You're Falsely Accusing Me

What are you talking about?

What kind of underwater dragon palace do I live in???

Siren looked at Yu Xing with a complicated expression. Her first thought was that Xing was joking with her, but no matter how she looked at it, Xing's expression seemed very serious.

So, does my nickname "Siren" necessarily mean I live underwater?

"I didn't, let go." The siren struggled, her blue eyes screaming, "What's wrong with you?"

Yu Xing didn't believe it.

Yu Xing clung to the sea monster with all her might, extremely persistent. "You must have lived here before, I saw you had a fish tail."

"... So you really are that talkative ball of light." A sense of powerlessness washed over the siren, her wrist aching from the grip. "Can you let go first? I think something's wrong with you. Maybe you should check if you're hallucinating..."

"Did it hurt? I'm sorry." Yu Xing seemed to only then realize what had happened, and apologetically released her hand, staring at the red ring around her wrist for a long time before rejecting the siren's suggestion, "I'm not hallucinating, I'm just crazy."

"You're just... huh?" The siren thought it was true; Xing didn't seem to be insane.

But he was very self-aware that he was crazy.

"I see, this is your current symptom." She quickly came up with a logical explanation, "A phase... um... paranoia? Or mental instability?"

"It's similar to a mental breakdown." Yu Xing's tone was as calm as if she were discussing what to have for dinner. "So I'm mentally unstable right now, you'd better be careful."

Siren: "..."

It's acting strangely, but it doesn't seem completely out of control.

It's hard to imagine a mentally ill person telling others that they are mentally ill.

"Alright, as long as you maintain this level, I think I'm safe for now." She didn't expect to have any chemistry with that person whose soul strength was so terrifying after death. Who knows how much the other person's alienation level was? She was only at the Mutation Path, and she probably couldn't keep up with the other person's thinking.

"So you really never lived in the underwater dragon palace?" Yu Xing with a hint of regret, her tone filled with disappointment.

"No." The siren stood by the window, carefully watching the monster's movements outside, while keeping an arm's length distance from Yu Xing, lest Xing go on some strange madness again.

They fell silent for a moment, and Yu Xing's expression kept changing, as if she was thinking about something.

Two minutes later, he suddenly remembered. "Oh right, there's something you don't know."

The monsters outside couldn't hear the baby crying, and with sounds coming from other floors, they had gradually left. The siren relaxed and asked, "What?"

"Han Zichuan is on the Fallen Path, Despair Level. Shafuri has already cooperated with us to avoid being killed by him." Yu Xing shoved aside a daring embryo trying to approach. "You're too young to know this. If you see Han Zichuan this round, run! Otherwise, you're dead."

"Huh?" the siren uttered a single syllable, asking with some doubt, "Is talking nonsense also one of your symptoms?"

"... It shouldn't be." Yu Xing thought about it seriously for several seconds before confirming. "I'm telling the truth. If you don't believe me, recall the comments at the beginning of this game; that should make you believe me a little more."

"Of course, it's okay if you don't believe me. It's just a person dying." Yu Xing sighed. "A sea monster who has never lived in an underwater dragon palace just dies."

"..." The siren was momentarily unsure whether she should be angry or not.

She suppressed the bitterness of being told "you're dead if you die," and recalled that she hadn't been so resolute to begin with, after all, she had missed so many plot points. Moreover, at the beginning of this game, the mode description mentioned things like hidden details and the truth, clearly indicating that someone was digging into the truth about the Fear Hospital, and had succeeded.

If what Xing said is true... she needs to find Shafuri quickly to seek refuge.

If it's not true, she didn't lose anything.

The siren glanced at Yu Xing again. "Are you still crazy?"

"He's still crazy," Yu Xing said.

"... Then can you tell me the truth? Are you really that powerful?" The siren thought. Yu Xing's soul orb could move freely in that darkness, clearly far stronger than hers. If that were true, since Han Zichuan had already been exposed, there was no reason for him to continue pretending to be weak. It should have been revealed by now, right?

Let's test the waters first.

"Aren't you going to find Shafuri?" Yu Xing didn't answer her question, but blinked. "You and I might be going in different directions. I can't escort you to Shafuri. I'm going to the archives."

