Monster Dean

Yu Xing had been wandering around the fourth floor for quite a while, but hadn't gone downstairs to find the so-called dean's secretary.

He roughly knew where the data he needed was—it was with that administrator.

He spent some time in the treatment room and gynecology clinic, which was enough time for Han Yan, who had been trying to minimize his presence, to make many arrangements, including controlling some key ghosts.

After all, given the level of despair, aside from the ghost formed by the hospital director, there are probably almost no ghosts in the hospital that pose a threat to Han Yan himself.

It's highly probable that Han Yan would subdue the Morgue Administrator and then deliberately place him in the records room, where he's likely to return.

Of all the guests, the Han Yan most wanted to kill was someone whose true strength exceeded his revealed strength. Even Qu Xuanqing was one level below Han Yan in terms of raw power, so only this person...

The Lingren would definitely not tell Han Yan the details of his past interactions with the Lingren. He knew that the actor would definitely treat these memories as his private possessions and would not share them with others.

However, simply mentioning his true age to Han Yan, along with hints that Yu Xing is difficult to capture, is enough to make Han Yan more vigilant and prioritize him.

Why didn't Han Yan just come out and kill him?

There's an overlooked issue... that is, all twelve people were recognized as perpetrators by the system.

Perpetrators of violence cannot kill each other.

Otherwise, Han Yan would have taken action against Yu Xing in the dark mode.

In other words, in this Dusk Mode, no one can directly kill, and there are no similar prompts among the perpetrators. At this point, many guests probably still haven't realized how many perpetrators there are in this round.

If they had realized this earlier, like Yu Xing and Han Yan, they could have used the rampaging monsters to set up killing traps in advance, avoiding the awkward situation of needing to eliminate their opponent but being unable to do so.

This restriction can only be lifted when Ren Yi and his Ren Yi fully uncover the truth. Before that, Han Yan will definitely have to cripple some troublesome characters whose backgrounds are uncertain.

Yu Xing, draped in his white bed sheet, moved around unhurriedly like a ghost. The monsters around him still did not show any aggression towards him. Finally, Yu Xing stopped and leaned against the wall.

His dawdling for so long is tantamount to telling Han Yan, "I've seen through your tricks." The fact that Han Yan hasn't changed his strategy can only mean one thing: his delaying tactics are also beneficial to Han Yan.

Under what circumstances would it be advantageous? Of course, it would be when, when the time comes, he encounters something many times more terrifying than the current monster horde, such as... a monstrous dean.

"What are you doing here?"

A violent and insane voice rang out behind Yu Xing, as if confirming her thoughts.

Yu Xing leaned against the wall, but he didn't expect the dean to come from behind. He raised an eyebrow, first nimbly and decisively lunging forward to dodge the attack of a giant scalpel, and then squinting as he turned around.

The dean was no longer wearing his scholarly glasses, nor did he appear as a monstrous, menacing figure, as he had during the previous live broadcasts of the Fear Hospital. Instead, he became something like a shadow.

Its pale form seemed incomplete, but it was twice the size of a human, with glowing red eyes and drops of shadow falling from its body.

Its white coat was stained with a dark, blood-red hue. Half of its body emerged from the wall, the blade in its hand gleaming. The other half of its body was torn apart and stretched into countless strands by black shadows that even the setting sun could not dispel. The moment it appeared, the monsters on the fourth-floor corridor screamed. Whether they were normal or controlled by Han Yan, they all ran uncontrollably into the distance.

"Excuse me, Dean, I'm here to collect my data report on the Doctor's orders." Yu Xing had never seen this monster before, and he wanted to try to communicate with it first.

The Shadow Dean let out a strange laugh, grating and full of mockery. "Which Doctor asked you to? Patients should stay in their own beds. I've told my staff that long ago. And you, I remember you. You were that crazy kid."

The dean could communicate, but the bad news was that not only could it communicate, it was also quite intelligent. "You still made this choice. I thought that after so much treatment, you would have learned to behave better..."

No sooner had he finished speaking than the giant scalpel slashed fiercely at Yu Xing. Normally, a small scalpel could cut through flesh, but now it was so huge that the psychological pressure on him was more than two or three times greater.

