Mission Complete

Ye Xin narrowed her eyes and looked at him strangely.

What kind of absurd idea was that?

"Forget it, I was joking. Let's go downstairs and kill the remaining doctors."

Dealing with the doctors was much harder. There were more people on the first floor, and once a fight broke out, everyone on the entire floor might attack them.

They couldn't force their way through. Ye Xin's plan was to lure them to the second floor one by one and kill them there.

They would casually pick a target. "Something happened on the second floor. Please come take a look with me."

"What happened?"

The deceived person followed them to the second floor.

Before the doctor could react, the others hacked down hard from behind.

The target died instantly!

After repeating this many times, everyone on the first floor was dealt with.

But... even so, the mission still showed as incomplete.

"What's going on?" Seeing the countdown turn blood-red, Shi Wenshan's face darkened. "We checked every room, even the bathrooms. We killed everyone we could."

"There really isn't anyone left on the first floor. Then... could the target be above the fourth floor? Or outside the hospital?" the middle-aged man asked nervously.

"Upstairs." Shi Wenshan didn't overthink it and immediately started moving.

There were still two hours left.

The group reached the fifth floor and attacked the Patients there.

Ye Xin continued releasing Spirit Threads in secret, working with the team to quietly eliminate more than twenty people.

Soon, they broke through the sixth floor, the hospital's top floor.

There were no more rooms. They had basically searched the entire hospital.

Looking at the countdown, which still had thirty-five minutes remaining, Shi Wenshan fell completely silent.

"We killed so many people, but the mission still isn't complete. Did we misunderstand something?" Xuan Ya's voice trembled slightly. Having participated in so many bloody battles in a row had taken a serious toll on her mental state. After all this, she seriously wondered whether she would have nightmares when she returned.

"Yeah, only that room on the third floor is left. They're all ordinary people without the strength to fight back. Do we have to kill them all?" The middle-aged man grew uneasy.

"I don't know. Let's go back to the third floor and take another look." Shi Wenshan was obviously confused as well.

After discussing it for a while, the group changed into clean doctor and nurse uniforms and returned to the ward on the third floor.

The Patients inside had no idea what had happened outside, nor did they know that nearly everyone in the hospital was dead.

Some of them were chatting.

It looked much like an ordinary hospital ward. If there was anything unusual about it, the conditions were simply poorer.

Shi Wenshan walked over, poured himself a cup of water, confirmed that it wasn't poisoned, and raised it to drink.

"Phew." He let out a breath.

Ye Xin sat nearby with her chin propped on one hand. She poured two cups of water as well, then touched them with her finger.

Purifying...

"Tch."

Even though it had become Water of Purification, it hadn't had any effect on the Patients earlier.

She quietly let out a breath. Just as she was about to drink it all in one gulp, a male patient came over to pour himself some water.

So she pushed the cup she had intended to drink toward him. "Here."

"Huh?" Seeing this sexy nurse in black stockings pour him a cup of water, the young man accepted it awkwardly.

"I, I..."

"Drink it," Ye Xin said casually.

"Hehe." The young man scratched his head awkwardly.

He drained the entire cup in one gulp.

Then the patient sat down not far away, his face red.

Seeing how interested he seemed in her, Ye Xin rolled her eyes.

At that moment, the middle-aged man from the team also walked over and picked up the other cup.

"The water here isn't poisoned, right?"

"If it were, a notification would definitely have appeared. Don't underestimate the power of the system," Shi Wenshan answered in Ye Xin's place.

"Fine."

The middle-aged man raised the second purified cup and drank it in one gulp.

Before he could even finish swallowing, a cry of alarm suddenly came from the distance.

"Ah—"

Everyone turned to look and saw that the patient who had drunk the water earlier had suddenly mutated.

Veins and blood vessels burst across his body, his eyes turned crimson, and he suddenly launched a savage attack on the people around him.

"Not good!"

Shi Wenshan immediately grabbed a hammer nearby and rushed forward.

Ye Xin extended a finger and instantly released threads, binding the target.

Bang!

The hammer came down, and blood and pulp splattered everywhere like meat sauce.

The Patients cried out in alarm.

Ye Xin's expression darkened.

At that exact moment, another strange scream came from behind her. She turned around and saw the middle-aged man who had drunk the water suddenly reach for her throat.

"Watch out." Xuan Ya immediately stepped in front of Ye Xin and slashed at the rampaging middle-aged man.

Pfft!

His arm was injured.

But the terrifying part was that the middle-aged man now seemed to completely fail to recognize the three of them, charging at them desperately to bite and tear.

After holding him off for more than twenty seconds, Shi Wenshan had no choice but to kill him with a hammer blow.

Teammate "Wei Ruize" has died.

You have been deducted 50 Exchange Points, and 80% of this mission's reward has been forfeited.

