Leaving the infant room, Feng Bujue's mood was far from good.

He had thought that completing a side quest of such high difficulty would at least net him a perfect-grade piece of equipment or something.

In the end, all he got was a plot item…

[Name: Meal Card]

[Type: Plot-Related]

[Quality: Common]

[Function: Can be used to purchase work meals at the hospital's 1st-floor cafeteria]

[Can be brought out of this script: No]

[Remarks: A staff-only card for Cedar County Public Hospital, which employees need to recharge themselves at the cafeteria.]

"Completing a side quest and getting a plot item that can't be turned into a puzzle card… that means… this thing must be a necessity for completing another side quest." Feng Bujue muttered, holding the meal card in his hand, "I paid such a painful price to complete the mission and get this card, there's no way I can leave it unused… So, I have to do another quest related to this item…"

He put the meal card away and sighed, "Sigh… this script seems like you can do nothing, but in reality, there are so many things to do that you can't finish…"

"Hee hee hee…" That laughter, which had appeared once before, sounded again, seemingly guiding the player forward.

"Room 125, huh…" Following the sound, Jue-ge walked for a while and arrived at the door of a pediatric ward. He glanced at the door number and reached out to open the door.

The door was unlocked; it opened with a turn of the handle.

For a few seconds, Feng Bujue was quite uneasy. He was worried that a prompt like [The door is locked] would appear again, forcing him to go somewhere else to find a key or something.

"Hee hee… Uncle, you're here." The little girl sat on the bed in the corner of the room, her face still obscured by long hair, and the red dress she wore stood out sharply in the shadows.

"Ah… yes." Feng Bujue said, "As agreed, I'm here to help you comb your hair."

The little girl slowly got up, stood up, walked half a circle around the bed, and went to the bedside table. She reached out and opened the drawer, taking out a large mirror with a stand.

Her movements were slow, and her every gesture exuded an eerie aura, which made people more and more concerned… about what her face actually looked like.

After setting up the mirror, the little girl moved a stool and sat down, her face directly facing the mirror. From behind the long hair in front of her forehead, a hollow voice came: "I want a ponytail."

"Oh… sure." Feng Bujue took out the small comb from his pocket, "Your hair is so long… how about pigtails?"

"Okay." The little girl's tone, for some reason, turned cold.

If this were a horror movie, the atmosphere would undoubtedly have reached a critical point at this moment, which meant… a jump scare was coming soon…

At this point, anyone could guess that something bad would happen when the little girl's hair in front of her forehead was lifted.

Feng Bujue naturally knew this too, but he didn't care. Anyway, his scare value wouldn't change, which was called being unafraid because he had something to rely on.

He saw Jue-ge stride to the back of the little girl and put his hands on the little girl's forehead. When his fingers probed into her hair, a cold sensation seeped from his fingertips…

Without hesitation, Feng Bujue took the opportunity to lift the long hair in front of her forehead to both sides.

The next second, he saw an extremely terrifying face in the mirror.

The little girl seemed to be humanoid from the outside, but the skin on her face was a scale-like substance. Her face had a total of eight eyes, divided into two vertical rows. Moreover, she had no nose, no lips on her mouth, and two rows of fangs were exposed.

Since there was no light in the room, Feng Bujue propped up the flashlight on the bedside table, shining it diagonally at the little girl. This kind of flashlight light tilted from bottom to top was terrifying even when shone on a human face, let alone on the face of such a monster.

However, Feng Bujue remained calm. He combed the little girl's hair as if nothing had happened.

"Uncle, do you like to listen to stories?" At this moment, the little girl suddenly spoke.

"I like them…" Feng Bujue replied calmly, but in his heart, he was thinking: Is another side quest coming? Or… further revealing the plot?

"Then shall I tell you a story?" the little girl continued to ask.

"Tell me…" Feng Bujue said, "I'm very slow at combing hair."

His so-called "very slow" could actually be understood as "can't do it"…

Obviously, a man who couldn't even tie his shoelaces properly when he was a child couldn't possibly know how to braid hair. In fact, when she said the six words "I want a ponytail," Feng Bujue's mind was completely blank. His answering "pigtails" was purely a means of stalling for time…

"A long, long time ago, this place wasn't a hospital…" the little girl began to tell her story.

"Whoa, whoa… things sound super bad right from the start…" Feng Bujue complained in his heart after hearing only half of this sentence, "You're not going to say this used to be a graveyard, are you…"

“…but a cemetery.” The second half of the little girl's sentence confirmed his guess.

"Is it really that cliché…" Feng Bujue thought.

"It is said that this is a cursed land." The little girl continued, "Any soul buried here can never rest in peace. And people who linger here for a long time will also encounter misfortune…"

"Whoa… is it okay to build a hospital in a place like this?" Feng Bujue was shocked.

"One day, a greedy man came here…" The little girl said again, "He swallowed the county government's appropriations and forcibly requisitioned this cheap, cursed land… and built a hospital here."

"Oh… I seem to understand a lot of things all of a sudden…" Feng Bujue replied.

"It took a long time to complete the hospital. There were constant accidental injuries and deaths during the construction process, and even the construction team was replaced several times, but the greedy man didn't care and insisted on carrying out his plan." The little girl continued, "Finally, the hospital was completed, and this cursed land became a cursed hospital. Every day… many people step into this forbidden place that they should never have set foot in in their lives…" She paused, "Some of them can leave, and some… cannot. Even those who leave this place… the shadow of misfortune will accompany them for many years, as if an invisible force is drawing them back to this place…"

The little girl's ethereal voice grew louder and heavier as she narrated, and her tone… gradually became full of anger and resentment.