Bloody Hospital (4): Night

There were 80 patients in the 20 wards on the fourth floor, plus 10 doctors in the two doctors’ offices at both ends of the corridor and 10 nurses in the two nurses’ stations, a total of 100 people, all of whom went downstairs in a noisy manner.

When passing downstairs, the corridors on each floor were empty and quiet. Apart from the occasional nurse coming in and out, there was not a single patient to be seen.

Walking out of the hospital building, the air in the garden was very fresh, and the green plants all over the garden made people feel relaxed unconsciously.

Cheng Huaiqian half-carried and supported the “weak” Xia Ruize as they took a slow walk in the garden. They planned to walk through the entire hospital area in an hour, relying on Xia Ruize’s mental power to explore those areas that were not allowed to enter.

The main buildings of Aardman Hospital were built around a large garden. The main gate was located in the west. Opposite the gate across the garden was the inpatient building. The small building on the right side of the inpatient building was the cafeteria, and the small building on the left should be the hospital’s administrative building. Xia Ruize “saw” that the staff inside were checking the accounts.

In addition, the two learned from communicating with fellow patients living in the ward on the other side of the corridor that there was a lake with no end in sight behind the hospital building, which had a very nice view.

In the process of quietly collecting information, he gathered a wonderful piece of news. All eighty patients on the fourth floor were new patients who had just been admitted this morning. When they chatted with each other, they all expressed their feelings about how much they had paid in order to get a place in Aardman Hospital.

Every minute, hundreds of people in the world were diagnosed with terminal illnesses and faced death. Only a very small number of them could enter Aardman Hospital for treatment. None of them were ordinary people.

Gao Hexuan could prove this. After sitting on the lawn closest to the administrative building for an hour and breaking through the regional network of the administrative building, Gao Hexuan found out the price that the current inpatients paid when they “purchased” the hospitalization quota. The bottom line was 3 million in treatment costs.

In addition, Xia Ruize and Cheng Huaiqian also found several more conspicuous existences among the patients admitted to the hospital at the same time.

Their arrogant attitude, overbearing behavior, and open attempts to gather information all revealed their identities—trialers.

There were three most eye-catching trialers. One was a muscular giant who looked like he could shake the ground with his steps. He stood out among the weak and listless terminally ill patients. They were two completely different styles.

The burly man would walk up to anyone and ask them a question, but due to the huge size difference, most people didn’t want to anger him.

The other person was a charming and seductive young woman. In just half a day, she transformed her baggy and loose hospital gown into something that looked like she was wearing a slim fit. She pinched her waist and exposed her breasts, and her every frown and smile showed off her charm.

Many of the patients in Aardman Hospital were well-known figures in the outside world, but they still stared at her intently, and the topics of conversation revolved around her, with expressions of sorrow and pity constantly alternating in their eyes.

Anyone who could flirt with her a few times and tell her everything they knew was willing to do so.

The last one was a bald boy, who looked only about fifteen or sixteen years old, but with a cold expression and fierce eyes. When he first stood in front of others to inquire about the news, others treated him as a child and just laughed at him and didn’t take him seriously. As a result, the bald boy grabbed the person’s chest and lifted him up to threaten him.

This move scared those big guys who were always struggling on the brink of life and death. They knew that this kid was too young to understand reason, that he looked thin but had great strength, that he was the most ferocious and difficult to mess with, much more terrifying than the burly man, so they had to take him seriously.

The behavior of these three people was so outrageous that even the medical staff looked at them sideways, but did not step forward to stop them or make any other reactions. They just let it go completely.

Xia Ruize scanned all the patients, and there might be trialers hidden among them. After all, there were more than three people who made them feel abnormal.

The time for fresh air passed quickly, and the medical staff gathered the patients scattered in the garden and sent them back to their respective wards.

Xia Ruize and Cheng Huaiqian paid special attention to the ward where the three suspected trialers were located, and discovered that the bald boy was diagonally opposite their ward, and the burly man and the charming beauty were on the other side of the stairs.

There was no leisure and entertainment room for patients in the entire hospital building. Patients who were locked up in their respective wards had no way to kill time and most of them could only lie back in their beds to continue resting.

After sitting outside for nearly an hour, Li Hai was obviously a little tired. He went back to the ward and took another nap. Except for being woken up by the nurse to take medicine, he slept until dinner.

During this time, Cheng Huaiqian stood by the window looking at the patients in the garden below, while Xia Ruize lay on the hospital bed, trying to condense the circularly diffused mental power into a linear one in order to explore the situation at a farther distance in the same direction.

As the sky darkened, the nurses brought in a rich and nutritious meal. After dinner, the nurses came to help the patients who had difficulty moving clean their bodies, and then brought the last round of medicine for the day, and personally watched all the patients finish taking it.

“The medicine you take at night will have some sleep-inducing properties, so you will have a good sleep. If you need to get up at night, remember not to leave the ward. If you have any problems that you cannot solve, you can press the bell.”

