The smile on Wen Shi's face was colder than the night. He took out his cell phone and called Tu Bianxi, who actually picked up the call.
The signal is not good, and the buzzing sound of the current makes the sound seem intermittent—
"Pei Wenwei, you are plotting against me... Even if I become a ghost, I will never..."
When Wen Shi was forced to hand over his work badge in the workshop, his acting was superb, completely diverting Tu Bianxi's attention to the shuttle bus.
Wen Shi had heard this sentence too many times. He stopped and looked up, turned on the speakerphone to amplify the volume, and asked his teammates:
"Did you hear that?"
It is the dull sound of flesh being pierced that is rarely heard in real life but is quite familiar to players.
The shrill screams were amplified infinitely by the speakerphone, and from the sound it seemed that a baby-faced girl in Tu Bianxi's team had met with misfortune.
Wen Shi squinted his eyes in enjoyment and asked in a light tone: "Tu Bianxi, why haven't you died yet?"
After a few seconds, he smiled and said, "You will die."
The game has carefully designed so many night shift segments, allowing players to obtain work cards during difficult patrols, which must be to guide them to a perfect dead end.
That kind of certainty not only reached the other end of the phone, but also turned into an invisible pressure that enveloped the people around him. Zhou Xiaochun, a member of the same team and the closest to Wen Shi, felt a chill in his heart. He had the support of a large guild, so he should go back and sort out the other party's information and hand it over to the guild, but now he began to hesitate. From Tu Bianxi's words, it was not difficult to hear that the other party's fall to this situation was inseparable from Pei Wenwei.
The question is whether or not he should risk offending Pei Wenwei and provide information to the guild.
In any case, Zhou Xiaochun no longer dared to look at Wen Shi as a newcomer, which was also the deterrent effect the latter wanted.
Communication was interrupted.
Wen Shi listened to the urgent busy tone, sneered and put the phone away again.
This phone call made everyone wary. After Wen Shi hung up the phone, he walked straight to the cafeteria.
When he passed in front of Liu Yuan, Liu Yuan was afraid, but couldn't help but glance at his ears. Apart from anything else, they looked really... soft.
canteen.
Lu Tang lay listlessly on the bench, never expecting that one day he would take the initiative to steal meat from the cafeteria to eat.
Without a chef, he could only cook it and swallow it. He was almost driven away by the fishy smell while chewing. After finally coming to his senses, he saw his teammates coming in.
Ji Yuanzhi briefly recounted what had just happened and asked, "Do you want to go to the sanatorium with us, or wait here?"
Lu Tang's attention was entirely on Wen Shi's wagging tail, so he was less surprised when he heard that the sanatorium was under the dormitory building.
Knowing that he couldn't get away without an explanation, Wen Shi didn't want to be constantly speculated about the reasons for his physical changes, so he just said, "It's the additional effect of a certain item, and it will disappear soon."
There was no way to find out whether it was true or not, Lu Tang got up and said: "I will go with you."
The radio outside keeps emphasizing tomorrow's air pollution index. Maybe it would be better to hide underground.
Wen Shi was not surprised by his choice. The air pollution was so serious that even the zombies were disturbed. Worried that the zombies' sanity would be affected, Wen Shi even took him back early.
The riot has stopped and it is quiet inside and outside the dormitory building.
As everyone held their breath and went up the stairs, the broadcast suddenly sounded again, startling everyone.
"The latest news is that Jian Qingrong, the suspect who murdered the factory director, has been arrested and will soon be taken to a sanatorium for a pollution inspection."
This name appeared on the radio more than once, and Liu Yuan couldn't help asking: "Does he like you?"
Although Wen Shi has a cat-like body that is best at balance, he accidentally slipped after hearing this.
Liu Yuan: "Otherwise, there is no reason for me to cooperate with you to kill the factory director."
Wen Shi stopped and said seriously, "You should have seen Jian Qingrong's photo on the bulletin board. If you meet this person in the sanatorium, be careful."
The overly serious tone made Liu Yuan, who was half-joking, take it seriously and realize that this matter might not be simple.
Perhaps because the new employees were on night shift tonight, the dormitory building had rarely been visited by monsters, and a piece of the mottled and rough wall would fall off from time to time, inexplicably increasing people's psychological burden.
The dormitory building uses voice-controlled lights, but no one dares to make too much noise. In the dead silence, the sound of typing on mobile phones is particularly crisp.
The light from the phone screen shone on Wen Shi's face, which looked a little scary at first glance.
Seeing that he was typing all the time and didn't try to cover himself up, his teammates subconsciously moved closer and took a few glances at him.
