CH 6

Yue Xingwen remembered very clearly the word ‘Research Group’. When the System Tutor read out the ‘Admission Requirement’, it was mentioned that: “The points obtained from clearing the course can be exchanged for corresponding skill books and props in the Library’s Database, and you can also set up a research group to break through the level with other students.”

In other words, the library system did not allow students to fight alone all the time, but they could use their points to set up a ‘Research Group’ and team up with other students. 

Jiang Pingce’s meaning was obvious—— he would wait for Yue Xingwen to set up a research group together.

Jiang Pingce should have come to the library earlier than Yue Xingwen, and he also did not know which floor was Jiang Pingce right now, in what faculty was he? Yue Xingwen had to work harder to find him as soon as possible. After he thought about this, Yue Xingwen continued to ask the System Tutor, “Excuse me, what conditions are needed to set up a research group?”

System Tutor: “After passing the Faculty of Medicine on the first floor of the library, the Research Group function will be unlocked, and it can be established with 1,000 points.”

“What is considered as a pass?” 

“Clearing all the compulsory courses is considered a pass. The second compulsory course exam of the Faculty of Medicine is about to begin, so please be prepared.”

Yue Xingwen: “…”

Was there more than one compulsory course in the Faculty of Medicine? Come to think of it, what Faculty had only one compulsory course? He underestimated this library, it was really a pain in the neck. He just breathed a sigh of relief after being chased by rabbits, monkeys and the others, what could it be for the next course?

Yue Xingwen pressed his aching temples, calmed down and said, “I’m ready, I’ll continue for the next course.”

System Tutor: “Faculty of Medicine compulsory course <Cardiovascular Ward>, 4 credits, number of people limit: 10 people, course class matching in progress, countdown 10, 9, 8…”

At the moment the countdown reached 1, the scene in front of Yue Xingwen suddenly flashed.

Yue Xingwen found himself in an unfamiliar room. Like the white coat he was given during the <Escape From the Laboratory> course earlier, this time the system had forcibly changed the clothes he was wearing, but it seemed that he was wearing… a hospital gown?

He wore the exact hospital gown, blue and white striped clothes and striped pants. On his left wrist was a wristband with the words ‘Cardiovascular Ward 3 – Bed no. 17 – Yue Xingwen’ written on it. An IV drip was attached to the back of his right hand, and cold, clear liquid was slowly flowing down the infusion tube into his body. He did not know what medicine was in the infusion tube, but he did not dare to pull out the needle rashly, after all, his current status was a ‘patient’, in case he pulled out the needle recklessly and was lectured by the doctor and nurse, what should he do? 

Yue Xingwen sat up and quickly looked around.

This was a three-person ward, and he was in bed no. 17 by the window.  The window seemed to be painted with a strange layer of paint, and when he looked out through the window, all he could see was white fog, which reminded him of the strange glass door of the library, where his punch seemed to hit into a hard wall when he smashed it—— apparently, this time it was a closed room examination, and they could not observe anything outside the room through the windows.

Then he looked at the side, there was a male student in his early 20s on bed no. 16 on his left side, who was also sitting up and looking around like Yue Xingwen at this time. The male student had a simple and fresh crew cut hair, thick eyebrows, big eyes, and nice facial features, which belonged to the handsome appearance that made people feel secure with his masculinity. He frowned and tried to remove the needle from the back of his hand, but he looked up and noticed that there was not much medicine left in the IV tube, so he endured and withdrew his hand.

Their gazes met and quickly turned their gaze to see at bed no. 15 together. 

There was an old grandfather who occupied the bed no. 15, with numerous strange straps attached to a ECG monitor, which showed a green wave-like heart rate curve, and an oxygen mask on his face. The old grandfather was unconscious and looked quite ill at the moment.

Yue Xingwen was just about to speak when the next moment, the door of the ward was pushed open and a group of doctors in white coats walked in line.

The doctors were headed by a middle-aged man that looked quite lively, with a name tag that read ‘Chief Doctor Zhang Zhizhong’ on his chest, and behind him was a young male doctor, wearing glasses, with ‘Attending Doctor Xiao Wen’ written on his chest. There were many resident doctors and interns following behind them, and Yue Xingwen roughly counted that the doctor team had more than 20 people, cramming in the entire ward.

Dr. Xiao Wen pushed the glasses on the bridge of his nose and reported in a clear voice, “Chief, bed no. 16 and bed no. 17 were both newly admitted patients yesterday, their main complaint is the pain around the precordial area lasted for a week, there is no confirmed diagnosis yet, and the ECG can’t see the problem, it is suspected to be coronary stenosis, and they will be sent for coronary angiography tomorrow morning.” 

