Bloody Hospital (9): Dreamland

Gao Hexuan, who stayed in the inpatient ward, was also caught in a tough battle. There was no other way. After all the other rooms were captured, the phantoms found a door that could not be opened. They immediately crowded in and pushed hard together, finally pushing the door into a pile of pieces. They bypassed the bed frame that was blocking the door and squeezed into the ward through the gap.

Although Gao Hexuan’s fighting ability was not as good as Xia Ruize and Cheng Huaiqian, he made full defensive preparations with the help of his two teammates, and stuck dozens of talismans on his body to resist the attacks of spirits.

In addition, most of the patients in the inpatient building were white phantoms. Gao Hexuan had the successful experience of two teammates to learn from. He used multiple beds to stack and seal the gap at the door as much as possible, reducing the number of white phantoms that could squeeze into the ward at the same time, so that one person could still hold on.

The one who couldn’t hold on any longer was Li Hai. Hiding in the corner and shivering, as more and more white phantoms squeezed into the ward, Li Hai finally couldn’t hold on any longer and was frightened into a coma.

Gao Hexuan ignored the unconscious Li Hai. He would soon fall into a coma anyway. The difference was just one person falling into a coma earlier or later. Even Xia Ruize and Cheng Huaiqian thought so.

But the three of them were wrong. Unexpectedly, after ten o’clock, they were still standing there and had to continue fighting with the phantoms.

Xia Ruize and Cheng Huaiqian looked at each other in bewilderment. They fell into a coma inexplicably after fighting for an hour yesterday. Could it be that they could hold on longer today?

No matter how many Blood phantoms were killed outside the door, new ones would come to replenish them, and the number did not decrease at all. After the two of them discussed it, Cheng Huaiqian simply enlarged the gap between the double doors a little bit, allowing more Blood phantoms to enter the dean’s office at the same time.

The two men increased the intensity of their attack. They really couldn’t believe that this thing could be killed endlessly.

The battle continued for another hour until 11 o’clock in the evening, when a sudden dizziness caused the three to fall into a coma.

When he opened his eyes again, Xia Ruize saw the room filled with morning glory.

He subconsciously glanced at the window and found that it was intact.

After waking up, Gao Hexuan brushed his hair and read the images taken by the cameras installed in the four corners of the ward again. Then a shocked expression appeared on his face, and he immediately sent the images to Xia Ruize and Cheng Huaiqian.

The images recorded by the camera showed that the four of them were lying peacefully on the hospital beds and sleeping soundly from beginning to end last night, without moving at all!

Xia Ruize, Cheng Huaiqian, Gao Hexuan: ???

Could it be that the memory of fighting with the phantom for two hours last night and rushing into the dean’s office in the administration building was false?

Didn’t they pay attention to the real-time footage captured by the camera during their operation last night? What they saw was clearly their actions, right?

The three of them were confused, wondering what went wrong?

At this time, Li Hai woke up slowly, looked at Xia Ruize and Cheng Huaiqian stupidly, and after a delay of three seconds, he shouted in horror: “Ghost!” His voice was hoarse and low, and it broke because he was too frightened.

Last night, Li Hai had been hiding in the corner of the wall farthest from the door. The phantoms that entered the ward were only focused on fighting Gao Hexuan and ignored him. Gao Hexuan held on to the end, so Li Hai was not attacked by the phantoms.

Li Hai’s words startled Xia Ruize and the other two, and they looked at Li Hai at the same time.

“What’s wrong?”

Cheng Huaiqian asked in a puzzled tone.

“You two! Didn’t you two jump off the building? I saw it! I also saw ghosts! Lots and lots of ghosts!”

Li Hai was terrified and spoke incoherently. He jumped off the bed in a panic and rushed towards Gao Hexuan. Now only Gao, his fellow patient, could make him feel safe.

The situation was very clear. Li Hai, who did not “die” last night, also retained his memory. He remembered Xia Ruize and Cheng Huaiqian breaking the window to leave the ward, and also remembered Gao Hexuan fighting with the phantoms.

The three of them looked at each other and tacitly agreed that it would be better not to let ordinary people in, so Cheng Huaiqian raised his eyebrows and said in a nonchalant tone: “You had a nightmare, didn’t you?”

“No, no, I saw it with my own eyes! Xiao Gao, you testify for me! You saw it too!”

Li Hai was eager to shake Gao Hexuan for confirmation, but he saw a puzzled expression on Gao Hexuan’s face. Li Hai was stunned and looked at the windowsill again, but he saw that the window that should have been missing a piece was intact, and the bed and bedside table in the ward that should have been in a mess were also in place, no different from last night before going to bed.

Li Hai was completely furious. He stood there, doubting himself. Could it be that the scenes in his memory were really nightmares?

How could that dream be so real?!

After fooling Li Hai, the three continued their discussion.

Inspired, Xia Ruize immediately went to look through his own space. He took two things from the dean’s office, a pistol in the drawer and a golden letter of commitment locked in the safe.

But now these two things were not in his space. There were only six Blood phantom Fragments, one White phantom Fragment, a yellow low-grade special medicine and a yellow medium-grade spirit-exorcising stick that he opened from the treasure chest.