Yu Xing felt a sense of oppression from the level of this monster. The moment he made contact, he knew that this monster was much higher in level than him. Perhaps due to Han Yan's addition, the upper limit of the Dean's monster had been adjusted to the Despair level.

Even he couldn't withstand that knife head-on; otherwise, he would surely have been sliced in two.

He dodged to the side, trying to prevent the dean from changing the cut to a sweep. Just as he settled into his new position, a drop of thick blood dripped from the ceiling onto his head, running down his forehead.

Yu Xing looked up distractedly and saw a blood monster with the same face as the dean, but whose entire body was blood red, including its skin. It was lying upside down on the ceiling, its head turned 180 degrees, its blood-red mouth wide open, staring at him.

"Why won't you listen?" The Blood Monster Dean, unarmed, slithered across the ceiling like a gecko, circling once, muttering, "We're doing this for your own good! Didn't I tell you? I'm already researching a medicine that will help you. Why couldn't you wait a little longer?"

Its movements were very free, and the viewers in the live stream immediately recognized it as the monster that had been chasing Ren Yi and his group on the fourth floor!

What's going on? How come there are two deans?

This has never happened before. Is this the price of the truth? That shadow looks more terrifying than the blood-red dean.

The white sheet, which even the monsters couldn't detect, was instantly exposed by the Dean. The Dean is truly amazing; he's definitely not on the same level as the other monsters.

Where are the people who just said Yu Xing lucky? Face the two deans directly, and try saying "lucky" again.

The little girl's voice on the radio said she hoped all the guests wouldn't encounter the dean; thankfully, this is enough trouble.

Can Yu Xing survive this wave? I suspect there are other forms of the Dean, because these two haven't yet reached the level I imagined that would make all monsters fear them.

My personal opinion is that Xing spent so much time wandering aimlessly on the fourth floor just now, perhaps waiting for the dean to arrive?

Has he gone mad? Even with his confidence, he wouldn't be so reckless. Unless he reveals himself to be at the Despair level, no matter how much he hides his strength, I don't think he's strong enough to fight the Dean.

Almost every guest had started a live stream, either dealing with monsters or having already joined up with Ren Yi and following Ren Yi instructions to advance the search for the truth.

So Yu Xing's viewership was already lower than before, but as soon as the dean appeared, a huge wave of viewers rushed in, quickly pushing Yu Xing's live stream camera to the most prominent position.

Live broadcast in progress.

The Blood Monster Dean lost his footing and fell from the ceiling, crawling closer in a twisted manner. Yu Xing glanced back and saw that the shadowy dean from before had disappeared from his spot and quietly poked his body out from the wall behind him.

These two "deans" seem to have something in common; they've even learned to cooperate. One is mainly responsible for concealment and attack, while the other uses its physical presence to force him into the death zone.

"I really want to know, after you make the medicine, will I really be able to get cured?" Yu Xing gripped the Sheqing Dreamscape dagger tightly, and wisps of azure mist emanated from it. Yi Qing did not appear this time, but the azure mist was more volatile than usual, presumably because Yi Qing was manipulating the mist to try to enhance the dagger's attack power.

He smiled, as if he wasn't intimidated by the dean, and instead calmly started a conversation.

"Of course! I'm a top student in pharmacy, and I've been researching and working in this field for so many years!" The Blood Monster Dean laughed heartily, seemingly disdainful of his question. His mouth, unrestrained by skin, was torn inch by inch, almost splitting open the back of his head, utterly deformed. "I've already made the medicine, but it hasn't passed the experiments yet. Would you like to give it a try?"

A large bulge appeared on the back of the Blood Monster Dean, which burst open in an instant, revealing a needle made of flesh and blood wriggling inside, with yellowish-white brain matter swaying faintly visible.

It became even more excited after growing the needle, forcing Yu Xing towards the shadowy dean behind it. The shadowy dean also revealed a sinister smile and raised the scalpel in his hand.

Yu Xing wouldn't allow himself to be surrounded. He couldn't deal with the Shadow Dean for the time being, but he could still deal with the Blood Monster Dean in the corpse. He seized the opportunity and threw the Sheqing Dreamscape, which hit the Blood Monster's head squarely.

The blue mist surged wildly, drilling into his head. The blood monster was temporarily restrained by the pain, howling as it reached out to pull out the dagger.

"It hurts so much! It hurts so much! Why are you resisting treatment? I'm doing this for your own good!"

