(You are holding Doctor Gui's mask and Access Card. You can't talk your way out of this.)

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(Doctor Gui grabs your head and slams it violently against the locker room wall.)

(Your head is smashed into the wall.)

(Your vision turns blood-red.)

(You are dead.)

"Shit..."

Gu Yi jerked his head back in fright, bumping it against the wall behind him.

He had died so many times, but this was the first time he'd died by having his head smashed into a wall.

That Doctor Gui looked so gentle and refined. How could he be even more ruthless than the nurses when he got violent?

"Again. I need to be more careful this time."

(Simulation start!)

(You sit on the bench, reviewing your mistakes.)

(You decide on a different approach to the theft.)

(You have bypassed the cameras and passersby many times, so your movements are very practiced.)

(Just like last time, you hide behind a locker and silently wait for an opportunity.)

(Doctor Gui goes to the shower room to wash, just as before.)

(You carefully pry open Doctor Gui's locker and take out the mask and Access Card.)

(You know that Doctor Gui will come looking for you after discovering his things are missing, so you decide to find a place to hide them.)

(You take off your own clothes and wrap the items inside.)

(You walk to a corner of the locker room, lift the drain cover, and hide the items at the mouth of the sewage pipe.)

(You take the opportunity to escape the locker room.)

(You hide in a blind spot to observe Doctor Gui.)

(He paces in and out of the locker room entrance, his expression growing more and more frantic.)

(After a while, members of the Security Department appear beside Doctor Gui. They have the ability to teleport.)

(Security Department: Where is your mask?)

(Doctor Gui: Uh... I'm looking for it.)

(Security Department: You have three minutes.)

(Doctor Gui clutches his face.)

(Doctor Gui: I can't find it! My locker was pried open! Someone stole my things!)

(Security Department: We've checked the surveillance footage. No one entered the locker room during that time. Stop making excuses and come with us.)

(Doctor Gui: You can't do this to me.)

(Security Department: According to the rules, whether you lost it or it was stolen, you must accept the punishment. Come with us!)

(Doctor Gui: No, please don't!)

(Doctor Gui's miserable screams echo down the hallway.)

(You wait outside the locker room for a while. After confirming no one is around, you slip back in and retrieve the mask and Access Card.)

(You put on a doctor's uniform, don the mask, and hide in a toilet stall.)

(You find a mask user manual in the uniform's breast pocket.)

([Mask User Manual])

(1. Please keep your mask safe. If the mask is lost for more than ten minutes, the Security Department will send you to Room 0.)

(2. The paint on the mask is water-soluble. It will lose its luster within three days of contact with water. If your mask's paint begins to peel, find a staff member wearing an Elephant Mask to help you repaint it.)

(3. Each person may only apply for one mask. It cannot be reported as lost or reissued.)

(4. The mask is your identity. Please do not betray your duties as a doctor.)

(After reading the mask's instructions, you finally understand why Doctor Gui was so frantic after losing his mask.)

(Losing the mask is a death sentence.)

(Another point to note: if you appear before others while wearing the mask, you will likely be exposed.)

(The doctors here might have the ability to identify people through their masks. Last time, when you used Doctor Gui's mask to save a fellow patient, the emergency doctor directly called out the name "Teacher Gui.")

(You can only use the mask to fool people who aren't familiar with Doctor Gui.)

(Moreover, you just hid the mask in the sewer pipe, getting it wet. In three days, the paint on the mask will peel off completely.)

(But even so, the mask's functionality is still very powerful.)

(After putting on the mask, you can observe the world from a doctor's perspective to obtain more clues.)

(You put on the mask and walk out of the restroom.)

(You decide to test the mask's abilities.)

(No one questions or stops you anymore.)

(You have gained immense freedom.)

(You walk confidently up to a computer.)

(You recall the ID number of the female patient taken away by the Deer-Headed Person this afternoon.)

(You enter the number into the computer.)

(A message pops up: Insufficient permissions. Access denied.)

(You nod. You've finally found something you have in common with the female patient.)

(You strike up a conversation with a nearby nurse.)

(You: Why can't this patient's medical records be accessed?)

(Nurse: I don't know. You should go ask the Archives Room.)

(You: Okay.)

(Wearing the mask, you walk into the elevator.)

(You use the Access Card and arrive at the basement level.)

(The moment the elevator doors open, members of the Security Department instantly appear before you.)

(They stare at you intently.)

(Security Department: Doctor Gui? Aren't you supposed to be in Room 0? How did you escape?)

(You: You've got the wrong person.)

(The Security Department members rush forward and pin you to the ground.)

(They rip off your mask and discover you're an impostor.)

(Security Department: You dare to steal? Go reflect on your actions in Room 0!)

(You are sent to Room 0 by the Security Department.)

(You are bitten to death by a giant spider monster.)

(Simulation end.)

Gu Yi opened his eyes and thought it over carefully.

Encountering the Security Department right after getting out of the elevator was no coincidence. They must have tracked him somehow.

The masks were registered to specific individuals, so the Access Card must be as well.

It must have been his use of Doctor Gui's Access Card that led the Security Department to him.

Gu Yi decided not to run any more simulations. Since he had already found a safe way to obtain the mask, his objective for the simulation was achieved.

He wouldn't rush to the basement for now. He first needed to make good use of the mask and figure out a way to move and explore freely at night.

Gu Yi got up, left, and walked straight into the restroom.

...

The real world.

When Gu Yi successfully used a self-harm ploy to deceive the doctors and nurses and escape the treatment room, the audience went wild.

"Oh my god, Yi is a legend!"

"All those people who want to immigrate to the Lighthouse Nation can go ahead. I'd rather live in the Dragon Nation, where no supernatural horrors descend."

"Don't celebrate too early, okay? The death rate in this Dungeon is still one hundred percent! And that kid Gu Yi hasn't found any key clues so far."

The Dragon Nation's Strategy Group repeatedly reviewed the footage of Gu Yi's run, trying to formulate a guide.

"This kid, Gu Yi, is far smarter and braver than we imagined."

"That move of stabbing himself to draw attention was absolutely brilliant."

"But what's next? He could use the self-harm ploy to avoid treatment the first time, but what about the second? Once his wound heals, he'll have to go back to the treatment room."

"Exactly. Look, the Hospital's security measures have gotten stricter. Every patient is searched when entering or leaving the Ward. They don't even allow fruit knives in the Wards anymore."

The real-world audience could see more details, and they also noticed that the Hospital's management of the patients had become stricter.

Gu Yi's self-harm ploy could only be used once.

But what should he do next?

No one knew.