53 Lost Memory

◎The third mission objective◎

The gunman raised his hand and pressed the button marked "Twenty-first Floor".

The elevator started moving, rising steadily and rapidly. Qi Qiuxue remained alert, fearing that others would discover anything.

Fortunately, the elevator arrived at its destination safely. As the elevator door opened, the gunman standing at the front looked back.

"It's time to go down, Professor." He stared at Qi Qiuxue with his blue eyes, a glare so sharp that it seemed like it could stare a hole through someone. "We'll accompany you here tonight."

Qi Qiuxue nodded without saying a word. She silently clenched the medical kit in her hand, slowly got off the elevator and walked forward under the watchful eyes of six gunmen.

She walked in the long, narrow, and quiet corridor. The bright incandescent light above her head cast a cold light, and her shadow was infinitely deformed and stretched on the smooth ground.

Qi Qiuxue remained tuned to the noises behind her. The elevator door remained open, and the gunmen remained standing, watching her as she moved forward, step by step. People often unconsciously feel nervous in unfamiliar surroundings; it's a perfectly normal physiological reaction. But at this moment, Qi Qiuxue had to overcome this reaction and try to appear calm and composed.

Before leaving, she noticed the name tag on the woman: [Biochemistry 1, Professor Linda.]

Biochemistry 1 department.

Qi Qiuxue gradually slowed down her pace and stopped in front of a huge lead door. Judging from the doorplate above, she could tell that she had successfully arrived at her destination.

Qi Qiuxue didn't stop at all. She opened the handle and walked in as if she was familiar with the place, as natural as going home.

A few seconds later, the elevator in the distance finally restarted, and several gunmen left and went to other floors.

“…”

"Huh." Qi Qiuxue listened quietly to the noise outside the door. When she realized that they had left, she breathed a sigh of relief and turned to look at the laboratory behind her.

It was the middle of the night and the surroundings were surprisingly quiet. She was thankful that there was no one else in the house except her.

Qi Qiuxue finally got the chance to take a good look at everything in the laboratory. In front of her appeared a huge electronic device with a display screen constantly flashing with various data. To the right of the instrument was a fully-capacitated insulated box with a large number of test tubes inside, each of which was a strange bright red.

It was blood, the blood of the six players, with dates and names carefully written on the walls of the test tubes.

Qi Qiuxue leaned in closer to take a look. The inside of the incubator was embedded with countless densely packed sensing devices, which would constantly scan the test tubes inside the incubator and then copy the resulting data into the computer.

What exactly is the other party researching?

Qi Qiuxue frowned and walked back slowly to the computer. The computer was in standby mode. Qi Qiuxue quickly woke up the screen. As the screen lit up, a document that had not yet been closed appeared in her field of vision.

September 3rd, research records of six experimental subjects——

Today is the fourth day since Subject A (Li Yiqing) received the drug injection, and the third day since Subject BF (Zhang Xue and others) received the drug injection. Unlike the others, none of these subjects have shown any abnormal reactions (aside from the loss of their memories of the alienation process).

To ensure the accuracy of the experimental conclusions, we did not place these six subjects in a unified shelter. They successfully accepted the new identities we had arranged in advance and began their respective duties like real nurses.

[According to observation, the six test subjects' words, actions, and conditions are all indistinguishable from normal humans. As the only six who have recovered (?) normalcy among the hundreds of test subjects, their blood, organs, and other organs are worthy of focused research. To prevent accidents, we will change our research methods and thoroughly contain them.]

【……】

Qi Qiuxue was horrified by reading just a few lines of text. It seemed that taking action tonight was the right decision. Once tonight passed, they would be completely detained. Not only would their freedom be lost, but even their lives would be threatened.

"I'm afraid we've been in this dungeon for far longer than three or four days," Qi Qiuxue said softly, relaying her conclusion to the other players outside the monitor. "Have you noticed?"

"Yes," Zhu Lan continued. Within the empathy time limit, the two could maintain constant communication. "Based on the records in this document, perhaps we entered the dungeon much earlier than we thought, and it's just that the adverse reactions from the drugs have caused memory loss, and we've forgotten everything that happened before."

