Chapter 57: Chapter 57: Funny? I Only Saw a Group of Despairing Fierce Ghosts

"So these are the director’s notebooks?"

Soon enough.

Having found no sign of any ghosts,

Yun Zhenyue easily located several notebooks at the back of Room 404.

The notebooks lay on a dust-covered table.

Their covers were dark red, and each bore an elegant name.

—Yan Ruyu.

’Looks like Yan Ruyu is the director of this Reincarnation Hospital,’

Yun Zhenyue mused.

She flipped through the notebooks.

One was filled with notes on her medical techniques.

The others were all like clinical diaries.

Yun Zhenyue hesitated for a moment.

She only planned on taking the notebook with the medical techniques.

After all, taking someone’s personal diaries was a bit unethical.

Besides, they would be of little help to her medical skills.

Shangguan Mu saw this and didn’t say much.

She casually picked up a diary that was nearly full.

The other, sparsely-written diaries were left untouched.

’It would be a problem if the director came back later and found all her diaries gone.’

"Let’s get out of here,"

Shangguan Mu urged.

She couldn’t shake a sense of unease.

It wasn’t until the two of them returned to the elevator

that they discovered it hadn’t come up at all.

They had no choice.

The two of them had to take the stairwell to leave.

It was strange. To come up from below, you had to take the elevator.

But heading down from the eighth floor, a stairwell had appeared.

’Don’t tell me there’s a ghost in charge of passage in this stairwell, too?’

It was as if someone was constantly, eagerly urging them to leave.

Shangguan Mu was completely baffled.

But she couldn’t figure out why.

...

After a long while,

once the two had completely left,

the ghosts on the eighth floor finally dared to slowly emerge.

Their expressions were all thrilled,

as if they had just seen off two gods of plague!

Many of the ghosts chattered excitedly about the nerve-wracking ordeal.

"That scared me to death! I was hiding in a cabinet, I just shifted my leg a little and was almost discovered!"

"Tell me about it! I didn’t even dare to blink!"

"That’s nothing! I was almost found out. Luckily, I was quick-witted and used my watch to dispel her suspicion."

"Sigh... they’re finally gone. That was absolutely terrifying!"

"Did you guys see? The elevator ghost was right, it really was a panda!"

"I think the director must have sent her. Who else would have such a terrifying animal doll?"

"Good thing the boss was smart and had us hide, otherwise we’d have been goners..."

Just then,

the middle-aged ghost also emerged cautiously from the bathroom.

He looked at the excited patient-ghosts.

He took a deep breath, then smiled. "We... are victorious!"

"They didn’t find us. You’ve all worked hard."

Hearing this,

many of the patient-ghosts were moved to tears.

They all began to laugh and celebrate!

"It’s finally over!"

"We dodged a bullet!"

"Thank heavens we weren’t discovered!"

"Long live the boss!"

...

At that moment,

as Shangguan Mu walked down the stairwell,

her ears suddenly twitched.

She thought she heard the sound of ghosts laughing.

Faint sounds of celebration seemed to reach her.

"Am I imagining things?"

Shangguan Mu muttered in confusion.

’If there really were ghosts on the eighth floor, what would they be celebrating?’

’Celebrating that we left?’

’Impossible!’

’It’s not like we’re some kind of vicious ghosts!’

’Is our departure really worth celebrating with gongs and drums?’

’Besides, if I had searched the entire floor and found them all, wouldn’t they all be in despair?’

’Hilarious. All I’d see is a group of despairing Fierce Ghosts!’

Attributing it all to an auditory hallucination,

Shangguan Mu could hardly keep a straight face at her own bizarre train of thought.

She felt like she was dreaming.

’Three years!’

’Three whole years!’

’I was on the verge of despair!’

But now, she had obtained the director’s notebook item as easily as taking a drink of water.

All of this made her feel as if she’d had too much bad booze sometime recently.

"Miss Yun..."

Just then,

Yun Zhenyue’s voice broke Shangguan Mu out of her daze.

"Huh? What did you call me?" she asked, dumbfounded.

"Miss Yun," Yun Zhenyue said with a sly smile. "Didn’t you say that if I could get the director’s notebook, you’d take my surname?"

"Yun Mu... that name actually sounds quite nice."

Shangguan Mu’s expression froze with awkwardness.

Her face turned bright red!

A wave of heat even spread up her neck.

’Who would have thought?’

’She had gone on and on about how dangerous the eighth floor was, nearly working herself into a frenzy!’

’And all for this?’

Shangguan Mu coughed lightly and said awkwardly, "Let’s just forget about it."

"By the way, Xiaoyue, are you still going to the morgue?"

"Yes, of course I’m going!"

Yun Zhenyue replied.

She had only obtained one item, which at most would raise her medical skill to the expert level.

That was still a long way from the top-tier massage she dreamed of.

"The morgue... while not as dangerous as the eighth floor, there are definitely ghosts there. There’s no way the director could have cleaned them all out."

"Why don’t we just skip it?"

Shangguan Mu said hesitantly.

"But Miss, we’ve come all this way..."

Yun Zhenyue said, looking ahead.

The two of them had been walking in the stairwell for a few minutes now.

They hadn’t encountered any ghosts or anomalies.

Except for a quick detour to the fourth floor.

Shangguan Mu hid the diary in a cleaning cart.

Then the two continued their exploration downwards.

Now they were already approaching the morgue entrance.

...

At the same time,

the foreign audience saw Yun Zhenyue obtain the director’s notebook completely unscathed,

and they were all green with envy!

Many of them had just been saying how extremely dangerous the eighth floor was!

And what happened?

They didn’t even see a single hair of a ghost!

Now everyone thought it was just a rumor!

[She got it that easily? This woman from the Dragon Country is way too lucky!]

[What ghosts on the eighth floor? If there really were any, did they all just go into hiding or something?]

[She left a bunch of notebooks behind! Whoever gets up there first can grab them!]

[What about Miss Aiko? If only we could tell her.]

[It was all a lie. These three tasks must all be freebies.]

...

On the other side,

the women from the various countries were also standing by the elevator.

They had all been waiting for Yun Zhenyue,

wanting to see if she would come back down alive.

However, they then spotted Yun Zhenyue and a strange woman emerging from the stairwell.

The former held a notebook in her hand.

From their conversation,

they learned that there were no ghosts on the eighth floor.

And that Yun Zhenyue had left several notebooks behind.

Seeing how easy this first task was,

the women were all getting impatient!

’Isn’t this just a free reward?’

"Let’s go up together in a bit. I heard there are still several notebooks. We can split them evenly."

"Or we could just share them. They’re not single-use items, anyway."

"Yun Zhenyue really got lucky. If there are no ghosts, what’s there to be afraid of?"

"Let’s all go up together when the elevator arrives."

"..."

Just as the women were discussing how to divide the spoils,

SWISH!

Ruan Chunxiang from the Monkey Country suddenly slipped into the elevator.

Under the disbelieving gazes of the other women,

she forced the elevator doors shut with her hands, faster than anyone could react!

She intended to monopolize the notebooks for herself!