After repeatedly reminding the patients not to leave the ward, the nurse who took away the medicine tray said goodnight to the patients, watched them lie down on their beds, turned off the lights and locked the door.

Soon the sound of Li Hai’s steady and gentle breathing could be heard in the darkness, and the other three realized that Li Hai had fallen asleep. This was not surprising. What was really surprising was that Xia Ruize and the other two also felt waves of irresistible sleepiness.

…

When he regained consciousness, Xia Ruize did not close his eyes or move immediately. Instead, he tried to call his teammates in the heart net, “What’s the situation?”

No one responded in the heart network. Xia Ruize’s mental power released at the same time had already discovered that Cheng Huaiqian and Gao Hexuan in the same ward were still sleeping.

“Woo…woo…”

There was a faint strange sound coming from the distance. Xia Ruize listened carefully and pinched Cheng Huaiqian with his mental power, trying to wake him up.

Fortunately, Cheng Huaiqian’s voice quickly came to his mind, “Baby, stop pinching me, my mouth is going to get swollen.”

“This is a bit weird.”

Xia Ruize’s tone was solemn. Even if he didn’t say it, Cheng Huaiqian would have already realized it.

The two discovered during the day that there were no clocks in the ward, or in the entire hospital. Patients could only roughly estimate the time based on the weather and did not know the exact time.

But they were different. The trialers had a system bound by the Lord God in their heads. In addition to functions such as displaying data and issuing tasks, it also had the basic function of displaying the current time in the mission world.

It was eight o’clock in the evening when the nurse turned off the lights and closed the door. Li Hai was fast asleep. When the three were about to continue the discussion, they suddenly felt drowsy. To Xia Ruize, who had just opened his eyes, everything seemed to have happened just a second ago. However, the system time clearly told him that he woke up at nine o’clock in the evening. An hour had passed inexplicably.

Not to mention that when Xia Ruize woke up, Cheng Huaiqian and Gao Hexuan were still asleep, which made him realize that they had really fallen into a coma inexplicably.

“We didn’t take the medicine or eat, but we still got sick and fell into a coma. There must be other things we overlooked. We need to be more careful.”

Cheng Huaiqian opened his eyes, quickly adapted to the darkness in the ward, and turned to look at his lover in the bed next to him.

Xia Ruize also opened his eyes, looked around in the dark, and warned carefully: “Since I woke up, I have felt uncomfortable all over. I always feel that there is malice coming from all directions. Be careful!”

“Be careful about what?”

Gao Hexuan’s voice joined in, he just woke up at this moment.

Gao Hexuan quickly understood the current situation. In the darkness, the expressions of the three people were solemn.

It was worthy of being the mission world of the Silver Page Area. Until now, they have not thought too much about the situation in this mission world, and had been tricked without knowing it. When they thought of this, they felt a chill in their hearts.

At this time, the strange sound that was originally vague and intermittent was getting closer and clearer. The three turned their eyes to the door of the ward. The strange sound came from the corridor outside the door.

A sudden loud bang of “bang” drowned out the strange sound. Xia Ruize had already seen that the bald boy in the ward diagonally opposite kicked the locked door of the ward away, holding a giant broadsword almost as tall as him in his hand, and rushed out of the ward with a murderous look on his face and into the corridor.

He saw two tall gray-white phantoms on the corridor on the fourth floor, which were more than 3 meters high. They were walking in the corridor at a leisurely pace. When they came across a closed ward, they would float over and bump into it, making all kinds of strange noises.

The bald boy was not afraid of such a strange monster and just raised his sword to kill it.

It turned out that the phantom had no substance, and the bald boy passed through it directly. The broadsword fell and hit the corridor floor hard. The floor immediately cracked with large cracks, but it did not cause any damage to the enemy.

The bald boy did not panic. He turned around and swung his sword again. This time, the intricate patterns on the broadsword lit up with small fiery red flames, and the entire broadsword became a fire sword, slashing towards the gray-white phantom with a fierce attack.

The broad sword passed through the phantom again. The only good news was that the phantom was stained by a few small flames on the sword, which fluttered up and down before being extinguished.

The bald boy determined that these gray-white phantoms were spiritual creatures. Physical attacks were ineffective, so he pulled out a few yellow talismans from the space and slapped them on his body and sword. The ones on his body were defensive talismans, and the ones on the sword were talismans that increased the weapon’s resistance to spiritual attacks.

After quickly arming himself, the bald boy attacked the gray-white phantom again. This time, with every attack he made, a large number of small sparks would stick to the gray-white phantom. After extinguishing these sparks, the gray-white phantom became smaller in size.

Of course, the attack of the gray-white phantom did not make the bald boy feel good either. The bald boy’s face looked ugly, his brows were wrinkled, and his eyes were even blank during one attack. He staggered, his body tilted, the attack went off target, and the weapon in his hand almost hurt himself.

The bald boy was in a trance for a second and couldn’t help pressing his forehead. He felt a severe headache because the attack of the gray-white phantom was aimed at the spirit. He was used to head-on physical battles and rarely encountered this kind of spiritual world, so his combat experience was not that rich.