Chapter 547 We Lost an Employee
"Outsiders like you?"
After hearing Colin's words, some of the female survivors seemed to remember something.
After a moment, the leading woman nodded again and said, "There was a similar person who came here about two and a half years ago. I don't know if he's the one you're looking for. Furthermore, it wasn't us who came into contact with him at the time, but someone from another shelter..."
"Other areas? Can you tell me what's going on? Or, I can agree to some normal terms in exchange for his information."
Colin was surprised. He was just asking casually and didn't expect any answer.
After all, the area occupied by each floor of the hospital is still very large...
If he didn't have a sense of smell that was far superior to that of ordinary people , he might not have met the people here even if he survived for a long time.
But I didn’t expect that there would actually be a solution?
but……
"Two and a half years doesn't quite add up. According to the forum, he was only in there for half a year, less than a year. However, most of this information is just his personal account and may not be true..."
Colin's thoughts turned, and he decided to learn more before making any decision.
At this time, he heard the leader of the noble sisters continue, "There's no need to exchange this information. I'll just tell you directly. We were supporting them at the time and had some contact with them. Although the contact wasn't much, the impression was still very deep."
Soon, after the leader's explanation, Colin understood what this "profound" meant -
That was a very unlucky unfortunate guy.
He would choke when swallowing, bite his tongue from time to time when talking, suffer from various allergies, and would inexplicably trip over small stones while walking. Moreover, all kinds of abnormalities would always "accidentally" find him around him...
If it weren't for his outstanding strength, he would have died in these disasters long ago.
While describing it, Jie Gui couldn't help but feel a little admiration. That guy was one of the rare strong men who could escape unscathed from disaster entities such as the "Corpse Tyrant" and the more powerful "Puppet Tide" and "Corpse Feast".
"This description shouldn't be wrong." Colin knew it was the unlucky old man as soon as he heard it.
After all, if it weren't for "bad luck", it would be very difficult for a normal E-level Extraordinary to trip over a stone while walking or choke on his saliva.
No, this is somewhat difficult for ordinary people.
Not to mention that he had been injected with "gene compensation drugs" many times, and his whole body coordination was far superior to that of ordinary people, making him a formal employee of the company.
However, all the descriptions match.
The only thing is that the timing doesn't quite match.
"As far as I can tell, the earliest distress signal he sent was seven months ago. And according to him, he was in there for about a month or two before his mission ended and he found the opportunity to send a message."
"But if what's said here is accurate, then within two and a half years, there was a clear conflict..."
Colin asked the female leader again to confirm that there were no errors in the "translation" of the information he received.
"So, is it possible that he's actually been trapped longer than he realizes? Or is it a time difference? No, if there's a time difference, he should be aware of it, just like 'World Number 13'. He wouldn't have been there for two and a half years without knowing what happened in between..."
Colin thought of the rules in the lobby of the hospital's outpatient department.
Although I've long suspected it's related to that employee, suspicion is one thing, and actually connecting them is another...
"Actually, that person did us a favor. If it weren't for him, we might have been surrounded by various disaster entities at that time." The female leader seemed to have thought of something and said with lingering fear.
"But unfortunately, when we later tried to find him, we couldn't contact him for long before he was targeted by the 'Dean' and was forced to flee alone into another anomalous area... We don't know what happened to him in the end, as we haven't seen him since. We suspect he was either devoured or dismembered and dragged deeper into the anomalous area."
"It seems that none of them have a good ending." Colin pursed his lips.
At this time, the 2.34 meter tall female leader continued to ask: "What is your relationship with him?"
So far, the other party has not informed her of their relationship.
"If nothing unexpected happens, he should be an employee of our company who has gone missing..." Colin said simply.
"Is that so..." The female leader nodded. She didn't know the specific meaning of "company," but from the information she had gleaned from the other party's words, it sounded like a name for a faction, like a religion, a gang, or perhaps the managers of different shelters...
