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Arc 5: The Seventh Sanatorium
Chapter 120

Because he had asked a question he shouldn’t have asked consequently resulting in more trouble, Xu Ziyue decided to remain silent and no longer made any attempt to touch on that topic again.

But fortunately, Shen Ci was planning to leave.

After Shen Ci left, Xu Ziyue sat back down on his bed and then laid down and went to sleep.

Although he had already slept all afternoon, all that stimulation earlier made Xu Ziyue very exhausted, so he soon fell asleep.

Early the next morning, Xu Ziyue was awakened by Zhuo Ran.

As soon as Zhuo Ran opened his eyes, he looked for Xu Ziyue who hadn’t returned before six o’clock last night. He was obviously wondering if anything had happened to Xu Ziyue but when he woke up, he saw Xu Ziyue sleeping on the hospital bed appearing unharmed.

There wasn’t even a sign of a needle mark on the back of his hand.

When Zhuo Ran saw that Xu Ziyue had woken up, he immediately tossed out two questions, “When did you come back last night? Yesterday, you didn’t come back after treatment, right?”

Xu Ziyue sat up and habitually crossed his legs and rubbed his eyes, “What……I’ve been dizzy ever since I entered the treatment area yesterday. I also don’t know when I returned.” Xu Ziyue stretched his back, “The nurses probably brought me back. I was sleeping the whole time.”

Zhuo Ran was still suspicious but it just happened that at this moment Head Nurse Jin had come over to the ward to check on them. He immediately called out to her, “Head Nurse, I saw yesterday that he didn’t return before six o’clock. How is he here as soon as I woke up today?”

Xu Ziyue looked at Zhuo Ran with some exasperation as the corners of his lips twitched weakly. He then looked over at Head Nurse Jin. Because he had just woken up early in the morning, he couldn’t help but let out a large yawn in front of her and physiological tears formed at the corners of his eyes.

Xu Ziyue raised his hand to wipe away the wetness from the corner or his eyes and stared at Nurse Jin together with Zhuo Ran.

Head Nurse Jin and Xu Ziyue looked at each other for one second, two seconds, three seconds…..She then pursed her lips and turned her head away to chuckle.

“This patients’ treatment time was probably extended. In a situation like that, we are responsible for bringing him back.”

Zhuo Ran looked over at Head Nurse Jin and then at Xu Ziyue. In the end, he didn’t dare doubt anything said by an NPC so he just slowly returned to his bed.

On the other hand, Head Nurse Jin who came to check on them came over to Xu Ziyue’s bed and asked caringly, “How do you feel? Do you feel better after yesterday’s treatment?”

Xu Ziyue recalled yesterday’s ‘treatment’.

Except for strolling around the thirteenth floor, eating and then sleeping, it seems that nothing much really happened.

But sleeping there was quite comfortable, and there was also music……

And so, Xu Ziyue nodded and said, “Pretty good.”

Head Nurse Jin said, “If you need anything, you can always let the nurses here tell me.”

“Okay, thank you.” Xu Ziyue agreed very easily.

“By the way, the next treatment is scheduled for the day after tomorrow. Your doctor has prescribed some medicine for you to take but it is not ready yet. When it is, I’ll bring it over.”

Medicine? Medicine?!

Xu Ziyue looked at Head Nurse Jin pitifully, “I…….may I not take it?”

Head Nurse Jin smiled and raised her hand to pinch Xu Ziyue’s cheek, “Depends on your performance.” After that, she happily turned around and left.

Xu Ziyue wasn’t given a chance to perform at all.

Xu Ziyue raised his hand to rub his cheeks, slightly dumbfounded.

This development………is a bit strange.

Zhuo Ran who was watching this entire time had his face all scrunched up.

What was going on here?

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Xu Ziyue went to have breakfast while he waited for the medicine. He then returned to his ward to continue waiting for his medicine.

As for how he should behave to make Head Nurse Jin allow him not to take the medicine, Xu Ziyue hadn’t thought about it yet.

Xiao Ran came over around noon.

“What is it?” Xu Ziyue who saw Xiao Ran enter the room couldn’t help but look behind her, hoping that the head nurse wouldn’t come over at this time.

