"Really?" Cao Ran asked excitedly, her eyes wide.
"Yes, she's still alive and her breathing is relatively stable," the doctor said softly. "However, it would be best if she stayed here for a few more days, otherwise her condition could still worsen."
However, Lu Shi refused the doctor's request first: "I'm sorry, we have to go now."
He entered the operating room and found that Sherry had regained consciousness.
She glanced at Lu Shi across from her and chuckled softly, "Thank you. I heard everything you were saying."
“I just did what I wanted to do,” Lu Shi said calmly. “We have to get out of here.”
“Okay.” Sherry stood up with difficulty. “But can you tell me where this place is?”
"Let's talk outside," Ye Bugui said sternly. "We can't wait any longer; it's already too late."
On the way back, none of them spoke, seemingly lost in thought about what they should do once they got back.
After they left the eerie and gloomy underground hospital, they realized a problem.
"How are we going to get back?" Zi Ling asked, puzzled, as she stood on the street.
They had just walked directly into this world through the corridor, but now they didn't know how to get out.
At first glance, there wasn't even a single exit.
"Are we not going to get out of here?" Shirley asked worriedly, leaning against Cao Ran, looking extremely weak.
“Let’s split up and search,” Ye Bugui said immediately. “Don’t panic. We’ll definitely find a way out. We can’t just stay trapped inside like this.”
Lu Shi thought for a moment and decided to take a walk around the streets.
He then stopped next to the trash can.
Ye Bugui was the person walking with Lu Shi. When he saw Lu Shi stop next to the trash can, he touched his nose, somewhat unable to believe Lu Shi's thoughts:
"You're not planning to crawl out of here, are you?"
“Don’t you think it’s the most suspicious one on the whole street?” Lu Shi said softly.
"Do you know what it is?" Ye Bugui seemed to be planning to give our Demon Lord a proper lesson on what a trash can is.
"I know." Ye Bugui had seen the trash can after his first trip to the New World: "Do you remember when we first came to the corridor, this trash can was even moved?"
"Alright." Ye Bugui took a deep breath and resigned himself to his fate: "You've convinced me."
Meanwhile, the three female players also wandered around the hospital, but still found nothing.
When they returned, they heard Lu Shi's thoughts.
As always, his ideas are wildly imaginative, things that normal people would never dare to think of.
"Trash can?" Sherry bit her lip, her heart filled with intense inner turmoil.
"Hmm," Lu Shi said calmly.
The long-haired demon lord is as beautiful as a flower; even standing next to a trash can, she exudes the beauty of a celebrity street style photo.
But if this celebrity wanted to crawl into a trash can, even the most die-hard fans would question whether he had lost his mind.
However, after a series of events, the three female players now trust Lu Shi more than even the most die-hard fans.
“Alright, I believe you,” Cao Ran said immediately.
“You’ve already proven to me that your ideas are correct,” Zi Ling said somewhat helplessly. “I support you. It’s just crawling into a trash can, it’s nothing to be afraid of.”
Yes, what difficulty is a trash can compared to the goal of survival!
The moment the trash can was opened, everyone present changed their expressions.
To everyone's surprise, the trash can was filled with black garbage bags.
If it were just a black garbage bag, it wouldn't be so scary. What's scary is that the garbage bag is also emitting a rotting, putrid stench.
"What's in here?" Cao Ran frowned and quietly took a step back.
"Why don't we take it apart and see?" Lu Shi said, and then immediately started taking action.
Then, to everyone's surprise, he had already opened the trash bag, picked it up, and walked around in front of everyone:
"There is a stillborn baby inside."
Perhaps Lu Shi's tone was too casual, so the players didn't think that the garbage bag containing a dead baby was such a terrible thing.
“That’s quite normal,” Ye Bugui said. “Do you remember what the receptionist said? Some people regret having their babies. They might just leave the babies here.”
The three female players felt a chill run down their spines; they had thought they had witnessed the most terrifying aspect of this dungeon today.
But after hearing Ye Bugui's words, they once again felt how terrifying and disgusting this underground hospital was.
“I think,” Lu Shi said, wrapping the trash bag neatly and putting it back in the trash can, “we should go.”
The moment Lu Shi found the stillborn baby, he was certain that this would be the right path for them to leave this world.
So Lu Shi climbed into the trash can without hesitation.
There was no space left in the trash can, but the moment Lu Shi entered, all the trash bags piled up inside disappeared, and he entered a completely dark space.
Then the space began to warm up, and then Lu Shi slid down like he was on a slide. The moment he stopped, Lu Shi found himself sitting on the bright red carpet.
From Ye Bugui's perspective, after Lu Shi lay down in the trash can without hesitation, he seemed to have vanished into thin air, leaving no trace.
At that moment, they all understood that Lu Shi had guessed correctly once again.
