"A World-Destroying Monster"

"Doctor Lin, what's wrong with you?"

A voice startled Lin Ye awake. He looked around and found himself in the doctor's office he was very familiar with.

'This is definitely a dream.'

Lin Ye looked at the nurse standing before him, who was both unfamiliar and somewhat familiar. He seemed to remember some things.

Yes, it was this day. Everyone was sent into the Shelter by the system.

'But what happened after that? Why am I here? Which side is real? Or is everything just my delusion, like a dream?'

"Doctor Lin! The patient in Bed Five's condition has suddenly deteriorated. They're almost gone now!"

A nurse on duty at the nursing station suddenly burst into the doctor's office, speaking anxiously to Lin Ye.

"...I'll go right over."

Lin Ye quickly walked towards the patient room. This feeling of being unable to even determine his own existence was terrible. He had to find proof of his existence on the other side as soon as possible.

As long as he could see that intestine monster, he could determine which side was reality and which side was the dream.

……………………………………

Lin Ye walked out of the operating room. The patient had just suddenly suffered an intestinal volvulus. There was no intestine monster inside their body.

'But suddenly getting an intestinal volvulus is too abstract, right? It's not like they were doing backflips in the hospital bed...'

Lin Ye felt that some aspects of this dream world were very realistic, while others were absurdly slapdash.

Just as Lin Ye was about to go downstairs to the Cafeteria to get something to eat, a piercing scream suddenly rang out from the operating room behind him.

"No way?"

Lin Ye rushed towards the staff passageway at top speed. After he left, a monster composed of large intestines and flesh and blood charged out of the operating room.

It roared and pounced on the patient's family members nearby, tearing them into bloody shreds.

Lin Ye soon reached downstairs. Chaos was spreading inside the building. He could only speed up, hoping to reach the Cafeteria in time.

When Lin Ye arrived at the Cafeteria, it still maintained normal order. He ran to the second floor of the Cafeteria and ordered two bowls of beef rice noodles at the first window.

"Just made it."

When the aunt handed the two steaming bowls of beef rice noodles to Lin Ye, he finally breathed a sigh of relief.

Screams sounded from downstairs. Lin Ye passed through the scattering, fleeing crowd, found a spot in the corner of the second floor, placed one bowl of noodles in front of himself, and the other across the dining table.

A Fleshy Monster covered in intestines climbed up to the second floor of the Cafeteria. It quickly charged towards Lin Ye, stopped beside him, and let out a piercing screech.

"Sit down. The smell of blood on you is too strong. It'll affect my appetite."

Lin Ye took a bite of the noodles loaded with chili peppers, revealing a satisfied expression.

"You ran so fast just to come eat this? Do you know how tired I was chasing you? These intestines slip when moving! I bumped my way down the entire way!"

The intestine monster emitted a screech.

"This isn't just ordinary rice noodles. It's the only thing I miss from this hospital. And I might never get to eat it again."

Lin Ye happily enjoyed the noodles. He hadn't expected to return to this place even in a dream.

"Then let me try... Ugh, it tastes really weird..."

The large intestine monster poured the noodles into its body. It wriggled, emitting a grating sound.

"Pity. The taste organs you use to sample food must have malfunctioned."

Lin Ye finished his noodles and drank half the soup.

"I only became like this to save you. Yet you ran away the moment you saw me. You should be grateful and apologize to me."

Mia slapped the ground with her intestines, making an unpleasant sound.

"If I had been any slower, I wouldn't have gotten to eat this bowl of noodles. And I've already expressed my gratitude. That bowl of noodles I might never eat again was the thank-you gift."

Lin Ye wiped his mouth with a napkin and spoke.

"Forget it then... Wait, you just want me to cook noodles for you in the asylum, don't you?"

Mia suddenly became alert.

"That's not impossible either."

Lin Ye said calmly.

"Now's not the time for this. That monster has also entered the dream area. It wants to trap you in this peaceful cage. I forcibly tore open a gap from the outside, but that monster is very powerful. Now even I'm trapped here. The other side will definitely try to eliminate me next, then continue trapping you here. What should we do?"

Mia said urgently.

She had already sensed the approaching danger.

"I'll pretend to be a victim, then watch as you're killed by others, and live a normal life here afterwards."

Lin Ye said very casually.

"Huh? Are you serious?"

Mia shrank into a ball.

"Of course I'm joking. That bowl of noodles is the only thing I miss here. How could I possibly stay in a place like this?!"

Lin Ye rarely showed a trace of anger on his face. He was usually the type of person who would smile even when angry.

A group of police officers armed with firearms and riot shields charged up to the second floor of the Cafeteria. One of the officers roared at Lin Ye:

"Get out of the way! We need to kill that monster!"

"Sorry, you've got it wrong. I'm a doctor. She's my patient. She became like this entirely because she took too much medication. The monster you're looking for isn't here."

Lin Ye blabbered nonsense casually.

"That's right. I used his patient to create this body. So there's essentially no difference between me and the patient."

Mia let out a sharp, piercing roar at the group of police officers.

"Open fire! Try not to hit people!"

That officer didn't waste any more words. He felt Lin Ye was also problematic.

Bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang...

The police officers fired at Mia, but all the bullets hung suspended in the air one meter in front of her, as if there was an invisible wall there.

"So how do we get out? Do we need to turn everyone into large intestine monsters? Or destroy this city?"

When Lin Ye saw Mia, this large intestine monster that defied common sense, he remembered many things he had forgotten before.

And more importantly, this dream world wasn't the kind of place without spiritual energy.

"As long as we cause enough destruction, I can take you out. However, that monster will probably try to stop us. I can create more of these intestine monsters, but these monsters have average combat power. They can only deal with some civilians."

Mia swung her intestines, letting out a screech.

After all, this wasn't her home ground. That monster would limit her power.

"Those aren't problems. Humans are very fragile creatures. Being a doctor is a job of repairing the human body. Compared to repairing, destruction is effortless."

Lin Ye turned to look at the window. The bodies of those police officers began to undergo Alienation and transformation. Their police uniforms fell off. Red Frogs and swarms of red Butterflies surged out from within.