Xiao Ran looked around only to see Zhuo Ran staring out the window in daze and the other patient lying there with his eyes still closed.

If it weren’t for the heart monitor beside him that was still moving, Xu Ziyue would’ve thought that he was dead.

“It’s nothing. Just came to see you since we’re partners after all.” Xiao Ran then noticed Xu Ziyue’s nervous expression, “What’s wrong? Did something happen?”

“That…I’ll just tell you straight……I need the head nurse to do me a favour but if you are here, I think she wouldn’t be in a good mood.”

No, it wasn’t just a guess. Xu Ziyue was certain!

Xiao Ran couldn’t help but laugh, “I must say…….’ She wanted to say something, but she stopped herself in time when she noticed Zhuo Ran standing by the window. Instead, she said cryptically in a small voice, “Be careful. Jealousy will flip the boat.”

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 Xu Ziyue nodded but inside he was already feeling completely hopeless. Not just flipping a boat, he felt that Shen Ci’s boat last night had completely capsized several times.

“If that’s the case, I’ll leave first. My treatment will be done in about a week. Good luck.”

After saying that, Xiao Ran hurriedly left.

Xu Ziyue noticed that when Xiao Ran passed by the other nurses, the nurses acted very normal towards her.

It wasn’t like his last encounter with the other nurses.

Was it because of his special nature?

Not long after Xiao Ran left, Head Nurse Jin really came over. She however wasn’t alone and had other nurses with her.

The nurses pushed the unconscious player out for treatment. That player who had been unconscious the entire time had received treatment yesterday, but it seemed that his injury was too severe, so his treatment interval was much shorter, and he needed to receive treatment again today.

And Head Nurse Jin entered the room after the other nurses sent the other player out for treatment. Carrying a folder and a box of medicine, she went to Xu Ziyue’s side and personally filled up a glass of water for him.

“Two tablets, twice a day.” Head Nurse Jin sat on the edge of Xu Ziyue’s bed and helped pop out two tablets before handing them to Xu Ziyue, “Here.”

Xu Ziyue looked down at the medicine sitting in her pale palm and then looked back at her expectant gaze…..

He rounded his watery eyes and softened his voice, “I don’t want to take it.” There was nothing written on the box. If he didn’t know what its effect was, he will not take it!

Head Nurse Jin closed her palm and rested her hands on her legs. After a moment of staring at Xu Ziyue, she looked away and said with a hint of a smile, “Not taking it is okay.”

Xu Ziyue looked at Head Nurse Jin with eyes filled with expectations.

And so, she placed the medicine and the box of medicine on the bedside table before turning around and saying to Xu Ziyue, “But I need a reward.”

Xu Ziyue watched Nurse Jin’s eyes move down.

She seemed to be looking at his lips?

Nurse Jin slowly leaned closer towards Xu Ziyue.

Xu Ziyue sat stiffly in bed. Just when she was almost a few centimetres away from him, Xu Ziyue hurriedly moved to the side and raised his hands to hug her. Patting her back, he exclaimed, “Thank you!”

Head Nurse Jin was stunned. She then raised her own hands and hugged Xu Ziyue back.

Her eyes softened slowly, and she rested her chin onto Xu Ziyue’s shoulder somewhat helplessly with a sigh.

Xu Ziyue had succeeded in not taking the medicine.

After Head Nurse Jin left, the gaze Zhuo Ran used to look at Xu Ziyue had turned even stranger.

So when a nurse came over to measure his blood pressure, Zhuo Ran also tried to show concern for the nurse.

But it was a pity……..The nurse just maintained a professional smile and didn’t seem to have any reaction towards it.

Before six o’clock that day, the player with his lower limbs cut off had still not yet returned.

Zhuo Ran one-sidedly exchanged his thoughts with Xu Ziyue as he wondered if that player would be like Xu Ziyue and would be sent back by the nurses in the middle of the night.

Zhuo Ran planned to keep watch all night.

But Xu Ziyue could tell that that player might not appear above ground at all after this.

At midnight, Zhuo Ran fell asleep by the window.

Xu Ziyue went over to the door and tried to pull the metal gate…….To his surprise, it really opened.

