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Chapter 227: One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (Part )
What is this? A welcome gesture to new members? Is Elizabeth still a college fraternity?
Li Sheng watched calmly as all the bloody handprints gradually faded away. It wasn't that he didn't want to run.
But in the past half minute, his whole body was stiff and cold, and his hands and feet were numb and unable to move.

Especially the brain area, which felt like it was soaked in ice water and caused waves of stabbing pain.

As the bloody handprint disappeared, all the pain receded like the tide.

“There are tens of thousands of handprints, in all shapes, sizes, and positions, and some even have broken fingers. Perhaps the system forced me to stand still and watch the entire CG video to remind me that these hands came from the victims in the hospital?
Well, at least one thing is certain, this script mission does have supernatural elements."

Li Sheng pondered for a while, but when he couldn't figure it out, he stopped thinking about it. As if he had taken a drug called Mild Smilax glabra, he jumped to the outside of the corridor and looked at the window.

The windows themselves use relatively thick laminated glass, which has good sound insulation. With the light in the corridor, one can vaguely see that the main building of the hospital is U-shaped, with a reinforced concrete structure and four floors above ground.

Except for the first and second floors, which were lit, the third and fourth floors were completely dark, with no signs of human activity. There were no stars in the night sky.

In the middle of the U-shaped main building is a colorful flower bed.

"Heather, American dianthus, bougainvillea, trumpet creeper. Judging from the types of flowers and their flowering seasons, the current time should be autumn or winter, which corresponds exactly to December in the newspaper.

In addition, the fact that they have the time to take care of the flower beds so beautifully proves that this hospital is indeed very wealthy.”

Even though the player panel was sealed now, Li Sheng, who had maintained the multi-threaded brain method for a long time, instinctively started multi-threaded thinking.

While collecting information, analyzing clues, and thinking about countermeasures, my thoughts were wandering.

The hill behind his school in the real world is planted with heather for landscaping.

This plant is good in every way. It is cold-resistant, drought-resistant and barren-resistant. It is green all year round and can absorb dust. The only problem is that the smell when it blooms is really not good.
Especially in the midsummer season, downstairs of the boys' dormitory, all the flowers are in full bloom, and the scent of heather rushes straight to the head, almost covering the old baby.

Clang.

Li Sheng tried to knock the glass window with his elbow, but it didn't break at all. In addition, a system prompt immediately popped up in front of him: [The window is motionless and cannot be opened]

It’s a really classic setting.

Pursing his lips, Li Sheng stopped elbowing and, in accordance with the principle of saving energy, jumped along the wall and explored the first floor of the hospital.

Thanks to the rough material of the straitjacket, I didn't fall on the tile floor.

Most of the doors, including the hospital's main entrance, were closed, and any attempts to knock them would result in a standard message popping up saying "Door remains motionless and cannot be opened."

There are only three differences.

One is the pharmacy, which shows that a pharmacy key is required.

The second is the elevator room. You can enter and exit at will, and take the elevator directly to other floors.

Li Sheng did not enter the elevator for the time being because he was worried that there were still clues that had not been explored on this floor and he would not be able to get down after taking the elevator up.

Third, is the medical records room.

"The medical records room is used to store patient information, including diagnosis certificates, admission records, test reports, hospitalization records, etc. There might be information about the character I play in it."

Li Sheng gently turned the door handle with his elbow through the straitjacket.

Click.

The wooden door opened, and Li Sheng's heart sank.

According to the convention of horror games, this kind of room that looks like it is hiding key clues and can be easily opened is likely to contain frightening scenes or even death traps.

Sure enough, the moment he opened the door, he felt an air flow behind his neck, as if something was exhaling towards his neck.

Li Sheng didn't turn his head, but stared at the reflection on the metal door handle and looked behind him.

It was not an illusion. Behind him, there really was a human-shaped shadow standing upside down on the ceiling, right next to the back of his head, breathing towards his collar.

As if noticing that Li Sheng had discovered it, the shadow let out a "chuckling" sound like a silver bell, and ran away on the ceiling against gravity, disappearing around the corner of the corridor.

"Just like the bloody handprint just now, it's mainly for scaring people?
But it could also be a death trap, and if I turned my head to look, my neck would be broken instantly."

Li Sheng silently turned the door handle, popping out the secondary lock tongue to prevent the door from closing.

Then he skipped all the way to the corner of the corridor and didn't see the shadow.

