The last few people still carried enough blood of various components. Anyway, the backpack can hold a lot, and the four of them left when they were full.
"I think it's better to be fresh." Dr. Lu murmured softly.
"Don't even think about it!" Qi Leren gave him a sideways look, insisting that he would not be the unlucky ghost who bleeds blood.
"It's better to test the effect of plasma, see the white shadow over there, right? We can try it." Su He pointed to the circular corridor ahead and said calmly.
The three of them raised their heads in response, and the back-shaped corridor structure allowed them to clearly see the white shadows that flashed across the corridor on the opposite side. Not only there, but in all shadows, there were faintly things that were just about to move. Mixed with shadows, lurking in the darkness, peeping at them like nothing, cold and sneaky.
Did you know that there were already so many
Qi Leren felt a chill behind him, resisting the urge to look behind him.
After walking around the corridor for half a circle, he could just see the electronic board in the hall on the first floor. Qi Leren suddenly stopped and looked at the numbers on it in astonishment: "Wait, look at the time."
Dr. Lu took out his mobile phone in response. Although there was no signal, it could still display the time: "Six thirty, what's the matter?"
Qi Leren was solemnly silent, and Su He stood beside him and looked at the electronic board together:
—Welcome to X City People’s Hospital
— Time: 04:13
"Is the timing wrong?" Xue Yingying asked.
"Impossible, in horror movies there is never a wrong time for no reason, only clues and..." Death Flag. Dr. Lu didn't say the last few words, but Qi Leren still understood what he meant.
"Maybe something special will happen at 4:13." Su He said softly.
The four stood here for a long time without changing, as if the time on the electronic board was firmly locked at this moment.
"Four thirteen..." Qi Leren murmured the time, and countless thoughts came up at a time. What exactly does this time mean
Several people thought hard, but there were no more clues. Xue Yingying, who was on the side, suddenly took a breath, tugged at Su He's arm nervously, and pointed to the hall on the first floor for him to see. Qi Leren also looked down, and his heart suddenly tightened.
A figure covered in blood was carrying a chainsaw and was walking across the hall towards the opposite corridor.
Su He waved them back, although from an angle, unless the murderer on the first floor suddenly turned his head and looked up, he would not have noticed the four people standing in the upstairs corridor, but for safety's sake, the most Better to avoid it.
The four then backed away, all the way to the corridor to make sure they wouldn't be discovered.
There is a tank of goldfish on the service desk by the corridor, swimming comfortably among the aquatic plants, as if unaware of the hidden dangers around.
Xue Yingying took two more glances, and the few goldfish that kept rising and sinking suddenly jumped out of the water and let out a strange scream! That is definitely not the sound that a goldfish can make. It is like the squeaking sound of someone scratching a blackboard with a fingernail, but it is sharper than that sound!
The goldfish jumped out of the water one after another and bounced hard on the ground. One of them hit Xue Yingying's calf, which was only wearing stockings. She stepped back suddenly, her face turned blue, and hit the wall, biting her lip and slapping nervously. holding his calf.
The goldfish that hit her had been kicked to the side, jumping on the ground twice before dying.
"What's wrong?" Su He asked.
"It's very icy..." Xue Yingying said two words with trembling lips, looking at the four dead goldfish on the ground with fear.
"Fish are cold-blooded animals, and they think ice is normal." Dr. Lu looked suspiciously at the direction they came from, "We'd better go farther, it's too quiet here, maybe he heard."
This worry is justified. In this silent hospital, the screams of the goldfish just now seemed too harsh, and that person would probably come here to check the situation. As soon as the four of them combined, they immediately left this dangerous area.
The two outpatient buildings are huge in size. If it wasn't for bad luck, it would not be easy to encounter a murderer. With the guidance of Dr. Lu, a guide who was familiar with the environment, the four of them successfully bypassed several dangerous places. , But in this hospital full of resentful spirits, the feeling of being watched all the time is still nerve-wracking.
"Here... Wait a minute." Qi Leren suddenly stopped a few people.
Although the structure of the building is very similar, due to his professional sensitivity, he is better at identifying the environment inside the building. The place in front of him is very familiar and unforgettable.
Qi Leren looked at the office door that creaked when pushed open, and said in a low voice, "There should be a corpse nearby."
"Hey, you mean..." Dr. Lu realized that this should be what Qi Leren said, the second time he avoided the murderer.
The murderer was about to open the closet he was hiding in, but was attracted by nearby screams, which made him lucky to escape.
