No One Had Hurt Me

In fact, it's a bit strange to go to the morgue—a place where you can't escape for a while and no one can rescue you—within Fear Hospital by asking someone you don't trust.

This indicates that the person searching for the victim trusts the person they are looking for, is certain that the person is not the perpetrator, or is confident that they can escape from the perpetrator, so they are deliberately testing them.

The corridor was dimly lit, and from one of the windows, one could see the dark surroundings outside the hospital. There wasn't a single star in the sky, only the shadowy silhouettes of distant city buildings, like giant ghostly figures.

Ren Yi stared at Yu Xing's expression and asked calmly, "Why did you come to me?"

Actually, after a little thought, he understood what "luck" meant.

Now it's his perspective, so having him come along is a win-win situation, no matter what Xing wants to do. With him by his side, if they really have to go down to find Qu Xuanqing, he'll be the best witness and can help testify during the identification process.

If... Yu Xing is the perpetrator and needs to kill, then killing him, who is the focus of so many viewers, would undoubtedly raise Yu Xing's star predictor level. He had long felt that after experiencing the Rookie Tournament and the Death Parallel Line, Yu Xing had accumulated enough popularity to leap into star predictor status. This time, as long as Yu Xing can make a big move that makes people remember him, then he will basically be promoted to star predictor without a doubt.

But he still had to ask, to judge Yu Xing was the former or the latter based on Xing's reaction. If it was the former, he wouldn't mind helping out; if it was the latter, he had other things to do and didn't want to waste time being used as a stepping stone for Xing.

"If it were her usual self, I wouldn't be worried, but she has night blindness, making her vulnerable to attacks in the morgue. I looked around and didn't find Zhao Mou or Cold Wine, nor did I see Han Zichuan. You're the closest Righteous Path to me," Yu Xing laughed. "It's always more reliable to ask the Righteous Path for these kinds of things."

As Ren Yi had predicted, Yu Xing's Persona Mask template data had been quietly accumulating. After experiencing Alice's Hell, Death Parallel Line, and Temple Tomb Palace, his points and level had changed to some extent.

This is what he saw when he looked at the data a couple of days ago.

[Persona Mask? Luck]

[Owner: Yu Xing]

[Basic Information: Male, Height 185cm, Weight 65kg, Age???, Sober]

[Identity: Alienation Deducer - Struggling (14123 points remaining)]

[Titles: Terrifying Newcomer (Rare), Story Lover, Stunning Schemer]

[Star Level Prediction: Somewhat Famous (You need a perfect stage! Once you deliver a performance that attracts a huge audience, you will become a true star!)]

[Guild: None]

[Mask Weighting: Calm 12%, Madness 22%, Kindness 8%, Gentleness 7%, Indifference 8%, Evil 8%, Carefree 10%, Laziness 2%, Resilience 6%, Chaos 15%.]

Speaking of the proportion of masks, the recent changes are quite exaggerated. Putting aside everything else, the proportion of casualness has increased from 2% to 10%. This change was completed in the tomb palace deduction. Yu Xing roughly knows it himself. It should be caused by him following his inner desires and jumping into the abyss and seeing the Ghost Tree.

Originally, he really wanted to see the Ghost Tree, so he did it; that's the true expression of being spontaneous.

[Holder's description: This is a disobedient predictor, adept at taking risks, but too sharp and lacking restraint... However, considering your Personality Assimilation Degree, you seem to have already restrained yourself quite a bit. You shouldn't break the rules, yet the rules always seem to surround you; I have my doubts about this.]

The description of the holder has also been completely overturned without anyone realizing it. This time, the system refers to itself as "I" for the first time, revealing its hidden independent self-awareness.

Regarding the statements about rules, Yu Xing was particularly concerned about the phrase "the rules always surround you." On the surface, his only contact with the rules right now is through the binding power of the [Forbidden Chair], so how can it be described as "surrounding" him?

Unless... the immortality and resurrection power he possesses, which is very similar to that of the Ghost Tree, is also a power of rules that the system has long acknowledged. Oh, right, and the power of the Rose Mask as well.

Three forces? Or perhaps there are more that he hasn't yet realized?

[Personality Sacrifice: #**^(Data Error), Sheqing Dreamscape, Forbidden Chair, Rose Mask (Weared 4/6)]

[Tears of the Underworld Candle] and [The Strange Doll] are currently unusable and have been placed in the offering storage area inside the mask by Yu Xing.

