Weak in affinity talent? Female ghosts are eager to give hints.

"Oh? You're being discharged too! You're being discharged too?!"

Upon hearing Yuwen Ji's words, the man with the large, yellow-toothed mouth trembled excitedly. He grabbed Yuwen Ji's arm and strode quickly towards the end of the corridor...

"Boom!"

"Boom!"

Thunder rumbled.

A bus had stopped at the entrance of Qingshan Mental Hospital at some point.

Under the twisting electric current, rainwater irrigated the bus. After the group quickly boarded the bus, it drove out of the Qingshan Mental Hospital and into the misty mountain road.

In the lobby on the first floor, the doctors and nurses who watched the bus leave all had cold eyes.

"idiot--"

"No one has ever been able to leave [Aoyama Mental Hospital]!"

"The more someone wants to leave, the more serious their condition is! Such patients need to be treated personally by a professor!!!"

......

"Hiss—"

The bus traveled through the mountain mist, and the passengers inside remained silent.

An Lan was pressed down by the obese woman and squeezed into a seat near the window.

He looked out at the clouds and mist outside the window and silently clenched the "Medal of Freedom" in his arms.

Behind him, Yuwen Ji stared intently at An Lan: "If anything happens... if anything happens, I will immediately summon your soul. You are my trial and error puppet!"

"Anlan!"

This time, no one can protect you! No one!

"Hiss—"

As the bus drove on, at the edge of the clouds—below the foot of the mountain—a familiar, enormous building came into view: [Qingshan Mental Hospital]!

"Boom!"

The white lightning twisted and turned, illuminating the earth in a snowy white light.

The mental hospital sign hanging on the iron gate flickered with a red light, looking extremely eerie.

At the hospital entrance stood a hunched figure, letting the rain soak him, his eyes fixed on the approaching bus.

He held a custom-made headband in one hand and a stun gun in the other. His long, Mediterranean-style hair, washed by the rain, hung down over his face. He stood at the hospital entrance with his head down, his eyes, hidden behind his fogged-up glasses, were as sinister as a snake's.

"It's been so long..."

"Wow... there are even people with serious conditions..."

As he muttered to himself, Professor Yang waved and stopped the bus!

"Sizzle—"

The bus was parked across the entrance to the hospital.

Yuwen Ji stared at the scene in utter astonishment: "What?! How could... how could they drive to a hospital?!"

"Who...who is this guy?!"

"Anlan! Anlan!!!"

"【Summon the Soul】!!!"

A strong sense of unease welled up inside him, and Yuwen Ji instinctively tried to possess An Lan!

Can...

It was just a moment of distraction...

Looking back at the seats in front, the 'fat-faced weird woman' was still there, but An Lan, who was sitting by the window, had vanished!

"How..."

"How could this be?!?"

Silly!

Yuwen Ji was completely dumbfounded at this moment!

At the same time, in his first-person perspective live stream!

[This dungeon is awesome: It's over! Yuwen Ji is sending An Lan again! Go, Pikachu! Wait a minute! Wait a minute! Where's An Lan?!]

[Northeast Rain Bro: When did An Lan disappear? I have a feeling that An Lan tricked Yuwen Ji this time! So cool! Bro!]

[Zhouchi Niu Dehua: I came from Anlan's live stream! He's perfectly fine. He's sitting in a bus right now, and there's nothing around him! It's like he's entered a new world...]

[Holy crap! Is this the effect of the item An Lan got before?]

[Right, right! That thing can keep the pollution level constant, right? An Lan's pollution level is locked at "0," so even if the bus takes him to a new world, he won't be able to see anything about the pollution level! No wonder he suddenly provoked Yuwen Ji to come along; he turned the tables on him!]

[666! Without An Lan, what can Yuwen Ji do now?]

【...】

The live chat was buzzing with excitement.

"Clatter—"

At the same time, the bus doors popped open.

"Sizzle sizzle sizzle—sizzle sizzle sizzle—"

Professor Yang, dripping with rain, boarded the bus, the stun gun in his hand crackling with electricity.

"Gentlemen...gentlemen..."

