For the players, the third day of the dungeon was destined to be turbulent. From the morning on, the system announcements began to ring out continuously.
"An unknown disease was discovered in a hospital."
"An unknown disease began to spread in a small area."
"The medical system collapsed, patients carrying the virus fled, and the unknown disease began to spread to other parts of the city."
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"Fuck, this is actually a plague instance, right?"
In an abandoned convenience store, two players were rummaging through items. Upon hearing the latest news, one of them couldn't help but grumble.
The other person was speechless. "What else did you expect? Ten days of riots? We've already had a war instance, it can't be repeated."
As the female player, Sun Chu, rummaged through the warehouse, she continued, "Diseases are always associated with adverse environments. It's perfectly normal for an epidemic to occur in this instance."
Chen Zhou, the male player who had complained earlier, said, "It shouldn't be that scary... I feel terrified every time I hear that report."
The system broadcasts have always been related to various large-scale disasters. In the previous copies, they have never heard them so frequently.
Chen Zhou: "Come to think of it, I initially thought this dungeon required us to pick up trash."
Sun Chu: "Huh?"
She suspected there was something wrong with her ears.
Chen Zhou: "Haven't you learned this in history class? Before Regulation 193 was abolished, Planet Water was filled with garbage."
Chen Zhou: "Humans couldn't survive on garbage dumps for long, so people at the time could only find ways to clean it up."
"Since this dungeon is called 'The Last Pure Land', it must be related to the excessive amount of garbage encroaching on people's living space—"
Sun Chu just happened to find what he wanted from the warehouse and stopped to listen to Chen Zhou's speech.
Unexpectedly, the other party suddenly changed the subject, "So this isn't about us picking up trash and purifying the Blue Water Planet?"
Sun Chu: “…”
She angrily threw the unopened mask in her hand over, and with a "bang", it hit Chen Zhou on the forehead.
"I really have nothing to do so I'm listening to your nonsense. Hurry up and put on your mask."
Chen Zhou took it down and took a look at it: "Isn't this just an ordinary prop? It's useless."
Even as he said this, he still quickly opened the bag, took one out and put it on.
Sun Chu, also wearing a mask, said in a muffled voice, "It's better to be useless than to have no use at all."
"It's a pity that there are only these two packs left in this pharmacy."
When the locals evacuated, they only took some common medicines with them, and it was impossible for them to empty the entire stock. It was obvious that this pharmacy had been ransacked many times by different people.
If the two bags hadn't fallen into the gap and were not hidden well, their trip would have been almost in vain.
Sun Chu: "Have you taken all the remaining medicine? And the tools I asked you to find."
Chen Zhou: "I took it, I took it. I also took flashlights, lighters, and other things... I even took the rags used to clean the store."
Sun Chu: “…”
Sun Chu had a headache. Her teammate was good in every way except that he loved to make jokes.
But she was the kind of person who took everything very seriously, and she was already nervous, but every time Chen Zhou opened his mouth, she was instantly disturbed.
"...Be serious. The situation is still unclear. I'm not in the mood to joke with you right now."
She pulled a city map from her backpack and spread it out on the counter, "Where are we going now?"
This was a city map they found from a travel agency, which marked local famous shopping streets, attractions, and large buildings such as schools and hospitals.
A large department store was marked with a cross, indicating they had already been there, and an elementary school was also marked, indicating they thought it was a good place to take shelter.
They spent the first two nights in school. After all, the school had been suspended before the outbreak, so they didn't have to worry about being discovered and kicked out.
But due to a lack of supplies at school, they were out and about again this morning.
Sun Chu: "Five-star hotel? Or library?"
Chen Zhou: "Of course we'll go to the hotel. There are so many empty rooms to rest. Why go to the library? What else is there besides books?"
Sun Chu: "And a sofa."
Chen Zhou:?
Sun Chu said seriously, "Although the hotel is comfortable, there's no guarantee someone has already been there. Furthermore, with so many people coming and going every day, it's hard to guarantee if there are virus carriers who have stayed there."
In contrast, libraries are almost the least utilized large public facilities in every city, and the possibility of viruses remaining is very low.
On the other hand, other players probably wouldn't think of staying overnight in the library, so the library is actually safer than a hotel.
"But the hotel has instant noodles and a kitchen, and in the library..."
Before Chen Zhou could finish his words, the time in his vision suddenly jumped to the hour. He quickly opened the virtual map. Sun Chu, standing opposite him, was quicker to react, immediately noticing the extra red dots on the map.
Sun Chu said quickly: "There are three red dots near us, two on the right and one on the left, but the one on the left is closer, probably only about 600 to 700 meters away."
