Run!

Not only had Xu Yi seen the monsters outside, but the monsters that had been crouching outside had also realized that the patients inside had noticed them!

"Bang—"

It was the sound of an Iron Rod smashing against the door. The force shook loose a layer of dust from the cracks before the door began clanging loudly.

When they saw that the people inside would not come out, they actually intended to force their way in!

Xu Yi took a deep breath and forcibly suppressed the fear from having come face-to-face with them. "They're the two 'nurses' who carried the stretcher earlier! They actually came back!"

When the monsters failed to smash the door open in one blow, they were instantly enraged and struck with even greater force. Several inward dents had already been hammered into the once-sturdy iron door.

"No, these two monsters are E-class Ghosts. We can't fight them head-on. We need to find a way out." Xu Yi went to the window. To prevent patients from jumping to their deaths, even the windows were made of blastproof glass.

"Mr. Bo, I can use a low-tier item to smash the window and then jump down." Xu Yi's voice was calm as she considered the best solution.

It was not a bad idea, but Bo Shuo could not do that. If he simply ran away, how was he supposed to maintain his Big Shot persona?

So he could not run. He could only resolve this another way.

Bo Shuo spoke with 007 in his mind. "How many Emotion Points will it take to resolve this crisis?"

Knowing that the situation was dire, 007 quickly checked. "Three thousand Emotion Points can rapidly raise you to D-class strength for ten minutes—"

"Enough."

Bo Shuo first increased 007's brightness, lest he lose his appetite after facing the disgusting monsters head-on.

Gu Baiyu was not idle either. He hurriedly went to move the nearby equipment, intending to use it to block the door and delay the monsters' entry.

Just as he stuck out his butt and prepared to move the equipment, he heard Mr. Bo sneer behind him. "No need to make it so troublesome."

Then a chill ran down his backside. With a crack, blinding light sliced in like a blade through the opened door, illuminating the mottled rust on the electric chair.

Gu Baiyu's spine stiffened.

The door had opened!

Fuck, fuck!

The familiar stench of rotten flesh swept over him. Without turning around, Gu Baiyu could feel the vicious gazes of the two monsters behind him.

Gu Baiyu shakily turned his head and saw that the monsters' grayish-white faces had already poked into the room.

And the one who had opened the door was Bo Shuo.

The light and shadows were severed. The shadows on the ground surged and writhed like twisted snakes, and an Extremely Strong sense of danger descended, as though it could shatter him completely in an instant.

It was over!

Just as Gu Baiyu thought he was done for, Bo Shuo made his move.

He removed his trench coat, then slowly rolled up his shirt sleeves.

No one could see how he had struck. Only a cold, sharp gleam flashed by as Pitch Black Ink Hair vanished into the darkness.

Plop.

It was the sound of something heavy hitting the ground.

What fell, however, was the monster's shriveled head.

The two monsters had their throats brutally slit. Their scarlet, venomous eyes were fixed wide open, and even from an onlooker's perspective, one could clearly see the shock and unwillingness within them.

They had been instantly killed in a single strike.

Bo Shuo glanced down at them from above. His shoe ground through a pool of scarlet blood, while the Silver White scalpel at his fingertips spun nimbly once before vanishing.

(Emotion Points +1999)

Those were E-rank Ghosts! Yet neither had survived a single strike from Mr. Bo.

An expression of disbelief appeared on Xu Yi's face.

She had considered that Bo Shuo was no ordinary person, perhaps a rising star from recent times, but this was far too outrageous. Those had been two E-rank Ghosts.

To Newcomers like them, they were an utterly overwhelming threat.

That was why she had never intended to fight them head-on. She had planned a tactical retreat instead. They had gathered most of the clues already, and there was little point in fighting if they could avoid it.

But what happened now was beyond her expectations.

Those two E-rank Ghosts had just died so casually?

Xu Yi felt dazed.

If someone had told her before today that an Examinee in a novice instance could slaughter NPC Ghosts, she would have mocked them mercilessly and sincerely advised them to get their head checked.

The Proctoring System was not useless. It could not possibly match High-Rank Examinees with a novice instance.

In novice instances, the highest level an Examinee could reach was no more than D-class. Against Ghosts of the same level, they might not face certain death, but they certainly could not erase them so effortlessly—much less two of them.

And now, this impossible example had appeared right before her eyes.

Her entire understanding of combat strength had shattered.

Compared to Xu Yi's inner turmoil, Gu Baiyu's thoughts were much simpler.

He first looked at the dead Ghosts on the ground, their eyes still wide open, then slowly and Stunnedly raised his head to look at Bo Shuo.

How was this even playable after such a nerf?

Were they really clearing the same instance?

"Fucking handsome." It took Gu Baiyu a long while to squeeze out those words. His heart had begun to settle, though his pulse was still racing. He moved his stiff body and decisively sidled up to Bo Shuo to cling to his thigh.

"Big Shot, do you still need an accessory? I'm really useful. I can cheer you on during fights and handle domestic affairs; I'm skilled in both letters and arms. As long as you take me in, if you tell me to go east, I'll never go west. If you tell me to go left, I'll never go..."