Chapter 27 The Best Corpse
At 11:30 at night, two buses stopped at the entrance of the dormitory area, and volunteers from Peace Medical College began to walk into the buses with their simple luggage.
They had no doubts about this time point, they just thought that the situation in Quanguang City was critical and time was running out.
Xia Bai followed Zhong Zicang into the car in front. Just as he was about to move to the back seat, Zhong Zicang pulled him to sit in the first row on the right side near the door.
The volunteers did not delay at all and were all seated before midnight. Two cars drove out of the Peace Medical College one after another in the dark.
There were conversations in the car. Xia Bai had just entered the school and was the only freshman among the volunteers. He didn't know anyone except Zhong Zicang. Zhong Zicang was thinking about something. He clenched his fists and frowned in thought. Xia Bai could only stare out the window in a daze.
At midnight, the university town is still very lively, with bright lights and cars coming and going.
The bus took more than ten minutes to drive out of the crowded section of the university town. After entering the wide road, it did not speed up, but instead drove into the dirt road next to it and stopped unnoticed.
There was a burst of puzzled discussion in the carriage.
Zhong Zicang, who was next to Xia Bai, stood up and faced the volunteers behind him.
"Dear students, thank you for your active participation in this support activity despite the danger and hard work. A total of 3,123 students signed up this time. The school leaders and I carefully screened and selected 100 students, including the students present here."
This is quite pleasing to say. They were selected from the best of more than 3,000 people. At least they stand out because they are recognized in some way.
But I don’t know how long this happiness can last.
Zhong Zicang smiled, but it did not dilute the solemnity on his face. He pursed his dry and chapped lips and said, "I want to tell you about the situation in Quanguang City."
"Why do you have to stop and talk? You can just talk while walking."
"Yeah, aren't we in a hurry? Let's go there early."
Zhong Zicang: "Because the situation in Quanguang City is not what you think, you can decide whether to go or not after listening to it."
"Is it spreading explosively and out of control?"
"Shouldn't we hurry up then?"
Zhong Zicang: "It hasn't spread explosively, but the problems are much more dangerous than you think. I need to explain it to everyone responsibly."
He started from the beginning: "The first abnormality occurred in Qili Village..."
The image of Qili Village appeared on the small TV on the bus.
Xia Bai listened again to the story about Qili Village and the haunted house in Lingle Amusement Park. It was almost exactly the same as what Hua Haoming had said. The photos and videos shown on TV were the ones that Hua Haoming had shown them.
He now understood that these two incidents were cases specially prepared by the Gaming Administration to educate novice players.
As long as the people from the Game Management Bureau are involved in a game with novice players, they have an obligation to educate the novice players about the game. Using these simple cases, they can help the novice players quickly accept the existence of the game and cooperate with the old players to complete the game.
Now, due to the special circumstances, these volunteers from the Peace Medical College have also been given science education.
He also understood why Zhong Zicang was able to move into their dormitory so quickly. He was the president of the Student Union of Heping Medical College, a gamer, and a member of the Gaming Management Bureau.
Zhong Zicang: "Isn't there any pollution source in Quanguang City? The reason for saying this is to cover up the arrival of the game and avoid large-scale panic and breakdown of order in a short period of time."
"There are too many games coming to Quanguang City, and they are too abnormal. In order to prevent ordinary people from being involved, they are temporarily blocked, and only people can leave but not enter."
There was an uproar in the carriage; this truly shattered their worldview.
But Xia Bai also noticed that some people were not that shocked. Maybe some of them were players, or maybe they were not players but had already noticed that something was wrong with their world.
He, who inherited his grandfather's mobile phone and had hardly used the Internet in the past 18 years, was able to realize the game after being reminded by the old people in the group, not to mention this group of top medical students who frequently go online.
"Everyone, please be quiet and listen to me first." Zhong Zicang tried his best to keep his tone calm.
After hearing this, the others also cooperated and quieted down, staring at him intently.
"According to statistics, in the past week, only six games have landed in various parts of Jiangqi City, while nearly eighty have appeared in Quanguang City in a week."
"There are casualties in every game map, or even all casualties. Some of them cannot be cured by our current medical level. We need players with healing skills, but there are not so many of them. They only take care of the dying. The rest need doctors and volunteers."
"But volunteers cannot be ordinary people, as this would cause panic and leak the news. After our principal learned about the situation in Quanguang City, he took the initiative to ask the Tourism Bureau to organize a team of volunteers to help."
"What we have to do when we enter Quanguang City is to follow the healing players, doctors, or people from the Game Management Bureau to where the game lands and wait for the game to end. Once the game is over, we will immediately cooperate with the doctors to deal with the bodies of the dead players and rescue the injured players without arousing suspicion from ordinary people."
"One thing I want to point out in particular is that if any of the players who come out are still alive, it means they have completed the game. The game has disappeared where it was, and where we are will be the safest place."
