It is unclear whether he died from escaping the female ghost's control or was killed by the residual light from the jade pendant.
Su Cheng quickly opened the back door, only to find a wall behind it. She touched the jade pendant on her neck, which was still warm, and looked puzzled.
The female ghost just escaped like that?
Su Cheng turned her head and her gaze fell on the operating table. The scene was too bloody, so she pulled the green sterile drape over Li Li's face.
He turned around, intending to squat down and check on Yan Yu, but saw her suddenly sit up and vomit blood from her mouth while lying on the ground.
The system voice suddenly sounded:
[Triggering the main quest: Her Child.]
The Golden Leaf Hospital instance will end upon completion of the mission.
The main questline is finally out.
Yan Yu coughed up blood, then suddenly looked up and met Su Cheng's gaze, realizing that they had both received the same mission.
"Are you alright?" Su Cheng helped Yan Yu up.
"I feel much better after spitting out that mouthful of blood." Yan Yu patted her chest and took out some medicine from her bag to drink.
Mo Yiyi and Liu Yue also woke up, and the two immediately lay on the ground to vomit, but after vomiting for a long time, they only vomited some bile...
Still shaken, they mumbled, "Spider! Spider!"
"It was all an illusion, it's all over now," Su Cheng said quickly.
Hearing Su Cheng's voice, the two of them came to their senses and took deep breaths to calm themselves down.
The female ghost from before was nearly as powerful as Vengeful Ghost spirit. Neither Liu Yue, who had items to absorb damage, nor Yan Yu, who had just awakened her Mental Barrier, were a match for it.
Mo Yiyi and Liu Yue, having calmed down, exclaimed in unison in astonishment, "I triggered a main quest???"
Su Cheng nodded. "The four of us should have triggered the main quest."
Mo Yiyi and Liu Yue felt a mix of emotions, including joy, as they each drank the healing potion before getting up.
Mo Yiyi thanked Su Cheng sincerely, " Sister Cheng, could we exchange contact information when we get back? I've stocked up on a lot of supplies at my apartment."
Liu Yue also raised her hand. "Me too!"
The two women knew perfectly well that they were only able to trigger the main quest alive thanks to Su Cheng; without her, they would probably have died just now.
Having triggered the mission, they still had to complete it. Knowing their own limited abilities, the two decided to cling to Su Cheng's coattails!
Su Cheng nodded casually, "Okay."
Yan Yu leaned closer to her ear, "How about I call you Sister Cheng from now on?"
Su Cheng understood her teasing, smiled faintly, and shrugged, "I have no objection."
The four left the operating room, where darkness still shrouded the outside, with only the elevator ahead emitting a faint light.
It's 3 PM now.
After the foreign object in her stomach was removed, Yan Yu remembered the random task she had triggered in the cafeteria and decided to complete it first.
As long as Yan Yu doesn't do anything reckless by eating the nutritional meals again, those things won't be able to affect her mind. Furthermore, with the support of her Mental Barrier, the danger of going to the cafeteria to complete the mission has been reduced.
Seeing that she had her own plans, Su Cheng naturally had no objections.
After regaining their composure, Mo Yiyi and Liu Yue also planned to hurry up and look for any random quests. They hadn't triggered any random quests yet.
The four of them then met up at the cafeteria.
After the three of them got off the elevator one by one, only Su Cheng remained.
Su Cheng closed the elevator door, but didn't rush to press the floor button.
She looked at the air conditioner vent and recited the incantation to Soul Attraction.
As she murmured those words, a pale golden line appeared in the air and entered the air conditioner vent.
[ The Soul Attraction is Remnant Soul; forced summoning is possible.]
The gold thread pulled the elevator ghost out.
The elevator ghost stared wide-eyed in terror, flicking the golden thread around its wrist. Finding it couldn't break free, it shrank into a ball. "W-what do you want?"
"I want to know who you are, and the reward is my Qi."
As Su Cheng finished speaking, the elevator ghost covered its head and fell into memories, those memories that had been intentionally sealed away were replayed before its and Su Cheng's eyes.
A note from the author:
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Chapter 63
"Given your history of multiple miscarriages, and the fact that this is a twin pregnancy, I recommend that you be hospitalized as soon as possible."
The doctor turned his face from behind the computer screen, and there was a familiar face— Doctor Wu.
"... Okay." The woman nodded wearily; her slender figure made her protruding belly stand out even more.
As the woman lowered her eyes, her gaze fell on the red wristband, on which was printed her information:
Ai Xiang, female, 24 weeks pregnant.
The elevator ghost is Ai Xiang from Doctor Wu's notes.
When Su Cheng saw Doctor Wu being possessed and manipulated by the female ghost during surgery, she remembered the notes about forgetting that the doctor had kept in his notebook.
Doctor Wu's surgery on Li Li was a reenactment of the surgery he performed on Ai Xiang.
There are still doctors and nurses; the difference is the mothers.
The reason Doctor Wu forgot about the surgery was that she was possessed by a female ghost, causing her to lose part of her memory. She also thought that her mental problems caused the surgery to fail.
After understanding the reason, the fact that the " The Forgotten Surgery " mission was not completed means that the key lies with Ai Xiang.
