"The woman loved the man deeply. In the beginning, they were willing to give everything for each other, but after marriage, the woman found that the man gradually ged, being impatient with everything."

  "He knew she had a scalp dition that made her itbearably at times. When they were dating, he would put down any work to gently wash her hair with patienow, all he felt was disgust, and when drunk, he would grab her head and sm it against the wall."

  "Soon, the woman discovered the man was unfaithful and had a ge of heart, but she chose tive him because she didn't want their child to grow up in a broken family. One night, the man suddenly became siderate, knowing her head itched, he prepared a bath for her."

  "When the woman's head ushed uer, the man's tenderurned into ferocity, pressing her down with all his might. Iruggle, the woman stabbed a knife she had prepared into the man's eye."

  "Not long after, the woman, drenched, holding a saw, looked at the blood-soaked bathtub and smiled in relief..."

  "Another beautiful awarming love story."

  Qin Nuo murmured. Such stories happeoo often in the instance, he was almost numb to them.

  He didn't know how to judge the woman's story.

  For the sake of her family, the woman ehe man's disgust, domestic violence, and even iy. Perhaps in her heart, she still held a glimmer of hope that the man would ge his ways.

  It wasn't until the man desperately pressed her head down that her heart truly died.

  The clock set aside suddenly chimed.

  Time .

  Whoosh!

  Qin Nuo withdrew his hands from the bathtub water and wiped them with a towel.

  "gratutions, Pyer, for pleting the D-level instaask and obtaining the main clue—the missing pendant!"

  As the voice echoed in his mind, a pendant neckce appeared in Qin Nuo's hand out of thin air.

  The pendant was set with a sapphire, crystal clear and seemingly valuable.

  "This time the clue is an object?"

  Qin Nuo was slightly taken aback, examining the pendant in his hand. Besides the gemstohere was no information about its raved on it.

  Just a simple pendant neckce.

  How was he supposed to du iigation with this?

  Despite his fusion, Qin Nuo put it away for now.

  At the bathtub, the woman hadn't lifted her head, but the thick rese was gradually dissipating.

  "Ma'am, if there's nothing else, I'll be leaving. If you ehe head wash, feel free to give a good review."

  Qin Nuo had no i in meddling with the woman's affairs any further. Seeing no response from her, he exited the room.

  Having pleted an instaask, Qin Nuo headed upstairs. The tortured naked man in the restroom might know something about the neckce.

  As it turned out, when Qin Nuo opehe door, the previously dipidated corridor was now perfectly intact.

  Even the restroom had vanished.

  Following his memory, Qin Nuo went to the opera room oop floor.

  As expected, the cursed girls imprisoned ihe girl o the cross, had all disappeared.

  "Most likely the work of the mastermind."

  "He took away all the cursed people, which precisely indicates that they hold secrets I have yet to uncover."

  This was not just bad news.

  It was also a dangerous signal.

  It meant the mastermind had begun to act, and this was only the beginning!

  Qin Nuo shook his head helplessly, not lingering any longer, auro the ward.

  After pleting the caregiver duties, it was already six in the evening.

  In the lobby, the remaining pyers were receiving their work rewards from the nun.

  Qin Nuo opened his pouch; the rewards were unged, still food, Ghost Currency, and an oil mp.

  Lan Yan and the blond man approached, asking, "Did you find anything today?"

  Qin Nuo took out the pendant neckd asked them, "Have you seen this neckce before?"

  The two were puzzled, "Where did you get that?"

  Seeing their expressions, Qin Nuo put the neckce away and casually replied, "Looks valuable, took it off a patient."

  The two looked at him oddly, "Is this guy so desperate that he's stealing from patients?"

  "And you two, you must have found something after a whole day of work?"

  Lan Yan's smile was a bit stiff, "We found something, and it's very crucial."

  "Crucial enough that we've almost identified the mastermind!"

  This stateme Qin Nuo stunned.

  He hadn't found any leads, yet these two had already identified the mastermind.

  Just as he was about to ask, the blond man said, "We'll keep it a secret for now; you'll find out tonight."

  Qin Nuo squinted his eyes and smiled, "You said we're in this together, yet now you're keepis from me?"

  The blond man didn't offer much expnation, "We have our reasons."

  Lan Yan patted Qin Nuo on the shoulder, "Uand, we're all in it to win."

  At that moment, the blond man's eyebrows suddenly twitched as he looked behind them.

  Qin Nuo and Lan Yan followed his gaze and saw that the sky outside the hospital was already darkening.

  It was only a little past six.

  "The night is ing faster. Let's head back to our rooms and discuss this tonight," the blond man adjusted his gsses, picked up his pouch, a.

  Watg them leave, Qin Nuo furrowed his brows and turned away as well.

  In just ten mihe twilight pletely faded, and darkness desded like a blitzkrieg.

  Oable, the oil mp flickered slightly.

  Qin Nuo checked the time, sat for a moment, then picked up the oil mp, opehe door, and disappeared into the corridor's darkness...

  His first destination was the open-air baly.

  The most terrifying bun of the night feared only Meng. Having her by his side meant he could move freely at night.

  More importantly, a clue poio Meng.

  Another clue poio the pendant.

  Qin Nuo felt that Meng must have some impression of the pendant, and it might even help her recover her memory.

  The baly was desote.

  At this time st night, Meng should have been dang ballet on the railing, softly singing the Bck Swan's melody uhe moonlight.

  "Maybe I came too early."

  Qin Nuo murmured, leaning against the railing, patiently waiting.

  But ten minutes passed, and there was still no sign of her.

  Qin Nuo began to frown.

  It wasn't impatience, but .

  Could it be that the mastermind had alseted Meng?

  "There are traces of your two panions in the corridor," the Blood-Eyed Ghost suddenly said.

  Qin Nuo's expression ged, "Damn, why didn't you say so earlier?"

  "You didn't ask," the Blood-Eyed Ghost replied calmly.

  "Don't worry, they just left not long ago; you still catch up."

  Qin Nuo immediately left the baly, following the Blood-Eyed Ghost's guidance.

  o ask, it must be Lan Yan and the blond man who took Meng away.

  The reason might not just be to use Meng against the bun.

  Recalling their words at dusk, Qin Nuo suddenly realized that the mastermind they had identified was Meng.

  What clues had they found to be so certain that Meng was the mastermind?

  JOSOLUNA