Gu Shanshan couldn't help but glance sideways.
Brother Jie doesn't seem to be in a very good mood. Although he is usually quite arrogant, most of the time he is more... uh, reserved
When Gu Shanshan thought that this word was actually associated with Jie Fangcheng, her hair stood on end.
Over there, Jie Fangcheng had already taken out another bundle of ropes, swiftly picked up Han Qi from the ground, and then quickly and skillfully tied him up in a way that made it difficult for him to run away, but allowed him to stretch his hands freely.
This is what Gu Shanshan said just now.
"Since the NPC is a doctor and there are normal medical equipment in the clinic, I think... they should be able to treat it."
But when Han Qi and the other two NPCs saw Jie Fangcheng, they were like rabbits seeing an eagle, and they ran faster than Qi Chanyang even when he used his skills.
There was really no other way, so Gu Shanshan suggested that she go to the outpatient department first, and Jie Fangcheng go to the first floor to wait.
Now that Han Qi was successfully captured, Han Qi thought he would be chopped in half if he fell into this man's hands. But now he was not chopped in half, and there was a little disbelief on his face.
Jie Fangcheng didn't bother to be polite with him. After tying him up, he asked, "Can you heal the wound?"
Han Qi nodded helplessly, and the next second he was picked up like a bag.
It was not until he was taken to Ward No. 1 that Han Qi realized why he asked that.
In the corner of Ward No. 1, two players whose lives and deaths were unknown were lying there covered in blood, and they could not feel breathing at all.
"Can these two people cure it?" asked Jie Fangcheng.
Han Qi could tell at a glance that the injuries on the two patients were all caused by the dean.
The dean was very angry today. Because He Xin did not complete his work well, the dean swallowed half of his body. No one knows where he is now.
How could Han Qi dare to agree in this situation
He had just formed the word "no" when Jie Fangcheng, who was standing next to him, pounded the stick in his hand into the ground, making a teeth-grinding sound when it hit the ground.
Jie Fangcheng smiled at him kindly: "If you can't cure me, I'll bury you with me."
I have fully grasped what the emperor often says to the imperial physician in costume dramas.
Doctor Han immediately swallowed back the word "no".
He first moved to Sun Miao's side, glanced at Sun Miao and shook his head.
Jie Fangcheng raised his stick.
Han Qi quickly added: "No, no, no, I mean he doesn't need treatment. Mr. Sun follows the doctor's orders very well and has taken medicine twice. As long as he gets some sleep, he will be back to normal tomorrow."
Thinking that the patient NPCs also have the refresh function, Gu Shanshan nodded.
At this time, Han Qi moved to Lu Xiaoqin's side and shook his head again.
“This doesn’t need to be treated?”
Han Qi said cautiously: "This can't be cured. She has been beaten like a sieve..."
"Then what's the point of keeping you?" Jie Fangcheng raised the stick in his hand again.
Han Qi immediately said: "But there is a way. Give her the medicine again, and her injuries will heal."
If she took it again, Lu Xiaoqin would have taken the medicine three times.
According to Qi Chanyang's speculation, one would die after taking the medicine three times.
You may become food for monsters, or you may become a monster yourself and stay in this copy forever.
Han Qi's eyes were fixed on Lu Xiaoqin, who was breathing in more than she was breathing out. Even though there was a scary person standing next to her, he couldn't help swallowing his saliva.
"Just taking the medicine will be fine?" asked Jie Fangcheng.
Han Qi suppressed his greedy look, fearing that if he didn't explain the consequences honestly, he would be beaten to death. He quickly added, "This medicine is good, but it has some side effects."
"What are the side effects?"
Han Qi smiled oddly: "Her hysteria can become very serious, and she can often see things that ordinary people can't see."
Gu Shanshan understood immediately.
In this dungeon, "hysteria" refers to the side dungeon.
People who don't take medicine are in a main copy, players who have taken three or fewer medicines are in the dean's side copy, and players who have taken three medicines are in another side copy.
It seems that the copy of these three pills is very brutal, so when Han Qi mentioned this, his eyes were shining with unconcealable excitement.
can not eat.
Lu Xiaoqin was timid to begin with, so it was obviously unrealistic to let her enter such a brutal copy alone.
We have to think of another way...
At this moment, Jie Fangcheng beside him said "Oh".
