Chapter 318 Monster Hospital (Seventeen)
President Xuan, the loan shark president, and the top student patient, all didn't expect that President Yan would get straight to the point without any preparation, as if he really treated them as teammates who wanted to complete the task and didn't care about their different positions.
The other person asked frankly. Even though they had previously agreed through the communication channel not to take too aggressive actions in the future, it was impossible to say this directly in front of the other person. So they were a little stunned for a moment, and they were not sure whether President Yan was sincere or just testing them deliberately.
Fortunately, President Xuan reacted quickly. While President Yan was looking at him, he quickly scanned the entire room and said, "Since the system has issued this task, the only information we have now is about one room and a keen sense of smell. That means there must be information about finding Patient X in this room. I can't think of anything about the sense of smell for now. Why not start with the other party's personal belongings?"
He analyzed it expressionlessly. With President Yan's ability, he must have thought of it a long time ago. Before the other party could react, he walked to the side of patient X's bed and began to search on the table.
The loan shark president and honor student president behind him also started looking for him.
The room was very quiet, with only the rustling sound of turning pages. President Yan raised her eyebrows and did not express her opinion on this method, but she did not move. She seemed to be tired of standing, so she sat down on the bed on the other side, staring at Patient X's bed.
She could sense that the three people from President Xuan's side were being perfunctory when searching for clues, but she couldn't be sure whether this perfunctory attitude was simply because they couldn't find any clues, or for some other reason.
Yes, President Yan knew from the beginning that no useful clues would be found in this room. To be precise, the things that President Xuan was looking through should not contain any special clues that had not been discovered.
After all, as Nurse Zhang said just now, unlike the last escape where the real culprit was just discovered today, and they all died all at once, so the clues they could see were limited. Patient X had been disappearing at night since that day, and Nurse Zhang also said that they had tried many methods, which meant that this room alone had been turned over countless times. If there were clues on the things in plain sight that the doctors and nurses had not discovered yet, then President Yan would feel that the ultimate copy set up by the system was a bit too perfunctory.
But what President Xuan said just now was very true. Since the system only gives these many clues, it also means that there must be key clues that can complete the task. Based on this point, the fewer clues there are, the better it is for them, because they can focus on the truly useful information.
For example, the clue of the keen sense of smell came from Patient X himself, but he was not here now. They could not verify the clue or prove what kind of physical changes Patient X's keen sense of smell had brought about, so the scope was quickly narrowed down to this room.
And because of what Nurse Zhang said, all the visible tables, chairs, books on them, etc. were directly removed, so the remaining area was not much, after all, the room was only this big.
President Yan sat and thought for a while before she stood up and walked directly to the head of patient X's bed and began to touch along the snow-white wall. Her movements were cautious and careful, as she moved inch by inch along the head of the bed, first moving downwards inch by inch.
The snow-white walls of the hospital, whether inside or outside the room, did not make much difference. Especially after staying in this environment for a long time, one would feel dizzy and nauseous. One could not tell anything just by looking at it, so President Yan resorted to using his hands.
For Patient X, no matter what physical changes he has undergone or what abilities he has acquired, he can disappear from Area B at any time. From a general logical point of view, there may be two possibilities. The first possibility is the most acceptable, which is that there is a secret passage hidden in this ward that allows Patient X to come and go freely. After all, Nurse Zhang said that he always disappears here and comes back after dawn.
The second possibility is that Patient X himself possesses some special ability to cross space, just like President Alice's rabbit hole, which allows him to enter from one area to another. However, based on Nurse Zhang's description and the current situation, if Patient X has this ability, the distance he can cross is definitely much greater than that of President Alice. After all, whether he uses this ability subconsciously or uncontrollably, the destination on the other end is never somewhere in Area B.
President Yan had no way to confirm the special ability now, and judging from President Alice's own condition, this ability to move in space often caused a lot of noise, and Patient X couldn't have kept it secret so well every time. And according to Nurse Zhang, the medical staff who had been watching over Patient X at night had never noticed any big noise.
Therefore, President Yan now had to focus on screening the first possibility. If there really was a possible passage hidden in this room, President Yan's first target would be the white wall next to the bed.
Perhaps it was because of her overly focused expression, or perhaps it was because of her overly strange behavior, that she finally attracted the attention of the three presidents on the other side. President Xuan did not go to help, but his eyes were always on President Yan, interpreting the eight words of active observation and keeping still to the fullest.
However, this time President Yan's guess might have been wrong. She touched the white wall for most of the day, but seemed to find nothing except the coldness to her touch. Whether it was the white wall next to the head of the bed or the inside of the bed, President Yan touched it carefully inch by inch, but it seemed that the imagined passage did not exist.
