Lin Qiye set down the letter in his hand, his expression somewhat peculiar.
He had anticipated that this letter would contain the secrets of this hospital, or perhaps a message from some mysterious figure, or even unveil the truth of this world...
But... what in blazes is this déjà vu of a sixth-grade elementary school essay?!
Could it be that the previous director of this hospital was truly a little girl?
It makes no sense!
What little girl could outmatch the Goddess of Night herself?
From this inexplicable letter, Lin Qiye gleaned little information. Prior to him, this hospital had been under the control of another girl, who had taken away some items belonging to the patients.
At the thought, Lin Qiye's brow furrowed once more.
In the letter, she mentioned "several patients."
So, besides Nyx, had she also opened the rooms of several other deities and, likewise, won something from each of them through some sort of "competition"?
What kind of anomaly is this...
However, she mentioned something being beneath this office?
Lin Qiye squatted down, carefully probing beneath the floor with his senses. As he approached the twenty-meter mark, he seemed to encounter something different...
"Is there a mechanism in this room?" Lin Qiye raised his head, looking towards the wall behind the office.
In his perception, behind this wall lay a concealed passage, and the method to open this wall...
Lin Qiye carefully sensed for a moment, then stood up, walking over to the bookshelf in the corner, and lightly pressed a certain hidden compartment.
Immediately, the wall behind the office slowly opened to the sides, revealing a dark passage.
Without hesitation, Lin Qiye descended down this passage.
The passage was long and deep, and Lin Qiye walked for quite some time before reaching its end.
When he opened the door at the end, he froze in place.
Before him stretched a dim, damp corridor, with dark cells lining both sides!
Yes, cells.
Unlike the six sickrooms in the ward above, what Lin Qiye saw were genuine prison cells, each with iron bars bearing intricate patterns, their purpose unknown.
Lin Qiye moved forward along the corridor, his mental vigilance ever present.
In this bottom part of the already mysterious Hospital of the Gods, the presence of two rows of eerie cells indicated nothing benign.
Strangely, both sides of the cells were empty, devoid of any occupants.
"Could this just be an abandoned prison?" Lin Qiye murmured, continuing forward.
Soon, he reached the end.
However, when his gaze fell upon the first cell at the end, his pupils abruptly contracted!
In the corner of that cell crouched a burly figure, seemingly alerted by Lin Qiye's footsteps, turning its stiffened head...
Revealing a pale and ferocious ghostly visage!
The Ghost-Faced King!
Seeing this familiar figure, Lin Qiye's eyes flared with intense murderous intent, and he cautiously stepped back.
The Ghost-Faced King, like a wild beast, roared and charged towards Lin Qiye, but upon contact with the bars of the cell, it was flung back by an unseen force, crashing into the rear wall.
Lin Qiye's brow furrowed tightly.
Hadn't he killed the Ghost-Faced King? Its face had been chopped into eighteen pieces, dead beyond doubt, and its body should have been taken away by the night guards... Why was it here?
Just as Lin Qiye pondered, the familiar panel reappeared before his eyes.
"Offender: Ghost-Faced King.
Choice: As the mythological creature you personally killed, you have the right to decide its soul's fate:
Option 1: Eradicate its soul directly, causing it to vanish completely from this world.
Option 2: Raise its 'fear value' towards you to 60, and you can employ it as a hospital caretaker, providing care for patients while also offering you protection to a certain extent.
Current fear value: 1."
After reading this, Lin Qiye finally understood.
It seemed that this mental hospital, in addition to confining six mysterious patients together, also possessed the ability to transform mythological creatures killed by oneself into caretakers.
In other words, every time he killed a mythological creature, he had the chance to convert it into a caretaker?
Did these mythological creatures here... include ancient gods?
Just in case, just in case, if he were to kill a genuine deity in the future, could he also make them work for him?
At the thought, Lin Qiye's heart beat faster and faster.
"Roar!!"
The Ghost-Faced King's roar brought Lin Qiye back to reality from his reverie. He looked towards the terrifying figure in the cell, his gaze gradually turning cold.
