The newspaper was the one found in the security room. Qi Chanyang had kept it on the newsstand after he took it.
This time, Lu Xiaoqin inadvertently glanced at it when she passed by, and saw a glaring red. She took it and saw that a new line of words appeared on the last page of the newspaper.
The person who wrote this line seemed to be in a hurry. Not only was the handwriting illegible, but when he wrote the last word he accidentally left a thumbprint on the paper.
This thumbprint is very strange, with a blank space of about three millimeters in the middle, as if the thumb was broken off in the middle.
What’s even more strange is that only the five players who took the medicine yesterday can see this line of words, while Jie Fangcheng and the other three cannot.
Qi Chanyang analyzed: "Han Qi just said, 'If you don't take the medicine, your hysteria will get worse.' It seems that this is the consequence of the worsening hysteria."
"So this line of words doesn't actually exist in reality, right?"
Qi Chanyang shook his head: "I don't know. But if it's hysteria, then what he saw should be an illusion."
At this time, Lu Xiaoqin gritted her teeth, picked up the newspaper and put it to her nose to smell it, then her face changed: "It smells like blood."
Everyone looked at each other.
If it was an illusion, then was the smell Lu Xiaoqin smelling also an illusion? Does an illusion include smell
Qi Chanyang frowned, not sure what was going on for a moment.
"We still have too few clues. How about this." Qi Chanyang looked at Jie Fangcheng beside him, "There are a lot of books in the reading room. Let's look for clues in the reading room here. You are strong and not afraid of NPCs. If you are not tired, you can look somewhere else."
After that, Qi Chanyang reminded him: "The room next to the cafeteria without a sign is Liu Hanyue's room. I saw some of her things in there last night. If it's convenient for you, you can go and take a look first."
"Okay." Jie Fangcheng said as he picked up his stick and was about to go out.
Xue Kai hurriedly interrupted and said, "And what if the NPC suddenly attacks? Brother Jie, don't be too far away! It's best to open the door. What if you can't hear us if we shout for help?"
Jie Fangcheng thought for a moment and said, "That's easy."
After saying that, he opened the door and walked to the badminton hall next door.
After a while he came out again, followed by number nine.
"If there is any emergency, ask Number Nine to notify me."
Xue Kai was at a loss: "How do I notify you?"
Jie Fangcheng patted his pocket, and everyone then realized what was in his pocket.
"I asked Xiaojiu to lend me his finger, and he pulled me when you called him."
Everyone: “…”
Jie Fangcheng said seriously: "Nine! Any questions?"
Number Nine's neck bounced and he shook his head: "No..."
“So reliable!”
After saying that, Jie Fangcheng raised his stick and walked out with a swagger.
The people in the reading room behind him stood at the door, looking at his back. Xue Kai couldn't help but admire: "Brother Jie is worthy of being Brother Jie. Look at his steps that flatten everything, look at his arrogant back, look at his unrestrained stick... Uh, what is he doing in the security room?"
There is no one in the security room anymore. The NPC security guard who died tragically is nowhere to be found, and his body has probably been disposed of.
Jie Fangcheng went into the security room and came out again after a while, this time with a banner hanging on his stick.
The red banner was waving behind him. The originally shabby, gloomy and scary corridor looked like a country path after he walked through it. He was the old farmer carrying a hoe on his shoulder and going to the fields on the country path. Qi Chanyang, such a serious and rigorous player, felt his forehead twitching wildly when he looked at his festive back.
Xue Kai narrowed his eyes: "What does the banner say? Uh, 'Dedicated and considerate service'... Brother Qi, what does Brother Jie mean by this banner?"
Qi Chanyang looked up: "It's nothing, he just found himself another rag in advance."
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On the other side, Jie Fangcheng walked to the door of the room without a sign and knocked politely.
It was quiet inside the door.
Squeak—
The door was not locked, so Jie Fangcheng opened it.
After walking in, Jie Fangcheng couldn't help but exclaim "Oh wow".
In this hospital where everything is either white or gray, this room is decorated in a very pink and delicate way. You can tell at a glance that the person who decorated the room put a lot of effort into it.
The books on the table were neatly arranged and the floor was clean, as if someone had lived here not long ago.
Jie Fangcheng walked to the table, picked up the book on the table and flipped through it, but didn't find anything.
