Early the next morning, Jiang Ning sat in front of the computer and wrote down the content she had thought of yesterday.
After updating, she took a black umbrella and went to the winding mountain road.
The winding mountain road had been cordoned off, forbidding anyone from approaching.
The System felt strange: [ Ningning, what are we doing here? ]
Jiang Ning looked at the black Guayi energy in the sky. “I’m here to see these things.”
The closer she got to the winding mountain road, the stronger the sense of familiarity in her heart.
She raised her hand.
Specks of black gas floated up from her fair palm.
A black shadow drilled out of her palm and transformed into the appearance of a woman.
The woman stood beside Jiang Ning, faceless and without a lower body.
After manifesting the woman, Jiang Ning’s face became a little paler.
Given her current physical condition, creating an “NPC” was still a bit too strenuous.
Jiang Ning: “Follow me.”
The woman bowed respectfully to Jiang Ning. “Yes.”
One person and one Guayi walked in as if no one else was there.
A ripple invisible to the naked eye slowly appeared in the air.
The casual clothes on Jiang Ning’s body turned into a white coat.
She lowered her head slightly and found she was holding a “medical record.”
The title page read: Panshan Mental Hospital.
There was a nameplate on the desk—Director Jiang.
This was a single-person office, and now it was Jiang Ning’s.
A look of confusion flashed in her eyes.
It looks like I’ve become an NPC in this Urban Legend.
But I should be a human right now.
Could it be that because I used to be a Survival Game NPC, this instance mistook me for one?
She tucked the medical record under her arm, put her hands in her pockets, pushed the door open, and prepared to look around.
The corridor was full of faceless ghosts.
“Hello, Dr. Jiang.”
“Dr. Jiang, thank you for your hard work.”
“Thanks to Dr. Jiang, my illness could be cured. Thank you so much!”
They greeted Jiang Ning enthusiastically.
Jiang Ning nodded without changing her expression, and even accepted flowers from a few ghost patients.
Leaving this building, Jiang Ning finally saw ghosts with faces, and at the same time, saw a person lying on the ground, dying.
Xu Kai felt he might be dying soon.
He never dreamed that one day, he wouldn’t die at the hands of a ghost, but at the hands of a human.
Thinking of what happened in the cafeteria just now, Xu Kai’s body, already cold from excessive blood loss, grew even colder.
His friend of many years had pushed him out to be a scapegoat.
He looked at the blood-red sky, his heart filled with unwillingness.
He didn’t want to die. He wanted to live.
He still had family, a younger sister, so many things he couldn’t let go of.
How could he die here so easily?
But he knew he couldn’t survive.
Few people could survive an Urban Legend, let alone someone seriously injured.
He closed his eyes, quietly waiting for death, when he suddenly felt something standing beside him.
It must be a ghost.
It was coming to eat him.
Xu Kai hesitated whether to open his eyes to see what the ghost about to eat him looked like, but felt it wasn’t necessary.
If the ghost eating him was too ugly, wouldn’t his eyes suffer abuse before death?
A rasping, unpleasant voice sounded: “Dr. Jiang, the meat on the ground isn’t fresh anymore. If you’re hungry, I’ll go find you some fresh meat.”
There was obvious fawning in the ghost’s voice.
Xu Kai didn’t know whether to be angry that he was called “not fresh” while still alive, glad that he might not lose his life for now, or surprised that these inhuman ghosts actually had a tone like “fawning.”
Jiang Ning’s gaze fell on the Guayi in front of her, which had three eyes, two mouths, a reversed nose, and four ears growing next to its mouths. She fell into silence.
She was wrong. Sometimes, having a face like this was worse than having none at all.
Jiang Ning didn’t want to hurt her eyes anymore, so she turned to look at the person on the ground.
The System, which had been slacking off observing the place, suddenly exclaimed: [ Host, the person on the ground is also providing you with Heartbeat Points! There are already over five hundred points now! ]
Jiang Ning said, “Mhm.”
In the System’s eyes, Xu Kai turned into a sheep that could continuously produce wool: [ Ningning, let’s save him and keep him around. We can scare him every day and make him provide more Heartbeat Points. ]
Its tone was full of anticipation, as if it could already see Xu Kai constantly providing Heartbeat Points for Jiang Ning.
Scaring people wasn’t hard for Jiang Ning.
The ghost in front of Jiang Ning still looked at her expectantly, waiting for her orders.
Ghosts in Urban Legend dungeons had a strict hierarchy. Low-level ghosts had to obey the orders of high-level ghosts unconditionally.
Just like now, even though it really wanted to eat the person on the ground, it had to suppress its appetite and wait for Jiang Ning’s arrangement.
Jiang Ning spoke. “No need. You go get busy. I can handle this.”
Xu Kai, eyes closed, discovered that the voice of the person speaking was unexpectedly pleasant.
He opened his eyes and saw the tall and graceful Jiang Ning. Her profile was exquisite, without a trace of those ugly ghosts.
Xu Kai was stunned.
Can ghosts look so human?
The nurse ghost, eyeing Xu Kai hungrily from the side, was obviously unwilling. But because Jiang Ning’s status was higher, it could only leave, glancing covetously at Xu Kai before walking away hatefully.
Xu Kai breathed a sigh of relief, lying on the ground, accepting his fate of death.
He met Jiang Ning’s indifferent gaze and laughed at his fleeting thought that Jiang Ning looked human.
How could a human have such a gaze, no matter how much she looks like one?
Seeing Xu Kai lying on the ground without moving for a long time, Jiang Ning asked softly, “Why aren’t you getting up yet?”
Xu Kai froze.
Jiang Ning frowned slightly, only then realizing that Xu Kai’s clothes around his abdomen were soaked in blood.
It wasn’t that he didn’t want to move; he couldn’t.
Humans would die if they lost too much blood.
Jiang Ning asked the System, “How many Heartbeat Points do I have now?”
The System immediately opened the backend to check diligently and found that Xu Kai had provided another thousand or so Heartbeat Points in just this short while.
What a high-quality sheep!
[ Ningning, you have 13,200 Heartbeat Points now. ]
A small portion came from Xu Kai, another from Jiang family members who occasionally got scared by accident, and the rest from readers of Jiang Ning’s novel.
Heartbeat Points were essentially a form of energy that could be used to extend life or heal Jiang Ning’s injuries.
Jiang Ning converted part of the Heartbeat Points into energy.
Her injuries healed invisibly by a tiny fraction.
She raised her hand.
Xu Kai watched her every move.
A point of light appeared in the darkness.
Why is there light here?
Xu Kai blinked his sore eyes, only to realize the light was on the wound on his abdomen.
The muscles there felt hot and itchy.
Soon, the light disappeared, and the wound on his abdomen vanished.
His heart pounded.
What is this magical ability?
And why did a ghost save him?