No One Would Know
The office light bulb shattered with a bang, plunging the room into darkness. The light from the corridor barely reached the doorway before disappearing completely.
The Female Ghost seemed to want to cause more trouble. A woman's phantom appeared, disheveled, with wide-open eyes crisscrossed by blood vessels. Her clothes were in disarray, and a fruit knife was stuck in her chest.
The Female Ghost, blood streaming from her mouth and with her fingers excessively long, lunged at Yu Xing.
The black mist dissipated from the corner of Yu Xing's eyes, and the next moment, a gleaming dagger appeared in his hand. The dagger was covered in a faint blue mist, which mixed with the black mist that appeared and disappeared on Yu Xing's body. A figure in blue leaped to the doorway, his wide clothes billowing without wind, blocking the door completely.
It also separates light from darkness; from the outside, nothing seems amiss, but inside, it's eerily quiet, filled with resentment.
The Rubik's Cube, who was also on the third floor, was stunned for a moment. He seemed to have sensed a very powerful ghostly aura just now and was about to go and take a look from a distance, but the ghostly aura disappeared completely in an instant.
Did someone encounter ghosts and start fighting?
Or did the perpetrator, intending to kill, encounter a tough opponent who was taking the game seriously?
He looked at the syringe in his hand, thought for a moment, and chose to protect himself.
Let's just pretend we didn't notice it.
When Yi Qing appeared and used the green mist to isolate the Chief of Surgery Office from the outside world, the Female Ghost finally panicked. Her forward-rushing figure paused, her fingers touched Yu Xing's dagger, and she was immediately stabbed, letting out a mournful cry and retreating several meters.
Yu Xing watched her from the darkness, a dagger flashing coldly. Yi Qing stood calmly at the door, admiring Yu Xing's unusually cold demeanor.
Yi Qing's abilities were almost completely restricted during this live stream; because it involved a murder mystery Yugi, Yi Qing was not even allowed to speak.
However, Yi Qing remained in a great mood, showing no signs of unhappiness. The jingling of his crystal ornaments clearly indicated his presence.
If the Female Ghost wasn't afraid of Yu Xing because she was used to bothering Doctor, then the moment Yi Qing's aura, which belonged to the Sheqing Ghost, appeared, the Female Ghost knew that she was likely in trouble this time.
Taking advantage of the moment when the Female Ghost paused out of fear, the blade of the cyan dagger, almost ethereal, mercilessly tore through the Female Ghost's "skin." The Female Ghost screamed and vanished like smoke.
The resentment in the office immediately dissipated. Yu Xing raised an eyebrow. "She hasn't truly disappeared. It seems that the Female Ghost's corpse is probably still in the hospital."
As long as the body remains, Yu Xing cannot be considered to have eliminated it.
"..." Yi Qing couldn't make a sound, he could only fan himself with his fan and put away the clothes blocking the door. From Yu Xing's perspective, he looked as if he had emerged from a large door of different shades of blue, and had the air of a ghost within a door.
As Yiqing left through the middle of the door, the lights in the corridor poured in like water being released from a dam, and the room was no longer as dark as it had been at the beginning.
Yi Qing's expression was gentle and refined as she pointed behind the door.
Yu Xing looked out over Yi Qingchao and almost burst out laughing.
He saw an elderly man with blackened lips, clearly dead, standing outside the door. But "standing" wasn't quite accurate, because the man was barefoot, his toes a few centimeters off the ground.
The man initially seemed to want to come in and cause trouble for Yu Xing, but his timing was off; he arrived just in time to see Yi Qing blocking the door and the Female Ghost screaming, and suddenly he didn't know whether he should go in or not.
When Yu Xing saw this, the male male ghost was unusually at a loss. He stood there stunned for a long time before managing to continue his lines: "Why... why didn't you save... me..."
Upon hearing the voice, Yu Xing became even more certain that this was the carbon monoxide poisoning patient who had come from the nurses' station.
He took a few steps toward the male ghost was too afraid to enter the office, smiled kindly, and explained logically, "Because you didn't give me your address."
Male ghost: "..."
His face was ashen, and when Yu Xing could smell a faint odor of gas.
Yu Xing added, "Also, I'm a Doctor; you should register with the neurology department."
Oh, this.
That makes a lot of sense.
The male ghost thought for a moment. Actually, according to the procedure, he shouldn't listen to anything and should stick to the Doctor and cause as much trouble as possible.