"I've said it before, spoiling children is the trigger for their failures! The more they want to be discharged, the more rebellious they are... That's not good!"

"Gentlemen! They need treatment! More thorough, more brutal treatment!!!"

"BOOM!!!"

As soon as the words were spoken, a thunderclap exploded on the roof of the bus! The "weirdos" inside the bus quickly grabbed the "vase people," whose bodies immediately cracked, and large amounts of blood gushed from the cracks as their porcelain faces contorted!

"Pfft pfft pfft!"

The bus was instantly filled with a mist of blood!

"No!"

"No----"

Upon witnessing this scene, Yuwen Ji instinctively tried to get up and flee!

"Ho—"

In an instant!

The strange old man sitting next to me had his mouth agape near his ears, revealing a mouthful of large, yellow teeth. His hands, like iron clamps, gripped my shoulders and forced me back into my seat!

His terrified face was reflected in the car window. Beneath the headband, his face appeared only the size of a teenager, and his body was gradually shrinking. A terrifying red light, -50, flashed at the top of the headband!

"you..."

"You need to receive treatment..."

A chilling voice came from in front of Yuwen Ji, and Professor Yang took out a 'switch device' from his hand.

"Clatter—"

The moment the button was pressed, Yuwen Ji heard a surge of electric current in his ears!

"Sizzle sizzle—"

A thick, scorching white mist filled the headband. Yuwen Ji stared wide-eyed at Professor Yang in despair: "No—I can't die! How could someone like me! How could someone like me, a prodigy,..."

"No!!! [Summon the Soul]! [Summon the Soul]!!!"

"I'm not having a good time!"

"An Lan! You scum, you won't get away with this!!!"

The head, emitting white smoke, twitched incessantly, and scalding blood dripped from the headband.

Yuwen Ji's eyes were unfocused, fixed on Professor Yang. Suddenly, Professor Yang's figure twisted, transforming into a lightning serpent that flashed towards Yuwen Ji's face and vanished...

"Well..."

"Well--"

A short while later.

Yuwen Ji's body, which was already charred and on the verge of death, inexplicably began to swell, with blood-red sacs of "scum," "scoundrel," and "waste" emerging all over his body.

The hospital gown he was wearing twisted and turned into a white coat!

"Clang—"

Yuwen Ji's headband fell off, and large swaths of his once beautiful long hair turned to ash, leaving only a receding hairline and a bald head. When Yuwen Ji opened his eyes again, a pair of glasses were now on his nose, and a slow grin spread across his lips...

"Hehehe—"

"Hehehe—"

"Please let me possess you... This body of yours... is mine now... [Soul Summoning], huh? Interesting... So... so this is the so-called [Instance] world..."

"Sizzle—sizzle sizzle—"

Just as Yuwen Ji distorted into "Professor Yang", his first-person perspective live stream immediately started flashing with static!

[The participant in this instance has died!]

[Due to the participant's abilities, the participant's body has been possessed by the instance character!]

【...】

After a few large announcements popped up in the live stream, the chat room fell completely silent.

After a long while, a few comments popped up.

[What the hell? What the heck? You mean, before Yuwen Ji died, he summoned the BOSS to himself?]

[666! Not content with harming others, he ended up becoming the boss himself?]

[No way? If Professor Yang possesses Yuwen Ji's body and learns about the 'duplicate' concept, wouldn't he also want to leave the duplicate? If he manages to escape... wouldn't the real world have one more demon?]

[Holy crap! What?! AI awakening?!]

【...】

Panic-filled comments flooded the screen.

In front of the live stream camera, Hou Yong couldn't help but look at Liu Xuan in bewilderment: "Liu Xuan, what do you think... what would happen if Professor Yang really came out of the [dungeon]?"

"Ho—"

"Not very good!"

"If An Lan dies, his entire hospital will be wiped out! Now, the only thing is that Professor Yang has gained self-awareness and will probably try to prevent An Lan from leaving successfully..."

"As long as An Lan dies, he and the hospital will arrive!"

"Tsk... An Lan, I'm afraid she's in trouble!!!"