Chapter 4 Doesn't the Xincheng Hospital system have any pride?
Lin Yarong came out after the two of them. Apart from being a little pale, she was in good spirits. She said that the people inside showed her a horror movie and didn't allow her to close her eyes the whole time.
Now everyone knows that the "treatment" here refers to the method of fighting poison with poison.
It's not surprising that showing horror movies to heart patients is an option.
After the six patients finished their treatment, the nurses took them back to their wards.
On the way back, they still had to pass through that small garden. The sun had moved to the western hills, and the gardeners who used to water the plants were gone. The wet soil had been dried by the sun, but Shi Yu still felt cold.
This kind of cold is not the cold of the wind on the surface of the skin, but a chill that seeps into the bones.
Back in the ward, Xia Wanwan asked, "Did you feel cold when you passed through the small garden?"
Shi Yu looked at Xia Wanwan.
It turns out he wasn't the only one who felt this way.
"If you hadn't told me, I would have thought it was my imagination. When I walked into the small garden, I felt a chill around me, as if several air conditioners were blowing directly on me," Liu Yang said.
Lin Ya-rong and Cheng Jian-shu also expressed that they felt the same way.
Shi Yu also remarked, "It is indeed a bit cold in the small garden."
"Cold?" Shen Su tilted his head and thought for a moment, then told the truth, "I didn't feel anything, maybe I just didn't notice."
Everyone else went to the rehabilitation center wearing hospital gowns, except for Chen Su, who wore a trench coat over her hospital gown.
This trench coat is long and loose, enough to wrap you up completely. It's also lined with fleece, so it looks incredibly warm.
Everyone: "..."
All right.
No one went into depth about this topic.
When the clock on the wall showed 6 PM, the nurse brought dinner: two meat dishes, two vegetable dishes, and a soup. It was nutritionally balanced, looked good, and came with fruit for dessert.
Chen Su sat cross-legged on the bed, a lollipop in his mouth, his fingers tapping in the air, clearly studying the game panel.
Six meals for patients were left untouched on the table.
Who knows what might happen if you eat something from a game?
Everyone had been brought to this place for most of the day, and they were all hungry. However, compared to the food that looked delicious but came from an unknown source, the sugar from Chen Su was obviously much safer.
Xia Wanwan swallowed hard, then swallowed again, and finally couldn't help but ask Chen Su, "Do you... have any more candy?"
Shen Su paused for a moment, then winked at Xia Wanwan and said gently, "That's all."
“You can give it to me…” Xia Wanwan’s eyes lit up, then dimmed again, “Oh.”
It turns out that one candy is not enough to satisfy an adult man's stomach. After finishing the lollipop, Chen Su picked up a box of food, opened it, and prepared to eat.
"Aren't you afraid it's poisonous?" Xia Wanwan asked.
Shen Su had already started eating. Judging from his expression, the food seemed to be alright. He slowly swallowed the food in his mouth before saying, "If a game requires NPCs to poison the food to kill the player, don't you think that game design is too low?"
“Chen Su makes a good point, and it’s impossible to go without eating for seven days straight in the game, I think…” Liu Yang nodded as he went to get his lunchbox. Before he could finish “thinking,” Xia Wanwan added, “But what if this game is really that bad?”
Shen Su: "..."
Liu Yang: "..."
Doesn't the system have any dignity?
Xia Wanwan wanted to say something more, but then she saw the handsome young man in the next bed, Chen Su, also open a box of food. He used his fair and beautiful fingers to pry open the disposable chopsticks, pulled the broccoli florets from the stir-fried broccoli aside, and took a bite of the carrot slices that were served as a side dish.
Xia Wanwan: "..."
Lin Yarong and Cheng Jianshu, a married couple, each picked up a box of rice. Liu Yang opened Xia Wanwan's box and placed it in front of her before opening his own. He took a bite of chicken and excitedly told Xia Wanwan, "The braised chicken tastes just like the one from the restaurant near our school!"
Half a minute later, Xia Wanwan gave up struggling.
