Encounter!

After sliding down the stairs, Qin Muse reached the first floor of the psychiatric hospital. Straight ahead, she could see the locked glass doors. Beyond them lay the hospital's large courtyard: barren land and a few old trees, like dying elders in their twilight years. Their branches were withered and oddly shaped, like demons baring their claws, waiting for darkness to completely engulf and devour the world.

Qin Muse had no time to stop and rest, and she had no intention of smashing the glass doors to leave the building. Instead, she continued running toward the corridor deeper inside the first floor!

Crash-!

She swung the hatchet, smashing the glass of every window she passed and opening every room she could, drawing the NPCs' attention!

She had already looked at the psychiatric hospital's floor plan on the third floor. Now she was searching for the unmarked room!

The building's power distribution room!

Although the corridor lights were off, the only illumination came from the scarlet moonlight filtering through the windows.

But there were old surveillance cameras inside the building. To keep Suger from monitoring her and Yimo's movements, her first priority was to cut the building's power completely!

Qin Muse quickly found the door to the transformer room. As the NPCs' howls drew closer, she looked at the lock on the power distribution room door.

She frowned slightly. Without hesitation, she raised the hatchet in both hands and slammed its back hard against the lock!

Clang-clang-clang-!

Qin Muse put a lot of force into it. Every time the back of the hatchet struck the lock, the impact made her hands tremble slightly around the handle.

But Qin Muse didn't hesitate for a moment. She raised it again and struck with even greater force.

After a dozen or so blows, she