After completing the bizarre game, the world experienced a global resurgence of strange occurrences.

The lingering notes of the piano music still echoed in the empty corridor.

The three mentally ill people who had endured the entire piece blinked suddenly, their unfocused pupils regaining their fierce light, and they once again revealed a ruthless appearance.

They roared and raised their arms, ready to pounce on Chen Zhuo and his companion again.

But the moment his arm was raised, something unexpected happened.

Their raised arms were broken cleanly at the elbows.

Severed limbs, dripping with gushing blood, crashed heavily onto the cold cement floor.

Immediately afterwards, accompanied by the sound of a heavy object hitting the ground, their entire bodies began to crumble inch by inch, like building blocks being toppled.

In the blink of an eye, three living people were shattered into pieces without any warning.

All that remained were severed limbs and skeletal remains scattered on the ground, along with thick, sticky blood that continued to spread outwards.

Ruan Ning stared at the horrifying scene before her, her face drained of all color.

She staggered back half a step, her stomach churning, and her breathing became rapid.

A chill that penetrated to the bone spread along the spine and throughout the body.

Just as she was reeling from the bizarre manner of her death, Chen Zhuo walked slowly past her.

He raised his hand and gently patted her shoulder, speaking in a steady voice, "Keep up."

Ruan Ning took a deep breath, forcibly suppressing the chill surging in her heart.

She quickly stepped forward and followed behind Chen Zhuo.

The two walked together toward the ward deep in the corridor, where the sound of a piano was coming from.

The two of them finally stopped in front of the ward door.

Chen Zhuo raised his hand and pushed open the tightly closed ward door.

The two walked slowly into the ward, one after the other.

What came into Ruan Ning's view was a black grand piano covered in dust.

It sits quietly in the center of the ward, completely out of place with its surroundings.

Ruan Ning paused in her steps, instinctively tightening her grip on the strange weapon in her hand, and warily distanced herself from the grand piano.

She could clearly sense a strong, eerie aura emanating from the piano.

But Chen Zhuo seemed completely oblivious and walked slowly toward the piano.

Just as he approached the piano, the eerie aura that had enveloped it dissipated into the air of the ward, like dust blown away by a gale.

Chen Zhuo walked to the piano bench in front of the piano and slowly sat down.

He gently placed the white bone cane beside him, raised his hand, and lightly pressed a key on the black and white piano.

A clear and melodious piano note slowly rose in the quiet ward.

Chen Zhuo's expression softened for once, a faint sense of melancholy on his lips, and he couldn't help but sigh softly.

"So many years have passed, and things have really changed."

Ruan Ning stood there, her face full of confusion and doubt.

She couldn't understand what Chen Zhuo meant by those words.

Just as she was filled with doubt, Chen Zhuo had already stood up again.

He raised his hand and placed it on the piano lid, then with a sudden burst of strength, he lifted the heavy lid upwards.

The moment the piano lid was opened, a nauseating stench quickly wafted out from inside the piano.

The smell was so pungent that Ruan Ning could barely open her eyes and couldn't help but bend over and cough.

She covered her mouth and nose and took several steps back before she could barely catch her breath.

He raised his hand to wipe away the tears that had welled up in his eyes from the fumes, suppressed the discomfort in his stomach, and forced himself to look inside the piano.

But when she saw what was inside the piano, her face immediately turned ugly.

She couldn't hold back any longer, turned around abruptly, rushed into the corridor outside the ward, and began to gag violently while leaning against the wall.

Inside the piano was a completely dismembered corpse.

The body was already highly decomposed, with the flesh turned inside out and covered with countless wriggling white maggots.

What sent chills down Ruan Ning's spine and shook her to her core was the head placed right in the center of the instrument case.

Just as she looked over, the somewhat rotten head slowly opened its cloudy eyes, and their gazes met in mid-air!

Ruan Ning sat in the corridor for a long time before she could barely suppress the churning in her stomach.

She took several deep breaths and walked back into the ward.

Then she witnessed a bizarre scene that she would never forget.

Chen Zhuozheng stood in front of the piano and took the rotting head out of the piano case.

He raised his hand to support the head, bringing it to eye level, and spoke softly to it.

Looking at this extremely bizarre scene, Ruan Ning felt the hairs on her body stand on end.

She took a few deep breaths to adjust to the scene before walking back to Chen Zhuo's side.

Chen Zhuo did not turn around, still looking at the head in his hand.

"He Yunsheng, have you seen a man acting erratically on this floor?"

The head thought for a moment, then slowly opened its mouth and told Chen Zhuo what had happened.

"Not long ago, someone did come up from downstairs."

Upon hearing my piano playing, the man quickly realized something was wrong and, without hesitation, crippled himself by cutting off both his ears.

My piano playing won't affect people who can't hear, so I plan to take matters into my own hands.

But after exchanging blows with him for a few rounds, he seized an opening and took the opportunity to escape from the fifth floor to the upper floors.

Chen Zhuo nodded slightly, then shifted the topic to it.

"He Yunsheng, do you want to leave here?"

A hint of doubt appeared in the cloudy eyes of that head.

Its mouth moved slightly: "When you say 'leave,' do you mean leave this godforsaken place, or leave this world altogether?"

"I can send you back to the strange world, but you must tell me where your portal to the strange world is."

After hearing Chen Zhuo's words, He Yunsheng remained silent for a long time before finally shaking his head.

It looked at Chen Zhuo, its tone somewhat solemn.

"Do you want to go to the top floor? If so, I'll stay and help you!"

There's a terrifying guy on the top floor; you're likely in grave danger if you go up there!

Its voice carried an undisguised fear.

Chen Zhuo gently shook his head: "The two of us are enough. Your parents are still waiting for you to come back."

The mention of his parents caused He Yunsheng to fall silent again, reconsidering whether he should stay.

Just then, Chen Zhuo raised his hand and handed the white bone cane that was placed beside him to He Yunsheng.

Looking at the white bone cane in front of him, He Yunsheng was slightly stunned, and then felt the familiar yet terrifying eerie aura emanating from the cane.

He couldn't help but exclaim in surprise, "This...this could be...?"

"right!"

After receiving Chen Zhuo's affirmative reply, it completely put aside its concerns and hesitations.

He Yunsheng nodded to Chen Zhuo: "With this, I really don't need to worry. In that case, let me go back."

Following its guidance, Chen Zhuo found the strange door that belonged to him in a cabinet on the fifth floor.

He raised his hand and waved his white bone cane, destroying the eerie door in the blink of an eye.

The moment the mysterious door shattered, the piano, along with the corpse inside, gradually became transparent, and finally completely disappeared into the ward.

After doing all this, Chen Zhuo retrieved the white bone cane and left the ward where the Ghost Gate was located.

"Let's go, let's go meet the weirdo upstairs!"

Chen Zhuo led Ruan Ning towards the stairs at the other end of the corridor, towards the most terrifying and dangerous top floor of this rusty hospital!