The First-Floor Lobby

"Fortunately, she is twenty-three years old and checked in three months ago..."

This section was a meaningless background introduction, Yu Xing glanced at briefly before shifting her attention to the section below.

As someone suffering from claustrophobia, you desperately want to get better, as the illness has been impacting your life. Every day, you go to the second-floor balcony to breathe fresh air, which makes you feel better.

[Task 1: Go to the balcony with the floor-to-ceiling windows on the second floor of the hospital within half an hour and breathe fresh air for ten minutes. If you exceed this time, you will experience difficulty breathing and slowed movement.]

"I need to get to the second floor within half an hour, including a ten-minute layover, which means I have to get there within twenty minutes."

Yu Xing was not surprised to receive the mission. The missions at the Fear Hospital were like this: seemingly without danger, but in reality, they restricted the movement of each of them and made it easier for the perpetrators to carry out their plans.

Because everyone is rushing to complete tasks, there are always periods of time when they are alone.

This medical record card is not formatted rigorously at all. Although it is called a medical record card, apart from the cover, nothing about it has anything to do with medical records. Instead, it is more like a life record card.

"You're afraid to take the elevator and prefer to walk up the stairs every day. But for some reason, the stairwells in this hospital are always very dirty and slippery. So, for your own safety, you have to clean the stairs from the first to the fourth floor every day. The nurses always praise you as a very kind person. Thanks to you, the hospital hasn't hired a cleaner in a long time."

[Task 2: Clean all the stairs from the first to the fourth floor within three hours. You will need a broom, a dustpan, and a mop. If you don't clean them properly, you will be forced to use the elevator, where your claustrophobia will definitely kick in.]

"The garden downstairs is paradise! There are no walls, no cramped spaces. You can go down for a stroll every day. The swings and flowerbeds are great places to while away the time. You might even run into other people, chat with them, and hear some gossip!"

[Task 3: Go to the garden within six hours, stay for at least thirty minutes, water a flower, and swing on the swing once. You long to go to the garden; if you don't, you'll probably jump off the fourth floor to embrace it.]

There are three tasks in total, with the punishment increasing as you progress. These are the tasks that claustrophobic individuals must complete while simultaneously evading and deducing the perpetrator. Failure to complete these tasks will result in mandatory punishment, which cannot be avoided even by offering sacrifices.

After reviewing the medical record, Yu Xing found no indication that he had either developed a murderous impulse due to fear or possessed a keen sense for crime. This meant that he was neither the perpetrator of the crime nor the only prophet with supernatural powers.

The seer has one chance to verify whether a person is the perpetrator. They can choose a guest to verify whether the person is the perpetrator. They only have one chance, and like the perpetrator, they need to have close contact with the target during the verification process.

This was his identity in the first round of the Yugi. Yu Xing wondered with great interest, "What does claustrophobia feel like?"

Should he go into the elevator later and experience life for himself?

Ah, no, he wants to be a normal person in front of the audience.

Thinking this, Yu Xing put the medical record card aside. In the inner compartment of the medical record card, there was also a handwritten note.

"Why are there fewer and fewer people at our hospital? That's strange. Anyway, let's take attendance in the lobby on the first floor today, including all colleagues and patients."

Clearly, this note was written by a Doctor, and the lobby on the first floor mentioned above is actually the "meeting point," which is where each round of identifying the perpetrator takes place.

The group splits up to do their own tasks, the perpetrator commits murder... After that, how will the Yugi continue?

Naturally, it is a collective designation.

The guests must frequently patrol the hospital building. When they see the victim's body left by the perpetrator, they can press a red button that can be seen everywhere on the wall. An alarm will sound throughout the building. At this time, everyone must return to the lobby on the first floor within five minutes to make their arguments and vote.

After one person is voted out, the process is repeated until all the murderers have been voted out or all the innocent people are dead.

The perpetrators can only kill one person before each vote, but since there are two perpetrators, and both can kill, the number of deaths each time is not necessarily one or at least two. When the alarm sounds, the perpetrators can still take advantage of the chaos to make their move until they enter the lobby on the first floor, which is an absolutely safe zone.

However, the lobby on the first floor is inaccessible after everyone leaves, unless the alarm sounds.

Yu Xing read the note, then walked back to the door, placing her hand on the handle. There were only a dozen seconds left until the two-and-a-half-minute countdown mentioned by the system ended.

