Chapter 219 Split the Hospital
On the rooftop of the No. 3 consultation building.
Jin Sheng and Yu Xiu looked at the devastation with shocked expressions.
The door to the rooftop had been completely broken into two pieces, and the wall around the door frame had cracked to the point where there was little left. All the wall paint on the entire rooftop had completely disappeared, revealing a red and gray wall that looked like it had been swept by a hurricane.
The two found the rooftop according to Xiaoyi's hint. They thought there might be no one there, but they never thought it would be so tragic.
"It doesn't look good."
"I don't know what happened to Brother Xu..."
Jin Sheng's expression was solemn, and Yu Xiu looked even more worried.
"But Xiaoyi said it's here."
"Brother Xu has stayed here for so long, he must have encountered a fierce battle. What should we do? Are the monsters on the rooftop stronger?"
"It's possible. It seems that we should avoid getting sick on the rooftop in the future. Other places are not so serious..."
In the live broadcast room of Jin Sheng and Yu Xiu, when the audience heard this speculation, they all cast loving glances at the two of them.
[The final conclusion is that the monster on the rooftop is stronger? ]
【Hahahahahahaha, the wrong information given by Xiao Baiwan is so funny.】
[Tiantai: Do you two want to see what your teammates have done? ]
[I laughed so hard, hahahaha, the worst rooftop. 】
[Yes, a ward and a rooftop, wherever Xiao Baiwan had fallen ill, not a single piece of skin was left! ]
【Oh oh oh, the little golden retriever has appeared! Come and give auntie a kiss! 】
【! Uncle wants a kiss too! 】
【??? Can you guys above restrain yourself a little? If you like dogs so much, why don’t you raise one yourself? A dog is not worth much money in this world.】
[…Although the modern Xiu dogs are also cute, the modern dogs always grow up! Xiaoyi won’t!! Its skills have become much stronger, but it still looks like a puppy. Ah, I melt!]
Xiaoyi crawled out from Jinsheng's collar, leaving only his dog head exposed. He sniffed and shouted softly.
“Woof woof!”
Several months have not changed its appearance at all. With its fluffy hair, moist black eyes and always smiling face, Xiaoyi has unexpectedly gained great popularity among the audience.
Hearing his dog's barking, Jin Sheng stroked the dog's head with a serious expression: "The smell is not around the consultation building? Did it go further away?"
Walking to the edge of the rooftop, he looked around.
The hospital's consultation buildings all look different in appearance. Although they contain similar contents, they are designed to be of different heights. The buildings are put together, and look well-arranged and designed.
The inpatient building is behind the big garden. The identical buildings stand side by side, like a small community.
The location of Consultation Building No. 3 is relatively close to the center of the consultation building complex. From the rooftop, one can only see the outermost inpatient buildings, but the convenience stores and other places with lights on nearby can be seen very clearly.
The little dog had a furry head and a wet little nose that kept twitching, trying to find some information about Xu Zhiyan from the air.
Jin Sheng and Yu Xiu waited quietly.
After evading the nurses’ pursuit in the previous round, the two successfully arrived at their respective wards and received the medicines given by the system.
Among them, Xiaoyi, with his strong sense of smell and soft and cute appearance, not only helped Jinsheng find an extra pill of medicine in the temporary ward, but also successfully melted the heart of the attending doctor. After Jinsheng's illness was over, the attending doctor called him back and got today's pills of medicine.
The first round of the disease was too terrifying, so in the second round, after Yu Xiu got the medicine given by the system, he and Jin Sheng chose to take drugs to get through the disease.
After reuniting, the two followed Xiaoyi's instructions and came to the rooftop, but missed Xu Zhiyan who had already left.
There was a strong wind on the rooftop. Xiaoyi sniffed for a long time and finally determined the general direction. He hurriedly called his owner to set off.
"Woof! Woof! Woo-woof!"
Jin Sheng frowned and looked at the dark building at the eastern edge of the hospital, wondering, "Are you sure? But it doesn't look like there's anyone over there."
In the end, the two men, half believing and half doubting, still rushed towards the dark buildings in the distance.
…
The hospital was much quieter at night.