"If you're strong enough, I'd be happy to go to the archives with you." The siren didn't know Yu Xing was willing. It seemed that even in her abnormal state, Xing's thinking was still very fast. The next sentence after her previous question was "Can I go with you to save my life first?" Unexpectedly, Xing rejected her in advance.

"No, you'll be more likely to die if you stay with me. You'd be better off hiding. You can go find Qu Xuanqing and the others; that's better than following me." Yu Xing picked up the dagger again, startling the sea monster into instantly becoming alert.

Seeing that the monsters outside had retreated far enough, Yu Xing happily prepared to leave. "I'm going."

"Okay..." the siren murmured.

The next second, Yu Xing casually pushed open the door, looked around, and as if she had been spotted by a monster on her left, she turned around and ran to the right, thoughtfully closing the door behind her.

A figure like Yu Xing flashed past the window, and two seconds later, the headless nurse caught up with the clatter of high heels. She was very fast and passed by the window.

It seemed to move its neck, the muscles changing in a way that would only happen with a turn of the head. The siren quickly crouched down, concealing itself completely.

As expected, the sound of the headless nurse's high heels stopped abruptly, paused for a moment, and then disappeared into the distance.

"Phew... What on earth is all this?" The siren squatted down, pressed her temples, and sorted out what had happened in the past few minutes.

She almost lost her life because she misjudged the difficulty of the Twilight mission and made the wrong choice. After being rescued by Sachi, Sachi said that it was too late and then suddenly fell into a strange and abnormal state, showing great concern for her previous living conditions.

After that, Sachi refused her request to cling to her leg, and the monster retreated to a temporarily safe distance. Sachi then ran out, followed by a headless nurse.

"It's so mesmerizing," the siren thought. "Maybe she's the one hallucinating."

Leaving the gynecology clinic far behind, Yu Xing was still wondering to herself, if a sea monster with a half-fish, half-snake tail didn't live in an underwater palace, where would it live? Would it just lie flat on the rocks and wait to dry in the sun? Or would it, like this sea monster, hide among the people?

The headless nurse chased after him, the sound of her high heels drawing the ghost's attention in the corridor. Yu Xing ran towards the stairwell, and as soon as she stepped onto the first step, a round head bouncing like a ball appeared in front of Yu Xing.

It was the head of a middle-aged woman, her hair disheveled, with knife cuts on her face.

Yu Xing was annoyed by the nurse's voice when he saw it. His eyes lit up, and he reached out and grabbed the head.

The head's mouth split open, letting out a shrill laugh, "Accompany..."

Before she could even finish speaking, Yu Xing shoved the needle into the hands of the nurse who was chasing after her with a large syringe.

"Aren't you missing a head? Here, have one. Stop chasing me, let's find a place to meet." Yu Xing kindly comforted the nurse, feeling she had done a great deed, and then said to the wide-eyed head, "You're missing a body, she's missing a head, you two are a perfect match."

The nurse held the head in her arms blankly. Although it wasn't its own head, it was still somewhat dazed after hearing Yu Xing's words.

That seems to make sense.

[Your title, "Stunning Schemer," has come into play, increasing your success rate in deception.]

[You are trying to fool the headless nurse]

[Behavioral assessment indicates successful deception]

[You are trying to coax a person whose head has been severed by a knife]

[Behavioral judgment failed to deceive]

[The enemy is very unhappy with you; it won't let you off the hook!]

The head opened its gaping maw in fury, its entire shape seemingly deformed. Yu Xing muttered, "When did I lie to them? Wasn't I telling the truth?"

The severed head was about to bite Yu Xing's neck.

Just then, the headless nurse moved her arms and placed the human head on her severed neck.

The human head bit into empty air, realizing that it had been used as the headless nurse's head. Enraged, it bit through the blood vessel protruding from the nurse's neck before being completely fixed to the headless nurse by a mysterious force.

This angered the nurse, who then stuck a needle into the person's head.

Yu Xing to see that the two ghosts were getting along so well so quickly, and quietly slipped away.

He walked up the stairs, licking his dry lips.