Xu Ziyue looked outside. Compared to yesterday, the white thing outside the ward had not completely covered the entire seventh floor. In that case, that was likely something that can move and can eventually cover the entire building over time.

Xu Ziyue returned back to his ward and reclosed the gate.

Nothing much happened overnight apart from the fact that their wardmate who had only been here for less than two days was gone and the card at the head of the bed was also removed.

Zhuo Ran had also been completely awake during his treatments recently and his whole body would be completely lifeless afterwards. When he was pushed back that day, he seemed as if he was only hanging on with just his last strand of life.

But after that period of lifelessness passed, it was as if he had returned to life again.

Xu Ziyue didn’t pay too much attention on these things. He called Xiao Ran out to meet at the garden and asked her if she could open the metal gate of her ward at night.

Xiao Ran hadn’t tried it but after hearing Xu Ziyue’s words, she decided to give it a go.

So that night when Xiao Ran tried to open the door, all the strange substances on wall outside suddenly rushed into her ward!

Fortunately, she was able to close the door in time, leaving those things only on the walls.

But even if it was like that, she was scolded severely by the rest of the players in her ward.

If it wasn’t because they knew that Xiao Ran wasn’t someone they could easily provoke, they would’ve even wanted to directly throw her out.

The next day, Xiao Ran approached Xu Ziyue asking Xu Ziyue about this.

Although she came to ask him about this, it was something that had almost costed her life, so her tone was naturally not very nice.

“I’m sorry.” Xu Ziyue put his hands together and quickly apologised, “I really didn’t know that this would happen!”

Xiao Ran looked at Xu Ziyue’s expression carefully, “It really wasn’t intentional?”

“No!” Xu Ziyue shook his head vigorously, “It’s like this. I had opened the door that day but that doctor was with me so I couldn’t see what it was like in the other wards. And didn’t you say that you’re about to be completely cured? I should at least help you find a way to escape.”

With Xu Ziyue saying this, Xiao Ran couldn’t say anything else.

Xu Ziyue said, “There is an underground floor in the treatment area, but the situation down there is a mystery.”

Xiao Ran was someone he could bluntly talk to about himself targeting an NPC and she almost got into trouble because of her curiosity so Xu Ziyue felt that if he could be of help, he should help her out. Afterall, he didn’t hate people who worked hard to live.

What’s more, when she tried to live, she didn’t hurt the others in the process.

It could be seen from their encounter back on the cruise ship that she was very knowledgeable about current affairs.

Xu Ziyue said, “I want to take a look at that underground floor tomorrow.”

Xiao Ran was taken aback. She quickly shook her head, “Are you mad? No one can save you if something happens there! And the bottom lines of those NPCs…..If you take the wrong step, they can become very terrifying.”

Xu Ziyue smiled, “Don’t worry, I’m just going to go down and take a quick look from inside the elevator. I’m not stupid, how could I walk in there alone?”

“That’s still not okay.” Xiao Ran raised her hand and began to gesture wildly, “Have you see Resident Evil? The one where as soon as you open the elevator door, zombies would pour in…..Just imagine that scene, okay? And replace the zombies with those monsters.”

Xu Ziyue thought about the size of those monsters, “I don’t think they can fit in the elevator.”

Xiao Ran weakly supported her forehead, “That’s not the point!”

“Even so, I actually don’t plan to do that.” Xu Ziyue rubbed his chin, “In fact, I had Shen….that doctor take me around the thirteenth floor but he wouldn’t let me go to the other floors. I think there must be a reason for it.”

After hearing this, the corners of Xiao Ran’s lips twitched. She felt as if she had eaten a large mouthful of dog food, “Other floors? Those are all treatment rooms, there’s nothing to see. You’ll only hear terrible screams one after another. Him not letting you go there is the right course of action.”

Xu Ziyue was startled.

“As long as you’re in a place like that, even if you haven’t started receiving treatment, you will get goosebumps all over your body. Crying is actually very contagious, even if you don’t feel anything yourself.” Xiao Ran said this and slowly lowered her voice, “That’s why you’re actually someone who is blessed. Cherish it. If I have your means, I would even wake up everyday smiling.”

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Xu Ziyue silently nodded, not speaking a word.

