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章節 25: Someone Familiar

編輯: EndlessFantasy Translation

The person who strangled Song Qingxiao had terrifying strength. Just a single tug of their arm made her feel as though the thin strap of her lanyard was about to slice into her neck. It stung fiercely as it dug into her flesh.

Her throat was forced shut, causing her to be unable to breathe in any fresh air. Song Qingxiao lifted her head, and her face was bright red. She instinctively reached out for the dagger hidden in her arm, hoping to get out of the terrible situation. However, as soon as she raised her hand, her logic suppressed the instinct of her body.

Perhaps it was because she had previous experience of being strangled, but Song Qingxiao calmed down quickly as she considered the pros and cons of her actions. The place was a hospital, and there was someone before her. The dagger was her trump card. It would not do her any good if it was revealed at such an early stage. 

Besides that, Nurse Zhang was still there. Even though Song Qingxiao was being strangled, she would not die. She had to endure the suffering for a bit longer. If she revealed her trump card, it was like losing a leg to stand on.

As soon as she thought about it, Song Qingxiao changed the direction of her hand and reached toward the person who had ambushed her from behind. All of it happened in the blink of an eye. Song Qingxiao was dragged nearly two meters away before Nurse Zhang seemed to come back to her senses.

"Qingxiao!" she screamed.

Just as Song Qingxiao predicted, Nurse Zhang quickly ran to help her get out of the situation. At the same time, she yelled out for help from their colleagues. The sound of running footsteps could be heard from the treatment rooms. Some people also came running from the nurses' station. The door of the patient room was opened, and a group of patients came running out. They wore cold expressions.

It only took a few seconds, but it felt like an eternity to Song Qingxiao. Nurse Zhang ran up to help, and it seemed like the person strangling her had tripped and fallen to the floor. However, it did not solve Song Qingxiao's crisis.

The person who tugged on her lanyard did not loosen their grip. In fact, they seemed to pull on the string even harder. In the confusion, Song Qingxiao could feel a pair of feet stepping onto her shoulders to increase the force around her neck!

The situation was more dangerous than before. Song Qingxiao struggled, but she could not get herself out of the threatening situation. Thankfully, the people in the treatment room and the nurses' station hurried over. With their combined efforts, they were able to subdue the person strangling Song Qingxiao.

The incident had caused Song Qingxiao to experience much suffering. In the end, Nurse Zhang found a pair of scissors and cut open the lanyard that was wrapped around Song Qingxiao's neck. Only then did Song Qingxiao feel truly out of danger.

"Are you alright?"

Nurse Zhang handed the scissors to a colleague. She knelt down in concern and was about to help Song Qingxiao get to her feet. Song Qingxiao had regained the ability to breathe. She took a deep breath of the air around her that smelt faintly of medication. 

Her throat still felt odd after her windpipe had been crushed, causing her to cough violently. She blinked a few times forcefully to squeeze out the tears in her eyes from being strangled. She rested her hand on Nurse Zhang's arm, too weak to say a word, and shook her head with much difficulty in response to her question.

Nurse Zhang looked like a mess herself. The nurse's cap on her head was off-center. There were a few scratch marks on her chin that had started to bleed and swell up. Song Qingxiao stood up with the support of Nurse Zhang. She turned her head to see the person that had been restrained on the ground. When she saw the patient, Song Qingxiao stopped coughing and reached for her neck. Her pupils narrowed, and a flash of killing intent swept past her eyes.

Number six, who had two braids in her hair, laid on the ground wearing a blue-striped hospital gown as she was pinned down by two strongly-built nurses. As soon as Song Qingxiao met her eyes, her lips curved into a sinister smile. Number six still had the lanyard that had been wrapped tightly around Song Qingxiao's throat in her hands.

Cough, cough, cough.

Song Qingxiao coughed a couple of times. Nurse Zhang still looked a little worried as she patted Song Qingxiao on the back.

"Are you alright?" Nurse Zhang asked.

Number six was quickly taken away by the others in the direction of the elevator.

"I'm alright." Song Qingxiao forced herself to answer. As soon as Nurse Zhang saw that she could still speak, she let out a sigh of relief. 

