After Retiring From the Underworld, I Entered an Infinite Game

Chapter 27: Blue Mountain Mental Hospital (Twenty-seven)

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Gu Shanshan's heart skipped a beat and she couldn't help but take a step back.

Jie Fangcheng only took a look at the head, then turned to ask Gu Shanshan: "What do you mean?"

Gu Shanshan didn't react for a moment: "What do you mean?"

"I didn't understand what you said just now." Jie Fangcheng was embarrassed.

Gu Shanshan summarized it for him: "That is to say, I speculate that the current Ge Juan is not Ge Juan. This person is an imposter."

Jie Fangcheng let out a long "Oh" and then asked, "How did you see that?"

"Ge Juan signed Liu Hanyue's paper before. At that time, Ge Juan's handwriting was very clear, and between the lines, one could see her importance and love for her daughter. How could such a mother have the heart to hurt her own daughter?"

Jie Fangcheng said "Oh" again.

Gu Shanshan looked at his expression and said helplessly: "Brother Jie, don't you understand yet?"

Jie Fangcheng waved his hand proudly: "It doesn't matter, you can just tell me who to chop."

Gu Shanshan: “…”

This is another level of reliability.

Just then, there was a hesitant knock at the door.

Gu Shanshan understood.

Why is the fake Ge Juan's job to clean the house? And why is she required to keep the floor clean at night

Gu Shanshan turned her head and looked at the scary skull carefully.

This thing would fall on the floor of the reading room at twelve o'clock, and Ge Juan came here to clean it up.

Over there, Jie Fangcheng had already opened the door.

When Ge Juan saw him, she turned around and ran away without saying a word, stopping her work.

"Oh!" Jie Fangcheng was depressed.

What's wrong with these NPCs? They all acted as if they saw a ghost when they saw him.

And Gu Shanshan had already bravely approached the skull.

The skull, which had been burned countless times, was covered in carbon black and could not be seen in its original form at all.

Where did this skull fall from

Gu Shanshan raised her head.

The bookshelves in the reading room are very tall and seem to be connected to the ceiling.

But when Gu Shanshan looked carefully, the top of the third row of bookshelves seemed to be a little lower.

"Brother Jie, this seems to have fallen from there." Gu Shanshan pointed to him.

After pointing, look around.

There is no scaffolding in the room, and the bookshelf is so high, how can I see what is on it

Jie Fangcheng took a look and said calmly: "There is a shelf in the kitchen. I'll go get it."

Gu Shanshan hurriedly said, "I'll go with you."

The two walked out of the reading room. The corridor was silent except for the sound of their footsteps.

The footsteps sounded even more terrifying in the eerie environment. Gu Shanshan couldn't help but make small talk: "Brother Jie, how did you know there was a shelf in the cafeteria?"

"I was here yesterday."

Later, Jie Fangcheng proved that he had really been there.

After arriving at the cafeteria entrance, Jie Fangcheng skillfully reached out and pulled off the lock on the cafeteria door and threw it aside, then opened the door: "Hi, I came to borrow something from you."

In the back kitchen, the kitchen NPC is preparing meals for tomorrow's day.

After hearing this, the NPC turned around stiffly, screamed, and turned into a bunch of bats, flying to the ceiling and huddled together.

Gu Shanshan: “…” What on earth did Brother Jie do yesterday to scare all the NPCs like this

Jie Fangcheng didn't care. He walked to the back kitchen. The bats on the ceiling were like a flock of driven sheep. They would avoid wherever Jie Fangcheng stood.

There was indeed a scaffolding placed against the wall of the kitchen. Xie Fangcheng was holding a stick in his left hand and the scaffolding in his right hand. They were all products from the kitchen.

The NPC on the ceiling whispered: "The dean does not allow the kitchen to be taken out..."

"He dares to control me?" Jie Fangcheng was surprised.

NPCs are no longer talking.

Gu Shanshan thought this was too arrogant.

When he reached the door, Jie Fangcheng suddenly thought of something and turned back to the bat clinging to the ceiling: "By the way, don't cook the same dishes for us every day. Can you think more about the recipes? You should be more serious and responsible in your job!"

NPC Chef: "..."

