Free Web NovelChapter 463: Chapter 80: The Story Club Where Suspicions Gather
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Adding a new option... This indeed made Bai Wu’s eyes light up.
It was like the game had gained more freedom.
After leaving the room, Bai Wu found the reagent room empty, with the black reagent taken by someone. He planned to take advantage of the free activity period to sneak into the archives.
But the archives were completely locked.
There was no longer any place left to explore on the third floor.
"The game is just a game... Once you fail to complete the exploration within the designated time, many things become unexplorable."
Reluctant to use a key to open the door to the archives, Bai Wu did not linger on this floor.
He went back to the staircase and headed to the first floor.
Upon reaching the first floor, Bai Wu found the hospital doors locked, facing a new choice—
[The hospital is quiet, and the nurse from yesterday seems to have disappeared. You don’t know what happened to her, but you don’t have time to wonder, you need to hurry before the sunlight arrives—]
[A: Look for the number four Hei Wu patient. He seems to be on the negative first floor.]
[B: The dead are often more valuable than the living, you want to find the morgue.]
[C: Open the hospital doors and leave this place early before daybreak.]
[D: You still decide to open all the ward doors.]
[E: Act on your own. (Once this option is chosen, it will not be triggered subsequently.)]
Leaving the hospital was out of the question, as the virus issue had not been thoroughly investigated. The value of the dead versus the living would be judged at the right time.
Option E appeared to be the free-choice option. After some thought, Bai Wu still decided not to take autonomous action in this scene for now.
He chose A.
The number four Hei Wu patient could sense the farm, and Lu En from the special ward came from the farm.
Bai Wu always felt the content hidden in this script was a form of revelation. He had already received a revelation from Lu En, and now he needed another.
Bai Wu proceeded to the even darker negative first floor.
Fortunately, his vision was superior, allowing him to see the outlines of some doors, and his eyes prevented him from wasting time.
However, inside a room storing "organs," Bai Wu still stopped.
The doctor’s experiments were perverted, having collected many organs from the people of Sheng Country.
Severed hands, pickled livers, eyeballs, ears, and even genitals, all arranged according to size and specifications, were horrifyingly systematic.
All these organs and viscera were soaked in transparent containers, immersed in some liquid.
However, in one container, due to a part being too small, it seemed like nothing was inside, as if it were just a container of liquid.
Bai Wu glanced at it, and his eyes aptly provided a note—
[Prayle’s Eye Sign: Some objects are quite small, you need "Enhanced Vision" to see clearly.]
Bai Wu didn’t know what this meant, and he did not linger in this perverted room. He stopped outside the room at the end of the hallway.
[The essence of the Hei Wu disease is the connection between distortion and distortion. The deeper a person is eroded by distortion, the stronger this connection becomes, and the person living in this room is such an individual.]
Bai Wu knocked on the door, very softly. There was no response. He knocked softly a few more times, and only after several attempts did the person inside speak weakly:
"Who is it..."
"Are you Pei Ju?"
"Who are you?"
"I’m Bai Wu, someone who has come to rescue you."
"Are you with that Dr. Liu? I won’t be fooled."
"You’ve contracted the Hei Wu disease, allowing you to see a place called ’Farm,’ where many children live, mostly from Sheng Country. They all wear patient outfits and have alphabetical tattoos on their hands. The Farm is surrounded by very high walls..."
Bai Wu began to describe the Farm in a low voice, not until he mentioned details that Pei Ju had never heard of did Pei Ju express his shock,
"How could you know?"
"I’ve been to that place. I come from Inside the Mist. I am from Sheng Country. I won’t harm you, and I’m not associated with the one surnamed Liu."
Bai Wu guessed that this surnamed Liu was the doctor who, though originally from Sheng Country, insisted on claiming to be from Meinan and colluded with Meinan people to oppress those from Sheng Country.
From Inside the Mist?
Pei Ju was immensely shocked. Had the Hei Wu already spread? He still had some doubts about Bai Wu, but the details Bai Wu revealed were too realistic.
He had never disclosed these details, and if Bai Wu were really one of the hospital’s people, it seems he could have used a more violent approach.
Thinking this, Pei Ju asked,
"How can you possibly come from Inside the Mist?"
"My time is limited. I can’t take you away now but I hope you can trust me. The place you’ve seen is somewhere Inside the Mist. I need you to tell me more details."
