In the anime, people are in everyday Tokyo, but they are playing the reincarnation game

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Early Wednesday morning, at Asagiri's home.

[Player Utsunomiya Asagiri, now entering the dungeon]

[The location of this dungeon is: Giant Mountain Mental Hospital (Since you already know the information about this mental hospital, the real name of the dungeon location is displayed. From the perspective of ordinary players, it is "Mental Hospital")]

[The time limit for this copy is: no time limit]

[The player's mission objective this time is: escape from the Giant Mountain Mental Hospital]

[Public reminder for this instance: Please remain quiet and do not attract the attention of the "mental patient"]

[Special note for this instance: Caretaker Hodel Franklin is located in Area C on the second underground floor. If he moves to another area, you will receive a notification via the mobile app.]

After the sticky dark red fog in front of him dissipated, Asagiri immediately confirmed that Yuuki Asuna and others were beside him, and then he began to observe the area where the four members of the team were.

It looked like the kitchen of a restaurant. The metal stove was stained with large patches of dirt. The oil and sticky blood on the ground were clump together, emitting an unpleasant stench. In the dim room, flies were flying around the stains, making a noisy "buzzing" sound.

"what..."

Asuna Yuuki, who has a slight obsession with mysophobia, raised her hands to cover her mouth and nose, stared at the room in front of her with suspicion, looked at Asagiri beside her, and lowered her voice.

"This... seems a little different from the last time we came..."

"Maybe this is underground."

Asagiri glanced at the room where everyone was and found that apart from the ventilation vents above and a metal door, there was no other way out of the room.

Kotoko Iwanaga walked to the metal stove and observed the black and red stains that had already solidified into lumps on it. Then she opened the lid of the metal pot on the gas stove, and an even stronger stench instantly filled the entire room.

"Oh... So this is what it is..."

Iwanaga Kotoko observed carefully for a few seconds, then turned her head calmly, looked at Asagiri and others standing there, and said with a smile.

"There's a boiled human head in here."

"Forehead......"

Kato Megumi asked cautiously.

"Necro, aren't you a little too calm?"

"Oh, it's okay, it's not anything scary."

Iwanaga Kotoko replied nonchalantly, still with a relaxed smile on her face.

"There's nothing strange about this head. It's just an ordinary, half-cooked head with rotting flesh. It won't jump up and bite me, so what's there to be afraid of?"

"Should I say you are brave, or are you different from ordinary people..."

Just as Kato Megumi was saying this, she saw Asagiri also walked up to the metal pot, looking at the half-cooked human head inside, and said thoughtfully.

"Hmm...that's weird. There's seasoning right next to it, why not put it there?"

"what?"

Asuna Yuuki frowned slightly, not knowing how to complain.

"Is this...the point to focus on?"

"Of course, if he can't even cook, it means his cooking skills are average."

Asagiri looked carefully at the human head in the metal pot with a serious expression.

"The man's face had been peeled off. There were large amounts of blood on the floor and on the stove. The amount and shape of the bloodstains suggest the result of a limb being violently severed. Furthermore, it was more than one person's bloodstains."

Having said that, Chaowu took out his rope dart and gently picked up the head in the metal pot with it. He observed the uneven and not even flat oblique cut below, and said lightly.

"The head wasn't chopped off cleanly, but rather cut off with something like a saw. The criminal's technique wasn't professional. It could be due to a lack of experience, or perhaps he simply didn't care."

"The skin has been peeled off..."

After hearing Asagiri's words, Yuuki Asuna said thoughtfully.

"A bloody-faced nurse... a skinned head... could this be... the head of a nurse at the Giant Mountain Mental Hospital?"

Chapter 65:063 The Skinny Monster

"It's possible."

Asagiri replaced the lid of the metal pot to prevent the disgusting smell from escaping, and then said lightly.

"I don't know if there are other players participating in this dungeon. Anyway, as usual, let's share the special tips everyone has received."

"it is good."

The advantage of the high-end player team is reflected here. In the last sub-human copy, all four of them achieved S+ level evaluation, so in this copy, they can still get four different special prompts.

The purpose of the system giving special prompts is not to reduce the difficulty of clearing the dungeon, but to allow high-end players to save time and not have to carefully explore for information. They can quickly judge the general situation of the dungeon and complete some more difficult hidden tasks.

The special tip Kato Megumi received was [There are many dangerous mechanisms in the mental hospital, please be cautious at all times], Yuuki Asuna's special tip was [It is difficult to completely eliminate mental patients], and Iwanaga Kotoko's special tip was [Some seemingly harmless ghosts actually harbor malicious intent. In this copy, there are no friendly ghosts that will never harm players].