[Don't give up! Don't give up even if you are in a desperate situation! I have gone through all kinds of dangers and dangers, and now I am here to save you (Come on.jpg). ]
After editing, select a group of contacts and press group send.
Ji Yuanzhi had a hunch since the subject was not added, but when he actually saw the group message operation, he couldn't help but adjust the frame. Wen Shi raised his eyes and happened to meet his eyes. He said, "It's sent to the residents on my fourth floor."
Everyone: Damn, the living Aquaman!
Facing a crowd of complicated gazes, Wen Shi remained calm.
They have to go to the sanatorium anyway, so if I can save them, I will try to save them and gain some goodwill, letting them know that I am a dedicated and responsible dormitory manager.
Half a minute passed, and Wen Shi frowned before receiving any notification that Jian Qingrong's favorability had increased.
Jian Qingrong had never received kindness from others, so every time he gave, no matter what his purpose was, he could gain the other party's favor.
But this time there was no reaction at all, and he was clearly going to bravely go into the sanatorium.
“… saturated.”
It seems that I should find a way to make up for the last bit of favorability and let the butterfly's little wings flap again.
There were no residents on the fourth floor, even the original dorm tube was gone, and the ground was a mess. Wen Shi asked his teammates to wait there, and he ran to 401 to check around. The drawers were empty, and Jian Qingrong's diaries were nowhere to be found.
"Let's go." After coming back, he continued to go up the stairs with some regret.
On the fifth floor, the dormitory manager was nervously staying in the duty room. When he heard the footsteps, his hair stood on end. The previous movement downstairs gave him a strong sense of crisis. The residents on the fourth floor were taken away. Would it be their turn next? As the footsteps gradually approached, he carefully poked half of his head out of the duty room, and a group of unfamiliar faces were reflected in his pupils.
"New employees?"
The head of the dormitory on the fifth floor breathed a sigh of relief, picked up the electric baton and was about to attack: "Who allowed you to come up here?!"
"Huh?" Facing the brutality, Wen Shi tilted his head slightly.
The fifth-floor dormitory manager held his arm high in the air and stared at him for a few seconds. He didn't look at the cat ears, thinking they were just some kind of hairpin. He quickly took out a portrait from his pocket and opened it: "Is it you, Brother Backer?"
Wen Shi, who was ready to resist, twitched his mouth. What kind of name is this
The dormitory manager only said four words: "Your brother was here."
I had come, I had fought, I had left a portrait. I grabbed his hair so that I could see the person in the portrait clearly and not cause any trouble to him.
Wen Shi kept a safe distance and asked, "I want to go to the top floor, what should I pay attention to?"
Dormitory Manager: "That depends on which floor your brother reached."
"..." The boy said that the dormitory manager on the seventh floor was afraid of him and locked the door. He also took the initiative to inform new employees about the night shift. From this point of view, going to the seventh floor should not be a problem.
The dormitory manager wanted to send this plague god away from the fifth floor as soon as possible, so he gave a suggestion: "Since you have decided to go up, don't give up halfway."
Wen Shi thought thoughtfully: "Thank you."
Seeing his figure disappear around the corner, the dormitory manager finally felt relieved.
Zhou Xiaochun: "Isn't it a bit too hasty to rush forward knowing only one rule of death?"
Don't give up halfway is probably advising them not to look back.
Wen Shi: “The risks are controllable.”
Zhou Xiaochun glanced at Ji Yuanzhi, but unexpectedly, the latter agreed with Wen Shi: "The truly dense rules of death are not here."
The dormitory building was mysterious and scary because of the sanatorium below. The rules in the building seemed fine at the moment, for example, they looked back more than once on the first night, and this rule should only apply when they went to a floor they shouldn't have been to.
Most of the residents on the sixth floor have returned, and all doors are tightly closed, and no one will stop them. The only problem is that there is an iron door blocking the way from the sixth floor to the seventh floor.
Wen Shi tapped the iron door with his fingers, and threatened: "Either you open the door and let me go to the eighth floor, or I will ask my brother to come back and talk to you."
The sound was very faint, but he believed that the dormitory manager on the seventh floor could definitely hear it.
About two minutes later, a tall and thin figure walked out of the semi-darkness and slowly opened the iron gate under Wen Shi's gaze.
The seventh-floor dormitory manager said in a hoarse voice, "Many staff members of the sanatorium will be escorting tonight. This is the best time to get there."
Compared with the dormitory manager on the fifth floor, he gave people a more gloomy feeling, but his attitude seemed very humble. Facing the group led by Wen Shi, he always had a flattering smile on his face.
