CH 9

Gu Yi calmed his emotions and began to deduce again.

(Deduction begins!)

(You close your eyes.)

(You carefully summarize the clues you just obtained.)

(The Deer-headed person does not base their selection on whether someone has their eyes open or closed, but if one were to make eye contact with them, they would likely be chosen by the Deer-headed person.)

(In addition, there is a group of Pig-headed people who have been accompanying the Deer-headed person on the tour.)

(The merchants in the hospital, such as the chefs who sell food and the shop owners in the stores, all wear pig masks.)

(Therefore, the hospital is involved in the business of buying and selling living human beings! Those Deer-headed people are clearly selecting merchandise. And the Pig-headed people are sales consultants who help the hospital buy and sell living humans.)

(Doctors only have to burn the patients if they can't cure them, which is enough to prove that in their eyes, patients are just commodities and not living.)

(Except for patients, everyone else here is a monster, and humans are the commodities they buy and sell.)

(You believe that your reasoning is getting closer to part of the truth.)

(But it is not enough to reach the perfect custom clearance.)

(Why do monsters buy and sell humans? What do they do with them after they buy them? How did "I" became unspeakable in this world? What is the "illness" of the patients?)

(You do not rush to conclude; your top priority now is to find a way to avoid today's crisis and not be taken away by the Deer-headed person.)

(You close your eyes.)

(You hear the Deer-headed person passing by your window.)

(You stole a glance and saw the Deer-headed person leading the female patient away.)

(You tried to analyze the similarities between yourself and the female patient.)

(1. You both are patients.)

(2. The female patient's eyes were open when she slept, and so were yours.)

(3. You both are relatively good-looking.)

(You couldn't find any other similarities.)

(You silently recorded the female patient's bed number and decided to investigate her medical records later to gather more information.)

(Since you didn't have a plan at the moment, you decided to try a different approach.)

(You took out the fruit knife and attempted to break through the treatment pod from the inside.)

(You stabbed a slit in the pod.)

(You used the knife to slide between the seams of the pod door and broke the lock, but the knife also broke in the process.)

(You looked outside the window and saw that no one was paying attention to you. You used all your strength to push open the pod door.)

(You jumped out of the treatment pod.)

(The pod emitted an alarm.)

(You panicked and hid at the bottom of the pod.)

(A nurse came in to check, but she didn't see you.)

(You hid at the bottom of the pod and waited for the nurse to leave.)

(After a while, the broadcast started reporting news of your escape, and you saw security personnel searching for you outside the glass windows.)

(A burly man entered the treatment room.)

(He bent down, got on the ground, and locked eyes with you.)

(He was wearing an elephant mask.)

(You remembered the hint on the first note.)

("If you notice any equipment damage, please contact someone wearing an elephant mask for repairs immediately.")

(The elephant man was probably a hospital repairman.)

(He dragged you out from under the pod and smashed your head with a hammer.)

(Your vision turned blood red.)

(You died.)

Gu Yi frowned as he closed his eyes.

Being smashed to death twice in a row left him feeling frustrated.

Staying here and eventually being taken away by the Deer-headed man was a dead-end. He didn't dare gamble with his luck.

"There must be another way!"

Gu Yi's eyes brightened as he came up with a new plan.

(Deduction begins.)

(You were lying in the treatment pod, holding a fruit knife.)

(You forcefully cut your own neck.)

(Blood gushed out.)

(You gritted your teeth, banged on the pod door, and shouted for help.)

(The nurse heard the commotion and rushed over to lift you out of the pod.)

(Your consciousness became hazy.)

(You felt like you had cut too deeply.)

(You were pushed onto an operating table, where doctors performed emergency treatment on you.)

(Your vision turned black.)

(You lost consciousness.)

(When you woke up again, you were in the ICU.)

(The room only had one bed, and it was empty. You didn't know how long you had been in this room.)

(You're panicking inside.)

(You climb off the sickbed and feel your body suddenly become lighter.)

(You see another person identical to yourself behind you.)

(You scream loudly, and your pupils dilate.)

(You're scared to death.)

(The deduction ends.)

"Why did this happen?"

Despairingly, Gu Yi covers his eyes.

Self-harm can attract nurses to send you to the emergency room, but he was unconscious due to serious injuries and was unknowingly sent to the ICU.

The ICU has a rule that each ward must accommodate two people.

Because of this, another version of himself split off after he was admitted to the ward alone, and then was frightened to death.

Gu Yi grits his teeth and rubs his temples.

He must have missed something!

Think about it, why didn't the "being scared to death by his own doppelgänger" ending trigger when he first entered the dungeon while there was no second bed in the ward?

"Let's try again."

Gu Yi closed his eyes and started the deduction again.

This was his last chance to make progress!

(Deduction begins!)

(You close your eyes and recall every small detail of the first time you entered the dungeon.)

("Each ICU must accommodate two people.")

(This information may not necessarily mean that there actually have to be two people living in the ward, as long as it can create the illusion of two people living together, the rule can still be deceived.)

(At the beginning, although there was no second bed in the ward, there were many other people's clothes on the floor, perhaps this was the reason he didn't die.)

(At the moment, you haven't gained any more clues, and can only make such a judgment.)

(When you self-harmed for the first time, you cut too deeply, which caused you to faint before you even got to the operating table.)

(You take a deep breath and stab yourself in the chest with the knife.)

(Blood stains your clothes.)

(You cry out for help.)

(Nurses rush to save you and take you to the emergency room.)

(The doctors try to save you, and you remain conscious.)

(Doctor: Why would you try to kill yourself when you're perfectly fine? What's troubling you?)

(You: Don't give me anesthesia.)

(Doctor: How can we operate without anesthesia?)

(You: I don't want to fall asleep!)

(Doctor: Don't worry about him, give him anesthesia.)

(You are fitted with a mask.)

(Your vision goes black.)

(You fall asleep.)