Finally, Feng Bujue still didn't manage to buy the beer.

After all, the task description clearly stated "ice-cold beer." If he brought back a warm can, he'd likely fail the quest.

Furthermore, even if he wanted to buy the beer and immediately return to complete the task, he needed a way to get back. The corridor he used to reach the first floor was undoubtedly one-way, and with his current physical condition, he couldn't possibly jump back. So, he had to find another route.

Therefore, Jue-ge temporarily left the vending machine alone and chose to investigate elsewhere.

This hospital had no basement. The only underground facility was the blood bank, so its location was marked on the first-floor map.

Feng Bujue had memorized the map, so he knew this. He left the restaurant through the north exit, entered Building B on the first floor, and quickly traversed the corridor, heading straight for his destination. In just over three minutes, he arrived at the entrance of a freight elevator. On the wall next to the elevator door, there was a line of text: "To Underground Blood Bank."

Jue-ge glanced at the floor indicator above the elevator, which currently displayed "1f." He took half a step back, stood sideways to the elevator door, picked up the cleaver in one hand, and pressed the elevator button with the other.

With a "ding," the door opened, revealing an empty interior. The walls and floor of the elevator were made of heavy metal, not the kind that could be used as a mirror. The lighting was also working normally. At first glance... it seemed like nothing was amiss.

To be cautious, Feng Bujue quickly took out his sunglasses and leaned in to take a closer look. It seemed there weren't even any ghosts...

After confirming it was safe, he stepped inside.

The elevator had two control panels, located diagonally opposite each other. The panels had standard buttons like open, close, and emergency stop. There were three floor buttons: "2f," "1f," and "B1."

"Hmm... can't go to 3f..." Feng Bujue didn't press the B1 button, but instead pressed 2f first, to see if he could go up.

The elevator door closed smoothly, and a rumbling sound filled the air. Seconds later, when the door opened again, the words "2f" appeared on the wall of the corridor outside.

Feng Bujue peered left and right before stepping out of the elevator. He walked along the corridor for a while and soon found a fork in the road. He remembered passing this intersection when Chad was chasing him, but he hadn't turned then.

Having found the old path, Jue-ge quickened his pace. A few minutes later, he returned to the T-junction with the map of the second floor.

"Good, that way, the terrain of the first and second floors is roughly clear." He stood in front of the map, looking at it for another few dozen seconds. This time, it wasn't to piece together a mental puzzle, but to simply memorize and reinforce his memory.

In less than a minute, Jue-ge moved away and turned to leave, lest he attract Chad by standing there too long.

Next, he returned to the elevator he had taken at the beginning of the script, wanting to see if it could go to the third floor. But... when he pressed the elevator button, he received this system notification: 【This elevator is out of order and cannot be used.】

"Hmm... okay." Feng Bujue shrugged.

Reluctantly, he had to retrace his steps, jogging back to the elevator connected to the blood bank.

Inside the elevator, Jue-ge still didn't choose to go to the blood bank. Instead, he went to the first floor, ran back to the restaurant, and used the coins in his pocket to buy a can of ice-cold beer from the vending machine.

He dared not delay for even a moment. While the beer was still cold, he quickly set off, took the elevator to the second floor, and sprinted along the corridor to room 216.

He was out of breath when he pushed open the door.

"Hey, did you find my key?" Victor was the first to speak to Jue-ge.

"Haa... haa..." Feng Bujue's tongue was hanging out, and he was panting heavily while holding onto the door frame. "Stop talking nonsense!" he replied impatiently, then continued to pant...

Jue-ge was used to running at super speed in the game, but now that he had run for a while using Lester's body, he felt like he was going to die.

"Hmm... when Chad was chasing me before, because I didn't run for long and the situation was urgent, I didn't notice..." Jue-ge thought to himself, "Now, after this continuous long-distance running, it's very obvious... Lester's stamina is too poor. Isn't this physique even worse than mine in real life?"

"Anyway, he hasn't gotten the two bags of type B blood I wanted yet." Count on the next bed continued, "I don't smell the scent of blood."

"What took you so long?" Victor shrugged, then turned to Jue-ge and said, "Time is money, you know?"

Feng Bujue ignored him. After catching his breath, he immediately went to Mr. Harper's bedside and handed over the quest item: "Ice-cold beer, Mr. Harper."

Hearing this, Harper tremblingly raised an arm and reached for the beer. However, the moment he reached out to grab the can... his movements were as fast as lightning, just as quick as when he had grabbed Jue-ge's wrist before.

Harper opened the can of ice beer with one hand, then opened his mouth wide and chugged, chugged... emptying the entire can in one gulp.

"Ah..." the old man let out a comfortable sigh, "Burp..." then let out a belch.

Feng Bujue stood by the hospital bed, silently observing and waiting... As he handed over the beer, he had already switched to the game menu and confirmed that the side quest in the taskbar had been checked off.

"Thank you, young man." After a few moments, Harper finally spoke.

For a few seconds, Jue-ge really suspected that the other party wasn't going to give him a reward.

"Hehe..." Feng Bujue smiled. Of course, he only smiled. He would never trap himself by adding a cliché like "It's what I should do."

