Chapter 3025: Each Goes Their Own Way
"He was always a murderous madman. Who would have any hope for him?" the Knife-Wound Player said.
That was the way of speaking, but in truth, most people hadn't thought it would come to this before they arrived. If Xu Huo took them into an instance, he would most likely bring them out safely. Hadn't he also rescued those trapped in Hai City back then? At that time, whether from a national or personal perspective, it hadn't been a good time to enter an instance. It was simply that Xu Huo felt those hundreds of thousands of trapped ordinary people were important.
Since he could make a choice between the lives of hundreds of thousands and the unknown risks the entire nation would face under those circumstances, it showed he valued the people in front of him more than treating human lives as mere numbers to be weighed.
Someone like that probably wouldn't drag them into an instance just to kill them all... but now, listening to Xiao Yue, it seemed like he had lost control?
"If he's really mentally unstable, what will happen to District 014?" Zeng Guangyao couldn't help but ask.
If he's mentally unstable, he definitely won't think about not harming his own people. District 014 will be the first to suffer!
"You still have the energy to worry about others? Worry about yourself," the Knife-Wound Player said irritably. "We don't even know if we can get through this current situation."
"Don't be so disheartened," Meng Junyan chimed in with his usual knack for saying the wrong thing. "With so many people heading to the underworld together, the road will be lively!"
Xiao Yue's forehead veins were about to burst. She glared fiercely at him, "If you can't speak properly, say less. In an instance, no one will always put up with you!"
Meng Junyan shrugged and rubbed his belly, "I don't think I'm missing anything."
Those words made several people who had "cut open" their bellies twitch their faces.
But before they could come up with a plan, a player who had been keeping watch outside suddenly walked in stiffly, stared at the people inside, and said, "I think I'm missing something..."
Before he could finish the second half of his sentence, Jiang Ke rushed forward in one stride, swung his arm, and delivered a loud slap.
The slapped person's face immediately swelled, but he didn't wake up. He stood there like a wooden post and continued, "I think I'm missing something."
Jiang Ke gave him another slap, evening out both sides.
But the slapped person still didn't respond and repeated once more, "I think I'm missing something."
Jiang Ke took a deep breath, "What are you missing?"
"Maybe benevolence, righteousness, propriety, wisdom, and trust. Or maybe a conscience."
As soon as he finished speaking, the person woke up, grimacing and holding his cheeks, "Who ambushed me!"
Jiang Ke was speechless.
"So getting beaten is inevitable," Xiao Yue also touched her own face. "Don't overthink it. Let's focus on the main task."
The night was long. They couldn't really stay in the ward and sleep. Since no matter how they combined their actions, something would go wrong, they might as well each rely on their own abilities.
Zong Lanzhi and Xiao Yue's groups split up.
Although splitting up was unwise in most cases, they had many people. Three were missing, twelve were trapped, and there were still dozens left.
Both instances of missing personnel overlapped with the positions of the night patrol security guards. This was a good sign for the players. The security guards' patrol times served as a delayed warning for the man-eating monster's activity. As long as they didn't enter the building the guard was about to patrol before they appeared, they'd be fine.
But to clear the instance, they still needed to figure out what the man-eating monster actually was.
However, everyone who had seen it with their own eyes had gone missing. They couldn't guarantee they'd survive if they went themselves. So they needed bait.
The bait naturally couldn't be their own people, but others weren't fools either and wouldn't fall for it. So both sides tacitly abandoned the first clearance task for now and focused on the second and third tasks.
The morgue was currently inaccessible, so they could only search the hospital to see if they could find the "invisible prison" or find the person who had mysteriously disappeared earlier, since they might have entered the "invisible prison."
Walking through the corridor of the Second Inpatient Building, Sun Hexiao spoke quietly to Xiao Yue, "I've heard of Zong Lanzhi's style. He only cares about results, not methods. If the other two clearance tasks make no progress, he might make a move against us."
Xiao Yue's face was cold and dark, "Fortunately, everyone has seen the attendance sheet for the Outpatient Building. No one will fall for it."
"Attendance sheets aren't set in stone," Sun Hexiao said. "I secretly asked a nurse for a new attendance sheet earlier."
He showed the paper, "I asked. The attendance sheets for medical staff and security guards change every three days."
"Three days?" Xiao Yue looked it over and passed it around. "Why does the hospital's attendance sheet change so frequently?"
That was unreasonable.
But Sun Hexiao just smiled, "Whether it's reasonable or not, I asked the question, and the nurse went along with it. So it becomes true."
Xiao Yue narrowed her eyes, "You want to make a fake attendance sheet?"
"I have no intention of harming others. After all, we're all in the same boat. But if they make the first move, we can't be blamed," Sun Hexiao clearly had this plan.
Xiao Yue didn't plan to stop him either. When it came down to life and death, of course it was better to survive yourself.
"Wouldn't that provoke them?" a female player named Zheng Zhixuan said. "That group has some hidden talents, many super evolvers. If it comes to a fight, we won't have the upper hand."
"Besides, every move we make is under Mr. Xu's watchful eye. What if he doesn't like us scheming against each other?"
Everyone fell silent. That was a problem. Whether they could survive didn't just depend on the instance's difficulty, but also on Xu Huo's attitude.
"Forget it," Sun Hexiao said first. "Since our district's hero came to teach us a lesson, bowing our heads and taking the beating is the right thing to do."
Xiao Yue was about to say something when she suddenly saw Meng Junyan, who was walking behind and looking bored, casually open a ward door. Before she could stop him, he walked inside.
Probably a bit overwhelmed by the frustration, she immediately strode over to call him out, but when she reached the door, she found no one inside!
Meng Junyan was gone!
The nearby players were stunned. They had only looked away for a moment, and such a big person had disappeared?
"What just happened?" Xiao Yue immediately asked the people nearby.
None of them had a clue. Only one person said, "I think I felt a spatial fluctuation just now, but it was very faint. The power fluctuations within the instance area are uneven, and many things we imagine come with their own energy, making them hard to identify immediately."
In fact, most of the time, they couldn't tell what was real. What they saw might not be real, and what they felt might not be real either.
But the touch and vision were so vivid. Over time, with more attempts, they became increasingly unable to trust themselves.