Chapter 330 Monster Hospital (Twenty-nine)
The moment Bei Xi opened her eyes, a black iron axe had already reached the neck of Patient No. 111. Fortunately, she reacted quickly enough and did not directly cut the patient's neck. "Why is it you? What time is it now?"
The anger on her face disappeared in an instant, but she felt something was wrong because the other person had been standing beside her bed for a long time and she had no reaction at all. At this time, Nan Huan in her arms also slowly woke up.
Patient No. 111 did not react to Bei Xi's panicked behavior, but his face revealed another expression of wanting to say something but stopping himself. "It's already past nine o'clock. Even if the party last night was a little late, you guys are too sleepy. How come I couldn't wake you up after such a long time?"
He didn't say this to get a clear answer, as if he was just asking casually, and then his expression became serious, "I don't know if it's because someone was infected last night, so the hospital has made a new treatment plan for the patients in Area A. I happened to pass by your room, and I was afraid that you two didn't know, so I came in to take a look. But your treatment seems to start at 11 o'clock, so you should still make it in time."
As he spoke, he turned sideways and looked towards the door. Following his gaze, Bei Xi and Nan Huan simultaneously saw a schedule behind the door. The distance was a bit far, so Nan Huan could not see the schedule listed on the paper clearly for the time being. With his groggy brain, he extracted important information from the words of Patient No. 111.
"Didn't you say yesterday that there were no doctors in Area A and that patients didn't need treatment?" Nan Huan yawned and sat up from the bed, a little confused, "Why did this thing pop up again today?"
This is a bit strange. After all, before going to bed last night, she was still thinking that she and Bei Xi were in Area A without any restrictions and would have time to search for the nutrition cabin area and the biochemical area. As a result, as soon as she opened her eyes, she had to go to a fixed time. This turn seemed a little unexpected.
Patient No. 111 also spread his hands. "I don't know either. The medicine that usually arrives in the morning didn't show up today. Instead, there was a timetable behind the door. Many patients didn't take it seriously at first, but when the time came, they were still forced to go to the treatment room. Anyway, there's no way to avoid it. You two should get up quickly. You can still get something to eat first."
After explaining all this, he said that he came out during a break and had to rush back to his treatment room as soon as possible. Nan Huan knew that the system wanted to use the message he conveyed to get to the right place, so he didn't force it. At this time, Bei Xi had already taken the schedule posted on the back of the door.
Schedule of patients No. 110 and No. 1076 in ward No. xx on xx/xx/xx
10:00-11:00 Electric shock therapy;
11:00-13:00 Lunch and rest time;
13:00-15:00 Hypnotherapy;
15:00-17:00 Free time;
17:00-19:00 Dinner and rest time;
19:00-20:00 Doctors and patients meet for a talk;
20:00-22:00 Self-reflection time;
22:00 Bedtime;
Nan Huan was shocked by the strangeness of the schedule. She rubbed her eyes to make sure she was not mistaken, then sighed and looked at Bei Xi, "I thought being a patient would be easier, but I didn't expect there would be so many schedules?"
This was just a joke. She quickly sat up on the bed and said, "Why do you think the system came up with a new treatment plan? Is it simply because we, the new patients, have entered the hospital? Or is it like what Patient 111 said, because there were infected people last night and someone entered the biochemical area?"
"The infection caused to President Yan by entering A was not eliminated by completing the mission. If the system or the game wanted to control all the infected people, whether they are staff or patients, they could have controlled all the infected people together according to the severity of their symptoms. However, it did not do so. Instead, it allowed the infected people to return to the ward. Although in Ward B, except for the two players, President Yan and President Qian, the rest were the original patients and staff of the hospital, the prompt given by the system last night indicated that there is no longer 100% immunity. Therefore, although it is not certain whether President Yan himself will become the source of infection, from this known clue, the system's arrangement of these new treatment plans should not be for screening people who have been infected.
All those who were related to the infection were immediately asked by the system to leave our ward, and they were not allowed to have any contact with the players. Even the patient in face 111 could not get any information about the infection. At least from this perspective, at least for now, the system does not want us to know too much about the infection, but it also gave us a hint that infection is an important indicator. This seemingly contradictory information..."
"These treatment plans indicate the possibility of attempting to infect patients or staff."
Nan Huan added at the right time that President Xuan and the other two were not dead, and it was not difficult for the evil god to kill a player, so there was no need to create the noise of last night and take the three away and kill them. In other words, it needed some infected players, or patients, or staff. Although it was not clear what use they could be, since the evil god was willing to spend so much effort, it must not be a good thing. Nan Huan easily thought of increasing the infection of players. After all, the system's attitude towards infection was still too neutral, and it was hard to tell whether it was good or bad.
