Chapter 221 Split the Hospital
The convenience store in the inpatient department is open 24 hours a day and is brightly lit all night.
The clerk on shift work no longer looked lazy as usual, dozing off in the middle of the night. He sat in front of the counter with a dull look in his eyes, and didn't even notice someone passing by him.
"Ding Dong—Welcome!"
The glass door slowly opened, and a man wrapped in bandages came out holding a paper bag. Except for his eyes and hair, nothing could be seen of his exposed body. Even his mouth was tightly bandaged.
The paper bag in his hand contained some high-calorie snacks, and it looked like he hadn't paid for it.
After the bandaged man came out, two shorter young men and women also followed him out. From their appearance, it could be seen that they were probably twins.
The twins each took an ice cream cone and seemed to be preparing to open it and eat it.
When Song Longchuan heard the sound of unpacking, he turned his head to look at his teammates who had just met up. His eyes fell on the ice cream, and after a moment's hesitation, he reached out his hand.
"Lu Jian, don't eat yet, let me see."
Hearing the sound, the short-haired young man walking in the middle stopped tearing the package, walked over quickly, and silently handed over the ice cream in his hand.
"Brother Longchuan, there's nothing wrong with this ice cream, right? But why do you only want yours and not mine? What if something happens to me after eating it?" Seeing this, Lu Fan, the younger sister who had already taken out the ice cream, obediently put the ice cream back into the packaging.
"You have a strong vitality, so you won't die under normal circumstances."
Song Longchuan took out the thing holding the popsicle stick, his expression becoming more and more disgusted. He activated his skill and a green light flashed at his fingertips.
The next second, the ice cream with a sweet and creamy taste suddenly changed its appearance. It was no longer tempting, but instead turned into a black tumor with unknown white worms.
"Ugh...so disgusting!"
Seeing this, sister Lu Fan immediately threw the ice cream in her hand to the ground, stepped on it, and black water splashed everywhere.
Brother Lu Jian didn't react much and just stood there in silence.
As if he had thought of something, Lu Fan crushed the inedible ice cream, walked quickly to the side, snatched the paper bag from the bandaged man's arms, and handed it to Song Longchuan.
"Brother Longchuan, is there anything edible in here? I'm starving!"
Song Longchuan glanced at the bag, stood up and shook his head.
"The food in this hospital is all problematic. Just eat the compressed food."
In the doctor's live broadcast room, the audience looked as if they had suddenly realized something and started discussing it.
[Ahh! The doctor is taking siblings Lu Jian and Lu Fan with him this time! ]
[Wow, this is the fighting power. So will the Doctor fight the Pope? Will he? I think so! Can the Iron Knight win by fighting two people alone? ]
[It's hard to fight, right? The Doctor and the Pope don't have a good relationship, but if they meet in the same instance, they will sometimes swear at each other and cooperate, so I don't think the possibility of a fight is high.]
[Ah, I also want to awaken the healing characteristic. 】
[Who wouldn't want that? I want to be like the Doctor! Every day, there's a bunch of violent DPS waiting in line for me to choose someone to go to the dungeon with!]
[…I’m different from you guys, I want to team up with the doctor! !]
Song Longchuan is one of the few players with healing traits. Almost all of his awakened skills are of the type that can heal others, and the props he finds in dungeons on a daily basis are also all healing-related.
His instant recovery skills make him the dream friend of many violent output players. Countless players line up to become teammates with the doctor.
But Song Longchuan is not a good-tempered person.
He has many problems and is very picky. He doesn't like to enter dungeons with people who are ranked higher than him.
Brother and sister Lu Jian and Lu Fan are currently ranked 41st and 42nd in the standings. This is not the first time they have worked with Song Longchuan, and they are very confident in the doctor's abilities.
However, this time, the trio had a new member, and perhaps because the new member's look was too unique, viewers soon started asking questions.
[Who is that bandaged guy next to him? I haven't seen him before. ]
[Ah, I know this person! His name is Fei Zhi, he is a mute who can't speak. He helped the Jian Fan siblings in a dungeon before, and they have been teaming up together ever since.]
[I checked this player's ranking, it's so low!! Over 100, almost 200. Did the doctor agree to let him join the team?]
[Well, I know this. He doesn't seem to have any worldly desires. He never fights for credit or props, so his ranking is relatively low. He is still an okay person.]
[Oh, no wonder. I was wondering why a new face like me who I rarely see at a doctor's place is ranked so low. It's unscientific!]
The bandage man Feizhi, who was being hotly discussed in the barrage of comments, was like a background board at this moment. He just stood there obediently and didn't react at all when his paper bag was snatched away.
After Song Longchuan came to his conclusion, Lu Fan wailed in pain.