"Here, this is my thank you gift." Harper took out a key from under his pillow and presented it to Jue-ge.

"Again?" Feng Bujue felt like throwing up at the sight of the key. After taking the so-called "reward," he held it up to examine it:

【Name: Key to the Director's Office】

【Type: Story Related】

【Quality: Normal】

【Function: Opens the door to the Director's Office】

【Can be taken out of this script: No】

【Note: Running errands for the elderly is the right thing to do.】

"Ah... if this game could load a save, I would definitely hug Oinque's leg and beg him to help me chop Chad to death. Then, I'd just lie down in a corner in the hallway for the night..." After reading the item description, Feng Bujue muttered to himself.

"Speaking of... the Director's Office should be on the third floor..." Feng Bujue muttered as he put the key into his pocket.

"Yes." Mr. Harper actually replied, "The Director's Office is on the south side of the third floor."

"Oh..." Hearing this, Feng Bujue thought he could trigger another quest, so he continued, "You gave me this key, do you need me to do something for you in the Director's Office?"

Unfortunately, he was overthinking it. Harper's dialogue quickly changed to: "Beer is so delicious..."

"Tch..." Feng Bujue thought to himself, "He's just giving me a hint about the location of the Director's Office..."

【Current task has been changed, main task has been updated】At that moment, the system prompt suddenly sounded.

Jue-ge was stunned, "Main task changed?"

He quickly opened the menu and looked at the taskbar again. He saw that the original main task 【Stay at your post and live until dawn】 had been crossed out, and a new instruction appeared below it: 【Defeat the Director and escape the hospital.】

"Ha!" Feng Bujue looked at this line and immediately laughed. He suddenly felt a sense of turning passivity into initiative.

"What are you laughing at? Hurry up and find my key." Victor's shrill voice chirped again.

"Are you talking about this?" Feng Bujue smiled mysteriously and took out 【Victor's Key】 from his pocket, waving it at the other party.

"Ah! Yes! Give it to me quickly." Victor stretched out his hands, like a child asking for a toy.

"Hmph..." Jue-ge sneered, "I know your secret... you despicable opportunist..." He deliberately took a few steps toward the door, just in case, "Erguotou... is it? Heh... cheap to produce, but deadly to those alcohol-loving races."

"Are you trying to blackmail me?" Victor was worthy of being a goblin, exceptionally sharp in this regard.

"If I were you..." Feng Bujue didn't answer the other party's question directly, but said, "When I obtained a unique resource that could make me rich... I would definitely spend a lot of money to hire powerful mages to add an indestructible magical barrier to my wine cellar." As he spoke, he waved the key twice, "Only leaving a unique magic key that can open the door, and this key, I would carry with me." He paused and looked at Victor with a menacing gaze, "You could say... what I hold in my hand is not just a key, but all your Erguotou stock and the recipe for brewing this wine."

These words... actually had no basis. In fact, Jue-ge was just using the notes on 【Blood Corpse Must Die】 and 【Victor's Key】, as well as some settings from the monster kingdom, to fill in the blanks.

However... he seemed to have guessed correctly.

"You villain! You're ruthless! What do you want?" Victor actually admitted it.

Hearing this, Feng Bujue was overjoyed, but on the surface, he still cautiously asked, "What do you have?"

"I have a teleportation stone to the third floor of the hospital." Victor replied.

"Ha?" Feng Bujue was stunned for a moment, then he immediately understood that this thing was definitely the reward for the side quest itself. "Anything else?"

"Money." Victor replied, "Did you want something else?" His expression changed slightly, "Speaking of... I do have a niece, she said she wouldn't mind marrying someone from another race..."

"Equipment! Equipment equipment equipment equipment!" Feng Bujue roared.

"Are you sick?" Victor replied, "Where would I get equipment? I'm a reseller, when I get something, I've already found a buyer. It'll be sold in less than half a day, I only have money around me, I don't keep stolen goods... oh no, I mean goods."

"What's the point of money!" Feng Bujue shouted. He was right, as the note on that coin said, the money of the monster kingdom was a very unreliable currency.

"Okay! You want 'stuff', right?" As Victor spoke, he took out two items from his bedside table, holding them out with both hands. "I only have 'this' and the teleportation stone, will you trade?"

"Tch... after all that, I'm just getting one more item..." Feng Bujue thought to himself, "Oh well... it's better than nothing."

"Trade, of course I'll trade." Feng Bujue replied without much hesitation, "Your key is useless to me." As he spoke, he took two steps forward and exchanged the items in his hands with the other party.

"Hmph! You villain! I'm going to report you!" Victor complained a few times, then stuffed the key into his arms.

The Count laughed gloatingly from the side, "Haha, you greedy merchant, this is retribution."

Then, the two of them started arguing again...

As for Feng Bujue, after reading the descriptions of the two items in his hand, he walked out of the room.

Before going to the third floor, he still had one side quest left to do. Since the other quest lines were all pointing to the same goal—the Director—then the reward he received from the Count should also be related to completing the main quest, and he couldn't pass it up.