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

Eighth floor, ward area.

Empty and desolate.

The players had already evacuated completely, and the strange employees who were in a hurry to count the beheadings had no need to come here.

Even "Old Ding," who had previously been hiding here, now dragged his body, which was a head shorter and twice as thin as the swollen bodies, downstairs to protect Meng Wanwan and join the battle.

At this moment, the only person loitering aimlessly in the corridor was the enigmatic Liu Dan, who was "capturing Tang Li."

As usual, she responded to everything in the online message group, apologizing to the dean. Just as she was about to slip away to another place, new information refreshed her mind—

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Dean Lei Hong: Where are you? I'll go and catch her myself.

Liu Dan suddenly stopped in her tracks, her eyes widening in alarm.

...The dean wants to come in person?

Dr. Jiang's consultation room.

Gu Xiaomei is sharing some snacks with Tang Li.

Tang Li had just opened a bag of potato chips when she heard a beeping notification sound coming from her computer screen.

At the same time, Gu Xiaomei suddenly became serious and rushed to her desk.

"Tang Li," she said urgently, "did you have Liu Dan give you a false location to stall Lei Hong?"

She turned around abruptly to look at Tang Li, "Now Lei Hong says he's coming to arrest you himself."

Tang Li suddenly stood up and called out, "Spider!"

Spider, who was guarding the corridor, naturally saw the message from the strange private hospital chat group, but he wasn't very bright and still firmly believed that Tang Li was their "adult".

He felt that the adults couldn't possibly be afraid of the dean, and that the dean coming to find the adults was just courting death.

Look, the adults can't wait to hear this news.

The spider excitedly crouched down, waiting for Tang Li to step onto its back.

Tang Li's mind raced with various countermeasures. Without time to say anything more, she hastily left with the words, "I'm leaving now."

Gu Xiaomei is just an ordinary person, and she cannot bring the dean here.

"Be careful, the Dean is far stronger than the other supernatural beings." Gu Xiaomei stuffed something into Tang Li's hand. At this moment, the entire building shook suddenly again, as Jiang Hui and the others had already opened up the second location.

The two women helped each other up. Gu Xiaomei's tone was urgent and rapid, "Gu Xiaoying may not be able to protect you right now; he needs to go find your companions."

"No way," Tang Li refused decisively. "What they're doing over there is more important."

But you shouldn't sacrifice yourself for us. Gu Xiaomei and Tang Li looked at each other, and Gu Xiaomei saw a similar determination in Tang Li's eyes.

"Then go find the basin," Gu Xiaomei said without wasting any time. "It should still be in the old archives room right now."

The image of the fighting in the basin suddenly filled Tang Li's mind, along with the sounds of a theatrical performance and the image of the copper-headed, iron-backed, and crab-shelled creatures fighting in the basin.

"The Fighting Basin is another core item in the dungeon. Go in, protect yourself, and stay until Gu Xiaoying comes to find you." Gu Xiaomei pushed Tang Li to help her sit steadily on the spider's back.

Tang Li looked at Gu Xiaomei, and as if possessed, suddenly asked, "So why is it a cricket fighting bowl?"

Why is the core item in a hospital instance a cricket fighting basin?

Gu Xiaomei was stunned for a moment. In that instant, Tang Li seemed to see the past passing by her eyes.

The previous tension and solemnity were completely broken by this question. Gu Xiaomei's smile was filled with nostalgia. She slapped the tense spider hard, causing it to start running involuntarily: "...That was a toy he made for me when I was a child."

Tang Li's eyes widened suddenly.

"Wait, wait... what exactly is your relationship with Gu Xiaoying?"

However, the spider had already led her away from that small figure, which was once again hidden and concealed by the white coat.

Gu Xiaomei watched Tang Li get further and further away, the smile on her lips still lingering.

Hasn't the perceptive Miss Tang Li guessed our relationship yet?

She thought mischievously, "Then, at that time, you will definitely be very surprised."

All the burdens could not suppress the hope that was gradually growing in her heart like water plants. It was a miracle. This was a miracle brought to her by Tang Li, no, by the players.

Dean's Office.

The sudden tremor made Lei Hong hesitate for a moment.

He remained inactive in the dean's office because he still harbored the intention of preserving his own strength and taking this opportunity to replace Gu Xiaoying.

Although it was clear that "Night Parade of a Hundred Ghosts" could not proceed due to the large-scale withdrawal of players, at this moment, the players were like a swarm of enraged locusts, destroying hospital buildings everywhere.

He knew perfectly well that the dungeon was actually the body of the dungeon boss, and every stab the players made with that core dungeon item was piercing directly into Gu Xiaoying's flesh and blood.

He didn't understand why Gu Xiaoying didn't react at all. Logically speaking, the instinctive counterattack of the dungeon boss should have been enough to overwhelm these audacious players.

Did Gu Xiaoying finally come to her senses and decide to commit suicide after they finally made up their minds to kill Gu Xiaomei again? Then Dr. Jiang really did a good thing.

If Dr. Jiang manages to leave behind some remains of Gu Xiaoying's body after he has vented his anger, he will take responsibility for giving him a proper burial.

Once Gu Xiaoying is severely injured by the players, he can naturally devour the original Boss and take over the entire dungeon.

Lei Hong was thinking so hard he almost started humming a song. He walked briskly toward the door: "Since that's the case, killing a Tang Li shouldn't take much time. Consider it an appetizer before the main course?"

A trembling voice suddenly rang out: "Dean, Dean, please wait..."

Lei Hong stopped and gave a soft "hmm" in confusion.

It wasn't until Sun Ping turned his head, unable to make a sound because his mouth was sewn shut, and could only glare with a sinister gaze at the sack-like figure curled up against the wall, that he realized there had actually been a third person in the dean's office all along.

That seems to be... Sun Ping's last loyal underling?

Bald, muscular, and blind in one eye. He was both a henchman and a punching bag for Sun Ping to vent his anger on.

How come he spoke without his master's permission? Poor Sun Ping, has even his last underling betrayed him?

The dean was in a good mood and condescended to ask, "What's wrong?"

"If you... if you leave the dean's office," the bald man said, his head bowed, avoiding eye contact with the dean, "Brother Sun and Sun Ping might take the opportunity to steal your things..."

"I heard... Sun Ping knows the combination to the safe in the dean's office."

Lei Hong was taken aback.

Immediately, Sun Ping's furious howls and Lei Hong's loud laughter echoed in the dean's office.

"Oh my god, oh my god," Lei Hong wiped away the tears of laughter from the corners of his eyes, "Sun Ping, your little brother is too stupid."

"Poor fool," he said with a tone of pity that suggested the absurdity of the situation, "let me tell you why your master, in his miserable state, hasn't even set his sights on my safe."

"Because in my safe, there are no core tools, no fatal weaknesses, only some documents that are no different from waste paper."

"The reason they're in the safe is because those documents record the names of every hospital employee who participated in human experiments—in the words of those self-proclaimed righteous shortsighted bastards," the director said, then burst into laughter again, "that's our evidence of guilt!"

"But—we're already outside the original world! We're in a dungeon!"

He laughed dismissively, spreading his arms as if to embrace the world, "Do you think the police from the original world can come into a dungeon to arrest us?"