It was Magic Fairy Castle who escaped from the second floor.

She looked terrified, as if she had seen something extremely terrifying. She staggered on tiptoe, the shadow behind her twisted strangely, and the flashlight kept flickering, and finally it could not hold on and went out with a "pop".

Before the shadows could surge up and completely submerge her, she ducked into the nurses' station.

Even as the ghosts retreated like the tide, Magic Fairy Castle was still staring at his own shadow, gasping for breath: "When I checked the last room, my flashlight ran out of battery, and I had to react quickly and stand on tiptoe, otherwise I would have been grabbed by the heels and dragged into the darkness..."

"What did you see?"

"I felt something moving in the corridor, and when I turned around, I found it was my own shadow. It tried to grab my ankle and climb up..." She almost cried, "What a weird thing! Upstairs is too dangerous, I don't want to go up there in my lifetime."

After listening to her words, Xie Yu handed over a cup of warm water that she had prepared in advance, and said, "You've worked hard. Take a rest first."

"Thank you, you are such a nice person."

Magic Fairy Castle gave him a good guy card with red eyes.

After drinking two large glasses of water, she calmed down and asked him, "By the way, did you find any clues when you were checking the ward?"

Xie Yu shook his head, and the boy in the pink nursing uniform had dim eyes. "Maybe the key clues are on the third floor or above."

Magic Fairy Castle's smooth and round nails rubbed the wall of the disposable paper cup. Seeing the other party's lost look, she comforted him in return: "It's good that we can come back safely. Clues are not that easy to find. Let's talk to them tomorrow."

Xie Yu also had the same idea, so she nodded happily, "Okay."

After he finished speaking, the two looked at each other in silence for a while.

They had only known each other for a few hours, and they could not guarantee complete trust. So they sat on either side of the nurses' station, one staring at the ink-stained patient registration form, the other staring at the red-lettered safety rules in his hand, and guarding against sudden attacks from ghosts.

After persisting until four in the morning, Xie Yu suddenly felt the urge to urinate.

He spoke to the obviously depressed Moxianbao, but he didn't hear clearly what the other party said.

He turned around, picked up the flashlight, walked out of the nurses' station, and went up to the second floor.

Each ward used a metal feces bucket, and the bathroom was also a very plain old-fashioned toilet. It had been abandoned for so many years, so one couldn't expect it to be very clean. It took Xie Yu a long time to come out of it, and he felt completely sober.

He washed his hands, looked back at the dead silent and desolate corridor, and walked to the stairs leading to the third floor of the mental hospital with a flashlight. The inky darkness could swallow up the light source, and visibility was only a small area under his feet, but when he got closer, he could still barely see something.

No wonder the rules say that the third floor is the territory of the dean and the attending physician.

The staircase leading to the second floor is very interesting. Every inch of the steps is painted red. Every two or three steps, a thin red string is pulled up with a bronze bell hanging on it. It looks weird and evil.

It looked like a formation set up to block something.

Xie Yu glanced down at the camera hanging around his neck and suddenly made a bold decision. He planned to go back to those wards. Although he already had a vague guess in his mind, he still needed to confirm it.

Without further ado, he took out a bunch of brass lock keys from his trouser pocket. The key chain jingled as metal collided with metal.

He checked the wards in turn in the same way as he did the first time.

But practice makes perfect, and this time he spent half the time.

This time, the old man in Ward 1 did not toss and turn, and slept peacefully. But when I checked Ward 5, the low bed was empty, and Patient 5 was missing. The patient in Ward 7 was still sitting there like a sculpture, and it seemed that he had not moved for several hours.

Xie Yu came out of the last ward and locked the door with a "click".

The corridor was empty and silent, when a female voice suddenly sounded behind him.

"How did you get into Ward 7?" The petite girl appeared behind him at some point, her nose almost touching his spine. Her round eyes were dark and her tone was full of strong disapproval.

"You entered Ward 7 without permission. What if you violated the rules? Do you want everyone to die with you?"

Xie Yu looked at her calmly for a while. He did not answer this question, but instead brought up another topic. "I just discovered a secret. Do you know why the code says 'For internal personnel only, do not disclose to irrelevant personnel'?"

Magic Fairy Castle: “?”

She was a little annoyed: "Don't change the subject!"

Xie Yu continued to talk to herself: "Later, I finally figured it out. You guys, no, you - you actually can't see the rules, right?"

"What nonsense are you talking about?" Moxianbao looked at him as if he were a madman, and said sharply: "Have you been contaminated by Ward 7? If I don't know the rules, then why do I know that we only need to enter the ward twice?"

"There are only three people entering the Rules Strange Talk this time, but there are four of us here. The red cabinet, the rules written in red font, the red medical records, the red rags... I was wondering why there were so many red things here."

"Then I figured it out. You couldn't touch your locker because you couldn't see your locker at all. The red medical record book was in the drawer but you didn't even look at it because your face was covered with a red cloth, covering your eyes...right, Sun Lan!"

The moment the name was called out, Xie Yu heard the familiar ding sound as she wished.

[Ding! Congratulations, you have identified the ghost Sun Lan and gained a 4-hour safety period in the Ghost Story World! (05:00-09:00)]

After he said this, the girl's expression had turned gloomy.

The round, apple-like face began to crack, revealing the deep red raised patches inside.

Her fingers also began to deform, with nodules covering the gaps between them and even webbed-like things growing on them, causing severe deformities.

She giggled and said in a hoarse voice: "Oh, you found out..."

Sun Lan suddenly raised his head, revealing his eyes that were all white. "Since you've discovered it, then you can stay..."

A cold wind suddenly blew in the corridor, and the darkness around them seemed to surge and jump with vitality. However, Xie Yu remained motionless, letting the cold wind blow his hair. "I didn't break the rules."