Chapter 9
Shen Yunzhe didn't dare to go to the third floor at all, so he could only carefully inquire on the fourth floor.
He avoided all the elevators and finally stepped into the ward area on the fourth floor. Only then did he notice that the sunlight was shining obliquely on the dilapidated walls, making them dim.
Before I knew it, it was time for the sun to set, five o'clock in the afternoon.
"The hospital opens at six o'clock. We must find a hiding place before then." Shen Yunzhe murmured, "I don't know what happened to the others."
As Shen Yunzhe was speaking, he opened his phone and clicked on the live broadcast. Only then did he realize that the difficulty of his game had reached 3.8 and was about to break 4. The audience was cursing at his survival ability that appeared out of nowhere. Only a small number of them felt a little admiration for his ability to survive in the playerunknown's battleground.
[A doctor can climb walls and fly?! What the hell? That's the ninth floor!]
[He's just a newcomer, a new player, how could there be so many?!]
[You have such a tough life! I admire you.]
Is it okay for a doctor to have a hobby like martial arts or extreme sports?
[Bullshit, what doctor has time for extreme sports like climbing walls and climbing rooftops? This isn't a novel.]
Is it possible that he's not a doctor at all? Everything he said before was a lie.
[No matter what, he's still alive. This is reality. Now I'm curious whether this newcomer will come up with something more interesting.]
After turning off the useless live broadcast, Shen Yunzhe sighed. He carefully looked at the things around him before stepping into the doctor's office. There was not much difference between the inside and the outside. There was dust everywhere, tables pushed to the ground, and even documents all over the floor.
Shen Yunzhe looked at the white papers on the ground. He squatted down, picked up the white papers one by one, and sorted them as quickly as possible.
Just then, Shen Yunzhe saw a ward rounds record.
This is usually recorded by interns, and interns are more likely to write something different from the ordinary ward round report.
So Shen Yunzhe picked up a chair from the ground, sat down and began to look through the record.
The previous records were all normal, until a certain page, when a strange record caught Shen Yunzhe's attention.
On March 21st, the emergency department admitted a patient who had committed suicide by slitting his throat. The surgical ward was overcrowded, so the patient was temporarily placed in the pediatric ward, which had beds available. This wasn't in line with protocol, but the higher-ups agreed. The patient is in a separate ward, Ward 404, and doesn't need to be in the ward during rounds.
On March 22, Ward 404 received numerous complaints, including from families of young patients next door and those who went to the restroom at night. They reported hearing strange noises coming from Ward 404. They are coordinating with the surgery department, hoping they can vacate a bed and take the patient away as soon as possible.
"On March 23rd, a bed was finally available in the surgical department, and the patient in Ward 404 can go home soon."
'On March 24, a patient in Ward 404 committed suicide by jumping from a building.'
'March 25th, it was crazy! Everyone went crazy!'
The record came to an abrupt end, and the last page was covered with black and red blood. Shen Yunzhe swallowed his saliva and turned to look to the side. Ward 404 was right next to the nurses' station. Its door was closed and it looked no different from other wards.
Could the answer to this game mission be in here?
Shen Yunzhe didn't know, and it was difficult for him to explore because time was running out.
He would have to find a room where no shadow could enter and stay there until six in the morning.
After putting the sorted documents on the table, Shen Yunzhe was startled by a crackling sound when he just walked to the door of the hospital office. He looked around in horror and saw that a computer next to the office suddenly lit up. Shen Yunzhe was a little dumbfounded.
Is the computer on?
He glanced around and confirmed that it was not the hospital's opening hours, so he carefully walked to the computer and found that it was displaying a document.
This information is very strange, it is full of people's names.
And below the names, two very disturbing words are displayed: alive/dead.
This appears to be a list of surviving medical staff within the hospital.
Shen Yunzhe scrolled down the list little by little, and soon he saw a familiar name.
Chief Pediatrician Liu Ruoyu: Survival.
It turned out that the doctor whose identity he had 'impersonated' was still alive.
But what is the significance of this list?
Shen Yunzhe frowned as he looked at the names on the list. He reached out to touch the computer screen. At this moment, he widened his eyes slightly and suddenly realized something... There was no dust on the computer screen?
This shouldn't happen, because this computer, like this hospital, has been lying dormant in this place for three years. It should be covered in dust like the table on the floor, and shouldn't be as clean as it is now, unless someone wiped it clean.
Someone had come here to investigate earlier than him.
Shen Yunzhe hurriedly observed the things around him. He found several footprints that were obviously not his own, dust wiped off the chair, and a pen that was still usable. Shen Yunzhe began to rummage through the drawers and finally found a white paper with new handwriting in a drawer.
It must have been written not long ago, and there is still a slight smell of ink on the paper.
'I'm Zhou Mingming.'
This is what the first line on the paper reads.
Zhou Mingming? This seemed to be the person who went out the other night and disappeared after seeing two more shadows? He's not dead?!
It seemed that after revealing his identity, he had no time to say anything else. The handwriting behind it was a bit messy, but it was not difficult to see that he was writing the rules he had explored himself.
'Players can disguise their identities to deceive NPCs, but disguised identities are limited to those who are inside the hospital and have credentials.'
