Chapter II: Hospitals
2015.12.21.Monday, fog.
My name is Xiao Qiang, homophonic with Xiao Qiang, so I am often maliciously called Xiao Qiang (cockroach), that day, I got the intelligent star core from the universe, I thought I had picked up a big treasure, but before I had time to be excited for a moment, I was shattered by reality all my illusions.
All this is just the beginning of the disaster.
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Where is this?
I was like a victim of the abyss, my soul out of my shell, a huge hand enveloping me, whoosh! Pulled me back into my body.
When I opened my eyes, I quickly got used to the dim light, and there was a dead silence all around, and the sound of a strong heartbeat echoed in the enclosed space that I could barely see.
My body was lying flat, covered with a snow-white quilt, and this was supposed to be a hospital. My eyes fell on the empty drip bottle, a slender hose hanging down, and the needle was inserted into the blood vessel in the back of my left hand, as if because the drip was finished, but the needle was not removed in time, and the blood flowed backwards into the needle.
I don't know which kind person sent me to the hospital, I closed my eyes and silently prayed for those nameless well-wishers, God will definitely not disappoint these ordinary but sacred well-wishers,
"Nurse, nurse! I'm done with my drip. ”
I frowned, how could the medical staff at this hospital be so careless? The drip is finished, why no medical staff came to take a look.
After a few moments, my mind was slightly cleared, and I gradually quieted down.
An indescribable melancholy poured into my heart like flowing water, and I seemed to see that in the shriveled wallet, a red and glamorous old man with my deep love and melancholy, spread his wings and left me.
I seemed to see the pain and uneasiness in my melancholy eyes, and wished I hadn't been in this luxurious hospital bed for long.
Feeling so uneasy that I almost forgot that I still had a needle stuck in the back of my hand, and in my heart to know if time could forgive me, I fumbled, reached into my right trouser pocket, and pulled out my phone.
The dazzling light of the screen made me subconsciously close my eyes, I quickly adapted to the light of the mobile phone screen, and the hot eyes stayed on the page of the mobile phone screen, 2015.12.21. Monday: 16.47 p.m.
On the main screen of the mobile phone screen to display the time, that line of easy-to-understand numbers and Chinese characters was deeply imprinted in my mind, and it was like a heavy hammer, hitting my heart fiercely.
Two weeks.
Half a month.
Can anyone tell me how I could have been in a coma for so long?
My eyes were nailed to the screen of the mobile phone, and I read it word by word, and finally had to accept the reality, it was not that there was something wrong with my eyes, it was not my hallucination, when I was asleep, the pace of naughty time accelerated, and the old man who was red and glamorous was not far behind, struggling to catch up with his wings.
I inevitably complained a little in my heart about that idle and boring kind-hearted man, why did he send me to the hospital? If you really have the heart, then why don't you send me home? The position of the company is no longer called to me, and I have been absent from work for two weeks, and my replacement should have served the job that originally belonged to me.
It's that damn watch!
I suddenly remembered the person who had caused me to suffer from the painful loss of blood due to unemployment. If it weren't for it, how would I have ended up like this?
I don't know if my voice reached the nurse's post, and I pressed the summoner next to the bed a few times, but there was no response. I didn't have the patience to wait for the angel in white, who was still nowhere to be seen, so I used my right hand to prop up my body, sit up, and then tear off the medical tape on the back of my hand and carefully pull out the needle.
A slightly angry gaze fell on the silent watch on his wrist, and it was the culprit of everything.
"Waking up..."
"The fuselage is functioning normally."
"Host identity: Prison guard."
"Examination of the host's physical condition is ongoing: weak, not life-threatening for the time being."
The light curtain flickered and a silhouette of a human body flashed, and I closed my eyes, but I could still see the light curtain, as if the light curtain was attached to my eyeballs, so that I could clearly see the transparent human body that rotated 360 degrees, and it was me.
Before I could prepare for my revenge, the mechanical stiff voice suddenly came out of my head again, and the watch on my wrist seemed to sense my shame, and the screen suddenly lit up, as if it was deliberately currying favor and begging me for mercy.
What's the situation?
I subconsciously held my breath, and the strange mechanical sound made me feel like I was feeling cold all over my body, and the cold hairs stood on the small pimples that were shivering.
I looked at the watch on my wrist and wondered if it was coming from this thing. I seem to be remembering what happened before I fell unconscious.
"Dear host, the star core has been bound to your body, and you now have the permission to check the status of various indicators of your body. I am from the interstellar intelligent star core of the Great Leap Galaxy, and you are one of the prison guards selected by the Great Prison Master, and I will be your guide to help you in due course. ”
The mechanical stiff voice sounded in my head again, my nerves tensed, my body trembled slightly, I looked at the watch in my hand again, and after making sure that the voice in my head was not my auditory hallucination, it was like winning a lottery of millions, which made my heart beat faster.
