Wan Jie Hospice Care Company

"Brother, why is it getting darker and darker around us?" Ai Baiwu felt the surroundings were becoming increasingly eerie. "Shouldn't it be almost noon?"

Ai Baiwu's voice was very low. He raised his head, and the courtyard of the inpatient department should have been bathed in a bright beam of sunlight at noon.

Now it's all gray and gloomy there.

Xiang Yu didn't turn around, he just smiled and walked ahead, stepping down the stairs one step at a time, making a clattering sound. "Yes, that's how it should be."

"Logically speaking?" Ai Baiwu sensed an underlying meaning in Xiang Yu's words, "So now..."

"So things aren't actually going according to common sense now."

A mirror hung at the corner of the stairs. It was the kind of square mirror commonly found in old hospitals. As Ai Baiwu passed by, he glanced at it subconsciously. Two figures were walking up the stairs in the mirror, but the light deep inside the mirror was three times dimmer than in the corridor.

He abruptly looked away, a chill running down his neck.

"So why, brother? Could it be that the eerie thing is right next to me? Is it using its powers to make us hallucinate?" Ai Baiwu quickly looked left and right, afraid that a ghost would suddenly jump out and mess with him.

"It is indeed the power of a ghost..." Xiang Yu said thoughtfully, "and this ghost is extremely troublesome; ordinary people simply cannot deal with it."

"Then, what do we do?!" Ai Bowu started to panic, seeing threats everywhere. "Being scared like this isn't going to work. How about we just blow it up!"

"Ah...it's not that bad." Seeing that Ai Baiwu's mental defenses were about to collapse, Xiang Yu continued, "Don't worry, it's not targeting us."

"Target...isn't this thing supposed to kill indiscriminately?"

"Of course not." Xiang Yu smirked. "Its target is someone else."

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As the surroundings grew darker, the three of them felt their hearts leap into their throats.

"Wait, could it be that the slanting sunlight just now wasn't the rising sun?"

Luo Yue's pupils suddenly contracted.

That's right, although they are both angled shots, the directions are wrong!

It was the first time any of them had visited this city, and they couldn't remember the directions (north, south, east, west) for a moment. So they made a fatal mistake: confusing the sunset with the sunrise.

In fact, apart from the different directions, the difference between sunset and sunrise is not significant. In an unfamiliar place, it is easy to confuse sunrise and sunset.

The group had long missed their turn to return to the hotel, and it was too late for them to leave now!

"How could this happen... Why is this happening?"

Luo Yue racked her brains but couldn't understand why time had suddenly jumped to evening.

"Could this be the power of a demon?" the middle-aged man exclaimed in shock. "It can't be the power of those two guys, can it?"

"Impossible. The ability to manipulate time is something that someone below rank C could never possess... And according to the dungeon's requirements, this place is only accessible to those below rank D." Luo Yue analyzed logically and with evidence. "Ninety-nine percent of the time, it's some kind of strange power."

But Jiang Ning whispered, "What if... there's a mole among them?"

"..."

This sentence silenced the entire room. Then the middle-aged man quickly said, "What are you talking about? It's probably some kind of supernatural ability. Maybe that supernatural being thinks it's easier to deal with us at night, so it switched the time to night."

"That's right, that's the most likely possibility."

"But it's already night, what should we do? Hide?" the middle-aged man asked.

"This is the only way. Continuing to track them could lead to serious problems; the risks and rewards are not worth it," Luo Yue said. "Let's find a secluded room to hide in first."

As the sun sank below the horizon, the surroundings began to darken. The three had no choice but to find the nearest department, which, upon looking up, appeared to be the ENT department.

The moment the door opened, an indescribable odor wafted out.

The smell arrived before their eyes could see it. Only after their eyes adjusted to the darkness of the room did they see a corpse lying on the floor of the examination room.

She was a nurse, her white coat crumpled and spread out, her head turned back to look.

But the group didn't have time to investigate the cause of death. After glancing at the body casually, the middle-aged man threw it outside and then locked the door of the department.

A "click" sound.

"Alright, there shouldn't be any problems for now." Luo Yue nodded, then said to the middle-aged man who was working diligently, "Although you're sharp-tongued, you're quite serious when it comes to getting things done."

"Serious? Heh, I wasn't like this before." The middle-aged man denied the other's words, then looked at Jiang Ning, "I'm just taking pity on this little girl now."

"Huh?" Luo Yue was taken aback. She had thought the other person was all bark and no bite, but she hadn't expected it to be because of Jiang Ning?

Luo Yue suddenly became alert, because although she didn't know what kind of person the middle-aged man was, she knew what kind of person she was.

She suddenly realized that she also seemed to have a strange trust and affection for Jiang Ning.

Luo Yue is an extremely suspicious person, and it was precisely because of this suspicion that she survived in the previous world... As for this Jiang Ning, even though she had no connection with her at all, she never suspected her...

No, I did have my doubts about her, but... only on the first day.

In just the first few hours, after a whole night had passed, she had unknowingly included Jiang Ning in her "one of her own" category.

Why is that? When did I become so trusting of others?

The instant she realized this, she glanced at the middle-aged man very carefully and subtly, then asked in as casual a tone as possible, "Ah... why do you pity her, because she looks like your daughter?"

"Huh? I don't have a daughter." The middle-aged man answered crisply, his face completely expressionless, as if the question was absurd. "I simply felt she was trustworthy, that's all."

"...Ah, I see."

Jiang Ning suddenly said, "Now we should work together to deal with those two, not fight amongst ourselves."

"Yes, I was being paranoid. That's just how I am." Luo Yue quickly gave herself a way out, but she was still surprised and suspicious inside.

Could it be some kind of ability of Jiang Ning?

But Jiang Ning was clearly a player entering the dungeon for the first time, with all her abilities at the E-level and no skills whatsoever; she had checked that.

But why...?

Beads of sweat appeared on Luo Yue's forehead; the situation was gradually getting out of control.

Just as the cloud of doubt in Luo Yue's heart was beginning to churn, the last rays of the setting sun faded completely from the windowpane.

Darkness closed in.

The three of them fell silent in unison, pressed themselves against the wall as close to their bodies as possible, and even breathed very softly and slowly.

Meanwhile, footsteps echoed down the hospital corridor.