He used his wrist to easily open the door.

Although the preparation area resembles an operating room, it does not belong to the Fear Hospital itself. Only by leaving the preparation area can Yu Xing's identity as a patient be realized.

The moment he opened the door, all the incandescent lights outside went out, plunging the corridor into darkness.

Yu Xing actually felt uncomfortable with the complete darkness. He couldn't help but marvel; he was now a fully-fledged claustrophobic!

He cautiously immersed himself in this lingering fear, stepping into the darkness with a trembling that could be misunderstood by the audience.

He was excited, but the audience would only think he was scared.

The surrounding environment seemed to be changing again. Although Yu Xing could not see anything in the darkness that seemed to block his vision like a curse, he could sense that something was moving and being arranged. It was also possible that he himself was moving and stepping into a space that had already been arranged.

Suddenly, everything in front of me lit up.

The outline of the hall appeared on his retina. The windows for registration, payment, and medication collection were neatly arranged. The screens on the walls scrolled through the surnames and numbers of patients. Rows of metal chairs gleamed coldly under the incandescent lights above the hall.

Yu Xing subconsciously raised his hand to block out the light. After his eyes adjusted, he heard other people talking.

"Honestly, before the list was announced, I had no idea that you and I were so destined to meet. This is the second time we've done a live stream together, right?" A cheerful, unfamiliar voice came from very close to him.

Yu Xing squinted and looked. The person was standing two or three meters in front of him, wearing a white coat.

The person was obviously not talking to him; they only showed him the back of their head and probably didn't even notice him.

Standing opposite that man was another man, also wearing a white coat, but Yu Xing recognized his face.

Yu Xing had watched "Han Zichuan's" videos and had become very familiar with his face in just a few days. The handsome man in front of her, who looked to be under thirty with a polite smile, was actually Han Yan, the deducer of the Fallen Path who was over forty-five years old!

Han Yan's face was facing Yu Xing's direction, and when Yu Xing looked at him, the other person also noticed that he had woken up.

Almost simultaneously, Zhao Mou and the others appeared in the hall. Yu Xing could see clearly that they all appeared suddenly. It seemed that Han Yan and the person he was talking to were the first to finish looking at the identity cards and push open the door to the preparation room.

Recalling the information Zhao Mou had given him, Yu Xing looked at the back of the Doctor player's head and thought, judging from the conversation, this should be Yu Jing, the LSP Foundation member who had gone through a simulation livestream with Han Yan.

Only then did he have time to look at himself. He was standing on the floor tiles next to the metal chair, wearing a loose striped hospital gown and slippers—the kind of useless shoes that would be a hindrance if he ran and couldn't even be used as bricks.

Zhao Mou was a little further away from him, and he was also wearing Doctor's uniform. All his reactions were completed in just a few seconds. It was only when Yu Xing recognized Han Yan, guessed Yu Jing's identity, and sized him up that Zhao Mou noticed him and Zhao Yijiu on the other side.

Since everyone in the Yugi uses their real appearance and knows each other, no one can hide their identity, so everyone simply and openly mingles with people they know.

Yu Xing flexed his wrists. He glanced around and didn't see Qu Xuanqing and Zhao Yijiu, so he knew that the two of them must be behind him.

He turned around, and before he could finish his turn, his eyes were met with a nurse's uniform whose buttons were in jeopardy.

Ah, no, it's someone wearing a nurse's uniform.

Qu Xuanqing took in his gaze with a half-smile, quickened her pace to stand in front of him, and her long, black hair, styled in a bun, accentuated her slender neck, giving her an air of superiority.

The nurses' uniforms at the Fear Hospital were anything but conservative. The white uniforms they wore added a violent, "Silent Hill" nurse's beauty to her figure, highlighting her curves and the long, white legs that seemed to glow beneath her pencil skirt.

A small black longsword earring dangled from an earlobe that shouldn't be adorned with jewelry.

Her movement caused everyone in the hall to pause. Even though everyone was now on the same starting line, it couldn't hide the fearsome reputation of the female demon and the powerful aura she exuded as she walked.

The audience watching the scene in the hall erupted in anger.

[Woao]

[So beautiful! I love it!]

[Oh no, I'm actually a little tempted by Boss Qu's outfit. Am I going to get killed by her?]