Su Cheng wasn't entirely sure who Ai Xiang was, but the mission wouldn't stray from the instance, so the other person was definitely in the hospital and already dead.
Her first thought was of the elevator ghost, but even if it wasn't, it didn't matter, as the energy consumed by using the Soul Summoning was still within her control.
"Smack!"
The man slapped Ai Xiang across the face without hesitation. "Tell me! Whose child is this in your belly?!"
He is Ai Xiang's husband.
His eyes were filled with rage, his face flushed red like a pig's liver, and he pointed at Ai Xiang, continuing to yell, "I have oligospermia, how could you possibly be pregnant with twins?! You want me to pay for your hospitalization? Dream on!"
Ai Xiang shook her head, crying, and explained, "I've already told you, it's your child. Low sperm count doesn't mean you can't conceive... Why don't you believe me?"
" A Cheng, I told you this woman was strange, but you didn't believe me. Now you believe me!" A slightly plump middle-aged woman suddenly appeared; she was Ai Xiang's mother-in-law.
Her malicious and disgusted gaze fell on Ai Xiang. "Maybe her lover is one of those male colleagues. No wonder she's refused to resign. I've figured it out now!"
Ai Xiang was repeatedly accused and slandered, especially by her mother-in-law's fueling of the fire, which made her even more resentful.
A hint of Red Resentment crept into her eyes. She took out a pair of scissors from the drawer and, without a second thought, stabbed her incessantly nagging mother-in-law.
The husband shoved her away with lightning speed, shouting, "How dare you stab my mother with a knife?! Are you insane?!"
He didn't hold back his strength; in fact, it was somewhat vented in his anger. Ai Xiang fell to the ground on the spot, writhing in pain in her abdomen, blood flowing from her lower body...
She frantically called for a doctor, explaining that she had suffered multiple miscarriages due to her work in a pharmaceutical factory.
Even though her husband misunderstood, she cherished the baby she had finally conceived.
She felt the life within her slipping away, while her husband and mother-in-law watched coldly. Hatred filled her heart, growing stronger with each drop of blood...
As she entered the elevator, she still glared defiantly in the direction of the ward, her jaw trembling slightly from clenching her teeth.
A seductive female voice whispered in my ear, "Want me to kill them for you?"
Kill them!
Kill them!!
Ai Xiang couldn't hear what the doctor said, but she was fully focused on what he was saying.
What happened next became blurry; she vaguely heard the doctor pronounce that her twins were not breathing.
When she regained consciousness, she was curled up inside the elevator shaft.
She forgot everything, only subconsciously enjoying spying on every pregnant woman entering the elevator, deriving a strange satisfaction from staring at their bellies...
The memory ended, Ai Xiang sat on the ground, stunned.
Strands of Qi flowed from Su Cheng's body and entered Ai Xiang's body, causing her blood-red eyes to fade and her appearance to return to what it was before she was alive.
This wisp of Qi is the reward Su Cheng gave for completing the Soul Attraction skill.
[bite]
[Random Task: The Forgotten Surgery, Completed. Will be added to your score upon returning to the apartment.]
The key to the mission, aside from Doctor Wu, lay with Ai Xiang.
Su Cheng crouched down. "Do you know who that voice that bewitched you is?"
After Ai Xiang died, her husband and mother-in-law both jumped off a building; it's no doubt that this was the work of that voice.
Su Cheng suspected that the voice was the female ghost she had just fought in the operating room.
Ai Xiang raised her dry eyes, her mind clearing considerably after her memory returned. "I don't know."
"I need to find my babies," Ai Xiang suddenly said, her lips slightly pursed. "I can feel their presence..."
Please help me.
Ai Xiang crawled back into the air conditioner vent, took out a tag, and handed it to Su Cheng. "Here, this is your reward. Help me find my baby..."
The badge was Ai Xiang's work ID, which contained her information.
Name: Ai Xiang
Department: Golden Leaf Pharmaceutical Factory
Employee ID: 09312
Golden Leaf Pharmaceutical Factory?
Su Cheng saw the place name again. She took the work badge, and the system notification sounded in her mind again:
[Quest to be unlocked ( Golden Leaf Pharmaceutical Factory ): Is the medicine red, white, or green?]
"Quest to be started?" is followed by a location name.
Su Cheng has uncovered crucial information: the Arena dungeon isn't just about Golden Leaf Hospital!
Su Cheng thought of Golden Leaf High School, which Li Li had mentioned before. Could Golden Leaf High School be another related story?
Ai Xiang had no idea what Su Cheng was thinking; she simply took out something she considered very important without thinking.
"I'm going to find the baby... I'll let you know when I find him..."
"Good."
Seeing that she agreed, Ai Xiang disappeared from the spot with peace of mind.
Su Cheng pressed the button to open the elevator door, stepped out, and turned to walk towards the emergency exit at the end of the corridor.
She previously showed fake medical reports to fool the nurses when she left the inpatient department, and now she may have been discovered and blacklisted.
The elevator goes directly to the inpatient ward nurses' station; if you show up there, you'll definitely get caught by the nurses.
So she planned to quietly go back down the stairs.
The reason she returned to the inpatient ward was simple: she needed to go to Li Li's ward to find the item that would trigger the Golden Leaf High School.