"It's best to choose the survivors. The dead will remain in this hospital as shadows, making disguises very difficult."
'After the hospital opens, players cannot appear and will be eroded by shadows.'
"Hide somewhere dark! Only in this way can we slow down the encroaching shadows."
"Zhang Wenli has been eroded by the shadow!"
After reading these words, Shen Yunzhe lowered his head to take a look at his white coat and the badge of Liu Ruoyu pinned on his chest. So, his ability to escape the security guards at the beginning was just an accident, and he happened to disguise himself as a survivor?
Is Zhou Mingming still alive? Shen Yunzhe wondered.
Qin Chao said that he believed the more dangerous the situation, the more likely he would discover problems, so he left the safe house in the middle of the night and came back with two more shadows. In this situation, Shen Yunzhe knew what would happen. Even if Zhou Mingming didn't die, he would not be accepted by the players.
This is probably why he acted alone and left clues.
Shen Yunzhe turned over the next piece of white paper. There were only a few short sentences on the second piece of paper. He seemed to be getting more and more anxious and hurried, and the handwriting was a little difficult to recognize.
"After being eroded by the shadow, you will not die immediately. You can appear at night during this period. There is a problem with Ward 404 on this floor."
"I don't recommend doing this because it's a gamble with your life, and you never know when the shadow will kill you."
'Don't gamble your life, don't go out at night!'
"There must be another way..."
The notes came to an abrupt end. Shen Yunzhe folded the white paper and stuffed it into the pocket of his white coat, then turned around and prepared to leave the hospital office.
However, time passed faster than he had imagined. Just as he reached the office door, he heard a bell ringing from the nurses' station. Shen Yunzhe's body stiffened. He certainly knew what the bell meant. It meant that the Qingcheng Jianbai Hospital was opening, and soon the world would be filled with shadows.
Shen Yunzhe had no place to hide.
Taking two steps back, Shen Yunzhe listened to the bell outside while trying to find a new hiding place. It didn't need to be too good, as long as he could hide in it. Or could he just jump out of the window? Although it was on the fourth floor and he was still injured, it was not impossible for him in his current state.
Noises began to be heard outside the room: children's laughter, adults' lullabies, and nurses yelling at people to get out of the way.
Shen Yunzhe quickly locked the door of the hospital office.
The next moment, there was a click, and someone was turning the office door handle.
"Who's in there?" A light female voice came from outside. "Is it the doctor? Doctor, open the door."
Shen Yunzhe didn't dare to say a word.
"Doctor, why did you lock the door? Open it quickly."
"Doctor, if you don't open the door I'll go get the key."
With a click, the person in front of the door left, probably to get the key. Shen Yunzhe took the opportunity to run to the windowsill. He leaned over to look down, but was surprised to find that even the area under the hospital was covered with shadows. The street lights dimly illuminated the ground, and countless shadows were swaying.
I can’t go down, but I can’t stay here either!
Shen Yunzhe was so anxious that he couldn't express it in words. He took out the white paper that he had just folded twice and stuffed in his pocket, and anxiously read the information on it again.
Finally, his eyes fixed on the first one.
Click, the nurse seemed to have got the key and was opening the office door. Shen Yunzhe could vaguely see countless shadows slowly coming out of the crack in the door, aiming at him with bared fangs and claws.
Pulling the cabinet next to him against the door, Shen Yunzhe sat down in front of the open computer and began to look through the list of survivors.
He searched anxiously and finally found 'Liu Ruoyu' among countless names.
"Open the door, doctor, what are you doing?" A light female voice came over, the door was opened, and a strong force was pushing the cabinet, and it seemed that the cabinet was about to be overturned.
Shen Yunzhe gritted his teeth, took a long breath, and at the moment the cabinet overturned, he changed the survival status after the name "Liu Ruoyu" to "death".
In the eyes of the NPCs, he is Liu Ruoyu, but Liu Ruoyu is still alive and therefore cannot be integrated into them. So what if Liu Ruoyu 'dies'? After death, will Liu Ruoyu be automatically considered one of them?
Shen Yunzhe knew that he was gambling, and he also knew that if he failed, he would die in a very ugly way.
Unexplainable excitement and thrill filled his mind, and he couldn't help but try this possibility in such an extreme situation.
【The pursuit of excitement is the belief of life! 】
Shen Yunzhe pressed the confirm button resolutely and felt his heartbeat drop heavily.
With a buzzing sound, Shen Yunzhe raised his head and found that everything around him was turning black and white, or in other words: it turned into black and white in his vision. The cabinet fell to the ground and a colorless nurse walked in from the door.
Even in black and white, Shen Yunzhe could see the wound on her neck, as if a knife had pierced her neck, so every time she spoke, wind passed through her vocal cords, making her voice become erratic.
"Doctor Liu?" The nurse looked at him. "Why are you here? Didn't you leave the hospital?"
"I'm back again." Shen Yunzhe maintained his composure. He hid his hands, which were trembling with excitement, behind his back and said, "After all, everyone is here."
Then the nurse laughed and revealed her pierced neck.
"Yeah, everyone's here!"
“We’re always here.”
Continue read on readnovelmtl.com
