Wan Jie Hospice Care Company

Xiangyu stood there, lingering in front of the twisted stretcher.

The steel stretcher was twisted into a pretzel shape, the metal contorted into a bizarre, knot-like form by some terrifying force. He reached out and pushed it; the cold metallic touch sent a shiver through his fingertips. The thing was completely ruined.

What happened here?

"...Could it be that besides the rules of killing, there are also physical monsters?" Aibowu said with a hint of fear.

Xiang Yu raised his head, his gaze sweeping across every corner of the hospital. Many tiles were broken, there were obvious impact marks on the walls, and the cement walls were dented, as if they had been hit by a giant hammer.

Its strength is considerable; if converted to a company ranking, it would probably be at least D- level.

After all, E+ is the limit of human capability, and the limit of human capability is that we can't bend a steel pipe or break a wall.

"Who...did this?" Ai Baiwu felt that they probably couldn't handle something that could smash a hospital like this.

"It's something you'll run into when you go out at night," Xiang Yu said. "If you go out at night or look outside, you'll probably bump right into it."

When Ai Baiwu thought about how that thing had been lingering outside the door yesterday, he broke out in a cold sweat.

"Sigh, I don't miss this place at all." Bai Wu scratched the back of his head nervously, trying to cover up his fear with a complaint. "When I was a kid, I felt like my butt would start to hurt whenever I smelled the disinfectant in the hospital."

"..."

Xiang Yu stopped walking and turned to look at Ai Baiwu: "What, were you afraid of hospitals when you were little?"

"Of course! What kid isn't afraid of the hospital? What good can come of going to a place like this? Either you suffer, or you watch your family suffer. All you see are white sheets and crying. It's a miserable place." Ai Bowu pouted, seemingly having a lot of complaints about the hospital.

"Hmm... I was like that when I was a kid too, but the hospital is also a place where one learns about death." Xiang Yu didn't say anything, but continued, "Your fear of this place is just an escape."

"...Sigh, but I'm just a coward, there's nothing I can do about it."

"It's not that I'm blaming you, I was just saying..." Xiang Yu didn't dwell on the topic, but instead looked up at the window. "I must say, the sunlight shining into the hospital looks quite nice."

"Hey, is time passing so slowly? We've been walking for so long, how come it's not noon yet?"

Aibowu looked out of the window on the first floor of the hospital and saw the morning sun shining obliquely into the hospital lobby. Fine dust floated in the golden beams of light, and the light and shadow cast long shadows on the ground.

"We investigated so quickly?" Ai Bowu was somewhat surprised.

"..."

Xiang Yu remained silent.

He stood silently for a while, then turned and walked towards the inpatient department.

"Let's go. If we don't hurry, night will fall again. We have to get something done before night comes."

Anling was staying in the inpatient department, but before going there, he still had a little something to get rid of.

……

"He went to the inpatient department."

Jiang Ning, a middle-aged man, and Luo Yue also entered the hospital through the main gate after Xiang Yu left.

The middle-aged man immediately noticed the stretcher twisted into a pretzel. Slightly surprised, he exclaimed, "Who used this force?!"

Luo Yue leaned closer to take a look at the stretcher, then at the wall that had been punched through, and immediately shook her head: "It shouldn't be human... It's either a strength-specialized player or some inhuman monster."

She then turned to the middle-aged man and asked, "Can you do it?"

"If I use my skills, I should be able to do it if I go all out." The middle-aged man suddenly gained confidence when he heard the other person ask him a question. "And I should be able to do it even better."

He's a specialist in all aspects of strength; if he can't do this, wouldn't that be a disgrace?

"Doesn't that mean...we have a chance to defeat the monsters?" Jiang Ning's tone seemed to carry a hint of joy.

"No, actually this isn't a good thing. Although his power is comparable to that of the supernatural, who knows how many supernatural beings there are? In any case, it's better to be a little cautious," Luo Yue said carefully.

However, after comparing the eerie power with his own destructive capabilities, the middle-aged man became even more confident: "If the eerie power is really only this level, then our fear yesterday was unnecessary. If there's really no other way and we have to break the rules, we might as well fight it."

"Tsk... I already said, this thing is just the lower limit of weirdness, not the upper limit." Luo Yue tried to suppress the middle-aged man's confidence, but the other party had obviously fallen into the arrogance of "weirdness is nothing special".

"It's alright, Sister Luo. At least it shows that we have some ability to protect ourselves. Even if we can't win, we can fight and retreat at the same time," Jiang Ning said with a smile.

"Sigh... alright then." Luo Yue sighed. "Continue following him? Where did he go just now?"

"It looks like the inpatient ward, or maybe the emergency room? Wait, did any of you see him leave?" The middle-aged man was also dumbfounded. He had been following him so closely just now, how could he have lost him all of a sudden?

"Then...should we go to the emergency room?" Luo Yue said hesitantly. "Anyway, it's still early, the day has just begun."

"Yeah, time seems to pass so slowly here. We've been tracking them for so long, and the sun still hasn't risen..." the middle-aged man said, gazing at the sunlight streaming obliquely into the hospital's outpatient building.

"Then let's keep looking. The hospital is so quiet now, so remember to walk quietly," Luo Yue cautiously instructed. "And be sure to keep an eye on the time. When the sun starts to set, hurry back to the hotel, close up shop, and rest."

"It's about an hour's drive from the hospital to the hotel. It's winter now, and at this latitude, it gets dark around 4 PM, so please don't wait until after 3 PM to leave, understand?"

The middle-aged man and Jiang Ning nodded repeatedly.

Luo Yue wasn't afraid that Jiang Ning would disobey orders, but she was worried that if the middle-aged man got carried away, he would search endlessly, and then something bad would happen when strange things appeared at night.

Although there was no affection between them and they were competitors, the middle-aged man was the only one who could fight against the supernatural, so it was important to spare his life.

That's true. If a simple-minded guy like him were even slightly weaker, he would have died in the previous worlds long ago.

Luo Yue led them into the emergency department, but the moment she stepped into the emergency building, she suddenly realized that something was wrong.

"It's so dark. Is there no light here, or is the lighting poor?" The middle-aged man looked around. "There are quite a few windows here, how come it's so dark?"

Luo Yue frowned, and she looked around in a panic:

"Yes, with so many windows, why doesn't any light get in?"

"And why is it getting darker and darker around us?"

A moment later she realized a terrifying truth:

"It's not a problem with the lighting; it's that the world outside the window has darkened!"