Chapter Fifteen: Rehabilitation and Nursing Home 6 Walking on the Wrong Path, Perseverance...
"Think again carefully. Besides the date being 'today' and the location being 'apartment building,' what other key information is there?" His colleagues patrolled back and forth but found nothing wrong. The bodyguard was extremely worried and could only keep asking Wu Peng questions.
Wu Peng is going crazy.
After all, intuition is like a naughty child who suddenly throws a small piece of paper at you, with fragmented, incoherent phrases written on it.
He also wanted to know what was going on!
But no matter how hard he tries to think, his sixth sense ignores him. What can he do?
Wu Peng wished he could knock himself unconscious so he wouldn't have to face the bodyguard's questions.
A while later.
Wu Peng was pressed for answers too many times, and finally couldn't take it anymore, "Shut up! Ask again and I'll commit suicide!"
The bodyguard, "..."
"Room 406, 9 PM, send someone over to check it out," Yun Xin said.
The bodyguard was taken aback at first, but then immediately arranged for people to check the rooms.
After dinner, Lao Liu boiled a small pot of water as usual, and then went to bed early.
His plan was quite good—reading a book before bed to help him fall asleep, boiling water and keeping it warm in the kettle before going to sleep so he could drink it when he got up at night.
But as he watched, his eyelids grew heavier and heavier. Accompanied by the sound of water boiling, he slowly fell asleep.
If it's a newer type of electric kettle, it's not a big problem. Newer electric kettles have safety features that automatically shut off once the water boils.
However, Lao Liu was an old-fashioned person who was used to using old-fashioned kettles. These older models required someone to turn off the power for the electric kettle to stop working.
To make matters worse, some electric kettles will whistle when boiling, but the one Lao Liu uses is mute and doesn't make a sound at all.
As the steam evaporated, the water boiled away, and the kettle burned through. A fire broke out and gradually spread to the surrounding furniture. Just then, two night patrolmen entered the house, quickly took off their coats, and extinguished the flames.
After the fire was extinguished, one of them said with lingering fear, "My God, it almost turned into a fire."
Another person sniffed hard, unsure, and said, "Am I smelling something wrong? Why does the room smell of alcohol?"
"Really? I can't smell anything." The colleague sniffed hard but couldn't smell anything.
"Yes, but the smell is very faint. Let me look for it." Relying on his keen sense of smell, the night patrolman managed to find two bottles of baijiu (Chinese liquor) from the innermost part of the wardrobe.
The night patrolman imagined it and felt a chill run down his spine. "First, the electric kettle caught fire from dry boiling. After it set the wooden table and cabinet ablaze, they added liquor to fuel the fire. In the middle of the night, if we hadn't arrived early, what would have become of it?"
His colleague was speechless. "The medical record says this old man has liver problems... If he has liver problems, why would he still drink alcohol? Is he crazy?"
"Is it possible that the liver problem is caused by not being able to quit drinking?" the night patrolman murmured.
The two looked at each other, occasionally glancing at the elderly man who was sleeping soundly and hadn't woken up despite the commotion, and remained speechless for a long time.
[Congratulations to the player who successfully survived the "Fire Incident" dungeon (ID 113892).]
Upon receiving the notification, Yunxin knew that the crisis was temporarily averted.
Not long after, the bodyguard received a report from his colleague that the fire had been stopped in time.
The bodyguard looked at Yun Xin in surprise, his expression as if asking, "How did you know?"
But upon further reflection, since these two individuals each possessed unique abilities, it wasn't surprising that they sensed something amiss, so they didn't inquire further.
Yunxin thought to herself, "If I look at all the elderly people and find the one who died first, and then send someone to check on him a while in advance, I can nip the accident in the bud."
Over the next two days, the elderly continued to encounter unexpected events. The frequency and the absurdity of these incidents constantly exceeded everyone's expectations.
Even with repeated warnings from Yun Xin and Wu Peng, and the plainclothes police officers' best efforts to cooperate, there were always times when they couldn't keep an eye on everything. Often, a single oversight would result in several elderly people being lost.
To make matters worse, after three consecutive days of mental strain and insufficient rest, everyone's energy levels were far lower than on the first day.
It was at this time that Yunxin realized that the nursing home was indeed short of staff.
Although every position is fully staffed, if you consider working 24 hours a day with two shifts, day and night, manpower becomes scarce.
Moreover, the dean sent the email purely to deceive Yun Xin and Wu Peng; the contents of the email should not be taken seriously.
For example, if the hours for caregiving work are from 8 am to 5 pm, then with so many people working overtime to protect the safety of the elderly, how can you justify leaving get off work on time?
Wu Peng was embarrassed.
So for three days in a row, apart from 7 hours of sleep, I spent the remaining 17 hours trying to stimulate my sixth sense and get more clues.
"Won't they suddenly die if this continues?" Wu Peng can still sleep for 7 hours, while other plainclothes police officers can only sleep for three or four hours a day. After a while, he couldn't help but worry about the health of the police officers.
Yunxin was considering something else. "With a third of the elderly gone, even the most oblivious person should slowly realize something is wrong. Even if they don't know that accidents are happening frequently and think that these people died in their sleep, the sudden loss of so many people around them will create a kind of illusion—if people of similar age are all gone, will I be next?"
Wu Peng sat bolt upright. "No way?"
Before the words were finished, someone reported, "We just received a notification that the elderly person in room 303 overdosed on sleeping pills and is now dead."
