Chapter 119 A New Path to Reputation at Liwan Hospital, A Change in Attitude, Absolutely…

Looking at the people in investigator uniforms in front of him, Zhou Fangdong sighed with melancholy.

Why are there so many people on the hospital rooftop...?

Why isn't your inspection bureau going inside the hospital to protect ordinary patients? What are you all doing gathered on the top floor?

Heaven knows how nervous Zhou Fangdong was after using his Descent skill and finding himself on the top floor of the hospital.

This was the first time he had ever experienced the feeling of his feet leaving the ground.

However, before he could calm down, he suddenly noticed a group of people staring at him from the rooftop of the hospital below.

Before using his descent skill, Zhou Fangdong thought he would appear directly next to the tenants, just like when he used the shadow puppet. He never expected to appear in mid-air and be surrounded by more than thirty people.

Although I don't know how this group of people appeared, it seems a bit impolite for so many people to look up at him while he floats in the air and lets them see the soles of his shoes...

So Zhou Fangdong carefully walked down.

Previously, when using [Dead Zone Invasion], because I couldn't fully control the skill, the yin energy and ghosts in the gaps would rush out instantly, tearing apart everything in front of me, creating an effect similar to a shockwave.

Now, as his body repair progresses, his skill proficiency has improved significantly, allowing him to control the flow of Yin energy and the ghosts in the crevices as if they were his own arms.

So Zhou Fangdong manipulated those ghosts and monsters to build himself a downward staircase.

He had expected the vengeful ghosts to each contribute an arm or a leg to make a staircase for him. But to his surprise, the ghosts took initiative and all raised their hands high... He didn't know if they did it on purpose or by accident, but to be honest, those hands were so narrow, it really tested his balance.

As he walked down those jagged, ghostly hands, his slow pace wasn't to create a spectacle or deliberately delay things; it was purely out of fear of slipping and falling headfirst to the ground, causing him great embarrassment.

Before heading down, Zhou Fangdong even activated his [Heavenly Eye] skill to prevent himself from misstepping due to poor eyesight.

...He appeared expressionless, but in reality, he genuinely didn't know what expression to make.

Damn it, where did all these people come from? And of all times, they showed up to watch him during his first skill demonstration. Luckily, he's prone to facial paralysis when he's nervous, otherwise he would have really embarrassed himself in front of his tenants.

Zhou Fangdong stood expressionless as he confronted the inspectors.

It will take some time to completely transform the Supervisory Bureau Hospital into an apartment complex using Yin energy. Therefore, although the hospital building has returned to reality, he still needs to maintain the [Dead Zone Invasion] skill.

So he has to stay on the top floor for a while.

What annoyed Zhou Fangdong was that even after he stepped down from the sky, the group of people still stared at him in shock, as if he were some kind of magical creature.

This made him even more nervous than before.

Damn it, what are you all standing there for? Aren't you going to clean up the scene and comfort the wounded? Zhou Fangdong muttered to himself in annoyance as he kicked one of the evil god's clones away.

He took the remains of the ancient god, so the members of the Bone Inheritance Society could no longer create new evil god clone cores. He also took the stockpiled cores behind the remains. These evil god clones on the top floor were probably all the evil god's reserves in the Mirror World.

It seems the evil god is truly well-prepared to kill all the doctors and patients in the Inspection Bureau Hospital.

If he succeeds, it will indeed be a very serious blow to the supervisory bureau.

It's just a pity that I met him.

He accepted the remaining avatar of the evil god with a smile, despite the small gift being a gift of great sentiment.

Watching the mysterious landlord of Liwan Apartments come down and silently clean up the evil god's clone like a model worker, the head of the operations department finally came to his senses.

He said cautiously, "Landlord, you..."

"I came here for my tenants." Before he could finish speaking, Zhou Fangdong interrupted him, "When my tenants came to the hospital for treatment, the hospital building was dragged into the mirror world by an evil god, and they were all drawn into the evil god's domain, so I came to see what happened."

Zhou Fangdong directly pointed out that the 'evil god is the culprit,' as he didn't want to take the blame for that guy's corruption of the hospital.