"That was one of the new patients that arrived today." Perhaps she was trying to reassure Song Qingxiao because she quickly explained, "She must have suddenly rushed out to hurt people while she was being examined by the doctor."

She pointed towards the examination room behind Song Qingxiao. The door was opened, and Song Qingxiao followed her line of sight to look over. She then nodded her head. Her throat still burned, and the skin of her neck must have been torn open. Nurse Zhang took a look and said, "Thankfully, the wound isn't too deep. However, we should still put some antiseptic over it."

She narrowed her eyes and sighed. "To avoid another situation like this, it looks like you won't be allowed to wear a lanyard." 

She looked a little regretful, but she quickly put on a smile. Pointing at the nametag on her chest, she said, "However, a name tag like this will be done in a few days. By then, you can be like me and not have to wear it."

Song Qingxiao twitched the corner of her lips. It could be considered a response, but she made no sound. The patients around her started to increase in number. Soon, there were a lot of people in the corridor. Each person looked dazed and blank, looking like their souls had wandered off.

Nurse Zhang looked a little anxious when she saw the situation. She did not bother to explain and rushed to get a colleague to help Song Qingxiao apply some medication to her wound. She then rushed off to escort the patients back into their rooms.

Nurse Zhang tidied her hair and put on her nurse's cap once again. Song Qingxiao looked at the wound on her chin and said, "Nurse Zhang, the wound on your chin…"

Nurse Zhang paused. However, she quickly smiled. "It's alright. They're patients, so I can't take it to heart."

Her tone was gentle and full of patience. The jagged wound on her chin did not seem to trigger a hint of anger from her. Song Qingxiao's eyes flashed.

Another nurse piped up to say, "Nurse Zhang is the sweetest person here in our hospital."

Song Qingxiao turned and saw that the name tag on the nurse's chest read 'Wang Xiaoli'. Nurse Zhang ushered the patients back into their rooms. 

"This is not activity time. Patients are not allowed to wander around freely."

As Wang Xiaoli continued to speak, Song Qingxiao was still immersed in her memory of how she had bumped into number six and was nearly killed by her.

The incident that had happened earlier filled Song Qingxiao with doubt. Number five had panicked after being frightened by number four. After that, the trial started, and everyone had no time to react.

That included Song Qingxiao. She had no chance to learn about the task of the other participants in the trial before she was forced to enter the scene. After a series of selections, she entered the scene. She had barely figured out the time limit for the mission, but she still did not understand the clues when she bumped into number six and nearly lost her life!

The numbers in her vision had dropped to 119:17:51. Song Qingxiao frowned deeply because of the pressures of time and the fact that she had encountered number six. Based on what she saw, her identity was in opposition to number six's in the mission setting. One of them was a medical staff, and the other was a patient.

The instructions in her consciousness had not changed. It still showed, 'Protect the people. Obliterate failure. Completion of task: 1000 credits.' It proved that their earlier tussle had not affected the task. It was highly likely that the trial would be just like the previous trial. 

The prompt would only be triggered to change after the participants had started to kill one another. Once someone had died, a change would occur, and the surviving participants would receive more information.

According to that logic, it made perfect sense that number six had attacked her as soon as she saw her. However, Song Qingxiao thought about the fleeting moment when number six had appeared in the space.

When she entered the test space, the large chap had pointed his gun at her. Number six had reacted quickly, and her reactions were agile. She turned the dangerous situation around quickly. Not only did she manage to flip the large chap to the ground, but she also nearly snatched his gun from him. It was enough to see that she had a high combat ability.

She was an extremely dangerous character.

Even though number six had entered the scene with a patient's identity, Song Qingxiao was clear that it was only an adaptation of the game's rules. Number six was not actually a patient. 

If a person like that really wanted to kill Song Qingxiao, it was impossible that she would fail. She could not stop herself from touching her throat. It still stung painfully. Number six must have known that she wore a nurse's uniform and was surrounded by other people in the hospital. The participants were all in competitive and even hostile relationships with each other.

Yet, she had acted in such a situation. Even if she ambushed Song Qingxiao, she would not have succeeded, so what was the purpose of her actions? Song Qingxiao could not figure out the answer to that question in her mind.

