The nurse swayed away, her broad back and thick legs swaying. As she was leaving, she grew angrier and angrier, slamming the door shut. She seemed very unhappy that the player hadn't taken the bait.

Perhaps because he trusted the NPCs in the quest world, the gloomy young man directly flipped through his quest list in front of Yu Ling, which meant that Yu Ling didn't need to peek at the player's panel next door.

[Map: Sunshine Mental Hospital (Solo Match). Number of Players: 9. Main Mission: Escape the Mental Hospital. Side Mission: Find at least three real mental patients (0/12). Hidden Mission: Kill the Director.]

Who to kill? The Dean?

Yu Ling silently mourned for the other party for two seconds. The Dean? He wouldn't give the players that chance if he couldn't kill a single one.

With nine players and twelve patients, there simply wouldn't be enough information to go around if the players didn't share it with each other. Players probably can't just point fingers randomly while doing quests; they'll have to wait for these NPCs to slip up.

After browsing the player panel, the gloomy young man got out of bed and went to the bathroom. Almost immediately after closing the door, the sound of flushing water could be heard.

Was he using the sound of flushing water to cover up the noise of him vomiting up the pills?

While most NPCs can be fooled, Yu Ling, being a quest-oriented person, can see through their tricks.

My roommate seems to be a smart player, while I'm the big boss they're trying to take down. That's a bit tough.

Hearing the door open, Yu Ling turned over and opened her eyes in a daze. The gloomy young man came out of the bathroom wiping his mouth. Seeing that Yu Ling was not paying attention to him and was immersed in her own world, he did not say anything more.

Soon, he noticed a bright red rose on the windowsill. It looked out of place in the white room of the mental hospital. He didn't know if every room had one, so instead of going back to bed, he went over to observe the flower.

At this moment, Yu Ling, who had been lost in thought, finally moved. She watched as the gloomy young man rubbed and stroked the rose, even coaxing open the half-open bud, before finally speaking:

"Flowers are not edible."

Gloomy young man: "Oh, I won't eat it."

The other party's tone was clearly that of someone coaxing a child, indicating that they regarded Yu Ling as an ordinary NPC who posed no threat and could even provide them with assistance.

However, seeing that Yu Ling was communicative and showed no aggressive tendencies, he casually asked while poking at the flowers, "What... what medicine did you just take?"

"The nurse said it helps with digestion."

Yu Ling really wanted to say that it was candy, but the player definitely wouldn't believe her.

With the NPC's cooperation, the two got along better and better. The gloomy young man extracted many rules of the ward from Yu Ling and made an agreement that they would leave together because it was every patient's wish—to gain freedom.

It's unavoidable that almost every patient in a mental hospital will run away; after all, it's not easy to manage a group of mentally unstable individuals.

As night fell, the gloomy young man pulled a key from his pocket, perhaps some kind of prop, and with a flash of white light, he unlocked the door that had been locked from the outside.

After making a hand gesture to Yu Ling, instructing this friendly NPC to cover for him, the gloomy young man hurriedly left the corridor.

[The first day is the beginner phase of the mission, there are no major dead ends, he's just exploring the map and scouting locations.]

Because of the real-time translation, the system didn't slack off; instead, it watched the whole thing with Yu Ling and naturally learned some of the rules of this infinite flow game world.

[He's already left, host. Aren't we leaving?]

"Why leave? Newbie players are hard to kill. We can only act after they trigger the kill conditions. Even if I find those nine people, I might not be able to complete the mission. It's better to..."

Yu Ling glanced at the bright red rose whose petals were closing in the night and said,

"I'd rather use player quests as bait and see them come up and deliver themselves one by one."

Yu Ling had no clue how to complete his NPC hidden quest of pretending to be a player, but the first few quests were surprisingly easy.

If they can't kill a few of the twelve patient NPCs, the players won't choose to kill the dead, right?

As for the three player slots, hehe, he's quite adept at stealing kills.

The gloomy young man returned in the middle of the night; he looked unwell, probably having met with other players.

He learned a lot of information, such as that the NPCs that could be interacted with, apart from the nurses who delivered the game at certain times and other players or NPCs who were also patients, were all in a state of non-interaction, and some even wanted to give players an injection at the drop of a hat.

With progress slowing down, the gloomy young man had no choice but to turn his attention to Yu Ling, who seemed friendly.

"Number 0, do you know where the archives are?"

Yu Ling: "The archives are next to the dean's office."

"Where is the dean's office?"

Yu Ling: "It's next to the archives!"

Gloomy Youth: ......

I almost forgot that my fellow patient was mentally ill.

"Xiao Yi, patients can't go there, or we'll be put in solitary confinement. Solitary confinement is terrible!"

As she spoke, Yu Ling wrapped herself tightly in her blanket, looking rather abnormal. Then, the more she talked, the more frightened she became, scaring herself half to death, and finally curled up and fell asleep.

You can't believe everything a mental patient says, but this is a game NPC, so the gloomy young man still included the solitary confinement room in his exploration plan. Looking at the dark night, he went to bed and pretended to sleep.

The first day passed peacefully.

The next morning, the gloomy young man repeated the same method to get rid of the morning's medicine and sneaked out of his room again.

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