On the morning of the fourth day, Gu Meng got up late, and Enjin sat on the chair beside the bed, almost keeping an eye on her every step.
So Gu Meng hugged the quilt and turned over. When she opened her eyes, she saw the handsome face with her chin resting on the guardrail. It seemed that she was a little bored waiting. To no avail.
Noticing that Gu Meng woke up, Enjin tilted her head, her face was rolled half a circle and she rested on the railing, her eyes sparkled and she said, "Have you slept well?"
"Hmm." Gu Meng was still not very sober, looked at him with half-closed eyes, smiled, and uttered a syllable lazily through her nasal cavity, asking him, "What time is it? Have you gone down for breakfast?"
"Not yet." Enjin sat up straight and turned her head to look at the clock on the wall. "It's nine o'clock now. I'll wait for you to go downstairs together."
The voice is as soft as ever, reminiscent of white snow particles.
"Mr. Gu, are you awake?"
The door was pushed open from the outside, and people who came came directly into the room without saying hello.
At the moment when the voice sounded, Gu Meng watched as Enjin retracted his expression and returned to his usual indifferent face, and very naturally transformed from a tail-wagging little milk dog into a serious and silent Siberian snow wolf, and the transition was seamless in a second.
Gu Meng rubbed her cheek against the pillow, her eyes slightly complicated.
If you really want to save face, you should always pay attention to your hairstyle not messed up and your character set not to collapse, and you don't know where this tons of idol baggage comes from.
I have to find an opportunity to talk to him about this issue in the future.
Holding the breakfast in one hand, Bo Ye followed Tang Zhi into the room. Seeing the two people in the room, he said calmly, "Now the cafeteria is closed at this point. I'll bring you some breakfast. You're welcome. It's just a matter of little effort."
The husband and wife next door came, Gu Meng was embarrassed to stay in bed, sat up and rubbed her eyes, pointed to the cabinet beside her: "Let's put it, I didn't mean to be polite."
After cleaning up in the bathroom, Gu Meng stepped onto the bed again, sat cross-legged, and took the omelette from Enjin.
"Did you change rooms later?" Opening the bag, Gu Meng licked the sweet sauce on her index finger and asked Bo Ye and Tang Zhi, "All rooms with purple curtains are passages between two worlds. Up to the fifth floor, there are a few rooms leading to another world, and the people in the other world... shouldn't be considered human beings, let's call those things water ghosts for now... The water ghosts in the other world can observe the player through the mirror You two may have been stared at for a long time."
"Get ready to find a new room today." When Tang Zhi thought of looking in the mirror every day, there would be a pair of hidden eyes looking at him behind the mirror, looking at himself, and he felt uncomfortable. He pursed his lips and said, "What do you say?" Another world has an exit, does it mean that you have to go through that world to leave the game?"
"It should be like this. The layout of that world is exactly the same as here. The only difference is that there are more safety passages and exits, and the design is closer to a normal hospital. Although I didn't have time to check the first floor, I guess there is a gate on the first floor. Escape Eight out of ten | Nine out of ten exits are there, but the way to open the door is still uncertain, just to be on the safe side..." Gu Meng took a bite of the egg pancake, feeling a little scalp tingling, "If you can't find any clues if you stay here, you have to Go down again."
Gu Meng knew in her heart that there was basically no possibility of going up once she went down. Yesterday, she narrowly escaped death because of her teammates' strength and her own good luck.
"What's the way to get down?" Bo Ye sat on the chair with a relaxed posture, tossing a lemon up and down in his hand, "Just get into the bathtub filled with water?"
Talking about this problem, Gu Meng hissed, feeling incredible: "I didn't get into the bathtub, why did I get dragged down?"
Bo Ye: "I see you are cute."
Gu Meng held the omelette with both hands, expressionless: "You think I'll be very comforted by saying that, don't you?"
"You can't say that you look like a bully." Bo Ye smiled sullenly, and threw the lemon back into the fruit basket.
Gu Meng snorted, continued to eat breakfast and ignored him.
Tang Zhi thought of a question: "Do ghosts from another world sweat easily? The water ghost pretending to be Gu Meng is like this. I remember that when I saw Xiao Liang yesterday, he was also sweating non-stop. Does this mean that something happened to Xiao Liang?"
