54 Tit for Tat
◎The scope is [all rooms]◎
After that, no matter what the player asked, the system would not respond.
A chilling feeling gradually spread from the bottom of his heart. Wu Shanyue looked at Li Yiqing and the others helplessly: "Is the mission goal this time so difficult?"
She was genuinely panicking. "How many completely mutated monsters are there in this hospital? Can we really kill them all?"
"Killing the monster isn't the hardest part." Qi Qiuxue frowned. The system listed three mission objectives, but in reality, there were four. "Don't forget, we still have to rescue all the surviving patients."
"It seems like these two tasks can be carried out simultaneously. As long as we kill the monster, we can leave the hospital smoothly and all the patients can be rescued. But the reality is not that simple."
"It limits the ways, methods, and locations in which we can kill monsters. Everything must be done away from the patient population, and we must avoid using overly powerful weapons that might harm other innocent patients."
"Even as we kill the monsters, we have to try to contain their movements as much as possible to prevent them from moving to the floor where the patients are. If there are too many of them, it will be an extremely difficult challenge for us."
Qi Qiuxue's words were undoubtedly like a bucket of cold water, poured firmly on the heads of every player.
Unknown things always make people afraid. No one knows what those completely mutated monsters look like, and no one knows how many such monsters there are. Wu Shanyue gritted her teeth and tried her best to control her emotions, but even so, her body still trembled unconsciously.
The situation of the others was not much better. The surroundings became quiet and no one spoke for a long time.
After a while, Qi Qiuxue broke the silence, saying, "The people patrolling the floors have already left."
She enlarged the surveillance footage on the display screen. Professor Linda's authority was really high. There was a row of buttons on the right side of the table to control the cameras, and she could choose to cut off or turn on the surveillance equipment.
Qi Qiuxue raised her hand and pressed the button with the number thirteen on it, temporarily shutting down all the surveillance facilities on the thirteenth floor.
"Come here first, you can't stay in the room any longer." Her words quickly brought the players back to their senses. Zhu Lan clenched her fists and cursed, "Fuck him! There's no point in thinking so much."
"Let's take it one step at a time. Things will work out in the end. There's nothing to be afraid of." She turned back to look at the other players and said firmly, "Let's go."
"Okay." Everyone nodded, walked to the door with light footsteps and listened attentively. It was quiet outside and no one was there.
They chose the right moment, avoided the nurses' station which was still staffed by the night nurse, and came to the elevator quietly and quickly.
Qi Qiuxue cut off the elevator surveillance for them, and in order to avoid alerting the enemy, she quickly restored all the surveillance facilities on the 13th floor. No one knew what happened during the time when the equipment stopped working. They left the room without anyone noticing, and got closer and closer to Qi Qiuxue.
“…”
There was still some time before the few people arrived here, and Qi Qiuxue took this opportunity to check other files. These researchers had clear division of labor and were responsible for different projects. The only things that could be found in the computer in front of her were the test records and related information of the six of them. There was nothing else worthy of her attention.
Except for a certain locked document.
Qi Qiuxue tried entering several common password combinations but failed to unlock it. Time was running out, so she didn't try again. Instead, she copied the locked document and some other useful information into a USB drive, and then pulled out the USB drive and put it in her pocket.
After doing all this, footsteps suddenly came from behind.
For a moment, Qi Qiuxue thought that the visitors would be Li Yiqing and others, but she quickly denied her guess.
The footsteps behind me were obviously heavier, and the number was not right. I was afraid there was only one person coming!
Realizing this, Qi Qiuxue turned around abruptly and took out her bone knife from her backpack while turning around.
But it was obviously too late. In the next second, something round, cold and hard pressed against her abdomen.
It was the muzzle of a gun. The person who came was none other than one of the gunmen who had taken the elevator upstairs with her not long ago.
——The man with a pair of blue eyes and sharp gaze.
"Why don't you take off your gas mask?" The man stared at the person in front of him with cold eyes, and his other hand without a gun slashed at Qi Qiuxue's wrist. He used a lot of force, and the force hit Qi Qiuxue's wrist bone firmly.