"Ghost-Faced King..." Lin Qiye gazed at the Ghost-Faced King, calmly speaking: "You are strong. If I were to employ you as my caretaker, it would undoubtedly be a good choice..."
Upon hearing these words, the Ghost-Faced King gradually calmed down.
Lin Qiye slowly reached out his hand, as if to touch the ghostly face of the Ghost-Faced King.
Murderous intent flickered in the Ghost-Faced King's eyes, but its instinct for survival forcibly suppressed it. Upon appearing here, it understood its two possible fates.
And it knew that its fate now lay in the hands of this insignificant ant before it.
It didn't want to vanish completely from the world, so... it could only choose to submit!
Lowering its head, it remained silent like a dog.
Lin Qiye's palm touched its ghostly face, gently rubbing it.
"You've killed many people, that's alright. I'm not familiar with them, which doesn't hinder me from hiring you..." Lin Qiye squinted, a glint of coldness shimmering in his eyes!
"Unfortunately... you've killed someone very important."
Suddenly, Lin Qiye began to exert force with his hand!
"Jie—!" The Ghost-Faced King's ghostly face contorted violently, its sharp wails echoing throughout the cell.
It desperately swung its limbs, trying to escape from Lin Qiye's grasp, but alas... it couldn't.
This was Lin Qiye's hospital.
He wanted it dead,
So it had to die!
Glacial light flashed in Lin Qiye's eyes. Amidst the harrowing screams, the Ghost-Faced King seemed like a balloon, rapidly inflating!
Then... it burst with a loud bang!
Blood and flesh splattered across the entire cell, swiftly devoured by the walls and floor, within just a few seconds, a Mythical Beast of 'Chuan' Realm had completely disappeared.
This cell, it was like a living, man-eating beast!
Lin Qiye's white coat was likewise stained with blood. He looked at the empty cell, his expression devoid of emotion as he spoke.
"You are strong, but it's a pity...
My hospital, does not welcome you."
With that said, he turned around, hands in the pockets of his white coat, stepping outward.
In the dim corridor, the blood soaked into his white coat swiftly faded away, disappearing...
Like a monster that consumes people.
Lin Qiye set down the letter in his hand, his expression somewhat peculiar.
He had anticipated that this letter would contain the secrets of this hospital, or perhaps a message from some mysterious figure, or even unveil the truth of this world...
But... what in blazes is this déjà vu of a sixth-grade elementary school essay?!
Could it be that the previous director of this hospital was truly a little girl?
It makes no sense!
What little girl could outmatch the Goddess of Night herself?
From this inexplicable letter, Lin Qiye gleaned little information. Prior to him, this hospital had been under the control of another girl, who had taken away some items belonging to the patients.
At the thought, Lin Qiye's brow furrowed once more.
In the letter, she mentioned "several patients."
So, besides Nyx, had she also opened the rooms of several other deities and, likewise, won something from each of them through some sort of "competition"?
What kind of anomaly is this...
However, she mentioned something being beneath this office?
Lin Qiye squatted down, carefully probing beneath the floor with his senses. As he approached the twenty-meter mark, he seemed to encounter something different...
"Is there a mechanism in this room?" Lin Qiye raised his head, looking towards the wall behind the office.
In his perception, behind this wall lay a concealed passage, and the method to open this wall...
Lin Qiye carefully sensed for a moment, then stood up, walking over to the bookshelf in the corner, and lightly pressed a certain hidden compartment.
Immediately, the wall behind the office slowly opened to the sides, revealing a dark passage.
Without hesitation, Lin Qiye descended down this passage.
The passage was long and deep, and Lin Qiye walked for quite some time before reaching its end.
When he opened the door at the end, he froze in place.
Before him stretched a dim, damp corridor, with dark cells lining both sides!
Yes, cells.
Unlike the six sickrooms in the ward above, what Lin Qiye saw were genuine prison cells, each with iron bars bearing intricate patterns, their purpose unknown.
Lin Qiye moved forward along the corridor, his mental vigilance ever present.
In this bottom part of the already mysterious Hospital of the Gods, the presence of two rows of eerie cells indicated nothing benign.
Strangely, both sides of the cells were empty, devoid of any occupants.
