The sky was a flawless blue, not a cloud beneath its pale vastness.
In the midst of the ruins, the hospital stood as if it had been forgotten by the world, emitting a faint light within the desolate and vast mountains, black vines coiled around the streets, filling this abandoned place with a silent and confusing sense of decay.
The hospital was eerily quiet, nurses and orderlies were working gently, everything organized and natural.
Ward number thirteen.
Luo Kun's eyes snapped open, and he sat up eagerly, his face full of anticipation.
He looked around his ward and instantly recognized it, this was the very beginning, before anything had happened.
But now, Luo Kun no longer found it dull because in this endless cycle of time, there was someone else who, just like him, was also awake and trapped in this Abyss.
He sat obediently on the hospital bed, ready to wait for Doctor Chu to come and administer his medicine.
After a lengthy anticipation, the door to the ward was opened as hoped, and Luo Kun looked over with eager eyes.
"Little Kun, it's time for your medicine."
The young doctor walked in, speaking in a gentle voice.
But at that moment, Luo Kun was stunned, the smile on his face quickly fading as he stared intensely at the doctor, his expression becoming calm and terrifying.
This was not Doctor Chu.
...
...
[The Script Space for "The Fifth Hospital" has ended, proceeding to the script settlement interface.]
When Xu Shuo's eyes opened, he found himself not at home, but in a space that was stark white from top to bottom.
He walked forward and touched the barrier, discernible by the glassy reflection if one looked carefully.
Then, a familiar transparent box unfolded before his eyes, listing the settlement interface for "The Fifth Hospital", with strings of information itemized below.
"As expected, my task was in conflict with Director Zhang's task, and the nurses' tasks conflicted with the cleaners'." Xu Shuo looked at the task information and contemplated for a moment before the corners of his mouth curved in a strange smile, "Chen Chu was in conflict with everyone."
Because of Chen Chu's Time Retrospection ability, even if they completed their tasks, everything would reset after time rewound, triggered by Luo Kun's death.
That's why the nurses wanted to kill him, and as for Director Zhang killing him, it was solely because he wanted to kill his patient.
He then looked at the other rewards obtained.
[Special skill "Doctor": I have tormented my patients a thousand times, and yet they regard me with fondness as if it were first love. When using the Chen Chu Character Card, you can activate this skill to make characters with the patient identity follow your commands obediently.]
[Item "Psychic Power Boost": When using this item, your psychic power increases by 10 points.]
Xu Shuo: "..."
What in the world is that skill description? The system's skills all seem a bit unserious.
However, the other one is not bad. He directly clicked the item to use it, and after using it, there was no reaction at all.
After Xu Shuo had collected his rewards, he opened the Player's Handbook. His personal information panel looked more complicated now, with added sections for "Performed Scripts," a "Marketplace," and a "Plaza."
Even more importantly, under his profile picture and name, there were now "Follow," "Fans," and "Messages" settings, which strongly reminded him of forum app features.
Huh?
He actually had a fan?
It couldn't be an official account, could it?
Xu Shuo viewed his new personal panel with interest, opened the fan list, and found that a female user named "Hong Rao" had followed him.
He casually glanced at it but didn't click to investigate what this little fan was thinking.
Xu Shuo couldn't wait to open the marketplace.
The marketplace was divided into "Deduction Value Purchase Interface" and "Credits Purchase Interface". After looking through both, Xu Shuo immediately cooled off.
Nice, with over five thousand deduction value, he couldn't afford anything.
He was like those people who enjoyed browsing Taobao even though they couldn't afford to buy anything, checking out each item in the marketplace one by one. There were all sorts of items and special skills, those that existed in reality and those that did not.
Everything seemed to revolve around the service of the Scripted Murder Game.
Xu Shuo stroked his chin, having finished browsing through the marketplace items he couldn't afford, and then clicked on the "Performed Scripts" section.
The interface was arranged like movie streaming software; the first one, "Rainy Night Villa," was in a viewable mode, while the second one, "The Fifth Hospital," was followed by the words "Sealed Off."
Viewable?
Could this mean that they turned the Scripted Murder Games he had performed into films to watch?