“I can’t pretend I didn’t hear such slander from you.”
Lu Bai pondered for two seconds and said, “Don’t assume their species.”
Wang Ting: “???”
“I’m not lying to you; these guys just look human.”
Lu Bai put on flip-flops and sat down opposite the hospital room where Yao Yi was.
As for what he said, he actually hadn’t fooled Wang Ting at all.
In a certain sense, death fighters are essentially the same as this kind of parasitic organism.
Wang Ting didn’t understand, but the good thing about parasitic organisms is that they don’t have humanity’s intense curiosity that insists on getting to the bottom of things.
It shook its eyeball noncommittally, then continued modifying the two corpses.
Hospital room 6020 next to 6019.
The blinds were fully drawn down, making the interior of the hospital room pitch black.
The patient on that hospital bed had died miserably, and even the accompanying family member hadn’t escaped the misfortune of being killed; a faint bloody smell permeated the hospital room.
Several figures sat around together, discussing in barely audible voices.
“Hm?”
“Movement again.”
“How many this time?”
“Sounds like footsteps from just one.”
“Didn’t succeed?”
“No, ‘Smiling Face’ is quite formidable; no wonder he dares to wear the title so brazenly.”
“When do we make our move?”
“Don’t rush; wait a bit more. Three or four o’clock is when people are most mentally exhausted…”
……
Inpatient Department, fifth floor.
The warm incandescent lights in the corridor had been replaced by dim and desolate nighttime lights.
At the nurse station, the on-duty nurse was slumped over the desk; a terrifying wound was visible on her neck, and the stack of documents under her arm was soaked in blood, with much of the blood that had flowed onto the desk already crusted over.
Sizzle~
Changhu pressed the cigarette butt into the nurse’s thigh to extinguish it, exhaling an irregular smoke ring from his mouth.
“Interesting; it seems the one who took my first place is that ‘Smiling Face’.”
His expression was chilling cold, like a hungry beast surveying its prey in its territory: “Once I deal with these wastes in the building, I’ll come find you; don’t disappoint me.”
……
Below the apartment building directly opposite the Inpatient Department.
Xiao Xueyin panted weakly a few times, pushed up the sunglasses on the bridge of his nose that were speckled with bloodstains, crossed the road, and headed straight
By reason, the inpatient department should already prohibit passage at this time, but at this very moment, that door for entering and exiting is wide open, with a pile of lock-picking tools casually thrown on the ground.
The first-floor hall was silent. Although the hall was still lit with bright warm-colored lights, the nurse station in the center of the hall was empty.
Xiao Xueyin did not take the emergency passage, but instead turned and took the elevator, seemingly not worried at all that the movement he made would be too loud and lead to him being discovered.
He casually scanned the situation inside the elevator. The surveillance probe in the upper left corner had been destroyed, though it wasn’t clear exactly when it had been done.
Presumably, there shouldn’t be any security guard on duty in the monitoring room here either.
Whether it was entering the Inpatient Department or destroying the Surveillance Cameras along the way, in a certain sense, it could all be considered as the predecessors planting trees and the later generations enjoying the shade.
Ding dong~
The ascending elevator stopped on the third floor. The elevator door opened, and a yawning nurse walked into the elevator while complaining and holding a stack of medical records: “Seriously, why isn’t Liu Jie replying to messages…”
Xiao Xueyin politely asked: “Which floor are you going to?”
“Fifth Floor, thanks.”
The nurse habitually replied with thanks, but after a moment she suddenly reacted.
Why would anyone enter the Inpatient Department at this hour?!
However, before she could even turn her head, a hand knife struck the back of her neck.
The nurse rolled her eyes and collapsed limply to the ground.
Xiao Xueyin timely intervened to support her, holding her body and slowly placing her on the ground.
……
2:30 a.m.
[Ding!]
[Points +3, Current Points: 12, Current Rank 1/276]
Just as the system prompt sound indicated, after this period of time passed, three more corpses appeared in the hospital room.
At this moment, the bloody smell in the hospital room was so thick it couldn’t be covered up anymore. Including the previous cat and dog mask duo, there were a total of five corpses piled up like a stack of arhats beside Yao Yi’s hospital bed.
Wang Ting skillfully finished modifying the corpses and reminded, “There’s almost no space left to put them.”
“No problem, just put any more on my hospital bed.”
Lu Bai replied with a chuckle.
Anyway, these were just minor details; squeezing them in would always free up some space for the corpses.
What he cared about more now was the number of death fighters coming to him—it seemed not as many as he had imagined.
Some clues could be seen from the current rank on the system panel.
The number of remaining death fighters had dropped sharply, so it was certain that many death fighters were fiercely fighting each other, and tonight’s battle situation was exceptionally intense.
But the problem was, hardly any death fighters had come to Yao Yi’s hospital room.
Could it be that the death fighters had started teaming up to hunt lone wolves again?
“Though I don’t understand the principle behind this, with so many corpses piled up in the hospital room, it will affect efficiency to some extent, right?”
Wang Ting considered it from Lu Bai’s angle for a moment and felt her conclusion was correct.
“Can’t say it that way; these guys have some subtle differences from you all.”
Lu Bai organized his words and explained, “For them, survival is not the first priority.”
“How could there be such creatures? They’d go extinct too easily.”
Wang Ting had finally accepted the absurd notion that they looked human, had human bodies, and human thoughts, but weren’t human.
And now she learned these guys didn’t even care about death—this was simply unbelievable for parasitic organisms.
Lu Bai shrugged. “At least for now, that’s the fact.”
At that moment.
Creak~
The slightly ajar hospital room door was quietly pushed open.
Seeing another fish take the bait, Wang Ting’s two weird eyeballs immediately perked up. “Get ready to act!”
“Why is it you?” Lu Bai raised an eyebrow.
Xiao Xueyin deliberately lowered his voice. “Long time no see.”
“What are you here for?”
Lu Bai sat cross-legged on the stool in front of the hospital bed, showing no intention of acting.
Xiao Xueyin conveniently closed the house door, walked up to Lu Bai seemingly without any defenses, and extended his right hand. “Pleasant cooperation?”
“‘Node’ goes to whom?”
“As usual.”
Neither of them found the proposal abrupt.
After all, in the previous deathmatch duel, neither had backstabbed the other until the end, so they already had a foundation of cooperation.
It wasn’t just Xiao Xueyin—even if the death fighter who came over to propose cooperation at this moment was Liu Yue, Lu Bai wouldn’t refuse either.
He smiled. “I’m fine with it, but you coming straight over like this will somewhat affect my fishing.”
Xiao Xueyin glanced at the several corpses piled in the room and figured that was the reason.
“Alright, then I’ll go hide in a nearby hospital room.”
Lu Bai pointed at the wall beside them.
“Go to the adjacent room 6020; I remember that hospital room only has one patient.”