Lu Jian took out some compressed biscuit-like food from the system backpack and handed it to Fei Zhi, ignoring his sister.
Song Longchuan frowned and sat down on the steps again, holding his chin with one hand, looking a little anxious, waiting for the report from the remaining NPCs.
The little girl with the fake medicine was still standing in front of him, with the remaining bits and pieces placed in her open palms.
Because she had not been instructed on how to lower her arms, the little girl had kept her arm raised for a long time. However, she did not dare to lower her arms and was unable to do so. She could only wait tremblingly, her whole arm twitching unnaturally.
However, Song Longchuan was not surprised by this.
He slowly reached out and took a small rubber band from the other person's hand, tied the wolf tail hanging behind his head into a small braid, and then waved at the girl, signaling the next NPC to come over.
More than ten minutes later, Song Longchuan finished listening to all the information reports and cursed inwardly again.
Nine NPC patients in hospital gowns stood motionless to his right, their eyes dull and lifeless.
Lu Jian glanced at his sister who was eating compressed food, took the initiative to approach the doctor and asked.
"Brother, is the information bad?"
Song Longchuan answered unhappily.
"Not very good. There were sixteen in total. Seven died outside. The one who was sent to check the edge of the hospital never came back."
His mind control skill can only be used once in each copy, and can control NPCs within a certain range. Usually he will activate the skill when he just enters the copy in order to obtain more information in the early stage.
And theoretically, he has already used this skill to its fullest potential, and should be able to control a wider variety of NPCs.
But I don’t know what happened in this copy. After the skill was activated, the NPCs under mind control were all patients. There was not a single nurse or doctor, not even the patients’ family members.
Song Longchuan pinched his nose bridge, his expression gloomy.
"They didn't give me much information, but regarding the main plot of the escape, we can confirm that it's not leaving the mental hospital. There should be other meanings."
The area around the hospital is the edge of the dungeon. Not only will the player die if they leave, but the controlled NPC will also die if they leave.
After saying this, he suddenly thought of something and burst into laughter.
"Come to think of it, Xu Baiwan is also in this instance."
"Hmm? Xu Zhiyan?"
Lu Jian was stunned.
Song Longchuan pointed at the little girl standing with other NPC patients, with a look of disgust: "This beast also used fake medicine to trick me into giving him a ballpoint pen."
He briefly described what happened between the NPC little girl and Xu Zhiyan, and his blood pressure rose slightly.
But then he thought of something and became happy again.
"The Pope is here too... I don't know how that idiot Sezier is going to deal with Xu Baiwan. We can just watch the show." This is probably the only thing that makes him happy since he entered the game.
After that, he glanced at the tasks on the panel, stood up and spoke.
"It's almost midnight. Let's quickly deal with these NPCs and go do Mission 3."
Unlike Xu Zhiyan who asked for system suggestions, Song Longchuan chose a multiplayer random task. The level 4 task sounded a bit complicated, but he felt that he should be able to complete it quickly.
After hearing this, Lu Fan finished the food in his hand in two or three bites and raised his chin towards Fei Zhi.
"Kill them all, otherwise it will be troublesome for them to wake up. Kill the one in the convenience store as well, the time limit for the props is almost up." Ever since she teamed up with Feizhi, she and her brother no longer had to do this kind of chores, leaving it all to this silent and reliable teammate.
The bandaged man nodded after hearing the order, pulled out a short knife from his waist, and returned to the convenience store.
After a moment, he left with a little blood, walked slowly down the stairs, and walked towards the NPC patients standing together. There was no emotion in his eyes, as if he was a ruthless machine.
The other three were doing their own things and no one was paying attention here.
Lu Fan was talking to Song Longchuan, guessing what the level 4 mission meant, while Lu Jian turned to look at the bandaged man who was treating the patient NPC.
A cold light flashed across the blade.
After a "swish" sound, the cold blood took a few seconds to flow out of the wound.
The NPC in hospital gown seemed to have no sense of pain and fell to the ground after being slaughtered. Then, a strange scene appeared. The dead NPC did not turn into a cold corpse, but rotted quickly.
Lu Jian frowned and asked, "The clerk too?"
Hearing the question, Fei Zhi nodded, and without stopping, he immediately inserted the knife into the body of the next NPC patient.
Seeing that the next NPC was also rotting rapidly after falling to the ground, Lu Jian interrupted the conversation between Song Longchuan and Lu Fan.
"The NPC's death state is a bit strange."
The reason why they deal with the NPC after each use is that Song Longchuan's mental control will reduce the activity of the NPC and cause the NPC to die, but it will decrease over time. When the control is reduced to a certain critical point, if the NPC is not dead, it will enter a state of madness and attack the caster.