"Just like you said, I'll be fine after taking the medicine." Jie Fangcheng tucked the stick under his armpit, lowered his head and rummaged around, took out the small bottle of red potion for the players from his bag, and poured a pill into his hand.
Gu Shanshan was stunned for a moment and immediately stopped him: "Don't! Xiaoqin is timid to begin with, let her enter the side dungeon alone..."
"You can't get in."
As he said this, Jie Fangcheng took the pills in his hand.
On the small pill, the tiny, velvety tentacles were still stretching and wriggling, looking harmless to humans and animals. However, Gu Shanshan felt a pain at the root of her tongue when she saw the medicine.
Once this thing enters the mouth, it will grow into a terrible monster.
Jie Fangcheng held the pills in both hands and said, "Why do you have to take a whole pill? It's nonsense to talk about side effects without considering the dosage."
After saying that, he exerted force with his fingers.
Han Qi watched from the side and sneered in his heart.
This thing just looks like medicine, but it is actually a parasite on marine fish. One pill is a fish. It looks like a furry tentacle on the outside, but it is actually covered with a layer of armor inside, making it indestructible...
"Click".
Han Qi's expression was blank.
Jie Fangcheng broke the pill in half and gestured, then fed Lu Xiaoqin the smaller half first.
The drug made a scream that humans could not hear, and after entering Lu Xiaoqin's mouth it expanded instantly, occupying Lu Xiaoqin's entire mouth and then wriggling into her body.
It was visible to the naked eye that Lu Xiaoqin's originally weak breathing was gradually slowing down, and the wounds on her body were also recovering at a slow pace.
Han Qi: “…”
Jie Fangcheng threw the other half tablet back into the medicine bottle, apparently planning to use it next time.
After doing all this, he looked at Han Qi.
Han Qi took a step back in horror: "I just cooperated so well, you are not going to attack me again?"
Jie Fangcheng was surprised: "What are you talking about?"
Before Han Qi could even breathe a sigh of relief, he heard Jie Fangcheng's next words: "What does your obedience have to do with whether I beat you or not?"
Damn!!!
Han Qi twisted wildly, trying to get out of the rope.
Jie Fangcheng was at a loss whether to laugh or cry: "Look how scared you are. I didn't say I would beat you now."
Han Qi's eyes were filled with tears.
Xie Fangcheng said to him earnestly: "You don't have to be afraid of me. I won't kill you if you are useful to me. Don't worry."
After saying that, Xie Fangcheng really started to untie the rope for him.
Han Qi's expression was fragile and confused, and in his confusion he was filled with fear. He couldn't help but ask, "Why did you say that just now?"
"What should I say?" Jie Fangcheng asked kindly.
"You said it! 'What does your obedience have to do with whether I beat you or not'? Now you say you won't kill me!"
"That's right!" After saying that, Jie Fangcheng raised his stick, "Just because I don't kill you doesn't mean I won't beat you!"
Before he could finish his words, the mouth on Han Qi's body screamed, and he twisted his body and ran out of the door in an instant.
Xie Fangcheng had no intention of hitting him, so he ran out of the door out of boredom and took a look outside. Then he turned back and exclaimed, "You run really fast."
Gu Shanshan, who had watched the whole process, looked at the side with a complicated expression: "He doesn't dare to come again, right?"
"I don't think he'll come."
Only then did Gu Shanshan breathe a sigh of relief.
Jie Fangcheng stretched his body and said, "Let's go and look for clues."
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After entering the copy, Gu Shanshan's nerves were always tense.
Although they appear calm on the surface, a normal person who dies and suddenly enters this kind of haunted place will inevitably feel panic.
Last night, Gu Shanshan was waiting in the room alone. She knew that she was just a burden to Qi Chanyang, so she didn't say a word of fear. But anyone would be afraid to stay awake in a dark room with a patient NPC whose life or death was unknown.
This was the first time she felt that this hospital... seemed to be just so-so.
"Look at this broken one."
In the security room.
The original security guard had disappeared, but the things in the security room - the bloody hammer, the bones of an unknown creature in the corner, and the blood-red calendar hanging on the wall were still there.
Everything looked so horrible in the moonlight.
When Jie Fangcheng came in, he turned on the light and knocked on the peeling wooden table with disgust.
"This table doesn't accept any scraps."