Then he returned the same way and pushed open the door of the medical record room.

The lights were on in the medical records room, which was much larger than the solitary confinement room and filled with a large number of metal filing cabinets. All the doors were locked.

On the wall of the room, there was a brand new photo, which was a group photo of all the staff members of St. Elizabeth's Psychiatric Hospital, with more than two hundred people.

Most of the faces are blurry and difficult to distinguish, only three faces are relatively clear, and there are corresponding names behind the photos.

They are the attending doctor Dawson, a tall, middle-aged white man with a sunny smile.

Dean Pera - a white woman with a pretty face.

Head nurse Rachid - a white woman with a dignified expression, cold eyes and a strong body.

"In the entire group photo, only these three people's faces are clear, which clearly tells players that these three are very important. They are either key NPCs or the final bosses."

Just as Li Sheng was thinking, a rustling sound of crawling was heard in the ventilation duct of the medical record room.

No, come again?

Li Sheng's eye twitched and he quickly looked around the room, looking for something that could serve as a weapon.

Bang, bang, bang.

The crawling sound in the ventilation duct was getting closer and closer. Lacking any self-defense gear, Li Sheng immediately bent down and hid behind a filing cabinet near the door, watching what would happen.

"Hey!"

A greasy young man's voice sounded in the ventilation duct, "Why can't this baffle be opened?"

Communicative humans?

Li Sheng squinted his eyes and looked through the gap between the filing cabinets.

I saw a blurry figure in the ventilation duct, struggling to stretch a finger out from the vent baffle to reach the screw in the corner of the baffle.

"Shit, I forgot that in the entire hospital, only the ventilation duct baffle in the medical records room had screws."

The figure cursed and retracted his fingers that were not long enough. Suddenly, his eyes became sharp and he noticed Li Sheng behind the filing cabinet. He raised his voice and said, "William, is that you? Don't hide. I saw you."

"How do you know it was me."

Li Sheng stood up and asked.

"Nonsense, I saw with my own eyes this morning that you were kidnapped and thrown into the confinement room with your eyes closed."

The figure curled his lips and said, "Excuse me, please help me unscrew the screws of the vent baffle so that I can get out of here."

Judging from the tone, this guy seems to be quite familiar with the role played by Li Sheng.

Li Sheng jumped out from behind the filing cabinet, still testing the waters, "Look, I'm tied up all over, I can't free my hands, how can I help you?" "Think of a way, don't you claim that you have been wandering the streets since you were a child, shining shoes, selling newspapers, working as an apprentice in auto repair, driving airplanes and tanks, and proficient in all kinds of skills, and that there is nothing you don't know, or you know a little bit about everything?"

Damn, William is so shameless, he’s almost as shameless as me.

Seeing that the other party did not show any hostility, Li Sheng decided to help.

Looking around the room, there was no screwdriver or crowbar. The ventilation duct was quite high, and I could only barely reach it from my desk, and there was no way to force it open with my elbows.

then only
Li Sheng suddenly had an idea and spit out the thick tape that had been stuck on his mouth from the eye sockets of the hood and stuck it on the screws in the corner of the vent.

Then bite the screw with your teeth and slowly turn the screw relying on the stickiness of the tape.

It took seven or eight minutes to remove the three screws. The person behind the vent couldn't wait any longer, so he reached out, pushed open the baffle, and jumped down.

He landed on the desk with a rather graceful front flip.

"Ouch!"

Li Sheng raised his eyebrows. This guy was not a human in the literal sense, but a big rat walking upright on two legs.

It is about 1.6 meters tall, with sharp teeth and short gray hair. Its black eyes are rolling around, revealing its cunning and alertness, and its one-meter-long tail is sweeping back and forth behind it.

What’s even more bizarre is that the big rat was wearing a blue and white hospital gown with his name embroidered on the chest.

"Skaven?"

Li Sheng read out these words with a pain in his balls. The big rat stretched himself and said, "What do you want me to do?"

"nothing."

Li Sheng's mind raced. He didn't ask questions like "A mouse has broken into the house. Quickly hide the mouse poison and don't let it eat it," or "Brother, why are you a mouse?" Instead, he asked, "What are you doing here so late?"

"Come and look through my own file. Some fans will come to the hospital to see me in a few days. I have to keep an eye on my own file to prevent those doctors from secretly discrediting me."

Nezumi curled his lips, “Even if I have a kleptomania, I am the world’s number one kleptomaniac.

