Chapter 303 Monster Hospital (Part 2)
After all, it was a 3S level copy. The moment the system opened, all the players held their breath, trying to understand every word in the task description and figure out the mystery of this ultimate copy from between the lines.
But unfortunately, the mission description of the Monster Hospital dungeon is much briefer than its title suggests. It can even be said that there is basically no information at all. The system seems to avoid leaking any news that should not be known to players. Therefore, after repeated consideration, it does not hesitate to make the situation easy for players to see the clues, directly cutting off the possibility of exposure.
There is no explanation as to how the Monster Hospital came into being, how it has stood for so many years, or even the reason for its appearance. It only introduces that it has existed for a long time, telling players that the answers they want are all in the copy.
Another thing is that there was a riot in the Monster Hospital, but unlike the copy of the White Orchid Rain Festival, the rain festival a hundred years ago was not successful and the white orchid would never bloom again. The riot did not cause serious consequences, but the sequelae brought about in this situation were far-reaching, so that both patients and staff hoped that everything would return to normal.
Nan Huan keenly noticed that in this plot summary, the system seemed to try to avoid using certain misleading words, but because of the established impression of the copy name, this effect was not obvious, and it even unconsciously made the player substitute into a certain stereotype. Nan Huan couldn't tell for a moment whether the system was deliberately misleading or a friendly reminder?
There are also those explicit instructions that only Nan Huan has experienced all the copies. Nan Huan knows clearly that the last sentence of the system is directed at her alone. Because the evil god has been newly born, she realizes that these events seem to have a source. However, according to the general operation mode of the system, she needs to find this source by herself. But this time, it seems that the system has taken the initiative to send this monster hospital to her. This is a bit strange?
And the last hint. The plot summary of each dungeon in the system contains hints covering the entire dungeon, and sometimes it is the key to the entire game. Just like the previous confusing hints, Nan Huan was unable to understand this hint for a while.
However, since the copy outline was released, she didn't have much time left, because the darkness in front of her eyes had gradually disappeared at some point, and Nan Huan's five senses gradually awakened. The first thing she smelled was a strong fishy smell of sea water, and the sea breeze gently caressing her face.
The darkness did not completely fade away, it seemed to have just stopped at a certain critical point. Nan Huan blinked his eyes and realized that because the time of the copy was evening, the sky was not bright. There were only a few dim lights in front, illuminating a small area.
Another gust of sea breeze blew, and Nan Huan's hair was just lifted up in an arc, and instantly a thick blanket appeared on his body. Then he was completely wrapped in a warm embrace, and even his cold hands were instantly held by Bei Xi.
Maybe because of the different times of being selected, there are slight differences in the time of entering the copy. Nan Huan was stunned and found that there were more and more people around the waves. However, compared with the players of the entire game selected by Nan Huan at one time, the number of players here is obviously much less.
It seems that the game still guarantees the fairness of the game to some extent. After all, most players do not have the ability to survive in a 3S level copy. It seems that Bei Xi's prediction was correct, and Nan Huan breathed a sigh of relief.
A-choo——
Nan Huan was about to turn around to communicate something with Bei Xi, but was interrupted by a shocking sneeze. He turned around and saw President Alice curled up in a mess, shivering without caring about her image.
The Pink President reacted the fastest. Before the Mad Hatter could get out his warm clothes, he took out a down jacket and slapped it on Alice's face. "I told you to be more stylish than warm. You're still exposing your legs in such a cold day. You deserve it!"
President Alice was wearing her signature blue Lolita dress with a crinoline underneath the fluffy hem. It was pretty, but she was freezing cold after suddenly coming here from the warm, dry, and even hot Bailan City.
She was hit in the face by the down jacket. Although she threw it back directly, she felt as if she was pierced through by the cold air. She didn't care about anything else and had to quickly wrap the gray down jacket around her. However, she still said stubbornly, "What do you know? Did you know that my skirts are all custom-made? That is the symbol of our guild, do you understand?"
She honestly zipped up her down jacket to the top, and tugged at the hem of her jacket with disdain, "And what kind of rubbish are you carrying? It's so ugly. Look at other people..."
She turned around and saw the shawl with intricate patterns sewn with gold thread wrapped around the eldest lady. The thick rabbit fur was both warm and beautiful. She even took advantage of the fact that the eldest lady looked more energetic than usual, so she instinctively wanted to complain about the President of Hongfen Club, asking why she didn't learn from the First President. However, she stopped talking halfway when she realized that their relationship was different from that between the First President and the eldest lady, so she abruptly stopped talking.
The two of them were used to bickering with each other, and no one thought there was anything wrong with it. No one noticed anything strange about President Alice, because only after everyone put on warm clothes did they notice that they seemed to be on an island somewhere.
