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

At 3:30 a.m., no one in the hospital was asleep.

The sky remained dark, and the entire eerie private hospital was shrouded in a torrential downpour. The wind howled against the not-quite-sealed glass windows, creating a chilling whistling sound.

Lightning flashed across the night sky like a dense, ribbon-like spiderweb. At the same time, thunder roared through the air, its cries growing ever louder and louder.

Dean Lei Hong was furious at the bad news that [Hundred Ghosts Night Walk] had disappeared before it could be triggered. His hatred and extreme disappointment turned into this storm.

But why didn't he use his own power to make all of this happen? Why could he only be like a lurking spider, lying on his own web, passively waiting for the prey to come to him?

Because someone severed the joints from which he was probing.

"Gu Xiaoying!" Lei Hong almost roared, shouting through the glass window, "Gu Xiaoying! Gu Xiaoying!"

Gu Xiaoying blinked the raindrops off his eyelashes and inhaled a breath of cold, damp air, the smell of water mixed with the smell of mud.

His empty eye sockets held no trace of sorrow or joy. He wasn't in the hospital, but sitting on the rooftop railing. The heavy rain couldn't penetrate him, the raging wind couldn't sway him. How he longed for the wind and rain to shatter the hospital.

"Gu Xiaoying, why are you stopping me?" Dean Lei Hong was still calling out to him. "Didn't you want to save her? Only when the dungeon is upgraded to intermediate level or higher can the monsters inside temporarily escape the dungeon!"

"If you want to save her, you have to join forces with me! Only when enough players die here can the dungeon level up!" Lei Hong fervently incited him. "You need to think this through, Gu Xiaoying! We're not enemies!"

A bolt of lightning, as large as a tree, struck down, its light filling Gu Xiaoying's sunken eye sockets. His two withered legs, dangling from the railing, remained motionless. An invisible field enveloped Gu Xiaoying, preventing the raging lightning from harming him in the slightest.

"She gave her life for you, Gu Xiaoying, and you won't even kill a few more people for her?!"

For the first time, Gu Xiaoying showed an expression.

Rainwater soaked the hospital's white walls, but upon closer inspection, what appeared on the walls were not water stains, but rather entangled shadows.

An endless shadow grew from the tip of the eagle's dangling feet, like a giant black bud, devouring and enveloping the entire hospital building. Earlier, these seemingly inconspicuous and harmless shadows had firmly controlled all the paths leading to the archives.

This rendered the dean deaf and blind, and even now, he remains completely unaware of what happened there.

The dark figure suddenly moved.

boom!

Lei Hong stumbled back a few steps. In front of him, the entire floor-to-ceiling window shattered into thousands of pieces, and rainwater and glass shards poured into the room, leaving streaks of blood on his sanctimonious face.

"Fine, Gu Xiaoying." Lei Hong said, his voice filled with hatred, "You can never save her."

You will always lose the people you care about.

at the same time.

"No, boss, is there really no one in this world you care about?"

Jiang Hui asked a question in shock.

Qiu Wanting was like a sticky mouse trap that was blown up by the wind and stuck to the wall with a "pia" sound. She was sticking herself to the glass of the ward without any regard for her image, and one of her ears had been squeezed into a thin pancake.

"Shh." Qiu Wanting gestured to Jiang Hui, waving the eavesdropping talisman in his hand, signaling her to listen in as well.

So one sticky mouse trap became two, and Jiang Hui's hearing was far better than Qiu Wanting's.

“‘She’…” Jiang Hui pondered the word. “Gu Xiaoying wants to save someone? He’s already in such a miserable state himself, who else is he worried about?”

"Given Gu Xiaoying's age, what kind of person could he be?" Qiu Wanting made a rough analysis. "First, we can rule out a lover. Based on his experience, the probability of him being a friend is not high either."

"The most likely explanation is family."

Jiang Hui had a sudden inspiration: "Among the information you collected before, I remember this... Gu Xiaoying suffered a medical accident, but because his mother worked at the hospital, the mother and son had no source of income after leaving here, so they had to stay at the Ghost Story Private Hospital for treatment."

Qiu Wanting pondered and added, "Furthermore, looking at the files in Dr. Jerry's office, it turns out that the Ghost Story Private Hospital not only failed to treat Gu Xiaoying, but also used this as an excuse to conduct human experiments on Gu Xiaoying."

"The cause of the dungeon has also been explained. Gu Xiaoying hated it to the extreme, which attracted the monster, which swallowed up the entire hospital and assimilated all the hospital staff into the monster."

Jiang Hui thought about it more and more and it seemed more plausible: "Gu Xiaoying's mother was also a hospital employee, but since Gu Xiaoying was treated like this, his mother may have already met with some misfortune. Even if she hasn't, when the supernatural happens, she can't escape the fate of falling into the supernatural with him."

She snapped her fingers, her eyes shining. "So Gu Xiaoying's wish is to get his mother out of the Ghostly Private Hospital?"

Qiu Wanting felt that her guess made sense, but there was still not enough evidence to prove it.

They cannot fill in the answers on the bizarre copy with their guesses.

"We still need to obtain Gu Xiaoying's file to confirm it again." He said, clicking his tongue unhappily. "Tonight, we've already missed a golden opportunity to stop the [Night Parade of a Hundred Ghosts]..."

"We still need to find a way to get the files out of Sun Ping's hands."

Tang Li was still doing parkour around the hospital while carrying the medical records.

She couldn't help but wonder: Was she the only person left in the entire hospital?

Oh, and there are a few punk zombies chasing after us.

Her legs ached so much she could barely move them, and she could only stumble forward by inertia. Her lungs were filled with the smell of blood, her face was covered in a mixture of sweat and tears, her wildly beating heart made her chest ache, and her throat was panting like a broken bellows from the last century.

At first, she felt fear.

But as time went on, she felt an eerie sense of detachment. It was as if her soul was gradually floating in the air, and when she looked down at herself, it was like playing a classic parkour game.

Is she really that amazing? Can she really hold on for that long?

Or rather—are those "zombies" really that useless?

near, near.

The zombie wielding the baseball bat couldn't help but grin. These low-level dungeon creations had almost no other thoughts, only a crazy obsession with killing.

He raised the baseball bat high and swung it fiercely at the slender figure who was fleeing in a disheveled state.

"Bang!"

He was sent flying, staggering back five meters.

The chase game restarts.

The shadowy figures surged and regrouped behind Tang Li, ready to fling the zombie away again at any moment.

On the rooftop, Gu Xiaoying pondered with some concern:

How come Tang Li hasn't awakened her superpowers after being immersed in the life-or-death situation for so long?

Just then, in the brief moment that Gu Xiaoying was distracted, the wiry zombie lunged forward, a knife grazing Tang Li's temple, almost cutting into her scalp.

Tang Li rolled on the spot, her heart pounding so hard it felt like it was going to jump out of her throat.

Buzz————

It was as if something that had been waiting all along had finally broken through the deep sea, surfaced, and was breathing freely.

Tang Li's pupils contracted sharply, and the world in her eyes spun into millions of fragments like a kaleidoscope.