Chapter 324 Monster Hospital (Twenty-three)
False C ward.
President Barbie, Twelve and Nineteen all agreed that outside the path blocked by the scattered black shadows, there should be what they need. After all, the room behind them had been searched, and Twelve discovered a black, sticky liquid spreading in the ward like gastric juice.
No matter how they looked at it now, their way out should be in the rooms hidden behind the black shadows. They quickly decided that instead of leaving the main force here with pursuers in front and behind, it would be less dangerous for them to break through the black shadows in front together.
After all, the threat posed by the scattered shadows was smaller, and it was difficult for them to swallow so many people at once. Moreover, they had to be careful not to let the shadows completely merge. Soon the formation was readjusted.
President Barbie and Nineteen led the way in front, using small bombs to blast open a passage. Xiaodao commanded the other players, using electric lights in the middle to illuminate the area where the players were. Twelve was at the end of the team, guarding against the black slime catching up with them, and at the same time paying attention to prevent the eager black shadows around them from gathering together.
Because they had to search the wards along the way while constantly breaking up the shadows that would reunite if they were not careful, after a while, the players on the periphery were all more or less injured. The small shadows stained the skin, and although they would not drag the players into the shadows all at once, the shadows were still corrosive, so the players had to cut off the flesh that came into contact with the shadows with a knife the moment they were touched, and then use potions to restore it to its original appearance.
During this process, Xiaodao experienced for the first time what the "rich and inhumane" big guilds meant. She was originally worried about the neutral small guild players like them, as they would soon run out of potions due to insufficient points. She was also worried about the players in the guild alliance, who would squander money carelessly and the lights would break one after another, and soon this place would be shrouded in complete darkness, and they would be at a loss what to do.
But when she checked the control panels of several other neutral players and received the points from Twelve, which allowed her to use the points for several copies without considering the consequences, she felt the feeling of being 'kept' for the first time, and the other party was a domineering president with inexhaustible resources.
She finally understood why the players from a guild alliance could be hopelessly defeated in so many dungeons. Although points were definitely not a major reason, sufficient logistical support could improve the players' performance in the dungeons to a certain extent.
At this time, President Barbie and Nineteen and the others finally found something interesting in a ward.
"Is there only one wooden box under the bed in this room?" Twelve used the light of the electric lamp to see the redwood alley that was out of tune with the room. She did not drag the box out rashly, but used a few detection props and did not find any problems. She was very confused, "I don't know if I am overthinking. I was anxious when there were no clues. Now that the clue is in front of me, I still feel that something is wrong."
Twelve's attack skill is the strongest here. When she found the box just now, she temporarily handed over the task of observing the black liquid to Mocha Meng, and started to observe under the bed before President Barbie and Nineteen.
"I think the same as you do." Nineteen knew what Twelve was suspecting. Although she was restricted from getting close, she was very active in speaking. "The clues given by the system will not be so obvious. Usually, when they are so obvious, they are more like a trap."
It's never wrong to be cautious, especially now that they are being attacked from all sides and cannot afford to make any mistakes. Moreover, after crossing the barrier of black shadows, they found that another section of black liquid was also approaching, and the encirclement would only get smaller and smaller. They don't have any more time to waste here.
Twelve quickly made up his mind, "You two stay away, I'll drive."
As soon as she finished speaking, she swung the whip and dragged the mahogany box out from under the bed. The swirling air seemed to carry a faint scent of grass. Twelve blocked the door of the ward with his entire body, cutting off all the players' connection with the ward. Then, after signaling to President Barbie, he rolled the handle with the whip and opened the box.
There seemed to be a ball of soft mist in the box, which completely dispersed and temporarily blocked Twelve's vision. She subconsciously closed her eyes, but instantly felt that there was something else wrapped in the soft mist. She wanted to turn her head to avoid it, but when she thought of the other players behind her, she instinctively swung the whip, trying to catch the thing in the mist, but the thing was very light and nimble. It seemed to disperse as soon as the whip touched it, and when the whip was withdrawn, it flew towards Twelve's heart again. She swung the whip quickly in her hand to block the first wave of attacks, and then she had the chance to open her eyes.
What was wrapped in the fog was not a weapon that looked very aggressive, but a black flower. There seemed to be some markings on the petals, but because the color of the flower was too dark, Twelve could not see clearly.
Soon the flower attacked again. This time Nan Huan saw clearly that it seemed to want to drill into his heart. The moment the whip touched the flower, it dissipated, just like those black shadows, turning into black mist, and then gathered again and continued to stick to people.
