Chapter 12 Xincheng Hospital: "Take off your clothes".
[Hidden Side Quest! Ahhhh, the upside-down Xincheng Hospital! Five years later, someone has finally triggered this quest again!]
[Is this young man from the lobby a newcomer? Is he the one who triggered the side quest? He's really handsome!]
[The one who topped the looks ranking, knocking Mu Zhuo off the list, is officially recognized as the most attractive!]
I originally came to see the hidden storyline, but I still don't know what the plot is. I was just too busy looking at the handsome guys.
The completion rate for the Xincheng Hospital instance is 17%, but the completion rate for the hidden instance is 0%. The four players who triggered the side quest five years ago are all dead.
[Class representative's summary: Shi Yu, a new streamer, is in her first dungeon, triggering a hidden side quest with a 0% success rate... Although she's really pretty, the chances of her dying are slim. Don't jump in if you haven't already.]
[Waaaaah, I can't bear to see this handsome guy die, I'm logging off now.]
【What?! Is this the worst news I get for following a streamer for the first time?】
I've also quit. If anyone saw the ending, please let me know if he suffered when he passed away.
...
Shi Yu was unaware that people in the live stream had already started discussing whether he was dead or alive.
Shi Yu stared at the system pop-up window floating in front of him, lost in thought.
The upside-down Xincheng Hospital?
Based on the available information, Shi Yu and Shen Su's guesses are as follows:
The strange man in black is Dean Lin's younger brother. He hates Dean Lin, but also envies his achievements and fame.
This can be seen from the conversation Shen Su overheard outside the dean's office and the two things Shi Yu saw: her younger brother standing in front of the photo wall staring at Dean Lin's photo.
Every time the younger brother appears, he is wrapped in all black, completely hiding his face with a baseball cap and mask, which shows that he is an extremely insecure person.
The reason he covered his face might also be that "he has a face exactly like Dean Lin's," which explains why he was able to replace Dean Lin without being discovered.
He may have had an unhappy childhood, or suffered some trauma, and may not have achieved much as an adult. Therefore, he may feel inferior when standing next to his older brother, who is a prodigy.
An inferiority complex makes a person negative and repressed. Over time, this can darken their mind, ultimately leading to their descent into darkness, murdering their brother and taking his place.
Shi Yu and Shen Su originally came up with this story.
But now it seems that the story of this instance is far more than that.
Shi Yu ignored the message pop-up for the time being and went to check his personal profile in the lower right corner.
Exploration level: 13.
He definitely won't be able to pass the level when the results are tallied tomorrow.
Hidden side quests? The exploration progress should be quite high, right?
Or rather, side quests no longer require exploration progress.
Shi Yu glanced at it again, and this time her gaze fell on the number of followers.
Then he realized he was losing followers?
On his first day in the game, Shi Yu had 10,000 followers, and his follower count continued to rise every day. As of yesterday, he had 150,000 followers.
But now the number of followers is dropping: 151,903, 151,865, 151,798...
However, Shi Yu didn't think much of it.
People have the right to like him or dislike him. They might like him one second and dislike him the next, or they might be indifferent one second and become fans the next. It's hard to say.
Therefore, it's normal for the number of followers to fluctuate.
Shi Yu glanced at it and then put it back, pressing the "Yes" button.
Then he discovered that his follower count was dropping even faster...
It dropped to 140,000 in almost a minute, and it's still falling...
Shi Yu: "?"
At the same time, a few lines of text popped up on the game panel—
Congratulations on unlocking the hidden side quest: [The Upside-Down Xincheng Hospital]
[Game time extended to 10 days]
[Clearance condition: Survive until the dungeon timeout ends]
Best of luck!
Survive until the instance ends?
Is this hidden side quest really that difficult?
Have you triggered the hidden side quest?
A voice rang out in the darkness.
If such a sound were to suddenly rang out late at night in a quiet, dimly lit space filled with sleeping "people," an ordinary person would probably be startled.
But Shi Yu wasn't frightened at all, not even a hint of surprise on his face. He lifted his eyelids to glance at Chen Su, who had jumped off the bed, and teased, "Not pretending to be asleep anymore?"
