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

"If we want to pinpoint the exact location where the dungeon connects to the original world, we need to go up there."

Nanjiang looked up at the ceiling and pursed his lips.

The two layers are separated by an insurmountable chasm.

"Lu Dapeng, can you go back and forth, two at a time, to bring them upstairs?" Qiu Wanting asked.

"My superpower has a daily limit on the number of times I can use it." Lu Dapeng's face was grim.

Qiu Wanting, however, was not discouraged at all, her mind racing: "Those 'evil spirits' kept by the hospital, whose orders do they take? Can we find a way to lure them away?"

He thought of the group of strange employees that Tang Li had won over with her personal charm; we also have a wide network of connections in the hospital.

Nanjiang shook his head: "Those low-intelligence 'Changgui' can't recognize human faces at all. Their minds are filled with the thought of slaughter, and they will attack anything that appears in their field of vision except for their own kind. Even the employees of the Ghostly Private Hospital dare not appear in front of them."

"So, by what right do hospitals control them?"

"Phone." Nanjiang coldly uttered two words, a mocking smile playing on his lips. "Did you know? These 'Chang Gui' are actually employed by a hospital. They form the patient rehabilitation department, and the phone for that department is hanging around the neck of the Chang Gui leader."

"When the hospital needs them to do something, they will call this number. The hospital will tell them where to go, and these 'evil spirits' will go there."

"So..." Qiu Wanting frowned in thought, "The key question now is, what is the phone number for the so-called 'Rehabilitation Department'?"

He pulled out the walkie-talkie from his pocket, which had been gripped so tightly it was warm.

His tone was calm, like that of an elite employee at work: "Wait a moment, I'll inquire for you."

Nanjiang sighed: "You won't get the answer. The dean has given a gag order to all employees who know this number. If any questioning touches on this secret, an invisible force will strangle the employee..."

"Hello?" came a menacing female voice from the walkie-talkie.

Rewind two minutes to the other side of the hospital's underground area.

Tang Li stared blankly at everything before her, her face a complex mix of emotions.

The "aquarium," which was originally a gloomy place where people were immersed in the water, has now been decorated as if to celebrate Christmas.

Small metal pieces of gold and silver, red and green dual-color lights, and winding lines of various colors, carefully wrapped from one end to the other.

Jiang Hui moved among them, her fingers flying nimbly, humming a song softly through her nose.

Is this person really still mentally sound?

Tang Li was a little scared; she missed Qiu Wanting.

"I'd like to blow them all up easily too," Jiang Hui noticed Tang Li's silence and considerately explained, "but the shops in the beginner dungeon have a limited selection of goods, not even any powerful bombs, so this is the best we can do!"

Tang Li found it difficult to explain to Jiang Hui that what frightened her was not the bomb, but Jiang Hui's sudden state of excitement.

She could only take a deep breath and weakly say, "We're underground at the hospital. Won't your actions cause the hospital to collapse?"

"No, no, no." Jiang Hui waved her hand confidently. "It's about time. We're going to move it and then detonate it remotely."

Only at the very end did she have a change of heart and add, "Let's contact Qiu Wanting first, lest we bury him in the ground too."

...Didn't you use the word "bury"?!

Just as Tang Li was about to speak, she was suddenly jolted by an inexplicable electric current. She immediately realized the source of the current and angrily took the walkie-talkie out of her pocket: "Hello?"

Qiu Wanting, sitting opposite her, sounded quite at ease: "Tang Li, there's something I need to ask you if you have any inspiration."

He briefly recounted the clue he had just obtained, and concluded by asking, "So, do you know what this recovery hotline is?"

Actually, despite Qiu Wanting's composed demeanor in front of Nanjiang, he had no idea whether Tang Li had any relevant clues; he was just taking a chance.

Tang Li's fingers paused on her chin as she drifted into a rapid recollection.

Phone number...where did she come across a phone number?

"You mean... the rehabilitation department, the department that manages patients who have recovered their health after being stripped of their supernatural abilities?" Tang Li recited a series of keywords almost to herself.

Having recovered... Tang Li let her imagination run wild; Nannan had also recovered...

Unlike the other players who entered the instance later, such as those from Southern Xinjiang, Nannan was sent home by the hospital after recovering her health.

So she had no dealings with the so-called "rehabilitation department"... no, that's not right.

In a flash, Tang Li remembered the game on Nannan's phone.

It wasn't the second part that Nannan designed herself, but rather the first part that Gu Xiaoying prepared for her.

At that time, Nannan lived alone at home.

There was a sudden knock on the door. Nannan looked out through the peephole and saw two pixelated figures dressed in white standing in the hallway.

Gu Xiaoying reminded her in the chat box not to open the door to strangers.

Tang Li didn't think Gu Xiaoying would include irrelevant plot points in the game. So, could these pixelated figures in white represent the people from the hospital's rehabilitation department who came for a follow-up visit?

In that case, in another game scenario, Nannan's landline suddenly rings. Tang Li controls Nannan to answer the phone, but Gu Xiaoying reminds her, "You can't answer calls from unknown numbers"... Could this call be from the hospital's rehabilitation department?

Tang Li covered her head with her hands. She didn't have Qiu Wanting's photographic memory, so she could only desperately search her memory.

"74...what was it again...?"

She remembered that the caller ID in the game looked like a scam call.

"774, six zeros!"

Tang Li blurted out.

"Amazing! The magnificent Tang Pear!" Qiu Wanting exclaimed with renewed enthusiasm on the other end of the walkie-talkie.

He turned to look at the children who were excitedly waving their fists and repeated the phone number again.

The atmosphere grew even more enthusiastic, yet in such an exhilarating moment, no one took the next step.

Qiu Wanting and Nanjiang looked at each other, and Nanjiang scratched his head, revealing a somewhat embarrassed smile.

"Um...we don't have cell phones..."

Qiu Wanting: ...

The shop in the eerie dungeon does have communicators, but they can only contact other players; you can't call mobile devices inside the dungeon!

Tang Li, who had overheard everything, laughed so hard she was shaking. She pulled Nannan's old cell phone out of her pocket.

She had previously thought her phone had no signal, and none of the calls she made went through.

That's natural, since she's always been in a bizarre instance.

She deftly operated the dial pad with one hand, entering 774000000 into the dialer.

"Let me try dialing it."

Tang Li asked cheerfully, eager to try, "So, if the call goes through, where should we send those 'evil spirits'?"

Along the way, you need to traverse as many of the hospital's eerie locations as possible, and at your destination, there must be a powerful eerie leader to keep them in check. In short, you can't waste any "evil spirit" resources; the more chaotic the situation in the hospital, the better.

Thus, the only option becomes clear.

Tang Li smiled and said, "How about we go to the dean's office?"