Lin Xuezhu, in his white coat, was tall and slender, with one hand in his pocket and the other holding a medical chart.

Jessie, on the other hand, was massive and bulky, the ground shaking with every step he took.

As Jessie walked, the lights in the dining hall flickered due to the vibrations, as if they had a loose connection.

But Jessie was only scary in appearance; the one who truly made everyone afraid was the person in charge of the mental hospital – Sister Ishmael.

The nun walked calmly to the dead player, whose head and face had been parasitized by the octopus, looking like a pot of bean sprouts swaying in the wind.

Seeing the player’s appearance, the nun’s expression didn’t change at all, as if she was used to it.

Lin Xuezhu recorded something in the medical chart with his pen, his expression was also calm, with not even a frown on his face.

The nun looked up and looked at each of the new patients, one by one. There were now only eleven left, including the little dumpling being held in someone’s arms.

In one night, one player had been lost, and another had been crippled by Jessie.

Gu Rong was being held by Zhuang Yu, a tiny little bundle. Seeing the nun look over, he cocked his little head and politely greeted her: “Hello, Sister Auntie.”

Zaizai remembered that Chief Morrison had introduced her, this was Ishma…eh? Ish-“ant” Sister. (TN: Gu Rong is misremembering & mispronouncing Ishmael’s name.)

After greeting the nun, Gu Rong knew to be fair and also greeted Lin Xuezhu in the white coat: “Hello, Doctor Uncle.”

Hearing the word “Auntie,” the nun’s expression softened considerably, and she even nodded slightly in acknowledgment to Gu Rong.

Lin Xuezhu’s temperament was cold, like thin snow on a high mountain. Hearing the words “Doctor Uncle,” the pen he was using to record in the medical chart paused for a moment.

Only Jessie, who was left out, thought: “…”

Was he not worthy or something?! This little Zaizai!

Everyone watched Gu Rong’s interaction with the NPCs and couldn’t help but admire little Zaizai’s social skills.

These were clearly important NPCs, and this little Zaizai wasn’t afraid at all.

The nun looked at everyone and said solemnly, “The Saint Mary’s Mental Hospital practices vegetarianism.”

Shen Hanxiao poked Zhuang Yu: “Damn, it really is vegetarianism.”

The nun gave him an expressionless look.

Shen Hanxiao shut up and made a zipping motion across his mouth.

Zhuang Yu, holding Gu Rong, who was drinking milk, moved to the side, distancing himself.

The nun withdrew her gaze and continued coldly, “Killing is the act of Satan. Whoever eats meat will die, and whoever eats meat will go to hell.”

With that, she turned her head and gestured for Jessie to take away the player who had become an octopus breeding ground.

Without a word, Jessie lifted the player upside down by one hand, head dragging on the ground, and dragged him away, like he was dragging a broken mop.

Jessie dragged the player by the legs into the elevator. The elevator doors closed, even snipping off two small sections of tentacles.

Two small sections of tentacles fell to the ground, still writhing and coiling.

Everyone’s faces became even more unsightly.

Shen Hanxiao said, “Wait a minute, where is the bristle monster taking him?”

Everyone: “…”

Bristle monster? Couldn’t you be a little more subtle!

The nun did not react to Jessie being called the bristle monster and said coldly, “He has already become a follower of Satan, so he must atone for his sins.”

Everyone: “…”

The nun: “Satan’s followers must be banished to the Black Forest in the back mountains. That is the devil’s lair.”

Her gaze was intimidating as she looked at each person, “It is also a forbidden area, strictly off-limits.”

“…”

The Black Forest in the back mountains? Forbidden area?

The players had different thoughts.

This Black Forest sounded important. Since it was strictly off-limits, they had to go and check it out.

After the nun finished speaking, she gave Gu Rong another look and turned to leave.

Lin Xuezhu closed the medical chart, also glanced at the little dumpling, and then left.

The dining hall fell silent once again.

Soon, a female nurse came over, her expression as lifeless as the nun’s, her tone cold and stiff: “Dinner time is over. It’s rest time. Please return to your respective rooms.”

“At night, please do not leave your… uh?”

The female nurse’s eyelids twitched as she spoke.

Everyone followed her gaze, and their eyelids also twitched.

They saw that Gu Rong, the little Zaizai, who had been perfectly fine being held by Zhuang Yu, had somehow run to the elevator entrance.

He was holding a dining fork in his little hand, and on the fork was a small section of tentacle. He was holding it up, examining it curiously from all angles.

The tentacle that had caused everyone’s SAN (sanity) value to drop earlier, now being held up on a fork, looked so small, pitiful, and helpless.jpg

Everyone: ???

The female nurse: !!!

006: […]

[Oh, oh no! This is not a tasty little treat!!!]

