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

The old woman in blue collapsed to the ground, her deformed head staring unblinkingly at Tang Li.

Tang Li took a step back before the blood spread, feeling her hands still convulsing. She didn't know if it was because of losing control after exerting too much force, or the panic of regaining her senses after being overwhelmed by the frenzy.

Tang Li was panting, her knuckles were already bleeding. She suddenly relaxed and immediately felt an undeniable soreness in her arm.

[Little Red Pill: It causes a rapid surge in Qi and blood within a short period. The amount of Qi and blood retained depends on how much the body can process and retain before the time limit expires.]

Tang Li struggled to pick up the still-burning tinder from the ground and leaned closer to examine it closely with the old woman in blue.

Within the gradually spreading blood, something was subtly surging. In the flickering firelight, Tang Li gradually saw clearly that it was a layer of fine, dark bubbles.

When you eat beef noodles or rice noodles, isn't there a layer of oil floating on top of the soup base? It looks like a layer of bubbles with distinct outlines and varying sizes.

Now, in the pool of blood that has spread from the blue-clad old woman's body, there is also a layer of "dark oily star" floating densely.

Tang Li quickly realized that this was the oily, "strange" thing that Lian Shi had described before.

They were wriggling in a fixed direction in the slightest way. Tang Li's face darkened. They wanted to return to the body of the old woman in blue.

The fight she just had was enough for her; she had no intention of fighting the resurrected old woman in blue again.

Since it's oil, let's burn it.

Tang Li brought the tinder close to the blood. The sparks ignited the liquid, and in the next second, flames burst forth. Caught off guard, she took a step back, and the flames suddenly leaped to half her height, completely illuminating Tang Li's face.

Boiling blood at the bottom, burning oil on top.

"Buzz—"

The sharp screech pierced Tang Li's brain once again.

She gritted her teeth, covered her head, and looked at the system notification panel even faster than before.

This time, she saw it...

[System Notification: Congratulations! You have successfully eliminated the ******strange*** task. Progress: **%**]

A few specific words caught her eye, but the next second, the entire text vanished before her eyes as if it were an illusion.

Tang Li's eyes widened suddenly—what was that just now?

The system... is broken?

Or perhaps her gaze turned cold—or perhaps something deliberately erased her system notification?

Is this the first time? A similar sound has occurred once before, so is this just the second time?

Tang Li instinctively felt that she had overlooked some information. She flipped back to the first system notification she received on her first day in the dungeon and read it word by word from beginning to end.

Ah, look what I've found!

Am I in a weird live stream? A weird dungeon, shouldn't all sorts of weird things happen in weird dungeons?

Why was it the indigenous Lien Shih who first proposed the concept of "weirdness"?

Why is it that from beginning to end, from the main storyline to the side quests, the system prompts never mention the word "strange"?

Players and the supernatural are inherently opposed, so why is it that in this particular instance, players use...human NPCs within the instance to earn points, instead of supernatural beings?

Ugh, I'm getting goosebumps.

The system tasks seem to have downplayed the strange existence, Tang Li wondered. Was it intentional? Or was there something lurking behind the scenes?

His gaze fell on the firelight at his feet; the flames showed no signs of abating. The "oil" in the blood and corpse seemed inexhaustible. When would this eerie creature finally be vanquished?

The tinnitus from that buzzing sound was still ringing in her head.

On the other hand... doesn't she know whether the system is biased or not, and to whom it is biased?

In the previous instance, during the final battle, wasn't the system urging them to leave the instance as if it were a matter of life and death, so as to spare the life of the instance boss, the hospital director?

A cold smile crept across Tang Li's lips.

She opened the live stream's private message backend and found an ID named "Qianli".

【Qianli】was a player on Tang Li's previous eerie live stream donation leaderboard. He was previously ranked ninth, but perhaps because this live stream failed to attract viewers, he has now dropped to twenty-eighth. At the very end of the previous live stream, it was he who provided Tang Li with the idea of ​​smuggling the swollen human body out of the dungeon.

Tang Li deduced from this that this person must have a deep understanding of various dungeon mechanics.

[Tang Li: Teacher Qianli, I apologize for bothering you. I have a few questions to ask you.]

Tang Li carefully considered her words, making sure that every word accurately conveyed her question.

[Tang Li: What is the purpose of these eerie dungeons? Are they for the dungeon bosses, or for the players who keep clearing them? And what are the system quests issued around?]

In the previous instance, both the Ghostly Private Hospital and the player's quests revolved around the instance boss, Gu Xiaoying. As for Gu Xiaoying himself, he was invited by a group of people from the [Ghostly Affairs Management Department] and officially joined the company after signing a contract.

In other words, the dungeon [Tales of the Private Hospital] only came into existence because of the dungeon boss, Gu Xiaoying.

The dungeon can be completely destroyed by either killing the dungeon boss or fulfilling the condition of "granting the dungeon boss's wish".

However, in this instance, not only was the instance boss completely unheard of, but even the system notification clearly stated:

The current instance is an important asset of the lord and cannot be destroyed or damaged.

Players are advised not to harbor unrealistic fantasies.

……Is it really?

A beep sounded as a notification.

News from afar quickly surfaced following her question.

Qianli: Neither.

[Qianli: The eerie dungeons exist for the sake of the eerie lord. As for the system quests, they are issued to please the eerie lord.]

Tang Li narrowed her eyes.

Ah... she's forgotten all that.

Before this trip, didn't Nan Tan just tell her about it? The mysterious lord, Fan Ji?

Is that the infamous lord who loves to enjoy the chaos and suffering of others?

So she moved her fingers and then raised what could only be described as an audacious question.

[Tang Li: Is it possible that a dungeon will appear with only an escape condition, but no completion condition?]

Clearing the dungeon means completely destroying it, so that no more players will be swept into it from now on.

[Tang Li: In other words...]

Is it possible for an indestructible, unbreakable copy to appear?

Silence fell on the other side.

Tang Li was almost worried that Qianli would be intimidated by this, almost worried that the naked ambition in her words would scare Qianli away, and that he would disappear without a trace, unfollowing her.

however……

[Qianli: Ugh, I haven't been watching any streamers' livestreams lately, now I regret it.]