Chapter 21: Mental Hospital, are you really here to make fun of me? Get out! ...
The faceless ghost that walked out of the light circle in the sky was the faceless ghost that had disappeared for a long time.
Gu Rong's eyes lit up: "Brother Wu-Face!"
【Hey hey hey, little furry cub! 】
[Speak of the devil, here he comes!]
Is the hypnotist who never appeared the faceless ghost, the skeleton ghost, and the long-tongued ghost? Are all three NPCs the hypnotist's split personalities? No wonder he survived even after being turned into dust.
[Good boy greets everyone enthusiastically when he sees them, emotional value ceiling, who can not like him [reward points]]
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The name "little furry cub" made Lin Xuezhuo raise his eyebrows and Jie Xiu widen his small eyes.
The faceless ghost folded his arms and sighed, "After being trapped in the dark forest behind the mountain by the devil for two days and two nights, I'm finally out."
It looked at the cub sitting in Jie Xiu's arms and said, "You little bastard, you're lucky you didn't get swallowed up by the devil as an afternoon tea snack."
Gu Rong patted his belly and said, "Rong Rong is the devil's little follower. Don't eat Rong Rong!"
At this time, Zhuang Yuchen came over with a group of players with a smile.
Including Lin Xuezhuo, there are only six players left, and seven have been eliminated.
But until this point, the player still doesn't know that Gu Rong is the NPC Zaizai, and Lin Xuezhuo is the player.
Seeing that the copy time was about to end, they had to take a risk and come to find the only cub who had the key.
The mental hospital was now in chaos, and they escaped from the ward without much effort.
Seeing Lin Xuezhuo, everyone paused and stopped a few meters away, not daring to move forward.
They did not forget that they kidnapped Lin Xuezhuo as a hostage last night, but Lin Xuezhuo disappeared and they were all arrested.
Lin Xuezhuo didn't specifically remind the other players that he was also a player. He just stood there casually, nonchalantly.
Yang Chunsheng pointed at the faceless ghost and yelled, "Fuck! Ghost! Ghost!"
The faceless ghost looked at the player with its featureless face. He recognized Yang Chunsheng as the player that Gu Rong had scared by hanging himself. "Huh? This guy wasn't scared to death? Little Rong, it seems you need to work on your acting skills."
Gu Rong humbly accepted the instruction, rolled his eyes, pinched his chubby face with his hands, and practiced on the spot: "Ah Wu——"
The faceless ghost patiently instructed: "Just ah-wu is not enough, you have to learn other things too, such as the dinosaur roar 'ah~', the devil whisper 'jiejiejie', oh and also, ah-mai-di~~ ga ga ga~ little furry cub, you try it!"
Gu Rong was young, and imitated it seriously, with a baby voice: "Ah~~jiejiejie~~~~Ah buy a disc~~~~ga gaga!"
The faceless ghost had no face, so it was impossible to tell whether he was smiling or not. He just paused subtly and praised, "Not bad!"
Hearing the praise, Gu Rong shook her little feet and her face lit up with joy.
Everyone: “…………”
006: […………]
Live broadcast room: […………]
Damn, are you really here to make fun of me? Get out of here!
Everyone was confused. Was this kid doing too well among the NPCs?
It looks like it has been incorporated into the NPC camp.
Zhuang Yu called out, "Rongrong!"
Shen Hanxiao: "Little ghost, come to Brother Hanxiao!"
Gu Rong waved her little hand towards the two of them: "Big brother, little brother!"
Patting Jie Xiu, he said softly, "Uncle Mao, cub, get down!"
Jie Xiu placed Gu Rong steadily on the ground.
However, Gu Rong did not run towards Zhuang Yuchen with a smile. The most urgent thing was to get the key and complete the task, otherwise he would become a little slave.
Gu Rong stretched out her little hand to the faceless ghost: "Brother Wu Lian, can you give Rong Rong a key?"
Faceless Ghost: "Oh? What key?"
Gu Rong's face was full of thought. He couldn't remember what the hypnotist's key was called, so he took out the other four keys from the system backpack and said, "This is the key!"
Everyone: “…………”
Fuck, four keys!!! Four!!!
This little guy actually got four keys? ! !
All the players were stunned. They had never seen so many keys since they entered the dungeon.
In addition to the keys that Jie Xiu and the priest showed off, they even saw the Key of Wisdom and the Key of Power for the first time!
Jie Xiu's eyes widened even more, and he had to face the reality. The little cub didn't like his bristle brush at all, but was running for the key on the brush!
