Volume Three, 03: Dangerous Feelings
The lounge area is semi-surrounded by five connected buildings in the inpatient department, with a fountain garden in the middle and a public library in the other.
Chen Xi and Benin were among the late arrivals. By the time we arrived, there were already more than 100 patients sitting or standing. Most of them are in the open garden, and only a few are in the two-story library surrounded by a transparent curtain wall.
And that's only one-third to one-quarter of all patients.
Through the process of wandering and observing outside the window, Chen Xi found that only three of the five buildings in the inpatient department were used for patients, and the total number of patients who could live on four floors was about 600 based on two people per room. Of the remaining two buildings, the larger one is used by hospital staff for the upper part of the hospital staff, which Benin has visited, and the lower part is used for medicine and examinations for patients, and each of the patients who come in front of it has to make several trips. As for the smaller building, it is responsible for a complete set of meals in the inpatient department, as well as logistics such as sanitation and washing.
Of course, this is just a little introduction to the situation, and the focus is on the arrangement in the garden.
Similar to what Chen Xi has seen elsewhere, there are also many cartoon animals or mythical creatures scattered on it. In addition to this, the setting here has been taken one step further. There are many images of paper or puppets hanging on the trees and lampstands, and they are not afraid of being taken away by others, and even stone and bronze statues are erected at the forks of each path.
In fact, both of them had seen these arrangements through the window in the hospital room, but they were completely different from the feeling from a distance. It was only after they actually got here to see it up close that they realized what that was wrong.
They feel the danger of these dead things.
The spiritual attributes of both of them exceeded the five-point standard of ordinary people, Benin was 8 points, and Chen Xi was 14 points. As a result, there is a pervasive sense of threat in the garden.
Especially the bronze and stone statues, the sense of uneasiness is the strongest. Even Chen Xi, who has a higher mental attribute, will still have a certain illusion after watching it for a long time. The statues seem to be alive, changing their expressions and movements as the observer moves, almost bursting out.
"It doesn't feel good, if the patterns here are weird, then we just stay where they are concentrated. The concept is equal to the devil's den," Chen Xi said quietly. deliberately suppressed the voice very hoarse and low, very much like the dubbing of ghost movies, "I have a feeling that these will be specifically for spiritual weirdness." It's hard to prevent. ”
"Don't be scary, okay!"
Hear the words. Benin, who was holding on to a cute bronze crocodile statue and looking at it, suddenly shuddered. looked at these things all around and complained: "It's so terrifying, if I hang up, you won't be able to live alone." ”
Benin is indeed a little scared. The source of fear is the unknown, and he doesn't care about tangible and qualitative monsters, just open the shelf, but it's hard to say about those intangible and qualitative. This kind of monster that doesn't know when it happened or how it appeared is based on the most feared unknown in the depths of human hearts, even if the strength is stronger than them, they can't help but panic.
Like Huacheng is located in the subtropics, the climate is suitable, but staying here, the cold hairs on his body actually stand up, and the afternoon sun does not bring a trace of warmth at all, as if he is in a cold and dark cellar, and the sense of security is too low.
"Is there any way to deal with them before they come out?"
Benin turned his head to look at Chen Xi and couldn't help but ask for help.
Don't think he's cowardly, this is how a normal person should react to an unknown existence, those who laugh or rejoice, are either crazy or the author hangs up. Moreover, this was the first time he had encountered this type, and the previous mode of survival was the existence of entities.
"Not at the moment, I tried a few times with the spirit attack skill when I first came in and didn't feel right, but it didn't work at all, these things are weak and powerless, and they shouldn't really be attacked until they are triggered." Chen Xi replied.
Seeing Chen Xi shaking his head, Bening suddenly felt disappointed, he sighed and said: "That's the only way, we still have to focus on the investigation, see if we can find any way to deal with them in advance, the system will never give tasks that can't be completed, the clues should be hidden in that place in the hospital, and if you look for more, you may find that it won't be a good thing to sit still." ”
This is the Benin that Chen Xi has known since childhood, even if he feels scared and frustrated in the face of difficulties, he never loses his enthusiasm and optimism, but aims at other directions and continues to persevere. That's why he chooses such people to support, because success is only a matter of time for such people.
