Chapter 364 Monster Hospital (Sixty-three)
The deepening of the infection had no effect on Nanhuan, but it was not the same for Beixi. Even when she was in such a side quest, she would occasionally see the familiar scene from before.
But when the two made their choice and temporarily closed the door to the buffer area and opened the safe, just like Nan Huan, the memories that had been buried for who knows how long finally began to come alive in her mind.
The picture that had been frozen in front of her without sound suddenly became real. Her body and mind seemed to have returned to a long time ago in an instant, to the days when she thought she could live happily forever, to the days when she thought it would be a farewell forever.
She would always remember the first ray of sunshine that appeared in the land of death. It was because of the birth of Shenqi. She appeared so pure and innocent in the place full of blood. She could not take her eyes away at one glance. The monster Beixi didn't know whether it was the instinctive admiration of the filthy ones for the light, or the inevitability caused by various coincidences.
After all, before this, even though she was born in such a filthy place and was fundamentally different from other monsters, with many more joys, sorrows, anger, and happiness and perceptions than others, and she didn't know what kind of existence she was, she had never felt inferior because of her appearance, but this feeling had already arisen when she saw Shen Qi for the first time.
Perhaps this is why, when facing the person you love, no matter how powerful you are, you will always feel that you are not worthy of the other person, especially when the monster Beixi realized that Shenqi was not a being who needed his protection. On the contrary, her appearance made the dead land that had been settled for thousands of years glow with a different kind of vitality.
She was not like other humans who viewed monsters like them as the most resentful existences. She was also not like those humans who thought that this was their nature and would not imagine that they grew up here and could only rely on the black air under the ground. What kind of constraints were they under? Only Shen Qi realized that their nature was not like this and treated them as a kind of living being.
How could she be willing to let go of such a Shenqi? Moreover, she initially thought that Shenqi was sent specifically to solve the problem of the Death Land. After all, with her arrival, the Death Land could finally see the sunlight.
But she didn't expect that this was indeed the first task after Shen Qi woke up. Those black air were not other existences, but the place where the resentment of people all over the world gathered. If they wanted to completely solve the problem here, then these monsters who depended on the power of the dead land would also perish together.
The monster Beixi was very smart. When he saw Shenqi absorbing the black air from the ground day after day but unable to eradicate it, he realized something was wrong. He did not expect that their separation would come so suddenly.
Ever since Man Wugui disguised herself as a human and came to the death zone, the monster Beixi smelled a familiar scent from her. To be precise, she smelled the same scent from the other party, and she instinctively felt hostility when facing the other party.
Even though she had not yet exposed the other party's true identity, she already had the idea of not wanting the other party to get close to Shenqi, but she knew she couldn't, because Shenqi had told them not to harm humans. There were often humans who accidentally entered this place and got injured, and it was Shenqi who healed them and sent them away.
At that moment, the monster Beixi finally realized that her biggest weakness compared to Shenqi was that as a monster, although she had human emotions and consciousness, and could control some of her behaviors and correct some of her thoughts, she was essentially a monster, and when faced with a threat, she would still instinctively want to kill.
However, before these ideas could take shape, they were destroyed by Man Wugui's arrival and the evil god's complete awakening.
She finally saw the existence that was similar to Shenqi, but strictly speaking, they were only similar in appearance, and were completely different in other places. The monster Beixi found that when she saw the evil god, she was even angrier than after confirming Man Wugui's identity. She would not allow a bright existence like Shenqi to be tainted by the evil god.
The balance that Shenqi had always carefully guarded - the balance between humans and the dead, was finally broken by the emergence of the evil god, and Shenqi's wish to ensure the survival of all living beings was in vain.
The evil god itself is the resentment and evil thoughts of Shenqi. She can easily evoke the most unbearable existence in the human heart and make them kill each other, so that the world is under her control. She and she are in a filthy place and yearn for the bright existence of Shenqi. What the evil god and Man Wugui want is destruction. It seems that the existence of light will always show and remind them where they were born. So what they want is destruction, to be the only unique existence in the world, and they don’t need their own bright side.
The voice of Heaven sounded in the chaos. The monster Beixi finally understood Shenqi's mission. He knew that monsters, including himself, should not exist in this world. It was because of Shenqi's appearance that they had the opportunity to see the sun. It was also because of Shenqi's selfishness that allowed him and her to have such a happy and unforgettable time.
When she took the initiative to return the power in her body that belonged to Shenqi, she did not feel resentment or dissatisfaction, because she knew that Shenqi had done his best to maintain these happy days. She just felt a little regretful, regretting why the happy days were so short.
