The room became a living nightmare.

A player screamed.

One of the tumors suddenly burst.

Black blood splashed across his face.

Above his head...

Shen Yu saw something.

The man’s affection heart disappeared.

Instead—

A crimson number appeared.

-50

The player froze.

His eyes widened.

As if he had seen something horrifying.

"No..."

He began trembling.

"No, no, no..."

Then he crawled frantically beneath his bed.

Everyone stared.

Confused.

Terrified.

Then—

CRACK!

Something exploded beneath the bed.

A blood-soaked iron headband flew out.

Rolling across the floor.

The man’s body followed.

Headless.

Dead.

Silence.

Absolute silence.

Nobody dared breathe.

Fujia’s face turned pale.

"We can’t touch that blood..."

His voice trembled.

For the first time since entering the dungeon, confidence vanished from his expression.

Meanwhile...

Shen Yu’s eyes were moving rapidly.

Scanning.

Analyzing.

Calculating.

Outside the room.

In the hallway.

Patients were walking.

Hundreds of them.

Some had floating numbers.

Some had hearts.

Some had neither.

But all of them were heading in the same direction.

Toward the assembly hall.

None of them seemed affected by the flesh-covered walls.

None hesitated.

And then—

Understanding flashed through Shen Yu’s mind.

The announcement.

The mission.

The dead player.

The moving patients.

Everything connected.

"We’re mental patients."

Shen Yu muttered.

"What?"

the woman asked.

But Shen Yu was already moving.

Fast.

Without hesitation.

He stepped off the bed.

Walked directly toward the door.

The moment he crossed the threshold—

The flesh-covered walls stopped expanding.

The black blood receded.

The tumors shrank.

The words disappeared.

As if nothing had happened.

A wave of relief washed over Shen Yu.

"I guessed right."

The rule wasn’t difficult.

The dungeon had already told them.

Roleplay as a mental patient.

The NPC patients obeyed the announcement.

Therefore—

The players had to obey too.

"He’s alive!"

someone shouted.

The voluptuous woman stared in shock.

"He actually figured it out?"

Without another second of hesitation, she rushed after him.

The others quickly followed.

Even Fujia.

Though his expression looked uglier than before.

As they entered the corridor, everyone secretly glanced at Shen Yu.

Confusion filled their eyes.

How had an E-rank talent user figured out the rule before everyone else?

Was it luck?

Instinct?

Or something else?

Shen Yu ignored their gazes.

His attention had already shifted ahead.

Toward the massive hall at the center of the hospital.

Hundreds of patients stood in perfect rows.

Their expressions blank.

Their movements synchronized.

Almost military.

Then—

Tap.

Tap.

Tap.

The sound of high heels echoed from the distance.

Every patient lowered their head.

Fear spread through the crowd.

Even the NPCs seemed terrified.

A group of nurses appeared.

Nearly a dozen.

All dressed in white uniforms.

All wore nurse caps.

All possessed beautiful figures.

But their exposed skin was covered in dried blood.

And their faces...

Were wrapped completely in bloodstained bandages.

Like mummified corpses.

Tap. Tap. Tap.

The woman at the very end of the nurses’ formation immediately drew everyone’s attention.

Unlike the other nurses whose faces were wrapped in blood-soaked bandages, she possessed an unsettling beauty that seemed almost out of place in the nightmare hospital.

A fitted pink nurse uniform hugged her slender figure. Two buttons near her collar had been intentionally left undone, revealing a glimpse of pale skin beneath. Her long legs were wrapped in pristine white stockings, and every step of her high heels echoed sharply through the silent hall.

Pinned to her chest was a silver badge.

HEAD NURSE

Her face was flawless.

An oval-shaped face.

Delicate willow brows.

Peach-blossom eyes that curved slightly upward at the corners.

Several loose strands of black hair escaped from beneath her nurse cap, brushing softly against her cheek.

She should have looked gentle.

Instead, her cold smile made everyone’s skin crawl.

It was the smile of someone who enjoyed watching others suffer.

The moment she stopped walking, the entire hall fell silent.

The grotesque nurses behind her suddenly twisted their necks with loud cracking sounds.

Crack.

Crack.

Crack.

Their heads rotated at impossible angles as they stared at the gathered patients.

The Head Nurse folded her arms.

Her gaze swept across the crowd like a queen inspecting insects.

"You scum."

Her voice was calm.

Yet every person present felt a chill run down their spine.

"It seems you’ve learned the basic rules."

Her lips curved slightly.

"Good." 𝒻𝘳𝘦𝘦𝘸ℯ𝒷𝘯𝘰𝑣ℯ𝑙.𝘤𝑜𝘮

"Very good."

"I heard ten new patients arrived today."

Her eyes narrowed.

"Since we have newcomers, today’s morning assembly will begin with a confession session."

The moment those words left her mouth, the surrounding patients instinctively stepped backward.

Like a tide receding.

Within seconds, the ten dungeon participants were left standing alone in the center of the hall.

Shen Yu immediately noticed something strange.

The ordinary patients weren’t merely afraid.

They looked... sympathetic.

Some lowered their heads.

Others trembled.

A few even looked at the newcomers with pity.

As if they already knew what was about to happen.

The Head Nurse casually pointed toward a large black-skinned man standing among the players.

"You."

"Come here."