Gu Shanshan: “…”

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After arriving at the reading room, Xie Fangcheng set aside the scaffolding, climbed up and was stunned for a moment.

Gu Shanshan asked from below: "What's on top?"

Jie Fangcheng paused for a moment and said, "There are charred bones. Do you want to come and take a look?"

Gu Shanshan nodded immediately: "Yes!"

Gu Shanshan went up and blurted out: "So broken?"

There were countless tiny pieces of bones on top of the bookshelf, which looked like they had been deliberately smashed.

Gu Shanshan suppressed the feeling of nausea and reached out to feel around in the pile of bones.

Soon, her fingertips touched something metallic.

Gu Shanshan took it out.

A ladies' ring. After wiping off the dust on the ring, you can see the words engraved on the ring under the light of the reading room.

"…CXY?"

Gu Shanshan was stunned for a moment, then immediately responded: "Chen Xiangyuan!"

Gu Shanshan came down from the scaffolding with the ring in her hand and examined it carefully.

"The ring is very new, with only a few scratches. It doesn't look like it was burned with the bones. It's more like someone hid the ring among the bones."

Gu Shanshan frowned.

This kind of women's ring engraved with names looks like a couple's ring.

Is it Chen Xiangyuan's lover? Who is this person? And who put it here

Where are the skull and the broken bones? Are they from the original Ge Juan

If the current Ge Juan is not Ge Juan, who is she

Gu Shanshan's eyes swept across the bookshelf in the reading room. She thought of something, stood up suddenly, walked quickly to a book, and pulled out this thick book.

On their first day looking for clues in the reading room, Lu Xiaoqin found a book with handwriting on it.

After comparison, the handwriting on the book belonged to Liu Hanyue's head teacher. At that time, Gu Shanshan thought that this was written by Liu Hanyue after transplanting her head teacher's hand...

But there may be another possibility.

"Is it possible that the words in this book were written by Liu Hanyue's class teacher?"

Gu Shanshan thought quickly: "This person is also researching head transplant surgery, and he is also in this hospital..."

—Perhaps, the current Ge Juan... is this class teacher!

Ge Juan's job is to clean. She is an associate chief physician, but unlike Han Qi and He Xin, she does not wear a white coat as a doctor. Instead, she works as a cleaner.

Maybe it’s because... Ge Juan is not qualified to be a doctor now, and this head that falls off at twelve o'clock every day, Ge Juan needs to rush to clean it up as soon as possible.

Why are you in such a hurry to clean up

Is it to cover up something

Gu Shanshan lowered her head and frowned as she thought. She opened the hospital brochure again and turned to the page with Ge Juan's personal information. She soon had a clue.

"Brother Jie, let's go to Liu Hanyue's room!"

In Liu Hanyue's room, Liu Hanyue, who had taken the medicine, had disappeared.

The two of them searched carefully, but there was no clue she was looking for anywhere in the book on the table.

Gu Shanshan thought for a moment and opened the drawer.

Liu Hanyue's desk is very tidy and clean, and her stationery is all placed in the first drawer.

Gu Shanshan took out several erasers that showed signs of use. Finally, after removing the paper covering a square eraser, she found a few lines of small words on the back of the paper.

That might be a subtle way for kids to pass notes.

"Should we send flowers to Teacher Gu on Teacher's Day?"

—Yes, she is so nice.

"Of course you think it's good. She's so mean to us, but she's especially concerned about you."

-hey-hey!

Teacher Gu.

It is possible that this Teacher Gu is Liu Hanyue’s homeroom teacher.

Gu Shanshan tore off a piece of paper, threw it on the ground, and waited quietly.

There was no knock at the door.

Gu Shanshan put the ring on the table, and the clues in her mind finally came together.

"I see… "

Jie Fangcheng hurriedly asked: "What?"

Gu Shanshan first spread out the brochure and turned to the page with Ge Juan's name printed on it.

"Each of us has a slight asymmetry between the left and right sides of our face, look at this, Brother Jie."

Xie Fangcheng looked carefully and soon discovered the problem.

"Ge Juan's left and right faces are the same?"

"Yes." Gu Shanshan folded the page in half, revealing only the left half of Ge Juan's face. "In the photo, Ge Juan's right face is a copy of her left face."

