Chapter 211 Split the Hospital

Three months, neither long nor short.

Quantitative change leads to qualitative change, and the lost time allows the technology tree to be continuously upgraded.

Although the initial investment was huge, and ghosts and gods had to enter the nightmare community almost every other day to fill the energy pool, but with the assistance of Asa, starting from last week, the output of props and peripheral products in the nightmare community has completely covered the expenses, and began to turn into pure profit flowing into the safe house, and even ghosts and gods were freed from it.

Combined with other income from the safe house, Xu Zhiyan no longer needs to take the players' money himself... But even though he is rich, his nature is hard to change, and he still enjoys collecting players' property.

Players gathering place, below the points tower.

A line of small words appeared on the side of the potential newcomer list at some point.

[Congratulations to player Xu Zhiyan for getting the hidden reward in the potential newcomer rankings. The player is unwilling to share and refuses to disclose the specific content to the public, so the details will not be announced. ]

Players passing by stopped and continued to discuss what the hidden rewards were.

"Hidden rewards? Is there a hidden reward on this list?"

“Damn… it’s amazing!”

"I've been in the game for so long and I've never encountered a hidden reward on the leaderboard!"

"Yes, two years ago, I remember that after a big shot on the list had been on the points list for a full year, he was given a reward of 10 million points!"

"A small million is not enough. The rewards are not made public."

"Speaking of which, Xiao Baiwan has been on the potential newcomer list for three months. This should be the condition."

"Too stingy, is he planning to sell clues to hidden rewards on the black market?"

"It's very likely! You won't let go of such a small amount of money?"

"Whether they are willing to make it public or not is none of your business."

“…”

As Xu Zhiyan and Jiang Huaique passed by the crowd, they could not avoid hearing the noisy discussions.

"Oh, it seems everyone is very curious. Xu Baopi, why don't you go to the black market and put up a reward?" Jiang Huaique teased.

"Okay, I'll go and get 1 point later."

The corners of Xu Zhiyan's mouth twitched.

When he received the hidden reward yesterday, a system pop-up window popped up with a message asking whether to disclose detailed information. Since there was nothing else to say, he simply clicked "Reject".

Who would have thought that just over a dozen hours later, that line of broken words would be publicly posted.

Fortunately, he is thick-skinned and not afraid of other people's discussions. He never cares about the suppression that the main system is carrying out all the time.

Is there anything better than getting 10 million points for free?

However, after receiving the reward, he picked and chose from the slice coordinates given by the system and finally selected a five-star copy.

There are still ten hours left before entering the next copy.

The two of them came all the way to the black market, and Xiaoyi, who was waiting there, pounced on him, but Xu Zhiyan dodged him nimbly.

The golden retriever puppy felt very aggrieved because he failed to hit the target, and whimpered twice.

"Woof woof! Woof woof!"

Xu Zhiyan looked at the puppy hanging in the air, waved his hands and said seriously: "You can't touch its head unless you pounce on it."

This is the agreement between him and Xiaoyi.

Even though Xiaoyi is still very small, he has awakened new skills during the dungeons in the past few months. If he is accidentally pounced on, he will definitely fall down.

The increased strength allows Xiaoyi to easily overturn trucks, and his sharp canine teeth allow him to easily bite off monsters' necks. Both skills are very suitable for him.

However, the growth of strength is conserved, and Jin Sheng's body has not been improved much.

After picking up Xiaoyi, Jinsheng shook his head and stroked the dog's head.

The golden retriever puppy who could understand human language felt very disappointed. It whimpered and crawled under its owner's armpit, as if it had lost face for not being able to pounce on Xu Zhiyan.

"Woof woof! Woo!"

"Yeah, yeah, it's really embarrassing that I can't even catch Brother Xu." Jin Sheng stated the facts, but unfortunately it failed to provide any comfort.

Xiaoyi raised his head and looked at his owner with an incredulous look. Finally, he moved to another place with a wronged look and threw himself into the arms of Yuxiu who was standing beside him.

