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

"Tang pear? Cough cough... Tang pear?"

A weak call rang in her left ear.

Tang Li jolted, her fingers gripping her earphones: "Yes, yes, yes!"

Since Gu Xiaoying completely handed over the dungeon, he has been completely silent. Tang Li doesn't know if he is seriously injured and unconscious, or... something even more cruel.

She wanted to go to the rooftop to check, but at that moment a storm swept in, and pieces of the hospital building kept falling off, moving eerily like a herd of animals fleeing and migrating. Jiang Hui and Lei Hong fought their way through several floors...

College student Tang Li is just an ordinary person. Her physical fitness test scores are consistently around 80 points. She is simply too weak to do anything. She keeps falling back down, and she is still on her way to the rooftop.

Fortunately, Gu Xiaoying had already woken up. Tang Li's heart was still pounding with excitement, and she couldn't help but smile.

Gu Xiaoying's next words froze her smile on her face.

"The original world is planning... to destroy us outright."

Tang Li: "???"

"We're falling..."

"They...sent signals, but I don't have the strength to respond..." Gu Xiaoying said haltingly, "Now, immediately, contact Xiaomei..."

"Received!" Tang Li answered crisply, while simultaneously speaking to Xiao Mei, the AI ​​residing in another earpiece, "Xiao Mei, can you contact your master?"

"Xiao Mei, give it a try—"

"I already know." Before the AI's lively and cute voice could finish speaking, it was interrupted by a calm female voice, "Don't worry, Gu Xiaoying, I have also detected the signal from the original world."

At the same time, the background sound of rapid typing came from the other end of the right earphone.

Tang Li's heart, which had just been pounding, suddenly relaxed.

How could she forget that Gu Xiaomei also possessed talent in this area that was no less than her father's?

"A response has already been given."

Gu Xiaomei's voice was calm, keeping pace with their progress.

"Communication channels have been established."

I pressed the Enter key with a particularly crisp sound.

"We have gained their initial trust."

Tang Li stared wide-eyed in admiration: What an efficient person! Can I become such a capable professional woman after graduation?

"Ahem, wait...wait a minute," Gu Xiaoying interrupted abruptly, her weak voice filled with confusion, "How...so quickly...trust?"

They were a group of uninvited guests who appeared inexplicably in the sky, and they had gained the other party's initial trust just like that? He was a little worried that Gu Xiaomei had been deceived by the people of the original world.

"Yes, that's right," Gu Xiaomei said cheerfully into Tang Li's right ear.

"It's using the old 'Gu' account. You know, its reputation is guaranteed."

A moment of remembrance followed.

In silence, endless scenes of bygone days flashed by.

"I see." Gu Xiaoying finally chuckled softly in Tang Li's left ear, "My little beauty is amazing... In such a short time, you actually managed to find me from back then..."

"No," Gu Xiaomei gently interrupted him, "You're wrong."

"I found 'Gu' a long time ago. Ever since you completely disappeared, I took over this ID. During those years when you were in a daze, lost your memory, and were not in control of your own destiny, I was the one who was active online in your place."

"Fortunately, I found your backup database, and fortunately, I later infiltrated the hospital. The sharing of 'Gu' knowledge has never stopped."

Her voice trembled slightly.

"Dad, don't forget, you're not the only one who's 'Ancient,' I am too."

"You're not the only one infected by the supernatural, you're not the only one fighting against it. Me too."

Every step I take follows in your footsteps; I follow your path and chase after your footsteps.

From the very beginning until now, it has never stopped.

— What ruined the atmosphere was an unbearable cough.

The two earphones, with Tang's expressionless face, said, "You two are forbidden from expressing your feelings through the left and right channels in my head."

Most importantly, what does "ancient" mean? This is absurd! I don't understand anything at all.

On the other side, Gu Xiaomei, rather embarrassed by the commotion she had made, hurriedly and rigidly read out the message from the original world: "The ground asked us if we could confirm the crash time and exact location in advance, and if we could cooperate with the ground to guide the landing in an open area to avoid causing personal injury or property damage to the people."

Gu Xiaoying's condition was visibly recovering: "Don't worry about the hospital falling. The world is rejecting the bizarre replica. The Ghost Story Private Hospital was made using materials from the bizarre world. When it finally collapses completely, it will vanish into nothingness."

Those who do not belong to this world will ultimately be excluded.

"So we need to prepare to leave in advance," Gu Xiaomei said quickly. In such an urgent situation, her first thought was, "Tang Li, what are the rest of you players doing? Tell them we need to leave the instance."

One of them is still fighting Lei Hong to the death, while the other is... who knows what he's doing.

Are they blocking people in alleys to collect protection money?

Tang Li remained calm and composed: "It's alright, don't worry about them. We players know what's going on and can log out with one click at any time."

Gu Xiaomei continued, "Then... Gu Xiaoying?"

Gu Xiaoying spoke from the other side, her tone unusually light: "Don't worry, even a skinny Boss is bigger than a horse. My black mist said it will protect me."

"Fine!" Gu Xiaomei complained loudly, "Then I, with only a mortal body, need a parachute."

Where can we find a parachute?

Tang Li was about to search for items in the shop, wondering if Gu Xiaomei, as an ordinary person, could use them, when she heard a buzzing sound in her ear, and a new voice joined the conversation: "We have them."

The unfamiliar voice, the childish tone, clearly belonged to a child.

The child said through the earpiece, "Come find us on the eighth floor, we have parachutes."

Tang Li had hardly ever met them, but she immediately realized who they were.

Gu Xiaomei recognized the voice and immediately blurted out a string of questions: "Southern Xinjiang? I almost forgot about you! Are you ready to leave? Do you all know how to skydive? Are you too short?"

How could she not care about them? They were the children she had personally rescued one by one from the underground "healing room" she had repeatedly ventured into.

"Don't worry, we're all ready," a child's innocent voice said.

On the other end of the earpiece, Nanjiang chuckled softly, "Come on over, there's a portal to the eighth floor that's open too."

Eighth floor.

If you wish to return home and cleanse yourself, you must enter this gate.

The second door opens into the ward area.

Parachutes piled up at my feet, and a portal opened above my head.

A swollen human body accompanied him.

The children looked at each other, then spontaneously clapped their hands and laughed happily.

Great, great.

You see, life isn't 100% cruel to us.

At the very least, she saved our lives; she was brave, she was kind—

I can finally go home.