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

Shen Qingchan held her hand, the warmth of her grip slowly fading. A strange thought flashed through her mind: "You went into the operating room, what did they do to you?"

Nie Xiaoxiao took a deep breath, her eyelids heavy: "They...they took..."

The moment Nie Xiaoxiao closed her eyes, Shen Qingchan felt a pang of panic. She pressed the nurse call button forcefully, and a urging song rang out in the ward, while footsteps quickly approached from outside.

Nie Xiaoxiao closed her eyes, her lips trembling slightly as she murmured something, but it was too soft for anyone to hear what she was saying.

Shen Qingchan heard the mechanical voice in her ear telling her that the plot of "[The Vanished Her]" was 50% complete, along with the nurses' bewildered chatter.

Before her eyes, the nurses frantically performed a series of examinations on Nie Xiaoxiao and began emergency measures such as cardiopulmonary resuscitation.

Shen Qingchan watched as they pressed down on this small body, the bandage around her waist quickly soaked with blood, which spread to the hospital bed.

The nurses and doctors were in a panic and didn't notice anything amiss. Shen Qingchan was about to speak up when her arm was suddenly shoved. Director Nie rushed to Nie Xiaoxiao's bedside, anxiously calling out, "Xiaoxiao! Wake up! Mommy's here..."

Director Nie noticed the wet blood on the bed, pulled back the covers, his pupils contracted sharply, and he cried out, "What happened! She's bleeding! She's bleeding!"

The nurses and doctors then noticed, but no one knew what to do. They just looked at each other blankly until a doctor calmly said, "Go get a blood pack. Someone come and stop the bleeding."

Shen Qingchan frowned as she watched their every move.

Nie Xiaoxiao was wearing a ventilator, her fingers were connected to the machine, and the heart rate and blood oxygen levels on the machine were abnormal.

The doctor turned her over, removed the bandages, and exposed the incision site, where stitches had been applied but were messy and disorganized, with some skin torn up and others sunken.

What caught Shen Qingchan's attention was that the skin and flesh on Nie Xiaoxiao's lower back were sunken.

A thought flashed through her mind: perhaps there wasn't a third-floor operating room at this time.

He is absolutely the only breakthrough point.

Shen Qingchan immediately walked out of the ward. Inside, the medical equipment was still beeping, mixed with Director Nie's cries and the panicked discussions of the doctors and nurses.

The moment Shen Qingchan opened the door to the ward and stepped out, the sounds inside completely changed.

It was as if I had stepped into the void; the sounds became ethereal and elusive, lingering in my ears, making it impossible to discern their direction.

Shen Qingchan subconsciously turned around, and the scene before her eyes suddenly changed, and the sounds around her disappeared without a trace.

It felt like a dream.

Xiao Dai followed beside Shen Qingchan, completely bewildered.

It went into the ward and rolled around on the bed where Nie Xiaoxiao had been lying, then squatted down to look under the bed, but there was nothing there.

Shen Qingchan understood just by glancing at the number on the ward door.

She's back.

So how did Nie Xiaoxiao die?

Did he die because the emergency treatment missed the golden time?

Or did they die later?

Shen Qingchan opened the taskbar, and the side quest "The Vanished Her" was still in progress, while the current story progress was only 50%.

It seems the rest of the story unfolds here, so she needs to find the ward called 444.

The mechanical sound jumped out in my ears again:

[Current game exploration progress: 40%, Points earned: 1700, Current game points: 4700.]

Shen Qingchan pondered for a moment, then suddenly felt that this side quest wasn't too dangerous, and hesitated whether to continue.

Her main goal was actually to earn system points, so perhaps she should go to a higher-level ward.

[Friendly reminder: Once a side quest is unlocked, you must complete it; otherwise, you will be permanently stuck in that instance.]

Shen Qingchan: "..."

Shen Qingchan clenched her fists, took a deep breath, and called to Xiao Dai to walk outside. They still needed to find room 444.

Her ward was 214, the ward next door was 811... there was no pattern to it.

Shen Qingchan pulled Xiao Dai along the corridor. It was now 7 a.m.

Behind me, I could hear the constant scraping of wheelchairs against the floor as patients were being wheeled out and wheeled back into the operating room.

There were quite a few people going up from the first floor to the second floor.

Shen Qingchan suddenly noticed a hospital bed being pushed towards her room by a nurse; she was about to welcome a new roommate.

Just as the hospital bed was about to be pushed in, it got stuck in the doorway. The nurses tried their best, but couldn't figure out where it was stuck. They stared at each other blankly, at a loss.

Shen Qingchan looked closely and saw that her new roommate had reached out from under the covers and grabbed the door frame, preventing the hospital bed from moving.

Her new roommate struggled to lift her head, and with trembling fingers beckoned in her direction, her dark eyes fixed on her.

Shen Qingchan: "?"

Although her small face was deathly pale, her eyebrows and lips were lively, revealing her to be a beauty that would be unforgettable.

However, she doesn't seem to know this person, does she?

As Shen Qingchan walked towards her, Yuan Zhi breathed a sigh of relief, withdrew her hand from the door frame, and the nurses finally pushed the hospital bed and pushed Yuan Zhi inside.

As soon as Shen Qingchan reached the door, she heard a clicking sound coming from inside, as if something had fallen apart.

Unexpectedly, something had indeed fallen apart. For some reason, the two iron bars supporting the bed at the foot of her new roommate's bed had broken, and she was struggling to hold onto the mattress to prevent herself from sliding down.

The nurses acted as if they hadn't seen anything, and turned and left after completing their task.

The moment I made eye contact with my new roommate, her name flashed above her head—Yuan Xiaoxuan.

It's the name on the identity card given when entering the instance; it seems to be a player who just moved from the first floor to the second floor.

She couldn't very well stand idly by while her new roommate was in trouble. Shen Qingchan politely suggested, "Why don't you lie down on my bed?"

Yuan Zhi hesitated for a moment, then finally sighed, "Forget it, maybe if I lie down, your bed will fall apart."

Shen Qingchan patted her incredibly hard bed, glanced at the other person's thin body, and raised an eyebrow: "What is your ability?"

Yuan Zhi didn't expect that in such a short time, the big shot in front of her would figure out that it was because of her awakened ability.

She sighed with relief, thankful that she had listened to the advice of the commenter!

He quickly grabbed onto the coattails of someone named Luo Yan on the second floor!

Yuan Zhi excitedly revealed her awakened ability in its entirety: "My ability is [Misfortune Strikes], which is triggered randomly, meaning I'll encounter unlucky events at any time!"

Shen Qingchan: "..."

What a coincidence! It's comparable to Fang Yue's.

Just as she was about to say something, her new roommate pulled out the IV, got out of bed, and limped over to her. She devoutly grasped one of her hands, her eyes brimming with tears and pleading, "Please, take me with you, take me away from this hellhole! I'll give you a huge sum of money! You have no idea how close I've come to death these past few hours..."