The group of people continued to go upstairs.
At the back, the seventh-floor dormitory manager suddenly called out to them, "Wait, take this electric baton with you."
Zhou Xiaochun subconsciously turned around to get it, but Ji Yuanzhi grabbed his collar and said with a cold and frightening look: "Didn't you hear the dormitory manager in front say, don't look back?"
The moment Zhou Xiaochun was pulled over, he almost stepped on empty air, but fortunately Wen Shi stretched out his long tail in time to hold his waist.
Zhou Xiaochun's heart was beating wildly, and it took him a long while to utter one sentence: "It's all a trap."
I had been deceived by the dormitory manager's false appearance of obedience, and had relaxed my vigilance a little.
Seeing that he had failed, the dormitory manager on the seventh floor returned to the duty room dejectedly. The shadow on the side wall was stretched even longer by the light.
Zhou Xiaochun closed his eyes and said, "The dormitory manager on the fifth floor should be more humane."
Wen Shi nodded. The residents on the upper floors were almost no different from ghosts. In terms of reality, the residents on the fourth and fifth floors at least looked like human beings.
After what happened just now, everyone became more careful.
However, the seventh-floor dormitory manager had made a very accurate prediction. Many of the sanatorium staff were working the night shift, so there was no better opportunity than tonight. The eighth floor was different from the lower floors. There was no duty room, and there was not even a window on the entire floor. This indirectly confirmed Wen Shi's judgment that the sanatorium staff dealt with monsters every day and did not need any dormitory manager to protect them.
The walls were swollen and every crack was permeated with the smell of disinfectant, and when you breathe it into your lungs, you can smell a faint stench. There were a lot of discarded disposable gloves in the trash can in the corner, and when you shine a flashlight over there, you can clearly see the sticky flesh stuck between the fingers of the gloves.
Walking a little further, Wen Shi finally saw the environment of the eighth floor as a whole.
The distance between dormitories was not fixed. Some were very close together, while some could easily have two more rooms in between. After looking around, I did not find any stairs leading to the ninth floor.
Wen Shi's sight lingered beside the fire hydrant. The dimly lit panel displayed the time and temperature. There was a similar smart panel in a workshop. At this moment, the small light at the top of the smart panel was flashing more and more frequently. Wen Shi almost immediately whispered, "Retreat!"
A red light shone, covering the area where Wen Shi and others were. A water pipe popped out from under the smart panel, and corrosive liquid sprayed out.
"Oh my god!" Zhou Xiaochun ran as fast as a rabbit, looking at the uneven ground in an instant, he was scared. If he was a little slower, his skin would probably become a true reflection of the ground.
The red light covered the uninvited guests for the second time, and the alarm began to sound wildly. The buzzing sound made people jump in the silent corridor.
Several dormitory doors were opened one after another. Even at night, the sanatorium staff did not change out of their protective clothing.
Everyone retreated to the corner.
Ji Yuanzhi: “It’s troublesome.”
"How about we retreat first?" Lu Tang hadn't recovered yet and spoke weakly, "Retreat to the seventh floor to discuss countermeasures."
Crash—
There was the sound of an iron door being closed from below.
The dormitory manager on the seventh floor locked the passage between the two floors.
"… "
In a dilemma, Wen Shi heard the footsteps approaching from afar and asked very quickly, "Do you have any invisible props?"
Lu Tang: "Yes. But the maximum validity of this item is no more than two minutes, and there is a cool-down period after each use."
If the nursing home staff stayed a little longer, they would have discovered them sooner or later.
"Use it!" Wen Shi said firmly.
Lu Tang: "But..."
Ji Yuanzhi suddenly said, "Try to delay for thirty seconds. I'll try to find the entrance."
Lu Tang's gaze suddenly froze, not because of Ji Yuanzhi's words, but because of something he saw. He opened his mouth in surprise.
Everyone followed his gaze and looked at the direction, with different expressions on their faces.
Wen Shi had taken out his bloodstained white coat from his backpack and put it on. He wore his retro monocles and returned to his appearance as Dr. Aaron. "You two hide for a while."
Liu Yuan, who was nearby, hesitated to speak: "Doctor...?"
The white coat representing saving lives and healing the wounded looked a little more serious than usual on Wen Shi. The coat fit him well, but the bloodstains on it made him look cold and out of place.
Ji Yuanzhi commented: "Cat doctors are a rare species."
