Chapter 107 Chapter 107 Li Ying's Hospital Physical Examination

Li Ying stood in this "Preventive Disease Diagnosis and Treatment Center" and was currently a little unsure of the order of seeing a doctor in Guicheng.

According to the normal order in reality, you need to register first, then check in and wait for your appointment number to be called to enter the clinic.

But here, it seems that all patients entering this preventive disease diagnosis and treatment center must first undergo a physical examination and then go to see a doctor with the physical examination report.

"Xiao Li, why are you in the hospital?" Luo Qing was also very surprised to see Li Ying.

Li Ying explained calmly, "I've always wanted to come for a physical examination, but I didn't expect there would be so many people here today."

Luo Qing said "Oh" and before she could say anything else, Li Ying took the initiative to ask her, "Why are you in the hospital? Are you here to visit a patient? Or are you here for a checkup?"

"My friend works in this hospital. I heard he's very busy, so I came to visit him." Luo Qing said.

Although she came for a physical examination, considering the situation today, it is better to let the citizens line up first.

Seeing that Li Ying looked completely unsure of where to begin, Luo Qing immediately instructed him, "If you want a physical, you'll need to wait for a blood test first. Use your registration code to scan the machine and you'll get a number. Here, you get the physical first, then the doctor."

She waved at Li Ying and walked away on her own.

Listening to Luo Qing's words, Li Ying hesitated. Did she really have to have her blood drawn in Qingshan Hospital?

He looked at these busy indigenous people who were queuing up in different clinics with their mobile phones to check their numbers. Some of them had obvious strange features, while others looked like normal humans.

Although it is normal for places like physical examination centers to be crowded all year round, Li Ying always feels that these indigenous people who come here for physical examinations seem to be very nervous. After coming out of an examination area and receiving the report, their expressions have not improved much.

You can't get a tiger cub without learning the tiger's acupoint. Besides, I'm already here!

Li Ying quickly found the registration interface on his mobile phone. He was a temporary resident, so he searched around and found that there was indeed a physical examination item.

Qingshan Hospital Annual Health Checkup Package (Young Men), 599 Gui coins (includes all required work, very cost-effective)

This is the cheapest physical examination package. Li Ying directly clicked on the payment button, then linked it to his registration date for today. He quickly went to find the machine that Luo Qing mentioned and started queuing for a blood test.

As soon as she got her number, Li Ying suddenly realized a serious problem.

Generally speaking, any blood test for a physical examination requires the patient to be on an empty stomach. He had eaten breakfast and lunch, and his stomach was still mostly full.

Wait, he wasn't really here for a physical examination, he was just here to explore. Li Ying patted his head. He just wanted to experience the physical examination process of Qingshan Hospital and see how the indigenous people were examined here.

The blood drawing room here is very large, so when Li Ying saw her name appear in the waiting display of blood drawing window No. 4.

Only patients called by the machine can enter, and others can only watch the rapid blood drawing from six windows outside the glass door of the blood drawing room.

Li Ying watched helplessly as an aboriginal with strange features went in to have his blood drawn.

From the appearance, this is an adult male with an average build. His most obvious personal feature is the ten tentacles extending from his arms.

Simply put, he has no palms or wrists, and each forearm has five tentacles growing directly, and the thickness of the tentacles is much thicker than that of an ordinary person's fingers.

The reason why Li Ying paid attention to this aboriginal was not only because he had some obvious features, but also because he was holding five bags on the tentacles of his left arm.

How do you draw blood? Normal people draw blood from their forearms, but can you do the same with this tentacle arm?

Li Ying watched the man with burning eyes as he walked to the outermost blood drawing window No. 1, which he could see clearly.

Hmm? What is that?

He saw the nurse who was drawing blood use something like a blood pressure monitor to cover the native's tentacles.

"Please ask patient number 447, Li Ying, to go to window number two for blood draw."

Is it your turn now?

So fast!

Li Ying didn't have anything else in her hands, so she just took her cell phone and walked over to check her number on the screen.

He stretched out his arm and tilted his body slightly to the side to look at the situation next door.

"First draw blood from your forearm. Control yourself while you're doing it. Don't move around."

Li Ying's hearing was good enough to hear people talking next door.

