Chapter 230 Split the Hospital
The next day, early morning.
Xu Zhiyan sat silently beside the bed.
Looking at the note left by Dr. Bai on the bedside, he felt complicated and almost wanted a cigarette.
[Come to the department after you wake up. Breakfast is on the table.]
Sighing, Xu Zhiyan didn't even have the mood to pay attention to the panel prompts that kept popping up beside him.
He had difficulty recalling how he had spent the previous night.
For the entire night, he tried every trick in the book but couldn't leave. When the monster attacked, he could only be sliced into pieces and wrapped tightly in the quilt...
At the beginning, that messy unknown body always rubbed against him and made him feel uncomfortable, but maybe after a long time, after he stayed there and messed up, he found that it didn’t seem so bad and it wasn’t unbearable?
The only drawback is that I feel uncomfortable.
People say that the monster slicer is addicted to sex, but it hasn't done anything substantial yet, it's just rubbing hard. People say that it's not sick, but it's still rubbing hard, rubbing everywhere.
The experience was so heart-wrenching that Xu Zhiyan didn't know how to evaluate the monster-form slices.
But thanks to Slice, he successfully got through his second attack that night, and he didn't know what Slice did, but he actually fell asleep in the other person's arms!
Damn, I have to be more careful at night next time.
In the live broadcast room, the audience's mood was as complicated as his.
[Wow, I'm actually watching a player sleeping soundly in an infinite game live stream? And it's a five-star instance?! ]
[I’m dizzy, I’m dizzy. You’re sleeping soundly without any defense. Good job, Xiao Baiwan. You’re amazing! This NPC Doctor Bai seems to be quite something! ]
[Is it hypnosis? I saw him hugging Xiao Baiwan and looking at her for a while, and then Xiao Baiwan fell asleep! ]
[Damn... He can hypnotize players. Has he used this ability before? ]
[Awesome! By the way, did Dr. Bai misunderstand something yesterday? He said he wanted to put the Pope in solitary confinement for 24 hours, hahahahaha! ]
Xu Zhiyan sighed again and shook his head. Only after he made sure that he was really awake did he have time to check the game panel.
[It has been detected that all players have used their bonus time, and the game task restrictions have been lifted. 】
[Tip 1: Starting tonight, players can take on new tasks after completing tasks to accumulate rewards.]
[Tip 2: When a player accumulates more than 600s of rewards, the final mission will begin. ]
[Finally, I wish the players a smooth escape. ]
Xu Zhiyan frowned and looked at the prompt, then turned it off after a while.
It seems that Jinsheng has also used up the rewards. At this point, all players in the copy should have seen the concrete floor of the reward space.
"Tsk, it's a bit troublesome."
Although I had watched some live broadcasts of five-star dungeons before entering the game, and knew that the intensity of five-star dungeons would be relatively high, most players did not have much rest time.
But seeing the system arranging the competing prompts so intuitively still makes people feel anxious.
Well, if I don’t curse the dog system every day, I will be letting down these tasks!
After putting away the note, Xu Zhiyan came to the living room and touched the cold breakfast on the table. Based on the temperature and the sun outside the window, he deduced that Dr. Bai had been gone for a long time.
In the end, he still didn't dare to eat the breakfast left by Dr. Bai, and as usual released the shadow creature to eat it instead.
However, under the shadow of his palm, the shadow creature that was very agile yesterday morning seemed to be filled with lead and could hardly move.
If you look closely, you can see some gray substance wriggling in the body of the shadow creature.
It is an infectious disease.
"Oh, I have to tell Dr. Bai not to leave any food for me." Xu Zhiyan felt his scalp tingling as he looked at the shadow creature that seemed to be parasitic.
Seeing this, he couldn't bear to let the monster eat for him anymore, so he simply found a small lunch box to put his breakfast in, and planned to see if he could make any use of it after returning to the safe house.
The sun is shining brightly and the breeze is gentle.
The hospital is very busy in the morning.
Xu Zhiyan did not go to Dr. Bai's department.
Wearing his assistant's white coat, he found an empty corner, dug out a bag of snacks from the mess of things he had wished for last night, and carried it to Xiao He's ward.
The content in the picture book truly corresponds to the task.
What needs to be confirmed now is whether there will be related task content in other picture books.