"Not only Xiao Liang, but also Cai Xiaoqi!" Gu Meng nodded wildly in agreement with half a piece of sausage in her mouth, "Cai Xiaoqi was dragged into the water a day earlier than Xiao Liang!"
"It's not sweat." Enjin wiped her hands with a paper towel after breakfast, and corrected them, "It's water. I checked it last night."
"After all, it came from the water." Bo Ye nodded, and after thinking about it, he couldn't help making a guess, "Gu Meng, Xiao Liang, and Cai Xiaoqi are all nurses, and the water ghosts are looking for nurses to attack?"
Tang Zhi continued his words: "Moreover, Huang Min and Cai Xiaoqi are roommates, Zhao Hairong and Xiao Liang are roommates, and both doctors died one after another. According to this pattern, will the replaced nurse be the murderer of them?"
"It's possible..." Gu Meng frowned, lost in thought, then looked at Enjin, and asked softly, "Enjin, did that water ghost do anything to you last night? Or did you feel She plotted against you?"
"Yes." Enjin complained to Gu Meng with a serious face, "She seduced me."
"!!!"
The friends were stunned.
He heard the man say again: "She took off her clothes, she asked me if I liked her, and she still hugged me and wanted to kiss me."
other people:"… "
Enjin is an honest person, and he said what he said. Although the words are simple, the pictures he describes are very impactful.
There was a brief silence in the room.
Gu Meng swallowed the omelette with difficulty, and now she only cared about one question, her voice trembling: "Is she doing these shameless things in my face?"
After being reminded by him, Bo Ye slightly raised his face, his eyes were empty and he thought: "Mr. Gu had a passionate gay roommate scene, undressed, offered kisses, exciting... I didn't catch up."
In the next second, he grabbed the apple thrown by Gu Meng with one hand.
Tang Zhi glanced at the calm Enjin, then at Gu Meng, who was so embarrassed that smoke was coming out of his ears, and leaned on Bo Ye's shoulder and bit his ear: "There is a problem, there must be a problem."
Bo Ye turned his face to his ear and spoke with a smile, "I bet you that Enjin will enjoy it."
The two people here are still whispering, while Enjin on the other side lowered his head, sighed, and said seriously: "Last night, I endured too much."
Bo Ye suppressed a smile and said, "Yes, yes, you have endured too many temptations that you shouldn't have at your age."
"Damn..." Gu Meng was both embarrassed and ashamed. Although she was not the one who did those things, she was inexplicably concerned in her heart. She leaned back on the bedside and asked, "Did you kiss me in the end?"
Enjin: "No, I found out that she is not you."
Gu Meng felt that these words were weird, and she couldn't figure it out in a short time, so she didn't think too much, she just breathed a sigh of relief: "It's okay, otherwise my image will be completely ruined."
Thinking of the scene where she took the initiative to seduce Enjin, Gu Meng's face couldn't stop getting hot.
So shameless, really, so shameless.
Bo Ye heard the clue, raised his eyebrows in front of Enjin, and pointed out mercilessly: "What? If it was Gu Meng, you would have kissed him?"
Enjin was silent.
Gu Meng exploded, picked up the fruits in the fruit basket and threw them all at Bo Ye.
While fighting and fighting, a loudspeaker sounded from outside: "Attention, attention, doctors Cheng Jiaojiao, Tang Zhi, and Xu Jiayi are invited to come to the surgical consultation room on the second floor. The patient has entered the waiting area."
"Attention, attention, doctors Cheng Jiaojiao, Tang Zhi, and Xu Jiayi are invited to come to the surgical consultation room on the second floor. The patient has already entered the waiting area."
Gu Meng listened for a while, stopped, threw the bananas back into the basket, and couldn't help but worry: "There are only three doctors left on the shift, I don't know whose turn it will be this time."
Looking across, Bo Ye lowered his head and fiddled with Tang Zhi's hand, becoming extremely silent.
On the fourth day, the first doctor selected for consultation was Xu Jiayi.