[Hahahaha, these players look so ignorant. So many of them are not even as good as a two-year-old child. Tsk tsk]
[The way the player looks at the baby, he's already treating him like a little savior. It's hilarious.]
[Don't say it, I feel like they can only hold on to their cubs' legs if they want to pass the level! [Reward points]]
[Jie Xiu has been ignored again. "On Jie Xiu's Neglected Life." He looks like he's about to break.]
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Everyone looked at Gu Rong with shining eyes, and placed their hopes of passing the level on this little cub.
But, if I ask people directly like this, will they give it to me?
The faceless ghost stroked his chin and thought, "I'm sorry, little Rongzi, I hid the key in a certain personality, but it's been so long that I can't remember which personality it was hidden in."
When Gu Rong heard this, he was so anxious that he turned around in circles.
006 said: [Little host, there is only one hour left for the mission, we must hurry!]
Gu Rong still wanted to find his parents and Grandpa Ming. When he heard this, he burst into tears anxiously, aggrieved, and wiped his tears with his little hands: "Zizi is going to become the devil's little slave!"
The faceless ghost was startled when he saw Gu Rong crying anxiously. He said hurriedly, "Don't worry, little Rong. Brother can't remember it, but maybe your long-tongued uncle does."
In a flash, the faceless ghost turned into the appearance of the long-tongued ghost and transformed into the personality of the long-tongued ghost.
Everyone exclaimed in amazement at the cool scene before them.
Gu Rong wiped her tears with the back of her hand and called out in a tender voice, "Uncle Long Tongue."
The long-tongued ghost laughed loudly, hands on his hips, until his tongue was tied. But after thinking for a long time, he still couldn't remember which dream he had hidden the key in. Seeing that Gu Rong was about to cry again, he hurriedly said, "Little Rong, it's okay. Even if Uncle Long-tongued can't remember, your Uncle Skeleton will definitely remember! He has a better memory than anyone else!"
The Skeleton Ghost appeared, holding his cowboy hat with one hand and snapping his finger bones in the air with the other: "Little Rongzi, let your Skeleton Master think about this."
The skeleton ghost began to ponder, and everyone held their breath, fearing that it would not be able to remember.
After ten minutes, the skeleton ghost snapped his fingers.
Everyone looked at it with anticipation.
The Skeleton Ghost said three words: "I don't know."
Everyone: ...oxygen.jpg
You don't know why you're still snapping your fingers and looking so confident?
This was purely a misunderstanding. The skeleton ghost was left with only a skeleton on his body. He originally intended to clench his fist in frustration, but only bones were left on his fingers, so his hand slipped and he snapped his fingers.
Gu Rong was still feeling sad when he saw the skeleton uncle snapping his fingers and pinching his right thumb and index finger, but it didn't look like snapping his fingers, it looked like he was making a heart shape instead.
At this time, Lin Xuezhou suddenly said: "I think the key of hope should be in the hands of the hypnotist."
After a moment of surprise, everyone turned their eyes to him.
Isn’t this nonsense? Of course the key is with the hypnotist... Wait, this is really not nonsense!
Seeing everyone's reaction, Lin Xuezhou smiled and continued, "The faceless ghost, the skeleton ghost, and the long-tongued ghost are just split personalities. Multiple personalities are all independent individuals with their own consciousness. They are different people or ghosts."
"Strictly speaking, the three NPCs are not equivalent to hypnotists."
Lin Xuezhou said in a flat, nonchalant tone, "The game mission stated from the very beginning that each of the five managers is equipped with a key. This is literal meaning. The key is on the five managers."
The other four managers also kept their keys with them.
The Jiexiu is placed on the bristle brush, and the bristle brush is carried with you.
The priest is hung around his neck.
Prometheus is the eye of wisdom hidden in the palm of your hand.
The nun was placed on the body of the undead fetus, and the undead fetus was parasitic in her head.
The keys never actually leave the administrator's body.
Therefore, the key to hope can only be in the hands of the "hypnotist" personality.
After listening to Lin Xuezhuo's analysis, everyone suddenly understood.
wrong!
Everyone looked at Lin Xuezhuo.
Why does Dr. Lin know the game mission?
Not only know, but also help analyze the task.
unless……
Zhuang Yu expressed everyone's thoughts: "You are a player."
Lin Xuezhu didn't refute and still looked relaxed.
Gu Rong nodded his little head: "Yeah, Uncle Doctor is a player!"
Everyone: “…………”
Even this little cub knows about it?
Everyone was shocked and fell silent.
