Chapter 345 Monster Hospital (Forty-four)
Perhaps because he had just seen a lot of strange behaviors, Patient No. 111 did not object to the measures proposed by Nan Huan and decided to share them with other patients.
However, when he heard that they had a protective shield that could temporarily prevent them from being infected by the source of infection, his expression was blank for a moment, as if he remembered something, but returned to normal after a second.
Nan Huan and Bei Xi both noticed that this behavior was not intentional on the part of Patient No. 111. It seemed to be his subconscious behavior, and it seemed that he was unable to remember certain things due to some restrictions.
The two knew that this might be a limitation imposed on patients by the system, so they did not question Patient No. 111 further.
The activity time on the schedule was two hours, but thanks to Bei Xi and Nan Huan figuring out the system's intentions too early, the two of them didn't even stay in the activity room for an hour. There was still more than an hour before dinner, and less than three hours since the last call, so the two finally decided to go back to the room to rest for a while and integrate the information they had obtained.
For the entire day, they had been completing various side quests. The intensity of the side quests they had experienced was unprecedented in other copies, and it was extremely demanding both physically and mentally. The two were not made of iron, so they naturally felt tired. Although Nan Huan was not physically exhausted, his face was already very tired because his body had not fully recovered.
After returning to the ward, she wanted to discuss something with Bei Xi, but she was pushed onto the bed without explanation and held in her arms. "Sleep for a while, and we can talk after you wake up. If you continue like this, we will not be able to hold on before the game is released. Besides, there are so many players outside, they are counting on you, you can't sleep for yourself alone."
Nan Huan originally wanted to retort, but after hearing this, she couldn't say anything in rebuttal. Bei Xi's arms were warm and comfortable, and soon her tiredness came over her. She closed her eyes in the familiar embrace and decided to have a good sleep to recuperate.
It was not until more than an hour later that Bei Xi took the sleepy Nan Huan to sit on the chair in the restaurant. She finally woke up slowly. The moment the noisy voices rushed into her mind, the plate that Bei Xi was holding fell in front of her. "Maybe they think this is the last copy, so the food arranged by the system is not bad."
Bei Xi joked and touched Nan Huan's head, "Are you awake? Eat something. You didn't eat much at noon."
After hearing what Bei Xi said, Nan Huan actually felt a little hungry. She had just slept very soundly and felt hungry when she woke up. She nodded but didn't say anything. However, while eating, her eyes kept wandering around the restaurant, as if she was looking for someone.
But after a few seconds, Bei Xi held him down, "Don't look around. Patient No. 151 is sick. Patient No. 111 has arranged for someone to send him dinner. He has been staying in the room and his face looks very bad. He may have been affected by the infection. I just went to see him and he is not pretending."
"Is he sick?" Nan Huan had been sleeping soundly and had no idea that Bei Xi had been out. However, he was a little surprised to hear the whole news. "Shouldn't he be confused? What's the matter with him suddenly getting sick?"
"You forgot that he was already feeling unwell after the treatment this morning. It's also possible that the system noticed our excessive attention to No. 151, so it didn't want to activate him anymore. Besides, the incident in the activity room has already happened, and he can't do anything for the time being."
Bei Xi was not too worried about the current condition of Patient 151. "They have no other treatment today. Patient 151's condition will not get worse. I think we should worry about ourselves first than him."
"Do you think there will be any more trouble tonight?"
They were almost done eating. Nan Huan put down the cutlery in his hand and tilted his head to look at Bei Xi. "Is it because that 10% hasn't worked yet? Maybe something will happen in the game tonight?"
Bei Xi's eyes froze when he heard the word '10 percent', but soon returned to normal. "Not only that, I always feel that this 3S ultimate copy is simpler than I thought, or so far, there is no real dead end?"
Nan Huan did not notice the strangeness in Bei Xi's expression, and was quickly diverted by what Bei Xi said, "You think that in the previous dungeons, the evil god tried to kill us several times, but in this dungeon, the pace suddenly slowed down. Something is wrong?"
Nan Huan naturally understood what Bei Xi meant. In fact, she had always had this feeling. She had been on high alert since entering the dungeon, but unexpectedly, this dungeon was much more relaxed than she had imagined. However, she was still very vigilant, always feeling that this relaxation seemed to contain some kind of power that was about to explode.
The two exchanged their views, but failed to come up with a reasonable explanation for the time being. Coincidentally, at this time, the phone that Nan Huan had been waiting for finally rang.
"The situation is not bad. To be precise, it is not worse." The moment President Yan heard the eldest lady answer the phone, his heart was a little relieved. He first communicated the situation here truthfully, and then felt that his tone was like a mourning bird, so he had to make a joke, "I am very happy to hear that you and President Yi are safe, even though our phone call is like the sound of death to you."
