This actor is full of tricks.

In the dark room, Lin Jue and Xiao Qiu sat facing each other. He looked Xiao Qiu up and down, feeling the tightness from his arm, and asked, "How do you feel right now?"

"Not good, I'm in a terrible mood," Xiao Qiu replied irritably. She had only known this guy for two days, but what she had experienced was more terrifying than anything she had ever experienced in her twenty years of life.

"I mean in terms of strength." Lin Jue smirked.

Upon hearing this, Xiao Qiu immediately flew into a rage and jumped up: "How dare you say that! Is strength all you care about?"

"That's a bit ambiguous," Lin Jue blinked. "So, how's your health?"

"So-so." Xiao Qiu sat back down. "Their strength should have improved quite a bit, but I don't understand their strangeness..."

He paused halfway through his sentence, realizing he was no longer human, and awkwardly corrected himself: "Our bizarre power structure."

Lin Jue gave the bewildered newborn ghost a brief introduction to the classification of the supernatural.

"How do you know so much? Aren't you a doctor? And what's with this 'spirit realm' thing?" Xiao Qiu frowned. "Which department are you in? I've never seen you at the hospital before."

He gradually realized something was wrong. The identity of the human in front of him was too suspicious. Not only was he able to remain calm in the face of the strange creatures, but he also had a thorough understanding of the strength levels of the strange creatures. How could an ordinary doctor do that?

“Actually, I’m an investigator from the Inspection Department. I’m here to investigate the hospital riot. Since we’re talking about this, why don’t you tell me what happened during the hospital riot?” Lin Jue calmly gave himself an identity and continued the conversation along with Xiao Qiu’s topic.

Xiao Qiu's expression was strange: "An investigator from the Inspection Department came here alone to investigate? It seems you didn't conduct a proper risk assessment of this hospital before you came."

After making a complaint, he began to carefully recall what happened during the riots.

"Before the riots broke out, I had already noticed that the atmosphere in the hospital was a bit off. Patients who were originally cooperating with treatment suddenly started to refuse treatment, and even mild-tempered patients would suddenly start beating people."

"It's not just the patients, even the doctors and nurses have become strange. Once, I was on night shift with my attending physician. After making rounds, I fell asleep on the table. But in my drowsy state, I felt like someone was breathing into my ear, and there was a foul stench."

"The smell was awful, like a corpse that had been rotting for months."

"I woke up immediately, opened my eyes, and saw my supervising teacher squatting next to me. He was the one who blew air into me!"

Even though she had become a ghost, Xiao Qiu still shuddered when talking about her past experiences. Anyone would get goosebumps if they found someone breathing into their ear while they were sleeping.

"When he saw that I was awake, he didn't say a word and just stood up. At that time, I saw that he seemed to be chewing something in his mouth, and there was something that looked like human fingernail clippings hanging from the corner of his mouth."

"Then the next day, a riot broke out. All the patients in the ward went crazy. They seized the doctors' equipment and started killing people in sight."

"I was learning and seeing patients in the outpatient department when I heard the alarm go off and the loudspeaker announced that everyone should evacuate." "At that time, I didn't know what was happening. When I ran out of the outpatient building with the crowd, I found that the inpatient department was in complete chaos. There was blood everywhere on the windows and doors. I saw a doctor who was driven to desperation by patients and jumped from the fifth floor and died on the spot."

“Those patients have completely lost their humanity. Anyone wearing a white coat or nurse's uniform is their target for murder. They even occupied the front door, leaving no way to escape.”

"I fled to the dormitory building in a panic, but I was still caught by those patients. They cut off one of my hands and picked off the fingernails of my other hand one by one. They were not human, but demons!"

Xiao Qiu's eyes were filled with resentment and hatred. She had only come to work to earn money, but she ended up encountering this kind of thing and suffering inhuman torture before she died.

"Everything will be alright. You are living in a different way now. As your strength breaks through, you can slowly recover your left hand by devouring other strange creatures. Each of those high-level strange creatures has extremely strong vitality. Some of them can slowly recover even if they only have a drop of blood left."

Lin Jue comforted the other person, saying that Xiao Qiu's experience was indeed pitiful, but he didn't know what the outcome would be in reality. In the script, the other person dared to step out of the closet because she met him, but what about in reality?
Perhaps it's been hiding in the closet, or perhaps it's already been eaten by other monsters.

Lin Jue shook his head and asked another question: "Besides the doctors, nurses and patients acting strangely, was there anything else odd? For example, was there any activity at the main building?"

This riot must have broken out because of a problem at the main building; the patients inside were the ones who instigated it.

"I didn't pay much attention. I was just focused on running away. Besides, the outpatient department and the main building are far apart, so I couldn't see what was happening over there at all," Xiao Qiu said, indicating that she was unaware of the situation.

"Alright." Lin Jue stood up and walked towards the kitchen.

Xiao Qiu was taken aback: "What are you going to do?"

“Choose kitchen utensils, this knife is all chipped and can’t be used at all.” Lin Jue lifted the knife and shook it.

Xiao Qiu's expression changed drastically upon hearing this, and his voice rose considerably: "No, do you still want to continue fighting those guys?"

Lin Jue didn't answer, but instead asked, "How does it feel to improve your strength?"

"..." Xiao Qiu swallowed the words that were about to come out, and said sullenly, "It was pretty good."

“That’s right.” Lin Jue smiled slightly: “Just treat those battles as a role-playing game with puzzle elements. You play the protagonist who is very weak at the beginning, defeats enemies little by little to grow stronger, and finally reaches the top to defeat the BOSS and uncover the truth of the hospital riot.”

"Does thinking about it this way make you feel less stressed?"

Xiao Qiu was dumbfounded. This twist of logic really came out so easily. How could a battle be treated like a game? If a game character dies, you can reload the save and start over, but he can't.

However, one thing Lin Jue said really appealed to Xiao Qiu: uncovering the truth behind the hospital riot. After all, he died because of the hospital riot, so naturally he wanted to know why the hospital had become like that. (End of Chapter)