Infinite Puzzle City

Chapter 585 The Petty-Minded Chang'e
The intensive care unit and the mild care unit are separated only by two iron gates.

But it felt like we were in two different worlds.

In the mild ward, you can see patients playing cards, singing, playing chess, and dancing in the activity room, but in the severe ward, through the iron gate, you can only see a cold corridor, eerily quiet.

Xiao Ran stood in front of the door and observed for a while before preparing to leave.

With my current access level, I can only enter the first and second floors. I can't access the core of the hospital and can only see some completely insane lunatics.

Xiao Ran had no interest in these lunatics.

Just as Xiao Ran was about to leave, two caregivers and a nurse pushed a cart over and greeted her upon seeing her: "Dr. Wu."

"Hmm, are you going to deliver medicine?"

"Yes, the hospital just informed us that the patient's medication dosage has been doubled in the past few days, and we need to administer the medication once more."

As the nurse spoke, she opened a box on the trolley. Inside the box were chunks of black meat. Xiao Ran sniffed it and found it extremely pungent, as if it had been fished out of formaldehyde: "What kind of meat is this?"

"The pork provided in our hospital cafeteria is fresh every day. We sprinkle medicine on it, and they will behave for several days after eating it."

Xiao Ran looked at the chunks of meat in the box and found it hard to believe that this thing was pork.

At this moment, Xiao Ran noticed that the nurse was holding a medical record book. An idea struck her: "This is my first time here. Can you take me inside and show me around so I can get to know the patients?"

"it is good!"

The nurse nodded with a smile.

As the nurse agreed, blood-red words suddenly appeared in front of Xiao Ran.

Side Quest 3: Talk to three patients in the intensive care unit. You need to talk to each patient for five minutes!

Xiao Ran didn't expect there would be a task like this, and it didn't seem too difficult.

"Fifth Brother, Qilin instructed that we must inform him before entering the intensive care unit."

At this moment, the caregiver spoke up to remind them.

"Then go and say hello."

Xiao Ran didn't even glance at it, casually took the medical record from the nurse's hand and walked forward.

Seeing this, the two caregivers looked at each other. The other caregiver glared at him and said, "Are you stupid? Why did you provoke him? During the last surgery, he even dared to hit Fifth Brother. He slapped several Avatars to the ground and shattered their human face shields. It's a D-level cursed object. It's just a matter of one slap. In the end, nothing happened to him."

"Oh...Is that so?? I didn't know that."

"Don't just stay in your room playing games. Fifth Brother's skills might make him a valuable asset to Master Gui in the future. Keep your eyes open."

"oh oh!"

"Om~~"

The iron gate opened, and the four people followed the handcart forward. After jumping over the first two empty rooms, the cart slowly came to a stop, and two caregivers skillfully opened the door.

"Uncle Youfu, we're having an extra treat for you today. The meat is freshly made in the kitchen, so eat it while it's hot."

The nurse took a piece of meat out of the box and called out with a smile.

Xiao Ran glanced at the medical record.

"Ma Youfu, age: unknown, illness: unknown, has been here since the mental hospital was established."

Xiao Ran compared the information with Beast Master's memories and realized that there seemed to be such a person. However, Beast Master had only heard the name before and did not know any specific details, since he was not the main person in charge of the hospital's affairs.

"What's going on with this guy? I'd like to go in and talk to him."

Xiao Ran walked over to the nurse and asked.

"no!"

As soon as Xiao Ran finished speaking, the two caregivers next to her looked grim and quickly pulled her back: "Please don't! This guy is very strange. Last time, a caregiver chatted with him for a while and then suddenly committed suicide."

"Fifth Brother, this is no joke. Although we have some control over the hospital, this is a labyrinth. There are some things we can't control and can only try to avoid. Let's not take any risks."

Both of them tried to persuade Xiao Ran not to go in.

Despite the two people's dissuasion, Xiao Ran thought about it and decided to give it a try anyway.

"It's okay, I'll give it a try."

As she spoke, Xiao Ran took the tray from the nurse's hand.

"Don't worry, Uncle Youfu is actually very easy to talk to. Sometimes you may not understand what he says, but just do as he says. Everyone who has talked to Uncle Youfu says that their life has been worthwhile."

The nurse smiled and spoke to Xiao Ran, her large eyes slightly bloodshot, her whole demeanor unusually excited, as if she were anticipating something.

"Ok."

After Xiao Ran carried the tray into the room, the nurse immediately closed the door. The three of them watched the activity inside the room through the small glass window outside the door.

As the door closed, Xiao Ran first surveyed the ward.

The ward was covered with soft padding on all sides, and there was nothing there. There was no furniture, no bed, no tables or chairs, and the empty room had only two windows.

One window is an observation window above the main door, and the other window hangs high in the corner of the roof, offering only a glimpse of the sky.

Even in this tiny patch of sky, it was still a hazy gray, and you couldn't see anything clearly.

In the middle of the room, a man sat cross-legged, resting with his eyes closed. His long hair was loose over his shoulders, and it looked like he hadn't bathed in many years, as his hair was all tangled up in a mess.

"Hello, I am the new attending physician."

Xiao Ran placed the plate in her hand in front of Ma Youfu, and then sat down next to him.

Noticing Xiao Ran's movement beside him, Ma Youfu opened his eyes and glanced at her: "The fifth one!"

"What??"

"You are the fifth person to enter my room."

"I heard that the last person who came in to chat with you committed suicide in front of you?"

"No, it wasn't suicide!"

Ma Youfu looked up at Xiao Ran: "It's a relief. If he doesn't commit suicide, he'll die soon, and die a horrible death. I tried to help him, but I didn't succeed." Ma Youfu's words piqued Xiao Ran's curiosity, and she looked at him: "How did you help him?"

