When Lin Sanjiu realized what had happened, she stood rooted to the ground and stared at the wall in a daze. It was only when Mrs. Manas reminded her softly, "Hide. Don't just stand there." Lin Sanjiu snapped out of her daze. She took a few steps forward and disappeared into a small alley.
The alley was also lined with an arched engraved iron door. Lin Sanjiu couldn't tell if it was the same one she had walked through before. The ground floor of the hospital was made up of countless similar alleys, forming a maze. Once she walked a little further, she would have a hard time recognizing the direction she came from. The rustling sound of clothes rubbing against each other seemed to be getting closer. Lin Sanjiu took a few steps back and leaped into the air. She kicked the wall with the tip of her foot and twisted her body to shoot upward. She grabbed the frame of the iron door with her right hand and pulled herself up.
She stepped on the arched iron door that was half the width of her palm and crouched down like an owl. She held her breath and waited for the person who was coming.
There was a T-junction in front of her. The two sides of the junction were not illuminated by the lights on the wall. It was a quiet and gloomy place. Lin Sanjiu stared at the junction without blinking. She saw a shadow slowly appear from the right-hand side of the junction. It grew longer and longer until the person's head appeared. His shoulder-length hair fell down and swayed in the light.
"Hmm?" Raven Jiang looked to his left and right. When he saw that there was no one in the alley, he became cautious and doubtful. He didn't dare to take another step forward. "I was sure there was someone here just now …"
Lin Sanjiu felt a warm feeling in her chest when she saw someone she knew in this godforsaken place. She was like a child who couldn't wait to complain to her friend. She quickly hissed at him and whispered, "Here!"
Raven Jiang looked up and was shocked when he saw Lin Sanjiu.
"What are you doing up there?" He walked out from behind the corner of the wall. He placed one hand on the corner of the wall and wiped his forehead with the other, "I can't believe I still ended up in the hospital after enduring so many rounds …"
Lin Sanjiu was stunned.
"Why is Raven Jiang's arm still intact? Didn't he also have to use his hands to take things out to be swallowed by the lava?
She had just been fooled, and now she was like a frightened bird. When she thought of the possibility that another player was pretending to be Crow Jiang to trick her, she could not help but break out in cold sweat. At that moment, Crow Jiang suddenly turned his head and lowered his hands.
Lin Sanjiu followed his gaze and looked over.
Raven Jiang only had his upper body peeking out from behind the wall. Lin Sanjiu stared at him with her body tensed up. It was only when Raven Jiang's entire body peeked out from behind the wall that Lin Sanjiu finally understood what was going on.
"Your, your waist?" she asked in a low voice.
Crow Jiang had all four limbs and was dressed neatly. If his waist and abdomen were covered, no one would be able to tell what was wrong. However, the area below the sternum and above the hipbone was completely empty. The cut was as smooth and flat as Lin Sanjiu's severed arm. There was nothing in between the two halves of the body, not even a single vertebra could be seen. At first glance, he looked like a Lego man. The only thing missing was the top half of his body floating in the air.
"You don't have your arm either," Raven Jiang said grumpily, "Is it necessary for you to ask me?"
Here he stooped his remaining upper body, clasped his left leg with both hands, and drew it forward a step; as soon as it was out, he clasped his right leg, and drew it up with him. In this manner of the tracker, he managed to get into the path.
Lin Sanjiu opened her mouth and tried to find the words to say, "Your … your third Special Item is at …"
"I wrapped it around my waist," he said with an expression that said, "This is how it is, what are you going to do about it?" "When I was swallowed by the lava, Bonnie Bunny couldn't stop laughing at me."
Even though this wasn't a common scene, the effect was quite comedic.
"So, you … So, you can only walk forward by dragging your legs with your hands?" Lin Sanjiu looked at him as he moved forward bit by bit. She kind of understood why Bonnie Bunny would laugh like that, "You can't control your legs?"
"If it were you, would you still be able to walk without your waist?" Raven Jiang seemed to have noticed the smile on Lin Sanjiu's face. He couldn't help feeling a little embarrassed and angry, "Don't you know that lower limb movement requires the muscles of the waist and abdomen? Only my upper body is more flexible … I can swing my knees, my ankles, and my toes, but what's the use? "
"Then, how did you get down?"
"I jumped down directly," Raven Jiang said with a long face. "Luckily, my ward is not high up, and the entrance is very close to the walls on the ground floor. Otherwise, what else can I do?"
