A Didi ride to your door, to send you to your grave

"Screeech!!!"

The instant Su Bai snapped his fingers, the [Midnight School Bus] parked more than ten meters behind him suddenly let out a piercing screech of brakes, as if it could tear souls apart!

The sound echoed through the air, but it also seemed to strike directly at the depths of every living creature's mind nearby!

When the exploration streamers on the third floor heard it, their brains buzzed as though they had been struck by a sledgehammer. Their vision went black in an instant, and fear surged uncontrollably from the bottom of their hearts.

But the mutated attending physician, suspended in midair with its chainsaw raised to strike Su Bai, felt an impact ten thousand times greater!

[Core rule one: Forced Boarding, trigger check!]

As a peak second-tier derivative of Benevolent Heart Hospital, the mutated attending physician lacked complete reason, but it possessed a powerful desire to kill and a "greed value" toward its prey.

The moment it heard the brakes, its greed value had definitely exceeded the 30% threshold for the rule's check!

Hum!

A tyrannical, overbearing spatial pulling force that defied the laws of physics erupted from the battered bus, wrapping tightly around the mutated doctor in midair like countless invisible steel chains!

"Roar?!"

For the first time, shock appeared on all four of the mutated doctor's faces.

It discovered that its massive body, weighing hundreds of jin, had been forcibly halted in midair!

It was less than half a meter from the top of Su Bai's head!

The wildly spinning chainsaw had even cut off a lock of hair at Su Bai's forehead. But it could not bring the saw down through that last half meter, no matter what it did!

"Did you think you jumped pretty high and looked pretty cool doing it?"

Su Bai looked at the hideous monster right in front of him, both hands in his pockets, his voice full of mockery.

"Too bad. You were blocking the middle of the road, so you broke traffic regulations. Now get on the bus like a good passenger and pay your fare!"

No sooner had Su Bai finished speaking than-

The force pulling at the doctor suddenly yanked backward!

Whoosh!

Before the stunned eyes of the streamers and their audience,

The immensely powerful peak second-tier mutated doctor flew backward through the air in a parabola, like a rag sack swept away by a gale, moving in complete defiance of Newton's laws as it hurtled straight toward the Midnight School Bus!

"No... my... operation..."

The mutated doctor swung its chainsaw desperately, trying to sever the invisible chains. But the power of a rule was absolute. Once the check succeeded, no matter how strong you were, you had to get on the bus!

Hiss-

The school bus's bloodstained door had long since swung open.

Bang!

The mutated doctor's massive body was shoved straight into the bus with pinpoint accuracy, smashing heavily onto the sheet-metal floor of the aisle.

Before it could struggle to its feet and recover from its disorientation,

The school bus door slammed shut with a bang, sealing it in!

Immediately afterward,

The fourteen evil spirits inside the bus, who had been sitting quietly on their bone chairs, instantly went berserk when they sensed an "outside passenger" boarding!

These fourteen evil spirits had been fused from the utmost resentment of more than thirty second-tier assassins and deathsworn from the Shadow Guild. They were the most vicious "ticket inspectors" on the bus!

"Tear it apart..."

"Eat it... eat all of it..."

The fourteen black apparitions of resentment let out bloodcurdling shrieks and pounced like starving wolves, instantly swallowing up the mutated doctor lying on the floor!

"Aaaaaah!!!"

The mutated doctor's agonized screams erupted from inside the bus.

Accompanying the screams were sparks from the chainsaw striking the bus's metal interior and the sickening sound of flesh being torn apart.

Even though the mutated doctor was a peak second-tier Anomaly derivative, it had no strength to fight back against the frenzied assault of fourteen evil spirits of the same level inside this enclosed, three-star ghost story Domain, where such extreme resentment had gathered!

The whole bus rocked violently, and dark red blood splattered across its windows.

In less than a minute,

The screams inside the bus came to an abrupt halt.

Only the sound of chewing remained, enough to make one's scalp crawl.

[Ding! The Midnight School Bus successfully forced a passenger aboard and devoured one peak second-tier Anomaly derivative!]

[Resentment reserves inside the bus increased! The bus's speed and armor hardness have increased slightly!]

[Current number of stops: 0/3. Host, please set off as soon as possible and fulfill the 'Passenger Disembarkation at Stops' rule, or the evil spirits will turn on the vehicle!]

Listening to the system notifications in his head, Su Bai whistled in satisfaction.

"Not bad, not bad. This bus has quite an appetite. It didn't leave a scrap."

Su Bai bent down to pick up the cleaver he had thrown on the ground, then looked up at the four exploration streamers by the third-floor window, who had been completely petrified, their jaws nearly dropping to the ground.

"Hey! You lot watching the show upstairs!" Su Bai shouted at the top of his lungs.

Brother Long shuddered all over and nearly toppled out of the window.