As for the store NPCs who are controlled by props, it is because the props have limited time.
The conversation was interrupted. Song Longchuan frowned and looked at the rotten corpse lying on the ground without saying a word. Instead, Lu Fan pulled out a branch from somewhere, squatted on the ground and poked the rotten corpse, and spoke in surprise.
"It's rotting so quickly, even the bones are starting to corrode." Only a few seconds had passed and the body was about to rot away.
She turned her head and looked at Song Longchuan curiously.
"Brother Longchuan, did you drug these NPCs? What drug is so powerful?"
"No, just finish it quickly."
Song Longchuan shook his head in denial.
But when the bandage man was dealing with the last little girl, he suddenly shouted to stop.
"Don't deal with this yet."
Song Longchuan, who had come up with a bad idea, waved to the little girl: "Come here."
A faint white light flashed in his palm, and he patted the little girl on the back of her head as he approached, his tone a little excited.
"This beast Xu Zhiyan must have noticed that your body temperature is too low and didn't treat you as a living person. Go find him and help me stab him. Let's see if he kills you."
As he spoke, he took out a fruit knife from his pocket and put it in the girl's hand.
"If you can't find him within 24 hours, go outside the hospital gate and don't come back to find me."
The skill he just used can only maintain the status of the NPC in front of him for one day. If it exceeds that, the other party will go into a state of madness due to confusion of thoughts, and can go directly to the edge of the copy and be dealt with by the system.
Seeing the puzzled looks from Jian Fan and his sister, Song Longchuan shrugged.
"He stole my ballpoint pen, so I have to teach him a lesson." But attacking Xu Zhiyan would be like helping the Pope, and he didn't want to actually do it.
"Hey? Brother Longchuan, why don't you go to the garden to cause trouble for him now?" Lu Fan asked.
Song Longchuan rolled his eyes and said unhappily, "That beast must have run away a long time ago. He asked this little NPC to tell me that the child was deceived by him. It's normal for him to be deceived by him. It has nothing to do with the child...ah, this is really disgusting kindness."
He is not a stupid man, he knows very well that if it were a human player, he might just let the poor NPC go.
But Song Longchuan wouldn't do that. He laughed maliciously: "I just wanted to disgust him."
"Let's go. The outbreaks of the first night are over. It should be relatively safe from now on." After saying that, he turned around nonchalantly and walked towards the mission location.
"Our mission this time is to watch and see whether that idiot Saiziye can kill Xu Zhiyan."
Song Longchuan couldn't help but get excited just thinking about it. The contrasting brother and sister Jian and Fan was huge, and they showed reactions that were in line with their personal characteristics.
"Watching! I love it the most! But my brother usually doesn't seem to like watching the fun." This is the talkative and lively Lu Fan.
"Not bad." Lu Jian was the same as always.
The group of four left.
Soon, the figures of several people disappeared around the corner.
The little girl was left where she was, holding the knife with a dazed expression. Around her were eight corpses that were rapidly rotting and disappearing. Her eyes had lost their light and she was completely swallowed up by the darkness.
I stood there for more than ten minutes, and the corpse beside me had already turned into ashes and disappeared into the air.
She looked down at the knife, then raised her head to look in the direction she came from, repeating this action more than a dozen times, her confused brain constantly thinking about what instructions she had received.
After a while, when the little girl lowered her head again, she found herself shrouded in shadow.
When she raised her head for the last time, she felt her body was so heavy...
The dagger pierced her chest, and the slightly warmed blood flowed out. The NPC fell backwards uncontrollably. Like her other companions, she did not make any sound, quietly waiting for the final decay and disappearance.
"Ding Dong—Welcome!"
"Ding Dong—Welcome!"
The door of the convenience store opened twice.
A figure wrapped in bandages hurried away.
…
At the same time, Xu Zhiyan, who was trying to collect all the shaped trees, was hiding behind the grove at the back of the old building and stuffing the shaped trees into the space props.
But unfortunately, these things are obviously not dead objects like flower pots and benches.
As monsters, they cannot be easily taken out of the copy without a special container. In desperation, Xu Zhiyan and Xiao Cuigu decided to find a vacant land to plant these shaped trees.
He turned his head to look at the pile of trees, and then looked at his thin arms and legs...
"Oh, I don't want to work."
Sighing, Xu Zhiyan thought that his extremely powerful teammate should be released, so he simply took out a special firework and shot it into the sky.
"call out--"
After the fireworks went up into the sky, there was only a little sound but no light.
"Damn, what a rubbish game. It's a waste of items, and there isn't even a channel for internal communication with teammates." He squatted on the ground and cursed the game a few times. He was both nervous and excited about the upcoming opening of the guild system.
