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

Nanjiang finally stopped hiding things, lowered his eyes, and told everyone everything.

"After the surgery, the doctors will send babies like us to the rehabilitation ward on the basement floor, and lock 'infected' people like Lao Lu in an abandoned ward on the other side."

"The 'infant' may seem to be the one being cared for, but in reality, for the Ghostly Private Hospital, those of us who are not infected by the supernatural and are completely clean and healthy have completely lost our research value... We have gone from being test subjects to being waste products."

A well-hidden fear surfaced on Nanjiang's face. "The rehabilitation ward is different from a regular ward. It's a small, enclosed space with no windows or lights. As time goes by, it gets colder and colder."

Several children instinctively hugged their arms tighter. Nanjiang whispered, "The door won't open again until the people in the ward freeze to death. The doctors at the hospital call it..."

"To bring patients lasting peace and happiness."

Lu Dapeng took a deep breath and couldn't help but squat down, trying to hug the indifferent-looking but talkative baby in front of him.

Nanjiang was taken aback for a moment, then laughed: "I'm fine. At the last minute, someone pulled a fast one and switched us out of the rehabilitation ward. We were hidden in a corner on the second basement floor of the hospital. It's very safe here, and no one at the hospital knows about our strange behavior."

Qiu Wanting blurted out, "Is it Nannan?"

"What?" Nanjiang asked, bewildered. "I've never heard of the name Nannan before... The person who saved us was a young girl. She refused to tell us her name and rarely saw us."

Qiu Wanting then asked, "What does she look like? Is she bleeding from all seven orifices?" The one bleeding from all seven orifices was Gu Xiaomei.

"No," Nanjiang said with amusement, "She's not a monster, she's a human."

While Qiu Wanting was still pondering, Lu Dapeng, who was standing to the side, couldn't wait any longer. He asked in one breath, "Where's my brother? Where are they? How do I get to room number four? I need to find him!"

Nanjiang opened his mouth, wanting to bring up again the dangers of Ward 4 and Gu Xiaoying.

Seeing this, Qiu Wanting didn't have time to think further and hastily stuffed all the clues she had obtained into the layers of her memory: "If you're worried about the dungeon boss blocking your way, my teammates can handle that. Besides that, what else could be preventing you from reuniting?"

Nanjiang didn't quite believe Qiu Wanting's words, but he didn't question him. He just smiled bitterly and said, "We don't know much about the specific situation on their side either. Our only source of information is that girl who appears occasionally."

"The resistance isn't just in their ward number four, but also on our side."

He raised his hand and pointed to the top of his head. "Above us are a group of ghouls that the hospital has modified and raised using the remaining corpses of dead players. They are intellectually deficient, but numerous, with long arms and legs, tall stature, and are inherently ferocious."

"After we came out of the machine, we were automatically unbound from the bizarre live-streaming system, and we could no longer buy items or use our superpowers. Coupled with this frail child's body... in other words, we were practically a bunch of useless trash."

Qiu Wanting didn't mock him for his current state, especially since he had just dared to boast that he would one day reunite with Lu Qisheng. Instead, he calmly asked, "So, what have you accomplished?"

Even though it sounded like a grueling ordeal, he still didn't believe that a group of strange dungeon players could accomplish nothing.

"Oh, we..." Nanjiang smiled, his eyes finally lighting up, a hint of pride lurking in his nonchalant tone, "We've found the path between the hospital instance and its original world."

"Oh, you found it..." Qiu Wanting repeated, then suddenly his eyes widened, he took a step forward, and his voice rose to an unprecedented high, "What?!"

"—A pathway between the instance and the original world?!"

At the same time, countless comments exploded in the live stream room, and the number of viewers in Qiu Wanting and Lu Dapeng's live stream room skyrocketed.

"What the hell?!" "What, what do you mean?" "Didn't the instance automatically isolate itself from the original world after completion? What are they talking about? That it's possible to retrieve the original world from the instance?" "I'd only heard of this research before, is it actually possible?" "Boss Qiu, keep asking! Why are you so talkative usually but now you're silent!"

Qiu Wanting, however, calmed down. He glanced at the comments section, a faint smile playing on his lips: "Want to know? Sigh, I don't really have the motivation to ask..."

"Ask! I've given you a tip to motivate you, so ask away!"

Large sums of points and tips kept flowing into their accounts, and all the comments were urging them to keep asking questions.

Qiu Wanting turned to Lu Dapeng and asked, "Have you received the tip yet?"

Lu Dapeng was still in shock when he heard this and glanced at the backstage. He had already spent all his points in order to find clues about his brother in the dungeon, and when he saw it now, he was shocked - so many!

Qiu Wanting nodded in satisfaction: "Alright, now you have points to buy a blocking item—block the live stream."

He guessed that Lu Dapeng had run out of points to exchange for items, so he deliberately typed a comment in the live chat first.

After all, it's better to keep this kind of new information, which could cause a stir among the strange player community, to yourself for now.

Amidst a barrage of insults in the chat, Lu Dapeng frantically redeemed the items and forcibly shut down the live stream.

Nanjiang coughed awkwardly and touched his nose—he'd been away from the eerie livestream for so long that he'd completely forgotten there were so many viewers watching simultaneously in the instance. Luckily, there was a cunning old fox on the other side, which made him trust Qiu Wanting a little more.

Qiu Wanting raised her hand, signaling him to continue.

"The original world is to the instance as a tree is to a fruit on a tree," Nanjiang explained. "The Ghostly Private Hospital is such a fruit. As Gu Xiaoying, the core of the instance, becomes more and more negative, the strange power concentrated in the hospital becomes stronger and stronger, and this fruit becomes more and more mature."

"Until Gu Xiaoying fully awakened and became the dungeon boss, the dungeon was completely formed, like a ripe fruit falling from a tree, leaving the original world and hanging alone outside, until it was captured by the strange live streaming system and players were sent in."

"However, perhaps because Gu Xiaoying had an extreme aversion to hospitals, and the dungeon boss disdained to take the entire hospital for himself, we later discovered that this fruit still had a final connection with its mother tree."

"That's how we found the entrance to the original world of the instance," Nanjiang declared clearly, his breathing rapid, and the infant's pale cheeks finally flushed with a rosy hue.

Lu Dapeng stared at him, his usually not-so-bright mind completely following Nanjiang's train of thought at this moment. His eyes reddened, and his whole body trembled.

"If we crack this copy, if we find them..." Nanjiang's eyes sparkled, his face radiant with dreamlike anticipation, "perhaps we can be reborn in another world."

Not only that.

Qiu Wanting thought of it.

According to Tang Li, the dungeon boss Gu Xiaoying actually desires to completely destroy the Ghost Story Private Hospital more than anyone else.

The reason he continues to maintain the hospital instance is that once the instance is cleared, Nannan, who is attached to the instance, will most likely perish as a result.

However, if the idea for southern Xinjiang can be realized.

Qiu Wanting's breathing quickened, and even he couldn't help but feel his heart surge with emotion.

If the idea of ​​southern Xinjiang can be realized.

After the instance is destroyed...

Gu Xiaoying can then take Nannan home.