Chapter 233 Scavenger (29) Finding the Shredder
After leaving Tu Cheng's ward, the players were more or less depressed.
Thinking of the thin threads running around under Tu Cheng's skin like tapeworms... no matter how I looked at it, it didn't look normal.
He Lun stared at the seal of "Normal" gloomily. It was stamped by Gao Mengtang with the selfish intention of protecting Tu Cheng. In the mental health center, the end faced by abnormal people is obvious: death.
"Why did those students attack Tu Cheng?" Bai Jie said as if talking to himself.
He recalled what happened that day: three people were squeezed together in the back seat of the car.
Bai Jie was on the far right, Wei Wei was on the far left, and Tu Cheng sat between them. The students of the Folk Medicine School seemed to be controlled by someone and became puppets. They rushed over and tore the leftmost door apart...
Then, they reached over Wei Wei, who was sitting on the far left, pulled Tu Cheng, who was sitting in the middle, out, and began to lick his face.
Bai Jie said to himself, "In the situation at that time, they should have dragged Brother Wei out. Why didn't they attack Brother Wei, but attacked Tu Cheng instead? They knew that Brother Wei was more powerful, so they picked on the weak ones?"
"Thank you for your concern," Wei Wei said coldly, "You seem to prefer me to be the one lying in the ward?"
"Nothing!" Bai Jie yelled, "I just feel weird."
After his analysis, other players also discovered something unusual.
The controlled students did not attack Wei Wei. No matter what the reason was, it pointed to one possibility: the person who manipulated those students behind the scenes knew the Yuefan players very well.
They did not bite randomly like mad dogs, but attacked with premeditation and purpose.
They walked to the next ward area while chatting, passing a group of nurses.
"That damn thing is so annoying." One of the nurses complained.
The second nurse said jokingly, "Your husband."
"Your husband!"
"Hey, your son."
The leading nurse held her forehead weakly and said, "Stop making noise. He is the only monster under the highest level of supervision. I feel like vomiting when I think of his appearance. I just finished lunch."
Gao Mengtang pricked up her ears to listen to their conversation. When she heard this, she couldn't help but lean over and ask, "Sisters, what are you talking about?"
The nurses in front all turned around and saw Gao Mengtang's beautiful and delicate face like a white magnolia. They were not annoyed by the sudden chat, but smiled and said:
"Sister?" The nurse in the lead had her name tag on her chest. Her last name was Meng. "How old are you? I'm 21, the director of the nursing department."
"Oh, then you should call her sister. Calling someone you respect sister seems more appropriate." Gao Mengtang blushed at the right time. Although he was not very embarrassed, he was well aware of this.
Sure enough, seeing his blushing face, the other nurses started to giggle again. After laughing enough, Director Meng coughed and said seriously, "We are talking about the patient in the [Highest Level of Monitoring]. Codenamed [Many-Faced Buddha], we are going to check his room."
"I want to go, too." Gao Mengtang said immediately, "Take me with you."
Director Meng adjusted his three-bar hat as the director of the nursing department, and then glanced at Gao Mengtang's nurse hat, which had no bars at all: "You are a trainee nurse, you shouldn't go. I can take you, but are you sure you want to go? That's not a tourist attraction, I guarantee you'll be so disgusted that you won't be able to eat."
"I'm going, I'm going, and I'll take my friend with me." Gao Mengtang pulled Bai Jie and followed them closely. He secretly winked at the rest of his teammates, asking them to wait where they were.
Wei Wei, He Lun and Lin Li watched Gao Mengtang's back as he walked away, their expressions indescribable.
He Lun pulled his hair and said, "Brother Mengtang is so good at teasing girls, has he never been bullied by boys?"
Wei Wei looked at him meaningfully and said nothing.
"What's wrong with me?" He Lun suddenly became nervous. "I'm not attracted to Brother Mengtang."
Wei Wei: "I didn't say anything."
He Lun: "..."
*
"Sister Xiao Meng, the Many-Faced Buddha is under the highest level of surveillance, so he must be very dangerous." Gao Mengtang said, "Shouldn't dangerous patients be transferred to the comprehensive management area for execution?"
"That's right," Director Meng said, "The problem is that we don't have the ability to transfer him at the moment. His attack power is too strong. We can only lock him up temporarily and wait for the equipment and agents from Tanhualing to be sent over, and then transfer him to the management area for execution. The day after tomorrow Tanhualing will send someone over, and we will be free..."
