This villain, please exercise some restraint.

Like two wandering souls, the two floated lightly into the fourth floor of the hospital's inpatient department and stopped at the door of a tightly closed room.

Busy nurses and hurried family members of patients passed through their transparent bodies, yet they were unaware of their arrival.

"Is the person you want to see lying in here?"

The white-haired youth looked at An Xu, but An Xu, who had extended his hand, hesitated to step through the door.

He knew that in his ghostly state, the door couldn't hold him at all; he only needed to float inside to see what he wanted to see.

But at this moment, a strange sense of fear and powerlessness grew wildly in his heart.

Should he really go in? What good would it do even if he saw them? He probably knew better than anyone that the people inside wouldn't give him any response or answer any of his questions.

Inside lay only a pitiful person, powerless and weak.

"I……"

An Xu opened his mouth.

He didn't know what to say; faced with restrained questioning, he truly didn't know what to say.

Just as An Xu made up his mind to go in, the door was suddenly opened from the inside with a "bang" by a large, fat hand.

"Can you please stop pressuring me? I told you I'd pay it back as soon as the money arrives this month! Once I win big in a gamble, do you think I won't have to worry about paying off all these debts?!"

With a "beep," the woman who came out angrily hung up the phone.

She was wearing an expensive leather coat and adorned with jewelry. The expensive accessories did not enhance her elegance; instead, they gave her the air of a nouveau riche.

A young nurse carrying a treatment tray carefully passed by her, but it didn't seem to achieve the goal of making the fat lady ignore her.

"You heartless hospital! Heartless doctors! Heartless nurses! When my brother came to your hospital, he was perfectly fine except for a slight mental problem! How did you manage to turn him into a vegetable after treating him here?"

"And you're telling me about brain hypoxia! My brother has always been on oxygen when he needs it and received treatment when he needs it. How could he suddenly have brain hypoxia? Wasn't it because you guys pulled out his oxygen tube?"

"You've ruined a living person like this, and tell me, what good is your meager compensation?! What makes you think that the little compensation you're offering can make up for the harm you've caused my brother and me?!"

Faced with the aggressive questioning, the nurse lowered her head and remained silent.

The family members of the patient in bed four have become increasingly irritable, and the medical staff in their ward often avoid them when they see them.

After venting her anger, the fat woman walked away.

Soon, the nurse carried the treatment tray into room number four. She looked around and saw that the room was empty except for the boy lying on the bed.

"Teacher Gu, where is the caregiver for bed four? The patient doesn't seem to have been cleaned in a long time, and there's an unpleasant smell on him."

In the past, this had never happened before; the game company would hire highly paid caregivers to clean patients thoroughly.

"Oh, you mean bed four? The caregiver was kicked out by his sister a few weeks ago. She said he was paid but didn't do any work, so his sister will take over from now on."

"Well... with his sister like that, I guess she's trying to get the monthly caregiver's fee too. These days, the cost of a high-end caregiver is higher than our salary."

The senior nurse sitting at the nurses' station, writing nursing documents, raised her eyelids slightly and said.

"How could she do this! She fired the caregiver, and now she doesn't care about anything!"

The nurse stomped her foot in anger, but in the end she obediently went in to administer intravenous nutrition to the patient to keep him alive.

An Xu stood at the door, silently watching everything, while the white-haired boy had already gone inside.

With a sigh, An Xu walked to the patient's bedside.

Perhaps only surviving on intravenous nutrition, the boy's body was emaciated and his face was extremely pale, as if he would collapse at any moment.

"His condition..."

An Xu muttered to himself, "I heard that the game company gave him a lot of compensation, so how come he's in this situation now?"

"It shouldn't be like this."

"Where did the compensation you gave us go? How can you let someone live without any dignity?"

An Xu looked at the white-haired boy beside him. In his mind, no matter what kind of monster Jiezhi was, a character born from a game must be inextricably linked to this evil game company.

The white-haired youth raised an eyebrow upon hearing this, looking at An Xu with some surprise, "Didn't you hear? Someone is short of money. Those compensations should have been taken by those who needed them, right?"

The words of restraint were pointed, and An Xu immediately thought of the ill-tempered woman who had slammed the door and left earlier.

"How could this happen... Before, no matter what news outlet I heard, it was always that he had a sister who loved him very much, but now—"

An Xu didn't say anything more. Everything before him shattered his preconceived notions and destroyed all his expectations before he came. It was worse than any of his worst imaginings.

Jiezhi looked at the weak boy lying on the bed. The moment he saw this so-called "vegetative state" person, he knew that some people may be physically bound, but their souls have already gained a certain degree of freedom.

Another form of freedom.

"Excuse me for bothering you, are you here to visit me?"

A voice drifted faintly from the direction of the doorway, and An Xu looked over upon hearing it.

A boy dressed in a clean and crisp white shirt stood in front of the door, with a sunny smile and a clear voice.

An Xu looked closely and found that although the boy standing at the door was still thin, he was much better off than the vegetative patient lying in bed.

Upon closer inspection, there is still a resemblance in the eyebrows and eyes.

"We're all acquaintances. You must be An Xu, right? I've heard of you; you're a gaming genius."

The boy's gaze lingered on Jiezhi for a moment before turning to An Xu and smiling slightly.

"As for why you came to me, I think it's probably because you encountered some difficulties in the game."

"A predicament that may be similar to mine."

"I don't know if it was out of luck that you survived the disaster or out of pity and compassion that you found this place."

"But I remember hearing that you disappeared after being found half a year ago. How could you appear here in this form?"

"Could it be that you also..."

The boy looked at Restraint with a puzzled expression.

Among the dead present, the white-haired youth was undoubtedly more capable and knowledgeable, because... he had seen it all.

"He's still alive."

Restraint and conciseness.

The boy seemed quite surprised. A gloomy look flashed across his face, but it quickly turned into a deeper smile at the corners of his lips.

Moderation has been captured.

"So that's it..."

The boy stared at An Xu for a while, then suddenly spoke.

"But I'm still alive, yet I've become like this."

"How did that happen……"

"How did that happen?"

The boy looked at the white-haired boy again, and the boy responded with an indifferent attitude.

"Who knows? But I don't think I'm obligated to find out these things. Besides, I'm not interested in them."

Upon hearing this response, the boy fell silent, showing no surprise whatsoever; in fact, the smile on his lips remained etched on his face.

There is no such thing as unprovoked kindness in this world, while malice is often omnipresent.

His early death and the first half of his life made him see this clearly, and after becoming a ghost, from the perspective of an observer, his understanding of this statement became even clearer.

Therefore, he had long since lost hope and no longer harbored any unfounded expectations.