"A mental hospital with dangerous facilities? Is this really a mental hospital..."

After exchanging the special tips they had obtained, Iwanaga Kotoko, the team's think tank, began her analysis.

"Psychopaths are difficult to kill... If that's the case, then psychopaths might be similar to the floating evil spirits in that hotel dungeon, evil spirits that can't be eliminated unless their source is eradicated. Of course, it's also possible that psychopaths aren't evil spirits at all, but rather some kind of exceptional physique with exceptional resilience, like a demihuman."

Having said that, Iwanaga Kotoko paused for a moment and then continued.

"And the special tip I received is that there are no friendly ghosts who will absolutely not harm players. Looking at it another way, there are no ghosts that are absolutely hostile to players. Some seemingly harmless ghosts actually harbor malicious intent. Is this telling us that we can obtain intelligence through negotiation, but we must be careful of sudden attacks from ghosts..."

After hearing Iwanaga Kotoko's analysis, Asagiri said in a calm tone.

"Based on the special hint you received, combined with the one I received, Old Huo is definitely a ghost. However, the system believes it could potentially harm players. This means this instance is in the same location as the rookie instance Violet and I took, but it's been changed for some reason."

"We didn't see any mentally ill patients when we were here last time."

Yuuki Asuna frowned slightly, carefully recalling the situation of the rookie copy, and muttered.

"Judging from the way the nurses persuaded us to leave the room, they knew the dangers of this hospital existed and had a certain degree of goodwill towards the players. Furthermore, the public warnings warned players not to attract the attention of the mentally ill. So the nurses and the mentally ill... were definitely not on the same side. And if we assume that the head belonged to a nurse, who would do such a cruel thing as chopping off a nurse's head, peeling off their skin, and boiling it in a pot, a vent of anger? It could only be the mentally ill, right?"

"The Giant Mountain Mental Hospital is in the same world as our hotel dungeon. The Blackwatch group has been to the hotel. Is it possible that we will run into them here?"

Hearing Kato Megumi's question, Asagiri nodded slightly.

"It's hard to say. What we can be sure of is that Blackwatch is more than just a simple military force. They have been exposed to the supernatural and have experience in dealing with it. They must possess some kind of supernatural power that can combat it."

Just as Yuuki Asuna finished speaking, Iwanaga Kotoko suddenly seemed to sense something, her face changed, and she lowered her voice to remind him.

"Something strange is approaching here."

The four members of the team had just checked and found that there was no place for four people to hide in this room which looked like a kitchen.

Kato Megumi didn't hesitate at all and immediately reached out to touch Asagiri, Yuuki Asuna, and Iwanaga Kotoko. After applying the effect of reducing presence to the three of them, she also activated her exclusive talent and entered a state of reduced presence.

"Shhhhhh~"

Less than two seconds later, a lame, off-tune whistle came from outside the door, getting closer and closer.

"boom!!!"

The metal door was kicked open by someone. Faced with this sudden loud noise, not only Iwanaga Kotoko and Asagiri, who had extraordinary psychological qualities, but even Yuuki Asuna and Kato Megumi did not react. After all, they had experienced so many copies and were mentally prepared in advance, so they were not scared by such a small noise.

After the door was kicked open, a skinny man with messy, dirty long hair and beard, wearing only a pair of tattered shorts, no clothes or shoes, and blood on his upper body and face, slowly walked into the room.

In his right hand he held a blood-stained serrated knife, and in his left hand he held a human head with its skin peeled off and still dripping with blood.

“It’s time to cook again…”

The skinny man held the head and talked to himself in an excited tone as he walked to the metal pot. He put down the serrated knife in his hand and opened the lid with his right hand.

Seeing that he was completely unaware of her and the others' presence, Kato Megumi couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief. But then she noticed that the half-cooked human head that was originally placed in the metal pot had disappeared without a trace.

"Wow."

The skinny man threw the head in his hand into the metal pot, followed by a slight sound of water, which made Asagiri and Iwanaga Kotoko feel a little strange.

The two had just observed the inside of the metal pot. There was no water at all, only a half-cooked head. Now, not only had the head disappeared, but the skinny man clearly did not add water to the metal pot, but water appeared inexplicably inside.

Plus, this skinny man was clearly doing such a horrible thing, but he kept whistling, with an expression of excitement and anticipation on his face. This scene...

Isn’t this too weird?

“Click, click, click…”

The skinny man turned the gas knob of the metal stove a few times, but no flame ignited underneath.

"Liao!"

The skinny man cursed and looked at the human head in the metal pot. His bloodshot eyes showed a greedy look like a hungry wolf. Then he did something that made Yuuki Asuna and Kato Megumi feel very nauseous.