To be precise, it was more like a cliff, surrounded by water on three sides and the cliff was very high. They could hear the sound of waves hitting the shore, but they couldn't see clearly whether there was any way to go to the sea around them because there was white mist all around and the visibility was no more than five meters. Five meters away they could only vaguely see a building standing on the edge of the cliff.
As for how tall the building was, what it looked like, and whether it was the monster hospital they were looking for, nothing could be seen clearly.
However, Nan Huan and Bei Xi did not immediately go to inquire about the situation in the Monster Hospital. Compared to those things that always appear, they are more curious about the players who are finally chosen by the system to enter this ultimate copy.
The number of people around was definitely much smaller than the number of players in the entire game, but compared to an average medium-sized copy, it was already a lot, at least twice the number of players who had entered Bai Lan City before, because the cliff with low visibility was densely packed with people.
After everyone was shocked by the surrounding environment, they immediately started looking for the organization.
After all, in an unfamiliar copy, the selected player has no idea what he will face, so it is already very lucky if he can find players from his own guild to play with.
Low visibility does not mean that it is necessary to send people out for reconnaissance. After all, each guild has its own private channel and unique contact methods, which makes it convenient for them to keep in touch in different situations.
The crowd was in chaos for only about five minutes, and then began to migrate. After a while, most of the players found their organization, and all the players present also almost figured out the status of the players who had entered this copy.
"Miss, Guild Leader I have already counted," Twelve gathered his clothes, "Among our five guilds, only two people were added, me and Sixth. The remaining four guilds had no new players."
While reporting the situation, she unconsciously looked at the crowd on the other side whose organization was obviously larger than theirs. "There are about fifty people from the five guilds, Order of No Order, Secret of Witchcraft, Land of Submission, Art of Miracles, and Journey of the Soul. They are all the best players from each guild. Of course, except for the deceased president and vice president, they are basically the people in charge who were left in the rest area by the presidents to handle the overall situation. They were all summoned this time."
Twelve was very happy at first. As early as when she and the Sixth Vice President heard the system's prompt, they had already informed the players of the Machine Alliance Guild that they had chosen to enter this copy. They were very happy at first that they were chosen by the system to enter this ultimate copy, but after counting the number of people just now, they noticed something strange.
"There are still a dozen or so players left. They don't belong to the top ten guilds, but they are all presidents and players of small guilds that are ranked relatively high or have special abilities."
It was not easy for Twelve to find out so much information in such a short period of time. However, after she finished speaking, the Sixth Vice President standing beside her added, "According to the information I have currently obtained, the remaining dozen or so guild players are basically the kind who don't show up. They are neutral people who only care about the stability of their own guilds and don't get involved in the issue of choosing sides."
Although she spoke cryptically, the players present still understood her.
"So what criteria does the system use to select players?" President Barbie was puzzled. "Isn't it just based on ability?"
"Not only that," Nan Huan explained, looking through the dense fog that reduced visibility, "Not only did they take the players' abilities into consideration, they also balanced the number of players from different guilds. The players from our five guilds successfully survived Bailan City, but the system sent us a nemesis. Because of their combat power, they expanded the enemy's team to twice ours. They even went to great lengths to find a few neutral players with good abilities because they were worried that something might go wrong. It was a lot of effort."
"You mean, they are likely to unite in the dungeon to deal with us?" The head of the workers' guild yawned, "But if it weren't for you, Miss, both they and the players in their guild would have been used by the black energy..."
Because of the special side effects brought about by her personal skills, the president of the workers' guild always seems listless, but her thinking is very clear. She immediately understands that the game is not only about checks and balances, but is also causing trouble for them in disguise.
Before she finished speaking, she was interrupted by the eldest lady waving her hand. "Don't take what happened just now to heart. The decision I made was just my personal action when the system was testing me. Don't expect everyone to regard me as a savior. And don't forget that there are players in the buffer zone who can't do anything and can only hope that I will bring good news. Compared with those players, they have already entered this ultimate copy, and of course they still hope that their own destiny can be in their own hands. Although I don't advocate repaying evil with kindness, everyone should try to be careful. I think the system's deep meaning in choosing players may be more than that."
Nan Huan just couldn't figure it out in his mind, but he couldn't tell exactly what the problem was.
Bei Xi had been standing there without saying a word, just shielding Nan Huan from the wind. Hearing this, he glanced over there and spoke indifferently, "They don't know the cause of their president's death yet, so it's not easy for them to go against us publicly. So there's no need to be so nervous for now, but you have to be on guard. This is a 3S-level copy, a game level that has never been announced by the system. You can't trust anyone except your teammates."