"I know. I will control it. Your device has almost made me afraid to move." The native said in a muffled voice.

On this side, Li Ying's blood drawing was no different from in reality. Several tubes were drawn from her forearm. The nurse didn't say much, just pulled out the needle, put a plaster on the wound, and handed it to Li Ying.

He stretched out his thumb and pressed the blood-drawing position, then stood up and walked out. The indigenous person next door was drawing the second wave of blood. Li Ying saw it very clearly. Blood was being drawn from the tip of the indigenous person's tentacle!

"From what I can see, there's nothing wrong with the blood stratification in the tentacles, and there's no signs of worsening mutations," said the nurse.

"That also requires a report, and other tests. These past seven days have been incredibly chaotic, and everyone's in a state of panic. I'll need a full body checkup and then have someone look at it professionally before I can feel assured."

"The previous defects have been removed, so it's not easy for them to mutate."

The native's tentacle tip seemed to be extra slow in drawing blood, so he was talking to the nurse.

Li Ying pursed her lips, trying not to let her expression change.

He walked out of the blood drawing room and found a place to sit outside. The tense expression on his face seemed to be because he was pressing his wound. In fact, Li Ying's mind was thinking rapidly.

"Worsening and mutation" is an unusual term.

The native's tentacles were already like that, and he was worried about "worsening and mutating", obviously afraid of something more serious.

"Bad removal, mutation," Li Ying frowned. Seeing these natives with strange features in the ghost city, they had been mutated into this strange appearance for some reason.

Even after the "bad" parts are removed, some alienated organs still remain in the body.

The conversation between the indigenous people and the nurse mentioned the seven-day lockdown, and people were in panic.

Li Ying quickly sorted out an idea in his mind, and combined with the announcement of the copy release, everything seemed extremely clear.

He tentatively called this unknown thing that might cause the aborigines' mutation and deterioration "Disease X."

Assuming that all the natives of Ghost City were originally supposed to be human, then the outbreak of Disease X must have been extremely contagious and destructive. The dungeon was closed for seven days for maintenance because of this. The dungeon was thoroughly investigating Disease X and not allowing players to leave. It is also possible that a player in a certain dungeon was part of the transmission chain.

According to Li Ying's personal copy experience, some indigenous people, even if they look like humans, may not have the same organs and attributes as real humans.

For example, when he and Cheng Lixue were still in the hot spring hotel, they met middle-aged women who picked heads and body parts casually, as well as elderly people who practiced all kinds of bizarre exercises in the safe home.

They were most likely infected with this disease X, but their mutations were manifested on another level and were controlled within the body, and did not deteriorate to the point where the natives developed tentacles.

Or perhaps, the manifestations of this disease X are not fixed. It may cause mutations in the limbs or infect the body. Li Ying has not speculated too much for the time being.

But just by taking a blood test, Li Ying was able to get so much information that she was extremely excited. She felt that it was the right decision to come to Qingshan Hospital!

Fortunately, he arrived today, which was just after the seven-day blockade period. If he had returned to Guicheng from reality a few days later and come to Qingshan Hospital again, there might not have been so many indigenous people coming for examination, and naturally he would not have heard this secret information.

Most of the time, the Qingshan Hospital copy provides players with the identity of patients, and the medicine is often the same in a different name, following the path of a mental hospital. Players are required to take medicine, drink water, do various exercises according to the nurse's instructions, or cooperate with various treatments every day.

But even if the patient in the copy can see information, it is only what the copy wants the player to see, which is different from his current situation.

Li Ying thought to himself, assuming that most of the indigenous people in Guicheng, or even only half of them, had suffered from this disease, then the other indigenous people must have become accustomed to these strange situations.

After all, there are always relatives, neighbors, friends, and classmates in the city. The more people who have had this disease, the more common it is, and all the indigenous people can feel so normal about it.

Then, based on the above inferences and combined with the guesses he had made before, we can make a hypothesis.

The reason for recruiting and testing players in the strange dungeon is, on the one hand, to select players who are like the locals and have a "normal mind" towards the mutated humans. On the other hand, the more outstanding the players are, the better their qualities in all aspects and their physical fitness, and the more likely they are to be able to resist this disease.

