Chapter 223 Split the Hospital

[Detected that the player has claimed the reward.]

The game system prompt rang in his ears. When Xu Zhiyan opened his eyes again, he found that everything in front of him was gray and he couldn't see anything clearly.

[5]

The countdown begins.

Just like the reward description says, five seconds, no more, no less.

Time was running out, and Xu Zhiyan had no time to think more. He immediately stood up and took a quick look at the surrounding environment.

He couldn't see anything around him, so he had to take out his lighting props.

But surprisingly, after the props were taken out, the surrounding area was only slightly brighter, which showed that the range did not expand much.

[4]

The countdown did not stop because of his actions.

“Pah-Pah—”

He patted the props in his hands, checked the prop panel, and when he found that it was not a problem with the props, he immediately raised his head and walked forward quickly.

The ground beneath my feet is ordinary, rough concrete. Time is running out, and I have to collect as much useful information as possible.

[3]

The cold reminder sound awakened the anxiety.

Unable to see the surrounding situation clearly, theoretically he should be more careful, but with the countdown added, even Xu Zhiyan, who was usually calm, couldn't help but get nervous and quickened his pace.

Before the time was almost up, he finally saw something new.

[2]

There is a wall in front of me. To the naked eye, it looks no different from the concrete floor under my feet, but it feels a bit prickly to the touch.

Xu Zhiyan pushed the concrete wall in front of him, clenched his right hand hanging at his side into a fist, and hammered the wall hard. A strong fighting spirit came over him, and for a moment he felt a little dazed.

The next second, the time was up.

[1]

[This bonus time has been used up.]

As the electronic sound rang out, Xu Zhiyan found that he could not move his body!

His vision was blocked and he stopped struggling. He just looked at the concrete wall in front of him that cracked and then immediately recovered, and sighed.

After a few seconds, he felt his consciousness fading, and he saw from the corner of his eye that his hanging hand began to rot. If he had a third-person perspective, he would have discovered that not only his palm, but his entire body was decaying at an extremely fast speed.

…

"it's over?"

The sound of the Jianghuai partridge sounded like thunder, and along with it the noisy sounds from the surroundings also poured into the ears.

Xu Zhiyan suddenly came back to his senses, clenched his hands on the table into fists, his chest heaved violently, and his thoughts seemed unable to extricate himself from the dim concrete room he had just been in.

In the hospital cafeteria in the early morning, NPCs were walking around with steaming hot food in their hands.

The smell of fireworks diluted the lingering eerie feeling in the cold concrete room.

After a while, Xu Zhiyan's breathing calmed down a lot.

"It's over." After answering, he was shocked to realize that in just five seconds, his back was soaked with cold sweat.

Seeing his teammates recovering a lot, Jiang Huaique breathed a sigh of relief.

But when he saw that the other person's face was pale and his hands were shaking as he raised them to wipe the sweat, he couldn't help cursing.

"I told you to accumulate the rewards. Yu Xiu and I both entered the reward time, but we didn't find any useful information. There was only a concrete wall."

It is the next morning, and Xu Zhiyan and his teammates are waiting for breakfast in the hospital cafeteria.

Last night, relying on Xiaoyi's flying ability, Xu Zhiyan successfully collected the night-time upgraded human skins from several buildings near Building 19 during the illness.

The effect of the night version of human skin offerings is very good, and the amount required is much less than before. The human skin Buddha that received the new version of offerings has a slightly discolored copper appearance. I don’t know if the new human skin will be upgraded if it is used too much.

After the meeting, Jiang Huaique, who had already received the bonus time, briefly explained what he saw five seconds after receiving it.

At first he was not sure whether all people woke up in a dim scene and started to rot after the countdown ended. Later, after listening to Yu Xiu's explanation, Jiang Huaique discovered that the other party was the same.

He hesitated for a moment and suggested that Xu Zhiyan should not accept it, but accumulate reward time first.

However, his unlucky teammate was not an obedient guy. He immediately received the time at the dinner table and entered this extremely strange reward world.

