Even if Lin Sanjiu used her Higher Consciousness twice in a row, she would still have enough Higher Consciousness to use her [Defense Forcefield] once. Mrs. Manas had explained the invisible and intangible Higher Consciousness in terms of Higher Consciousness. However, the problem didn't lie in the remaining Higher Consciousness.
The problem lay in the fact that she couldn't activate her [Higher Consciousness Mimicry].
"What's wrong?" Lin Sanjiu was stunned. "Am I too weak?"
Even though she said that, she knew that wasn't the case.
"I don't know either," Mrs. Manas said anxiously. Not only did she not notice that such a huge problem had occurred in her field of expertise, but she also couldn't figure out the cause of it. This was the first time she had encountered such a situation. "I've checked twice, and everything looks normal!"
Everything was normal except for the fact that she couldn't use her Higher Consciousness Mimicry.
"What about the others?" Lin Sanjiu asked. She decided not to wait for Mrs. Manas, "Let me try!"
In the end, both her [Defense Forcefield] and [Higher Consciousness Scan] could be activated as usual.
"This is weird," Mrs. Manas muttered, "This means that your Higher Consciousness is fine …"
Frowning, Lin Sanjiu sat on the edge of the bed in a daze for a while. Suddenly, she sucked in a breath of cold air and took out a card. When the card turned into the thin booklet, she immediately flipped to the last page.
"I remember that if the player can't pay the bill when he is discharged, the hospital will use a forceful method to 'mortgage and sell off the player's property' … At least, that's what I saw." Her fingers quickly found her target in the dense sea of words. After she read it carefully, she let out a sigh of relief.
The original sentence wasn't "mortgage and sell off the player's property", but "sell off the mortgaged property". However, the order of the words "sell off" and "mortgage" was different. When she thought about it carefully, the meaning was very different.
The first sentence meant "mortgage" or "sell off" the player's property. In other words, the hospital could either accept the player's property to pay off the debt or sell off the player's property to pay off the debt.
The second sentence meant that the hospital would "sell off" the player's property that the player had "mortgaged" to the hospital to pay off the debt. In other words, the hospital had already gotten enough collateral from the emergency patients when they were admitted to the hospital.
When he thought about it, it made sense. If a player was robbed in a hospital and was robbed clean, and they could not pay enough collateral when they were discharged, wouldn't the hospital have to bear the losses that could have been avoided?
Lin Sanjiu couldn't help thinking about the lake pocket dimension. It had the same method of collecting collateral. "These pocket dimensions and games are really clever at this kind of place."
"Hurry up and try. What else has been mortgaged?" Mrs. Manas urged.
Lin Sanjiu did not need to say anything. She hurriedly tried out all the abilities and items one by one. Now that she had lost her left hand, she couldn't use [Mosaic Censorship] at all. Whether it was mortgaged or not, it made no difference to her. She might as well use it as collateral.
It was fortunate that he only had two abilities that he couldn't use. She spent twenty minutes trying every single Special Item. When she tried the fourth Special Item, she finished dripping the [High Efficiency Nutrient Solution]. After she regained some of her stamina, she came to a conclusion.
[Tornado Whip], [Empty-handed Kleptomaniac], [Shit! My Wallet is Gone], [Power of Description], and [Ghost Painting] were all useless. A few of them were not easy to test. She had to use the process of elimination to find them. Even though the item itself was still there, its effect had disappeared, turning it into a toy.
"Seven," she rubbed her temples, "I owe the hospital 8 RMB, and they took away six or seven of my collateral … They are so unfair."
Lin Sanjiu originally wanted to rely on the grand prize's wisdom to figure out how to play the game, but now it seemed like there was no hope. Lin Sanjiu took out Raven Jiang's forged "Knowledge Sheet" and took out a pen. She decided to use the stupid method to organize all the information she had so far. When she was done, she might know what to do next.
Like a primary school student doing her homework, she wrote down the "Known Conditions for Lava".
Lava in every round! In the game, the lava lasted for different periods of time depending on the location. There was a break between rounds. Players had to register before the next round, or they would be treated as illegal aliens.
Players would use lava to engulf illegal aliens, and they would regain their lost survival rate. Illegal aliens would be sent to the hospital. After they were discharged, they would automatically become registered players.
Players could slowly recover their survival rate in every round of lava.
If a player was engulfed by lava, their survival rate would be deducted, they would be sent to the hospital, and at least one round of game time would be deducted.
Players had to use points to purchase medical supplies and services in the hospital.
If a player was injured in the lava, their survival rate would be reduced accordingly.
Some of the abilities and items of emergency patients had been mortgaged to the hospital, and they had to pay points to redeem them when they were discharged. Those that had been mortgaged could not be used again.
The information of the players in the lava would be displayed in the place where the text was.
Looking at the eight conditions, Lin Sanjiu pondered for a while and wrote down a few more questions.
First, could she leave Lava during the break time?! "World? If she couldn't leave during the break time, she would not register for the next round and would be treated as an illegal alien. She had to leave Lava before anyone could find her! "World, is this okay?"