Moreover, assuming that a large number of the indigenous people of Ghost City have been ill, even if the "bad" diseases have been removed or they are in a "cured" state, the damage caused to their bodies is still irreversible. The life expectancy of the indigenous people of Ghost City, or the strange world, is worrying.

In this way, selecting players is really about finding labor and introducing foreign workers. As for the top player talents in various fields, just like the high-end talent apartments mentioned in the post, if the top players immigrate here, they may really be able to get involved in the upper class of this world.

The bleeding in the forearm where blood was drawn has completely stopped. Li Ying then moved on to the next item. It seemed that the clinic for measuring height, weight and blood pressure was also very fast and had a large space, so people could just queue up.

"One, two, three, four, five..." Li Ying lined up at the door and quickly counted the five height and weight measuring machines in the room. The sizes and specifications were different from left to right.

Next to each machine, there stood an "intern" who was obviously a new arrival. They held a machine in their hands, scanned the code for each patient, and guided the physical examination.

This project is supposed to be very fast, and the machine is fully automatic. Each patient only needs to take off their shoes and stand on it to complete the test.

But... Li Ying looked at the two players in white coats. They only needed to scan a code for the natives, but they only had a machine, and their movements of scanning the code were shaky, and their legs were shaking.

Are you a newcomer?

This is the psychological quality you have when you see the weird natives. If you don’t find a job, your survival rate in the dungeon will be a bit worrying.

There are also five machines for blood pressure measurement. Li Ying took a look and found that they should all be players.

Yes, if it involves professional operations, ordinary players can't do anything like color ultrasound.

This project was completed quickly, and the electrocardiogram was next door.

"Patient, where is your code?" At the door of the clinic, Li Ying looked at a young man who spoke calmly to an indigenous man with a suspected sarcoma on his head.

"Isn't my code right here? Are you blind?" The man spoke in an aggressive tone.

"Please show me your medical code." The young player still insisted.

"I've given you the phone, scan it!" the aboriginal said in a rude tone.

"You haven't presented your medical code. Please don't delay other patients' medical examinations." The young male player continued calmly.

"Next patient, please come and scan the code."

"You won't let me in! No one else can come in!"

Li Ying looked at the aboriginal at this moment and felt that he really had a "lump on his head" and was not very useful.

But he was not sure whether these natives were creating artificial difficulties for the players in the dungeon, deliberately making things difficult for them, or whether they were simply unreasonable people looking for trouble.

He was considering whether he should lend a hand if the stalemate continued.

After all, the player's job now is as an intern in Qingshan Hospital. Even if it's just measuring height and weight, or scanning codes, if no patients enter the electrocardiogram room behind him for a long time, it may affect the rating of the player responsible for scanning codes at the door.

At this moment, Li Ying took out his copy of the mobile phone.

All players' copy phones are special products of the same style, completely different from those of the natives.

He held out his hand and gestured, "Give me the machine. I'll scan the code myself."

The male player glanced at him, obviously caught a glimpse of Li Ying's mobile phone, and after a moment of hesitation, he handed over the QR code scanner without hesitation.

Li Ying guessed that this player might have mistaken him for a player who was assigned to be a patient in the same dungeon.

The two men handed it over, but the native with a bag on his head was faster and grabbed the scanner directly.

"Will you let me in? Will you let me in?"

"This is a free physical examination. What's wrong with me just getting an EKG?"

"Hospitals can bully customers just because they are big!"

Wow! Li Ying was shocked by the speed of this native for a moment, and then shocked by his subsequent words.

Wait, what? Are Indigenous people getting free health checks? No wonder so many people are lining up!

"I say, what are you arguing about?" Luo Qing walked over with a frown.

Li Ying turned around and saw her, as well as the male doctor standing next to Luo Qing who was wearing a white coat that was obviously of better quality.

The male doctor had his hair tied up in a bun, which was quite Taoist in style. He was probably in his thirties. When he saw the commotion here, he followed Luo Qing with a cold expression on his face.

Li Ying could even see impatience and boredom in his eyes.

Luo Qing's eyes swept over Li Ying. Li Ying felt that she had received a hint and immediately raised her hand: "Sister Luo Qing, report, this patient didn't scan the code, insisted on doing an electrocardiogram, and even snatched the machine away, saying that if he didn't do it, no one else could do it."