He had previously encountered similar monsters called book beasts in the punishment copy of the Nightmare Community, but these monsters merely materialized the monsters in the book into reality and could not be associated with the mission.
“Squeak—”
The door of the ward was pushed open. Xiao He raised his head, put down the picture book in his hand in a daze, and stared at the person who came, as if he didn't react.
"Hey, are you reading a book?"
Xu Zhiyan sat down on the bed with his things in his hands, acting very familiar.
However, what surprised him was that Xiao He did not focus his eyes on the snacks in his hand like other children did. Instead, he stared at him intently, which made him feel scared.
Xu Zhiyan didn't show it on his face, still smiling, he touched Xiaohe's head and spoke.
"What's wrong? Why do you look like you've seen a ghost?"
The silence lasted only a moment. Xiao He lowered his head in grievance, and his voice became much softer.
"They said you wouldn't come again and took my rabbit."
Because of Xiao He's special condition, Dr. Bai told the nurses early in the morning that Xu Zhiyan would no longer be allowed to come to this building for ward rounds.
"The nurses said that I shouldn't come to check on you anymore, but we are friends, so I can come to see you even if I don't."
As he spoke, Xu Zhiyan reached out and took out a bag of snacks, opened it, and took a bite himself first.
Well, the taste is average.
He handed the snacks to Xiao He, not treating the other party as an outsider at all. He opened a new bag of snacks and tasted it. It tasted pretty good!
Xu Zhiyan then held the snacks and ate them while comforting the child lovingly: "It's okay if your rabbit is taken away. I can give you another one."
Xiao He took the snacks obediently, pursed his lips and shook his head: "It will die, they said rabbits will die too."
He used 'also'.
This means that the child in front of him knows very well that any living thing that comes close to him will die.
After eating a few bites of snacks, Xiao He suddenly frowned.
"Don't come here again."
Unlike his serious appearance, the child who said this had a voice full of reluctance.
"Crunch, crunch, crunch - huh? Why?" Xu Zhiyan ate potato chips in big mouthfuls and did not forget to look at the flavors on the bag while asking the question.
Xiao He stopped talking.
Xu Zhiyan was not in a hurry either, so he just ate snacks with Xiao He facing each other.
The only sound in the entire ward was the sound of clicking.
He was not in a hurry, but the audience in the live broadcast room were extremely anxious.
[After live streaming, he will live stream his meals and sleep. Xiao Baiwan should become a lifestyle anchor in the future! 】
[Ah! Potato chips! It’s potato chips! Potato gate!]
[I laughed! How could there be a despicable adult like Xiao Baiwan who gave away unpalatable snacks to others! ]
[Speaking of how other players are doing, I see that Xiao Baiwan is doing well and peacefully. It makes me hungry.]
[Everyone else is fine. I just came back from Song Longchuan's live studio. It was very harmonious there.]
[Harmony is a bummer! The Jian-Fan siblings just killed a solo player and you call this harmony? That player is really unlucky, as he found the side quest at the same time as these people.]
[Is this a hodgepodge of unlucky people? Why are they all unlucky? Fortunately, someone got the upper hand. ]
[Who? The Pope? The Pope is really unlucky. He was arrested early in the morning when he got sick. He was arrested directly by Doctor Bai...]
The top floor of the detention building.
Sezier stood in the solitary confinement cell, looking out from the small open window on the iron door. His cold expression revealed a broken heart.
"Doctor Bai, why? Don't you even want the medicine?"
He didn't understand why, after just one night, his NPC colleague outside the confinement room was indifferent to the inhibitory drugs and decided to lock him up for a full 24 hours.
Damn it! Why!
"If you have any medical ethics, you can see that I am really not sick now, and there is no need to be locked up for so long!"
There was a hint of anger in Saizier's voice.
The wishing tree last night was too difficult to eradicate. The broken tree seemed to have been injected with extreme hormones. No matter how much it was consumed, it would still grow new branches.
Although the strength was not that terrifying and could not cause any substantial damage to him and the Iron Knight, their mission was to clear the tree. They had no choice but to activate the highest intensity output and consume the wish tree.
The battle lasted from dusk until the sky turned pale, and the mission was finally completed.
The Pope was very unhappy looking at the mere thirty seconds reward. He saw the new reminder that the time given for the task was extremely precious.
