Rules of the Unusual: I am the Final Boss

Shi Mo reappeared in his room.

He straightened his not-too-disheveled collar and returned to the monitoring room with a normal expression.

He hadn't been gone long, and the atmosphere in the monitoring room remained heavy. The screen was divided into several views; besides the main view tracking Red Kite, there were also views of several other candidates who had been drawn into "Eternal Hospital."

Bai Xu and the others held their breath, nervously watching the various screens, preparing for the worst-case scenario.

The image of the red kite:

Hong Yuan entered the first ward with trepidation. Inside, a "patient" with his neck twisted 180 degrees and intestines hanging out was sitting on the bed.

Surprisingly, upon seeing Hongyuan, the patient actually tried to... give her what he thought was a kind smile? However, the smile, paired with his twisted neck, looked particularly eerie.

Hongyuan nervously raised the dagger and tentatively asked, "Do...do you need treatment?"

The patient nodded frantically and said in a lisping voice, "Yes, yes! Doctor, you've finally come! My neck is a little sore... could... could you please take a look at it for me?" His tone was excessively polite.

Hong Yuan: "..." She looked at the neck twisted like a pretzel, gritted her teeth and stepped forward. With a determined heart, she casually twisted it with her hand.

A soft "click" sounded.

Then, to everyone's (including Hong Yuan's) incredulous gaze, the patient's neck... actually "creaked" and turned back on its own! Although it turned a little too far, becoming crooked to the other side, at least it looked... much better than before?

The patient immediately touched his neck and exclaimed with utmost sincerity (and exaggerated emotion): "Ah! Miracle doctor! Truly a miracle doctor! Just like that, my old ailment is cured! So comfortable! So comfortable! Five stars! It has to be five stars! Nurse! Quickly, write this down for this miracle doctor!"

Hong Yuan: "???" She looked at the patient's still obviously crooked neck and fell into deep self-doubt.

Everyone in the monitoring room: "???"

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Meanwhile, on another split screen, a muscular, burly candidate entered the ward. His patient was a guy with a broken arm, the bone fragments sticking out.

The burly candidate had clearly seen Hong Yuan's "successful" demonstration, and he followed suit, stepping forward, grabbing the patient's broken arm, and snapping it hard!

"Crack!" A crisp sound of bone breaking.

"Ah—!!!" The patient let out an extremely shrill scream. His arm, which had only been broken, suddenly twisted unnaturally, clearly broken completely! The patient stared venomously at the strong man, and his broken arm suddenly stretched out like rubber, tightly wrapping around the strong man's neck!

"Quack doctor! You've ruined me! I'm dead!" the patient screamed, his arms tightening around him.

The burly man struggled in terror, but to no avail. Soon his face turned bluish-purple, and his eyeballs bulged out...

[Candidate Li Meng died after treatment failed.]

The cold, impersonal notification sound seemed to echo in everyone's ears.

The monitoring room was silent. Everyone watched as the burly man gradually lost his life, and cold sweat broke out on their backs.

-

Hong Yuan entered the second ward. Inside was a man covered in pustules, constantly oozing yellow fluid, and emitting a foul stench.

Hong Yuan suppressed her intense nausea and recalled her "successful" experience just now, thinking: Could it be that I could just do something random? She took out the bandages she carried with her and haphazardly wrapped them around the abscess patient several times, almost turning him into a mummy.

What happened was astonishing—the pustules dried up and scabbed over at a speed visible to the naked eye, and the yellow discharge stopped instantly! It was as if the haphazardly wrapped bandage was some kind of miracle cure!

The patient was trembling with excitement (perhaps due to the bandages being too tight), his voice choked with emotion: "Hua Tuo reborn! Bian Que reincarnated! Goddess doctor! You are simply a miracle in the medical world! Five stars! Definitely five stars! No, ten stars! I want to give you a ten-star review!"

Hong Yuan: "..." She looked at her hands, which were slightly dirty with pus, and began to seriously consider whether she had awakened a healing ability that she herself was unaware of.

-

On another split screen, a bespectacled, seemingly educated candidate is "treating" a patient who is coughing up blood and has a large hole in his chest. He is attempting to treat the patient using some basic first aid knowledge and the limited medications he has on hand.

"Your condition is very serious. You need debridement, hemostasis, and possibly surgery..." he said as he performed the procedure.