On the other side, in the hidden warehouse on the top floor, Jiang Huai Que, who was wiping his sickle on the monster's corpse, seemed to have sensed something and looked out through the window.
In his eyes, colorful fireworks were exploding in the air, right over the old building.
Suddenly, his panel popped up with a strange prompt on it.
[The props search fireworks are launched, click to view the message. 】
Jiang Huaique was bewildered.
He had never seen this strange hint before, so he was skeptical.
The next second, the hand holding the sickle handle suddenly tightened, and Jiang Huaique felt his blood pressure rushing to his forehead.
"Fuck! Xu Baopi, just wait for me!"
[Son, seeing the words is like seeing the person, come quickly! (Player: Xu Zhiyan)]
He gritted his teeth and closed the panel, then turned back to check the progress of his mission. After making sure that Task 3 was completed, he hurriedly left the warehouse on the top floor.
…
A few minutes later, Jiang Huaique arrived at the grove in the target direction. Looking at the shaped trees all over the ground in front of him, he was so shocked that he didn't know what to say.
"Xu Baopi? What the hell was that missing person firework just now? Damn, what's that thing on the ground?"
As he walked forward, the shaped tree suddenly moved. He was stunned and looked shocked.
"Monster? How the hell did you go and tie up so many monsters and bring them back? Xu Zhiyan, is your brain stuck in the door?!" As an ordinary player, Jiang Huaique could not understand why anyone would catch monsters in a dungeon.
However, Xu Zhiyan was completely immune to verbal attacks. He casually took out a small firework and threw it to Jiang Huaique.
[Name: Missing People Fireworks]
[Rank: B]
【Type: Communication】
[Introduction: A one-time signal item. It may drop in all copies, but the probability is extremely low. It is relatively precious. After use, only the person being searched can see the corresponding signal.]
【Notes: The user can leave a message for the person being looked for. 】
[Spiritual Threshold Limit: 90]
"Well, it's a long story so I won't go into details. Anyway, help me dig a few holes and put the trees in them. I'm afraid they will grow legs during the day and run back."
Jiang Huaique took the fireworks, rolled his eyes, put the things away, cursed, and took out a shovel from his backpack with skillful movements.
"I killed people in my last life, so I'm your teammate in this life!"
"Hey, even though you say you're unwilling, your body is very honest... Damn, how can you do it!"
"I, your father, honestly want to beat you up!"
"Jiang Jiang, violence can't solve problems!"
“…”
Xu Zhiyan was not careful with his words and almost got beaten.
Jiang Huaique pretended to chase his unlucky teammate for a few steps with a shovel in his hand, but finally he went back to dig a hole and hide the tree, cursing.
Xu Zhiyan squatted at the edge of the pit and called up the panel.
"Have you received your reward for Mission 3?"
[Mission 3: Man-eating Tree Stump [Random/Level 1]]
[Progress: 100%]
[Reward: Time 5s [Can be collected/accumulated]]
Strange rewards, they can actually be accumulated.
Jiang Huai Que shoveled the dirt quickly and said angrily: "I came here to help your wicked son dig a hole after I finished the mission. I don't have time to collect the reward."
"Ah - be careful, I think you want to bury me." Xu Zhiyan was almost covered by a shovel of dirt. He quickly stood up and took a few steps back.
“I don’t know when the disease started.”
He felt a little emotional, as if his luck had really changed.
"I have completed Task 3 and have even come to treat the saplings. It must be one or two in the morning now, and I haven't had a third outbreak yet. It seems like I am really lucky."
Xu Zhiyan talked to himself for a while, and suddenly he noticed that the sound of digging in the pit stopped.
Jiang Huai Que was standing at the bottom of the pit, looking at him with strange eyes.
"You've never been sick since dark?"
Xu Zhiyan's heart skipped a beat.
When his foul-mouthed teammate said this, he didn't call him a nickname or swear. He was serious as hell. Usually when Jiang Huaique didn't swear, it was when he encountered something very serious.
As expected, he received some bad news.
Jiang Huai Que had a serious expression.
"At night, the players' onset time is uncertain. It is random for each person, some are longer and some are shorter..."
At this moment, Xu Zhiyan received the illness warning with a confused look on his face.
【Tip 1: After 20 minutes, you will enter the attack state.】
[Hint 2: When the disease occurs at night, the monster's attack strength doubles, and the player needs to take double the medicine to stop the disease. Your disease duration this time is four hours, and you need 8 pills of medicine.]
"…How long did you last at night?"
Xu Zhiyan stared at the time on the panel and felt his scalp tingling.
Four hours is too long.
Moreover, NPCs seem to deliberately look for players who are sick.
