Escape from the Hospital

If this fetishist wants to steal, then let her steal.

Yu Xing looked as if she had suddenly realized her hands were empty, and a flash of anger appeared on her face, as if to say, "You dare to steal my things at a time like this?"

He immediately said, "Give it back to me!"

The female fetishist maintained her gentle, weak expression, gripping the hilt of the dagger tightly. She drew out her words, sounding rather aggrieved. "You see, I really am sick... Why don't you just give it to me? To you, it's just a weapon; you can always buy another one. But to me, it's my life..."

This shameless and morally manipulative argument made Yu Xing sneer inwardly. A faint blue mist began to emanate from the dagger, spreading throughout the room.

In a sense, the Sheqing Dreamscape was indeed her destiny.

It will kill her.

The next instant, without Yu Xing needing to interrogate him about the password, the green mist suddenly solidified into smoke, enveloping the fetishist who had no time to react. The latter let out a painful howl, threw away the dagger as if it were burning his hand, and got up from the ground on his own, a wooden cane that had appeared in his hand at some point.

With the help of her cane, she limped quickly towards the corner of the room, berating Yu Xing as she slowly picked up the dagger. "Is this how you treat a patient? You want me dead, don't you? This is murder!"

Yu Xing clicked her tongue twice. "You still have the nerve to mention murder? You're quite legally conscious. Well, you stole so many things, or rather, with that tone of yours threatening to kill someone if they wanted their things back, wouldn't that be considered intimidation?"

"Theft plus intimidation, how about this: you go to the police station and turn yourself in, serve your full sentence, and then I'll consider buying you a dagger to play with."

The woman's already vibrant red lips became even redder, like drops of blood. Her eye, not hidden by her hair, was filled with a sinister and resentful glint. She ignored Yu Xing's words, only repeating her own argument. "You're trying to kill me! I'm in so much pain... Why did you take my things away!"

[Damn, I'm angry. What do you mean by "her stuff"?]

[The immersion is so strong, I'm already sick of it.]

[Surely this kind of person wouldn't have been this disgusting before they died, right? Did they become a ghost and turn into this?]

[Upstairs, you know what, there are people like this in real life. They start trouble first, then when they realize they can't win, they slander others, and finally say that others bullied them. Ugh.]

Such a Female Ghost, possessing only a clear mind yet more repulsive than a terrifying monster, is truly rare. Immediately, the comments section erupted in condemnation of the Female Ghost, hoping to resolve her issue quickly and prevent her from polluting their ears and eyes again.

Although Yu Xing couldn't see the comments, he still intended to do just that: lure the Female Ghost out and use her habit of stealing other people's cherished possessions to make her steal the Sheqing Dreamscape. In this way, Yi Qing's Azure Mist, which had been weakened and restricted by the system, could injure the Female Ghost holding the dagger at the moment of its eruption.

He lured the Female Ghost not to get the password, but to kill Female Ghost accurately so that he wouldn't be ambushed by the ghost halfway through cutting the lock.

After picking up the Sheqing Dreamscape that had fallen to the ground, Yu Xing felt the whole room shaking. The walls began to twist, and bluish-black arms stretched out from the walls, groping and grabbing at the air like blind people. Some of the arms stretched out too far and almost touched Yu Xing's clothes.

Looking at these "thief's ghostly hands," Female Ghost Yu Xing felt a surge of confidence emboldened by their presence. She smiled sinisterly, "Give it back to me!"

"You're so young and already learning bad habits." Yu Xing replied indifferently, his voice already very cold. He suddenly moved, and the speed of his sudden movement was so fast that most people in the live broadcast room didn't even see it. They saw a wisp of green smoke trailing at the end of the Sheqing Dreamscape, and it had an intimate ending with the Female Ghost protected by the ghost hand.

The blade of the Sheqing Dreamscape through the Female Ghost's neck, makes intimate contact.

Almost without any resistance, the ghostly hands suddenly froze on the wall as if a freeze button had been pressed. The Female Ghost's eyes, filled with shock, confusion, and fear that had not yet dissipated, became her final remains as her head fell to the ground.