...Ahem, although he is now also infiltrating the hospital, it's different.

As soon as Zhou Fangdong finished speaking, three system pop-ups appeared simultaneously.

[Tenant Hong Zhong in Room 106 has reached 100% favorability. Please claim your favorability reward promptly.]

[Tenant Yin Xi in Room 205 has reached 80% favorability. Please claim your favorability reward promptly.]

[The favorability rating of tenant Su Wan in room 206 has reached 80. Please claim the favorability reward in time.]

Seeing these three pop-up windows, Zhou Fangdong felt a little better.

It's always the tenants who are the most considerate.

“We are very grateful for your help in bringing the overrunning hospital building back to reality as quickly as possible.” The head of the operations department remained respectful. “However… could you please retract that crack in the sky? The vengeful spirits and yin energy surging out of it could harm the patients in the building.”

After saying those words, he was prepared to die.

After all, making a request of someone with such terrifying power is definitely a serious offense.

“These ghosts and yin energy are all under my control and will not harm ordinary people,” Zhou Fangdong said calmly. “I just need this hospital to become a supporting facility for Liwan Apartments. Once the renovation is complete, the gap on the top floor will naturally disappear.”

Your hospital is very good, but it's mine now.

Upon hearing this, all the investigators from the Operations Department present turned deathly pale, their faces displaying the same expression of terror.

...Does "becoming part of the surrounding facilities of Liwan Apartments" mean turning the hospital into something like the Liwan Apartments?

Seeing their expressions, Zhou Fangdong smiled and said, "What are you afraid of?"

"With the shelter of the apartment, the hospital no longer needs to worry about being invaded by ghosts or monsters, or attacked by evil gods or deities... This will be the safest place besides the Liwan Apartment."

His voice was deliberately lowered, like the whisper of a demon tempting people to commit taboos: "It's just about assimilating the hospital into the Liwan Apartments; I won't interfere with the hospital's daily operations."

"The hospital is the most important logistical facility of the Bureau of Inspection. Investigators and ordinary people injured in paranormal events are isolated and treated here, so it is also the concentrated point of firepower to suffer the retribution of evil gods."

"If I don't intervene, both the doctors and patients in the hospital will become sacrifices to the evil god..."

Zhou Fangdong used his toes to lift up a clump of evil god clones.

As he moved, the mud stiffly turned over. The countless human faces on its surface, like fish out of water, opened and closed their mouths, their expressions terrified and desperate.

"You all witnessed the appearance of these evil god avatars, didn't you?"

The Minister of Operations' expression changed several times, as if he wanted to say something, but suddenly the Minister of Research stepped on his foot forcefully.

He silently swallowed the words he hadn't said.

Indeed, there's nothing wrong with being sheltered by an apartment.

If it weren't for the sudden appearance of this mysterious landlord, they would have been wiped out here.

The evil god's clone was like an ordinary lump of mud in front of the landlord, but to them, it was a terrible natural disaster that would require a heavy price to clean up.

Moreover, there are not just one, but more than ten.

Even if they manage to bring the hospital back to reality using their own power, these evil god clones will also return.

He couldn't even imagine the devastating casualties these things would cause in the densely populated city center.

Moreover, they have witnessed the changes in the Liwan Apartment since the incident.

Like the oversight bureau, the apartment complex is on the side of humanity.

The landlord cleaned up cultists and cleared out the main god's copy. Judging by actions, not intentions, and considering how much the apartment had helped them, they shouldn't question the past deeds of the Liwan Apartment, since the apartment didn't have a landlord before.

Does this mean the apartment is turning for the better?

But his only worry was whether this was the calm before the storm.

On the surface, it's about the apartment eliminating the evil god and siding with humanity. In reality, it's about eliminating dissidents, monopolizing the world, and completely transforming it into the old Liwan Apartment, causing all humans to be in extreme emotional states, killing each other, and allowing ghosts and monsters to harm people without restraint.

Can they really trust Liwan Apartments?

