A man and a doll slipped quietly into the Main Building, surrounded by six ward buildings, beneath the deathly pale moonlight.
Qin Manjiang was intensely focused. If he had any other choice, he would never have come here alone.
So far, the Ghost Story called [Ping'an Hospital] really was very different. The pressure it put on Qin Manjiang far exceeded even [Yellow Springs Opera].
Come to think of it, perhaps this was the oppressive feeling an Ultimate Game was supposed to have. Ultimately, [Yellow Springs Opera] had only become an Ultimate Game because a bug had kept anyone from clearing it.
But this place... was practically another independent world.
Qin Manjiang pushed the door open a crack and slipped onto the first floor.
He was extremely careful. He still could not tell whether the patients or Nurse Liu were ghosts, or perhaps both sides were ghosts.
But even if they were all ghosts, even if this was an Ultimate Game, they could not kill people however they pleased. Some condition had to be met, or a Player had to violate some taboo that meant certain death.
At least for now, Qin Manjiang could be sure that the medical record was one necessary condition.
The woman named Li had spoken nothing but beguiling words, but if her speech had merely been meant to confuse him, Qin Manjiang felt that would have been making rather too much of it.
Perhaps Li's words really had been hinting at something.
Come to think of it, how did Li know what I was looking for? Even I don't know...
Keeping a hand against the wall, Qin Manjiang began tiptoeing farther inside.
Please don't let me run into Nurse Liu...
He muttered inwardly.
The Main Building had six floors, one more than the other ward buildings,