Unexpectedly, he also had a sharp tongue. Wen Shi's eyelids twitched and his ears trembled sensitively. In fact, the time for this skill had already expired, but the transformation of the body required a process. The ears and tail transitioned from solid to illusory before disappearing completely.
It is estimated that it will be almost done in one or two minutes at most.
Ji Yuanzhi asked the main point: "Do you want to join them?"
There is no doubt that they are referring to the nursing home staff.
Just changing the attire is a bit too trifling... Before he could finish his words, Ji Yuanzhi's eyes narrowed. He saw the work badge hanging on the other person's chest. He was really a doctor.
This thing cannot be a temporary forgery, and the game store will not sell it, which means it is very likely to be real.
Wen Shi said proudly, adjusting his monocle: "Call me Doctor Aaron."
After saying that, he took the initiative to step forward.
While Lu Tang was putting on the invisibility item, he asked with difficulty: "How many vests does he have?"
Aren’t we all new employees? Why are some people both dormitory managers and doctors
No one could answer this question. Others were more concerned about whether this identity could play a role. After all, even if one really got a work card from other copies, it was not hard currency and could not be used anywhere.
The staff of the sanatorium walked slowly, with a relaxed attitude as if they had caught a turtle in a jar. Four people in total went out, and the two in the middle were holding a pair of rusty long pliers.
"The lab just happens to be short of mice."
“It’s just mine.”
The two people at the edge were indifferent and listened to their quarrel quietly.
The two sides met at the stairs.
In the eyes of the staff of the sanatorium, Wen Shi's strange ears and tails were like air, which did not cause any waves for them. They were concerned about another point: "Golden ratio, suitable for anatomy."
The staff on both sides also showed interest, and licked their lips with their lizard-like forked tongues: "After the dissection, we can make a specimen. No, I want this one."
The invisibility item only lasts a limited time, and Wen Shi still has to take care of his teammates, so he doesn't have time to listen to their nonsense. He took the initiative to extend his hand: "I'm Aaron."
The four nursing home employees were all stunned by this bizarre behavior of asking for a handshake.
"Frank Hospital sent me here to inspect the work."
Wen Shixia's words directly caused the expressions of the nursing home staff to change. They put away the murderous intent in their eyes and looked at each other.
The sanatorium is closely related to Frank Hospital. There is a capital 'F' tattooed on the protective clothing worn by these employees. Judging from their expressions at this moment, they must know Frank Hospital.
The work card is not very persuasive.
The staff still had doubts. Just as Wen Shi was considering whether to take out the thank-you letter from the patient, one of them suddenly snorted coldly: "Wait here, I'll check it online."
Wen Shi's heart tightened slightly. He didn't expect that he could actually connect to the Internet.
The two copies were from different eras, so who knows if there will be any records about me. If there are, it would be quite scary, because it is from a doctor from several centuries ago.
At the bottom of the stairs, several teammates could already sense a hint of nervousness from Wen Shi's tense back.
Ji Yuanzhi nudged the people around him with his elbow, signaling everyone to prepare for a fight. Once the secret was exposed, they would implement the stranded plan and delay the sanatorium staff to find the entrance.
There was a sound of hurried footsteps in the corridor.
The employee who had left came back very quickly, and this time he took the initiative to shake hands with Wen Shi: "Welcome, Doctor Aaron."
Colleagues who had already figured out how to make the specimen felt incredible. Was this really someone sent by their superiors
"The name and photo match." The employee said, "Dr. Aaron is excellent and has experience in providing psychological counseling to high-ranking nobles."
Wen Shi glanced at his phone calmly and found that a minute had passed.
"Originally I was just secretly inspecting, but the situation has obviously gotten much worse recently. Take me to the sanatorium first, and I will discuss the rest with your dean in detail."
When they heard him mention the dean, the four employees trembled at the same time, as if they were very afraid of this dean Jin.
One of them hid his strange expression, walked to the smart panel and entered a string of numbers, and the door of the third dormitory opened automatically. Before Wen Shi could be surprised, he saw that there was another door inside, which was equipped with a smart door lock, and the employee entered a different string of numbers.
The employee carefully covered his face with his other hand the whole time. Fortunately, Wen Shi was accompanied by a disembodied security guard ghost who quietly told him the password he had obtained through eavesdropping.
Wen Shi put his hands behind his back and sent a coded message using the mobile phone hidden in his sleeves.
With ten seconds left before two minutes, he followed the nursing home staff into the dormitory.
The troublesome cat ears and tail finally disappeared completely, and Wen Shi vowed not to use this skill easily again in the short term.
Inside the dormitory was a winding staircase with eighteen steps. The end of the stairs was pitch black, like an abyss.
