Yu Xiao and Zhao Lan immediately jumped up and rushed to the door at the same time. One took out a talisman and the other took out a prop.
The woman in a denim jacket outside the door was shocked when she saw it. She immediately took a step back and raised her hands and said, "Don't get excited! I'm a human!"
Yu Xiao and the other two were stunned on the spot. They looked at the woman outside the door and looked at each other.
Zhou Xiaozhen: "She said she was a human."
"Among the seven people who came in, did anyone look like this?" Yu Xiao asked.
"No." Zhao Lan stared at the woman outside with suspicion. How could there be a person living in this copy? But this woman really looks like a human, but some ghosts do look like humans.
"Oh." The woman smiled helplessly, "Don't guess, just stick the talisman on me, won't it be clear whether I am a human or not?"
That's right, the thunder-striking talisman has no effect on living people.
Yu Xiao hooked his finger at her, "Then come here."
The woman walked over very calmly and stood in front of the three people. Yu Xiao stuck a talisman on her, and the talisman had no reaction.
"Do you believe it now?" The woman said with a smile, "I am really a human."
This result surprised the three people. Zhou Xiaozhen said foolishly, "Are you someone who lives in this dungeon?"
The woman laughed again, "What? I am also a patient who came to the dungeon."
"You are also a patient?" Zhao Lan looked at her in confusion, "You are not among the seven of us who came in."
"I am also surprised. You are not among the seven people who came in with me." The woman pointed at Zhou Xiaozhen and said, "When I first saw this little sister, I thought I saw a ghost. When did you come in?"
Zhou Xiaozhen said, "It wasn't long ago."
"Oh, so that's why, then we are not patients who came in from the same batch." The woman smiled and stretched out her hand and said, "My name is Jiangnan Qiao, and I have been here for two days."
Yu Xiao and the other two also briefly introduced themselves. Jiangnan Qiao was surprised to hear that the three of them were together. "You entered through the same door? Didn't you hear what Shi Guang said?"
"I heard it." Zhou Xiaozhen said nonchalantly, "You can only listen to half of what the attending physician says. The three of us will not separate if we can. And you see, we have been in here together for so long and haven't encountered any danger."
Jiang Nanqiao nodded and said somewhat disappointedly, "If I had known earlier, I would have entered through the same door with my friend. I haven't seen her for two days, and I don't know how she is now."
"You have been in here for two days." Zhao Lan asked, "Have you found any clues to get out?"
Jiang Nanqiao shook her head and said dejectedly, "I have been opening doors and shuttling through various spaces for the past two days, but I haven't found any clues."
She took two breaths and said a little embarrassedly, "You... do you have anything to eat?"
"Huh?" Yu Xiao looked at her in surprise.
Jiang Nanqiao blushed and said, "I only drank some water these two days and didn't eat anything."
"We didn't bring any food either." Yu Xiao turned her head and looked at the casserole on the dressing table, saying, "But we found a pot of beef and tomato in the dungeon, but it's all eaten."
Jiang Nanqiao hurried over and picked up the casserole on the table. The beef and tomatoes in the casserole had been eaten, leaving only a layer of soup. She was not shy at all, she lifted the casserole and drank it.
Yu Xiao and the other two looked at her in shock. The soup was heavy in oil and salt...
After drinking it, Jiang Nanqiao smacked her lips, turned around, smiled embarrassedly, and said, "I'm just too hungry."
Yu Xiao asked, "Haven't you encountered a kitchen in the two days since you entered the copy?"
"I encountered it at the beginning, but I wasn't hungry then." Jiang Nanqiao sat down on the bed, "I haven't encountered a kitchen since then."
The space behind the door was indeed very random. The three of them had opened the door so many times and had never encountered a duplicate one. Jiangnan Qiao looked at the three of them and asked, "You three seem to be quite powerful, with so many talismans."
Yu Xiao smiled and said, "Actually, I can draw talismans. Do you want to buy talismans? Only three points each."
Jiangnan Qiao immediately showed an excited expression, then she shook her head and smiled with hope, "It is said that as long as I have enough points to live to 70 years old, I can leave the hospital. My points are almost there, and I don't want to waste them at this time."
The three of them understood. Who doesn't want to leave the hospital as soon as possible?
And she looked good, not like she had been seriously corroded by the Yin Qi. It was really good to be able to leave the hospital in this state.