"In addition to this, there are two other things worth noting on this schedule," Bei Xi and Nan Huan had the same guess, but if all treatments were deliberately designed, it would be too aggressive, so she quickly found two abrupt places on the schedule, "One is the interview time with the doctor. Patient No. 111 has said since yesterday that no staff has ever come to A. This may be a variable. The other is the self-reflection time at night. Generally, self-reflection is usually used after making a mistake. So far, I haven't thought of what mistakes we might make?"
“Maybe I was forced to make some mistakes during the treatment,” Nan Huan stroked his chin, looking at the time periods and names of the two treatments, with naked disgust flashing across his face, “What I care about more is that the first treatment looked very painful…”
But no matter whether it hurts or not, the two have no choice. After all, as Patient No. 111 said, if they do not appear in the correct treatment room by then, the system should force them to appear.
Nan Huan didn't like this feeling, so he simply got up and prepared to go to Clinic No. 216 where the electroshock therapy was performed after he and Bei Xi had something to eat.
"How did you sleep last night? Did you have a nightmare? I noticed you didn't look very well when you woke up this morning." Bei Xi woke up a little earlier than Nan Huan. Although she didn't sleep well either, she was still a little worried when she saw Nan Huan's bad complexion. "I just checked the room again and there was nothing strange. The reason why we slept so soundly should be forced by the system."
Bei Xi kept remembering the nightmare she had just had. Since she didn't have any other side effects, she felt that it was a bit of a waste of the system to set them up to sleep soundly just to have a nightmare.
"It was a nightmare, but it was very real," Nan Huan did not hide it, but did not elaborate. "It gave me a bad feeling. Be careful when you act later."
Nan Huan did not say it explicitly, but his overly cautious instructions made Bei Xi roughly understand the content of his dream. She nodded and agreed, then took Nan Huan's hand and went out.
Ward A was still very quiet, and there were few people in the wards I passed by. It seemed that everyone was already receiving treatment.
They arrived five minutes earlier than the start time of the treatment. Their original intention was to check if there was anything strange in the ward and take precautions in advance, but they were obviously overthinking it, because the treatment room 216 was even cleaner than their ward. There were only two wooden chairs facing each other, with several abdominal bands tied on the backs of the chairs, and two half-wrapped helmets on the chairs, which were connected to wires. Apart from these, there were no other things or decorations.
It seems that just like the schedule, I can only talk to the doctor face to face during special time periods, and the rest of the time it is self-service.
Nan Huan and Bei Xi had no tendency to self-abuse, so they just leaned against the wall of the clinic until exactly ten o'clock, when they were pressed down on a chair by an invisible force, tied with inescapable restraints, and made to wear helmets.
The helmet was heavy and the straps were tight. Since this was a set procedure in the system, Nan Huan knew that he could not break free by his own strength. He simply adjusted his sitting position and leaned back on the chair to disperse some of the force and make himself less uncomfortable.
"Some functions on the control panel are out of service," Bei Xi said. She checked the control panel for a moment. "The pain relief items, nutrients, and medicines are all unusable. It seems that there will be simple corporal punishment. Are you okay?"
Bei Xi had a higher tolerance for pain, but Nan Huan was in poor health. If possible, she didn't want him to do the entire task. While speaking, she was trying to find a usable weapon to see if she could break free from the restraints.
Nan Huan noticed her intention and shook his head at her. "Don't be impulsive. No mission means no clues. I will tell you if you can't hold on any longer. I don't think the system tied us here just to make us suffer."
As soon as the words came out, they both felt a surge of electricity.
The moment Nanhuan was electrocuted, he truly understood why this kind of electric shock was used as a tool of punishment in the past, because what you can feel is not just pain. The damage caused by some instruments will be weakened by avoiding or protecting by fat, but the electric current will not. It will invade a corner of your body, and the pain it brings is long-lasting and will not go away for a long time.
Nan Huan took a few seconds to confirm that the current on the helmet was not continuous, but would stop for a few seconds every ten seconds to allow the person being electrocuted to experience the feeling carefully before starting again.
Because the solar plexus is the position closest to electric current, Nan Huan can feel that the most painful position is there, as if there are an endless stream of leeches, constantly drilling through the skin and entering his body from the same position on his body.
At first, she was able to keep her eyes open and look in Beixi's direction, listening to her talking to try to divert her attention, but soon her eyes were covered with tears. She could not see Beixi's appearance clearly, and even seemed a little dazed by her calls.
Could it be that the system simply wanted herself and Bei Xi to be tortured? There was no mission, just a simple electric shock. Her soul had been somewhat detached, so she had to think of some questions to try to divert her attention and relieve the pain in her body.