However, upon seeing the large ghost in blue robes beside him, the male ghost hesitated.
Are they looking for trouble, or are they courting death?
Maybe we should just forget about it.
The male ghost muttered incoherently, "Neurology... Neurology..." and then went to another location.
Yi Qing nodded, as if to say, "You're quite sensible."
Yu Xing took one last look at his desk. His first task was complete; it was time to go and eliminate the person.
He walked to the glass cabinet, opened the door with the key, and sorted out the various colored gauze, external and internal medicines, and scalpels in the small sterilization box. He then took out a No. 10 blade scalpel, which has a large blade and is often used for cutting skin.
There are no restrictions on the guests' abilities in this live stream, so using their own weapons is perfectly fine, but it will expose a lot of information because of the weapons.
Therefore, most people would find whatever they could find on the spot in the Fear Hospital to hide themselves.
Yu Xing tucked the scalpel into his belt, which would be concealed when he pulled down his white coat. He didn't know where Han Yan was now; perhaps he had already killed someone, or perhaps he hadn't. He only knew that if he wanted to divert attention and prevent suspicion from falling on him, he had two good options.
One method is to kill someone you know well. If he kills Zhao Mou Brother Jiu Qu Xuanqing, then basically no one will suspect him in the first round, just like how Shafuri let the Dark Thief kill the siren in the morning mode.
Another option is to kill the strong. Unfortunately, Qu Xuanqing is on the list again. People like Qu Xuanqing, Shafuri, Ren Yi Yu Jing, etc., are much more difficult to kill in night mode than in daytime mode. Aren't they all capable of fighting back?
Even if the rules prevent them from posing a life-threatening threat to the perpetrators, if they fail to kill them and are discovered, they will undoubtedly die in the next round of identification.
Therefore, those who are not strong enough rarely dare to offend ghosts before receiving their help.
Yu Xing would naturally not attack Zhao Yijiu and the others unless absolutely necessary.
Therefore, it was only natural for him to set his sights on Shafuri.
This woman is definitely going all out to deal with Qu Xuanqing. Her poison is quite troublesome for Qu Xuanqing, who is better at dealing with ghosts that attack head-on, whether they are spirits or physical beings. However, Qu Xuanqing often finds non-contact methods annoying.
Just in time, Yu Xing felt that if he dealt with Shafuri as soon as possible, he could save Qu Xuanqing from getting hurt.
Having just slain the Female Ghost, Yu Xing stepped out of the office in a good mood. Taking advantage of the fact that no one was around, she patted the hilt of her dagger. "Come on, little mute, you're back."
Yi Qing raised an eyebrow, gave Yu Xing a kind smile, turned into green smoke and melted into the dagger, and was then absorbed into the Persona Mask by Yu Xing.
Before going in, Yu Xing felt a slap on the back of her head from the handle of a fan.
... Fine, you Sheqing Ghost? How stingy.
After he came out, he shifted his position slightly and glanced at the other side.
It's worth mentioning that, unlike the relatively enclosed environment on the second floor, people on the third and fourth floors can see each other from the corridor if they stand at the right angle.
The Fear Hospital is a rectangular building with a rectangular void in the very center. From the inside, this void is not visible on the first and second floors; the lobby on the first floor and the internal machinery on the second floor fill the void. The third and fourth floors are much emptier. One part of the building is a corridor with rooms on both sides; another part is a corridor with rooms on one side and a void on the other, where one can see the view in the middle from behind a tiled wall that is only waist-high to an adult.
On the rooftop of the second floor, which is surrounded by the main corridor of the third floor, there is a small plaza-like flat area where several tall flower pots are arranged in interesting patterns. It is said that many patients who are depressed will gaze at these flowers to relax.
The corridor leading to the director's office is enclosed, while the other side is blocked by a wall. After walking about ten meters, you will reach the archives room on the third floor. The wall here is only half a person's height, and you can see the situation on the third and fourth floors opposite, which are also unenclosed.
The archives room on the third floor also has cameras, but the cameras are inside. As long as the door isn't opened, the cameras won't be seen, and the ghosts inside won't come out on their own.
Yu Xing stood there for a while, trying to see if anyone was moving around in the corridor across from her.
Suddenly, the alarm went off.
It seems that someone discovered the body after Han Yan committed the murder.
The third and fourth floors are more likely to hear noises, but since there's no sound at all, the body is most likely on the first or second floor.
