The Strictest Father in the Eerie World

Upon hearing this, Ye Chuan slightly retracted the orb of light at his fingertips. The energy fluctuations, potent enough to distort space itself, dissipated instantly, as if the earth-shattering aura from moments ago had been nothing but an illusion.

"Get the item... makes sense," he remarked nonchalantly, as if what he had just conjured wasn't an energy sphere capable of leveling the hospital, but merely a common glass marble.

Fulfilling the clear conditions was still necessary, after all.

The surrounding players stood dumbstruck. The suffocating pressure from that split second ago had left them gasping for air.

This...

Is this really a player?

Is he really not a supernatural Boss?

The oppression exuded by Ye Chuan was far more intense than that of any Boss monster. Consequently, the players dared not approach him, standing at a distance for fear of provoking his ire.

"Big Shot, the items are in specific zones, but they don't seem to be in fixed locations... we still need to search carefully," Tian Xiaotian hurriedly stepped forward, explaining rapidly.

"Also, the monsters in the hospital... well, I guess monsters aren't really anything to you, Big Shot."

As Tian Xiaotian spoke, realizing Ye Chuan's terrifying combat power, she silently began to latch onto him for support again.

After all, isn't it nice to have someone to rely on?

Seeming to recall something, Tian Xiaotian took out a small box from her inventory space. "Big Shot, here are the gold bars."

Gold bars...

Ye Chuan glanced at them.

He hadn't expected Tian Xiaotian to remember this matter—after all, for her, thirty years had passed.

Had she kept them on her person for thirty whole years?

Ye Chuan wasn't exactly short on the money from a few gold bars anymore, but perhaps moved by Tian Xiaotian's sentiment, he reached out and accepted the small box.

"Mn."

After their brief exchange, Ye Chuan and Tian Xiaotian walked straight toward the main entrance of the Silent Hospital.

The gray mist parted automatically around him, creating a path as if in fear. He floated in mid-air, his small figure exuding an invisible yet commanding aura.

The Big Shot seems... to have gotten stronger again?

Though, I've never actually seen his true strength anyway.

Tian Xiaotian shook her head helplessly and said to the players behind her:

"Keep up with the Big Shot. Don't fall behind. If you encounter danger, just hide behind him."

With that, she quickened her pace to catch up with Ye Chuan.

The players looked at each other in dismay before hurriedly following suit—with a Big Shot of this caliber leading the team, wasn't this dungeon run practically in the bag?

In the Weird World, no player dared to guarantee they could solo-carry a team through a dungeon ranked A or higher.

Yet, Tian Xiaotian placed exceptional trust in that child.

...

Pushing open the rusty iron gates, a pungent smell of disinfectant mixed with the scent of decay assaulted their senses, causing them to frown instinctively.

The interior of the hospital was incredibly dim. Only a few flickering incandescent bulbs hung from the ceiling, casting mottled shadows.

The doors to the patient rooms lining the corridor were mostly ajar, with strange noises faintly drifting out from within.

Calling it a haunted house would be about right.

Tian Xiaotian, however, felt nothing. Having experienced so many life-and-death moments, she was practically immune to terrifying environments.

Yet, for some reason—perhaps because Ye Chuan was here—she felt an unusual desire to rely on him. She scooted a bit closer.

"Big Shot, it's actually pretty scary here."

"It's so-so," Ye Chuan replied, withdrawing his gaze without feeling much of anything.

This place wasn't nearly gloomy enough.

*Creak—*

With a sharp sound, the door to a nearby ward slowly opened, and a headless nurse appeared in the doorway.

She wore a bloodstained white nurse's uniform, her hands clutching an IV bottle filled with green liquid as she walked stiffly toward the group.

Her movements resembled those of a marionette.

"It's a Headless Nurse!" a player cried out in alarm, instinctively raising their weapon.

But before he could make a move, Ye Chuan simply cast a faint glance at the Headless Nurse.

In the next second, the nurse's body was torn apart by an invisible force, instantly turning into flying ash without leaving a single trace.

"This..." The players were completely dumbfounded. They didn't even get a chance to attack. A B-rank anomaly just vanished like that?

Ye Chuan, acting as if he had done something trivial, continued to float forward.

Headless Nurses popped out one after another in the corridor, yet the moment they entered within three meters of him, they were obliterated by an invisible force. Tian Xiaotian and the others weren't given a single opportunity to fight.

The players following behind gripped their weapons, feeling somewhat at a loss. For the first time, they felt like they were hacking.

And it was the aimbot kind.

Soon, the group arrived at the entrance of a records room.

The door was a heavy iron gate secured by a massive bronze lock.

The bronze lock was covered in rust and blackened bloodstains—there was also a strange red glow upon it, seemingly protecting it.

"The records room door is sealed by a special power; we need to find the key... it's probably on one of the monsters..." Tian Xiaotian had just started speaking upon seeing the lock when she saw Ye Chuan raise his hand.

He extended his small palm and pressed it lightly against the lock.

With a booming sound, the seemingly sturdy lock instantly turned into fine powder, and even the red glow was dispelled by Ye Chuan.

S-so there was this method too?

As expected of the Big Shot.

Ye Chuan casually shattered the iron door. Inside, countless filing cabinets were piled up in a disorderly fashion, covered in a thick layer of dust.

"The plague records should be in the innermost cabinet," Tian Xiaotian said, signaling the players behind her to go in and find the item. After all, such a trivial task certainly didn't require the Big Shot's personal attention.

Seeing that they finally had something to do, the other players immediately stepped forward and began rummaging.

The records room was quite large. While they were flipping through the documents, strange roaring sounds echoed from outside the door, accompanied by the sound of something dragging across the floor. Something was approaching.

Tian Xiaotian instinctively turned her head. "Big Shot... a monster..."

"Just keep searching. You won't die." Ye Chuan's words struck Tian Xiaotian's heart like a calming pill.

Tian Xiaotian then focused on finding the dungeon item, while Ye Chuan's gaze turned toward the pitch-black corridor. Under the dim, flickering incandescent light, a bizarre, two-meter-tall anomaly was approaching.

Rather than calling it a humanoid monster, it was more like a twisted, walking mass of rotten flesh on two legs.

Its entire body was putrid flesh covered in festering sores, with green blood oozing from the cracks.

It approached slowly, its figure imposing an exceptionally oppressive presence amidst the flickering light.

An A-rank anomaly: the Plague Host.

Ye Chuan, however, remained expressionless. As if a thought had just occurred to him, he retrieved a black revolver from his inventory space—

At that moment, the Plague Host suddenly let out a bizarre roar and accelerated, lunging toward Ye Chuan!

"One shot!"

A gunshot rang out, and the Plague Host instantly exploded into pieces!