The walls on both sides face the next ward on one side and the corridor on the other. In fact, from a physical point of view, there would be no passage. But a living person just disappeared under everyone's noses. President Yan felt that physics might not work here at all, or this passage was not in the physical sense.
But no matter what, we have to find a channel for this speculation to make sense. Judging from President Yan’s practice just now, this possibility was instantly reduced a lot.
While she was thinking, she retracted her bent body and tried to stand up again, but she didn't know whether it was because she had been bent for too long or she was too hasty in retracting her body. In any case, President Yan failed to stabilize her center of gravity, so when she wanted to stand up again, she had to reach out to Patient X's bed for support.
Not long after bedtime tonight, when they arrived at the ward, Patient X had disappeared just like before, which meant that he had not been missing for too long. When President Yan was looking for the hidden passage on the wall just now, he had been very careful and had not touched Patient X's bed. He had planned to turn over the patient's bed after finding no clues on the white wall to see if there would be other clues.
As a result, after burying one palm in the other's bed, President Yan instantly felt as if her hand was stuck in quicksand, constantly moving down. The touch was softer than an ordinary bed, and she could feel her palm sinking, not because of gravity, but more like there was a very soft, living thing that kept sinking her palm, but this feeling was not the feeling of being completely stuck in quicksand and unable to exert force.
Although she was very surprised, President Yan's face remained very calm. After standing up straight, she tried and found that her palm could be easily picked up. The strange situation on the bed did not seem to be dangerous. She lifted the cup and observed carefully, and found that it seemed that her palm sinking just now was just a dream, because everything seemed to be fine to the naked eye.
So she touched it again, but found that she could still feel the same feeling just now, but from the perspective, her hand was always on the bed, not wrapped up by anything, as if there was some transparent sand on the bed, dragging her palm deeper and deeper.
This time, President Yan did not move her hand away immediately. She wanted to see how deep her palm would sink in this situation. However, due to the stalemate between her own gravity and strength, this situation only lasted for a while. Those invisible flowing things seemed unable to drag herself deeper, and the two phases entered a stalemate.
This confrontation seemed a little weird in the eyes of a third party. For example, President Xuan noticed a few minutes ago that President Yan seemed to have a special feeling towards Patient X's bed. She watched President Yan staring at the bed in front of him with a perverted look, and reaching out his hand to feel the bed little by little, as if he was using this action to feel the other person's body temperature remaining on the bed. Even someone like President Xuan couldn't help but be shocked.
Then, before President Xuan could be more surprised, President Yan, for some unknown reason, closed her eyes and lay directly on the bed of patient X, whom she had just carefully explored.
Those medical staff must have dug up everything in the room, but they never thought of lying on patient X's bed and trying to find out where the problem lies. After figuring this out, President Yan lay down on the bed without hesitation.
Just like the touch of her palm just now, the moment she lay on the bed, she felt that the lifeless bed beneath her was a bit like memory latex, wrapping up her whole body. Tiny invisible things wrapped around her fingers little by little, causing her to sink into an unknown place.
But President Yan could clearly see that he was lying on the bed at this moment. Even from a third-party perspective, such a scene was actually a bit weird.
Soon, the invisible thing slowly wrapped around President Yan's mouth and nose. She felt like she was drowning, and her facial features were covered by a layer of translucent substance. She gradually couldn't see anything outside, but she could still breathe normally. Her limbs had been wrapped so tightly that she couldn't move or make any sound. Even the sounds around her were completely blocked out. She felt like she was wrapped in a huge balloon, unable to contact the outside world.
But President Yan could feel that she was not completely trapped because she was lying on the bed, or she did not find the special channel of Patient X, because she found that just like her palm, the sinking suddenly stopped after reaching a certain extent.
Why is it still wrong? President Yan was puzzled. She thought it was because she was simply standing, but now it seems that she has found the entrance, but there is still something missing.
She struggled to get up but found herself unable to move. She couldn't help wondering if she had messed up. However, the situation did not seem like she had triggered any bad consequences, because after all, there was no punishment. It was more like she had answered a question but was only half right, so she was stuck here.
Although her breathing was not restricted, the feeling of having her five senses restricted still made President Yan feel a little uncomfortable. The tip of her nose moved unconsciously, and then President Yan smelled a faint scent of grass. Her sense of taste was not very sensitive, so she felt that the smell was not obvious, and it felt a little vague. She could only rely on instinct to explore it.
