Chapter 538 "Don't come near me!"
"'A wailing psychopath'? That's what's crying down there? But what's a psychopath?"
"There's no mention of killing them, just catching them and draining a thousand HP..."
"The mission requirements are quite gentle."
An idea flashed through Colin's mind, and within a brief second, he made a decision.
Accompanied by a loud "boom".
His figure seemed to turn into a ball of crimson flame, rushing towards the stairs below, trying to get close to the guy who was named "Psychomaniac" for some reason.
Draw 1,000 milliliters of blood from him...
When Colin's figure disappeared in an instant, the two employees behind him were suddenly confused, with three question marks popping up in their heads.
"Huh? What's going on? What should we do?"
At the first moment, a sense of tension arose in their hearts, and they couldn't help but wonder if some powerful enemy had appeared.
So Brother Shunzi left them behind to cover the rear...
But just as they were daydreaming, a word suddenly floated in the air.
"I'll go down and deal with that thing. You guys stay within the flames and don't move around..."
Although they didn't understand why Brother Shunzi suddenly went down, the two of them looked at each other and stayed quietly in the flame-covered staircase...
Given Brother Shunzi's credibility, he shouldn't just abandon them here and run away.
At the same time, Colin was constantly tracking and suddenly discovered some problems. The speed of that thing was obviously much slower than his, but for some reason, he could not get close to it.
No, to be more precise, I can feel it approaching.
But the speed of approaching is too slow. At this rate, it may take at least ten days to catch up!
Moreover, even Colin himself couldn't bear it if he continued to do this for ten days or so.
"It feels like a fucking rule. No matter what, there's always a floor between us. If I can't catch up, I can't catch up. Wait, 'rules'?"
Ke Lin suddenly thought of the special features of this "non-existent hospital": "I can't think of it getting farther and farther away, nor can I think of it as unreachable. I have to suggest that I am getting closer to it..."
After realizing this, he immediately began to hypnotize himself in his heart.
Sure enough, this time, the distance between the two sides was finally significantly shortened, but Colin could still feel that some indescribable force was fighting against him.
"If nothing unexpected happens, this opposing force must be that 'psychopath'. Wasn't he just coming closer and farther to provoke me? Why is he running so fast now?"
Colin grumbled in his heart, and while fighting mentally, he continued to speed up.
The stairs covered with dark spots went down one level after another. No matter which level Colin and this "mental maniac" went down to, they could still see the next level, as if it was endless.
"This staircase itself is an anomaly... "
During the chase, Colin vaguely realized that the endless staircase might have been spliced and integrated.
And it is specially set up as a passage leading to the "inner layer".
The "artificial traces" are still very obvious...
But he couldn't care less about that for now, Colin concentrated on chasing that guy.
Ten minutes later, he suddenly felt a strong sense of mental oppression coming from the front. In the light of the campfire, he could vaguely see a vague human figure...
At first glance, he's an ordinary man wearing blue and white vertical stripes, nothing out of the ordinary.
But as Colin approached, he clearly felt a strong sense of mental depression and frenzy emanating from the other person, like a physical storm...
For the first time, Colin clearly understood what "spiritual power" meant.
"You can't catch up with me, you can't catch up with me, you...don't! Don't come near me!"
"I'm not sick! I'm not sick! Don't come near me! I told you, I'm not sick!"
"I didn't help him! I couldn't help him! I don't know anything, I don't know! Don't..."
"Don't take me back!"
"Go away!"
"Ahhhhhhhh, mommy, save me! Mommy, there are bad guys!"
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The disordered whispers mixed in with the frenzied mental waves made people dizzy and even the distance that was about to be caught up was widened again.
It wasn't until Colin calmed down that he regained the distance.
Then, this time he saw the "madman" crying bitterly as if he had seen a ghost, half rolling and half running down the stairs.
"As for that, I'm not a bad person. I just drew some blood."
"But speaking of it, these things that are close to being regular are really strange. This one doesn't look very fast at all. With just two legs and two hands, how can it run faster than my current speed that's faster than a super run..."
