Chapter 30: Grace and Authority
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After muttering a complaint inwardly, Xie Yunying seemed to think of something.
She lowered her head and glanced at the clothes soaked through with dark-red liquid.
Only then did Xie Yunying realize the obvious: all right, she really did not look much like a benevolent spirit.
Having figured it out, Xie Yunying gave Doctor Zhao an awkward smile. Unsurprisingly, she gained several more points of Fear Value.
After killing her way from day into night, Xie Yunying was somewhat tired, so she decided to stop teasing Doctor Zhao.
The next moment, Xie Yunying returned to her normal state.
“I’m leaving,” she said to Doctor Zhao before returning to her own office.
Upon hearing this, Doctor Zhao kept his eyes wide open and watched Xie Yunying enter her office.
After she closed the door, he continued staring toward her office for several more minutes.
Only after confirming that Xie Yunying had not come back out did Doctor Zhao finally let out a long breath of relief.
Then he hurriedly crawled back into his own office.
The first thing Xie Yunying did after returning to her office was take off her coat.
She had barely sat down when the main system’s notification suddenly rang in her ears.
“Ding! Congratulations, player Xie Yunying, on slaughtering your way through the Chongshan Psychiatric Hospital instance and unlocking the title: Fear Creator.”
“Ding! Congratulations, player Xie Yunying, on receiving the title reward of one hundred thousand Fear Value.”
“Ding! Congratulations, player Xie Yunying, on receiving the title reward of one thousand Fear Value.”
“Oh-ho! Fear Creator... These rewards aren’t bad!”
After saying this, Xie Yunying called for the system.
“Yingying, remember to hide this title for me. And open the system panel.”
“All right, host!”
After Xie Yunying’s system spirit, Xie Yunling, finished speaking, she opened Xie Yunying’s personal information panel.
Horror Game Player: Xie Yunying
Identity: Corpse Specter (Suppresses specters of a lower level)
Fear Value: 1,022,300
Level: C [1,000,000 Fear Value required for the next upgrade]
Title: Fear Creator
Ghost Coins: 27,090
Supernatural Item: Blood-Red Doll [Rank B]
Paranormal Equipment: Rank D Surgical Knife, Rank F Spiked Club
Abilities: Extreme Regeneration, Claw Rend, Illusory Assault, Teleportation
The moment Xie Yunling saw the exact amount of Fear Value, she cried out excitedly.
“Wow, host! You can level up again! Do you want to upgrade?”
“Not yet. Aren’t we going to Happy Residential Community next?”
“We’ll be weaker for now. It’ll be easier to catch them off guard.”
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“Host! You’re so cautious~! I really like you!”
Xie Yunying smiled even more brightly upon hearing this. She felt as though she had just been praised.
Meanwhile, Zhang Yurou had been pacing back and forth in the lobby on the first floor.
No one knew how long she had been wandering there before the strange nurse, who had been forced to remain on duty, approached and asked curiously,
“You’ve been walking back and forth here this whole time. Is something troubling you?”
She knew that everyone who had survived until now belonged to Director Xie.
That included herself. She, too, was one of Director Xie’s specters.
Zhang Yurou understood this as well, which was why she did not give the strange nurse a cold look.
Instead, she offered a bitter smile to the strange nurse, who had approached her cautiously.
“Director Xie told me to look for her tonight, but...”
“So much time has passed. I’m afraid she’s forgotten.”
“And after killing all day, if I go up to her now...”
The strange nurse gave Zhang Yurou a sympathetic look.
“I think you should still go and see Director Xie. She did tell you to look for her.”
“And although Director Xie’s temper is a little strange...”
“She’s still somewhat...”
By the end, even the strange nurse could not bring herself to finish.
She gave Zhang Yurou an apologetic smile.
For someone who had slaughtered nearly an entire instance—a ruthless person, no, a ruthless specter—the strange nurse could not even guess what Xie Yunying might be thinking.
What if she was in a bad mood and killed the two of them, insignificant underlings that they were?
Zhang Yurou understood all of this as well.
“Better a quick death than a lingering one. Whether it comes sooner or later, the result is the same.”
After comforting herself with these words, Zhang Yurou started up the stairs.
She had only just reached Xie Yunying’s door and had not yet knocked when the door opened from within.
Zhang Yurou instinctively took a step backward.
Xie Yunying paid no attention to this. She merely smiled faintly and said,
“Come in. I’ve been waiting for you for a while.”
Hearing this, Zhang Yurou assumed that Xie Yunying was blaming her.
She apologized at once. “I’m sorry, Director Xie. I...”
Seeing how humble Zhang Yurou was, Xie Yunying did not explain that she had meant nothing of the sort.
Instead, she said indifferently, “Come in. Don’t waste any more time. I’m going to rest soon.”
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Xie Yunying entered the office, and Zhang Yurou followed cautiously behind her.
Once she sensed that Zhang Yurou had come in, Xie Yunying told her the answer to the hidden mission.
After hearing it, Zhang Yurou submitted the mission right in front of Xie Yunying. As expected, the mission was deemed successful.
However, the reward did not include the Rank B Blood-Red Doll.
There were only one thousand points and five hundred Ghost Coins.
The moment Zhang Yurou saw her reward, she handed the five hundred Ghost Coins to Xie Yunying.
Xie Yunying glanced at them and refused.
“I don’t take money from my own people.”
“By the way, apart from you, there’s another living player in this instance.”
“He saw how close you and I are.”
“Oh, and take this paranormal item as well! Don’t say I’ve been too harsh with you.”
After saying this, Xie Yunying tossed out the surgical knife she had obtained earlier.
Zhang Yurou dodged to the side in advance and avoided being pinned to the wall by the Rank D surgical knife, which had been thrown with tremendous force.
Once she recovered, Zhang Yurou first glanced at Xie Yunying.
Only after seeing that Xie Yunying made no further move did she hurry toward the surgical knife embedded in the wall.
When Zhang Yurou saw the weapon’s rank clearly, she stared at Xie Yunying in shock.
As if she knew what Zhang Yurou wanted to say, Xie Yunying spoke first.
“Take it. I don’t want you to still be this weak the next time I see you.”
Then Xie Yunying began ushering her out.
“I’m going to rest. You should leave.”
After accepting the surgical knife from Xie Yunying, Zhang Yurou left.
That night was unusually peaceful.
Xie Yunying slept soundly through the entire night.
Aside from Xie Yunying, every other specter spent the night in fear and trepidation.
The next day, Xie Yunying stayed in her office all day.
Once Xie Yunying had rested enough, her system spirit, Xie Yunling, finally emerged from the system space to get some air.
The first thing she did after coming out was ask Xie Yunying why she had given the paranormal item to that human player.
“Host! Why did you give that Rank D surgical knife to Zhang Yurou?”
“If you don’t like it, we could have sold it.”
“A Rank D paranormal item is worth ten thousand Ghost Coins!”
“Yingying, you’re a system, so you don’t understand why I did it.”
“There’s an old saying in the human world: if you want a horse to run, you have to feed it well.”
“The same principle applies to Zhang Yurou.”
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