"That doesn't seem right." This popped up on the menu.
"Okay …" Feng Bujue immediately turned around and started to search the room.
Obviously, the treasure chest before him was not the kind of puzzle that could be solved on the spot. Instead, he needed to search for clues elsewhere to solve it.
"Even though this is not a corridor, it doesn't seem realistic for me to stand here and try to key in the password a million times." Feng Bujue said as he searched. "Currently, I have no idea what will be triggered if I stay in this room for too long. Furthermore, this room is extremely small. If something really does appear … I won't even have a chance to escape."
Two to three minutes later, Brother Jue had basically confirmed the situation in Room 109. Other than the scare point that came with the 'shock' and this treasure chest that required a password to open, there was nothing else of value.
"Then there's nothing I can do …" Feng Bujue sighed helplessly as he left the room.
After he returned to the corridor, he continued to walk in the direction that he came from. It did not take long for him to arrive at a crossroad. There, Brother Jue discovered another map — 'Cedar County Public Hospital 1F Floor Plan'. Similar to the map on the second floor of the hospital, this map looked very confusing.
However, Feng Bujue seemed to be able to understand it. "Hmm … I was right. Many parts can be overlapped …" This time, he had experience. To avoid attracting Chad's attention, he only spent a short amount of time memorizing the whole map before he turned to leave.
"According to the map …" Feng Bujue was already coming up with a plan as he hurried down the corridor. "This corridor should lead to the cafeteria. On the way, I'll pass by the pediatric clinic … and the blood bank is in the basement … Then …"
He soon arrived at the corridor that led to the pediatric clinic. The gynecology department was just next door. Not far away, there was a T-junction. After taking a turn there, he would be able to reach the pediatric ward.
Just as Feng Bujue was about to pass through the intersection, a string of bell-like laughter suddenly rang in his ears.
"Hey, hey … Just how many quest lines are there in this scenario?" Feng Bujue could not help but grumble under his breath. At the same time, he turned his head toward the voice.
The laughter came from the fork on his right. The lights in that corridor seemed to be broken. Other than the few meters around the intersection, it was pitch black.
Seven or eight meters away, at the intersection of darkness and light, the figure of a child was standing there. She wore a red dress and looked like she was only eight or nine years old. Her long black hair covered her face and fell to her chest.
"Hee …" The ethereal laughter made one's hair stand on end.
"Hmm … She is standing in the shadows …" Feng Bujue mumbled. "Then it is impossible to tell whether she is a monster or a ghost, but judging from her appearance and behavior, she is most likely a ghost …"
"Uncle." The little girl suddenly spoke, "Do you like sweets?"
"Hey, hey … Is something wrong?" Feng Bujue said. "That kind of question should be asked by a strange uncle to a little girl, right?"
"Perhaps …" Feng Bujue looked at the girl and replied, but that was as good as a blank answer.
"I have some sweets here. Do you want some?" the little girl asked.
"What flavor?" Feng Bujue threw back a question.
The little girl ignored his question and said, "If you help me comb my hair, I will share some sweets with you."
Brother Jue had a flash of inspiration, and his right hand instinctively reached for the small comb in his pocket. "Okay … Ah …" When he answered, there was still some hesitation. He felt something was off.
"Then, when you are free, come find me at my sickroom. There is a mirror there." After the little girl said that, she turned around. The red shadow walked away, but there was no sound of footsteps.
After the man completely disappeared from his sight, Feng Bujue stood where he was for a few seconds before mumbling to himself, "There is no hint for the quest …" He stroked his chin and thought to himself. "Is this a trap … or a part of another quest?"
After thinking about it for half a minute, he decided to put this matter aside for now. Since the girl said 'when you are free', it meant that there was no need for him to follow her there.
With that decision made, he moved again and headed toward the pediatric consultation room about ten meters away.
"The quest won't be that easy, right?" When Feng Bujue reached the door, that was the thought that crossed his mind. He reached out to grab the doorknob, and as he expected, the system announcement popped up. "The door is locked."
"Is it 'locked' and not 'cannot be opened'?" Feng Bujue asked. "In other words … to find a key in this room, I need to find another key to open the door to this room …" He sighed. "Sigh … fine …" Feng Bujue sighed. "Fine …"
This was a common occurrence in puzzle-solving games, so there was nothing to complain about.
Feng Bujue turned to walk back. He planned to deal with the hair-comb-for-candy incident first. To his surprise, when he returned to the junction and prepared to move forward, he heard the system say, "The road ahead is shrouded in dangerous darkness. Do you really want to go there?"
"A death flag …" Feng Bujue knew what that meant. He quickly retreated to the junction. "No wonder the little girl said 'when you are free'. So, if I follow her directly, something like a flashlight will happen …" He scratched his head. "Then … should I go find something like a flashlight first?"