After all, he had taken away everything in the specimen room, so Xu Zhiyan didn't plan to stay here any longer.
After leaving the original room, he quietly walked around the guard room, only to find that the guard room was empty and there was no one guarding it.
After walking out and keeping a certain distance from the building, he looked at the mottled marks on the wall of the building, then turned his head to look at the brightly lit hospital buildings in the distance, and realized that this seemed to be the old building of the hospital.
There are traces of plaques hanging at both ends of the building's entrance, which must have been used before but not later.
A sign next to it now shows the current use of the building.
[Backup Building 1]
Some usage requirements are written under the sign.
[The old building is not open to patients, but is available free of charge to doctors in our hospital.]
[Doctors who need to use the ordinary rooms in the spare building only need to submit a report, and after submitting it, they can choose the room they need.]
[As for the cold storage, due to power failure in the old building, it is temporarily unavailable for use.]
After reading the above content carefully, Xu Zhiyan had a simple guess about this old building.
Whether in terms of architectural style or age, this building was built older than the one when the player first logged in. It should be an old version of the hospital, or as he guessed, a sanatorium before it was upgraded.
Taking a few steps back, Xu Zhiyan looked into the distance and found that he seemed to be closer to the edge of the hospital.
After making sure that there was no one around, he called up the game panel that kept giving prompts.
[Main Mission: Escape]
【Random task extraction [click]】
[Note: Players will randomly select tasks every night in the Split Hospital, and the random tasks must be completed before dawn.]
[Note: Each time you complete a random task, you will get a chance to escape.]
Seeing the words above, Xu Zhiyan was a little surprised. Was he going to enter the main storyline on the first night of entering the game?
Don't click on the task extraction rashly.
He stood up and looked around, planning to stay here for a while and wait for his teammates.
Xiaoyi's specialty is his sense of smell, but he had been moving all the time before, and the last specimen room he went to was filled with other smells, so he had to leave before he could be found.
[Additional Task: Find a Safe House]
[Progress: 0%]
Glancing at the progress of the safe house, Xu Zhiyan's expression remained calm.
Maybe it was because he had gone through too many dungeons, but after seeing safe houses in all kinds of strange places, he wasn't anxious at all when he saw the progress was 0%.
Safe houses are often in the most dangerous places.
The less progress you have, the safer you are at the moment.
While waiting for his teammates, Xu Zhiyan called Xiaokuigu out and took the small note handed to him.
“Kacha, kacha, kacha—”
[Master (crossed out) Brother Xu, I have sorted it out, but it is very strange, these are all hands, feet, mouths, ears, etc., and the internal organs are only a spleen and a stomach.]
It scratched its white head, feeling somewhat confused.
Xu Zhiyan looked at the statistics on the note. There were more than twenty right hand specimens alone, and there were also many other organs. In such a large specimen room, he actually collected more than 400 human specimens.
"It's okay, I'm fine!"
It's not bad to have these. I guess it will make a lot of money if it's listed on the black market. It's just that it's a bit of a useless package.
As for his internal organs, he was very content. A spleen and a stomach, conservatively estimated, could offset ten pills of medicine for two days. It was not a loss at all!
Turning his head to look at the old building, Xu Zhiyan hesitated.
From the hint, we can see that there is an ice storage in the old building. What can the ice storage in the hospital be used for? Of course, it is used to store corpses!
Why don’t you go in and take a look?
Suddenly, there was a burst of excited dog barking.
“Woof woof! Woof woof woof!”
The next second, a palm-sized golden figure suddenly swooped towards Xu Zhiyan.
I heard the dog barking before I saw it.
The dog's speed was so fast that it carried a momentum of determination to win.
However, Xu Zhiyan, who had been ambushed by Xiaoyi many times, was no pushover. Although it was too late to move, he grabbed Xiaocui Gu, who was writing and drawing on a notebook beside him, and stood in front of him.
“Crash——”
“Woof…”
The sound of bones falling to the ground and Xiaoyi's aggrieved cry sounded at the same time. The little boy who was being held by the scruff of the neck was very calm.
