Chapter 6, Xincheng Hospital: Player #6 has requested to add you as a friend...
“I also left the ward last night.” The atmosphere was a bit tense, so Shi Yu spoke up to ease the tension, “and I also gained 10 exploration points.”
The source of the exploration was not mentioned by Shi Yu.
Yu didn't mention the 2 exploration points for that leaf.
Seeing that everyone was still silent, Shi Yu explained, "I don't know if you remember, but the nurse came to the ward before going to bed on the first night and said, 'You can't leave the ward at night,' but she didn't say that last night."
Shi Yu's words were a revelation to everyone.
On the first night, the nurse warned them not to leave the ward, but the four of them ignored the warning and went out, resulting in a ghost encounter. Shi Yu and Shen Su listened and stayed inside, so they didn't encounter any ghosts. On the second night, the nurse didn't say anything, and the two of them went out. Not only did they not encounter any ghosts, they also gained exploration points.
The four of them didn't pay attention to the question and wasted 10 points of exploration time...
The four people who realized what had happened became somewhat withdrawn.
An eerie silence fell over the ward once again.
The live stream that they can't see—
The atmosphere was eased very well; don't try to ease it again next time.
The first night everyone else went out but they didn't. The second night everyone else stayed home but they did. What's that called? Tell me! What is that called?!
[This is naturally the difference between top students and underachievers.]
[...I thought you were going to say they were on the same wavelength.]
[I took my pants off and this is what you show me?]
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During today's outdoor playtime, Shi Yu focused on collecting leaves in the small garden.
He not only picked up leaves, but also branches, fallen flower buds, dried petals, grass... he even dug up a lump of mud.
However, the exploration rate did not increase.
This means that the same item will only trigger the reward once.
The game lasts for seven days, and today is the third day. Apart from Shi Yu and Shen Su, the other four people's exploration progress is still 0. They are all anxious and are discussing things around the small garden bench during their free time. Therefore, they did not notice Shi Yu who was picking up leaves everywhere.
Shen Su may have noticed him, or she may not have, or she may have noticed but was too lazy to care.
Shi Yu's current exploration level is 12 points, which is higher than others, but it is still too far from the 80 points required to complete the game. The daily midday rehabilitation treatment will not increase the exploration level.
For now, we can only place our hopes on our "dreams" at night.
In fact, Shi Yu still has doubts about whether this was a dream.
If it were a dream, the system shouldn't be usable in a dream, but he could open the game system in the dream, and the system prompt that popped up when he clicked on "My Live Room" was even the same as the one that popped up when he pressed that button in real life.
But if he were to say it wasn't a dream, he wouldn't know how to explain the scenes in his dream that were so different from what he experienced upon waking.
However, judging from the message that "you cannot enter your own live stream in the game," this "dream" is part of the game, so he and Shen Su can gain exploration points from the dream.
Actually, sharing dream information with teammates in this situation would be very helpful for completing the game, but Shi Yu didn't want to speak up when he thought about his teammate being surnamed Chen.
Shi Yu opened the game panel, hoping to find a breakthrough, when a pop-up window suddenly appeared in the center of the screen:
— [Player #6 has requested to add you as a friend. Request message: None.]
Shi Yu's first reaction was, "Chen Su wants to add me as a friend? Is he out of his mind?"
My second thought was, "This game lets you add friends?"
Before entering the game, he deleted all of Shen Su's contact information in front of Shen Su by Lotus Lake. Shen Su also said that there was no need to contact him unless necessary. Therefore, this was not a matter of pressing the button or not, but a matter of male dignity.
Shi Yu hesitated. To others, he appeared to be staring blankly into space. Shen Su probably noticed he was looking at the game panel, and soon another system message popped up on Shi Yu's screen:
— [Player #6 has requested to add you as a friend, with the message: I suspect we weren't dreaming last night, and I have a way to verify it.]
It turns out that Shen Su's brain wasn't damaged.
Shen Su and Shi Yu had the same thought; they both doubted the reality of this "dream."
As soon as Shen Su said that, Yu immediately realized what the verification method was.
Since the game system can be accessed in a dream, the best way to prove whether the game system is set up in a dream is to add friends and chat in the dream.
If they can chat, it proves that this isn't a dream, or at least not a single-player dream; it's a dream where you can connect to the internet.
To verify the dream, Shi Yu temporarily put aside past grievances and clicked "agree".
A new "My Friends" list immediately appeared in the lower right corner of the game screen, containing only one friend: "Player 6".
The nurses didn't say anything before lights out tonight, so when the clock struck 2 a.m., all six people who had woken up in the ward left.
Last time Xia Wanwan encountered a ghost in the mirror, this time she walked very cautiously, avoiding any reflective surfaces. She was afraid to even ride the elevator because the walls reflected her image. Of course, she also dared not walk alone down the emergency stairwell, only daring to wander around this floor.
Unlike the last time I dreamed, this time the area outside the ward was neither pitch black nor deserted.
