This door was probably specially designed by Mrs. Yada for the laboratory. It's quite good, and it's finally come in handy.

Xi Xi pressed herself against the metal door. The second floor, with its broken skylight, was exceptionally cold, the low temperature causing her eyelashes to crystallize.

The light outside the window seemed to have dimmed considerably, and it was estimated that the overwhelming blizzard had long since extinguished the campfire.

Soon, Xi Xi heard a series of sounds of windows being smashed.

"It seems that sometimes making the windows too tightly sealed isn't a good thing..." Xi Xi thought to herself as she touched the black mask in front of her nose.

The tremor from the smashed window caused the refrigerator on the second floor to shake as well. Xi Xi saw several vials of "β-blocker" fall down not far away, the dark blue liquid flowing down the glass door and spreading out like starry spots on the floor.

Hurried footsteps echoed in the hallway.

As expected, this man was quite intelligent; he knew he could escape from the upper level or find the antidote on the second level.

With a loud "bang," the sound of the door being slammed open came from behind.

Xi Xi peeked through the crack in the door and saw the female doctor being choked and pinned against the wall by her husband, her head smashed open.

“Your good brother Miyano…cough cough…offered me triple pay,” the female doctor said, digging her fingertips into her husband’s thick hand, “He’s been wanting to replace you for a long time…you idiot…”

The man suddenly let go, and the female doctor slid to the ground like a rag doll. Looking at the blocked iron gate, she murmured to herself, "Heaven is helping me."

The pig-man, dragging his enormous body, stumbled and crashed into the stair railing, his jade ring sparking as it scraped against the metal.

"The antidote." The man's jade ring emitted bursts of green light, forcefully blocking his wife's gaze, and he began to repeat himself like a broken record, "I, Yada Yuki, voluntarily gave the antidote to my husband, and then committed suicide due to depression after the experiment failed."

“I, Yada Yuki, voluntarily gave the antidote to my husband, and then committed suicide due to depression after the experiment failed… I, Yada Yuki…” Mrs. Yada convulsed in the poisonous fog, staring blankly ahead.

As she muttered to herself, she reached into the collar of her white coat, pulled out a syringe, and quickly inserted it into her husband's neck.

Yada Tsukasa did not feel better; on the contrary, he had even more difficulty breathing.

"Surprised, my dear?" Mrs. Yada bit her tongue to stay awake with the pain, a trickle of blood flowing from the corner of her mouth. "I added a beta-blocker to the poison."

"What a pity, your so-called 'anti-evil' didn't work~ Hahahahahaha..."

Before she could finish speaking, her husband kicked her in the chest.

The syringe rolled into the crack of the door, and Xi Xi listened to the conversation between the two, finally understanding the whole story.

It turns out that the supposedly miraculous "anti-evil" technique is just hypnosis! It has absolutely nothing to do with whether someone was killed or whether there was any evil energy present!

The same thing happened with the Indian guy in server 2190 who died at the hands of the Yamato Guard. It wasn't some kind of karmic retribution, but rather a reasonable and justifiable reason that he made up for killing someone.

Wow, that really fits Xi Xi's stereotype of Xiao Ziqi as cunning and vicious!

The β-blocker in the second-floor cold storage was clearly a drug developed by Mrs. Yada herself, which could resist hypnosis. Using the name of a drug for mental illness was just a cover-up.

In this way, she could counterbalance her husband's hypnotic techniques and prevent him from monopolizing wealth and resources.

On the other hand, the fat man, whose social status in the original world was inferior to that of his wife, has now transformed into a high-ranking member of the organization. He has long harbored resentment towards his wife, but due to her drug-induced methods, he can only be forced to submit and pretend to be a harmonious couple.

"..."

Damn it, I can't stand you idiotic couples who always jump at each other. Being single is definitely safer, and remaining unmarried and childless preserves your intelligence.

Xi Xi squatted behind the iron gate in the stairwell, listening to the middle-aged couple below bickering like chickens, feeling like she was watching an eight o'clock family drama.

Xi Xi ignored them and began to examine the refrigerator, deciding to collect some special medicines first.

She first stole all the beta-blockers from the cold storage, and then used the female doctor's expensive silk scarf as a packing cloth.

A moment later, Xi Xi opened the iron gate. What she saw was the pig-man's disgusting face and the middle-aged female doctor beside him, whose flesh was mangled and lifeless.

When Yada Tsukasa, who was weak from the poison gas, saw Xi Xi, he was first shocked, and then a huge fear rose in his eyes.

The woman in front of me had the face of a middle-aged woman, but her behavior was that of a nimble young person. Her face was covered in bruises, which was quite strange, and she was wearing a strangely styled black mask.

"Stop!" The man suddenly sprang to his feet, his jade ring flashing green like a disco dance. He gritted his teeth and raised his head. "Which organization sent you?!"

Xi Xi calmly took out sunglasses from the golden lucky bag inside her coat and put them on. Then she poured all the broken medicine bottles on the man's face: "Uncle, this trick of yours doesn't even work on old men buying health supplements. Get a new one~"

As she spoke, she used the medical stirring stick she had borrowed from the second floor to lift his chubby hand, "Can I borrow this ring to play with?"

"Get out!" Before the man could finish speaking, Xi Xi had already used surgical scissors to remove the ring. The fleshy groove pressed into her fat finger by the ring looked just like a sausage.

[Item Hint: A remnant of individual culture. The emitted light can impede the opponent's vision for 3 seconds.]

Hmm? It wasn't the ring that hypnotized him? The ring was just a tool?!

Xi Xi was stunned for a moment, but after seeing the obvious smugness in Yada Tsukasa's eyes, she understood.

"Yada Tsukasa, right? Tsk tsk..." Xi Xi glanced at him with a regretful look, then sighed and resorted to her old trick, "Dare to make a bet with me?"

Unfortunately, no matter how much Xi Xi tried to provoke him, Yada Tsukasa remained silent, lying on the ground, seemingly wary of Xi Xi's words.

Tsk, the old man is still quite defensive.

When Xi Xi found five relics of Yamato culture on Yada Tsukasa and removed the "dog chain" from the neck of the dead maid, the pig man finally couldn't hold back anymore.

"Hahahaha... Just you wait!" Yada Tsukasa coughed up blood, his eyes bloodshot as he stared intently at Xi Xi. "My subordinates are coming soon... cough cough..."

Xi Xi first weighed the dog leash in her hand, surprised that this guy was also a cultural relic! Then she glanced at Yada Tsukasa indifferently and said something ambiguous yet infuriating:

"I'm hoping they won't come. Lord Miyano and Lady Rui Xiaomin are waiting for me to return."

As expected, Yada Tsukasa was so angry at Xi Xi's words that he couldn't catch his breath. He remembered his wife's mockery before she died, and his heart clenched, his eyes rolled back and he passed out.

"Holy crap, he's already dead from anger?!" Xi Xi kicked the pig-man twice in disbelief. She was just casually teasing him, following Mrs. Yada's tone.

Sigh, I really can't take a joke...