Six or seven hundred meters?
Chen Zhou quickly turned around to compare the city map.
But unfortunately, there is a residential area on their left. On this kind of city map, there are no iconic buildings in the residential area except the street names.
Chen Zhou: "No, this is too hard to find."
Because of the scale, the virtual map cannot overlap with the city map. They measure with their own eyes and then make guesses, which inherently involves errors.
Not to mention that there are so many buildings in a community, it is impossible for them to search every house.
Sun Chu: "They should be hiding in the community - the two on the right, one is directly to the right, about a thousand meters away. The other one is in front of us on the right, about 1,300 meters away."
Chen Zhou quickly compared it on the Chengdu map. "There's a river crossing bridge to the right. We probably passed by and the man must have run away by the time we got there. But there's the Second Municipal Hospital two blocks away, right in front. The remaining man might be inside."
After reading the word "hospital", Chen Zhou's eyelids twitched.
"Why don't we just forget about it this time—"
"Let's go to the hospital."
The two spoke almost at the same time.
Chen Zhou was stunned. "Didn't you just say you wanted to go somewhere with fewer people? Why are you rushing to the hospital now? Aren't you afraid of getting sick?"
Sun Chu did not answer his question directly, but instead asked him: "How much medicine do you have on you now?"
Chen Zhou's face changed, and he subconsciously said with caution: "When we teamed up in the last dungeon, we agreed not to ask about the number of items each other has - you haven't answered my question yet, are you planning to rely on drugs in this dungeon?"
Sun Chu was speechless again: "This is not a question of whether I plan to do it or not, okay? Believe it or not, the later this instance gets, the more medicine you'll need, not less."
Chen Zhou frowned, "I know what you want to say."
He advised, "What I mean is, we should just continue searching in the pharmacy. There's no need to go to the hospital. The system didn't specify which hospital the unknown disease was found in when it was reported. It might be this hospital."
Sun Chu argued back, "But you can see there are many people searching the pharmacy just like us. We may not be able to find anything there again."
"Hospitals are different. Although they're dangerous, most people avoid them nowadays. Maybe we can get a lot of things. And the beds can also be used for occupancy. So, the conditions in a hospital are no worse than those in a hotel."
She tapped the map. "And since this person dared to hide in this hospital, it's probably not a coincidence. Even if they were sent to the hospital because they were sick or injured, wouldn't that make it easy for us to seize the live broadcast room?"
Chen Zhou began to waver.
Sun Chu continued, "And I just remembered that there's something in the hospital that can't be found in the pharmacy. While it's still early, maybe we can still get it."
Chen Zhou: "What is it?"
Sun Chu paused slightly, and said in a serious tone: "Protective clothing."
Two minutes later, the two walked out of the pharmacy and hurried towards the hospital.
Not long after they left the house, the sky gradually darkened. But at first, the two of them didn't pay much attention and continued to rush forward.
It was not until a few minutes later that Chen Zhou suddenly realized something was wrong.
"Sun Chu, wait a moment!"
He quickly called his companions.
Sun Chu turned around: "What's wrong?"
Chen Zhou: "Just now it seemed like sparks were floating down."
Martian?
Sun Chu looked up, but saw nothing. It was broad daylight, and there was no fire nearby, so where did the sparks come from?
Sun Chu: "You're not seeing things, are you?"
Chen Zhou changed his previous joking attitude and said seriously, "How is that possible? I smoke so many cigarettes, there is no way I can't even admit this wrongly."
The two looked at each other and saw caution in each other's eyes.
When something is abnormal, there must be something wrong.
Sun Chu said anxiously, "We have to hurry. The broadcast said that the space junk will arrive today. We have to get the supplies into the library before dark."
Chen Zhou responded, looked around, and didn't find anything wrong, so he had to follow Sun Chu and continue walking forward.
But after this experience, both of them subconsciously became more vigilant.
They had been staying in school before, and they learned about the news about garbage disposal from yesterday's city broadcast and had not watched the TV news.
Therefore, they did not know exactly when the junk starship would arrive, but based on the word "within tomorrow", they subconsciously judged that it would be in the evening.
However, what they didn't expect was that just as they were about to reach the hospital, some flashing sparks and some thumb-sized black debris fell from the sky again.
This time it was so dense that even Sun Chu noticed it.
"This is……"
Sun Chu was stunned, raised her hand and pinched a little. The black debris was completely crushed into ashes the moment it touched her fingertips, leaving only a trace of warm residual temperature.
At this moment, Sun Chu suddenly seemed to realize something, his pupils dilated slightly, and he suddenly raised his head!
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