Open the drawer again.
The drawers were all locked. Without saying a word, Jie Fangcheng tore off the locks and put them aside.
The first drawer contained stationery and other things. It was obvious that the little girl was very much loved. There were even two rows of erasers, and more than a dozen pencils were sharpened and placed together. There was also a thick stack of beautiful stickers, but they looked a bit old and some of them had turned yellow.
Perhaps because no one has used it for a long time, this floor looks too neat.
After opening the second layer, Jie Fangcheng discovered something unusual.
It was a photo album. There were reddish-brown marks on the cover and edges, which looked like blood residue.
Jie Fangcheng pinched out two fingers and opened the photo album.
The first things that caught my eye were some photos of babies.
In the photo, a chubby baby is lying in a crib, wearing a blue and white baby suit, with his eyes closed peacefully and sucking his thumb.
The child looked very cute, but Jie Fangcheng inexplicably felt that the child in the photo was a little strange.
After turning two more pages, Xie Fangcheng finally found the problem.
In the photo, the child, still lying in the crib, has his eyes closed.
Jie Fangcheng continued to flip through the pages, the album recording the child's growth.
He grew up from a tiny baby the size of a few palms that could be placed in a stroller, to a baby who could stand in front of the camera at the age of three, smiling happily with his eyes closed.
When she was five or six years old, she braided her hair into two cute pigtails, wore a birthday crown, crossed her hands in front of her chest, closed her eyes and made a wish.
Although she cannot see, we can tell from the photos that the little girl is sunny and cheerful and loves to laugh. She is a beloved little princess.
Jie Fangcheng turned back again, and his fingertips suddenly sank.
The next page of the album stuck to the page next to it, and a trace of reddish-brown blood was inadvertently stained on the fingertips.
Jie Fangcheng tore the two pages apart gently.
Blood.
What stuck the two pages of the album together was the scarlet blood that had not yet dried.
Jie Fangcheng frowned and looked at the photo album.
Just then, the fingers in his pocket tugged at him.
Xue Kai's heart-wrenching screams could be heard from far away in the corridor.
"Brother Jie—behind you!!!"
Jie Fangcheng didn't look back, but twisted his waist suddenly.
A fishy smell brushed past his face, and then there was a loud "bang" from the table in front of him. A mop fell from the table to the wall, making a hole in the table, and the books on the table fell down one after another.
After dodging the attack, Xie Fangcheng turned his head.
Behind him, Ge Juan, whom he could not catch up with no matter how hard he tried, stood at the door with bloodshot eyes, still in the throwing posture.
Her voice was sharp: "What are you doing in Yueyue's room?!"
"Ah." Jie Fangcheng was also a little embarrassed. "Well, don't be angry. I'll just look for clues."
He could also understand that Ge Juan was Liu Hanyue's mother, and it was normal for her to be angry when she saw a strange man breaking into her daughter's room.
But it should be attributed to—
Two seconds later, Jie Fangcheng pressed her down on the table with a stick and said helplessly: "Why did you hit me? You can't beat me."
Ge Juan waved her arms and tried to scratch him with her long nails, but was suppressed by Jie Fangcheng.
During the day, Ge Juan's strength had obviously declined seriously. After struggling for a while, she could no longer struggle and could only stare at him.
Jie Fangcheng said, "I really didn't mean it. I apologize to you, okay?"
Ge Juan's expression relaxed a little.
"Well, I'll let you go, but don't fight me again, or I'll be rude to you!"
After saying that, Xie Fangcheng slowly let go of the stick.
As soon as the ban was lifted, Ge Juan immediately took two steps back to the door.
Jie Fangcheng hurriedly stopped her: "Hey! Don't you want to chat for a while? It's so rude to start fighting right after meeting each other."
Ge Juan stared at him.
Jie Fangcheng thought for a moment and said, "I saw Liu Hanyue yesterday."
Ge Juan's eyes widened: "Is she okay?"
Jie Fangcheng was curious: "Aren't you her mother? Don't you know if she is okay?"
Ge Juan was silent for a moment: "She can only come out to play at night, but I have work at night."
"Cleaning?"
"right."
Jie Fangcheng was surprised: "Don't you ever slack off at work?"
Ge Juan just shook her head.
