WTNL Chapter 22.2

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Fukang Hospital
Chapter 22.2 – The first underground floor: Mortuary

Three people were squeezed into the narrow room, and it suddenly seemed a little crowded. The air in the room was turbid and cold and was very difficult to circulate. They don’t know if it was an illusion, but the temperature here seemed to be even lower than the outside, almost bone-chilling.

Wen Jian looked down at the screen of the mobile phone without leaving a trace.

【Complete the patrol mission on the first underground floor within two hours.】

【Degree of Completion: 92%】

Just hold on, it will be over soon!

Wen Jianyan lowered his head and made a tick on the booklet: “Zhang Hua, 24 years old—”

The voice got stuck in his throat, and it couldn’t go up or down.

He stared at the booklet in his hand, his lips were a little white, and his expression was stern and serious.

Su Cheng noticed something was wrong: “What’s wrong?”

Wen Jianyan slowly raised his head, opened his mouth, and only after two seconds did he make a sound:

“Here… There should be two corpses here.”

This time, both Su Cheng and Qi Shen’s faces also turned pale.

Qi Shen stammered: “No, no, no, no, no? Is it possible that there is an error in the record?”

He shook his head in disbelief: “Or someone has already—”

Suddenly, a soft sound came from outside the door.

“Jingle”.

………

Aaaaaaaahhhhhhhhh F**k your stupid uncle, grandfather, father, your ancestor aaaaaahhhhhhhhh!!!!

Wen Jianyan’s pupils shrunk, and he was so frightened that he almost lost his soul.

The next second, a familiar voice sounded in both Su Cheng and Wen Jianyan’s ears at the same time.

【Congratulations to the anchor for triggering the scene: Hide-and-seek
Count: three times
Countdowns to hide: 01:00】

【Don’t stay in one place for too long.】

“Jingle.”

The voice became clear, and it seemed to be slowly approaching in this direction.

Wen Jianyan had triggered a similar scene before, so he immediately reacted and began to draw the route in his mind.

The third morgue is the innermost one. If they want to go to other morgues, they have to go through the narrow corridor on the outside, and It’s very likely that they will collide with the sound that was slowly approaching. Then, the most suitable place for hiding is here—

Wen Jianyan jumped up and opened the door of the refrigerator:

“Quick, go in!”

There were four refrigerator cabinets in this morgue, and there just happened to be three empty for them to hide.

Qi Shen’s face was as pale as paper: “You, are you kidding me?”

The corpse freezer, which can only accommodate one person, was opened, revealing a dark hole as if it was watching them silently.

Wen Jianyan’s voice was hurried: “Do you have any other way?”

【Countdown to hide: 00:42】

“Jingle”.

The sound of the bells outside was getting closer.

Crawling into the corpse freezer alone has become a more acceptable option than being caught by an unknown corpse outside.

Su Cheng faced death calmly and bent down to get into the freezer.

Wen Jianyan turned to look at Qi Shen: “Quick!”

“……”

Qi Shen swallowed hard as if he had finally made up his mind, and crawled in with trembling hands and feet.

【Countdown to hide: 00:06】

Wen Jianyan closed the door of the freezer for the two of them as quickly as possible. At this time, the sound of bells was already close at hand outside the door, and the thin layer of walls only made people panic.

He gritted his teeth and moved quickly to hide inward. His palm stuck on the door of the freezer, cleverly taking advantage of the inertia to move it in!

“Crack.”

The freezer was closed.

【Countdown to hide: 00:00】

It was pitch black in front of him.

The temperature in the freezer was extremely low. The cold was teeth chattering, and a strong smell of formalin was lingering in the nose. The iron walls on all sides press against the chest cavity and limbs, and only heavy and disordered breathing can be heard in the ears.

Other than that, there was only a panic-stricken silence.

Wen Jianyan held his breath and listened to the movements outside with trepidation.

【Countdown to find: 01:00】

“Jingle”, “Jingle”.

The sound of footsteps against the ground rang outside the cabinet door, accompanied by bursts of crisp bells, making people extremely terrified.

Time passed minute by minute, and the long time made them almost desperate. The black and heavy air was pressing against their bodies, almost suffocating them in such a narrow space.

After an unknown amount of time.

The sound of bells and footsteps fade away.

【Countdown to find: 00:00】

【Countdown to hide: 03:00】

This time, there were three minutes of hiding time.

Almost in the next second after the sound fell, Wen Jianyan pushed open the door of the freezer and jumped out. On the other side, although Su Cheng was a little slower, he also climbed out.

The third morgue was empty.

Including…

On the iron platform where the corpse was lying just now, there was only a white cloth left. Its one end was hanging to the ground, still shaking slightly.

Wen Jianyan felt a chill rush to the top of his head.

He stepped forward quickly and dragged the NPC Qi Shen out of another freezer: “You can only hide in a place once, or you will be discovered next time.”

Qi Shen was so frightened that his face was dull, and he seemed to have lost his ability to struggle and speak.

Wen Jianyan didn’t care either. He and Su Cheng dragged Qi Shen, whose legs were weak, from both sides. They walked out quickly, hurried through the corridor, and ran into the second morgue.

Just like before, they did the same this time.

After stuffing Qi Shen into a freezer, they each found a cabinet to hide in it.

【Countdown to find: 03:00】

This time, the sound of bells wandering outside the cabinet door turned into two, echoing in the huge space.

【Countdown to find: 00:00】

【Countdown to hide: 10:00】

The third time, the hiding time increased to ten minutes.