Wang Xiaoli saw Song Qingxiao reaching for her neck and asked, "Are you feeling a little scared?"

Song Qingxiao endured her discomfort and swallowed her spit. She dropped her hand as though nothing was wrong. Before she spoke, Wang Xiaoli did not seem to need an answer. She smiled and said, "What if more terrifying things happen after this?"

Nurse Zhang had finished ushering all the patients in the corridor back to their rooms. She walked towards Wang Xiaoli and Song Qingxiao. Next to the nurses' station stood an equipment console. Nurse Zhang headed there to retrieve a cotton swab with alcohol and disinfected the wound on her chin. She waved Song Qingxiao over. 

The equipment console was situated across a patient room. Since she was just ambushed, Song Qingxiao was extremely wary. Before she walked over, she instinctively turned her head to look around her to confirm that there was no one behind her.

At that moment when she turned her head around, her eyes glanced past the window of a patient room. She saw number five dressed in a blue-striped hospital gown curled up on the bed. He trembled as he sat on the bed and raised his head as though he felt Song Qingxiao's eyes on him. 

As soon as that cowardly man with greasy hair saw her, his eyes went wide, and a terrified expression appeared on his face. He looked close to tears and quickly lowered his head. After she had just been reacquainted with number six, she once again encountered someone familiar in the scene. Song Qingxiao bit her lower lip and narrowed her eyes to hide the expression in her eyes.


章節 26: Gunshot

編輯: EndlessFantasy Translation

There were a total of six participants in the trial. Three of them appeared in the hospital, including Song Qingxiao. 

Tick, tock, tick, tock.

The disturbing noise of the ticking clock continued. The sound of the elevator arriving rang out. The doors opened, and the lightbulb in Song Qingxiao's brain seemed to light up. She felt as though she was about to figure out another clue. She was about to ponder on it carefully when someone patted her heavily on the shoulder.

"Hey!"

She felt a sharp jolt of pain on her shoulder. After she had been ambushed by number six, Song Qingxiao was once again caught unaware from behind. She twirled on her toes and moved aside. She crouched next to the side of the equipment console and leaned her upper body backward as she turned around to face the person who had tapped her on the shoulder.

The person who had tapped her on the shoulder was a nurse. She was not one of the six participants, and she looked about 30 years old. She wore soft-soled shoes. She did not make a sound when she walked, so Song Qingxiao had no idea when she came over.

Song Qingxiao reacted outlandishly when she shrank away earlier. She felt a little embarrassed. Her hand was still raised, and when she saw Song Qingxiao's reaction, she sighed. "Are you new?"

After she asked that, she mumbled to herself, "It seems like there have been so many new people recently."

What the nurse said caught Song Qingxiao's attention. She narrowed her eyes as soon as she heard that. As the countdown continued, she paid attention to the name tag on the new nurse's chest. Her name was written on it.

'Tu Xiaoyun'.

Song Qingxiao knew that her exaggerated response to being tapped had incurred the displeasure of Tu Xiaoyun. She looked a little embarrassed. Since Song Qingxiao had just arrived and she had still not figured out the mission of the trial, she hoped that she could be on good terms with her 'colleagues'. That was so she would be able to probe more information to give her an advantage in completing the task.

She needed the favor of the people around her. As soon as she noticed Tu Xiaoyun frowning as she spoke, Song Qingxiao's mind was already busy thinking about the best way to fix it. She raised her left hand to stroke her shoulder. She looked as though she was trying to endure a great deal of pain as she turned to look at Nurse Zhang.

"What happened?"

As soon as Nurse Zhang saw Song Qingxiao's reaction, she quickly asked about her with concern. 

"I think my shoulder is injured from being kicked earlier."

As soon as Song Qingxiao said that, Tu Xiaoyun looked at her with a puzzled expression. Nurse Zhang explained, "We admitted a new patient today who suddenly attacked Qingxiao and injured her neck."

While she spoke, Nurse Zhang got Song Qingxiao's permission and peeled away her collar to look at her shoulder that had been kicked. Song Qingxiao was 1.68 meters tall. However, the nurses working in the psychiatric hospital were not short either. As soon as Nurse Zhang peeled her collar back, she exclaimed in shock after she took a look.

