At this moment, Ye Bugui followed behind Lu Shi and asked softly, "When did you find the ID card?"
"Just now, I tried touching it, and I found something there." Lu Shi continued to examine the somewhat stiff little card: "What's this ID card?"
"Something that represents your identity," Ye Bugui scratched his head, realizing this was nonsense literature: "Anyway, it's very important in my world."
"Do I have one?" Lu Shi asked, having already decided that he would live permanently in the new world.
"Ah..." This question stumped Ye Bugui, but when he saw the expectation in Lu Shi's eyes, he couldn't bring himself to say anything that would disappoint Lu Shi: "Of course there is, this game is still very powerful."
The two female players behind them were clearly not as mentally strong as these two; they were surprised that the two of them still had the mind to chat.
The baby girl killed in her womb, the apartment converted from a hospital, and the vengeful spirits they were carrying—all of this made the two female players feel terrified and uneasy.
If it weren't for the two men mentioned earlier, Zi Ling suspected that even after seven days, she probably wouldn't have been able to find this crucial information.
The viewers in the live chat shared the same thought as the two of them.
Golden Hall
Standing in the crowd, Wei Jin realized that there were more and more people in the live broadcast room.
Lu Shi's popularity has remained at the top ever since.
When they arrived at the hospital and discovered that both female players were pregnant, many of the female players watching the live stream got goosebumps.
They reached a consensus almost simultaneously: "Please God, please don't let us enter this instance!"
When Wei Jin heard their analysis of the real reason why the female player was being chased in the dream, he, like many male players, fell silent.
Wei Jin could hear female gamers denouncing this social phenomenon, but she couldn't refute them.
Where are they going?
"They're probably going to an abortion clinic? If you ask me, a boss might spawn there, right? What if all four of them get wiped out?"
"Who knows! By the way, didn't a female player come in early? Has anyone been to her live stream?"
"I checked it out. Sherry's live stream room is completely dark right now. I can't see anything at all. I don't even know if the streamer is alive or dead!"
...
After following the old man out of the hospital, they returned to the back door they had first seen.
"Hey, let me make this clear before you go in." The old man picked up the sky-blue cloth bag he always carried on his back and took out a black key from it: "No matter what you see inside, don't make a fuss, and don't tell anyone else about what's going on here."
Only after the four agreed did the old man open the back door.
The door creaked open, and Lu Shi immediately smelled a persistent, lingering stench of blood that permeated every inch of the air.
He glanced calmly at the old man and said softly, "Shall we go in?"
"Okay, come on." The old man smiled and walked ahead with his hands behind his back. "But you have to trust the doctors here. They're not the kind of shady clinics that cheat you."
"Because you have a cooperative relationship with the hospital?" Ye Bugui sneered. Behind the door was a narrow corridor, barely wide enough for one person to pass through. The corridor lights were dim, making it easy to see only the path beneath one's feet.
"More or less." The old man seemed unconcerned about the anger in Ye Bugui's tone: "Some things are not allowed by regulations, but the people have needs. We can't ignore those needs, right?"
"That sounds so nice!" Zi Ling said angrily, now completely immersed in the story.
The thought of children still growing in their mothers' wombs, who hadn't even had a chance to open their eyes to see the world, being killed is unbearable.
And the reason is simply because of gender, how ironic!
"Young lady," the old man comforted her, "don't get angry while you're pregnant, lest you upset the baby. People often have no choice in what they do."
The corridor wasn't long; they had just finished talking when they arrived at the stairwell.
The stairwell was still dark and narrow, and you could hear the creaking sound under your feet as you walked on the hollow wooden stairs.
Lu Shi sniffed, and the smell of blood became even stronger.
They went up to the second floor, where there were four rooms in total: three operating rooms and one office.
The lights here are still dim, and men and women sitting on the chairs on both sides of the corridor are looking lost and dejected.
The doctor who hurried past exuded a murderous aura, and Lu Shi frowned.
He suddenly had an urge to use his skill.
He currently has 90 stamina. If the final boss is very strong, there might not be much difference between having 80 and 90 stamina; either way, the boss will kill him with one punch.
Since that's the case, why not use the skill? Perhaps it will yield some significant results.
Even Ye Bugui didn't notice when Lu Shi did this.
His eyes flashed, and the world before him underwent a dramatic transformation.
The second floor was almost empty except for the seats.
Now the corridor is crowded with "people".
The second floor was crowded with babies whose genders were indistinguishable from their faces, all with wrinkled skin.
They even came over and started tugging at Zi Ling's pants.
These must all be children killed here in their embryonic stage.
They understood nothing at all, yet they became wandering spirits, roaming this place.
They may not even understand what life is or what death is.
They might also wonder why no one responds to them when they greet every passerby.
I don't understand why some pregnant women cry as they go into the operating room, only to have a new partner come out.
