Chapter 4343 Lin Siyu Zhang Fan
Tu Lanxun took Rita to the Bluebird Metropolis Hospital. It was indeed the largest and best hospital in the Gray City Cave. Even the stone bricks at the entrance were large and smooth like a mirror. Rita was pushed in a silent and smooth emergency cart and was taken deep into the corridor surrounded by a group of neatly dressed medical staff.
The nurse brought her a receipt and asked her to pay. Tu Lanxun only paid a deposit and used up all the money she had earned from working in the game. She signed "colleague" in the related person column and sat in the waiting area in a daze.
It’s so high-end, everything is so high-end, even the smiles of the service staff seem to be measured with a vernier caliper.
She waited for a long time until a tall doctor in a surgical cap finally emerged from the crowd. His voice, deep and clear, like a flat-pitched saxophone, said, "Ms. Wang Ella, your colleague's rescue was a success. Since her bank balance is zero, the subsequent expenses will be automatically deducted from her medical insurance and credit accounts. Please don't worry."
Tu Lanxun was stunned for a moment. This voice was very familiar. Before putting on the VR headset, it had coldly told her to stay away and not to step on the freshly cleaned floor without changing shoes...
It's N.
But it wasn't him, it was Doctor Nightingale in the simulator.
Tu Lanxun looked into those eyes and was not used to seeing N's eyeballs intact. He was wearing a surgical cap and a mask, which outlined his deep eyebrows. His eyebrows were thick and long but not wild. His peach blossom eyes had pointed corners, buried in the shadows on both sides of his high and narrow nose.
At this moment, Dr. Nightingale's eyes were smiling, which softened his extremely aggressive appearance, but made him more impressive.
"Okay, I understand." Tu Lanxun gave a brief reply. Somehow, she didn't want N in the game to remember her voice characteristics.
N, or Doctor Nightingale, smiled and nodded, leaving behind a tall figure like a mannequin hanger. He offered only a gentle reassurance: "Don't worry, she'll be cured. I promise."
Tu Lanxun walked out of Bluebird Metropolitan Hospital with an empty wallet, switched maps, and returned to his rental apartment. On the game's imprint board, a new character line lit up, winding like a star.
The first game mark filled in is the head of a medieval bird-beaked doctor, and the name of this mark is [Week 1-First Encounter].
I met the core plot characters.
The next two days were Tu Lanxun's vacation, and she chose to work part-time at a plush cafe. Her job required her to wear animal ears and tails and stand among a group of handsome young men dressed as servants to greet customers.
However, Wang Aila's modeling appearance score was too low, so she could only wait on the dishes and finally received a small amount of odd job compensation, which was the amount deducted by the plush foreman - a white-tailed fox beastman.
After the holiday, he returned to work at the underground boxing ring, but the front desk was replaced by another strange sister. Rita didn't come to work for several days. Tu Lanxun called her using the character address book, but no one answered the call for the first three days, and the number became invalid after three days.
Rita is gone.
Tu Lanxun thought that Rita had been lying to her from the beginning. If she was really the daughter of the boxing ring manager, how come there was no money in her account?
It wasn't until one morning after get off work that Tu Lanxun controlled [Wang Aila] to go to the convenience store to buy a discounted loaf of bread for breakfast. When she came out and waited for the red light, she discovered that the store was near Meizhen Flower Shop.
She was wearing her original hoodie and jeans, and her whole body was gray. Standing next to the trash can in Cyber City, she looked more like a trash can than the trash can itself.
It was in stark contrast to the group of dazzling young people passing by.
They looked extremely wealthy, their clothes adorned with shiny furs, diamonds, and tight waists, and their hair was all colored. Tu Lanxun could tell they were a bunch of playboys who had just spent the night enjoying themselves.
She stood a little further away without leaving any trace. This kind of NPC was not easy to deal with in the Gray City Cave, and getting close to them could easily trigger a bad luck quest.
Among them, there was one that was particularly eye-catching. She wore a pure white suit, a densely woven shrugged puff-sleeved jacket and a slim one-piece tube skirt. Her entire head was covered in a silver-white gauze hat. The gauze hat was elegant in shape, as if it was worn directly from the catwalk, and the whole person was sparkling.
The most eye-catching thing is that the upper half of the face of the girl in the white gauze hat is covered, and the lower half of her face is immersed in the stiff high collar. Her lips are pure gold, reflecting the sunlight.
When she turned her head, Tu Lanxun could see clearly that it was a lip-shaped thin piece made of gold metal, with a very modern outline, a small golden cherry mouth with pointed and upturned corners. There should be a pearl or diamond inside, held in the mouth, so that the fake gold lip shell stuck to the outside.
The ban itself has a kind of unspeakable meaning, which makes the designer's intention to take an unconventional approach more obvious and more expensive.
Tu Lanxun took a step forward and recognized the girl in white, Rita!
Is Rita hanging out with these people when she's not working? So her father is really...
wrong.
The group of admirers were standing on the street when suddenly three sports cars drove over from the distance. The sports cars were very expensive and looked a little unreal. Tu Lanxun's heart twitched. They were virtual sports cars.
A virtual sports car, designed for electronic souls.
They are a group of electronic souls, brilliant and graceful yet ephemeral, like butterflies without mouthparts.
Tu Lanxun could still hear Rita's words before she fell into a coma: "I will not become an electronic soul... Remember this..."
And that sentence, "Let me die... Let me die..."