The surroundings suddenly became quiet, as if going directly from a hot pot to a refrigerator.

The arrogant native let go of the barcode scanner in an instant, and he was so panicked that he was about to kneel on the ground to catch the barcode scanner.

"Doctor Fu." Luo Qing's tone was somewhat helpless. It had been many years since she had encountered such an "I am right" person coming to the hospital.

Fu Miaozhen walked over, picked up the barcode scanner, and handed it back to the male player at the door of the ECG room, saying, "Work hard."

He glanced at the patient who was half-kneeling on the ground and said, "There won't be a next time."

The player immediately continued to scan the code, and Li Ying became the first one to enter the electrocardiogram room. The natives behind him immediately followed.

The electrocardiogram room is also a large room, with medical partitions separating the beds to form several independent areas where only doctors and patients are responsible.

"What's going on? Why did you take so long to come in?" asked the doctor.

Li Ying glanced at the four-eyed doctor and said silently, "There's someone at the door who insists on coming in without a code and is blocking others from entering."

The doctor understood immediately, and the natives who had entered another cubicle also started talking to him.

"That's right. He's obviously a coward. He must have missed out on a spot today when the physical exams opened yesterday, so he tried to break into Qingshan Hospital. Outsiders are not to be trifled with. What's more, the leaders are here today, and Dean Fu is with him."

Another doctor chimed in, "Once it's free, it's worthless. To be frank, this is too good for everyone. If it's free, just make an appointment and come when your turn comes. We've already exceeded our capacity, and we've drafted so many men."

Li Ying was already lying on the bed, the electrocardiogram device attached to her body. He pricked up his ears and continued to eavesdrop.

Is the leader referring to Luo Qing? Dean Fu, is it the male doctor from earlier? Are the captured men referring to the players?

Wait, the doctor named Fu, Li Ying remembered that he had seen him in the previous guide related to [Qingshan Hospital]. It seemed that he was rated as an extremely difficult boss in the dungeon by players, and he was a cold and ruthless boss!

Is he the dean? Or are they two different people with the same surname?

"How many doctors with the surname Fu are there in the hospital?" Li Ying asked.

"That's nonsense. Is there anyone else with this surname?" He asked Li Ying in return, and the doctor who was operating on him took the equipment.

"Okay, next."

After the electrocardiogram, Li Ying continued to do the surgical examination. Compared to his easy life as a patient undergoing a physical examination, the players who were interns in Qingshan Hospital at this time were not having it so easy.

A large number of players entered Qingshan Hospital today. Some were assigned as interns, doing tasks like scanning codes or measuring heights. Some were assigned to accompany patients. After entering the dungeon this morning, they didn't even know their way around the hospital, and now they have to take patients to checkups. Some were even directly assigned to become doctors! Some were even thrown into the psychological counseling room.

He Huan was one of the players. When she found out that the copy she entered was Qingshan Hospital, she was devastated.

What is even more frustrating is that she, a human being who has nothing to do with medicine in her life, was assigned to the position of a doctor and had to use a stethoscope to listen to the heartbeats of each patient one by one!

God bless you, He Huan is not a medical student.

At most, at most, when I was a child, I liked to play house, pretending to examine my parents with a children's stethoscope, and sometimes playing in a double-point hospital or something like that.

Didn't they say that the dungeon already had big data screening for players? Why didn't they just select a group of doctors and nurses and put them on the job directly instead of arresting these completely clueless people?

He Huan's personality makes him stay away from hospitals. Although it cannot be said that he is afraid of seeing a doctor, a normal person would not go to the hospital unless he is healthy.

The players who were divided into the same group had their height and weight measured, and some had their blood pressure measured. The machines were easy to operate, but auscultation was different.

He Huan even wondered if it was because she had thinning hair, tired eyes, and an older appearance, that she had the face of a mature doctor who was worthy of patients' trust?

"I don't know how to listen to auscultation." She said to the NPC who gave her the stethoscope.

"You will." The doctor NPC repeated.

"I really can't."

"You will."

He Huan had three consecutive disagreements with the NPC. He Huan was defeated and other players also pulled her back, saying, "Don't be so stubborn in the dungeon!"

