Zhong Mu stood silently at the door for a moment, stunned. Sure enough, the monster corpses along the way were all the work of Brother Xiu, as always, the place was littered with corpses.
But what is this all about?
The two eerie creatures who had been watching the show from the back sat upright. Upon hearing the door open, they both turned around and stared at them.
Upon seeing Zhong Mu appear, Ya Ya's face lit up with joy, and she ran over happily, "Brother Zhong Mu! So you were here!"
Upon hearing the sound, Yin Xiu and the man turned around simultaneously, their gazes both falling on Zhong Mu.
The person on the ground, 408, cursed loudly, "I already told you I don't know!! I've never seen this person before! You insist that I hid or killed him! I need this person's body before I can give it to you! You just won't listen!"
"Shut up." Yin Xiu glared at him coldly, then turned to look at Zhong Mu. Since he had never met Zhong Mu before, he could only look at Li Mo and ask for confirmation, "Is it him?"
Li Mo nodded. "It's him."
"That's fine then." Yin Xiu turned around, raised his knife, and stared at the man on the ground. "Then you can die now."
The man on the ground struggled. He had been sleeping peacefully in the operating room when three people suddenly barged in. One of them started slashing at him with a knife. Unable to fight back, he was trampled on the ground and forced to reveal his identity. He was tortured without even knowing who they were.
Now, the person he's looking for has come out on his own, and the other party wants to kill him without saying a word. That's too much!
The moment the knife was about to stab down, 408 grabbed the tip of Yin Xiu's knife and glared at him fiercely, "Don't go too far. If I don't kill you, you'll just come here to die, right?"
Yin Xiu raised his chin slightly. "Then try killing me and see what happens."
408 narrowed his eyes, "I don't kill patients, I only kill doctors. If you insist on fighting me to the death, I don't mind taking it seriously."
Yin Xiu stared down at him, raising his knife without a word. "I'll kill anyone."
The instant his knife swung down, countless eyes suddenly sprang out from the seams on 408's body. He grabbed Yin Xiu's foot, which was standing on his chest, and leaped up from the ground. Just as he was about to lift Yin Xiu up and throw him away, almost instantly, a cold light swept towards him.
He quickly let go and stepped back, feeling a little shaken. If he had touched the other person any more, his hand would have been severed.
But Yin Xiu gave him no chance to breathe. His fierce attacks were fast and intense, without any pause, each strike aimed at a vital spot. 408 had almost no chance to defend and was completely unable to counterattack.
When Yin Xiu was in his teens, he only cared about killing his opponent. Although his knife was fast and fierce, it was not very efficient. Yin Xiu in his twenties was more experienced and steady. He usually finished the job with one strike, without any hesitation.
"Brother Xiu! Wait a minute! Don't kill him yet! We still need to get something from him!" Zhong Mu anxiously jumped around behind him, afraid that if Brother Xiu killed him too quickly, they wouldn't be able to find the key to get out.
But Yin Xiu paid no attention to the outside world when he started fighting, only thinking about killing the person in front of him, which made Zhong Mu anxious and helpless.
Finally, Li Mo stepped forward, grabbed Yin Xiu's hand amidst the flashing swords, smiled and nuzzled his face, saying, "Boyfriend, we need to keep this person here for a while."
As soon as it stopped, the 408 on the opposite side also stopped.
He didn't notice Yin Xiu's sudden stop, but stared blankly at the two people in front of him and their hands clasped together intimately, and asked in horror, "You... are you a couple?"
Yin Xiu blinked in confusion, but Li Mo said firmly and confidently, "This is my boyfriend."
The next second, 408 suddenly jumped back behind the operating table, only his eyes showing as he stared intently at them, as if they had a contagious disease. "I'm homophobic, stay away from me!"
Li Mo stared at him slowly. "There's a sentence in a book I read that says, 'Excessive homophobia is closeted homosexuality.'"
408 clicked his tongue and glared at them unhappily, "Bullshit! I'm a straight man, don't even think about twisting my thoughts."
Yin Xiu ignored their conversation and turned to Zhong Mu, "What did you just say?"
"I said we can't kill him, we still have something we need to get from him." Zhong Mu explained urgently, then hurriedly walked to Yin Xiu's side and whispered to him about going to Mu He's place, and then about the doctor she met on her way back.
"In short, we need to get the key to leave the house," Zhong Mu said seriously.
Yin Xiu tilted his head thoughtfully, "I used to... kill everyone in the hospital and get out without the key."
Zhong Mu was taken aback. "How did you get out?"
"I chopped the door down."
"…" Zhong Mu choked up. No wonder he's Brother Xiu.
"But I don't think I saw you then." Yin Xiu turned to look at 408 opposite him. "Originally, this dungeon didn't have a dungeon boss."
"I'm not the dungeon boss either." 408 was still squatting behind the operating table. "I'm just a patient here, a patient who led the people in the madhouse in rebellion. So I don't kill patients, I only kill doctors. I hate doctors."
"Do you have a key to get out?" Zhong Mu asked.
"The key...?" 408 paused for a few seconds, then pointed to a pile of bloodstained clothes in the corner. "All the doctor's things I brought are in there. I don't know if they're in there. I haven't even checked."
Then he slapped his forehead, "So there was a key to get out inside? I didn't even look! Was that why I couldn't find the way out all this time?!"
Zhong Mu remained silent; it seemed that even those who entered the mentally ill area had an element of mental instability.
"I'll go find it! I'll go find it!" Ya Ya ran over happily and rummaged through a pile of blood-stained clothes.
Zhong Mu handed the candy containing cognitive recovery to Yin Xiu, saying, "Brother Xiu, here's some candy for you. It's a cognitive recovery candy. If you eat it, your mental state might recover."
Yin Xiu stared at the bag of candy in silence, lost in thought, then pulled out a similar bag from his pants pocket. "I have one too."
He had only checked his clothes pockets and found some useful things. Then he checked his pants pocket and unexpectedly found this bag of candy, but he couldn't remember when he had it, so he didn't eat it.
"How come you have some too?" Zhong Mu asked, puzzled. "I got mine from the doctor; it's something you get on the normal clear route. I also got a bag from Mu He. Are there other routes in the dungeon where you can get them?"
Yin Xiu shook his head, unsure. He took out a piece of candy from the bag, about to eat it, when he suddenly paused. "If I eat this, will I recover immediately?"
He is currently in a state of mental confusion, so he only remembers things from his teenage years. But once he recovers, he will recall all his memories and will no longer exist as Yin Xiu who only has memories from his teenage years.
It's like a teenage soul entering this body and seeing everything around it when it was twenty years old.
He looked up at Li Mo, then at Ya Ya, and then at Zhong Mu.
"I have so much in my twenties."
Li Mo eagerly leaned over and took Yin Xiu's hand, saying, "No matter how old my boyfriend is, I will always be by your side."
Yin Xiu smiled and said, "That's true..."
No matter his age, as long as he's in a dungeon, there's always a little monster following him around. He needs to make his twenties-old self remember this as soon as possible.
We must never forget the important people in our lives.