Yin Xiu paused for a moment, then put the cap back on the medicine bottle. "I'm fine now, I don't need to take any medicine."
"I think it would be better for you to take one." The nurse stared at Yin Xiu with a gloomy expression. "Regardless of whether you are mentally sound or not, taking one will not do you any harm."
She was practically coercing Yin Xiu into taking the medicine.
Yin Xiu stared at the nurse and uncapped the medicine bottle. "Are you sure you want me to take this?"
The nurse hesitated for a moment. The player in front of her seemed normal, so why did he suddenly exude a dangerous aura of a level four high-risk patient?
After a brief silence, a player's scream suddenly broke the silence inside the room outside the consultation room.
A player outside screamed in terror, "Blood! So much blood! What's wrong with this hospital! It wasn't like this just now!!"
"So many shadows! Don't come any closer!"
It seems that some players have also entered the second level of illness. There are no special triggering conditions. Spending a certain amount of time in the hospital may worsen the player's symptoms.
The moment she heard the scream, the nurse's eyes hardened, and her battered body rushed out of the examination room, lunging at the player who had made the noise. "Shouting is prohibited in the hospital!"
She shoved the player to the ground, forcefully pried open the player's mouth with her fingers, and held up her medicine bottle. "If you're having an attack, you should take your medicine obediently."
"No! No! I don't want to eat this! Let me go!" The player struggled violently, staring in terror at the entire bottle of eyeballs, his eyes filled with panic.
Yin Xiu strolled slowly to the doorway and watched the player struggling on the ground, while the people around him looked puzzled and made no move to help.
"I won't eat! I won't eat!" The player resisted with all his might, but the nurse grabbed him even harder, pinched his throat, and poured all the medicine from the bottle down his throat.
After a few sobs, the player gradually calmed down. Like the other patients in the examination room, his pupils became unfocused. He kept scratching his neck with his fingernails, feeling no pain or struggling. He was just tearing his skin with his fingernails, and there was no light in his eyes.
The players nearby didn't seem to panic at all, as if they had no idea what the player was doing.
After administering the medicine, the nurse got up with a gloomy expression and dragged the player from the ground toward the treatment room. "He's calmed down after taking the medicine and needs to rest for a while to recover. I'll take him back to the treatment room first."
The nurse roughly dragged the dazed player into the treatment room, but no one objected. Even Zhong Mu, who saw the bloody things, didn't react much. Instead, he stood aside and watched, seemingly indifferent.
As the nurse passed by Yin Xiu, who was standing at the door of the examination room, she glanced at him and asked, "Did you take your medicine?"
Yin Xiu nodded calmly, "I just ate."
The nurse didn't pursue the matter too much, but instead dragged the player back into the examination room, saying, "Remember to take your medicine on time next time."
Then they kicked Yin Xiu out of the consultation room and closed the door.
"Brother Xiu!" Zhong Mu ran over from the side. "You came out from inside? Did nothing happen?"
Yin Xiu shook his head, glanced at the player next to him out of the corner of his eye, and, not wanting to say anything more here, immediately pulled Zhong Mu back.
The second-degree symptoms continued to flare up; the ground he saw even seemed to be alive, constantly writhing, and the ground felt soft and mushy under his feet.
His vision was filled with a large expanse of bloody red, and everything looked distorted. He needed to go back and rest as soon as possible.
"Brother Xiu, why are you in such a hurry? What happened?" Zhong Mu followed behind Yin Xiu as he hurriedly returned to the ward.
In the entire hospital, only the wards were clean, simple, and tidy, which is why Zhong Mu was initially startled when he opened the door.
Back in this pale, monotonous room, after closing the door to shut out the distorted world outside, Yin Xiu felt much better and calmed down a bit, but his eyes were still very red, as if his entire eyeballs were filled with blood vessels.
"You were just outside the clinic when you saw that player being attacked by the nurse. Weren't you scared?" He looked up at Zhong Mu, clearly sensing something was off from the perspective of a normal player.
"An attack?" Zhong Mu was stunned. "No, Brother Xiu, it was that player who suddenly started shouting that there was a lot of blood and shadowy figures around him. Then the nurse kindly came out and gave him some medicine, and the player calmly fell asleep."
Yin Xiu frowned. It seemed that what the player saw after taking the medicine was completely different from what the player who was having an attack saw.
In Zhong Mu's eyes, everything was normal and harmonious. The nurse was a nurse with a normal smile. What was abnormal was the player who had a relapse, which was why everyone else was so calm.
Yin Xiu slowly took a deep breath and sat on the edge of the bed, shaking the eyeballs in the medicine bottle.
The rules state that players should take medication immediately if they notice something is wrong, but it seems that after taking the medication, players' eyes are as if they have a filter on them, blocking out all dangers, which is the most dangerous thing in the dungeon.
He could now understand a little better why the hospital Zhong Mu saw at the beginning was different from the one he had seen.
Zhong Mu's difficulty was lowered, so he could see the most dangerous hospital from the beginning, allowing him to stay vigilant from the start. Therefore, what he saw was the true state of the hospital.
When a normal player enters and sees a normal hospital, they will immediately remember the rules and take medicine when they suddenly fall ill. However, they will not know that they have entered the trap of the instance from the moment they take the medicine, and will no longer see any danger in the hospital.
"For now, just follow the rules and keep taking the medicine. The difficulty has decreased, so following the usual player's route won't have much of an impact on you." Yin Xiu calmly closed the medicine bottle, tossed it under the bed, and decided not to tell Zhong Mu what he had taken.
"Okay, so you're not eating, Brother Xiu?"
"Okay, I won't eat it." Yin Xiu nodded lightly. Perhaps looking at the hospital from two different perspectives would lead to different discoveries.
It might be a bit difficult for Zhong Mulai to see me from this terrifying perspective.
Zhong Mu took a deep breath. Since the big boss said to take medicine, there must be a reason for it. Taking medicine could also reduce his fear and help him calm down to clear the dungeon.
"By the way, Brother Xiu, I found some information about this hospital and some floor plans at the front desk." Zhong Mu quickly took out the information he found at the front desk from his pocket and handed it to Yin Xiu.
"This mental hospital is a closed facility with no windows. It is located on a snow-capped mountain, isolated from the world. The map does not show the location of the exit. Only the staff may know the real exit. However, the map does show a courtyard. We can go and take a look at the courtyard. Maybe that can be the breakthrough to leave."
Yin Xiu took the floor plan and carefully examined the structure. Half of the map was blacked out, but there was indeed a courtyard where they were currently located.
But... the yard is on the half that was painted black.