In the end, He Huan had no choice but to follow the NPC and asked cautiously, "Teacher, I can do it, but how do I know it?"

"You still don't know how to use a stethoscope? Have you ever seen a pig run before you've eaten pork?"

"Listen for a bit. If there's no movement, write normal."

He Huan slowly raised a question mark in his mind. If there is no movement, it is normal. But is he still a human being?

When He Huan saw the patient she was going to face, she sat on the stool and stopped thinking about these problems.

After all, when facing a wriggling halfling patient, considering some special physiological structures, the heart of this strange indigenous person may be located somewhere else, so it is normal that the stethoscope does not move.

A patient walked in with two legs and two things that looked like tree branches growing on his sides as "training wheels". The patient's skin was like tree bark and looked very old.

He Huan started listening to the heart's stethoscope with an expressionless face. When there was no movement, he stamped his stamp and said, "The heart sounds are normal. Passed!"

She had begun to suspect that the Qingshan Hospital dungeon could not afford to hire professional medical students, or that they were holding some event recently, so they asked a group of players to come and fool around. That was too shoddy.

No sound, next one, no sound, passed!

He Huan repeated the process until a patient who did not look abnormal sat in front of him.

He Huan had listened to the heart sounds of about twenty or thirty patients who appeared to have no abnormalities, so he did not take it seriously.

Until this time——

She raised her head with a "Hmm?" and her sleepy eyes fixed on Li Ying's face.

The sound of the heart beating again and again is so obvious and so clear.

"Why do you have a heartbeat?" He Huan looked at him in confusion.

She raised her hand and called out to the NPC who had been guiding her: "Teacher, this is not normal!"

Li Ying: ???

I have an irregular heartbeat? Is this a gamer or an Aboriginal doctor?

The teaching teacher was called over by He Huan, looked at Li Ying carefully, and then picked up the barcode scanner to check the data.

"Your name is Li Ying?" asked the teaching teacher.

"Yes, I am Li Ying," he replied.

"He has no problem, let him pass." After leaving this sentence, the teacher left again.

He Huan could only give it a pass, bewildered. How could this person have a normal heartbeat? What was the standard?

Li Ying walked out of the clinic. He touched his left atrium and felt his heart beating faster.

Just now, the doctor who was listening to the patient's heartbeat asked him why he had a heartbeat. This means that the patient may not have had a heartbeat before!

Li Ying felt as if his head was hit several times by the strong north wind in winter. He had never been so clear-headed.

If the indigenous people were infected with the X disease he speculated, and lost the ability of their hearts to beat after recovering, then what would be the situation of the current residents of this strange world?

Are they human? Zombies? Not really, but they're not dead either.

So... the living dead?

As soon as this guess flashed through his mind, he felt a chill all over his body.

*

At the same time, Xiang Tianyi finished taking photos in the photo studio and walked happily on the street holding a printed black and white canvas.

It really is worthy of being the photo studio that Luo Qing introduced to her. The service is really great. The material for her tombstone has been selected, and there are many options for posthumous photos. This laser-printed canvas is a gift and it is discounted. The other finished photos will be available later and she can choose the original photos and different photo frames.

Good food is never too late, so Xiang Tianyi is not in a hurry.

There are quite a few photo studios in this row. Xiang Tianyi walked slowly again, ready to see the styles of other photo studios.

"What shifts will you be on next month? Rotating or stationed?"

"We still have to rotate, right? We've only been interning for a little over a month, and the supervisor said we'll be rotating."

Passersby were talking at the bus stop on the side of the road. Xiang Tianyi didn't care at first, but the more he listened, the more he felt that he seemed to have heard this voice somewhere before.

"Rotating is good. It allows me to split my time. I still have to go back to the village to deliver the tombstone and photos. Although I can send them by mail, I think it would be better to go back in person."

Tombstones and photos? Locals are also choosing. Xiang Tianyi glanced over when he heard the words. The people who were talking were just getting on the bus. Through the clear glass, Xiang Tianyi stopped in his tracks and felt a chill all over his body.

"Zhang Wei?!"

Was she seeing things right? That skinny, monkey-like figure was none other than Zhang Wei, the player who had died with her in Yinhuai Village!