Pei Ju remained silent and did not speak.
Bai Wu said,
"You can choose to see me as an enemy, but that Dr. Liu doesn’t believe what you say either. He thinks what you’ve seen is more interesting than what other Hei Wu patients have seen, but he just treats your experiences as jokes.
His greatest interest in you is extracting your serum to create viruses. Whether you speak or not, your fate will not change."
"But I hope more that you can see me as a glimmer of hope."
After finishing, Bai Wu did not speak immediately but waited patiently. About ten seconds later, Pei Ju spoke,
"What do you want to know?"
"Besides the Farm and those children, what else did you see?" Bai Wu asked.
"Monsters... The children were fed to the monster."
"Does the monster have its own will? Has it ever spoken to people?"
"No... Whenever it senses someone approaching, it extends huge arms, with many mouths on those arms..."
Bai Wu did not interrupt Pei Ju, who recalled the monster with a voice filled with fear:
"In the shadow of the Hei Wu, you can see its huge form. The children close to the Hei Wu give up resistance and walk numbly towards the giant hand... Middle-aged men in white coats muttered ancient speech in a devout manner... The air was filled with the stench of blood and soil,"
Why does it feel like something out of Cthulhu? Bai Wu shook his head:
"Why does it need to consume those children?"
"I don’t know... I don’t know... All I know is... it needs to feed, to constantly feed..."
"Can the monster talk?"
"No..."
"The people in white coats, have they said anything you could understand?"
"No... I didn’t dare get too close..."
Bai Wu roughly understood some things. If the High Tower Seal was sealing the monster’s soul, then was the farm the monster’s body?
The body should be divided into many parts, according to the information from the sixth level, but perhaps
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From there on, Pei Ju kept talking about the monster, but without crucial leads, Bai Wu felt like he was busy for nothing.
He could only guess, such as eating those children from the Farm, which is probably like the monster in the sixth layer, needing to find Temporal Return and Ten Thousand Phantasmal Bodies by itself.
This might be some kind of compensatory behavior.
Although the creator of the High Tower was dead, the monster from the sixth layer lived, but the price it paid was also very heavy.
Its body, it appears, is in need of a substantial amount of "nourishment". Such matters were purely conjecture and could not be confirmed.
But Bai Wu still managed to obtain some useful information—
In Pei Ju’s narration, there was a woman in a nurse’s uniform, crying.
"Her child went missing, she wanted to find the child, but the people in white lab coats didn’t care, and made the woman forget about the matter..."
Bai Wu recalled that at the Causal Phone Booth in Jing Liu, he seemed to have encountered a similar situation—
A woman asking for her child to be saved.
But at that time, Bai Wu couldn’t carry out that task. The appearance of Jing Yi left Bai Wu with no time to investigate further.
However, thinking about it now, this could be a breakthrough, if... if the woman was still alive.
"Did you see anyone else? Like those with blurry outlines, god-like beings?"
"No more..."
It seemed that unlike the patients in the special ward, Pei Ju was just a regular Hei Wu patient, only sensing something on a farm.
Beyond that, there was nothing particularly special about Pei Ju.
Before leaving, Bai Wu asked one last question:
"If I want to take you all out of here, what do you think I should do?"
"Leave... The nurses are easy to deal with, but the doctors are troublesome, he is watching quietly somewhere, and if the doctor isn’t dealt with, you can never leave..."
Bai Wu then said:
"I take it this doctor is hard to deal with."
"Yes, he is a monster, he has developed a strength-enhancing drug, and his body has become abnormally strong... But this substance is extremely unstable, if it gets out... it will cause many deaths." Pei Ju spoke anxiously.
"How do you know?"
"Because many times... he has chosen people in front of me to inject the serum! He’s a pervert! A devil!"
"Shh, don’t get too excited, I will deal with him. But I need a little help."
Bai Wu had a hunch that if he dealt with the doctor, he would be able to clear this scenario. It wasn’t difficult, although the odds of choosing all the right options were very low, so low that no one had passed it so far, but for Bai Wu—
He had not yet encountered a very difficult choice.
"Help... I don’t know what help I can offer... Maybe you can take this chance now to take a look at that devil’s office."
[Pei Ju told you the location of the office, it’s on the other side of this floor, faced with this information, you decide—]
The choice appeared once again.
[A: Find a safe place before dawn.]
