Bang, bang, bang—— A series of objects falling to the ground had already become commonplace amidst the ruined remains of the hospital ward. Xu Tong strode forward, stepping over shattered bricks and tiles, arriving at the relatively clean and tidy nurse station. The ward had now returned to its initial silence. Xu Tong glanced back; the desire manifestations from before were completely gone from the entire ward. What remained were damaged cement walls, stripped wall tiles, and medical equipment that was beyond repair. And those desire manifestations had all been killed. Not a single one was left. The corridor lights on the ceiling swayed precariously, still struggling to provide the ward's light source, but now the ward had nothing that needed a light source to seek help. Xu Tong had swept everything away. Theoretically, after killing all the desire manifestations, Xu Tong could have returned to the elevator and pressed the button for the first floor below ground. However, for Xu Tong now, since he had already killed all the desire manifestations, taking back Dr. Piero's employee ID was just a matter of convenience.
Arriving at the nurse station and searching for Dr. Piero's employee ID, Xu Tong quickly found the corresponding plot item. «Name: Qingcheng Hospital Attending Physician Employee ID - Piero» «Type: Plot Item (Cannot be taken out of the instance)» «Quality: Common» «Wearing Requirement: None» «Effect: Wearing this allows free passage through any area of Qingcheng Hospital without any restrictions» «Evaluation: We are all sick, just to varying degrees and in different forms» Holding this employee ID, Xu Tong looked at the normal face on the ID card, which was indeed very different from Senior Piero's appearance. Deep eye sockets, high cheekbones, black-rimmed glasses with thick lenses; although he didn't look very energetic, one could still feel a sense of kindness from the photo. From an appearance standpoint, there was nothing outstanding, at least nothing disgusting. “You should thank me,” Xu Tong smiled, putting the employee ID into his pocket. Items in the inventory could not be used in this instance, so Xu Tong either had to hang the plot items obtained in this instance on his body or put them in his pocket. After all, this wasn't his own employee ID, so Xu Tong didn't wear it. Walking back to the elevator, Xu Tong cast his gaze towards the ward corridor in front of him and sighed. “Perhaps I’m suited to be on a demolition team.” Pressing the -1F button, the elevator doors slowly closed. Xu Tong took a deep breath, watching as the chaotic ward disappeared from his sight as the elevator doors closed. The elevator started running again, and Xu Tong heard a very low sound of electric current surging in his ears. He raised his eyebrows slightly and looked to the side, only to see black mist seeping in little by little from the outside of the elevator. This was Dr. Piero's desire. At this moment, his desire was expanding. Ever since Xu Tong released his desire from the office, everything had begun to become uncontrollable.
【Your right leg detected Dr. Piero's desire seeping in, felt unprecedented anger, and took action on its own】 Bang! Xu Tong kicked the side of the elevator directly, and the entire elevator trembled instantly, the traction rope at the top almost snapping. A deep dent appeared directly on the elevator wall that had been kicked. It was hard to imagine what the consequences would be if this kick landed directly on a normal person. “Get back,” Xu Tong’s voice was a little hoarse, his cold tone containing unprecedented iciness, “before my leg completely loses it.” Those desires, which had no emotions or thoughts and were completely driven by instinct, actually felt unprecedented fear at this moment, shrinking back little by little from the side of the elevator, not daring to cross the line. “Phew…” Letting out a long breath, Xu Tong wiped the cold sweat from his forehead. He felt like he was a fox borrowing the tiger's might, using his leg to scare others away. But damn it, this is my own leg! This is too abstract. From the time Xu Tong scared away Dr. Piero's desires until he arrived at the morgue, the entire elevator was very calm, at least nothing outrageous happened. Soon, the text on the elevator panel changed from 1F to -1F. Ding—— A prompt sounded, and the elevator doors slowly opened. As soon as the elevator doors opened, Xu Tong frowned. The previous low temperature was completely gone, and the entire morgue had returned to room temperature. The corpses lying in the freezers had begun to rot, and a disturbing smell poured out from the gaps in the freezers. And Dr. Piero's gradually expanding desires were slowly devouring the corpses in the freezers. They even seemed to want to devour the entire morgue. They seemed to be looking for something, trying their best to completely envelop all the surrounding freezers. Xu Tong narrowed his eyes, “Looking for the conscience in my hand?” The only thing he could think of that these gradually expanding desires wanted to find was Dr. Piero's conscience. After all, as long as the conscience was still there, Dr. Piero could return to his original nature at any time. But if his conscience was completely devoured by desire, then Dr. Piero would completely become a monster driven by desire. “Fortunately, I got the conscience in advance, otherwise the side quest should have already failed.” Xu Tong took a step forward, and the desires that were gradually devouring the corpses in the freezers seemed to be frightened, and retreated like a tide. He took another step forward, and those deep desires retreated again, always maintaining a relatively safe distance from Xu Tong.
“Oh?” Xu Tong raised his eyebrows slightly, noticing the abnormality. It was one thing to be scared away in the elevator, but now that they were out of the elevator and had already arrived at the morgue, these desires of Dr. Piero's were still being scared away by him? Interesting. Xu Tong guessed that it was because he had killed those desire manifestations too hard in the ward, so that Dr. Piero's desires had noticed that he was a monster with a strong desire to kill, so they had developed a sense of fear towards him. “But it doesn’t matter.” Xu Tong showed a smile. “Anyway, I’ll send you to meet the other desire manifestations soon, and you can all gather in the underworld. “And then regret appearing in this world.”
