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Chapter 3: The Only Hope
In the real world,
Another live broadcast of Weird World has started.
Audiences from the Dragon Country were watching the progress of Gu Yi's clearance on their screens, and people across the world were watching as well.
At this moment, Gu Yi was lying motionless on a hospital bed. He has a young inexperienced face and looks like he has just graduated from college. His expression was stiff, and he seemed a little nervous.
"Why isn't he moving yet?"
"Maybe the dungeon hasn't started yet? He can't move until it does."
"Oh, adventurer's data is coming in."
The strategy team's experts looked at Gu Yi's personal information, which detailed all the information related to him.
Junior in the Information Engineering major.
Hobbies: long-distance running, detective novels, and escape rooms.
From Gu Yi's basic information, his hobbies seem to be of some help in clearing the Weird space.
At this point, adventurers from other countries have already started to take action.
Gu Yi from the Dragon Country is still lying on the bed, lost in thought.
"What is this Dragon Country guy doing?"
"Maybe he's scared stiff?"
"Look, our adventurer from the Lighthouse Country is amazing. He's already found the note under the bed."
"The adventurer from the Kimchi Country is an idiot, isn't he? Why does he have to go and pry open the window?"
At this moment, people around the world were watching the progress of the adventurers' challenges, as it was related to the fate of their entire country.
The adventurer from the Lighthouse Country was the first to find the note. After finding the note, he took medicine and tidied up the room.
The adventurer from the Kimchi Country found that he couldn't pry open the fence outside the window, so he turned around and started looking for clues in the room. Knock, knock, knock.
The doctor started knocking on the door of the next room, and all the adventurers looked at the door in surprise, not knowing what to do.
It wasn't until this moment that Gu Yi got up from the bed.
"Damn, why is this kid only moving now?"
"Wait, what is he doing?"
The expert group from the Dragon Country was watching the screen closely, and they saw Gu Yi quickly pick up his clothes from the ground, neatly fold them, and put them into the second drawer of the bedside table with lightning speed.
He opened the first drawer and without hesitation, took out a capsule and put it in his mouth.
This series of actions flowed seamlessly as if rehearsed hundreds of times.
"What is he doing? Is he going crazy?"
"No, he's not. The adventurer from the Lighthouse Country found a note with instructions on keeping the room clean and taking medicine on time... but Gu Yi didn't even receive the note, how did he know about these instructions?"
The expert group was puzzled.
They continued to watch the screen.
After exchanging a few words with the doctor and nurses, he sat on the bed, spitting out the pill he had just swallowed. Then, he took a fruit knife from the third drawer of the bedside table and put it in his pocket.
The adventurer from the Kimchi Country didn't tidy up the room in time and was beaten into a hornet's nest when the doctor came to check on them.
The adventurer from the Sakura Country tidied up the room but was torn to pieces by the doctor who had turned into a monster before he even had a chance to take the medicine.
The other adventurers also died in all sorts of ways.
They didn't even leave the room and died on the spot.
"Oh my god, why did all these adventurers die?"
"Why is this dungeon so difficult?"
"Oh no, this dungeon is probably the hardest decryption dungeon in the past three years. I'd rather go race against zombies than go through this type of dungeon."
"Don't worry, aren't there still adventurers from the Dragon Country and Lighthouse Country?"
At this moment, only Gu Yi and the adventurer from Lighthouse Country were still alive.
After spitting out the pill, Gu Yi lay on the bed and rested with his eyes closed.
However, the adventurer from the Lighthouse Country was restless, constantly clutching their head and yelling.
Not long after, the adventurer from the Lighthouse Country was writhing on the ground, trying to dig something out of their throat, perhaps the pill they had just swallowed, but it was too late.
The adventurer from the Lighthouse Country's pupils dilated as if they had seen a terrible sight before they died.
At this point, all the viewers fell silent.
Since the appearance of the Weird Space, this was probably the first time when the difficulty of a dungeon is so high that the death rate approached almost close to 100%.
In recent years, experts have been saying that the difficulty of Weird space dungeons has been increasing year by year. According to predictions, this year's dungeon's death rate will be as high as 90%.
"Is no one alive?"
"No... there is one."
In the live broadcast footage of all countries, only Gu Yi from the Dragon Country was left.
-He is now the last hope of all mankind.
...
In Weird World.
The nurse came to Gu Yi's ward and knocked on his door.
"It's breakfast time, you can go to the cafeteria now."
Gu Yi opened his eyes and got up from the bed.
During the rest just now, Gu Yi's spiritual power was restored, and now he has 20/50 spiritual power left.
"If I sleep, I can restore a little bit of spiritual power every minute. I still have two chances to deduce, so I have to save them."
Gu Yi thought for a while.
At this time, he did not find any contradictory rules, so he did not need to use his abilities.
In 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 piece of paper in his hand and carefully pondered it.
Among them, is the fifth rule.
[There are always two people living in the ICU, please keep this in mind.]
This rule was the most concerning to Gu Yi. He even thought that this rule was also fake.
If it is true...
-Why did he not see his roommate from beginning to end? Even if the roommate temporarily left the ward, why is there no other hospital bed in the ward?
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Could the clothes scattered on the ground be the clothes of the missing roommate?
Or could it be that his body has two souls?
All of this was uncertain.
Gu Yi walked with the other patients in the hallway. Just like in the deduction, he heard the barking of a dog halfway through, but he couldn't see the dog anywhere.
-Am I really mentally ill? Or is it just an illusion caused by long-term medication?
-I couldn't be sure.
There were already too many unsolved mysteries accumulated at this point.
The minimum requirement for clearance was to survive in Chongshan Hospital for one month, which seemed very simple, but in fact, it was not simple at all. Because no one could guarantee that they would not disappear inexplicably as mentioned in the dungeon introduction.
Taking the initiative to crack the truth of the hospital was the way that aligned with Gu Yi's character.
At the entrance of the cafeteria, Gu Yi stopped and looked around. Finally, he found the second hint note on the trash can behind the door.
[Cafeteria Dining Rules]
1. The cafeteria service time is from 7:00-8:00 in the morning, 12:00-1:00 at noon, and 6:00-7:00 in the evening. It is forbidden to come to the cafeteria at other times.
2. Please do not make loud noises in the cafeteria. If you shout loudly, you will be warned for the first time, and punished for the second time.
3. Please do not eat food outside the cafeteria. The hospital will not be responsible for any adverse consequences caused by eating and drinking indiscriminately.
4. Every time you take a meal, please ensure the principle of taking one piece of meat, one vegetable, and one staple food. Also, remember the total cost must be 12 yuan and 50 cents.
5. Except for doctors or staff members, other people are not allowed to leave their seats before finishing their meals, otherwise, they will be punished.
6. If you see someone fainting or calling for help in the cafeteria, please choose to ignore it and wait for the staff to handle it.
Similarly, there was a string of bloody words on the back of this note:
"Are you still human if you see someone in danger and don't help?"