When the three of them returned to the ward, it was already half past six.
The flat floors and aisles we passed were empty, and things were dim in the thin morning light. We met no patients or nurses along the way.
Sun Dekuan put Lu Zimo on the hospital bed, returned to his own hospital bed, and sat down heavily.
The two of them looked at the empty bed left by Huang Xiaofei against the wall, and they were in a trance for a moment.
Three days into the dungeon, the first death finally appeared, not from a ghost, but from strife between players...
Even though everyone is more or less involved in the conspiracy, the sadness of the rabbit's death and the fox's death still grows uncontrollably.
Qisi stayed up all night, and the moment he entered the room, he finally felt exhausted.
He yawned sadly and walked straight to the corner of the room.
The corner where several blue frogs had died once again gave birth to a new blue frog, squatting down quietly and dignifiedly, with two palm-sized pools of blood under its body condensing into a strange black-purple color.
Chisi threw a towel to the frog's head and covered its eyes.
After waiting for two seconds and seeing that there was no unnecessary reaction from it, Qiss directly took the towel and stuffed it into the backpack in the toolbar. He held the destiny pocket watch and counted for a full minute before taking it out.
The frog's belly bulged and puffed, and its bulging eyes glared angrily at the black-haired young man who pinched its back.
Very good and energetic. It seems that the backpack can store living things.
Satisfied, Qisi threw the frog into his backpack again and stored it in the inventory.
“Cherish food, avoid waste, and you must finish breakfast!”
In the corridor, the nurse's shouts gradually became closer and clearer from a distance; followed closely by the "gurgling" sound of the dining car pushing forward and the messy footsteps.
When the players first entered the door two minutes ago, the hospital was still deserted and silent, but now it is operating hurriedly and slowly like a giant creature that has come alive from slumber. stand up.
The people and objects walking back and forth seemed to grow out of the ground out of thin air.
Sun Dekuan patted his fat face: "I'm not telling you that the food delivery is not on time. It was delivered at 6:01 yesterday, and it's already 6:30 today..."
Qisi walked towards the door that had not yet been closed, and looked deep into the corridor with half-closed eyes.
White shadows were rushing back and forth among the steaming corridors, making people think of the neon lights flying in the sky in the city at night.
Chis suddenly remembered a theoretical hypothesis he had seen before: the state of certain things will collapse at the moment of observation, and the state of some things depends on the observation of the conscious body.
After the copy of "Double Happiness Town" ended, during the conversation in the game space, Qi mentioned something about quantum mechanics.
Although He used a joking tone, Qisi inevitably paid more attention to the relevant information, and then found... that he couldn't understand it at all, and 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 Zis from classifying issues with similar characteristics from the mechanics of weird games and focusing on them.
For example, how to fix the dungeon time and live broadcast time without occupying the real time flow rate; another example is dungeons that combine multiple times and spaces like Red Maple Leaf Boarding School and Frog Hospital. , what are the timeline and event occurrence nodes based on.
In the dream the night before, Cheng An used means to help him and Lin Chen establish a conscious connection, and on what principle...
"Brother Cheng, having said that, if they find that Huang Xiaofei is missing, What should we do if we don’t answer well? Will the failure rate increase collectively?” Sun Dekuan kept nagging.
The nurse pushing the dining cart had already arrived at the door. She stacked three bowls of tadpole soup in plastic cans and handed them to Qiss.
Qisi took it steadily, returned to the room, and placed the soups one by one on the bedside table.
"First of all, 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 something happened to Huang Xiaofei. Finally, since the failure rate has not increased now, there is no reason to settle the score later."
The known failure rate is a mechanism imposed by the weird game, and is linked to whether the dean notices something is wrong with the player. However, the narration information provided can all be inferred from the player's perspective...
Combining what Cheng An said about the deal with the gods, Qisi can basically determine that the failure rate is not so much about punishing the players as it is about giving them incentives and warnings.
Prevent players from showing inappropriate behavior and affecting the plan of a certain existence; give players a sense of urgency and encourage players to actively explore; give players reminders to interfere with players' decisions to a certain extent...
< br>Even, it cultivates players' hostility and fear towards the dean.
It is understandable and in line with interests to incite players to assume that he is a "malicious NPC" without seeing the dean.
Everything in the world is nothing but good things come and good things go. No matter how complicated the situation is, analyzing it from the perspective of interests can always clarify the numerous clues.
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 a chess player take the initiative to brush his pieces off the chessboard?
Of course, Zisi will not tell others these inferences.
"Huh? My failure rate really hasn't increased?" Sun Dekuan looked at his unchanging failure rate, counted the time on his fingers, and felt a little relieved.
He asked again: "How did they know that Huang Xiaofei was dead? I wonder if 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 the deal?" Sun Dekuan clapped his hands, "We are messing around in his territory, and he knows it, so he suffered a lot..."
Qi Si suddenly stood up. Come, walk to Lu Zimo's bed and pull out the towel from 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 been the third day, and no difficult ghosts have come to the door yet. , It just shows that the dean is happy to see the results of our behavior."
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 directly at Qisi's inhumane behavior, and his eyes drifted to the gray-white sky outside the window: "Ah? He is happy to see the results? What should we do next? Are we still causing trouble?"