Seeing its lower body being smashed to pieces, it even wanted to roll its eyes.
"Ah - what a pity, the little dog failed!"
Xu Zhiyan said this sarcastically, shook his little bone, and shook out the little one that was stuck between his ribs.
The golden furry ball fell to the ground and rolled far away. Xiaoyi made an unwilling whimpering sound and picked up a bone skillfully.
Xu Zhiyan, who had resisted the dog's attack, put Xiao Ke Gu's still relatively intact upper body on the ground and happily waited for his teammates to arrive.
When Jin Sheng and Yu Xiu ran over, they saw Xiao Yi holding a bone in his mouth and installing it carefully. When the little bone being installed saw them coming, he put down the notebook in his hand and raised his hand to greet them.
Jin Sheng held back his laughter and walked forward to help his beloved dog put the last few bones together.
In the previous three months, Xiao Cui Gu had become familiar with them because he was often summoned. Due to his light weight and the fact that he almost only appeared around Xu Zhiyan, he was often used to block Xiao Yi's dog's charge.
After the first time the small cartilage was broken, Xu Zhiyan even spent a lot of money to strengthen the bone strength of the small cartilage to the maximum... but it would still be broken.
At this time, Xiaoyi was able to quickly piece together a perfect human skeleton based on the bones scattered on the ground.
After placing the last bone, Jin Sheng stroked the dog's head.
"The clinical medicine book I bought for you was not in vain. Now you can study faster and faster."
“…”
Unable to be patted on the head, Xiaoyi felt a little depressed after playing the human bone puzzle, and simply crawled into Jinsheng's clothes.
Yu Xiu first talked about Jiang Huaique's matter.
"Brother Xu! I finally found you. Brother Jiang was taken away by the nurse and should be in solitary confinement now. How can we save him?"
Although the three of them chose to run in random directions when they were chased by the monster nurse, in the end only Jiang Huaique was put in solitary confinement, and he was very worried.
Calling back Xiao Ke Gu, Xu Zhiyan waved his hand indifferently.
"It's okay. I bribed the doctor to go see him. He's in the confinement room now, eating delicious food and drinking spicy drinks. Don't worry."
"Oh? Really? You're worthy of being Brother Xu! He bribed the doctor right after entering the dungeon!" Yu Xiu cast an admiring look at Xu Zhiyan.
Jin Sheng also breathed a sigh of relief.
"This way we won't be worried. We were scolded when we asked the nurse where the confinement room was just now."
Pointing to the westernmost part of the hospital, Xu Zhiyan shook his head and said, "The detention room is very far from here, at the westernmost part. He will be locked up for six hours, and should be released in more than two hours."
Compared to Jiang Huai Que, who was still relatively safe, what was giving him more headaches now was the mission.
"You guys also received the random mission prompt, right?"
Jin Sheng nodded, called up the interface and said, "Yu Xiu and I received it on the way, but there are many things that are incomprehensible."
Randomness, escape, chance.
What a strange combination. Every time you complete a random task, you will get a chance to escape.
He frowned and looked at the high wall at the far east, wondering, "So if we want to escape, shouldn't we go out through this wall? Then where should we escape to?"
Even if it is divided into the inner and outer worlds, then wouldn't it be fine to just hide by the wall and get sick, and then leave when you enter the sick state?
Too little information is currently known.
The three of them also went to a high place and looked outside. Outside was an endless grassland and there were no unusual passages.
At this moment, Yu Xiu suddenly tugged at the corner of Xu Zhiyan's clothes, his voice full of uncertainty.
"Brother Xu, are those two people over there players?"
Xu Zhiyan followed the boy's line of sight and saw two people in hospital gowns climbing toward the high wall under the dim sky.
Like other mental hospitals, the walls of the Mikan Hospital are very high.
After looking for a while, Xu Zhiyan shook his head: "Not like it."
Although the two men were wearing hospital gowns, they did not use any props when climbing the wall. The tools and ropes they prepared looked so simple that they fell off the wall several times.
After a few minutes, the two were finally about to climb to the top of the wall.
Xu Zhiyan narrowed his eyes, his expression gradually becoming more serious. He took a few steps forward and frowned, "How many times did they fall just now?"