During the conversation, they came to the room on the easternmost side of the first floor, passed through three doors, recorded their irises twice, and finally opened the door to the Many-Faced Buddha's ward.
Through the glass, they admired the majestic appearance of the many-faced Buddha.
"Grr!" Bai Jie dry-heaved loudly.
The thing in front of me cannot really be called a "patient", but rather a mass of half-rotten fleshy cactus.
The thing's limbs were like four worms, trying desperately to drill into the body. The remaining half of its arms and half of its calves twisted around outside its body. At the same time, countless spikes bulged out of its body, piercing the skin and flesh, causing the wounds to rot and fester.
His head was three times the size of a normal person's. He had a face from the side, at the back of his head, on the top of his head and at the chin. The facial features were clear and their expressions were different, either sad or happy, angry or sobbing. His mouth opened and closed as if he was talking, but no sound could be heard.
The original face was torn into a pancake. The patient [Many-Faced Buddha] kept mumbling, as if he was talking to the other faces on his head.
"No, no. They don't hate me."
"You're talking nonsense."
“But…but…”
"I know, I'm just disgusting."
The spikes popped out a few more inches, and the limbs retracted further into the body.
Bai Jie: "You have a clear self-awareness, but it's disgusting."
The room had no soundproofing, and they could all hear the Many-Faced Buddha talking to himself. When Gao Mengtang heard Bai Jie's words, his heart skipped a beat, fearing that the Many-Faced Buddha would be angered.
Surprisingly, the Many-Faced Buddha was not angry. He seemed not to have heard Bai Jie's words at all. He was immersed in his own world and talked to the other faces.
"The situation is relatively stable, ugh!" Director Meng retched for a while, pressed the button beside him, and a cloud of white mist was released in the observation room. The Many-Faced Buddha calmed down a little, and the frequency of his mumbling decreased.
Another nurse said, "Let's go."
"Well, is that it?" Gao Mengtang followed their steps, "Sister Xiaomeng, what disease did he have? Why did he become like this?"
"The virus is codenamed MDD1010 and is transmitted through saliva," said Director Meng. "According to our observations, several faces appear on the patient's head and those faces talk to the patient. They keep saying things like 'You are hated' and 'You are a waste' to the patient."
Another nurse said, "So we originally called this virus the 'Low Self-Esteem Virus'. It was an accidental product of Epiphyllum Ridge's research on the Shadowborn."
It makes sense to link it with the Shadowborn. The Shadowborn have a very low self-esteem. They feel disgusting and unworthy of existence from birth. The Deadborn are even more in pursuit of death from birth.
"Ouch, I understand." The shadow creature Pegana curled up into a small ball, moving around in Gao Mengtang's white coat pocket, rubbing Gao Mengtang's palm with its fur.
Gao Mengtang: "Is there an antidote for this virus?"
"We can only control it, but we can't cure it," said Director Meng. "Those deformed faces can't be eliminated. They have to live with them for the rest of their lives."
So, what about Tu Cheng?
The Many-Faced Buddha has many faces, and the students who attacked Tu Cheng also have many faces. Tu Cheng is also infected with the MDD1010 virus, will he also become like the Many-Faced Buddha?
"Be careful, the patients on the third floor are all infected with the MDD1010 virus," Director Meng said. "The patients will show high sensitivity and aggression in the early stages. Be careful with your words when talking to them. A glance from you can make them consume themselves for a long time."
Tu Cheng’s ward is on the 3rd floor.
Gao Mengtang sighed secretly and asked again: "Sister Xiaomeng, you are at a high level, so you know more about this mental health center, right?"
Director Meng nodded modestly: "Yes, that's right. Ask whatever you want to ask."
"Can you enter the comprehensive management area?" Gao Mengtang put on his most innocent and harmless expression, blinking his big eyes, looking at her with admiration and expectation.
Who would have thought that Gao Mengtang's beauty weapon, which was always effective, would fail at this moment. When Xiao Meng heard the word "management area", his face immediately changed and he said seriously, "This is not something you can ask about."
Then, he quickened his pace and left.
Gao Mengtang looked at her back and sighed. He said through the mental link: "Bai Jie, use your skills."
"Okay."
[374 Heart Thief] Personal Skill [The Most Terrible Theft]
Skill Description: What are you most afraid of being stolen? Money, reputation, lover, or... secrets?
