Chapter 506: The Wonders of Mental-Type Instances
[You have entered the "Seventeenth Hospital" and are automatically participating in this E-rank random instance.]
[Background: This was once a world-famous mental sanatorium. The hospital cured over a hundred mental patients using a unique set of psychological treatment methods, including some celebrities who later shone brilliantly at art festivals. Everyone who walked out of the Seventeenth Hospital praised it endlessly, calling it the most perfect hospital in the world.]
[However, after the death of Dr. Finland, who founded it, the legendary psychological treatment methods disappeared, and the hospital gradually declined into a second-rate facility. But upholding Dr. Finland's virtue of healing the sick, the Seventeenth Hospital still freely takes in patients without family or friends, providing them with treatment. The only downside is that most of the treatment facilities here are outdated.]
[But that's not a problem, because for patients who have lost the ability to care for themselves, the hospital is not a bad place to stay. Perhaps due to the hospital's unique founding, patients occasionally cure themselves and leave, claiming they met Dr. Finland and, under his guidance, glimpsed their own inner selves. Outside inquiries have yielded no results, and it can only be called a medical miracle.]
[Today, another batch of patients has been sent to the hospital.]
[Instance Tasks: ① Receive at least one psychological treatment session. Daily consultations are from 8:00 AM to 12:00 PM.]
[② Kill one doctor.]
[③ Find the hospital's main gate.]
[Players can exit the instance upon completing any one of these tasks.]
[Please note: The hospital does not welcome patients with overly active imaginations.]
As Xu Huo received the notification that his instance authorization had been approved, the ship was covered by a building descending from the sky.
Because the battle between Bai Kou and the two members of the Eerie Sound Knights had intensified, the eighth floor where Captain Matt and the others were located soon couldn't hold up either. But before they could evacuate, the building crushed the upper floors, passed through the central main axis, and landed directly on the fourth and fifth floors spread out below.
This instance building was much larger than the ship. Under normal circumstances, the ship couldn't support it. Fortunately, countless giant octopus corpses floating in the sea bore part of the gravity, and together with the spread-out ship, they firmly held the instance building in place.
Of course, most of the ship was pressed into the seawater, but because it was an item and the central main axis hadn't been damaged, it didn't sink.
Matt and the others were forced down to the fifth floor and, like the other players on the ship, simultaneously received notifications of entering a random instance.
"An E-rank instance?" Ran Ying raised an eyebrow slightly. "The game hasn't intervened in this sea area, and it throws an E-rank instance at us right away?"
"Just an E-rank instance." Yu Guo and the tattooed strongman Whale came over to these people. The former waved his hand and produced a cannon mount five meters tall. "One shot and it's gone!"
Although the game clearly stipulated that advanced players entering low-level instances would be punished for destroying them, if it was a random instance, this rule was more lenient.
Unlike fixed instances at stations, the holders of random instances often had no distinction between black and white. Some were even opened specifically to kill players. The game turned a blind eye to this, so even if an instance was destroyed, the game wouldn't interfere much. And if the instance's nature was deemed criminal, the player who destroyed it might even be rewarded.
Yu Guo's situation was different. He was already a wanted criminal—a man with many fleas who didn't fear itching. What did destroying a low-level instance matter?
The cannon mount he took out was one of the items from his transaction with the Rongxin Group. He patted the cannon body and said to Vinson Maney, "Perfect chance to test the power of this new energy cannon."
Vinson Maney and the others naturally had no objections. Matt even politely said, "Then I'll trouble Mr. Yu Guo."
However, an awkward situation occurred. Yu Guo activated the cannon mount, but the energy concentration device showed no reaction at all.
"Is it broken?" the freckled noble teased.
Yu Guo glared darkly at Bai Kou, who had landed ahead. "You have an S-rank temporal-spatial item on you."
The true name of this new energy cannon was the Space Decomposition Ray Tower. Its real function wasn't to cause a massive explosion but to concentrate rays to destroy space barriers, achieving the effect of destroying space. It could be used to break instances and some temporal-spatial items.
Those who broke the rules must be followers of the rules. The Space Decomposition Ray Tower was also affected by temporal-spatial items. Like other lower-level temporal-spatial items, if a high-level temporal-spatial item was present in the same space, it would be affected.
In response to Yu Guo's accusation, Bai Kou didn't deny it. She sneered and said, "What's wrong? The stuff you stole doesn't work anymore?"
"You're a Platinum Eye tracker, aren't you?" Yu Guo clapped his hands, and countless syringes flew out from the hospital environment that had already transformed, attacking Bai Kou from all directions!
Bai Kou waved her hand, and a large number of syringes fell. At the same time, she lightly tapped her foot. Although she remained standing in the same spot, the distance between them suddenly widened. To the naked eye, it looked like the floor was growing, similar to Captain Matt's item.
But neither items nor instance spaces grew out of nowhere, so Captain Matt said, "Everyone be careful. This is a mental-type random instance."
Among those present, Ashis Werner, the curly-haired noble Karg Helta, the noble female player Mona Doug, and the tattooed strongman Whale were A-rank players. Yu Guo, Matt, Ran Ying, the freckled noble Lynn Oz, and three other nobles were B-rank players. The rest varied in level, but almost no one thought an E-rank instance would be difficult.
"Mental-type instances are different from ordinary random instances," Ashis said. "Usually, the difficulty of this type of instance isn't determined by the instance's own rank but by the holder's mental strength. The stronger the holder's mental strength, the harder the instance. It's no longer a simple E-rank instance."
He had already judged Bai Kou to be an A-rank player. How could she be messing around with an E-rank instance? She must have undergone Super Evolution in the mental aspect herself, using a low-rank instance as an aid.
"Can't we just break through here directly?" Vinson Maney frowned. "The instance space is limited in size. A forced breakthrough should get us out."
The problem wasn't just being temporarily trapped. The instance descending meant this sea area had been pulled into the game. Players inside the instance who completed the game tasks could use their tickets to leave. There were still so many White Bracelets alive on the ship.
"Let's try." Ashis's temporal-spatial item couldn't be used either, but he conjured a metal cube the size of a human head and tossed it forward. "Forceful strike!"
(Chapter End)