"Hi~" Yu Xiao greeted Qiaoqiao warmly, "I'm back again, did you miss me?"

Qiaoqiao sat on the ground, staring at her blankly like a little idiot, forgetting the language.

"Eh~" Yu Xiao said in disgust, "Why are you still so unhygienic? Don't sit on the ground, get up quickly."

She turned around in place and showed a nostalgic smile, "This place is still the same as before, so nostalgic."

"The broken walls have been repaired." Yu Xiao walked and looked, "Is everyone still the same? Hey, Qiaoqiao, where are you going? Walk with me."

Qiaoqiao had to take her fingers out of her mouth and put them in her pocket to walk with Yu Xiao.

Her not-so-experienced mind told her that patients who left St. Elizabeth's would never come back. What was going on with this person? How did she do it? Why was she wearing a white coat? Was she really the dean?

Yu Xiao walked to the nurses' station. There was no one outside the nurses' station, so she walked to the door, suddenly opened it and shouted, "Surprise! I'm back again!"

The nurses who were gathered in the nurses' station to discuss what to eat in the evening turned their heads in fear. When they saw the person at the door, they turned their heads again in fear, their necks twisted into a knot.

"Huh?" Yu Xiao's smile froze, "Why don't you look at me?"

The nurses: "..."

So the nurses had to turn their heads back again, each with a blood-red mouth, stiffly smiling at Yu Xiao. If you ignore the 360-degree rotation of their necks, the scene looks quite heartwarming.

"Everyone is still the same as before." Yu Xiao expressed relief, "I am relieved to see that you are still the same as before. By the way, where is George?"

The nurses opened their mouths in a hurry to speak, but their necks were twisted into a ball, and they couldn't make any sound. They had to point in the direction of George's office.

"Oh, he is still in the office." Yu Xiao nodded, "I will go find him."

She left the nurses' station, and the nurses finally let go of their worries. They held each other's hands and celebrated their survival.

When Yu Xiao was about to walk to George's office, she suddenly thought of something. In the past, she went to the office to see George, but now the situation has changed. She should wait for George to come to see her in her own office.

Thinking of this, she hummed with satisfaction, turned around and saw Qiaoqiao tiptoeing against the wall.

"Qiaoqiao~" Yu Xiao called her.

Qiaoqiao stuck to the wall stiffly, and heard the scary voice: "Go find George and ask him to come to my office to find me."

After that, Yu Xiao turned around proudly, humming a little tune and walking to the first floor step by step.

When she reached the first floor, Yu Xiao saw a huge portrait of herself. She thought to herself that this would not work. Wouldn't anyone who came here be able to see what she looked like? No, the portrait must be covered.

She walked to the door of the dean's office, turned the doorknob gently, and the door opened.

The furnishings inside were exactly the same as before. The last time Yu Xiao came, she left in a hurry. This time, she first walked around the office, and then sat on the dean's chair. She picked up the pen on the table and twirled it between her fingertips, waiting leisurely for George to come.

Not long after, footsteps were heard outside.

"Knock, knock, knock!"

You didn't have to guess who was knocking on the door. Yu Xiao restrained her smile and said, "The door is not closed, come in."

George, wearing a white coat and gold-rimmed glasses, walked in with a pale face. As always, his face was expressionless. After he came in and saw Yu Xiao staring at him from behind the desk, George's eyes twitched but he said nothing.

"You're still the same as before, you haven't changed at all." Yu Xiao held his chin with one hand, "You were so anxious to get me back, now I'm back, are you happy?"

George didn't want to be happy or not, he wanted to crush the head of the person in front of him, then take out the brain and eat it.

Oh, no, I can't eat it. George thought, if he ate such a brain, he would be ruined.

"The first batch of patients will arrive tomorrow morning after the hospital is renovated." George said seriously, "Everything will remain the same as before. When they try to enter the dean's office, you must be here."

"Okay, people already know." Yu Xiao said, "Then what should I do? Hide in the office like my predecessor and go out and kill whoever knocks on the door?"

George's eyes twitched again, and he said, "The conditions for opening the dean's office and the conditions for stamping the discharge report are all decided by the dean himself. You don't need to ask me."

"Really?" Yu Xiao became excited, her eyes lit up instantly, "I can do whatever I want?"

George glanced at her and added, "Of course, you can't stop patients from reporting you afterwards."

"Hmph." Yu Xiao glared at him, "I didn't expect you to be so petty and still hold a grudge?"

"..."

Qiao Zhi felt that communicating with her was simply a torture. He endured it for a while, but couldn't help it, and turned to leave.

"Wait." Yu Xiao stopped him.

Qiao Zhi turned around.

Yu Xiao raised his eyebrows, "Why don't you have any manners? Call the dean to hear it."

...

Watching Qiao Zhi leave, Yu Xiao couldn't stop laughing.

At this time, the cell phone rang, and after answering the call, Yu Xiao still couldn't suppress his smile, "Hello? Who is it?"

Luo Jin on the other end of the phone heard the smile in her voice and couldn't help wondering, what made her so happy?