Shen Su tilted his head and looked at Shi Yu for two seconds, then let out a snort and revealed two small tiger teeth: "You've been found out."
"I thought you really enjoyed sleeping with this girl."
As Shi Yu spoke, she glanced at bed number 6 and then looked meaningfully at Chen Su.
That "younger sister".
She's a sissy who wears floral dresses, walks with a swaying gait, and even sleeps with her pinky finger curled up.
Shen Su wasn't angry. He glanced at the girl and then looked away: "No, you're wrong. I prefer sleeping with handsome guys."
“Especially…” In the darkness, Shen Su’s eyes were fixed on Shi Yu, and he spoke clearly and slowly, “a handsome young man who doesn’t like to smile and has a bad temper.”
Shi Yu: "..."
Shen Su is a shameless person.
But Shi Yu was concerned about his reputation, and he knew he wouldn't gain anything by discussing such topics with shameless people, so he chose to change the subject.
"You just mentioned a hidden side quest? Did you trigger it too?"
"Yes." Shen Su's tone turned serious in an instant. "It's called the Upside-Down Xincheng Hospital. Is that what you triggered?"
“That’s right.” Shi Yu nodded, then asked, “What are your thoughts?”
Shen Su: "And you? Shouldn't you have shared your thoughts before asking me?"
Shi Yu: "..."
This person really can't stand to suffer the slightest loss.
But now is not the time to dwell on that.
Shi Yu walked past Shen Su to the window, looked at the night outside, and said, "Our thinking is limited."
"The game's completion condition is to reach 80 exploration points, so we were always thinking about how to farm exploration points. Every night after we fell asleep, we could enter a certain scene and farm a lot of exploration points, so we focused our attention on the random scene every night and didn't think about anything else."
"Have you noticed that we've been sleeping very soundly every night? We basically don't wake up until it's time to get up. Before entering the game, I always had trouble sleeping, but these past few days in the game I've been sleeping very soundly every night. Why is that?" Shi Yu was lost in thought. "I'm not sleeping tonight because I want to know if the system mechanism will force me to sleep. It turns out it didn't; instead, it triggered a hidden..."
Why do you have trouble sleeping?
Shi Yu's voice was interrupted.
Shen Su walked up to him at some point, and when she asked him this question, her eyes were fixed on him without a trace of mockery or teasing.
Shi Yu: "..."
Shi Yu held back for two seconds, but couldn't help but ask, "Is that the point?"
"The moon is so bright tonight!" Chen Su looked out the window, as if admiring the moon. "Want to go outside and take a look?"
The topic shifted abruptly.
But Shi Yu also had the same idea.
Shen Su added, "There are ghosts in our ward, and there should be some outside too. I think we should go out and take a look; maybe we can get more clues."
"Okay." Shi Yu nodded, glancing out of the corner of her eye at the four people in the ward sharing a bed with the ghost. "Should we wake them up?"
Chen Su stroked his chin: "That works, but I feel there's a high chance we won't be able to wake him up."
The two tried, and found that they really couldn't wake him up.
Considering that they have been sleeping well these past few nights, this can be interpreted as some kind of game mechanic.
If they can't be woken up, then I won't play with them anymore.
Shen Su went to open the ward door, only to find that he couldn't open it.
This is normal, because they usually can't open the door; only the nurses can.
Shen Su took two steps back, just about to forcefully break down the door, when he heard Shi Yu say, "Take off your clothes."
"What?" Shen Su wondered if there was something wrong with his ears.
Shi Yu: "I'll make you take off your clothes."
Shen Su stopped and turned around. His expression changed from confusion to astonishment, and then to shock. He slowly narrowed his eyes and looked at Shi Yu with a look that seemed to be re-examining a person.
I don't know why.
Shen Su could see a stronger sense of disdain than usual in Shi Yu's expression when he looked at him.
Shi Yu took off her hospital gown and placed it on the bedside table. She then put on a coat, went to the door, put her hand on the doorknob, turned it, and the door opened.
Chen Su: "?"
Shen Su: "???"
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