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

"Oh, so you're the vice dean. It's a pleasure to meet you." Tang Li smiled, her tone rising, her eyes remaining calm.

She did it on purpose.

They deliberately delayed, forcing the tall woman to meet with other hospital staff. Even if it wasn't Wenying who came, it would be the four-armed nurse, the long-necked nurse, and the slender-waisted nurse who picked her up from school every morning to go to the cafeteria.

She wanted to use them to verify the tall woman's identity.

In the dream, the woman chasing Nannan wore a ruby ​​brooch with the hospital's logo. The promotional video stated that only hospital leaders at the vice president level or above possessed this brooch.

The tall woman in front of me had changed her clothes; she no longer wore a brooch, and this was the biggest difference between dreams and reality.

She guessed correctly, but there was no surprise; Tang Li's heart sank. She was merely testing the waters, yet the conclusion once again confirmed the reality of the dream.

She curled the corner of her lips slightly, wanting to hear what other nonsense the woman in front of her could come up with. "Having the vice president come to change my sheets? Isn't our hospital overkill for him?"

The vice dean looked up in alarm, meeting a pair of cold eyes.

Half an hour later.

"Beep—beep—beep—"

Qi Cuiming's hands trembled as she waited for the call to connect.

She knew she was finished.

Without consulting the hospital director, she took it upon herself to go to the ward to test the adults. At first, she thought she had done a good job.

She dressed up as a nurse changing the sheets and entered the adults' room before they woke up. She was just going to perform the most ordinary service, so what could possibly go wrong?

She didn't mean to disturb the adults; she was just too anxious. She just wanted to find the key, and although she ultimately failed, what did she do wrong?

The adults even called her Aunt Qi!

But by sheer coincidence, she bumped into that young nurse, who immediately recognized her.

Qi Cuiming made up an excuse, saying that she wanted to do voluntary labor, but even she knew how far-fetched this excuse was.

But when she met the eyes of an adult, she truly realized how foolish she had been.

The adult leaned against the door, arms crossed leisurely, his calm eyes carrying a weary mockery.

There was no surprise whatsoever.

At that moment, she finally understood why the Lord was regarded as a weary god in the rumors.

He never speaks much and doesn't care at all, because everything always happens without any surprise.

Qi Cuiming suddenly realized that the adults had already discovered her identity. It was like a cat playing with a mouse, yet they blamed the mouse, who was trying so hard to escape, for not giving her a surprise.

Qi Cuiming was horrified.

Just then, the call was connected.

"What did you do?" Lei Hong's question came from the other end of the line. "Why did they tell me you impersonated Wen Ying and entered the adults' room?!"

"Wenying?" Qi Cuiming was taken aback. "Isn't her name Xiaotian..."

Ah... she realized that she had revealed her weakness so early on.

"Foolish!" It was rare to see the dean so emotional. "Qi Cuiming, didn't I say I wanted to curry favor with the adults? Who gave you permission to act on your own?"

"But last night, the master went to ward number four!" Qi Cuiming finally couldn't hold back any longer and cried out in grievance, "Ward number four can only be opened with one key, and since we lost the key, none of us have been able to get in! Don't you care how the master got in?!"

Lei Hong almost laughed in anger: "So you were planning to sneak into the ward to steal the key this morning? Even if the adults did get the key, how could you have found it? And even if you did find it, would you dare take the key away right under their noses?"

"So what?" Qi Cuiming's eyes flashed with anger as she roared hoarsely, "Aren't you scared? Lei Hong, the master has gone to Ward Four! Ward Four, Lei Hong! Stop fooling yourself, that's Gu Xiaoying's territory!"

"What should we do if the adults really come into contact with Gu Xiaoying? Gu Xiaoying is the master of this instance; he is the true instance boss..."

"Shut up! Shut up! Shut up!" Her words were drowned out by a roaring voice from the other end of the phone. The usually composed and self-assured Lei Hong finally revealed his uniquely bizarre and manic state. "This instance is mine! I am the director! I am the owner of the Ghost Story Private Hospital! I am the real instance BOSS!"

The once sunny hospital was suddenly shrouded in dark clouds, and a flash of lightning illuminated the pristine white building of the eerie private hospital, casting a deep gray-black shadow on it as the rain poured down.

Qi Cuiming could no longer continue the argument. She knelt on the ground, covered her ears, and screamed in agony, blood flowing from her mouth, nose, eyes, and ears. This was Lei Hong's punishment.

However, Qi Cuiming thought sadly to herself that Gu Xiaoying was reviving. And if he could only hunt down one strange being, she would be that sole target.

Before the day of her death arrived, the adults had become her only hope.

Ward 802.

Tang Li still didn't close the window that the tall woman had opened.

Her dark eyes reflected the overcast sky, and the rain, blown at an angle by the wind, pelted her, making her black clothes even darker.

The rain soaked the iron in the building, giving it a rusty smell that lingered in the air, like the blood of Nannan in my dream, still clinging to her.

Tang Li pondered what the truth might be.

Last night she got the key and quickly fell asleep. In the middle of the night, she woke up, took the key to somewhere in the hospital, and opened the door. At that moment, she seemed to enter Nannan's body; Nannan found what she had been searching for inside the door and escaped with it.

During his escape, Nannnan was caught up with and killed by the vice-dean.

Later, she woke up in her hospital room, and the remaining memories told her everything that had happened the night before in the form of a dream.

Was it because the fungus's toxins were still there? Tang Li thought, there were still many things that didn't make sense. She couldn't have entered Nannan's body like a ghost; it was more like she was hiding somewhere, observing everything from an outsider's perspective.

Otherwise, if it were truly like in some eerie novels where a "spirit possesses" her, she wouldn't have woken up covered in filth.

Moreover, from the moment Nannan fled until she was caught by the vice-dean, she didn't even get a chance to look back. Therefore, from Nannan's perspective, she couldn't see the vice-dean's face.

Tang Li felt a sudden pang of pain in her heart.

So Nannan never knew who it was until her death. Who it was that slammed her head against the wall again and again.

Tang Li took a deep breath of the chilly air mixed with rainwater.

She turned and left the room, walking calmly past the people and nurses who were still waiting for her at the door to go to the restaurant for dinner.

She stopped in front of room 801.

The trail hasn't gone cold yet. The key came from the skinny guy.

but……

The door to room 801 was ajar, revealing a narrow, empty, and ominous gap.