Li Zimu opened the iron door above his head and stuck his head out.
As the light above their heads suddenly appeared, Chen An and the three looked at each other. Chen An shook his head and the two women nodded.
No matter what, we are here.
Go up, you still have to go up.
Coming to the ground, this is the kitchen of the canteen in the North District. The surrounding area is spacious and bright. Gray, shiny steel plates cover the entire kitchen, making it look clean and cheerful.
Li Zimu washed his hands in the sink nearby, wiped his face, and said with a smile:
"You don't need to be cautious when you come to the North District. The North and South Districts have completely separate management systems. The North District trusts everyone in the North District.
Because they firmly believe that those who can come to the North District must be their kind. "
Chen An looked around, and he was a little overwhelmed by the cleanliness and tidiness here.
Compared to the dim, dirty, dusty "canteen" just now...
With the bloody, ferocious, and absurd scenes in the square...
It seems very contrasting.
"Don't worry, no one knows about this passage, only me."
Li Zi explained when he saw the three of them standing still.
"only you?"
Chen An showed suspicious eyes.
Li Zimu was stunned for a moment, as if he realized that something was wrong with what he said, and quickly explained: "The superior has been dealt with by me.
You know the ability to use the Hanged Man. "
After that, Li Zimu didn't wait for the three of them to ask any more questions, then opened the kitchen door and walked out.
"Believe him for the moment and hold on to the pieces of your story."
Chen An looked at the two women and said in a deep voice.
This Li Zimu felt very wrong to him.
Ding Ping wondered: "But I think he is quite normal. Could it be that you are too suspicious?"
After all...Li Zimu actually said the three words "The Hanged Man".
And this is also the name of the Path of Original Sin.
Chen An shook his head and whispered:
"In the last game, I encountered similar monsters. In this weird and weird world, we cannot let down any of our vigilance."
Although Chen An can't catch Li Zimu now.
"He is of use to us."
Miao Luoying said: "At least you have to follow him first to find out Li Dakai's files."
...
...
Walking out of the kitchen, through the spacious and bright dining hall, and into the corridor.
Chen An found that the corridors in the North District were one-third wider than those in the South District and were overall tidier.
Almost as soon as Chen An and the two girls walked out of the cafeteria...
When they met, they found Li Zimu laughing and chatting with another patient!
"Brother Sun, are you still not sleeping? Are you thinking about the Queen again?"
Li Zimu put his arm around the man's shoulder and smiled.
The man was slightly fat and wore glasses. He pushed up the frames and said:
"You're going to sleep now, huh?"
"Brother Sun" saw Chen An and the others and expressed doubts:
"Is this new here? I've never seen him before."
Chen An was stunned when he heard this, immediately clasped his hands together, squinted his eyes and said:
"Thank you my Lord."
When Brother Sun heard Chen An's words, his eyes were a little more relieved, but there seemed to be a little despair hidden...
He said quietly: "Thank you, my Lord."
...
After bidding farewell to the patient, Li Zimu continued to walk in front, leading the way.
The archives room is also on the first floor. There is no underground in the north area, but the archives room and the canteen are just at both ends of the first floor.
Along the way, Chen An saw various facilities such as activity rooms, clinics, rest areas, etc.
Through the glass in the corridor, it can be seen that the sky is already dark.
Occasionally, patients from the North District could be encountered, packing their things, yawning, and heading upstairs sleepily.
"This patient in the North District feels normal except for the day and night reversal."
Chen An frowned. This North District was completely different from what he and others had imagined.
The patient is very obedient and well-behaved, very normal, but the most abnormal.
"The doctors in the North District are well-managed and they have found a way to manage these seriously infected patients."
Li Zimu's voice came from the front.
“If the tone of the South Side is madness and chaos, the distortion under the deep pool.
The North District was originally crazy and chaotic, but now it has become peaceful. "
"But aren't doctors also infected?" Chen An asked.
Li Zimu shook his head: "There are always benevolent doctors, and the doctors in the North District are truly worthy of our trust. They have been working hard to fight against these evil patients and maintain the hospital in this world. balance.”
Chen An and the other three looked at each other with a bit of respect in their hearts.
We have almost reached the archives room.
Chen An suddenly felt a stinging pain in his ribs!
This familiar touch made him quietly lower his head and look into the smiling rabbit's red crystal eyes.
"呲呲..."
The voice of the Smiling Rabbit rang in his mind, which startled Chen An himself.
He stared at the Laughing Rabbit with wide eyes.
"呲呲..."
"You mean you've finished digesting the infection you absorbed earlier?"
Chen An's thoughts emerged from his mind, and he didn't know if the Smiling Rabbit could hear them like this.
It seemed that it was because the Smiling Rabbit's dirty threads had eroded his brain before, and it seemed that the Smiling Rabbit had recovered a lot of its weird abilities after digesting the "infection".
Now they can communicate directly in their minds.
"呲...呲..."
"Well? You have recovered some abilities? Now you can share your senses with me through the dirty silk?"
Chen An felt happy, and a feasible plan emerged in his mind.
The Smiling Rabbit's ability was restored in time!
Quietly, Chen An untied the restraints around his waist, and a limp figure fell to the ground without anyone noticing.
