As Su Lin stepped onto the stairs, his body was quickly swallowed by darkness.
The staircase looked eerie from the outside, but when Su Lin actually stepped onto it, he didn't find anything unusual.
The hat Su Lin was wearing emitted a bright light that illuminated the road ahead, making everything on the steps clearly visible. As Su Lin's gaze swept across the area, the bright light accompanied the view of the lower level, gradually revealing the scene below.
As Su Lin descended the stairs, he entered a corridor with bright, warm lights hanging above it. On both sides were rooms with their doors tightly closed, each with a sign next to it.
Equipment room, medical records room, radiotherapy and nuclear medicine department, medical storage... a very normal basement level.
"Linlin, can you tell what's wrong?"
"It's normal, but the fact that 'normal' appears in this game is itself abnormal."
"That's true."
Su Lin frowned, nodded slowly, and cautiously paced forward.
After confirming that the corridor was safe, he opened the doors to check the rooms on both sides of the corridor one by one.
From the equipment room to the medical records room... Su Lin checked each room in turn, conducting a thorough search and investigation, but to no avail.
No, it can't be said that we gained nothing.
He found some containers in these rooms, such as surgical kits, white coats, etc., all of which were glowing. Su Lin searched through them and found some blue materials.
"The fact that there's even a game container indicates that this should be a normal space where data is being recorded."
Su Lin murmured, "Then why isn't this place shown on the game map?"
"It could also be a hidden room, just like a hidden escape point isn't marked on a map."
Xiao Linlin whispered a reminder: "My analysis is not entirely correct. All inferences need to be combined with reality to find the answer."
That at least eliminates the incorrect inference of "non-physical space" and initially determines that this is a hidden room in the game.
When Su Lin reached the end of the corridor, he stopped in front of a door.
He looked up at the door and confirmed that it was a room without any "markings".
There is no written record of the room's purpose, but from the outside, it is no different from any other room.
Su Lin frowned, drew his Tang sword, and used the blade to pry open the door.
"Squeak~!"
As the door creaked loudly, the scene inside came into Su Lin's view.
"Incinerator!"
Su Lin was startled. He saw clearly that there were three small incineration facilities in the room, and various tools were placed on a long table nearby.
Xiao Linlin's eyes lit up: "There's a place to cremate corpses in the hospital?"
Is that correct?
This is definitely not right!
Which good hospital has this?
Let alone this mental hospital, even a normal general hospital would only have a morgue at most; cremation is not a hospital's responsibility.
"Anomalies represent clues; this is the only entity anomaly we've discovered so far!"
Xiao Linlin was a little excited. She grabbed Su Lin's arm tightly and said, "Big brother, quickly check this room!"
"examine?"
Su Lin glanced around the room; there were no containers to search, nor anything that seemed strange.
From the perspective of "cremation of corpses" alone, the items in this room are all quite normal.
Su Lin paced around the room, using his Tang sword to pick up different tools and search through them, finally fixing his gaze on the incinerator.
This is the only place left that hasn't been checked.
Su Lin quickly touched several stoves, muttering, "They're still quite hot. Could it be that they just finished working?"
Su Lin pried open the furnace opening and stretched out his Tang sword to search inside.
From the ashes of the second furnace, Su Lin picked out half of a bracelet. The bracelet's design was clearly that of a hospital patient, and the serial number on it was faintly visible: 13-07.
"It's the number 13 again."
Su Lin glanced at Xiao Linlin, who didn't say anything but frowned in thought, then gestured for Su Lin to bring the bracelet closer.
Su Lin simply reached out and grabbed the bracelet, handing it to Xiao Linlin.
But as soon as they received the bracelet, a notification appeared in front of them.
[Congratulations, player! You have found the first key to the puzzle!]
Collect keys 1-4 to open the Dean's safe.
"Um?"
Su Lin was shocked: "This thing is actually a special item?!"
Su Lin looked at the girl: "Linlin, does this count as the clue you mentioned?"
Xiao Linlin nodded, still frowning: "Of course it counts, but... it seems like I got it rather easily, which is a little different from what I expected."
"Does this mean we have to engage in a brutal battle with monsters to obtain the key? Would that make sense?"
Su Lin jokingly remarked, though he himself felt something was off.
Despite having prepared thoroughly for the fight before going downstairs, I encountered no danger whatsoever, leaving me with a sense of utter helplessness, like punching cotton.
"It's also possible that after collecting all the keys and opening the safe, a BOSS will appear. That possibility cannot be ruled out."
Xiao Linlin smiled too. She looked up and glanced around the room, then said softly, "Let's go back and take another look upstairs."
"good."
Su Lin nodded and turned to leave the room.
Nothing unusual happened along the way, until Su Lin walked back to the entrance of the corridor and stepped onto the stairs.
Sudden!
The lights in the basement corridor dimmed simultaneously, and bursts of music drifted through the corridor, seemingly coming from the loudspeaker.
A soft, childlike chorus suddenly came from the darkness behind Su Lin.
"The needle got stuck in my eyeball, and Mom said I should go to sleep..."
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