Deadly Game: Almighty Boss’s Guide to Making Money

Chapter 1282. The Emotional Mental Hospital (12)

Finally, only the gold lock remained, and everyone looked at Lin Xi.

Lin Xi felt she had nothing to think about, and besides, she didn't know what emotions gold represented.

It's all gold, so it probably doesn't represent negative emotions!

She reached out and grasped the lock. The warmth of her palm transferred to it, and the golden lock suddenly emitted a dazzling light. The entire chain snapped instantly, and the iron gate creaked open inward.

Behind the door was not a courtyard, but a room.

In the center of the room stood a stone pillar, on which floated a crystal the size of a fist, its surface constantly flowing with various colored light patterns.

The walls around the room were covered with grooves, each containing a glass jar half-filled with murky liquid, in which blurry human figures floated.

"Can we ignore it and just find the way out?" Wang Lei muttered.

"I doubt it," Zhang Yutong said. "We went into the yard, but we still had to go back to the basement."

As they slowly approached the stone pillar, the crystal suddenly emitted a sharp buzzing sound, and the glass jars on the wall shattered at the same time, with turbid liquid flowing onto the ground and gathering into shadowy monsters that lunged at the group.

"Protect Lin Xi, let her smash this pillar!" Huang Jingjing said, rushing forward first.

She tried teleporting again, but it still didn't work.

Fortunately, she doesn't rely too much on her skills and is quite capable.

She dodged the monster's claws and punched it in the head.

The monster neither collapsed nor disappeared, but its movements were hindered and became sluggish.

Wang Lei swung the mop handle, forcing the two monsters back, but the mop handle was cut in half by the monsters' claws. He simply grabbed a shard of glass from the ground and stabbed it into the monster's eye.

The bone in Yu Wenjing's hand also came in handy; she accurately smashed it into the monster's joint, causing the monster to pause in its movements.

Ma Xiaofeng immediately stepped forward and kicked the monster to the ground.

The others also joined in the fight against the monster.

Including Chen Xiaoqiang.

—These monsters aren't very powerful!
—It may be because it wasn't formed by the player's negative emotions.

—Yes, it should be the negative emotions of other patients.

—You can't deal with your own negative emotions, but you can deal with other people's.

—That means reducing the monster's lethality a little, but it doesn't seem to kill it.

Lin Xi rushed towards the stone pillar, stepping on the scattered shards of glass. On the way, a monster grabbed her ankle. She bent down and smashed the monster's claws with her hammer. The monster released its grip in pain, and she took the opportunity to leap up and smash the hammer hard against the pillar.

With a "crack," the crystal split open, the light patterns on its surface began to become disordered, and the surrounding monsters became sluggish.

"Not enough! Smash it completely!" Zhang Yutong shouted. "Give it another shot."

He took out a lighter from his backpack, lit the alcohol swabs he was carrying, and threw them at the monsters that surrounded him.

The flames instantly engulfed the monster, which let out a shrill scream.

Bai leaped onto the stone pillar, plunged his dagger into a crack in the pillar, and pried it open with force.

Taking advantage of the opportunity, Lin Xi swung his hammer again, and the crystals inside the pillar shattered completely, turning into countless points of light that scattered.

As the crystal shattered, the surrounding monsters stopped, then turned into black smoke and disappeared. Cracks began to appear in the walls of the room, and rubble kept falling down.

"Run! This place is going to collapse!" Ma Xiaofeng shouted.

Everyone immediately ran towards the iron gate.

Just as I ran out of the iron gate, a loud crash came from behind me, and the entire room collapsed completely.

The fluorescent moss in the passageway began to die down, leaving only a faint light ahead.

"It seems we went the wrong way just now," Wang Lei said.

"Not really. If we went straight to the yard, we'd probably have to come back and smash the pillars," Huang Jingjing said.

The colored halos on the ground disappeared, and everyone followed the light. After walking for about half an hour, they finally saw a door.

—Shouldn't the courtyard be accessible now?
—There's no danger here, so why didn't you teleport directly?

—Yeah, the game has a bug.

—Maybe they saw that 123 and the others had eaten and drunk their fill, so they let them exercise a bit!

—Do I still need to exercise?

—I'm so nervous from the moment I entered this game, this lousy game is really killing me!

—Those who are nervous complain about being nervous, while those who aren't nervous complain about not being nervous at all.

—Yeah, even a broken game has its difficulties.

Lin Xi shivered as soon as she stepped out the door.

A damp wind carrying raindrops rushed towards my face.

The rain is still falling, but it's not as heavy as it was before.

Everyone went into the courtyard, and the iron gate behind them slammed shut with a loud bang, followed by the muffled sound of stones scraping against each other.

“This… doesn’t seem to be the same courtyard as before,” Huang Jingjing said.

“Perhaps this is the backyard, and this was the front yard just now,” Liu Yun interjected.

"Then... can we pass through from the backyard too?" Chen Xiaoqiang asked cautiously.

"It shouldn't be the backyard; the yard has changed," Lin Xi said.

The courtyard was more spacious than the previous one, but it looked somewhat old.

The ground was made of mottled bluestone slabs, with dark green moss growing in the cracks, making it slippery from the rain.

In the very center stands an old locust tree, its branches twisting and reaching towards the leaden-gray sky, a few withered yellow leaves swaying precariously in the rain.

The wall was surrounded by a tall brick wall, with withered vines climbing all over it. Rainwater flowed down the veins of the vines and gathered into small streams at the base of the wall.

Why does this rain keep falling?

Wang Lei wiped the rain off his face and kicked a pebble at his feet in frustration.

The pebble rolled a few times before falling into the drainage groove between the bluestone slabs, making a crisp "ding-dong" sound.

Only then did everyone notice that along the base of the wall and the gaps in the bluestone slabs, there were grooves of varying depths.

These grooves are interconnected and eventually lead to a drain in the corner of the yard that is covered with weeds.

Zhang Yutong squatted down and poked the rainwater in the groove with his finger, his brows furrowing instantly.

"Something's wrong with this water."

He raised his hand.

"What's wrong?" Wang Lei asked.

“The water in his hands wasn’t transparent; it had a grayish mist on it,” Ma Xiaofeng added.

“Look,” Liu Yun said, pointing to the trunk of the old locust tree.

Where the bark had peeled away, several twisted black shadows vaguely appeared, somewhat similar to the outline of the monster in the room earlier.

"Those things again?"

"Everyone, don't scatter. It's probably impossible for us to get out of the courtyard smoothly. We'll probably have to continue through the checkpoints."

As Lin Xi spoke, she walked to the edge of the groove, squatted down, and looked at it carefully.

Raindrops fell on the back of her hand, bringing a slightly cool touch.

At the same time, she clearly felt that the trace of confusion in her heart seemed to be stirred by the rain, flowing slowly down her arm to her fingertips and merging into the rainwater in the groove.

The moment that emotion left her body, the raindrops on her fingertips suddenly became clearer, and the shadows on the old locust tree seemed to fade a little.