Chapter 91
Fortunately, they seemed to be just wandering in the corridor, and didn't seem to notice that they were hiding here. Even though Lu Jiamu had already leaned out to look, the group of tall and thin monsters didn't seem to notice him.
The others had already untied the straps wrapped around Yu Leng. After thinking it over, they didn't throw them away, but straightened them out and put them away.
Having escaped the disaster and not losing any of his limbs, Yu Leng breathed a sigh of relief and got off the bed.
The old bed creaked.
The monsters that were wandering meaninglessly in the corridor suddenly turned their heads and looked over here, then rushed towards them at an extremely fast speed.
Lu Jiamu immediately dodged to the side. In the blink of an eye, a monster arrived at the door of the clinic, leaned against the door frame, bent over and walked in.
This monster has several scalpels attached to the tips of its limbs, making it look like a ripper.
The people in the room immediately felt as if they were facing a great enemy, and each of them became alert. It all happened so suddenly that the people had no time to find a place to hide, and they all stood still.
But what was strange was that this tall and thin monster slowed down its movement after rushing in, as if it had lost the desire to attack.
It began to wander around the room slowly and aimlessly again, seemingly unaware of their presence.
Could it be... that I have no eyesight?
Lu Jiamu raised his index finger to his lips and made a "hush" gesture.
The other people didn't dare to move. But the monster had no intention of leaving, wandering back and forth in the room, occasionally knocking over something.
Even though it knocked it over, it immediately attacked the direction of the sound, waving its arms to create deep scratches on the table, and said in a strange voice as it walked, "Hurry up... let's do the surgery."
Several people in the room were sweating profusely, and the black-haired and blonde girls quietly covered their mouths and moved slowly away from it. But it was tossing around in the room, and soon attracted other monsters, who were already blocking the door.
Lu Jiamu tiptoed around behind it, picked up a plastic sign from the table in the clinic, then went back to the door and threw the plastic sign out into the corridor.
The plastic card fell to the ground and bounced a few times, making a series of light sounds.
All the monsters were distracted.
The monsters that were originally simply wandering there became more aggressive, waving their limbs and running at lightning speed, leaving deep marks on the wall along the way.
The one in the room immediately became excited and rushed out again.
It swung its arm, and the blade connected to the tip of its limb flashed, chopping the plastic card into several pieces in one go.
The monsters that followed also waved their limbs and trampled on the spot, quickly crushing the plastic cards into pieces.
It can be seen that their bodies are extremely hard and they are very sensitive to sound. They are sound-controlled monsters. Once they hear a sound, their movements will become very fast.
The corridor was noisy for a while before it quieted down. After the noises died down, the monsters resumed their aimless, slow wandering.
Several people in the room who witnessed this scene swallowed and felt a sense of fear.
The monster that had walked to their door at the beginning was probably not wandering over randomly, but because it heard the noise coming from their side. However, perhaps because something restricted its movement, the group of monsters did not encounter them directly when they were unprepared.
As they watched the fate of the plastic card, they couldn't help but wonder what would have happened if it had been their heads.
Fortunately, they kept quiet once they noticed something outside the door.
After seeing the situation outside clearly, they retreated back into the house and quietly closed the door.
Johnny touched his head and asked in a very low voice: "Weren't we just worried that there was no body in this place and we couldn't find the key?"
The black-haired girl asked, "Do you think the person who swallowed the key has become a monster?"
"Maybe it's in the stomach of one of them." Johnny nodded. "Although they look like something, their IQ is really low."
They took advantage of the fact that these monsters would only follow the sound and might have a chance to separate them and kill one at a time, but there was probably only one chance like that.
If they choose the wrong monster and fail to find the one with the key in its stomach, the loud noise they make when attacking the monster will put them in immediate danger.
And their necks may not be as hard as plastic cards.
Johnny looked at the others for help.
Lu Jiamu pinched his chin, thought carefully and said, "I actually have an idea."
"Then tell me."
Lu Jiamu asked: "Do you remember the triage record sheet you just saw at the triage desk? There were several patients marked on it."
Several people who saw it nodded, saying they still remembered: "It seems like there are more than ten marked?"
"There are 18 in total." Lu Jiamu nodded. "I thought about it carefully. If they have nothing special, there is no need to mark them out. But if we only look at the symptoms, they do not seem to have anything special. The treatment areas they are recommended to go to are also different. It can be said that there is no connection. If someone came in later and marked them, there is no reason not to take the whole book away.
So I had a guess that maybe those marks were not drawn by others, but they marked them themselves for some reason.”
Johnny followed his words and thought: "They all gathered in one area at the end, where the triage desk is. Maybe they were bored, so they just made some random comments on the list, like finding some names that they thought sounded good."
Yu Leng interrupted him: "Or maybe it's because they are simply looking for their own names."
"That makes sense. So you think that might be someone who was still alive here at some point in time?"
"right."