However, misfortunes never come alone.
Not long after he finished the task and hadn't had much rest but just got his medicine, he received a new illness notification.
That was when he looked up at the sky, made sure it was daybreak, and decided not to take any medicine and tough it out - now Sezier has paid a considerable price for this decision.
Not long after he fell ill, a security guard shouted and led medical staff to come over, and they quickly sent him to the solitary confinement room.
There was no response from my colleagues.
Saiziye took a deep breath, tried his best to suppress his anger, lowered his posture and spoke again.
"Doctor Bai, I don't think we have any festival together, right?"
He didn't understand why he was being targeted by an unfamiliar NPC. Although he wanted to find an opportunity to kill the other party, he had been working non-stop in the past few days and had no time at all!
"Well, probably not."
Doctor Bai stood up and walked to the door of the confinement room, his voice was exceptionally cold.
"I just think that your attacks are too frequent and that when you have them you hurt innocent passers-by."
"Innocent passerby?"
When Sezier heard this, he almost roared.
What the hell! Except for the first time he got sick, he didn't know the rules and attacked the NPC. The rest of the time, as soon as he received the sign of the disease, he immediately searched for a hidden place.
But even so, he kept being picked out by the NPCs... He had clearly asked Zoffy, and the other party did not allow such treatment!
Is it because of his identity as a doctor?
As a doctor, he can get more medicine and information, but correspondingly, he can be put in solitary confinement for a longer period of time. Could it be that he will be followed during the illness period? It's unscientific! It's totally illogical!
"I swear, I definitely didn't hurt an innocent N... passerby because of my illness!"
Saizier's knuckles turned white from clenching his fists. The NPC in front of him severely restricted his movements, but there were spatial rules inside the confinement room. As long as he was locked in, he could not attack the outside.
Unexpectedly, his words did not play the role they were supposed to, but instead had the opposite effect.
Doctor Bai's expression outside the door had turned completely cold, and he looked like a ferocious beast whose territory had been invaded.
"Tsk, is that really the case? Xu Zhiyan is my patient. As a doctor, you shouldn't do anything to other people's patients."
Small cuts, burns on the calves, and bruises all over the body...
He still remembered how these marks looked on the young man's fair skin, which was both thrilling and heartbreaking.
Although he had no experience in treating sex addiction, Bai Jin looked up some relevant information after receiving Dr. Liu's message and found that some patients were not satisfied with ordinary intimate behaviors and sought more advanced stimulation.
But no matter what, in the end he ended up in such a mess, and his little patient still came to him for help. This was definitely not a relationship of consensual love.
He thought of what Dr. Sai had mentioned before, that Xu Zhiyan still owed money, and also of how his little patient had been thrown into the hospital because he had no money.
Doctor Bai suddenly understood.
Yes, Xu Zhiyan must have been coerced!
"I just think Dr. Sai needs to be put in a solitary confinement cell to cleanse his mind. I will find a way to treat his sex addiction. It is illegal to force someone, even if he owes you money."
After saying that, Dr. Bai began to pack up his documents and prepared to leave.
Sezier, who was locked in the solitary confinement room, had not yet recovered from what the other party had just said.
"…Wha…what?"
Xu Zhiyan? Sex addiction? Debt? Forced?
Recalling the appearance of his target escaping a few hours ago, Saizier was shocked, with his mouth slightly open and a dazed look on his face.
After trying to reinterpret these sentences, he was finally able to sort out the cause and effect.
The black-hearted colleague outside the door is Xu Zhiyan's attending physician. Xu Zhiyan, a guy who talks nonsense, probably made up a lot of messed up diseases to attribute to himself before, one of which is sex addiction.
I failed to kill the other party last night, which resulted in him going to the attending doctor to complain with injuries all over his body, and letting the NPC to deal with him.
Sezier felt like he was going to pass out.
When he discovered the relationship between Dr. Bai and Xu Zhiyan, he realized that when Dr. Bai asked him if he knew Xu Zhiyan when he was first imprisoned, it was already a hint.
As for sex addiction... Bullshit! Sex addiction? He thought Xu Zhiyan was more of a money addict!
I have to say that Sezier's brain is not too stupid. Although his reasoning process is a bit confusing, his conclusion is completely correct.