After eating and drinking their fill, everyone took turns showering. At 9:50 p.m., the nurse came to remind them to turn off the lights and go to sleep in ten minutes, and reiterated that they absolutely could not leave the ward at night.
At 10 p.m. sharp, the ward was plunged into darkness.
Shi Yu lay on the bed, recalling the day's events, including the scenes and conversations, extracting the information he found useful, and then gradually became sleepy.
midnight.
A "ding-dong" sound.
He woke up when he heard a sound like the chime of an old clock striking the hour.
The ward was pitch black.
The wall-mounted luminous clock displays the time: 02:00
The ward door was wide open.
Everyone else in the ward was gone.
Shi Yu sat up abruptly, staring at the empty ward and the darkness at the door. Where had everyone else gone? Were they taken away by the NPCs?
Shi Yu quickly dismissed the idea.
He didn't know about others, but Shen Su seemed obedient to the NPCs, doing whatever they asked. However, when it came to personal safety, he would never surrender easily. If the NPCs forcibly took them away, Shen Su would inevitably cause a commotion, and Shi Yu, being a light sleeper, would surely wake up.
Moreover, Shi Yu noticed that the blankets on the other five hospital beds were neatly folded and placed at the head of the bed. If they had been taken away by NPCs, they would not have had time to fold their blankets.
Or... is he actually dreaming?
Shi Yu took out a black magnetic card from his pocket and tapped it twice. A blue display screen immediately popped up and floated in front of him. He clicked the "My Live Stream" button on the interface.
Sorry, you are not allowed to enter your own live stream room in the game.
Still in the game?
So he wasn't dreaming.
Shi Yu made up her mind.
.
The live stream chat was buzzing with excitement:
[WOW Yuyu is so smart! This is probably the fastest way to verify that it's not a dream!]
【Huh? How come I didn't think of that! No way! Did no one discover such a huge system bug before???】
[Shen Su just clicked this button too! Are we telepathically connected?!]
[Miss Xia Wanwan is so brave! She actually walked out like that! Ah, Liu Yang went out too, and Aunt Lin and Uncle Cheng went out too! Ahhhhh, high-energy comments ahead!!!]
Stop asking for protection from the chat, go to Shi Yu's livestream, it's very safe there.
Yes, it's safe to stay in the livestream room. Neither of them seems to be planning to leave; one is looking for clues in the hospital room, and the other is sleeping.
[Xia Wanwan's place is already haunted, and the other three are about the same. It turns out that staying away was a wise decision; sometimes you have to listen to the NPCs.]
...
Shi Yu found the light switch and pressed it, but the room was still pitch black; the main power switch must have been turned off. He searched the ward in the dark; there was nothing on the bedside tables of the six people, the drawers were empty, and even the trash can in the ward was empty.
Apart from his bed, the other beds showed no signs of use, or rather, there were no signs of use in the ward at all.
Shi Yu had a guess: could it be that he was moved to another ward by the NPC? He got up to check the room number at the ward door, but halfway there, a strong drowsiness suddenly overwhelmed him.
Shi Yu fell into a deep sleep.
When Yu woke up again, she found herself lying in bed number 5, while everyone else in the ward was sleeping in their own beds.
Except for Shen Su.
Shen Su woke up, sat cross-legged on the bed, propped his chin up with one hand, tilted his head and seemed to be thinking about something interesting. Hearing the noise, he glanced at Shi Yu.
Shi Yu ignored Shen Su and sat up on his own. Of course, Shen Su didn't greet him either, glancing at him before turning away and staring blankly at himself.
A short while later, the other four people slowly woke up, and were all stunned when they saw the scene in front of them.
"Did you... have any dreams last night?" Xia Wanwan asked tentatively.
Everyone turned to look at her. Their reactions told her the answer. Xia Wanwan swallowed and asked again, "Was it... that I dreamt I woke up to find myself all alone in the hospital room?"
No one spoke.
The surrounding temperature dropped very low in that instant.
"I heard a bell toll."