He stretched out his dirty hands, picked up the human head, then opened his mouth wide, revealing two rows of disgusting teeth, and was about to bite the head.

"Violet, do it."

The moment Asagiri called out her code name, Yuuki Asuna had already taken out her rapier. A flickering light shone from the translucent blade like crystal, illuminating the originally dim kitchen.

"Sword Skill. Thorn!"

The brilliance in the crystal condensed at the tip of the sword, and before the skinny man could react, it had accurately hit his forehead.

“Boom, boom…”

The head in the skinny man's hand fell to the ground with two dull thuds, and his body leaned back, taking several steps backward until his lower back hit a metal table.

"ha..."

The skinny man did not die. Instead, he let out a strange sound from his throat, and large pieces of skin began to fall off his body. His whole body was stained red with blood. His elbows, knees, collarbones, shoulders and other parts, which were already very prominent due to his skinnyness, immediately swelled up, as if the bones inside were about to pierce through the thin skin.

He crouched down like a wild animal. The hole between his eyebrows, pierced by Yuuki Asuna, did not disappear, nor did it bleed. However, the vertebrae on his back were protruding one after another. He looked like...

"Wow, you can also activate the Spinosaurus form?"

Watching the skinny man transform into this monster-like, blood-stained form, Asagiri couldn't help but let out an exclamation of admiration. Then the familiar black gun-shaped summoner appeared in his hand. He pointed the muzzle of the gun at his temple, his eyes turned dark gold, and he pulled the trigger without hesitation.

"Human Shura."

At the same time as the human Shura appeared, a group of black particles condensed in front of Iwanaga Kotoko, forming a black human figure that was a circle smaller than the human Shura. The human Shura stood on the left and right, directly pressing the skinny man who had turned into a monster evil spirit to the ground.

"boom!"

The strength used by Human Shura and the black figure was so great that even several cracks appeared on the hard tile floor, but the skinny man seemed to feel no pain. There was a teeth-grinding sound of bones rubbing against each other in his body. He raised his bloody and messy face, looked at Asagiri and others standing there, and laughed strangely.

"You can't get out, hahahaha!"

"Like to laugh?"

Asami walked over and squatted in front of the skinny man with a kind smile on his face. He slowly stabbed the rope dart in his hand into the man's crown, but the man's laughter did not stop, but became more and more crazy.

"Oh, you don't feel any pain? That's interesting."

Seeing the skinny man's performance, Asagiri directly stabbed all the rope darts into the other's head. The skinny man's body twitched twice, and then turned into a pool of dark red blood, spreading on the ground until it finally disappeared.

"Why not torture him? Maybe we can get some information."

"impossible."

Hearing Yuuki Asuna's question, Asagiri stood up and said in a calm tone.

"This guy was a madman in life, and after death he became a demonic spirit, incapable of pain, possessing only twisted desires. Although he can think and speak, we cannot communicate with him. Even if we could obtain information from him, we would be unable to verify its authenticity. Information that cannot be verified will only cause us interference and is completely meaningless."

Chapter 66: 064 The oppressive humanoid armored vehicle

Upon hearing this, Kato Megumi asked tentatively.

"Is he a mental patient?"

As soon as Kato Megumi asked this question, she saw her three teammates, Iwanaga Kotoko, Asagiri, and Yuuki Asuna, all looking at her speechlessly. She couldn't help but be stunned for a moment and hesitated.

"Um...why are you all looking at me like that?"

While Yuuki Asuna and Iwanaga Kotoko were still thinking about how to organize their words, Asagiri had already spoken bluntly.

"He's holding a human head and chewing on it, how can he still be a normal person? Don't ask such a stupid question. Your cuteness is not just about being silly."

"Oh, that's right..."

Kato Megumi replied embarrassedly, and then immediately regained her composure. The rapid change in her state made people suspect that she was deliberately pretending to be stupid and cute.

"Violet's attack just now also hit the head, but it didn't kill this guy directly. Is it because the damage area was not enough? Or is it because her weapon doesn't have the special properties to completely destroy spirits?"

Yuuki Asuna's rapier, Flashing Light, has the effect of greatly enhancing the power of sword skills. It does not have the special ability to destroy spirits or strange beings like the Exorcist's long sword.

However, due to the presence of Iwanaga Kotoko and Asagiri, most of the time she is not needed to deliver a fatal blow to the monster. Even if she really reaches a weird type copy like this time where all the enemies are monsters, she can change her weapon to the Exorcist Sword at any time.

"Has it really been eradicated? Let's put that question aside for now."