: The Heart Thief can peek into someone else's secret, and can only be used once for each player/NPC.
On the surface, everything is calm and normal.
But in Bai Jie's vision, a translucent arm stretched out from his chest and reached towards Director Meng's chest from behind, as if grabbing something. The arm was pulled back with force, and then a transparent clenched fist merged into Bai Jie's body.
A line of characters appeared in front of Bai Jie's eyes.
"The gate password for the management area is 12 digits, a combination of numbers, uppercase letters, lowercase letters, and punctuation marks," Bai Jie said hurriedly, "Hurry up and find a piece of paper to write it down, or you'll forget it later!"
*
After working for an afternoon, that night, Wei Wei passed by Tu Cheng's ward again on his way back to the dormitory.
Tu Cheng stood at the door of the ward from a distance, waiting for them: "Wei Wei, play a game of chess with me."
Wei Wei knew that this person had an infectious disease, but he was unwilling to refuse his friend's invitation. Thinking of He Luo's strong immunity that could kill most viruses, Wei Wei nodded and accepted his invitation.
When I entered the ward, Tu Cheng had already set up the chessboard. Outside the window was a cold and lonely moon, and the street lights in the hospital were lit alone.
The two of them were playing chess silently, no one spoke, and the room was so quiet that the only sound was the clatter of the chess pieces falling.
Tu Cheng suddenly asked: "Wei Wei, can my illness be cured?"
Gao Mengtang had already shared the information he obtained from Director Meng with Wei Wei and others. Director Meng said that "it can only be controlled, not cured."
"Okay, don't worry." Wei Wei said calmly.
"But it seems to be even worse." Tu Cheng scratched his cheek hard, and the red marks left by his five fingers twisted like insects. "Two hours ago, I could always hear someone talking in my ear. This must be an auditory hallucination."
Wei Wei paused while playing chess, and suddenly raised his face. The street lamp outside the window showed half of Tu Cheng's body. There were two rows of tumors protruding from his jawbone. The shape looked like... lips.
In his sleeves, He Luo's tentacles twisted and turned: Master, the octopus advises you to stay away from him.
“…”
"You win." Wei Wei finished his last move and said, "Don't think too much. Go to bed early."
"Are we going back now?" Tu Cheng kept scratching his cheek, his nails scratching the two rows of tumors, making them turn red and look more and more like a rosy mouth.
Wei Wei nodded: "I am busy with work, I will accompany you another day."
He turned around and left, but he heard Tu Cheng muttering behind him: "How is this possible? We are friends."
Wei Wei stopped and looked back at him in confusion.
"Nonsense, right?" Tu Cheng looked at Wei Wei with a smile, "I heard someone say to me: 'Wei Wei hates you, and he's afraid you'll infect him with that disgusting virus', that's really nonsense."
A chill spread from my ankles to my entire body. There were only two people in the ward, Wei Wei and Tu Cheng, and no one had spoken just now.
On the side of his cheeks, the two rows of tumors had completely taken the shape of lips, opening and closing. Above the lips, the skin was like burning paper, with two black holes burned out.
Two spherical white pustules bulged out of the hole, like two white eyes without pupils.
"Shut up, Wei Wei won't hate me." Tu Cheng said to himself, slowly packing up the chessboard. His two completely white eyes on the side of his face turned, as if staring at Wei Wei, and his lips opened and closed.
: People, go away.
He Luo used his tentacles to hold on to the wall and pulled Wei Wei out.
*
At two o'clock in the morning, Gao Mengtang and Wei Wei each drank a bottle of invisibility potion and approached the comprehensive management area stealthily.
They now have two tasks. One, find the password of the shredder. Two, find a way to kill Lei Gong. The shredder is in the comprehensive management area.
The mental health center is in the shape of a Chinese character “U”, with the ward and dormitory areas on the outside and the management area in the center. They thought that in the middle of the night, there wouldn’t be many guards.
I approached in the dark and saw that there were more than 20 people wandering around the entrance. They didn't use flashlights and moved horizontally in the dark like zombies.
"Can you see clearly?" Wei Wei handed over a night vision goggles. He had the night vision ability of an octopus, so he didn't need it.
Gao Mengtang pushed the night vision goggles back and shook his head, indicating that he didn't need them.
The first time he did business with a black businessman, Gao Mengtang used his "self-deception" to make the scar on Wei Wei's face disappear. Since then, his visual ability has improved by leaps and bounds.