Lin Yarong broke the silence, sharing details of her dream: "When I opened my eyes, I found myself alone in the hospital room. The door was open, and I went outside to look for you, but there was no one there, not even the doctors or nurses. I walked to the elevator, but I didn't press the button. However, the elevator doors stopped on my floor, and then they opened..."
Liu Yang swallowed hard, trembling as he asked, "What...what's inside?"
"There was nothing inside." Liu Yang was about to breathe a sigh of relief, but before he could finish, he heard Lin Yarong say, "But when I turned around, there was a girl in a red dress standing behind me."
Liu Yang: "..."
Liu Yang almost couldn't catch his breath.
He didn't dare ask who the "girl in the red dress" was.
"Thank goodness it was just a dream, thank goodness it was just a dream..." Liu Yang patted his chest to comfort himself, "After all, hospitals are places with heavy yin energy, so it's normal to have this kind of dream."
The sky outside the window was already beginning to lighten, and no one was sleepy anymore. Lin Yarong suggested, "Let's all tell each other the details of our dreams and see if we can get any clues from them?"
Everyone nodded in agreement and pulled up chairs to sit together.
Cheng Jianshu took out his reading glasses from his pocket and put them on. He then took out a palm-sized notebook and a fountain pen and said, "I'll take notes."
Everyone's dreams were similar: they opened their eyes to find the hospital room empty, then encountered ghosts when they went outside, and the scenes of these encounters were also very similar. Lin Yarong encountered a ghost at the elevator entrance, Xia Wanwan encountered a ghost in front of a mirror, but Xia Wanwan only caught a glimpse of a dark shadow out of the corner of her eye and ran away without daring to look closely, Liu Yang and Cheng Jianshu encountered a ghost in the toilet; they didn't see a ghost, but the water in the faucet turned into blood.
These are all common ghost encounter scenes found in horror movies. As for whether they are scary or not, that's a matter of opinion.
"Where are Xiao Shen and Xiao Shi?" Lin Yarong asked.
Shi Yu said, "At first I didn't know I was dreaming. I searched the ward, but there was nothing there. Your blankets were all folded. I suspected I had been moved to a new ward. I was about to go check the room number when I got sleepy halfway there, and then I lost consciousness."
"When I woke up again and found myself back in this hospital room, I realized I was dreaming."
Shi Yu did not tell anyone about how he clicked the "My Livestream" button in his dream to verify the dream.
He wasn't sure if it was a dream or not.
Because these details can be presented in dreams as well.
“That’s right!” Xia Wanwan slapped Liu Yang’s thigh after hearing this, feeling annoyed. “I should have checked the ward number. It might not be our ward. Why didn’t I think of that? Even though it was a dream, it could still give me some clues.”
"Where is Chen Su?"
Shen Su: "I opened my eyes and found that there was no one in the ward. I was a little scared, so I closed my eyes and went back to sleep."
"..."
All right.
After everyone finished talking about their dreams, they started talking about their respective game missions. It turned out that everyone had received the same mission: complete the game with 100% exploration in seven days, or 80% exploration for new streamers. Even the descriptions were exactly the same.
A day had passed in the game, and everyone's exploration progress was still 0, which was quite worrying, so everyone started discussing the exploration progress.
Lin Ya-rong said, "Exploration level may not be a simple exploration map. We went to the rehabilitation center yesterday, but the exploration level was still 0, which means that the exploration map does not count as exploration."
Liu Yang added, "Going to the rehabilitation center was a task assigned to us by the NPC. The rehabilitation treatment was a mission, but our exploration progress didn't increase after completing it. This means that system-assigned tasks don't count towards exploration progress. Perhaps we need to delve deeper into the medical field..."
The voice stopped abruptly.
Because at that moment, everyone's screens suddenly popped up without warning.
New tasks have been issued from above.
[Team matching in progress...]
Match successful.
[Hello Player 5, your teammate is Player 6. The following task requires you and your teammate to work together to complete it.]
At the same time, a flashing white number appears above each person's head, with the player's number corresponding to their hospital bed number.
Shi Yu's teammate, player number 6, is Shen Su.
The system popped up another helpful reminder—
Go say hello to your teammates now!
Shi Yu: "..."
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