Chapter 11 Xincheng Hospital Congratulations on triggering the hidden side quest...
Shi Yu really wanted to take on the BOSS one-on-one.
Generally speaking, in large-scale online games, the experience gained from simple quests is always less than that from difficult quests, and the rewards from completing prerequisite quests for dungeons are far less than those from defeating the dungeon boss. Since the world they're in is a game instance, these principles should be largely the same.
Of course, high returns come with high risks.
The exploration points they've gained in the past few days have been small, so there's relatively little danger. If he were to challenge the BOSS alone, he would have to bear certain risks.
This risk might include things like "never being able to leave the game" or "death".
Shi Yu hesitated at first, but was provoked by someone.
Forty-five minutes ago, Shi Yu and Shen Su shared information with each other using the game's friend function. At the end of the chat, Shen Su asked him, "It's too boring for the game to end like this. Let's do something big, dare to try?"
Saying he didn't dare would make him seem too cowardly.
You can't back down in front of your childhood nemesis.
Shi Yu's reply was: "Dry."
So they traded away all their exploration progress.
Leave yourself no way out.
Big money.
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The game rules state that new streamers can pass the level with 80 exploration points. Xia Wanwan and the other three have all reached 80 exploration points, but the system has not yet given them a notification that they can pass the level.
Xia Wanwan asked the game wizard and was told: "The game dungeon lasts for 7 days. The system will only calculate the exploration progress when the dungeon time is up. Players cannot clear the dungeon in advance."
oh.
Understood.
So all they need to do now is lie low and wait.
All four of them knew that for the next two days they just needed to lie down and wait to clear the level, but none of them did lie down.
They weren't playing cards or chatting; instead, they were figuring out how to earn exploration points.
He was even more serious about it than when he was earning his exploration points a few days ago.
Compared to the enthusiasm of the four, Shi Yu appeared quite "passive".
Apart from three meals a day, and the daily tasks of "getting out of the house" and "rehabilitation therapy" time, Shi Yu spends all her other time sleeping.
Yes, go to sleep.
There are only two days left in the game.
No, there's only a day and a half left, and he, with an exploration level of only 6, is actually sleeping?
How dare he sleep?
Do you still want to beat the game?
Xia Wanwan hesitated for a while, but finally mustered up the courage to wake Shi Yu, but was stopped by Chen Su halfway.
Shen Su raised his index finger to her and whispered, "It's okay, let him sleep for a while."
Xia Wanwan pulled her outstretched foot back in.
I don't know if what these two said about having other ways to pass the level is true or false.
But it seems she bumped into something!
While Shi Yu was sleeping, Chen Su was exploring with everyone. Since they couldn't leave the ward, they explored inside. Besides the bed where Shi Yu slept, there were five other beds, six bedside tables, a shared wardrobe, a water dispenser... They even disassembled and reassembled the shower head in the bathroom.
Now that they were allowed to leave the ward during their fresh air and recovery treatment time, the four of them seized every opportunity to look for clues and didn't miss any chance to chat with NPCs.
Although we didn't find the key information, it wasn't a complete loss.
Exploration progress: +1, +0.5, +0.2...
The four of them traded the exploration points they earned to Shi Yu and Shen Su using the same method.
At the end of the day.
The exploration levels of the two characters increased to 13 and 12 respectively.
Although this level of exploration was better than nothing for the two of them.
But it's the intention that matters.
Cheng Jianshu gave the entire map of the hospital he had drawn to Shi Yu and Shen Su.
After dinner, the four of them washed up and went to bed, full of energy and ready to earn more exploration points for Shi Yu and Shen Su that night.
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10 PM sharp.
The hospital lights went out on time, plunging the wards into complete darkness.
Shi Yu opened her eyes in the darkness.
The luminous clock on the wall glowed faintly, its pale green second hand ticking softly once per second.
The air conditioner overhead was blowing warm air, and the temperature in the ward was comfortable. Everyone else was fast asleep.
Shi Yu quietly watched the clock tick.
He had already caught up on his sleep during the day, so he wasn't sleepy at all and could stay up all night without any problem.
In fact, he was prepared to stay up all night.
From 10 p.m. to 1:50 a.m., everything was fine in the ward. The air conditioner continued to blow warm air, and the temperature in the ward was comfortable. The other five people were still fast asleep.
Until the clock struck 2 a.m.
The door creaked open.
The five people in the ward remained unconscious.
The hospital ward doors are all equipped with soundproofing strips, so there shouldn't be any sound from the friction of the wooden boards, but Shi Yu still heard this sound.
The game mechanics dictate that, aside from rehabilitation treatment and fresh air time, patients cannot leave their wards at other times. The doors cannot be opened from the inside and can only be opened by nurses from the outside.
But it wasn't a nurse who came in at that moment.
The moonlight streaming in through the window softened the darkness inside the room.
In the dim light, Shi Yu saw a white figure walk in through the doorway.
It is described as a white shadow because it is a semi-transparent object, the height of a person, and the shape of a person. It is described as "walking" because it does have two legs and is even wearing a hospital gown.
The room temperature dropped sharply.
It was as if the heating had been sucked out instantly, and people were thrown from a warm room into a freezing cold world.
This thing pushed open the door, walked in, closed the door, walked and stopped, slowly and steadily, and came to bed number 1. It took off its hospital gown, pulled back the blanket, lay down on the bed, and covered itself with the blanket... The series of actions were very natural and skillful.
If it weren't for its different shape, and if it hadn't fallen onto Cheng Jianshu, its behavior would have been no different from any other patient sleeping in their own ward.
However, it did not lie completely on Cheng Jianshu, because its entire "person" passed through Cheng Jianshu.
Cheng Jianshu was still fast asleep, breathing evenly with soft snoring.
This thing couldn't sense Cheng Jianshu, and Cheng Jianshu couldn't sense it either. The two lay on a single hospital bed, not disturbing each other, each sleeping.
A moment later, the ward door creaked open again.
Another white figure walked in and lay down on the second hospital bed.
Then came the third, the fourth... all the way up to the sixth.
The second hand of the luminous clock was still ticking, the air conditioner had stopped blowing warm air, and the ward was as cold as an ice cellar.
Shi Yu got out of bed and moved to one side.
Make way for these "people" and let them each sleep in their own beds.
He didn't actually need to give way.
Because these "people" can't see him.
Even if you come right up to him, you'll just have to walk right through him.
Shi Yu was not superstitious and did not believe in ghosts; he had never seen one before.
Even now that he has seen it with his own eyes, he doesn't feel particularly scared.
But the thought of sharing a bed with these "people" for the past few nights sent chills down his spine.
I got goosebumps all over my body.
A new notification popped up on the game panel at this moment—
[Congratulations! You have triggered the hidden side quest [The Upside-Down Xincheng Hospital]. Do you wish to start the side quest?]
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