The Final Task

"How... how did you get in?"

The person standing before the doctor was no longer an assistant.

It was Zhang Ze.

The doctor never imagined in his life that someone could invade another person's memories and even come face to face with the self hidden deep within those memories!

Zhang Ze didn't bother to answer.

In his memory, he didn't need to worry about so much.

"Lingling, Little Door, Xiaolin."

"Get him!!"

Amidst the cawing of Crow echoing through the ward, Lingling's figure lengthened, the silhouette of her red cheongsam emerging. A pale, bony claw reached out from behind the Little Door, shrouded in the mist of a dream. Sadako appeared and disappeared, then flashed clearly before the doctor.

The doctor felt his entire body being tightly restrained, unable to move.

"Click click click!"

Like wringing out a towel, the doctor's bones cracked countless times, accompanied by his painful screams.

"Ah!!!"

Hearing the screams, the boy struggled to open his eyes. For the first time, his long-dormant memories were suddenly stirred. He heard the doctor's death and desperately wanted to see what had happened.

A pair of hands covered his eyes.

"Don't look."

Forget about this person.

"From today onwards, you will never suffer like this again, and you will begin to embrace life anew."

The memory has faded.

This was accompanied by the patient's memory shattering.

Zhang Ze was well aware that the doctors' capabilities had been severely weakened.

The next step is to repeat everything that just happened on more than ten other patients.

And so.

The Crow carries Qiu Mei's eyes.

Similar memories are implanted into the minds of patients.

Among countless fragments of memory.

The doctor suddenly woke up.

However, they were pursued and killed by Zhang Ze who arrived at the scene.

No matter which patient's mind he escaped into, he could not escape Zhang Ze's pursuit. He proudly transformed himself into Devil of Mass Hysteria, only to run right into Zhang Ze's gun.

A doctor died.

All ten doctors died as well.

Deep in the memory of the last patient.

The doctor immediately knelt down.

Please, please stop killing.

"Do you want me to eat your shit? I can eat your shit live on stream."

"I'll do anything you want, just don't kill me, please! I'll even give you a blowjob!"

When facing someone stronger.

Even doctors, those heinous monsters, are bullied.

Ultimately, doctors are the ones who bully the weak and fear the strong.

Zhang Ze stared coldly at the doctor, who knelt and begged for mercy. Zhang Ze then used Qiu Mei's eyes once again, taking advantage of Qiu Mei and Sadako's supernatural abilities, to try and invade the doctor's memories.

"Um?"

"It failed..."

Halfway through the intrusion, Zhang Ze suddenly felt a sharp, needle-like pain in his head. The memories he had painstakingly built crumbled instantly, like a child's stack of building blocks collapsing rapidly.

It seems nesting dolls are not possible.

Zhang Ze and the doctor were already in the patient's memory.

It is not possible to invade someone else's memory.

Not yet.

Zhang Ze abandoned this attempt and turned to look at the doctor.

He implanted the doctor's shameful pleas for mercy into the memories of all the patients.

In reality.

The patients' blank stares began to brighten; some stood up, while others shed tears and punched and kicked the damaged electroshock device on the ground.

Pain, like an iceberg, weighed on them throughout their lives.

Using conventional methods, it's likely we'll never be able to save them.

Zhang Ze resorted to the most violent means.

By invading and altering memories, allowing the doctor's final, ugly act to replace the way he abused them, all psychological problems are resolved in that moment.

"The only way to end suffering is through violence."

Zhang Ze tore the doctor to pieces again.

This time it was a complete shattering.

Countless Crow flew over the doctor's body, and his screams echoed throughout the hospital. Zhang Ze heard a heavy thud coming from the office, Crow's Vision saw the paralyzed doctor struggling to crawl towards the door.

"No..."

"This shouldn't be happening..."

"You lied to me, you lied to me! You promised I would never die, I shouldn't have died..."

A long trail of blood was left on the ground.

The doctor finally died.

Having witnessed all of this, Zhang Ze continued to use the Crow to monitor the surroundings. He could already see police cars speeding towards them in the distance, and in a few minutes, they would take over the scene.

The fourth side quest, Room Thirteen, has been completed.

If we consider the Little Door as the second side quest, Zhang Ze has already completed three of the four side quests in the Second Ward, leaving only the last one.

[Side Quest 2: Carnation. My son gave me a Carnation. I love him so much, and I want to be with him forever.]

Where is Little Door's mother?

After looking at all the patients, none of them matched Little Door's mother's age.

"It was you... you killed the doctor?"

"That demon is really dead, sob sob..."

"Thank you, thank you..."

The patients who regained consciousness recognized Zhang Ze Zhang Ze a glance. If it weren't for Zhang Ze, they would have continued to suffer endless pain at the hands of the doctors.

Taking this opportunity, Zhang Ze asked, "Do you still remember the woman who burned to death after the fire in the Second Ward?"

"Her? She's always been here, but we haven't seen her since it was abandoned," the patient said.

Where was her original hospital room?

"After the Second Ward was relocated, that ward was no longer the one that caught fire."

This lead went cold.

Zhang Ze rested his chin on his hand for a moment.

It seems we have to change our approach and start with the name of the mission.

Carnation.

Use Crow's Vision to search again.

Soon, in a ward on the top floor of the hospital building, a vase with a flower inside caught Zhang Ze's attention on the bedside table.

This ward's layout doesn't seem to match the other wards. It's not like the Second Ward, but rather resembles the layout of the Third Ward in the Western Outskirts Campus, which is an older type of ward.

The flowers in the vase are Carnation.

Zhang Ze approached the flower and touched its petals. The petals were still moist, like a flower that would never wither.

Nothing is visible on the surface.

Zhang Ze thought for a moment, then put on his Straw Hat.

The scene before my eyes changed.

The night sky outside the window turned into an orange-red sunset like flames. Although there were no flames in reality, Zhang Ze could still feel the heat wave hitting him. The temperature around him suddenly rose, and soon Zhang Ze felt a little uncomfortable, as if he had returned to the scene of the fire years ago.

Zhang Ze tried to move, but found that he could not move. He even felt a burning sensation in his respiratory tract, as if he was about to be scalded.

"Is this a repeat of the previous scenario?"

"The scene where the mother and child were burned to death."

Zhang Ze murmured.

If that's the case, what about Little Door's mother?

Just as Zhang Ze was thinking this, he suddenly felt the scorching heat around him lessen a little. Although it was insignificant, it was a real change, as if someone had shielded him from the high temperature with their body.

My breathing no longer felt so hot.

The feeling of being bound only grows tighter.

It's like... someone is holding themselves tightly, using everything they have, just to leave themselves even the slightest chance of survival.

While Zhang Ze was in a daze...

I suddenly felt someone tap my forehead.

To be precise, it was a kiss.

[Task Completed]

[Unlock Scene: Second Ward]