The next day when Xu Ziyue went for treatment again, he was again pushed in by a nurse before being untied and rescued from the bed by Shen Ci.

Shen Ci looked at Xu Ziyue up and down, “Didn’t take the medicine?”

Xu Ziyue was taken aback. He subconsciously asked back, “Why should I take the medicine?”

Shen Ci smiled, “Looks like I underestimated you. How did you convince the nurse not to make you take it?”

Xu Ziyue finally reacted after that slip of tongue. He mentally smacked his lips and then said guiltily, “That, can I not take the medicine? I don’t know what the effect of the medicine is and I also don’t think I’m sick.”

Shen Ci said, “Every mental patient thinks that they’re not sick.”

“No!” Xu Ziyue immediately retorted, “Some know that they’re sick.”

Shen Ci however said, “Clearly, you don’t know that you’re sick.”

Xu Ziyue, “……..” He couldn’t beat Shen Ci!

But Shen Ci didn’t seem to have any intention to continue to pursue the matter of Xu Ziyue not taking his medicine. The treatment on this day was again just asking Xu Ziyue some more questions.

Xu Ziyue and Shen Ci sat face to face in the counselling room.

Shen Ci asked, “How do you feel right now?”

Xu Ziyue was confused, “How do I feel?”

“Towards the person you like, tell me about your own feelings.”

Xu Ziyue licked his dry lips and felt a little embarrassed, “This is too embarrassing.”

“It’s okay.”

Shen Ci’s voice seemed to have magical powers. Xu Ziyue unconsciously started to answer his questions one after the other.

“I just really, really like it……I feel happy seeing it and can feel my heart racing faster. And then I want to get closer. If I can see it every day, it would be even better.”

Shen Ci nodded. Just those words alone didn’t reveal Xu Ziyue’s face-con side but the wording itself was indeed a very vague.

“Then who is your favourite?”

Xu Ziyue sobered up for a moment but when he met Shen Ci’s eyes, he fell into daze again.

Favourite…..?

“I like…..like……” Xu Ziyue’s mind seemed to be very tangled up. He couldn’t analyse the word ‘favourite’.

Seeing that Xu Ziyue couldn’t answer, Shen Ci stopped asking and changed the question, “Austin and the man who left those marks on you, do you still like them now?”

Xu Ziyue thought of those two faces and didn’t hesitate to nod, “Like.”

“Then……Do you like me?”

Xu Ziyue nodded his head harder and replied sincerely, “Like!”

Shen Ci maintained a smile on his face, “Do you think it is reciprocated? Any proof?”

Xu Ziyue thought about it more seriously, “Austin asked me to try and capture other people to meet him again sooner. I think his willingness to give himself a green hat proves that he really likes me. As for Gu Ze…….because he would rather send me away and not kill me, I think he also likes me.”

“As for Shen Ci……” Xu Ziyue looked up and thought, “I think he is very similar to Austin.”

Shen Ci didn’t quite understand Xu Ziyue’s experiences and he even selectively ignored the last sentence.

“Snap.”

It was the sound of fingers snapping.

Xu Ziyue returned to his senses.

“Wait, I seemed to have said something just now.” Xu Ziyue covered his mouth with his hands and looked at Shen Ci timidly.

Shen Ci was made amused by Xu Ziyue’s look.

“After that questioning just now, I have confirmed that there is more than one target of affection and also…….your illness is very serious.”

It had already been embedded into his bones.

Shen Ci smiled and said, “Today’s treatment will stop here. You can go back by yourself.”

Xu Ziyue widened his eyes, “Go back by myself?”

Shen Ci nodded affirmatively, “By yourself.”

So just because the answer wasn’t one that you wanted, the treatment time was shorted significantly, and you don’t even want to send me off?

Xu Ziyue was speechless, but he also didn’t dare say anything. He got up and walked out. When he turned his head back, he saw Shen Ci pick up a glass from the coffee table with his chest heaving and empty the entire content in one go.

Xu Ziyue hurried out the door like his feet were coated in oil. He then pushed the hospital bed that was left outside into the elevator.

When the elevator door closed and it was time to select the floor, Xu Ziyue hesitated.

Should he go to the other floors to take a look?

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