Chapter 223 Frog Hospital (Twenty-Three) The Dead Resurrected

It was already half past six when the three returned to the ward.

The flats and corridors they passed by were empty, and the shadows were hazy in the thin morning light. They met no patients or nurses along the way.

Sun Dekuan put Lu Zimo on the bed, and returned to his own bed, sitting down heavily.

The two looked at the empty bed left by Huang Xiaofei against the wall, and they both felt dazed for a moment.

Three days after entering the dungeon, the first death finally appeared. He did not die from ghosts, but from the oppression between players...

Even though everyone participated in the conspiracy to some extent, the feeling of grief for the death of the rabbit still grew unstoppably.

Qi Si had not slept all night, and the moment he entered the room, he finally met his fatigue.

He yawned listlessly and walked straight to the corner of the room.

A new blue frog was born in the corner of the wall where several blue frogs had died before. It squatted quietly and dignifiedly, and two palm-sized pools of blood under its body condensed into a strange black and purple.

Qi Si casually threw a towel on the frog's head to cover its eyes.

After waiting for two seconds, seeing that it had no extra reaction, Qi Si directly stuffed it into the backpack in the prop column with the towel, and counted for a full minute with the fate pocket watch before taking it out.

The frog's belly was bulging and gasping, and its round eyes were angrily staring at the black-haired young man who pinched its back.

Very good, very energetic, it seems that the backpack can store living things.

Qi Si was satisfied and threw the frog into the backpack again and stored it in the prop column.

"Cherish food, stop wasting, and breakfast must be finished!"

In the corridor, the nurse's shouting gradually approached from a distance, becoming clearer and clearer; followed by the "gurgling" sound of the dining cart and the messy footsteps.

It was clear that when the players entered the hospital two minutes ago, it was still deserted, but now it was running fast and slowly like a giant that had come to life from deep sleep.

Those people and things moving back and forth seemed to have grown out of the ground out of thin air.

Sun Dekuan patted his fat face: "I'm not saying that the food delivery is not on time. It was delivered at 6:01 yesterday, and it's already 6:30 today..."

Qi Si walked towards the door that had not been closed yet, and looked into the depths of the corridor with half-closed eyes.

White shadows were rushing back and forth in the steamy corridor, which made people think of the neon lights flying in the sky of the city at night.

Qi Si suddenly remembered a theoretical hypothesis he had seen before: the state of some things will collapse at the moment of observation, and the state of some things depends on the observation of the consciousness.

After the "Double Happiness Town" copy ended, in the conversation in the game space, Qi mentioned quantum mechanics.

Although He used a joking tone, Qi Si couldn't help but pay more attention to the relevant information, and then found that... he couldn't understand it at all.

This kind of advanced knowledge is still too advanced for him who dropped out of high school.

However, this does not prevent Qi Si from categorizing problems with similar characteristics from the mechanism of the weird game and focusing on them.

For example, how to set the time of the copy and the live broadcast time without occupying the flow rate of real time; for example, for copies such as the Red Maple Leaf Boarding School and the Frog Hospital that combine multiple time and space, what is the basis for the timeline and event nodes.

In the dream the night before, Cheng An used means to help him and Lin Chen establish a consciousness connection, and what principle was it based on...

"Brother Cheng, by the way, what if they find that Huang Xiaofei is missing and ask us about the situation? Will our collective failure rate increase if we can't answer well?" Sun Dekuan kept nagging.

The nurse pushing the dining cart had arrived at the door, stacked three plastic cans of tadpole soup together, and handed them to Qi Si.

Qi Si took it steadily, returned to the room, and placed the soups on the bedside table one by one.

"First, they didn't ask."

He picked up his bowl of soup, opened the window and poured it out.

"Then, they only prepared three bowls of soup for us, which is enough to show that they already knew that Huang Xiaofei was in trouble. Finally, since the failure rate has not increased now, there is no reason to settle accounts later."

It is known that the failure rate is a mechanism imposed by the weird game, which is linked to whether the dean finds out that the player is wrong, but the narration information provided can be inferred from the player's perspective...

Qi Si has reason to suspect that the role of this failure rate is not so much to punish the player as to spur and warn the player.

Prevent the player from showing inappropriate behavior and affecting the plan of a certain existence; give the player a sense of urgency and encourage the player to actively explore; give the player a hint and interfere with the player's decision to a certain extent...

