Chapter 5
He continued walking towards the hospital building, clutching the blood-stained cell phone. Perhaps because of the presence of the security guard, he didn't encounter any scary things along the way.
Shen Yunzhe walked obediently to Building B of the inpatient building. He was afraid that the burnt security guard was watching him somewhere, waiting for him to reveal a flaw.
Now he can only take a gamble on his luck. Maybe the old players Ning Xiao mentioned are in this building?
With a creak, Shen Yunzhe pushed open the door of the inpatient building. The door was only ajar, as if it was not closed at all. This seemed a bit unnatural. The doors of all the treatment buildings in front were tightly closed. He relied on climbing through the window to go in and out, and Ning Xiao directly smashed a door.
Then why is this door open?
It was at that moment that Shen Yunzhe belatedly realized something.
The emergency relocation of a hospital does not require locking all the hospital doors, not to mention that there are still countless medical equipment inside that have not been dealt with in time.
This seems more like...locking something firmly inside the hospital and preventing it from escaping.
Shen Yunzhe was frightened by this idea and broke out in a cold sweat. He swallowed his saliva as he watched the door of the inpatient building being pushed open. If it was really as he thought, and the hospital locked the door after the emergency evacuation in order to prevent the things inside from leaving, then now that this door is open, what will come out?
He began to wonder whether to go in.
"Hey." A small stone was thrown from the side. Shen Yunzhe was already in a nervous state, and this time he was even more frightened.
"Don't go, is that a human?" the voice sounded again.
Shen Yunzhe took two steps back and looked to the side. Behind a door, a red-haired man waved at him, "Come here! Hurry up! The time is almost up! Hurry if you don't want to die!"
It looks like a human.
It's a human!
Although Shen Yunzhe's trust in people had plummeted after what happened to Ning Xiao, in this environment a person is certainly more trustworthy than a ghost. Shen Yunzhe quickly ran over there and entered the room without making any more noise.
The next second after Shen Yunzhe entered, the red-haired man closed the door with a click, so fast that it seemed like if he was a second slower, something terrible would have come in.
"The newcomer mentioned in the announcement?" The red-haired man breathed a sigh of relief and looked at Shen Yunzhe.
"Yes." Shen Yunzhe answered while looking around.
There were six people in the room excluding Shen Yunzhe, four men and two women. One of the girls was covered in blood and was crying softly. The relatively calm woman next to her was patting her back gently. Except for the red-haired man, the other three men looked nervous.
"Didn't the notice say there were two people?" The calm woman looked at Shen Yunzhe, "Where's the other one?"
Shen Yunzhe frowned, "Being burned by a security guard..."
He didn't finish his words, but the people here already understood what he meant. Their faces turned pale in an instant, and the crying girl's eyes were instantly terrified, and even her crying became louder.
"Don't make too much noise. You don't want to attract the security, do you?" the red-haired man shouted angrily.
The crying girl immediately covered her mouth and sobbed softly.
The calm woman sighed, probably because the atmosphere was too depressing, and she introduced herself.
Her name is Le Jia, and she is an old player who has completed three games. The red-haired man is called Qin Chao, also an old player, but he has only completed one game. Except for the two of them, all the others are newcomers who have just entered the game.
"There were 14 people in the game at the beginning. I knew it was not good when I saw this number, but I didn't expect it to be so difficult. Even the game field evolved unexpectedly..." Le Jia frowned.
"What's the point of saying all this?!" A young man interrupted Le Jia's introduction. "One of the newcomers died, so now the number is odd! We're going to keep losing people!"
"Shut up! If you keep making such a loud noise, I won't mind throwing you out right now and making you the even number!" Qin Chao glared at him.
The young man's face turned pale, and he shrank back down, looking frightened.
"Odd number?" Shen Yunzhe noticed this word. "Speaking of which, Rule 1 in the announcement says an even number... Could it be that the rules require the remaining number of players to be an even number?!"
"You're very smart." Le Jia's tone was calm, yet somehow a hint of gnashing of teeth could be heard. "The rules stipulate: our number must be an even number. If we're lucky, only one more person will die. If we're unlucky, there will only be two of us left."
"I don't want to die, Sister Le." The crying girl was still choking, "Why did this happen to me?"
"If I were you, I'd definitely survive and then return to reality to chop that bastard down." Qin Chao spat. "He even lied to his girlfriend just to avoid entering the game room. Delaying him for one day will delay his death, right?"
Shen Yunzhe understood what they said.
This crying girl was probably dragged by her boyfriend to watch the live broadcast. It was probably her boyfriend who took the initiative to show it to her just to enter the game venue a day later.
"What's wrong with you? I thought you were a doctor here because of the white coat on. I almost fell down out of fright." Qin Chao turned his attention to Shen Yunzhe.
Shen Yunzhe looked down at his white coat. Because of the Ning Xiao incident just now, his white coat was stained red with blood. He did look like a scary doctor, especially since this was a hospital, it was quite scary.
"I'm a doctor." Shen Yunzhe thought this wasn't a lie.
Qin Chao and Le Jia looked at each other, they obviously thought this was too much of a coincidence.
The new guy coming in is a doctor, and their gaming venue happens to be a hospital?
