Chapter 14 Xincheng Hospital "I didn't know you had this skill."...
Shi Yu looked back and confirmed that there was no one else outside the door except him and Shen Su. The "Please come in" was addressed to them.
The two hesitated at the door for a moment, and then a voice came from inside again:
"Please come in."
It was still a refined and magnetic male voice.
Even the same tone of voice.
This ghost can urge people on?
Based on their previous speculation that "Lin Qinghe was murdered, dismembered, and buried in the small garden by his younger brother," according to the normal timeline, Lin Qinghe is now dead. However, according to the setting of the side quest "There are ghosts at night" in the [Upside-Down Xincheng Hospital] instance, Lin Qinghe's ghost should also be in the hospital.
Perhaps the ghost of Lin Qinghe is sitting inside.
The "Please come in" sounded like Lin Qinghe's voice.
But why couldn't the other ghosts see them as they walked along, while Dean Lin's ghost could sense them through a door?
The two pushed open the door with incredibly mixed feelings.
The office was empty.
There is no one.
There were no ghosts.
"Please come in."
It was another sound, the tone exactly the same as before, as if it had been pre-recorded.
And it turned out to be true – there was a cell phone on the red solid wood desk, the screen was lit up, and it was playing a recording. A few seconds later, there was another "Come in".
It was as if they anticipated someone would come, so they left a mobile phone here in advance to greet them.
I just don't know if this was a system setting or someone's doing it.
The ghost is an illusion, but this phone is real.
Shen Su walked over and picked up his phone to study it.
Shi Yu observed the office.
This office is about the same size as the other offices on this floor, except that it has a balcony.
The furnishings inside are simple: a desk and a swivel chair, a sofa and coffee table for entertaining guests on the balcony, a calligraphy and painting on the wall, and another wall turned into a bookcase filled with professional books and a small number of famous works from ancient and modern times, both Chinese and foreign.
There doesn't seem to be a place where people or ghosts can hide.
After confirming that there was no one else inside and no ghosts, Shi Yu began to rummage through the drawers and cabinets.
Of course, although he said he was rummaging through things, he didn't actually mess things up; he put them back in their original places after turning them over.
Shen Su quickly checked the phone and said, "The phone is new, there's no SIM card, only a few pre-installed apps, and nothing else besides this recording."
Shi Yu hummed in agreement: "Let's see if there are any other clues in the office."
Then the two of them started rummaging through drawers and cabinets.
Over the next few hours, they did a cursory search of all the cabinets and drawers in the office, including the bookshelves on one wall, but found no useful clues.
In the end, only one safe remained unsearched.
It's called a safe, but it's actually a locked wooden box with an old-fashioned padlock that's a bit rusty.
Just as Shen Su was about to find tools to smash the lock open, he saw Shi Yu use a wire to open it.
The whole process took less than ten seconds.
Shen Su paused for two seconds, then said what was on his mind: "I didn't know you had this skill."
These are truly my honest thoughts.
Shen Su understands Shi Yu, just as Shi Yu understands Shen Su.
If Shen Su has been pretending to be innocent since childhood, then Shi Yu is innocent to the core. No matter how cold he appears on the surface, his heart is soft and kind.
Therefore, Shen Su could not imagine that something like picking a lock would happen to Shi Yu.
Shi Yu squatted on the ground, fiddling with the box, without even glancing at him.
Shen Su also realized that he hadn't said it well.
He praised again, "You're quite fast, and your technique is very skilled."
Shi Yu looked up at him.
That one glance sent a chill down Shen Su's spine.
Shen Su: "..."
It's better not to praise.
Shi Yu had already opened the wooden box.
No one would have guessed that the only locked box in the dean's office contained only a photograph.
This is a very old photo. It hasn't been laminated, and the edges are yellowed, showing that it's quite old.
The photo shows two five- or six-year-old boys against a backdrop of blue sky, sea, and sand. The two boys look exactly alike and are dressed in identical clothes—light yellow T-shirts paired with dark blue overalls. Anyone who sees the photo can tell they are twins. They sit shoulder to shoulder on the beach, making peace signs at the camera, with a pile of colorful toys at their feet.
