Welcome to the Nightmare Live - CH 31

Chapter 31

Fukang Private General Hospital, Fourth floor.

After crossing the spacious waiting area, there was a long narrow corridor. The floor was smooth and cold enough to reflect people’s silhouettes, and the green and white walls look particularly desolate and bleak under the blue light.

The steel doors were tightly closed. The operating rooms were arranged in sequence, and the inside of every thickened partition window was pitch-black.

Chaotic footsteps echoed in the empty corridor.

The four people from the red team were walking in front, and Wen Jianyan was walking behind them, separated by a small distance.

“…What should we do next?”

Liu Yuze’s face was a little pale. He was looking straight ahead, and without turning sideways, he asked in a low voice as he walked forward.

Although the prompt said “the operating room on the fourth floor can lead directly to the second underground floor”, the fourth floor was too big, and the entire floor was full of operating rooms. Of course, the best way was to act separately and start a thorough search on the fourth floor, but there was a troublesome NPC following behind them…

It was easier said than done to find the way to the second underground floor without causing suspicion.

Wen Ya also replied in a low voice without looking sideways:

“…Let’s go ahead and see if there are clues. If we can’t find any clues, we’ll use the props.”

Logically speaking, this kind of passage should be hidden very secretly. However, due to the special nature of this instance, the information gap between them and the black team was too great.

For the balance of the live broadcast, the rules of this instance wouldn’t make it difficult for them in this regard.

The group of people, each with a ghost in their hearts, slowly walked forward along the corridor.

“Drip.”

In the dead silence, a slight sound of water droplets sounded.

Wen Jianyan turned his head slightly, looking in the direction from which the voice came.

Each operating room has a makeshift washbasin, and one of the washbasin’s faucets was unscrewed and water was slowly dripping down.

“Drip.”

Another drop of water fell.

There was a scarlet sticky mark on the white porcelain wall of the washbasin.

It was blood.

“Drip.”

One, two.

More water droplets rang out from all directions, and the faucets in each operating room began to drip blood, more and more urgently, giving people a feeling of imminence as if they were surrounded.

The four red anchors walking at the front also noticed this.

They were all anchors who had experienced multiple instances and had joined guilds with more comprehensive information and richer resources. So, they were sensitive to the signs of approaching danger.

Everyone’s senses heightened, and all their attention was secretly focused on the sound, nervously waiting for any change to happen.

The sound of water droplets was getting faster and faster.

The faucet loosened and spun under an unknown force, making a tooth-aching creak, and a small stream of scarlet blood gushed out, then became thicker and faster, and finally fell directly on the inside of the white porcelain washbasin.

“Splash.”

“Splash.”

There was a strange empty sound in the drain as if it was blocked by something.

The smell of blood in the air was getting stronger and stronger, making it hard to breathe.

The scarlet viscous blood gradually leveled with the washbasin’s wall and then began to gush out uncontrollably, flowing recklessly to the ground.

On the surface of the surging pool of blood, one could vaguely see pale limb fragments floating up and down silently.

Although they had expected such a thing to happen, the faces of the four anchors of the red team were still filled with solemn expressions. They didn’t forget about the troublesome NPC who was still following them closely. If they were besieged in this corridor, it was very likely to lose the whole game.

Fragments of limbs along with the blood in the wash basin water gushed out and fell on the ground.

Soles of feet, calves, abdomen, greasy internal organs, ribs, half-missing skull, mutilated brain, eyeballs with optic nerves, and small halves of cheeks.

Men’s, women’s, young, old, immature, mature…

Countless limb fragments belonging to different human beings, soaked with scarlet blood, combined together by some unknown force.

Fuck!

What the hell is this?!

Looking at such a bizarre scene in front of them, all the anchors couldn’t help but be shocked. They stopped their steps, subconsciously approached each other, stood back to back, and took a defensive posture.

The dark, ugly centipede-like thin threads sewed the pieces together one by one, and the “human beings” spliced together ​​from different corpses appeared in the bloody water on the ground.

They staggered, their flexible and exposed eyeballs rolled, and their irises of different shades reflected a cold and cruel luster in the cold light.

