If you cannot solve the problem, solve the person who raised it

Realizing this, Chen Mu instantly felt a surge of excitement.

He even had a way to verify his hypothesis, and it did not require any overly complicated steps. A single sentence was all it took to prove that this was a false rule!

Chen Mu looked toward the chief physician and suddenly spoke up:

"Chief physician, please tell me, out of your past forty-three surgeries, how many were successful?"

Upon hearing Chen Mu's question, the expression on the chief physician's face shifted instantly.

He stared at Chen Mu in disbelief, his mouth agape. He wanted to say something, but the words failed him, leaving him momentarily speechless.

Chen Mu continued, "Chief physician, then please tell me, are you a highly skilled doctor?"

As he spoke, Chen Mu gestured toward the honorary banners hanging on the wall.

The chief physician fell silent. After a moment, he let out a heavy sigh and finally spoke slowly:

"You've figured it out?"

The chief physician said this because Chen Mu had asked him an unanswerable question.

Chen Mu's guess was entirely correct: the chief physician's medical skills were indeed terrible, and he was far from being proficient at all.

Therefore, when Chen Mu posed this question, no matter how the chief physician answered, it would reveal one definitive truth to Chen Mu—

Rule Two was a false rule!

If the chief physician replied, "My medical skills are excellent," then he would be lying to Chen Mu.

The second rule explicitly stated that "the chief physician will not lie to you." Therefore, once he lied to Chen Mu, it would directly inform Chen Mu that the second rule was false!

If the chief physician replied, "My medical skills are terrible," this would indeed be the truth, but the second rule explicitly stated that the chief physician possessed superb medical skills.

Thus, even with such an answer, the chief physician would still be equivalent to telling Chen Mu that the second rule was false!

The chief physician stammered, unable to provide an answer.

Seeing this, Chen Mu broke into a smile. From the chief physician's reaction, he had already obtained his answer.

This was a false rule!

A moment later, the chief physician could not help but sigh, looking at Chen Mu as he slowly said, "You are very clever. Out of the ten people who have come here before you, you are the only one who has ever asked this question."

"Hehe, perhaps for a long time to come, I will remain the only one who has asked this question."

Chen Mu smiled. He was not boasting; had it not been for his five years of experience, very few people would have been able to think of this.

In fact, in Chen Mu's past life, it was only three years after the apocalyptic arrival of the supernatural that people gradually began to discover that the rules within supernatural missions could actually be false!

Before that, everyone participating in supernatural missions treated the rules like their lifelines, not daring to step even half a step out of line, trembling as they meticulously followed the instructions mandated by the rules!

Clearly, in this supernatural mission, all those who blindly obeyed the rules were already dead.

"Then the reason why my surgery failed just now becomes quite obvious. It must have been due to your guidance, Doctor.

The second rule is false, which means your skills are not proficient, and you wouldn't necessarily tell me the correct steps either.

Therefore, as long as I followed your instructions, the surgery would fail with a high probability."

Having seen through the false rule, Chen Mu pointed straight to the core reason behind the surgical failure.

A trace of astonishment flickered in the chief physician's gaze as he looked at Chen Mu.

He had to admit that even if he were in Chen Mu's shoes, he would not have been able to discover the crux of the problem so quickly.

Chen Mu took a deep breath. When he pondered further, he realized the problem had not become any simpler.

Whether the doctor lacked skill or failed to tell the truth, one thing was certain: in the upcoming surgeries, Chen Mu must never listen to the doctor again.

As long as he followed the doctor's guidance, the process of the first surgery would simply repeat itself—

The surgical procedure would go smoothly, but the ultimate outcome of the surgery would invariably be failure!

However, Chen Mu was well aware that he knew nothing about medicine.

Especially when it came to supernatural medicine, he knew absolutely nothing at all.

Since the chief physician's guidance was no longer trustworthy, how was he supposed to perform the surgery?

Chen Mu had only one chance left.

As long as it was a supernatural mission, a path to survival must exist!

This meant that even though Chen Mu knew nothing about supernatural medicine, he would definitely be able to survive this mission and achieve a successful surgical outcome!

Chen Mu had no choice but to continue pondering the rules, attempting to glean any remaining clues from them.

Time ticked by...

For the next half hour, not a single patient entered the duty operating room.

Chen Mu stared at the rules for a long time until, finally, a potential path to survival occurred to him—

Clearly, according to the requirements of the rules, the success or failure of the surgery was evaluated by the patient.

If the patient gave a failing evaluation, Chen Mu would be in serious trouble.

Since Chen Mu could not resolve the trouble, why not try solving the person who created the trouble?

For instance... killing the supernatural patient...

If the patient was already dead, wouldn't they be unable to leave an evaluation?

Then he would not receive any negative reviews.

Would a default positive review appear instead?

This was the most plausible path to survival Chen Mu could think of.

Chen Mu was not worried that the other rules might also be false.

Because even false rules were not given arbitrarily. False rules shared a common trait: they served a suggestive or indicative function!

Take Rule Four of this mission, for example: among the five patients, you must cure at least three, otherwise it will be deemed a mission failure.

This rule could by no means be false, because such rules were decisive, determining the success or failure of the mission.

If rules of this nature were false, players would have no way of knowing how to succeed in the mission at all.

Any false rules were merely suggestive and would never directly dictate the success or failure of the mission!

Chen Mu's conceived path to survival was deduced precisely from the decisive rules, Rules Three and Four!

However, to verify this path to survival, he still had to wait for the arrival of the next patient.

Patients at Terror Hospital were extremely scarce; an hour and a half had passed, and not a single patient had arrived yet.

Chen Mu looked at the rules, and suddenly, a flash of inspiration struck his mind.

The rules never stated that the patient couldn't be someone he brought in himself!

So why should he just sit here waiting passively?

Chen Mu's heart began to stir eagerly as he recalled his superpower of wealth!