"Four times, what happened to Brother Xu? Is there any problem?"
Yu Xiu answered without knowing why, and Jin Sheng also gave him a curious look.
After hearing the answer, Xu Zhiyan's expression became strange.
"This wall is six or seven meters high. If these two NPCs are not players, how could they continue climbing immediately after falling down?"
This is too unscientific.
Normal people need to adjust for a while before they can continue after falling down, and they may even get injured or sprained. However, these two guys who climbed over the wall seemed to be insensitive to the pain and continued right after they fell down...
While the three were talking, the man in the hospital gown finally climbed up the wall.
The moment they stood firm, the two of them seemed to be electrocuted and their bodies stretched straight!
Xu Zhiyan was stunned. Before he could react, he saw the patient standing on the high wall in the distance fall straight back and fall back into the hospital.
And something even stranger happened.
The moment the patients fell from the high wall, their bodies began to scatter and become blurred.
By the time the two men should have landed completely, the surroundings were quiet, without a sound or any trace, and the two NPCs seemed to have disappeared out of thin air.
After exchanging a glance with his teammates, Xu Zhiyan walked towards the edge of the high wall.
Before he completely reached the wall, he felt a slight heat on the bones of his right hand. An ominous premonition came to his mind, and he stopped in a hurry.
"It looks like this is the edge of the game."
After taking a casual glance and not seeing the NPC's body, Xu Zhiyan said lightly.
The edges of the copies are usually blurred.
If the player accidentally crosses the edge, the game system will not give any prompts, but will only impose penalties.
Previously, he had touched the edge of the dungeon when he was in the Nightmare Community and the Mermaid Cruise. Especially when he was on the Mermaid Cruise, because of the guidance of Slice, he crossed the edge and entered the NPC area.
"Is it the NPC that disappeared?"
Yu Xiu stood at the foot of the wall, craning his neck to look up at the high wall.
Jin Sheng was also a little unsure: "Not necessarily. NPCs usually have their own rules of action. This behavior that looks like suicide... doesn't seem right at all."
Motioning Yu Xiu who was walking to the wall to come back, Xu Zhiyan shook his head with a firm tone.
"It's an NPC controlled by the player."
Normally, NPCs in a dungeon rarely commit suicide unless the plot requires it. The behavior of even disposing of the corpse after death is usually set up by the system to deal with players.
In the previous Mermaid Cruise, a player left the game range and was killed, and even his body was carried away by the red crab.
These two NPCs fell from a height of four or five meters, but they were able to continue crawling as if nothing had happened. Their bodies also disappeared after they were suspected to have died. It is difficult to make any other guesses except that they were controlled by the players. As for the bodies, we may have to look for the magical morgue.
When Yu Xiu heard this judgment, he couldn't help but widen his eyes, and Jin Sheng also looked over.
"Have you seen other players before? It seems that among the players who came this time, there should be guys who can control NPCs... or even control players." As Xu Zhiyan said this, he felt a little headache.
The higher the level of the dungeon, the less united the players are.
The improvement of personal strength makes it much easier to pass the level, but the rewards are still limited. People die for money and birds die for food, and the competition between players is becoming more and more fierce.
In the live broadcast room, the audience was amazed.
[I thought Xiao Baiwan only cared about making money, but I didn't expect his brain was so good.]
[I can tell this much from seeing two NPCs committing suicide from a distance. 】
[If it were me, I would probably wonder if this was some kind of game trick and try climbing up.]
[It’s so funny! After all, the body disappeared! ]
[Xiao Baiwan got the news from the attending doctor that the hospital did not have a morgue, so he was so sure.]
Some viewers also obtained similar information by observing Xu Zhiyan's perspective and were very sure of what he said.
Some viewers were still confused.
But fortunately, there are players who can jump back and forth to help solve the problem.
[Fuck, why do I feel like I'm not playing the same game as you guys, so is this really an NPC controlled by the player?! I'm a little idiot, sob QAQ]
[…You upstairs, please be more restrained. ]
[It's Song Longchuan's hypnosis. As a player with the healing attribute, this is a rare attacking skill for him.]