In the past few months, Yu Xiu has been living in Jiang Huaiqie's home.

With the care of his male mother teammates, the boy who was originally as thin as a paper man finally gained some weight. Even his hair, which was as dry as grass, became smoother, and he smiled more often.

After a brief exchange, the few of them checked the time to enter the dungeon, and then parted ways, planning to go back to rest and recuperate.

Xu Zhiyan said goodbye to his teammates and went to get the information he had previously ordered.

When passing by the question bounty panel area, he glanced at the many messages related to himself, walked in and answered a few, and successfully took away more than 100,000 points.

Before leaving, he seemed to have thought of something and went back to add a new bounty for himself.

[Reward: 5 (5)]

[Asked by: Xu Zhiyan]

[Question: Does anyone want to know the hidden rewards of the potential newcomer rankings? 5 points will get you detailed information! I promise that the points I get will be exchanged for low-level consumables and distributed for free to players in need when entering the dungeon.]

Since the main system says that he is narrow-minded, wouldn't it be a loss not to offer a reward?

As for low-level consumables, if you encounter players in trouble in the dungeon, you can give them a safe house basic supplies package. This can both promote the game and gain a good reputation, which is not a loss.

When Xu Zhiyan returned to the old house in Yunshan, the sky in the real world had already quietly darkened.

[Wow! Host, did you really buy the Iron Knight's current information?] The system was very surprised.

"Yes, but we only have information about her after she changed her name."

Xu Zhiyan flipped through the pages one by one, frowning.

Some time ago, he had been actively entering the dungeon, and the safe house system had not been idle either, helping him find a lot of information about the Pope on the Internet.

Too much detailed personal information could not be found, but just some marginal and marginal content was enough to prove that there was indeed something wrong with the Pope.

"Is there any progress on Sezier's news?" Xu Zhiyan asked.

[Some hosts! I have previously reported that among the information I have integrated, 37 people were diagnosed with terminal illnesses after seeing a doctor at Saiziye, and then went to other hospitals for examination and found out that it was a misdiagnosis.]

[In the past few days, I have been tracking the information of these 37 misdiagnosed patients.]

The electronic sound of the system dropped noticeably.

[All thirty-seven people died.]

All the ordinary people who were misdiagnosed by the Pope, although they were able to return to normal life for a short time, eventually died without exception.

After listening to this, Xu Zhiyan was silent for a long time.

"...Will I die if the transmission fails?"

Xu Zhiyan supports the idea of bringing terminally ill patients who are bound to die into the game.

He still remembers how anxious and terrified he was when his genetic disease broke out and the doctor told him he didn't have much time left. The physical and mental torture left him at a loss.

But what Saizier did clearly targeted innocent ordinary people.

Putting down the information, Xu Zhiyan turned the ring on his middle finger and sighed, "I hope that after the guild system is updated, I can see the end of the game."

As long as the game exists, this viral spread will only erode ordinary people in the world faster.

Suddenly, Xu Zhiyan felt a hand landing on the back of his head.

"Want to leave the game?"

The voices of ghosts and gods cannot tell whether they are sad or happy.

Xu Zhiyan shook his head, took out his cell phone, turned on the news, pointed at the death rate that had just been announced after the current year, and sighed.

"I don't want the whole city to become a ghost town when we make enough money and retire from the infinite game. Where can we buy a house then?"

The ghosts and gods laughed.

But seeing the light in the ring on Xu Zhiyan's left hand becoming brighter and brighter, He did not make any more intimate moves.

A slice that was completely out of control due to love in a copy was not something that was easy to deal with.

More than ten hours passed in the blink of an eye.

The lobby of the safe house was cleared.

A pure white light door slowly appeared and stood in the center of the hall.

Xu Zhiyan yawned and looked at the door that was different from before. He asked in confusion, "Weren't the doors all black before? Why are they different now?"

[Return to the host! Because this is a five-star instance, the door will change depending on the instance content.]