I've picked up a big baby?!
Alien high-tech?
Or, prank?!
There was a heat wave churning in my chest, my breathing was burning and rapid, and the indescribable excitement was almost uncontrollable on my face, and I always believed that I was not an ordinary person, and perhaps, I was really prescient.
But...
I leaned in slightly, and carefully looked at the door of the ward, it was still closed, maybe the nurse on duty was asleep, whatever, I hope that my cry just now did not attract the attention of the doctors and nurses, I hope they will come later, or not come, I have to figure out this amazing watch that I accidentally picked up.
"Hey."
"Can you hear me?"
I didn't know how that voice came to my head, and I wasn't sure it came from my watch, so I started whispering to try to communicate with it.
"Yes, Mr. Prison Guard."
After identifying the voice in my head, I finally breathed a sigh of relief that it really wasn't a hallucination.
"Ask the host to identify themselves."
"Host Identity: Human."
"Host sex: male."
"Host Species Class: Lower Organisms."
"Host Position: Prison Guard."
"Host Lieutenant: Hunter. Level: D. ”
Guard? Hunter? What could it be? This high-tech looks a bit nonsense, could it be that it's just a trial product for a certain game? I'm not just going to be the chosen player. I couldn't help but get a little irritated, I didn't have the heart to play the game, and the columns of data flashed in front of my eyes, and I didn't pay attention to it.
I knew that there was something wrong with my mentality, and the reason was that I could afford the hospital stay for half a month, but my job was definitely lost because of my two-week absence. It's okay if it's normal, after all, it's not unacceptable to lose your job, but this kind of thing happened when I was about to be promoted to department head, which is a bit of a coincidence...
Perhaps, this is just a test of fate.
Admittedly, no matter how good my mentality is, I have to accept the reality, and now, I have turned my hope to this high-tech watch, just hoping that it is not a prank, but just that I have lost my horse.
Because, it is also human nature to care about gains and losses.
"Dear Mr. Prison Guard, since your home planet was chosen by the Great Prison Master and will become a place of exile for interstellar criminals, due to the relatively backward technology and strength of human beings, to avoid the rapid death of your home planet, the Great Prison Master has decided to select some managers from your home planet, that is, the prison guards who are responsible for curbing prison criminals.
Of course, before that, the host you and your people will become prey, or hunters, and there is no mature prison system here, so the criminals in the prison will be free, or rather, this will be their paradise, and you and your people will become food.
So, Dear Mr. Prison Guard, you are not only one of the prison administrators, but also a hunter and food. ”
It sounds like a game.
I sighed, and as amazing as it sounded, I wasn't interested in the game.
"Because of interstellar travel, the star core body has suffered a huge damage, some of the functions of the star core are preserved, and the star core is about to enter a state of self-repair, and it will not be able to provide data to communicate with the host intelligence. Sleep countdown・・・3・・・2・1・・"
The mechanical voice in my head gradually faded away, and finally disappeared completely from my mind, the sound was like a dazzling firework bomb flying into the night sky, which suddenly gave me a great shock, fascinated me, but disappeared from my sight very quickly, and made me suddenly feel a little stunned.
I wasn't sentimental, but I had an inexplicable uneasiness about the disappearance of that voice.
A faint light crept into the room through the cracks in the curtains.
It was almost dark, and I lifted the quilt and stepped my feet into the shoes that lay under the edge of the bed, but I wondered what the watch in my hand was saying, the game.
Maybe...
This question can be continued after I get home, anyway, I don't have a job, but I have plenty of time, but I don't know if I have enough money on my body, maybe I have to go to the bank to withdraw some.
I put on my coat and flipped the light switch on the bedside.
"Bang Bang..."
I thought to myself, is this a power outage? Or is the lamp broken? Or is it poor contact?. I'm a little dissatisfied with the hardware here.
He picked up the shoulder bag that was on the small table next to the bed, took out his wallet from it, and looked through the dim light of the room, but did not lose anything.
Gollum...
My shriveled stomach protested at me, and I realized that I hadn't eaten for a long time, so it was no wonder that I felt like I had no strength at all, and I thought it was the after-effects.
Putting on my shoulder bag, I opened the door of the ward, thinking that I would have to spend a huge amount of money inexplicably when I checked out later, and I was always a little uncomfortable.
Quiet!
Dead silence is eeriely quiet!
I opened the door to the room, and instead of the soft incandescent light that I had imagined the corridor to light up, it was dark.
I walked out of the ward, standing in the corridor outside the door of the ward, the cold hair all over my body was upside down, this kind of eerie and terrifying picture appeared from time to time in those horror movies, when I watched it, maybe I didn't feel how terrifying, but when I really faced this scene, my mind subconsciously popped up those terrifying things in the movie screen.