"Damn it, you really don't know what's good for you." Jiang Huaique cursed as he quickly pulled out seven or eight tissues from the tissue box beside him. He reached out and pressed the back of Xu Zhiyan's head to wipe the cold sweat off his face.

Because he wiped too hard, the torn tissue scraps stuck to Xu Zhiyan's eyelids, and his hair was also messed up.

Being wiped on the face by his teammates like a child, Xu Zhiyan blinked and said in disgust: "You are so hard... Are you trying to take this opportunity to wipe off my face skin as well?"

"Shame? You have this thing?"

Jiang Huaiqie rolled his eyes, crumpled the tissue in his hand and threw it into the trash can.

"This is a personal attack!"

In the live broadcast room, the audience was still guessing what was going on with the reward time just now.

[It’s so funny, the male mother is tough on the outside but soft on the inside, hahaha. 】

[Ahhh, I don't understand. What on earth is going on with the bonus room? 】

[Currently, several players who have received their bonus time have all entered that strange place. They can't see anything clearly and there is only cement all around.]

[How strange, but from this point of view, it should take enough time to accumulate before exploring, right? ]

[It seems so. Has anyone explored further? ]

[It seems that all the rooms are made of cement walls. ]

[The doctor received a level 4 mission yesterday. It didn't seem easy, but he was only rewarded with one minute after completing it. He entered the mission as soon as he received the reward. Apart from touching the wall, he didn't touch anything. It was no different from this 5s.]

[Yo, a new task has been assigned. Let’s take a look. ]

Before Xu Zhiyan and Jiang Huaique finished their argument, a new game prompt popped up.

【Tip 1: The system will no longer give tasks during the day. 】

[Tip 2: Players must act according to their identities during the day and be sure to handle the onset time properly. ]

[Tip 3: Please do not do anything that violates the hospital rules. When you hear the NPC's advice, the system recommends that the player obey it. ]

Along with the system prompt, Jin Sheng and Yu Xiu also arrived to get breakfast.

"This hospital is really generous. They don't charge for breakfast." Jin Sheng held a plate in each hand, which was filled with breakfast. He placed one plate in front of Xu Zhiyan.

Yu Xiu followed behind him with the same configuration, two full plates.

"It looks not bad." Jiang Huaique looked at the rich breakfast on the plate and felt much better.

Steaming vegetable and meat porridge, tea eggs with spider web patterns, fist-sized meat buns, crispy golden fried dough sticks, tofu pudding drizzled with red oil...

I have to say that the breakfast in the hospital is very rich.

"If I had known, I would have come out to the cafeteria to have dinner last night." Jin Sheng pressed the dog head sticking out of his collar onto his clothes.

Yesterday was my first day in the game.

All the players lead busy and chaotic lives, so full that they wish they could break up every minute. They have no time to find a cafeteria to eat and have to eat compressed food all night.

Yu Xiu handed clean white porcelain spoons to the other three people and pointed at the tofu pudding in front of them and asked.

"Brother Xu, do you prefer sweet or salty food? The chefs here seem to have all kinds of flavors to balance things out, so we ordered one of each."

Taking the spoon, Xu Zhiyan casually took the salty tofu pudding that was closer to him.

"I'll eat whatever I want—"

“Bang!”

Before he could finish his words, the porcelain spoon in his hand slipped out of his hand, hit the edge of the bowl, made a noise, and finally rolled to the ground.

Yu Xiu hasn't realized the problem yet.

"Hey? Brother Xu, wait for me to get another spoon!"

"No, sit down."

Xu Zhiyan shook his head, his expression remained unchanged, but his tone became much tougher.

Yu Xiu, who had just stood up, didn't understand what was going on and sat down obediently. Seeing this, Jiang Huaiqiao and Jin Sheng paused and took back their chopsticks.

The three people's eyes fell on Xu Zhiyan.

After looking around and making sure that there were no NPCs paying attention to them, Jiang Huai Que spoke in a low voice.

"Any questions?"

"Well, these foods are not edible." Xu Zhiyan shook his head, bent down to pick up the spoon that fell on the ground, and took out a piece of white paper to wipe it clean carefully.