Moreover, they had already seen the last message from the person holding the key, and could infer more information.
Those words should have been written by the key holder after his emotions gradually became unbalanced in despair.
At the end of the message, he said he missed his mother very much, so the age written in the instructions should not be very old. If he already had children, or even just a partner, whether he was killed or not, he would not have completely ignored it in that kind of emotion and context.
But he or she cannot be too young, otherwise he or she will not be able to gain an advantage and keep the key in an environment with possibly more than 20 people.
Moreover, he said that he just came for a small inspection, and the scope has been narrowed down a lot.
Lu Jiamu compared the names marked on the triage sheet in his memory one by one, and finally felt that the most likely patient was a 21-year-old female patient with chest pain written at the end of the triage sheet.
He was neither too old nor too young, and had sudden symptoms like chest pain that could not be called a disease but had to be checked out. It did not affect his daily activities, and he would not become weak quickly even if he did not receive treatment. This was exactly what Lu Jiamu had imagined.
Lu Jiamu gently pushed open the door and looked outside.
The monsters were still wandering aimlessly in the corridor. Although their limbs were deformed and their bodies were disproportionately elongated, bursting the clothes they were originally wearing, the clothes were still hanging on them, and the style could still be seen, which could be regarded as the characteristics of their life.
Lu Jiamu threw out another pen that he had taken out from his white coat.
The pen kept bouncing on the ground, making noises, which attracted the monsters to chase after the pen immediately.
Taking this opportunity, Lu Jiamu began to observe their clothes and speculate on their possible identities.
Johnny looked around and waited for a while before asking, "How is it? Which one is it? Can you tell?"
Lu Jiamu threw out a few more things one after another, observed them one by one, and hesitated for a moment: "None of them."
Johnny asked back, "Neither?"
"There are no people who meet the criteria here." Lu Jiamu replied, "Eighteen people are marked on the minute hand list. But I counted the monsters that were wandering in the corridor just now, and there are only sixteen of them."
There were two monsters that were probably medical staff who had turned into monsters and were not on the medical list. The number of monsters wandering outside was less than expected.
Attacking any of the monsters outside would not bring them the desired results.
"Maybe there are still some who are locked in the room and haven't come out?"
Lu Jiamu shook his head, indicating that he hadn't noticed it yet: "Stay still here, I'll go take a look."
Johnny asked, "It's not a good idea to let you go alone, right?"
Lu Jiamu smiled, but didn’t say anything like “I’m afraid you’ll hold me back.” He said, “It’s okay. Next time if there’s a problem, you can just go ahead.”
After he said that, he picked up another pair of pliers and threw it out.
The monsters' attention was immediately drawn away, and they rushed over, waving their extremely lethal limbs towards the location where the sound came from.
Their limbs, each with their own characteristics, waved and scratched against the wall, making bursts of harsh sounds and causing the monsters to become even more confused.
Lu Jiamu didn't hesitate much. As soon as he saw the monster chasing him, he immediately ran out in the opposite direction quietly.
He quickly walked around the corridor, looked into every door, and then opened all the doors that had not been opened yet. After making sure that there were no trapped monsters or corpses anywhere, he walked back.
At this time, the group of monsters outside the house stopped their noisy chasing and continued to wander around slowly. Several of them had already walked up to him.
The corridor was not very wide, so Lu Jiamu moved aside to avoid an oncoming monster before continuing to walk back.
Several people in the room looked at him nervously, all worried that he might accidentally make some noise and get hunted down.
Fortunately, although there were a group of monsters around him, Lu Jiamu's steps were extremely steady and no accidents happened on the way back.
After walking back, Lu Jiamu shook his head, indicating that he had not found any new monsters or any human corpses.
So where did those people go?
Wei Xiaoyan asked in a low voice: "Could it be that after that person ate the key and wrote those words, his mentality completely collapsed, so he took a few people to find a way out?"
In the last messages that person left, he also mentioned that a "Doctor Wang" had found a place leading to the outside world. Even if this road was blocked later, only the exit was blocked.
Although this person was certain that she heard the gunshots and believed that the first people who went out were dead, it is hard not to guarantee that she would not decide to go back to the old way again in her final moments.
But they didn't know where that road was.
The brunette raised her hands. “I understand… building layouts. Given enough time, maybe I could find where the pipes are.”
Coleman immediately suggested: "How about this, I'll protect you, you can look around and find the pipeline quickly."
The black-haired girl nodded immediately: "Okay."
Coleman glanced at the others again and said, "We might make some noise, so you guys cover for us."
Lu Jiamu agreed: "You guys go ahead, I'll help you watch."
After this was settled, they left the room.
Coleman first led the black-haired girl around quietly. The black-haired girl took a medical record book and a pen, and quickly drew a simple floor plan. After looking at it for a while, she marked several locations where there might be pipes that could pass people. The next step was to determine the situation inside one by one.
Coleman found a table, carefully placed it under the vent, and stepped on it to remove the barrier at the entrance.