The girl clung to the door frame and refused to go in, crying with snot and tears, very embarrassed: "I don't dare, I really don't dare! Sister Jiaojiao, can you come first? I'm afraid I won't be able to come out. Who can save you?" Help me! Don't let me go in alone!"
If the mentality collapses before the start, the result will definitely not be too good.
Cheng Jiaojiao indifferently turned her back and walked to the pillar, lowered her head and kicked the floor as if she couldn't hear her.
Since she and Xu Jiayi entered this game, they have been walking together and living in the same room, but the relationship is limited to this. In a critical moment, there is no need to risk their lives for their teammates. She can still understand this simple stake.
Hearing the miserable screams in front of him, Tang Zhi frowned, and thought about it. A girl who enters the hallucination in an emotionally unstable state will most likely not be able to come out. Letting her in is just unnecessary consumption. If it were him …
Sudden pain in his left hand, turned his face to look.
Bo Ye stared ahead indifferently, showing no emotion.
"Don't even think about it."
The man held his left hand and squeezed it so hard that the phalanges were almost dislocated.
Tang Zhi lowered his eyelashes and said nothing.
Unsurprisingly, Xu Jiayi died, and was soon dragged out by the temporary workers by her ankles, with her eyes open and her expression stiff, as if she had died suddenly.
Yu Chunjiao's cheeks were plateau red, and she smiled so hard that she couldn't see her teeth. She said "Oh" regretfully, and said, "Now there are only two doctors left, so it's no trouble. Let's come one by one."
She glanced at the file board, and then flamboyantly made an invitation gesture to the door: "Please invite Dr. Cheng into the consulting room."
Cheng Jiaojiao's complexion tightened, and the feeling of unwillingness flashed past, but she could be seen as an arrogant and independent woman, she didn't complain after being called by her name, she walked into the waiting room with her head held high and her high heels on.
It took a long time for Cheng Jiaojiao to go in, and people outside didn't see her come out for a long time.
After waiting for twenty minutes, Chen Jiahao let out a sigh of relief, excused himself and left.
Xiao Liang and Cai Xiaoqi, Bo Ye and Tang Zhi, Gu Meng and En Jin, and the remaining six people were still waiting outside.
During the process, Gu Meng looked at the male nurse and female nurse sitting side by side in front. The clothes behind the two were soaked, and the back of the neck was wet. At first glance, they thought they were sweating from the heat, but Gu Meng knew that those It's all water.
Perhaps sensing the gaze from behind, Cai Xiaoqi suddenly turned her head, and when she saw Gu Meng, she grinned palely at him.
Gu Meng was caught off guard, leaned back against the back of the chair tightly, gave her an awkward smile, and hastily looked away.
Wait, two hours passed.
Gu Meng hadn't recovered from what happened last night, she was drowsy, and fell asleep with Enjin's shoulder on the way, and when she woke up again, she heard a slight sobbing sound.
Opening her eyes and looking ahead, the door of the consulting room opened, and Cheng Jiaojiao was sitting on the chair in the first row, hunched over her face, crying, looking very painful.
Gu Meng sat up confusedly: "Come out?"
Enjin turned her numb left shoulder and gave a soft "hmm".
Gu Meng stood up and walked forward. Cai Xiaoqi was squatting in front of Cheng Jiaojiao to comfort her, with "sweat" dripping off her face.
"Sister Jiaojiao, what's wrong with you? Is there something wrong?"
Cheng Jiaojiao choked up and said: "I stayed in it for a long time... I went home, and it took almost a week before I felt something was wrong, and then I pushed my son down..."
Cai Xiaoqi patted her shoulder for fear, and said with a smile: "It's all fake, fake, don't think too much."
Gu Meng leaned against the cabinet at the front desk, looked at the woman, and expressed her understanding emotionally.
Even in the illusion, it is difficult to accept doing something that hurts a loved one, no wonder Cheng Jiaojiao feels broken.
After Cheng Jiaojiao calmed down for a while, she wiped away her tears and took out the envelope.
Cai Xiaoqi asked with interest: "Sister Jiaojiao, what is the clue this time?"
Cheng Jiaojiao ignored her, opened it on her own, took out the card inside, and looked at it for a while, her expression full of confusion.