As the question and answer progressed, a faint symbol appeared on the pure white light door: a light-colored cross with a scepter with a snake wrapped around it standing upright in the center.

The safe house system was also the first time I saw the door of a five-star copy, and I was a little surprised.

[Wow! There's a snake! Could this be a copy related to the snake god?]

"No, this is not a symbol for the snake god."

Xu Zhiyan frowned, raised his hand to call Qu Ji, and spoke quickly.

"Are there any medical-related props? Or other things that can be brought into the dungeon? Anyway, bring something related to the hospital, and it should be more advanced."

It is a big deal for the safe house heir to enter the dungeon.

The door here opens a tiny bit earlier than other players.

The snail housekeeper had been waiting for a long time, ready to deal with any unexpected situation at any time.

"Okay! I'll get ready now!"

Under Qu Ji's command, the monsters began to quickly search out medical-related items from the safe house warehouse.

The system is unclear.

[Huh? Why does the host want hospital-related props?]

"All the dungeons we have entered so far are built based on the framework of the present world... Forget about this healing one, it's S-level and too expensive to be a gift."

Xu Zhiyan was picking and choosing the things that Tianluo Butler brought while explaining the contents to the system.

"If I'm guessing correctly, this single-snake staff is the Staff of Sclepius."

Sclepius, the god of medicine.

The single snake staff represents medical treatment.

[Oh, I remember! Many hospitals in the world today have snakes in their logos!] The system suddenly understood.

"I can't be sure yet, but it's always a good idea to prepare more." If it's a medical-related copy, then the NPC inside will most likely be a doctor, so you have to choose gifts that can trick the NPC.

Xu Zhiyan’s idea was good, but unfortunately time was tight.

He was reluctant to give him high-level props, and low-level props might be useless. In the end, Qu Ji saw that the door was about to disappear, so he packed a bag of props and quickly stuffed it into Xu Zhiyan's hand.

"Brother Xu! Stop picking! The door is going to disappear!!"

The monsters were extremely nervous.

Xu Zhiyan had already kicked the door open, but his hands were still rummaging around in YaYa's backpack, taking out several expensive-looking props.

"This is too expensive, I can't give this away... This one won't work either, this... This healing item has been reserved by someone, it costs 800,000 points! I can't give it away!"

The tips of his shoes stepped on the edge of the threshold, resisting the attraction coming from inside the door as time gradually approached.

After a few seconds, he even had to use his arms to support the door frame.

[Host! That’s enough! The time is up!!]

"Brother Xu! The door is about to disappear!!"

"Ahhh Brother Xu! Come in quickly!"

The system and the monsters are very anxious.

Finally, the ghost coughed lightly and said casually, "If you stay at the door for too long, the main system will impose a fine based on the time, starting from one million points."

Xu Zhiyan raised his head, glanced at Party A, and decisively hugged YaYa's backpack.

"goodbye!"

"Bang--"

Finally, before the pure white light gate disappeared, Xu Zhiyan successfully entered the copy.

…

After the dizzying darkness, the familiar game panel lit up.

Xu Zhiyan was not in a hurry to read the contents of the panel. He felt that he was lying on a bed that was not too soft.

Before he opened his eyes, he smelled a familiar smell of disinfectant. He secretly lifted his eyelids and caught a glimpse of the white striped hospital gown she was wearing. A smile quietly appeared on the corner of his mouth.

Well, it does look like a hospital. My work just now was not in vain.

Sitting up from the bed, Xu Zhiyan looked around and found that this was a single room and he was the only one there.

The time in the copy should be daytime, but he was not sure what time it was. He couldn't find a clock in the room, so he had to look at the game panel.

The basic information of the copy comes into view.

[Logged into the Split Hospital dungeon]

[Instance star rating: ★★★★★]

[Players please receive basic information/copy tasks. 】

[Players please confirm the additional task: Find the copy safe house]

"Split Hospital?" He couldn't help but mutter the name, but unexpectedly found that there was no time value on the game panel.