After he said that, a thought flashed through his mind. "Right … there should be one in the security room, right?"
With that in mind, Feng Bujue started to recall the 1F map and quickly remembered the location of the security room.
"Then, I shall go to the security room." Brother Bujue was not worried. After all, he had triggered a bunch of random events, so it did not matter where he went first.
Soon, he returned to the junction that he had passed earlier. He glanced at the map again to deepen his impression of the place. Then, he walked in the direction of the hospital lobby. After passing through two corridors, ignoring some forks and stairs at strange angles, he successfully arrived at the hospital lobby.
When he arrived, Feng Bujue was surprised to find that … the hospital door was open.
In real life, this was nothing new. Higher level hospitals had emergency rooms overnight, so it was normal for them to open at night. However, in horror games with limited settings, be it a mansion, a research institute, a hospital, a house, or a ruin, the exits were usually closed, and there was rarely any setting for escape.
"Humph … Open the door? Do you think I would fall for this? " Feng Bujue stood at the entrance of the hospital and looked at the parking lot outside. He said calmly, "The main mission clearly states that I have to 'stay at my post'. If I step out, I will definitely die."
"Ah …" Suddenly, a long, mournful wail sounded from behind Brother Bujue.
"Ah …" Then, there was another wail.
In the two seconds that Feng Bujue turned around, the mournful wail filled the entire hospital lobby.
When he looked back, he saw nothing.
"Again?" Feng Bujue said as he put on his sunglasses. "Huo ~" He wailed again.
Looking out from the sunglasses, he saw a large group of ghosts. The ghosts were all gathered in front of the registration counter, and they were … lining up.
"Amitabha …" Feng Bujue took off his sunglasses and put his hands together to express his helplessness.
He ignored the mournful wails and walked towards the security room.
Fortunately, the door of the security room was not locked, and he went straight in.
There were two rooms in the room. More than half of the room outside was occupied by surveillance equipment. There were two swivel chairs in front of the console and the remaining space was barely enough for people to walk around. There was a smaller room behind it, which was probably the changing room.
Feng Bujue was interested when he saw the surveillance footage. He took two steps forward and sat in front of the console. After familiarizing himself with the controls, he started to adjust the cameras to observe the situation around the hospital.
Unfortunately, more than half of the surveillance footage was covered in snow and he couldn't see anything clearly. As for the remaining cameras, the angle of view was fixed and could not be adjusted. Moreover, the images captured were all empty corridors.
Feng Bujue wanted to look at the footage on the computer but he needed to enter the administrator password to open any drive.
He was very depressed, so he clicked on the start menu and opened a few games that came with the system. He used the name "hey hey hey" to set the highest record for Minesweeper, Hearts, and Solitaire to calm himself down.
Then, he left the console and walked towards the changing room.
There was no lock on the changing room's door. Feng Bujue turned the knob and opened it. After pushing the door open and entering the house, he casually turned on the light switch. The room in front of him only had a row of lockers and a few square meters of standing space. The conditions were extremely simple.
"The management of this hospital is so convoluted that I can't even look at them in the eye …" Feng Bujue looked at the mottled walls, the shabby cement floor, and the rusted lockers, and he could not resist the urge to complain. "Even though the male workers do not need to lock the door when they change into their work clothes, there is not even a stool in the changing room …
There were a total of eight lockers in the changing room and they were lined up against the wall. Feng Bujue walked forward and tried them one by one. In the end, only one of them worked.
Once he opened the door, a moldy smell drifted out from the locker.
There was an iron bar on top of the locker, and two plastic clothes hangers hung from it. Behind the door was a poster of a swimsuit girl. It looked like … a creature that was half human and half otter. From the style of the swimsuit and Lester's sexual orientation, it should be female.
There was another item at the bottom of the locker: a flashlight, a key, a seriously moldy sandwich inside a plastic bag, a newspaper, and a small mirror.
Among them, the flashlight and mirror were categorized as' tools'; there was no item description on the newspaper; and the remaining two items were plot items.
Item Name: Key
Item Type: Plot Item
Quality: Normal
[Function: Open a door somewhere]
Can be taken out of the scenario: No.
Remark: This is a spare key that Lester secretly made. It can be used to open a door.
"Where else can it be used to open a door?" Feng Bujue guessed the use of the item once he saw the remark. "Isn't it the storage room on the third floor?"
[Name: Moldy Sandwich]
Item Type: Plot Item
Quality: Trash
Function: Can it be eaten?
Can be taken out of the scenario: No.
Remark: Normally, only those with a serious case of hoarding would store something that has seriously gone bad.
"Even this thing cannot be taken out of the scenario?" Feng Bujue mumbled to himself as he read the item description. "Where will it be used? Is there a patient who likes to eat rotten food in a sickroom?"
He held the newspaper in his hand and placed the other items inside his pocket before leaving the changing room.