Even, cultivate the player's hostility and fear of the dean.

Cheng An said that in order to deal with the dean, he made a deal with a certain god and pulled the players into the world of Frog Hospital.

As a community of interests, God and Weird Game must meet the requirements of the transaction object under the constraints of rules, so it is inevitable to stand on the opposite side of the dean.

Inciting players to assume that the dean is a "malicious NPC" without meeting him is also an understandable and beneficial approach.

Everything in the world is about profit. No matter how complicated the situation is, it can always be sorted out from the perspective of interests.

If the entire Frog Hospital is treated as an away game instead of a world controlled by Weird Game; if Weird Game and the director are regarded as two sides of the game, and the players are the pawns of Weird Game, then there is no need to worry about many things.

——How could any chess player take the initiative to brush his own pieces off the chessboard?

Of course, Ziss would not tell anyone else about these inferences.

"Huh? My failure rate really hasn't increased?" Sun Dekuan looked at his [45%] failure rate, counted the time on his fingers, and felt a little relieved.

He asked again: "Tell me, how did they know that Huang Xiaofei was dead? I think no one else has been to that area of ​​the pond except us..."

"This shows that the director has stronger control over the hospital than we thought." Chiss sat on the bedside table and put the empty bowl aside, "The worst-case scenario is that our every move is under his watch. "

"Then what's going on?" Sun Dekuan clapped his hands, "We're messing around in his territory, and he knows about it, so he suffered a lot..."

Qi Si stood up suddenly, walked to Lu Zimo's bed, and pulled the towel out of the latter's mouth.

Before Lu Zimo could say anything, he grabbed the soup bowl and poured all the tadpole soup inside into the young man's mouth: "It's already the third day, and there are still no difficult ghosts to come to the door. This just shows that the dean is very interested in the tadpole soup." We are happy to see results.”

Lu Zimo opened his eyes wide and struggled violently.

Qisi held him down with one hand and intuitively felt that his physical fitness had become more than a little stronger, and he couldn't help but frown.

Sun Dekuan couldn't bear to look at Qisi's inhumane behavior, and his eyes drifted to the gray sky outside the window: "Ah? He is happy to see the results? What should we do next? Are we still going to cause trouble?"

"Continue with the plan and try to enter the dean's office today. There is a high probability that there will be important clues."

Qisi let go of his hand, letting Lu Zimo bounce up, then pressed his arm down, pushed him back to the bed board, and then let go...

It's just... quite fun.

"Huh? How do we get in?" Sun Dekuan blinked twice, "I didn't see any office or anything along the way..."

"I haven't seen him, but there is a piece of information I forgot to tell you." Qisi turned his head and looked at Sun Dekuan, his tone was low with memories, "Yesterday the nurse told me that the dean was in the office and he hadn't seen anyone for a long time. The system prompt also said that the dean will come to see me today..."

"I thought, instead of waiting for him to come to me, I should go to him."

When Zeiss said this, his thoughts inevitably touched on a question.

If Frog Hospital really does not fall under the jurisdiction of weird games, then predictive tips may not be reliable.

The content written in black and white is most likely a purposeful deception by the weird game, trying to induce players to make a certain choice.

The world is uncertain, and people can never know the absolute truth.

Any existence is unreliable, and any information may be false. Even if you see it with your own eyes, it may not be true...

Ziss is a skeptic and knows that his persecution paranoia is outrageous.

It was not wise to engage in infighting where he couldn't get the exact answer. He suppressed his disturbing thoughts, lowered his eyes, and continued: "As for how to find and enter the dean's office... I already demonstrated it yesterday and the day before yesterday - Cheng Xiaoyu Ting It’s easy to lie, isn’t it?”

Lu Zimo was tortured by Qisi for a long time, and lay motionless on the bed like a dead fish, looking sideways into the void.

He saw something, a flash of panic flashed in his eyes, and his pupils were staring in the direction of the door.

Qisi noticed it, let go of his hand on his neck, and followed his gaze towards the door.

At some point, a slender figure in black quietly appeared, embedded stiffly in the door frame. His pale face had deep-set eye sockets, and inside were two blank holes.

"sister?"

"Huang...Huang Xiaofei!"

Lu Zimo and Sun Dekuan exclaimed at the same time.

Lu Zimo couldn't move and could only stare at the dead man not far away; Sun Dekuan, with a pale face, rolled out of bed and leaned against the window.