[B: Go see what’s in the office.]
There were only two options. Bai Wu immediately chose the second one.
"I’ll go have a look, and after dealing with the doctor, I will think of a way to save you."
He didn’t want to delay any longer and soon bid farewell to Pei Ju.
Along the way, Bai Wu wondered, where did the original owner of this story, this area, hear it from?
Why would someone convey messages to him through characters in a story?
What exactly are the two weapons in Denglin City?
With these questions in mind, he soon arrived at the doctor’s office.
The office was clean, with almost no files on the desk, and no significant records on the bookshelves.
But when Bai Wu opened a drawer, he found a gun, a blue pill, and a red pill.
Bai Wu guessed that there would be another multiple-choice question here, but after waiting a few seconds, he realized there was none.
So decisively, he swept everything from the drawer in one swift motion.
Of course, in this short period, Bai Wu still took a moment to observe the three items.
The hint from Prayle’s Eye popped up immediately—
[A gun loaded with bullets is used for torturing prisoners but also possesses significant lethality. In this scenario, a well-placed shot can let you clear the stage with one bullet.]
Well... a nice item, though just an ordinary gun in reality. Bai Wu looked forward to the red pill and was even more pleasantly surprised.
[Red pill, able to instantly restore all your health and stamina in reality as well.]
"I always love multiple-choice questions."
In reality, to instantly regain all stamina and health, this reminded Bai Wu of a bug-level recovery item called senzu beans from a certain anime.
This was akin to having an extra life, and Bai Wu’s anticipation grew as he looked towards the blue pill, but his expression went from excitement to speechlessness in an instant—
[Blue pill, allows you to last longer. The same applies in reality.]
Why would anyone keep this sort of thing in their office?
Bai Wu looked around and thought it somehow made sense, but indeed, it was mundane.
After putting various items in order, a choice appeared.
[You now possess the conditions for clearing the stage, have some intel on the hospital, your physical condition has been enhanced, and you have received revelations and powerful tools. The hospital is no place for a lengthy stay, so you decide—]
[A: Wait for the doctor to come, kill the doctor, and then delve into the next scene.]
[B: The doctor is not within your power to deal with, the only choice now is to flee and call the police.]
[C: It’s all fake, point the gun at your temple, pull the trigger, and exit the game.]
[D: You still need more clues, you decide to continue playing hide-and-seek with the doctor.]
[E: Bloodbath the hospital.]
[F: Act on your own. (Once this option is chosen, it will no longer trigger future events.)]
After reading the question and options, Bai Wu immediately chose A.
This doctor was even more disgusting than Yan Zhao, and Bai Wu didn’t want him alive, even if it was just in the story.
He prepared to leave, to find a place to hide and await the doctor’s arrival, then deliver a fatal blow.
But suddenly... Bai Wu stopped.
His eyes caught a photograph in the corner of the desk.
The person in the photo was Dr. Liu, a mentally disturbed Meinan person who showed no compassion towards his fellow Sheng Country compatriots.
But Bai Wu suddenly felt... Dr. Liu looked very familiar.
Bai Wu looked at the photo and gradually remembered why this person seemed familiar.
"It’s him..."
The doctor... the doctor from Huangquan Island, or rather, the doctor he had seen in Shudu Prison.
But that was impossible, one Inside the Mist, the other outside the Mist...
Although Bai Wu had always been curious about how The First Generation and Jiang Yimi met, it actually had something to do with the doctor.
He was also curious why, with The First Generation’s power, he hadn’t taken out the doctor? The doctor could alter entries, indeed making him a terrifying opponent.
But in The First Generation’s descriptions of the doctor, it seemed there was another force behind the doctor, and all of this, according to a teacher from Baichuan Middle School, seemed to be connected to—"the Seven Days Catastrophe".
And anyway, Dr. Liu shouldn’t have any connection with the doctor from Huangquan Island.
Thinking of the absurdity of this scenario, and thinking of the mad owner of this territory...
Bai Wu suddenly felt that this tabletop game club, known for its bizarre stories, was not so simple.
"This is like a hint... left especially for me. Is it reminding me to find this doctor? The hunt for the doctor by The First Generation... must hold some secret."
After restoring everything in the office to its original state, Bai Wu moved to a corner where his view was obscured by bookshelves.
He patiently waited for daylight to come, waiting for Dr. Liu to enter the office.