Standing in the confinement room, he was speechless. Seeing that Doctor Bai was really about to pack up and leave, Sai Qiye made up his mind and called out to the other party: "Doctor Bai, there is a misunderstanding here... No, I am not making excuses, I can explain!"
However, Dr. Bai ignored him, walked forward and stretched out his hand to close the small window.
"etc!"
"Bang--"
The cold-blooded Dr. Bai didn't listen at all, and the entire confinement room fell into darkness in an instant.
It was rare for Saiziye to feel a little panicked in a five-star copy. He couldn't remember the last time he felt so panicked.
I regret it now, very much.
I thought I could get out after taking the medicine, so I didn't resist when I was locked up. The solitary confinement room is the highest level restricted area in the game, and it is almost impossible to break it from the inside, so it can only be demolished violently from the outside.
And I don't know how long it will take for the Iron Knight to come...
He gritted his teeth and said:
"Doctor Bai! You still need medicine, right? I have five pills here, I'll give them all to you, and you need to change the confinement room for me to have a window!" Props could not be used inside, so he needed a channel to communicate with Zoffy.
Outside the confinement room, Dr. Bai's footsteps stopped.
After a moment, he returned, opened the small window on the door, and said calmly, "Five pills."
Sezier honestly presented the medicines that he had taken time to get from the dean's office.
After receiving the medicine, his heart began to beat wildly, and he wondered for a while whether he should just kill the NPC in front of him once and for all.
Unfortunately, things were not as easy as he thought.
Bai Jin closed the small window on the door with a bang!
"Hey! You..."
Before Saizier could finish his words, the small window opened again.
An iron rod came through the small window and hit the opposite wall.
“Ka——”
A crisp sound rang out for a moment, and the loose bricks were pushed out, leaving a gap just big enough for a pair of eyes.
"The window is open for you."
After saying that, Dr. Bai put away the props, closed the window on the door, and quickened his pace to leave.
Only Saiziye was left standing in the confinement room, with a confused expression.
In the Pope's live broadcast room, the audience was not expecting such a magical operation and they all started to swipe the screen.
【Hahahahahahahaha help! 】
[I can’t stop laughing, haha! The Pope is really unlucky! ]
[24 hours! Do they really have to be locked up for that long? Can’t the Pope just break down the wall and escape? A wall that can be broken by any iron rod!]
[Stop joking, NPCs are natives and are not affected. There are rules here, how can players break them? ]
【Hahahaha, now I’m just waiting for the soldering iron to save my life, haha! 】
[The Iron Knight should soon discover that the Pope is missing. I wonder if they can break in from the outside.]
[But if you break it from the outside, you might break the rules and be hunted down by NPCs in the entire dungeon! ]
The topic quickly shifted to the culprit.
[To be honest, I didn't expect Xu Baiwan's luck to be better than the Pope's.]
[These two unlucky guys have bad luck, right? Xu Baiwan was hypnotized by the black-hearted doctor last night, and slept all night in his arms. I saw that other players have already completed an extra round of tasks, but he slept until noon. He is so unlucky.]
[Song Longchuan may become the biggest winner! ]
[Originally, Xu Baiwan said that he was addicted to sex. Was it just to pave the way for him to file a complaint? Damn, this wave of his is not just in the atmosphere, it's almost in the solar system! ]
[It's really great! He used his illness to lock up a strong enemy. ]
Just like Dr. Bai who suddenly realized it, the audience also suddenly realized it and shared this operation with other players, hoping that it would be useful when entering hospital-type dungeons in the future.
Xu Zhiyan didn't even know that his momentary weakness towards Party A would actually add another chapter to his dark history and make it widely known.
In the ward, he and Xiao He finally finished a whole bag of snacks.
However, as an adult who had priority in choosing, he always got to eat the more delicious portion.
The action of finishing snacks together brought them closer together, and after a few words, they finally got to the point.
"I'm returning the picture book to you. It's very nice. Is there anything else?" Handing the picture book with a wish tree on it to Xiao He, Xu Zhiyan was secretly looking forward to getting more.
If the picture books that Xiao He has here are the basis of the task, then if he gets more, wouldn't he be able to get more clues?
"Of course!"
Xiao He nodded, opened the bedside drawer, and started taking out picture books.