In the entire corridor, Wen Jianyan had the most fragmented limbs near him, and the assembling speed of the corpse was also the fastest.

When the corpses around the other anchors were just patched up together, the corpse here was already sewn up and started to attack him staggeringly.

Wen Jianyan: “……”

I’m not saying this, but this really doesn’t have to be so obvious!

Wen Jianyan barely maintained the unfathomable calm expression on his face. He stepped back, barely dodging the monster rushing towards him, and cursed inwardly.

Fuck.

He knew that the hatred of these monsters must be all on him.

Even the monsters near the red anchors were not interested in their nearest prey, but they were using faster and more flexible movements to get closer to him.

At this time, one of the monsters suddenly approached with a posture and speed that was beyond human comprehension!

The mutilated, malicious face rushed in front of him in an instant. The loose mandible opened, the long blood-red tongue drooped down, and it was about to bite Wen Jianyan’s arm that he used to block in front of him—

Suddenly, without warning, a small blue-black palm print appeared on the corpse’s face.

The movement of the corpse froze slightly involuntarily.

In the next second, more small palm prints appeared on the broken face of the fragmented corpse. From the cheeks to the neck, to the chest, bluish-purple traces protruded strangely.

“Cluck—”

The monster’s eyeballs protruded enough to show the eye muscles, making strange clucking sounds as if it was suffering some kind of indescribable pain.

Immediately afterward, its entire body slowly fell backward, sinking into the bloody water that was already deep to the calf with a thud.

Wen Jianyan took two steps back in shock, and the blood under his feet made a rattling sound.

The young man raised his hand, and his pale and slender palm caressed twice in the space beside him. His voice was low, and the ending was very gentle because of this:

“Thank you, baby.”

In the “Integrity first” live broadcast room:

[Aaaaaaahhh, I don’t care! The anchor is calling me baby! He’s calling me baby, so he is mine!]

[Aaaaaaahhhh, my heart is soft, help!]

[Oh God! This Captain black is really awesome. I finally understand why the hunt has been open after so long. This really can’t be done without the hunt.]

[Ghost mother is nb!]

[Hahahahahahahaha never imagined that the anchor would have one hundred and ten ghost babies wrapped around him to protect him!]

[I’ve decided. I want to support the black team (reward points 100)]

[Me too, me too. Bet, people! Black rush! (100 reward points)]

[This kind of hunt where the black team has the upper hand is really rare. I have never seen this kind of situation before. This situation is an eye-opener. (200 reward points)]

[This senior Nightmare viewer came to say that the anchor can really get the upper hand if he played like this, at least ordinary ghosts and the anchor of the red party can’t hurt him. But, according to my experience of watching so many live broadcasts, he absolutely can’t survive by doing this.]

[Even if he really wins this team battle, he will definitely die.]

[Huh? Why, please explain.]

[Because the anchor is not a complete human anymore and is recognized by the ghost baby as a ghost mother. At the time, when the instance is over, the live broadcast system will directly determine that the anchor has lost his human identity, and he will be left in the instance forever. Let’s watch and cherish it, everyone.]

[Ah, I seem to have heard of such cases. Some anchors had used the power of ghosts too many times in the instance, and as a result, they were assimilated, and finally became a monster recognized by the instance rules, slowly losing their human sanity, and wandering in the instance forever.]

[Although this situation is rare, it is not impossible. The power of the ghosts in the instance is really strong, and sometimes it can even help the anchor, but this kind of power is poisonous and will backfire sooner or later after getting along for a long time. You wait, this anchor will not be an exception.]

[Alas, it’s a pity. This anchor would have probably become a good seedling in the future! And his face value is still high. Everyone, let’s take a second look, you might not be able to see him in the next instance.]

At this moment, Wen Jianyan felt his fingers being pulled.

A small blue-purple hand appeared in the void and pointed in a direction.

A childish voice accompanied by an ice-cold breath passed by his ear: “Mom, here.

He quickly glanced in the direction of the four anchors of the red team.

