Chapter 227: One Flew Over the Lunatic Asylum (3)
What is this, do you welcome the newcomer’s show of strength? Are you Elizabeth still a college fraternity?
Li Sheng watched without changing his expression as all the bloody handprints gradually faded away. It wasn't that he didn't want to run,
but that in just half a minute, his whole body was stiff and cold, and his hands and feet were numb and unable to move.
Especially the brain, it felt like it was soaked in ice water, with bursts of tingling pain.
As the bloody handprint disappeared, all the pain receded like a tide.
“There are thousands of handprints, with different shapes, sizes, hand shapes, and even severed fingers. Maybe the system forced me to stand still and watch the entire CG video to remind me , these palms come from the victims in the hospital?
Well. At least I can be sure that this script mission does have supernatural elements."
Li Sheng thought about it for a while, and couldn't figure it out. No longer thinking about it, he jumped closer to the outside of the corridor and looked at the window as if he was half-smiling.
The window itself uses relatively thick laminated glass, which has good sound insulation effect. Through the light in the corridor, you can vaguely see that the entire main hospital building is U-shaped, with a reinforced concrete structure and four floors on the ground.
Except for the lights on the first and second floors, the third and fourth floors were completely dark, with no trace of human activity visible. There are no stars in the night sky.
In the middle of the U-shaped main building, there is a colorful flower bed.
"European heather, American dianthus, bougainvillea, and cypress. Judging from the flower types and flowering seasons, the current time should be autumn and winter, which just corresponds to December in the newspaper.
In addition "Having the leisure to take care of the flower bed so delicately proves that this hospital is indeed rich."
Even though the player panel is now sealed, Li Sheng, who has maintained the multi-line brain method for a long time, instinctively. Multi-threaded thinking is enabled.
While collecting information, analyzing clues, and thinking about countermeasures, my thoughts are wandering.
The hill behind his school in the real world is filled with heather for landscaping and greening.
This plant is good everywhere. It is cold-resistant, drought-resistant and barren-resistant. It is green all year round and can absorb dust. However, the smell when it blooms is really unflattering.
Especially in the mid-summer season. Downstairs in the boys' dormitory, thousands of flowers are blooming, and the smell of heather rushes straight to the forehead, which is almost overwhelming for the old baby.
Clang.
Li Sheng tried to hit the glass window with his elbow, but it couldn't be broken at all, and a system prompt immediately popped up in front of him, [The window is motionless and cannot be opened]
It's really a classic setting.
Pocking his lips, Li Sheng stopped elbowing, and based on the principle of saving effort, he jumped against the wall and explored the first floor of the hospital.
Thanks to the rough material of the uniform, it will not fall on the tile floor
Most of the doors, including the main entrance of the hospital, are closed. If you try to hit it, the door will not move. , cannot be opened] standard prompt.
There are only three differences.
The first is the pharmacy, which shows that a pharmacy key is required.
The second is the elevator room. You can enter and exit at will, and you can take the elevator directly to other floors.
Li Sheng did not enter the car for the time being because he was worried that there were still clues that had not been explored on this floor and that he would not be able to get back down after taking the elevator up.
The third is the medical record room.
"The medical record room is used to store patient information, including diagnosis certificates, admission records, laboratory reports, hospitalization records, etc. There may be information about the role I play in it."
Li Sheng looked through the restraints Take it easy and gently turn the door handle with your elbow.
Click.
The wooden door opened in response, and Li Sheng's heart sank.
According to the conventions of horror games, this kind of room that looks like it hides key clues at first glance and can be easily opened has a high probability of hiding scare elements or even death traps.
Sure enough, the moment he opened the door, there was a feeling of airflow behind his neck, as if something was breathing into his neck.
Li Sheng did not turn his head, but stared at the reflection on the metal door handle and looked behind him.
It was not an illusion. Behind him, there was really a human-shaped shadow standing upside down on the ceiling, close to the back of his head, breathing towards his collar.
As if noticing that Li Sheng had discovered it, the shadow let out a silvery bell-like laughter, stepped on the ceiling against gravity and ran away, disappearing around the corner of the corridor.
“Same as the bloody handprints just now, mainly to scare people?
But it’s also possible that it’s really a death trap, and if I turn my head to look, my neck will be broken in an instant. "
Li Sheng silently turned the door handle and popped out the secondary latch to prevent the door from closing.