"Let's exchange information." Jiang Nanqiao was in a good mood, sitting on the bed and said, "I should leave after exchanging information."
"Leave?" Zhao Lan asked, "Why don't you act with the three of us?"
Jiang Nanqiao shook her head, her expression a little embarrassed, she said, "Although there may be problems with time, I don't want to take risks... I still want to act alone."
The three of them understood her idea, Yu Xiao and the other two looked at each other, then Yu Xiao walked to the stool and sat down, saying, "Okay, let's exchange information, you talk first."
Jiang Nanqiao didn't hide anything, she started from the beginning, "The day before yesterday morning, my friend and I came to the Time Hospital copy. There were seven patients, corresponding to seven doors. My friend chose door number three, and I chose door number five."
"Wait." Zhou Xiaozhen interrupted her, "We came in from door number six."
Jiang Nanqiao was stunned, with a brief look of confusion on her face. She said, "Could it be that... the spaces inside the seven doors are interconnected?"
Zhao Lan nodded, "If we are not lying, then they are interconnected."
Jiang Nanqiao couldn't help but slap his thigh, "If I had known this, I would have entered the same door with my friend!"
"Since the spaces inside the door are interconnected, maybe you will have a chance to meet again." Yu Xiao raised his hand and said, "Go on."
So Jiang Nanqiao continued, "After I entered the door, there was a bedroom behind it. It was different from your bedroom and was decorated very modernly. I didn't find any exit in the bedroom, so I was ready to go back. Who knew that after opening the door, I found that there was a kitchen instead of a corridor outside the door. I went to the kitchen and the bedroom door closed automatically. When I opened the door again, the bedroom behind the door disappeared and became a very dirty bathroom..."
"...I just kept looking for a new space every time I changed spaces, until yesterday afternoon when I vaguely realized that perhaps the way out was not in these spaces." Jiang Nanqiao said this with a painful look on his face, "I have nothing to eat, and only the water in the space occasionally quenches my thirst... Before I met you, I was almost desperate, and I suspected that I would starve to death here."
"I don't think I'll starve to death." Zhao Lan said, "As long as you keep opening the door, you will encounter the kitchen sooner or later."
"Yes." Jiang Nanqiao pointed to the shabby living room outside the door, "This is not the first time I have encountered a dead person. There is a corpse in there. There are no wounds on the body, and there are rotten fibers in the stomach. What else could it be if not starved to death?"
Yu Xiao and Zhao Lan looked at each other, and Yu Xiao said, "Xiaozhen, watch the door, don't let it close, let's go and take a look."
"Okay." Zhou Xiaozhen nodded.
Yu Xiao and Zhao Lan walked into the living room together, and as soon as they entered, they smelled a rotten smell. Yu Xiao frowned and gently covered her nose with one hand. After walking in, they found that the shabbyness of this living room was not entirely due to aging, and this living room had also suffered a certain degree of damage.
The sofa was broken and tattered. They found the body next to the sofa in the living room.
It was a male corpse that had turned into a skeleton. When he was alive, he should have been more than 1.8 meters tall. He was wearing a torn T-shirt, and there were no wounds on his bones. But there was a mass of rotten fibers in his stomach. Looking closely, it looked like the stuffing in the sofa?
It seemed that he was really starved to death, and he was so hungry that he ate the stuffing in the sofa.
Yu Xiao searched the body and found a broken mobile phone. He was also a patient.
After the two found no more clues, they returned to the bedroom. Jiang Nanqiao saw them coming back with a calm expression, "I don't know much, just this much."
Yu Xiao nodded, sat in front of her and said, "We have just entered the copy for a few hours, and this is the first room we entered."
Jiang Nanqiao was surprised, "You haven't changed the space until now? Why?" It
was a bit embarrassing to say it. Zhao Lan talked about the movie she had watched, and then said, "Although we may have thought too much, we decided not to leave this bedroom for the time being."
Jiang Nanqiao's face showed a surprised expression after hearing this, "If the way out is really in the first space behind the door, then wouldn't I be..."
"That's not necessarily the case," Yu Xiao comforted, "We're just guessing."
Jiang Nanqiao's expression improved a little, and he said, "But how are you going to explore other spaces in this way?"
"There are more of us," Yu Xiao said, "Just leave one person to watch the door, and the other two can explore other spaces."