Second, after she was admitted to the hospital, she would be deducted "at least one round of game time". Did this "one round" include the round she was sent to?
Third, what did it mean by "at least one round"? What was the deciding factor for how many rounds she could stay in the hospital?
Lin Sanjiu chewed on her ballpoint pen for a few minutes and looked at the empty infusion bottle. Finally, she made up her mind. She could only gather so much information by staying alone in her room, and most of it was related to the lava world outside. However, she clearly realized that the interior of the hospital was the highlight of the lava world.
Apparently, the highlight of the interior of the hospital was only one place, and that was the "payment counter and the affiliated shop on the ground floor".
In other words, she had to take a risk and go to the deepest part of the hospital: the round floor in the cylindrical building.
"But, with your current stamina and combat ability …" Mrs. Manas said worriedly, "I'm afraid that once you open the door, you will become someone's snack."
"Since I'm already weak, there's no reason for the other players to be so energetic, right?" Lin Sanjiu felt that she had a point. "Since everyone is in the hospital, it means that they are all injured in the lava world … Hmm, of course, the others have been recovering for some time, so they might be in a better condition than me."
As she said that, an idea emerged in her mind. She should thank Puppeteer. Ever since he used the [Bulletproof Energized Coffee] once, its effect had been clearly etched in her mind.
Gulp. After Lin Sanjiu gulped down a full cup of coffee, she wiped her mouth and felt that she had recovered quite a bit of energy. According to the card, the coffee would increase her overall performance by thirty percent. However, it also made it clear that she would feel very tired after the coffee had worn off. That was to say, she had to return to the sickroom when the coffee's effect wore off, since she was not sure what the danger was.
"The problem is, how do we get back to the ward?" Mrs. Manas asked, "You don't have a single point right now, so you can't buy a [Hospital Pass]."
Lin Sanjiu decided to use the most primitive method.
Even though there was almost no gap at the bottom of the metal door, there was a handle outside. Among the miscellaneous items in her card bank were a few rolls of heavy and bulky rope. If she tied the rope to the handle with her teeth and right hand, she might be able to climb back.
Of course, she would be a very vulnerable target during the climb. With only half of her stamina left, it would be difficult for her to climb the rope with only one hand and two legs.
However, that was not the only risk. Lin Sanjiu had found three keys in the pocket of her hospital gown. She tested them and found that each key could open a lock. This meant that she not only had to rely on a rope to hang herself in the air, but she also had to unlock the doors one by one. She couldn't just leave the door unlocked and be shot to death by the intruders when she returned.
"Maybe I can meet Puppeteer and Bohemia."
After tying the rope with her teeth and right hand to the handle of the door, Lin Sanjiu felt her cheeks aching even when she smiled. "If we can look after each other in the hospital, it will be much safer."
"You don't even have a head. Can you recognize me?" Lin Sanjiu couldn't tell if Mrs. Manas was joking or mocking her.
Lin Sanjiu picked a moment when there seemed to be no one around and threw the rope out of the door. The yellowish-brown rope uncoiled in the air and fell into the dark building. It swayed unsteadily and formed a straight line.
Before she went out, she had to prepare some defensive measures.
She could activate her [Defense Forcefield] at any time, so it was not a good idea to resist it. She used [How to...]
First, she applied a distorted light effect on herself. Then, she held it in her mouth. She held the rope tightly with her right hand and used her legs to support herself against the wall. Then, she climbed down the rope bit by bit.
Losing an arm had a huge impact on her balance. There were a few times when she almost lost her grip on the rope and fell straight down. Fortunately, she used her Higher Consciousness to wrap herself tightly around the rope and dug her fingernails deep into the hemp rope. She finally managed to stabilize herself. Whenever she passed by a metal door, she was always worried that the person inside would open the door and knock her down or attack her. She would usually wait for a while at the top of the metal door until she felt that it was safe. Then, she would try her best to avoid the metal door and continue climbing down.
The brown-haired man who released the piranhas seemed to be paying attention to his surroundings. When he noticed that Lin Sanjiu was out of the door, he immediately used the same trick and threw a few piranhas at her. The piranhas flew toward her with their mouths wide open like rockets, stirring up a few gusts of wind as they flew. However, when the piranhas pounced on the shadow of the "rope", they bumped into each other instead. The brown-haired man quickly retracted his hand and once again closed the iron gate tightly.
After climbing through five vertical metal doors, Lin Sanjiu estimated that she had sunk more than ten meters. She turned her head and saw that the dark, circular floor did not seem to be any closer to her.
"How big is this barrel-shaped building? How tall is it? "
Lin Sanjiu tried her best to count all the metal doors she could see, but she still couldn't figure out how many wards there were. She was certain that there were at least twenty wards. When she looked up and down, she found that the ceiling and floor were so wide and deep that it was astonishing. She couldn't even count how many floors there were in the building.
In the area that she had crawled through, there were more empty wards than occupied ones. She did not know if it was because no one could afford to pay for the rooms, but it made her feel more at ease when she crawled up.
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