Although she was very strong and had a precise control of her strength, she still inevitably made a slight noise.
After the monsters wandering in the corridor heard them, they tried to rush towards them at an extremely fast speed.
Lu Jiamu was standing at the end of the corridor farthest from them, and when he saw this, he smashed the door with a hammer. The loud bangs immediately attracted the attention of the monsters, and they immediately changed direction.
Seeing them coming, Lu Jiamu turned and ran. The monsters came too fast, waving their limbs to cut him in half several times, but he avoided them every time with his own abnormal ability.
After Coleman removed the entrance to the ventilation duct, in order to prevent the black-haired girl from being left alone and unable to face the situation, he picked up the black-haired girl and let her go in to check by herself.
The black-haired girl was thin and with Coleman's help, she successfully squeezed into the pipe and crawled with difficulty without collapsing the pipe.
Ten minutes later, she returned the same way she came out.
Coleman was waiting below, and when he saw her withdraw, he carefully held her legs and helped her down.
The black-haired girl was so nervous that her face turned pale. After coming down, she shook her head and said, "There's nothing. The end is blocked."
Coleman nodded, carried her down, and moved the table to move to the next seat to watch.
Under Lu Jiamu's cover, the two men successfully dismantled several ventilation ducts. The black-haired girl crawled in one by one, but found nothing and the exits were blocked, so she could not escape.
Several explorations consumed too much energy, and the black-haired girl stopped to rest for half a day before she could continue.
When they found the bathroom, the black-haired girl went in but came out in a hurry after a moment: "There's something!"
Coleman asked, "What is it?"
The black-haired girl spoke incoherently, "I don't know. I couldn't see without a flashlight. It looked like the thing was still stuck to the pipe. And the pipe got narrower inside. I was afraid I'd get stuck and couldn't get out… I just felt it, so I hurried out. It looked a bit like… like that… bone."
Coleman was stronger than the black-haired girl and was not good at climbing pipes. If she said that the pipes were narrower and there was a possibility of getting stuck, then Coleman would have no chance of getting in.
Upon hearing this, Coleman immediately put her down and asked her to stay away. He then did a movement similar to a pull-up, grabbed the ventilation pipe with both hands, put his feet against the ceiling, and pulled it hard.
The ventilation duct couldn't withstand her force and the entire duct protruded from the ceiling.
The sound was so loud that the monsters outside were immediately attracted and rushed over here quickly.
Lu Jiamu, who was waiting outside, knocked on another door, but the volume was still not as loud as the sound of them pulling out the ventilation duct.
The monsters had already walked into the toilet, and Coleman immediately dared not move.
However, the entrance of the vent had been destroyed by her and was tilted downward. A large number of skeletons were scratched out of it and fell to the ground, including two skulls, which were obviously human.
But there were a bunch of monsters blocking the toilet, and neither of them dared to check it carefully immediately.
As soon as it became quiet here, the sound of Lu Jiamu knocking on the door over there became particularly loud, and a group of monsters immediately ran out in a hurry.
But the toilet door was short, the cubicles were complicated and there was an echo. One or two monsters were trapped in the toilet due to this complicated situation. They kept circling around in the toilet, with their faceless heads moving up and down, as if they were listening carefully and looking for the source of the sound.
Because it moved extremely fast in the huge noise, there were several times when it was already in front of the black-haired girl.
The black-haired girl looked at its blurred face, covered her mouth in horror, her heart almost jumping out of her chest.
After the monster moved back and forth several times, it gradually got closer and closer to her, its tall and thin body bent downward, its face almost touching her chest. It seemed that after wandering around for several times, it was finally sure that there was a person here.
Her heartbeat was too loud and her breathing was too rapid, maybe the monster could hear it. Otherwise, why would it get closer and closer to her?
Outside, Lu Jiamu had already started running because he had attracted too many monsters. However, he also found that the number of monsters had decreased as he ran away. He kept knocking on the door to make noise while running, but the volume was much lower than before.
Kou Man is not with her now, and she can't run away. When Lu Jiamu stops, she will die. The black-haired girl didn't dare to move and closed her eyes in despair.
Coleman was still hanging on the ceiling. Seeing that the monster was already in front of the black-haired girl, he suddenly pulled it hard again.
The ventilation duct bent downwards again under the force, making a loud noise.
The monster turned around at high speed and grabbed the ventilation duct with its disproportionately long and thin arms.
But Coleman was prepared. Before the attack came, he dodged the attack with extremely delicate physical skills, landed steadily, and then ran out quickly.
The noise she made when running attracted the monster's attention, and the monster followed her out of the toilet.
The black-haired girl survived the disaster and collapsed to the ground in fear.
When Lu Jiamu saw Kouman being chased out by the monster, he stopped knocking around. After walking around, he went into the bathroom and saw the bones that fell out of the pipe.
He walked over and said, "Get up quickly, I'll take you back."
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