[Hypnotized the NPC to try to escape? That makes sense. 】
[Wow——I suddenly realized that the two strongest assistants, the Pope and the Doctor, have entered this dungeon! Damn! I really want to see them fight against Xiao Baiwan! ]
[Hehehe, can anyone tell me which output player the doctor brought into the game this time? Curious! ]
The barrage of comments sparked heated discussions, and the audience was keen to watch the various melees, which was not only fun but also allowed them to get more information.
But unfortunately, every time Xu Zhiyan took out his phone to watch the live broadcast, it was full of dense mosaics and he could not get the information he needed from the barrage. Now he no longer hopes that the barrage will reveal everything.
The last round of outbreak ended not long ago, so it is still safe.
But when they thought about the mission, the three of them became hesitant.
Jiang Huai Que will not be released for a while. If the task is shared, it may be able to reduce some of the difficulty.
But the panels that kept popping up were annoying, so Xu Zhiyan simply called up the panel and tried to consult the system, not missing any clues or loopholes.
“Can random tasks be shared among teammates?”
[Return to the players, random tasks are divided into levels and the number is limited. The more people share, the greater the difficulty. 】
"What are the levels? System AI is a friend of mankind, so do you have any suggestions, friend?"
Xu Zhiyan's tone was very sincere.
Although I don’t know whether the intelligent system of this copy will target him, there is no conflict among everyone now, so maybe!
【Click on the selected task to view it. 】
[…It is recommended that you do not conduct this with multiple people in the early stages. ]
"Thank you! You have a really good system!" Xu Zhiyan closed the game panel with a smile, then clicked to receive the task.
Jin Sheng, who was standing by, was stunned.
Although he didn't say anything when he heard the question just now, he was thinking that if Jiang Huaique was here, he would definitely make sarcastic remarks and ask how the system could possibly answer.
Well...luckily I'm not that mean.
Jin Sheng thought, otherwise he would have been slapped in the face.
[Mission 3: Man-eating Tree Stump [Random/Level 1]]
[Progress: 0%]
[Note: It is rumored that at midnight, the tree stumps in the hospital garden will turn into real monsters. Players are requested to confirm whether this information is correct before dawn. If a monster really appears, players need to clear it.]
[Tip: When in the sick state, the task difficulty doubles. ]
[Reward: Time 5s]
Xu Zhiyan looked at the contents on the panel with a very confused expression.
What kind of low-quality midnight rumor is this... Clearing the monsters is fine, but what about this reward? Isn't it supposed to reward the number of times you escape?
"What the hell, is it time to escape?"
He turned his head to look at Jin Sheng and Yu Xiu who had also completed their tasks, and asked in a low voice: "Where are your tasks?"
"My task is to explore a toilet. It is said that there will be a sound of running water at midnight, which is very scary. The reward is 5 seconds." Jin Sheng looked confused.
Yu Xiu also grabbed his hair and stammered.
"This... this random task requires me to stay up at night, observe the bloody handprints that appear on the window, and deal with them. The reward is also this."
Finally, Xu Zhiyan put away the panel.
"Forget it, let's complete this mission first, get the reward, and then think about escaping."
Before parting, he also reminded: "The players in this dungeon may be stronger. Don't confront those who are ranked higher. Safety comes first. If others need help, remember to charge them."
Xu Zhiyan, who had no idea that someone was hunting him, was instilled with the idea that harmony brings wealth.
Then the three of them went their separate ways, heading for their respective tasks.
Jin Sheng and Yu Xiu were going the same way. As they were walking in the night, Yu Xiu seemed to have thought of something and suddenly tilted his head to ask Jin Sheng.
"Brother Jin, have you seen the words on Brother Xu's palm? It seems like it was written after entering the copy. It looks like an address." He observed very carefully, and when he had nothing to do, his eyes would fall on Xu Zhiyan, like a baby bird.
"I saw it, but it doesn't matter. Brother Xu must have his own intentions for not mentioning it." Jin Sheng was very confident in his teammates' intelligence and didn't take it to heart.
…
In front of Room 701, Building 19.
