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Arc 5: The Seventh Sanatorium
Chapter 108

The player was called Zhuo Ran. Male, 20 years old, and his illness was arrhythmia.

The above information was written on the card at the head of the patient’s bed.

From the looks of it, he didn’t seem to have any injuries on the body since it was a heart problem —– Xu Ziyue analysed this from the disease name.

It was a little boring waiting for the patient to wake up, so Xu Ziyue went to the front desk to get a magazine before lying in his own bed to read. The jokes and short stories in the magazine were quite funny and it made for a rather good pastime.

With the contents being quite amusing, Xu Ziyue gradually grew absorbed with reading it. This continued until the patient finally sat up with a dazed look that Xu Ziyue realised that he had woken up.

Xu Ziyue quickly threw aside the magazine and watched the player look around at the ward.

Zhuo Ran first looked at Xu Ziyue blankly and then looked around as if he was looking at something non-existent in mid-air.

The reason why Xu Ziyue thought this was because Zhuo Ran’s eyes constantly moved left to right.

He was probably reading the introduction to this game world.

“Hello.” Xu Ziyue tentatively raised his hand to wave hello when he saw that the patient was done reading.

Zhuo Ran looked up and continued to look at Xu Ziyue with some daze. It took him while before he slowly nodded his head in response.

Xu Ziyue naturally thought that it must’ve been because he had encountered something difficult in the previous world, so he just sat silently on the side waiting for Zhuo Ran to recover.

“So, you’re also…” Zhuo Ran swallowed and looked around. He saw that there was no one else apart from them, “You’re also, a player?”

Xu Ziyue nodded confidently, “Yes, what’s wrong? Is there a problem with the game? Why is your expression so bad?”

Zhuo Ran’s expression turned for the worse, “This……..This is my second time participating in the game but I didn’t expect the difficulty to increase by so much.”

Xu Ziyue wasn’t clear about the structure of the escape, but he felt that if it was a player who had done this a few times, they would probably immediately start to analyse the situation with Xu Ziyue the moment they woke up to escape the world. A novice however…. originally don’t know much about the game and also have a lot of difficulties on their end so they wouldn’t have any time to waste answering Xu Ziyue’s questions.

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But there were also some advantages. Because of his lack of experience, he may say some things that may not be meant to be said and they themselves wouldn’t realise it.

Xu Ziyue relaxed his guard and tried to draw out some answers from Zhuo Ran, “It’s quite hard……..Afterall, the number of people this time is a lot more than my previous ones.”

Zhuo Ran didn’t suspect him at all. Upon hearing Xu Ziyue’s words, he subconsciously looked towards the upper left, “Three hundred……..”

“Is it still three hundred? It was also three hundred yesterday for me.” And today there was clearly a new person in Xu Ziyue’s ward but the number was still three hundred. This basically meant that in between the time from his arrival to this world and Zhuo Ran’s arrival, one of the wards must have lost someone.

Of course, Xu Ziyue felt that it might be more than one person, and perhaps more had been lost and it just didn’t happen in front of him, so he didn’t know about it.

“This means that the game will always be fixed to have three hundred players. If any players are gone, new players will be added to fill in…..And it will continue on like this over and over again.” Zhuo Ran unconsciously raised his hand and started to bite the knuckle of his right index finger. Xu Ziyue watched him increase his strength more and more and quickly called out to stop him, “Zhuo Ran!”

Zhuo Ran quickly returned to his senses and looked down at his knuckle, “I’m sorry, I can’t help it when I get nervous.”

When Xu Ziyue saw that he was back to normal, he finally got the topic back on track. Xu Ziyue said, “Each one of us here has our own illness and different illnesses seem to be treated differently.”

“Is that so……” Zhuo Ran glanced at his card, “But it’s not a bad thing. As long as it is cured here, these illnesses will not follow us around later.” Zhuo Ran’s voice then fell, “But I just don’t know if I can live long enough to be cured.”

Xu Ziyue: New information obtained√!

From Zhuo Ran’s words, Xu Ziyue could tell that these illnesses were something the players originally had and in this “Seventh Sanatorium”, the player could cure the illness.

Xu Ziyue turned to look at the patient card at the head of his bed and fell silent. So he really had some kind of mental illness? But he doesn’t even know what it is!!

He felt like he was randomly tossed into this group of players and was randomly assigned a disorder by the system.

Xu Ziyue was a little confused but now was not the time for him to resolve his doubts.

Zhuo Ran stood up and put on his white slippers, “I’m going to check out the situation first and then escape once my illness is cured. Do you want to go together?”

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Xu Ziyue got ready to get up but just as he did that, he sat back down again, “No, you can go. I still have something to do.” When he walked over to the other players, he had noticed that the other players rarely walked around with each other. There must be a reason for the players to be so wary of the other players so it would be weird going together.