“We may really be dreaming at night…” Xia Ruize proposed a new guess: “Illusions can deceive people by what they see and feel, so there may be an attack method that can deceive people by their own memories.”

Xia Ruize clapped his hands and said excitedly:

“I should have thought of it earlier. The attack of the phantom directly affects the mental power. It is entirely possible that there are spirits in this mission world that are more powerful than the blood phantom, and their attack methods also directly affect the mental power.

For example, they pull us into the same dream, or dream world, and then attack us in it. This attack is so subtle that we fall for it without even realizing it, and think that what we see at night is real.

This explains why we always appear in the ward every morning and why there are no signs of fighting in the hospital, because what we see at night is really “fake” to a certain extent.

It’s terrifying to think that we stayed in the dream for an hour the day before yesterday and for two hours yesterday. If we continue to stay in the hospital and get attacked, it’s entirely possible that we’ll be trapped in the dream for longer periods of time, or even not be able to get out at all in the end.

Is it really okay to die in a dream? I don’t think so…”

After stopping to think for a while, Xia Ruize continued:

“Of course, the attack methods of the hidden enemy should also be limited. We are dragged into the dream and have a certain degree of autonomy. For example, we have the weapons we think we should have, and we really have the attack methods we think we should know. We even have the system we think we should have.

This explains why the images captured by the camera we saw last night were our actions at the time, because that was what we “thought” should be captured at the time. Of course, the video we see now is what the camera actually captured.

The most realistic part of the dream is probably the treasure chests that appear after killing some phantoms. The loot actually arrives in our space, which misled us and made us deny the idea of ​​dreams and false directions. “

As he spoke, Xia Ruize motioned to Gao Hexuan to check his own space. Gao Hexuan was surprised:

“Really? I used a lot of talisman paper last night and it was almost gone, but now I see that the space is still full!”

Xia Ruize’s conjecture gave the three people a new idea. They thought that the props consumed in the battle with the phantom were not actually consumed, and they thought that the things they took from the empty dean’s office were not really taken. In addition, the video showed that they slept in the hospital bed from beginning to end, so it seemed reasonable that they were actually dragged into a dream or spiritual world that was exactly the same as the real scene.

The three of them continued to expand their thinking, trying to come up with various hypotheses and verify them one by one, and once again ignored the doctors who came to make rounds. The doctors were also annoyed and had no good feelings towards such uncooperative patients, so they just said a few words and left.

However, what the doctors did not expect was that Li Hai, who had been very cooperative before, seemed distracted today and completely out of shape. He did not have the enthusiasm and trust in them that he had in the past two days.

The doctors were puzzled, so they tried to comfort Li Hai more gently.

Li Hai finally stammered that he felt that he didn’t sleep well at night and always had nightmares…

Before he could finish his words, five doctors began to comfort him:

“This is a side effect of taking special medicine and is a completely normal reaction.”

“Many patients have similar feedback. Don’t worry. It won’t have any other negative effects on your physical condition.”

“These negative effects will disappear after you take the medicine for a week.”

…

Xia Ruize and the other two watched as Li Hai gradually calmed down under the doctor’s comfort, attributing all memories of last night to nightmares. They were interested in the doctor’s statement “take the medicine for a full week”.

The time limit for this main mission was to survive for eight days. What would happen after taking the medicine for a week?

The main mission required them to stay in Aardman Hospital for five days and then escape quickly.Was it because if they stayed any longer, they may never be able to escape again?

Xia Ruize calculated in his mind and came to a bold guess that if they were pulled into the dream world tonight, they might have to fight in it for four hours before they could get out.

They hid the medicine brought by the nurse again. Out of caution, they did not want to take the medicine and food provided by the hospital. But it was certain that there must be something else in the hospital that was secretly affecting them.

The time periods for fresh air ventilation on each floor were rotated every day. Today, the patients on the fourth floor of the inpatient building took the turn to go to the garden to relax from 10 to 11 a.m.

When Xia Ruize and Cheng Huaiqian walked out of the ward side by side, they immediately saw Zhao Tonggang and Wang Huan standing at the stairs waiting with serious expressions.

Wang Huan waved to the three men vigorously and they all jumped up. After they met, they didn’t say much in the narrow corridor. When they reached the corner of the garden, Wang Huan asked eagerly:

“Three little brothers, do you have any memory of last night? Do you know what we encountered last night?”

Xia Ruize knew this because the vertical distance of the three floors was within his monitoring range. He saw the three people hiding in the archive room hold out for the first hour, and then probably thought the battle was over, so they relaxed a little, and the phantom found a breakthrough and killed Zhao Tonggang. After that, Wang Huan and the bald boy were killed one after another.

Wang Huan and Zhao Tonggang lost their memories of last night due to death, but they still had memories of the day before and knew that they must have taken some action last night, so they asked Xia Ruize and the other two to verify it.

Xia Ruize did not hide anything and told them directly:

“You three acted together last night. We don’t know the details, but the battle last night lasted for two hours, which was longer than the day before, so…”