Monster

Lin Qiye set down the letter in his hand, his expression somewhat strange.

He had thought this letter hid the secrets of this hospital, or a message from some mysterious powerhouse, or perhaps the truth of this world...

But... what was with this damn sixth-grade essay vibe?!

Could the previous director of this hospital really have been a little girl?

That made no sense!

What kind of little girl could beat the Goddess of Night at creation?

From this baffling letter, Lin Qiye could gather little information. Before him, this hospital had been in another girl's hands, and she had taken some things from several patients.

At that thought, Lin Qiye frowned again.

In the letter, she had said, "several patients."

In other words, aside from Nyx, she had opened the rooms of several other gods and even won an item from each of them through the same method of "competition"?

What kind of freak was this...

Still, she had said there was something beneath this office?

Lin Qiye crouched down and carefully probed beneath the floor with his Mental Power. Just as he was about to reach the twenty-meter boundary, he seemed to encounter something different...

"There's a mechanism in this room too?" Lin Qiye raised his head and looked toward the wall at the back of the office.

In his perception, there was a hidden passage behind that wall, and the method of opening it...

After sensing carefully for a while, Lin Qiye rose to his feet, walked to the bookshelf in the corner, and lightly pressed a hidden compartment.

Immediately afterward, the wall at the back of the office slowly parted to either side, revealing a pitch-black passage.

Without hesitation, Lin Qiye walked down the passage.

The passage was long and deep. Lin Qiye walked for a long time before reaching its end.

When he opened the door at the end, he froze where he stood.

Before him lay a dim, damp corridor, with gloomy prison cells lining both sides!

That was right—prison cells.

Unlike the six wards in the building above, what lay before Lin Qiye were true prison cells, the kind found only in prisons. Their iron doors were also covered in dense patterns, though he had no idea what they were for.

Lin Qiye proceeded down the corridor, his Mental Power constantly on guard against his surroundings.

At the bottom of the already mysterious Psychiatric Hospital of Gods, there were two rows of bizarre prison cells hidden away. One look was enough to tell him this was no good place.

Strangely, the cells on both sides were completely empty. There was not a single person inside.

"Could this just be an abandoned prison?" Lin Qiye muttered as he continued onward.

Before long, he reached the end.

However, when his gaze fell on the first cell at the end, his pupils suddenly contracted!

In the corner of that cell crouched a burly figure. It seemed to have heard Lin Qiye's footsteps and stiffly turned its head...

Revealing a pale, savage ghost face!

Ghost-faced King!

At the sight of that familiar figure, intense killing intent erupted from Lin Qiye's eyes, and he warily took half a step back.

Like a wild beast, the Ghost-faced King roared and charged at Lin Qiye. Yet the instant it touched the cell bars, an invisible tremendous force sent it flying, smashing it into the wall behind it.

Lin Qiye's brows drew tight.

Hadn't the Ghost-faced King been killed by him? He had chopped its face into eighteen pieces. It could not have been deader, and the Night Watchmen should have taken its corpse away... so how could it be here?

Just as Lin Qiye was puzzled, the familiar panel appeared before him again.

Sinner: Ghost-faced King.

Decision: As a Mythical Creature personally killed by you, you have the right to decide the fate of its soul:

Option 1: Directly erase its soul, causing it to vanish completely from this world.

Option 2: Raise its "Fear Value" toward you to 60, and you may employ it as a hospital orderly. While caring for patients, it can also provide you with a certain degree of protection.

Current Fear Value: 1.

After reading this, Lin Qiye finally understood what was happening.

It seemed that aside from imprisoning six mysterious patients, this Psychiatric Hospital also possessed the ability to transform Mythical Creatures he personally killed into orderlies.

In other words, every time he killed a Mythical Creature in the future, he would have a chance to turn it into an orderly?

Then did the Mythical Creatures here... include ancient gods as well?

What if—just what if—he killed a true god someday? Could he make that god work for him too?

At that thought, Lin Qiye's heart beat faster and faster.

"Roar, roar, roar!!"

The Ghost-faced King's roars dragged Lin Qiye back from his fantasy. He looked up at the savage, terrifying Ghost-faced King in the cell, and his gaze gradually turned cold.

"Ghost-faced King..." Lin Qiye looked at it and spoke calmly. "You're very strong. If I made you my orderly, I imagine you'd be quite a good choice..."

Hearing those words, the Ghost-faced King gradually quieted down.

Lin Qiye slowly extended his hand, seemingly intending to touch the Ghost-faced King's ghost face.

Killing intent surfaced in the Ghost-faced King's eyes, but its instinct to survive forcibly suppressed it. From the moment it appeared here, it had known of its two possible fates.

It also knew that its fate was in the hands of the ant before it.

It did not want to vanish completely from this world, so...

It could only choose submission!

It lowered its head, as quiet as a dog.

Lin Qiye's palm touched its ghost face and gently rubbed it.

"You killed a lot of people. That's fine—I didn't know them, and it doesn't stop me from employing you..." Lin Qiye narrowed his eyes, cold light flashing within them!

"Unfortunately... you killed someone very important."

Suddenly, Lin Qiye's hand began to tighten!

"Kreee—!!" The Ghost-faced King's ghost face twisted violently, and its piercing wail echoed throughout the prison.

It desperately flailed its limbs, trying to escape Lin Qiye's grasp, but unfortunately... it could not.

This was Lin Qiye's hospital.

He was the director here.

If he wanted it dead,

It had no choice but to die!

A cold glint blazed in Lin Qiye's eyes. Amid its shrill cries, the Ghost-faced King rapidly swelled like a balloon!

Then... it exploded with a bang!

Blood and chunks of flesh splattered across the entire cell, only to be swiftly devoured by the walls and floor. In just a few seconds, a Mythical Creature of the "Chuan" realm had completely vanished.

This prison cell was like a living, man-eating beast!

Lin Qiye's white coat was likewise drenched in blood. He stared at the empty cell and spoke expressionlessly.

"You're very strong, but unfortunately... my hospital does not welcome you."

With that, he turned around, slid both hands into the pockets of his white coat, and walked out step by step.

In the dim corridor, the blood staining his white coat rapidly seeped away and disappeared...

Like a man-eating monster.