No. 1 Hospital, Inner Courtyard - 4th floor.

In a hidden underground torture cell, Hong Yu's hands were tied with thorny chains and hung in the air, the black robes of the monks of the Lady in Black Church were already tattered, and the snow-white skin was exposed everywhere, turning red in some places, and even Sen Ran's white bones could be seen under the flesh.

She was disheveled, her head bowed, and she didn't know whether she was alive or dead.

On the torture table in front of him were all kinds of torture instruments, and there was no light around them except for a few miserable white incandescent lamps.

In the cell next to Hong Yu, a dead body like pork was hung by an iron hook, which had been decomposing for a long time, and the corpse was flowing everywhere, and the dead silence combined with the empty atmosphere above was very stimulating to people's senses, and any sound would be amplified many times here.

I don't know how long it took, a dark shadow suddenly entered here with a burning white candle, and he cautiously came to the cell where Hong Yu was, and smacked a few times inside.

"Hey, Hong Yu, are you still alive?"

He shouted several times in a row, and Hong Yu, who was hanging in the air, barely moved, and asked in a hoarse voice:

"Cui Bingzhu?"

"It's me."

Receiving an affirmative reply, Hong Yu turned her body vigorously, but as long as she moved slightly, sharp pain would come from her hands and wrists.

"Fuck you."

She cursed.

"If you don't come back, the old lady will really be killed!"

"Did you get the key?"

Cui Bingzhu carefully came to the cell, took out a key to open the iron door of the cage, and then pulled the push rod next to the operating table in the cage, and slowly lowered Hong Yu from the air to the ground.

Then he took out a pair of blood-stained scissors from the torture instrument next to him and helped Hong Yu cut the chains that bound his hands.

"No way, it's too dangerous here......"

Cui Bingzhu sighed.

"Well, can you still move now?"

Hong Yu grinned, tried to move his seriously injured body, and slowly relieved himself from the severe pain:

"It's okay, it doesn't affect the runaway."

"What about the 'key' to leave the inner courtyard?"

Cui Bingzhu was silent.

Hong Yu sensed that something was wrong with his attitude and pushed him:

"No, what about you?"

"Where's the key?"

Cui Bingzhu smiled bitterly:

"I'm sorry Hong Yu, I lied to you."

"From the beginning to the end, there was no 'key' to leave the inner courtyard at all."

"From the moment we came in...... We can't get out. ”

When Hong Yu heard this, he was stunned on the spot.

"You...... What did you just say? ”

"I said, we can't get out, we'll be trapped in the inner courtyard and keep running until one day in the future, we will be caught by those 'executioners' and then 'executed.'"

Hearing Cui Bingzhu's explanation, Hong Yu wanted to scold MMP, but she really couldn't say it.

After all, if it weren't for Cui Bingzhu, she would definitely be tortured to death by that terrible torture.

Sitting on the ground, Hong Yu was silent for a while and asked:

"Why lie to me?"

Cui Bingzhu:

"Because in the inner courtyard, whether a person can survive or not depends largely on their 'desire to survive' or 'willpower'."

"I was afraid that you wouldn't be able to endure the torture, so I deliberately lied to you."

Hong Yu's expression was complicated, and he opened his mouth to ask something, but when the words came to his mouth, he was a little squeezed.

- She has too many questions.

Cui Bingzhu also seemed to know that he was not hiding anything from Hong Yu, in such an environment, he and Hong Yu were already completely on the same boat, and there was no point in hiding these secrets.

"I know you have a lot of questions, but it's not safe here, and it won't be long before the 'executioners' who went out will be back, and we need to hurry up!"

"Let's go to the darkroom!"

Hong Yu nodded.

She didn't know where the 'darkroom' was in Cui Bingzhu's mouth, but since Cui Bingzhu risked his life to save her, it would definitely not be bad for her.

Following Cui Bingzhu all the way, the two carefully walked in the underground level, and occasionally there were some black shadows that exuded a terrifying aura to patrol, but Cui Bingzhu relied on his old experience and familiarity with the route to dodge, and finally, they got into a foul-smelling sewer pipe, twisted and wound in the pipe, and came to a small room.

There were no lights in the room, just white candles one after another.

And the wall of the room is pasted with a pale posthumous photo.

Looking at the person on the posthumous photo, Hong Yu couldn't help but say:

"Damn, Cui Bingzhu...... Why did you make a posthumous photo of yourself and stick it on the wall? ”

"I'm going to die, and I still have such a sense of ceremony?"

Cui Bingzhu glanced at the wall, and was not angry at Hong Yu's offense.

"That's Cui Xu."

Hong Yu was slightly stunned, but then he understood something:

Cui Ku ...... Is it your brother? ”

Cui Bingzhu didn't go into detail about it, but just gave a vague 'um'.

Hong Yu saw that he had a dull attitude towards this, and knew that Cui Bingzhu didn't want to talk about it more, so he led the topic to the hospital itself:

"Cui Bingzhu, you just said that we can't leave the 'inner courtyard'...... Why? ”

"If you can get in, you can get out, right?"

"You must know how to get out!"

In the face of Hong Yu's inquiry, Cui Bingzhu exhaled a long breath, took out a pack of brand-new cigarettes from the drawer, took out a lit cigarette and held it in his mouth.

"One?"

He shook the cigarette case at Hong Yu, but Hong Yu refused.

Seeing that she didn't smoke, Cui Bingzhu put the cigarette back again.

"Are you surprised by this smoke?"

Cui Bingzhu smiled, astringent and sad.

Hong Yu's eyes moved lightly.

She was indeed surprised.

How could there be such a brand new smoke in the inner world of the "inner courtyard" of the hospital?

What do you think...... It's weird too.

Slowly exhaling a puff of white smoke, Cui Bingzhu scratched the bridge of his nose and told the truth about the hospital:

"We are now in the basement of the hospital, but you must know that the hospital is ...... There are no negative layers at all. ”

"Going up, we can only go up to the -1 floor, and then there is no way up again."

Hong Yu's throat moved slightly, as if he vaguely guessed something.

Cui Bingzhu's faint voice continued:

"Actually, this is not a hospital at all, let alone a ...... in the world."

"Here...... It is a "cage of will" for the spiritual cohesion of all patients in the hospital. ”

pS: Good night claypots!!