Gu Shanshan: “…”
He turned around and saw the calendar hanging on the wall, still with a look of disgust on his face.
Jie Fangcheng walked over.
The calendar has turned a new page.
August 12th.
Gu Shanshan also found the latest issue of the newspaper on the table.
The newspaper is still the Blue Mountains Evening News.
According to Qi Chanyang, this is a "plug-in" given to them by the system.
The newspaper shows what will happen tomorrow.
Gu Shanshan's expression darkened after she opened the newspaper.
"Brother Jie, look here!"
A missing person notice was published on the last page of the evening paper.
"Will Liu Hanxi disappear tomorrow?" Gu Shanshan frowned. "Where could he go? Why would he disappear? Could he leave the mental hospital?"
This copy takes place inside the Blue Mountain Psychiatric Hospital. The scenery outside the copy looks normal, but there is actually no way to get out.
Qi Chanyang said that in the past, there were powerful guys who tried to break through the edge of the copy, but their outstretched hands touched a strange film.
The big man's palm, which had been strengthened many times by the system, disappeared the moment it touched the film. Since then, no player has tried to break through the boundary of the copy.
Jie Fangcheng also shook his head: "It's not easy to get out."
Outside the film was actually a large area of thick fog. Jie Fangcheng opened the door of the mental hospital last night. He walked in the fog for a while and then came back.
His sense of direction was not very good, and he was like a blind man in this thick fog. He didn't want to go out without someone.
Gu Shanshan didn't notice that the person next to her had already walked outside the mental hospital and was still racking her brains to figure out the meaning of the missing person notice in the newspaper.
"Liu Hanxi is a normal person. He is Ge Juan's son and Liu Hanyue's brother. He was admitted to the mental hospital for 'treatment'... Could it be Ge Juan? She took Liu Hanxi away for some purpose? But why?"
Gu Shanshan unconsciously exchanged a glance with Jie Fangcheng beside her.
Jie Fangcheng looked innocent: "How should I know?"
Gu Shanshan withdrew her gaze.
Seeing her thinking hard, Jie Fangcheng said in a very heroic manner: "It's okay. I will tie up Liu Hanxi tomorrow. No one can stop me."
Gu Shanshan was shocked: "Is this possible?"
Jie Fangcheng was even more shocked: "Why not? Didn't we tie him up once today?"
Gu Shanshan: “…”
She felt that this wasn't the way to clear this dungeon...right
Jie Fangcheng looked at her expression and understood.
Then he reached out and threw the paper ball on the table into the trash can.
Not long after, there was a knock on the door.
Jie Fangcheng was happy: "You see, this works better than summoning."
After saying that, Jie Fangcheng opened the door.
At the door, Ge Juan was still dressed as a cleaner. Before she could put down her raised hand, a familiar yet scary face appeared in front of her.
Jie Fangcheng was surprised: "Wow! What a coincidence... Hey! Don't run!"
Ge Juan ran very fast and disappeared in the blink of an eye.
Jie Fangcheng sighed, turned his head and said helplessly: "It seems that Ge Juan can't be asked. How about asking Liu Hanyue? She is also easy to summon. But the little girl has no mouth, so we have to write to communicate."
The look of knowing everything about the NPC and the expression of being as close as a family to the NPC.
Gu Shanshan: “…”
At this moment, for some reason, Gu Shanshan felt that she could especially understand why Qi Chanyang often roared at him.
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The two also went to the third floor.
There is nothing to find on the third floor now. The rooms are all empty. It is hard to imagine that some experimental subjects were kept here just yesterday.
Gu Shanshan searched the third floor but found nothing.
Seeing that it was almost twelve o'clock, the two had no choice but to return to the ward again.
Sun Miao and Lu Xiaoqin were sleeping in Ward No. 1, so they went into Ward No. 3.
After arriving at Ward No. 3, Gu Shanshan looked at the hole between the two rooms and was stunned for a moment.
"Brother Jie, do you feel that... this hole seems a little smaller?"
Jie Fangcheng took a look and shook his head: "I didn't find anything."
Gu Shanshan took another look, wondering if it was her illusion.
But now is not the time to talk about these things.
Gu Shanshan took out a pen and paper and started sketching on it, thinking about the current situation.
It is known that the condition for passing the copy is to survive for three days, but the doctor NPC will force the player to take medicine every day and have a consultation every day.