[Nooo, Zaizai, throw it away, ahhhh, don’t put it in your mouth!]

[Remembering how kids put everything in their mouths, and he even thought the players’ heads were milk earlier, oh my god, I have a bad feeling!]

[Please label this as “Prevent Children from Accidental Ingestion,” thank you!!!]

–

Zhuang Yu’s pupils shook. In the blink of an eye, the little Zaizai had run off to pick up an octopus tentacle?

Without thinking, Zhuang Yu rushed over, and with a clean flick of his finger, sent the octopus tentacle flying. He also kicked the remaining piece on the ground into an unseen crevice.

After flicking and kicking, he felt like he’d lose at least one of his hands and feet.

Gu Rong was still looking around on the ground: “Huh?”

The flicked octopus tentacle flew through the air and, very unfortunately, flew into the mouth of a patient who just happened to be opening his mouth.

“Gulp—,” he accidentally swallowed it.

The patient: “?”

Everyone: “…………”

Oh My… Oh, it’s an NPC, then it’s fine.

Zhuang Yu wiped his sweat, picked up Gu Rong, and bought him a lollipop from the system store.

After getting the lollipop, Gu Rong finally settled down, no longer thinking about the octopus tentacle, and sweetly thanked him: “Thank you, Big Brother!”

Zhuang Yu smiled and ruffled his little head.

With this distraction from Gu Rong, the tense and terrifying atmosphere from earlier had dissipated again.

Everyone realized that Gu Rong, this little Zaizai, loved to create distractions at crucial moments. With his distractions, the atmosphere became much more relaxed and cheerful.

It had to be said, well done.

Everyone secretly gave the little Zaizai a thumbs up in their hearts.

The female nurse was the same nurse who had put the wristband on Gu Rong, and her expression softened considerably when she looked at him. She didn’t mind this little interlude and continued where she had left off: “At night, please do not leave your beds. Each person has one opportunity to get up at night. To get up at night, please press the call bell first.”

Gu Rong, while eating the lollipop, held up a short little finger to show that he would press it.

–

The players took the elevator back to their rooms on the second floor.

Zhuang Yu held Gu Rong all the way and only put him down when they reached the door of his room.

“Good night, Zaizai. See you tomorrow.”

Gu Rong waved his little hand: “See you tomorrow, Big Brother!”

Because Big Brother had gotten him food and bought him a lollipop, he decided not to drink Big Brother’s blood.

Zhuang Yu looked at the little chubby child and sighed.

Who knew what would happen overnight, and whether this little Zaizai would make it through.

Gu Rong tilted his head: “Big Brother, why are you sighing, sigh?”

He even imitated Zhuang Yu’s sigh.

Zhuang Yu couldn’t help but smile, ruffling his little slicked-back hair. Naturally, he wouldn’t say that he was afraid a ghost would snatch him away at night. He just told him to sleep well and not to get out of bed or open his eyes no matter what sounds he heard.

Gu Rong listened attentively and nodded his little head: “Rongrong remembers!”

Livestream Chat: …

He remembers, sure, but whether he’ll actually do it is another question, right!

After Zhuang Yu left, Gu Rong entered the room.

The room had nothing but a bed and a table.

Gu Rong lay down on the bed. The lights were soon turned off, and the room fell into darkness. The pale purple light emitted from the wristband on his little wrist became particularly conspicuous.

The cold moonlight shone through the wire mesh, casting dappled shadows on the ground.

As a little zombie Zaizai, darkness couldn’t hinder Gu Rong’s vision.

He, a little person, first poked at the wristband with his little hand for a while, then rolled around on the bed, wiggling back and forth. When he got tired of wiggling, he turned his little head to the side, lay on the bed to sleep, his chubby little hands tucked beside his body.

006 said: [Little host, you can sleep for a while. There are still more than three hours until midnight. We can wait until the other players are asleep to scare them. It’ll be more effective.]

Gu Rong said: [Big Brother and Little Brother are nice to Zaizai. Zaizai won’t scare Big Brother and Little Brother.]

006: [Uh-huh, we’ll go scare the other players!]

Gu Rong turned over, took out the silver straw again, and held it in his little hand: [Scare them, drink blood!]

006: […]

Little host, let’s put down the straw first!

–

Late at night, Gu Rong was sprawled out in a “大”^[1]TN: “大” shape – the Chinese character for “big,” resembling a person with arms and legs outstretched. shape, deeply immersed in sleep, his little face flushed from sleep.

006 called him several times but couldn’t wake him up. It didn’t dare to call too loudly, afraid of startling the little host.

At this moment, several ghost NPCs floated over in the darkness, surrounding Gu Rong’s little bed and commenting on him.