Rita didn't die, she was turned into an electronic soul.
The playboys got on the bus, laughing loudly, including Rita who was wearing a silver-white gauze hat. Her laughter flowed uncontrollably from behind her golden lips, as if she was extremely happy. It was the kind of laughter that could only be made when drunk.
Tu Lanxun stopped chasing and watched the three virtual sports cars drive away one after another, almost like they were ejected.
At this moment, Rita's previous appointment task at Meizhen Flower Shop completely faded away, and a dialog box popped up in front of Tu Lanxun's eyes -
The character has gone offline. Do you want to delete this task?
Tu Lanxun numbly clicked no.
Things are not over yet. There are two more icons behind the gloomy [Date at Meizhen Flower Shop] task, one is a trash can and the other is [Investigation].
She clicks [Survey].
The game system pops up: "Warning players, there are all kinds of unknowns in this world. Rashly investigating missing characters will lead to danger. Please confirm."
Paint the blue xun and click [Confirm].
What a joke. It's a simulator and you're still so scared. There's absolutely no need to be so scared.
[Under investigation...]
[Current Suspicion: You and your colleague Rita met at a flower shop. She was mysteriously injured and has been missing for ten days since being taken to the hospital. This morning, you ran into Rita again outside Meizhen Flower Shop. You suspect she has been transformed into a digital soul...]
【Please choose your guess——】
[a. Rita voluntarily became a digital soul]
[b. This matter is related to Bluebird Metropolitan Hospital]
Tu Lanxun chose [b], and the map automatically jumped to the text display: [You decided to find the doctor at Qingniao Metropolitan Hospital].
The game also thoughtfully included a photo of Dr. Nightingale. Tu Lanxun was slightly startled. When she reacted, the main character was already standing at the door of Bluebird Metropolitan Hospital.
But after entering and walking around twice, no game response was triggered. Only the NPC front desk nurse kept asking: "How can I help you?" Below are three options: registration, visiting the patient, and follow-up visit.
Tu Lanxun glanced at the duty roster on the wall. Dr. Nightbird was not seeing patients today, so she turned and left the hospital lobby.
This wasn't the right path for the investigation. Tu Lanxun thought she had to find another way.
After circling the hospital area for a long time, Tu Lanxun finally passed by a certain building when the [Investigation] task sign lit up above his head and the text automatically popped up:
[It seems possible to climb up here.]
It was a metal drainpipe that ran through the gap in the exterior wall between two rows of windows. This building was also very strange. There was no written sign, the door was locked, and there was not even a security guard inside. It looked neither like an inpatient building nor an outpatient building.
The dialog box displays: [Please choose whether to climb?]
Paint the blue xun and click [Yes].
The main character rubbed his hands for two seconds and climbed up the water pipe, climbing a total of five floors. The feeling of the cool breeze blowing through his trouser legs in mid-air was extremely real. Tu Lanxun grabbed the clip that fixed the water pipe and didn't dare to look down.
There are five windows from bottom to top. One of the floors is a conference room with a rectangular wooden conference table, black leather wooden chairs and a blackboard. The windows from the second to fourth floors are all covered with anti-peep film. A thin outline can be faintly seen from the fourth floor, which should be equipped with a built-in anti-theft net, like a cage.
The fifth floor is much brighter, with a set of comfortable white desks and chairs, a dark blue fabric three-seater sofa, and a bookcase, making it look like a private lounge.
Tu Lanxun dangerously thrust out an arm and pushed open the already cracked window. The game displayed "Jump!", and a rapidly shrinking progress bar instantly appeared next to it.
Before the progress bar disappeared, Tu Lanxun leaped, experiencing a truly realistic feeling of weightlessness. She couldn't tell if it was real or a recording of her heartbeat echoing through her ears. She gripped the window sill tightly, not daring to let go.
She narrowly escaped through the window and breathed a sigh of relief after her feet touched the ground. Immediately, a long progress bar appeared above her head again and began to shrink visibly.
What's annoying is that the left half of the long progress bar is covered by a cloud, and there is a prompt next to it: the speed will be changed after half of the time is up, and the progress will be hidden from the player.
Tu Lanxun had no way of knowing when the owner of the room would come back.
She quickly searched for clues and opened every cabinet door and drawer. The place was so tidy that there was no trace of life. With the window open, the floor was spotless and felt as clean as the table.
Well, familiar obsessive-compulsive disorder and mysophobia...
A black notebook clip was found in the secret compartment of the desk drawer.
Tu Lanxun didn't pay attention to that place at first, but when he opened the drawer next to it, he found that the space was much thicker than the previous drawer. From this, he judged that there was a problem with the bottom of the previous drawer.
This folder contains a list of names, all of which are accompanied by photos and some of which are accompanied by medical records. The overall format is that each list with medical records is followed by one or two lists without medical records, and some of the names have related words.
This is a list of patients and their families.
Tu Lanxun browsed quickly and happened to come across two familiar photos.
【Hand Injury Patient-Lin Si】
Lin Si's cousin Yu Zhangfan
Lin Si and Yu Zhangfan's faces were very familiar. They were both middle-aged men in their thirties. The former had a sad look on his face, while the latter looked domineering.
Tu Lanxun thought carefully for a moment, and the scene of the swimming pool on a rainy night came alive again.
Lin Si and Yu Zhangfan are actually the normal human versions of the ghost whose hands have been transformed into knife cones and the ghost whose muscles have expanded like monsters!
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