"The men's bathhouse... is the place indicated by the clue."
"In this case, Kong Yu and Xiao Cheng are most likely at the other two clue locations." Shanhe looked at the door and guessed.
"Let's go in and take a look first. To be honest, I'm from the south and have never seen what a big bathhouse with people taking baths together looks like." As he spoke, Qin Nuo walked forward and opened the door.
The wooden door turned, dust fell, the bathhouse was dim, and the sound of running water could be vaguely heard.
The flashlight beam shone in, and the bathhouse was covered with bluish-white tiles. Rows of shower heads were placed on the walls, and there were bathing pools of various sizes. Moss covered the corners of the walls.
When Qin Nuo walked in, his feet sank and stepped on the water, and a cold feeling spread from the soles of his feet.
Shanhe followed behind and also stepped on those things. Her eyebrows were slightly wrinkled. The feeling of wet soles of her feet made her very uncomfortable.
"I don't understand what the connection is between a bathhouse and the mission objective?" Shanhe looked around and asked.
She suddenly remembered that in the Gonjiam movie, the people who were broadcasting live also came to the bathhouse, and then a series of horrible things began to happen.
"Who knows?"
Qin Nuo responded casually, put the camera aside, rolled up his trouser legs, and began to walk towards the bathtub with a higher water level.
The deeper you go, the higher the water level becomes...
Dark blue water filled several bathtubs, with a few tattered hospital gowns floating on top.
Shanhe also went down to the pool and rolled up his trouser legs. His delicate little feet looked snow-white and attractive even in the dim light.
But in horror games, players can adjust the character's image to a rough extent, and girls will basically beautify their characters.
So, Shanhe may look good, but he is probably not as beautiful as the characters in the game.
Putting aside these irrelevant and messy thoughts, Qin Nuo continued his exploration.
Suddenly, some splashes of water appeared in the pool beside him, and ripples spread out in circles. Shanhe was startled, and in just a second, several silver needles appeared in his hand.
Qin Nuo stared at that spot and said, "There's something dirty in the water!"
"Do you need to ask?" Shanhe stepped back, while Qin Nuo took a step forward, quickly inserted one hand into the water, and then grabbed something.
"Dirty, catfish is really dirty."
Qin Nuo looked at the catfish struggling in the water and smiled slightly.
Shanhe breathed a sigh of relief. It was quite ridiculous to think that he was an old player in the seventh level area. He had seen all kinds of monsters without getting scared, but he was actually scared by a catfish. He was really too sensitive.
"Go." Qin Nuo threw the catfish and kicked it out, and it just landed in the bathtub in the corner.
He didn't pay attention to it at first, but the splash of water after the catfish fell caught Qin Nuo's attention.
With his eyebrows raised, Qin Nuo walked over and shone the flashlight inside. After a moment, he called out to Shanhe: "Come over and take a look at something interesting?"
Shanhe walked over, stood in the pool, shone the flashlight into it, and asked, "For example?"
"water."
"What's wrong with the water?"
Shanhe scooped up some water and shook his palm: "The water is very dark and very pungent."
"Of course, this pool is filled with blood and is very thick."
Shanhe's expression changed.
Then Qin Nuo reached a hand under the pool, fumbled for a moment, took out something, and threw it to Shanhe: "Take a look at this."
Shanhe took it in his hand and took a closer look. It was a broken finger with blood and flesh rotten, and the finger bones inside could be seen.
“…”
Although it was a severed finger, Shanhe remained calm. This was nothing new in the horror world. He simply asked, "And then?"
"One finger isn't surprising, but a bunch?"
Qin Nuo grabbed another bunch of broken fingers from under his hands, more than a dozen in total, and threw them on the floor to the side.
"What does this mean? The patients all had their fingers chopped off here. Did some large-scale military conflict occur?" Shanhe asked.
"If it was a **, they wouldn't just cut off the little finger. And even though the flesh is rotten, you can still vaguely see that the cut is neat. This isn't forced."
Qin Nuo leaned down with his face touching the water surface. He didn't care at all about the pungent smell of blood and groped around with his hands.
Soon, he took out a few knives. On the deepest wall, Qin Nuo used one of the knives to scrape off the moss on the tiles and saw a bloody graffiti.
It's like a cursed totem.
"The patients held some kind of ritual in this pool. The fingers they severed might have been their own or someone else's. It's hard to tell, but it was definitely voluntary."
Qin Nuo turned around and asked Shanhe, "What is the background of the movie Kunjiam?"
Shanhe knew what Qin Nuo wanted to ask: "There are indeed records of large-scale deaths of patients."
"Including doctors."
Shaking off the blood stains on his palm, Qin Nuo said, "So, we can make a bold guess about this."
"The doctors conducted secret and inhumane human experiments on many patients without telling the outside world, and then the patients discovered them."
"Mental illnesses are inherently uncontrollable. They controlled the doctors and carried out even more horrific retaliatory torture."
Shanhe thought this speculation was quite reasonable, but she was more concerned about the mission objective: "What does this have to do with that girl named Yayi?"
"There must be a connection."
"The clues aren't here for no reason. They simply let us understand what happened here in the past."
Qin Nuo spoke with confidence. This was his experience in exploring copies.
Qin Nuo held the knife and continued to grope around in the pool.
Shanhe looked at Qin Nuo and suddenly said, "As expected."
"What is it?" Qin Nuo asked casually, looking at the moss hanging on the tiles.
"Play the pig and eat the tiger."
"At first, he pretended to be very convincing, but when he realized he couldn't win by lying down, he started to analyze things on his own."
Listening to Shanhe's words, Qin Nuo just chuckled: "Aren't the people in this dungeon all old foxes? They all want to hide."
"In the end, I found out that they are all Lao Liu."
Shanhe listened and couldn't help laughing: "From what you said, you gained a lot of experience in the last horror movie plot?"
Qin Nuo was about to speak, but suddenly stopped talking.
Because there was another strange noise in the bathhouse.
This time it wasn't the catfish that made the splash...
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