Strange things happen, and I drive the evil god mad by chasing debts.

The windows she passed were all tightly closed, and it was pitch black all around. Under the light, she could see her own face reflected in them.

The curve of his lips suddenly widened, revealing a sinister smile—

"!" Holy crap!

Shen Qingchan looked closely and saw that the lights had gone out and then come back on, and everything had returned to normal.

Shen Qingchan: "..."

The last time I played it, it wasn't this exciting. This must be an upgrade.

Having experienced the ordeal before, she remembered that if a patient slipped out of the ward during their sleeping hours, it would attract a group of female ghosts.

Those female ghosts will rip out the internal organs and eat people clean bit by bit. At that time, the whole corridor will echo with the sound of the female ghosts gnawing on flesh.

Just then, accompanied by the howling of the cold wind, she heard whispers mixed in, growing louder and louder, like a melody, strange yet cheerful.

It was the voice of a female ghost, but there was nothing in front of her; all she could see was a long, dimly lit corridor.

Just as the lights were turning on and off, several black-on-top, white-on-bottom shapes suddenly appeared in front of them.

Shen Qingchan stopped in her tracks and, by the light, vaguely saw that the thing was humanoid, with long hair covering its face, its hands hanging down, its wrists pale, and its feet hovering but moving.

The creaking and scraping of the little wooden thing echoed through the corridor.

She was a little worried that Xiaodai might not be a match for her if it attracted any other NPCs.

"Little Dai! Slow down," Shen Qingchan reminded him.

The little boy in front was so excited that he didn't hear her voice at all.

The female ghosts sensed the presence of a living person and turned their tilted heads toward Shen Qingchan.

They bared their fangs, their faces piled high with fleshy folds, maggots slithering across them, and their eyes, gouged out and leaving only hollow sockets, stared intently at Shen Qingchan.

The next second, they charged at her with incredible speed, brandishing their claws, just as they were about to strike Shen Qingchan—

The fierce-looking female ghost stopped moving, her arm reaching for Shen Qingchan froze in place, her head tilted uncontrollably, and her tongue drooped, as if she had been frozen in place.

Before Shen Qingchan could react, he noticed that the female ghost's neck was being grabbed by a wooden hand. Looking down along the wooden hand, he saw Xiao Dai standing behind her.

At the same time, a mechanical sound rang in my ears—

[Congratulations, host, for unlocking the female ghost's weakness: choking. You have earned 100 points!]

[NPC Weakness Collection Progress (1/10)]

The little dummy in front of her shook its head and hopped around her once.

It was as if he was begging for her praise.

Shen Qingchan praised without reservation: "Not bad."

Just then, a piercing and urgent alarm sounded in the corridor, followed by a flurry of footsteps.

Shen Qingchan glanced around and saw that only the door to the nurses' duty room next to her was half open. She immediately pulled Xiao Dai inside and locked the door from the inside.

The noise in the corridor was too loud, and the alarm on the first floor of the hospital went off. As expected, Director Nie was going to come out early.

What a nuisance. Shen Qingchan clicked her tongue lightly; she had actually forgotten about this thing.

The nurses' station was eerily quiet, and the bright overhead light made it take her a long time to open her eyes.

As Shen Qingchan expected, the room was empty; all the nurses must have been called to the ward by the "player" to unlock the storyline.

Shen Qingchan glanced at her survival time; there were only 10 minutes left.

Right now, she can only focus on increasing her story exploration progress to earn more survival time.

Little Dai seemed to understand her meaning and immediately went off to find the information.

The two split up and searched the area, standing in front of the old, patina-covered table, methodically flipping through and restoring stacks of documents.

She kept hearing the message "Story unlock progress +1".

Just as the survival time entered the blood-red [1:00] countdown, Shen Qingchan closed the last document.

The next second, a strong sense of impending death struck, breathing became difficult, and body temperature plummeted, as if falling into deep water and about to drown.

The talisman lying in her pocket remained completely silent.

Xiao Dai rushed forward to support her in a panic, his stiff arms trembling. Shen Qingchan saw tiny wood chips miraculously falling from his face, as if he were crying.

Shen Qingchan never expected that the puppet she had only spent a few minutes with would be like this.

Looking at Xiao Dai's expression, a familiar feeling welled up in my heart, but I couldn't quite place it.

Just when she thought she was really going to die, the mechanical voice finally rang out.

[Host's current exploration progress: 23%, points gained: 3000, current points: 3100.]

[The system has detected that the player has less than 30 seconds left to survive and has automatically redeemed the item.]

etc!……

Shen Qingchan wanted to stop him but had no strength, and could only flutter in Xiao Dai's arms.

[Host's current survival time: 3 hours and 16 minutes; remaining points: 0]

As soon as the sound fell, the near-death experience vanished instantly, and everything returned to normal. Shen Qingchan sat exhausted in a chair, panting heavily. Xiao Dai, standing beside her, excitedly checked her body up and down, afraid that Shen Qingchan might almost die again in the next second.

As her consciousness returned, Shen Qingchan immediately opened the dungeon shop and repeatedly checked the points in the upper left corner:

0!

Shen Qingchan: "..."

The last time she played the game, she had plenty of time to survive and had never experienced such an uncontrollable situation. She never expected that the dungeon system would make a choice for her when she was on the verge of death.

Dungeon points are very useful, and no one would exchange them all for survival time.

Shen Qingchan sighed regretfully, pressed down on the hands that were still frantically groping around, and quickly sorted through the information she had gathered.

The hospital has three floors; the higher the floor, the more skilled the doctors.

Furthermore, all the patients on the first floor are new, and if their condition worsens, they will be transferred to the second floor for treatment.

The survival time gained from exploring one level is barely enough to last half a day.

The only way to get from the first floor to the second floor is by "worsening the condition," but "worsening the condition" will lead to being dragged to the operating room for "treatment." If she remembers correctly, the surgery will speed up the survival time countdown. The normal way to pass the level is to buy the [Lock Survival Time] item in the dungeon shop before entering the operating room to save her life.

Now, she only has 0 left.

As she pondered what to do, the system store in the lower left corner started flashing wildly.

Shen Qingchan clicked on it, and a message flashing with golden light appeared.

[The system shop refreshes when you're on the verge of death—]

The things on the screen flashed and flashed, and there were many more items in the store.

[Rank A Item [Resurrection]: 10000 points]

Description: If you have enough time to survive in the instance, you will be resurrected immediately after death.

(The shop refresh time for this item is unknown.)

[D-level item [locked]: 1000 points]

Description: Survival time is locked for 1 hour.

Isn't this her protective charm and the item she used on the second floor?

Shen Qingchan was overjoyed, never expecting that all her worries would be resolved.

Unfortunately, she couldn't use her points to buy any items.

Just then, a series of heavy, dragging footsteps approached, sounding particularly abrupt in the quiet duty room.

Shen Qingchan got up alertly and listened to the sounds outside.