"What time is it now?" Xu Zhiyan asked in a low voice.

Fortunately, he has an absolutely safe time, during which he can contact the safe house system.

[Host, something is wrong! The time displayed on my backend is evening, but the time outside the window feels more like noon!]

This was the first time the safe house system encountered such a situation, and it was a little confused.

Xu Zhiyan pursed his lips and said nothing, nor did he ask any further questions.

After entering the game, his live broadcast was turned on, and the existence of the safe house system should be hidden as much as possible.

However, delaying entering the dungeon for three months is not entirely a bad thing.

Through his unremitting efforts in the game, although he failed to raise his mental power to over 100, he unexpectedly raised his absolute safety time skill to the intermediate level, and the duration increased from one minute to two minutes.

Recovering his confused thoughts, Xu Zhiyan quickly looked at the copy for a detailed explanation.

[Mikang Hospital is the best mental hospital in the city. You are a newly admitted patient. Your parents have no money and cannot pay for your medical expenses. They left you at the door of the hospital. Because you have received treatment here before, the staff still took you in and arranged a new ward for you.]

[Main Mission: Escape]

【Task 1: Stay in the hospital smoothly. 】

[Progress: 0%]

[Additional Task: Find a Safe House]

[Progress: 0%]

[Note: The temporary ward you are in now does not belong to you. You need to make your presence in the hospital reasonable.]

【Tip: Every doctor’s needs are different.】

"?"

Xu Zhiyan frowned, with a strange expression.

The main quest this time is not divided into high and low levels, and is too simple.

get away……

Escaping from what? Escaping from this mental hospital?

But if the main task is to escape, then Task 1 and the personal background of the copy will create a contradiction with the main task.

From the background of the story, it can be seen that the original body was "taken in".

In other words, the hospital is now doing charity, and the hospital is not so welcoming to the arrival of patients without money...

[That’s weird. If I wanted to escape, I could just leave the hospital without paying, right?] The system also discovered the problem.

Xu Zhiyan sat cross-legged on the bed with a frown on his face.

"I thought it was some perverted doctor who used captured players to conduct strange experiments, or used patients to make some money."

If this is the case, the main plot of the copy will become clear, and players only need to pretend to be nice and then take the opportunity to obtain clues, and successfully pass the level while protecting themselves.

But now looking at the prompts, players seem to be asking the doctor to let them stay?

Is there something wrong with this?

Xu Zhiyan touched his head and stood up. He walked to the door in his slippers and said to himself, "Could it be that... he really is here to get treatment?"

Forget it. There doesn’t seem to be anything in the ward at first glance. I’ll just take a look around first.

In the live broadcast room, viewers with a bird's eye view left messages one after another, and the barrage was very lively!

[Wow! Xiao Baiwan has entered the five-star dungeon! ]

[It’s okay. Although it’s my first time in a five-star dungeon, I don’t seem to have encountered any particularly scary players.]

[That's great, Xiao Baiwan, your luck has turned around. ]

[Not necessarily. This is a hospital-related dungeon. Although Xiao Baiwan’s life is not in danger, it seems that it will be difficult for him to gain any benefits from this dungeon, right?]

[The highest ranking person in this hospital is the Pope, right? I saw that the doctor also entered this instance. ]

[Oh wow! Lucky F is as good as it gets! The Doctor and the Pope are both very strong in this kind of hospital-related dungeon! ]

At this time, Xu Zhiyan still didn't know who his opponent was.

[Host! The room looks safe. Should we explore outside first? Come back later!]

The system enthusiastically proposes.

Xu Zhiyan thought it was feasible.

The game does not arrange a kill at the beginning, and usually the first fifteen minutes of absolute safety time is of little use.

"Go out and take a look first."

He decided to be a little reckless during this time, hoping to get more clues.

The plan is beautiful, but the reality is cruel.

Just as he opened the door and stepped out, wanting to turn back to record the ward number, an accident occurred.