“This matter is of great importance, and we need to discuss it with the director…” The head of the operations department was still making a last-ditch effort, only to be stomped on again by the head of the research department.

Zhou Fangdong was somewhat helpless.

Although the Bureau of Supervision is a friendly force, asking them to deliver such an important logistical facility seems a bit too much to ask.

Sigh, it's still because the favorability and reputation levels aren't high enough. If I had raised enough before taking action, these people wouldn't have questioned me at all.

...But even if you question it, it's useless.

The system's electronic notification sounded:

[The Yin energy invasion has been successful; the Supervisory Bureau Hospital has been successfully transformed into [Liwan Hospital], a facility near Liwan Apartments.]

Upon hearing the system notification, Zhou Fangdong deactivated [Dead Domain Invasion]. The terrifying crimson crack in the sky disappeared, the blood-red light enveloping the hospital building vanished, and the vengeful ghosts that had appeared inside the hospital along with the blood river also disappeared.

Everything seemed unchanged, but the feeling was very strange, with a chilling sensation following you like a shadow.

Placing a ghost tenant inside [Liwan Hospital] will allow the hospital to function normally. Afterward, apartment tenants can be directly transported to the hospital via the ghost bus.

"System, assign the ghost tenant, Ke Yan, to work at [Liwan Hospital]."

[The "ghost tenant" Ke Yan and [Liwan Hospital] have a 70% match rate]

[The ghost tenant has been successfully placed. Working hours are 8:00 AM to 5:00 PM.]

[The floor plan for [Liwan Hospital] is now unlocked and can be viewed in the rental preview interface.]

[A normally functioning hospital has been detected in the apartment. The recipes for [Psychiatric Potion], [Healing Potion], and [Stamina Recovery Potion] have been unlocked. You can control the ghost tenant to make the potions in the hospital's pharmacy, or you can purchase them directly from the system shop.]

A new way to increase your apartment reputation has been unlocked: for every patient you successfully treat at [Liwan Hospital], you will receive a varying amount of apartment reputation points.

Treating special patients may yield rare potion recipes.

[Special patients may be directly converted into tenants of Liwan Apartments after recovery.]

[The Liwan Hospital morgue has been added to the lottery page prize pool. The host can draw doctor ghosts on the lottery page to make up for the hospital's shortage of doctors.]

[The derivative jobs for the "Lamp Oil Worker" creation page have been unlocked. You can now control the Ghost Tenant, Ke Yan, to create hospital nurses, hospital caregivers, and hospital cleaners from corpses in the hospital morgue.]

[Note: Hiring a doctor ghost requires paying ghost coins or offering incense as wages; corpse workers do not require wages.]

Zhou Fangdong's expression immediately turned serious after seeing the message that "treating patients will increase the apartment's reputation."

He desperately needs prestige right now, and this is a great thing that can create an absolutely safe zone in the apartment. He absolutely cannot give up this hospital.

Zhou Fangdong's attitude suddenly hardened: "Whether you trust me or not, this hospital is now [Liwan Hospital]. The doctors and patients here are mine. Don't let me find out that you've been secretly transferring my patients... This is an order, not a request."

After saying that, he ignored the head of the operations department and walked up to Yin Xi, buying a newly unlocked advanced healing potion from the system shop to use on the girl.

The wounds on Yin Xi's hands and body disappeared at a speed visible to the naked eye. To her surprise, she also found that some of her old wounds had also disappeared.

Aside from being underweight and somewhat malnourished, she felt healthier than ever before.

After treating Yin Xi, Zhou Fangdong felt a pulling sensation in his body, which he knew meant that his descent skill was about to expire.

It seems the amulet and the [finished homework] will have to wait until the two tenants return to the apartment before giving them to them.

Before disappearing, Zhou Fangdong packed up and took away all the evil god clones on the rooftop as quickly as possible.

As the erosion of authority progresses, the system extracts clone cores much faster than before, no longer requiring the long loading time seen in the Penghu Home incident.

Basically, Zhou Fangdong only needed to step on it once for the system to successfully extract the cores. After taking a dozen or so steps, the system had collected all the cores, cleaning them up just before the Descent skill expired.