When he entered the cafeteria earlier, he just felt a little uncomfortable, but the NPCs coming and going behaved very normally, and the aroma wafting from the cafeteria was very tempting, so he did not delve into this strange feeling.

And when he held the spoon and moved closer to the food, the white bones on the back of his right hand that did not belong to him emitted a scorching heat.

This is a reminder from ghosts and gods.

"Just eat the compressed food honestly. It doesn't matter if it's a little expensive." Xu Zhiyan put the spoon back on the plate and made his decision.

Seeing this, the other three also put down their spoons with regret.

"I just felt that the system wouldn't do anything for me in a five-star copy, so I brought a lot of stuff with me." Jiang Huaique snorted coldly, took out a few compressed biscuits from his item bag and threw them on the table.

Just as a few people took the biscuits and unpacked them, an NPC who was cleaning the plates came over and pointed at the plates on their table and spoke.

“Food cannot be wasted in the hospital cafeteria.”

He was wearing dirty clothes and his eyes were very cloudy. His gaze wandered between the four people and finally fell on Xu Zhiyan.

The NPC pointed a finger at Xu Zhiyan and spoke word by word.

“You who waste food, you will become food at night.”

After saying that, the NPC showed a weird smile, and without waiting for anyone to answer, he turned around and walked away slowly, leaving only a blurry figure behind.

Xu Zhiyan was confused.

He turned his head to look at his other three teammates, then turned back to look at the crowd that overwhelmed the NPCs.

Could this be the NPC advice in the prompt?

Grass? Choose one of four?

Why is there a 25% chance it's him?

In the live broadcast room, the audience became happy.

[Okay, okay, our unlucky little millionaire is back! ]

[Hehe, a one in four chance! ]

[I knew that Xiao Baiwan would not let us down when it comes to bad luck! ]

【Hahahahahahahahahahahahaha, even the Pope isn't so unlucky.】

[So what should he do now? Should he eat all the food in front of him? What will happen if he finishes eating? ]

【Ah, I know the answer to this question. Last night, a player found the cafeteria and ate a lot. There was no reaction at night, but when he woke up in the morning, it was obvious that the person who ate had become "heavier" and his movements were not flexible.】

[Heavy? Damn, this can’t be the infectious disease that Doctor Bai mentioned before! ]

Xu Zhiyan didn't have so many channels to get information, but he was not stupid. If the food in front of him was problematic, he would definitely not eat it.

"Brother Xu, how about we pack up and take it away?" Yu Xiu suggested in a low voice.

Jiang Huai Que sneered and raised his chin to signal his teammates to look at the sign at the door: "The sign says that only dine-in is allowed. You can't take away."

Although I'm not sure whether these rules must be followed, it's not a smart choice to take away food that cannot be packed in front of all the NPCs.

Just as Yu Xiu was hesitating, Jin Sheng suddenly pulled his collar down a little, revealing Xiaoyi's dog head.

"Or let Xiaoyi eat it?"

His life beast does not need to rely on food to gain strength, so if Xiaoyi eats poisonous substances, it will not make him sick, at most he will just have diarrhea.

The well-behaved little golden retriever stared with his little eyes, looking eagerly at the delicious food on the table.

Xu Zhiyan waved his hand.

"No, I'll take care of it."

Xiaoyi is equivalent to a flying vehicle in the dungeon, and is very useful. It would be a great delay if you get sick from eating it.

When he put his hand on the table again, there were two small cube-sized props under his palm. They were the summoning boxes he had used before.

A faint light flashed, and something hid in Xu Zhiyan's shadow.

"This is the shadow creature I bought at the safe house. They sell summoning boxes in bulk now. It's a little expensive, but everything else is fine."

Every time I bring back something unfit for human consumption from the dungeon, the monsters in the safe house are very happy. They don’t mind that these things are inedible, and they almost start fighting over them!

He moved his palm, and the monster in the shadow of his palm began to devour the contents of the plate.

Just two minutes later, Xu Zhiyan cleaned up all the strange food on the table like a magician, leaving no residue at all.

I also took the opportunity to advertise the safe house.

Jiang Huai Que was stunned.

"Fuck, you bought two of these summoning boxes? Do you know how much they cost?"