"I have found a reason to close the staff lounge in Area B. It didn't cause any major controversy." After all, President Yan is the attending physician in charge of Area B. This is not an overstepping of authority. "Just now, after I completed my mission, a staff member I arranged came to report that several infected people on the list you gave wanted to approach the staff lounge. After being stopped by the bar, they did not continue to approach. There is no abnormality in the lounge for the time being."
This situation surprised Nan Huan and Bei Xi. They originally thought that other wards would be the same as Area A, with infected people and some actions taken close to the source of infection to allow players to enter the mission, but it was obvious that this was not the case in Area B.
"What is your side quest? Is it related to the source of infection? Has the degree of infection between you and President Qian increased? Are there any other adverse reactions in your body?"
Nan Huan asked further, wanting to know why President Yan did not trigger a similar task as theirs.
"It has nothing to do with the source of infection. It's just a general treatment mission. The infection level of both of us has not increased. President Qian has completed his mission this time. His body has no other adverse reactions. It's just that his thinking is a little slower, but it's not enough to affect his actions. The reactions of other infected people are different. Some are bedridden and their faces are pale. The specific other conditions after the infection require further investigation."
After several communications, Nan Huan and President Yan already understood the basic situation, so apart from the new situation, they didn't have as many things to communicate as before. Nan Huan did not hesitate to tell President Yan the details of the task she and Bei Xi had triggered in the activity room, and that both of them had been infected.
"So as long as the infection level does not exceed 30%, you can temporarily maintain a relatively clear mind and consciousness?" President Yan got important information, but was also very surprised. "You triggered the side quest about the source of infection. Could it be because in the previous mission, you had some contact in the acting dean's office, but all our information came from you, and there was no actual contact, so no actual quest related to the source of infection was triggered?"
"Of course there is this possibility. It would be good if it could be avoided. However, we have already opened a door, so we are a little worried about whether it will affect the infection sources in other wards. However, in addition to the possibility you mentioned, we still suspect that the infection sources may be waking up one after another."
Nan Huan and Bei Xi had the same idea. "From the records of the Acting Dean, we know that only the infection source in the biochemical area has awakened and entered the active period. As for the infection source in the Acting Dean's office, I tend to think that it has not awakened. However, we opened the safe and the subsequent situation is unknown. Then, we entered the activity room and opened the door. The system told us that the door could no longer be completely closed and could only be temporarily opened. This means..."
"It means that the awakening of the source of infection is inevitable, but you have slowed down the process." President Yan naturally understood what the two meant. "But why don't you speed up the process directly? Instead, why do you suddenly slow it down at this time? This is a bit strange, isn't it?"
President Yan was indeed a smart man. He thought of all these in just a few words. However, Nan Huan and Bei Xi had no idea of the reason for this question. The call was almost over, and Nan Huan remembered something else. "Do you have any other plans after dinner? The kind that might trigger a side quest?"
Nan Huan originally wanted to remind President Yan to be careful at night. She was worried that something strange might happen to the system at night, but she didn't expect to get a very unexpected answer.
"No, neither the staff nor the patients in Area B have any other schedules at night. They just rest at night. Since you asked this, it means that you two have other plans at night. Is it just you two, or do all the patients in Area A have other plans?"
President Yan's expression turned serious again, and he intuitively knew that he would not hear the answer he liked.
"Only the two of us have it," Nan Huan was silent for a moment before choosing to answer, "Don't worry, the two of us can handle it. We'll still call at the usual time, and we can update you if there's any new information. Even if you don't have any plans for the evening, you'd better be cautious when you go to bed."
After both parties gave each other their final instructions, the phone call ended on time.
Less than a minute later, President Barbie called.
"There are no casualties for now, but some players at President Xuan's place are in bad condition," President Barbie didn't have time to waste time. She said two simple sentences to explain the current situation in Area C. "The observation room is not a restricted area. It does not restrict the entry of staff and patients. Before you reminded us that there was an infection source in this place, the flow of people could not be determined, but I thought of a way to make some noise, so that no one can enter that place temporarily. There are also our people guarding it. Several infected people tried to get close and were driven away. I thought that maybe someone had gotten close before, which should have triggered a quest, but strangely, it didn't. The side quest triggered this time has nothing to do with the infection source, and it is a single-player side quest, but the result is that the situation is not too good. The infection level of some players has reached 20%."
"The first thing that players who are infected show is that their thinking is somewhat slow. For players whose infection rate is between 100% and 20%, it has already affected their performance in the mission."
President Barbie must have gathered all the information long ago and was waiting to save time when making the phone call, so the information is very detailed.