"It seems he's taking better advantage of 'hospital rules' than I am."
Colin couldn't help but complain, then he sped up even more.
Finally, after two or three minutes, the distance was reached, and Colin suddenly stretched out his hand and accurately grabbed the other person's neck.
Next, he tried to suppress and stabilize this guy.
However, an accident happened suddenly!
The "mental madman" roared:
"Don't touch me! I said! Don't come near me! I said I didn't help him! Why! Why are you forcing me!"
As soon as he finished speaking, the "psychopath" twisted his neck, his eyes popped out of his sockets like a snail, and his back cracked, his entire spine split in two, forming a big mouth. In the big mouth, countless eyes squeezed together and spewed out a foul-smelling blood-red mist, trying to wrap Colin up.
Colin's expression remained unchanged. He pinched his neck with his hands, and the bonfire on his body surged, easily burning the blood-red mist and suppressing the power first.
As the suppression took shape, all the abnormalities on the opponent's body dissipated and disappeared at this moment.
"Ah, ah, I don't want to go back..." The "mental maniac" shook his limbs frantically, trying to make a final struggle.
I don't know what he was thinking about, but Colin actually felt the neck he was holding begin to soften, and a sticky secretion appeared. The body began to soften and shrink, as if an invisible shell had appeared...
If he doesn't stop, he will probably shrink into something like a shell and become a "snail man".
"I don't know if it's this place that defies nature, or if I should say this 'madman' defies nature."
Colin clicked his tongue. He probably understood what "madman" meant...
Most of them are people who have become insane because they have come into contact with some unknowable existence and learned knowledge that they should not know.
Coupled with the special nature of this hospital, this kind of person is extremely dangerous.
However, without thinking too much about it, Colin pinched the "Time Reverse" with his left hand, directly making the previous time go back, and letting the "Mental Maniac" state return to a few seconds ago.
Then, before he turned into a "snail man", the power of "bonfire" completely enveloped him and destroyed the mental influence.
Force this guy, who might be imagining himself shrinking into a snail, back to his original form.
Gradually, the "madman" stopped struggling and passed out...
"The question is, how do we draw blood?"
Colin thought for a moment. It wasn't that he didn't know how to draw blood, but he didn't seem to have any corresponding tools on him?
But as he was thinking, Colin suddenly laughed at himself. How could he forget about the little maid?
Immediately, he called out the little maid, had her transform herself into a syringe and other props, and began to draw blood from the other person...
Soon, one thousand milliliters of blood were obtained, and a confirmation appeared asking whether to hand in the blood to complete the task.
After Colin confirmed it, within ten seconds, he received a sealed syringe of "Madman's Blood Extract" from the settlement...
"I suddenly have a bad feeling."
Seeing the syringe filled with the light red transparent extract, Colin was silent.
Are we going to ask him to inject this stuff later?
At this time, a new mission event appeared...
[Event 2: Take the "Psychopath" to any bed in Room 701 on the third floor of the "Psychiatric Ward" on the fourth floor. After taking protective measures in the room, bring at least one employee with you and descend through a dream to the seventh floor of the "non-existent hospital." Return to the lobby of the "Outpatient Department" and observe the rules...]
[Note: During dreams, some high-risk memories will be processed, so please don't panic.]
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"Phew, that was a close call. I didn't have to take the injection. However... I came here through a dream... and jumped directly to the seventh floor?"
After scanning the task content, Colin was stunned. He didn't expect that "Ms. Rabbit" would give a way to skip levels so quickly.
So...
Didn’t the two employees he hired be hired in vain?
"Not really. It's not a wasted invitation. After all, the first few floors did play a role and avoided a lot of pitfalls. Besides, the later floors I'll take you to should be more familiar to you than those who are here for the first time."
Without thinking too much, Colin took another look at the "mental madman" lying on the stairs with a peaceful look on his face.
He began to feel curious. Where did this guy come from?
According to the words of "Innate Ash-beating Saint Body" and "Orange Cat", it seems that this guy does not exist in this "Infinite Staircase"...
