"Excuse me, how excruciating?" Gu Huaiwei followed him leisurely. "It's too presumptuous to ask such a question. I have to charge a fee."

Oasis Sanatorium is not open yet, so it would be nice to be able to collect some tips privately.

"Ha." He chuckled, stopped at the office door, turned around, and his eyes fell on the small figure in Gu Huaiwei's hand. "What is that thing you are holding in your hand?"

Gu Huaiwei was holding Bai Meimei's hand.

When Bai Meemie heard this, her soft little ears moved, and she raised her head and looked at Gu Huaiwei with her big watery eyes.

Gu Huaiwei patted her head and said, "She is my little assistant. Don't underestimate her age. She is sensible and well-behaved. She works efficiently and will not cause trouble in your library."

A blush appeared on Bai Meemie's face. Her small hands tightly grasped Gu Huaiwei's fingers, and her toes gently kicked the ground. Although she lowered her head, her rectangular pupils stared up at Han Zhusheng: "That's right, Meemie is very good. She can make beautiful shapes and can also deal with the skin of the dead. She can peel it off, dry it in the sun, and brush the fur until it is clean and beautiful."

She was using some clumsy words to threaten Han Zhusheng not to attract Gu Huaiwei's attention.

The operators selected by the park can only share the profits with their assistants or the park's owners.

Bai Meimei would not allow the monsters and demons that emerged from the small dimension to come out and bite Gu Huaiwei.

"Have you been contracted?" He stroked his chin, looking up in thought, "Not quite. It feels different from us."

In the darkness, the skin on his face became even grayer, and when he smiled, his facial features looked like crumpled paper.

He seems to have discovered something...something very interesting...

This world only has humans and weirdness.

Han Zhusheng is a high-level monster that lives in this dungeon and tempts trial-takers to break the rules.

He could sense that Gu Huaiwei was a human.

But the white meeme in her hand looked neither human nor animal. It was a new species he had never seen before.

It cannot be eaten, but it has ornamental value.

He also wants to keep one in the library.

Han Zhusheng took out the key from his pocket and opened the office door.

This key is also a key item mentioned in the rules.

Gu Huaiwei didn't see the rules of the copy, and she walked into the office without any taboos.

The black dog blood that was originally stuck on the door did not spill out just because Gu Huaiwei stepped into the room.

Any action she takes in the library will not violate the rules.

After entering the office, Han Zhusheng was restricted by the copy and walked to the sofa as usual.

He picked up a cigarette case from the coffee table next to him and lit a cigarette. White smoke drifted from his slender fingertips. He sat on the sofa with his long legs crossed and began to speak the lines that had been triggered: "You came here with me to investigate the mining disaster and the chemical plant explosion, right?"

"No, I don't want to."

Gu Huaiwei felt that Han Zhusheng was particularly like an NPC in a game, whose lines were triggered in specific scenes.

"You investigative reporters always like to do stupid and dangerous things." Han Zhusheng took a deep puff of cigarette, his tone helpless.

“Well, I’m not an investigative reporter either.”

Han Zhusheng automatically ignored her words, looking out the window with a melancholy look, and continued, "Gray Mist Town was originally just an unremarkable small town. Ever since the mines behind the town were developed and rare gray crystals were discovered, it has attracted a large number of gold prospectors..."

"Wait, are you going to tell me the story of this town?" Gu Huaiwei held a promotional poster for the Oasis Sanatorium in her hand. She found a chair nearby and sat down backwards, resting her hands on the backrest. "Tell me slowly. I'm from outside the town and I'm not very familiar with it. I just want to learn more about this town."

Bai Meemie didn't want to sit, so she squatted beside Gu Huaiwei, holding her face, like a large furry doll curled up next to her.

"The mine is controlled by a black-hearted businessman from outside. Not content with scattered gold mining, they recruited a group of bandits and contracted the entire mountain range.

They offered cheap wages, hired people from the small town as miners, and hollowed out the entire mountain range.

The young and middle-aged people in the town worked day and night in the mines. Many of them were infected with fog lung disease because of gray crystals and died early.

The children of the deceased were left unattended and became naughty. They skipped school all day and came to the library to play pranks.

My father adopted a little girl who had become crazy because her parents had died. If you see her in the library, be careful, she has a manic episode and can sometimes hurt people.

Having said this, Han Zhusheng paused, a strange smile appearing on his pale face: "You investigative reporters, please don't take the words of a madman seriously."

Gu Huaiwei asked, "What about the mining disaster and the chemical plant explosion?"

The smile on Han Zhusheng's face disappeared, as if a new switch had been triggered. He said, "There is a saying that in order to cover up the nebulosity disease, the black-hearted businessman deliberately allowed those infected workers to enter the abandoned mine, and then blew up the passage, causing the mining disaster.

You know, it's expensive to keep a group of patients who are destined to die. You don't know how long those patients can live, and too many sick people will cause panic and lead to higher wages.

But if it is compensation for a few lives, it is relatively cost-effective.

As for the chemical plant explosion, I was still in school when it happened. If you want to know more, you have to go see my father."

Gu Huaiwei let out a soft "hiss". There were a lot of things happening behind the scenes in this small town.

She mentally counted the people who had appeared in the town.

Excluding the old woman you met at the beginning.

There are four humans, four ordinary library staff members, Han Zhusheng, the library director, and the "adopted daughter", the black-hearted businessman and bandit in the story.

The sanatorium needs to gather twelve customers from these people to enter the sanatorium, so that it can complete the first stage of marketing tasks and upgrade to two stars.

Just when Gu Huaiwei was lost in thought, the office door was suddenly blown open by the wind.

“Squeak—”

The corridor outside was even darker than when we came in, without a single light source.

There was no sound from outside.

Han Zhusheng suddenly stood up and said to Gu Huaiwei, "I heard my father calling me. He's sick again. I'll go check on him. Please wait a moment."

After saying that, he walked out of the office.

The figure was swallowed by the darkness.

Gu Huaiwei didn't hear his footsteps walking in the corridor.

The moment he entered the dark corridor, his aura completely disappeared.

After Han Zhusheng left, the atmosphere in the office became a little weird, and the temperature was a little hotter than at the beginning. Gu Huaiwei heard someone outside shouting that there was a fire.

She fanned her face, which was getting hot due to the rising temperature in the room.

"Come on, it's so hot here, let's go somewhere else and see if there are any other living people we can communicate with."