Lin Xuezhu is a player? A player disguised as an NPC?!
It is ridiculous that no one has discovered it except this cub!
No wonder they kidnapped Lin Xuezhuo, it felt like they were releasing him into the sea. Could it be that they did it on purpose?
Yang Chunsheng quickly realized something was wrong: "No, that's not right. Doesn't the game say there are only 13 players? But with you included, there are 14 people!"
Everyone carefully counted the number of players several times, and yes, including Lin Xuezhuo, there were indeed 14 of them.
Soon, they realized what was happening and their eyes widened.
There is a player disguised as an NPC, but the number of people is just right. So what does it mean in reverse?
This means there must be an NPC disguised as a player to make up the number of people!
Shit, so there’s actually been an NPC hiding among them?
And they don’t even know?!
Compared to players disguising themselves as NPCs and infiltrating the NPCs, having an NPC infiltrate them makes them even more restless!
Seven players have been eliminated, but since they are NPCs, they must still be among the remaining players!
Among the players present now, there is an NPC!
Everyone couldn't help but feel creepy.
[Oh wow, finally got it? Or did I only find out after the truth was right in front of me? Tsk tsk tsk]
[But they still haven't realized that the baby is an NPC. They've already started to suspect each other. It's hilarious.]
Yang Chunsheng had originally hoped to learn that Zizi was an NPC, but after Zizi took the key, he seemed to unconditionally believe that Zizi was a player. This is quite confusing.
…
Yang Chunsheng’s idea was very simple. First, he was a new player and lacked experience and judgment. Second, he subconsciously felt that since NPCs were NPCs, how could they possibly do the same tasks as players?
Lin Xuezhu glanced at Gu Rong and chuckled, with no intention of exposing the identity of this cub.
The faceless ghost began to ponder again. Player? Game mission?
Oh, interesting.
Jie Xiu also looked puzzled, but he was still immersed in his own world of broken defense and couldn't extricate himself, so he didn't care about these things.
Everyone calmed down after the shock of the NPC and player identity swap. Now was not the time to dwell on these things; the most important thing was to complete the mission.
Shen Han smiled and said: "So, now we just need to find the personality of 'Hypnotist' to find the key."
Yang Chunsheng weakly raised his hand again: "No, that's not right. There's only more than an hour left before the dungeon ends. In fact, we don't have to find the key..."
As long as they can survive this last hour or so, they can still survive and pass the level.
Gu Rong's mission deadline is one hour earlier than the player's, and there are only forty-eight minutes left.
A female player said, "You wishful thinking, look behind you!"
Everyone looked in the direction of the sound and saw that the ancient castle building behind them was already engulfed in a sea of fire. The raging flames had engulfed the entire mental hospital, and the fire was still approaching the direction of the black forest in the back mountain.
Within half an hour, the entire copy map will turn into a sea of fire.
No, maybe it won’t take half an hour at all.
In the sea of fire, a priest with silver hair and a cracked face was walking towards this side.
All the players were shocked.
Female player: "Is that Father Noah? How did he become so, so..."
She couldn't find the right adjective, but everyone got what she meant.
At this time, Father Noah no longer had any divinity, and was like an evil demon Shura.
"Shit, we better hurry up and find the hypnotist to get the key. We still have nearly two hours left. I don't think we can last even half an hour!"
"But we haven't even seen the hypnotist yet, and we just saw his three split personalities. Where would he be?"
"Don't these three personalities know about it? The mental hospital is so small, where can a living person hide? He's not that undead fetus that can hide in a nun's hair!"
…
006 said: [Little host, we have the Eye of Wisdom. After wearing it, we can have nearly omniscient wisdom. Why don't we use the Eye of Wisdom to see if we can find the hypnotist's main personality.]
Gu Rong immediately took out the Eye of Wisdom and stuck it on his forehead, instantly turning into the baby Erlang Shen.
Everyone looked at the vaguely familiar eyes. Uh, could this be the eye in the palm of Prometheus' hand?
How did it end up on this little cub's forehead?
No wonder Prometheus looked blind. It wasn't just an appearance, he was really blind.
The Eye of Wisdom rolled around and was finally taken out for a walk. Like a happy dog, its eyes were slightly narrowed, and it seemed to be extremely happy.
Everyone looked at these all-too-human eyes, and after being surprised by the thought that they would be petrified if they looked into their eyes, they immediately closed their eyes.
At this moment, a soft chuckle broke the silence.
