Chapter 3 - The Only Hope

In the real world.

Another live broadcast of the eerie space has begun. (There is very little related to the live broadcast. It is only introduced for the later use of the Dragon Country strategy group.)

The Dragon Country strategy group is watching Gu Yi's progress in clearing the level.

At this time, Gu Yi is lying motionless on the hospital bed. He has a youthful face and seems to have just graduated from college. His expression is stiff and he seems a little nervous.

"Alas, the adventurer's information has been transmitted."

The experts of the strategy group checked Gu Yi's personal information. This records all the information related to Gu Yi in detail.

Junior majoring in information engineering.

Hobbies: long-distance running, detective novels, and escape rooms.

Judging from Gu Yi's basic personal information, Gu Yi's hobbies are somewhat helpful for clearing the eerie space.

At this time, adventurers from other countries have already started to act.

But Gu Yi is still lying on the bed in a daze.

Boom boom boom—

The doctor starts knocking on the door of the next ward. All adventurers are surprised to look at the door and are at a loss.

It was not until then that Gu Yi got up from the bed.

"Why is this child moving only now?"

"Wait, what is he doing? Has he gone crazy?"

The expert group of the Dragon Country stares closely at the screen. They see Gu Yi quickly pick up the clothes on the ground and fold them neatly and put them into the second drawer of the bedside table with lightning speed.

He opens the first drawer and takes out a capsule without thinking and puts it in his mouth.

This series of actions are smooth and flowing, as if rehearsed hundreds of times.

"No, it's not. The adventurer from the Lighthouse Country found a prompt note. The note says to keep the ward clean and take medicine on time... But Gu Yi didn't get the note at all. How does he know these prompts?"

The experts of the group are puzzled.

They continue to look at the screen.

Gu Yi has a simple conversation with the doctor and nurses. Then he sits on the bed and spits out the medicine he took. Then he takes out a fruit knife from the third layer of the bedside table and puts it in his pocket.

The adventurer from the Kimchi Country didn't tidy up the ward in time and was stabbed into a beehive by the nurse when the doctor came to make rounds.

Although the adventurer from the Sakura Country tidied up the ward, he was torn to pieces by the doctor who turned into a monster before he had time to take medicine.

Other adventurers die in various strange ways.

Some of them even died on the spot without even leaving the ward.

The strategy groups of various countries are sweating profusely. They focus all their attention on Gu Yi.

After Gu Yi spits out the medicine, he lies on the bed and rests with his eyes closed. While adventurers from other countries are dying one by one.

The difficulty of this copy is probably the first time since the advent of the eerie that a copy with a mortality rate close to 100% has appeared.

In recent years, there have always been experts saying that the difficulty of copies in the eerie space is increasing year by year. According to predictions, the mortality rate of copies this year will be as high as 90%.

"Is there no one alive?"

"No... There is still one."

In the live broadcast screens of all countries, only Gu Yi from the Dragon Country is left.

—He is now the last hope of all mankind.

...

In the eerie world.

The nurse comes to Gu Yi's ward and knocks on Gu Yi's door.

"It's time for breakfast. You can go to the cafeteria."

Gu Yi opens his eyes and gets up from the bed.

When he was resting with his eyes closed just now, Gu Yi's mental strength was restored. Now he still has 20/50 mental strength.

"If I sleep, I can recover one point of mental strength in one minute. I still have two chances for deduction left. I have to be frugal."

Gu Yi thought for a while.

At this time, he didn't find any contradictory prompts, so naturally there is no need to use his ability.

At the beginning, he was too nervous and missed many details.

At least two of the previous four deductions should not have been used.

Gu Yi picked up the note in his hand and thought about it carefully.

Among them, item 5.

"There are always two people living in the special care ward. Please keep this in mind."

This prompt concerns Gu Yi the most. He even once thought that this prompt was also false.

If it's true...

—Why didn't he see his fellow patient from the beginning to the end? Even if the fellow patient temporarily left the ward, then why is there no other hospital bed in the ward?

Could the scattered clothes on the ground be the clothes of the disappeared fellow patient?

Could there be two souls in one's own body?

This is all uncertain.

Gu Yi follows the patients and walks in the corridor. Just as in the deduction, he hears the barking of a dog when he is halfway there. He looks around and indeed doesn't see the dog.

—Does he really have mental illness? Or is it because of taking medicine for a long time that he has hallucinations?

Still can't be determined.

There are already too many mysteries that haven't been solved.

The minimum requirement for clearing the level is to survive in Chongshan Hospital for one month. This seems very simple, but in fact it is not simple at all. Because no one can guarantee that they won't disappear inexplicably like it is written in the background story introduction.

Taking the initiative to attack and uncover the truth of the hospital is what suits Gu Yi's character.

At the entrance of the cafeteria, Gu Yi stops. He looks around and finally finds the second prompt note on the trash can behind the door.

[Cafeteria Dining Rules]

1. The cafeteria service time is from 7:00 to 8:00 in the morning, from 12:00 to 13:00 at noon, and from 18:00 to 19:00 in the evening. It is forbidden to come to the cafeteria at other times.

2. Please don't make loud noises in the cafeteria. If you yell, you will be warned for the first time and punished for the second time.

3. Please don't eat food other than that in the cafeteria. If various adverse consequences are caused by eating and drinking randomly, the hospital will not bear any responsibility.

4. When getting food each time, please follow the principle of one meat dish, one vegetarian dish, and one staple food. And the total cost must be 12 yuan and 50 cents.

5. Unless you are a doctor or staff member, others are prohibited from leaving their seats before finishing eating. Otherwise, they will be punished.

6. If you see someone fainting or asking for help in the cafeteria, please choose to ignore it and wait for the staff to handle it.

Similarly, there is also a string of bloody words on the back of this note:

"If you don't help when you see someone dying, are you still a human being?"