This hospital is good at head transplant surgery, but it requires cutting off half of the face and leaving the other half. The half of Ge Juan's face exposed is intact, and the other half has been splashed with sulfuric acid. No one knows what the half that has been splashed with sulfuric acid looks like.

Why don’t we repair the half of the face that was splashed with sulfuric acid

In this strange hospital, Jie Fangcheng poked Han Qi with a stick, but Han Qi was able to quickly recover.

Then there is only one explanation, the current Ge Juan has half of the original Ge Juan's face transplanted.

"And I suspect that the dean is not aware that the current Ge Juan is not the previous Ge Juan." Gu Shanshan touched the ring, "Because... Ge Juan may be in a relationship with the dean."

"Ah?" Jie Fangcheng was shocked.

Gu Shanshan analyzed: "We were in the reading room just now. Ge Juan appeared soon after the skull appeared, and she was very hesitant when knocking on the door. Obviously, she was worried that it was you in the room. If she was so worried, why did she knock on the door? Because this skull is very important, she didn't dare to let others know."

"In this hospital, Ge Juan's strength is higher than Han Qi and He Xin, and is about the same as Liu Hanyue's. The dean is the only one who can suppress her and pose a threat to her."

"Therefore, she had to clean the skull as soon as possible, probably to prevent the dean from knowing. Why did she want to prevent the dean from knowing? Because she was replacing Ge Juan, she couldn't let the dean know that Ge Juan was dead."

"And the ring found in the pile of bones... It's a platinum ring, without diamonds, and it should be a couple's ring. In other words, this ring belongs to Chen Xiangyuan's partner."

"If all the NPCs in this instance have appeared, based on the inferences we can draw from the existing clues, I tend to think that Ge Juan was with Chen Xiangyuan after her divorce... or even before her divorce."

"That corpse is Ge Juan's corpse."

Not only that, there are many, many details pointing to this point.

"Ge Juan" said that she had not seen Liu Hanyue for a long time. If she was really her biological mother, her biological flesh and blood were in the hospital, and Ge Juan could move freely at night, so why couldn't she see her

There is only one explanation, Liu Hanyue's strength is similar to that of Ge Juan now, and Ge Juan is deliberately avoiding her.

Although she transplanted half of Ge Juan's face, Liu Hanyue is Ge Juan's daughter and is very likely to discover this secret.

Does Liu Hanyue already know

Does she know that this Ge Juan is not her mother

After finishing her analysis, Gu Shanshan looked up and was silent for a moment.

"It's okay, Brother Jie. It doesn't matter if you don't understand. As long as you can beat people, that's fine." After saying that, Gu Shanshan held the ring in her hand. "Perhaps this is the key to our success."

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the next morning.

After the players woke up one after another, they looked at each other and fell silent for a while.

Perhaps because he took two pills at once, Qi Chanyang's changes were the most obvious.

He gathered up his ear-length hair and smiled bitterly: "This is the first time my hair has grown this long."

Not only was his hair very long, but his limbs were also longer.

Lu Xiaoqin's face was pale. She took the most medicine among everyone, a total of two and a half pills. But because of her severe injuries yesterday, even though she had already shown signs of alienation, she still had to be supported.

Hearing Qi Chanyang say this, Lu Xiaoqin took out a rubber band from her bag and handed it to him.

"Brother Qi, do you want to tie your hair up?"

Qi Chanyang took the rubber band and looked at it. There was a plastic bear on the rubber band, which looked very cute.

Qi Chanyang hesitated: "This is a little too cute..."

Before he finished speaking, Jie Fangcheng came up to Lu Xiaoqin and asked, "Do you have any hair ties?"

“Ah, there is…” Lu Xiaoqin rummaged around and took out another one from her bag.

This one is even more kawaii. It’s a plastic bunny holding a carrot, and the cartoon bunny’s ears are furry.

After thanking him, Jie Fangcheng changed the rubber band he had tied himself with without saying a word.

Qi Chanyang: “…”

Jie Fangcheng looked at his expression and explained, "My knot is not tight enough. It's a little loose after two circles, and a little tight after three circles."

After saying that, he shook his head and said, "This is good enough now!"