"Forty minutes, two pills are needed. I took one pill and the disease lasted for ten minutes." Jiang Huaique replied with a frown and took out the remaining medicine from his pocket.
"I ate all that you and Jin Sheng gave me. This is the portion in my dormitory. If you can also last forty minutes, you should be able to hold out for a while. If it's ten minutes, the NPC won't be able to arrive. But I saw a stronger monster before, I don't know if it's an NPC..."
"Four hours."
Xu Zhiyan interrupted his teammates and felt a little dizzy.
"What? Four hours? F*ck!"
Jiang Huai Que was stunned.
Normally, the first night in the game is the easiest. He thought he was unlucky and thought that 40 minutes was a relatively long duration for the onset of illness. Unexpectedly, Xu Zhiyan actually got a 4-hour duration on the first night? !
Looking at the medicine in his teammate's hand, Xu Zhiyan waved his hand.
"Help me dig the hole, then tie up these decorative trees and put them in. Make it more hidden. I'll move to another place first."
After giving the instructions, he did not take the medicine given by Jiang Huaique.
The required dosage is too large. One or two pills won't have much effect. It's better...
He looked down at the blood stains all over his body. His entire hospital gown had been stained so badly that the original color was almost unrecognizable, and the address on his right hand had become blurry.
Sighing, Xu Zhiyan simply rubbed his palms together and completely wiped off all the writing on them.
Turning around and riding on his electric scooter, he accelerated towards the distance.
…
The pink electric scooter quickly stopped downstairs of Building 19.
The concept of time in the copy is vague, making it impossible to tell what time it is.
This is the doctors' dormitory building, but it was too late and the dormitory manager seemed to be asleep. Xu Zhiyan knocked on the window, but no one answered. Considering the tight time, he did not waste any more time with the dormitory manager. After hesitating for a moment, he took the elevator to the seventh floor.
There was no sound in the dark corridor.
Even though his physical fitness had improved a lot compared to before, he still felt cold for no reason.
701 is at the left end of the stairs.
Standing at the door, Xu Zhiyan looked up at the unlit window and was a little surprised.
Tsk, he thought if he didn't come, Slice would wait for him all night, but he didn't expect that he actually slept alone? But does this mean that the other party may not be that angry?
Because the electric scooter is fast and the warning time for night-time illness is relatively early, he now has some time to hesitate.
Do you want to go in? Did Slice get the medicine? Will it be safer around Slice...
Countless questions popped up in my mind.
Before knocking on the door, Xu Zhiyan suddenly thought of the props he had obtained in the ghost-hunting live broadcast room, and quickly took out the popular king cloak.
[Name: Cape (Popularity King)]
[Level: A]
【Type: Decoration】
[Introduction: This outfit represents popularity! Only those who are very charming are qualified to own it. Wearing it will give you an [Attractive] status. This BUFF is only applicable to NPCs who like good looks.]
[Notes: The [Attraction] status will make some high-IQ NPCs more favorable to you and get closer to you, but we cannot guarantee how the NPC will get closer to you.]
[Mental Threshold Limit: None]
Glancing at the golden cloak, although he liked the shining shape very much, he considered that it did not match his battle-damaged outfit. Finally, he tearfully adjusted the decoration mode to invisible and untouchable, leaving it only in the carrying state.
I’m not sure if Dr. Bai can be considered a face-loving NPC, but he does meet the criterion of having a high IQ. Maybe his attractiveness is useful?
Never mind, it’s better to have something than nothing.
Could it be possible that a portion of offal could be exchanged for more medicine?
The accident came too suddenly.
Before Xu Zhiyan could get the gift, the door of Room 701 was opened from the inside!
"Have you figured out how to make up an excuse?"
There was no light in the room. Doctor Bai stood in the shadows, so one couldn't see his expression clearly, and one couldn't tell whether his voice was sad or happy.
Xu Zhiyan's body froze. He didn't expect the other party to open the door directly.
Damn! Is love waiting in the house without turning on the lights?
He hadn't even taken out his gift when the other party opened the door. How was he going to get his things out? Was he going to be transformed into a specimen? Would he be taken away as a monster?
Different from Xu Zhiyan’s roaring rich psychological activities.
Doctor Bai at the door of Room 701 looked at the handsome young man with his head bowed at the door with mixed feelings.
His little patient seemed to have experienced something at night. His body was covered with smelly blood, and even his handsome face was stained with a lot of blood. People could not help but frown when they smelled it.
But the faint moonlight outside the window shone on the other's slightly weak body. The young man lowered his head and exposed the back of his neck, which glowed softly under the cold light. He could almost see the blood vessels with warm blood flowing under the white and tender mutton-fat skin.