She looked around, saw En Jin, and handed him the card: "Doctor En, what does it mean?"
Obviously, Enjin's image of a cultural person has been deeply rooted in the hearts of the people.
Enjin took the card and checked it.
This time the clue is brief—
[Nevermore!]
[Never return.]
Enjin passed the card to Bo Ye and began a textbook analysis: "Same as the previous two clues, this sentence is also taken from "The Raven", which is a sublimated line of the whole poem, revealing the literary theme of Edgar Allan Poe, death , disillusionment and mourning."
"'Never return' appears eleven times in the whole poem, and it is the only answer the crow gives to the poet. No matter how the poet asks or prays, the crow just keeps repeating 'Never return' as an answer. This black bird The image of the bird in the poem is like the messenger of the underworld, sending irreversible messages to the poet time and time again. The poet has experienced four stages of surprise, awakening, fear, and self-torture during the absurd dialogue process. Pushing forward to the philosophical thinking of the value of existence, everything that is dear to human beings is just like the crow said, once gone, it will never return."
Tang Zhi flipped through the cards and whispered to himself: "Enjin Encyclopedia..."
Bo Ye continued: "You are worth having."
Gu Meng muttered: "Enjin, you will know."
On the other side, Cheng Jiaojiao weakly put her arms around her bangs and propped her forehead: "What's the use of knowing this? This is a clue I bought with my life, and I don't know what to do. It's been four days, and I haven't even seen the exit door."
"It must be useful." Bo Ye folded his hands in his trouser pockets, and said flatly, "If it is bought with your life, then it will definitely save your life."
Cheng Jiaojiao was stuffy and didn't speak any more.
"Sister Jiaojiao, you look very bad now, I'll take you back to your room to rest." Cai Xiaoqi wiped the liquid dripping from her forehead, and said enthusiastically, "Then I'll bring you some food."
Cheng Jiaojiao straightened up, and was about to leave with her, when Bo Ye interjected: "Dr. Cheng, there is something I want to talk to you about. About the first two doctors who harmed themselves, I wonder if it's not convenient now."
Cheng Jiaojiao looked at Bo Ye, then at Cai Xiaoqi, feeling something wrong, and asked him, "Now?"
Bo Ye nodded: "Take a step to speak."
Cai Xiaoqi stood up, full of energy: "Let's go, Sister Jiaojiao, I will accompany you."
Bo Ye said indifferently: "You can't join."
"Why?" Cai Xiaoqi was surprised, and then hugged Cheng Jiaojiao's arm aggrievedly, "You don't reject newcomers, do you? What did I do wrong to target me like this?"
Bo Ye smiled, and said bluntly: "What kind of thing am I, don't you have any idea?"
Cai Xiaoqi's face froze, and when he looked at Bo Ye, a slight anger flashed in his eyes, and the transparent liquid gathered all the way to the tip of his chin.
"What? Cai Xiaoqi and Xiao Liang are not human anymore!"
In the conference room on the first floor, Cheng Jiaojiao was sitting at the long table, looking at the four people opposite in disbelief.
Gu Meng said: "Anyway, just stay away from them. We suspect that the deaths of Huang Min and Zhao Hairong are also related to them."
Cheng Jiaojiao's face was a little pale, and she said slowly: "There were twelve people on the first day, and now I don't know how many people are still alive among the players."
"These are not the key." Bo Ye tapped the table with his fingertips, and said, "Now sort out the clues."
"I got this in the dean's office yesterday afternoon." Enjin spread out a newspaper on the table and said, "Thirty-two years ago, the monthly magazine in December."
Gu Meng and Cheng Jiaojiao hadn't read the newspaper yet, so they turned their heads to look at the first page. On the yellowed newspaper, the three bold red words "Pandora" were particularly eye-catching.
Gu Meng looked at Enjin: "What are you talking about?"
"Background of the story." Enjin said slowly: "After Dean Jin was dismissed from the research institute, he came here to build a hospital."
"Dismissed?" Cheng Jiaojiao keenly grasped the key words and asked him, "Why?"
Enjin said: "Because he edited the gene of the human fertilized egg."
Bo Ye followed his words and said, "Not only that, he also put that fertilized egg into the womb, creating a baby."