Their identical appearances are just like those of faceless people, aren't they?
"Lu Shi, Lu Shi?" Ye Bugui had already reached the office door when he realized that Lu Shi was still standing there without moving.
"I was just thinking about something." After Lu Shi stood up, he waved his left hand behind his back, as if greeting the group of children.
Lu Shi, whose skill had failed, didn't see that the group of children, whose faces were all huddled together, excitedly jumped up and down because of his response.
"Are you here for an abortion or to find out the gender?" The women sitting in the office were all people they knew.
It was the receptionist at the Good Family Apartment; her face wasn't as pale as it was inside the apartment.
Upon realizing this, Zi Ling couldn't help but take a deep breath.
"Check the gender first." Ye Bugui remained calm; he'd probably played the role of a boss a lot, so his acting was pretty good.
"Hmm, so you abort the girls?" the receptionist said casually, as if she were just stating common sense that you should eat zongzi during the Dragon Boat Festival.
"Yes." Ye Bugui smiled. "It doesn't matter how many months pregnant I am, right?"
"Come here, no problem." The receptionist filled out the form expressionlessly: "Even if you want to have a baby, or don't want the child, that's fine too, as long as you pay the money."
"Damn it!" Cao Ran's fist hardened: "Where is your conscience?"
“I’ve seen plenty of people like you.” The receptionist didn’t even look up: “When you accidentally get pregnant, no matter what others say, you insist on giving birth to the child.”
“When she was close to giving birth, she found out how troublesome it was to be a mother and that she couldn’t support herself financially, so she came to us begging for an abortion. If she had known this would happen, she would have killed the child before it grew up, at least she would have done a good deed.”
Lu Shi rubbed his temples. This way of accumulating good karma is quite unique.
"Do you deliver babies here too?" Lu Shi was somewhat surprised, having just heard a child crying next door.
"Of course, all the doctors here are obstetricians and gynecologists. It's cheaper to have a baby with us than at the hospital next door, but we don't have an inpatient department."
After completing the formalities, Zi Ling and Cao Ran reluctantly entered an operating room that looked very dirty and messy.
The doctor wearing a mask was anything but kind; you could even see a hint of murderous intent in his eyes.
"Just now..." Lu Shi hesitated, "How do I turn off the voice?"
Regardless of what the comments said, such as "the young couple is whispering and they don't want us to hear," Lu Shi still enabled the voice mute function in the live stream with Ye Bugui's help.
“I just used my skill,” Lu Shi said tentatively.
Ye Bugui remained calm. Noticing that Lu Shi seemed a little disappointed, he added, "I know that your cool ghost fire is your Demon Lord's own immortal technique. So you must have other character cards. At first, I thought it was a resurrection, but now it seems that's not the case."
"It's called 'Seeing Through'," Lu Shi explained before saying, "I saw the true situation in the corridor..."
After hearing Lu Shi's words, Ye Bugui readily agreed, saying, "So the Faceless Men are these bewildered dead infants? That does fit their characteristics. What about the fleshy growths on their backs?"
“I haven’t figured that out yet,” Lu Shi said, stretching out his hand and pointing to the four doors on the second floor. “See? There are four doors over there, just like the other side of the third floor.”
"Yes, this can't be a coincidence. It's almost certain that our apartment building was originally a hospital, including this secret underground hospital."
"Then these dead children remained and became ghosts," Ye Bugui said softly.
At this moment, Zi Ling and Cao Ran had already come out of the operating room, and their faces were somewhat pale.
"It's a girl," they said in unison.
"Are you going to have an abortion?" The receptionist came out of the office: "There's a discount if two people get it done together."
Judging from her tone, it seemed as if this was a great benefit for the two of them.
"No." Lu Shi refused decisively, noticing the confusion on the receptionist's face: "Isn't it better to have a girl?"
The receptionist shrugged and didn't say anything.
Suddenly, a woman in the corridor stood up and walked up to Lu Shi as if she had gone mad, shouting:
"What's so good about having a daughter? She's just a money-loser! My mother-in-law said that if I don't give birth to a son, I'll never be able to stand in this family!"
Her husband came over and slapped her: "Stop embarrassing yourself in public! I've already hit you, why are you still acting like this!"
"I...I'm not crazy!" The woman suddenly squatted down and laughed. "I saw my daughter! She's waving at me! Mommy, Mommy was wrong..."
The woman's tears dripped onto the floor: "Mom, Mom shouldn't have killed you with her own hands..."
A roar drew everyone's attention.
That was Sherry's voice: "Let me go! Get out of my way! I... I don't have anything on my back!"
...
Good Family Apartment.
The receptionist picked up the bell. "Lunchtime!"
The little world on the third floor suddenly distorted, and was finally sent into a door that slammed shut.
The four doors stood silently guarding the blood-red carpet, as always.
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