"I can help you."

Ma Youfu ignored Xiao Ran's words and instead said to her, "You're going to die soon too. No, not die, but it's even worse if you don't die."

Xiao Ran didn't seem to care when she heard this: "What's worse than death?"

Ma Youfu's blank face seemed to change slightly, yet it also seemed unchanged; his empty eyes gradually widened.

At that moment, a strange feeling instantly enveloped Xiao Ran's entire body.

This instantly alerted Xiao Ran.

Xiao Ran noticed that Ma Youfu's eyes moved slightly, and then she saw that there was actually a secondary pupil hidden in his clear black and white eyes.

"Double pupils!!"

Xiao Ran was startled upon seeing this. People with double pupils are born with extraordinary abilities. Historically, there are only a handful of people with double pupils who can be verified. Xiao Ran did not know the specifics, but every person with double pupils seemed to have extraordinary abilities.

For example, Cangjie, the sage who created characters in ancient times, is said to have been the historian of the Yellow Emperor, with a dragon-like face and four eyes.

And Shun, one of the Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors, was named "Chonghua" because of his double pupils.

These people were born with double pupils; Xiao Ran had only read about them in books before.

I've heard that people with double pupils occasionally appear in the countryside, but the only people I've actually seen besides the one in front of me are the second-in-command of the mountain bandits.

The second-in-command has double pupils, but his double pupils seem to have some kind of defect, as he only has one, and because of the double pupils, this eye is half-blind.

Although the ability is very strong, allowing one to possess the consciousness of any animal through the eyes, the side effects are also significant, so the animals possessed are all small animals.

The man in front of him, Ma Youfu, not only had double pupils in both eyes, but also seemed to have no defects whatsoever.

Ma Youfu stared at Xiao Ran, as if trying to see something in her.

He frowned after a moment: "Strange, why can't I see your fate?"

Seemingly unwilling to give up, Ma Youfu simply stood up and circled around Xiao Ran, only to become more and more scratchy the more he looked at her.

He muttered to himself, "Why is it snow? I can't see anything. Such heavy snow. Why is your fate so strange?"

Xiao Ran was not surprised by Ma Youfu's words. Before setting off, she had changed her destiny chart, transforming the original destiny chart into a simplified version of the Immortal Crossing.

Although it is a simplified version and its effect is not as good as the original version in the Destiny Chart, it still has some effect.

Therefore, it's normal for the other person not to be able to see their own destiny.

"He did help me test the effectiveness of the Immortal Crossing."

Xiao Ran chuckled inwardly.

After realizing he couldn't see Xiao Ran's fate clearly, Ma Youfu's face became increasingly ferocious. He then suddenly sat down and started gnawing on the meat on his plate.

While eating, he said, "I can't see your fate, but you have a curse on you that she has placed on you. You can't escape, and no one she has her eye on can escape."

"she?"

Xiao Ran's heart skipped a beat, and she thought of the guy who had appeared on Number 19 earlier. She pressed on, "Who is she?"

Ma Youfu viciously bit a hole in the meat, without answering Xiao Ran.

At this moment, Xiao Ran suddenly noticed that Ma Youfu's eyes had turned blood red at some point.

The double pupils in his eyes were throbbing intensely.

Suddenly, he stopped eating and held up the half-eaten meat pie in his hand: "Look, doesn't this look like the moon?"

As he spoke, he pointed the object in his hand at the window behind him.

Seeing this, Xiao Ran nodded: "It looks somewhat similar."

Having received Xiao Ran's confirmation, Ma Youfu seemed to become even more agitated, muttering to himself, "Look closely, what you're looking for is on the seventh floor! She's watching all of you!"

"The seventh floor??"

Xiao Ran was baffled by Ma Youfu's words. The inpatient department of this hospital only had six floors, so where did the seventh floor come from? The roof?

At this moment, Ma Youfu's bloodshot eyes suddenly fixed on Xiao Ran.

"Look, isn't the moon turning red now?"

As the words fell, the lights in the room began to flicker, and in the dim light, blood began to drip from the piece of flesh in Ma Youfu's hand.

Xiao Ran focused her mental energy, guarding against any unexpected situations that might arise in her surroundings.

Ma Youfu suddenly moved closer to Xiao Ran, his eyes revealing a pair of blood-red crescent moons. His voice became sharp, and his loose hair fluttered around him.

"I have shown you your destiny, now you must pay me your reward!"

"what do you want?"

Xiao Ran frowned. Ma Youfu's condition was very strange, as if he was possessed by some kind of evil spirit, and his whole body was exuding a strange aura.

If I had to describe it, it would be psychic communication.

Ma Youfu's aura grew increasingly intense, his eyes gleaming like crescent moons as he glared fiercely at Xiao Ran and said in a deeply resentful voice, "I want you to die!"

As the words fell, a blurry shadow seemed to be gradually becoming clearer in Ma Youfu's eyes, as if something was rapidly reviving.

"Ding! You have been attacked by prophecies and strange tales. Please make the following choices: complete the contract or deny the contract."

If you deny the contract, the ancient deities will swiftly awaken and personally kill you!

Seeing the prompt that appeared in front of her, Xiao Ran looked at the crescent moon in Ma Youfu's eyes again, as if there really was something inside that was about to emerge from the crescent moon in Ma Youfu's eyes.

"No way, I was just asking casually, why are you being so petty?"

Thinking of this, Xiao Ran didn't hesitate and decisively said to Ma Youfu, "Okay."

After saying that, Xiao Ran's eyes rolled back, her body instantly lost all color, and she collapsed to the ground, no longer breathing...

(End of this chapter)