"But if they are all dead, it means the game has not been completed yet and they are still there. If we go over there, we will be sucked into the game. This situation is rare, because if they haven't completed the game, they are likely to have all died in the game and can't leave."
"This is one of the risks with a very low probability. Another very obvious one is that because games appear frequently in Quanguang City, we may also be involved in the games in our spare time."
He said everything he could, and the horror of the game was presented vividly in the form of photos and videos, and the dangers were clearly explained to them.
"We'll give you ten minutes to make a new choice. We understand if you don't want to go. You can get off the bus within ten minutes. There will be a car waiting for you outside."
"It doesn't sound as great as the risk of being infected by pollution sources." said a girl.
"It's good to go and provide support, learn about the game in advance and learn from others." said a boy.
"We're all here to save people anyway." Another girl said, "The pollution source is no different from the game."
In the first three minutes, no one got off the bus.
Zhong Zicang said nothing and waited quietly for the ten minutes to end.
The sound in the car gradually died down, and everyone began to think independently in silence. The warm yellow light of the car fell on the young faces.
The night was dark and time passed extremely slowly, minute by minute.
Ten minutes later, two buses started and headed towards Quanguang City.
There were only two students there.
Zhong Zicang smiled brightly, "Let me introduce myself to you all. My name is Zhong Zicang. I am the president of the Student Union of Heping Medical College, and I am also a player of the External Liaison Department of the Game and Weird Management Bureau. I will do my best to bring everyone back to school."
"President, can you tell me about the game?"
“And what is this Tourism Bureau?”
"President, let's go back to school together!"
"Okay, after we're divided into groups, I'll talk to you in detail." Zhong Zicang held the fence with his hands, very hard, and it was obvious that he was not so calm.
Xia Bai looked away and lowered his eyes to look at his hands.
He didn't seem so calm either, and his heart was touched softly.
Only one person got off their car, and the rest chose to stay inside and go to Quanguang City.
Xia Bai was determined to go to Quanguang City to find his family's God of Happiness. If it wasn't for the God of Happiness, he wasn't sure if he would choose to come here.
The car began to accelerate and sped towards Quanguang City on the dark but street-lit road.
The forty-nine people in their car were divided into ten groups, basically five people in each group. The four-person group included Zhong Zicang and Xia Bai, as well as two other girls, Zhang Runyue, a junior, and Wang Wei, a second-year graduate student.
The two buses separated when they were approaching Quanguang City. Quanguang City is very large, with four districts and six counties, and they will go to different places.
Their bus did not take the iconic city gate national highway entrance of Quanguang City, but took a shortcut and entered Quanguang City from a winding road.
When entering the Quanguang territory, everyone in the car was very nervous, staring out the nearest window.
But in fact, the situation in Quanguang City was not as serious as they imagined or as rumored by the outside world.
At around one o'clock in the morning, you can still see private cars of ordinary citizens on the road. The reason why we are sure that they are ordinary citizens is that there are so many cars on the road, it is impossible that all of them are players and those from the Tourism Bureau.
Large roadside shopping malls are still open for citizens to make normal purchases, and there are even roadside stalls.
Soon they understood.
Games are scary, but they are not like infectious diseases that spread quickly over a large area and don't spare anyone.
Eighty games a week is terrifying compared to other places, but if this situation occurs in Quanguang City for more than half a month, with two hundred game maps divided into four districts and six counties, most places are still safe.
Dangerous places are completely closed and inaccessible. Since they are not close to people, people may not feel any real panic, especially since people can leave Quanguang City. A week has passed since the temporary blockade, and the panic has been dissipated a little.
But that doesn't mean they have it easy.
All the places in Quanguang City where the game had been played and cleared were requisitioned as safe houses. The bus stopped in front of one of them, a restaurant.
All the dining tables in the restaurant were used as desks. Computers, documents, and telephones were piled cluttered on each table. The phones rang one after another, and communication almost relied on shouting.
The most eye-catching thing is the large screen opposite the restaurant door. On the screen you can see a map of Quanguang City with yellow and green marks on it.
Not long after they walked to the door, a red dot suddenly lit up on the screen, and a shrill alarm sounded, "Attention! A new game is coming! Attention! A new game is coming!"
As the alarm sounded, the map marked with a red dot automatically zoomed in, and the red dot stopped on a hospital, Quanguan Orthopedic Hospital.
"A game has landed at Quan Guang Orthopedic Hospital! Are there any healing players and doctors?"
The alarm sounded more and more shrill, and the red dot turned black.
"A large map! Maybe everyone in the hospital is sucked into the game! We must have a healing player!"
"We're arranging! The Jiajia Supermarket map nine kilometers away has not been cleared yet. Healing players can rush over. Such a large map will require a lot of help. There are not enough people over there. Where can we get them?"
