Ka~ The girl's head, which was folded on her back, was reattached to her neck.
"Thank you. Please follow me. We can go out through the stairs this time."
The girl thanked them politely and took the initiative to walk in front to lead the way, while the Rubik's Cube on her face continued to rotate.
This was the first time Catherine had seen such a strange 'person'.
She was sure that the girl was not infected with any disease, but her entire face and internal brain had been 'dug out' and replaced with a strange Rubik's Cube.
Such a strange posture has never been seen even among patients.
Although it can be achieved through physical transformation, it is definitely not as "natural" as the little girl, and the Rubik's Cube embedded in her face seems to have multiple functions.
This was the first time Catherine had come into contact with a power that was not from the old world, except for the black liquid in William's brain.
For a moment, she seemed extremely excited, her tongue licking the surface of her dark lips. The greed in Catherine's body began to overflow, and she began to wonder if she could bring some "superpowers" back from here.
After all, the old world lost the war in ancient times. In Catherine's eyes, the outside world is stronger, and she was fortunate to have come into contact with it in advance. This opportunity must be seized.
Thinking of this, Catherine stepped forward quickly.
Walking in sync with the little girl while keeping relatively still, he bent down and looked at her face, and at the Rubik's Cube structure that was occasionally rotating.
"Fang... Fang, how did your face form?"
However, what came out of Catherine's mouth was the Old World language, which the little girl could not understand at all. She tilted her head slightly and formed a question mark structure through the wrinkles on the surface of the Rubik's Cube.
Catherine quickly changed her words.
This is not the first or second time she has invaded William's brain. This time, she is using William's brain to construct a real nightmare. In addition to combining with the epileptic brain, she can also absorb some other things, including memory and language.
Although I am not very familiar with it, I can barely pronounce similar syllables and understand the meaning.
"Hello~ May I ask how your face was formed?"
"This one?" Fangfang pointed to the Rubik's Cube of flesh and blood between the grooves of her face without any hesitation. "My favorite thing since I was a child is the Rubik's Cube, and I even won a prize!
When I was seven years old, I won the provincial championship in the one-handed and two-handed quick recovery of the 3-layer Rubik's Cube in the junior and middle-aged group. My parents also bought me a lot of Rubik's Cubes and kept them at home.
However, my classmates at school called me a freak because I spent a lot of time on the Rubik's Cube every day and had nothing in common with them.
One day I took a Rubik's Cube to school, but it was snatched away by a classmate after school. I wanted to get it back, but during the scramble, the Rubik's Cube flew out and landed on the road.
I didn't think much about it at the time and instinctively rushed over to pick up the Rubik's Cube, but a truck came towards me.
I could feel a huge and heavy tire rolling over my head, pressing the Rubik's Cube right into my face. My shattered eyeballs, nose, mouth and brain were all crushed and mixed with the Rubik's Cube.
Although I couldn't control my body, my consciousness continued to exist and did not die. I even felt very happy in this state.
And I was also sure that I would not die, because my mother said that because I had won an award, I was awarded a consecrated statue of the deity to be placed at home. As long as my family kneeled down and worshipped devoutly every day, the statue would protect us throughout our lives and we would not experience the cycle of birth, aging, sickness and death.
The ambulance arrived soon.
I vaguely heard the doctor communicating with my parents and asking them to sign some kind of agreement. Then I was taken here by ambulance and was detained for about a year and a half. ”
Catherine's eyes sparkled with a strange light after hearing this answer. This was obviously not a supernatural power caused by the disease, but something completely new.
However, William's focus was different.
He was more concerned about the following words, 'the fact that the little girl was given the statue because of her winning the prize'. The reason why she was able to survive and become what she is now is probably related to the statue and her strong obsession with the Rubik's Cube.
Catherine wanted to ask more questions but was interrupted by William.
"Fangfang, are the idols and shrines in your home the same as those in the ward? What are the differences?"
“The difference is huge! The statue in my house has a big head, and the palms of the four arms are attached to the head. The statue has no face, which gives people a very gentle feeling.
After I kneel down and pray devoutly at home every day, my mind becomes extremely clear.