"Did you receive the express delivery?" Luo Jin asked.

"Ah?" Yu Xiao then remembered that she hadn't received a courier yet. "Oh, I'm not in the ward now, and I haven't seen the courier yet."

Where else could she be if not in the ward? She didn't play any dungeons today.

"You..." Luo Jin wanted to ask her where she was, but then he thought about how their relationship wasn't that close, so he didn't ask again. Instead, he said, "Since you haven't received the courier yet, let's talk about the props later. Now I have a question for you."

Yu Xiao felt quite surprised. Luo Jin talked a lot today. "What's the question?"

"What do you think of the hospital?" Luo Jin asked.

Yu Xiao was stunned. The hospital that Luo Jin was talking about was definitely not an ordinary hospital, but the place where they were now. Although she didn't understand why he asked that, Yu Xiao thought about it for a while and said, "It's amazing, scary, and full of opportunities at the same time."

"What chance?"

"The chance to stay alive." Yu Xiao said, "That's the case for me."

There was silence for a moment, then Luo Jin said, "Me too."

Yu Xiao: "Hmm?"

"That's the case for me, too." Luo Jin said, "I don't know if you've noticed that all the people who enter the hospital are terminally ill patients."

Yu Xiao hadn't done any research on this, but she had guessed, "I can probably guess a little."

Luo Jin said, "Then I don't know if you know that all the people who enter the hospital are young people under the age of 35."

"Hmm?" Yu Xiao really didn't know, "Really?"

"At least all the patients I've met so far are." Luo Jin said.

Luo Jin is an old man in the Fourth Hospital, and he must know more than she does. Yu Xiao knew that what Luo Jin was going to say next must be very important, and she sat up straight unconsciously.

"I have been in the Fourth Hospital for several years." Luo Jin's voice was a little low, "From a newcomer who knew nothing at the beginning, to always being in the top three in the points list. These years we have not only cleared one dungeon after another, we have also tried to find out the truth about the hospital. For example, why does the hospital exist, what is the meaning of its existence, and is there anyone who can leave the hospital."

Yu Xiao listened to this quietly, and she asked, "Did you find the answer?"

"Originally I only had some guesses, until one time in a dungeon, I met someone from the First Hospital."

"First Hospital?" They were the first group of people to enter the hospital.

"He told me that someone left the hospital." Luo Jin said, "Not dead, but escaped, completely escaped from the hospital."

Yu Xiao: "How did he do that?"

"I'm not sure." Luo Jin said, "From what he said, this hospital is actually an opportunity for all young people whose lives are about to come to an end. If you can accumulate enough time in the hospital, you can leave the hospital and live for a long time in the real world like a healthy person."

"Then...how much time is enough time?" Unconsciously, the sweat from Yu Xiao's palms had stained the phone.

"I don't know." Luo Jin paused and said, "But we guess it should be seventy years old."

"Why?"

"Seventy years old is already old, and death should be a normal thing for a seventy-year-old." Luo Jin's voice was also a little confused, "Of course this is just our guess. After all, no one I know has left the hospital..."

After finishing the phone call, Yu Xiao's mood became unusually heavy. Since she came to the Sixth Hospital, she didn't have much time to think. She didn't think about what the meaning of this hospital is, and she didn't even think about leaving here.

She just wanted to earn more points so that she could live longer.

Luo Jin's words made her start to think about things she hadn't thought about before. Can they really leave here? After leaving, can I still have enough time to live to old age like a healthy person?

She raised her hand and rolled up her sleeves. The time on her wrist had stopped, stopping at the position of more than 20 days left.

Seventy years old...

How many days does it take to be seventy years old? How many points are needed...

Yu Xiao's mind was confused, but she knew that the number must be very large. So large that the hospital still exists today, and some of the first batch of people who entered this hospital are still unable to leave

. It doesn't matter, Yu Xiao suddenly raised the corners of her mouth.

She is not afraid of the difficulty of accumulating points, but she is afraid of not having the opportunity. As long as she can survive, she is not afraid of how much time it takes or how many difficulties she has to go through!

When Yu Xiao returned to the ward, Zhao Lan and Zhou Xiaozhen were having dinner. Seeing her suddenly appear in the ward, Zhou Xiaozhen waved happily, "You're back? Just right, time to eat."

Yu Xiao didn't take off her white coat, rolled up her sleeves and sat over to eat together.

Zhao Lan said, "Luo Jin's express delivery has arrived. If you didn't come back, we wouldn't have sent the talisman to them."

"Yeah." Yu Xiao nodded, "I just talked to Luo Jin at St. Elizabeth's, and he... told me something."

"What is it?" Zhou Xiaozhen asked vaguely with rice in her mouth.

"Let's talk about it after dinner." Yu Xiao felt that this topic was not suitable to talk about during dinner, as it would easily cause indigestion.

She then asked: "Have you ever thought about what will happen after you get out?"

"Get out?" Zhou Xiaozhen was confused, "Where to go?"

"Leave the Sixth Hospital and return to the real world."