Jiang Nanqiao felt more and more complicated after hearing this. She vaguely felt that her method was wrong, but she couldn't turn back.
"Before we met you, we once encountered a ghost in the space behind the door." Yu Xiao said hesitantly, "It should be a ghost, in the shape of a dirty old woman. We didn't seize the opportunity at that time, and we planned to catch the ghost if we met it again, maybe we could get some clues from the ghost, and then we met you."
"No wonder you reacted like that when you saw me." Jiang Nanqiao nodded in understanding, and then she stood up, looked at the three people again, and said, "I'm leaving."
She walked to the door, and Yu Xiao said, "How about leaving a phone number?"
"No need." Jiang Nanqiao smiled, "The phone can't be dialed out from here."
Then she walked out of the door and closed it with her backhand.
"Click."
The door was closed, and the three people inside the door knew that they might never see Jiang Nanqiao again.
The three of them were silent for a while, and Zhou Xiaozhen asked, "Do we want to continue the previous action?"
Yu Xiao shook his head. Zhao Lan said, "Although the space that everyone enters at the beginning looks different, the situation should be the same. Jiang Nanqiao searched the bedroom where she was at the beginning and couldn't find the exit. There should be no exit in our bedroom."
"Then should we leave here?" Zhou Xiaozhen asked.
"We don't have to leave." Yu Xiao said, "We have a lot of people, so we can explore other spaces even if we don't leave this bedroom."
Zhao Lan exhaled deeply, looking a little worried. "We don't even have any useful guesses, let alone clues."
She forced a smile and said, "But don't worry, there are still several days before we starve to death. We still have several days to find clues and find a way out."
Yu Xiao was a little depressed. If St. Elizabeth hadn't been in trouble, she could go back to St. Elizabeth to get food. Then they wouldn't have to worry about food at all and could find a way out here without worrying. But now St. Elizabeth has been destroyed, and the construction site is full of attending doctors who have grudges against her, so she can't go back.
"Keep opening the door." Yu Xiao said, "This time, the three of us will open the door together."
"Click."
The door was opened, revealing the space outside, which was a bedroom. The decoration was modern, not very old, but the dust was thick, as if it had not been cleaned for a long time.
Zhao Lan expressed his doubts, "The spaces here are new and old, clean and dirty. Could it be that some of these spaces were newly built and some were built later?"
"Maybe." Yu Xiao walked in and reminded Xiaozhen to watch the door again.
Zhao Lan followed him in, and they observed the room for a while. The cabinets in the room were all opened, and there were signs of damage on the walls and floors. It was obvious that a patient had been in this room before, and the patient had caused some damage to the room in order to find an exit.
"Someone has already looked for it. There is obviously no exit here." Yu Xiao kicked out a lost basketball beside the bed and called Zhao Lan, "Let's go back."
Zhao Lan nodded and was about to leave when Zhou Xiaozhen suddenly said from inside the door, "Wait."
"Huh?" They both looked at her at the same time. Did she find anything?
"That basketball..." Zhou Xiaozhen wanted to go out, but she held back because she had to guard the door. "I saw a room like this when I opened the door before. It was cleaner and newer than this room. There was also a basketball in the room, but that basketball was good."
Yu Xiao and Zhao Lan looked at each other, and Yu Xiao asked, "Are there many rooms here with exactly the same decorations but from different eras?"
"I don't know." Zhao Lan's heart began to pound, "There is another possibility."
"What?"
Zhao Lan: "These are actually the same room, but... different time."
Zhou Xiaozhen was a little confused, "What do you mean?"
Yu Xiao frowned. If that was what she thought, then the situation would be bad. She said, "Sister Lan, are you saying that there is not much space here, but time is changing?"
Zhou Xiaozhen was even more confused, "What are you talking about? I don't understand."
Zhao Lan thought for a while and explained, "That is to say, the bedroom you saw before and the bedroom now are actually the same bedroom, but the time is different. What you saw before was when the bedroom had just been renovated and no one had ever been here. What you see now is the bedroom many years later."
"Fuck." Zhou Xiaozhen was shocked, "Can it be like this?"
Zhao Lan said, "This is just a guess."
"But I think it's very likely!" Zhou Xiaozhen said, "The bedroom where I saw the old lady ghost before is very similar to our bedroom, but it's much more dilapidated."