Chapter 205 Frog Hospital (V) Umbilical Cord
At Blue Frog Hospital, Lu Zimo took three sets of hospital gowns from the nurses, kept one set for himself, and handed the remaining two sets to Huang Xiaofei and Sun Dekuan respectively.
The nurse followed him into the ward, holding a notebook to write and draw, apparently doing rounds.
The strange thing is that she seemed to be completely unable to see the corpse of the frog or the blood on the player. She showed no emotion at the mess on the ground. She walked around in a business-like manner and left without saying a word. .
The players looked at each other and breathed a sigh of relief.
As long as you don't see any abnormalities, you don't have to worry about the performance failure rate increasing inexplicably.
Lu Zimo took off the bloody clothes and put on a clean hospital gown. The sheets soaked in frog blood could not be replaced. Fortunately, the blood stains on them had dried and could not be stained on the body, so I could sleep on them.
Huang Xiaofei and Sun Dekuan also put on hospital gowns. For a moment, Ziss looked even more out of place in his white coat.
Huang Xiaofei looked at Qisi across two beds and sneered: "You and that Lin Chen teamed up to enter the dungeon, right? I don't believe that a selfish person like you would be kind enough to help a stranger pass the level."
She was obviously trying to trick her, but Chiss didn't fall for it.
The black-haired young man took out a new towel from his backpack, wiped his hands and feet leisurely, and said without raising his head: "I am happy to take him through the customs. As for whether to form a team - you guess."
Huang Xiaofei knew that no matter how nonsense he talked, he would not be able to find any useful information, so he simply stopped talking to Qisi and raised his head towards Sun Dekuan: "Fat man, after lights out tonight, Zimo and I plan to walk around the hospital to explore the terrain. Are you going?"
"Ah?" Sun Dekuan opened his mouth wide, "Sister Huang, didn't you say you would stay in the ward on the first day to calm down and check the situation?"
Before, he would have agreed without even thinking about it, but now he is a little undecided——
Lu Zimo had just been attacked by a frog. This hospital looked weird. Wasn't he seeking death by running out at night?
"I used to be afraid that showing flaws in my performance would increase my failure rate. But now I realize that this was completely unfounded."
Huang Xiaofei lay back and said in a nasal voice, showing a bit of laziness: "The hospital gowns have just been issued. It seems that it is indeed the first day we have been admitted to this hospital. We are not familiar with the other patients. As long as the general direction If you don’t go wrong, you won’t fail.”
"I have studied and summarized the strategies in the game forum. If we want to take the TE route to pass the level, we must take the initiative and trigger events. Many things are inconvenient to do during the day, but at night we can see the more realistic side of this dungeon."
Having said that, no one can refuse directly.
Sun Dekuan lay down slowly and wrapped himself in a quilt: "Okay, I'll sleep first, and you can call me in the middle of the night."
Suddenly there were knocks on the door in the distance, accompanied by the nurse's loud shout: "Go to bed early, turn off the lights at 9:30, go to bed early and get up early for good health!"
"Don't open the door or open the window after turning off the lights. If you can't sleep, lie in bed and wait until the wake-up bell rings before getting down!"
The knocking on the door was getting closer and closer, and the nurses in the hospital seemed to be reminding them one by one. It was unclear whether they were doing their duty or more of a threat.
But from beginning to end, there were only the sounds made by the nurses in the corridor, and not a single response from other patients.
During the time that Zis entered the dungeon, he also vaguely noticed that the patients in this hospital seemed to have a hostility towards all medical staff.
What’s even weirder is that even though he obviously hates this hospital, he still wants to stay in it, as if he has no choice...
Not long after, a knock came at the door of the room, and the two clichéd sentences were repeated so many times that they sounded like ghost whispers.
Lu Zimo pursed her lips and waited for the nurse's voice to fade away before looking at Huang Xiaofei: "Sister, are we still going out tonight? Those NPCs said you can't open doors or windows after the lights are turned off..."
"Why do you keep living and going back? This time I took a little risk. If I can pass the TE level, I might be on the list once and for all." Huang Xiaofei rolled his eyes, "If you hadn't been timid in the previous dungeons, I would have I’ve already made a TE clearance record.”