After a busy day, Dr. Bai finally got off work.
He worked overtime and went to his colleague's dormitory. He found the nurse who gave the medicine to the colleague and told her that he would take the free medicine that belonged to Saizier and it didn't need to be put in Saizier's dormitory drawer.
Yeah, perfect.
In this way, the other party would not be unaware that there is a free pill every day.
He only needed to lock someone up once a day and he could easily extract the amount of medicine Xu Zhiyan needed from this new colleague.
So…will his little patient be happy?
Thinking about the other person's appearance, Dr. Bai opened the door more hurriedly. He called the dormitory manager and told him to give the key to 701 to the other person.
He was clearly a person who had no interest in living people and was extremely indifferent on weekdays, but at this moment he actually began to look forward to the scene inside the door.
His little patients would be back long before he was, and there was no telling what they were doing now.
Dr. Bai felt a little uneasy when he noticed that the lights in the room were off.
Because I had to go to the nurse to modify the drug distribution channel for Saizier, I was delayed for a long time. Could he have already taken a shower and rested?
"squeak--"
Thinking that Xu Zhiyan might have fallen asleep, he lessened the strength in his hands and pushed the door as gently as possible.
There was no light in the room and it was pitch black.
There was no one inside, just like when he left in the morning.
Because of his excellent night vision, Dr. Bai found no signs of human activity in the living room.
The spotlessly clean living room, the table where nothing is randomly placed, the sofas that are as neatly arranged as in a model room...
He didn't have time to check if there were any extra shoes in the shoe cabinet, and went to the bedroom with his last hope.
There was no one in the empty bedroom.
The air in the entire dormitory seemed to be frozen.
The greater the expectations, the greater the disappointment.
Doctor Bai's expression also changed from gentle to unhappy. He couldn't help but think of when they parted, his little patient smiled and said that he wanted to wait for him to get off work.
He returned to the living room and put the medicine on the coffee table. He felt like he had been fooled.
"……fraud."
It is true that the dead are better than the living.
At least the dead don't lie.
The light in Bai Jin's eyes went out, and he returned to his original emotionless look...even colder than before.
…
On the other side, Xu Zhiyan had already arrived at the garden.
It was not yet midnight, and the sculptural tree stumps in the garden had not turned into anything strange.
He found a bench and sat down, crossing his legs and waiting for time to pass.
Suddenly, as if he thought of something, Xu Zhiyan raised his hand and looked at the words left by the slice on his palm.
"...Oh no, what did I tell him at that time? It seemed like I should wait for him to get off work." He scratched his hair, unsure of what time the doctor would get off work.
But this little problem was quickly forgotten.
Xu Zhiyan, who didn't take it seriously at all, checked his watch to replenish his energy, yawned, called out Xiao Cui Gu, and asked him for a black market price list that Tianluo Butler had compiled before entering the dungeon, thinking about how to dig out items in a targeted manner.
As for Dr. Bai's matter, Xiao Ke Gu was even more anxious than he was.
“Ka-ka—”
[Brother Xu!! It’s still a while before midnight, do you want to go deal with the doctor first? It’s not good to stand him up! He will be angry!]
It held up a small piece of paper with a long list of advice written on it.
Xu Zhiyan ticked a series of boxes on the hospital-related items, and when he saw the note from Xiao Ke Gu, he smacked his lips and looked indifferent.
"It's okay, I'm angry if I'm angry."
He is quite professional in coaxing slices, and there is no slice that he cannot coax.
This level 1 mission shouldn't be difficult. He has the unlimited-use Human Pifo, so this little thing can be done quickly.
"Don't panic. We have also prepared the internal organs he requested. He won't have time to thank me soon."
Xiao Ke Gu thought about it for a moment and thought, maybe so?
In order to make it easier for its owner to slice the spleen, it took out the glass bottle containing the spleen while its owner was flipping through the price list, and began to diligently take out the beautiful wrapping paper and start packing it.
After a moment, Xu Zhiyan raised his eyebrows and took a look at the beautifully packaged spleen specimen, feeling very satisfied.
He found what he wanted in one move, so how could this guy be angry with him? Impossible!
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