Chapter 361 Monster Hospital (Sixty)
"I did all the things that happened to those people," Yunniang's thoughts drifted for a while because of the young marquis's words. When she spoke again a moment later, a kind of determination appeared in her eyes. "I wanted to kill you too, but I didn't expect that you knew all these things in advance. Since you already know, I have nothing to say. It's up to you to hand me over to whomever you want. I'm just sorry that I chose this day to ruin your wedding and your reputation..."
The young marquis hugged Yunniang in his arms before anyone could finish their words. "I chose to tell you this today because I don't want you to carry such a heavy burden after marriage. The ceremony has been completed. From now on, you are my general's wife. Without my order, no one dares to take you away..."
"Do you know what you are saying?" Yunniang did not struggle to break free from the other person's embrace. She just looked at him in disbelief. "You almost died. You finally won the battle and returned to the capital. If you don't deal with me today, you might suffer the same fate someday. Maybe you will die like the others, without anyone noticing."
The young marquis hugged her for only a moment before letting her go. Hearing her words, although fierce, her eyes were unusually gentle, with a smile on the corners of her lips, "You won't. Even if I didn't block your attack, you wouldn't be able to kill me. And now that you know the truth, you won't attack me."
The young marquis spoke with great certainty, as if he had seen through the woman in front of him and understood the meaning behind her every move.
A complex expression flashed across Yunniang's face. She might have been moved for a moment by the young marquis' words, but in the end, she was replaced by an irresistible sense of inferiority and shame, and had to remind him again, "Since you already know what happened that year, you naturally know that I am no longer a virgin. How can a woman like me who has been humiliated be worthy of being the wife of your general's mansion?"
A fierce emotion flashed across the young marquis's face. He wanted to dig up the dead Li Yan again and whip his corpse a few more times, but in the end, he suppressed all these emotions. "I know this incident has caused you great pain. I also know that even if I tell you ten thousand times that I don't care about this, you will definitely not believe it. But it doesn't matter. We still have a lot of time. Let's regard this moment as our acquaintance. I have a lifetime to make you believe it."
The young marquis seemed to have been prepared for this. He stood up and gave up the wedding bed. "It's too late today. You should rest first. After all, it's the first night of your marriage. I can't leave now, otherwise everyone in the mansion will gossip about you tomorrow. Go to sleep. I'll wait for you."
After he finished speaking, he walked to the couch outside the room and lay down on it without saying another word. Yunniang stood there alone, a little dazed. The words that the young marquis had said were imprinted in her mind. She had imagined the scene of tonight countless times. In her guess, the best outcome would be for the young marquis to let her go.
She never thought that the other party already knew all this, but still chose to stand on her side. Of course, what made Yunniang happiest was that what happened back then had nothing to do with the other party. A big stone in her heart finally fell.
This is also the reason why she has been delaying and refusing to take action until today, because she always remembered the scene a few years ago when she and her father were desperate and were rescued by the young marquis. Although the other party's eyes never fell on her, she had imprinted his appearance in her heart from that moment on.
As the night deepened, the two people in the room who were full of thoughts finally fell asleep. However, at this moment, a few loud thunders rang out in the clear night sky, accompanied by a golden light, and Shen Qi appeared in the yard of the general's mansion.
She stood under the night sky, looking at the flickering candlelight in the bridal chamber. Although her face was calm, there seemed to be a faint smile hidden at the corner of her lips.
The thunder of heaven sounded, accompanied by that familiar voice, "That woman didn't tell the whole truth. If she had told the truth, when she sold herself to bury her father a few years ago, she deliberately chose the road that the young marquis would take, waiting to kill him, but was stopped by you. Would the young marquis still be able to say what he said tonight? If it weren't for you at that time, she would definitely not have stopped. The young marquis was destined to die at that time?"
I don’t know if it’s because the ending has changed, or because it’s different from what Tiandao expected, but there’s anger in its voice. It doesn’t think this is Shenqi’s victory, but because the other party did something behind the scenes.
Shen Qi's expression did not change because of the other party. After a moment of silence, he spoke again with certainty, "No, I originally wanted to take action, but after seeing Yunniang's eyes, I chose not to interfere, because I knew she couldn't do it, just like a few years later."
"This is impossible." The thunder was getting louder and louder, but there was no rain at all. Tian Dao kept denying this. "This is impossible. You clearly intervened. If you hadn't intervened, how could this be possible?"
"If you don't believe it, you can watch it again." Shen Qi didn't argue too much. He just stood in front of the waterfall in the courtyard and waved his hand. The scene that Bei Xi and Nan Huan couldn't see clearly a few years ago appeared on the waterfall.
In the picture, the expressions of Yunniang and the young marquis were very blurry, but they were very clear. The golden light thrown out by Shenqi was taken back before it touched Yunniang, and Yunniang was really not affected at all. She had not taken action because it was her own decision and was not interfered with by anyone.