As Zhou Fangdong's figure disappeared, the head of the action department breathed a heavy sigh of relief.

The head of the research department rolled his eyes at him and said irritably, "Still on guard? To be honest, that's the thing I hate most about you. If it weren't for the pain in my hand when I slapped you, I would have slapped you right now."

“All the investigators in your entire operations department have this problem; they all habitually overthink things and are always hesitant. You saw how terrifying that landlord's strength was just now. Such terrifying power is completely at the level of a natural disaster; even an evil god's avatar wouldn't dare to move in front of him.”

“I told you long ago, people with this kind of power disdain any schemes or tricks. After all, in the face of absolute power, any resistance is insignificant. He will do whatever he wants directly, and the current hospital is the best proof of that.”

As soon as he finished speaking, the head of the research department handed his phone to the head of the operations department so that he could check it.

The phone screen displayed a message: the hospital staff had already reported to the supervisory bureau that everyone was safe and there were no casualties.

In addition to the message that everyone was safe, the message also included many pictures—past hospital news pages, screenshots of live hospital surveillance footage, a floor plan of the hospital corridors, and a picture of the building's facade.

In these images, all the text that once read "[Supervisory Bureau Hospital]" has been changed to "[Liwan Hospital]".

Some uncontrollable and bizarre force distorted reality, turning the Supervisory Bureau Hospital into an integral part of the Liwan Apartments.

This is a shared message, with the Director of the Oversight Bureau's reply below: [Maintain normal hospital operations, keep the status quo, do not relocate doctors or patients for the time being, and do not anger the landlord.]

"See? The transformation that landlord mentioned is a complete transformation. Whether in the past or present, this hospital has become part of Liwan Apartments. That landlord has shown his power, and now it's our turn to show our attitude... I suspect that what that landlord really wants is not the hospital, but the disciplinary inspection bureau's allegiance."

The head of the research department nodded at the director's reply: "The director shares my stance—rather than provoke such a terrifying being, it's better to lie down openly, completely side with him, and utterly submit to him. That landlord has never done anything to harm humans; in fact, we've always profited from what he does. One can't have it all. To receive help from someone and then be wary and question them—what's the difference between that and criticizing the cook after you've eaten your fill?"

The head of operations returned the phone to him, looking somewhat ashamed: "You're right, I do habitually overthink things, and almost caused a serious accident."

The head of the research department waved his hand. “Don’t dwell on what’s already done. We can make up for it later. Let’s go down and clean up the site. Although the hospital has been converted into Liwan Apartment, I still need to check the original hospital’s protective facilities to see if they are damaged… And I have a strange feeling that I’m going to encounter something really unpleasant in the hospital. I hope it’s just my imagination.”

*

[The host's reputation within the Bureau of Inspection has increased by 666 points, and the Bureau of Inspection has been upgraded from a friendly force to an absolutely friendly force.]

All buildings within the Bureau of Oversight are open to the host. The host can freely modify buildings or relocate Bureau members. Once modified, the host will be fully responsible for building maintenance and member salaries.

The system can freely access sealed items in the Bureau of Supervision's internal warehouse.

[Hint: The host can use the Bureau of Supervision's publicity resources to promote the apartment's online store]

Upon seeing these system pop-ups, Zhou Fangdong's inexplicable displeasure after returning from the hospital vanished instantly.

The supervisory bureau is actually quite good; this is too generous.

However, he doesn't have any plans to renovate right now, nor does he want to incur building maintenance costs or pay survey staff salaries. Promoting the online store can wait; he has more important things to do right now.

After the Descent skill was deactivated, Zhou Fangdong returned to the hidden room on the second floor of the apartment.

He planned to use his physical body to actively search for that evil god in the mirror world.

Zhou Fangdong now knows just how strong he is and is bursting with confidence.

He decided to take advantage of the fact that the evil god was still an underdeveloped and deformed child, and then focus on dealing with the main god.

Otherwise, under his pressure, the two guys might choose to temporarily reconcile and join forces to deal with the apartment.