Dao Repository itself began to distort the reality of this world.
Many cloned medical staff underwent mutations. They seized the opportunity to escape and attacked the people in the hospital, attempting to replace them.
I had no choice but to kill them and then recover them.
While eliminating the distorted effects, I was also trying to stop the spread of the Primordial Dao Repository’s distortion.
Though I used my mentor’s connections to keep the upper echelons temporarily unaware of this place, the distortion could not be stopped. If it weren’t halted, this place would inevitably be discovered by those above.
I tried many containment methods, all of which failed.
During this period, it seems I died a few more times? We could no longer distinguish who was the clone and who was the original.
It didn’t matter anymore.
Miss Christina came here after she discovered the distortive phenomenon in the hospital.
I had no choice but to confess about replicating the statue.
Miss Christina was furious with me; she was very angry about my secretive act of copying the statue.
However, she still taught me how to seal the statue to prevent further spread of the distortion. She even helped me eliminate the influence further and hid the secrets of this place.
After the sealing was complete, I had to disperse them to different locations to further reduce their degree of distorting reality.
I only left Primordial Dao Repository 01, which represented 0%-10% of the Dao transformation, and Primordial Dao Repository 02, which represented 10%-20% of the Dao transformation, here.
This method seemed very effective, and the anomalies in the hospital stopped.
But some cloned individuals and hospital staff had already mutated, and I had to clear them out.
Speaking of which, I was recently assigned to a team of researchers and was about to be dispatched to a secret base to conduct research on combating the distortion of Heavenly Dao.
I could only send a clone there. He didn’t know he was a clone, and hopefully, he could contribute to the research there.
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Zhou Bai, reading what Doctor Zhuang had written, now knew that because of the Primordial Dao Repository’s existence, those ordinary humans and their clones had undergone slight mutations, leading to all sorts of bizarre incidents in the hospital.
Hence, Doctor Zhuang and his clones killed all the mutants and recovered them.
But this seemed to have made the medical staff at the time even more panicked.
According to the latter part of the records, Doctor Zhuang eventually left two divine statues in the depths of the laboratory and then disappeared with the remaining statues.
"The notes don’t say where he went in the end," Zhou Bai said in shock. "The one we met at the base, was that just a clone of Doctor Zhuang? Could the real Doctor Zhuang still be alive?"
Christina said, "He may already be dead, didn’t you read what he said? Maybe the original has long been replaced by a clone."
Zhou Bai shook his head, sighed, and then remembered something, "Right, Doctor Zhuang said he had resolved the distortion caused by the Primordial Dao Repository, so why did we still encounter the anomaly at the hospital?"
Christina speculated, "In recent years, the distortion of Heavenly Dao has become more and more serious. Could it be that Doctor Zhuang’s methods had originally stopped the distortion, but with the intensification of Heavenly Dao’s distortion, the influence of the Primordial Dao Repository on the Material World gradually worsened?"
"The distortion here in the hospital has started again?"
Zhou Bai was energized and nodded, "That is very possible."
He quickly flipped through the materials in hand, searching for Doctor Zhuang’s descriptions of the distortion here.
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Before I describe how Heavenly Dao distorted the Material World, it is first necessary to understand a concept—The Void.
The void is the reflection of Heavenly Dao, containing countless twisted, strange, and chaotic knowledge and rules—an incomprehensible world through logic and a world filled with malice toward all intelligent life.
The void runs parallel to the Material World and does not intersect with it.
But if Heavenly Dao’s twisting affects the Material World, then the void will seep out and overlap with the distorted regions.
For instance, the distortion caused by the Primordial Dao Treasury this time resulted in the hospital intermittently merging with the void.
After the merging, the hospital’s rules became twisted, producing rules completely different from those of the real world.
Therefore, to move within the hospital after the merge, one must understand the rules of this area and make good use of these twisted rules.
Don’t even think about competing against the twisted rules, as not even the immortals and gods can do so.
As the distortion intensifies, the connection between the Material World and the void will become even closer.
That is to say, the hospital will become more frequently overlapped by the void, and things inside may even come out through the void’s nodes.
If it gets worse, the entire twisted hospital might ultimately become part of reality.
This means the hospital’s rules will be forever twisted.
Before this worst-case scenario occurs, certain special locations can directly cause the void to seep out and cover the hospital.
I call these locations void nodes.
Their specific locations are...
Besides, there are numerous twisted phenomena within the twisted hospital, each harboring unique properties and harboring great malice toward life. I have recorded them in hopes they will be useful later.
The Man in the Toilet
Victim’s name: Tian Ye
Process of victimization: Dissected by an aberrant creature and flushed down the toilet.
Property: Anyone who sees his face in the toilet will be irresistibly pulled in. Closing one’s eyes will cause the man to disappear.
The Bloodstained Cloth Shoes
Victims’ names: Liang Mengjia, Chen Jing
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Process of victimization: They were bled by an aberrant creature and thrown on the ground, crawling a few meters before dying.
Property: Once followed by these, they will keep following you. As the distance of tracking increases, the shoes will gradually become blood-red. Once the shoes are fully stained, the follower’s blood will be completely drained and transferred to the shoes. Staring at the cloth shoes can prevent tracking, tearing them directly has a chance of stopping the tracking.
Victim’s name: Mutated clone
Process of victimization: Numerous clones of myself perished under various strange attacks to test the rules of dangerous distortions.
Property: They wander in the twisted hospital, intent on killing anything that moves. Their attacks ignore defensive power, their actions disregard the force of the Primordial Spirit, but their own defensive power is very weak...
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Zhou Bai’s gaze suddenly brightened, "I see, so that’s how it is. It’s the rules, isn’t it? In the twisted hospital, there are twisted rules?"
Christina summed up, "Special locations causing the whole hospital to be covered by the void? That’s also a twisted rule, right? Like the bloody handprint in the toilet, or the central stain in the mortuary, getting close makes the whole hospital as if entering a Different Space-Time.
Is this called a void node?"
Zhou Bai added, "Dr. Zheng marked the locations of the void nodes here. But after he sealed the statue before, it still became twisted now, so the positions of the void nodes might also change."
Zhou Bai glanced at the time. He gained a lot of information this time but reading the notes also took up a lot of his time.
"It’s almost ten minutes."