The next second, the ghostly hands shattered like bubbles, vanishing without a trace before hitting the ground, and the room returned to silence.

Yu Xing's expression remained calm, seemingly unaware of how many people remembered his speed when he became serious, and how many people remembered him when he instantly killed a ghost that wasn't weak in the Fear Hospital.

Once the room was completely quiet, Yu Xing slowly walked to the glass cabinet, and with a few more forceful blows, cut the lock off. Now that the obstacle was gone, the mission finally became much easier.

Yu Xing opened the glass cabinet door, took out the reporter's ID, and then looked at the name inside the card.

Yes, just as Ren Yi described in the information, this is indeed the person.

He returned to the corridor, found Shafuri and the Siren, and told them what had happened.

The three of them returned together to the ward covered in bloody handprints. The ghost in the ward was still completely invisible and intangible, and the air in the room was terrifyingly cold, reflecting the ghost's increasingly unhappy mood.

The door was pushed open, Yu Xing noticed the fleeting phantom in the sky this time, but it was only for a moment, more like his psychic abilities were at work.

"Don't be so quick to get angry." Yu Xing said to the air in front of her with great foresight, then took out her reporter's ID and held it out. "This should be what you wanted, right?"

At that moment, all three people present heard a hoarse gasp in their ears. The certificate in Yu Xing's hand was snatched away by a gust of wind, danced in the air for a moment, and then disappeared like the ghostly reporter.

"Thank you..." Yu Xing heard a voice enter his ears, as if it were whispering in his ear.

Contrary to his expectations, he had assumed the reporter ghost would appear after obtaining the reporter's ID. However, it turned out the reporter ghost didn't refuse to appear; it simply couldn't let the living see it.

"I... am not... recognized by the dean, so... you can't... see me here." The reporter ghost continued to speak in Yu Xing's ear. After listening for a while, Yu Xing raised an eyebrow.

It's because the reporter, being an outsider, is neither a real patient nor Doctor or nurse. A normal hospital director wouldn't want a healthy person to be tortured to death, and a hypothetical, monster-like director wouldn't want a reporter to investigate the truth. Therefore, in Fear Hospital based on the director, the reporter doesn't appear to be a reporter.

Yu Xing's heart stirred.

He gestured for silence to Shafuri and Siren, who were huddled together whispering and hadn't heard a thing, then asked softly, "Now that you have reporter's ID, can you leave this hospital?"

"That's right... With this evidence, the dean can no longer deceive himself. As long as he admits I don't belong here, I can leave." The unseen reporter ghost spoke with increasing fluency, and by the latter half of its sentence, the awkwardness had completely disappeared. It seemed to have regained the confidence and rationality it had when it was a reporter, and sincerely thanked Yu Xing, "Thank you, thank you so much. I'll be going now. I must report on the situation here so that the public knows about these things!"

Even if it's just a reflection of the dean's inner thoughts that he's unwilling to acknowledge, it's still in the dean's mind.

However, it still retains a sense of justice, which is probably why the dean dislikes it.

"Good luck." Hearing the reporter ghost's words, Yu Xing had a vague premonition that something different would appear as the reporter ghost's identity was revealed.

His third mission was to escape the Fear Hospital!

Neither the normal identification process nor the potential indiscriminate killings that might occur after the truth is found does mention the option of directly leaving the Fear Hospital, because this hypothetical world only covers the Fear Hospital building, including the building itself, the garden, and the railings and walls.

No matter how real the bustling traffic outside may seem, it's nothing but a mirage; it doesn't exist.

Therefore, he didn't actually have any way to complete this task before, so he was waiting for the rules to change and provide an opportunity to adapt to the task.

Now, it seems that an opportunity has arisen.

The siren watched as Yu Xing chatted with the ghost on the phone for a while, and it seemed that they were having a good conversation. She rubbed her hands together with some anticipation.

That's amazing! Because he solved the reporter's ID problem by himself, the ghost only acknowledges him and even communicates with him alone. Just thinking about it is thrilling. In all the deductions, the special treatment given to the ghost almost always means a [sacrifice] or [prop].