Xu Zhiyan didn't say anything, but his whole body exuded a sense of pity. Anyone who saw him couldn't find any words to blame him for a moment.
The anger that had been accumulating for a long time was like a floodgate opened, and I didn't know where it went out.
For the first time, Bai Jin discovered that his mysophobia wasn't that serious.
Now he just wanted to bring his poor little patient into the warm dormitory and wash all the dirt off him...
On the other side, Xu Zhiyan had already started thinking. If he first used the magic hat to conjure up a few rabbits and pretended to be a magician, and then took out the bottle containing the internal organs, would it look more normal?
Five pills plus the ones I have on hand make exactly six pills, so it’s no problem to go out for a run for an hour in the middle of the night.
Well, the magician setting seems to be pretty good... right?
Before he could implement this idiotic plan that would make everyone applaud, he felt a large hand on his shoulder and pulled him into the room.
"Bang--"
The door of 701 closed, and then the belated warm light finally came on.
Xu Zhiyan did not resist. After entering the room, he looked around and was a little surprised.
Should we say it is worthy of being called a germaphobe slice?
The whole room smells like a model house. All the things are neatly stored away. It is so clean that it is almost impossible to step foot in.
After entering the dungeon, Xu Zhiyan looked down at his clothes for the first time, which were extremely dirty after killing monsters, and fell silent.
Damn...
There might be some meat stuck to the soles of my shoes. Would it be bad if I walked in? Wouldn't it leave a trail of footprints?
First he stood up the other person, now he can't produce the trading items, and finally he even soiled the other person's room.
Damn, Slice will be angry, right?
Taking a deep breath, Xu Zhiyan mentally attached the utmost importance to Dr. Bai and was about to start explaining. Unfortunately, he was interrupted by the other party after he had just said a word.
"I--"
"We'll talk about being late later. Take off your clothes first."
The conversation became strange, but Dr. Bai's voice remained cold. After he finished speaking, he released his hand that was squeezing the young man's shoulder and turned to walk towards the bathroom.
"ah?"
Xu Zhiyan was confused and was left at the entrance.
What's up with this slice? Why do you ask him to take off his clothes every time we meet?
After a while, Dr. Bai came out with a trash can.
"It's too dirty, throw away the clothes."
Although he wanted to wash his little patient clean, he didn't want to keep the clothes that looked like they had been rolled in blood plasma.
"But I only have this set of clothes, and patients must wear this in the hospital." Xu Zhiyan expressed his embarrassment. This was the truth, as the nurse had said before.
Doctor Bai's mouth drooped.
"I will get you new clothes tomorrow, and you need to throw away everything you are wearing now, from inside to outside!" He would never allow this set of clothes to enter his dormitory.
When he heard that there were new clothes, Xu Zhiyan wanted to ask if he could get a few more sets at once.
But soon, the ten-minute countdown that popped up on the panel next to him made him no time to care about his clothes. He looked up and stared straight at Bai Jin.
"Doctor Bai, I seem to be having an attack."
"I wanted to come to the dormitory to wait for you this afternoon, but I felt a little unwell halfway through. I was worried that I would get sick before I got to the dormitory, so I found a place to hide."
As he spoke, he raised his blood-stained palm, which was clean without a single word on it.
Xu Zhiyan's voice was filled with apology and guilt. He lowered his eyes, as if he didn't dare to look up at the other person, for fear that his attending physician would be angry.
"When I came to myself again, my mind was in a mess and the writing on my hand had disappeared. It took me a long time to remember that I wanted to come here to find you..." His voice became smaller and smaller, and at the end it became as thin as a mosquito's hum and almost inaudible.
As if he thought of something, he raised his head and smiled bitterly.
"Or I should leave first, so as not to get sick here with Doctor Bai and dirty your dormitory." As he said this, he took a half step back, as if he was about to leave.
In the live broadcast room, the audience watched Xu Zhiyan's retreat-to-advance operation and called it shameless.
[Good fellow! Little Millionaire’s mouth is so broken! ]
[I am dying of laughter, hahahaha. He didn’t raise his head and didn’t see Dr. Bai’s expression. The other party was stunned.]
[Xiao Baiwan must be thinking that he hopes that playing the victim can help him get some money. ]
[But the doctor doesn't have enough medicine here. Although he took three pills from the Pope, that's all he has.]
[I declare that Xiao Baiwan has won first place in this round of the unlucky contest with a huge advantage! ]
[Pfft - the Pope lasted two hours. I thought he was the one who had the longest illness at night, but I didn't expect that Little Million lasted longer than him.]
[Yo yo yo, you see, I said that Dr. Bai couldn't stop Xiao Baiwan from selling misery, right? ]
In the room, Xu Zhiyan, who tried to get away with it by playing the victim, got an unexpected answer.