He immediately left the area that could be observed from the other side and ran towards the stairs. He didn't realize that killing one less person would put his identity as the perpetrator at a disadvantage. As for the current situation, it was not bad. He didn't need to kill acquaintances or powerful people.
He quickly reached the stairwell, where someone had just run down, leaving Yu Xing with a glimpse of their clothes. Yu Xing smiled and, without caring whether there were people behind her or upstairs, quickly chased after them.
The alarm blared intermittently, interspersed with a few eerie laughs from little girls. Gradually, the alarm began to change tone, from urgent and high-pitched to low and mournful, especially reminiscent of the unbearable, tooth-grinding melody of a power outage.
Yu Xing caught up with the person running ahead on the second floor. He glanced at her vaguely and saw that she was Pearl Seller dressed as a nurse. The Pearl Seller also saw him, but turned her head away unfriendly, as if she didn't even want to look at him.
This was exactly the effect Yu Xing wanted.
Presumably, due to the alarm, the Pearl Seller were less wary, and since they met by chance while running, it only proves that they were closer to the stairs on this side when they heard the alarm. Luckily, they are tall and have long legs, so it's not surprising that they were able to catch up from behind, is it?
Moreover, it wasn't just Xing who was coming from upstairs; there were many more undisguised footsteps following behind.
With this subconscious thought, the Pearl Seller contracted and he realized something was wrong when a warm body pressed against him from behind.
Before she could scream, a hand with distinct knuckles covered her mouth, preventing her from making any sound. Without hesitation, a scalpel was plunged diagonally downwards into her temple, destroying the middle cerebral artery. The Pearl Seller didn't even have time to resist, and the blow was fatal.
Fortunately, the Pearl Seller was swapped out by the system the instant he died; otherwise, being killed like that would have left him with considerable psychological trauma, and his alienation level would have increased by two or three points.
Yu Xing did not stop. He had acted very quickly, and blood was only now slowly flowing from between the knife and the flesh. The moment he let go and let the body fall to the ground, he shouted "Holy shit!" and stopped in place.
Almost at the same time the body lay flat, the person who came down the stairs behind also arrived. The Rubik's Cube almost bumped into Yu Xing, who was standing still. Just as it was about to ask, "What's wrong?", it saw the body on the stairs.
"This..." Rubik's Cube pushed up his glasses. He had also heard Yu Xing's surprised "Holy crap!" and he had actually seen Yu Xing running ahead of him. However, due to his size, even though he was running, he was getting further and further away from Yu Xing.
At this moment, the logic-conscious Rubik's Cube instinctively thought that Yu Xing had discovered the body when she ran here, and because she hadn't expected it, she exclaimed "Holy crap!" in surprise.
Yu Xing turned her head and saw him. She wasn't cold or enthusiastic; in fact, she seemed slightly embarrassed by her outburst. Then, the Rubik's Cube saw Yu Xing make way for him and say, "The one who died was the Pearl Seller. Look, her wounds seem to have appeared recently."
The Rubik's Cube was a little shy. He nodded Yu Xing before carefully observing the Pearl Seller through the thick lenses of his glasses.
Yu Xing was right. The Pearl Seller's fatal wound was in her temple. Judging from the blood, she must have just died. If the body that triggered the alarm was her... then either the person who triggered the alarm was the murderer, otherwise it's impossible for that person to leave the scene so quickly after she just died.
Either the alarm was triggered by another body, or the Pearl Seller was probably killed by someone on the second floor in the chaos!
This is what Rubik's Cube was thinking. Although there are many details to analyze when you delve into this idea, his first reaction was already very quick. The main reason is that Rubik's Cube was too close to Yu Xing just now, only half a flight of stairs away. He simply couldn't believe that Yu Xing would risk killing someone after hearing his mountain-like footsteps, because death takes time. Even stabbing the heart will give you some reaction time, unless the method of killing is too swift and knows how to find those pressure points on the head that cause immediate death.
"Let's go first. Once we're down there, we'll know if she set off the alarm." Rubik's Cube was still a novice; there was a big difference between data analysis and understanding people's hearts. He himself didn't realize it. When he spoke again, he naturally used the word "we" to Yu Xing, a word that greatly showed trust.
"Okay, let's go down." Time was short, so Yu Xing bypassed the Pearl Seller's corpse, revealing an expression similar to Rubik's Cube's, and went to the lobby on the first floor.
Nobody knows what he just did.