"You can jump?" Lin Sanjiu blurted out.
"Can't you just throw your legs down first?" Raven Jiang waved his hand, "Let's not talk about me. Tell me about yourself! Luckily, I met you. I didn't have to carry my legs all the way here. What's going on here? How do we get the points? "
It seemed like he had also read the price list in the room.
Before Lin Sanjiu spoke, she sighed, "I didn't just lose an arm … I was tricked by someone just now."
As Lin Sanjiu spoke, she told Raven Jiang everything that happened just now. The latter was speechless as he listened to her. He kept saying things like, "How can we prevent that?", "You even have a map?", and so on. When Lin Sanjiu finished, he fell silent for a while.
"No wonder Bonnie Bunny wasn't interested in listening to me when I said that the objective of the game was to find the informed consent form … She knew that the game's objective couldn't be the game's objective," Raven Jiang raised his head and looked at Lin Sanjiu. Crow Jiang raised his head and looked at it. "You don't say. Although you lost a kidney and didn't get the informed consent, it's not like you didn't gain anything."
Lin Sanjiu nodded and said, "I think so too." Then, she slid down from the arched iron door and landed lightly on the ground.
In order to successfully disguise himself as a Pocket Dimension creature, the shopkeeper acted and spoke dutifully. While he was bargaining with Lin Sanjiu, he revealed a lot of information just like an NPC.
"First, I know how to earn points in the hospital."
Lin Sanjiu walked a few steps and stopped. She waited for Raven Jiang to follow her. "Human organs and blood, no matter if they are your own or someone else's, can be exchanged for points. Otherwise, the shopkeeper wouldn't have schemed so hard to trick me into giving him my kidney. Since it's an organ trade, of course, it has to be fresh. Initially, I thought that if I wanted to hunt for fresh organs from other people, I would have to kidnap a living person to the cashier or freeze the freshly harvested organs … But now, I know how they do it. "
Where did the other players get their hands on the steel frame? The cashier of the hospital?
"Secondly, I'm not a hundred percent sure about this, but I guess the location of the cashier of the hospital is not fixed."
Raven Jiang thought for a few seconds. He hugged his right leg and agreed with Lin Sanjiu.
"How did the shopkeeper know if I'm a newbie or an experienced player?" When she said that, she raised her head and looked up. The walls of the circular building surrounded the ground floor of the hospital and stretched upwards as if there was no end to it. The iron doors at the bottom of the building were the size of poker cards. The higher they went, the smaller they became. From the size of a mahjong tile to the size of a fingernail, they gradually shrunk until they were barely visible. From what she could see, she could see the iron doors being pushed open from time to time. She could also see a shadow flashing across the wall. Under the silent sea, the undercurrent never stopped.
"This general hospital is so big. I'm afraid that all the lava players who were swallowed by the lava outside would be sent here. It's not just a few." Lin Sanjiu retracted her gaze. Raven Jiang's forehead was covered with a layer of sweat due to his weak body and the fact that he had to carry his leg. "The shopkeeper doesn't know if the next person he is waiting for is a newbie or an experienced player. Isn't he afraid that the experienced players will hunt him down? But even so, he still set up a fake shop … That's why I'm thinking, could it be that the location of the cashier's booth isn't fixed at all? It's completely random. That's why he can change locations and scam people everywhere. "
"But … Do the NPCs at the cashier of the hospital also appear randomly?" Raven Jiang asked.
"I don't know if he is using some kind of disguise," Lin Sanjiu frowned and thought for a moment. Lin Sanjiu furrowed her brows and thought for a moment. "Before I walked into the fake shop, I saw a posthuman standing at the entrance. He mumbled something along the lines of '4 Points for such a small amount of stuff'. Then, he left … I didn't think too much about it at that time. But now that I think about it, it was a ploy to lure me into his trap. Perhaps, that posthuman is the same person as the shopkeeper if he is fast enough. "
"That's great," Raven Jiang didn't look happy at all. "If your deduction is correct, even if we find the cashier, we won't be able to tell whether the shop is a real one or a scammer."
Lin Sanjiu tilted her head. When she spoke again, she was talking about something else.
"When I jumped down, there was someone chasing after me. He told me that it was dangerous down there … It seemed like he wanted me to trust him." However, that person's acting wasn't that good. Compared to the shopkeeper, even an idiot could tell that something was wrong. "I'm thinking, aren't all the players in the hospital in a weakened state? Could it be that … we have to find a way to scam people to survive in this hospital? "
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