"Am I not making myself clear enough?" The Dean sneered. "With that kitchen knife in your hand... what do you think you can do?" He roared, "You don't belong in my world! Why don't you just get back to where you belong! Huh?"

*Clang!* The knife flashed, and struck at the Dean's neck.

Feng Bujue didn't care what this guy was saying. The main quest told him to kill the Dean, so this Boss must have a weak point.

But... this strike felt like it had hit iron, and was deflected.

The copper plates on the Dean's body weren't just for show; when he was alive, he was a monster with skin of copper and bones of iron.

"Crap..." Jue-Ge cursed inwardly. He had used too much force, and his arm was numb from the shock, even the edge of the kitchen knife had chipped.

"Hmph... since you won't help me open the door... then you shall die!" The Dean's fat body lunged from behind the desk. He grabbed Feng Bujue's neck with his thick arms, yelling, "When you become a ghost, I'll show you what pain really is! Hahahaha..." He laughed as he said this, "You little bastard pretty boy, I'll teach you to mess with the nurses! Teach you to be late!" With each sentence, he tightened his grip, "I'll teach you to doze off during night shifts! Teach you to steal blood for the patients!"

The immense pressure on his neck gave Feng Bujue a strong feeling of suffocation, and his consciousness began to blur. This mental anguish would undoubtedly accelerate the death of Lester's body. Once Jue-Ge, this "traveler from another world," reached zero survival points, Lester would truly "die," and transform completely into a ghost. At that point, the player's consciousness would be teleported, and Lester's fate... was obvious.

"That's all my money! Mine!" The Dean roared, continuing to rant, "Did you think I built this hospital to do charity? To heal the sick and wounded? You little bastard! This is a business... understand? I want everyone who comes here to be cursed, to be unable to leave... until they die and free up a bed, and then I'll let those who are lined up waiting to get in, of course... depending on who pays the most bribes." He frowned, his eyes bulging, a disgusting smile on his face. "Oh... right, that girlfriend of yours, what was her name... Fiona, Chad's dumb sister. You think she just died? It's because you, her useless boyfriend, and her useless brother, could only afford basic treatment... hmph... so I added something to her medicine, to help her get released early..."

At this moment, the Dean had lost his mind. He had forgotten that he was talking to a "traveler from another world." When he grabbed Feng Bujue's neck, years of pent-up resentment finally erupted. He couldn't help but spew out all the venomous words he had harbored for years at Lester's face.

"This isn't good... at this rate, I'm going to die..." In this critical situation, Jue-Ge was desperately thinking of a countermeasure. "Did I trigger some kind of death flag in the previous game? How am I supposed to kill this Boss... this guy's strength is far above mine." He checked the game menu again, his inventory and skill slots were still locked, and he couldn't use his Ling-energy weapons... this really was a hopeless situation...

Watching his survival points rapidly drop below 20%, about to enter a near-death state, finally... something changed.

*Bang!*

The gold bricks on the floor were shattered by a powerful force. An arm as thick as a thigh shot out from under the floor tiles and grabbed the Dean's ankle.

"Damn... this plot point only triggers when I'm about to die..." Feng Bujue thought.

The next second, the Dean released Lester and looked down in horror, shouting, "Who is it? This is impossible!" As he shouted, he bent down and punched the giant arm.

However... his attack was like scratching an itch through boots, basically useless.

Then, with a series of loud crashes, the owner of the arm broke through the ground and climbed up to this floor.

"You son of a bitch..." Chad's other head spat out a nasty curse. He flipped over, stood firm, and lifted the Dean upside down with one hand. "I'm going to make you pay!"

*Bang, bang, bang...*

Fists the size of sandbags rained down on the Dean. The scene was like hitting a sandbag, but the sounds were like iron hammers hitting a copper drum.

"You... brainless idiot... big oaf..." The Dean was hung upside down and beaten by Chad for a while, and was clearly seriously injured, cracks appearing all over his body.

"Yes, I am a big oaf," Chad replied. "I've never been smart since I was little, and I've always been bullied. But my best friend never laughed at me, and neither did my sister. They've always supported me and shared my joys and sorrows. We're all ordinary, with low incomes and no social status, but we live happily, unlike people like you... who hurt others for their own selfish desires."

Chad said this, raised his arms high, lifted the Dean over his head, and shouted, "In this world, I only have two family members, and you've already killed one of them. I won't let you hurt the second!"

With a roar, Chad pulled with all his might, tearing the incredibly strong Dean into two pieces.

For a moment, Feng Bujue thought he was safe, but...

"Ah..." A cloud of black smoke poured out from the Dean's torn body, accompanied by a horrifying roar. "I'll take you all down with me!"

It seemed that this Boss could still make one last desperate attack...

"Run!" Chad's other head turned to Feng Bujue and roared. It must have been his sister, Fiona.

Chad himself added, "I'll hold him back, go!"

[Current mission has been changed, main mission has been updated.] The system prompt also arrived.

Feng Bujue immediately opened the game menu and glanced at it. The main mission in the mission bar had been changed to four very concise words: [Escape the Hospital].

There was no time to hesitate, Jue-Ge immediately took a step forward and slid into the hole in the ground. This opening was the only way to leave the third floor, he had no choice. Even if jumping down would kill him... he had to jump.

Of course, the system wouldn't design the script that way. Therefore, after falling two or three meters, he landed safely, with no reduction in survival points.

"Thank you! Chad!" After landing, Jue-Ge immediately looked up and shouted.

When he looked up, he saw a very terrifying sight... a large cloud of black mist, like a living thing, flowed down from the hole in the ceiling and approached him...

"Live well! Lester!" Chad's siblings' voices came from above at the same time, but were quickly swallowed up in the black mist...

Feng Bujue took off running, sprinting forward.

Now he didn't need to worry about stamina consumption, he just ran as hard as he could toward the lobby on the first floor...

"Taking the elevator is definitely impossible..." Feng Bujue was busy but not panicked. In just a few seconds, he had identified his location and quickly planned his escape route in his mind. "So... the one-way passage to the first floor is at..."

He ran fast, and the black mist behind him was not slow either. The Dean's shrill ghostly howl kept coming from the black mist: "Don't even think about running! You little bastard!"

"Get lost! You fart of a thing!" Feng Bujue definitely wouldn't lose in words. Even while running for his life, he didn't forget to curse back.

After sprinting for more than a minute, he was close to the one-way passage on the second floor.

"As long as I turn that corner ahead... I'll be on the first floor soon." Feng Bujue encouraged himself in his heart. He really needed some mental encouragement like this now. Because he could clearly feel that... Lester's body was failing fast.

Unexpectedly... when he turned the corner of the corridor ahead, he saw another despairing scene in front of him.

Standing in this corridor were a large number of ghostly figures, and the bodies of these ghosts were already close to solid...