So the remaining few people didn't hesitate any longer and lined up to walk into the trash can, leaving behind a group of stunned passersby.
"Oh my god, am I seeing a ghost?!"
...
Back on the third floor, they exchanged a glance, and Ye Bugui suddenly suggested:
"Should we go check out the third room?"
"I think I'll pass." Zi Ling said, but found her voice was hoarse. "I just want some peace and quiet right now."
"It's rare to see you so negative." Cao Ran wasn't as aloof as before; it was probably because they had spent more time together and become more familiar with each other.
“There’s nothing I can do,” Zi Ling said with a wry smile. “I don’t even know how to clear this dungeon now. Maybe I shouldn’t have chosen an A-rank dungeon.”
"By the way," Lu Shi glanced at Xue Li lying not far away and asked softly, "Why did you come to the third floor alone this morning?"
At this moment, everyone looked at Sherry, waiting for her answer.
Sherry let out a breath before saying, "Last night I checked my phone again and the nightmare continued. But this time I don't think I ever really woke up. It felt like I was being driven by something the whole time; it told me to go to the third floor, and so I went."
Sherry touched her back again, where scabs had formed: "I suspect I was accidentally possessed by something evil."
"This dungeon is indeed very dangerous," Cao Ran said with some worry. "I don't know how Han Baobao is going to clear it now."
"No need to rush. At least we already know our roommate's story, right? Maybe we can start from there." Ye Bugui put his hands in his pockets and walked downstairs on his own.
“You mean,” Lu Shi followed, standing next to Ye Bugui, and said softly, “that we should go and question our roommate?”
“It’s not about interrogating them,” Ye Bugui said softly, “but about telling them what happened in the past.”
"What are you two talking about?" Sherry walked up behind them and asked, puzzled. "Didn't the rules tell us not to get close to our roommates?"
“At first, I thought our roommates were on our side.” Ye Bugui had already reached the door of 206. “But now I realize that they are actually more dangerous than us. They were attracted here by the wronged spirits.”
“That’s right.” Lu Shi nodded. Once this point was understood, the logic of the instance would make sense: “Our roommates are innocent in a sense. But their deceased brothers and sisters don’t think so.”
"Whether it was fate or the pull of resentment, they all returned here, to the place where their brothers and sisters were buried."
Lu Shi's words made the female players feel both upset and forced to accept the reality.
Even those male infants born in place of female infants are not the murderers; the murderers are their parents and their ignorant thinking.
“So,” Zi Ling had figured it out, “what we need to do isn’t actually kill our roommates. It’s about getting rid of the vengeful spirits haunting them? No, those baby girls are innocent too; they are victims!”
“You’ve misunderstood,” Lu Shi said, a smirk playing on his lips, his gaze seemingly already drifting to the first floor. The avant-garde man who was sitting there immediately crossed his arms. “Every wrong has its perpetrator, and every debt its debtor. Isn’t the culprit the people from that hospital?”
"In this copy, the concrete representation is the hospital's nurses and doctors, which are also the receptionists and waiters."
Cao Ran understood, and she was filled with despair: "In the end, don't we still have to kill the waiter? Isn't this boss unsolvable?"
“If we don’t kill him,” Ye Bugui said coldly, “then we’ll aid and abet the evildoer and kill our roommate. That’s also a way to pass the level. It’s up to you to choose.”
A note from the author:
Thank you so much for your support! I will continue to work hard!
Chapter 45
☪ Good Family Apartment 20
Would things be better if I died?
At this moment, whether it was the players inside the instance or the spectators outside, everyone forgot that Lu Shi and Ye Bugui were the newcomers.
"I..." Cao Ran was about to speak when she heard the door open.
Han Baobao stared ahead with her two big eyes, not understanding why the atmosphere between everyone had suddenly become so strange.
Just this morning, they were a group of good teammates who helped each other and offered each other ideas.
Did I miss something?
Han Baobao is probably the most timid girl in this instance, but she actually ran up to Ye Bugui, who doesn't seem very friendly.
To make up for their huge height difference, Han Baobao had to stand on tiptoe and then said fiercely to Ye Bugui:
"Brother Ye, I don't know what happened between you two, but if you bullied Cao Ran, I won't let you get away with it! I'll side with my own people, not with what's right!"
"Baby, don't talk nonsense!"
Cao Ran genuinely found Ye Bugui to be a terrifying person.
Although Lu Shi's title of Demon Lord doesn't sound like that of a good person.
But after spending time with him, she felt that Lu Shi should be a celestial being, as he was upright, kind, and possessed strong masculine virtues.
However, Ye Bugui, this man of unknown origin who claimed to be a powerful boss, instilled a sense of fear in Cao Ran.
She even suspected that if Lu Shi hadn't been there, this person might have gone out of the instance alone, without even glancing at them.