"What do you want to see? I have a lot here. This one, although the pictures in this one are a bit scary, it's okay. At the end, when you solve the puzzle, the one that makes the worrying weird cry is not a ghost, but an owl. And this one, this one is..."
He enthusiastically shared his collection with his new friend, but when he turned around, he saw that the other party was just frowning and staring at the drawer.
"What is this?"
Xu Zhiyan reached out and took out the small notebook.
This should be a notebook issued by the hospital. The logo of a single snake caduceus is printed on the leather surface, but at this moment, a few strokes of pencil have been scribbled on the snake.
He couldn't help but think of the snake that politely asked for help last night.
When Xiao He saw the notebook, the smile on his face disappeared.
He put the book down, hugged his knees and curled up into a small ball, his voice muffled.
"This is a bad snake."
"The nurse had clearly said before that it was a symbol of healing and that the snake would protect everyone in the hospital...but the nurse also disappeared in the end."
A few minutes later, Xu Zhiyan suppressed the chaotic thoughts in his mind and deduced the cause and effect from Xiaohe's intermittent words.
Xiao He stayed in the hospital for a long time, and the people around him changed one after another. During this period, a nurse might have told him that the caduceus represents medical treatment and recovery. After all, to coax a child, she always had to add some fantasy elements, so the other party made up a story that a giant snake would guard the hospital.
But in the end, the snake failed to protect the hospital, nor could it protect the little crane in front of it.
Children's emotions always come and go quickly.
When the nurse who told him the story died inexplicably, he began to doubt the previous story.
However, it is still uncertain whether the scars on the snake's body are the marks drawn by Xiaohe on the leather surface, or whether they have other metaphors.
Thinking of the giant snake that provided a lot of material last night, Xu Zhiyan reached out and touched Xiaohe's head, and put the eraser into the child's hand.
“It may be working to protect hospitals where we can’t see it.”
The depressed boy pouted, and although somewhat reluctantly he still wiped off the scribbled marks on the snake staff.
Thinking of the holes on the snake's body that were constantly bleeding, Xu Zhiyan decided to go to the parking lot again tonight to take a look.
"Come on, tell me a story, a good one."
He casually pulled out a storybook and put it into Xiaohe's hand.
Perhaps because he had never seen such a shameless adult, Xiao He was confused: "What? Shouldn't adults be the ones telling stories?"
"How old are you?"
"Six."
"Great, I'm five and a half years old, tell me a story."
"???"
…
Doctor Bai didn't wait for his assistant in the department, and he felt a little confused, so he tried to fill himself with work.
“Squeak—”
He pushed the door open and entered the ward with the medical record in his hand.
"Little...Xu Zhiyan?"
The scene before him made Dr. Bai feel as if he was hallucinating.
On the hospital bed, a young man in a white coat crossed his legs and buried himself in a pile of quilts and pillows, looking very comfortable.
Beside the hospital bed, six-year-old Xiao He was holding a picture book and trying hard to tell a story.
The two people were interrupted by the sound of the door opening and looked over at the same time.
"Doctor Bai, are you here for the ward rounds?"
"Doctor Bai? Why are you making rounds so early?"
The big one and the small one spoke at the same time, but their tones were different.
Xu Zhiyan's heart skipped a beat when he saw Slice's expression suddenly darken.
Oh no, did I tell this guy last night that I won't come to Xiaohe's place? Well...it seems I got caught again.
But considering the large amount of suspected mission clues he had already obtained, Xu Zhiyan sat up straight, adjusted his mood, and sighed.
"Xiao He and I get along very well, so I came here today to show some concern for him. What do you think, Xiao He?"
It’s just that he felt uncomfortable after lying on the monster bed for a whole night, and when he saw that the kid’s bed was soft, he couldn’t help himself.
Hearing this, Dr. Bai raised his eyebrows and glanced at the snack bags filling the trash can.
"care?"
Without waiting for Xu Zhiyan to answer, the sensible Xiao He put down the storybook, stood up and nodded.
"Yes! Brother Xu cares about me very much!"
Although he felt something was wrong, Xiao He still thought he should say this.
Bai Jin glanced at the unfortunate child who was coaxed dizzy by Xu Zhiyan, and frowned even more tightly.
After a while, he sighed.
When passing by Xu Zhiyan, Doctor Bai whispered, "Wait for me in the office. I have a lot of medicine today."
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