Half of her face was hidden in her hair, and the remaining half looked clean, somewhat different from her frenzied state at night.
Jie Fangcheng scratched his head in embarrassment, not quite sure how to continue asking.
He usually just chops things down, so it's a bit difficult to get him to chat with people and look for clues.
But just because he finds it difficult doesn't mean others find it difficult.
"Hey... How about I find a girl to talk to you? Is that okay?"
Jie Fangcheng said honestly: "Either I search the room, or I find a girl to search the room. Anyway, I have to search it."
Ge Juan glared at him.
"There's no point in glaring at me. I'm at least giving you a chance to choose between the two. If it were Han Qi, he would have been cut into eight pieces by now if he had dared to fight me."
Ge Juan: “…”
Jie Fangcheng made a decision: "Then I'll call someone."
After saying that, he stretched his head and looked outside.
Over in the reading room, there were one, two, three... a total of ten heads, all standing by the door, looking over here with concern. Even number nine stretched his neck, swaying his head coquettishly in the corridor.
Jie Fangchengle said: "It's okay, just retreat. Shanshan, come here for a while."
Soon, Gu Shanshan came out of the reading room holding a self-defense prop given by Qi Chanyang.
When they arrived at the room, Jie Fangcheng introduced the two people to each other.
"This Ms. Ge is willing to talk to us."
After saying this, he hugged Stick in his arms, obviously determined to watch.
The scene was somewhat weird. Gu Shanshan calmed herself down and looked at Ge Juan.
"Hello, Ms. Ge, can I ask you a few questions?"
Ge Juan was silent for a moment before nodding.
"Ask ahead." Then he added, "But there are many questions I can't answer for you. If the dean hears me, I'll be finished."
Gu Shanshan quickly followed up by asking, "Where is the dean? We've been here for so many days and have never seen him."
Ge Juan gave her a meaningful look and said, "No, you have already seen it."
impossible!
All they see now are the patient NPCs and two doctors... and the kitchen NPCs.
Could it be the kitchen NPC? After all, he was wearing a mask and a hat, so his face couldn't be seen clearly.
Gu Shanshan then asked: "Is he in the kitchen?"
Ge Juan stopped talking.
Gu Shanshan could only change the question.
"What is this medicine we take? Does it have any consequences?"
Ge Juan smiled: "Haven't you seen the consequences?"
"Are they the patients? If we keep eating them, will we become like them?"
Ge Juan looked at her, then looked at Jie Fangcheng, and corrected her: "No, you are all patients too."
"What disease?"
Ge Juan stopped talking again.
When Gu Shanshan asked other questions, Ge Juan still shook her head every time.
At the end of the questioning, she just looked at the two of them and said, "The only thing I can tell you is that you are going to die soon. You can't do without medicine."
"But if I take three pills, I'll be like the other patients, right?"
Ge Juan smiled strangely and whispered, "Isn't it good to be like them?"
She didn't answer any more questions asked to her, but just urged the two of them: "After you find what you are looking for, get out of Yueyue's room quickly!"
Then Gu Shanshan was looking for clues in the room, while Jie Fangcheng and Ge Juan were standing at the door.
Gu Shanshan heard him chatting with someone.
"How old are you? Where is your home? Are you responsible for cleaning? Did you repair the doors on the first, second and third floors? No? Who repaired it? Han Qi? I didn't know he could repair doors. Oh, he also changed the locks..."
Gu Shanshan was also very upset after hearing this.
She also saw the photo album and flipped through it.
The two pages stained with blood still showed the beautiful little girl who looked like a little princess.
But compared to the previous child with a bright and sunny smile, from this page, Liu Hanyue finally opened her eyes.
She opened a pair of dark eyes that were larger than normal people's and looked at the camera expressionlessly. She was wearing a beautiful white princess dress and holding a doll in her hands, but there was no smile on her face.
From this page of the album on, she never smiled again.
The last page of the album shows her when she was ten years old. She was still neatly dressed and beautifully dressed.
But she didn’t know if it was an illusion, but Gu Shanshan felt that her eyes seemed to be getting bigger as she got older.
Apart from this, there were no other clues in the room.
Ge Juan urged: "Have you finished looking? If you are, leave quickly!"