Lin Xuezhuo sneered and said, "I think the first manager we came into contact with was probably a hypnotist. Perhaps we were hypnotized from the beginning..."
"We have been in a dream created by the hypnotist from the very beginning."
“…”
If there is no hypnotist in the entire mental hospital, then this is the only possibility left.
Considering the hypnotist's abilities, this is the only possible answer.
Through the Eye of Wisdom, Gu Rong learned that Lin Xuezhuo's speculation was correct.
From the moment they arrived at the mental hospital, they have been existing in the dream created by the hypnotist.
*
The next moment, time and space froze, and the scene before my eyes changed, shattering into thousands of fragments like a dream.
When the picture froze again, Gu Rong found that the scene in front of him had changed. He was no longer in front of the cabin in the woods, but lying on a hospital bed.
Gu Rong blinked his big eyes and sat up from the bed. He found that there were several hospital beds in the room. Except for him, all the other players were lying on the bed with their eyes closed, as if they were in a dream from which they could not wake up.
This place looks vaguely familiar, it's actually the treatment room.
The air was filled with the smell of formaldehyde.
Lin Xuezhuo was lying on the hospital bed next to him. As soon as Gu Rong woke up, Lin Xuezhuo also woke up with a frown.
The other players were still sleeping, showing no signs of waking up.
“Only those who can break through the dream will wake up. Other patients are unaware that they are in a dream and will continue to lose themselves in the dream.”
A tall man in a white robe pushed the door open and answered the two people with a smile.
He held two glasses of water in his hands, one placed on the table next to Lin Xuezhuo, and the other handed to Gu Rong.
The man in front of him was dressed like a long-tongued ghost, but his face looked like half a faceless ghost and half a skeleton ghost.
You can tell at first glance that he is a schizophrenic.
Gu Rong looked at the man in white robe in front of her, her face confused.
Not to mention Gu Rong, anyone who sees the strange-looking creature that is obviously a fusion of three NPCs will also be confused.
Seeing that Gu Rong didn't accept the water, the hypnotist placed the cup on the table next to him and said, "I have hundreds of faces and hundreds of different personalities. I just want to appear as a face that you, little Rong, are more familiar with."
He stroked his chin and asked, "Doesn't this look more friendly?"
Lin Xuezhou: “.”
006: [……]
Live broadcast room: [……]
Help, where's the kindness?
Take a look at it yourself, does it look good?
Gu Rong looked the hypnotist up and down and said, "Does the kid call you Brother No-Face, Uncle Long-Tongue, or Uncle Skeleton now?"
The hypnotist thought for half a second and said, "Just call me brother."
After a pause, he added, "Looks younger."
“…”
Gu Rong was very considerate and called him "Faceless Brother".
Now is obviously not a good time to reminisce about the past. 006 frantically reminded: [Little host, mission, mission!]
Gu Rong said, "Brother Wu Lian, Mr. Skeleton said that if we find the main personality, we can find the key. Can you give the key to Zi Zi?"
The hypnotist smiled and a chain fell from his hand. At the bottom of the chain hung a green retro key, which was the key of hope.
He handed the key to Gu Rong.
Gu Rong looked at the hypnotist's face, and could not tell any emotion from the half-faceless and half-skull face, so he grabbed the key with his little hand.
Lin Xuezhu remained quiet the entire time, leaning on the bed and slowly drinking water.
Gu Rong took out the other four keys from the system backpack, and got all five keys. However, the five keys were still unrelated to each other and did not form a universal key.
Gu Rong grabbed the keys, put them together, and arranged them into several patterns. "Huh? Why can't it become a universal key?"
The hypnotist smiled and said, "Of course. To create the Master Key, you must enter the dream world. There are key-shaped grooves on the tops of the five crosses that seal the devil. Only by placing the keys into the grooves can you create the Master Key."
"I sealed the devil in a dream. To enter the dream, you need the Key of Hope. If you want to get the Key of Hope, you can't enter the dream. I call it..."
“The Paradox of Hope.”
Gu Rong seemed to understand, but he knew the key point: "Then the kid won't be able to get the master key?"
The hypnotist smiled and nodded.
Lin Xuezhuo remembered that the nun had said that the last key would be useless even if he got it, and this was what she meant.
Gu Rong said anxiously in a small voice: "Zizi, don't be the devil's little slave!"
The hypnotist soothed him, "Little Rongzi, why don't you stay? You are outside the dream, and the devil is inside. He can't find you, so naturally he can't make you his slave."
"I can trap Him in one of billions of dreams, and He will eventually lose Himself in the dream."
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