Wen Jianyan left his hiding place. He looked up at the second morgue in front of him, his scalp tingling suddenly.

All the refrigerated cabinet doors in front of them were opened, revealing a pitch-black interior.

Each one was empty.

They had just pushed them in earlier, and now all the locked corpses have disappeared.

Su Cheng’s face was as pale as paper, but after all, he had already experienced the baptism of an instance, so his mood was stable for the time being. But Qi Shen, who was on the side, was on the verge of collapse. He held his head with his hand, buried his head deeply, and muttered something in a low voice.

Wen Jianyan didn’t have so much time to talk nonsense with him.

He grabbed Qi Shen: “Let’s go, go to the next room.”

The first morgue was the same as the second one, all the freezer doors were wide open, and the cold blue-white light was pouring down from overhead like an invisible rope hanging around a person’s neck.

After stuffing Qi Shen into a refrigerator together, Su Cheng hid in a cabinet near the corridor.

Taking advantage of the fact that there was still some time left, Wen Jianyan took a few steps forward——

The elevator and stairs were not far away, looking like shining gates beckoning to him.

He sighed, withdrew his gaze, and was about to walk toward an outside hallway cabinet.

But when he passed by the freezer where Qi Shen was hiding, Wen Jianyan paused involuntarily. He was stunned and turned his head to look in the direction from which the voice came.

There was dead silence in the morgue.

Separated by the thick iron cabinet door, he could vaguely hear the other party’s absent-minded muttering:

“Big sister, big sister, big sister…”

【Countdown to find: 10:00】

Wen Jianyan was lying in the freezer. He turned on his phone and stared thoughtfully at the screen that lit up in front of him.

Big sister?

Was it the third corpse that disappeared in the morgue? If so, does Qi Shen, as the younger brother, know something? This difficult task released by the system — saving NPC Qi Shen, was it just to increase the difficulty, or was there any other consideration?

Outside the freezer, the sound of bells and footsteps came and went. Wen Jianyan could almost clearly imagine the horror scene of countless pale corpses wandering in the morgue in his mind.

At this moment, a screaming sound came from the outside:

“Aaaaaaahhhhhhhhh——”

…the sound was penetrating.

Wen Jianyan was slightly startled.

Based on the direction and distance, the sound probably came from the third morgue.

Across the iron door, he heard the sound of bells and footsteps. Then, all the footsteps began to move again, chasing in the direction of the sound, and gradually moved away from the first morgue.

——At the same time, the system prompt sounded in his ears: 【Ding! The high-difficulty side quest is about to fail!】

In the “Integrity First” live broadcast room:

[Alas, it really failed.]

[So far, it seems that no anchor in Fukang Hospital has successfully completed this task. It really deserves to be the only high-difficulty side quest in this C-level instance…]

[D@mn, the main thing is that there is really no way to do it. They have already stuffed him into a safe place. If Qi Shen, the NPC, is going to run out and die, which anchor can stop it.]

[But the anchor is already very strong. I remember that the survival rate in the underground morgue of Fukang hospital was extremely low, right?]

[Yes, in the situation just now, the anchor can react immediately and hide in the freezer. This response speed is really awesome.]

[Although he hasn’t completed the high-difficulty side quest, it is good to survive. Although the morgue is difficult, I remember that the reward was extremely good…]

When the audience was discussing in the live broadcast room, suddenly, a soft “Bang” was heard, and the freezer where Wen Jianyan was located was pushed open from the inside.

Immediately afterward, the young man cautiously stuck his head out.

“……”

The live broadcast room fell into a dead silence.

[???]

[??? Time hasn’t come yet, right?]

[No!]

[What’s the anchor doing at this time? Courting death?!]

After confirming that there were no corpses guarding outside the cabinet, Wen Jianyan nimbly slipped out of the cabinet and ran toward the elevator.

The audience was even more puzzled:

[Ah? What does the anchor want to do?]

[I can’t understand anymore…]

[The third round of hide-and-seek is about to end, does he suddenly want to run at this time or something?]

Then they saw that Wen Jianyan rushed to the elevator with a clear goal in mind——

It was because of the independent main switch next to it.

Hearing a “click” sound, the power supply in the entire morgue was cut off, and the surroundings suddenly plunged into darkness.

[No, it can’t be, right? Does the anchor think this is the last instance?]

[I think so. There are all corpses in this instance, they don’t rely on light sources to move.]

[Is this anchor okay…]

After cutting off the power supply, Wen Jianyan took a deep breath and pulled out his mobile phone from his pocket.

He opened the phone’s voice memo.

And clicked the play button.

The next second, the familiar “Jingle” “Jingle” sound came from the mobile phone.

The barrage was silent for a moment: “……”

After a few seconds, the barrage area finally came alive again.

[Fvck (50 reward points)]

[D@mn (100 reward points)]

[…I finally know what the anchor is trying to do. (100 reward points)]

[??? What? Am I alone in the fog? Can a kind-hearted person come and explain it?]

[Come, come, kind-hearted person, please come. Now the anchor doesn’t want to give up the high-difficulty side quest, so he’s ready to save the NPC.]

[The corpses in the morgue are not ghosts. They are dead people, so their way of judging friends and enemies is still the same as when they were alive, either listening or watching. Now because the anchor has cut off the power supply, they are only left with one way—]

[Understood! Thank you, kind-hearted person!]

[!!! I also understood!]

[So, this dog liar didn’t have enough fun pretending to be an NPC to deceive the living in the last instance, so he’s now going to pretend to be a corpse to deceive the dead this time?]

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