After being poisoned by mushrooms, all the strange creatures became fascinated by me.

The middle-aged man pointed at me in horror: "It's him! He attacked me!"

"I only spoke to him a few words because I felt sorry for him, and he suddenly turned on me and scratched me until I bled!"

As I looked at him, memories slowly began to surface in my mind. This man was also a patient infected by a strange parasite. He had come specifically to experience the "legendary machine," accompanied by his healthy, innocent, and devoted six-year-old daughter.

The nurse rushed over with a beaming smile, bowing repeatedly to the man: "I'm so sorry, he's just a child..."

Child? Are you talking about me? I looked down at my small body and realized for the first time how I looked in other people's eyes.

After the man left, grumbling, I asked the nurse, "I remember you also have a daughter."

The nurse's smile froze.

"Did she know that her mother, the angel in white, was a murderer?" I asked calmly.

The nurse's expression changed, and she shoved me hard: "You should worry about yourself! You're about to..."

She suddenly stopped talking.

From that statement, I realized that the dean and his colleagues had indeed tampered with my body.

The next page is a long time after the previous date.

My memory is getting worse and worse; I often forget who I am.

Then, I noticed that the nurse started speaking to me in a high-pitched voice, calling me "little friend".

My age has been changed to six years old in my file.

A rumor started circulating in the hospital that I was a patient involved in a medical malpractice incident and was still there receiving treatment.

It's ridiculous. I was imprisoned, my arms and legs were cut off, and all my electronic devices were confiscated. Yet these people still fear me so much, as if I could escape the hospital with my crippled body and expose their numerous crimes.

They meticulously altered the traces, making the adult named Gu Xiaoying disappear, and replacing him with a child filled with hatred for the hospital due to medical malpractice, who was "spreading malicious rumors and talking nonsense."

Tang Li recalled the hospital rumors that Jiang Hui told her in the restaurant kitchen when she first entered the hospital. They were false stories that the hospital staff, led by the hospital director, deliberately condoned and spread, and they were still being used in the dungeon.

Rather, it's more accurate to say that the hospital deliberately and strangely allowed this story to reach the players' ears, misleading their exploration direction.

Tang Li didn't take her eyes off the book. She took out a tube of indigo-colored medicine in a plastic package from her pocket, bit it open with one of her teeth, and drank it all in one gulp.

[Energy Supplement (Basic)], Used 2 times today (3/3).

Lei Hong gave me a strange-looking cricket fighting basin with two crickets inside.

I was a little out of my mind at the time, but I remember that if someone liked watching crickets, they would reach out and take the cricket fighting bowl.

The dean's smile made me very uncomfortable. He said, "Then you must take good care of it. This was made by your uncle himself."

The crickets were fighting inside. I held the cricket fighting bowl, intending to give it to someone who liked watching crickets, but after searching for a long time, I couldn't find it. In a fit of pique, I released the two crickets inside.

It was only then that I remembered that the person was Xiaomei.

Whenever I think of Xiaomei, everything comes back to me.

I still hold the cricket fighting bowl in my hands; it feels warm and smooth, its color is pure white, and it's polished to a mirror shine.

They cut off my bones, polished them piece by piece, and pieced them together.

Lei Hong is disgusting.

So at this moment... I am inside the skeleton of Gu Xiaoying.

Tang Li thought she already knew enough about Lei Hong's evil, but reality kept shattering her imagination.

Tang Li turned to the last page.

I realized that my memory was completely lost, and my mind was sometimes clear and sometimes confused like a child's. I hid these books in a basin, hoping that this would preserve everything I had left.

I am Gu Xiaomei's father, not the child named Gu Xiaoying.

"Xiao Mei," Tang Li suddenly spoke, "I need to go back to where I first entered the fighting basin."

She needs to change to a different book.

AI Xiaomei said hesitantly, "The corpse worms keep multiplying, and those rows of bookshelves are completely overrun by them."

The bookshelves of Gu Xiaoying were covered with insects made of dismembered corpses.

Just thinking about this scene made Tang Li's stomach churn uncomfortably.

"Draw them away," Tang Li said, clasping her hands together. When she opened them again, her hands were full of gourds.

These gourds are pure white, with blood-red, protruding patterns coiled around them like blood vessels. The item [Substitute Gourd] absorbs the player's blood and can temporarily transform into a humanoid form identical to the player, capable of running and jumping, but will disappear upon being attacked.

These are disposable items, and they're ridiculously expensive. They're not cost-effective and can only be used in emergencies.

A ruthless glint flashed in Tang Li's eyes. She put her index finger in her mouth and bit down hard.

...If you can't bite through it, you can't bring yourself to do it. New players shouldn't believe what they see in TV dramas.

Tang Li casually took her finger out of her mouth again, ignoring Xiao Mei's puzzled "Hmm?" in her earphones and the "Hahahahahahaha" filling the live stream, and took out the dagger Jiang Hui had given her from her pocket.

He put the dagger back. He couldn't control the force of a stab while running; if he stabbed himself too deeply, it would be even more troublesome.

Finally, I reordered the lancets from the online store.

The gourds expanded one by one, transforming into seven or eight Tang pears that appeared in the narrow maze passage. As soon as they landed, they scattered wildly in all directions. Perhaps because they were relatively light, they were much faster than the Tang pears themselves.

The maze was like boiling water being poured into a pot of oil.

The shredded worms, which had been wandering aimlessly like headless flies, saw these Tang pears and rushed towards them as if they had suddenly seen a pie falling from the sky.

They were already intellectually deficient, and the phantoms created by the gourds were so lifelike that some worms, even when they clearly saw two Tang pears in their field of vision, not only did they not raise any suspicion and warn the mastermind Lei Hong, but instead, each of the two heads on one worm stared at a prey, refusing to give way to the other, and tore their bodies in two.

The chaos became Tang Li's best cover. Clutching her book, she ran wildly down the route Xiao Mei had guided her.

Meanwhile, on the eighth floor.

Qiu Wanting did her best to open up another location.

Exhausted, Master Qiu had just collapsed when Jiang Hui's sudden shout startled him so much that he jumped up.

"Tang Li? Tang Li?" Jiang Hui gripped the walkie-talkie tightly in her hand. In her other hand, the compass needle clearly pointed to a direction, trembling very slightly.

"Tang Li, can you hear me?"

The tracking tool worked?