This thing wanted to embed itself into a person's heart. Twelve quickly guessed its intention and closed the door of the ward behind him. "If I don't come out in two minutes, you will seal this ward and find the next one."
The box was a clue left for them by the system, but not everything in the box was useful. Twelve understood it instantly. And looking at the posture of the flower, what effect would it have when entering the player's body? Twelve did not dare to try it rashly, but no matter how he thought about it, it would not be a good thing.
She knew that her fighting power was the best among all the players. If she couldn't deal with such a flower, then the others would definitely be in danger. Fortunately, when the flower attacked for the second time, Twelve thought of a possible solution.
From her observation, this flower seemed to have a spirit, and it invaded the human body by instinct. It could not be captured or destroyed for the time being, but while Twelve was dodging, she saw the wooden box on the ground.
The system has set up two obstacles for their task that cannot be completely solved. One is a black sticky liquid like gastric juice, and the other is a black shadow that can swallow them at any time, attacking them from the front and back. In the end, no matter whether the liquid completely swallows this place or the black shadow completely merges into one, they will definitely die.
To this extent, the system will add some information to increase the difficulty of their search for useful clues, but this information is definitely not a dead end. Although the black flower seems to have no solution at the moment, Twelve just released it from the wooden box with her own hands. Although she is not sure whether the black flower can penetrate the walls and doors, at least when she didn't open the box just now, the flower could not come out, which means that the black flower can be trapped in the box.
The ready-made tools are here. Even if we can't kill it, it will be fine as long as we don't let it threaten the players to find useful clues for the time being.
Twelve was young, small in stature, and very agile. If she ignored external factors such as physical strength and space, Twelve could ensure that she would not be attacked. She flexibly dodged the black flower's attack again, turned around and stood in front of the box, kicked her right foot back, and did a light backflip, and the box fell into her hands. At this time, the black flower was flying towards her heart again, but when it was close at hand, Twelve quickly put it back into the box.
There was no lock on the outside of the box, only a buckle. After fastening the buckle for a long time, he slowly let go of his hand and observed the movement of the box. After discovering that there was no unusual movement of the box and confirming that the black flower could not break open the box and come out to attack the player with its own strength, he slowly breathed a sigh of relief and opened the door.
The faces of President Barbie and Nineteen outside the door were becoming more and more heavy as time went by. Just now, when no one could react, the door was closed by Twelve. Nineteen was about to open the door immediately, but was blocked by President Barbie.
"She must have found that thing difficult to deal with, so she asked us to wait outside the door," President Barbie didn't know what was going on, but as the president and the backbone of everyone, she couldn't do things based on emotions. "Too many people would be disadvantageous to her. You have to stay calm. We have to trust her..."
As time passed, the players felt more and more depressed. The shadows that were constantly being dispersed were like dark clouds hanging over everyone's heads. Fortunately, this feeling did not last too long, and the door of the ward was finally opened.
The box was left in the room by Twelve. She tried to seal the box with props but failed, so she simply sealed up the entire ward and marked it.
"You said it was intentionally trying to attack the player's heart?" Twelve described the state of the black flower found in the ward and reminded all the players. Nineteen was a little curious about the attack form of this flower. "I think the slime and black shadows set by the system are already a big obstacle. They will swallow us up in a minute. What is this flower used for? It doesn't look like it wants to kill us. In this case, isn't the system a bit redundant?"
Twelve couldn't figure it out for the time being. "I don't know why the system created a flower, but from this point of view, the useful information we are looking for must be in the box. There should be boxes in other wards as well. After we find them later, everyone be careful and let me open them..."
Although it is not clear what the black flowers are used for, fortunately there is a solution, so the players are still in a relatively relaxed mood. After all, the next task is much easier and they just need to find the box.
If the system was a concrete person, Twelve felt that it must be a person with a very bad taste. After all, the way it arranged the boxes was really irritating. Sometimes they would find boxes in several wards in a row, and sometimes there would be nothing in several wards in a row.
After Twelve had lost count of how many boxes he had opened and how many flowers he had paid attention to, he finally found something different in the box.
She sat on the ground, panting slightly. The huge pressure and long-term physical exercise still made her a little out of breath. She finally found something different. She really didn't want to move at all. She rolled the door handle with the whip and opened the door. "I found it. There is no danger, but this thing...how to say it, it's a bit childish."
President Barbie couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief, but after hearing what Twelve said, she didn't dare to relax completely. After searching for so long, she finally found something. It was not until she saw the thing that looked like a paper cup in Twelve's hand that she finally understood what the other party meant by "childish".