Apparently, those few people hadn’t noticed this for the time being as all their attention was focused on the monsters in front of them. They didn’t realize that they were far less interesting to these monsters than this NPC, and the frightening moment that just happened here.

Wen Jianyan made a quick decision: “Let’s go.”

***

When he was struggling with the monsters in front of him, Kong Laoliu swept a glance into the distance, and suddenly exclaimed: “That NPC is gone!”

The other three were stunned for a moment, and they all looked not far away.

Sure enough, the NPC that had been not far behind them disappeared at some point.

This was a great thing for them, and everyone couldn’t help but breathe a sigh of relief.

When the NPC was there, they didn’t dare to escape or fight back at will, for fear of arousing the suspicion of the other party. Although they didn’t know where the NPC went now, it at least avoided the risk of being attacked by the enemy from the front and back at the same time, and they could now act freely.

Wen Ya threw a ball that was the size of a palm, and in the next second, a strong light exploded, and all the monsters froze in their position.

She shouted: “The prop will expire in one minute, let’s go!”

The group ran forward at the fastest speed.

The pool of blood under his feet made a sticky sound, their heavy breathing swayed in the narrow space, soon disappearing.

After a minute.

Time seemed to flow again, and the fragmented corpses standing in the pool of blood recovered from their stiff state and slowly began to move again.

However, this time they lost the smell of a living person and started wandering around the corridor like flies, bumping into the wall from time to time, stopping, and then starting to wander around again.

At this moment, the pool of blood on the ground surged.

“Splash—”

With the sound of water, a monster with several blue-black baby handprints on its face slowly stood up with blood flowing down its broken body.

“Cluck.”

The eyeballs on its face rolled twice, and then it walked towards the corpses on the side step by step.

It grabbed one, ignoring the unwilling struggle of its own kind, it opened its dislocated bloody mouth and bit down fiercely.

The creepy sound of chewing and swallowing echoed in the dead silence.

After an unknown amount of time.

The blood no longer flowed out of the faucet, and the pool of blood accumulated on the surface gradually faded away, leaving only a few pieces of debris after being bitten.

The only remaining monster slowly stood up.

The muscles on its eyeballs had already grown, and it fit back properly in place along with its cheeks. The lower half of its face was dyed scarlet with blood and minced meat, and it was still dripping down. The black threads all over its body were stitched tightly, like hideous scars.

The blue-purple baby handprints on its face still had yet to disappear, but they looked even more terrifying.

“Cluck cluck cluck.”

It stood in place for a long time, as if looking for something. A strange sound came from its half-broken throat, and after a few seconds, it turned around and walked staggeringly towards the direction where Wen Jianyan had disappeared.

***

After getting rid of the group of monsters made of fragments of corpses, the four people in the red team shuttled through the complicated fourth floor, and soon they could no longer hear the sound of blood flowing.

They stopped breathlessly and looked at each other.

Fortunately, they didn’t know whether it was because they belong to the red team, the monsters on the fourth floor didn’t seem to be very aggressive. Therefore, they could escape even if they had some scruples and couldn’t use their full abilities.

But even so, they couldn’t afford to lose time.

No one knew if something more outrageous would happen on the fourth floor, so they’d better find the way to the second underground floor as quickly as possible.

After a brief discussion with his teammates, Liu Yuze opened his backpack and purchased and activated the pathfinding prop.

Soon, a beating arrow appeared in front of everyone’s eyes, flashing regularly, as if guiding the way for them.

“Let’s go.”

Following the guidance of the arrow, the group walked around the maze-like fourth floor and finally came to a seemingly abandoned operating room.

There was a smell of rotten dust floating in the air with a faint smell of blood that seemed to be mixed in it.

The arrow that was pointing the way disappeared.

“It should be here.” Liu Yuze took a deep breath and said.

The other three people in the red team nodded and walked inside carefully.

The overhead lighting circuit seemed to be broken, making a rustling noise and flickering from time to time, barely illuminating the dark and open operating room.

Dilapidated, discarded surgical equipment was piled with tan spots on them, and it was unknown whether it was traces of rust or dried blood.

