An Eerie Tone
Warning: Light Gore. Viewer's discretion is advised.
Once Chi Yu opened his eyes, he saw pitch-black night skies. Although the bright moon was up high, what was strange was, his surroundings were still a span of pitch black, as though this moon was merely an ornament.
He lowered his head, yet clearly saw the falling pebbles on the asphalt road beneath his legs emerging with a black silvery impression—— the moonlight certainly fell onto the human realm, to the point it would make these loose little rocks emerge with a bit of light. Chi Yu was blinded by this scene, he slightly blankly lifted his head again, and in a trance, got a bit a shocked, and his sanity meter slightly lowered a bit, but because it did not fall to a certain amount, just by merely looking at the numbers, his sanity meter was still full.
And Chi Yu also let out a breath quietly, as though letting out the foul air in the chest out as well.
Just as he lifted his head up, he took the building in front of him as a certain kind of distorted and terrifying wild beast, they quietly laid in the dark night, bearing a ridiculing malice, licking their bloody tongues, overseeing these insignificant humans in front of them, waiting for them to fall into the net by themselves.
If Chi Yu played a few more games, he would then know, the more people participating in a game would not represent that this game would be very easy to clear- the more the game gave you, would not represent that the game was genuinely benevolent either.
He very quickly received the first sad news.
A young woman with short black hair within a small group of ten people knitted her eyebrows, and told the other members this unfortunate news.
Lilith, "I did not feel the presence of a skylight."
At this time, we should introduce the party's members.
The ten people were separately Lilith, Salt Fish, Black Walnut, Kris, White Night, Nightingale, Timepiece, Conman, Shadow, as well as Chi Yu.
The group page could extremely conveniently see each member's basic information, and the group chat where they could communicate in real time was also in each member's brains, instantly communicating with each other without any impediments.
「Lilith Stamina:170/170 Sanity:120/120
White Night Stamina:100/100 Sanity:135/135
Kris Stamina:200/200 Sanity:100/100
Black Walnut Stamina:100/100 Sanity:110/110
Nightingale Stamina:110/110 Sanity:200/200
Clock Stamina:170/170 Sanity:170/170
Salt Fish Stamina:165/165 Sanity:110/110
Shadow Stamina:95/95 Sanity:190/190
Conman Stamina:130/130 Sanity:150/150
Chi Yu Stamina:80/80 Sanity:70/70 」
Lilith knitted her eyebrows, her expression did not seem to be fake, "My ability can predetermine the place where the skylight and cellar can appear in, but I could not feel the presence of the skylight, as for the cellar... it is under the hospital, on the right side, but as for a more precise location, I am unable to affirm it."
"No problem, being able to know the general location of the cellar is already good news for us," Kris smiled and tied her curly hair up, and her gaze went towards Chi Yu, "Your stats are too low, do you want to be with me?"
Being asked by a beautiful big sister if they wanted to be partners made Chi Yu immediately turn red in the ears, but certainly, among the ten people, only Chi Yu's two stats were outrageously low, thus, Chi Yu obediently gave an en, and was even extremely grateful that Kris did not dislike him.
"I believe the game this time should be of a very high difficulty, just the second line where the number of deaths is less than four times already makes me a bit uneasy," Black Walnut and Salt Fish walked together, "What's even worse is, this game is most suitable for Pineapple, but she did not enter this game."
Chi Yu curiously asked, "So, even if this game does not have a party system, the reason you guys would appear together would be...?"
Black Walnut nodded his head, "That's right, we are very good friends in real life, we would arrange a time together to enter a similar type of game at the same time."
But Chi Yu got more suspicious, "Then you guys must have spent points to choose the same type, but why would you guys choose this kind..." This kind of type that looked to be very scary?
"Because along with the increase in level, the difficulty of the game would unavoidably rise, no matter which type is chosen..." Black Walnut suddenly stopped talking, then could not help but laugh a bit, "I forgot, Chi Yu, your sanity is too low, so you would naturally hate this type even more."
After a short while, the group of people walked to the downstairs of a hospital. What was extremely strange was, after they walked in, this hospital suddenly lit up, as though the span of black before was a kind of misconception. The front doors of the hospital were slightly open, and a security guard was sitting in a plastic chair, with a hat covering over his face.
The other party was sleeping very deeply, Chi Yu lowered his head, and discovered that the stun baton in the guard's hands was placed right underneath the round stomach, and as the security guard snored, the stun baton underneath the rising belly would slightly roll around.
This hospital was a small hospital with one building to it. Chi Yu went in and out of hospitals often, and was very informative about the hospital's divisions, but the hospital in front of his eyes was truthfully too small.
It was merely only six stories high, but was also configured with an elevator, escalator, and staircase. After going into the main lobby was an independent ring-shaped information desk, and behind the information desk was the dispensary where it wrote with different dispensing windows from left to right. The entire lobby was all empty, the right side was the registration window, the left side was the cashier's area, while the floorboards were washed so strangely clean to the point that the square tiles could even be used as mirrors.
Some symbols were hanging from the ceiling, while some were taped on the corridor, on the walls beside the escalator, and even stuck on each floor's bulletin boards.
B1—— Parking Lot, Admissions and Discharge.
F1—— Information Desk, Emergency Ward, Pediatrics.
F2—— Otorhinolaryngology, Ophthalmology, Internal Medicine, Gynecology.
F3—— Clinical Laboratory, Electrocardiography, Blood Collections.
F4—— Daytime Ward.
F5—— In-patient Ward.
F6—— Operating Room.
Chi Yu saw this distribution of floors, and could not help but lament that it was quite convenient that this small hospital placed the operating room at the topmost floor- the in-patient ward to the operating room was only one floor, quite fast.