The cold sweat on her forehead ran down the corners of Nan Huan's eyes. She tried hard to open her eyes and tried to find some clues in the few seconds she had to catch her breath, but everything in front of her became a little blurry, so blurry that Nan Huan saw the white wall behind Bei Xi, which seemed to be disappearing little by little. She was not sure if it was a problem with her eyesight or if all this was really happening.
She blinked her eyes, trying to see Bei Xi's appearance clearly, but found that the chair opposite seemed to disappear in an instant. The small room became extremely empty in an instant, with no end in sight.
I felt like I was flying forward on a gust of wind, and the treatment room and everything were left behind, disappearing bit by bit.
At the same time, the system prompt sound finally rang in Nan Huan's mind.
【bite--
Congratulations to the player for triggering the two-player side quest - The Eraser in the Mind. 】
Nan Huan could feel her consciousness fading bit by bit. She didn't know whether this was the result of the electric shock or because the task had been triggered. It took her a few seconds to understand the meaning of this sentence.
[Task Description: With the help of painful means, you can awaken the memories deep in your heart to a certain extent, but hidden in the memory is not only the past, but also danger. Please find the abrupt existence that tries to erase the memory in four scenarios, and protect the memories that belong to you alone.
Tip: People who stay together always exist, and people with bad intentions also always exist. 】
This is a two-player side quest, and Beixi will always be by her side. When Nan Huan heard that it was a quest about memory, she unconsciously thought of the nightmare that made her very uncomfortable. She instinctively considered these quests from a player's perspective.
But as the system finished speaking, the surroundings became completely dark, and her consciousness was like clouds floating in the sky, slowly blown away by a gust of wind. Those familiar scenes disappeared from her mind. She tried desperately to catch the clouds, but was powerless until her world became blank.
There was nothing left in her mind, and she seemed to have returned to the most stable place in the mother's womb and fell into a deep sleep. The pain seemed to be still continuing, or perhaps at some moment, it had disappeared along with those drifting memories.
[Birth is the beginning of the existence of every species. Generally speaking, it often represents infinite hope, but there are also accidents and exceptions. ]
It seemed as if an ancient voice coming from somewhere awakened it. It didn't know who it was, where it came from, where it was now, or what form it appeared in. It only knew that it seemed to have awakened in a trance.
It was not until the sounds of animals gnawing and fighting around it reached its ears that the window paper between it and the world was finally broken. Its eyes were not yet so sensitive to the surrounding affairs, and it could only vaguely feel that it seemed to be in some kind of dim state.
But this environment is very noisy. For it, which has been quiet for too long, any slightest sound is like noise, not to mention the outside world is so noisy. In the dim environment, the light is changing rapidly, as if something is constantly identifying its position.
The sounds of animals gnawing and fighting came into his ears from time to time, as well as the strong smell of blood, which seemed to reveal what was happening here.
Suddenly, a long, shrill cry resounded through the sky. It was a roar. It found that although it did not know what the roar was, it could understand the message contained in the roar. It was a determination to defend its territory to the death, and a ruthlessness to never give up even a single step.
Following this long cry, the somewhat chaotic sound just now seemed to pause for a second, and then other calls began to sound one after another, entering its ears and automatically turning into a language that it could understand.
"Axi, stop resisting. This is a world where the strong prey on the weak. You are too weak to lead us."
"Hand over your leadership position, and we will leave you with an intact body."
"You have reached a dead end. Your companions have surrendered. What are you still holding on to?"
…
Those calls came one after another. Although it couldn't see and probably couldn't understand them, it understood the hidden meaning of those calls. It didn't seem to have any special feelings about them. It just felt that the name "Axi", which it heard for the first time, seemed to carry some kind of different beauty.
Soon the calls became one and the same, and it sounded like they were denouncing the one called A'xi. But it didn't understand what they were fighting for, and it gradually felt that this farce shouldn't take up so much of its attention. It still liked quiet places. But at this moment, the dim scene brightened up again, and a very pleasant sound appeared, just like the long cry at the beginning.
"I'm standing here. Come and get whatever you want."
Compared to the long cry at the beginning, this cry was really nothing special, but it carried an inexplicable aura of certainty, which shocked out those chaotic sounds and made its world quiet for a few seconds. It couldn't see the specific situation, but it could hear the owners of those voices, who seemed to be frightened by the voices and did not dare to act easily for the time being.
The lingering sound of that voice was very long, and it felt as if its hearing was cleansed, and there seemed to be a rippling feeling in its heart, but it didn't know if it had such a place as its heart. It was a little curious and wanted to open its eyes to see the owner of the call. It was also very curious about how it could catch this most special call among all the calls, and wondered why this sound was so special.
But before it could make any movement, it felt a sharp pain, and the already unstable and dim scene was immediately switched.
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