"We!" Zhong Zicang raised his hand and shouted over the ringing phone, "Zhong Zicang from the External Relations Organization Department, take the volunteers from the Peace Medical College with you!"
The restaurant became quieter, and the people inside were stunned when they saw him and the people behind him. A woman with long wavy hair in the middle asked, "Children, you are not afraid of death, right?"
The people behind Zhong Zicang all nodded. One boy said loudly, "Sister, if sophomores and above in Heping Medical College are afraid of death, then there is no one of our age who is not afraid!"
The sister laughed and said, "Okay! Zhong Zicang, take thirty volunteers with you!"
Xia Bai, who was in the same group with Zhong Zicang, naturally went along.
As soon as the four people in their group got into an ambulance, the driver stepped on the accelerator and rushed out.
After Zhong Zicang put on his protective suit, he explained to them: "We have to hurry. Players may be out for several days or even hundreds of days in the game, but in our real world it may only be half an hour. If they come out and we can't get there in time, some players may die due to lack of timely treatment."
Wang Wei: "I understand. It's just that the speed of time flowing in the two dimensions is different."
It was easy to talk to them, Zhong Zicang nodded.
Zhang Runyue asked: "Has the Game Management Bureau been able to detect the arrival of games? That's great!"
Zhong Zicang: "Yes, it was developed by the research institute. They have been immersed in the research of games in the past two years. This detection sensor was developed by them. It can accurately locate the location of the game by capturing the special energy fluctuations of the game."
Xia Bai first thought of the Vice President Yang of the research institute whom he saw on the screen, and then thought of Hua Haoming and the other three players from the Game Management Bureau. They had used an instrument when they went to his yard that day to investigate the disappearance of the God of Joy.
He remembered clearly that what the female player said at the time was, "It's a little abnormal, but not up to standard." Now he understood that they did capture the energy of the game at the time, but very little.
Therefore, this also shows that the gods of happiness in his family came from the game.
Zhong Zicang said: "So far, there have only been three large game maps, and 99.9% are small maps. The casualties in large maps should be more severe, so be mentally prepared."
The two girls nodded with serious expressions.
Xia Bai also came back to his senses and looked out the window.
The ambulance had a smooth journey and arrived at the Orthopedic Hospital in just over ten minutes. The area had been sealed off and a row of ambulances were parked at the entrance.
"Everyone stay where you are and wait until someone at the hospital opens the door so the paramedics can go in," a voice came from the car horn. "All rescue and cleanup activities will be carried out inside the hospital."
Zhong Zicang said: "After the game is over, someone will come out of the hospital. If no one comes out, then it means the game has not been completed yet, and we will be sucked into the game if we go in."
The other three nodded to show that they understood, and also understood why the rescue and cleanup had to be carried out inside the hospital.
If they go there, it proves that a player has completed the game, and the hospital is the safest place, and it can also avoid causing suspicion and panic among ordinary people.
At 2:30 in the morning, everyone outside the hospital stared at the hospital entrance, listening to the clock in their hearts ticking away.
When Xia Bai came out of the Heping Medical College, he saw the doctor. Everything looked very easy. After experiencing it himself, he realized that behind the tranquility and ease was such chaos and order.
Just as when he didn't know the existence of the game, he only saw the stability of the present world.
Time passed by minute by minute, and the silence outside the hospital was tense.
"Bang, bang, bang..."
There was a banging sound behind the hospital door.
Everyone stood up nervously.
Xia Bai's ears moved, and he felt that the place where he was hit was a little high.
The player of the Game Management Bureau who is at the front has already opened the door.
Zhang Runyue is a junior this year. She has taken anatomy classes for a year and also interned at the school's cooperative hospital during the summer vacation. She has seen many cadavers and corpses, not to mention Wang Wei, who is a second-year graduate student. However, when they saw the scene behind the door, they were still shocked.
Even Zhang Zicang, who had entered the game before, was stunned.
The moment the hospital door opened, corpses and body parts piled higher than the door, mixed with blood, poured out. Black hair, red blood, and sticky organs were piled all over the floor. "Please all volunteers to clean up the corpses and body parts, and find the living people and send them to any ward on the first floor."
Xia Bai: "Let's go."
He was the first to rush down carrying the body bag.
Seeing this, the other three hurriedly ran down, followed by other volunteers from the Peace Medical College.
They all ran towards the sea of corpses and blood ahead, some fast, some slow, some stopped to vomit, but no one retreated.
Xia Bai ran the fastest. He saw a man covered in blood squatting at the door. The skin exposed between the blood gaps was as white as if soaked in milk. Several people from the Tourism Administration surrounded him and spoke to him carefully and softly.
Xia Bai only heard someone calling him Yang Mei, and he hurried into the door.
Wang Wei and Zhang Runyue followed him subconsciously, and when they saw him pulling people out of the pile of corpses, they followed him.