On the back of the photo were a few words written crookedly, clearly in a child's handwriting—"Me and my brother."
Although no other clues have been found yet, this photo confirms the fact that Lin Qinghe has a younger brother, and the two are twins. Judging from the four characters on the back of the photo, the younger brother must have liked his older brother Lin Qinghe very much when they were young, but it's unclear why they later turned against each other.
Shi Yu wanted to search again when the game panel popped up—
[Dawn is approaching, please return to your ward immediately!]
Shen Su stopped moving at the same time, seemingly having received the system message just like him.
Before leaving, Shi Yu looked back at the office one last time, and her gaze fell on the calligraphy and painting on the wall.
This is a piece of calligraphy; the characters are somewhat messy, but the brushstrokes are vigorous and powerful.
The poem written above reads: "The moon is bright, the wind is gentle, and the night is cool."
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When the two returned to ward 305, it was already dawn.
Xia Wanwan and the other three were still fast asleep, as were the six ghosts. The four people and the six ghosts got along very well that night.
As dawn broke outside, the six ghosts on the bed gradually became transparent. When the sun peeked out from the east, the six ghosts completely disappeared.
Xia Wanwan slept very well that night.
Perhaps because she had explored enough areas, she didn't dream last night, didn't enter any random dungeon scenes, and slept soundly until dawn.
Xia Wanwan, who had slept well, thought she should be the first one to wake up this morning.
When she opened her eyes, she found that the bed next to hers was empty. She rubbed her eyes and looked again, and bed number 5 was still empty. Not only was bed number 5 empty, but bed number 6, where Chen Su was sleeping, was also empty.
Why are these two up so early?
Then Xia Wanwan noticed that the two of them were sitting against the wall, each with a chair, covered with their own coats, their eyes closed, seemingly...dozing off?
Why not sleep in a perfectly good bed?
Why get up so early just to take a nap in a chair?
What's the point?
Xia Wanwan didn't understand.
Morning light streamed through the glass windows onto the wooden floor of the ward. The three people in the hospital beds woke up, as did the two who had been dozing against the wall. Xia Wanwan asked them, "Why aren't you sleeping in the beds?"
Good question!
Shen Su suddenly perked up.
Shi Yu was still hesitating whether to tell everyone about her discovery last night when Chen Su spoke first.
“We didn’t sleep last night.” Shen Su stood up and stretched, his tone languid, and as he spoke, he glanced at the bed in the ward. “Then, we discovered something.”
Xia Wanwan followed his gaze and looked over. What's wrong with the bed? Why are you looking at the bed?
Her curiosity was immediately piqued: "What is it?"
Shen Su withdrew his gaze and looked over, hesitating to speak: "I'd better not say anything, or I'll scare you."
very good.
They're good at whetting people's appetites.
The more Shen Su said this, the more Xia Wanwan wanted to hear it: "I received a system message when I woke up this morning saying that the settlement would be at 12 noon today, and after that we could leave." Her tone was somewhat excited, "Anyway, we're going to leave soon, so tell me, I'm not afraid. What's in this ward? Could there be a ghost?"
There really is a ghost in the ward.
And there was more than one.
So Shen Su vividly recounted his experience of encountering a ghost the previous night.
Of course, he didn't mention triggering the hidden side quest.
It's probably because Xia Wanwan and the others are about to finish the game that the system didn't prevent Chen Su from sharing information.
After Shen Su finished speaking, not only Xia Wanwan, but the other three also turned pale.
Then the bed was empty.
People would rather sit on the windowsill, the bedside table, or the floor than sit on the bed.
After Shen Su finished recounting his experience from the previous night, Liu Yang and the other three also mentioned that they hadn't entered the random scene the night before, and naturally, they hadn't gained any exploration points since they hadn't entered the scene.
Shi Yu and Shen Su currently have exploration progress of 13 and 12 respectively, but they don't need exploration progress anymore.
The condition for completing the hidden side quest is: survive until the dungeon timer ends.
After they unlocked the hidden side quest, the game's dungeon time was extended by three days.
They only need to survive the next three days.
Perhaps because they were about to part ways, the ward was unusually quiet that morning.
This silence continued until the main quest ended.
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