Moreover, since the statue came to our home, none of our family members have been sick, and mom and dad never quarrel again.
The statues in the wards should be made by the hospital, specifically for each patient, and continuously absorb their "essence" so that the patients can sleep at least eighteen hours a day, making it easier to manage.
As I carefully observed the shrine in the ward, I finally found the problem! The inner wall of the shrine was painted with spells written in our blood.
The most important thing is the statue itself, which is mainly composed of rotten flesh of unknown origin, but part of our brain tissue is mixed in the rotten flesh, forming the statue itself.
While we were unconscious or sleeping, the hospital removed a small portion of our frontal lobe, crushed it, and mixed it with rotten flesh to make a statue of God, so as to impose targeted restrictions on us.
As she spoke, the little girl rotated her face cube, and there was indeed a trace of excision in a certain area.
William and Catherine also touched their heads one after another and felt very shallow and difficult to detect craniotomy scars in their hair.
The little girl continued, "As long as the statue exists, the patient cannot escape. But you are strange, you can break free from the shackles of the statue on your own..."
In fact, William did not break free from his restraints on his own. He was in a daze all this time until Catherine sneaked into his ward and destroyed the statue.
"Could it be that because Catherine has deep-sea genes, her brain is a combination of a human brain and an octopus brain, and the part of the frontal lobe that was cut off is perhaps just an unnecessary part?"
When William turned his eyes to Catherine, all he got was a malicious smile.
"Come with me quickly, this hospital is very dangerous. I have been pretending to be ignorant and unable to use the power of the Rubik's Cube, so I was kept in the ward for observation. Otherwise, I might have been taken to another place long ago.
Because all the exits from your hospital are blocked, the only place we can escape is the rooftop."
Come to the stairwell again.
Under the leadership of the little girl, the atmosphere became different.
There is no longer any sense of oppression in the liminal space, nor any discomfort in the endless cycle.
There was also fresh air flowing through the stairwell, and one could even hear a lot of footsteps going up and down, as if the hospital's security personnel were searching the stairwell.
However, as the little girl's face cube rotated, the security personnel in the corridor would never be able to meet them and would always wander around a certain floor.
"Fangfang, can you change the structure of space?"
"No... I can only perform simple replication on the threshold space. I can't affect some spaces with more complex geometry.
If I forcefully change the space, my cube will explode."
"Um."
After climbing up more than twenty floors, we finally arrived at the rooftop of the hospital.
But when the iron gate was pushed open, what came into view was not only the open rooftop and the starry night view, but also a familiar face.
The female doctor who had been sitting by William's bed and asking questions, and two security guards whose faces could not be seen clearly, were standing beside her.
"Sure enough~ I was wondering why I couldn't find you two. It turns out that you have reached a cooperation relationship with Xiaofang. I guessed that you would come here. After all, the rooftop is the only possible exit for survival.
Well, the game of cat and mouse is over! Come back with me. "
After saying that, the security guard with his face covered with a white drape approached the three people. The security guard was over three meters tall and as strong as a bear. A continuous white breath came out of his mouth and nose, slightly blowing up the drape on his face.
The strangest thing is the structure of their palms.
Its palm is three times the size of an ordinary person's, and its surface is covered with suction cup-like structures. It seems that it is best at "catching people".
But just as the two security guards approached and were about to catch the escaping patient,
Catherine was as flexible as an octopus. She instantly wrapped herself around a man's body and sat on his shoulders. The security guard's head was twisted 480 degrees and faced the female doctor behind him.
As for the other security guard,
boom!
The bear-like body was knocked back several meters and fell right beside the female doctor, with a fist mark on his chest that went straight to his heart.
William looked at his arms and fists, which were still in good condition, and nodded with satisfaction.
Just when the female doctor was about to take action, William had already pulled Catherine and the little girl to stand on the edge of the roof behind them.
"See you again if we are lucky."
William made a farewell gesture, leaned back and fell off the roof.
There was an outbreak of herpetic pharyngitis in Xiao Ah Fei's kindergarten. He was not spared. He was taken to the hospital. I may need to take a leave tonight depending on the situation.