"Kneel!"

Just as the ghost vice-director was savoring his moment of triumph, he heard Yan Ruyu’s voice, as deep and cold as an abyss.

Her voice fell.

It was as if the very air had frozen solid.

At first, the vice-director thought Mrs. Yan was speaking to Yun Zhenyue and her group.

But then, Mrs. Yan turned to him, her gaze as frigid as a frozen lake and smoldering with an uncontainable fury.

The command to kneel was clearly meant for him!

An invisible shiver wracked his body. The vice-director’s breath caught in his throat as he stared, dumbfounded, into her cold, blazing eyes, which felt like blades piercing his very heart.

THUD!

Having only just stood up, the vice-director was forced to his knees once more.

This time, he knelt in humiliation.

He knelt in utter confusion, completely bewildered.

’What in the world is happening?’

’Reincarnation Hospital has been devastated, and so many ghost doctors have been killed by these people!’

’And yet, Mrs. Yan is making me kneel?’

...

Nearby, the ghosts who had just been clamoring to flay Yun Zhenyue and her group alive were also stunned.

"Huh? Why is the vice-director kneeling?"

"This can’t be right, Director. You must be mistaken."

"The vice-director faced this crisis without fear and fought hard to protect the hospital! How can you punish him?"

"Exactly! Director, the ones you should be killing are these rats!"

"Get up, Vice-Director! The Director is obviously telling those rats to kneel."

They broke into a panicked and anxious clamor.

They were terrified that something had gone terribly wrong.

Even Shangguan Mu, Sun, and the rest of their group were completely bewildered.

’Is there an internal conflict brewing at Reincarnation Hospital?’

’Could the director be using this as an excuse to suppress the vice-director’s faction?’

Yun Zhenyue stared at Yan Ruyu.

She thought about how she would summon Lily if the situation turned critical.

Meanwhile, the panda doll on her shoulder watched the terrified vice-director with great interest.

’Yan Ruyu punishing Yun Zhenyue?’

’What a joke!’

’Never mind the fact that Yan Ruyu hangs on Gu Yuan’s every word.’

’Even with a hundred times her nerve, she wouldn’t dare lay a finger on Yun Zhenyue.’

’Besides, the panda doll could tell.’

’Yan Ruyu had absolutely no intention of punishing Yun Zhenyue!’

’Being urged on by all these ghosts...’

’...she’s probably worried Yun Zhenyue is going to turn against her!’

’Right now, she must feel worse than if she’d eaten a turd!’

The stitching at the corners of the panda doll’s mouth curled upward as it snickered to itself.

...

And Yan Ruyu did indeed look as if she’d just eaten a giant turd.

She was sick to her core.

Veins throbbed at her temples, and her eyes were completely bloodshot. It was as if endless flames were erupting from the depths of her amber pupils.

The crimson stains on her white lab coat seemed to shift and swirl like wet paint.

The moment she received Gu Yuan’s order, she and Qiuku had been rushing back to Reincarnation Hospital without a second’s rest.

Even though Wansheng District was far from the hospital...

...it should have taken a day to get back, at most!

But to Yan Ruyu’s fury, after she killed the ghost impersonating Reincarnation Hospital, she discovered it had a top-tier Crimson-robed Ghost for a father, and he was determined to fight her to the death!

They were the ones running a scam, but somehow she was being treated like the villain!

After she finally managed to deal with the father, she turned her head and found a little ghost hiding in a corner.

’Fucking hell! First I kill the son, then the father shows up!’

’I kill the father, and now there’s a kid!’

’It’s like I’m the protagonist of some fantasy novel, with an endless line of enemies just lining up to be killed!’

Yan Ruyu finally snapped. She simply razed that entire hospital and everything for a mile around it to the ground.

Not a single ghost was left, not even a trace of bone.

Only after she had vented completely did she suddenly remember that her ride—the ghost bicycle—had been parked right outside that little hospital!

’Now I’m really screwed!’

She wasn’t one of those super-fast ghosts!

With no other choice,

Yan Ruyu had to find a ghost bus and command it to come at once.

The whole detour wasted an incredible amount of time.

And for what?

When she finally made it to the hospital entrance, she was suddenly greeted by the blare of a Level 1 alert broadcast!

She thought there was an enemy invasion!

She rushed to the source of the fighting, heart in her throat.