"I'm really a doctor, I have professional skills." Shen Yunzhe said quickly: "It's really useful to have a doctor companion in the hospital!"
"I'm so sorry, it's not that we're being too cautious, but there's a precedent for other things pretending to be players. You wait over there first, and we'll act together once we're sure everything's OK." Qin Chao's face was grim. "Anyway, time's almost up, everyone should get some rest."
Knowing that he could stay, Shen Yunzhe breathed a sigh of relief and then spoke, "Brother, you just said that the time is almost up. When is it?"
Qin Chao opened his phone and took a look. Then he nodded and said, "It's time. Take a look for yourself."
As soon as he finished speaking, there was a ding-dong sound, and Shen Yunzhe heard the sound of a ring... or was it a bell?
The bell sound naturally did not come from this room, but from the hall not far away. Shen Yunzhe stood up and walked to the door. Through the tiny gap, Shen Yunzhe saw the situation outside.
There was no one there, and the environment was still messy and dusty, but unlike the previous inpatient building, Shen Yunzhe found that the dust seemed to be dark red, as if something red had been poured on the ground and mixed with the dust and then dried.
Gradually, some other voices appeared.
The sounds of children laughing, adults asking complicated questions, and hurried running.
It was now past six in the evening and the room was already very dim. The lights in the hall suddenly lit up, and the incandescent light sprinkled on the dust. Shen Yunzhe could vaguely see shadows of different sizes moving on the wall. He couldn't tell how many people there were in those shadows, nor who they were.
It was just like a normal hospital with people coming and going, like a huge shadow play.
Shen Yunzhe lowered his head and looked at Ning Xiao's phone in his hand. A third rule was added to the announcement.
[Rule ③: Qingcheng Jianbai Central Hospital opens at 18:00.]
"We've been here for three days, and it happens every night. We absolutely cannot go out during this time." Qin Chao and Shen Yunzhe explained, "There was a newcomer who didn't believe in evil and insisted on going out to take a look. As a result, when he came back, there were two more shadows."
"He disappeared that night and never came back."
Shen Yunzhe was a little curious, "As long as I stay in here, everything will be fine?"
"For now, yes. It's like a safe house in a game." Qin Chao nodded. "At least we've been staying here for the past few days to avoid those unknown things outside."
Of course Shen Yunzhe would not doubt the results obtained by testing human lives.
There was a lot of noise outside and the people inside didn't dare to make a sound. Shen Yunzhe leaned against the door and listened. After a while, he turned on the mobile phone he brought back from Ning Xiao.
The mobile phone is actually the same as the real one, except that there are live broadcast rooms and announcements that cannot be closed. In addition to being unable to connect to the Internet, it doesn’t even display the battery level. It is estimated that it can operate without electricity.
He opened the live broadcast room and admired his own face for a while, then looked around to make sure there was nothing he could not see. Only then did he click on the announcement and read it carefully several times, even though he had not read it carefully before because he thought it was a virus.
"How is the mission progressing now?" Shen Yunzhe asked.
"Not very good." Qin Chao's tone worsened. "It's too dangerous here, and we're so few. Exploration is progressing very slowly. So far, we've only found a few clues. The only thing we know is that the hospital was relocated because of an accident."
Shen Yunzhe: "Accident?"
"I saw it in the doctor's notebook. It said a terrible medical accident had occurred. We speculate that the main plot of the mission is deeply involved with this accident."
"Then we just need to follow this incident and investigate." Shen Yunzhe breathed a sigh of relief. "It's better to have a direction than no direction."
Qin Chao sneered, "Young man, don't think this is a simple matter. We haven't found the source of this medical accident, but we have found a related accident. The accident happened in the elevator next door, which is not a good location."
"You're so confident, why don't you go check in the elevator?" A man who had been silent all along suddenly spoke up. He stared at Shen Yunzhe and said, "Yes, you should go. It will prove that you're not a ghost pretending to be a player!"
"Shut up, Wang Liyang!" Le Jia raised her voice a little.
Wang Liyang took a quick breath, feeling a bit unconvinced. "Sister Le! I don't know if this guy is a human or a ghost now. Besides, he came in later. His even-numbered partner died. We wouldn't have died so quickly otherwise. It's all because of him..."
"I told you to shut up." Le Jia stared at Wang Liyang. "Who can guarantee that another person won't die? Can you guarantee that? You can't even guarantee that you're still alive."
Wang Liyang shuddered, lowered his head and stopped talking.
"Don't worry." Le Jia looked at Shen Yunzhe again, "You just arrived and don't know anything. We will find a way to get the elevator. Now rest first."
Shen Yunzhe didn't say anything. He was angry at being taken out on for no reason, and he was even about to blurt out some sarcastic words.
It seems that the code-named doctor is a doctor with a particularly bad mouth and is very good at offending people.
"Everyone, get some rest early. Finish outside by 6 a.m., and then we'll start the operation." Qin Chao noticed the unhappiness on Shen Yunzhe's face. To avoid an argument, he spoke up to ease the atmosphere. "Everyone, rest up. Whether we can get new clues depends on tomorrow."
Despite this, no one at the scene could sleep.
After all, their current number is odd, and the even number rule is still pressing on them.
Who will die? How many will die?
No one is not afraid, and no one can close their eyes in this fear.
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