Life Dungeon Game

The inpatient building is one of the busiest places in the entire Qunxing Zhimei Hospital, with crowds coming and going like a flowing river.

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"Bitter...so bitter..."

The elderly man receiving an IV drip in the ward opened his mouth, his voice hoarse and incoherent.

"Mom, drink some orange juice. Drinking something sour will make it less bitter."

The son, who was standing nearby, quickly took out the orange juice he had bought and fed it to the old man.

The red indicator light beside the elderly person's bed glowed faintly, serving as a reminder to the patient.

It's time to pay the fee.

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He Ao left the ward and went to the next ward.

In this ward, an elderly man has fallen into eternal sleep.

His children surrounded him, their faces showing a mixture of pain and relief.

He Ao activated his super memory and gazed at the old man's body.

That faint, ethereal soul had begun to dissipate.

At this moment, a strange force acted on the old man's soul, drawing it away like silk threads.

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The illusory souls stretched out long lines in mid-air, eventually disappearing into the floor below.

He Ao immediately left the ward, rushed out of the corridor, went down the stairs, and arrived at the ward in the same location on the next floor.

Sure enough, there were also long, dotted lines of soul energy in this ward, falling from the ceiling and disappearing into the floor.

He Ao continued down one more floor.

The soul lines on this floor stopped extending downwards and instead left the ward, drifting into the corridor.

Following the direction of the soul's lines, He Ao found an old fire extinguisher box at the corner of the curved corridor.

The wandering soul disappeared into this fire extinguisher box.

He opened the fire hydrant box, and inside were normal fire hoses.

The lines of the soul disappeared into the wall behind the fire extinguisher box.

He Ao closed the fire extinguisher box, turned around and walked into the ward behind it, but no soul lines spread out from the ward.

The object is inside the wall.

He Ao left, opened the fire extinguisher box again, opened the water pipe, and used his super memory to examine the entire internal structure of the fire extinguisher box.

At this moment, his actions had already attracted the attention of the nurses and patients in the corridor. If they waited a little longer, these people might become suspicious.

He Ao's gaze finally settled on a small, oddly colored 'metal piece' hidden by the water pipe. He gently pressed the metal piece, and a password input interface appeared.

He directly immersed his divine sense into the lock, figured out its internal structure, then drew his short sword and, under the cover of the fire extinguisher box door and the water pipe he had taken out, stabbed it into the gap on the edge of the lock and cut off the lock cylinder.

The electronic lock, now unrestrained, popped open, revealing the silver metal device inside.

The upper part of the device was concealed in the wall, with only the lower part, which appeared to be a metal base, visible.

However, judging from the structure of this device, if you grab the metal base, you should be able to pull it out.

He reached out and grabbed the metal base.

The instant he touched the metal base, an endless, chaotic murmur exploded in his mind.

It was as if countless different kinds and shapes of life were roaring wildly in his mind, pulling at his soul, trying to burrow into it and tear it into a twisted, indescribable monster.

So perhaps this is why the 'lock' that 'protects' this device is made so simply; the device doesn't need the protection of a lock, it can protect itself to a certain extent.

However intense the delirium was, He Ao's hands remained steady as he grasped the base of the device and slowly pulled it out of the wall.

The entire device has a very unique shape. The lower part is a cube-shaped silver metal base, while the upper part is a tall and pointed transparent cone that appears to be made of glass or crystal.

At this moment, the souls drawn into thin threads are penetrating from the tip of this transparent cone, gradually filling its interior.

"Hey, you over there, doctor...you are there...?"

A woman who appeared to be the head nurse approached, calling out as she drew near to He Ao.

"This box can't be moved... Sir, please move aside. Hey... where is everyone?"

She stopped in front of the fire extinguisher box and looked around in confusion.

She clearly remembered that there was a doctor standing here just now. Was she seeing things?

She looked at the fire extinguisher box beside her; the door was closed, as if nothing had happened.

Opening the fire extinguisher box, everything inside had been restored, and it seemed that nothing had been taken away.

Have I been working too much overtime lately and started hallucinating?

The head nurse shook her head.

If nothing was missing, there was no need to worry about it. She closed the fire extinguisher box and turned into the corridor.