[Personality Assimilation Degree: 57% (Personality Assimilation Degree exceeding 20% will negatively impact the deducer's personality. Your Personality Assimilation Degree high; please suppress your evil.)]

Before participating in Alice's Hell 2.0, his alienation level was 52%, and the increase in Alice's Hell was 0. Afterwards, meeting the Lingren in the Death Parallel Line increased it by 2%, Ghost Tree in the Tomb Palace increased it by another 3%, so it is now 57%.

[Deduction Mall: Select to enter (newly opened item shop and offering storage/trading platform)]

[Wish List: 0 entries (No wishes yet)]

[Yugi Direction Selection Market: Select Available]

In summary, if this data is considered a resume, it's an extremely bizarre one, the kind that any company's HR would kick out as someone looking for trouble.

Yu Xing was already used to this. His star prediction level had reached the point of being somewhat famous. The parentheses after it were practically an invitation for him to advance if he could just pull off one more big thing!

As expected, once the Fear Hospital ends, his Star Deducer level will upgrade along with his Deduction level.

But calling on Ren Yi at this time was certainly not to create a stepping stone for him to become a star predictor. It was enough for him to expose Han Yan's true colors and then kill Han Yan. Ren Yi was someone who could be befriended, and there was no need to make enemies.

Ren Yi was not convinced. He keenly seized on the loophole in Yu Xing's words. "Since you know that Qu Xuanqing has night blindness, why did you agree to let her go to the morgue to help you find bodies? Judging from your appearance, you are obviously very free."

"That corpse would probably go berserk if she saw me. I'm just a weak, Struggle Level. If I were ambushed then, I wouldn't even be able to escape. Considering everything, it's better for Qu Xuanqing to go down than for me to go down." Yu Xing said seriously, "This has been considered. However, now that time has passed, I'm afraid someone might actually challenge their limits and try to kill her."

It's the same logic as him potentially killing Ren Yi; if someone could kill Qu Xuanqing, wouldn't that be an instant meteoric rise?

Although Ren Yi learned from Zeng Lai about Yu Xing's formidable Combat Power during the Alice's Hell era and knew that his claim of weakness was nonsense, he still gave it serious consideration.

While Ren Yi was deep in thought, the comments section had already begun urging him on.

[Oh dear, I'm so anxious! Luckily, that person wasn't pushing their limits when they killed Qu Xuanqing; they were in a state of utter despair!]

[Fortunately, he doesn't know this. It's normal for him to think this way, but he doesn't seem too anxious right now. I'm afraid that by the time he drags Ren Yi down, Qu Xuanqing will already be cold.]

Even if Ren Yi is brought along, it probably won't stop the Despair-level. What if that Despair-level player is willing to risk everything for one-for-one, preferring to kill Qu Xuanqing first and then be thrown out?

[Seems like they didn't lose out? But I'm more inclined to believe that only their corpses remained when they went down.]

[Ren Yi might not agree. You see, he's been extremely serious about digging into the details at the start of this round. Maybe he doesn't want to create unnecessary complications?]

[Really]

[Hey, did you guys hear what Yu Xing said? Isn't Han Zichuan on this floor? It seems like Han Zichuan appeared on Ren Yi's screen before, and Han Zichuan even smiled and greeted us. Were they doing a mission?]

That happened several minutes ago; many of the tasks here involve running back and forth between different floors.

[Several minutes ago? Didn't that coincide with the mysterious Despair level in the morgue? Could it be...?]

Zhao Ruru, with her hair casually loose, a lollipop dangling from her mouth, and her eyes narrowed mischievously, was staying in her room at home.

She kept posting comments in the comment section, drawing everyone's attention to "Han Zichuan's" whereabouts.

This was a task assigned to her by Zhao Mou. She didn't know much about it, only that Zhao Mou said he and Yu Xing were going to target Han Zichuan at the Fear Hospital, and that she needed to stir up trouble in the audience area from time to time.

At first, she didn't know why, nor did she know which direction to incite, until she realized that the attack on Qu Xuanqing was of a desperate level, and all the cryptic remarks Zhao Mou had made before suddenly became meaningless.

As an intelligence gatherer, her thinking differed from most deducers. She was all too familiar with conspiracy theories targeting humanity. In her view, Han Zichuan was highly likely to be the one at the Despair level. His ability to control the ghosts in the Fear Hospital was too much like the kind of method that could influence the minds of living beings and the inanimate. How did that seem like something from the Righteous Path?

Although there are many other possibilities, experience allowed Zhao Ruru to quickly eliminate incorrect answers and point directly to the truth: Han Zichuan is a desperate person disguised as an ordinary, Righteous Path!

