If the marks are knife wounds, then Brother Xiu has already arrived on our side?
Could it be that Brother Xiu has recovered and come to find me?
Zhong Mu happily took out the butterfly from his pocket to confirm, and sure enough, Ya Ya was still useful.
While contacting Yin Xiu using the butterfly, he also paid attention to the difference between the mental health treatment area and the psychiatric ward. When he had taken the medicine before, the psychiatric ward looked bloody and mangled, while the mental health treatment area looked normal. Now that he had vomited up the medicine, the mental health treatment area looked frenzied, while the psychiatric ward looked normal.
It seems that the mentally ill area is indeed the normal area, and the real exit is over there.
As they were making contact, a figure slowly crawled out from the doorway near the iron fence. He was wearing a white coat, like a staff member here. But Zhong Mu remembered that once someone was sent to the mental ward, they no longer needed to take medication, and the patients would no longer be subject to supervision. Why would there be a staff member in the mental ward?
"I... save me..." The white-coated man, covered in blood, was frantically crawling on the ground, his eyes gouged out, leaving only two bloody holes. Zhong Mu shuddered at the sight and retreated at lightning speed, preparing to leave first.
"Help...help me..." The person's voice kept coming, struggling desperately, his panting filled with pain, and it was very clear between the two quiet areas.
Zhong Mu took two steps, then turned back to look.
The staff member is already so weak that they shouldn't be able to hurt him anymore, right? Besides, he has props for protection. Go check it out; if it's information, it'll be worth it.
Zhong Mu took a deep breath, then mustered his courage and crawled through the broken iron fence into the mental hospital area.
Upon entering, he saw players lying in open rooms, their bodies brutally bitten or torn apart. Various weapons lay scattered in the corridor, making it look like a truly insane area.
If Zhong Mu's guess is correct, these are players who were sent into this area without taking any medication and who couldn't resist the mental damage, and they've really gone mad.
Zhong Mu cautiously approached the staff member, but before he could speak, the man heard his footsteps and crawled towards him on all fours, struggling, "Help me! Please help me!"
"Okay, okay! I'll save you! Can you please stop climbing?" Zhong Mu called out to stop him as she backed away in fear.
It's terrifying to see a bloodied person crawling towards you on the ground!
"Save me… I won't hurt you… I'm a staff member here…" He stopped, his fingers trembling as he reached out to Zhong Mu, "I… I'm a doctor… I can give you… medicine to restore your consciousness, as long as you save me…"
Zhong Mu was suddenly stunned. So this was the correct way to obtain the medicine to restore cognition. It seemed that this was the key to successfully clearing the dungeon.
Just like the deep-sea dungeon, even the most dangerous dungeons aren't 100% fatal; there's always a way to clear them. Mental-type dungeons always have medicine to restore sanity. Although he already got one from Mu He, he should get it here to clear the dungeon normally.
Zhong Mu bent down and quickly helped the other person up to sit against the wall. "You're a doctor, what are you doing in the mental hospital ward? There aren't any doctors in the mental hospital ward, are there?"
"A mental ward?" The doctor gave a bitter laugh. "A real mental ward should be a place without doors or windows, used for isolation. This place has windows, doors, and a yard. Does it look like a mental ward?"
When the doctor mentioned it, Zhong Mu suddenly realized that he hadn't noticed it when looking at the floor plan. The mental health treatment area, which seemed like a place people would frequently enter and exit, not only had no doors or windows, but its only exit led to the mental patient area, which was quite strange.
But there were many abnormalities in the instance, but he didn't pay much attention to them, or even think about why the mental area, which should be an isolated area, had a courtyard that seemed to be accessible.
"Actually, this is the mental health treatment area, and the area inside is the psychiatric ward, right?" Zhong Mu's thoughts became clearer, and he was even more certain that the areas were reversed.
"Yes… this is the mental health treatment area, where some people who can be saved live. The area where the crazy people stay is in there…" The doctor covered his blood-filled eye socket and sighed heavily.
"One day, when we were detaining a new batch of lunatics, we didn't expect that the people already inside had already developed a rebellious spirit. While waiting for us to enter, they attacked our staff and then ran into this area, killing many of our people."
"But they didn't know the exit of this mental health treatment area. Even after they stole the key to the exit, they still couldn't find it. So they changed into our staff's clothes and turned the mental health treatment area into a mental health treatment area. The mental health treatment area was called the mental health treatment area, and they locked us, who were injured, with a group of crazy people."
The doctor slowly raised his hand and grabbed Zhong Mu. "You must go to the mental hospital ward and find the key. You can't leave until you get the key back from them! Please, save this hospital!"
After listening, Zhong Mu roughly understood that he needed a key to leave the house, so it seemed he would have to go back over there to look for it.
"I understand. You wait for me here. I'll be back soon." Zhong Mu nodded, then turned and crawled back into the bloody mess.
The doctor slowly raised his head and added, "The leader of the madmen was very strong and had many suture marks on his body. He was extremely dangerous, so we put a special ankle strap on him with the number 408 on it. I'm not sure what his real name was, but 408 has always been what we call him. He's the one who took the key!"
Zhong Mu nodded. This must be the boss of this instance!
He hurriedly went to the psychiatric treatment area to look for Yin Xiu, but he didn't know what Brother Xiu was busy with and hadn't answered his calls, so he had to go find him himself.
The entire psychiatric treatment area was completely different from when Zhong Mu left. All the terrifying black, twisted monsters had been killed, and some crooked cabinets had even been forcibly chopped into the correct shape with a knife. Needless to say, the nurse had collapsed in front of the reception desk, and the self-harming patients in the treatment area had all fallen asleep peacefully.
The psychiatric treatment area was extremely quiet, so quiet that it seemed as if Zhong Mu was the only person there. He walked along this small area.
Finally, he arrived at a place he had never been before—the operating room.
To be precise, this shouldn't have originally been an operating room, because there are no operating rooms in the mental hospital area. The three characters for "operating room" were handwritten on a piece of paper and then pasted on the wall.
He had sneaked in at night to take a look, but it was too terrifying inside, so he only glanced at it briefly before coming out.
Looking back now, he felt terrified at the time, but now this place should be the only normal place in the mental district.
As he approached, he could faintly hear voices coming from inside. Zhong Mu immediately pushed open the door and entered. As soon as he entered, he saw Yin Xiu standing on a burly man, pointing a knife at him, and saying coldly, "Where did you hide that person? Did you kill him?!"
The man on the ground, whose foot had a 408 badge hanging from it, said in a harsh voice, "How many times have I told you! I haven't seen it! I don't know!"
"Still lying." Yin Xiu said coldly, then plunged the tip of the knife into the man's mouth, causing him to grimace in pain.
"I don't know! I really don't know!!"