An hour before Jenkins received the news, the church followed the process of dealing with abnormal areas of space, and first sent a team into the fog to confirm the traces of the missing persons and investigate where the other area where this space overlapped belonged.
But the team entered the fog, and no news came out for half an hour. After checking again, a very slight hallucinogen was found in the dissipating white mist.
Of course, this was not deliberately sowed by someone. Even if a large dose of medicine is sprinkled on this kind of empty and windy field, it will not have any effect. After looking up the information and comparing the ingredients of those hallucinogens, it was finally confirmed that what appeared with the white mist was [Biggs Hospital] numbered A-07-2-3926.
A-07-2-3926 [Biggs Hospital] is a strange thing similar to [Night Manor]. It is a real entity that can be seen and touched. Its specificity is manifested in the time loop state inside the hospital.
[Biggs Hospital] is a hospital-shaped building complex that randomly appears in the material world. The barbed wire outside the hospital is used as the dividing line between the inside and outside of the hospital. It will only appear in spring and summer, and the location will only appear in plain areas.
With the advent of hospitals, psychedelic ingredients naturally appear in the nearby air, which are not lethal, addictive or supernatural. The only effect is that people who inhale the ingredients of the medicine are more likely to lose control of their emotions, lose their sanity, and see various hallucinations.
The church believes that [Biggs Hospital] should have appeared somewhere in the world, and then very coincidentally, this location overlapped with Nolan's space anomaly, which caused the accident.
"Although the time loop of [Biggs Hospital] only occurs inside the hospital, this monster cannot be left alone. In addition to the characteristics of the internal time loop, it will spontaneously attract ordinary people to break into here. And those intruders , do not realize that their thoughts are being controlled, and usually use the reasons of 'exploration', 'writing materials', 'testing courage' and other reasons. Even if they block off the nearby areas, they will use what they think is 'normal' In short, in order not to affect Nolan, who is the closest to here, the church believes that it should take the initiative to solve it, rather than wait and see the further development of the matter."
Pop sat in the church's makeshift camp, cooking a bonfire with Jenkins. This kind of weird thing involving time is very rare, and there are not many people who have experience in dealing with this kind of incident. But very coincidentally, Dad and Old Jack met [Biggs Hospital] 33 years ago, and they were the only survivors of that incident, so they called Dad so late Come.
"What should I do?"
Jenkins asked eagerly, it would take time and place to fuse the king soul. Although the star world is also possible, but the protoss also said that the star world can only be regarded as barely enough. If there is a better backup option, Jenkins will certainly not let it go.
"I suggested that the church call you here. This matter still needs your help."
The old man added some firewood to the bonfire, and beside the two of them, a temporary camp was being built. The crops in the fields were uprooted to clear a large area for church use. According to the incident report left by Dad and Old Jack, as well as the rare records of other churches on [Biggs Hospital], it will be a long-term process to deal with this matter.
Affected by the appearance of the monster, the temperature nearby is very low, unlike the temperature at night in midsummer. The bonfire was lit because of this. Chocolate liked this environment very much. He squatted obediently on Jenkins' shoulders, and his two amber eyes reflected the jumping flames.
"Have you read the data? There will be time loops within the range of the barbed wire, but the length of each time loop is different. The current observation record is as short as 3 seconds and as long as 11 minutes and 53 seconds. If at a certain time Before the end of the cycle, if you don’t leave the scope of the hospital, you will be trapped in the time loop forever, repeating the same actions over and over again. The outside of the barbed wire can witness what happened inside. The church believes that the emergence of Biggs Hospital Finally, if left alone, it will disappear after 3948 cycles, and when it reappears in another location, all those who were lost in the time loop last time will not reappear, and the hospital awaits the next batch of victims. "
Jenkins nodded seriously, meaning that he had read this part of the information.
"This is information that can be made public. What you need to pay attention to is the part of the information that cannot be made public. Those documents are in the Holy See. Among all the people in our church in Nolan, only Stress and I have the authority, so now I dictate Here you go."
The old man lowered his voice, and looked around vigilantly with Jenkins, Chocolate followed their example and looked around.
"There are so-called 'aboriginals' inside the hospital, that is to say, the weird thing [Biggs Hospital] not only includes the building space, but also the people who belong to it. The understanding will be more in-depth. They believe that Biggs Hospital did not come to the material world with the strange situation, but was born in the material world. Those people in the hospital are probably the reason why Biggs Hospital was born.
There are 7 entities believed to be real within the hospital, all of whom are inside the main hospital building. Based on the exploration of the church over the years, that is, using death row prisoners to try to enter the hospital for observation, and some methods that are inconvenient to tell you, we have summed up the laws of the seven people in the time cycle, and thus found the early exile [Biggs Hospital]]The way. "
"Let me guess, among the seven people, should someone be holding a ceremony?"
Jenkins interrupted, and Dad nodded, his brow creased to make the lines more pronounced:
"It is because there are too many people who don't fear the mystery that the world is getting worse and worse. The main building of Biggs Hospital has four floors, and the basement and the roof can be counted as six floors. If you start with a time loop Count the number of people at that second, among the six floors, there are two people in the basement, two on the first floor, one on the second floor, one on the fourth floor, and one on the rooftop. Which floor do you want to get to know first?"
"Start from above."
Jenkins thought for a moment and said.
"The longest cycle observed by the church so far lasted 11 minutes and 53 seconds. During this time, there was only one barefoot man wearing a gray sweater and black pants on the hospital roof. He would be in the first 8 minutes and 12 seconds, Keep wandering around the edge of the roof, take out the paper and pen in the pants pocket at 8 minutes and 13 seconds, and write on the railing, which will last until 10 minutes and 23 seconds. Put the paper on the ground at 10 minutes and 24 seconds, press it with a pen , jumped from the rooftop in 29 seconds."