Then he jumped all the way to the corner of the corridor and did not see the shadow.< br>
Then he returned to the original path and opened the door of the medical record room.
The light in the medical record room was on. It was much larger than the confinement room and was lined with a large number of metal filing cabinets. All locked up.
On the wall of the room, there is a brand new photo, which is a group photo of all the staff of St. Elizabeth Mental Hospital, more than two hundred people in total.
The vast majority of the faces are blurry and difficult to distinguish. Only three faces are relatively clear and have corresponding names behind the photos.
They are the attending doctor Dawson - a tall, middle-aged white man with a sunny smile.
President Pella - a white woman with a beautiful face.
Head nurse Ratched - a white woman with a dignified expression, cold eyes and a strong body.
"In a whole group photo, only the faces of these three people are clear. It clearly tells the player that these three people are very important. They are either key NPCs or the boss at the end of the level."
While Li Sheng was thinking, the medical record There was a rustling crawling sound in the ventilation duct of the room.
No, come again?
Li Sheng's eyes twitched and he quickly looked around the room, looking for something that could be used as a weapon.
Cang Dang, Cang Dang.
The crawling sound in the ventilation duct was getting closer and closer. Li Sheng, who lacked self-defense tools, immediately bent down and hid behind the filing cabinet near the door, watching what happened.
“Hey!”
A greasy young male voice sounded from the ventilation duct, “Why can’t this baffle be opened?”
Humans that can communicate?
Li Sheng squinted his eyes and looked through the gaps between the filing cabinets.
I saw a vague figure sitting in the ventilation duct, struggling to stretch out a finger from the vent baffle to reach the screw in the corner of the baffle.
"Damn, I forgot about the whole hospital, but the ventilation duct baffle in the medical record room has screws."
The figure cursed, retracted his fingers that were not long enough, and suddenly his eyes were sharp, He noticed Li Sheng behind the filing cabinet and raised his voice: "William, is that you? Stop hiding, I saw you."
"How did you know it was me."
Li Sheng stood up and asked.
"Nonsense, I watched with my own eyes this morning as you were kidnapped and thrown into the solitary room with your eyes closed."
The figure curled his lips and said: "Can you help me to unscrew the screws of the vent baffle?" , so I can get out of here."
Judging from the tone, this man seems to be quite familiar with the role played by Li Sheng.
Li Sheng jumped out from behind the filing cabinet, still probing, "Look, my whole body is tied up and I can't free my hands. How can I help you." "Let's think of a way. Don’t you claim that you have been wandering on the streets since you were a child, have shined shoes, sold newspapers, been a car repair apprentice, and driven airplanes and tanks, and are proficient in all kinds of skills? br>
Damn, this William is so thick-skinned that he is almost catching up with me.
Seeing that the other party showed no hostility, Li Sheng decided to help.
Looking around the room, there was neither a screwdriver nor a crowbar. The ventilation duct is quite high, and you can barely reach it while standing on your desk, and there is no way to force it open with your elbow.
Then only
Li Sheng had an idea and spit out the thick tape that had been attached to his mouth from the eye socket of the hood, and stuck it on the screw in the corner of the vent.
Then bite the screw with your teeth, rely on the adhesive tape, and slowly turn the screw.
It took seven or eight minutes to remove the three screws. The man behind the vent couldn't wait any longer, stretched out his hand to push open the baffle, and jumped down.
Landing on the desk with a rather elegant front flip.
"Ouch!"
Li Sheng's eyebrows are high. This dear man is not a human in the literal sense, but a big rat walking upright on two legs.
It is about 1.6 meters tall, has sharp teeth and a sharp mouth, short and gray hair, black eyes rolling around, revealing cunning and agility, and a meter-long tail sweeping behind it.
What’s even weirder is that this big mouse is wearing a blue and white hospital gown with his name embroidered on its chest.
"Skavin?"
Li Sheng read out these words painfully, and the big mouse stretched out, "What did you ask me to do."
"Nothing."
Li Sheng's mind was racing. He didn't say, "There's a rat in the house. Hide the rat poison and don't let it eat it." Or, "Brother, why are you a rat?" What are you doing?”
“Come here and look at my files. Fans will come to the hospital to see me in a few days. I have to keep an eye on my files to prevent those doctors from secretly smearing me.”
Ratman curled his lips, "Even if I have kleptomania, it is the number one kleptomania in the world.
Don't forget that I was stealing top-secret FBI files in the Edgar Hoover Building. Those who were caught are different from those little thieves."