After several minutes of silence, Dr. Bai finally gave in.
"Stay here, no one will know you are sick." His voice slowed down a lot, as if he was afraid of scaring the patient in front of him.
“Bang!”
He threw the trash can on the ground.
As if accepting his fate, Dr. Bai no longer forced the fragile young man to take off his clothes at the entrance. He pointed to the bathroom and said, "The hot water is ready."
Xu Zhiyan was stunned and didn't understand what the other party meant for a moment.
Where's the medicine? Where's the medicine!
It looked like the sale was successful, but why didn't he get the medicine? Theoretically, even if the other party didn't have five pills, he should be able to get some, right? And I don't know what the onset means, is he just going to have to endure it?
Thinking about the monsters' attack power doubling at night, and even as Jiang Huaique said, stronger NPCs would appear after the outbreak, Xu Zhiyan felt that it might not be a good idea to resist here.
"I'd better not bother you anymore."
Failing to get the medicine, he turned hesitantly and went to turn the doorknob.
However, before the door opened, a strong arm wrapped around his waist from behind and pulled him out.
"You need to take a shower now. Don't worry, I know you are claustrophobic. I will stay with you." Doctor Bai's voice was extremely gentle, completely different from the strength exerted by his arms.
"No, no...Bai, Doctor Bai, what I mean is, this seems a bit too embarrassing." Xu Zhiyan reached out to pry the other person's arm.
But just as he had failed to escape from the confinement of Party A's slices countless times, he was unable to push it open this time.
"You are my patient, and I have an obligation to cure you."
The huge difference in strength allowed Dr. Bai to easily pick up his dirty little patient and stride towards the bathroom where warm water was already provided.
"Don't imagine that I'm your enemy. Relax."
He quickly took on the role of a psychiatrist, constantly comforting his patients.
"I won't hurt you. You can trust me completely. I won't do anything. I just want to clean the dirt off you."
"The current will take away everything. You are safe here. There is no place in the world safer for you than by my side. It is very late now. You can take a nap. If you can't sleep, I will tell you a few stories..."
It's rare for Dr. Bai to say so much.
Perhaps out of professional ethics, he dutifully comforted his nervous patient.
However, in Xu Zhiyan's world, as time goes by, the whole world becomes chaotic and blurred.
The wall cracked, and huge mouths appeared on the ceiling. They looked as if they had been upgraded. Not only were they bigger, but the sharp spikes on their tongues seemed to be harder. The rest of the place was no less impressive. Even the walls that had turned into human skin were glowing silver.
What made Xu Zhiyan even more devastated was that he felt the fingertips clamped around his waist were somewhat piercing...After the onset of the disease, the slices holding him changed!
Lowering his head slightly, he caught a glimpse of the arms around his waist. They were no longer the human arms wrapped in uniform, but had turned into a jet-black color with a faint silver glow... Black?
Wait? Why is it dark?
He reached out and touched the other's strong and powerful arm, and felt a layer of hard scales on it.
Suddenly, as if afraid that he would fall, the other person's other hand passed under his thigh and simply held him horizontally in his arms.
"You seem to be ill. Don't struggle. You are safe here with me."
Hearing the cautious sound of slicing, Xu Zhiyan didn't dare to look at the other party. He could only close his eyes and wait for the attack to land and trigger the Human Skin Buddha before leaving.
But until he was carried to the bathroom, the human skin Buddha's defense mechanism was not triggered.
"Here we are. The water might be a little hot."
There was no change in Bai Jin's voice.
Xu Zhiyan realized belatedly that this time, the slices seemed to be able to talk as well? He thought of the human voices he encountered in the consultation building when he was being chased and escaping...
Strangely, even the nurse who saved him earlier could only remain rational and was unable to speak. Considering the special nature of the slice, Xu Zhiyan frowned and planned to wait until dawn to check it out.
His thoughts were a little confused, and Xu Zhiyan felt the hand around his waist loosen.
"We are about to go into the water. Don't struggle. Although it seems safe to close your eyes, I am here. You can try to open your eyes."
Doctor Bai's words sounded like he was coaxing a child.
Xu Zhiyan felt the heat rising and rolling, he quietly opened his eyes, and saw Dr. Bai's jawline that was exactly the same as that of a ghost.
The other person's face didn't seem to have changed much, so he breathed a sigh of relief and looked at the sliced face inconspicuously.
The whites of his eyes turned completely black, and his pupils turned blood red. His pupils still retained their original color, so at least he looked like a human. It was a pity that too much had changed. Damn, his entire body was covered in black scales, which looked a bit scary. And what was that thing moving behind him? Wings? It didn't look like one!