He swallowed, his voice trembling so badly that its pitch changed. "B-big brother... no, grandpa! We're just hikers who got lost. We didn't see anything! Please don't drag us onto the bus!"

Brother Long had completely lost track of what was happening.

This teenager in a school uniform drove a ghost bus that specialized in eating Anomalies. He was ten thousand times more fucking sinister than Benevolent Heart Hospital! Brother Long was terrified that one moment of displeasure would make Su Bai snap his fingers and drag them aboard as an extra snack for those evil spirits.

"What are you afraid of? This bus is a licensed operation." Su Bai rolled his eyes.

"Get down here, now! This hospital is about to be forcibly demolished from top to bottom. Are you staying there to wait for death?"

At the words "forcibly demolished," Brother Long felt as though he had been granted a pardon.

Although he had no idea who this teenager really was, at least he looked like a living person right now, far more reliable than those mutated monsters!

"Go! Hurry! Help Old Zhao, we're going downstairs!" Brother Long quickly called to his three companions.

A few minutes later, the four streamers supported one another as they limped out of the outpatient hall and came before Su Bai.

The exploration streamers, who had been so arrogant and overbearing just now, were as meek as four quails before Su Bai, not daring to breathe too loudly.

Su Bai glanced at Old Zhao, whose arm was injured and whose face was deathly pale, then at the military-grade livestreaming equipment on the ground.

The equipment was really well made. It was still working after falling from the third floor, its red indicator light flashing; the stream was clearly still live.

Su Bai walked up to the camera and waved at the millions of viewers online, showing what he considered a sunny smile.

"Good evening, friends in the livestream."

"I'm the director of the abandoned building demolition office, specially hired by the City Appearance Bureau, and also Benevolent Heart Hospital's psychological counselor. Today, I'm here to give this hospital a thorough 'virus cleanup.'"

"The following footage may be a little bloody and challenge your worldview, so minors should watch with a parent. Of course, if you can afford it, remember to send me some gifts. After all, I'm out on assignment in the middle of the night, and overtime pay is pretty hard to get approved."

The livestream fell deathly silent for a full ten seconds.

Then the barrage of comments erupted like an avalanche.

[Demolition office director, my ass! Psychological counselor, my ass! What counselor brings a ghost bus on a house call?!]

[When he smiled at the camera just now, my soul nearly flew out of my body! This kid's definitely a psychopath!]

[He's too damn wild! He's actually going to solo the whole Benevolent Heart Hospital?! That's a forbidden zone where a third-tier Anomaly holds sway!]

[Call the police! Notify the City Appearance Bureau, quick! This kid's gone mad. He's not just going to destroy the hospital, he's going to livestream a massacre!]

Su Bai didn't care at all what the comments were saying. He turned to Brother Long.

"You lot, stay here and don't run around. Don't even think about hiding on my bus, either. It has a bad temper, and it doesn't sell standing tickets."

"Yes, yes, yes! We'll stay right here and won't go anywhere!" Brother Long nodded as though he were pounding garlic.

Having settled the "witnesses," Su Bai turned around with his cleaver and took a deep breath of the formalin-scented air.

"All right, the small fry on the outskirts are mostly cleaned up. Time to go meet the one in charge of this hospital."

With a thought from Su Bai,

The Midnight School Bus parked behind him let out another low rumble. The two clusters of ghostly green flames at its front abruptly locked onto the doors leading to the inpatient department deeper inside the hospital.

"Old driver, shift gears and hit the gas."

"Ram... right through this building!"

Boom!!!

Before the four streamers' horrified eyes,

The enormous Midnight School Bus charged straight toward the heavy explosion-proof glass doors inside the outpatient hall, surging forward like a wild horse that had thrown off its reins!

Crash!

The sound of shattering glass rang through the night sky.

The school bus not only smashed through the doors but also barreled straight down the spacious hospital corridor, sparks and lightning flying all the way!

Along the way, whether they were mutated nurses, zombie patients, or shadow Anomalies lurking in the dark and preparing to launch sneak attacks,

As soon as they heard that piercing screech of brakes, every last one of them was forcibly dragged into the bus by the power of the rule!

The chewing and screaming inside the bus never stopped along the way.

Su Bai followed behind the school bus with his hands in his pockets, strolling leisurely over the broken glass covering the floor.

"This Didi ride service, coming right to your door to send you to your grave, is really thoughtful," Su Bai said with a satisfied sigh.

And just as the Midnight School Bus was rampaging toward the core area of the inpatient department,

In the morgue on Benevolent Heart Hospital's third basement level,

A figure wearing a director's coat covered in bloodstains and holding a huge, rusty scalpel abruptly opened a pair of pure white eyes.

A vast, terrifying aura of contamination, powerful enough to distort reality, instantly enveloped the entire hospital!

The third-tier, partially formed rule Anomaly-[Benevolent Heart Director]-had awakened!