The man froze.

Fear instantly appeared in his eyes.

Nevertheless, he forced himself to step forward.

His legs shook visibly.

"I..."

"I..."

The nearest grotesque nurse approached him.

Blood dripped from beneath her bandages.

Drip.

Drip.

Drip.

Fat white maggots wriggled out from the soaked cloth covering her face.

The foreign man’s complexion turned pale.

He instinctively stepped backward.

"My name is Aides Nikko..."

His voice trembled.

"I-I’m an international student..."

"I was just studying in Sinna..."

"This is my first dungeon..."

He looked desperately toward the other players.

"Please!"

"Someone help me!"

"Sinna friends, help me!"

The Head Nurse’s smile disappeared.

Her eyes became icy.

"Did I tell you to step back?"

A strange remote-like device appeared in her hand.

Click.

She pressed a button.

The next moment—

ZZZZZZZZT!

Aides Nikko screamed.

His entire body convulsed violently.

White smoke exploded from beneath his iron headband.

His muscles spasmed uncontrollably.

Blood vessels burst beneath his skin.

Blisters appeared across his body.

Then—

BOOM!

His head exploded.

A fountain of blood erupted into the air.

His body collapsed heavily onto the floor.

The smell of burnt flesh instantly filled the hall.

Silence.

Dead silence.

The remaining players stared at the corpse in horror.

Sweat streamed down their faces.

No one dared breathe.

The headband...

It wasn’t merely a restraint.

It was an execution device.

Beside Shen Yu, Fujia clicked his tongue.

"Tch."

"What a waste."

His voice was filled with contempt.

"Always bragging about studying abroad."

"In the end, he died like a pig."

Fujia lowered his head slightly.

A faint glow flickered within his eyes.

His A-Rank Talent activated.

Insight Eye.

A translucent panel appeared before him.

━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━

Head Nurse

Danger Level: S

Classification: Eerie

Warning:

An existence you absolutely cannot provoke.

Must obey her orders.

━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━

Only those few lines appeared.

Yet they were enough to make Fujia’s face turn pale.

An existence he couldn’t even analyze properly?

That was terrifying.

Meanwhile, the Head Nurse casually pointed toward another participant.

A blonde woman.

Unlike the first victim, she remained remarkably calm.

She walked forward and met the Head Nurse’s gaze directly.

Unfortunately...

That was the wrong choice.

The Head Nurse frowned.

"Who allowed you to look at me like that?"

Her voice became cold.

"Kneel."

Before the blonde woman could react—

A grotesque nurse lifted her heel.

STOMP!

The sharp heel pierced directly through the woman’s foot.

"AAAHHHH!"

A scream echoed through the hall.

Blood splattered across the floor.

The blonde woman collapsed immediately.

Pain twisted her beautiful face.

"You..."

Sparks of electricity flickered around her body.

She was preparing to activate her talent.

Then suddenly—

Her expression changed.

The flames around her vanished.

Above her headband, Shen Yu noticed several glowing numbers flash past.

-10

-30

-10

The woman seemed to realize something.

Slowly.

Reluctantly.

She lowered her head.

Then knelt.

The Head Nurse sneered.

"Good."

"Now repent."

The blonde woman froze.

Repent?

Repent for what?

She didn’t understand.

The Head Nurse’s finger slowly moved toward the remote.

Click.

A faint electric buzz sounded.

The woman’s face instantly turned white.

Panic surged through her.

Then she shouted desperately.

"I was wrong!"

"I cheated on my husband!"

"I stole his money!"

"I planned a car accident to claim insurance money!"

"I—"

"How boring."

The Head Nurse interrupted her.

Click.

ZZZZZZZZZT!

The woman convulsed violently.

Blood poured from beneath her headband.

Seconds later, her body collapsed lifelessly.

Another player dead.

The remaining participants felt despair creeping into their hearts.

Two people.

Two deaths.

Neither answer had been correct.

What exactly was this confession?

Nobody knew.

The towering woman who had spoken kindly to Shen Yu earlier began scanning the surrounding patients.

Something bothered her.

These patients were strange.

Far too young.

Almost all of them looked between sixteen and twenty-five years old.

No elderly patients.

No middle-aged patients.

Why?

Just as she seemed to grasp a clue—

A cold voice interrupted her thoughts.

"Next."

The Head Nurse pointed directly at her.

"You."

The woman’s face instantly paled.

Instinctively she looked toward the other players.

Everyone stepped backward.

No one wanted to be implicated.

Not even Fujia.

The woman clenched her fists.

A faint shimmer of light flowed across her body.

Her talent had activated.

The Head Nurse’s eyes narrowed slightly.

Then suddenly—

She smiled.

An amused smile.

"You know what?"

"I’ve changed my mind."

The woman froze.

The Head Nurse slowly shifted her finger.

Pointing toward the back of the group.

Toward someone everyone had forgotten.

Toward the newcomer with the E-Rank talent.

Toward Shen Yu.

The entire hall became silent.

For a second, nobody reacted.

Then Fujia burst into laughter.

"Hahaha!"

"I knew it."

He looked at Shen Yu with open mockery.

"Newbie."

"The weak are always the first sacrifices."

"You survived the ward by luck."

"But luck ends here."

Several players lowered their heads.

In their eyes, Shen Yu was already dead.