The floor was messy, littered with disposable surgical tools that were no longer usable.

Everything here was out of tune with the modern operating room outside, and the room temperature seemed to have dropped to a minimum, making them feel cold.

After passing through the operating table with the broken leg, the crooked surgical lamp, and the steel frames, several people came to the end of the abandoned operating room.

There was an old-fashioned elevator here.

The rusty diamond-pattern iron door was blocking the way. Inside was a narrow old elevator that could only barely accommodate a few people, and dim lights were flickering inside it.

Several people looked at each other.

It looks like it’s here.

Two strong male anchors stepped forward and pulled open the rusted iron door. Soon, the iron door made a creaking sound and slowly opened to both sides.

They went into the elevator.

The elevator touchpad here was also extremely old-fashioned, with only two round brass-colored buttons, one with “-2” and one with “4”.

Apparently, this elevator could only be stopped in two places.

Liu Yuze pressed the “-2” button.

Nothing happened.

What’s the matter?

He was a little puzzled, and when he was about to continue to press, he was stopped by Wen Ya: “Wait, look.”

Liu Yuze looked in the direction of Wen Ya’s finger.

Only to see that there was a small keyhole at the bottom of the touchpad. Looking at this situation, they were afraid that the elevator could only be activated if the key was obtained.

Their brows were instantly wrinkled.

Key?

This hospital was really too big, and all the hints could only lead them here at most. If they needed a key to go down to the second floor… then they really didn’t know where to find it.

At this moment, a soft sound of “ding” sounded from the darkness of the elevator, like some kind of metal collision, breaking the dead silence abruptly, and making people stunned subconsciously.

Everyone was startled, raised their head suddenly, and looked in the direction of the voice together.

In the dim light, a person could barely be seen standing in the vague shadows.

“You are here.” A familiar voice rang out.

The young man put the scalpel he was playing with in the tray and walked out of the darkness step by step.

The hem of his white coat was soaked with fresh blood. The scarlet blood was splashed on the glasses of the young man and on his bloodless cheeks. A few drops of blood dripped down the soft lines of his cheeks, making his eyes look darker as night, and his face paler. Under such a strong color contrast, what was originally almost ascetic became evil and sinister.

The pale and handsome face was stained with scarlet blood, casting a layer of almost evil charm on him.

In short… It looked very perverted at first glance.

“It seems that you do know the way.”

Wen Jianyan narrowed his eyes and glanced over the four people in front of him.

“If that’s the case, then there is no need for me to hide it from you.” He added lightly: “The key is in the dean’s office on the fifth floor.”

The four people in the red team were instantly overjoyed and subconsciously relaxed—

Great, it seems that they’ve passed the test of this NPC!

However, in the pocket of Wen Jianyan’s white coat, there was a folded piece of paper with a little rust of the door on its edge. It was obviously left on the iron door for a long time.

It reads:

“The key is in the dean’s office — left on April 23.”

In the “Integrity first”  live broadcast room:

[…Bah!]

[Bah!]

[Bah!!]

[How can this anchor lie without blinking?! This guy obviously arrived two minutes earlier than them, took the note, and then secretly hid in the dark to pose and wait for others!]

[Bah! This pretentious man!]

[Damn, why is he pretending? And why am I still being tricked?! This is unscientific!]

In fact, when he found the elevator, the group of red team members was useless to Wen Jianyan. He was going to leave the group and go directly, but when he arrived, the presence of this key disrupted his plans.

If he now went to take the elevator to the fifth floor, no matter how fast he moved, there was still a great possibility of bumping into these anchors during the return journey. And It would be a little difficult to tell lies at that time.

Since this was the case, it would be better to continue to drag these red anchors and let them continue to work for him.

Wen Jianyan walked out of the darkness without changing his expression.

The corners of his lips raised slightly. He casually curled them up in an arc that seemed like a smile but not a smile. His dark eyes containing ghost qi narrowed slightly, and his long and dense eyelashes drooped down, covering the cynical smile at the bottom of his eyes.

—Tool man, so easy to use!