"Alright, alright, stop licking," Jiang Che said with a frown.

The girl shrank back, her eyes watery, her lips moist.

Jiang Che: "About that special uniform of yours..."

Before Jiang Che could finish, the girl shook her head vigorously like a rattle drum, "No need, no need, the caregiver brother works too hard, I don't want to trouble him."

"Good, sensible," Jiang Che nodded and patted the girl's shoulder.

The Mystic World doesn't seem as terrifying as they say.

Aren't these little cuties quite sensible?

Leaving room 401, Jiang Che headed straight for 402.

The tasks assigned by the Head Nurse for today were already completed.

As long as the patients in the other wards didn't press the call button by the bedside, he could coast until six o'clock and get off work.

But if the call button rang, he still had to check it out.

After all, it's part of the job.

He paused at the door of 402, but no prompt appeared.

So Jiang Che, holding a pair of scissors, pushed the door open.

"Creak..."

The scene inside the room came into view.

402 also had three patients.

An old man hanging on the wall.

A disheveled middle-aged woman, and a child on the bed crying loudly.

Jiang Che walked up to the middle-aged woman, confirmed she was the patient in bed 3, and asked, "What's going on?"

The woman raised her head, her face looked as if it had been splashed with acid, her lips stuck together.

She pouted, and her skin split open...

"Ugh, ugh," the woman made sounds unintelligible to normal people, then pointed to the child in bed 2.

At this moment, the old man hanging on the wall said, "She says the child is too noisy. If you can't quiet him down, she'll eat you."

"Can't you solve it yourselves?" Jiang Che retorted.

The old man looked at Jiang Che incredulously, "If we could solve it ourselves, why would we need you as a caregiver?"

Jiang Che was taken aback, "Damn, you make a good point."

Just then, a prompt appeared.

[As long as there's a reason to accuse the caregiver of negligence, even if they eat the caregiver, the Head Nurse won't blame them. They only got a leg from the last caregiver, so sad...]

Damn, not even an hour into the job, and two wards' worth of patients already want to eat me.

Is it that the hospital doesn't provide you with meals, or have I become Tang Monk?

Maybe I'll cut off my hemorrhoids and share them with you.

Let you have a taste?

Jiang Che walked to bed 2.

On the bed, a child of only four or five years old was crying loudly.

Bright red blood continuously flowed from his seven orifices.

There were bubbles at his nose.

"Stop crying, big brother will tell you a story, you can listen while you fall asleep, okay?" Jiang Che said gently.

The child sobbed a few times, his pair of ashen eyes staring at Jiang Che, and said, "Okay, but if I can't fall asleep, I'll eat you, big brother! Once I'm full, I'll sleep!"

"Alright," Jiang Che grinned.

Child: "???"

Wait a minute.

Why did this guy agree so readily?

Jiang Che continued, "Come, big brother will tell you a story."

"A ghost story..."

Old man: "???"

Woman: "???"

Child: "???"

Big brother, are you serious?

Telling ghost stories to a ghost?

Damn, you're quite bold...

Jiang Che didn't care about their strange looks, and continued, "A long, long time ago..."

"There were four babies with antennas on their heads..."

"......"

Before Jiang Che could finish.

The child wailed and cried again!

"Not good, not good, I can't sleep..."

"Thud!"

A blood-red pair of scissors pierced through the child's mouth!

Jiang Che: "Didn't your mom teach you? Don't interrupt when someone is telling a story!"

"Cough! Cough, cough..."

The child spat out mouthfuls of blood, looking at the man in front of him in horror.

Big brother, I just interrupted.

You really stabbed my mouth!

Are you even human?

Jiang Che's actions frightened the other two patients as well.

These scissors, this caregiver.

One word and he stabs? Can't mess with him...

Next, Brother Che coaxed the child online.

Soon, the story was finished.

The child also "fell asleep peacefully."

Leaving room 402, Jiang Che sat at the front desk to rest.

401 and 402 were now very quiet.

As for the other two wards, they didn't press the call button until the end of the shift.

The first day of work went smoothly.

On his way back, Jiang Che deliberately slowed his pace.

By the time he reached the first floor, quite a few people had gathered.

Jiang Che roughly counted, there were about twenty people.

The classmates were whispering.

"I just saw Li Hao's corpse..."

"I saw Wang Wei being eaten by his patient!"

"The patients on my floor are terrifying, one of them only has half a body, damn it."

"I don't think I can last seven days, this place is too scary."

"The main thing is, this scenario, I've never heard of it, ten years of studying, and it's useless!"

"I told you academic subjects are useless..."

Jiang Che quietly blended into the crowd.

Listening to the classmates' discussions, occasionally chiming in.

"Yeah, scared me to death, as soon as I entered the door, a head flew over..."

"Yeah, yeah, they even forced me to listen to ghost stories."

Before long.

The Head Nurse arrived.

She scanned the crowd with her eyes, then...

"Smack!"

Before anyone could react, she smashed a classmate's head!

Sticky fragments splattered all over the people around!

No screams, no cries, but everyone's face turned pale!

A few people's stomachs churned, but fearing they'd be smashed by the Head Nurse, they swallowed it back down...

"Task incomplete, and received complaints from patients, what a waste!"

The Head Nurse licked the white residue on her hand, smacked her lips, "Tastes bad!"

Then, she handed each of the remaining people an envelope, saying.

"The envelope contains Spectral Coins based on your performance today."

"Each floor has vending machines, you can buy food there."

"Next, caregivers return to their respective floor's lounge for the night, janitors' dormitory is on the first floor, I'll take you there, gather here at 6:30 AM tomorrow."

"I'll emphasize again, after dark, just sleep, don't open your eyes no matter what happens! Otherwise, you're on your own!"

"Alright, janitors follow me." The Head Nurse led the girls away.

The remaining boys didn't communicate much, quickly returning to their respective floors.

Everyone was already scared out of their wits, and then the Head Nurse smashed one right in front of them...

Now, their mental state was on the verge of collapse.

Better to just behave.

Back on the 4th floor, Jiang Che opened the envelope.

Inside was a 100 denomination Spectral Coin, the common currency in the Mystic World.

Jiang Che spent 30 Spectral Coins at the vending machine, buying some water and bread.

Besides that, he also noticed among the pile of food in the vending machine.

There was something that didn't quite fit.

A flashlight, priced at 500 Spectral Coins.

Jiang Che silently noted this, then returned to the lounge.

The time was now 7 PM.

Jiang Che had a feeling something terrible would happen at night.

Otherwise, the task introduction wouldn't have already warned about it.

The Head Nurse wouldn't need to reiterate it.

Looking at the gradually darkening world outside the window.

It was about to get dark...

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