You have received one "High Risk" mark.

Shi Wenshan heard the notifications in his ear, and his face went dark. "Fuck."

Ye Xin's heart skipped a beat.

She realized that these two people seemed to have turned out this way because they drank her Water of Purification.

Not only that, thinking back on it, the young man had also gone mad only after drinking that water.

Could the water she purified cause people to go insane?

Or did these people already carry a virus, with the Water of Purification merely accelerating the onset?

If that were the case, though, it couldn't explain the middle-aged man's—rather, Wei Ruize's—change. He was an outsider, so he shouldn't have had the virus.

"What exactly is going on?" Shi Wenshan asked.

Ye Xin frowned slightly and lowered her voice. "Water touched by my hand can Purify Pollution. It's a talent I personally received from the system. Could they have gone mad because they drank that water?"

"Seriously?" Xuan Ya looked shocked.

"You mean... the Purification ability certified by the system made those two people relapse instead?"

Shi Wenshan pondered for a moment, then walked over to the table and picked up a cup.

He swept his gaze across the Patients around them. Most of them looked terrified.

Everyone else seemed normal.

"You didn't touch the water I drank earlier, did you?" Shi Wenshan looked at Ye Xin, his expression growing serious. "When we come to this world to take part in missions, the first thing we must establish is that the system will never be wrong. If it says it can Purify Pollution, then it definitely can. If your ability is fine, how could those two people have gone insane after drinking it?"

Ye Xin: "..."

Mission Complete

"Are you suspecting me?" Ye Xin looked directly into his eyes.

"No. Suspecting a teammate is a foolish thing to do." Shi Wenshan chuckled, crouching beside the middle-aged man's corpse as his eyes narrowed slightly.

"Shi Wenshan," Xuan Ya suddenly said. "You just said the system can never be wrong. Then can we assume that Ye Xin's water Purification ability was actually effective, and that she really removed the patient's toxins?"

"They were cured, yet they went mad and attacked us?"

"Let's assume that!" Xuan Ya spread her hands. "Have you noticed that we possessed bodies similar to our own rather than physically coming here?"

As she spoke, she raised her hand. "In reality, I have a mole on my hand. It was there in previous missions, but it's gone this time. Doesn't that mean we actually transmigrated here as souls?"

At that, Shi Wenshan and Ye Xin exchanged a glance.

Though there was no mirror, if they observed closely, they could indeed notice some differences.

"A soul-transmigration mission?" Shi Wenshan looked thoughtful.

Ye Xin had a vague idea, but she couldn't quite grasp it.

After a while, she smiled slightly and sat on a nearby table. "Then let me go over the suspicious points."

Her two teammates both looked at her.

Ye Xin raised a finger.

"First, when the doctors operated on the Patients, they injected them with the virus. Yet there was no protective equipment during the surgeries. Their hands even directly came into contact with the Patients' bodily fluids, but the doctors still didn't care. It was as if they weren't worried about being infected."

"Second, the newspaper said that the infected people at West District Hospital included both Patients and doctors. This place was also designated a Quarantine Zone. If the report was accurate, doesn't that mean the doctors weren't normal either? Everyone was infected?"

"Third, after drinking water that could Purify Pollution, people went mad, while drinking normal water caused no problem. If we assume the system is absolutely correct, then that means the people who drank the water were actually cured. In other words, they became healthy. But healthy people then went crazy and attacked."

"If they were healthy, they definitely wouldn't go mad and attack others. So shouldn't we consider that it wasn't the person who drank the water who went insane, but us? In the eyes of us lunatics, those so-called normal people instead appeared insane." Having finished explaining her thoughts, Ye Xin glanced at her teammates.

Xuan Ya's eyelid twitched. "What kind of logic is that?"

Shi Wenshan put down the cup. "While we still have time, let's search through the documents in the entire building again and see whether there are any more clues. We can't simply treat this place like a dungeon for killing monsters and leveling up. Maybe we need to use our brains."

"Is there enough time? Whatever, let's try." Xuan Ya sighed.

She didn't want to fight anymore.

"Come on. We'll start by searching the rooms here."

Thus, amid the trembling Patients' fearful stares, the three doctors and nurses began rummaging through boxes and cabinets.

After a brief search, Ye Xin simply rushed out and headed straight for the first floor.

Most of the doctors' offices were there, so the chances of finding useful information again were higher.

However...

After arriving on the first floor and opening a cabinet, Ye Xin's face twitched at the sight of the densely packed file bags inside.

"There are way too many."

Forget it. She only needed to quickly check the document titles.

Then she began searching through them rapidly.

"Are these all medical records?"

After checking one cabinet, she ran to another nearby.

Then, the moment she pulled open a drawer, a document came into view.