"So sci-fi?"
Gu Meng was surprised. He had read similar news before, pointing out that it is feasible to "customize" babies. If the baby's gene chain is edited when it is still a fertilized egg, it can be designed according to the parents' wishes. In addition to removing corresponding family genetic diseases, it is entirely possible for humans to create a "perfect baby", but this involves serious ethical and moral issues after all, and no scientist has ever put it into practice. It is only at the stage of theoretical research.
"Dean Jin's original intention was to develop a method to fight cancer, but he destroyed the boundary between basic research and clinical research, and opened the 'Pandora's Box' of human genes without authorization. Therefore, he was condemned by many parties, and what's more..." Tang Zhizhuan I passed the newspaper and turned to a certain page. On it was a photo of a baby with a mosaic on its face, "The mother of this child is an AIDS carrier, and the father has a serious family genetic disease. Dean Jin artificially combined The eggs and sperm of the two were then edited to give birth to the baby, who was later investigated by the committee and left the institute to settle here."
Looking at the baby in the photo, Gu Meng felt uncomfortable. If the experiment fails, the baby will live in pain and suffering from birth.
"And then?" he asked. "Did the baby survive?"
Eun Jin replied: "He stayed in a special institution until he was five years old. After being checked and confirmed to be healthy and mentally similar to ordinary children, he was picked up by Dean Kim."
Gu Meng heaved a sigh of relief, then looked at the time at the head of the newspaper, and said puzzledly: "Looking at the date, it happened more than 30 years ago, and the child is also in his 30s now, he...is the son of Dean Jin ? Jin Fang's father?"
Bo Ye shook his head: "There are so many clues, the rest is all guesswork."
The room fell silent.
Bo Ye suddenly thought of what happened in the dean's office yesterday afternoon, and asked Tang Zhi, "How do you know the password to the safe in the dean's office?"
"The game provides clues, and the clues are the trophies on the display cabinet. There are six identical crystal trophies in the trophies, which correspond to the six-digit password." Tang Zhi recalled, took out a pen and placed it horizontally on the table, and circled it The axis rotates, and he said while demonstrating: "The bases of the crystal trophies are cuboids, but their deflection angles are different. Some bases are facing us, and some bases are turned 90 degrees on the side. Think of them as clocks on the dial. Two pointers, different deflection angles correspond to different numbers, the opposite of 12 o’clock is 6 o’clock, the opposite of 1 o’clock is 7 o’clock, 2 o’clock corresponds to 8 o’clock, 3 o’clock is 9 o’clock, 4 o’clock is 10 o’clock, 5 o’clock is 11 o’clock .”
"If the base is placed in the direction from 12 o'clock to 6 o'clock, the password must be 6, because 12 occupies two digits, and the same is true for 4 and 5, but if the base is placed in the direction of 1 o'clock and 7 o'clock, There are two possibilities for the password in that grid. Similarly, the crystal trophy placed in the direction of 2 o'clock and 8 o'clock, and the direction of 3 o'clock and 9 o'clock also implies two possibilities. Finally, arrange and combine them and try eight times to confirm I was lucky to be able to try out the password, and I succeeded the fourth time.”
Bo Ye kissed him on the forehead, and said with a smile: "Why is my wife so smart?"
"You guys are enough." Gu Meng couldn't see it.
Enjin supported her chest with one hand, and asked a question from a genius: "Why didn't I see that the clue was hidden in the display cabinet?"
"Forget it." Bo Ye said with a embarrassed expression, "123456... I will learn more from your sister-in-law in the future."
Cheng Jiaojiao knocked on the table, interrupted the four men on the opposite side, and said seriously: "What should we do next? Continue to wait for clues?"
Enjin took out the white card between her fingers, looked at the "Nevermore" on it, and said, "This is the last clue."
"How do you know?" Cheng Jiaojiao asked.
"This is the last word in the whole poem." Enjin said, "It's time to sublimate the theme."
At night, the rain was heavier than the previous nights, and it crackled and slapped the windowpanes, and the dense and continuous rhythm seemed to be urging something.
In the middle of the night, Tang Zhi heard two slight knocks on the door, and immediately opened his eyes.
