There's definitely something wrong with this murder mystery game

The fire door on the third floor was half-open, with intense flames pouring out of the door, burning down along the spilled oil on the stairs.

Xu Shuo patted the flames that had leapt onto him and stepped forward to pull open the half-open fire door, only to be greeted the next moment by an axe dripping with blood—

"Bang!"

The fire door was forcefully slammed shut, the axe chopping heavily into it, making a deafening sound.

The fire doors in this hospital were not of poor quality, so there was no horrifying scene of the door being chopped through. Instead, the immense force caused the door frame to shake violently, as if it were about to fall down.

After closing the door, Xu Shuo turned his head to look. He was looking at the stairs going from the third to the fourth floor, at the pitch-black corner where the nurse was sitting, staring at him with a sinister smile.

This smile was somewhat strange, more like the recklessness that comes with being driven to madness.

The cleaner's lethality was indeed great.

At that moment, the fire door opened again, waveringly. The cleaner, with a somber and fierce expression, axe in hand, emotionlessly stared at Xu Shuo, who was just an arm's length away.

Upon seeing him, the nurse's expression became extremely terrifying. She clenched the scalpel tightly in her hand.

This guy is delaying time!

At the start of the game, the nurse character had hidden the explosive button and pistol in a room on the third floor in order to destroy The Fifth Hospital.

Although she had found them later, the items had returned to their original places after the time reset.

If she wanted to get them, she would have to repeat those steps!

However, this time she was ambushed by the cleaner!

The place where the items were hidden was in the patient room close to the end of the corridor. Since the cleaner, who was much stronger than she was, stood in the way, the nurse had intended to go around using the stairs on the other side.

If she was quick enough, she could grab the weapons before the cleaner caught up with her!

But it seemed as if the cleaner had guessed her plan – although he didn't know exactly where the items were hidden, he could block the way to them!

The cleaner didn't chase after the nurse; instead, when she turned to run, he also turned and headed for the stairs on the other side to block her!

The two of them ran back and forth in the corridors of the third and fourth floors like the game of Catch Around the Pillar. As time passed, the nurse gradually became mad.

Setting the hospital on fire was just something she did following Luo Kun's instructions. The fire started in the stairwell, but all the explosives were buried in the central elevator area and at the positions of the main support columns of the building.

Wanting to wait until the flames detonated the explosives, those few minutes seemed uncertain!

She didn't want to gamble on such a fleeting chance!

The nurse stood ominously at the dark stairwell when she saw the young man walking up from downstairs and then open the fire door without any precautions...

What a pity.

How did she not manage to kill him.

Luo Kun followed behind and, upon seeing this scene, gave a strange smile, teasingly saying to the cleaner holding the axe, "What's this, a game of evil spirits possessing people in a Blizzard Villa?"

The cleaner gave him a cold glance, and at this point, even the nurse, who would always rush ahead of Luo Kun, became eerily still.

She even maliciously thought about just killing Luo Kun to restart time!

Then, in the few minutes of the restart, she would rush to the third-floor patient room, grab the explosive button, and press it without thinking twice. She has had enough of raising her performance values; she didn't want to do it anymore!

And if it hadn't been for Luo Kun messing with the timeline on a whim, she wouldn't have unexpectedly encountered the cleaner on the third floor!

This madman was the real culprit!

Suddenly, Luo Kun turned his head to look at her hidden in the darkness.

The nurse was startled for a moment, her eyes instantly bursting with fanatical adoration as she gazed longingly at him.

Luo Kun disinterestedly looked away.

He looked at the cleaner, walked over to stand beside Xu Shuo, and continued with a laugh, "I really don't get it, why you're so protective of this hospital. What meaning does its existence still hold?"

"Ha, what would a madman like you understand!"

The cleaner curled his lips into a scornful smile, shouting with madness in his eyes, "I've worked at The Fifth Hospital for decades! I watched it grow, I watched it prosper, I watched as it locked away all you madmen! It shall never perish!"

"Ridiculous!"

Suddenly, the nurse sitting on the stairs spoke up venomously, standing up and scoffing disdainfully, "This place should have been destroyed long ago! It should have vanished in that great fire more than a decade ago! If not for it, I never would have been assigned to this godforsaken place! I should be enjoying my life in a bustling city, not trapped here in this wilderness!"

"Don't forget, if there were no The Fifth Hospital, you wouldn't be where you are today either!" the cleaner gritted his teeth and roared angrily. "If the hospital hadn't taken you in back then, trained you, where do you think you would be right now?"

"Who cares about that! Even without this incident, this damned place would have been shut down! Everything you are doing now is just futile!" the nurse suddenly burst into maniacal laughter.

She acted even more insane, more hysterical than the cleaner, her words full of injustice and anger at her own experiences, as if she had indeed wasted over a decade of her best years here.