At the moment of disappearing, she wanted to remember Shen Qi's every smile and frown. She knew very well that her words would not comfort the other party, but she did not want to turn back into the face of a monster in Shen Qi's memory and have her body occupied by Man Wugui.
But she didn't expect that Shen Qi would actually forcibly cut open her heart. Her power was so strong that she couldn't move at all. She could only watch the light disappear from the other person's body bit by bit.
Her body, which had already lost consciousness and support, was like a wild beast that had smelled blood and was eagerly absorbing all the power it could.
Until the dazzling golden light sank into her body, she was not protected by Shen Qi in the house like other monsters. Instead, she fell into endless darkness after the golden light illuminated the whole world for a moment. She struggled to take another look at Shen Qi, but could no longer feel anything.
Bei Xi felt all kinds of scenes unfolding before her eyes, and different emotions flowing through her body, until her tightly clenched hands were gently opened by a pair of familiar hands, "Don't pinch your palms, you see they are bleeding."
Bei Xi felt like she was in a nightmare and was brought back to reality by Nan Huan's voice. She turned her head to look at Nan Huan beside her, with complex emotions welling up in her heart. She felt the warmth in her palms, warming her body little by little, and felt that she was still alive.
Behind the two of them, the feast of golden light was still going on. The golden light, brighter than fireworks, made the entire night sky bright for who knows how long, as if a huge light bulb was turned on behind the two of them.
This scene is actually a bit funny and bleak, but the two people who have recovered some of their sanity and memory seem to be unable to feel the emotions over there, and seem to not want to watch the next scene anymore, and they look at the people around them in self-deception.
Nan Huan didn't even know when he took out the medicine from the control panel and applied it to Bei Xi's palm, blowing on it from time to time. If you didn't know, you would think that the president had suffered some serious injury. Her expression was careful and focused, and she seemed to be more divine than usual.
"Is it really worth it?" After an unknown amount of time, Bei Xi sighed in the long night, "You've suffered so much..."
Bei Xi rarely had trouble organizing her words. It was at this moment that she realized that she was actually despicable. Although she felt sorry for the consequences that Nan Huan faced for doing this, as well as the pain he had experienced as demonstrated in the copy, she was happy from the bottom of her heart.
Because she knew in her heart that Nan Huan did this for her, because he wanted to spend more time with her. But even though she was sure of this, she still wanted to hear the other party's answer in person.
Nan Huan might not be aware of her own mental activities, or maybe she knew it better than anyone else from the beginning to the end, but she still gave Bei Xi a reproachful look before she finished speaking, "Of course it's worth it. After all, we have been together for such a long time, especially before entering the game. We spent so many years peacefully and experienced the ordinary days of being a human being, didn't we?"
"Perhaps you have a misunderstanding about normal and ordinary?" Bei Xi spread out her palms, and asked Nan Huan to continue to blow her up. If she hadn't applied the medicine a little slower, the wound would have healed. Facing the other party's puzzled eyes, she gave her own answer, "The Nan family's economic strength that rivals that of a country can no longer be explained by normal and ordinary?"
Nan Huan was stunned at first, then she blew on Bei Xi's wound obediently, as if she didn't expect Bei Xi to make such a joke at this time. However, she still explained seriously, "I can't control many details. Maybe that person was afraid that my physical condition would not last too long, so he created such conditions for us..."
It was self-evident who that person was. A complex expression flashed across Bei Xi's face for a moment, but soon returned to normal.
Both she and Nan Huan had foreseen certain things from these scenes, and perhaps both had their own plans, but at this moment they both chose to conceal their thoughts and cherish the hard-earned time. Such light jokes and conversations rarely happened since the two entered the ultimate copy.
But unfortunately, the system did not mercifully slow down the progress. Seeing that the two had no interest in the golden light, it sped up the progress. The golden sky soon disappeared in the night wind, just like those hidden memories, returning to the darkness.
Then, the Monster Hospital faded out of the darkness again.
As the safe was opened, the part of Shenqi's heart that suppressed the black air returned to Nanhuan's body. The black air finally regained its freedom, feeling the breath of its own kind and also the breath of its prey.
In the entire ward, except for Nan Huan and Bei Xi who still had so much treatment time at night, the rest, whether they were the original patients or the patients and staff from other wards, welcomed the second night in the ultimate copy after the two of them entered the mission.