Don't you want to be healthy?

Yu Xing didn't give it the chance. Dodging the sneak attack from the shadowy dean behind him, he rolled to the blood monster's side, grabbed the disgusting fleshy syringe, and forcefully ripped it off the monster's body. "Get healthy? Your so-called health means letting you slander me and turning me into an obedient walking corpse that meets the expectations of society and your family?"

This tearing was really difficult; the veins on Yu Xing's arm bulged out. He gritted his teeth and tore off the fleshy needle, getting splattered with blood.

Disobedience is considered a disease, fighting back after being beaten is seen as turning into a murderer, and resisting control is considered mental instability... Only those who are obedient, do not resist, and whose personalities have been erased, fit the "curing" concept of this dean and those monstrous Doctor.

He breathed softly, then chuckled, "You were involved in a pharmaceutical project once. You thought the finished product was fine, and given the patients' urgent need, you gave it to the patients before the drug trial feedback was fully completed."

"The outcome, of course, was death caused by the dangerous drug. You were being gossiped about behind your back, which is why you connected this failed drug with the spine... Am I right, Dean?"

"These are all the stupid things he did!" The Shadow Dean, having missed his attack, knew that his "patient" still had the energy to pay attention to his surroundings while facing the blood monster, so he abandoned his concealment and spoke directly, "Hahahaha... He was the one researching the potion back then. After failing, to escape the condemnation of his conscience, he created me! You think I was like this from the beginning? No! I was gradually transformed into this by his excuses and evasions! He's still the clean and honest Dean, and me? I'm just taking the blame for all the filthy monsters he's been made to bear!"

The shadowy dean stretched its upper body toward Yu Xing with all its might, pulling out part of its true lower body. Yu Xing only had time to see a bunch of deformed flesh and an eye appear in the wall before the lower body shrank back into the wall.

The dean, in a frenzy, flung a shadow across his scalpel—a shadow of a figure contorted in agony, clutching its own throat. The shadow writhes and takes shape on the ground before moving toward Yu Xing: "Hahahaha, does he think he'll be alright now? He never considered the consequences! He's losing control more and more. All his sins are being masked by his delusions, accumulating only in places he can't see. He's afraid, he's afraid every single day! Hahahaha... He even wants to hire a Doctor to get rid of me? He doesn't have that ability!"

"He's the one who harmed the Doctor, isn't he? And he says I did it, but everything I did was also done by him. He was afraid of losing me, the vessel to bear his filth, so he regretted it and killed that woman!"

Without a doubt, the two monsters who consistently referred to the former dean as "him" were the terrifying "Doctor friend" in the dean's delusional state.

The accusations against the hospital director are actually unfounded. Mental illness is very complex. The director's delusions were caused by desperation, and he had no mental control over this "Doctor friend." He even believed that the Doctor friend was a capable new colleague...

He is sick.

He's really sick.

The dean's wrongdoings cannot be denied, but he should not be unjustly accused by a monster.

Yu Xing remained unmoved by Dean Shadow's words. He withdrew the Sheqing Dreamscape, shook off the blood on the dagger, and withdrew.

He skillfully retreated to the door of the archives room, kicked the door open, and exposed the Morgue Administrator to the monster-like dean.

"Don't you care about your employees? They all work for you. Those employees who died in the wards are so pitiful, having such an indifferent boss." Yu Xing smiled regretfully at the shadowy dean and the blood monster dean who had come back to life, then pointed to the old ghost with the famous brand Li Dekang.

"Unlike this administrator... he's much smarter. He saw through your true nature long ago and went to work for someone else! He abandoned the dean to work for a patient instead."

This entire statement is like dancing on the dean's minefield.

The dean's bloodshot eyes were fixed on the Morgue Administrator, who was blocked by Yu Xing and unable to escape immediately, as if he were confirming the truth of Yu Xing's words.

Meanwhile, outside...

At the very top of the live streaming section of the simulation system, a prominent recommendation slot is displayed, visible to everyone who enters the section immediately.

The long-buried truth of the Fear Hospital is finally about to be revealed! A desperate, corrupted individual attempts to drag everyone into the abyss. How can a mysterious, mutated individual survive the clutches of the terrifying director?

Recommendation index: Highly recommended!