When the two came out of the room, Gu Shanshan seemed to have thought of something.
She turned her head and glanced at Ge Juan out of the corner of her eye.
Ge Juan was cleaning the table.
She put the fallen books back in place one by one, put the photo album back into the second drawer, and closed the drawer.
As if sensing that she was being watched, Ge Juan suddenly turned her head and her eyes met Gu Shanshan's.
"Any thing else?"
Gu Shanshan's heart skipped a beat and she shook her head.
After the two returned to the reading room and closed the door, Gu Shanshan finally spoke.
"Ge Juan... She's lying!"
Qi Chanyang was startled: "What? What happened just now? What did you talk about with Ge Juan?"
Jie Fangcheng told Ge Juan what they had just talked about in that room. Qi Chanyang frowned and asked, "Is there any problem with this?"
Gu Shanshan replayed everything that had just happened in her mind, and the more she thought about it, the more certain she became.
"When I was looking for clues just now, although the books on the table were all overturned, they were obviously arranged in order from small to large. The erasers and pens in the drawer were also neatly arranged in order from small to large. At first I thought it was Ge Juan who cleaned up, but it wasn't! When Ge Juan cleaned up the table just now, she didn't even arrange the books, she just put them on the bookshelf."
“Also, I found that although the frequently used areas on the table were discolored, the areas that were not frequently used were very clean. The person who used it really took good care of everything in the room… Ge Juan didn’t take good care of it! Her mop directly smashed the table!!”
Gu Shanshan was convinced: "Ge Juan doesn't care about that room as much as she acts, but just now, even though she knew she couldn't beat Brother Jie, she still rushed out and acted like this... She did it on purpose!"
Qi Chanyang couldn't understand: "Why would she risk her life to do this?"
Jie Fangcheng was dissatisfied: "Hey! Why do you make me sound so scary?"
Everyone said in unison: "You are not scary yet?"
Jie Fangcheng was stunned and flew into a rage: "What are you talking about? When have I ever attacked an NPC for no reason? I always fight back in self-defense!"
Everyone looked sideways.
Gu Shanshan got back to the point: "I think... she just wanted to say those words to us."
Qi Chanyang recalled and quickly grasped the key point: "'You are about to die, you have to take medicine'! In the final analysis, she is trying to trick us into taking medicine!! That medicine must not be taken!"
At this time, Gu Shanshan looked at the newspaper.
"Perhaps... this 'don't trust anyone' refers to Ge Juan? Then who is the person who left this message? Is it someone among the patient NPCs?"
Everyone frowned in thought.
Since entering the dungeon, a series of events seemed like unsolved mysteries. The fear of death and the panic of the unknown have been lingering in everyone's hearts. Everyone felt like their brains were a mess and it was very confusing.
Qi Chanyang was thinking about it when he noticed someone missing from the corner of his eye. He was startled: "Where's Jie Fangcheng?"
Xue Kai at the door exclaimed, "Brother Jie just returned the finger to No. 9, and now he is playing badminton with No. 9..."
Everyone: “…”
Qi Chanyang was angry: "Damn it!!"
It's like a social animal who works overtime until midnight and then opens his circle of friends to find that someone in the department left early at 5:30.
Gu Shanshan didn't know whether to laugh or cry, but she still advised him: "Brother Qi, don't be angry. He may be the most tired one tonight. It's okay for him to relax now! Besides..."
Gu Shanshan was silent for a moment, thinking about what he had talked about with Ge Juan: "It seems that Brother Jie is not very good at finding clues. Let him go and play."
Qi Chanyang felt his forehead throbbing. He couldn't help but turn around and emphasize to the new players: "Game dungeons are terrible! Every player should take it seriously!! Don't learn those bad habits from some people!!! That's wrong! It's very easy to die in the dungeon!! It's very easy to make teammates very unhappy!!! Did you hear me?"
The newlyweds all nodded like quails: "Yes, I heard it."
In the badminton hall, Xie Fangcheng sneezed.
He sniffed and taught No. 9 the secret of badminton: "Look, when you serve, you have to serve like this..."
The ball was sent out with a "bang" and hit the floor like a gundam, leaving a small hole on the floor.
Jie Fangcheng stuffed the badminton racket with a hole in it back into No. 9's hand: "Try it."
