Chapter 15: A Desperate Turnaround
Tick, tick. Time passes.
At 6:17 a.m. on this day, there were nearly 13 hours left before the end of Zhang Yi's novice trial. In a daze, Zhang Yi slowly woke up.
It is also at this time that the system makes a sound.
"Dear players, the system has detected that your body is being eroded by strange toxins, please find out the truth as soon as possible so as not to threaten your physical health in the Overworld."
Zhang Yi suddenly woke up completely, opened his eyes, and found himself in a confined space.
Where is this?
In his mind, the memory replayed, Zhang Yi remembered the thrilling encounter next to the potato orchard, and immediately realized that he was in extreme danger.
For a while, Zhang Yi immediately made a relatively rational and calm judgment in his mind - he must quit the game immediately.
So, Zhang Yi secretly thought to himself: System, I want to quit the game.
At this time, the sound of the system sounded again.
"Dear players, the system has detected that you are in a special dungeon."
"Since you have not completed the Starter Trial, after exiting this quest, you will permanently lose the opportunity to log in to Deathland, and due to your failed mission, you will be deducted 100 horror points and will be punished accordingly by the system, will you quit the game?"
A transparent panel appeared in front of Zhang Yi, and a dense line of words was written on the panel, leaving two options at the end, "Yes" and "No".
Zhang Yi's body trembled, and he sneered, he will permanently lose the opportunity to log in if he quits the game now, and will be deducted 100 horror points, hehe, not to mention anything else, Zhang Yi can't afford to be deducted 100 horror points alone.
Isn't that a clear sign that you're going to kill the player? What a scary death game!
Time passed minute by minute, and Zhang Yi finally calmed down.
Since you can't escape the trap by quitting the game, go ahead and complete the trial.
Zhang Yi's strength to not admit defeat was completely stimulated.
Suddenly, Zhang Yi suddenly heard a voice.
"Mr. Zhang Yi, Mr. Zhang Yi!"
Zhang Yi heard the sound, but saw that not far away, Alice was tied up by hemp rope, looking at him a little anxiously.
Zhang Yi's heart moved, and he looked around the room again for a while, and soon he saw Carey lying unconscious on the bed on the other side.
Looking at Alice, who was still conscious, Zhang Yi hurriedly asked, "Girl, how do you feel, what happened just now, and when is it now?" ”
Alice heard Zhang Yi's many questions, and seeing that Zhang Yi's consciousness was still clear, she couldn't help but be a little excited, and hurriedly said, "Mr. Zhang, you're okay, it's really good!" ”
Then Alice said, "Sir, I don't know what time it is, but if you count the time, it should be 6 or 7 o'clock in the morning." Sir, about what happened before the coma, don't you remember? ”
Zhang Yi shook his head and said, "I don't remember clearly, I just vaguely remember that someone seemed to have attacked me." ”
Alice nodded after hearing this, and immediately added: "Yes, sir, the person who attacked you is Baron Charles's personal doctor in this castle, and it turns out that he is the man in the terror mask we saw last night, and it is he who attacked you and Mr. Carey in the potato field. ”
Zhang Yi frowned slightly, I don't know what role this private doctor who suddenly appeared in his trial plot, but according to logical deduction, this personal doctor is probably the same as the housekeeper, he is an important minion of Baron Charles who has not yet appeared, and the living dead inside and outside the manor are likely to be caused by the manipulation of the personal doctor.
For a while, Zhang Yi asked Alice again: "What happened in this room when I was unconscious?" ”
Alice's face was miserable, and she said in a tone: "Sir, it's all my fault that I can't protect you." ”
Soon, Alice told how the personal doctor talked to Mr. Butler, and how Zhang Yi was injected with mysterious potions.
Then he said: "Sir, I heard from the personal doctor that they injected you with a medicine to change the composition of your blood, and then when Sir's blood changes completely, they will take you to see the baron, but I don't know what will happen after meeting......
Unable to protect her companions while she was sober, Alice felt guilty.
At this time, Zhang Yi was also shocked, and said secretly, it seems that the mysterious medicine is the key reason for the inexplicable toxin in his blood.
After being shocked, Zhang Yi couldn't help but think about it again, looking for the internal logic of the private doctor to inject himself with a mysterious medicine.
What exactly are these people going to do to themselves that they need to be injected with an inexplicable drug beforehand?