Because it was a pure white paper cup with a white thread connected to the bottom of the cup, and the other end of the thin thread extended from the bottom of the box. Twelve didn't dare to use too much force, but still tried it a little and found that the thread was extremely thin but very tough, and it didn't look like it could be easily torn apart.
"What is this?"
Twelve was replenishing his nutrients nearby, staring at President Barbie, "Isn't it that the system made the cups for us so that we can drink more water during our breaks?"
She prayed in her heart that the system wouldn't be so boring and wouldn't stuff boring things into the dangerous box. Then when would it find them?
"There is a string under the cup, it should not be used for drinking water..." President Barbie was also very confused. She thought of many clues that might be found in the box, such as waking up the unknown person who was having dinner in his sleep, but she never expected to get this thing.
"That..." A troubled voice suddenly came from the crowd, "This thing seems to be the kind of pretend telephone we played with when we were kids. The sound can be transmitted through the Western Front..."
The injury on Xiaodao's foot had not fully recovered, but it was much better than before. She looked at the people in the middle of the room who were frowning around the box with a look that said, "Don't you have a childhood?" She spoke only when she could no longer hold back.
【bite--
Congratulations to the player for discovering the prop - paper cup microphone.
It can make calls within a fixed area. Wish you a pleasant call.
Tip 1: Tap the bottom of the paper cup three times to automatically dial.
Tip 2: The phone can only be dialed once every three hours, and each call lasts five minutes. Please dial with caution. 】
President Barbie and Twelve didn't have time to pursue any childhood experiences. When they heard the system prompt, they knew that Kojima's guess was correct. The only difference was that the call would not be to the person who ate dinner in his sleep, after all, the other person should be asleep now.
But no matter how you look at it, this should be a hint from the system to them. The fixed area means they have no choice, so in other words, the system has chosen a helper for them. They are now controlled in this virtual Ward C and there is no way to wake that person up, so this important task has to be handed over to someone else.
It would be much easier if the person who answered the phone in that area was one of their own.
But if he is not a member of their alliance, it will be difficult to deal with.
President Barbie couldn't help but think deeply about it. After all, this call concerned the fate of so many of them.
Area A.
Nan Huan had guessed what Bei Xi was going to do the moment Bei Xi asked the Dragon God Hel to summon lightning, so he did not try to stop him. However, he was still very surprised to see that Bei Xi's actions actually led to other unexpected consequences.
It was not difficult to guess that President Xuan and his two companions wanted to kill herself and Bei Xi. Nan Huan believed that Bei Xi, like herself, had no intention of taking revenge on them. After all, she and Bei Xi had already anticipated the attack from President Xuan and his companions, and they were just playing along with them. She was not in any danger. She knew that Bei Xi cared more about the rules of the system and how deep the restrictions on her were now.
After opening this ultimate copy with the fragments of the totem of faith, she clearly felt that Bei Xi was different, but the two of them had not found a suitable opportunity to discuss this matter since entering the copy, so Nan Huan did not ask any questions.
However, they did not expect that the collusion between President Xuan and the evil god was deeper than they imagined. At least since entering the ward, Nan Huan did not find anything strange on the three of them. But at the moment of the lightning attack just now, she watched with her own eyes that the area around President Xuan's chest was immediately invaded by black air. It seemed as if that thing had been staying there all the time, and soon it occupied most of their bodies.
These black air were not the black air that Nanhuan could absorb. They were more like some kind of source of infection. They quickly healed the injuries of President Xuan and the other two. In full view of everyone, they opened a black vortex and snatched the people away directly.
But the strange thing was that the black vortex did not completely disappear. Instead, a few wisps of black gas spread out from the vortex and transformed into a few black flowers floating in the air.
After the lightning and water vapor in the air all dissipated, the entire layout of the room reappeared, and patients No. 151 and No. 111, who had been blinded by the water vapor just now, finally came to their senses.
Those black flowers, like cubs that had just separated from the main body, showed a little confusion, as if they didn't know what to do for a moment, but they reacted after a moment.
It seemed that he could sense the unusual aura from the eldest lady and the president, so he did not attack them at first, but instead rushed directly towards the two extra people in the room.
Patients No. 151 and No. 111 both have special abilities, but whether they didn’t react or for some other reason, they didn’t take any action and didn’t even plan to disperse.
After all, Bei Xi and Nan Huan had just arrived, and they did not expect that these things would cause trouble to the patients in Ward A. Moreover, the patients here were, in a way, quite easy to get along with, so both of them subconsciously wanted to save people.
However, they did not expect that the black flowers attacked the two people. When they were about one meter away from them, a very faint golden light appeared on the bodies of patients No. 111 and No. 151 at the same time, which directly bounced the black flowers away.
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