After answering the female leader's questions, Colin turned around and looked at the employee lying on the other side:
"By the way, do you remember how long ago you received his message?"
As he spoke, looking at the employee lying on the hospital bed with bandages all over his body and serious injuries - looking at his appearance, Colin suddenly couldn't help but be distracted, and began to wonder, if he hadn't come this time, after this guy recovered from his injuries, wouldn't he be taken away by these sisters for breeding?
But before he could think too much, the Holy Body of Ashes sat up with difficulty, enduring the pain all over his body: "Cough cough cough, I, cough cough, I remember it was about five months ago, he, cough cough, and the earliest time he appeared, according to now, seems to be about nine months..."
Listening to the conversation between Colin and the people here, he also discovered a clue.
This "man who never surrenders"...
There must be a problem!
The first possibility is that he is deliberately hiding something and is deliberately tricking people into coming to the rescue. The second possibility is that he himself doesn't even know the situation...
I really thought I had only been here for about half a year or eight or nine months.
As for the reason, there are many possibilities. Either the other party is controlled, replaced, or contaminated...
Everything is possible.
But no matter which possibility it is, the situation is not good.
"I think he... cough cough cough..." said the Holy Body of Ashes, and couldn't help coughing violently, with blood oozing from the corner of his mouth.
"Don't say anything for now. I think I know what you mean. Let me treat you first."
Colin raised his hand to stop the other party from speaking, and then continued to summon his medical model workers.
The next second, a fire tree that looked like a water banyan tree, but whose leaves were balls of flames, appeared in front of the noble sisters, and stretched out hundreds of aerial roots, which pierced into the skin of the Holy Body of Ashes like raindrops.
Seeing this, the ladies on the side all took a deep breath...
However, besides being horrified, they also discovered that the injuries on the body of the Holy Body that were so serious that most of their compatriots could not withstand were recovering rapidly.
After a while, he was able to walk directly on the ground!
You have to know that not long ago, the opponent's internal organs were ruptured and his limbs were broken into pieces. He was almost dead.
But now I can actually get out of bed and move around...
For everyone, it was no less than a miracle of resurrection!
"If you need any treatment, you can also come here for treatment."
Ke Lin looked at the sisters with wide eyes and made a decision for Huo Shu.
It has to be said that although the "Fire Tree" cannot be considered a true resurrection in terms of treatment, the company and even the official have many medical props that surpass it.
However, the scope of its understanding is indeed very broad.
Not to mention normal carbon-based human bodies, it also has a lot of knowledge about stone silicon-based humans and knows how to treat them. It can easily treat level three and below pollution and can be regarded as a general practitioner.
After hearing Colin's words, the ladies hesitated for a moment, but finally chose to accept this "generosity".
After all, many of them have suffered very serious injuries, and if there is a chance to recover, that would naturally be the best.
"The mission is over 90% complete, almost there..."
Colin glanced at the current task progress.
Gathering information through conversation to complete investigation missions is not only less risky, but also much faster than randomly killing people outside. If I were to do this outside, I wouldn't even be able to get through halfway by now...
"We should be able to complete it after learning more about the current local ecological environment and various abnormal information."
As the thought flashed through his mind, Colin began to ask about related matters.
"Here, in the lobby on the first floor of each hospital building, or in other places like the inpatient department, food will be refreshed every three to fifteen days. During this time, we will send out exploration teams to collect these supplies..."
"If you don't take them, they'll just keep rotting until the 'Red Nurse' takes them away and discards them, and then they'll continue to spawn..."
"Well, it's not just food, some medicines and the like will also be refreshed. However, in this regard, each different department will refresh different potions. For example, if you have a mental illness, you have to go to the psychiatry department, and if you have a broken leg or hand, you have to go to the orthopedics department or the emergency department..."
Of course, although they may not necessarily need the medicines, they will definitely collect as much as possible if they can.
Because medicines are not only edible, but if processed properly, they can also be turned into explosives, poisons, gas weapons, etc.
