Chapter 3031: Forced Treatment
What exactly happened after the nurse entered the room, no one else knew. The nearby players only felt their perception being cut off, and after a moment, when they thought to check, the people in the next room had already disappeared.
The nurse, the patient, and the two players originally staying in that room had all vanished!
The players on Zong Lanzhi's side regrouped. They searched all the buildings except the office tower but found no trace of the missing two.
But at that moment, Xiao Yue's people told them the morgue door could be opened.
Zong Lanzhi rushed over. The door could be opened, but they didn't see Xie Xiao'an and the others who had entered earlier. They wanted to send some instruments in to investigate, but by now, most of their instruments and items were unusable, and even their perception abilities had been degraded.
"If we delay any longer, I'm afraid our abilities will also disappear," Liao Na said to Zong Lanzhi.
"Should we arrange for more people to enter the morgue?" Xiao Yue asked.
"There's no need," Zong Lanzhi said. "I trust Xie Xiao'an's abilities. Since she hasn't come out, there's no need for others to take the risk."
The group withdrew from the complex building.
Zong Lanzhi looked at Xiao Yue. "Although we're not acting together, if you find any clues, I hope we can still keep each other informed."
"Of course," Xiao Yue nodded.
The two groups naturally split up again.
Not long after, Sun Hexiao returned to tell Xiao Yue, "They really did change the duty roster. Besides delaying the night security patrol by half an hour, they also swapped out one of the nurses on duty. Probably trying to set a trap for us, and also testing whether the hospital will operate according to their wishes."
However, the duty roster that was rewritten again the next day told them that not only would the hospital not operate according to their wishes, but it would also impose the harshest punishment on those who broke the rules!
Zeng Guangyao, who had changed the night duty roster, was knocked out with a single injection and dragged directly into the experimental building. During this time, some players tried to rescue him, but when they encountered the security guards, the strength they had gained after evolution suddenly vanished. They were completely reduced to ordinary people, and a burly security guard could easily pin them down!
After three people were dragged away in succession, the others dared not act rashly, afraid that they would be dragged in themselves while trying to save others.
After the people were taken away, the long-haired nurse once again stood before the players, a strange smile on her face as she looked at them and said, "Treatment can begin today. For severe cases, you will be transferred to the experimental building for deep treatment."
She pointed at Zong Lanzhi. "You're first today."
Under the worried gazes of his companions, Zong Lanzhi went to the outpatient building.
The doctor he saw today was the same as yesterday—same appearance and features—but the feeling he gave off was completely different.
Zong Lanzhi became alert.
"Sit," Xu Huo gestured to the chair opposite him. "Relax. This is just the first treatment."
Zong Lanzhi instinctively tensed his muscles, but before his butt even touched the chair, he heard the person across from him say, "So tense. Do you need an auxiliary injection?"
"No need," Zong Lanzhi forced himself to relax. Meeting the gaze of the man behind the desk, he felt as if he was being seen through to the bone and skin.
Xu Huo smiled. "Since you're admitted to the hospital, it's best not to resist treatment. Good treatment results lead to early discharge."
"I will cooperate," Zong Lanzhi promised.
Xu Huo opened the paper record book in front of him and began to briefly inquire about his recent diet, sleep, and mood. When Zong Lanzhi said everything was fine, Xu Huo showed him the sleep records detected by the nurse.
"You didn't sleep very well last night," Xu Huo tapped the record book. "There's no need to lie about this."
Zong Lanzhi knew that arguing was useless, so he went along with it. "I occasionally have dreams, but I think that's normal."
"A person's experiences in youth can affect their entire life. Even if the memories fade, when they encounter hardship and disaster, those memories will manifest in the form of dreams."
"Did you dream about your father last night?"
Zong Lanzhi's expression changed slightly, his eyes sharp as he looked at Xu Huo. "Isn't it inappropriate to discuss this topic now?"
"Diseases don't disappear just because you avoid them," Xu Huo said. "You often think back to him. Do you regret killing him, or do you feel you didn't handle it well at the time?"
Zong Lanzhi let out a cold laugh, and a layer of transparent energy surged around him. Although this energy was invisible to the naked eye, it caused the air around him to twist slightly, as if some kind of refraction was occurring. As this energy spread, the temperature in the room also rose.
"Snap." A hand landed on his shoulder. Zong Lanzhi's vision blurred and then cleared, and he realized the person at the desk had disappeared... Who was standing behind him was obvious.
The energy around him gradually retracted, and cold sweat began to seep from Zong Lanzhi's forehead. He dared not move, not even turn his eyes, until the hand on his shoulder lightly patted him again.
"A patient's lack of cooperation can cause some difficulties in treatment," Xu Huo said, walking out from behind him and sitting back down with a smile. "But it can be overcome."
Zong Lanzhi's face twitched slightly, as if he instinctively wanted to force a fake smile, but after two attempts, he gave up in vain.
The rest of the treatment process became somewhat blurry in Zong Lanzhi's memory. He was very alert and didn't want to be led by the nose by Xu Huo, but often, when he least expected it, he would suddenly fall into some kind of verbal trap.
At this moment, he finally understood that between mental evolvers, there was not only a difference in talent but also a huge gap in experience. Starting mental evolution didn't mean it was easier to learn mental-related skills and knowledge—it required a massive amount of practice!
Zong Lanzhi even suspected he had been hypnotized during the process, because as soon as he returned to the first inpatient building, he saw the father he had personally killed among the patients.
He found an opportunity when the man was alone and killed him again—but this patient only begged, pleaded, and was cowardly and incompetent, nothing like his father's violent and greedy nature. When he killed him, Zong Lanzhi felt no pleasure, only a sense of absurdity.
That man had been dead for so many years, yet he could still have such a huge impact on his emotions... If he had known, he should have dumped his ashes in a cesspit instead of burying them under the doorstep and trampling on them every day!
"Hah!" Zong Lanzhi folded the patient's body and stuffed it into a cabinet, then straightened his clothes and walked out of the ward as if nothing had happened.
"Brother Zong?" a player walked over. Zong Lanzhi reflexively slapped him.
The slapped player spun half a turn on the spot, then looked back with shock and grievance. "Why did you hit me again? I haven't lost anything this time!"