Seeing his teammate about to pounce on him roaring, Xu Zhiyan was stunned.

"Twenty thousand points for one, including the props and the monster, is there a problem?" This price was negotiated by him and Qu Ji Xiaocui Gu in a meeting. Low-level tool-type monsters do not have much consciousness and are consumables in the dungeon.

It is difficult to determine the price when selling the summoning box alone, but after adding various types of low-level monsters, sales have improved significantly.

[Ahhhhh! Xiao Baiwan is really rich! ]

[Twenty thousand each, he bought two... No, there might be more than two! Damn, I'm so jealous.]

[Why can he say 20,000 points so casually? 20,000 points to buy a C-level monster?! ]

[What? Am I the last one to know that the safe house has started selling items?! ]

[Not only this summoning box, the safe house now sells a lot of hot weapon items, especially supply ammunition and the like, which has brought down the market price! ]

[Anmen! You are my God! A confession from a hot weapon player! ]

[There are also healing items...]

Soon, the live broadcast room turned into a large-scale shopping promotion scene.

After finally getting through the breakfast time assault NPC, the four of them left in a hurry, fearing that there would be more warnings, and didn’t plan to set foot here again.

"It seems that the difficulty during the day is the NPC advice." Jin Sheng scratched his hair, thinking of the curse-like advice just now.

The nights are already difficult to endure. Last night Xu Zhiyan was ill for four hours, which theoretically was the worst. However, Jiang Huaique and Yu Xiu both experienced a short-term illness later, and new clues showed that the illness would last longer and longer.

Jiang Huaique nodded and looked at Xu Zhiyan with a hint of worry on his face.

"Xu Baopi, you better be careful. With your luck, I don't want to see a big piece of barbecued pork asking me for help on the road at night."

Xu Zhiyan's mouth twitched, and he couldn't help but retort: "...You are the one who is char siu!"

He actually wanted to act together with his three teammates.

But his identity is Dr. Bai's assistant, while his three teammates are patients during the day. Since their identities are different, the notifications they receive are naturally different.

【Tip: Please get back on track as soon as possible. 】

【Location: Attending Physician’s Department】

In the end, he had to separate from his three teammates and walk to Dr. Bai's office alone.

Just a few minutes after they left, a man in a doctor's uniform arrived at the cafeteria entrance, followed by a tall and strong woman.

"Check it out."

There was a hint of excitement in Saizier's tone.

The woman took out a mirror and a small knife from the props. She cut her finger and dripped blood on the mirror. After a while, the shadows of Xu Zhiyan and others appeared in the mirror.

"Xu Zhiyan is indeed here."

The woman presented the mirror respectfully.

Sai Qiye took the mirror, looked at it again and again, and suddenly asked doubtfully: "Zoffy, are you sure there won't be any mistakes with this thing?"

He received news from Song Longchuan early in the morning, saying that Xu Zhiyan was in the copy.

When he first heard the news, Sai Qiye didn't believe it. His first reaction was that Song Longchuan, the idiot, was making fun of him. But considering that Song Longchuan had never said anything similar when they met in the dungeon before, he finally decided to test it himself.

"Won't."

The Iron Knight's voice was very hoarse.

Sezier had no doubt about the Iron Knight's loyalty.

He felt that he did have some luck problems.

After being escaped by Xu Zhiyan for three months, many of the Pope's men died, so he happened not to bring other people into the dungeon this time. However, the Iron Knight himself is very strong, and with his own status bonus, Saizier did not think that his mission would fail.

"That's great, but don't touch him during the day. I just received a warning from the NPC that violence cannot be used during work."

He gets angry just talking about it.

On the way to find Xu Zhiyan, he met an NPC doctor wearing glasses. After seeing him, the other party suddenly stopped him and asked for detailed personal information, and then told him that he could not use violence during work.

Finally, Saizier said in self-deprecation.

"Do it tonight, wait until I get off work."

Damn it, why do I have to go to work after entering the dungeon!

At the same time, Xu Zhiyan had already arrived at Dr. Bai's department, and after finding that there was no one inside, he searched through all the drawers in the department like a familiar figure, trying to find if there was any special item.