When he was looking at the distribution of floors, the other people behind him also each separated their own territory.
Their task was to recreate the truth of the matter, and find their own identity, and also think of a way to not die more than four times. Each person all chose one floor, and planned on starting their investigation there.
And as for what the truth of the matter was...
The system did not give any more information.
Chi Yu looked at the structure of this hospital and felt more and more that it was a bit familiar, but it was not that familiar...
He walked around the main lobby a few circles- in this process, he did not leave the group's line of sight, because Chi Yu himself was also worried that there might be some accident, he only carefully compared, and then confirmed one matter.
This hospital was probably that hospital from the horror film that he and Gu Wen Qiao watched.
Because the perspective that the movie gave did not appear with the entire hospital's main lobby and the entire view of the hospital itself, Chi Yu did not realize, and this hospital was too new.
The hospital in the film was a very old and worn shell of a building, and the main character's group ran inside to play and got in trouble due to it.
Chi Yu's face suddenly stiffened. He quickly walked back to Kris' side, and at this time, the other people already chose the escalator, and went to their own floors.
Kris saw that he ran over, and smiled and nodded her head at him. After Chi Yu got to her side, she then quietly said to Chi Yu, "Don't be nervous, we'll also go up the escalator. We'll be going to the fifth floor's in-patient ward."
Chi Yu nodded his head, and headed straight forward.
Behind him, the originally empty information desk appeared with two nurses.
One of them was sitting there flipping over a thick book, while the other was looking at a telephone on top of the desk while in a daze.
And on top of a plastic reclining chair by the main doors, sat a big and wide body.
Except... the place that was originally the head... turned into a straight line... and after a while, a dark red fluid surged out from the neat opening.
On the floorboards by the plastic chair, fell with a ball-like object.
A police cap was covered on top, as though there was something underneath squirming, and finally, like it could not take it, the cap split open.
A pile of disgusting-shaped white maggots wiggled and squeezed out, bringing out dark-red bloody fluid and black pieces of congealed blood.
The body on the reclining chair moved a bit, a pair of hands moved, and then propped on the reclining chair and stood up.
That round and plump stomach split open at some time ago, the security guard's hands grabbed the leaking intestines, then like a butcher grabbing pig intestine, he casually stuffed it back into the stomach. His neck constantly flowed with blood, and from the flat opening, one could see his esophagus, windpipe, as well as the vertebrae- even if they were all enveloped by blood, from the hospital's lights, everything could be seen.
This body too fat to move arduously crouched down with a hum and haw, found his own head, then picked it up, and placed it on the neck——
He put it on backwards, this head looked at the back, and thus, he turned his head, picked up the stun baton, then walked into the outpatient lobby.
The nurses at the information desk suddenly cried out, and then, one nurse pressed on the telephone- the call was quickly answered, but in the next second, it made a busy tone.
The phone line had been cut short.
The security guard walked close to the information desk step by step, and as he walked, the floor appeared with red footprints.
Suddenly, the two nurses lifted their heads up.
Blood flowed out from their eyes, but they still bore a professional smile.
"Outsiders have come in."
The security guard's voice was hoarse and ear-piercing, like a broken fan.
"Where did they go? We need to catch them all, catch- them all..."
The nurses told him the answer.
"Two men went to the second floor, one man and one woman went to the fifth floor, two women went to the sixth floor, two men went to the fourth floor, and two men went to the basement floor."
Chi Yu and Kris walked up the escalator together- the elevator was too closed off, the stairs also always some kind of unknown risk to it, so for a majority of the people here, as expected, the escalator was a much better choice.
He heard the ringing of a phone, it was the ringing of a very antique telephone, and then, he heard a woman's voice.
"Hello, this is the Third Municipal General Hospital, please immediately..."
Doot——
The sound was cut.
Beside him, Kris also heard the brief busy tone, she slightly worriedly looked at Chi Yu.
"Chi Yu, your sanity fell a bit?"
Kris started getting worried.
In this game, every person whose stamina or sanity was too low would normally die quickly. When she saw Chi Yu's sanity so low, actually, she did consider if maybe Chi Yu belonged to the type of person with high sanity resistance and did not easily lose sanity.
But from the present situation, Chi Yu did not have any particular resistance, Kris' still did not go down, yet Chi Yu already lost some.
However, following that, Chi Yu and Kris' eyes contracted at the same time.
「White Night Stamina:60/100 Sanity:100/135」
Within the group system, White Night and Shadow opened their mouths at the same time.
「White Night: The security guard is at B1! 」
「Shadow: The security guard is chasing White Night! 」
"We should hurry a bit." Kris quickly started running, "Get to the fifth floor as soon as possible to find clues, we can't let——"
On the platform of the third floor's escalator, when Kris and Chi Yu were about to prepare to continue going up.
The third floor's elevator rung.
"Ding dong——"
Who went to the elevator? No, they were the last two people! White Night and Shadow are being chased, then who else could go to the elevator? Is it the second floor's Black Walnut and Salt Fish?
「Chi Yu:Black Walnut, are you and Salt Fish on the second floor? 」
「Black Walnut: The situation's got worse. Me and Salt Fish met with a vengeful spirit, Salt Fish used his ability, but we can't delay it too long, the vengeful spirit has asked us to play Hide and Seek with them! 」
「Black Walnut:We are still on the second floor, at Pediatrics, we can't go out. 」
Chi Yu's sanity madly fell two points, the disorderly heartbeat made him subconsciously grab Kris' hand and immediately make a run upwards, and behind their panicked footsteps——
The third floor's elevator opened.
A thick and dense bloodiness, surged out from inside the elevator!