novellhall Chapter 15 Hercules. Atlas
Chapter 15 Hercules. Atlas
It must be said that the patients at Jushan Mental Hospital are indeed quite unique.
After wandering around the courtyard for a while, Lin Jue had already seen all sorts of oddities.
For example, there is a young man wearing a hospital gown who is standing upright on the ground.
He was supported only by his head, with his hands hanging down at his sides, his whole body tense, looking like a stone pillar.
That's not all; when a middle-aged man passed by Lin Jue, you could clearly see his eyes squinting to the left and right.
That guy looked left with his left eye and right with his right eye, his two eyeballs moving around randomly in their sockets without disturbing each other, which looked very creepy.
With these two eccentric examples as precedents, Lin Jue roughly understood the behavioral logic of this group of patients... which was that there was no logic at all.
Therefore, when I heard the little girl say, "You can see me,"...
Lin Jue naturally understood what she meant; the girl seemed to think he was invisible.
Looking closely, she's at most seven or eight years old. It's really pitiful that she's in a mental hospital at such a young age.
Because he has a younger sister, Lin Jue has always been more caring towards girls younger than himself.
He quickly realized what was happening and, pretending not to have heard anything, muttered to the air around him:
"Oh dear, I must have been lost in thought. There's no one around. Who am I talking to?"
"..."
Watching Lin Jue begin to feign deafness and muteness with very poor acting skills.
The little girl's eyes, hidden beneath her long bangs, flickered slightly.
Then, seemingly relieved, he muttered to himself:
"That's right, how could anyone see me? It's just a mental patient talking to himself."
A mentally ill person? Upon hearing this, Lin Jue immediately became displeased.
I kindly played along with you, and you call me mentally ill? Who are you trying to insult?
Nothing in this world is more infuriating than being called mentally ill on the spot by a mentally ill person. It's just too much.
Thinking of this, Lin Jue seemed a little angry, so he walked towards the artificial hill next to him and said to himself:
"Since there's no one around, let's see if we can lift this thing up."
The artificial hill stands in a corner of the courtyard, its rugged, green stone body resembling a sleeping giant beast, something that no human could possibly tame.
Upon hearing this, the little girl watching nearby gave a cute "tsk".
Is this guy some kind of superhuman psychopath? Lifting up a fake mountain, is that even possible?
That thing weighs at least two thousand pounds; it would be a miracle if anyone could lift it.
Under the little girl's watchful gaze, as if she were watching a joke.
Lin Juexiong bent slightly at the waist, his hands gripping a protruding ridge at the base of the artificial hill.
As you take a deep breath, the muscles in your shoulders and arms tense up instantly.
The veins stretched from the back of his hand all the way down to his forearm, looking like bulging tree roots.
The muscles on his back bulged out high, stretching his clothes so much they looked like they were about to burst.
Instantly, the surrounding air seemed to freeze, and even the little girl's eyes widened in surprise.
"snort!"
The next second, a low growl exploded from deep within his throat.
The sound wasn't loud, but it was very heavy, as if even the air itself was trembling.
At the same time, fine dust rose from the base of the artificial mountain, and the entire mountain slowly floated up.
What...what's going on?! This guy actually lifted it up!
Just as the little girl was completely stunned, something even more outrageous happened.
Lin Jue used all his strength to lift the artificial mountain, raising it directly above his head! He then carried it steadily on his shoulder!
For a moment, the little girl seemed to see Atlas, the Hercules from mythology, who carried the Earth on his shoulders.
That towering giant from Greek mythology stood proudly half-crouched in the void.
Planets rose on his shoulders, clouds churned, oceans overturned, and the earth trembled.
It was as if even the universe was silenced by the power of this giant.
Just as the little girl was staring blankly at this mythical scene.
Lin Jue slowly bent down and gently placed the artificial hill back in its original position.
After finishing all this, the boy sighed softly and muttered somewhat helplessly:
"No...it still won't work."
No? Ah, I see, he probably thinks he didn't hold out long enough, right?
However, given how heavy this artificial mountain is, it's already quite impressive that it can support it for even a short while.
The little girl was still considering whether to comfort Lin Jue, perhaps by secretly giving him a thumbs up.
But to everyone's surprise, he looked deeply at the artificial hill, shook his head in disappointment, and said:
"This thing is much lighter than I expected; it's not challenging at all to lift it."
......
After staring in disbelief for a while, the little girl finally came to her senses.
Wait, look closely, this guy isn't wearing a hospital gown.
In other words, he was not a patient in a regular ward, but someone from outside.
The little girl breathed a slight sigh of relief when she realized this.
I knew it! How could an ordinary patient have such exaggerated strength?
So this is some kind of enhancement-type superhuman who came here to show off... Shameless.
Just when the little girl thought she had discovered the truth.
A tall, slender figure rushed over from not far away.
"Lin...Lin Jue, what did you just do? You lifted that thing up?"
Lin Jue turned his head and saw that Gu Qian was staring at him with great surprise.
Gu Qian had just finished chatting with Gan Xinyan for a while when she came to the courtyard to talk to Lin Jue.
Who knew that from a great distance, he saw the scene of him carrying the artificial mountain on his back like an animal.
Although she already knew that the young man was very strong, Gu Qian never dreamed that he could be this strong.
As Gu Qian arrived, looking quite surprised, Lin Jue shrugged and smiled:
"Don't look at me like that. This artificial mountain is hollow inside and doesn't actually weigh much."
He estimated it weighed only about 1,500 jin (750 kg), and thought to himself that it might be a product of shoddy workmanship.
Even so, Gu Qian still tried it with a skeptical look on her face.
It turned out that the artificial hill was fixed to the lawn and could not be lifted at all.
Whew, after trying it, Gu Qian shook her sore arms and said with a wry smile:
"Aren't you really going to go to the Hero Association to get it checked? I bet you awakened your enhanced ability without even knowing it."
In Gu Qian's view, Lin Jue was definitely a newly awakened superhuman.
He was still foolishly convinced that he had developed this strength through training. How could that be?
If humans could develop the strength to lift an artificial mountain simply by exercising their bodies.
If everyone's focused on physical training, why bother inventing so many weapons?
But Lin Jue ignored Gu Qian's suggestion and simply turned around to look around, as if searching for something.
While talking to Gu Qian, he noticed that the little girl who had been standing behind the artificial hill had suddenly disappeared.
She vanished without a trace; her petite figure was nowhere to be seen in the unobstructed courtyard, a very strange situation.
What's going on? In just a few seconds, where could a little girl run off to?
Thinking of this, Lin Jue subconsciously glanced at the exceptionally tall white wall next to the artificial hill.
The wall is at least five meters high, which looks frighteningly tall.
Could she have climbed over that wall and gotten inside? She's quite the climber.
As Lin Jue carefully examined the wall, Gu Qian frowned and reminded him:
"Don't look that way. There's a 'special ward' behind that wall. We'd better stay away from it."
"A 'special ward'? How special are the patients here? Can they fly or teleport?"
Lin Jue was just joking to lighten the mood, but Gu Qian nodded seriously.
"You're right. The 'Special Ward' houses extraordinary patients with mental problems. Those people are no less dangerous than monsters. Getting too close would be extremely risky."