The staff of the sanatorium gave Wen Shi a head-mounted light. Wen Shi looked down and gasped even though he was not afraid of heights.
After the eighteen steps there is an elevator shaft, with no transition in the middle. If you are not careful you will step on empty air and fall into a pulp.
Wen Shi leaned against the side wall and looked down. There was no elevator car in the elevator shaft. There were several hanging steel ropes dangling. About half a meter below, there was a ladder for climbing.
“Why not install an elevator?”
The staff at the sanatorium gave a strange smile and said, "You'll know when you go down and take a look."
Wen was trying to prevent himself from being pushed from behind at all times, but the staff didn't seem to have that intention and took the initiative to come forward to show him how to climb.
"Come on." The employee called him enthusiastically.
It is impossible for ordinary people to climb all the way down without some skills and physical strength.
Wen Shi also had no confidence that he could successfully climb to the dark bottom of the abyss.
“…” Are you kidding him
Wen Shi, who had just vowed not to use any skills, had no choice but to spend another 300 points to renew his subscription for half an hour with one click.
During the process of going down, the wind was very strong, and the ladder occasionally made a creaking sound when stepped on, just like a shoddy construction. Wen Shi did not dare to relax for a moment. His attention was not only on the ladder under his feet, but also on the inner walls around him, which were engraved with various strange patterns. Some of the characters were unheard of, and seemed ancient and mysterious. Looking at them for a long time would make you dizzy.
The staff of the sanatorium said: "The reason why we don't install elevators is to prevent monsters from coming up directly."
Wen Shi asked, "Are these runes used to ward off evil spirits?"
"Yes, it existed when the old dean was still here."
In the open environment, they could hear an echo for every word they spoke.
The elevator shaft was dark and damp, with water dripping from above, slowly seeping into the scalp through the hair, irritating the tip of Wen Shi's nose and causing it to wrinkle.
He realized the benefits of his physical transformation. At least when it came to climbing, he had a natural advantage. When it was warm, he could climb more smoothly than the staff at the sanatorium.
Under the incredulous looks of the four people, he simply distanced himself a long way.
"Fuck." Although it was Wen Shi who had the characteristics of a cat, the staff at the sanatorium all had eyes as big as copper bells.
When he finally crawled underground, Wen Shi's clothes were all wet. Sweat beads rolled down from his forehead and flowed through the wounds that had just healed in his clothes, making him itchy and painful.
"This crappy class..." It's not for human beings at all.
Wen Shi kept gasping for breath, and the employee who came down next pressed the button next to the ladder, and a whole new world suddenly appeared in front of Wen Shi.
The sanatorium is also divided into many floors, and employees in protective clothing walk back and forth. There is a complete air purification system here. Since entering this copy, Wen Shi has not smelled such fresh air for a long time.
Before he had time to observe more, he saw some familiar figures and couldn't help but raise his eyebrows. Not far ahead were all the residents of his floor.
These people had their hands tied tightly with restraints and kept shouting that they were not contaminated.
"It just so happens that we are short of manpower. You can take them to have blood drawn."
When they found someone coming down, the person in charge of escorting them at the front ignored the despair of the residents and gave orders coldly.
The escort suddenly frowned and stared at Wen Shi with an unfriendly look: "Who is he?"
The employee went over and explained a few words.
Wen Shi was waiting there. The residents on the fourth floor who had taken the bus through the secret passage were secretly transferred here. This shows that there are other secret passages outside leading to the sanatorium.
When the residents on the fourth floor saw Wen Shi, they all had expressions of fear and astonishment that they could not conceal.
When they were in the car, their hands were not tied yet, and they had read the text messages sent by each other, but there were not many messages at that time.
There will be no one to save me.
They are dead.
In the deep despair, no one expected that the dormitory manager would actually come. In order to save them, the dormitory manager risked his life!
Some people couldn't control themselves, tears flashed in their eyes: "Su..."
"Shh." The cat doctor put his white index finger to his lips and signaled them to be quiet with a soothing smile.
[I am here.]
Say it with your mouth when it's warm.
"Reminder: The residents of Room 404, Li Nantian and Sun Cheng, have a 100% favorable impression of you."
"Reminder: Zhao Ze from Resident 406 has a 100% favorable impression of you."
"Reminder, Resident 408..."
Listening to the system's uninterrupted broadcast, Wen Shi's smile remained unchanged. That's right, who can refuse a selfless life-saving straw when in despair
These residents won’t, and neither will Jian Qingrong.
(End of this chapter)