After he returned to the surveillance room, he sat down on the chair and started to read the newspaper. Based on his personality, he was going to read the whole thing, but unfortunately, the system restricted him from doing so.
Ninety percent of the newspaper had been blurred. The Monster Kingdom used English, and so far, Feng Bujue could only see English text at the hospital. However, the system's translation function would translate the corresponding Chinese text to his eyes. Only a small part of the newspaper could be read clearly.
"Bad news! The disaster at Cedar County's Public Hospital! " That was the headline of the article.
Just from the title, Feng Bujue had a bad feeling …
"According to our Cedar County News Agency, December 5th (Reporter from Shrek), as of 16 am on December 5th, the avalanche that happened at the northern part of the kingdom, Cedar County, has been going on for seventeen hours. Due to the increasing snowstorm, the search and rescue work has slowed down, and large vehicles are unable to get close to the area. Manual excavation work is difficult due to heavy snow and landslides. According to experts, if the rescue route cannot be opened within twenty-four hours, the chance of survival will be infinitely close to zero. "
"What?" Feng Bujue read the article and reread it several times. "What is going on?" He folded the newspaper, shoved it into his pocket, and hurried out of the security room.
When he returned to the hospital lobby, the cries had disappeared, and he could not see any ghosts through the sunglasses.
Brother Jue placed his hands on his waist and stood before the entrance of the hospital. He looked at the quiet parking lot outside. The snow mountain and the lights of the city could be seen faintly. "If this place has already been buried … then I am currently inside a dream?" He quickly filled in the gaps in his mind. "Perhaps … Lester is already a ghost? That's not right … Then why do I need sunglasses to see my own kind? "His eyes shifted." Could this be … a 'newspaper from the future'? "
"Wait a minute … the time shown on the computer earlier was …" Feng Bujue remembered that when he was playing the game, the date shown on the computer was already 2 am on December 6th.
When he thought about this, he turned back to confirm it.
But … this time, when he opened the door to the security room, all the monitors at the control panel only showed white snow.
As Feng Bujue's eyes moved, the images also flickered strangely. Then … the scene from the beginning of the scenario appeared again. Blood, organs, scary faces … but this time, it was shown on more than ten screens at the same time.
Feng Bujue stood at the door and hesitated for a moment. In these short ten seconds … the lights in the security room had quietly turned dark red. The whole room started to twist, and strange creaking noises came from all around. On the wall opposite from the control panel, three black stains slowly appeared. They slowly expanded to form a horrified human face …
"Tsk …" Feng Bujue knew that he could not stay there any longer. He took two steps back and closed the door.
"This time, I can't go to the security room anymore, and the electronic clock and calendar in the lobby are off … In other words, after I read the newspaper, I won't be able to confirm the date anymore …" Feng Bujue thought to himself. "Oh well, at least I found a flashlight. I should go to the pediatric ward to take a look."
He did not dwell on it. In fact, Brother Jue was getting more and more excited. Without realizing it, he was immersed in the joy of solving the mystery. The main mission and side mission were just a formality. His ultimate goal, or rather, the thing that he wanted to do the most … had become 'solving the mystery of this scenario'.
…
If there was a book, it would be long; if there was no book, it would be short.
After two ellipses and eight words, Brother Jue returned to the fork that led to the pediatric ward. (Before he came here, he purposely went to the pediatric clinic to try the key in his pocket, but naturally, it failed.)
He took out the flashlight from his pocket, switched it on, and shone it ahead. The dark corridor was like a giant mouth that could swallow a person whole. It was silent and oppressive. The light from the flashlight could only illuminate a very small area.
This kind of 'cold and scary' atmosphere was enough to deter many people. However, Feng Bujue did not mind it at all. He hummed, waved the flashlight left and right, and walked in leisurely.
"Shaolin Kung Fu, wake up ~ Shaolin Kung Fu, wake up ~ Shaolin Kung Fu, wake up ~ Shaolin Kung Fu! I use Iron Head Kung Fu! Invincible Iron Head Kung Fu! You use King Kong Leg … King Kong Leg! "
The song that he chose was unclear. Technically speaking, it was a duet, and he did not know how to sing Cantonese songs. In any case, the melody flashed through his mind, and he started to sing happily.
A normal person would sing in this kind of environment, mainly to ease the tension and fear. Feng Bujue, on the other hand … looked like he was taking a stroll around the residential area after dinner, and he was mumbling to himself.
He walked into the corridor with the flashlight, and the system did not say anything. It looked like the death flag had been removed, and he could move on normally.
"Waa … Waa …"
Brother Jue did not walk far before another sound came. This time, it was a baby crying.
"So … how many side missions are there?" Feng Bujue mumbled. "The baby's room is haunted as well, right? Okay, okay … "He looked in the direction and walked toward the source of the crying.
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