Whether in terms of intensity or degree of damage, the shock brought by this ultimate copy is still stronger than other copies. Therefore, the players who have finally endured a whole day, although they are on guard, still fell asleep carefully.
Even the patients who were born and raised in the Monster Hospital seemed to realize that something seemed to have happened in the Monster Hospital because of some subtle clues and last night's broadcast, so as soon as night fell, everyone stayed quietly in their own wards.
Unexpectedly, something went wrong anyway. The black gas that spread from the safe in the acting dean's office quickly found the patients and players. Under the influence of the black gas, the skin of many patients withered like petals, revealing their true appearance.
Because of the existence of the golden protection circle, most of the patients who have not been infected can still maintain basic sanity and are not greatly affected, but those patients and players who have been infected are not so lucky.
Some of them had already fallen asleep, while others were still busy with other things. But when the biochemical area of the Monster Hospital was lit up in front of Nan Huan and Bei Xi, they seemed to be bewitched and immediately stopped what they were doing. The patients and players in the same ward were all moving towards the same goal.
In Ward A, the infected patient No. 151 had knelt again in front of the wall of the activity room and began to repeat the prayers that Nan Huan and Bei Xi had heard. This time, it didn't take long before the direction of the door appeared on the wall.
It's just that Nanhuan and Beixi, who were in the activity room at the time, couldn't see what was on the other side of the door due to their limited vision. But now they are in this mysterious environment, looking down at everything around them from a God's perspective, so they can easily see that the door holding the source of infection is not one-way.
On the other side of the door was the scene they had seen before, the thousands of players in the buffer zone, the other players who knew nothing, and the players who were waiting for Nanhuan to save them and those in dire straits.
Of course, this is not the end, because this is only the situation in Ward A.
In Ward B, although President Yan's infection level was not serious, because she had been communicating with the eldest lady and President Yi all the time, and considering the situation over there, she always dared not sleep too soundly, fearing that something might happen at night.
Then at a certain moment, she seemed to feel some kind of powerful attraction. The attraction was instinctive to her, or to be more precise, it was the condition of her being infected. She seemed to want to do something uncontrollably. Fortunately, she was not sleeping soundly, and she was always alert, so she was not controlled.
But others were not as lucky as her. Just as she struggled out of the state of control, she heard noises outside the door. She opened the door and saw the infected patients and President Qian, all looking like corpses being chased. In the middle of the night, they came to the staff rest area that she had forbidden to approach, and knelt down without saying a word and began to recite prayers.
And somewhere on the wall of the staff rest area where she had checked countless times and there was nothing there, a golden mark appeared, like a door that was slowly emerging and showing signs of being about to open.
The time to talk to the eldest lady and the president has not yet come. She doesn't know what the situation is over there, she only knows that something has happened, but her power alone is too weak, especially in this situation. She finds that her personal skills are of no use at all at this time.
From the perspective of Nanhuan and Beixi, the door leading to the buffer area on the other side of the staff lounge was also looming, and seemed to be about to open.
The black air in the biochemical zone was ready to move, as if it was excited about witnessing such a scene. It had fangs and claws and wanted to break through the restrictions here and leave to hunt and fight.
The corner of Nan Huan's heart that had just returned to its original position began beating violently again, as if it had sensed those positions, or as if it had sensed something in advance. The beating was still accompanied by severe pain.
The situation in Area C is worse than that in Areas AB, because no one knows what kind of agreement the players of the Anti-One Guild Alliance reached with the evil god when they entered the game. In short, when the black energy spread here, those players had been completely controlled.
A large group of people knelt down in front of the pharmacy. Even though President Barbie and Twelve and their fellow players had the largest number of players in all the wards, they were unable to stop anything. They could only watch as the walls of the pharmacy emitted a golden light, as if something was about to come out.
【bite--
The second chance to choose came, which was to close the door leading to the players in the buffer zone, or to close the doors to the activity room, staff lounge and pharmacy again.
After choosing to close the door to the buffer zone, the players in the buffer zone 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 doors of the activity room, staff lounge, and pharmacy. 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 activity room, staff lounge, and pharmacy will be forced to fully awaken. 】
The scene unfolded in front of Nan Huan and Bei Xi from time to time. The Monster Hospital, which was peaceful a second ago, was no longer peaceful the moment Nan Huan and Bei Xi made their first choice and when the safe was opened.
Some things are destined from the beginning, and Nan Huan and Bei Xi had the same idea in their minds.
The system seemed to have guessed it long ago and did not give the two more time.
【Please make your choice within thirty seconds. 】
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