"I remember you said that when the way of heaven can no longer fully predict everyone's fate, perhaps the catastrophe that was delayed for many years may have some changes? Has the turning point come now?"
Shen Qi did not have the condescending expression of a winner, but was just thinking about another very important question. Nan Huan and Bei Xi caught the key words and understood why the picture they saw in this life was not complete, because the Heavenly Dao could no longer fully predict the changes in the situation.
"I don't know. This may be a turning point, or it may be an opportunity for destruction. The choice is still in your hands. The young marquis's disaster has not yet passed. The future is still long. He may not be able to stay with Yunniang until old age as he said. How long can they keep the things they hide from each other? Originally, his fate was destined to die at Yunniang's hands, but now he has to live under such threats for the rest of his life. Is this better?"
If we say that before, the voice of Tiandao always revealed a sense of certainty in its agility, then now, the other party's voice seemed very tired. Its last sentence seemed to be asking a question to Shenqi, but it left without waiting for the other party to answer.
After the thunder, the night returned to tranquility. Before Shen Qi left, he left a golden light in the waterfall. The flowers in the pond that were originally in bud, and even flowers that were not in this season, suddenly bloomed all over the garden. This wonderful sight became the best evidence of the love between the general and his wife in the eyes of those who came after them.
"Do you think they can resolve their grievances and stay together until old age?" Nan Huan and Bei Xi had landed on the roof of a house opposite them without them noticing. Facing the pool of flowers in full bloom, Tian Dao's last words had always left her with lingering fears. "Just as Tian Dao said, they will spend the rest of their lives being threatened and possibly exposed. If the young marquis knew, what choice would he make?"
"Although I'm not sure what will happen in the next few decades, in this life, he made this choice through his own efforts and got to where he is today without any interference from anyone, including the Heavenly Dao. So the rest of his life is his own. I think no matter what, he won't regret it. I also believe that the two of them will untie their knot one day."
When Nanhuan saw the sunlight falling on the flowers in the pond at dawn, he always felt that this should be a turning point, just as Shenqi had said.
The scene of this life ended when the two of them watched the sunrise hand in hand. Just when they thought that what they were going to see next was this person's next life, the tone of the entire picture suddenly darkened. In the quickly flashing picture, Nan Huan and Bei Xi saw countless struggling humans, turmoil and subversion, but there was no cause or effect. After a fleeting picture, the familiar building finally appeared in front of the two of them.
The collapse of heaven and earth and destruction around them all paused the moment the Monster Hospital was built, and humanity had a chance to breathe, but Shen Qi's face was unusually ugly and pale, as if her body had overdrawn too much energy. She stood at the door of the Monster Hospital, looking at the towering hospital that had no end, looking very small. The man standing next to her, wearing a white coat with his sleeves rolled up, revealing a mark with black burn marks, was a face that both of them were very familiar with.
A look of surprise flashed across Nan Huan's face, as if he did not connect the person in front of him with the people in the other scenes he had just seen. However, Bei Xi recognized that the person they had been watching for a long time was the acting dean the moment he saw him for the first time.
"I'm leaving soon and I'm entrusting the hospital to you. Remember to take good care of it." The golden light on Shen Qi's body had become dim, and Nan Huan and Bei Xi could hardly see it. There was a painful expression on her face, but she seemed to have no choice. She just carefully instructed the man in front of her.
"Dean, where are you going?" Although the acting dean didn't know the whole story, the dean's tone always gave him a bad feeling. "Is there anything I can do to help?"
"You just have to guard the hospital and wait for me to come back." Shen Qi even had great difficulty in speaking, as if he was trying to hold on to his last breath to explain these things.
"Why me?" The acting dean didn't understand, but he could sense that there seemed to be some kind of connection between the two of them. "I'm worried that I won't be able to do well."
Shen Qi smiled faintly upon hearing this. "Not just you, but all of you. You can definitely do it. Maybe we can do it, so you should give it a try. After all, you have done it before. Just hold on. Remember, guard the hospital and wait for me to come back."
It was not known whether she could no longer hold on or the reserved time had expired. After Shen Qi finished her instructions, without waiting for any reaction from the Acting Dean, she flashed a golden light and disappeared from sight.
Nan Huan and Bei Xi finally reacted. What they were seeing now were images of the initial establishment of the Monster Hospital, but they were paying attention to different things. Nan Huan speculated that the Monster Hospital should have been built after he met the monster Bei Xi, and something must have happened between them. What about the near-destruction they had just seen? Could it be related to the catastrophe that Tian Dao mentioned?