"Could this just be an abandoned prison?" Lin Qiye murmured, continuing forward.
Soon, he reached the end.
However, when his gaze fell upon the first cell at the end, his pupils abruptly contracted!
In the corner of that cell crouched a burly figure, seemingly alerted by Lin Qiye's footsteps, turning its stiffened head...
Revealing a pale and ferocious ghostly visage!
The Ghost-Faced King!
Seeing this familiar figure, Lin Qiye's eyes flared with intense murderous intent, and he cautiously stepped back.
The Ghost-Faced King, like a wild beast, roared and charged towards Lin Qiye, but upon contact with the bars of the cell, it was flung back by an unseen force, crashing into the rear wall.
Lin Qiye's brow furrowed tightly.
Hadn't he killed the Ghost-Faced King? Its face had been chopped into eighteen pieces, dead beyond doubt, and its body should have been taken away by the night guards... Why was it here?
Just as Lin Qiye pondered, the familiar panel reappeared before his eyes.
"Offender: Ghost-Faced King.
Choice: As the mythological creature you personally killed, you have the right to decide its soul's fate:
Option 1: Eradicate its soul directly, causing it to vanish completely from this world.
Option 2: Raise its 'fear value' towards you to 60, and you can employ it as a hospital caretaker, providing care for patients while also offering you protection to a certain extent.
Current fear value: 1."
After reading this, Lin Qiye finally understood.
It seemed that this mental hospital, in addition to confining six mysterious patients together, also possessed the ability to transform mythological creatures killed by oneself into caretakers.
In other words, every time he killed a mythological creature, he had the chance to convert it into a caretaker?
Did these mythological creatures here... include ancient gods?
Just in case, just in case, if he were to kill a genuine deity in the future, could he also make them work for him?
At the thought, Lin Qiye's heart beat faster and faster.
"Roar!!"
The Ghost-Faced King's roar brought Lin Qiye back to reality from his reverie. He looked towards the terrifying figure in the cell, his gaze gradually turning cold.
"Ghost-Faced King..." Lin Qiye gazed at the Ghost-Faced King, calmly speaking: "You are strong. If I were to employ you as my caretaker, it would undoubtedly be a good choice..."
Upon hearing these words, the Ghost-Faced King gradually calmed down.
Lin Qiye slowly reached out his hand, as if to touch the ghostly face of the Ghost-Faced King.
Murderous intent flickered in the Ghost-Faced King's eyes, but its instinct for survival forcibly suppressed it. Upon appearing here, it understood its two possible fates.
And it knew that its fate now lay in the hands of this insignificant ant before it.
It didn't want to vanish completely from the world, so... it could only choose to submit!
Lowering its head, it remained silent like a dog.
Lin Qiye's palm touched its ghostly face, gently rubbing it.
"You've killed many people, that's alright. I'm not familiar with them, which doesn't hinder me from hiring you..." Lin Qiye squinted, a glint of coldness shimmering in his eyes!
"Unfortunately... you've killed someone very important."
Suddenly, Lin Qiye began to exert force with his hand!
"Jie—!" The Ghost-Faced King's ghostly face contorted violently, its sharp wails echoing throughout the cell.
It desperately swung its limbs, trying to escape from Lin Qiye's grasp, but alas... it couldn't.
This was Lin Qiye's hospital.
He wanted it dead,
So it had to die!
Glacial light flashed in Lin Qiye's eyes. Amidst the harrowing screams, the Ghost-Faced King seemed like a balloon, rapidly inflating!
Then... it burst with a loud bang!
Blood and flesh splattered across the entire cell, swiftly devoured by the walls and floor, within just a few seconds, a Mythical Beast of 'Chuan' Realm had completely disappeared.
This cell, it was like a living, man-eating beast!
Lin Qiye's white coat was likewise stained with blood. He looked at the empty cell, his expression devoid of emotion as he spoke.
"You are strong, but it's a pity...
My hospital, does not welcome you."
With that said, he turned around, hands in the pockets of his white coat, stepping outward.
In the dim corridor, the blood soaked into his white coat swiftly faded away, disappearing...
Like a monster that consumes people.