When Zhuo Ran left the ward, Xu Ziyue went over to the window that had left him a little traumatised and looked down.

At this moment, there was no escaping player and there was no scary nurse. There were only some players and nurses walking around amongst the lush vegetation outside.

After checking outside, Xu Ziyue glanced back at the head of his bed.

Love Delusion?

After making up his mind, Xu Ziyue left the ward and went to find a nurse at the front desk, “Is there a library or something here?” Nurse Jin wasn’t there but as a head nurse, she must be every busy.

The nurse replied, “The library? There is nothing as large as that but there is a reading room.”

“Where is the reading room? I want to read some books.” Xu Ziyue wanted to see if he could find any information about ‘Love Delusion’.

The nurse revealed a somewhat embarrassed look, “The reading room is in the treatment area. Apart from treatment time, patients are not allowed to approach the treatment area. I’m sorry, I don’t have the authority to let you go.”

“Is that so……” Xu Ziyue nodded feeling a little disappointed. Anyway, before he died he also didn’t read much so he was able to easily accept this. There should at least be someone here who knows that “Love Delusion” is.

Xu Ziyue put forward a second possibility, “Then if I ask to borrow a book from there, is it okay?”

The nurse’s expression became even more apologetic making Xu Ziyue feel bad as well.

The nurse said, “I’m sorry, most of the books there are about illnesses but if a patient knows too much about it, they will be worried and panic and this is why the reading room is located in the treatment area. Only staff are allowed to go in to use the materials in there.”

“So there are no books for entertainment in there?”

The nurse nodded, “Pretty much. But if you want to read books, we do have some entertainment books here for patients to read.”

Xu Ziyue waved his hand to indicate that he didn’t need it.

He just wanted to read about his illness.

Having no other options, Xu Ziyue went downstairs again and watched the patients once again come in and out of the treatment area.

No matter how he looked at it, it really didn’t seem like they were curing their illness….Even if it was cured, each and every one of them appeared to have become paralysed so what was the use of the treatment?

Xu Ziyue just saw a player with numerous tubes stuck in his body be pushed out from there. He looked like he was completely unable to take care of himself. Suddenly, he was patted on the shoulder.

Xu Ziyue turned around and his eyes widened with surprise when he saw the person who patted his shoulder, “You…..you are……” Xu Ziyue was stuck. It was because he didn’t know this woman’s name. Even at that time, he had always called this player ‘Miss White Lotus’ inside but in the end this ‘white lotus’ lady wasn’t a white lotus at all!

Yes, that’s right!

The woman who appeared before Xu Ziyue was the woman from the four men, one woman gang who had tried to ‘seduce’ Xu Ziyue on the cruise ship as a means to be able to clear the cruise ship world. At that time however, Xu Ziyue and this ‘Miss White Lotus’s’ “deal” was interrupted by Austin and, after Austin gave Xu Ziyue the free pass to escape from the world, Xu Ziyue had ran away soon afterwards so he didn’t know about the aftermath for ‘Miss White Lotus’ and her gang.

But the gist of his guesses were along the lines of something like being thrown into the sea……..This was something he naturally couldn’t ask Austin to confirm.

“You can just call me Xiao Ran. What a coincidence, we meet again.” The sister who Xu Ziyue had named ‘Miss White Lotus’ and looked soft and weak on the outside but was actually quite strong and sturdy called herself Xiao Ran.

But it was likely that the name was just a pseudonym.

“What a coincidence.” Xu Ziyue nodded. He hesitated over the temptation to ask about the aftermath of the cruise ship.

“Thanks to you, not many managed to survive the cruise ship in the end.” Xiao Ran shrugged and reached into her pants pocket, “Ah, look at me. I forgot there are no cigarettes for me to smoke here.”

Xu Ziyue watched Xiao Ran rub her fingers irritably and asked, “You also got some illness from this place?”

“That’s not it. It’s lung cancer.” Xiao Ran shrugged and didn’t seem to care. “But after some treatment, I’m all good again.” Xiao Ran looked at Xu Ziyue who appeared quite healthy, “What about you?”

“Um….some psychological problem.”

Xiao Ran nodded with understanding. Turns out to be a mentally fragile person. It’s quite normal not wanting to talk about it.

But……..

“Do you have a target in this world?”

Xu Ziyue looked at Xiao Ran suspiciously, “What target?”

Xiao Ran looked at Xu Ziyue sternly and seriously, “Like the kind like that great master last time. If there is one you fancy, I can give you capture tips and help you out with collecting information. As long as it is something I can do, I’ll do it.”

Xu Ziyue was stunned, “……..” Could it be that his game had been exposed?!

“Of course, the condition is that you must take me along. It doesn’t need to anything major, you just need to give me a chance to leave this world alive.” Xiao Ran sighed and smacked her lips a little regretfully, “I probably won’t be able to learn your way of clearing the games.”

Xu Ziyue: “………….”

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