Although she was short-tempered and too lazy to think, it didn't mean she couldn't figure it out. "This also explains why players haven't received the tasks issued by the system, and why players seem to enter the dungeon in batches."

After he finished speaking, the system, which had been silent for a long time, finally jumped out at this moment.

[Congratulations to the player for achieving the achievement - Hospital Lies.]

【Congratulations to the player for achieving the achievement - Real Time. 】

[Due to the high difficulty of this instance, a reward mechanism has been activated. After three seconds, the system will help players regain their lost memories.]

[The countdown begins, three, two, one.]

——Everything seems to be still at this moment, the past time and the present time merge and overlap, and through time, everyone seems to see everything that has happened.

They entered the dungeon not three days ago, but ten days ago.

These people were not nurses in the hospital, but cancer patients who were admitted to the hospital along with other people.

Over the past decade or so, Rock Saint Hospital has indeed achieved remarkable success in conquering cancer, and has gained both fame and fortune, becoming an extremely authoritative presence in the eyes of everyone, including entrepreneurs, politicians, and leaders... They have attracted a large number of powerful and well-funded people to come and be admitted to the hospital for treatment.

At first, the hospital was only open to this type of people and never admitted any poor people. But not long ago, the hospital announced a decision that shocked everyone. From today on, no matter what class or identity you are, as long as you have cancer, you can be admitted to the hospital for treatment.

They have planned dozens of welfare benefits for the poor who cannot afford medical expenses, and even received sponsorship and support from the mayor. Even the poorest patients will enjoy the same treatment and medical care as the rich after being admitted to the hospital.

As soon as the decision was announced, it caused an unprecedented response. Poor people who could not afford medical treatment came one after another. The hospital wards became crowded in an instant, and every floor was filled with all kinds of patients.

Others say that Rock Saint Hospital is a savior for cancer patients, a noble and great existence. Only when you actually step into here and the moment the door is completely closed, will you realize how dangerous this hospital is.

Li Yiqing was one of the first patients to be injected with drugs. They used an extremely thin and long needle to ruthlessly and neatly pierce the back of the patient's neck. Because the mark was subtle and the injection point was at the back of the neck, it was extremely difficult to be discovered.

Qi Qiuxue didn't know what kind of medicine the other party injected, she only saw that within one to three days after receiving the drug treatment, all patients showed abnormal conditions.

The hospital has locked up the mutated patients on the 17th to 20th floors. After careful observation, they are injected with antidotes in batches. After the injection, the patients will fall into a coma for a certain period of time. Compared with the violent state during the mutation, it is obviously more convenient to observe them at this time.

After testing, it was found that among the hundreds of experimental subjects, only Qi Qiuxue, Li Yiqing, Wu Shanyue, Zhu Lan, Lu Jin and Xu Gui had completely recovered, while the factors that caused the mutation still remained in the bodies of the other subjects and could not be fully recovered.

These subjects died one after another within seven days. A few patients developed severe rejection reactions after the antidote injection, such as vomiting blood, going crazy, etc., or died on the spot or were shot to death.

After they are fully awake, they will not know what happened to them, and they have forgotten all memories after the mutation. During the day, they receive "treatment" in the hospital as normal people, and at night they will have different degrees of reversion reactions under the influence of the factors. Mild cases can be ignored for the time being, while severe cases need to be dealt with on the spot.

This is not a hospital at all, it is clearly a huge experimental base.

“…”

In this forgotten memory, Qi Qiuxue finally found the missing mission target.

1. Explore the truth behind the experiment.

【2. Survive until the last moment and escape from here successfully.】

But unlike before, this time the mission had three objectives:

[3. Rescue the surviving patients in the hospital and kill all the completely mutated monsters.]

A completely mutated monster...

Qi Qiuxue keenly sensed something: "Could it be that besides the patients, there are other things being experimented on? Or even... are they still alive?"

Faced with the player's question, the system chose to ignore it and not answer.

It just smiled, even a little gloatingly said: "I wish you good luck~"

【Author’s words】

I didn't update yesterday, so I'll give you a little red envelope in the comment section of this chapter to compensate you. I'll give it to you tomorrow when I update the new chapter~

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