After taking the medicine for three days, the hysteria will worsen. Hysteria may very likely represent a side quest - Gu Shanshan drew a triangle here.
Qi Chanyang guessed that the medicine must not be taken three times, otherwise one will die.
Then the difficulty of this side quest is likely to be impossible for the player to pass, so the correct way to pass it should be not to take medicine from the beginning.
But it's still not right.
Veteran players like Qi Chanyang are actually capable of fighting against patient NPCs.
The condition for passing the dungeon is to survive for three days. As long as the veteran players don't take medicine, they should be able to survive after three days.
But just looking at Qi Chanyang's performance, you can tell that the mortality rate in this copy is frighteningly high.
Therefore, it is impossible to survive safely in the dungeon for three days without taking medicine.
Something else must be happening...
The clues in the copy were like pieces of a puzzle. Gu Shanshan always felt as if some clues that should have existed were deliberately taken away by someone, making it impossible for them to connect all the clues.
What is the clue...
Gu Shanshan stared at the paper in her hand and suddenly said, "Brother Jie...are all the photos of Liu Hanyue the only ones of her?"
"Ah? Yes."
"No!" Gu Shanshan stood up suddenly. "An album that records her growth cannot contain only her!"
"?" Jie Fangcheng had no experience in this area. "Shouldn't her photo album be a record of her?"
"It's a record of her! But this album even has photos of her when she was a baby. Why aren't there any photos of her parents? This doesn't make sense!"
When photos of children are taken and put into an album, there should be a family photo with the parents holding the children.
But Liu Hanyue's photo album only contains her from beginning to end.
She wrote "I don't have a mother" in her composition... At that time, including Qi Chanyang, they all thought that this was just an angry remark made by the little girl.
But now think about it...
"Liu Hanyue, is she really Ge Juan's daughter?"
"Ah?" Jie Fangcheng scratched his head, "But Liu Hanyue and Liu Hanxi look very similar."
Liu Hanyue and Liu Hanxi don't look much alike at first glance, but the more you look at the details, the more similar they become.
Gu Shanshan made a bold guess: "Then... Liu Hanxi might not be Ge Juan's son either."
As she spoke, Gu Shanshan suddenly thought of something: "Brother Jie, let's go to the reading room now! If this is true, I think I understand what's going on!"
"good."
After the two of them hurried to the reading room, Gu Shanshan walked to the newspaper rack without saying a word and opened the brochure of Blue Mountain Psychiatric Hospital.
On the page with the doctors' introductions, it was clear that the photos of Han Qi, He Xin, and Chen Xiangyuan all matched their ages, except for Ge Juan.
Ge Juan, who is listed as 41 years old in her personal introduction, looks only 31 years old.
—Perhaps it’s because... this Ge Juan is indeed only 31 years old.
"Do you remember the operation they performed?" Gu Shanshan quickly wrote down all the clues on paper.
"They are studying how to replace human organs, and they succeeded. Liu Hanyue is the proof. But Liu Hanyue is just a little girl, why should she be replaced with an adult's legs, an adult's breasts, an adult's organs... Liu Hanyue said, 'She feels it's not good enough'. We have always thought that Ge Juan is a serious mother who has too strict requirements for her daughter. But if she is strict with her daughter, she must have special expectations for her daughter! Assuming that Ge Juan just hopes her daughter will become a successful person, why would she agree to transplant Liu Hanyue's mouth to Han Qi?"
"There is only one reason - Liu Hanyue's body is the body that Ge Juan wants to replace her head with!! So she doesn't need Liu Hanyue's head!! Naturally, she doesn't need Liu Hanyue's mouth either!"
"But later, Liu Hanyue refused to take her medicine properly, so the director swallowed her medicine. So Ge Juan took Liu Hanxi to the mental hospital as well."
"The next person she wants to replace her head with is Liu Hanxi! The current Ge Juan is not the mother of Liu Hanyue and the others!!"
Just then, the clock struck twelve.
At the same time, Jie Fangcheng and Gu Shanshan heard a "bang" coming from the bookshelf in the reading room, as if something had rolled to the floor.
Gu Shanshan turned her head and her face changed suddenly.
On the originally empty floor, on a black skull that had been burned countless times, two empty eye sockets were quietly "watching" them.
(End of this chapter)