Xu Zhiyan turned around and stood there in a daze.

The moment I stepped out of the ward, the door disappeared!

Looking at the white wall in front of him, his expression was a little dazed. He put his hand on the wall and felt around repeatedly to confirm that the ward was indeed gone.

After taking a few shots, there was nothing but wall dust.

Xu Zhiyan took a deep breath and cursed in a low voice: "Damn, what a rubbish game."

God damn temporary ward!

So in Mission 1, is this what the temporary ward that does not belong to the player means? It will disappear if you leave?

This is really temporary!

[Ah? Host, what should we do now?] The system was also confused.

Although there was no identification number or anything like that written on the temporary ward, there was a disinfection date sheet hanging on the toilet door. The ward drawers and closets were not searched, so who knows if there might be other clues inside?

But things have come to this point, the temporary room has disappeared, and there is no use regretting.

Xu Zhiyan quickly changed his strategy and stopped worrying about the lost temporary ward.

"Let's find the photo wall here first."

Every hospital has a photo wall, and usually the doctors' information is clearly written on these walls. If you need a doctor's help if you want to stay here, you must get some information first.

The hospital corridor was very quiet, with only the occasional nurse in high heels appearing.

Xu Zhiyan had just taken two steps when he was stopped by a nurse.

"Which ward are you from? It's lunchtime now, you need to go back to your own ward."

The nurse's voice was very gentle.

No wonder it was so quiet all around. Xu Zhiyan smiled awkwardly. If the other person's skin looked more like a living person's, the conversation might be better.

"I can't sleep, I feel a little stuffy, I want to go out for a walk... I'll be back soon."

Looking at the nurse's constantly cracking mouth, he changed the subject and quickly took a few steps back.

After hearing the answer, the corners of the nurse's mouth gradually returned to normal, and the few jagged teeth that were faintly visible disappeared, as if everything was an illusion.

"Okay, if you need anything, please press the bell in time. The patient needs more rest." The nurse smiled sweetly, but what she said next made people think deeply.

"Don't violate the same rule a second time."

After saying that, she left quickly.

Xu Zhiyan was the only one left in the corridor.

After hearing what the nurse said, he didn't dare to relax at all.

"Patients need to rest, so they cannot leave the ward during lunch break. If a nurse catches you violating the rules for the first time, you can let them go, but if you are caught a second time, something bad might happen."

After quickly integrating the information, Xu Zhiyan changed direction.

[Eh? Host? The photo wall is at the nurses' station. We are going in the wrong direction.]

The system didn't understand why its host was running to the bathroom.

A few minutes later, Xu Zhiyan, wearing a white coat, walked out of the toilet with a swagger.

Fortunately, when entering the safe house, we found some clues. In the Yaya backpack prepared by Qu Ji, there were spare white coats that other monsters had taken from the hospital-related copies.

The mission doesn't require the player to remain a patient.

It's lunch break now, and there is only one nurse at the nurses' station, lying on the table.

In order to avoid trouble, Xu Zhiyan walked lightly and quickly scanned the useful information on the photo wall.

With just one glance, his eyes lit up.

There are a lot of people on the photo wall.

In the center of the first row, there is a familiar photo.

【Dr. Bai - Psychiatry】

Bai Jin, wearing glasses and a white coat, has a gentle, distant and somewhat aloof expression, and his entire temperament seems very similar to that of a ghost.

Xu Zhiyan wrote down the department number and floor, and quickly slipped away while the nurse at the nurse station was still asleep.

When he reached the third floor, he looked at the closed door in front of him, took a deep breath, and knocked on the door.

“Boom boom boom—”

"Come in."

It was a familiar voice, but it didn't sound very gentle.

Xu Zhiyan adjusted his expression and pushed the door open.

"Hello, Doctor Bai. I'm the new intern assistant."

Glancing down at the disappearing light spot on the ring, he silently prayed in his heart that this slice would be normal.