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

The enormous creature was once again sent flying, its flesh scattering everywhere, before crashing through several walls.

Jiang Hui moved so fast that her figure was almost invisible. In an instant, only a silver light was tinged with blood, like lightning and a shooting star.

[System notification: The current instance is about to collapse. Players are advised not to linger!]

[System notification: The current instance is about to collapse. Players are advised not to linger!]

[Repeated! The current instance is about to collapse, players must not linger! Players must not linger!]

Before Jiang Hui's eyes were not only monsters formed from fragmented corpses, but also dense white text covering the screen. These were system notifications forcibly flooding the screen, which could not be blocked or stopped.

If one had to describe it, the system is like a driver who has long passed departure time but still has to wait for passengers to board. If it were a human, it would have long since become furious and on the verge of collapse.

【The Ghostly Private Hospital】Although it is only a low-level one-star dungeon, the low rating is entirely due to the dungeon boss's habit of slacking off, the ghostly faction having a traitor like Dr. Jiang, and a group of child "seniors" who seize every opportunity to save people.

The sheer number of rounds it took to complete, yet several years to finally be cleared, speaks volumes about its difficulty. And the most formidable "Boss potential" among them is undoubtedly Lei Hong, the director of the Ghostly Private Hospital.

—The system wants to spare Lei Hong's life.

It wants to clear out the remaining three "holdout" players as soon as possible, so that the unlucky "strategist" boss can escape the instance with its tail between its legs. It wants to properly "recycle" all the weird items with residual value to ensure that they can still be used by the weird live streaming room.

This is the real reason why the system keeps urging Jiang Hui to leave.

At this moment, half of the viewers in the live stream were scoffing, while the other half were secretly learning the skills of the expert.

"Give up, my sister Hui is already obsessed, she doesn't care what you're telling her!" "Holy crap, she cleared another floor! The dungeon's collapse is mainly thanks to the streamer's efforts, hahaha!" "System, don't rush, log out after killing Lei Hong, hahahahahaha!"

Jiang Hui once again raised the tip of her spear, and a trail of vivid, eye-catching blood droplets appeared on the white wall.

bother.

The dense white text, like the most severe case of floaters, obstructed her vision, almost completely obscuring everything in front of her.

So annoying.

The enemy is not dead yet; strength still fills my veins, and excitement and joy still surge in my chest.

I'm not done yet!

You want to take away my happiness? Just for this kind of trash, with such low-level tactics?

Daydreaming.

Jiang Hui smiled coldly, stepped to the next battle rhythm, and simply closed her eyes, which were tinged with gold.

Feel... the flow of the wind, the groans of the enemy, the stench of rotting corpses.

The red tassels fluttered incessantly, and Jiang Hui's spear continued its relentless advance.

—So, she naturally didn't notice the figure sneaking away along the wall.

A beautiful woman named Gu Xiaomei passed by the battlefield in shock.

Should she not have followed Gu Xiaoying to learn computer technology in the first place?

If this is what she studied, wouldn't Lei Hong's ashes have been scattered into a ditch long ago?

Gu Xiaomei muttered to herself, but "Dr. Jiang" had been able to mingle among the supernatural for so many years, so her skills were not to be underestimated. She arrived at the eighth floor faster than expected.

The children looked up at her with their little faces, each accompanied by a swollen human body. They seemed to be busy with something, but when they saw that she had arrived early, they hurriedly stopped what they were doing, their eyes wide like a flock of frightened owls.

Each child carried a small backpack, while behind their swollen bodies was a huge backpack.

The enormous monster shuffled around uncomfortably, but because the children beside it had helped them carry it, it was reluctant to take it off, making it look particularly distressed, which was somewhat amusing.

Nanjiang stood at the very front, his small face serious, and handed her a medium-sized parachute pack. He pointed to the sky above: "You have to go up."

Gu Xiaomei looked up and found a portal of light opening above her.

"If we can't find a ladder, I'll have Lu Qisheng carry you up," Nan Jiang said, patting the waist of the swollen body next to him.

The enormous monster lowered its head, slowly glanced at the small hand, and blinked stiffly. Then it obediently lowered itself, waiting for Gu Xiaomei to step onto its shoulders.