She turned sideways and faced the wall: "Besides, with the [Book of the Dead] here, we can retreat if we encounter any danger."
Book of the Dead? Sounds like good stuff...
After wiping his face and body, Qisi silently got into bed and pulled the quilt up to cover half of his chin.
The humid place quickly cooled down at night, and even the quilt was soaked in moisture, heavy and not insulating.
Lu Zimo was still a little hesitant: "But it's only the first day, and we have to use it..."
With a "pop" sound, the lights in the room went out. Lu Zimo was so frightened that he choked, and his saliva made him cough.
The light that was not bright in the first place turned into total darkness, making it difficult to see even the presence of others.
Huang Xiaofei said softly: "Zimo, don't be afraid. I'm here and I won't let you die if anything happens. Go to bed early. I'll call you at twelve o'clock."
Lu Zimo stopped coughing and got into bed rustlingly.
In the darkness, you could only hear the chaotic footsteps walking away in all directions in the corridor outside the door. It must be that the medical staff were off duty.
In just a few minutes, the last sound disappeared, and only the breathing of several people in the room could be heard one after another.
Qisi looked at the [Scarlet Officiant] card in the upper right corner of his vision. The officiant in red stepped on the bones on the ground, holding up the dark cross with both hands, as if he was going to nail it down.
Pai also looked at Qi Si, their scarlet eyes staring at each other in the void, and their consciousness gradually sank after a day of exhaustion.
Qi Si fell asleep in a daze, and before he had time to dream, he was awakened by the piercing alarm.
Huang Xiaofei held a flashlight in her right hand and an alarm clock in her left hand. The dazzling white light shone on her face, making her look like a ghost: "Wake up, we have wasted so much time on the first day, let's find more clues at night."
All the players in the ward were basically awakened by her trick.
Qi Si turned over to face the window, and Sun Dekuan was lying on the bed with his arms and legs spread out, motionless.
Huang Xiaofei raised her chin to Lu Zimo who had already sat up: "Hurry up and leave, I won't take you if you dawdle any more - do you still want to pass the level?"
This seemed to be pointing at the other two. After all, Sun Dekuan did not dare to offend the old players, and sat up reluctantly.
Qi Si turned over again, yawned listlessly, and watched Huang Xiaofei lead the two men out the door with great energy.
It must be said that Huang Xiaofei really seemed to want to lead everyone to pass the TE together, and she really led by example... there was a kind of beauty that didn't care about the lives of others.
The door of the ward closed in front of him, but it was no longer as tight as before. A beam of white light leaked into the room, shining obliquely on the corner of the ward.
In the silence, the [Scarlet Priest] card trembled slightly, like an illusion.
Qi Si couldn't sleep much. He wrapped himself in a quilt and stared at the light through the crack of the door. His thoughts wandered, and all the information related to Lin Chen jumped out from the depths of his memory.
——I wonder if the faith of a single person can trigger the effect of the identity card? If it can be triggered, is the effect strong or weak?
The breeze from the void blew his hair, and he could vaguely smell the smell of mud on his nose. Qi Si yawned, sat up, and looked along the white light.
On the bloodstain of the dead blue frog in the corner, an identical blue frog sat upright, its pale belly bulging, and its bloodshot eyes staring at the front.
It might be a brand new frog, or the resurrection of the dead frog, or a wronged ghost seeking revenge...
No matter which possibility it is, after triggering a frog tide to attack Lu Zimo, its appearance is enough to make people uneasy.
"Can't we open the door and window after turning off the lights, because frogs will take the opportunity to jump in?...Even in the daytime, frogs will seem to come in if the door is opened?"
Qis shook his right hand, and the chain wrapped around his wrist loosened a circle. The scarlet crystal pendulum floated in the air, ready to throw his hand at any time.
He got off the bed and walked towards the frog step by step.
His ankle was suddenly tightly grasped by something cold, and the sharp nails dug into the flesh.
It was probably a human hand, but it looked like a frog's webbed paw. The slender five fingers were wrapped in mucus, and the cold liquid flowed into the blood vessels through the wound.
