Chapter 999: Different Areas

Seeing that bizarre giant mushroom person, even Franca, a veteran gamer, felt novelty and horror.

Mom, what kind of monster is this?

As expected of something derived from the psychological shadow of a great existence; I don't know if it comes from Mr. Fool or the Celestial Worthy...

While such thoughts flashed, Franca and Jenna tacitly separated to both sides, one hiding in the shadows, the other concealing her figure.

Luo Shan hadn't cooperated with them in Beyonder battles, and it was her first time encountering a monster without a barrier, and this wasn't the "Shaman's" territory, so she was briefly at a loss.

She instinctively turned her body, wanting to run back to the hall just now, her speed so fast that she left an afterimage in place.

However, she clearly chose the wooden double doors behind her, but was shocked to find herself rapidly approaching that giant mushroom person, blood-red and mixed with white patterns.

At the same time, Franca detached herself from the shadows.

She felt the shadow she was hiding in had weirdly come alive, as if wanting to control her and erode her.

The next second, she and Luo Shan both saw the giant mushroom person suddenly expand and grow larger, condensing a magma greatsword burning with pale blue flames in its hand.

The giant mushroom person closed the distance in one step and slashed down with the greatsword that seemed to be condensed from red-hot magma.

Franca didn't dodge backward, but instead shot forward, lowered her body, and before the magma greatsword could slash down, she stuck to the scorching heat wave and darted to the side of the mushroom person.

Jenna's body quickly outlined itself at the ceiling position, holding a brass-colored revolver in her hand, aiming at the giant mushroom person's head.

Bang!

The giant mushroom person slashed at the inexperienced Luo Shan, shattering this "Painter" into pieces, like a mirror.

The "Mirror Substitute" that Jenna and Franca had made for Luo Shan finally came in handy.

And that magma greatsword didn't stop after shattering Luo Shan, but slammed heavily into the corridor floor, creating pale blue sulfur fireballs.

Rumble!

Jenna had just pulled the trigger, shooting a bright yellow bullet at the giant mushroom person's head, when she was swallowed by the chain-reaction-like explosion.

More than half of the corridor, including Franca and the giant mushroom person itself, was also affected by the explosion created by more than a dozen sulfur fireballs together.

Franca and Jenna passively triggered the "Mirror Substitute," their bodies first becoming thin, then appearing with cracks, and finally crumbling into fragments.

When the explosion wind in the narrow environment subsided, the figures of Franca, Jenna, and Luo Shan were outlined at the position where the giant mushroom person had originally stood, which was the end of this corridor, next to the other wooden double doors.

They saw the giant mushroom person's head dented by a small half, flowing with dark red blood, white mycelium, and tiny spores, and saw its body also torn by the explosion with large wounds, inside which were both mycelium and flesh.

As flesh squirmed and mycelium grew, the giant mushroom person's wounds quickly recovered as before.

Seeing this, Franca felt her scalp tingle, turned her body, pushed open the doors, and rushed out of the corridor.

She felt that fighting in this narrow environment wasn't very favorable for them, and the terrifying mushroom person with exaggerated self-healing ability and explosive means was clearly more in its element!

Therefore, she had to escape here; one was to try to get rid of the giant mushroom person, and the other was to find a scene more suitable for the "Witch" and "Painter" to fight.

Jenna didn't hesitate and followed Franca closely.

Luo Shan, who thought she would die, was surprised that the "Mirror Substitute" really worked, and on the other hand, she had experience, choosing to imitate the actions of Franca and Jenna.

The three quickly passed through the opened doors and arrived at a new dim corridor.

Behind them, the two halves of the wooden doors swayed a few times and finally closed completely.

Franca, while moving forward, vigilantly observed whether the giant mushroom person had followed, only to find the area behind the door was dead silent, with no movement at all.

"Uh... Each type of psychological shadow only operates in a fixed area?" Franca slowed her pace and made a guess based on her experience and imagination.

Jenna nodded and looked around:

"Now what we need to be vigilant about is the psychological shadow of this area?"

"What psychological shadow?" Luo Shan looked puzzled.

"Monsters similar to the mushroom person just now." Franca explained simply.

Luo Shan's eyes turned slightly, and she blurted out:

"Monsters turned from Zhou Mingrui's psychological shadow?"

Very smart... Franca deliberated and said:

"It also includes the psychological shadow of evil forces."

Luo Shan was silent for two seconds and was about to say something else when she suddenly started coughing.

"Cough, cough, cough..." She paused and said, "Why do I feel like I suddenly got sick?"

"Disease"? Could that mushroom person just now also create occult pathogens? Franca and I are both "Pain Witches" and have a certain resistance to "disease" abilities; a short contact won't cause infection, but Luo Shan can't, and she has symptoms? Symptoms appeared very quickly; this isn't the level of Sequence 7... After Zhou Mingrui was stimulated, the power level of the dream city changed, and this started from the underground part of Dawn Hospital, and the outside world hasn't reflected it yet? Jenna vaguely understood the reason and took out a bottle of healing potion from her "Traveler's Bag."