Wu Peng was extremely frustrated. "We couldn't eat or sleep properly, we were desperately trying to save them. How could they be so distraught as to try to commit suicide?"
No one answered.
A sense of oppression is spreading.
Many people gradually began to have doubts—am I wasting my time? Can I really save them?
After three days of persistence, the situation not only failed to improve, but the frequency of accidents actually increased. Will things really turn around if this continues?
“Think about it carefully, the statement that ‘predicting danger and avoiding danger can save everyone’ is entirely the dean’s side of the story. What if her idea was wrong from the beginning?” Yun Xin suddenly said.
Wu Peng lost his speech.
Previously, he was only worried about whether everyone could persevere. Yun Xin's words directly dampened everyone's enthusiasm—if they were on the wrong path from the very beginning, perseverance would be futile.
For a moment, the room was extremely quiet, and even the atmosphere became incredibly somber.
Day 4.
Yunxin was watching the surveillance footage in the monitoring room when suddenly a commotion came from outside.
"What happened again?" Wu Peng went from being shocked and startled when he first saw the accident to gradually becoming numb to it, because he had experienced too much during this period.
"The lawn is on fire! An elderly person is trapped inside and can't get out." After assessing the situation, the security guards immediately sprang into action and rushed out.
Only Yun Xin and Wu Peng remained in the monitoring room.
Wu Peng leaned closer and whispered, "Aren't you going?"
Yun Xin glanced at him but didn't say anything.
"You've anticipated quite a few unexpected events lately, but you didn't sense this one?" Wu Peng asked again.
Yunxin remained silent until a while later when she turned her gaze back to the screen.
At this moment, a security guard returned to the monitoring room, seemingly intending to guide his colleagues to put out the fire and rescue people via walkie-talkie.
Wu Peng shrank back and retreated to a corner, not daring to say a word.
At this moment, the lawn and its surrounding area are burning. Because the lawn is very dry, the fire is spreading very quickly.
The elderly people were frightened and ran to the open space.
But they were too old to run fast.
Some elderly people can only walk with the help of canes, while others can only sit in wheelchairs and be pushed around.
He watched helplessly as the flames leaped towards him, threatening to engulf him. All he could do was cry out, "Help! Help me! Help me!!"
However, the number of experienced caregivers is limited. At this point, some are pushing wheelchairs, others are carrying elderly people on their backs, and there's simply not enough free hand to help.
At the critical moment, a thin old man stepped forward and said, "Who has trouble walking? Come here, I'll push you out."
He was in the wheelchair himself, but given the special circumstances, he gave it up and even planned to push the person to a safe place.
"Thank you, thank you." An elderly woman with gray hair was helped into a wheelchair.
Without a word, the old man pushed his wheelchair and ran like the wind to an open space, telling the person to get down. Then he pushed the wheelchair back, asking, "Who's next?"
Go back and forth several times.
By the time the security guards arrived and began extinguishing the fire, he was already panting heavily. Even so, he insisted on going back to bring the elderly person who couldn't run any further.
Little by little, like ants carrying sugar, the elderly were gradually moved to a safe place.
Once everyone was out of danger, the old man collapsed on the ground, his calves trembling with exhaustion.
Just then, the fire was extinguished, and a transparent panel appeared in front of the old man.
Welcome to the Evolution Game.
[Congratulations to the player for successfully surviving instance #114032 – “Cigarette Butt Fire Incident”.]
[Because you saved ten humans, your performance rating is "A", and you are rewarded with the following attribute points: Strength +0.2, Agility +0.2, Constitution +0.2, Spirit +0.2.]
[Note 1: Players will only learn of the existence of the Evolution Game after receiving an "A" grade (or higher) in the level completion evaluation once or more.]
[You learned of the "Misfortune" debuff in advance through illegitimate means. The "Misfortune" debuff will be automatically removed upon obtaining one or more "A" level (or higher) grades.]
You have received an "A" rating, and the "Misfortune Strikes" debuff has been removed.
[Note 2: Standard adult male's four-dimensional attributes: Strength 0.6, Agility 0.6, Constitution 0.6, Spirit 0.5. A single attribute value exceeding 3, 6, or 9 will grant special abilities.]
A long passage of text left the old man completely stunned.
Afterwards, security personnel investigated the cause of the accident and eventually found that the fire was caused by a cigarette butt that had not been extinguished.
Some elderly people are heavy smokers who can't quit. Yet, after finishing a cigarette, they casually toss the butt away without putting it out.
Coincidentally, the toss landed on the lawn instead of anywhere else.
The weather has been dry lately, and with just a tiny spark, the whole lawn caught fire.
After investigating the matter, the security guard criticized and educated the elderly man who had littered with a cigarette butt, and the matter was considered closed.
Meanwhile, in the dean's office.
Bai Wei looked at Yun Xin with a serious expression, "Don't you have anything to say?"
Based on the experiences of the past few days, minor accidents may occasionally be overlooked, but major accidents are generally predictable. The fact that no warning was given beforehand suggests that someone was keeping something to themselves.
"Yes." Yun Xin nodded and said seriously, "Dean, I want to resign."
Bai Wei paused, "Seeing the old man getting into trouble one after another, are you scared?"
"I'm not afraid," Yun Xin said calmly. "It's not like the Grim Reaper is chasing me. It's just that I boarded the bus illegally and the Grim Reaper is chasing me to make me pay the fare. There's nothing to be afraid of."
(End of this chapter)
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