< br>"Continue with the plan and try to enter the dean's office to search today. There is a high probability that there will be important clues there."
Qisi let go of his hand and let Lu Zimo bounce up, then lowered his arm and pulled him Press the bed board back and release it...
It's... quite fun.
"Huh? How do we get in?" Sun Dekuan blinked twice, "I thought about it, but I didn't see any office or anything like that..."
"No, but there is. I forgot to tell you about this message." Qisi turned his head and looked at Sun Dekuan, with a low tone of memory, "Yesterday the system prompted me to tell me that the dean would take the initiative to see me today..." "I think, instead of waiting for others, Come to me, why don't I go to him?"
When Qisi said this, his thoughts inevitably touched on a question.
If Frog Hospital really does not fall under the jurisdiction of weird games, then the predictive prompts 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 it is seen with one's own eyes, it may not be true...
Chis is a skeptic and knows it. His paranoia of being persecuted is so severe that it is appalling.
It is not wise to engage in infighting in a place where the exact answer cannot be obtained. He suppressed the 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. Passed - Cheng Xiaoyu is easy to cheat, isn’t he? ”
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.
What he saw, a flash of panic flashed in his eyes, and his pupils were fixed on 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 appeared quietly, embedded stiffly in the door frame. The eye sockets on his pale face were sunken, and there were two blank holes inside.
“Sister?”
"Huang...Huang Xiaofei!"
Lu Zimo and Sun Dekuan exclaimed at the same time.
Lu Zimo could not 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. There was a slight chill on his body, and a white mist seemed to be substantial.
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 straight at the ceiling.
Sun Dekuan asked in a trembling voice: "What...what is going on? She...why did she come back?"
Qisi held the destiny pocket watch and walked step by step to Huang Xiaofei. , looked down for a while, but did not see the scar left by the pendulum passing through her chest on her heart.
Obviously, this Huang Xiaofei is not the corpse 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 the refresh at six in the morning, which is similar to the reason why the blue frog appears. As for whether it is..."
Chis said calmly, cursing the pendulum to pass through Passing Huang Xiaofei's throat, the blood splashed wet the bed sheets: "We will see if she will be refreshed again tomorrow."
In a sense, Huang Xiaofei killed Lan repeatedly in the past few days. Sexy frog, Qisi killed her twice in a row today, it really seemed like some kind of absurd fateful reincarnation.
The humor and drama behind it were impressive enough. Qisi twitched the corners of his mouth and smiled, but he couldn't help but think of the frog's curse, and his smile fell away.
Two players have died at the Green Frog Hospital, why didn’t Lin Chen mention the refresh?
The situation of the deceased returning to the world is strange and weird, and it cannot be ignored unconsciously. Is Lin Chen hiding something, or is the mechanism different?
I went to look for a passage at the bottom of the pond last night, but came back in vain, which shows that there is still a key puzzle piece missing from the completion of the reasoning.
All violations may be part of the puzzle.
Sun Dekuan didn’t think so much at all.
He first saw Huang Xiaofei return to the world, then discovered that the latter was an unconscious ghost, and then witnessed Qisi killing a woman again. His emotions were rising and falling uncontrollably, and he was almost numb.
He stared at a certain place in front of him helplessly, watching Qisi put away the bloody pendulum, dusted off the blood beads on the pendulum, walked towards the door, turned around and waved to him.
He shuffled to keep up, his soul seemed to have flown to the sky, and only his body was dragged along by inertia.
The two of them passed by the operating area where cries and corpses were everywhere. They took twists and turns in the corridors and walked quickly along the route they had already walked twice. They walked on the flat floor where the morgue and kitchen were separated. Stop.
Just like yesterday at this time, Qisi took out a few candies from his backpack and held them up: "Cheng Xiaoyu, if you don't come over, uncle won't give you candies."
He was covered in blood. The bloated boy emerged from the shadows, tilted his head and asked: "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. I happened to take sick leave and when I was free, he asked me to play some games with you."
"I've never heard my father talk about you. Your surname is also Cheng, and my father and I are also surnamed Cheng..."
"Oh, it's quite a coincidence. Your father used to joke that we were from the same family. Has he really never told you about me? It seems that he doesn’t bring anything at work home..."
"Hehe, I want to eat sweets now, uncle. Give me these candies?”
“My uncle bought the candies himself, but it’s okay to give them to you. How about playing a game with your uncle first?”
"Okay! You said, 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! Tell me what kind of game it is.”
The development of things is no different from the previous day, like a simple copy of a poor script.
On the system interface, familiar prompt text pops up smoothly.
[Use the skill "Soul Contract" on Cheng Xiaoyu and urge him to participate in the next game seriously and diligently]
Two golden ten-sided dice were thrown from the void and rotated rapidly in the dark palace of thinking. .
Ten seconds later, the dice freeze, revealing "8" and "3".
83 points, greater than 74, exactly the same result.
[The contract has been signed. This contract is guaranteed by the rules of the world and cannot be violated by any existence]
Qi Si waved away the bright red contract scroll, and Cheng Xiaoyu showed a gentle smile: "The game I want to play with you is 'play the dean', and the first task is to take us to the dean's office." ( End of chapter)