Number Nine blinked slowly, looking at the racket in his hand: "It's broken... Hole..."
"It's okay, it's broken." Jie Fangcheng said shamelessly, "A person with real skills can play tennis well even if the racket has a hole in it. Come on! I believe in your ability!"
Number Nine nodded hesitantly with his head hanging down, and picked up another badminton.
Jie Fangcheng had no guilt for deceiving his roommates. He even gave instructions: "Raise your hands higher, higher, higher, this is the position... Oops, it's okay, do it again."
Time flies.
Soon, after dinner, everyone gathered in the reading room again.
Qi Chanyang's expression was serious: "Are you all ready?"
Everyone was serious: "We are ready!"
Jie Fangcheng was at a loss: "What are you preparing for?"
Xue Kai answered quickly: "Aren't we going to tie up all the NPC patients and prevent them from taking medicine at night? We made a small plan first."
Jie Fangcheng was surprised: "You guys still have plans?"
Qi Chan was angry: "There are nine patients! Haven't you ever thought about how to tie them up? One by one or all at once? What to do after tying them up? Where to put them? What if the patients break free if the ties are not tight enough? What if there must be two patients in the ward? Can you think less about rubbing your stick and thinking more about passing the customs!!"
Jie Fangcheng turned his head and said, "How come he was fine when I left, but is like this now? Who of you offended him?"
Gu Shanshan was helpless: "Okay, let's talk business."
The original plan was to use ropes to tie the NPCs and beds together, with two NPCs in one room and two players in one room.
This is not a small amount of work, and no one wants to put all the work on one person.
Qi Chanyang can deal with two to three patient NPCs before they mutated. According to everyone's plan, Jie Fangcheng is strong, so he wants to tie up four by himself, leaving two. The rest of them can use the props given by Qi Chanyang to tie up one, and then tie up the last one after Qi Chanyang and Jie Fangcheng are done. They should try their best to deal with all the patient NPCs before the doctor comes, otherwise they will be attacked from both sides.
At this time, Gu Shanshan finished telling her plan, and Jie Fangcheng asked, "Is it so troublesome?"
Qi Chanyang roared: "What else???"
"Well, you'll know tonight."
When night came, players saw the patient NPCs lined up and stood quietly in the corridor.
Xie Fangcheng handed out ropes to each patient and reminded them, "Tie them tightly!"
The patient NPCs consciously tied each other up with ropes, and some even took the initiative to ask: "Tie a few more circles..."
After No. 9 tied up No. 1, there was no one left to tie him up, so Jie Fangcheng did it himself. After tying him up tightly, he tied a bow. Soon, the corridor was filled with tied-up NPCs.
Everyone was petrified.
Xue Kai's eyes were full of stars: "Brother Jie, how did you do this?"
Jie Fangcheng was vague: "Oh, I just said it, everyone is very helpful."
It was indeed just a brief mention.
While playing badminton in the afternoon, Xie Fangcheng said to someone, "I'm going to tie you up tonight. Don't you agree? If you don't agree, I'll knock you unconscious and then tie you up."
Number Nine has a say in this matter.
Soon, everyone agreed with understanding.
Jie Fangcheng also made a request: "Since there are so many of us, let's tie each other up. If the ropes break free during the process of alienation, I will take action."
Number Nine has more say in this matter.
At this time, the NPCs were all tied up. Qi Chanyang had never seen such a scene before, so his mind was not thinking: "So... are they, just, just lying in the corridor?"
"Just lie down in the corridor first," Jie Fangcheng pulled out his stick, expressionless, "It will be convenient for me to see whose ropes are not tied tightly, so that I can beat them to death as soon as possible... No, knock them unconscious."
Qi Chanyang: “…”
"Now."
The stick hit the ground with a thumping sound.
Jie Fangcheng stuck the stick into the ground, with his hands on the other end of the stick. It didn't look like he was sticking a stick, but more like a swordsman sticking a sword.
In front of him was a long and terrifying dark corridor, and there seemed to be some creature in the corridor looking in his direction.
Behind him were nine strangely shaped patient NPCs twisted together.
In the weird and terrifying atmosphere, Jie Fangcheng shouted to the creature across the corridor.
"Hey! Hurry up, let's go back to the room and rest after we're done!"
(End of this chapter)