Remember, I was caught stealing top-secret FBI files from the J. Edgar Hoover Building. Not like those little thieves."

The rat man paused, looked Li Sheng up and down, then took out a detachable scalpel blade in a plastic bag from his jacket pocket and said, "Stand still, I'll help you out."

The sharp blade cut through the straitjacket, and with the sound of the threads breaking, Li Sheng's hands and feet were finally freed and had room to move.

'So if you help the ratman out of the ventilation duct, the reward is to get rid of the restraint suit.'

Li Sheng suddenly realized something and quickly took off his heavy restraint suit. He found that he was also wearing a blue and white hospital gown with the name "William" embroidered on the chest.

After helping Li Sheng get rid of the straitjacket, the rat man put the blade back into the plastic bag, hummed a little tune, jumped off the desk, lay down in front of the filing cabinet, took out a thin wire, and pried the lock.

His movements were extremely skillful and professional, and he looked like a habitual criminal.

Li Sheng took off his hood, watched from the side, and asked in confusion: "Where are the doctors, nurses, and patients in the hospital?"

"They are all in their own rooms. Isn't it like this every night?"

The rat man spoke briskly, pried open a filing cabinet, took out a brown paper bag, and threw it to Li Sheng, "Here, your file."

It was easier than expected to get the identity information. Li Sheng took the brown paper bag with some surprise, and after opening it, there were several pages of paper inside.

Large areas of the paper were blacked out, and only a few lines were barely readable.

Name: William

Sex: Male
Age: seventeen years old
Symptoms: Schizophrenia (hallucinations, delusions, confusion, no aggressive behavior)

"Ok?"

The rat man who was searching through boxes and drawers for information seemed to notice something and turned his head to stare at Li Sheng, "Didn't you originally have green eyes? How did your eyes turn blue?"

The photo attached to the paper document shows that William is a handsome young man with blond hair and green eyes.

But when Li Sheng took off his hood, his reflection in the glass window showed that he had blue eyes.

Some kind of clue? Or a hint of the disease?

"Maybe I've been drinking too much blueberry juice lately."

Li Sheng laughed and skipped the topic. "By the way, brother, I want to explore the hospital now. Do you want to come with me? Or can you lend me your scalpel blade temporarily? I can use it for self-defense."

"Explore the hospital? What's the point of exploring at night? You might run into danger."

Nezumi remained unmoved, still buried in the filing cabinet, “As for the razor blade, it’s not that I can’t lend it to you, but you have to exchange it for chewing gum.

I need it to pick the lock."

Friends who often pick locks know that when faced with some locks with low protection levels, you can stuff softened chewing gum into the door lock core, then press it with wire to prop open the lock core, and finally use the wire to turn the keyhole to open the lock.

'Is this a side quest? Gum for surgical blades.'

Li Sheng understood, "Where can I get chewing gum?"

"Go to the second floor and look for it. There's a little kid who cries every day at the Children's Clinic. He likes chewing gum. They should have some in stock."

After saying that, the Rat Man focused on dealing with the locks of the filing cabinets.

Unfortunately, apart from Li Sheng's own file, all the other file bags and paper materials in the cabinet were black, and no useful clues could be collected.

"This is actually the system helping to eliminate useless information. Otherwise, with so many files, I would never be able to finish reading them all."

Li Sheng thought for a moment and looked at the rat man's physique.

Even though this rat man is only 1.6 meters tall, half a head shorter than Li Sheng now, the muscles under his fur are well-developed. If they really fight, he may not be able to win.

Li Sheng decisively gave up the idea of ​​"sneak attacking the rat man to snatch the surgical blade" and turned to verbal harassment, "Brother Rat, I am also a rat, and we were one family five hundred years ago. How about you lend me the blade first, and I'll give you some chewing gum later? Also, do you know where the key to the pharmacy is?"

Nezumi was unmoved, "Don't bother me while I'm looking for the files."

"Brother Rat, I have some rat poison here. It's good for your health."

"Don't bother me while I'm looking for the files."

"Your next words were, don't bother me while I'm looking for the files!"

"Don't bother me while I'm looking for the files."

No matter how Li Sheng teased him, the rat man was like an NPC in a video game who had nothing to say when the plot reached a certain stage, and could only repeat one sentence.

After playing like this for a while, Li Sheng was finally sure that he could not get any more useful clues, so he left the medical record room and went to the second floor.

(End of this chapter)