She finally managed to breathe a sigh of relief when she saw that Yun Zhenyue was completely unharmed.

But then, she saw something that nearly gave her a stroke.

’What fucking enemy invasion?!’

’My own ghosts are rebelling?!’

’They’re attacking Yun Zhenyue?!!’

’This dickhead vice-director and this pack of moronic ghosts actually want me to kill Yun Zhenyue?’

She wanted nothing more than to kill every last one of these dumbasses!

’Kill them all! Kill them all!!!’

"..."

Yan Ruyu struggled to contain her fury.

She remembered the promise she’d made to Gu Yuan.

If Yun Zhenyue so much as lost a single hair, he could do with her as he pleased!

The blood rushed to her head!

’This director is seriously pissed off now!’

...

At that moment, under the terrified gazes of the vice-director and the other ghosts,

Yan Ruyu trembled with rage. With her last shred of reason, she asked in a quavering voice, "Who told you to attack them?"

"That..."

The vice-director still hadn’t grasped the situation.

His pupils trembled, and his silver-grey bangs, soaked with cold sweat, clung to his pale cheeks.

Finally, he could only stammer, "It was... you."

"You f— "

Yan Ruyu nearly coughed up a mouthful of old blood when she heard that.

Her last shred of sanity vanished into smoke.

’This is pure slander!’

’I haven’t even been at the hospital for the last two days!’

’When did I ever order anyone to kill Yun Zhenyue?’

’Go tell the master of an SSS-rank dungeon—someone far more powerful than me—to kill Mr. Gu’s wife!’

’See if they don’t just black out on the spot!’

No matter how idiotic the vice-director’s actions were, Reincarnation Hospital was still her territory.

Everything his subordinates did could be seen as a reflection of her will.

To anyone who didn’t know the situation,

...it would truly seem like the vice-director was telling the truth.

’What would Gu Yuan think then?’

’That I’ve betrayed him?’

Seeing Yan Ruyu positively exploding with rage, the vice-director was suddenly filled with an overwhelming sense of regret.

A horrifying thought began to form in his mind.

’Could it be... that this person, Yun Zhenyue, actually has a connection to the director?’

’But Piao Dagen said—’

"Didn’t you say that anyone who acts on their own and harms the hospital’s interests will be killed without mercy?" the vice-director argued frantically.

"And did you not know that I specifically granted them a boon?"

Yan Ruyu roared, her eyes bloodshot.

"Uh... that happened...?"

The vice-director was utterly dumbfounded.

He really hadn’t known!

Yan Ruyu’s chest heaved violently. She pointed at the vice-director and screamed, "I was so afraid something might happen to Xiaoyue that I rushed back through the night!"

"I lost my bicycle and nearly ran the tires off that ghost bus rushing back!"

"And now you’re telling me that *I* want to fucking kill her?!"

"I’ll kill you all first!"

BOOM!

Her words landed like a bomb,

...exploding in the minds of every human and ghost present.

’Xiaoyue?’

Aside from a confused Yun Zhenyue,

every ghost and Dragon Country player stared at the enraged director in utter disbelief.

’Yun Zhenyue is actually connected to the director?’

’So connected that the director rushed back overnight, terrified she was in danger!’

’That’s one hell of a connection!’

"You... you know this person?"

The vice-director stammered, his face ashen. His pupils had shrunk to pinpricks, and the cold sweat pouring from his temples soaked his clothes, dripping down the side of his face to the floor.

His heart was completely filled with terror and dismay.

’No wonder Mrs. Yan is so furious!’

’Piao Dagen tricked me!’

’She really does know the director!’

’Then everything I’ve done...’

’...has been the complete opposite of what I should have done.’

’I attacked someone the director knows, slandered her, and caused severe damage to Reincarnation Hospital in the process!’

’The responsibility for this... is huge.’

Hearing his question, Yan Ruyu pointed at the vice-director and the trembling crowd of ghosts and continued to curse.

"Idiot! Fool! Moron! Xiaoyue is my sister!"

"As long as I’m here, I’d like to see who dares bully her!"

Sis... sister?

The vice-director’s vision went black; he couldn’t see a thing.

He felt Mrs. Yan’s heaven-piercing rage.

"—PFFT!!!"

A mouthful of black blood sprayed from his lips!

He couldn’t take it anymore; his kneeling body collapsed.