Bei Xi gave everyone another shot of confidence, and then ordered Twelve to find out the personal situations of the dozen or so players who were not on either side as soon as possible.
Just when everything that needed to be explained had been explained and the players had regained an understanding of the dungeon in front of them, the few lights in front that were originally dim began to gradually brighten as if they had sensed something.
The white mist seemed to dissipate at this moment, and everyone saw the pure white building in front of them. From the exterior style, it did not look like a hospital, because it did not have a feeling of solemnity and majesty. Instead, it looked like a palace of works of art. Under the light, one could vaguely see the finely carved patterns on the columns and the various lifelike statues embedded in the walls.
However, the range of the light was strictly limited to the entrance of the gate and a few meters around it. Nanhuan still did not capture any words or information related to "hospital" within the visible range.
But after a moment, the tightly closed white door opened without any warning, and many people came out one after another. They were all wearing very recognizable nurse uniforms, with their body curves clearly outlined, pretty faces, and the most basic eight smiling teeth in the service industry. They all looked at the crowds of players below.
A few seconds later, finally, a man in a white coat walked out of the room. His steps were not hurried, which formed a sharp contrast with the nurses before him. His every move was more calm, and he wore a pair of black-framed glasses, looking like a high-level intellectual.
How should I put it? Apart from the very iconic costumes, the NPCs in front of Nan Huan did not feel like the nurses and doctors in ordinary hospitals. It was not because of their outstanding appearance, but because of a lingering temperament.
"How can this be a hospital?" President Alice whispered to President Hongfen beside her, "This is what a supermodel catwalk looks like, right? And I've never seen a hospital on the edge of a cliff. Could it be that this is to make it easier to throw the monsters that can't be cured into the sea?"
When President Pink saw President Alice's sparkling eyes on the nurse's uniform, she said expressionlessly, "If you like someone's clothes, just say so. There's no need to drool over them."
President Alice wiped the corner of her mouth and realized that the other party was bluffing her, so she rolled her eyes.
However, the eldest lady, who was nearby, keenly noticed a word used by President Alice. She did not correct it immediately, but instead looked at Bei Xi beside her. The two of them invisibly confirmed the same view.
"Welcome everyone who has come from afar," the last man stopped and looked carefully at the crowd below the stairs. There was no ups and downs in the tone of his voice, and his volume was not loud, as if he was sure that as soon as he opened his mouth, he would attract everyone's attention.
"But I'm sorry, because our nurse was careless, we had the staff and the patients rush in on the same day." There was no apology on his face, he just started to read the lines as if he was following the procedure, "Now please divide into two teams, those who are here to apply for staff positions please stand on the left, those who are here for inpatient treatment please stand on the right, so that we can make arrangements for you."
These two short sentences made the crowd, which was already not very noisy, even quieter.
"What?" One player was unable to react and said, "Didn't they say the hospital was recruiting? Why are there still patients?"
The situation at the scene was quite different from what was described in the plot outline, and was even different from the preconceived impression formed by the players, so there was a brief commotion among the crowd.
And no one believes that this was really caused by the nurse's carelessness. The system was originally set up like this, so why is there an option for players to be admitted to the hospital as patients?
The system was not implemented until the players fully understood the meaning of these words.
[It was not until you set foot on the territory of this monster hospital that you finally realized that you had misunderstood the true meaning of the phrase "recruiting talents", because you found that the monster hospital was not only recruiting staff, but also absorbing some patients. ]
It updated some information slowly. The surroundings were still pitch black, except for a small illuminated area in front of the hospital. The white fog seemed to have gathered again.
[Now the choice is in your hands. If you want to know what secrets are hidden in this hospital, you must enter the hospital in a disguised identity. Please choose the character you want to enrich within 30 seconds? Staff or patient?]
Thirty seconds of selection time is not long. After experiencing the previous two selections, it is still difficult for players to adapt to this mode of making major choices in a short period of time.
Almost at the first second after the system finished speaking, Nan Huan and Bei Xi took different actions.
Bei Xi immediately opened the private communication channel that had been established. Except for Nan Huan and the remaining 20 players, they had no time to think about it. They heard the leader point out the way for everyone in a steady voice, "Everyone choose the patient, everyone choose the patient, don't choose the doctor."
She didn't waste any words and finished what she wanted to say in less than five seconds. Although the remaining players had doubts in their hearts, their previous dungeon experiences had made them instinctively believe and obey the words of a guild leader or a young lady. Therefore, all the players on the guild alliance side made a unified choice within almost ten seconds.
At this time, Nan Huan had already used the faint light to clearly see the Anti-One Guild Alliance. The expressions on the faces of most players changed unpredictably the moment they heard the system prompts.
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