As the game screens slowly opened on the phones of a human and a ghost, a man and a woman, an invisible black fog gradually enveloped the seemingly quiet, gloomy hospital garden. The doctors, nurses, and patients nearby instinctively kept their distance.
Seeing this, even the members of the Bureau of Containment stationed at the hospital didn't dare approach!
They had more or less brought the Second Hospital under control, but that was all. The situation here was no better than it had been when that beastly former director was in charge.
Especially since it was still nighttime. No one could guarantee there wasn't some strange entity lurking in a corner of the hospital that the beastly former director hadn't controlled or discovered. And no one could guarantee that more entities wouldn't break in from outside. So even though they'd noticed something strange in the garden, nobody dared act rashly in the middle of the night.
"..."
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Annie, however, didn't care about any of that.
Her fingers were flying across her phone screen, her gaze focused, while a faint, mischievous smile played on her lips.
"..."
The strange little boy had his head bowed, completely absorbed in the game. A strange black glimmer flashed across him from time to time, and waves of eerie energy rippled around him, as if he were trying to influence or interfere with Annie.
Unfortunately for him, those little tricks of his—whether intentional or not—were doomed to fail. Annie didn't take them seriously at all.
See?
The first game ended soon enough. Annie quickly found and shot down the other player's aircraft in the sky, eliminating that player with the garbled ID before long.
"Aha!"
"I won!"
(`)~
Annie cheered right away, then started thinking about what she should make him do.
"No..."
But