There's definitely something wrong with this murder mystery game

"I'll lead the charge, but it's still your body I'm using as a host." The orphanage director chuckled sinisterly, eyeing the translucent Xu Shuo across from him with curiosity. "Is this how you truly look?" he asked. Xu Shuo lied through his teeth, "Yes." "Your ability is really impressive," praised the director. "To be honest, I was prepared to never wake up." "But I can only maintain this form for ten minutes," Xu Shuo added. "After that, I'll return to the body." Right now, he was in the form of a spiritual being, still bearing Alpha's visage, except the Alpha Character Card could only last for ten minutes. Which meant that the director could be out for at most ten minutes. Without the aid of Alpha's abilities, Xu Shuo couldn't separate his spiritual consciousness from his body. So, when his Character Card reached its limit, the director's consciousness would certainly be suppressed by the system again. Of course, it was also possible that he might end up like during that time at The Fifth Hospital, evolving into a being with three personalities as one... But that would require the Character Card to be triggered. The director nodded thoughtfully upon hearing this and then raised his left hand. The blood oozing from the wrist that the cat had bitten began to float in the air. But before it could drift for long, it was swiftly lapped up by the cat's protruding tongue. "It seems the abilities reside within the consciousness," the director noted, clenching his fist slightly and smiling contentedly. As long as he could still use his powers, that was enough. Then, in the next moment, the usually calm and gentle-faced director suddenly grabbed the cat's neck and squeezed it hard! "Meow-ow-oww!" Thump! The cat, struggling violently and howling in rage, exploded into a cloud of black mist in his grasp, its eerie shrieks abruptly vanishing. The director shook the stains off his hand, his lips curling into a smug grin: "That felt good." Xu Shuo: "..." Does this guy switch personalities without any sign whatsoever? Of course, it might also be as he said himself: the split personality could just be a ruse he's playing at, and in truth—he has always been this insane. Xu Shuo grumbled internally, then suddenly looked outside: "Those little guys have started moving again." Previously, using the Chen Chu Character Card, he timed the end of the card's effect and used "Time Retrospection" at the very last second, managing to return to the moment he was in the archive room. At that time in the archive room, the white-collar group was lost in the cafeteria, the social worker was slacking off in the office, the journalist was wandering confusedly in the corridor... Elsewhere, David, who was possessing a police auxiliary, was helping his friends possess a male social worker, and Lily, who had been rescued by Yueshu, was cursively planning to possess a photographer. All of them were waiting for a chance to leave Qiming Orphanage. All of this had happened the first time around. Now that everything had been reset, except for the female social worker, everyone was initially confounded for a moment. Of course, their confusion quickly gave away to continued action. ... As the director pushed open the door to the archive room, he saw the female journalist half-sitting on the ground ahead, slumped against the corridor wall as if she had already passed out. "Time Retrospection" reverses "things," but doesn't reverse their mental state. Considering the time she resisted Lina in the third-floor corridor, this was the journalist's second major use of power, each time consuming more than the last. Besides breaking Lina's Illusion Space, "All Things as One" also forcefully resisted a wave of Yueshu's "Order" ability, temporarily severing Yueshu's control over Qiming Orphanage. So even though the journalist really wanted to keep going, she truly had no energy left. "That young lady is quite impressive, if I had such useful companions back then, maybe I wouldn't have..." The director sighed suddenly. "It is indeed somewhat useful," Xu Shuo glanced at the female reporter who seemed to have fainted. He wouldn't have brought her along if it weren't. As the two of them walked out into the hallway and looked outside, they saw the vast dark sky already open with that giant ochre eye. This time, Yueshu had also started the fight early. The enormous eye loomed in the sky above the orphanage, its pupil's depths chaotic and incomprehensible. It gazed indifferently down below, as if enveloping the entire orphanage within its dark depths. The mystery and majesty it exuded made it hard for one to have any thoughts of resistance. Under the watch of that eye, it seemed there was nowhere to escape. "Such an unimaginable power." The director walked up to the parapet, staring at the giant eye and muttered, "But he was actually just an ordinary child once." Xu Shuo raised his guard: "Hmm?" But after pondering for a bit, he realized that now was not the time to know these useless pieces of information. However, after hearing his question, the director already started talking on his own, "Nothing happens overnight. The Qiming Orphanage had already shown signs of Abyssal corruption; it's just that we didn't take it to heart back then." "All this didn't raise concern?" Xu Shuo couldn't help but retort. "With so many things happening in the world every day, who cares about a place three kilometers out in the suburbs," the director reflected then added his own commentary. "Sounds like a dire situation..." "But after the fire at the orphanage, the official response was actually quite swift. Disasters like these are the most likely to lead to the mutation of an area. It's just that the orphanage mutated quicker than we expected, which is why it's speculated to have been corrupted by the Abyss long ago," the director said. Quicker than expected, indeed. A fire in the dead of night, official intervention by morning, and a complete lockdown the following day. This is just outright instant corruption! "Then... then how did this all happen?" A feeble voice suddenly interjected from the side. The director spread his hands and said, "How else could it have happened? To create even more chaos, a fanatical Cult Organization that worships the Abyss incited the kids to start a fire. And it happens that the Qiming Orphanage had taken in many bad seeds; those kids immediately decided to go through with this plot, leading to their total mutation. Really, if you don't give them a beating, they have no idea how treacherous society can be!" Towards the end, the director, who had been relatively calm, once again turned ferocious, his eyes beginning to emit a murderous aura. Xu Shuo looked at the female reporter collapsed on the ground. After listening to this, the female reporter received a system hint in her mind, and her face showed an uncontrollable excitement. She finally let out a satisfied sigh of relief. Then she closed her eyes again to continue playing dead. Xu Shuo withdrew his gaze and turned to the director, saying, "Let's not discuss the cause anymore. It's better to figure out how to give that brat a good beating." "Previously Yueshu had the help of the cat, which is why I had no power to resist. But now that the cat has lost its wisdom, I might find an opportunity to get you out of the orphanage," the director said. "The cat's abilities..." Xu Shuo thoughtfully looked at the ground: "You should have classified the cat under a new code number in your investigation." "Rules, you see, are not achieved overnight. I've posted a lot of new rules that I've investigated on the wall here," the director defended himself. As they were speaking, the cat that the director had just crushed leaped out of the void again and, very adeptly, howled and bit! It latched onto the left wrist of the director, who was controlling his body. Those blood-red eyes filled with evil chaos were no different from the ochre eye in the sky. Only that Yueshu controlled everything in sight from the sky, while the cat devoured everything it laid eyes on from the ground. Both were monsters born within the orphanage. ...