At the same time, an extremely fine thread was spit out from the mouth of the Laughing Rabbit. The thread was thinner than fishing line. It penetrated into Chen An's clothes along the waist, and then there was a tingling sensation in his temple. ...stuck into my brain.
At this moment, Chen An felt that his vision was strange, as if he had a new "perspective".
Through the eyes of the Laughing Rabbit, he could see a world composed of three tones of "black, white, and red", and the sounds he heard in his ears seemed to be heavy.
The four of them continued walking.
Behind them, a small and ugly stuffed rabbit quietly walked along the wall in the opposite direction.
"Hey Li Zimu." Chen An suddenly said: "I haven't asked you yet, what is the structure of the North District?"
Li Zimu turned his head and said: "The first floor is mostly activity areas, the second and third floors are all inpatient departments, the second floor is for psychiatric departments, and the third floor is for severe cases. However, in recent years, there have been no regular severe patients. Almost all patients in the entire North District come from the psychiatric department. The fourth floor is the inpatient department, but the doctor’s office is also on the fourth floor.”
"So, isn't the entire North District just a lunatic asylum?" Chen An said in surprise.
Li Zimu smiled and opened a door in front: "That's not impossible, but the doctors in the North District manage it well."
"The archives are here, come in."
The truth of thirty years ago seems to be close at hand.
...
The Smiling Rabbit walked along the stairs and quickly reached the fourth floor under Chen An's command.
Now the first priority of the four of them must be to find out what happened after Li Dakai came to the hospital. As the doctors in the North District are on the front line against the strange, they are naturally excellent partners.
It is of great benefit to detect and eliminate the situation of doctors in the North District in advance and then jointly fight against the South District later.
After all, the South District over there...has gone crazy.
Through Smiling Rabbit's sight, Chen An saw a word that read "Attending Physician's Office".
The door to that room was ajar, but even with the size of the Laughing Rabbit, he couldn't get in!
I saw Chen An's eyes condensed. In his surprised gaze, when he saw the smiling rabbit, there was suddenly a... broken piece of the puppet.
With cotton and pieces of cloth, he squeezed in through the crack in the door.
After a while, Chen An remembered. He still remembered the first time the Smiling Rabbit fought with Brother Scar. Even if he was torn into pieces by Brother Scar, he was able to sew himself back together with silk threads in the end.
Arriving in the office, the Laughing Rabbit quietly sewed up his puppet body while hiding in the darkness under the chair.
Here, Chen An heard several voices and saw several people.
"Dr. Zhou, how is the patient's condition recently?" one of the figures said.
The other figure shook his head.
"It's still the same. They can't really change their beliefs. It's still a problem of infection."
"The source of infection has not yet awakened, so we don't know what its purpose is."
"We didn't know for all these years."
“I really hope the hospital can be unified as soon as possible.”
"This will take time, Dr. Wu."
Chen An listened to their words and made secret calculations in his heart.
Are the sources of infection mentioned by these doctors the biggest mystery in the North District?
So...what is it?
Does changing beliefs mean to free these patients from their fanatical belief in the "real world" and turn them into normal people?
Doctors are kind-hearted.
Chen An couldn't help but admire him a little more.
What doctors want to do is never to eliminate infected people, but to turn infected people back into normal people.
No matter how difficult it is, they are still forging ahead here and working hard consistently.
"Dr. Wu, I understand what you mean, but the Southern District has fallen."
"The Southern District has fallen? What about the Southern District Security Department?"
"Not sure."
"Everything is normal in the North District Security Department. The captain didn't send me a message, so it's not a problem in the South District."
"Yes, Doctor Zhou, the most important thing now is to find the source of infection."
Chen An continued to listen.
Are they trying to...solve the source of infection?
The point at which he and others arrived in the story world happened to be the time when the action that the North District doctor had been planning for a long time was about to begin?
You know, once the source of infection is solved, the game is considered to be cleared!
Chen An's breathing became faster and he continued to listen carefully.
And his own body also entered the archives room with the three people.
Li Zimu flipped through the files inside, looking for Li Dakai's copy.
"It is very possible that my grandfather was the original infected person, but he is no longer in the hospital. I don't know whether he is alive or dead."
Li Zimu pulled out a blue folder with a sticky note attached to it.
[Patient No. 001 Li Dagui]
"Found it!" Li Zimu said happily.
Chen An and others also came over.
However, Chen An's sight was like a "split screen", always paying attention to the situation on the Smiling Rabbit side.
But at this moment...
As the voice of the Smiling Rabbit came to my ears...
Chen An's face suddenly froze.
His breathing was a little rapid, and his pupils suddenly shrank.
"Dr. Zhou, it's not like you don't know the source of the infection. He is still unwilling to completely release his faith."
"He has his own purpose, I understand, but we also have to persuade him... If it continues like this, the progress will be too slow."
"Yes, these patients have a strong will in their hearts. I just don't understand. Why should they be immersed in falsehood?"
The doctor's tone was full of anger.
"Why don't they accept the real world?"
Another doctor said contemptuously:
"Stupid patients, they don't understand our Lord at all."
"The Great, Hanged Lord!"
"The Great, Hanged Lord!"
"The Great, Hanged Lord!"
