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

Tang Li, Qiu Wanting, and Jiang Hui finally sat down together.

"Tsk," Tang Lirui commented on Sun Ping, "He gets angry so easily. This person has such poor manners."

She lowered her voice and asked them, "Sun Ping must have been a powerful mob boss before he entered the game, right? How come his composure is so poor? He goes berserk as soon as he's provoked?"

She went there with the intention of provoking him, just to get information out of him. Who knew he would get so carried away and almost disregard the rule against violence in the safe zone, trying to take her down with him?

Qiu Wanting innocently looked away.

Jiang Hui said expressionlessly, "Tang Li, listen carefully."

"First, one taunter in the team is enough. Second, before using taunt, ask your teammates what they've been doing."

Tang Li: ...

So, before she even arrived at the restaurant, Qiu Wanting had already seized the opportunity to ridicule Sun Ping, right?

Then he stepped on the critical moment when the opponent was about to explode and retreated unscathed, leaving her with a raging dragon.

Tang Li sighed and said kindly, "Do you know that all the viewers who were criticizing you have found my live stream?"

Qiu Wanting nodded politely, then forcefully changed the subject: "Have you rested well? Have you made a decision?"

"Should we break the rules, collect the reward points, and leave the instance? Or should we continue exploring the secrets of the Ghostly Hospital, fulfill Gu Xiaoying's wish, seek victory for the human faction, and completely destroy the instance?"

Tang Li said, "I already said that in the hospital room." This ambition will not change.

"I want to crack the rules, uncover the world of the instance, get the points, and get the truth."

Qiu Wanting and Jiang Hui exchanged glances: They really are like newborn calves unafraid of tigers.

No problem. What's wrong with a low-level one-star dungeon to accompany a newbie just entering this strange world?

Tang Li could see the unspoken message in their eyes, but she didn't care at all.

Yes, she is an energetic and naive college student. But so far, no setback has been able to defeat her.

"Besides that, I have a third goal."

Tang Li stared at the upper right corner of the live stream, where a small icon was constantly flashing, with the time displayed on it getting smaller and smaller.

The moment the countdown reached zero, the live stream's blocking effects went out of control, and the screen was suddenly flooded with comments.

Tang Li smiled amidst the gazes of Qiu Wanting, Jiang Hui, and the entire audience far beyond the world.

She humbly lowered her head and reverently looked down:

"I want to offer a purified copy world to my master."

After a while.

The three people who had turned off the live stream again huddled together in Tang Li's hospital room and finally began exchanging information.

"Let me go first," Tang Li raised her hand, "The clinic I visited in my dream was probably the place where Gu Xiaoying was subjected to human experiments, most likely on the basement floor of the hospital. We can go and take a look."

Qiu Wanting nodded: "Jiang Hui and I forced open the door to 820. What was blocking the door wasn't some heavy object, but Lao Ding himself, who had escaped. However, Lao Ding was already mentally unstable and almost unable to communicate."

"The swollen belly you mentioned earlier, Old Ding's, has completely disappeared. There's no woman's head on his stomach, but rather a long, freshly stitched-up wound."

"We suspect that on the day you met Lao Ding, later that evening, Lao Ding, who had been wandering around aimlessly, returned to 820 in a daze and was spotted by the surveillance cameras. The hospital sent someone to perform surgery on him and remove the object from his abdomen."

"After that, Lao Ding, as a failed experiment, was left to fend for himself in room 820. At the same time, he was also bait; the hospital had set a trap in room 820," Qiu Wanting shrugged under Tang Li's tense gaze, "but we just didn't step on it."

Tang Li still felt uncomfortable seeing a living person reduced to this state. She pursed her lips and asked, "So, the lead with Lao Ding is considered dead?"

"No." Jiang Hui took out a sealed bag from her pocket, inside which was a key. "Old Ding borrowed the dungeon item and left behind the last clue."

"The dungeon item [Master Key] can theoretically mimic the shape of any key through contact."

"This key has been completely transformed," Jiang Hui paused for a moment, then added softly, "We found it inside Lao Ding's thigh."

Tang Li didn't ask how they found it or how they took it out. She looked at the cleaned key in the sealed bag and still felt that it was shimmering with blood.

"This is..." Tang Li murmured, "The size, shape, and color of this key are exactly the same as the -104 key that the skinny guy gave me, except that there is no label on it."

Qiu Wanting said, "It seems we have no choice but to go to the basement."

When he said this, his eyes were vacant and unfocused. Experienced players could tell at a glance what he was doing—browsing the store and replenishing his supplies before battle.

Jiang Hui frowned: "There is no underground floor on the hospital map, no corresponding button in the elevator, and no stairs leading down."

She clenched her fist and slammed it into the palm of her other hand. "That means there's no other way!"

Jiang Hui's eyes lit up. When this battle maniac got excited, he was more frightening than the two people next to him combined. "Since that's the case, we'll just have to use a bomb and blast a hole in the first floor!"

Tang Li: ? ? ?

"No, wait!" She finally understood how Jiang Hui had tried to stop her. "I still have a way!"

This dungeon belongs to Gu Xiaoying. Even if Gu Xiaoying doesn't mind opening a hole in the dungeon, she just told the chat that she would dedicate the dungeon to the master. If this really happens, she won't be able to cover up her lie!

Tang Li's mind raced. "Elevator maintenance worker! I know the elevator maintenance worker at the hospital!"

The spider finally came in handy.

Jiang Hui sighed in utter disappointment.

"Then I'll prepare the props, Tang Li will find out the way, Jiang Hui... you rest and recuperate." Qiu Wanting quickly finalized the task assignments.

Tang Li quickly stood up, ready to set off to find the ghost.

He was caught in one swift motion.

"I haven't finished yet, don't waste the shielding equipment," Qiu Wanting said.

Jiang Hui crossed her arms and looked at Tang Li: "Come on, fulfill your missionary duty and tell me, which esteemed person do you devoutly worship?"

"How would I know?" Tang Li cried out indignantly. "The comments told me that the reason the Weirdos respected me was because they mistook me for an important figure who was traveling incognito."

She looked at the two men with great curiosity: "That gentleman's surname is Li, and he loves to sleep..."

The two people in front of them suddenly stood up.

"—It's Him?!"