Chief Zhang sighed. “Having a heart disease at a young age. Young men, you should pay more attention and you can’t be too excited!”

Yue Xingwen: “……”

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When he thought about this, his left chest suddenly protested and a twinge of pain came, as if an invisible hand squeezed his heart hard. Yue Xingwen’s expression suddenly changed, immediately pressing his hand against his chest, his heart was thumping and stalling, that kind of strange sharp pain along the nerve straight to his brain. Yue Xingwen’s eyebrows wrinkled in pain, and he could not wait to dig out his heart to see what was going on.

The expression of the male student on bed no. 16 also became extremely ugly, and it was obvious that his heart began to hurt.

Looking at their expressions, Chief Zhang hurriedly picked up the stethoscope and then listened to Yue Xingwen’s chest back and forth for a while before explaining in a low voice, “This patient still has arrhythmia ah, Dr. Xiao, there are a bit too many new patients today, so we should examine them as soon as possible and make a follow-up treatment plan only after confirming the diagnosis.”

Dr. Xiao nodded seriously, “I understand chief.”

The chief doctor went to check the bed next to him, and the male student in bed no. 16 did not say a word from the beginning to the end. He just sullenly stretched his arm out like a puppet to cooperate with the doctor to complete the examination. 

After checking both of them, Dr. Xiao walked over to the bed no. 15 and said, “Bed no. 15, 77 years old patient, he just had a coronary angioplasty yesterday and had a stent inserted into his artery, and his post-surgery signs are stable.”

Yue Xingwen: “……”

Different trades, worlds apart. He looked at the old grandfather who looked like he was seriously ill, and it turned out that the doctor judged the condition to be stable.

A group of doctors discussed as they came in to check on the room and left in unison afterwards. Yue Xingwen, who was hospitalized for the first time, was a little confused looking at the majestic group of white coats, then another young nurse walked in and Yue Xingwen removed the IV tube, smiling and saying, “Don’t remove the infusion catheter left on the back of your hand, it will hurt to re-inject it.” 

The nurse smiled affectionately, and Yue Xingwen nodded at her. “Thank you.”

She also unplugged the infusion tube for the male student in bed no.16 next to him, and said the same thing.

It was only after she went out the door that the message finally popped up in the hover box in front of Yue Xingwen——

[Faculty of Medicine’s Compulsory Course: Cardiovascular Ward] 

[Credit: 4]

[Classmate: 10 people]

[Course Description: The cases admitted to the cardiovascular ward include hypertension, angina, coronary heart disease, cardiomyopathy, myocarditis, heart failure, etc. The heart is the blood supply center of the body, each beat delivers fresh blood to the whole body. Once the heart stops beating, all organs and tissues of the body will stop functioning due to lack of blood, and humans will die quickly in a short time.]

[Exam Requirement: Survive in the cardiovascular ward for 5 days] 

[Additional Question: Find the real cause of the death of the patients in the ward. Complete the additional question to get +30 of the examination score]

[Note 1: You are now suffering from a serious heart disease, please do not get too excited. Negative emotions such as shock, fear and anger are likely to cause the heart to beat violently, block or rupture blood vessels, resulting in symptoms such as acute myocardial infarction, cardiac arrest and died following failed resuscitation.]

[Note 2: The doctors will do their rounds into the ward every morning from 8:30am to 9:00am, and you are not allowed to leave the ward during this time. At other times, you should follow the doctor’s medical advice, and if there are no check-ups, infusions, etc as scheduled, you are free to move around the patient area or even sneak into the doctor’s office. There will be inspection every night at the cardiovascular ward, and the patient is not allowed to run out of the ward. Please do not try to break the door, smash the windows and other dangerous actions, otherwise you will be responsible for the consequences]

[This exam will be scored individually based on each student’s performance] 

[The exam officially begins]

Yue Xingwen finished reading the exam requirement, leaned against the bed and fell into contemplation.

He needed to survive for 5 days? This course seemed to be quite dangerous and he might end up dying due to cardiac arrest if he was not careful enough.

The additional question mentioned ‘the real cause of the death of the patients’, which was a bit strange. Wasn’t the cause of death of a patient in the cardiovascular ward should be that the heart stopped beating? So, what was the meaning of the word ‘real’ in the additional question? 

Yue Xingwen was a liberal arts student and he paid close attention to the details on the description when reading the questions; He always felt that things were not simple. If it was just a patient who went into cardiac arrest in the hospital, the doctors would certainly resuscitate them first, such as doing cardiopulmonary resuscitation, defibrillation and so on. As long as the patient was not dead, they might still be saved. And a patient who died after failing resuscitation, that was also considered an accidental death.

As long as the examinees controlled their emotions and did not let themselves have a sudden heart attack, then they would survive, right?