However, Bei Xi's attention was always on the golden light on Shen Qi's body. Ever since they entered here and saw Nan Huan's initial appearance, the golden light on the other party had always been very full. Every time she saved people, she relied on the golden light. The golden light seemed to be the basis of Shen Qi's existence. But now, until the other party completely disappeared, she was almost the same as Nan Huan, except that there was still a little bit of faint golden light on her body, and the whole person had always appeared very weak, which made her very concerned.
But before the two of them could give more in-depth consideration to the part they cared about, the scene before their eyes was suddenly distorted and changed.
The perspective suddenly changed. The two looked down and saw that the Acting Dean had an anxious look on his face and pushed open the door of his office. The safe inside the door had been completely opened. Black gas began to spread rapidly along the safe at a speed that was impossible to capture. At the same time, Nan Huan heard a familiar heartbeat.
On this side of the door, the black gas spread outwards along the safe and wandered in the various wards of the Monster Hospital. Nan Huan and Bei Xi were able to see the situation in each ward from a bird's-eye view. After a day's tasks and treatments, they were all in a relatively leisurely environment, except for the players who were still tense and dared not relax. The players in the BC ward were still counting the time, waiting to talk to them.
"This is real-time," Bei Xi quickly figured out what was going on. "We opened the safe in his office. This is the picture after he came in. We still can't stop the source of infection from spreading to various wards..."
The two watched helplessly as the protective circle on the patients was destroyed bit by bit, but they were completely unaware.
"So is it finally time for us to make a choice?" Nan Huan began to feel a sharp pain in her heart, this time more intense than ever before. Perhaps it was because she was still far away from the source of infection before, but this time, she still watched the safe filled with black air, with a faint golden light appearing from inside.
"What's wrong with you? Are you feeling uncomfortable?" Bei Xi finally noticed that something was wrong with Nan Huan. The reaction had not been so intense before, and Nan Huan had been trying to hold it back. But this time, the sharp beating seemed to be right in her chest, so she could no longer bear it.
"I'm fine, I'm fine," Nan Huan leaned in Bei Xi's arms, panting, and did not forget to comfort the other party, "It's just that being close to the source of infection will cause this reaction, it will be fine in a while, don't worry."
Bei Xi was anxious and angry, but he also knew that it was useless to say anything at this moment. From the golden light on Shen Qi's body seen in the previous picture, to the golden light at the source of infection, and the connection with Nan Huan, Bei Xi judged that the two must be connected. It should not pose any danger to Nan Huan, but the other party would indeed feel uncomfortable.
However, the actual scene did not end here. Beyond the door of the acting dean's office, the side of the door was originally pitch black, but it suddenly became bright at a certain moment. The two looked at the scene on the other side of the door and instantly had a bad premonition.
"What's going on?" Nan Huan struggled to get up from Bei Xi's arms. "Didn't they say that the remaining players who were not selected have been placed in the buffer zone? Why are they here?"
This time, Bei Xi had no chance to speak at all, because the system seemed to have been waiting for their doubts, and the long-lost prompt sound also rang at this time.
【bite--
Congratulations to the players, the moment of choice has finally arrived!
The first opportunity to choose has arrived, whether to close the door leading to the players in the buffer zone, or to close the door of the safe again.
After choosing to close the door leading to the players, the players in the buffer area can be temporarily protected from the source of infection, but the source of infection will be completely awakened. This method can only delay time and temporarily control the source of pollution and the pollution situation in the ultimate copy, but it cannot completely solve the problem.
Choose to close the door of the safe. Although the source of infection has not fully awakened, the black gas that has already overflowed will continue to contaminate the patients and players in the monster hospital. This method is still a delay. When the amount of contamination is large enough, the source of contamination in the safe will be forced to fully awaken. 】
A very bad choice and another even worse choice, seem to be choices, but in fact, from the very beginning, the two had no right to choose. The source of infection cannot be completely eliminated. There will be a moment when no matter whether it is inside the hospital, the buffer area, or even the places that Nanhuan and Beixi have not seen yet, they will eventually be covered by the source of pollution.
Just as the system had once prompted, they had no way of stopping it, they could only delay it and find a way to completely solve the problem during the delay.
Both of them looked unhappy, but they did not react much to the system's prompts. Perhaps it was because so many tasks before had already given them an idea, or maybe they had a premonition of something from the pictures they had seen before about the past and present lives of the Dean.
What's more, the two of them have already started thinking about the solution to the whole thing. Having come to this point, what chances do they have of winning? And why did Shen Qi leave this hospital in the first place?
But the system doesn't give them many clues. Those pictures are only fragmentary, without cause and effect. It is difficult to piece together a complete past, but they can still get a glimpse of some details.
It’s just that the system is unwilling to give the two more time, or perhaps the protection circle on those patients has begun to crumble, forcing it to speed up the progress of the game.
[It seems difficult, and it is indeed a difficult choice, but it has finally arrived.
Please make your choice within thirty seconds. 】
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