Nan Huan also told her the general situation of the side quest that she and Bei Xi triggered in Ward A, just like he did to President Yan just now.
"Then our people here should have many opportunities to enter the observation room. Why didn't we trigger any missions related to the source of infection? Why does it feel like the central mission has isolated us outside, leaving only you and the president to face these dangers?"
President Barbie's analysis of the problem was a bit tricky, so Nan Huan was stuck for a moment, and laughed helplessly, "Isn't that great? Why are you rushing to a dangerous place? The situation is unclear now. You ask our people to do their best to complete the mission and not increase the infection rate."
"We know that Twelve and the others are also worried about your condition, so you should be careful too."
President Barbie knew that the eldest lady wanted to comfort them, and after both parties had explained all the information that needed to be explained, she still took the responsibility of asking them to take care of themselves and agreed on a time for the next phone call.
Dinner and rest time were almost over, and the two returned to the ward. Nan Huan had been staring at the schedule behind the door, and for a while he was a little curious, "Patient No. 111 said last night that he had not seen any staff since he came to Area A. Who do you think we will see in the 'doctor-patient interview time' later? It's not going to be a video interview for me, right?"
"Probably not," Bei Xi was very sure, "Then it's not called an interview."
"I have a bad feeling in my heart."
"I have one too, and I think that in this interview, one doctor shouldn't be facing two patients."
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Nan Huan didn't quite understand what Bei Xi meant by 'one doctor shouldn't be facing two patients'. She thought that they might have to wait for one person's interview to finish before the other person could go in. But before she had the chance to think about who should go in first, she watched her and Bei Xi being assigned to interview rooms separately, and when the interview time was up, the two were separated without any explanation and sent to the interview room at the same time.
Nan Huan came back to her senses from her distracted state. Before she could carefully observe the warm-toned room, she saw Bei Xi sitting behind the table opposite her. However, Bei Xi did not look at her with the familiar eyes. Instead, her expression and body language showed another kind of impatience, so that she easily found a familiar shadow in the other person. Then, the impatience was transferred to Nan Huan's face as if it was contagious.
"I don't like you using her face to talk to me. Change your face back to your own."
Nan Huan's face didn't look good, and her voice was very low. She rarely showed her emotions so openly, especially her fingers that were resting on the edge of the table. The finger bones were a little white. It was obvious that she really wanted to punch the person opposite her directly, for various reasons.
Bei Xi's expression flashed with a hint of annoyance, as if the other party had gotten there first. He simply crossed his arms and leaned back in his chair. "I really like looking at your face, as long as you don't say anything and don't look at me like that. It's a pity to have such a good skin on you."
Bei Xi said this sincerely, and he wished he could dig out Nan Huan's soul buried in his body and replace it with another one he liked.
But the moment she opened her mouth, Nan Huan put away his unhappy look and put on a nonchalant look, with his hands on the table and his upper body leaning towards Bei Xi. "It must be very uncomfortable for you not to use the look you like. Thinking this way, I can force myself to look at your face that is very similar to Bei Xi's. After all, only you are uncomfortable. I can still use Bei Xi's face to refresh my eyes. And who knows, maybe the evil god next door is very happy. She should like Bei Xi's face very much. This time we finally have a chance to be alone together."
"You——" Bei Xi was about to grab Nan Huan's collar when she heard her blatant provocation, especially the last sentence she said, but she held back in the end, with only a gloomy look in her eyes.
Nan Huan looked indifferent and leaned back in his chair lazily, as if he was sure that Man Wugui would not dare to take action in this room.
Yes, from the moment she entered the room, she recognized that the 'Bei Xi' sitting opposite her was Man Wugui. Half of what she said in the first sentence was sincere, because she didn't want the other party to talk to her with a face exactly like Bei Xi, but the other half was to test. Before, Man Wugui always appeared in front of the two of them in other appearances, and Nan Huan had also heard the other party express his disgust for Bei Xi's face, and the evil god liked Man Wugui's appearance. So when given a choice, Nan Huan felt that the other party would not choose to appear here as 'Bei Xi', so she tested him with a sentence. Sure enough, after such sarcastic words, she did not return to her original appearance, and acquiesced to her guess.
It's not that she doesn't want to use her original appearance, but when she is in this room, playing the role of a doctor interviewing a patient, she can only use Bei Xi's appearance.
So why does the system use such settings? It shouldn't be so stupid as to think that just because I'm facing a face exactly like Bei Xi, I would mistake Man Wugui for Bei Xi. That would be too blind.
But if this was not the reason, why was Man Wugui restricted here? What was the purpose of this interview? Why was Man Wugui suddenly brought to the surface and became such a part of the game?
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