The Rat Man paused, looked at Fan Li Sheng, and then took out a detachable surgery bag from his jacket pocket. Blade, "Stand still, I'll help you get out of trouble."
The sharp blade cut across the uniform, and with the snapping sound of threads breaking, Li Sheng's hands and feet were finally freed and had room to move.
‘So the reward for helping the Rat Man come out of the ventilation duct is to get rid of the control of the restraint suit. ’
Li Sheng had an epiphany and quickly took off his heavy restrictive clothes. He found that he was also wearing a blue and white hospital gown with the name "William" embroidered on the chest.
After helping Li Sheng get out of his restraints, Rat Man put the blade back into the plastic bag, hummed a tune and jumped off the desk, lay down in front of the filing cabinet, took out a thin wire, and picked the lock.
His movements were extremely skillful and professional, and he looked like a repeat offender for many years.
Li Sheng took off his hood, watched from the side, and asked doubtfully: "Where are the doctors, nurses, and patients in the hospital?"
"They are all in their own rooms, isn't it like this every night?"< br>
The rat man's tone was brisk, and he pried open a filing cabinet, took out a brown paper bag from it, and threw it to Li Sheng, "Num, your file."
Identity information It's easier than you think. Li Sheng caught the brown paper bag in surprise. After opening it, there were several pages inside.
Large swaths of the paper are blacked out, and only a few are barely readable.
Name: William
Gender: Male
Age: Seventeen years old
Sickness: Schizophrenia (hallucinations, delusions, confused thinking, no aggressive behavior)
"Huh?"
The rat man who was rummaging through the cabinets for information seemed to have noticed something, and turned to stare at Li Sheng, "Don't you have green eyes? Why did your eyes turn blue?"
The photo attached to the paper information shows that William is a A handsome young man with blond hair and green eyes,
But when Li Sheng took off his hood, the reflection in the glass window showed that he had blue eyes.
Some kind of clue? Or is it a hint of illness?
“Maybe I drank too much blueberry juice recently.”
Li Sheng laughed and ignored the topic, "By the way, brother, I want to explore the hospital now. Do you want to come with me? Or can you lend me your scalpel blade temporarily? I'll use it for self-defense "
"Exploring the hospital? What's there to do at night? It's easy to encounter dangers."
The Rat Man remained unmoved and still buried his head in the filing cabinet. "As for the blade. , It’s not that I can’t lend it to you, but you have to exchange it for chewing gum.
I can use it to pick locks.”
Friends who often pick locks know that when faced with some low-level protection. When opening the lock, you can put soft chewing gum into the lock core of the door lock, then press it firmly with iron wire to open the lock core, and finally use the iron wire to turn the lock hole to complete the unlocking.
‘Is this a branch line? Chewing gum for scalpel blades. '
Li Sheng knew clearly, "Where can I get chewing gum?"
"Go to the second floor and look for it. There is a little kid in the children's clinic who cries every day. He likes to eat it. There should be some chewing gum in stock."
After that, the rat man concentrated on the locks of each filing cabinet.
Unfortunately, except for Li Sheng's own files, the paper materials in other file bags in the cabinet are all black, and no useful clues can be collected.
"This is actually the system's help in eliminating useless information. Otherwise, there are so many files that I wouldn't be able to read them all until dawn."
Li Sheng thought for a moment and looked at the physique of the rat man brother.
Although this rat man is only 1.6 meters tall, half a head shorter than Li Sheng, the muscles under his fur are really well developed, and he may not be able to beat him in a real fight.
Li Sheng decisively gave up the idea of "attacking the Rat Man to snatch the scalpel blade" and instead used language to harass, "Brother Rat, in fact, I am also a rat, and we were in the same family five hundred years ago. How about you first Lend me the blade, and I’ll give you the chewing gum later?”
The Rat Man was unmoved, “Don’t bother me looking for the file.”
"Brother Rat, I have a pair of rat poison, which is good for your health."
"Don't disturb me looking for files."
"Your next sentence is, don't disturb me looking for files! "
"Don't bother me looking for files. "
No matter how Li Sheng teases him, the Rat Man is like an NPC in a video game who has nothing to say at a certain stage of the plot and will only repeat one sentence. .
After playing like this for a while, Li Sheng finally decided that he couldn't get any more useful clues, so he left the medical records room and headed to the second floor.
(End of this chapter)