Chapter 26: Rules of the Psychiatric Hospital (10)

The System was incredibly curious and couldn’t help asking, “Host, their souls were all sacrificed to the Evil God. After dying completely, their souls were bound inside the walls to become the Evil God’s puppets. How are you going to save them?”

Even if Sang Yu was strong, saving so many ghosts all at once would consume a massive amount of ghost power.

The livestream audience also chimed in with their guesses.

[Could it be that Sister Yu is gonna smash the walls directly?]

[I think there’s another, more simple and violent way.]

[What way?]

[Kill them all.]

[Based on my understanding of Miss Sang Yu, she isn’t that cruel of a person.]

[Person above, say that with your hand on your conscience.]

[I can testify that Sister Yu really isn’t that cruel of a person, because she isn’t human at all.]

[Fuck, almost forgot, Sister Yu killed herself already.]

[Sang Yu is so ruthless she even kills herself.]

Sang Yu ignored the System. Instead, she suddenly grabbed a hand from each side of the corridor, placed one hand into the other, and said with utter seriousness, “You guys are so strong—just hold each other’s hands and pull each other out.”

Silence…

The corridor fell into a dead hush for a moment.

A few seconds later, the hands on both sides of the corridor tightly gripped one another and exerted every ounce of strength they had…

As for Sang Yu, her phantom body simply passed right through these ghostly hands.

—

At that moment, Sang Yu caught sight of a medical records room.

She raised an eyebrow, seemingly realizing something, and stepped inside.

The room was in complete disarray, with messy documents strewn all over the floor and tables.

Sang Yu stepped onto a medical record sheet, bending down to pick it up.

Name: Lu Li

Age: 17

Diagnosis: Bipolar Disorder

This was Brother’s old medical record sheet, complete with his photo attached to it.

Sang Yu wiped the dust off the photo, placed Brother’s record sheet on the table, and continued checking the other files.

Very quickly, she found the medical records for both the nurse and the doctor. Both had been admitted as mental patients several years ago.

“Patients can only leave the hospital once their condition is cured, but to be cured, one needs to obtain a recovery certificate from a doctor.”

Sang Yu knitted her brows.

She had yet to see a real doctor inside this psychiatric hospital.

Where had the former doctors and nurses gone?

Sang Yu was still holding the nurse’s head in her hand.

Placing the head on the table, she asked directly, “Where are the former medical staff of this hospital?”

The corner of the nurse’s mouth curled into a sinister, eerie smile.

“Do you really think I’ll tell you the truth?”

Facing the nurse’s provocation, Sang Yu’s gaze instantly turned icy cold.

Grabbing the nurse by her hair, she slammed her head straight into the wall. Simple, brute-force, and effective.

“Ah! Stop it, stop!”

The nurse shrieked as her already unrecognizable face became even more horrifyingly mangled.

“I kept you around because I thought you might still be of some use, but when you’re completely useless, there’s no reason for me to spare your cheap life. Don’t you agree?”

Sang Yu lifted the nurse’s blood-soaked head, her dark eyes locking onto the nurse’s blood-red eyeballs. She suddenly let out a smile that made the nurse’s scalp go numb with terror.

Eyes filled with fear, the nurse’s voice trembled violently.

“I’ll talk… I’ll tell you everything I know!”

“That’s a good girl!”

Sang Yu’s cold smile shifted into a pleased expression.

“This used to be a shady psychiatric hospital. The patients sent here were subjected to inhuman torture every day… Later on, patients started mysteriously disappearing. But because it was an asylum, even calling the police yielded no results.”

Seeming to recall some terrible memory, the nurse’s voice quivered more and more.

“I was sent to this psychiatric hospital seven years ago. As more and more patients vanished, everyone got terrified, worried they’d be next. So we tried to escape, only to discover a terrifying secret.”

“That secret was… the fourth floor!”

“The psychiatric hospital doesn’t have a fourth floor. While running away, we accidentally stumbled onto it and discovered that the doctors and nurses here were worshiping an Evil God. They used the patients’ flesh, blood, and souls as sacrifices in exchange for wealth, fame, beauty, and power from the Evil God…”

At this point, the nurse’s eyes turned venomous.

She sneered, “Even though we were insane, we weren’t fools. Once we learned the truth about this hospital, we also struck a deal with the Evil God.”

“Did you sacrifice all the doctors and nurses?”

Sang Yu had already guessed the answer.

The nurse stuck out her tongue and licked her lips, not denying it.

“We sacrificed their flesh, blood, and souls to swap for healthy bodies for ourselves. But… among those sent to Xicheng Psychiatric Hospital, which one wasn’t an unfortunate soul abandoned by their parents and family? Even after regaining our health, we had nowhere to go, so we decided to stay here.”

“And then… you turned from the original victims into the perpetrators, disguising yourselves as medical staff in this psychiatric hospital to keep harming patients,” Sang Yu’s voice was flat, devoid of emotion.

The nurse said ominously, “If you don’t want to be the meat on the chopping block, you have to become the butcher holding the knife.”

—

[So this is the truth behind the psychiatric hospital.]

[Are we sure this instance is only a 3-star difficulty?]

[Based on the psychiatric hospital’s Rule 1, only cured patients can leave, but from the nurse’s words, it’s clear that to get cured, the only way is through sacrifice and making a deal with the Evil God.]

[Fuck, that’s such a trap!]

[Not really a trap. As long as players can harden their hearts and use these NPCs’ lives to trade with the Evil God, they can leave here alive. That’s why this instance is only 3 stars.]

[If Zhou Muxue had been a bit smarter and sacrificed other people’s flesh, blood, and souls, she’d probably have successfully left this instance by now.]

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Although Sang Yu couldn’t see the chat, she gleaned the key information from the nurse’s words.

Evil God, sacrifice…

Leaving the medical records room, the corridor ahead of her had completely fallen into darkness.

The rotten, fishy stench in the air grew increasingly pungent. Sang Yu felt the ground beneath her turn slippery, as if stepping on scaled fish skin.

Suddenly, a faint light flickered ahead.

Sang Yu walked over quickly to reveal a massive altar standing in front of her.

A strange stone statue rested on the altar—with a human face and a beast’s body, identical to the stone statue in the villa.

The dim candlelight flickered, casting shifting shadows across the statue’s face, while its lifeless eyes burst with a barely perceptible greed.

“Sang Yu… as long as you offer your soul to me, I will fulfill every single one of your wishes…”

A captivating, bewitching voice echoed from all directions.