"Oh! There's a hematoma."

Number six had not gone easy on her. As she pulled tightly against the lanyard on Song Qingxiao's neck with both hands, she kicked her feet against Song Qingxiao's shoulders. Hence, she had two red and swollen marks on her shoulders.

Once Tu Xiaoyun realized what had happened, she looked a little guilty. She took some cotton with some iodine on it and walked up to help Song Qingxiao disinfect her wound. She said, "That's true. Our hospital may have another newcomer. Doctor Zhou is preparing to meet them now. If that person stays on, we'll have a new doctor."

The skin on her neck was torn after she had been strangled by the lanyard string. It stung when the iodine was applied. However, it was not as shocking to Song Qingxiao as the news she heard from Tu Xiaoyun.

She recalled that Tu Xiaoyun previously said 'It seems like there have been so many new people recently'. Tu Xiaoyun did not specifically mention if all of the 'new people' were medical staff or patients. It was highly likely that it was a mix of both. For example, there was herself, as well as number five and number six that she saw earlier.

Since a new doctor was about to enter the hospital, she could not help but wonder who the new 'doctor' would be. If everyone in the trial had entered the same scene, three of them have already appeared. Hence, the participants left were the bespectacled guy, the large chap with the gun, and the red whip lady who had yet to appear. 

The doctor mentioned by Tu Xiaoyun must be one of the three. There were a total of five floors in the hospital building. According to what Nurse Zhang told her earlier, there were a total of 27 patients. She wondered if the other two participants of the trial would be among the patients.

Her mind was full of questions, along with the sound of the ticking clock. Tu Xiaoyun was still speaking when a chilling boom could be heard. The sound was clear and not dull. It sounded like it came from a distance away. However, because of the hospital's unique location, the sound echoed in the air.

Song Qingxiao was not the only one who looked like she had suffered a shock. Even Nurse Zhang and the others who were in the midst of a conversation were startled. Tu Xiaoyun's hand that held the cotton swab shook and the cotton swab poked Song Qingxiao's injured neck, causing her to let out a gasp.

"What happened?"

Wang Xiaoli was a little surprised. Song Qingxiao, on the other hand, felt her eye twitch non-stop. She felt as though something was wrong! The soundproofing of the hospital was excellent. She had experienced it herself firsthand.

They were all in the same building. There were 27 patients on one side, and the medical staff offices and dormitories were situated on the other side. When she first entered the trial scene and was interviewed by 'Liu Yixun', she did not hear anything from the patient zone at all.

It was only when she had followed Nurse Zhang over and passed through several metal gates did she begin to hear the cries and sobs of the patients. The explosion earlier sounded like it came from the offices on the other side of the building. What kind of sound could travel that far?

Not to mention, that noise did not sound like an object falling to the ground or the sound of something breaking. It really sounded like a gunshot. Song Qingxiao instantly thought of the large chap with the gun! She licked her dry and chapped lips.

Tu Xiaoyun said that a new person had arrived. At the moment, the gunman, the bespectacled guy, and the red whip lady had not appeared. The new doctor could be one of them. However, it seemed like the large chap with the gun was the most likely one.

Her neck that was strangled by number six started to hurt even more. The rate of Song Qingxiao's breathing began to increase. After the sound of the gunshot rang out, she keenly sensed the presence of death. It was a powerful intuition that came from two close calls with death.

Song Qingxiao quickly took a look at the prompt in her consciousness. As she expected, the instructions that used to say 'Protect the people. Obliterate failure. Upon completion of task: 1000 credits' had changed after the sound of the gunshot.

'Protect the people. Obliterate failure. Upon completion of task: 950 credits'.

The reward had changed!

When Song Qingxiao looked up, her eyes were filled with surprise and a little elation. Even though the earlier gunshot meant that it was likely that someone had died in the hospital, it was as she had expected. Once a death occurred, it would signal the official start of the trial.

Her eyes were half-closed as her gaze swept across Tu Xiaoyun and the others. Through the glass windows of the patient room, she could see number five lift his head. It was clear that he had been startled by the earlier gunshot. His face was filled with an unmistakable look of terror.