What good intentions could he possibly have? He's most likely a member of the Lingren Fallen Path, someone from the entertainment industry. That's why Zhao Mou and Yu Xing are targeting Han Zichuan like this.

The grape-flavored lollipop slowly melted in her mouth. Zhao Ruru looked relaxed as she sent one comment after another to steer the conversation, quickly planting seeds of doubt in the minds of some people.

However... there seems to be a subtle difference between her current appearance and that of the woman who was merely a bystander in the Fang Mansion and didn't even grasp the timing of her divination.

After uttering the last word, Zhao Ruru got out of bed, rubbed her temples, and went to the window to gaze outside.

Her expression was inscrutable, and it was impossible to tell what she was thinking. Her eyes were vacant, as if she wasn't looking at the scenery, but at something else that was difficult for others to perceive.

After a long while, she finally looked away, but her expression had turned cold.

"So the Pearl Seller are from over there?" She tilted her head as if she had just heard some information, and a bloodstained copper coin appeared in her hand.

She casually tossed it aside and caught it, then opened her hand to look at it.

The coin is facing up... no, that's not right.

She moved her hand slightly, and a crack spread from the middle of the coin, followed by a "crack" sound.

The copper coin broke into pieces.

"... Quite fierce." She sneered, revealing a surprisingly ruthless and decisive air. She bit into a grape lollipop and muttered, "Has Zhao Mou not noticed over there? It's really worrying... Perhaps Yu Xing has sensed something?"

"It would be great if this Pearl Seller could die in the simulation; otherwise, it'll cause a lot of trouble later."

She muttered something to herself, her gaze falling on the women's baseball cap on the table beside her, her expression softening unconsciously.

"Never mind, it's troublesome, but we'll get it sorted out."

Just then, the doorbell rang in the living room. As if she had expected it, she slipped on her slippers and went to open the door.

Outside the door stood a thin young man wearing half a mask. After meeting her gaze, he said in a muffled voice, "Let me in."

Zhao Ruru raised an eyebrow, turned to the side, and said as Xu Shu entered the room, "Coming at this time, aren't you afraid Medusa will tear you apart if she finds out?"

Yu Xing finally received an affirmative answer from Ren Yi.

"I can go with you to see it, and afterwards you'll have to help me find out the truth about the Fear Hospital," Ren Yi said.

Although not particularly interested in the so-called truth, Yu Xing agreed without hesitation, "Deal."

So the two left the door of the ward where Shafuri was staying and headed towards the elevator.

After the two of them walked away, Shafuri opened the door with a smile, leaned against the door of the ward, and watched their figures disappear.

She murmured, wiping the doorknob of the ward with her finger; her fair skin instantly turned a charcoal black.

"As expected of Ren Yi, the author of 'Blood Pen,' he's completely unaffected even after encountering deadly poison... Heh, how interesting."

"But poison that leaves a trace will never be as potent as my invisible poison. It's a pity that if Ren Yi could push open the door, he would be poisoned by the Puppet Powder, and I could control him to do some more interesting things. Hmm... Fortunately, is it really a coincidence that you called him away at this time?" The live stream was shut down the moment Shafuri left the ward, and no one could hear her words.

The intense interest in her eyes when she mentioned Yu Xing calling Ren Yi away went unseen by anyone.

On the other side, at the elevator entrance, Yu Xing pressed the down button.

The only way to get to the underground morgue is by elevator, and even if you don't want to be haunted by the ghosts in the elevator, you have no other choice.

Ren Yi, with his sharp eyes, noticed the slowly increasing numbers on the elevator screen and asked, "The elevator is stopped in the basement? Has no one else used the elevator since Qu Xuanqing went down?"

"Maybe, who can say for sure?"

Soon, as they were talking, the elevator came to a stop and opened its doors to them.

To everyone's surprise, there was one person inside the door... no, two.

Qu Xuanqing's clothes were stained red with blood, the hem of her clothes was a little short, and a red cloth was loosely tied around her neck, but her exposed skin was fine. It was unclear where the blood came from. As soon as the door opened, she met Yu Xing's gaze.

"Are you alright?" Yu Xing's pupils contracted, and she quickly grabbed her and pulled her out of the elevator.

He had originally planned to go down to find her with Ren Yi, but since she had come up on her own, there was naturally no need to go down.

Ren Yi watched them, observing silently from the side.

"Of course I'm fine, no one hurt me," Qu Xuanqing said with a smile.