Chapter 37: The Final Clue
Damn! Hearing these words, I couldn't help but let out a long sigh of relief... So this guy had a plan all along! You should have said so earlier, causing me to worry for nothing. Now I at least have a companion, even if he's not very reliable, but in dangerous times we can still support each other, which is better than nothing.
"Then starting from now, we're partners!" Xiaorui symbolically extended his hand. No choice, I would temporarily cooperate with this guy, and I shook his hand firmly.
"Alright, now that we're considered partners, we need to be open-minded. Anything we couldn't say earlier, we don't need to hide now!" Xiaorui laughed, his words seeming to carry some hidden meaning.
This guy isn't stupid! It seems he never really believed a word I said before. Well, since we're already partners, it doesn't hurt to tell him.
"Actually, I did hide part of the information from you earlier, and that was about the virus sample!"
"Dr. Koro, before he died, said that the virus sample is here in this small hospital, but he spoke intermittently, so it's unclear in which corner of the hospital."
I told him the truth.
"Hehe! When I saw you looking around the hospital, I knew you must be searching for the sample, but you had no idea where it was."
Xiaorui smiled proudly: "Trying to fool me? Don't forget my name is 'Xiaorui'—'Rui' as in intelligent!"
"Alright, alright! You're impressive. So now, shouldn't we genuinely cooperate to find the sample together?"
Xiaorui was silent for a moment after hearing me: "Actually, before meeting you, I just came from upstairs, and I checked every corner, but I didn't find any samples or anything like that."
Damn, can you really foresee the future, knowing we need to find the sample even before we started?
"Enough, you merely searched roughly and don't know about the sample. Let's go upstairs and find it together!"
This hospital has four floors. We walked to the fourth floor, which, like the third floor, was white and also an inpatient department. Xiaorui and I exchanged a glance and started searching separately.
Opening the room door, everything inside was still in plain sight. But I still went in to search carefully. After a thorough search, I walked out somewhat disappointed.So what about this room? Walking to another ward, I was just about to go in when, huh? Why can't the doorknob turn? Could it be that someone locked it from the inside? If that's really the case, then there should be something behind the door. I was about to pick up the Thompson, but after thinking about it, to save bullets, I'll switch to a pistol. 'Bang bang!' After firing a few shots at the lock, it was deformed and popped open with a gentle push. 'What's going on?' Xiaorui from another spot came running when he heard the gunshots. 'Nothing, just can't get in... ouch! Who is this guy?' As I walked into the room, I almost tripped over something as soon as I stepped in. 'Who is this person? Is he still alive?' Behind the door sat a man, not knowing whether he was dead or alive. Squatting down to observe carefully, he had delicate skin, and was wearing large black-rimmed glasses on the bridge of his nose. The most striking thing was that he was wearing a white coat exactly like Colonel Bosch. 'Is this person still alive?' I patted his face, only to find that he was already pale as iron and had been dead for a while. Damn, a dead person, how unlucky! I quickly wiped my hands on the wall. Xiaorui also squatted to look at the man, somewhat puzzled: 'Yumen, don't you think this guy is really weird?' 'Weird? He's just a dead person, what's so strange... oh right, how did a dead person end up here?' Xiaorui's reminder made me freeze for a moment. In other CF modes, seeing a dead person is very normal, but this is the Biohazard mode! In Biohazard mode, it should be either a player or an infected bio-ghost. How could there be a dead body? Could it be that this person... 'Xiaorui, you...' Before I could finish, Xiaorui was already going through the corpse. After a while, he wiped his hands with his clothes: 'As expected, there are no wounds on this guy's body!' If there are no wounds, then how did he die? And if he's dead, he wouldn't have turned into a ghost. There's only one possibility! Xiaorui and I exchanged a glance and nodded—Game NPC!You can tell from the fact that this guy is dressed exactly like Dr. Koro that he must be the same kind of game NPC as that old guy. The old guy is already dead, and under his guidance, we arrived at the hospital, providing clues to players to complete tasks. This should be the mission of an NPC character.
Following the old guy's clues, we came to the hospital and found another NPC in the hospital. This must be part of the game's storyline. This character, who was killed by the game before even making an appearance, should provide us with some important clues just like Dr. Koro did.
At that moment, muttering "Om Difo", I started searching all over the dead body. Honestly, from childhood, we Chinese are most afraid of the dead. Even the bravest men can't help feeling uneasy around the dead. Although we know the character is just part of the story, touching his cold, stiff body still made me nervous.
"Huh? It seems like there's something in his hand!"
Xiao Rui suddenly noticed something. "Ah? Where?" Upon hearing him, I felt as if released from a great burden and quickly withdrew my hands.
The man's left hand was clenched tightly, and after struggling for a while, we finally pried it open. It was an ordinary note with the numbers: 77323. What does this mean?
"Maybe it's the password for something! It seems a lot of games like this kind of thing," Xiao Rui said.
"Yeah, that makes sense! By the way, let's look around other places; maybe we can find some other important clues." I was eager to leave the dead person's room.
After leaving the room, we searched every corner of the fourth floor but found no more clues. At this point, we both understood that the note left by the dead person was the most important and final clue.
But the question is, where does the password made up of those five numbers: 77323, belong?
"Xiao Rui, as you said, I think those five numbers should be the password to a safe, and that mysterious safe should contain our target... the biochemical sample!"
"Exactly, that's what I think too!"
Xiao Rui stroked his chin: "But we've searched the entire hospital, not even missing the toilets, and there's no unopened safe anywhere!"
The problem lies right there!In Dr. Kello's last words, he clearly said that the sample is in this hospital. But after searching for a long time, apart from that dead person's note, we couldn't find anything of value. So, where exactly did he put the virus sample in the hospital? Now, it's really baffling—could it be that the old man, even near death, wanted to play a trick on us? That doesn't make sense; in the game, the most important NPC wouldn't just appear briefly and then die! What the old man said must be true. The problem is, we don't know which corner of the hospital the safe used to protect the virus sample is hidden in. Xiao Rui was also confused and said, “Since what Dr. Kello said is correct, the sample must be in this hospital. But we've already searched everywhere, so where did he hide the safe?” ‘Where did he hide the safe?' Hmm?! Hearing this, a sudden flash of inspiration went through my mind, and I couldn't help but laugh: Heh heh, old man! I know where you hid the sample! “Hmm?” Xiao Rui was stunned and tapped his mouth in disbelief: “No way, are you smarter than me? Tell me!” “Tch! I despise your narcissism!” I looked at him disdainfully. “Alright, alright, I'm narcissistic! But let's put internal disagreements aside for now, and stop keeping secrets—just tell me.” “I'll ask you this: if you were Dr. Kello, according to his way of thinking, where would you hide something this important?” “Well…” Xiao Rui pondered for a moment and shook his head: “I'm not really sure; I don't know him that well.” I smiled. Actually, I don't know him very well either, but I've guessed where he would hide it: “Don't forget, in the game background, that old man was afraid of being discovered by you Guardians, so he deliberately built his secret base underground in Sector 13…” “So you mean…” Before I could finish, Xiao Rui exclaimed with delight, “The sample is also underground in the hospital!” I nodded: “Very likely!” “Ha, you're amazing! So what are we waiting for? Let's go to the hospital basement!” Having guessed the secret of the sample, we set off immediately.Previously, in order to carefully search for the samples, we went up layer by layer and didn't take the elevator. But this time, we directly got into the elevator and went down to the basement. Old Wan, keep your glasses on, wait for me! I will find the samples very soon, and we will be the ultimate winners of this game! (End of this chapter)