Qi Si looked down and saw a face covered by long hair poking out from under the bed. The neck was twisted at a strange angle and looked up at him.
It was a woman in a light blue surgical gown. Her skin was as pale as if it had been blistered. Two yellow eyeballs protruded from the gaps in her hair, bulging like frogs, almost bouncing on Qi Si's face.
She was obviously not a living person, and she was not friendly.
The cursed pendulum flew out from the sleeve, passed through the ghost girl's wrist, and splashed out a little black air.
The ghost girl wailed in pain and let out a cry, loosening her claws.
Qi Si quickly pulled out his ankle and kicked the ghost girl under the bed.
The cursed pendulum was more useful than he thought. If he had encountered this situation in the previous copies, he might have had to fight the ghost girl in close combat with a blade, and he might even have needed to activate the effect of [Fate Pocket Watch]. And now, at least he has the strength to fight...
Qis estimated the power comparison in his heart, dragged his injured right foot calmly, and retreated to the wall.
In the dim light leaking in through the crack of the door, he could see a circle of black blood oozing from the place where the woman had grabbed his ankle, and it was spreading around at a speed visible to the naked eye.
Pain, accompanied by numbness and itchiness that made his legs and feet weak, Qis leaned against the wall and controlled the cursed spirit to wrap around the female ghost's neck.
The cursed spirit swam like a venomous snake, about to tighten, but suddenly slipped through the shadows and wrapped around Qis' wrist as if it couldn't find its target.
The female ghost in front of him flickered, and she collapsed on the ground as if all her strength had been drained away. Spots of blood oozed out of her light blue surgical gown, and they were connected in a few seconds.
The pool of blood flowed under the belly of the female ghost, and bright red frogs jumped in all directions. Qis's vision was filled with snowflake-like blocks of color, and the roar of frogs suddenly sounded in his mind.
Hemophobia strikes again...
Qisi closed his eyes and stepped back, trying not to look at the pool of blood and the red frogs on the ground.
However, the ghost girl's blood seemed to be endless, and soon covered the entire floor of the ward, and stretched tentacles on the wall, climbing with fangs and claws.
The world was full of blood, dizziness, and weakness in the limbs...
Qisi struggled on the edge of coma, and luckily he didn't fall to the ground immediately.
Opening the door and window after turning off the lights really meant danger, and frogs and ghosts would be put into the ward.
Qisi's heart was cold, and he scolded Huang Xiaofei from beginning to end, and rushed to the door without stopping.
Huang Xiaofei did not retreat after leaving, which showed that it was relatively safe outside; he could no longer stay in the ward. When the hemophobia fully attacked, he would be at the mercy of others...
The door was not closed tightly, and Qisi pushed it open.
In the corridor, the dim lights flickered like bad contact, and the water vapor with mud rushed towards us. The vast white fog almost blurred the scene so that we couldn't see a step away.
The thick and dense fog was like the steam in the weaving factory, or the water mist from the humidifier, which made people feel suffocated like drowning.
"Ashes, ashes..."
"We all fall down..."
The ethereal singing came from the depths of the corridor, and it seemed to ring in my ears.
Qi Si's eyelids twitched wildly, but he had no strength to move another step.
He looked in the direction where the singing came from and saw the shadowy bloated figures lined up in a row, staggering and walking slowly, like taking a walk, like a parade.
The leader was a woman in white with long hair and a shawl. Her face was half rotten, and her body was wet with blood. The blood beads on the ground turned into blood-red frogs, jumping around at her feet.
A black umbilical cord dragged behind her like a tail, drawing a long blood line on the ground.
Pregnant women with big bellies followed her one by one, their skin was all pale, some had rotted to reveal their bones, and some could still see their pre-birth appearance.
They were undoubtedly ghosts, turning their heads to stare at Qi Si quietly, without emotion, but making people shudder.
Their dresses were covered with large clumps of blood, which reminded Qi Si of the bed pushed out of the operating room in the daytime.
"Hemorrhage..." "Death..."
The fragmented human voices whispered at the bottom of the memory, and were drowned out by the roar of frogs in an instant.
Qi Si fell forward, and there was only darkness in front of him.
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