She didn't rush to provide treatment for Luo Shan, thinking and asking:

"Can you draw special medicine for yourself?"

Even if the medicine drawn has a duration, it can truly cure the disease—as long as the occult pathogens are wiped out before the effect disappears, it will work!

At this time, Franca also figured out the reason and muttered:

"That mushroom person was too terrifying, right?

"What kind of monster is this!"

Luo Shan already felt her forehead burning, she shook her head and said:

"I don't know what specific disease this is, and I don't know what medicine to draw to cure it."

"Then drink this." Jenna handed the healing potion in her hand to Luo Shan.

—She and Franca always maintained a state of having two bottles of healing potion on them; the ones consumed before either came from Lu Mian or were replenished by Lu Mian.

After experiencing the substitute dying for her, Luo Shan already trusted Franca and Jenna very much. She took the healing potion, twisted off the cap directly, and drank it in one gulp.

It was only ten or twenty seconds later when she blinked and said:

"It seems I'm fine, the illness is gone...

"Truly amazing!"

"Your ability to draw is also amazing." Franca said modestly, pointing to the end of the current corridor, "Let's continue forward, we must find the elevator lobby as soon as possible, otherwise I really don't know what we'll encounter..."

She still had lingering fears about that giant mushroom person.

Jenna and Luo Shan were the same, speeding up their pace and following behind Franca.

They had only walked two or three steps when the wooden double doors at the end of the corridor suddenly opened backward.

Franca and Jenna used "Invisibility" by reflex, and only then thought about how to help Luo Shan hide.

Luo Shan had already adapted a bit to the current situation, took a pencil, and drew a simple, inconspicuous, child-like doodle of a door on the side wall in just two seconds.

This door had no signs and wouldn't lead to any place. Luo Shan placed her palm on the handle and pulled it backward fiercely.

The door just drawn on the wall opened magically, revealing a dark area the size of a bathroom in Room 2303.

Luo Shan hid inside and then carefully closed the paper-like door.

Only a few inconspicuous, door-like shallow pencil marks remained on the wall surface.

At this time, the double doors at the end of the corridor were fully opened, and a nursing assistant wearing sky-blue clothing and a white mask pushed a transfer bed and slowly entered the current area.

Franca held her breath and cast her gaze toward the nursing assistant and the transfer bed.

She saw the nursing assistant's eyes were both hollow and dull, and seemed to hide deep malice; she saw the transfer bed covered with a thin quilt, but no patient or corpse was sleeping on it.

What made Franca's neck feel cold was that the thin quilt presented a bulging state, but there was clearly nothing underneath it.

Covering an invisible thing? Franca and Jenna let their backs stick tightly to the side wall, trying hard to increase the distance between themselves and the nursing assistant, and between themselves and the transfer bed.

In the sound of the wheels rolling over the floor cracks, the nursing assistant maintained a slow and dull posture, pushed the transfer bed past between Franca and Jenna, and pushed it toward the wooden double doors leading to the corridor of the giant mushroom person.

It wasn't until this transfer bed pushed open the doors, slowly left the current area, and disappeared from her sight that Franca and Jenna ended their "Invisibility" and returned to the middle of the corridor.

Luo Shan also opened the door on the wall and jumped out lightly.

She didn't forget to "close the door" casually.

"How did you know you could come out?" Jenna, who wanted to knock on the door, asked.

Luo Shan raised the pencil in her hand and said with a smile:

"I drew an observation hole inside."

"Hmm, continue to find the elevator lobby." Franca walked at the very front, as she should.

Just as they arrived at the exit at the end of the corridor, the wooden double doors suddenly opened backward.

It was opened again, at a distance of less than three meters from Franca, Jenna, and Luo Shan.

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Dawn Hospital, Emergency Center.

Zhou Mingrui described the symptoms of acute gastroenteritis based on his experience of seeing a doctor last time and successfully obtained the laboratory test form issued by the doctor.

He took this form, turned into the right aisle, and headed to the emergency blood draw area.

In the process of waiting for his number to be called in the blood draw area, he covered his stomach, pretended that he couldn't endure it anymore, quickly left here, entered the first-floor hall, and walked toward the nearest public restroom.

During the process, he naturally looked around, seeing if he could find any details that weren't right.

—He hadn't discovered anything in the emergency center before.

The nearest public restroom was adjacent to elevators 6 through 10. Zhou Mingrui, under the dim light, quickly circled into the elevator lobby.

He pressed both "Up" and "Down" at the same time, observing the operation of the elevators.

Not long after, two elevators arrived on the first floor, and the cabin doors opened almost simultaneously.

Zhou Mingrui looked left and right, discovering that the elevator going up had no abnormalities, while the one going down gave him a feeling of leading to hell, leading to the source of fear.

"Dawn Hospital's problem is underground?" Zhou Mingrui muttered silently.

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 1000 =====