"Someone also said that when they were changing the medicine at night, the door behind them would suddenly close, and no matter how hard they tried, they couldn't open it."

After a pause, the man looked up, his face pale, and said, "But there's... no lock on that door."

After a moment of hesitation, the expressions of the people present became interesting. There was no lock on the door, but it couldn't be opened, so did that mean there was a force outside the door pulling it shut?

Of course, it wouldn't be a person.

Hearing what the man said, Yu Yu subconsciously hugged herself. Among the girls, she wasn't particularly timid, and she usually enjoyed reading horror novels.

But now the situation was completely different. This was no longer a story, but reality.

She had been drawn into a real supernatural event.

And according to that young man named Huai Yi, people could die here.

A hand unknowingly rested on her shoulder, silently, startling her. She turned around and saw a reliable face.

"Don't be nervous." Jiang Cheng was very proper and gentlemanly. "If you're really scared, you can hug me. I don't mind."

After seeing this, Du Feng's evaluation of Jiang Cheng rose to another level.

The beautiful woman who had come with him was still here, yet he was so blatant?

What kind of people are these?

Wait, Du Feng was stunned. What am I thinking about? This is a horror event, one where people could die.

And... could coming here be related to the mysterious disappearance of Director Nan?

After all, they came by elevator, and it just so happened to stop on the 17th floor where Director Nan disappeared. It would be far-fetched to say there was no connection between the two.

Just as Du Feng was organizing his thoughts and preparing to speak, he was suddenly poked in the waist. He immediately looked over and saw Wei Wei, who was standing next to him.

Wei Wei winked at him, then very naturally looked away.

The words were on the tip of his tongue, but Du Feng swallowed them back.

"So what do you want us to do?" After realizing that the man had no more clues to offer, Huai Yi asked directly.

The timeline here was different from their world. The sun outside the window was already setting, it was probably almost 5 o'clock, and night was approaching.

After the man left, they would need time to discuss.

More importantly, how to get through tonight.

"Like I said, I hope you can help me get rid of the unclean things in the hospital," said the man called Director Qi.

Get rid of...

The moment he heard the word, Jiang Cheng's eyes changed, and his gaze towards Director Qi became meaningful.

Logically speaking, shouldn't the other party first entrust them with investigating the ins and outs of the matter?

At the very least, even if he used the word "get rid of," he should have said to get rid of this matter as soon as possible.

Get rid of... things. It sounded ruthless, like silencing someone.

But Huai Yi acted as if he hadn't heard anything and nodded, saying, "This is our responsibility, but please understand, this kind of thing... takes time."

"As soon as possible," the man urged.

Huai Yi looked around, then gestured with his eyes for the man to say, "It's getting dark. Where will we be resting tonight?"

The office obviously wasn't suitable for resting. In fact, Huai Yi was thinking that it would be best to leave the hospital and stay somewhere else while it was still light.

"I've already arranged your rooms," the man said quickly. "I've had people clean them up for you."

Currently, it seemed that the man in front of them had secretly invited them here, with the purpose of getting rid of the unclean things in the hospital.

And their identities had not been made public in the hospital.

The identity that the man had fabricated for them was that they were patients transferred from other hospitals, and the family members accompanying the patients.

At this moment, the phone in the room rang.

The man walked to the phone, listened for a while, then slammed the phone back down angrily, and told everyone that he had something to deal with.

He arranged for the nurse on duty to take everyone to the ward in a while.

He also reminded them not to talk nonsense, after all, their current identity was that of patients, and saying too much could arouse suspicion.

After speaking, the man left.

After the man's footsteps disappeared, Huai Yi's gaze, which had been fixed on the door, gradually returned. He exhaled and said, "There are very few trustworthy people in this world. We need to judge the purpose of everyone who appears, and the truthfulness of the clues they provide."

Cao Yang slowly widened his eyes. "Are you saying that the NPCs in this world will also lie?"

He usually liked to play online games, and the NPCs in the games were all dull.

Moreover... the man who called himself Director Qi looked like an NPC from the main storyline, the kind responsible for issuing tasks.

Could it be that what he said couldn't be trusted either?

"It's not necessarily lying, it could also be misleading," Huai Yi explained, seemingly seeing everyone's confusion.

"Brother, what did you see?" Jiang Cheng looked at him with admiration, seemingly regarding the other party as his spiritual faith for survival.

Looking at the door again, Huai Yi cautiously lowered his voice and said, "I think this Director Qi... has a problem."

"He's just a director in the hospital. Is it really necessary to go to such lengths?" Huai Yi asked suspiciously. "The cost of inviting all of us here must be quite high, right?"

"If I were him, if I couldn't stand it, I would choose to leave directly, instead of insisting on staying and completely resolving this matter."

What Huai Yi said was very clear. He didn't think that Director Qi had the obligation to spend a lot of money and take risks to resolve this matter.

Moreover... no matter how you looked at it, this shouldn't be his sole responsibility.

But they had just arrived in this world, and there were too few clues. Further discussion wouldn't yield any results. After the nurse knocked on the door and came in, everyone followed her to the ward.

But to everyone's surprise, they weren't staying in the same ward.

Wei Wei patiently explained to the nurse that they wanted to stay together, but the nurse immediately retorted, saying that the wards were very tight, and that this was only arranged by Director Qi.

Otherwise, some of them would have to find somewhere else to stay.

Looking at the night that had quietly fallen outside the window, everyone wisely shut their mouths.

Because Jiang Cheng and the others knew each other, they took the initiative to request to stay together.

There was a small interlude in the middle. The nurse said that they would have to take the elevator up, but unexpectedly, three out of the nine people said that they got motion sickness from elevators.

Compared to them, Jiang Cheng's excuse was obviously more reasonable. He said that he had claustrophobia because he had been bitten by a dog when he was a child.

The nurse thought for a long time, but couldn't see what relationship there was between the two things.

But she could also tell that these people didn't seem very normal, and she was also worried that taking these guys in the elevator would cause trouble.

So, according to what they said, she led them up the stairs.