Until he got off the electric chair, although his body was constantly changing from the character's physique to his own, his thirst was never relieved.

The fourth floor was quiet; no one knew where the ghosts and monsters had hidden. Yu Xing raised her arm and bit her forearm hard, tasting the blood.

After swallowing the blood to moisten his throat, Yu Xing wiped the red stains from the corner of his mouth with satisfaction and walked towards the archives.

For some reason, the fourth floor seemed very quiet. Apart from himself walking down the corridor without any attempt to hide it, he didn't see any guests or monsters.

Only the viewers in the live chat knew what had happened.

[What good luck! The dean just chased Yu Jing and Ren Yi down another staircase, and the other monsters were hiding in their rooms, too scared to come out. Now that he's up here, it's like he's in an empty place.]

[The Realm Without Ghosts]

[Why is it "luck"? Because it means fortunate. How else would I have survived to this day?]

[Can you bunch of trash stop at attributing other people's abilities to luck? You were watching the live stream on the fourth floor and didn't even see Yu Xing help the Siren in the gynecology clinic. His reasoning was just too good!]

[Don't argue with those people, you might not see them in the next live stream. We should be kinder to kids who could die at any moment~]

The dean had just gone after someone, and even the monster on the fourth floor hid itself in its room to avoid him.

Yu Xing did indeed benefit from the dean's influence; he encountered no obstacles and arrived at the door of the archives room without any problems.

The door was closed, with a loose lock hanging on it. He took the lock off, paused for a moment, and then knocked on the door.

From the perspective of the audience who had just moved to the newly opened live stream room in the archives, he could have easily sneaked in, but instead, he insisted on knocking on the door to warn the monster inside.

Is this person crazy?!

The moment Yu Xing lowered his hand, the ten-minute insane time limit had just expired. He paused for a moment to process what he had been doing, and then... he felt he had controlled himself quite well!

They didn't do anything out of line.

He heard a muffled reply from behind the door of the archives room, "Come in."

The voice was ethereal and indistinct, neither male nor female, but it certainly didn't sound human.

Yu Xing pushed open the door. Because of rows of bookshelves blocking the light from the setting sun, the archives were half-lit and half-dark.

In a dark corner, a counter had appeared out of nowhere, and an old man with his head down sat behind it, facing the door. Yu Xing could only see the top of the old man's head.

The reason Yu Xing's first reaction was that the person was an old man was because, even before getting close, she could feel a strong aura of old age emanating from him. The sense of impending death was so intense that it was as if life had come to an end, like a candle flickering in the wind, on the verge of collapse.

This was a person who had not been mentioned in the morning or at night. The old man slowly raised his head, and a cracking sound came from his neck as if his bones were breaking. Gradually, the old man looked straight at Yu Xing. After reaching a certain critical point, his neck suddenly tilted back, forming a hanging death posture.

The bloodshot in the old man's eyes materialized and flowed from the edge of his eye sockets, thick and eerie.

Yu Xing flexed her wrists, then instead of backing away, she moved closer, seemingly oblivious to how intimidating the old man was, and asked curiously, "Hello, are you the administrator of the archives?"

"I am... the administrator." The old man spoke indistinctly, his bulging eyes staring wide-eyed. "What... do you do?"

"I'm a patient, sir," Yu Xing said, showing his hospital gown. "I'm here to find my records. Since you're the administrator, could you tell me where the files are?"

"You mean... you're one of the people here." The old man spoke strangely, his hand trembling as he reached out to grab Yu Xing's clothes.

"No, I'm not from here. I just have something here." Yu Xing sized up the old man. He smelled a strong aura of death and immediately understood. "Oh, you're not the records room administrator. You're the Morgue Administrator, right?"

He stepped back, avoiding the old man's hand, and hissed in fear, "Luckily I reacted quickly. If I had gone along with you and said I was from here, wouldn't that have been agreeing to be your corpse? What a close call!"

"What are you doing here? Aren't you supposed to be working in the morgue? I'll tell the director you're neglecting your duties."

The elderly man, who hadn't had time to do anything. "..."

It slammed its hand on the table and stood up angrily, its finger pointing at Yu Xing trembling slightly. "You... you're slandering me..."