"Let's go to the psychiatric treatment area." Yin Xiu casually pushed away the head on his shoulder and the hands that were hugging him at his feet, then took one hand in each hand, treating them fairly.
"Yay!" Ya Ya nodded excitedly, "Wherever brother goes, I'll go."
"There's someone in the mental health treatment area who seems to have entered the instance with me. I need to find him. Do you know him?" Yin Xiu looked left and right at the two monsters. His memories were completely unclear about his current state, so he could only trust the people around him.
"I know!" Ya Ya raised her hand high, then briefly told Yin Xiu how the three of them met in the beginner dungeon, and then how she was summoned there.
"Brother Zhong Mu is so decisive when it comes to himself! I was eating the cookies Mom made when I was suddenly called over. It wasn't you who called me, brother. I was so confused." Ya Ya said in a daze, and Yin Xiu understood the gist of her meaning.
Years later, someone went to such lengths to help him; it seems he really did meet some very good people.
"I understand. Let's go rescue him then." Yin Xiu nodded, his goal clear: regardless of his own current situation, the person who came in with him had to get out safely.
"Let's go! I want to go save Brother Zhong Mu too!" Ya Ya raised her hand and excitedly followed Yin Xiu.
Li Mo didn't pay much attention to the people around Yin Xiu; he only had eyes for Yin Xiu, but wherever Yin Xiu went, he went too.
The three of them walked through the chaotic insane area and headed once again towards the bloody and terrifying mental treatment area.
After finishing her call with Yin Xiu, Zhong Mu sighed softly and stuffed the butterfly back into her pocket. She wondered how things were going with Brother Xiu. He had even forgotten about her; it must be very serious.
"According to the strategy guide left by Boss Ye, mental dungeons are generally not physically dangerous, but the mental ones are the most torturous. I hope I can clear this dungeon smoothly." Zhong Mu sighed, turned his head to look at the time, it was almost dinner time, and he had to hurry to the cafeteria.
Thinking about it, Zhong Mu hurriedly got up and prepared to go outside.
As soon as he opened the door, a blood-red scene immediately assaulted his senses: walls flowing with blood, black shadows crawling haphazardly on the floor, and eyes sprouting from a twisted cabinet, staring at him without blinking. This sight left Zhong Mu frozen in place.
Headache, tinnitus, and dizziness all struck at once. The bloody, mangled corridor, with even shadowy figures writhing around him, caused Zhong Mu's brain to shut down.
It seems that because Brother Xiu has been acting strangely, he's been worried and has forgotten to take his medication. Now, his level two symptoms have flared up.
In the entire mental health treatment area, only the players' rooms were clean and comfortable. Even though they were at level two, the rooms were still normal. Zhong Mu was inside and had no idea that he was at level two. When he opened the door, he was instantly horrified by the outside world.
"Take your medicine...take your medicine quickly." Zhong Mu looked shakily at the dark, blurry shadow that had already crawled to his door, and tremblingly took out the medicine bottle from his pocket, preparing to shake out two pills.
Just as he shook the medicine into his palm, the dark, blurry shadow suddenly reached out and grabbed Zhong Mu, who was standing at the door. The cold touch slapped against his ankle, startling Zhong Mu so much that he dropped the medicine on the ground, which rolled out the door with a gurgling sound.
The white pill, as it rolled out of the doorway into the corridor, abruptly transformed from a clean medicine into a bloody, trembling eyeball.
"Ahhh! Let go! Let go!" Zhong Mu screamed in terror, shaking his legs to shake off the shadow's hand. He reached down to pick up his medicine, but when he looked down, he saw two eyeballs on the ground where the medicine had fallen.
Zhong Mu stared blankly at the eyeball, then slowly looked down at the medicine bottle. The medicine inside was just ordinary medicine, so how did it turn into an eyeball after falling into the corridor?
"Am I seeing things?" Zhong Mu frowned in confusion, and tentatively shook out another pill from the bottle, rolling it a couple of times in his palm. It was indeed an ordinary pill.
He tossed it into the corridor again, and this time he clearly saw the white pill transform into an eyeball the instant it fell across the ward and landed in the corridor.
"Holy shit! Holy shit!" Zhong Mu took two steps back in terror. He looked at the medicine in the bottle, then at the eyeball in the corridor, and a bad feeling quickly rose up.
"No way? No way!" He remembered the first time he took the medication, he was so terrified of the things in the hallway that he retreated back to his ward to take it! The medication he took then was normal, but... but this medication, if it's for level two symptoms...
Zhong Mu refused to believe it and gritted his teeth again, stretching the entire bottle of medicine into the corridor.
She could clearly see that the contents of the bottle had changed from white pills to a whole bottle of trembling eyeballs. Startled, Zhong Mu threw the bottle away and screamed as she shrank back into the ward.
"The medicine...it's for the eyeballs..." He crouched behind the door, trembling, his eyes glazed over. "Then what was the medicine I took before...?"
"No, no, no, it must be a hallucination, a hallucination caused by the secondary symptoms. The eyeballs are the fake ones!"
He was brainwashing himself at lightning speed, but he had already vaguely sensed that something was wrong.
He had always thought that what he saw after developing the second-degree illness was a hallucination, but just now, that black thing that should have been a hallucination grabbed his ankle, and the sensation was still clearly lingering on his body. It was obviously not a hallucination, but something that really existed.
"Could it be... that what I saw after taking the medicine was just a hallucination?" Zhong Mu frowned. Considering that the difficulty of this instance would be reduced, and recalling the hospital he saw when he first entered the instance, he seemed to understand something, but he wasn't quite sure.
Xiu-ge, who hadn't been taking his medication, looked very ill. He had even gone to the mental hospital and had forgotten about himself.
But it's perfectly normal for players who are taking medication to stay in this mental health treatment area!
"To eat or not to eat..." Zhong Mu frowned in hesitation, slowly opened the door and glanced at the eyeballs scattered all over the floor, then decisively closed the door without hesitation.
I'm not eating it! I'll just go to the mental hospital and meet up with Brother Xiu! He simply can't swallow an eyeball in this state!!
"Okay, I won't take it anymore! I'll refuse to compete with myself, starting with going crazy." Zhong Mu took a deep breath and felt much more energetic after deciding not to take the medicine.
Perhaps dizziness, tinnitus, vertigo, and other uncomfortable symptoms that seem like a medical condition are actually a trap set by the instance, deliberately using uncomfortable symptoms to guide players, making them feel abnormal and thus prompting them to take medication.
Since taking medicine when sick is a human habit, dungeons cater to this habit by setting traps for players.
Not taking medicine might actually be the right thing to do!
After clarifying his thoughts, Zhong Mu felt that it made more and more sense. Then, full of vigor, he opened the door, ready to act out the scenario like Yin Xiu and complete the instance normally.
But as soon as he opened the door, he was met with a sea of twisted black shadows. The blurry faces revealed sinister and terrifying blood-red smiles as they quickly crawled toward him. Zhong Mu was so frightened that he slammed the door shut, covered in a cold sweat.
He remembered that Yin Xiu faced these things with a blank expression, and then kicked them away while talking to him, right?
Brother Xiu, how did you do that?!