As soon as he noticed Song Qingxiao's gaze, number five cradled his head in his arms and slowly lowered his head. His body began to tremble. The others had not recovered their senses after the gunshot when the shrill sound of a woman screaming could be heard in the distance.

"Ahhhhhh!"

The cry was loud, clear, and shrill. It sounded terrifying, especially in a quiet environment like the hospital. It seemed like all the patients had been affected by the shrill cry. As though they sensed a disruption, the patients that Nurse Zhang had ushered back into their rooms had started to rebel. The patient in the same room as number five got down from the bed and sluggishly walked towards the door.

"Go and have a look. Find out what has happened."

Nurse Zhang seemed a little anxious. Before Song Qingxiao could react, she had been dragged along with Tu Xiaoyun and Wang Xiaoli to reassure and calm the patients down along with a couple of other nurses.

The gunshot seemed to come from the doctor's office. Nurse Zhang rushed to get the keys and opened the three heavy metal gates. In that situation, she did not forget to explain to Song Qingxiao apologetically, "I'm so sorry, Qingxiao. Since you've just started today, I should have shown you around so that you can familiarize yourself with the place." 

She explained in a rush while she looked a little disconcerted, "I don't know what is going on today…"

"It's okay. We should hurry to see what is going on and whether we can help. I have time to familiarize myself with the hospital at another time."

As Song Qingxiao said that, the ticking sound continued, and the numbers in her vision changed to 119: 06: 27. It was as if the numbers mocked her for saying that she 'still had time'. Song Qingxiao blinked her eyes and endured the pain in her throat as she gulped. She suppressed the fear in her heart and did her best to ignore the numbers.

At that point, she wanted to test the theory in her heart. She wanted to see if that gunshot had anything to do with the large chap who was one of the six participants in the trial. She also wanted to see who had encountered trouble and figure out how she had lost 50 credits for no reason.

As soon as the both of them left the patient area, they heard a commotion outside. The sound seemed to come from downstairs. Nurse Zhang ran to the elevator and pressed the button. The elevator arrived quickly and Song Qingxiao followed her in.

The elevator lights were fluorescent white, and it made the enclosed space appear incomparably gloomy. They did not speak. Song Qingxiao could hear Nurse Zhang's faint and quick breaths. It revealed that she was extremely anxious.

She turned her head to look at Nurse Zhang and show that she had lowered her head. As the light shone down on her, her eyes were cast in a shadow under her pale white forehead. Song Qingxiao could only vaguely see her tightly pursed lips.

The elevator went down one floor and the doors opened with a ring. However, Nurse Zhang did not move until Song Qingxiao spoke up.

"Xiaoyu…"

Only then did Nurse Zhang look as though she had been woken up from her sleep. She ran out of the lift in a hurry. The entire doctor's office area seemed to have been startled by the sound of the gunshot. There were plenty of people gathered outside one of the doctor's offices.

When Nurse Zhang and Song Qingxiao arrived, many noises were coming from inside the office. Song Qingxiao looked at the person sitting on the chair. It was a man whose body was slumped against the chair, and his head was tilted abnormally towards the door. His arms hung limply beside his body. He was dead.

There was an obvious gunshot wound on his forehead. The powerful force of the bullet had caused bruises to appear on the skin around the wound. The bruises looked like earthworms crawling all over his head. 

His eyes were wide open. Blood slowly seeped out from the wound on his forehead and trailed down across his brow, nose, and eyes. Finally, it collected in a pool under his cheek and trickled down to form a blooming red patch on his white doctor's coat.

Perhaps it was because he did not expect to be attacked so suddenly, the doctor's face still maintained his smile. The curve of his lips made the scene look especially sinister. His appearance reminded Song Qingxiao of all the photos of the trial participants who had died in the previous trial when their card had flipped over.

The doctor's coat had a name tag pinned on it which displayed the name 'Zhou Yu'.

The office was filled with a pungent smell of gunpowder mixed with blood. Nurse Zhang was frightened out of her mind when she saw the scene. Song Qingxiao returned her gaze and looked towards the floor of the office. The large chap was pinned down by two nurses and two men that looked like bodyguards. He was completely unable to move. His face was bright red as he struggled with all his might, looking like a pitiful ant.


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