Perhaps because he felt the body in his arms relax a lot, Dr. Bai smiled.
"Let you go?"
Only then did Xu Zhiyan take the time to look around, and he understood why the Human Skin Buddha's passive ability was not triggered.
Enhanced versions of strange tongues also appeared on the ceiling of the not-so-spacious dormitory bathroom, but at this moment these mouths were kept obediently closed. They did not attack or show their fangs or claws, but instead trembled.
They are afraid.
These low-level monsters are afraid of Bai Jin.
The new understanding made Xu Zhiyan feel much more relaxed. He finally understood why Slice said that it was safe to be with him.
As usual, all the bottles and jars in the bathroom turned into strange shapes, and he even saw a strange brain-shaped object hanging on a hook.
"What is that?"
Xu Zhiyan racked his brains but couldn't figure out what could turn into a brain while taking a shower.
"Bath ball."
Dr. Bai did not laugh at the question.
"..." Xu Zhiyan's breath was choked. The thought of using his brain to take a shower felt very perverted, so he quickly looked away.
But when he saw the water in the bathtub, he couldn't hold it in any longer.
"You...what do you see in the bathtub now?"
"39° hot water."
As he spoke, Dr. Bai held the patient in his arms with one hand, stretched out his left hand, stirred it in the water, and took it out again.
Xu Zhiyan was silent.
The water in the bathtub looked like hot magma to him, but when Slice put his hand in it, it turned into warm blood. When Slice took his hand away, the blood returned to the magma.
Grass, although neither seems suitable for bathing, the latter is obviously more normal.
"Do I have to take a shower?"
He made a final struggle.
"Yes."
The answer was very quick. In Dr. Bai's own eyes, he had done the greatest kindness by not letting his dirty patient take off all his dirty clothes at the door.
"Is there no room for negotiation?" Xu Zhiyan felt a little dizzy from the boiling magma in the bathtub.
Although the temperature of this thing may not seem as high as real magma, he is sure that if he goes in, he will be killed at least!
"No."
"Then I have a request."
"you say."
"Let's take a shower together. You can just sit inside. Do you understand what I mean?"
"But I can't take off my clothes like this."
“Wash with your clothes on!”
"?"
After a brief conversation, Dr. Bai looked at the patient who suddenly hugged his neck tightly, feeling somewhat helpless, but his mysophobia had almost reached its limit...
Five minutes later, Xu Zhiyan was cut into pieces and held in a pool of blood.
Looking down at his clothes that were completely stained red, the corners of his mouth twitched and he wanted to laugh.
I thought soaking in the blood pool was the most exciting thing in the copy, but unexpectedly, after a while, except for Dr. Bai, whose head had completely turned into a monster, he shook his tail that grew from somewhere and took the brain bath ball hanging on the hook.
When the sticky texture of the cerebral cortex fell on his back, Xu Zhiyan could no longer laugh.
Only in the live broadcast room was there a peaceful atmosphere.
[Ugh—so disgusting—so weird! Damn it, no, so weird! Take another look!]
[Hey upstairs! Didn't you choose a mode? ]
[I chose the non-disease mode. From Dr. Bai's perspective, he is cleaning our little millionaire clean! ]
[Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha that’s Xiao Baiwan’s expression. Damn, I’m dying of laughter. Is he about to faint? ]
[Wait, why is there mosaic in my non-sickness mode? Xiao Baiwan only took off his shirt but it was mosaiced for me, is it that serious? ]
[Fuck, take a closer look upstairs. This mosaic is not from Xiao Baiwan. It looks like it belongs to an NPC...]
[No, wait, the NPCs in this mode are wearing straight clothes, why is there any need to mosaic them? Oh shit!! I get it! Did he [beep——]? ]
【When I saw the above post was also censored, I knew that the above post really understood. 】
An hour later, Xu Zhiyan crawled out of the pool of blood with a look of despair on his face, and reluctantly put on the bathrobe that Slice handed to him.
"Go wait for me outside."
Pushing the patient out of the door, Dr. Bai's voice was a little hoarse, almost coaxing his patient to hurry out: "I'll tell you a story later."
Xu Zhiyan touched his hair which was still dripping with blood.
Unexpectedly, as soon as he stepped out of the bathroom, he saw the monsters on the ceiling ready to attack.
"No, no, I can't leave you."
He immediately turned back to the bathroom, not minding the hard scales at this time, and held onto Slice's arm tightly.
"I'll help you wash it!"
Xu Zhiyan volunteered. He didn't want to go out alone to face the twice as strong monsters outside!
"...Are you sure?" Bai Jin looked down at the hand on his arm, with a hint of danger in his voice.
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