NPC1: “Huh? A ghost baby? Where did this ghost baby come from?”

NPC2: “This little ghost mixed in with the patients. How come the old witch didn’t throw him into the Black Forest to feed the little monsters?”

NPC3: “Oh, oh, oh, he’s so tiny, not even as long as my tongue. Wow, wow, wow, I want to adopt this little ghost as my godson!”

NPC1: “Get lost, Hanged Ghost. Your dirty tongue is always dragging on the ground. Stay away from this little darling!”

NPC2 cackled: “Hahahaha, well, at least I have a tongue! Better than you, having no face!”

NPC1: “You bag of bones, are you sure you can withstand a kick from me?”

NPC3: “Shut up, shut up, both of you! You’re going to wake up my godson!”

–

006: […………]

Gu Rong was playing the role of a little ghost NPC, so they could naturally recognize at a glance that Gu Rong was a ghost baby, not a human toddler.

006 was startled and immediately increased the volume to call Gu Rong: [Little host, little host, wake up! Time to get up and earn points to find Daddy, Mommy, and Grandpa Ming!]

Sure enough, at the mention of Daddy, Mommy, and Grandpa Ming, Gu Rong immediately woke up. He scrambled up from the bed: [Uh-huh, earn points, find Daddy, Mommy, and Grandpa Ming!!]

As soon as he woke up, he saw a circle of ghost NPCs around his bed.

A long-tongued ghost, a faceless ghost, and a skeleton ghost wearing a cowboy hat.

The three ghost NPCs were chattering. As soon as they saw Gu Rong wake up, they instantly silenced, unmoving, all looking down at this little Zaizai.

Gu Rong rubbed his eyes, still a little sleepy. Waking up in the middle of the night to see these three ghostly things around his bed, he wasn’t scared at all.

He yawned and asked in a babyish voice, “Huh? Who are you?”

Hearing this little baby voice, the three ghost NPCs started chattering again, vying to introduce themselves.

“I’m Long-Tongued Ghost. You can call me Uncle Long Tongue.”

“I’m Grandpa Skeleton.”

“I’m Faceless Brother.”

“…”

Ptooey, so shameless!

Gu Rong sat on the bed, his short legs crossed.

He was completely awake now, tilting his little head, looking at this one, then that one, his big eyes blinking, looking very curious.

Zaizai politely called out: “Uncle Long Tongue, Grandpa Skeleton, Faceless Brother.”

The three NPCs responded in unison: “Yes!”

What a good Zaizai!

Long-Tongued Ghost: “Little ghost, what’s your name?”

Gu Rong answered every question: “Zaizai is called Gu Rong.”

Faceless Ghost: “Zaizai? Gu Rong? Little Rong Zaizai?”

Skeleton Ghost: “Where’s Little Rong Zaizai?”

Gu Rong raised his little hand: “Little Rong Zaizai is here!”

Long-Tongued Ghost: “Who is Little Rong Zaizai?”

Gu Rong patted himself: “Little Rong Zaizai is me!”

The three NPCs cackled with laughter.

It was so much fun teasing a child!

Gu Rong shook his little head and wiggled his little feet.

006: […]

Seriously, why were they chatting?!

It was about to remind Gu Rong that these were three ghosts, but then it thought, the little host was also a ghost now. They were all ghosts, so there was nothing to be afraid of.

Besides, it seemed like the little host wasn’t scared at all, but rather was chatting happily with them, asking and answering questions, cooperating perfectly.

Gu Rong still remembered his little task. Whoosh, he slid off the bed.

Long-Tongued Ghost: “Little Rong Zaizai, where are you going?”

Gu Rong’s little legs dadada-ed as he ran to the door, but the door was tightly closed and locked from the outside. He couldn’t open it at all.

Gu Rong was so anxious that he started spinning in circles.

The three NPCs looked at each other.

Faceless Ghost said: “Little Rong Zaizai, what do you want to do? You can tell Faceless Brother, and Faceless Brother will help you.”

Gu Rong’s speech was childish but clear: “Rongrong wants to go scare the players, but I can’t get out. What should I do?”

Hearing Gu Rong say this, the three NPCs were silent for a moment.

Faceless Ghost: “Oh? Scare the players? What players?”

Long-Tongued Ghost: “Don’t interrupt! Little Rong Zaizai, Uncle Long Tongue will teach you a trick. Hang yourself on their bedpost. In the middle of the night, it’ll scare them to death.”

Skeleton Ghost: “Let’s go, we’ll go with you and join in the fun.”

Faceless Ghost drew a circle with a halo on the door, big enough for a person to pass through. You could go out without opening the door.

Accompanied by the three NPCs, Gu Rong randomly picked an unlucky player, drew a circle, and entered the player’s room.

Zaizai is coming!