[Who's that guy opposite her? Holy crap, he looks so delicate.]

[Not frail at all, she's 1.8 meters tall!]

[He's clearly 1.9 meters tall...]

The cameras in the lobby are fixed, and all the guests' individual live streams are merged into a unified live stream with a fixed perspective when they enter the lobby. In fact, several special rooms in the Fear Hospital have this feature.

At the same time, the rose mask once again served its purpose, completely confusing the audience's vision.

[Look, it's Shafuri in her hospital gown! I love her so much!]

[Oh? Really? Shafuri is the type of person who enjoys being trained and then tortured to death. What are you people thinking, daring to like her?]

[The Siren is impressive. Was she personally trained by Shafuri? They both have the same alluring charm. I just wonder if she's as ruthless as Shafuri.]

Zhao Mou and his brother look nothing alike.

[Yu Jing and Han Zichuan are indeed standing together. They'll form an alliance, right? Right, right?]

[Ren Yi, that expressionless man, dares to smile? With male nurse like him around, I'm afraid to get an injection.]

The other guests each had their own popularity, and separated by a virtual screen, the audience's attention quickly shifted to each guest. Only those standing in the hall could truly feel the pressure emanating from Qu Xuanqing.

Without a doubt, Qu Xuanqing is the strongest here. Even the arrogant Shafuri has to avoid his sharp edge and at least doesn't dare to be so rude, but it's still possible for her to find fault with him openly or secretly.

Yu Xing, who was directly Qu Xuanqing, completely failed to notice her imposing aura, instead focusing on things from an anthropological perspective...

Previously, Qu Xuanqing was always wrapped in a coat; this was the first time he had seen the grown-up Qu Xuanqing wearing tight-fitting clothes.

She has a great figure! Is this an advantage of being a few years older than Zhu Yan? Zhu Yan can't achieve this effect no matter what she wears.

While inwardly praising the beauty of the item, Yu Xing also noticed Zhao Yijiu walking behind Qu Xuanqing.

His first glance fell on Zhao Yijiu's eyes. The dark red color in Brother Jiu's eyes wasn't very obvious, but you could definitely see it if you looked closely.

Noticing Yu Xing's gaze, Zhao Yijiu raised his eyes, the muscle contours beneath his hospital gown faintly visible. He gave Yu Xing a cool nod, then stopped in his tracks, waiting for Zhao Mou to come and find him.

"Good morning, everyone~" A woman broke the oppressive atmosphere brought by Qu Xuanqing. The woman had shoulder-length silver curly hair that was loosely draped down and spread out at the collar of her hospital gown, exuding a unique allure.

Shafuri smiled, the haggard look that came with being a patient made her less flamboyant than before. On the contrary, anyone who saw her now would not associate her with words like "torture".

The screen in the lobby displayed the time of this small world called the Fear Hospital: six o'clock sharp, which was indeed morning.

"Oh my gosh~ There are quite a few handsome guys here, I'm so happy." Shafuri looked at the subtly divided stances and smiled amusedly. Her gaze lingered on Yu Xing and Zhao Yijiu for a moment before she smoothed a strand of hair. "Young gentlemen here, if you want some protection, you can come find me individually~~"

The reason she showed interest in the two of them was that Zhao Mou Ren Yi, as well as Yu Jing Han Zichuan, were already familiar to her. She knew perfectly well whether she could flirt with them or not, and teasing them was not as interesting as teasing newcomers.

As for the Rubik's Cube and the Dark Thief, since they looked alike, the Rubik's Cube could even be described as fat, Shafuri never gave them a second glance.

The siren and the Pearl Seller were both women; the former was her "apprentice," while the latter was not her type.

Yu Xing looked at Shafuri with some surprise. He hadn't expected that after the Midnight Guild had already bought information about his "strange relationship" with Qu Xuanqing from the Research Institute, they would still dare to so blatantly try to steal his partner.

This clearly shows they don't believe the Research Institute's answer.

This woman seems to be someone with her own ideas.

Yu Xing returned a smile to Shafuri, then mentally summarized everyone's roles.

Doctor, Yu Jing, Han Yan, Zhao Mou, Siren.

Nurses: Qu Xuanqing, Ren Yi.

The patient, Zhao Yijiu, Shafuri, the Pearl Seller, the Dark Thief, the Rubik's Cube, and himself.