And although this person has problems, is contaminated from head to toe, and is mentally disturbed, he is indeed a human being...
Confused, Colin couldn't help but recall some of the words this guy had shouted before.
"He seemed to have said something about not helping anyone? Who was he referring to? Who else is trying to catch him?"
Colin thought about it and guessed that it must be something from the last few floors. It might be some anomaly, or it might be a heretic...
Unfortunately, there is not enough information at the moment.
At this moment, noticing that the other party looked pale and listless due to the blood drawing, in order to prevent him from dying suddenly, Colin considerately injected him with a "colorless crystal" to support his body.
After doing all this, Colin quickly returned and met the two people waiting upstairs a few minutes later.
"Did you go downstairs just now?" Colin asked.
He chased it downwards for over half an hour, but only went up for a few minutes, which was obviously not right.
"No." They both shook their heads.
"You guys are probably thinking about me coming back soon, right?"
"Uh... a little." Orange Cat said inexplicably embarrassedly.
"It seems like they wanted me back, so it was a kind of 'two-way run'."
Colin probably understood the reason.
Not only is this ghost hospital itself "exist if you believe it, not exist if you don't believe it", but people who enter it will also be affected by this situation.
"Is this anomaly some kind of deep pollution leak, or is the 'hospital' itself like this , and it's only because the 'Bonfire Company' has weakened that things have gotten out of control?"
Colin couldn't help but become curious, but when he thought of the characteristics of this ghost place, he quickly suppressed his thoughts.
Avoid letting your own "wild thoughts" lead to things that shouldn't appear...
Soon, the group walked out of the fourth floor of the Infinite Staircase...
After coming out, I was still in the inpatient department, but it was on the fourth floor.
At this moment, although the lights were on all around, it was even darker, and the air was filled with a strong stench of formaldehyde mixed with rotting corpses.
And faintly, there were some women or men screaming...
Colin looked at the "plaques" that were all around him. They were no longer pure black, but a bit dark red, and there were some tumor-like things twitching and wriggling in them.
It wouldn't be a big deal if there were only one or two, but the key is that they are everywhere.
He had a feeling that the building was about to come alive...
"No, it's an illusion! There's no way he can be alive !"
Colin quickly stopped his dangerous thoughts. If a few of his ideas came to life, it would be a lot of trouble.
After arriving at this place, the two employees on the side were both "touched by the scene" and their originally vague memories suddenly became clear:
"The patches on the ground are still the same. Don't touch them, and you'll be fine. Besides that, there will be human figures, but they're not common now. Also, don't pay attention to the screams. The more you pay attention, the closer they get. Eventually, a ghost-like thing will come and haunt you. You can't kill it, and it's extremely scary. But it's easy to deal with. Just distract your attention..."
Orange Cat quickly spoke out what came to his mind.
"Well, that's basically it. Besides that, there are some occupied rooms that can't be entered, that's all."
After replenishing the innate holy body, he continued:
"The way to get to the next level is to find an abnormal 'nurse' in pink, tell it we're sick, very sick, and have it take us to a certain floor. After a while, we'll naturally go deeper..."
Find a nurse? This method seems different from the "Rabbit Lady"... Colin raised his hand to interrupt him:
"No, I have another way. I can go directly to the seventh floor."
Compared to their "home remedies", Colin trusts the method given by "Ms. Rabbit" more.
Then, without waiting for the two to ask, Colin continued: "Do you know where the 'Psychiatric Ward' is?"
"Psychiatric ward?!"
When the Holy Body heard this name, his expression suddenly changed.
"What? Is there a problem?" Colin looked at him in surprise, not knowing why people reacted so strongly.
The Holy Body opened its mouth and wanted to say something, but found that it could not think of anything except fear.
"The fourth floor should be fine, but it's hard to say about the rest. It's very dangerous anyway. It seems that something went wrong there during our previous exploration..." When mentioning that place, the Holy Body of Gray felt full of rejection.
"It shouldn't be a problem. Do you know where it is?"
"Know."
"Then go ahead."
Colin made the decision directly and did not allow for rejection.
