Chapter 6: The Unusual Surroundings

These new players were only good for this much. Otherwise, why would he be so kind? He had been living in this terrifying game for two years, after all! His heart was certainly not pure!

Zhang Yurou was no fool. She immediately used Xie Yunyan as a shield to refuse Wang Renhuan.

“How can I go looking like this? The mission was assigned by Doctor Xie, and as a nurse, I have to complete it.”

Hearing Zhang Yurou’s words, Wang Renhuan had no choice but to stop insisting and turned his attention to Chen Wanchong.

“Old Chen, I wonder if you’d be willing to join our team and do the mission together?”

“No way. You don’t know me—I don’t like doing missions with newcomers,” Chen Wanchong said, waving his hand and backing away as if avoiding a plague.

Seeing this, Wang Renhuan didn’t waste any more time and left with the newcomers behind him.

Once they were out of earshot, Chen Wanchong grinned and walked over to Zhang Yurou’s counter.

“Old Zhang, don’t fool me! Tell me, did you find anything good? Just like before, I won’t take it for free—I’ll pay with ghost coins.”

“What? You still want it for free? Dream on! Here!” Zhang Yurou said, tossing another set of nurse’s uniforms from her system backpack to Chen Wanchong.

“Remember to charge me 50 ghost coins. I don’t know what use these nurse’s uniforms have, but I guess they’ll protect us under the eerie hospital’s rules.”

Chen Wanchong, who had been about to complain about the rip-off, burst into a smile at Zhang Yurou’s explanation.

“This is something good! Got any more info?”

After hearing Zhang Yurou’s explanation, Chen Wanchong cheerfully started putting on the nurse’s uniform.

Zhang Yurou said nothing but held up two fingers.

“Sister Zhang, don’t be so heartless—we’ve known each other for two years, haven’t we?”

Zhang Yurou gave him a look of exasperation. “Wearing this uniform means you have to act according to its identity. So, come on in.”

With that, Zhang Yurou patted the reception desk.

Chen Rong, who had been listening to their conversation, suddenly snapped wide awake upon hearing about the nurse’s uniform’s function.

When Chen Wanchong climbed back inside, Chen Rong silently crept over.

“You have such a good thing? Why didn’t you bring it out earlier? Got another one? Give me a set!”

Chen Rong’s sudden closeness startled Chen Wanchong, who instinctively kicked him away.

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Watching Chen Rong get kicked outside, Zhang Yurou remained coldly seated with no intention of helping. Did anyone really think she was kind-hearted before? If that strange doctor hadn’t been watching her closely, fearing Chen Rong might blab, she wouldn’t have dashed out from the hallway.

Did they think the veteran players in this team dungeon were supposed to guarantee every newcomer’s success? Perhaps they had forgotten what happened to Liu Xinyang.

Zhang Yurou snorted disdainfully and closed her eyes to rest.

Soon, her system’s payment notification sounded, clearly Chen Wanchong was paying her the ghost coins.

Chen Rong, clutching his backside, got up and immediately looked toward the reception desk where Chen Wanchong and Zhang Yurou were.

He saw Zhang Yurou ignoring him, and Chen Wanchong still standing inside, threateningly smiling at him.

Then Chen Wanchong made a slashing motion across his own neck in front of Chen Rong, who stumbled back in fright.

Chen Wanchong’s smile grew more sinister, his eyes locking onto Chen Rong like a venomous snake ready to strike.

Terrified, Chen Rong swallowed hard, but in this environment, he dared not go anywhere else.

Fearing Chen Wanchong might attack him again, he also dared not stay inside the counter area.

So, he shrank back outside the reception desk. Seeing this, Chen Wanchong ignored him.

The first half of the night passed quietly with no terrifying or eerie incidents.

During this time, Wang Renheng returned once more with the newcomers. They chatted briefly before leaving again.

Wang Renheng noticed Chen Wanchong wearing a nurse’s uniform and, as a veteran player, immediately understood its unusual significance.

But since Chen Wanchong was accompanied by two others, Wang Renheng didn’t dare to confront him directly and pretended not to notice.

He then led his newcomers to look for nurse’s uniforms or other clothing with similar effects.

Time quickly moved to the latter half of the night.

Shortly after the clock on the wall passed one o’clock, the eerie hospital began to change.

The lights in the hallways dimmed as if running out of power, their glow weakening, making each floor darker and more terrifying.

However, after a whole day of tense vigilance, Zhang Yurou and Chen Wanchong both relaxed slightly, failing to notice the abnormal surroundings.

It could also be said that the hospital’s mental contamination dulled their reactions to the unusual environment.

Suddenly, Xie Yunyan, sleeping on the third floor, opened her eyes—she heard the sound of a ward door opening on the second floor.

Clearly, the eerie entity trapped in the second-floor ward during the day had begun its hunt.

But before she could even get excited, a look of regret flashed across Xie Yunyan’s eyes.

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Because of the hospital’s rules, she couldn’t leave the office at night.

Sensing Xie Yunyan’s change in emotion, the horrific system spoke timely in her mind.

“You can go out, host. Did you forget?”

“You have two identities. Also, once you’re out, you can hunt those eerie beings.”

“The eerie creatures strengthen themselves by devouring one another.”

“So, host, you shouldn’t feel any psychological pressure.”

Worried that Xie Yunyan might struggle to accept her new eerie identity, System 368 kindly comforted her.

Before Xie Yunyan could reply, System 368 began to chuckle oddly, imagining its host rampaging through this low-level dungeon, devouring eerie creatures to grow stronger.

“As long as the dungeon boss doesn’t appear, no one can touch the host.”

“Ha ha ha! Ha ha ha!”

The system’s triumphant laughter echoed in her mind.

Xie Yunyan was somewhat speechless—truthfully, it was her first time encountering such a cheeky system.

“Uh, 368… do other systems also give their players ideas to exploit loopholes in dungeon games like you do?”

“I don’t know. Besides, you’re the first player I’ve ever bonded with.”

“Anyway, I think you’re smart and powerful. Your future achievements will surely rival those famous horror bosses.”

“When that time comes… hee hee hee!”

Listening to the system’s silly laughter, Xie Yunyan didn’t know what to say.

She suddenly felt her system might not be so clever after all.

“Thanks for having such high hopes for me. I definitely won’t disappoint you.”

Although the system said she could leave the office, Xie Yunyan still wanted to try.

With that thought, she got out of bed to see if, as the system claimed, she really could go out.