The shout startled the other players sharing the room. They sprang up on reflex, immediately shielding themselves with defensive devices before checking inside and outside the room.
"Brother Zong, there's nothing here," a player said to Zong Lanzhi, who had hurried over.
"I was half asleep, but I really did see something on the ceiling," Zeng Guangyao said, certain he hadn't imagined it. "It was a monster with a human body and a scaly tail."
"Could you have been mistaken?" Jiang Ke asked. What he really wanted to ask was whether Zeng Guangyao had hallucinated. After all, he was a Mental Evolver, so perhaps his mind was more active than most.
"It definitely wasn't my imagination," Zeng Guangyao insisted. "Brother Zong, we need to be careful. There's definitely something else in this hospital."
Zong Lanzhi knew that, of course. He and Xiao Yue's group had both encountered something watching them. It was like an invisible shadow. One moment they could see it cast on the ground or around a stairwell corner, but when they went to investigate, there was nothing there. And the hospital's influence was affecting their judgment, so they couldn't even tell whether anything had been there before the shadow appeared.
"I'm feeling a little tired. I'll rest for a bit." Another player had barely finished speaking before he fell straight onto the bed and fell asleep, even starting to snore.
"Slap him awake," Zong Lanzhi said coldly.
Jiang Ke immediately rolled up his sleeves and stepped forward, delivering more than a dozen rapid slaps. The man woke up, only to say, "I feel like I'm missing something."
Everyone present fell silent. Jiang Ke stepped back to make room. "Who's next?"
A female Player put on a Glove and slapped the man twice across the face. His line