However, no matter how hard he tried, the patient's coughing up of blood did not lessen at all; in fact, the hole in his chest seemed to be widening. Finally, the patient suddenly grabbed his wrist with astonishing strength, and a hoarse sound came from his empty chest: "Useless... trash... come with me... together..."

[Candidate Zhang Ming died after treatment failed.]

-

The Red Kite's "miracle" continues:

In the third ward, a "corpse" with a bluish-purple face, no heartbeat, and no breathing lay stiffly.

Hong Yuan was already somewhat numb. She walked over, looked at the "corpse," and thought, "There's no other way, is there?" She didn't even bother to find any tools, so she clenched her fist and punched the "corpse's" chest twice, neither too hard nor too lightly.

"Bang! Bang!"

The next moment, the "corpse" sprang up from the bed, grabbed Hong Yuan's hand, and burst into tears (if corpses could cry): "My benefactor! A living god! Those two punches of yours were simply divine punches that brought me back from the dead! You pulled me back from the brink of death! I feel so much better! Five stars! I can't repay you enough! In my next life, I'll be your slave to repay you!"

Hong Yuan silently withdrew her hand, staring blankly at the patient in front of her who had "come back to life" but was still pale and stiff.

Who am I? Where am I? What have I done?

……

In the monitoring room, the solemnity on the faces of Bai Xu, Bai Jin, You Ying, Tie Quan, Lin Chen, and others had long been replaced by the shock brought about by immense confusion, absurdity, and stark contrast.

"What the hell is going on?!" Bai Jin pointed at the screen at the scene of singing and dancing on Hong Yuan's side, while the other candidates faced bloody and cruel scenes. His voice changed, "When did Hong Yuan learn medicine? And it's so... outrageous?! This isn't medicine anymore, it's magic!!"

Youying's brows were furrowed so deeply they could trap a fly. He pointed at the burly man who had imitated Hongyuan but died tragically: "Look! Someone tried to imitate her! And died immediately! This proves it wasn't a problem with the method! It was Hongyuan herself... or rather, the patients Hongyuan encountered were the problem!"

Iron Fist scratched his buzz cut, his face showing a look of utter disbelief: "Could it be that Red Iris is actually the hidden boss of this instance? Or does she possess some unknown ability that forces the supernatural to cooperate with her?"

Lin Chen typed furiously on the keyboard, fine beads of sweat forming on his forehead: "The data is all normal! The rules determine that every action Hong Yuan took 'perfectly meets the treatment standards'! This... this is simply unscientific! The logic is completely flawed!"

Bai Xu stared intently at Hong Yuan's bewildered expression on the screen, wondering "Who am I? What am I doing?" He then abruptly turned to look at Shi Mo beside him, who remained calm, even sporting a faint smile. The absurd thought in his mind grew clearer and clearer.

He clearly remembered that Shi Mo had left for a while, saying he was going to the restroom... After he returned, Hong Yuan's demeanor changed drastically...

Is it...

Bai Xu took a deep breath, walked to Shi Mo's side, lowered his voice, and asked in a volume only the two of them could hear, "Shi Mo, you... you really just went to the bathroom?"

Shi Mo felt his gaze, turned her head, and met his probing eyes. Her heterochromatic red and gold pupils were calm and still, and she even blinked innocently: "Otherwise what?" He tilted his head slightly and asked in return, "What do you think I did?"

Looking at his "innocent" appearance, Bai Xu felt a lump in his throat.

He was almost 100% certain that this guy was behind it! But he had no evidence! And even if he did have evidence, he didn't know how Shi Mo had done it! It was completely beyond his comprehension!

"...It's nothing." Bai Xu could only grit his teeth and utter these three words, forcing himself to look away, but the turmoil in his heart could not be calmed for a long time.

At this moment, in Shi Mo's mind, the system was silently recording all of this absurdity, its heart filled with speechlessness at the host's outrageous actions and... a trace of awe (and relief that it had given up quickly before).

(Host...you've gone so far as to flood the hospital...look at how horribly the other candidates died, and then look at Hong Yuan's situation...the contrast is simply cruel! But...well done! At least Sister Hong Yuan is alright!)

The system learned its lesson and not only dared not complain, but also silently gave its host a thumbs up in its heart.

Shi Mo looked at Hong Yuan on the screen, who was completely unharmed despite looking bewildered, and whose "medical skills" were even highly praised, and nodded in satisfaction.

Yes, it feels really good to take care of your own people on your own turf.

As for the other candidates?

What does it have to do with him?