The Absurd Deduction system always encourages deducers to explore and does not want them to be perfunctory, cowardly, or lazy. Therefore, the closer one gets to the ghosts, the greater the danger, and the easier it is to obtain clues about the sacrifices.

The resulting offering will have a very high compatibility with the person's mask, and is very likely to receive a "very strong" rating from the system, which is incomparable to the ability obtained by fusing offerings purchased from the offering trading center.

She wants to get one too.

When will she be able to break free from Shafuri's protection and surveillance, stand on her own like Yu Xing, and create a suitable sacrificial offering for herself?

The siren glanced at Yu Xing with a hint of envy, and sure enough, she noticed that Yu Xing had something in her hand.

It appears to be a red fragment.

Yu Xing also glanced down; in his hand was [Collection: Fragment of reporter's ID], which the reporter ghost had left him just a second before when he left.

The description of the fragments states that five fragments are scattered throughout the Fear Hospital. Due to various Karma, the fragments will eventually converge around him. However, what kind of danger the fragments bring, and whether he can obtain them, depends on luck and strength.

If you collect them all, you will get the [reporter's ID (Complete)], which will allow you to escape the Fear Hospital and complete Mission Three. After the simulation ends, the reporter's ID will also become a sacrifice that is highly compatible with Yu Xing.

Of course, if the original offerings have already reached the maximum number of six for the Struggle Level, and you don't want to give up any of them, you can also give up the offerings created by fusing the reporter's ID.

This is a benefit that is obvious to the naked eye, but clearly, there's no such thing as good luck in an absurd Yugi. Why is it that when Yu Xing receives the mission, he is destined to start collecting reporter's ID passes and then obtain a powerful sacrifice?

Everything has a price.

The price is that if Yu Xing fails to collect all five fragments by the end of the Yugi, all the remaining ghosts in the Fear Hospital will see him as a traitor from the outside and relentlessly attack him. Furthermore, because he is "exhausted, restless, and unable to resist due to his incomplete reporter's ID," he will be stripped of all ability to fight back and will be besieged by the ghosts until he dies, thus confirming the ending of failing Mission Three: "You will die."

Yu Xing knew that the others must also have their own special missions. Perhaps each person's third mission was to activate a special rule tailored to them, and perhaps he wasn't the only one who had received the mission to escape the terrifying hospital.

While his third mission was largely due to his character being a bound madman who needed to escape (siren-like characters returning to find their children would almost never have an escape mission), who knows if other characters might share a similar fate?

In that case, the only way to escape the hospital is through reporter's ID.

He shook his head, realizing he was overthinking things; it wasn't a very important matter.

Having solved the task Ren Yi had given them and obtained clues to complete mission three, Yu Xing in a good mood. He smiled and glanced at the siren who was secretly observing him, and at Shafuri, who had a teasing look on her face that said, "It's great to enjoy all the benefits without us, isn't it?" He announced, "Alright, we can go back to the first floor and hand over the clues to Ren Yi for him to record."

"Heh... it's truly enviable. The little brother's skill and luck are both astonishing." Shafuri covered her lips, giving Yu Xing a flirtatious wink. "Really not planning to come late at night? Qu Xuanqing will listen to you anyway; you could have brought her along."

"Doesn't your Midnight Guild have a conflict with Qu Xuanqing?" Yu Xing turned around and looked down into the corridor. Several ghosts that had been wandering from other floors were approaching, so he closed the door again.

"Eh~" Shafuri deliberately pronounced the word with a lot of emphasis, fully expressing her disagreement. "Look at what you're saying. Conflicts are minor matters. The worst harm we did to Qu Xuanqing was burning her hair, wasn't it? If she really joins Midnight, with such a powerful and promising beauty joining us, who will remember any conflicts?"

Shafuri winked, her words suggestive. "Conflicts are always based on differing interests. If her interests align with ours, the conflict will naturally disappear. You've probably heard about Xu Shu and me; we don't get along. But if danger comes our way, he and I are comrades-in-arms, and we'll definitely help each other."

"You see, having a powerful force to rely on is essential in absurdity. So why can't it be our midnight hours?"