Unfortunately, Dr. Bai's department is as clean as his obsession with cleanliness.

"Not only are you late for work, there's not even a biscuit in the office." The disgust in Xu Zhiyan's tone was almost overflowing.

But waiting in the office was not his style.

Thinking that there were departments of doctor NPCs on both sides, Xu Zhiyan thought for a moment, got a cup of coffee from Dr. Bai's coffee machine, and took it to the department next door.

“Boom boom boom—”

"Hmm? Please come in."

Diagonally opposite Dr. Bai's department is another doctor who gets up early to go to work.

"Hello, Dr. Liu. I'm Dr. Bai's assistant. Dr. Bai didn't seem to be here today. I forgot to leave my phone number, so I wanted to ask you. By the way, this is the coffee I made for you. If you don't like it, I have some tea leaves..."

Xu Zhiyan was thick-skinned and outgoing to the extreme, and took the opportunity to offer sliced food to show his appreciation.

Soon, he got useful information from Dr. Liu.

Dr. Bai came to the office in the morning and left again. It was said that he lost something important, and it was said that the amount was quite a lot.

After confirming that the biopsy would not be returned for a while and that there was nothing else to do on Dr. Liu's side, Xu Zhiyan sat down on the stool in the consulting room, as if he was glued to it, and began to chat with Dr. Liu, who was sitting diagonally across from him.

When we were chatting happily, he took out a bunch of ballpoint pens from his pocket and lied that he had bought too many for the slices, so he was giving some away.

Doctors in the hospital always seem to be short of pens. The ones they buy would soon disappear and inexplicably enter the hospital's circulation system. So when Dr. Liu saw the gift, he became much more enthusiastic towards Xu Zhiyan. After chatting for a few more minutes, this middle-aged doctor in his forties began to call him "Xu" all the time.

"Xiao Xu, let me tell you, our head nurse is very fierce, you must not make any mistakes..."

"Xiao Xu, Dr. Bai is a nice guy, but I'm always a little scared when I look at him."

"Hey, Xiao Xu, let me tell you..."

Xu Zhiyan got a lot of confusing information from Dr. Liu.

Before leaving, he seemed to remember something and suddenly asked quietly: "By the way, Doctor Liu is also a psychiatrist, right? I have a friend who seems to have a sex addiction, but he always appears to be indifferent to these things. How can this be treated?"

He knew that by asking this question, Dr. Liu would definitely wonder if this friend was himself.

But he really has good intentions!

After returning to the safe house, he asked Party A, "Are you addicted to sex?" The other party would definitely not admit it, so he asked during the live broadcast first. When the ghosts and gods saw the live broadcast, they could adjust themselves according to the method the doctor said.

He saved his face and cured the disease, but he was a little embarrassed. Never mind, it's not a big deal!

"Sex addiction...Xiao Xu you?"

Doctor Liu's eyes turned complicated.

Xu Zhiyan guessed that the other party would overthink it, but considering that Dr. Liu was just an NPC, he just gave a brief explanation and then listened carefully.

Alas, he has given too much to Party A and hopes that the other party can understand his painstaking efforts!

After consulting the questions, Xu Zhiyan felt his scalp tingling from being stared at by Dr. Liu. He quickly returned to Bai Jin's department and made himself a cup of tea.

What he didn't know was that after he left, Dr. Liu quietly took out his cell phone and started texting the doctor across the street, repeating all of Xu Zhiyan's last questions.

Old building, inside the specimen room.

Bai Jin stood in the empty room with no expression on his face.

Previously, he thought that it might be the little liar Xu Zhiyan who had robbed his specimen room. After all, the internal organs that the other party sent yesterday were things he had carefully preserved.

But now that he was here, he felt a little uncertain.

So clean.

Everything was taken away without leaving anything. This is not something an ordinary patient can do.

Just when his thoughts were particularly confused, his cell phone suddenly vibrated. Looking at Dr. Liu's name on it, Bai Jin frowned and clicked on the message.

There was finally some expression on his face.

Sex addiction? Xiao Xu?

Looks like he needs to put in more effort...