Not long after, Zhang Yi found the two operating tables in this closed room, as well as the blood transfusion device assumed on the operating table, and suddenly thought of something!
Just imagine, if the legend of the "vampire" mentioned in Detective Cole's notes is true, then is it possible that Earl Charles, who has not appeared in this manor for a long time, is a mysterious patient who needs to go through an external blood transfusion for a long time to survive?
As Cole's notes argue, Earl Charles' physique may be different, so when Silent Manor gave Earl Charles blood transfusions again and again, the personal physician needed to inject the mysterious potion into the patient so that Count Charles could use it directly when he got fresh blood.
And that mysterious potion is probably also an important reason why the blood-drawn person turns into the "living dead" after death!
Will you become the living dead?
In the room, a chance discovery prompted Zhang Yi to connect all the clues together, at this time, although there was no system reminder, but the faint Zhang Yi's guess was infinitely close to the truth!
In the distance, Alice saw that Zhang Yi was always silent, and couldn't help but ask with concern, "Mr. Zhang Yi, are you okay?" ”
At this time, Zhang Yi came back to his senses and began to think about his next trial move, so he asked, "Alice, can you stand up now?" ”
After hearing this, Alice moved, leaned her back against the wall, twisted her body a few times, and nodded seriously, "Yes, sir." ”
Zhang Yi was overjoyed, it seemed that although his situation was troublesome, "Deathland" would not force players to a complete desperation in this kind of newcomer trial, and he still had a chance to escape.
So he said to Alice: "You stand up, jump to my side, you go to me, there is an operating table behind me, you find a way to find the scalpel, we will cooperate to untie the hemp rope!" ”
"Hurry, time is fast!"
Hearing this in the distance, Alice nodded vigorously, twisted her body, leaned against the wall, and slowly straightened her knees. Zhang Yi looked carefully, feeling a little excited, in the room, himself, Kaili, Alice were all tied hand and foot with hemp rope, but only Alice was the most suitable to get up, unlike his waist was still wrapped around the corner of the operating table.
Players must be observant and make their own decisions through changes in the environment to drive the story and trials forward. This is also one of the essential qualities that a Deadland player must have!
Alice jumped up, passed by Zhang Yi, came to the operating table, and wanted to knock over the operating table with her body so that she could pick up things, but after thinking about it carefully, Alice was afraid that the table would startle the people in the villa after it overturned, so Alice changed her attention, looked carefully at the table, and finally found a sharp scalpel.
Carefully clamped it between his mouth, then came to Zhang Yi's side and sat back on the ground with difficulty.
He said vaguely: "Sir, I'll untie the hemp rope in your hand first." ”
Zhang Yi nodded and stretched out his arm, and soon, Alice lowered her head, and the sharp scalpel in her hand carefully sawed between the hemp rope in Zhang Yi's hand.
One second, two seconds.
One minute, two minutes.
I don't know how long it took, Alice only felt that the roots of her teeth were sore, her teeth were sore, and her saliva kept flowing onto Mr. Zhang's hands, but finally, a clear gap appeared in the hemp rope.
At Zhang Yi's signal, Alice lifted up slightly, and as soon as Zhang Yi exerted force, her hand broke free of the hemp rope.
"Thank you for your hard work." Zhang Yi took the scalpel full of saliva from Alice's mouth, and with a skillful grip, the surgeon's calm and confident reappeared in Zhang Yi's eyes.
Soon, under Zhang Yi's movements, the hemp ropes on Alice's body were lifted one by one, and with Alice's help, Zhang Yi also broke free.
Just after Zhang Yi stood up, Alice said, "Sir, your pistol was taken away by them......"
Zhang Yi looked around and said eagerly: "What about the backpack?" ”
Without waiting for Alice to answer, Zhang Yi had already seen the familiar backpack in the cabinet next to him. At this time, the backpack is locked to the upper level of a 3-meter-high cabinet.
The cabinet is locked, but it doesn't look hard to open.
Zhang Yi walked quickly to the cabinet, used the scalpel in his hand to pry the screws on the cabinet, and after a while, the backpack was taken out by himself.
After looking through it carefully, the backpack was full of useless things such as fire sticks, landing ropes, and canned beef, and underneath this pile of miscellaneous items, the mysterious bottle of serum was still there, but a notebook was lost.
Zhang Yi secretly said that he was glad that his backpack was messy, although it was seized, but the important things in it were not lost.