There are nurses at the nurses' station, security guards at the elevator, and nurses on duty passing by in the corridor from time to time. Xia Wanwan chatted with the security guard in a very familiar way, and then went to the nurses' station to ask for hot water. She chatted with the nurses about skincare and makeup, and naturally turned the conversation to the hospital.
When Liu Yang came out of the ward, he saw that the nurse on duty outside looked more like she had seen a ghost. The nurse even asked him very considerately if he couldn't find the ward and if he needed her to take him back.
Liu Yang got goosebumps all over his body and hurriedly waved his hand to say no, his voice trembling as he spoke.
The truly terrifying ghosts aren't those with blue faces and fangs, bleeding from all seven orifices; they're those that are indistinguishable from ordinary people—that's what's truly terrifying.
He'd rather encounter a ghost than walk with seemingly normal "people".
Liu Yang pressed the elevator button to go down, wanting to find a place where there was no "person" to calm down. As soon as he entered the elevator, five or six more "people" squeezed in, and he almost died on the spot.
When Lin Yarong woke up, she first looked around the ward. Her ward was still room 305 on the 30th floor of Building 1. She was lying on bed number 2. The remaining five beds showed no signs of use, which was similar to the situation on the first day.
The difference tonight was that there were nurses and security guards on duty in her dream, and no supernatural events occurred. After exploring the entire floor, Lin Yarong used the same method as Xia Wanwan—to extract information from the nurses and security guards.
Cheng Jianshu explored the hospital building as quickly as possible, and then went to explore other buildings, drawing maps in his notebook as he went.
...
Shi Yu opened his eyes at 2 a.m. He immediately went to the system interface, ready to send a message to Shen Su to see if he could receive it. Shen Su had already sent a message 5 seconds ago, which was a question mark.
Shi Yu replied with a period.
The system displayed that the message was sent successfully, which means that this was not just a dream.
After sending those two punctuation marks, the two went their separate ways and ignored each other, as if adding each other as friends was just to verify whether messages could be sent here.
Shi Yu went to the outpatient hall this time, which is the place with the highest daily traffic.
Hospitals typically display hospital corporate culture promotional walls, medical culture walls, and expert team image walls in prominent locations in the outpatient hall. This information helps him understand the hospital.
Shi Yu entered through the back door of the outpatient building, where the lighting was dimmer. There were nurses on duty in the outpatient hall in front, and a few people were sitting in the rest area. Shi Yu found the photo wall without much trouble.
A man, completely covered up, also stood in front of the photo wall. He was dressed in all black, wearing a baseball cap, a mask, and a scarf, so his face was obscured. However, you could see that his eyes were fixed on a single photo pasted on the far left of the wall.
There was a slight tremor in his shoulder blades, and his hands, hanging at his sides, were gloved with black gloves.
This person was a bit strange, so Shi Yu stood on the other side of the escalator and didn't go over for the time being.
Shen Su sent him several messages:
—I bumped into a doctor in the elevator.
—He's different from other template-like NPC nurses; he seems to have his own ideas.
—I saw him again in the emergency room lobby. He was walking towards the emergency room with a group of doctors pushing a patient.
Shi Yu suppressed his shock and typed, "Was that doctor around thirty years old? Wearing a white coat, silver-rimmed glasses, with a refined demeanor, and a royal blue fountain pen pinned to his chest?"
Chen Su: ?
Shen Su: How did you know?
Shi Yu: Because this was my dream last night.
Shen Su didn't reply for a while, probably because he was also surprised.
After the strange man left, Shi Yu walked to the photo wall and her gaze fell on the first photo on the far left, the one that the strange man had been staring at for so long.
Lin Qinghe is a chief physician, an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, and currently the president of Xincheng Hospital.
The person in the photo has the exact same face as the doctor in the white coat that Shi Yu bumped into at the elevator entrance last night.
Or rather, the doctor he bumped into last night was Lin Qinghe, the director of Xincheng Hospital.
What was that person looking at the photo of the director of Xincheng Hospital for?
know?
Or is it revenge?
Shi Yu told Shen Su all the information he had seen that night: the strange man, the dean in the photo wall, the male doctor he met at the elevator who was the dean, and the strange man staring at the dean's photo.
He edited the message as he followed the direction the strange man had gone.
After exiting the back door of the outpatient building, there was a cobblestone path with dim streetlights on both sides. The strange person hadn't gone far, so Shi Yu tiptoed towards it, pretending to take a stroll.
After reading his message, Shen Su said, "The person you described, I happened to see him sneaking into the dean's office last night."
The strange man stood motionless in the shade of the big tree. Just as Shi Yu was about to brush past him, the man suddenly spoke.
"Was it you that day?"
The voice was low and the tone was unfriendly.
"What?" Shi Yu stopped, a perfectly timed look of confusion in his eyes. In fact, he was also puzzled by the question. "Hello, may I ask what you just said?"
The man didn't answer, but stared at him for a few seconds with his eyes hidden in the shadow of his hat brim. He gave a strange laugh, then turned and left.
The figure quickly disappeared into the darkness.
Shi Yu didn't follow him. He looked down and replied to the message: "It wasn't a coincidence. You were following him last night, weren't you?"
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