Xu Shuo watched the two players perform their intense scene without betraying any emotion, although he was slightly surprised.

What's the point?

Luo Kun watched them with interest, even clapping and cheering, "Exactly! What's this Fifth Hospital anyway? No one wants to stay here, be it doctors or patients—"

"Shut up!" The cleaner suddenly raised his axe towards him, eyes almost bursting with rage. "This incident, it's all your madman's doing, isn't it! Your goal is to destroy The Fifth Hospital!"

Luo Kun tilted his head innocently, "What? I haven't plotted anything, I don't have any plans, I'm just—"

"Following my heart~"

…

Flames danced in the stairwell, consuming the four people locked in confrontation, while darkness spread along the corridor.

At this moment, in the pitch-black third-floor corridor, a bloodstained figure made his way up another staircase, approaching the noisy stairwell entrance without a sound.

But as he drew closer, close enough that the sounds of argument were crystal clear, the figure suddenly stopped and turned into a hospital room.

In the dark, the newcomer searched. The shouting and arguing outside continued until other noises began to emerge from that direction, and it was then that he finally found a small device with a button in a hidden corner.

A bomb button?

No, not this.

He tossed the bomb button onto the floor and walked out of the hospital room, then entered a storage closet near the staircase.

Just as he darted into the storage closet, an axe flew out from the stairwell entrance and skidded down the corridor, eventually stopping at the door of the closet.

Director Zhang stared at the axe for a moment before turning back to continue searching the room.

Until at last he found the pitch-black gun.

The man's expression was one of utter calm in the darkness.

He had calmed down now, since if you could dodge a knife under the influence of an illusion, what about a bullet?

...

The janitor and the nurse were shouting at each other, then came to blows.

However, the nurse still hid in the stairwell leading to the fourth floor, and she remained standing behind the two the whole time.

So the axe was aimed at Luo Kun, but with Xu Shuo standing next to Luo Kun, he swiftly lifted a foot and kicked the janitor when the axe came down!

Bang!

The janitor grunted as he was forced back two steps, but his grip on the axe remained firm, his expression malevolent as he glared at Xu Shuo.

Xu Shuo took out a fruit knife and smiled gently, "That's my patient."

What is there for me to kill if you kill them?

"Don't forget, you too were a doctor painstakingly cultivated by The Fifth Hospital, and now you actually want to protect this madman who's trying to destroy the hospital?!" the janitor roared in anger.

"In any case, he's my patient right now." Xu Shuo's mouth held a smile, his tone still light, completely lacking their hysterical demeanor.

Luo Kun looked on with amusement, seeming to enjoy watching them argue over him, but he felt somewhat disappointed by Doctor Chu's composure.

In this world, and those deeply entrenched in it, it's better to be a bit more insane.

He didn't like rational people.

And in that moment, taking advantage of the janitor being kicked away, and as it became a standoff between the two of them, the nurse in the hallway suddenly charged out!

The janitor's pupils constricted as he gave a furious shout and swung the axe in his hand with force!

Xu Shuo also lunged forward in an instant, his fruit knife slicing toward the janitor's hand, but at that moment, the janitor let go of the axe, hurling it straight at the nurse!

The blood-dripping axe glistened with a cold light as it flew at the nurse, who, sensing the wind behind her, quickly dropped flat to the ground.

Thud!

The axe hit the ground, bouncing an inch from the nurse's head, and then skidded further ahead.

Without a moment to deal with her fright, the nurse scrambled up and rushed toward a hospital room ahead, intending to find the bomb button prepared earlier by a character, but she tripped over something as she entered!

"Boom!"

An ear-splitting noise came from the center of the corridor.

The nurse was dumbfounded.

Falling to the ground, she turned her head to see that what she had just stepped on was, inexplicably, a bomb button lying there.

When she had stepped on it, she had inadvertently triggered the button.

But why was it here?

At no point in time should the bomb button have appeared in this place!

The entire hospital shook violently, flames billowing, spreading fiercely in all directions, and the dark corridor was illuminated by the fiery red glow.

At this moment, it felt like the last scene of the fourth act.

The janitor heard the sound of his failed task, and in that instant, his bloodshot gaze turned once more to Luo Kun.

Just one more minute!

But if he killed this man, he could turn back the time once again, and then his mission would be successful!

At this crucial moment, suddenly, a figure appeared at the door of the side storage closet; among the flames, that person raised the gun and aimed at the back of Xu Shuo, who was facing the other way.

"Bang!"

The gun went off target.

Xu Shuo was shoved against the wall, and as he looked at the shot Luo Kun, he calmly withdrew his gaze, smiling mockingly at the person who fired the gun.

"Director Zhang, are you sober now?"

"..."