Chu Ge wanted to open his eyes, but there was a dazzling light in front of him, which pierced him and made him unable to open his eyes, as if some dazzling light was madly shining on him.

Blind, going blind......

He resisted the tingling sensation and slowly opened his eyes, only to realize that there was a huge lamp overhead.

It was a surgical lamp, and there were countless lamp heads in the tray, like a beehive.

He is now lying on an operating table, to which the disc and arm of the surgical lamp are attached.

He found his hands and feet bound and unable to move.

Chu Ge looked around, this was an operating room, and in the operating room, there were three operating tables placed side by side.

Wang Yingjun and Brother Tentacle were lying on the other two beds, and the two of them were also tied, their eyes slightly closed, and they didn't seem to have woken up yet.

Next to each operating table is a surgical tray with a variety of instruments, scalpels, hemostats, suture removal shears, and more.

There was a cabinet not far away, there were some medicine bottles in the cabinet, and on top of the cabinet was a page of broken kraft paper, blooming with a faint golden light, it was the fragment of the Book of Necrons!

Chu Ge looked around, except for the three of them, he didn't see anyone else, so he whispered: "Little fatty, little fat, wake up!"

Chubby ignored him and just smacked his lips.

"Little fatty, do you want to eat roast pig's trotters?" Chu Ge shouted again.

"Roast... Pig's trotters?!" Xiaopang woke up suddenly, saliva flowed out of the corners of his mouth, he looked around, only to find that there was no roasted pig's trotters at all, and his expression became a little unhappy.

"What is this place?" asked Chubby, confused.

"Operating room, have you forgotten that we were arrested?" Chu Ge replied.

Hearing Chu Ge's words, Xiaopang looked at his tied hands, and said a little embarrassed: "I'm sorry, if it weren't for me, you wouldn't have been caught." ”

"No, I don't think it's an accident. Chu Ge shook his head.

"Whether you've been caught or not, we'll be brought here as soon as we touch the remnants of the Necronomicon. I think it's likely to be a plot killing. ”

In the sound of the two talking, Brother Tentacle also slowly opened his eyes, and he found himself lying on the operating table, his hands and feet were bound, and he immediately understood what the situation was.

At this moment, the system message suddenly rang.

【Main Quest Update!】

[Requirements: Defeat hostile players and compete for the Necronomicon Fragments]

Hearing this voice, Chu Ge and the others couldn't help but glance at the tentacle brother.

The remnants of the Necronomicon were on the cabinet, close at hand, but they were tied up and couldn't reach them.

Now, they had to find a way to untie the bandages on their bodies.

Chu Ge looked around, and finally his gaze converged on the surgical instruments on the tray.

There are some sharp pieces of metal scattered in the tray, which are disposable blades that scalpels use to replace, and in general, such blades are not placed in this place, it seems that this is deliberately placed by the game.

If he could get his hands on the scalpel blade, he would be able to cut the bandages off his body.

But now they have their hands and feet shackled, and they can't reach the blades in the tray.

What to do?

Is there any way to get the blade?

In desperation, he thought of a way, since his hands couldn't be used, he would use it......

"Squeak. ”

It was the sound of the door of the operating room being pushed open, and a man in a white lab coat slowly walked in, "Hey, you're awake, investigators from a foreign land!"

He was wearing a pair of sunglasses and gray hair, which was the man Chu Ge saw just now.

He always felt that the other party's face was a little familiar. After a while, he remembered the photo in the dean's office earlier.

It looks like this person looks very similar to that person, but the person in front of him is much younger.

"Who the hell are you?" Chu Ge asked in a deep voice.

"Who am I?" the man in sunglasses took off his face and revealed two eyes, with a lightning-shaped scar on his left eye, "I'm the director of this hospital!"

It's him!

Seeing this face, Chu Ge suddenly thought of the cutscene at the beginning of the escape from the madhouse, in which the origin of the madhouse and its founder were introduced.

Amadeus Arkham!

He remembered the face in the anime, where Dean Arkham was even younger than he is now, with such a lightning scar on his eye.

He remembered that after Dean Arkham's mother committed suicide due to mental illness, Director Arkham converted the hospital into an insane asylum, and began to study the mentally ill.

But that was seventy years ago, and even if Dean Arkham was only thirty years old at the time, he should be a centenarian by now.

But now, he looks like he's only forty or fifty years old, what's going on?

Emmm...... Is the child tiger rejuvenated?