Not only was he no longer [blind], he also had night vision.
"Let's go in." Gao Mengtang said softly.
Wei Wei raised his pipe, took a puff, and then slowly exhaled a cloud of white smoke. When it came into contact with the air, the smoke was like a sea snake awakening from hibernation, swimming one tune after another and drilling into the ears of those patrolling people.
[101 Nine Thousand Years Old]'s skill [Involuntary]
Can manipulate the player/NPC's body.
As soon as the smoke entered the brains of those people, they immediately staggered like drunkards. Gao Mengtang quickly ran over and entered the 12-digit password.
"What happened?" When the patrolman woke up again, the door was closed.
"I almost fell asleep just now. I'm so sleepy." said another one, yawning.
There were fewer patrol officers in the management area. They drank invisibility potions and only needed to be careful to avoid the staff and not collide with them.
The information they obtained was limited. They only knew that there was something called a "shredder". Not even Thunder God knew where it was or what it looked like.
They sneaked into two instrument rooms in succession but did not find their mission target.
"It definitely can't be this thing." Gao Mengtang poked the shredder next to the desk with a finger, "Is this a shredder or a safe? It even has a combination lock."
Gao Mengtang said as he poked and randomly pressed twice on the password input area. Wei Wei gently pressed his wrist: "Level 7 confidential shredder. There must be important documents in it."
Paper shredders are also divided into grades, with grade 1 being the lowest and grade 7 being the highest. Offices that can use grade 7 paper shredders are very likely to use them to process highly confidential documents.
They didn't know the password of the shredder, but it wasn't a big problem. The shredder was an ordinary machine produced in Zhongzhou and didn't involve Black Tower technology. For Black Tower players to deal with this kind of machine, it was equivalent to a dimensionality reduction attack.
He Luo's tentacles became extremely thin and drilled into the entrance of the shredder. He fiddled with it twice, and with a click, the shredder opened.
Paper foam as fine as snow floated out, and a bubble appeared in Gao Mengtang's palm, sucking all the paper foam in.
"You don't want to restore these paper foams, do you?" Gao Mengtang asked.
Wei Wei squatted beside him, picking up the missing pieces: "Theoretically, it's feasible. Like a puzzle."
1x2mm, hundreds of thousands of puzzle pieces? Gao Mengtang blushed for a moment: "I definitely won't do this job, Avi, thank you for your hard work."
Wei Wei: “…”
They continued to sneak around the management area, and when they came across a shredder, they pried it open and took away the shredded paper inside. Before they knew it, they had reached the center of the management area.
There is only one cylindrical building in the center of the management area. With the cylindrical building as the center, the area within a radius of 100 meters is a vacuum zone. There is no building at all, and there is not even anyone patrolling.
Walking out of the densely packed office buildings and seeing this large open space, I felt as confused as walking out of a rainforest and seeing a desert.
"It must be very dangerous in here." Wei Wei said in a low voice.
Gao Mengtang: "Why is there no one guarding it when it's dangerous?"
"The cliff is dangerous and unguarded," Wei Wei said, "because everyone knows that if you stand next to the cliff, you will die if you are not careful."
In other words, all the staff in the management area know that this place is very dangerous and are unwilling to get close to it, so there is no need for guards.
"That makes sense." Gao Mengtang nodded, "So let's go in and take a look!"
Wei Wei looked at him with an expression that said "If you want to die, don't drag me with you", but Gao Mengtang didn't even wait for Wei Wei to express his opinion, and grabbed his arm and rushed inside.
Entering the cylindrical building, the sight before them once again disappointed the two. There was nothing in the building, and the walls were empty. There was a metal floor under their feet and a metal ceiling above their heads. There were no windows, no lights, and even no ventilation holes.
It doesn’t look dangerous at all… Gao Mengtang thought.
As soon as this thought popped into his mind, a loud "bang" was heard from under his feet. The metal floor weighing tens of thousands of tons trembled noticeably, and the entire cylindrical building shook violently.
A loud noise spread across the night sky, and a piercing siren sounded in the distance. Looking down from the sky, the cylindrical building was like a magic needle that stabilized the sea. Fully armed guards gathered around it like a school of fish, and the sound of guns being loaded rang out non-stop.
"Let's go." Wei Wei whispered. The black clay puppet wrapped its arms around the two of them.
The next second, the two returned to the dormitory.
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