The door to the activity area was lit with a faint light that could only cover the door.
The guard who was guarding the thief unlocked the door and peeked into the activity room.
The activity room was flickering with lights, vaguely revealing a rather spacious space. A TV with twinkling snowflakes and a fluorescent vending machine seemed to be vaguely visible.
Ta-ta-ta-
The vast activity area has not yet been explored, and deep in the dark corridor behind him, tonight's first guest stumbles forward.
Lu Li recognized the silhouette that walked to the edge of the light, Adang Fuya. At night, she seemed like an outline shaped by mist, nightmare and darkness, like a reflection in the water or a group of shadows.
"Can I come in?" Adangfuya asked.
"Sorry, you can only come in if you have the qualifications."
Lu Li rejected Adangfuya, who was obviously unqualified, and watched as she strangely returned to the darkness.
At the corner where Adangfuya disappeared, another silhouette emerged.
"Do you need help?"
Lu Li didn't have the ability to distinguish who was qualified and who was not. So he might as well just block all patients from entering - it was just for one night anyway.
"The activity area is under maintenance tonight, you can come back tomorrow."
It pushed open the door and ducked into the activity area.
Lu Li, who had not accepted any commissions, had no choice but to leave temporarily. After confirming that the door of Ward 213 was also closed, he went straight to the door of the activity area - the day passed so quickly that when Lu Li came back, it seemed as if he had just left.
Not long after, the second patient came.
"You are just a guard, don't know what you shouldn't know."
In Ward 208, the gatekeeper looked at Lu Li mockingly, "You let in someone who shouldn't be let in..."
"Why do you ask?"
Still the same rhetoric.
At the same time, Lu Li was being punished for not sleeping for two nights: dusk came earlier today than yesterday.
"A horrific punishment that you never want to face..." The gatekeeper's tone gradually turned cold, and his leaden eyes stared intently at Lu Li: "Crying in despair, screaming in pain -"
Lu Li accepted the gatekeeper's kindness and the key chain: "You can tell me which patients are eligible and which are not."
"Sorry, you are not qualified."
Lu Li asked them in turn using this sentence.
On the bright side, the night should go by faster.
"What will happen to me?"
The gatekeeper was very taboo about this, and Lu Li recalled the phantom silhouettes.
When Lu Li found Adang Fuya, her answer was similar to what Lu Li imagined, "I rested after dark and never left."
The patients had no idea what happened last night——
The slowly opened door hit the wall and made a soft sound.
In ward 208 in the early morning, Lu Li talked to the gatekeeper.
"The activity area is under maintenance tonight, you can come back tomorrow."
Most of the ward doors were still locked, even the worms in ward 209 had their doors locked - but the door of 212, which Lu Li never had a chance to visit, was not locked.
And there's another piece of good news - he can continue to wander around the hospital briefly at night.
Lu Li asked Kate and Crow Mask respectively. The former had no idea, while the latter told Lu Li not to mind his own business.
Click——
Lu Li, who had not slept for two consecutive nights, asked calmly.
Lu Li said to the Pig King's shadow, who mumbled something and left.
"You failed."
"Stop getting into trouble."
Blood Spirit remained silent, while Spider Princess talked to her six arthropods, tilting her head in confusion with snot.
Lu Li, who was wearing a guard uniform and was unfamiliar with his work, might have blocked patients who were qualified to enter, or he might have let in patients who were not qualified to enter.
The third patient felt strange to Lu Li. It was like a wall, with his head pressed against the ceiling, and his strong body with sharp edges. But as he got closer, Lu Li found that it was a rock outline made of mottled and faded limestone.
Lu Li could only rely on observation to determine whether they were qualified to enter the activity area.
…
A rotten, stooped old ghoul with slender claws and a bloody snout; a figure with disheveled hair and six spider limbs; and a thin girl with unnatural twitching and squirming movements.
Passing by the Pig King's bed - he was also one of the patients who wanted to enter the activity area last night. Lu Li returned to his ward first, saw that the calendar turned to "11", and then went to find Adang Fuya.
Especially those patients who should have been discharged from the hospital started to appear one after another. Mildred Hempley, Dog Meat, Evil Fall... It seemed that the activity area had an unspeakable attraction to these shadowy wheelhouses.
Little Linna left without attacking Lu Li. Not long after, a silhouette appeared around the corner again.
Colors gradually appeared in the mist outside the window, and no more patients entered - those patients who entered seemed to have disappeared and never came out. Lu Li stared at the activity area shrouded in darkness and silence, locked the door and left.
"I want to go in."
Kate and Crow Mask are obviously not among the "qualified" - their phantoms last night are not eligible to enter the activity area.
Lu Li can easily correspond to patient lists through their characteristics.
"I succeeded."
"...Eligible patients are not admitted either."
"——But I decided to give you another chance."
Shortly after opening the activity area door, a strange shadow patient appeared.
Lu Li knew many of the patients, and some were strangers to them, but they all invariably showed their indifference to Lu Li - they only thought that Lu Li was a guard, a profession, and a symbol, rather than an acquaintance they talked to during the day.
There was no dialogue from beginning to end, and Lu Li did not stop them.
[212: Blood Spirit; Spider Princess; Snot]
Dawn breaks.
Are they really patients of this hospital?
He suddenly threw the keychain returned by Lu Li back to him.
The shadow of the tentacles squirmed dragging the outline, and gradually it became clear, and an outline emerged that should not be here, and should not be this image - Little Lina in the form of a living tree.
The fist is its certificate.
"I can also guard the door for you." The gatekeeper replied bitterly.
After that, patients kept appearing. He never knew that the hospital would be so busy at night——
"Who are those patients who want to enter the activity area?" Lu Li ignored his sarcasm.
Lu Li, wearing a security uniform, stood outside the door and observed the ward. The three patients in the ward were observing him.
"But patients who were not eligible were not able to enter the activity area."
…
This was undoubtedly a trick, but it did not break the rules. Even the seemingly harsh gatekeeper could not scold Lu Li harshly: "Receive your reward."
Lu Li rejected Little Lina and observed her at this moment - like shadows and mist, her body was mottled and faded, like a shadow.
What are those faded silhouettes like shadows?
"How much do you know about the activity area?"
Lu Li had almost no time to gather information from other patients, so he sent the wheelchair-bound girl back to the ward and walked into the corridor in the evening shadows.
The gatekeeper took back his keys and uniforms, as well as his right to explore the night.
"I allow you to visit the activity area tonight."
Lu Li was not happy about this because he suddenly remembered that he did not have a flashlight to survive the night.
He needs a flashlight to enter the activity area, but he has to enter the activity area to get the flashlight.