It was as if she was trapped in a vast ocean, but at this moment she felt a rope like a western line thrown into the water. The rope could save her life but it was very weak and invisible. She had to grope for this thin line from the vast water system.
President Yan understood in an instant why Patient X had such a keen sense of smell. If this bed could be compared to a hidden secret passage, then although there was only one secret door, it was very likely that this passage would be discovered by himself or others, so other obstacles had to be set up. For example, there were thousands of different paths inside the secret door, but only one was the correct one, and only Patient X could find the real path through his keen sense of smell.
It was not known whether it was because President Yan had finally guessed the correct answer, or because she had tried hard to identify the scent of the grass, she had really found the direction. The restraints on her hands and feet were inexplicably loosened, and she found that her body was beginning to become very light, able to move according to her own thoughts. The originally blurry scene in front of her eyes began to become clear.
She found herself wandering in soft, pure white cotton, relying on the subtle scent of grass to find her direction. As she relied more and more on the smell, she found that the scent of grass became stronger and stronger. In a pure white space, she seemed to have finally found the source of the smell. As her fingers lightly touched a soft, cotton-like object, President Yan suddenly felt a strong sense of weightlessness. At the same time, she felt that something heavy seemed to be wrapped around her right ankle. She tried to break free, but failed.
The pure white cotton that was touched finally revealed a black hole-like passage inside. President Yan suddenly leaned sideways and fell in, along with the three people on his ankles, and they all entered another space.
After being silent for a while, the system finally issued a mechanical prompt sound.
【bite--
Warning, warning, you are about to enter Ward A. 】
President Yan was stunned for two breaths, seeming a little bit unbelievable. The other side of this passage was the location reported by the system. After all, in her opinion, it was understandable that Patient X wanted to leave the hospital or go to other rest areas. Yan Banquet couldn't understand why after all this, the other party wanted to go from Ward B to Ward A. This was very strange no matter how you looked at it.
And according to the previous popular science of the system, the level division in the Monster Hospital is very strict, especially between different wards. Unless someone like President Xuan comes to help, the prompt will state that they are not restricted by the ward during the mission. Now that they have broken into Area A, who knows what kind of chaos may arise?
Before President Yan could figure out what was going on, a white light suddenly flashed before her eyes. The moment she had to close her eyes, she heard a prompt from the system.
【bite--
Because Ward A is a restricted area, staff can only enter by disguising themselves as patients, and within this area, they are no longer subject to the rules and regulations that staff must abide by.
Tip: Please keep the side quest in mind and find patient X as soon as possible. 】
There was still a long corridor in front of me that seemed to have no end, but compared with the quietness of Area B, it was more lively here because there were several patients talking in the corridor, and the sound of playing mahjong in the ward next door.
President Yan looked down and found that his white coat had disappeared at some point. He was replaced by the uniform of patients with the number 212 embroidered on the chest.
Behind her were three unfamiliar faces, who looked as panicked as she did. The numbers 161, 178 and 250 were embroidered on their patient uniforms. When they saw President Yan suddenly turn around, the three of them were startled and stared at her face inexplicably.
President Yan quickly realized something and touched his face awkwardly. "The system changed our appearance. If we want to pretend to be a patient, we definitely can't use our own faces. How did you three get in?"
President Xuan was the first to react. He glanced at the 161 on his body and quickly understood what President Yan said, "Just now I saw you lying on the bed and something was wrong. You didn't respond when I called you, so I wanted to pull you down, but ended up being dragged in with you."
After saying that, he turned around and tried to find the passage they came from, but strangely, there were only wards and white walls all around, and there was no trace of a passage at all. He couldn't find the way they came at all.
"So is patient X in Area A right now? Should we look for him in each ward, or what should we do?"
The president of the top students was obviously not used to the face of Patient No. 178. He touched his face with some discomfort, "Will we run into a patient who looks exactly like us? Will we be exposed?"
There were patients gathered in groups of three or four in the corridor talking, so the four of them were not too abrupt. However, after hearing this, President Xuan and President Yan did not answer immediately. They both seemed to realize something at the same time.
In the end, it was President Xuan who spoke first, "President Yan, there are a lot of patients and wards here. Why don't we search separately? If we have any clues, can we use the communication channel to contact each other?"
President Yan looked at the other party's half-smiled face, listened to his half-hearted words, and thought of the system's prompt just now. They were now disguised as patients and entered Area A. Here, they were no longer restricted by the rules and regulations that the staff had to abide by, which meant that the original levels between them had no binding force here. She had already guessed what President Xuan wanted to do to avoid her, so she had to put on a perfunctory face and responded, "Okay."
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