"It seems to be true. Many medicines can be used to cause explosions. But what does that mean? Is it a racial talent of humans to cause explosions wherever they go?" Colin pursed his lips.
To be honest, judging from the information provided by this female leader, the people who fled here...
They are most likely a group of ordinary Earth humans with some abilities.
An example is the language of the people here, which is a rare hodgepodge of languages on Earth. Although there are some self-created fonts, most of them are direct use of original characters from Chinese, English, German, etc.
So their talent for "explosiveness" might be due to the fact that they are "Earthlings"?
At this time, the female leader continued:
"During this time, we might encounter dozens of different anomalies, including 'Puppet Man,' 'Laughing Nightmare,' 'Zombie,' 'Corpse Tyrant,' 'Big-Headed Madman,' 'Meat Swarm,' and so on. Well, 'Meat Swarm' refers to those pieces of meat on the ground. We suspect they might be the transformed form of people captured by the 'Red Nurse,' and they can't be killed no matter how hard we try..."
As the female leader spoke bit by bit, Colin's mission progress was getting closer to 100%.
"I was curious about where the food came from in this damn place, but I didn't expect it to refresh automatically... and it looks very nutritious." Colin muttered in his heart. This kind of place can be called a "Saint Trap"...
If Shana knew there was a similar place where she could take food without any moral burden, even if there were "ancient gods" guarding it, she would most likely go in and risk getting hurt every day to buy food for free.
After all, Shana had done something similar before, battling it out with the "Ancient God" for 800 points...
"So tough, um, damn, no, those guys in that shitty branch are really inhumane. They tricked my Sana into fighting that kind of thing for 800 points! If anything goes wrong, I'll tear it down!"
Shaking his head and collecting his thoughts, Colin continued to listen to the information silently.
Then, after hearing the female captain next to the female leader interrupt and say that no one knew what had happened, the entire hospital world shook, a large number of abnormalities and "red nurses" suddenly died, and a terrifying crack appeared...
But it was also this crack that caused something to seem to emerge from deeper in the world.
Kelin's expression was strange for a moment: "Is this a battle between the three great masters?"
He had previously thought that it would only affect a few surrounding layers at most, but he didn't expect it to go so deep?
I asked for some details and it seems to be true.
The impact of the battle was more far-reaching than he had imagined, even the twelfth floor and even deeper were severely affected...
"By the way, do you remember why there is such an imbalance in the ratio of male and female protagonists?" Colin asked curiously.
When the female leader talked about these things before, she just mentioned them briefly and did not go into detail.
"We're not entirely sure about the situation. Some speculate it's due to the food, others to the environment. Besides that, the fragmented inherited memories might also be a factor..."
"Shattered memory?" Colin asked.
"The memory we pieced together is that a hundred years ago, something terrifying seemed to break free from deep within the hospital. When it passed through here, our bodies seemed to be affected. The timing matches. Well, according to our later observations, that thing may not have left. Maybe it hasn't left, or maybe it came from outside the world and wanted to get in here..."
That period of history was too damaged to be restored, and they generally assumed that something had left from the depths.
But there are many possibilities, and it's not absolute...
"What is it that can leave an impression?" Colin became more and more curious. What is it that can cause such a mutation in people's genes just by passing by?
The female leader said uncertainly, "I vaguely remember it seemed to be related to a burst of 'red light'. We suspect the 'red nurse' might have been caused by it, because the 'red nurse' only appeared after that incident..."
But before he could finish, Colin suddenly raised his hand to signal him to stop.
When he heard the word "red light", Ke Lin stopped asking questions...
Not to mention the genetic damage caused by the "red light", this group of people can now stand here safely instead of turning into a pile of organs crawling around. They have to pray for the bonfire's blessing.
Of course, the most important thing is...
When the female leader just spoke, the investigation mission was shown as completed!
That is, after waiting for Colin's confirmation, a new round of events occurred. This time, it seemed to be the final event!