"Why are you still alive?" asked Chu Ge.

"Because ......," said Dean Arkham, staring into his eyes, "I have the secret of immortality!"

Dean Arkham said in a low tone, "After my mother's death, I began to study psychiatry, which was a completely new field for me, a new challenge. I remodeled Black Kirishima General Hospital and turned it into an Arkham asylum......"

Dean Arkham turned away as he spoke, his hands behind his back, as if reminiscing about the past.

After seeing Dean Arkham turn around, Chu Ge immediately struggled, stretched his head hard to the tray in front of him, bit the blade in the tray with his mouth, and then took it out of it.

Xiaopang and Brother Tentacle were stunned, they didn't expect that there would be such a method.

That's right, too.

If you hold the blade in your mouth, you may be able to cut the strap on your hand, and if you cut one strap, you can untie the rest of the straps.

So they followed Chu Ge's example and also wanted to take out the blade, but this thing seemed easy to do, but it was actually very difficult, and if they were not careful, they might cut their tongues.

Chu Ge was already holding the blade in his mouth at this time, raised his head to cut the bandage on his left hand, and Xiao Pang and Brother Tentacle had just picked up the blade.

Suddenly, Dean Arkham turned back to his body, and Chu Ge and the others immediately stopped, not being noticed by the other party.

Call...... It's dangerous.

"We've treated a lot of patients since the asylum was remodeled, and we've met some strange patients who all seem to be from a place called Blackwater......

Dean Arkham didn't seem to notice Chu Ge's small movements, and he continued.

"That was the first time we came into contact with the disease of the Scales, there was no cure for it, and we could only watch as the patients went crazy, covered in scales, and finally died completely......

"The mortality rate of this disease is very high, but those who are lucky enough not to die, their bodies will start to mutate and become half-human, half-fish monsters, which we call mutants. ”

"These mutants have lost their humanity and are very aggressive and powerful. After we killed them, we dissected their corpses and found that the body structure of these monsters was no longer human, as if they were mutating and evolving to a higher level. ”

Speaking of this, Dean Arkham turned sideways to face them again, Chu Ge took this opportunity to cut the strap with the blade in his mouth, and Xiaopang and the tentacle brother also hurriedly took action.

They cut the straps with the blades in their mouths, and kept an eye on Dean Arkham's movements, after all, no one knew what would happen if they were discovered by the Dean.

"In order to study the scabies and this monster, I built this underground research institute underneath the asylum to unravel all the secrets. ”

"In the course of my research, I found that the blood and tissues of patients with squamous disease seem to have the ability to slow down aging. ”

"Through further investigation, I learned about the curse of Blackwater Village, and knew that the root of this curse came from the depths of the sea......

"It is a call from God who will give believers great power to live forever!"

Hearing this, the clues in Chu Ge's heart were already clear.

Ostensibly a madhouse for the treatment of psychosis, in fact, they have been secretly researching and experimenting with the scabies, and even raising those terrible monsters in order to gain the power of immortality.

Dean Arkham had long since passed his old age, but he still looked energetic, like a middle-aged man. It is because he has been injecting these strange potions to keep himself alive.

In order to obtain more experimental samples, he even deliberately bought contaminated fish from Heishui Village, so that normal patients could also be infected with scabies.

These potions came from the bodies of those patients with strange scales, and it was the tragic death of those patients that allowed him to live to this day.

Chu Ge was about to cut his bandage at this time, but by accident, the blade fell from his mouth and fell to the ground with a click.

He was stunned for a moment, and this voice also attracted the attention of the dean.

After a few seconds, Dean Arkham slowly turned his head and said in a cold voice:

"Do you think I can't see your little movements?"

"I didn't pay attention to you because I didn't care!"

Brother Tentacle took the lead in cutting the straps on one hand, and after he broke free, he immediately untied the straps on his hands and feet one by one.

But Dean Arkham didn't stop him, but took out a needle from his pocket, and the needle contained a mysterious green liquid that seemed to contain great power.

"After decades of research, I have come to understand a truth......

"Human beings are limited in their abilities, and no matter how hard we try, we will inevitably end up dying. ”

"So I'm crazy about exploring the secrets of the Scales Disease just to get new powers. ”

"What the hell are you trying to say?" said Brother Tentacle's expression in surprise.

A sneer appeared on Dean Arkham's lips as he slammed the needle into his arm, and the green liquid slowly poured into his body.

"I'm not a human anymore! I'm going to surpass humanity!"