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

"Aa ...

Tang Li suddenly looked up. A strange commotion erupted.

It turns out that Director Cao can make even more horrific sounds.

The dean smiled slightly and covered Director Cao's tear-streaked face with his outstretched right hand. No one knows what he did, but Director Cao's body suddenly began to shrink rapidly, like a wet pillow suddenly thrown into a high-speed washing machine; Director Cao twisted, writhed, and deflated.

A pale yellow mucus seeped from his pores, each drop transforming into a tiny, round lipid sphere the moment it left his skin, rolling and gurgling to the ground. Director Cao shrank smaller and smaller, countless pale yellow spheres detaching from his body and coalescing on the ground into a human-shaped outline, like drug particles spilling from a broken capsule.

When the sound disappeared, Director Cao had turned into a dried-up corpse doll the size of a palm.

If Tang Li's method of subduing Director Cao was simple, leaving much room for the supernatural to imagine, thus easily winning their awe; then Dean Lei Hong's method was extremely bizarre and complex, like a show of skill. For Tang Li, it was to please and demonstrate her own strength, while for the supernatural beings in the hospital, it was a blatant warning and deterrent.

Tang Li sneered inwardly: He's scared.

He feared that Tang Li would win away the "popular support" he had painstakingly cultivated.

The dean picked up the doll but didn't hand it to Tang Li. Instead, he looked at Gu Xiaomei, who was standing next to Tang Li.

He smiled and handed it to her, saying, "Xiaomei, it was wrong of Director Cao to force you to drink the soup. Our hospital has never had a culture of bullying interns."

The dean's last sentence floated down lightly, "Since Director Cao made a mistake, he should apologize to you himself."

However, Gu Xiaomei, who was originally very respectful to the hospital leadership, only glanced at the ugly doll and did not reach out to take it. Instead, she looked at Tang Li first.

Tang Li glanced at the spider and the other strange creatures, noticing the obvious drooling on their faces. She knew then that among the supernatural beings, this apology was indeed quite sincere.

She nodded to Gu Xiaomei.

Gu Xiaomei then reached out and took it. Her voice was calm: "Thank you, Dean."

Only then did Director Cao's younger brother finally realize what had happened. He let out a furious howl of betrayal and lunged forward to try and grab it, but was forcibly pulled out of the private room by the strange person assigned by the dean.

Tang Li also stood up and softly called out, "Spider, Xiao Mei."

"This meal is not going to be good. Prepare some clean food and send it to my room."

Spider and Chu Xiaomei left as instructed, and Tang Li effortlessly dismissed the two subordinates she had just subdued, leaving only the dean's men in the private room. Lei Hong's expression improved; he knew she was returning the favor, expressing trust, and giving him face.

He exclaimed sincerely, "What magnanimity you possess!"

Tang Li chuckled: "Come on, the hot-blooded kids are all gone, so there's no need to hold back what you have to say."

She casually dragged over a chair and sat down next to the dean.

"Tell me, what's going on with Gu Xiaoying?"

Tang Li's expression was calm, but her thoughts were racing: both surveillance and a trap, why was Lei Hong testing her in every way?

Does it really matter to Lei Hong whether she is a player or a so-called "adult"? It's already the seventh day of the dungeon. If he stays for nine days, he can clear it. As long as Lei Hong keeps his distance as he has in the past few days, she will leave after two days. Why risk testing her repeatedly?

Unless Lei Hong still has designs on her.

The variable is Gu Xiaoying, who spent the night with her last night.

The hospital director paused slightly. Liu Dan, whose demeanor was strangely cryptic, stepped forward and said with a smile, "Sir, we don't have a child like Gu Xiaoying in our hospital. Are you hallucinating?"

Rule Three: This hospital has no pediatrics department, nor does it have any children claiming to be Gu Xiaoying. If you see a child, it's just your hallucination. Don't talk to him, and don't let him know you can see him.

Tang Li scoffed, "Don't lie to me."

In this instance, besides the natural antagonism between players and the supernatural beings, the supernatural faction is also divided into at least two opposing groups. One group consists of the hospital's supernatural beings, led by the hospital director, and the other group consists of Gu Xiaoying, who serves as an experimental subject.

While Gu Xiaoying appears to be a victim, genuinely oppressed by the hospital, Tang Li feels that this is not the case.

If the hospital could manipulate Gu Xiaoying at will, there would be no need to establish Rule Three to try and restrict his communication with the players. Furthermore, Gu Xiaoying did not act as if his freedom was being restricted; he even easily evaded the hospital's surveillance of Tang Li.

The two sides have clearly broken off relations, and it seems that the hospital can't do anything to Gu Xiaoying.

It turned out to be the case.

Why was Dean Lei Hong suddenly so enthusiastic towards her? Because he knew she had walked out of Gu Xiaoying's ward today, her hands and body covered in blood. He wanted to know whether the blood belonged to Tang Li or Gu Xiaoying.

Tang Li almost burst out laughing.

How absurd! You actually think you can use my power to deal with Gu Xiaoying?

She raised an eyebrow, staring at the dean, her words laced with mockery and blatant probing: "Shouldn't you be the ones hoping I'll see Gu Xiaoying? Do you want to use me to get rid of Gu Xiaoying?"

Tang Li couldn't help but gently twitch her fingers, her eyelids slightly lowered to conceal the look of restraint in her eyes. The sticky, damp blood from Gu Xiaoying seemed to still cling to her fingertips.

She tapped the table lightly, her tone slightly mocking, "An entire hospital staff can't do anything about a child?"

Before Liu Dan from the personnel department could speak, the dean waved his hand, looked at Tang Li, and sighed softly, "As expected, Your Excellency is perceptive."

"We didn't mean for Gu Xiaoying to disturb your peace, but he forced us into this situation." Lei Hong's brows furrowed with a sorrowful expression, his face revealing an overly realistic sadness. At the same time, all the strange creatures around him lowered their heads, and some even squeezed out tears of different colors from the corners of their eyes.

The dean sighed, "To be honest, all of us have ended up in this inhuman and grotesque state thanks to Gu Xiaoying."

How clever. Tang Li thought to herself, "You've suddenly turned into victims?"

She narrowed her eyes slightly: "I'd like to hear the details."

"Don't laugh at us, adults, but we weren't born weird. We evolved from humans."

"After we became monsters, we were no longer limited by human lifespans. But we were imprisoned in the tiny space of the Ghostly Private Hospital, where we were driven and tortured by him every day."

"The source of all misfortune is Gu Xiaoying."