In front of him, Bo Ye was still sleeping soundly, completely unaffected.
"Bo Ye, someone is knocking on the door." Tang Zhi called softly.
The man didn't respond.
Patted his face: "Bo Ye?"
Still no response.
At this moment, the door was knocked twice again.
Tang Zhi flinched in the darkness, blinking his clear eyes towards the door, he still refused to get up.
"Boom". "Boom".
After a while, through the window on the door, you can see that room 405 emits light.
After another meeting, the door opened.
Outside the door stood a little boy in a red hoodie, holding a sketchbook in both hands.
Tang Zhi only opened half of the door, stood behind the door a little timidly, and asked, "Is there something wrong?"
The boy stared at him with bright black eyes, without any emotion, he opened the sketchbook and faced him.
Tang Zhi glanced: "Are you sure you want me to sleep with you?"
The boy nods.
Tang Zhi hesitated for a while, opened the door and let him in.
Putting the boy on another bed and sitting down, Tang Zhi said, "You sleep on this bed, you can wake me up at any time if you have any problems at night."
Jin Fang nodded, flipped a page of the sketchbook, and lowered his head to write.
[Your face is so pretty.]
"So?" Tang Zhi glanced, suddenly changed his previous cowardly state, and said in a cold voice, "Do you want to tear it up?"
Jin Fang was taken aback, just when he felt something was wrong, the bathroom door opened, and two men walked out from inside.
"Little friend, you run around with a small notebook every night, does your family know?" Gu Meng leaned against the bathroom door, looking at Jin Fang who was sitting by the bed with her feet not touching the ground.
Enjin stood beside Gu Meng silently, with no superfluous expression on her face.
Jin Fang tucked his chin slightly, his big black eyes swept over the faces of the three men, full of defense, he sat on the bed and rubbed forward, trying to jump off the ground, but was held down by Tang Zhi.
"It's already here, don't rush away." Bo Ye, who was clearly asleep, sat up, smiled at him, took out a syringe from somewhere and flicked it on the opposite bed, "Your assistant is not neat enough. "
Jin Fang pursed his lips, looked at the four men who were gradually surrounding him, with an aggrieved expression, like a primary school student surrounded by a few senior students.
He bowed his head to write on the notebook.
[Uncle, what do you want to do to me?]
Gu Meng: "..."
It's a strange feeling to be called an uncle at the age of an older brother.
Looking at the other three people, Gu Meng knelt down to face Jin Fang after receiving the signal from his eyes, and said, "I want to ask you something, when will your family come to pick you up?"
Jin Fang shook his head, expressing that he did not know.
Gu Meng: "Can you tell me about your father? What's his name?"
Jin Fang opened his round and big black eyes, thought for a while, and shook his head.
After learning about the situation, Gu Meng stood up, looked down at him, and asked the last question: "Jin Fang, can you reveal your real age?"
Jin Fang tilted his head in confusion. Although he couldn't speak and looked autistic, he seemed very cute at the moment.
Holding a pencil, he drew two bends in his sketchbook.
[8]
"Isn't it better to be real?" Bo Ye was too lazy to talk nonsense, lowered his head and pinched his fingers, and said, "Let me do the math, brother, you should be thirty-two years old this year, right?"
Jin Fang looked at him with big eyes, looking weak and innocent, and he didn't respond for a long time.
Just when the men wondered if they had guessed the wrong direction, the little boy sitting on the bed bent his eyes and grinned, revealing the terrifying teeth in his mouth.
Sharp, mature, brown and black in color, they are definitely not the teeth of an eight-year-old child.
Jin Fang spoke, his hoarse voice seemed to leak out: "Oh, I got caught."
The little boy with milky white skin and cute eyes is showing a mouthful of uncoordinated adult teeth, his voice is hoarse and unpleasant, his painting style is extremely inconsistent, and there is even a hint of terror.
With a reluctant face, Gu Meng discussed with him: "Brother, why don't you keep your mouth shut and write to communicate."
Jin Fang put away his smile in an instant: "..."
After a while, Bai Nen's little hand raised a middle finger towards Gu Meng.
Others: "... ok."
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