He took a slight breath and continued listening.
"Rule number two for this area: When walking outside the ward, please wear your area identification wristband to ensure that staff treat you kindly."
Yin Xiu looked down and searched his wrist. A blue rubber wristband was tied around his wrist, very inconspicuous.
"Third, our hospital has a different style than other hospitals. If you see blood clots, twisted staff members, or patients with blurred figures in the hospital, please remain calm, do not shout or panic. This is all normal."
"Fourth, your activities are limited to the mental health treatment area. Without the assessment and transfer of staff, you may not go to the mental health area, as it is not suitable for you."
"5. Please take your medication once before bedtime to ensure you wake up safely."
"Sixth, you are currently in the mental treatment phase. Your every word and action is being observed by the staff. Please be careful with your behavior and avoid being judged to be sent to the mental hospital area, which is hell."
"7. Do not harm the staff! Do not harm the staff! Do not harm the staff!"
The broadcast ended abruptly with a final, forceful reiteration.
The entire ward suddenly fell silent.
Yin Xiu silently memorized the rules. This time, the rule against harming staff was repeated three times and recorded in the rules, indicating it was a very important rule. He would abide by it depending on the situation.
However... the restriction on dungeon items, preventing Ya Ya from appearing, has a significant impact on Yin Xiu, as she is his only source of mental healing.
Since Lady Ye is personally taking action, does that mean Li Mo won't be able to enter this instance?
He looked around the pale, cold hospital room and sighed softly. He wasn't particularly reliant on the two monsters to get through the dungeon, but he was still a little unaccustomed to the lack of liveliness around him. Even with the little tentacles sticking to his body and making a pattering sound, he still felt quite comfortable.
Since Lady Ye is personally taking action this time, he'll reluctantly give it a try and see what she has prepared for him.
Yin Xiu gripped the doorknob of the ward, recalling the hospital content mentioned in the previous dungeon. He remembered that the rules mentioned a lot about the eerie atmosphere of the environment here, and he was now prepared to remain calm no matter what he saw when he went out.
With a creak, Yin Xiu pushed open the ward door and stood in the hospital corridor, prepared to face bloodshed and the bizarre. However, there were no twisted rules outside as the rules mentioned, no crawling nurses or blood-red things, just an ordinary, clean corridor.
Yin Xiu was puzzled for a second when a door to a ward in the corner suddenly opened, and a familiar head tremblingly poked out from the crack.
"Holy crap!" Zhong Mu peeked out for a second, then suddenly shrank back as if he had been startled.
Yin Xiu looked around in confusion. It was normal. What was he afraid of?
Thinking about it, Yin Xiu walked to Zhong Mu's door and knocked. "Open the door, it's me."
The door was flung open, and Zhong Mu's pale face appeared through the crack. He grabbed Yin Xiu's sleeve, trembling, "Brother Xiu! This place is terrifying! This isn't a mental hospital! This isn't a place for humans to stay!!"
Yin Xiu looked around. "Isn't this a normal hospital?"
Zhong Mu was stunned, his pupils trembling slightly as he pointed around, "You...you can't see those?"
Yin Xiu looked in the direction he pointed. The ceiling was clean and tidy, with nothing on it; it was very ordinary.
At this moment, the players in the live chat were also trembling with shock, just like Zhong Mu.
They didn't know what a mental hospital looked like in Yin Xiu's eyes, but in the eyes of the live streamers, that place couldn't even be called a hospital.
The place where they stood, the wall they leaned against, and the entire ceiling—almost everything around them—was a bloody mess, like chunks of flesh.
The cabinet was indeed twisted, almost contorted into a vortex shape. Just looking at it made one feel dizzy. Some unknown dark figures slowly crawled and moved along the corridor, seemingly completely undisturbed by Yin Xiu's world, walking around him.
Some bloody, mangled things were crawling on the ceiling, their twisted eyes staring unblinkingly at the people in the corridor. Zhong Mu didn't even dare to look up for more than a second; he didn't even want to leave his room.
"Looking around... it's a clean hospital?" Yin Xiu squinted and carefully examined his surroundings. It was indeed an ordinary hospital, with nothing that could be frightening.
"Was the difficulty level lowered this time, so what I see is different from yours..." Zhong Mu paused, "No way! Why is it that even though the difficulty level was lowered, what I see is still more terrifying than what you see?!"
"It's still uncertain. Why don't you come out with me and look for clues?" Yin Xiu pulled Zhong Mu along and prepared to leave.
As soon as Zhong Mu stepped outside, he felt the gaze descending from the ceiling. He trembled and shrank back, his face pale. "Brother Xiu... Brother Xiu, I'm actually very afraid of these things. Let me calm down and prepare myself mentally first."
He is brave when facing human players, brave when facing complete humanoid monsters, but when facing bloodied and mangled non-humanoids, he can hide in the toilet all night and dare not go out.
Yin Xiu turned to look at him and said slowly, "Do you remember the first rule? It says that when you first enter the hospital, you will feel uncomfortable. If you see these things, just take your medicine and you'll feel better. Why don't you give it a try?"
"Oh right! There's medicine! I was so scared I forgot." Zhong Mu quickly turned around and grabbed the medicine from the ward, then swallowed one pill with a little water.
As soon as he swallowed the pill, Zhong Mu's eyes lit up as he looked around. "Brother Xiu! The medicine worked! I saw a normal mental hospital now! Those things have disappeared!"
He breathed a sigh of relief and relaxed completely. If he had stayed in this environment, he wouldn't have been able to properly complete the dungeon.
"As expected, the medicine helped him recover." Yin Xiu looked around thoughtfully, a hint of doubt in his eyes. Zhong Mu had seen something different from him from the start. Was the dungeon reminding him to take the medicine to solve the problem, or was there another reason? He had to put it aside for now and investigate further.
"Let's go." Yin Xiu grabbed Zhong Mu's hand and they began to explore the surroundings along the corridor.
Since the rule to pass through is to leave this mental hospital, it is essential to study the environment and find an exit.
As we walked down the corridor, some other ward doors opened, and other players from this instance came out.
Considering that there is currently no option for players to cooperate in this instance, the other players who entered did not intend to reveal information to each other at the beginning, so they were all wandering around, looking for information about the hospital.
This was how Yin Xiu had envisioned it, but as soon as he pulled Zhong Mu toward the front desk of this area, they were immediately intercepted by two or three players.
"You're Yin Xiu, right?" Several players who clearly didn't recognize him asked in a questioning tone, as if they were testing him.
Yin Xiu walked past them without blinking, saying expressionlessly, "No, you've mistaken me for someone else. My name is Zhong Mu."
Zhong Mu, who was being pulled away from the side: ? ? ?
The big shot used his name, so what will he use?