Qi Qiuxue first felt her entire hand trembling, and the numbness emanating from deep in her bones swept through her skin and flesh in an instant. Then the numbness faded, and a huge pain followed.
Qi Qiuxue was weakened by his blow and could barely hold the knife in her hand. The man quickly snatched her weapon, threw it on the ground and kicked it away.
The man understood and said sternly, "You are not Professor Linda. Who are you?"
"What are you talking about? I don't understand." Even though she had lost her weapon, Qi Qiuxue remained calm. She recalled Linda's voice and tone and easily replicated it, "I am Linda."
"Stop pretending." The man scoffed at her imitation. "I've worked with Linda for six years, how could I not recognize her voice?"
He stopped talking nonsense with Qi Qiuxue. He held the gun against her abdomen with one hand and raised his other hand to quickly unfasten her gas mask. When the mask was removed, a strange yet familiar face was exposed in his sight.
Qi Qiuxue raised her lips and smiled at the person in front of her without any fear.
"You are subject B." The man didn't even remember her name, only her number. He was just like everyone else in the hospital, cold, heartless, and inhumane.
"How rude." Qi Qiuxue raised both hands in a gesture of surrender.
"You're not unconscious." The man didn't expect to see a test subject here, and a bad guess suddenly emerged in his mind, "Since you're here, then the other test subjects..."
Before he could finish his words, the door of the room was pushed open unknowingly, and Li Yiqing appeared behind him quickly and quietly.
She exchanged a brief glance with Qi Qiuxue, and subconsciously breathed a sigh of relief when she realized that she seemed to be uninjured. Just like she did with Linda, in the next second, she covered the man's mouth and nose with a white cloth soaked in sleeping pills.
"Good night." Qi Qiuxue raised her lips and watched with her own eyes as the man fell in front of her without any ability to fight back.
"Axue!" Li Yiqing picked up the bone knife on the ground and kicked the man aside. She stepped forward and checked Qi Qiuxue's body with concern and panic.
Until she noticed Qi Qiuxue's slightly swollen wrist: "You are injured..."
"It's okay." Qi Qiuxue shook her head indifferently. Just after the few of them arrived at the 21st floor, she happened to be controlled by a man and had no time to turn off the surveillance. She didn't know whether what they did was noticed by others.
But even if no one noticed, now is not the time to chat and reminisce. Once the first person notices something unusual, the second and third will follow. Instead of falling into a passive situation, it is better to take the initiative.
"There should be other gas masks in the room." She directed everyone to search the room, and then she sat back in front of the computer and opened the 3D layout of the hospital.
She found the "emission room" on the layout map. Coincidentally, it was on this floor. Qi Qiuxue had figured out the layout of each room long before she was diligently working as a competent nurse. Like the nurses' dormitory where they lived, each room had ventilation holes, probably to deal with some emergencies.
But right now, it's just right for them to use.
"Axue, there are exactly five masks left, no more, no less." Li Yiqing happened to come back and report at this time.
"Okay." Qi Qiuxue nodded, put on the gas mask that the man had just taken off, and reminded others to wear it properly as well.
Afterwards, she and everyone else walked to the end, found the emission room and walked in. Inside was a huge instrument. Various pipes were swirling around in the room and on the ceiling. There were several huge gas devices on both sides of the instrument, which contained either drugs, poison gas, or some other gas.
Qi Qiuxue did some research and quickly figured out the mechanism of the instrument. They had been "enjoying" such advanced equipment for several days in a row, and it was time to let others experience it.
For the safety of innocent patients in the hospital, she did not release poisonous gas, but instead set the concentration of the drug to the maximum in the options.
"Are you all wearing masks?" Before pressing the execute button, she looked back to confirm again.
Everyone nodded and replied, "They're wearing it."
"Yeah." Qi Qiuxue then withdrew her gaze and looked back at the operating table in front of her.
She pressed the execute button, and the range was—
【All rooms.】
【Author’s words】
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