But the person who screamed at that time may have suffered misfortune.
The four of them searched for a while, and soon found the appalling corpse nearby. It was a young girl, wearing a white dress, the blood on it had turned dark brown, and the most penetrating thing was her head. It was almost completely separated from the neck, and only a thin layer of flesh was left. The limbs were also completely dismembered and discarded at will, leaving only a solitary torso lying on the ground, completely alone.
On her cheeks, there were also scars cut with a sharp object—the number four.
The smell of blood was too pungent, and the four of them were more or less nauseated. Doctor Lu covered his nose and examined the corpse, shook his head, and did not speak.
The four of them found a secluded place to rest for a while with heavy hearts, and exchanged information about the current situation.
The number of nearby ghosts has increased significantly compared to before dark, but they do not seem to be actively attacking. Just now, in order to test the effect of plasma, Su He and Qi Leren attacked the ghosts one by one. The measured effect of plasma is worse than that of concentrated red blood cells. But compared to Xue Yingying's sanitary napkin that could directly make Li Gui scream, the effect was not as good.
So everyone guessed that fresh blood should be more effective.
Dr. Lu was very concerned about the time at 4:13, and kept muttering about what clues it must be to solve the puzzle: "Based on my many years of experience watching horror movies and playing horror games, there are definitely some big secrets hidden at that time. As a Horror games, the environment we are in now is very strange. If the unexpected player factor of murderer is excluded, this should be a survival game that puts a group of ordinary people into a confined space, then there must be some factors that hinder survival. There should be ghosts here, and the way to deal with ghosts requires players to find, and now it seems that it is human blood."
Dr. Lu drank some water and continued: "There must be something special happening at 4:13, for example, there will be a large-scale ghost riot, I am inclined to have any clues in the hospital to avoid the four. The danger of 13:30, we just don't know yet."
Qi Le and Xue Yingying nodded while listening, thinking that what he said was very reasonable.
Su He sat in the chair, looked at the few people with gentle eyes, and asked slowly, "Have you ever thought about what the purpose of this game is?"
All three were stunned.
"At the beginning, the system prompted us that this was a 'novice village mission', which meant that it was like an online game. The environment we are in now is the simplest and most harmless. It puts a group of ordinary people in the What is the purpose of this so-called novice village?" Su He asked.
"Uh... Raising Gu?" Dr. Lu raised a possibility.
"It is possible, if it is deliberately raising Gu, then it is reasonable to have a murderer. But it doesn't need to be so troublesome at all, it can put an NPC similar to the ghost here and keep chasing us, or Simply issue a mission to let us kill each other, instead of hoping that a human will start killing madly after entering here. People are too uncontrollable." Su He said.
"But... Maybe the mission of the murderer is different from ours? Maybe his mission is to hunt us down?" Xue Yingying raised another possibility.
Su He smiled and said softly, "If we don't treat everyone equally, then it wouldn't be called 'cultivating gu'. I'm more inclined to think that the murderer was an accidental factor, and he didn't expect such an accident to happen."
Several people discussed it for a while, but still couldn't be sure, so they had to take a step by step.
"I want to go back to that goldfish tank." Dr. Lu stood up from the chair and said with a frown, "I still think we missed some clues."
"I agree." Su He smiled.
Qi Leren had no objection, Xue Yingying hesitated for a while and didn't want to go.
"That goldfish is very strange... It's cold and screams, and it feels very annoying." Xue Yingying bent down and touched the place where the goldfish hit, her face was not very good.
"Just take a look." Dr. Lu said.
"If you're worried, you can stand a little further away and we'll go check it out," Su He said.
Xue Yingying bit her lip and nodded reluctantly.
On the way to the goldfish tank, a few people were very careful, for fear of running into a murderer head-on, but luckily they didn't meet anyone along the way, and returned to the vicinity of the goldfish tank smoothly.
The goldfish on the ground was trampled to pieces, and puddles died on the ground, looking very disgusting.
"Perverted." Dr. Lu cursed in a low voice.
Qi Leren suddenly felt that something was not right, and asked suspiciously, "Are there three goldfish on the ground just now?"
Su He frowned slightly and recalled: "I remember four."
"I also remember four." Dr. Lu said.
"Xue Yingying, do you remember?" Qi Leren asked back.
Xue Yingying, who had been standing far away waiting for their inspection, had disappeared.
In the empty corridor, the pale fluorescent lamps illuminated the corners and corners, without her figure.