Chapter 127 The Greatest Lie, Abandoned Instance

Chapter 127 The Greatest Lie, Abandoned Instance

The door shattered.

The Supernatural Hospital Director appeared in the dim storage room.

A scene of chaos and the stench of blood filled the space.

The walls and floor were littered with the corpses of Supernatural Patients, but the target—the Goat Doctor—was nowhere to be seen.

Soon, bulging veins crawled across the director’s forehead, his face twisted into a sinister grimace. The surrounding supernatural entities shrank back, pressing themselves into the shadows, desperate to minimize their presence.

"Where is he?"

The Tiger Player’s voice was low and dangerous.

No one answered.

The Tiger Player turned and smashed the glass of a framed painting, yanking out a Disheveled Supernatural from within the canvas.

"Tell me, where is he?"

The Disheveled Supernatural stammered, "H-he… ran away."

"With so many patients surrounding this place, you let him escape?"

"That nurse… she ate the Goat Doctor, then ran off."

"We… couldn’t stop her."

The Disheveled Supernatural trembled as it spoke.

Hearing this, the Tiger Player chuckled.

He straightened the Disheveled Supernatural’s crumpled collar and asked softly, "Then, where did that little nurse run off to?"

"I… I don’t know."

"Mm, good."

The Tiger Player nodded, then raised his hand and reduced the Disheveled Supernatural’s head into a bloody mist.

Surveying the Tongue-Curse Supernatural with its tongue ripped out and the Mirror Supernatural Woman with smoke pouring from her orifices, the Tiger Player’s expression darkened.

Refusing to believe it, he reopened the exclusive panel of the Supernatural Hospital Director.

The rules of the instance truly couldn’t restrict that Ghostly Nurse!

"Why isn’t this NPC bound by the instance’s rules? Could she really be a bug?"

But he knew better—if there were a bug, his S-level Talent, [Pick Out the Subtle], would have immediately reacted with a prompt.

The fact that his Talent remained silent only deepened his confusion.

On the ground, a dead supernatural entity suddenly began to rise slowly.

Its hollow gaze fixed on the Tiger Player.

Frowning, the Tiger Player snapped impatiently, "Spit it out if you’ve got something to say."

The shattered head of the supernatural emitted the Dragon Player’s voice: "Let me guess… he got away again, didn’t he?"

The Tiger Player spat out a reply, "Stop nagging like my old mother. I told you, he won’t escape."

The Dragon Player continued, "You need to understand—the [Main Plot] isn’t stalled right now."

"Time has entered the [Review Node]. The Instance Order will intervene soon. Forget everything else—your [Soul Substitution] of the Supernatural Hospital Director alone is a severe violation."

"On top of that, you issued unauthorized illegal commands."

The Dragon Player glanced at the several Supernatural Patients the Tiger Player had slaughtered. "The Order will erase you immediately."

"So the one who should be panicking isn’t me—it’s you."

"I haven’t committed any violations."

"Even deceiving the Supernatural Hospital Director was within the rules."

"If the plan collapses, I can just clear the Main Plot and move to the next instance."

The Tiger Player listened, then sneered mockingly, "How heartless."

"This is the Supernatural Game, not some dating sim."

After uttering these words, the supernatural entity collapsed to the ground, melting away bit by bit.

The Tiger Player’s face darkened as he turned and left the storage room, issuing new commands.

All patients, medical staff, and even the "scrap" supernatural entities—if any spotted the Goat Doctor, they were to report immediately!

……

……

Maternity Ward.

The door swung open, a pungent mix of blood and amniotic fluid flooding the air, churning stomachs with its stench.

Ji Yan had returned to his "birthplace."

Stretcher beds lined the space, each bearing the corpses of grotesquely deformed animals. In the corners, piles of eliminated Players lay discarded—some still trapped inside animal wombs, suffocated to death.

Their eyes stared wide, filled with unrelenting fury.

Just like when Ji Yan had first cleared the "Cesarean Section" challenge...

"What are you doing here?" Xu Xin stood behind him, a faint smile playing on her lips. "Trying to crawl back into your 'mother's womb' to escape pursuit?"

Ji Yan didn’t answer. Instead, he moved swiftly between the stretchers until he found the first one—the White Goat whose belly he had devoured alive before tearing his way out.

Since Ji Yan had neither been eliminated nor cleared the Instance, the Undead Hospital’s rule—"There can only ever be twelve Players"—meant the White Goat’s corpse remained untouched, perfectly preserved.

Locating the mother goat’s body, Ji Yan exhaled slightly in relief.

Xu Xin trailed behind him, her tone indifferent. "And then?"

Ji Yan countered, "Miss Xu, if the Dragon wants my two Sheepskin Scrolls, he has to kill me to Plunder them, right?"

"You already know the answer. Why ask me?" She yawned.

"You could stall."

"The Main Plot is stuck now. Once the designated checkpoint arrives, the Instance Order will conduct a review to ensure the Main Plot and all side plots are functioning properly."

"The review will expose the Tiger Player’s exploit with the 'Soul Substitution' bug, and it’ll be patched immediately."

"Once fixed, that little tiger is finished."

"Never mind the rule-breaking—his intentional exploit will get him erased on the spot."

"What awaits him is being cast into the most terrifying Abandoned Instance."

"That’s why he’s so desperate to hunt you down!" Xu Xin laughed.

Ji Yan listened, then asked, "If the Order reviews and fixes bugs, how can they still exploit loopholes to control this Instance?"

Xu Xin tucked a loose strand of hair behind her ear. "Instance loopholes do get patched."

"But if they use your Sheepskin Scrolls—the Privilege of 'Lies Become Reality'—then it’s no longer a bug."

She continued, "Do you know how Abandoned Instances come to be?"

Ji Yan nodded.

He actually did know this.

He’d gathered some intel on Abandoned Instances before.

Those Instances weren’t governed by Rule Order—in simpler terms, they were abandoned by the Instance Order, left to rot.

As a result, all Supernaturals within them were free from any constraints, able to act without fear of Punishment.

Players’ greatest shield was, in truth, the Instance Rules!

Only by relying on those rules could they hope for even a sliver of fairness.

Without Rule Order, it was a lawless utopia.

And this was the Supernatural Game.

Unshackled Supernaturals were unimaginably terrifying.

Players trapped inside couldn’t escape, reduced to playthings—because in the Eerie World, true death didn’t exist, meaning the torment was endless!

That was why so many Players would rather die than face elimination.

That is truly a hundred times more terrifying than death!

Because of this game mechanic, many players, once they find a safe haven in an instance, refuse to touch the Main Plot at all costs. The Main Plot is the only exit to the next instance—and it’s mandatory.

Some are willing to take risks, desperate to find a way back to the real world, to explore this unknown realm. Others choose to settle permanently in an instance, forgetting everything and numbing themselves.

At this moment, Xu Xin finally revealed the grandest Lies of the Dragon and Tiger Player.

"The lie they spread was to lure and deceive all the Supernatural Entities in the instance into violating the rules."

"When the Instance Order discovers that all NPCs in the instance have collectively broken the rules, it will abandon it, turning it into an Abandoned Instance."

"Without the constraints of the rules, they can use the Supernatural Hospital Director as their Puppet to control the entire instance forever."

Hearing this, Ji Yan finally understood.

He couldn’t help but remark, "Tsk, those two really dare to play dirty!"

"Honestly, if it weren’t for needing the Sheepskin Scroll—and the fact that they’d have to kill me—I’d almost want them to drag me into their mess too…"