After a little reminiscence of the past, Chen Xi said again: "However, did I say that there is no other way?" ”
Looking at the familiar evil smile on Chen Xi's face, Benin immediately reacted: "What the hell are you teasing me again?" ”
Chen Xi categorically denied: "What's the matter, I just didn't think of safety measures before, but now, I have seen hope, a group of cannon fodder"
Following Chen Xi's gaze, Benin immediately saw more than a dozen strange guys faintly gathered together.
They were later than the two, and among them were men and women, ranging in age from about twenty years old to a little over fifty, scattered among several large trees. If it is placed in another location, there is absolutely no surprising feeling, the so-called age is not a gap, there are groups of people who like to break through the concept of humanity, but in a hospital full of patients, it feels very incongruous, because they don't look like patients with terminal illnesses at all.
The people here are either depressed due to despair, or they are very emotionally sensitive due to the most desperate hopes, and in the memories instilled by the system for the two of them, they have to sign a medical disclaimer for very harsh conditions when they come to this hospital for treatment, and the hospital announced that the survival treatment rate is one-third, so the people who come here are basically determined to die.
However, this group of people did not show any nervousness at all, or it was too casual, and there were still dog men and women laughing like no one in such a place.
It's not clear to tell someone that they're part of an evolutionary group.
"Don't tell me you're going to use them to test your dangerous methods"
Benin put an accent on the word "danger", because he knew that whoever easily believed in this guy Chen Xi would be unlucky.
"No way, someone has to sacrifice in the process of adventure, compared to the unreliable methods they thought of themselves, obviously you have to believe in my intelligence level, at least it can make them have a higher survival rate at the same stage."
Chen Xi put on a posture of not believing who I believe. In fact, he never tells lies, but habitually hides some key points, for example, at this time, he has automatically added a few sentences to this passage in his heart: "But I always like to challenge higher difficulties, if you don't have the corresponding strength and self-knowledge, you can't see the danger under the temptation of profit and take risks in the past, and you can only blame yourself for dying." ”
Benin will not be easily confused by Chen Xi's appearance, he doesn't think this guy has such a good heart from the bottom of his heart, but he lacks a reason to refute and block, so he has no choice but to let Chen Xi pass, only praying in his heart that those people don't easily believe this guy As for running over to dismantle the stage, is he so bad, Our Lady is not equal to brain-dead, if you can't even tell the difference between distant and close relatives, you can commit suicide as soon as possible, so as to save yourself from harming others and society.
Ten minutes later, it seemed that Benin's prayer had worked, Chen Xi came back with an unhappy expression, and before he got closer, he shouted and shouted: "These guys are so shameless, they also found the weirdness here, but after listening to my method, they pretended not to believe it, not only kicked me away, but also threatened that we had better leave their affairs alone, and they must be planning to leave us alone and get the evolution points by themselves." ”
Benin was a little skeptical about this, he had never seen an existence that could make Chen Xi deflated.
"You can't be seen that you're hiding something in the solution." Benin is deeply skeptical.
"Am I that stupid?"
Chen Xi hurriedly defended as if he had suffered a great insult: "It can only be said that this time is completely different from the last time, this group of people seems to be loose, but in fact they are a whole. ”
"The guy in the lead looks full of confidence, he should have a definite plan before I go, so he doesn't need to rely on my wisdom at all, naturally after knowing my ways to reduce the difficulty, he can use it regardless of it, so that he doesn't have to pay for the use, as long as people who are a little greedy will think of this, and if it weren't for the fact that I told him about your strength, maybe he would directly find an opportunity to kill me, but I can see that he has already moved the killing intent."
"What then?" Benin is scratching its head.
Comparing the numbers on both sides, he was not impulsive enough to go directly to the crusade. But in my heart, Benin has been deeply wronged by his friends. According to the proportion of the general team's contribution, the person who provides the effective method can get at least one-seventh to one-tenth of the corresponding income as compensation, but they don't think that they will eat it and wipe it clean, and these people will simply kick out the person who provided the method, and even have the intention of killing.
"What a bunch of bastards, unforgivable."
While Benin was angry, he didn't notice the evil smile and smugness in Chen Xi's eyes.
"It's better for someone to do it than no one, it's always good to be able to reduce the difficulty, they earn theirs, and we still follow the predetermined steps to do it."
After Chen Xi answered, he turned his gaze to the library, the garden, and the smaller building: "When the situation is not clear, I don't think they should risk attacking other people, therefore, we can go separately to find clues, which will be faster, in addition, you can also try to let the people here take you to the smaller building, if something strange happened, as a place for sanitation and washing, there may be some relics and blood stains left." (To be continued......)