Chapter 5: The Key

Lian Zixin looked at the dune in front of him. The dune seemed to be very close, and it seemed to be very far away. He took a step to the front of the dune, where there was a child with his back turned. "Azizi …… Azizi, is that you?" Just as he came in front of the child, the child suddenly turned his head back! It was a face without five senses! "Ah!" The intense coldness, combined with that shock, caused him to awaken. "Where is this?" He realized that he was sitting on a bench in a dark corridor. And on his chest, covered with a piece of paper. He picked up the paper, and by the gray light of the corridor, he could barely make out what was on it. "Escape! Alien Spirit! Stage 1 Challenge: You, as a member of the Vegetarian Team, will need to find three keys in the Stage One Challenge in order to get a way out of here. If you are unable to leave within three hours, you will be eliminated from the first stage challenge." Lian Zixin began to recall what had happened before …… As a newcomer resident, he had come out on a blood word mission along with Dong Xie, who was extremely famous among the residents. There were a total of five people involved in the blood word mission. And this Blood Word that they were executing was to arrive at Blackwater Island and participate in this reality show. Although it is said to say and star to participate together, but they do not say star, even the star's assistant has not seen, food and accommodation treatment can be said to be the abyss of difference. But …… how did he fall asleep? Since his son Lianqi was abducted back then, after countless searches, he began to become a very light sleeper, extremely easy to wake up abruptly in his sleep, even if it was a very small movement. His last memory was following the ship to the eve of Blackwater Island, and after that he had no memory. How did he fall asleep, and how was he moved to this hospital? No matter how one thought about it, even Zixin couldn't recall. However, given his state of being able to wake up by a very slight breeze, it was quite unbelievable that he had been moved to the long corridor of this hospital without ever waking up. "Tick tock" …… "Tick tock" …… This faint sound, coming from not far away, couldn't help but make Lian Zixin's heart tremble. He slowly got down from the bench and started to slowly advance along that sound. To be honest, ever since he entered the apartment and turned into a resident, he had no sense of reality until this very second now, feeling that this was simply something bizarre that only happened in novels and movies. And what sustained him was the hope that completing ten bloodletters would give him a chance to make a wish. This is perhaps the biggest hope that he can get back his son, of course, he is also the same branch of a large amount of cash to raise the reward amount of the rewards for the search for people, but, but to date, there is still no reply. Now, even up to now, he still felt incredible. Would he really see the so-called Evil Spirits in the Bloodletter Quest? After a person died, would their soul really transform into an evil only existence that could be indestructible? This kind of thing, just thinking about it alone made him feel creeped out. "Tick" …… "Tick tock"…… Lian Zixin slowly moved his pace, holding the piece of paper, a little bit closer, and then, he saw the row of medicine pickup windows in front of him. It looked messy in front of him, and on the floor below several windows, there were medicine bottles scattered. The "ticking" sound was a bottle of cough syrup that had tipped over in front of one of the windows. Looking at the black cough syrup liquid spilled on the floor, in this highly silent environment, suddenly Lian Zixin felt a little bit creepy. He couldn't help but reach out and touch his arm, taking a deep breath before taking a step around that medicine pickup window and walking towards the front. According to the Bloodletter's instructions, the occupants were told that they needed to follow the rules of the reality show when it came to their actions. Then, he would have to go in search of three keys. From the content of this piece of paper, it was not difficult to tell that this hospital was now in a state of lockdown, and he could well imagine what would happen if he failed to escape from the hospital within the time limit. He had viewed the detailed records of the countless bloody instructions, and some of them were even accompanied by photos and videos. It was so easy for the evil spirits to kill the residents that it could be said to be easy. And now that he was alone, it was impossible to say that he wasn't nervous and fearful. As a matter of fact, even when he took a step now, he was trembling with fear, at any time afraid that from the pitch-black area, a blood-covered, cloaked evil spirit would leap out. If that was really the case, he wouldn't have the slightest bit of power to resist. According to the pattern summarized by the current occupants, the bloodletter quest would initially impose a certain so-called restriction on the evil spirit. And this restriction would result in the Evil Spirit needing to have a long time interval to kill the occupant, and it had to be after the hint clues of the path to life were either completely displayed or conditioned to be completely displayed in front of the occupant. All the occupant had to do was to observe more, think more, and even sometimes have a big enough brain hole to detect the life path and pass the bloodletter quest. He squatted down and began to scrutinize the pill bottles scattered everywhere on the ground. According to his view of the various bloodletter quests in the past, the clues to the life path could be hidden anywhere, and if the occupants ignored it without looking carefully, the evil spirits would not wait for them to realize it before coming to kill them as a result. That didn't surprise him, even if it was an open-book exam, you had to know where in the book the knowledge was to be useful. "It's all medicine for colds ah ……" This reminded him of the paranormal rumors about Blackwater Island. Blackwater Island had once had an outbreak of a very scary respiratory infection in the beginning, and in the claims of the psychic rumors, it sounded like the contagiousness of this infection was really quite terrifying, so the people on the island died in large numbers, and the islanders fled to the mainland in droves. And then, according to some of the psychic rumors that started to appear on the island, there was a lot of talk about it. After that, the island became like Chernobyl, turned into a forbidden area that no one dares to approach again. This paranormal rumor was spread in many forums, and many people even believed in it. However, on the point of infectious diseases, it was very much untrue. To know, if there was really such a terrible infectious disease on Blackwater Island back then, how could a large number of islanders flee to the mainland and not cause the spread of the epidemic at all? Even if there really was an infectious disease, it could never be that contagious. But now, even Zixin himself wasn't sure anymore. If there was an evil spirit involved in all of this, then everything would be really hard to say. After all, the phenomenon of spiritual curses could not be explained by biological knowledge. It was likely that this was not an infectious disease at all, but something similar to parasites and subjugation. Lian Zixin had read such similar horror novels in the past, and this kind of curse, which was obviously only effective on Blackwater Island, would lose its effect once he left the island. After checking all the medicine bottles, he was able to determine …… that all of these medicines, all of them had the effect of treating acute flu. "Is this …… really related to the infectious disease back then?" He had checked the posts on the internet of those Blackwater Island paranormal rumors, and in most of the posts, the infectious disease of that year was passed down as a taboo. Later on, many posts even used the phrase "like Chernobyl" to describe it. Now, looking at the scattered medicine bottles on the ground, he still really had this feeling. No matter what, at that time, Blackwater Island seemed to be a really terrible outbreak of infectious disease. And in some of the posts, it was rumored that the contagion wasn't innocent, and seemed to have a rather bizarre source. "Hm?" Just at this moment, his line of sight suddenly moved to one of the sides of the floor, where there was clearly a key! "Key!" After seeing the key, Lian Zixin quickly walked up and grabbed the key with one hand, staring at it dead on. "To gather three keys, does that mean this?" Gathering three keys in order to leave, then, one would definitely have to traverse three doors. Having a key made Lian Zixin feel a little more at ease in his heart. Lian Zixin held the key in a death grip and took a deep breath. He slowly stood up and continued walking towards the front. "Eh?" Immediately after, he saw that on the floor in front of him, several streaks of …… "This is blood?" After Lian Zixin saw the blood, his brows furrowed, and he became more and more uneasy. He squatted down and saw the blood, the color was very wrong, but when he got closer, a bloody scent immediately hit him. Lian Zixin looked at the darkness ahead, where the horrible unknown awaited him!