Gu Xiaomei didn't rush back to her hometown. She asked into her earpiece, "I can leave anytime, Gu Xiaoying, will you come find me?"

"No," Gu Xiaoying said succinctly, "the third door is on the rooftop."

The previous dungeon boss spoke a little faster. He clearly didn't even have the strength to sit up, but he still seemed to be omniscient and omnipotent. "Xiao Mei, don't worry about me. The parachute altitude is almost too low. You go first."

"Don't worry," Tang Li's voice followed closely, "I'll be climbing to the rooftop soon, Xiao Mei. I'll be in charge of supervising Gu Xiaoying as he enters the portal."

Gu Xiaomei finally felt relieved, put on her parachute, and took the protective equipment handed to her by Zhuge Jiajia.

She lowered her head and deftly adjusted the straps with her fingers.

At this moment, the children, like a group of quiet radish heads, watched her silently.

—And so everything happened by chance, and Gu Xiaomei missed the sadness in their eyes.

I missed those regrets, those resolute decisions, and those blessings tinged with tears after letting go.

From now on, the children silently wished for everything to go smoothly.

Our dearest Gu Xiaomei.

You once held us in your arms when we had just opened our eyes in the deadly cold; you once fed us spoonful by spoonful a bowl of rice porridge with a little apple in it; you once laughed out loud when we stumbled and fell while learning to walk, then helped us up and gently patted away our helplessness and anxiety, saying to us casually, "It's okay."

It's okay, it's okay, you always say that. It's okay, anyway, there's still a long way to go.

Anyway, we'll have to rely on each other in this hellish hospital and get through these seemingly endless, long nights together.

—Until the day of parting finally arrived.

Fate, oh fate.

From this day forward, all the good fortune you owe us will be wiped clean. If you still feel guilty, please make it up to the person in front of you.

When Gu Xiaomei looked up again, she only saw the children's smiling faces.

Having seen their long faces so many times, she was now somewhat surprised—sure enough, leaving this wretched place really does make one feel better.

Gu Xiaomei said matter-of-factly, "You guys jump first, I'll jump last."

Nanjiang gave a rare, slight smile: "No, you have to be first."

"We're going to dance with our darlings," Jiang Lin said, holding Han Mengzhen's finger affectionately and shaking it. Her lighthearted voice was full of teasing. "With them protecting us, 'Little Beauty's Mom,' you've become the one getting priority protection."

Gu Xiaomei looked down at the eager faces, and the usually decisive girl hesitated at this moment:

Is that so? Should I... leave first?

As if guided by some unseen force, something was doing everything in its power to hold her back.

"Stop being so indecisive," Zhuge Jiajia said anxiously. "Besides, if you jump last, who will be there to catch you and pull you through the portal?"

As she spoke, the little girl stood on tiptoe and forcefully slapped the arm of the swollen body beside her, "Liu Anbang, go!"

For some reason, the swollen, dazed body actually understood Zhuge Jiajia's words at this moment. He bent down, put his big hand around Gu Xiaomei's waist, and lifted her up onto his shoulder.

Gu Xiaomei: !!!

This sudden turn of events completely diverted her attention. Gu Xiaomei finally put aside her hesitation and tried to stand up on Liu Anbang's shoulder, stretching out her arms, her fingertips already touching the light gate.

She could feel the wind, the wind high in the sky blowing across her palms.

Hearing the call of her hometown, Gu Xiaomei could no longer contain her joy. A bright, sunny smile bloomed on her face, just like the figure on her phone wallpaper.

She laughed happily, "Then I'll go first. When I get home, I'll adopt you all one by one!"

The children waved and chattered at her, urging her to hurry up and stop dawdling!

Lady Luck finally smiled upon them, and everything went so smoothly.

Will things go that smoothly?

Liu Anbang slowly straightened up, just a second before Gu Xiaomei entered the portal of light.

Gu Xiaomei's gaze swept over the child beneath her one last time. As if by some strange twist of fate, as if guided by divine intervention, a bright light stung her eyes.

That's Liu Anbang's backpack zipper.