Chapter 10: The Ward

Dong Qi and Lian Zixin walked within a dark area. Relying on the faint light behind them, they could still barely vaguely discern the direction. But what kind of danger would appear in front of them, both of them were unknown. Frankly speaking, even the more experienced occupants would find it difficult to remain calm in such a creepy environment. Dong Xie, too, was no exception. It was only that the more he was strongly pressed in a state of fear, the more his brain's potential could instead reach a bottom. Ironically, Ah Ning was the opposite in this regard; if she was caught under a desperate situation of extreme danger, she would instead be prone to having her thinking affected by excessive fear. "Remember, no matter what happens, no screaming." This was what Dong Xie had specifically instructed Lian Zixin at the very beginning. Lian Zixin remembered Dong Xie's instructions, so he didn't dare to make a loud noise along the way. Just then, they vaguely touched a door in the darkness. Dong Xie took out the key and barely managed to find the location of the lock hole, as it took several attempts in total darkness before he barely managed to insert the key into the lock hole. "It's really inserted!" Dong Qi then turned the key one more time, and then the door …… opened! Finally, a long-lost light was reflected outside! "Whew!" Both of them were relieved. After walking out of the door, outside was a stairwell. Since they were leaving the hospital, logically, they should be heading downwards. However, they weren't sure for a moment where to look for the remaining two keys. "Let's try heading downstairs first." Dong Xie looked at his surroundings and said, "In any case, we need to first determine if the hospital's external passageways have been blocked." "Hmm, that makes sense!" Lian Zixin actually had similar thoughts, and as a matter of fact, he also hoped that he would be able to leave this hospital sooner rather than later. Regardless of whether this challenge of finding the key originated from the apartment or the program's team, one thing was certain, this key definitely had to be in a place where they could find it. The apartment is not going to issue an unsolvable and certain death bloodletter mission to the residents, the difference is just the difficulty of the path to life. It was because of the insurmountable gulf between the residents and the evil spirits that the bloodletter quests would also perform a huge balancing act. "Let's go." The duo began to walk downwards towards the stair steps, while keeping their pace moderate. One step at a time towards the downstairs, the stairwell always always had a certain amount of light. This was something that made both Dong Xie and Lian Zixin somewhat fortunate after all. "Eh?" However, just as they reached the 3rd floor, further down, they were locked by an iron door! Seeing the iron door in front of them, Dong Xie and Lian Zixin were both stunned. This iron door, naturally, had no way of opening. Dong Xie had come to participate in a reality show this time, so naturally, he couldn't carry a gun to forcibly break open the lock of the door. Therefore, finding a second key was naturally a matter of urgency. Without a doubt, the consequences of not being able to leave this hospital within the allotted time were bound to be unimaginable. The first key was the least difficult to find, while to find the second was no less difficult. Lian Zixin raised his head and said, "How can we find the second key if there are absolutely no clues?" On this point, Dong Xie also felt a bit of a headache, but when he thought about it, escaping the hospital should only be the first hurdle, and it shouldn't be too difficult. He had been able to survive two bloodletters in the past, and he was bound to be able to succeed now as well! Then, there was only one way now, to walk up and find the key! Dong Xie and Lian Zixin, resumed walking up the staircase steps, towards the top. This time, they walked up to the 4th floor, and as soon as they stepped out of the stairwell, they saw that it was a mess, with a large pile of medicines spilling out onto the floor, and not far from there were bottles smashed on the ground. Everywhere, there were cobwebs, and a lot of dust was floating in the air. In front, it was even darker, making people feel creepy. Lian Zixin stepped forward, but found himself stepping on a piece of glass, suddenly issued a "click" sound, the foot of the glass immediately shattered, scared him immediately face is a little white! Dong Qi quickly pulled him away from the broken glass on the ground. In such a silent environment to make a sound, Lian Zixin obviously extremely afraid that this will attract those "unnameable things" to come. Dong Qi, on the other hand, gripped his arm tightly, looked around vigilantly, and then said, "Don't worry, whether or not the Evil Spirits make a move on us has nothing to do with whether or not we attract their attention, the key lies in the confines of the apartment." Lian Zi let out a hard laugh and said in a voice that only he and Dong Qi could hear, "So we can still only rely on the power of this apartment to keep us alive?" "Right now …… that's all we can do." Looking at the medicines scattered on the ground, they both felt quite depressed in their hearts. Then, the duo was even close to walking on their tiptoes, constantly alert to the dangers that might appear around them at any time. Walking down the long corridor, they realized that this floor belonged to the inpatient floor. "Looks like this is a combined outpatient and inpatient building." As soon as they walked in front of the hospital beds, suddenly Dong Xie could smell an extremely pungent scent of blood! "This ……" This bloody odor made him feel intensely uneasy. "Shall we, shall we go in and check? I can help you guard the door." "No …… don't act rashly yet." He looked around again and said, "Let's search around and see where we can find the second key." The third key, he guessed, would lead to the exterior of the hospital. If there was a chance, he wanted to find both of the last two keys here. There was also the question of whether any of the other occupants of …… might be here as well. As well, he wanted to make sure, if any of the occupants were dead now? If there were, that would prove that they had been able to get enough clues to deduce the birth path, or stages of it. However, when most occupants were killed, there were no bodies left behind, and without witnesses, it was difficult to determine life and death in this situation at all. At last, there was still a bit of faint light on this hospital promenade. Walking on this road, they traveled carefully step by step. Just at this time …… "Hmm?" Dong Qi suddenly saw a signboard in front of him. On top of the signage, it clearly indicated that up ahead, was the …… morgue! "Look!" Right at this moment, Lian Zixin pulled Dong Xie to look at the wall next to him, on which a line of words had suddenly surfaced! "Burn the corpse!" "The corpses will wake up!" "Burn all the corpses!" The corpses …… wake up? Each of the fonts was quite large and appeared to have been sprayed with spray paint. In the past, he usually saw debtors spraying in front of the debtor's house inside a movie. This infectious disease caused the dead …… to wake up? So, the bodies are to be burned? Is this the Black Death, or the T-virus? "This sounds like a zombie ah?" Lian Zixin had also watched the American drama The Walking Dead many years ago, and then because of his son's matter, he had never continued to follow the drama, but he was still impressed by the zombies. Dong Xie shook his head. "It won't be the kind of zombie that can be killed by just blasting your head, the apartment's blood letter mission will never appear to be an existence that can be killed by physical means, what we are facing is inevitably an immortal, immortal, mind-only existence." However, seeing this scene in this environment is also creepy. "Let …… us not move on, right?" Even Zixin felt his scalp numb at this moment, knowing that the morgue was just ahead! Dong Xie also knew that the situation was grim. There was no doubt that this contagion had definitely taken the lives of countless people, and these people …… Just thinking about it makes one's bones creepy. And the origin of this contagion was also a mystery. From the beginning to the end, it has never been resolved what exactly this virus is. And now, I'm afraid there is no such thing as a virus. It's a curse! And the origin of this curse was also likely to have a great connection with the bloodletter mission's life path. Just at this moment …… a voice came from their ears! “咳咳咳……咳咳咳咳咳……咳咳咳咳……啊咳咳咳咳咳！” This intermittent coughing sound! It came from behind them! The two of them quickly turned their heads back, and the sound of coughing came from the very same blood-filled ward they had passed by earlier!