Qi Chanyang watched as the big guy wearing a little white rabbit hairband chased the NPC around the world, and it seemed as if circles began to appear in front of his eyes... It didn't seem like a feeling.

Qi Chanyang frowned: "When I look at things now, they seem to be crooked."

Lu Xiaoqin also nodded: "I just wanted to say... I, I look at this table, it has those subtle wavy shapes. And I don't know why..."

Lu Xiaoqin cautiously glanced at He Xin who was standing at the door.

Today, He Xin's two arms have disappeared. He stands woodenly at the door with his head down, not knowing what he is thinking.

Realizing that someone was looking at him, He Xin slowly raised his head.

Lu Xiaoqin was timid and would be scared and look away immediately after seeing this.

But this time, she looked straight at He Xin.

"I feel like... he's not that scary anymore."

Qi Chanyang also nodded: "Yes. After taking that medicine, I should be able to defeat He Xin easily now. My strength is probably about the same as Ge Juan."

The solution became clear.

It seems that the medicine does allow players to get closer to monsters, while also increasing their strength.

I don’t know whether this is good or bad.

After dinner, several people gathered in the reading room again. After Gu Shanshan finished telling about her discovery yesterday, Qi Chanyang frowned.

"Then let's sort out the information we have now."

"Liu Hanyue's mother was originally Ge Juan, but later she divorced her husband. This Ge Juan is Liu Hanyue's head teacher, Teacher Gu. Teacher Gu used a head transplant to replace half of Ge Juan's face. In order to prevent the dean from finding out, she hid Ge Juan's body on top of the cabinet in the reading room."

“… But something still doesn’t make sense.”

Qi Chanyang recalled: "Yesterday when I met Liu Hanyue face to face, the little girl said with her own mouth that she hated Ge Juan and that she was the one who splashed sulfuric acid on half of Ge Juan's face. If Teacher Gu had already successfully replaced her head when she splashed sulfuric acid, then Liu Hanyue could not have failed to notice it. Therefore, the person Liu Hanyue splashed must have been the real Ge Juan."

"It's true that Liu Hanyue hates Ge Juan. What did Ge Juan do to make her own daughter hate her so much?"

At this time, Jie Fangcheng on the side interrupted: "Liu Hanyue's right eye is fine, and Liu Hanxi's left eye is fine."

Qi Chanyang frowned: "Could it be... Ge Juan asked her daughter to transplant an eye to Liu Hanxi?"

"It's very likely." Gu Shanshan nodded. "In Liu Hanyue's photo album, there is a page where her left eye looks strange. It was also from that page that she never smiled again."

Qi Chanyang still felt something was wrong.

"I always feel like there's something wrong with this matter... But at least, maybe we can get through this night safely."

"you mean?"

"With this ring, we can use it to deal with the Dean tonight."

The players have already taken the medicine twice, so it is impossible for them to take it for the third time tonight. Everyone will definitely face the dean tonight.

But Jie Fangcheng, the only one who could defeat the dean, was unable to see the dean. Even with Qi Chanyang controlling the shadow man to guide him, it was still too dangerous.

With this ring, maybe just like Wang He recorded his wife's name in his diary, the dean would not attack them.

At this time, Jie Fangcheng, who was listening in, raised his hand: "How about I just take two pills and face the dean with you guys, is that okay?"

Qi Chanyang shook his head.

He took two pieces of paper, tore a few holes in one of them, and put it on top of the other paper, explaining: "We are now in a side dungeon, and the side dungeon is like this. We can now see the situation of all the side dungeons and part of the main dungeon."

"And the main dungeon is like the piece of paper below." Qi Chanyang took away the torn paper, "This piece of paper is the foundation. At the same time, we who are in the side dungeon will be affected by the side dungeon, and thus have a blind spot for the main dungeon."

"Oh." Jie Fangcheng nodded, "I didn't understand, but it won't work anyway, right?"

Qi Chanyang was very patient: "What didn't you understand?"

As he said this, he tore the paper in his hand a little more into pieces with a good temper, and it seemed that he was going to demonstrate it again.

Jie Fangcheng immediately replied: "I understand."

Qi Chanyang: “…”

(End of this chapter)