Wang Wei started crying as soon as she played the first one.
She dropped the arm she had just pulled out and pulled the top one while crying.
Zhang Runyue said nothing, and just pretended to be a corpse, calmer than Zhang Zicang. When Xia Bai's goggles were covered with blood, she even opened her protective suit and used her clean clothes to wipe it off for Xia Bai.
Under the guidance of the calm students, the students who were not used to it gradually got used to it, even though some of them were crying while cleaning up the corpses.
Xia Bai grabbed a dead man's hand, pulled out an arm, and was about to throw it to the side of the stumps when he suddenly froze.
He felt the hand move, and the fingers rubbed against his palm.
Xia Bai was stunned, blinked and looked down, and it was indeed an arm.
The arm was very long, with clear and beautiful lines, the hand was much bigger than his, and the fingers were long and strong. In other words, the owner of this arm should be a tall person with beautiful and strong fingers.
But after all, it is just an arm with a hand attached.
Xia Bai touched his wrist uncertainly and felt the pulse.
Xia Bai was even more stunned.
Behind them was divided into three areas. One area was for broken bodies and limbs, one area was for relatively complete bodies, and the other area was for living people. So far, only one person who was still breathing had been found and had been sent to the ward.
Xia Bai didn't know where to put this arm that seemed to be alive.
He stared at the hand with four fingers held by him and thought about it, then he opened a small area for it.
Several people from the Tourism Management Bureau surrounded Yang Mei at the door, wanting him to get into the car for inspection, but he just sat on the ground without saying a word, breathing heavily.
This couldn't go on forever, so one of them said "excuse me" and bent down to carefully pick him up.
Yang Mei was still fine, but his whole body was stiff and his face was flushed.
Several people followed him and all accompanied Yang Mei into an ambulance. Some wiped his face, some changed his shoes, and some checked his injuries. Everyone was very careful and even breathed lightly.
After the blood on his face was wiped off, a stunning face was revealed, with a feminine look, soft and beautiful, without any aggression, making people want to get closer to him.
He turned to look out the window and saw volunteers cleaning up the bodies, and was attracted by one of them.
They were all wearing protective clothing, goggles and masks, and they all looked no different in white and red, but one of them was particularly attractive.
He snatched a foot from someone else, dug out a leg from the pile of corpses, walked around the pile of corpses and found a heart... He searched for broken limbs and arms like a little hamster, and then collected them together.
He secretly moved those things to a corner. While others were cleaning up the corpses and looking for living people, he took off his blurry protective goggles, unbuttoned his protective suit, took out needle and thread, sat in the corner and began to sew the corpses - those he had picked up.
Yang Mei's eyes welled up in one breath, her voice soft and delicate, "I haven't told you yet, the captain is also in this game."
"What?!" Everyone stopped what they were doing and looked horrified.
The man in the middle was so nervous that his voice became hoarse. "Captain Ling? Where is he?"
Yang Mei pointed in the direction of the hospital entrance.
Most of the players who died at the last moment in the game were thrown to the gate of the medical school by the game, but this group of volunteers was very powerful and had cleared more than half of them, and the bottom was almost reached.
There seemed to be no signs of life.
The corpse was gradually put together by Xia Bai's hands. He put them together like a puzzle and sewed them up carefully. He was very serious and a little excited.
He had never seen a corpse like this in his life. Every missing body part had a pulse.
The best among corpses.
Normally, if the body is broken into pieces like this, the person cannot be saved and will be cremated.
He worked so hard to pick him out, retrieve him, and sew him up with so much trouble. It is his credit that he does not have to be cremated.
Xia Bai finally sewed up the body without missing a single piece. He wiped the sweat off his face with his sleeve, and then wiped the blood off the body's face, feeling even more satisfied.
The corpse in front of him was as tall as Lin Xiang, but one could tell from his muscles that he was leaner and stronger than Lin Xiang. Even with his eyes closed, one could tell that he was more handsome than Lin Xiang.
The best among corpses.
As he was looking closely, he saw several shadows under the light next to the corpse.
He slowly raised his head and saw several people standing behind him, including the people who had been surrounding the man named Yang Mei at the door.
They stared at him and the corpse beside him with complicated expressions, as if they didn't know what to say.
"Thank you for your hard work, classmate." The man in the middle said, "Well, did we take him away?"
Xia Bai took off his goggles but still wore a mask. During the process of sewing the corpse, some blood was stained on the mask and forehead. Even so, they saw an emotion called grievance on his face.
Xia Bai: "I picked it up and sewed it."
“…”
"Uh, yes, thank you, you can get points or anything else, we have to take him away now." The man said, his gaze suddenly shifted, and excitement appeared in his eyes.
Xia Bai looked down and saw that the corpse had opened its eyes.
Even more aggrieved.
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