Qisi straightened up, his right hand quietly covering the destiny pocket watch, and the cursed pendulum slowly raised its head from the cuff of his sleeve.

The "Huang Xiaofei" at the door was obviously not a living person, with a slight chill exuding from his body and a substantial white mist.

She walked straight into the room, turned around and walked towards her bed. Her eyes were directed forward from beginning to end, not stopping at anyone.

She seemed to have no memory of death and no desire for revenge. She lay down on the bed without saying a word and stared at the ceiling.

Sun Dekuan asked with a trembling voice: "What...what is going on? She...why is she back?"

Qisi held the destiny pocket watch tightly, walked step by step to Huang Xiaofei, looked down at her for a while, but did not see the scar on her heart left by the pendulum passing through her chest.

Obviously, this Huang Xiaofei is not the body of the Huang Xiaofei he killed last night, but more similar to the projection of this world.

"If my guess is correct, it should be refreshed at six o'clock in the morning, which is similar to the reason why blue frogs appear. As for whether it is..."

Qisi said calmly, and the cursed pendulum passed through Huang Xiaofei's throat, and the blood splashed wet the sheets: "We will know tomorrow if she will refresh again."

In a sense, Huang Xiaofei killed the blue frog three times and five times in the past few days, and Qisi killed her twice in a row today. It really seemed like some kind of absurd fateful reincarnation.

The humor and drama behind it are impressive enough. Qi Si smiled, but he couldn't help but think of the frog's curse, and his smile disappeared as soon as it appeared.

Two players have died at the Green Frog Hospital. Why didn't Lin Chen mention the refresh?

The situation of the dead returning to the human world is strange and weird. It is impossible to be unconsciously ignored. Is Lin Chen hiding something, or is there a difference in the mechanism?

I went to the bottom of the pond to find a passage last night, but I returned empty-handed, which means that there is still a key puzzle missing to complete the reasoning.

All inconsistencies may be part of the puzzle.

Lu Zimo and Sun Dekuan didn't think so much.

They first saw Huang Xiaofei return to the human world, and then found that the latter was an unconscious ghost. Then they witnessed Qi Si killing the woman again. Their emotions fluctuated uncontrollably and were almost numb.

Sun Dekuan stared at a certain place in front of him with despair, watching Qi Si put away the bloody pendulum, wipe off the blood beads on the pendulum, walk to the door, and turn around to wave at him.

He dragged his feet to catch up, his soul seemed to have flown to the sky, only his body was dragged by inertia.

The two of them turned and turned in the corridor, walked quickly along the route they had walked twice, and stopped at the floor where the morgue and kitchen were separated.

Like this time yesterday, Qi Si took out a few candies from his backpack and held them up high: "Cheng Xiaoyu, if you don't come over again, uncle won't give you candies."

The swollen boy appeared from the shadows and asked with his head tilted: "Who are you? Why do you know my name?"

"My name is 'Cheng An', and I am a colleague of your father. He is busy with work and has no time to accompany you. It happened that I took sick leave and had some free time, so he asked me to play some games with you."

"I have never heard my father talk about you. Your last name is Cheng, and my father and I are also surnamed Cheng..."

"Oh, it's quite a coincidence. Your father used to joke that we are from the same family. Did he really not tell you about me? It seems that he doesn't bring work home at all..."

"Hehe, I want to eat candy now, uncle, can you give me these candies?"

"Uncle bought the candy himself, but it's okay to give it to you. How about playing a game with uncle first?"

"Okay! You said that as long as I play games with you, you will give me candy."

"This game may be difficult, but you must play it seriously and try your best to the end, okay?"

"Okay, okay! Tell me what game it is."

The development of things is no different from the day before, like a simple reproduction of a poor script.

The familiar prompt text popped up on the system interface.

[Use the skill "Soul Contract" on Cheng Xiaoyu, advocating that he should participate in the next game seriously and try his best]

Two golden ten-sided dice were thrown from the void and spun rapidly in the dark mind hall.

Ten seconds later, the dice froze, revealing "8" and "3".

83 points, greater than 74, exactly the same result.

[The contract has been signed. This contract is guaranteed by the world rules. No one can disobey it.]

Qisi waved the bright red contract scroll and smiled gently at Cheng Xiaoyu: "The game I want to play with you is 'playing the dean'. The first task is to take us to the dean's office." (End of this chapter)