There should be two major factors that threaten their life.

First the events that affect emotions, for example, the ward was suddenly haunted in the middle of the night, and ghosts were floating from the windows, the timid students would be ‘scared to death’, after all, they had ‘heart disease’. In the face of emergencies, it was really possible that their heart would beat violently and cause a heart attack, then be ‘scared to death’ on the spot. 

The second was a man-made event that affected their condition. For example, if their treatment plan went wrong, or they took the wrong medication, or if the patient went crazy, or even a family member went crazy, or maybe there would be a mass incident such as food poisoning in the ward?

In short, he had to be extremely careful in the next few days.

The old grandfather in bed no.15 had not woken up yet.

Yue Xingwen looked at the bed next to him and took the initiative to greet him, “Hello classmate, are you also from the library?” 

The male student in bed no.16 changed his expression slightly. “You too?”

Yue Xingwen nodded. “Yes, I’m also an examinee.”

They looked at each other for a moment. Yue Xingwen showed a smile on his face, and gave the other party a friendly attitude. “Although each student scored individually in this exam, we are not in competition, as long as we survive in 5 days, we can pass the exam. How about we get to know about each other?”

Both of them would stay in the same ward for 5 days. If the student next to him died, it was likely that Yue Xingwen would also die. He could not do something like pushing a classmate out to block a knife, because all of them were innocent and unlucky enough to be pulled into the library. It could be said that they were in the same boat. Rather than guarding against each other, why didn’t they work together? 

Meeting Yue Xingwen’s friendly gaze, the male student simply said, “I’m Liu Zhaoqing, a second year grad student at Hua’an University’s Faculty of Medicine.”

Yue Xingwen was stunned. “… The top student from Escape From the Laboratory’s ranking list?”

Yue Xingwen had just seen the exam ranking of <Escape From the Laboratory>, and Liu Zhaoqing from the Faculty of Medicine was in first place. He did not expect such a coincidence that he was actually matched to the same exam room in the second course. This grad student senior brother was also awesome in the Escape From the Laboratory to get 99 points.

Yue Xingwen immediately greeted him politely. “Hello senior brother, I’m also from Hua’an University, I’m a third year student from Faculty of Humanities, Chinese Department, my name is Yue Xingwen.” 

A schoolmate? Liu Zhaoqing’s attitude was obviously much friendlier. “Did junior brother also go to the school library before you were dragged into this damn place?”

Yue Xingwen nodded. “En, I went to the library after ten o’clock at night, and I noticed something was wrong when I entered, but unfortunately I couldn’t get out.”

Liu Zhaoqing: “I went there at 9:30pm because I wanted to check some information. When I entered the door, I found that I was the only one around.”

They were silent for a moment before Liu Zhaoqing asked curiously, “What props does the Chinese Department have? Is it convenient to say how you clear the last course with rabbits, monkeys, and two bosses on the last level? 

The rewards for the Chinese Department were just a few types, and this senior brother would know them when he ran into them later. Moreover, this grad student got 99 points in the last course, he was obviously an outstanding person, and Yue Xingwen had the intention to befriend him, maybe they might be able to team up and work together in the future. After Yue Xingwen thought about this, he gently raised his right hand and took out the thick <Modern Idiom Dictionary> and laughed. “I used the dictionary to smash them unconscious.”

“…” Liu Zhaoqing gave a thumbs up with a complicated look, “Awesome, it must be very painful to be smashed with this dictionary.”

“What about senior brother? You were able to pass with a very high score of 99. Can I ask how you passed it?” Yue Xingwen asked.

“The system had me to dissect corpses at the entrance exam, asking me to separate the great saphenous vein, and after the exam I was given a scalpel. I have killed all those monkeys.” As Liu Zhaoqing explained, a scalpel suddenly appeared in his hand, with a slight lift of his right hand, the scalped shout straight out like a dart and instantly poked into the wall. When he closed his palm, the scalpel returned and as he released his hand, he could continue to shoot out the scalpel. 

He did it back and forth continuously, the scalpel had an unlimited use?

Yue Xingwen praised him, “It’s like the ‘Legend of Dagger Li’, once let loose, never misses its target ah!”

Liu Zhaoqing sighed, “But the hit rates aren’t accurate enough, this is the first time I’ve used a scalpel as a dart.”

Yue Xingwen: “It’s also the first time I’ve used a dictionary to smash people.” 

They smiled bitterly as they looked at each other.

“What’s junior brother’s next plan?” Liu Zhaoqing asked, “Do you want to go out and find other examinees?”

Yue Xingwen replied, “We know too little about this library system at present, so why don’t we inquire about the situation of other students?”

Liu Zhaoqing also thought the same. “En, let’s move together.”