The old man used his hand to draw a figure of falling, and under the firelight, the shadow of his hand drew a strange shape on the ground. Jenkins sat beside his father with his legs crossed, and nodded:
"Is he dead? Isn't there a story about him in the remaining 1 minute and 24 seconds?"
"No, he will turn into an evil spirit at 10 minutes and 57 seconds, and kill other people in the time loop."
Jenkins showed a surprised expression, then raised his hand to greet Mr. Fred, the demigod of the Church of the Sea, who walked by the bonfire in front of the two.
After the people from the Ocean Church who had just arrived left, the old man continued:
"The person on the roof can't be identified, but the young lady on the fourth floor is wearing a typical nurse's uniform. I think no matter what era it is, it should be a nurse in a hospital. She is at the beginning of the cycle, holding a tray Appeared at the stairway in the middle of the fourth floor, then turned right and entered the third room. The church failed to observe what happened in the room, but only knew that there was a woman's scream at about 10 minutes and 30 seconds, and then four There is no sound or anything happening upstairs."
"Can't you see the inside of the room from the outside of the hospital?"
"All the rooms have their curtains drawn."
"Why? What hospital still has such rules?"
Jenkins asked in surprise.
"Judging from the equipment and drugs found inside, this is a nursing home, or ... a psychiatric hospital."
Jenkins nodded knowingly, and continued listening to the story with his cat.
"The one on the second floor is a little boy. The clothes are probably the same as those of ordinary patients. The recognition is due to his bald head."
Jenkins stroked his hair.
"At the beginning of the cycle, he would sit on a chair made of iron pipes in the corridor, lower his head and remain still. This action lasted until about 9 minutes and 21 seconds. At 10 minutes and 01 seconds, he looked up with a frightened expression. At 10 minutes 28 seconds ago, he would try to run from the second floor to the first floor, and died in the lobby of the main building of the hospital on the first floor at 10 minutes and 28 seconds."
"How did you die?"
Jenkins asked.
"Because there is not much time before the end of the longest cycle, the church cannot obtain the autopsy report. Judging from the appearance of the corpse, it looks like it was frightened to death."
said Pa, poking the fire with the long log he had at hand to make the flames stronger. The chill is seeping out from the white mist. Although the temperature here has not dropped below zero, the chill that penetrates deep into the bone marrow is really uncomfortable.
"The two people on the first floor are all women, one looks about 20 years old, and the other looks about 40 years old. The old man should be a doctor. There is an iron breastplate on her chest, which is fixed on the clothes with a magnet. The above The writing is not a modern common writing, just like the huge name signboard outside the hospital, it belongs to the writing commonly used in the human world in the 15th century, from which the church judged the formation time of this hospital.
The two ladies were sitting around a small round table in the resting place in the corner of the hall on the first floor, holding teacups and talking. The content of the conversation was about the illness of the young lady's mother who lived in the hospital. At 10 minutes and 05 seconds, they looked up at the stairs because they heard the footsteps of the boy running in the corridor upstairs; at 10 minutes and 20 seconds, they saw the boy appearing on the stairs; at 10 minutes and 28 seconds, they witnessed the boy's death, Then got up to check... Guess what happened after that? "
The old man asked his apprentice, Jenkins thought for a while:
"Frightened by the dead body, then screaming, continuing until the end of the longest cycle observed by the Church?"
"According to common sense, this should be the case, but in fact, after the two people saw the corpse, the doctor turned into a ghoul on the spot to bite the corpse, and the young woman tried to rush out of the hospital and passed the corpse in the courtyard at 10 minutes and 55 seconds. Next to him, he was killed by the revived evil spirit behind him two seconds later."
Jenkins was shocked by the result, but couldn't help admiring:
"If this is the plot of a novel, it would be really wonderful, and it is really interlocking. Now there are two people left, I think, the basement should be the source of all this, right?"
"Yes, but the basement is inaccessible. Old Jack and I tried to break into the basement when we were trapped in it, but the door wouldn't open. We didn't know that within 10 minutes of the cycle starting, the basement was happening what.
I only know that at exactly 10 minutes, from the door outside the basement stairs, screams of panic and swearing can be heard from inside. At 10 minutes and 20 seconds, the basement door was slammed on the inside; at 31 seconds, two men opened the door to the basement from the inside; at 38 seconds, they entered the hall on the first floor, met the dead boy and the ghoul, shouted 'run away, we Miscalculated the time'; 40 seconds, because the ghoul was disturbed, an encounter occurred, but the man with yellow hair threw a test tube to drive the ghoul back; 11 minutes and 03 seconds, the two opened the front door of the building, Met the ghast who had just killed another woman and died instantly. "
The encounters of the seven people in a short period of time were all sorted out. Jenkins thought for a while:
"It seems that all the accidents happened after 10 minutes. After 10 minutes, the man who fell in the courtyard turned into an evil spirit, the room on the fourth floor screamed, the boy on the second floor ran away in terror, and the doctor on the first floor turned into a ghost. Ghouls, the two men in the basement found out at exactly 10 minutes that the ceremony had gone terribly wrong... only the young woman on the first floor who escaped to the outside was not suspicious, she was dead but overall normal...but also Maybe it just didn't have time to change, and was killed by the evil spirit."
"The summary is in place, so we all believe that it is the basement that caused the hospital and the seven people inside to become a strange thing. The doubt is that there must have been more than seven people in the hospital at that time, but they were the only ones who were kept forever. Come down, there must be a reason."
The old man nodded, saw Miss Bevanna flying from a distance, said something to the old cemetery keeper of the Church of Death, and followed a group of people holding books into the largest tent in the center of the camp . From the outside, the shadows of people in that tent are all around the long table, perhaps in a meeting.
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