In the corner at the end of the corridor, He Ao stared at a 'transparent marble' in his hand, no bigger than a fingertip, emitting a faint purple smoke.

He got the marble from that device; once you remove the transparent cone, you can see the marble embedded in the metal base.

Once the marbles are removed, the entire device loses its ability to attract souls.

To make it easier to carry, He Ao only took the marbles and stuffed the rest of the device back in. He was so fast that the nurse who came over didn't even have time to react.

As He Ao played with the translucent marble, he could feel its faint attraction to his soul, even just by holding it in his hand.

However, as long as He Ao doesn't touch the marble, the attraction becomes extremely weak.

This transparent marble should be the core of the entire device, or rather, the device is just some kind of 'power amplifier', designed to amplify the marble's ability to attract souls, so as to attract souls over a wide range.

After the marbles were lost, the device also stopped working.

However, even the increase should be limited; it's impossible for such a small device to cover the entire hospital building.

He put away the marbles and began to quickly 'inspect' the fire extinguisher boxes in the hospital one by one.

He was quick and skilled, and he usually completed the inspection before anyone noticed.

Finally, after searching through the night, he found five transparent marbles, each containing swirling purple mist.

This reminded He Ao of the puppet crystal ball after it absorbed souls.

Of course, these are probably not all the transparent marbles in the entire hospital; some marbles should be hidden in more secret places.

However, when He Ao was searching for the marbles, he discovered that they were arranged in a specific formation, and each marble had an amplifying effect on the attraction of the other marbles.

After He Ao took away the marbles one by one, the amplification effect became weaker and weaker. By the time he took the fifth marble, the amplification effect had been weakened by most of it, which meant that the entire amplification 'magic circle' had been destroyed.

He Ao didn't know where the marble came from, but such extraordinary items that could absorb and store souls shouldn't be easy to obtain. It was unlikely that a new soul-absorbing array could be set up in this hospital in the short term.

After collecting enough transparent marbles, He Ao went down to the underground parking lot to search carefully.

He even tried to sneak into the nearby sewers, but still couldn't find any trace of other spaces beneath the underground parking lot.

Below the Starry Night Hospital, there really doesn't seem to be any other 'facilities'.

However, during his exploration of the sewers, He Ao unexpectedly discovered that there were many different kinds of creatures living in the sewers of Limen City, including some mutated small beasts, which had formed a complete underground ecosystem.

He wrote down this information. He didn't know if it was normal, but it didn't matter; he could just ask Roger directly.

When Roger was in Dawn City, he dug through the city's sewers to build his own laboratory.

After packing everything up and returning the pass to Coles, Heo left the Stars of Beauty Hospital.

He put the five transparent marbles into his pocket.

These marbles not only possess a pull on the soul, but also distorted and chaotic murmurs that constantly attempt to erode Heo.

However, all of this is within He Ao's tolerance range.

These marbles are very likely to be strongly associated with the Fountain of Youth, or some other entity related to the Fountain of Youth.

When used at the right time, it can produce unexpected results.

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After leaving the hospital, He Ao did not go home, but went directly to the city gate of Limen City.

By the time he reached the city gate, it was already morning.

The people keeping watch at the city gate were still there, but they had changed to a different group.

He Ao stealthily blended into the flow of people entering the city, then lowered his head and moved deeper into the city, hiding among the crowd.

Meanwhile, at the entrance of a coffee shop in the distance, a gaunt man eating fruit suddenly patted a short, fat man with tattooed arms who was dozing off next to him. "Look at that one in the crowd, isn't that the person we were told to keep an eye on?"

"Who?"

The short, stout man suddenly woke up, sat up, and looked around.

“That, that,” the gaunt man quickly pointed in several directions, “they went that way.”

The short, stout man quickly looked in the direction the skinny man was pointing, but there were only shadowy figures of people in that direction, and he couldn't find any trace of the target they were looking for.

"It's not over there. Could you be mistaken?"

The short, stout man rubbed his eyes and looked again, but he indeed couldn't see the target.

"Disappeared?"

The gaunt man carefully surveyed the crowd. He seemed somewhat doubtful, but he quickly shook his head firmly. "Impossible! I could never be mistaken. That's definitely the target! I'm going to report this!"

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"Take a look at these."