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Chapter 89 Goodbye Mediterranean

It is certain that a hospital map exists within this restricted area.

However, Gu Mian and her companion entered this place unprepared, which led to the current situation.

"I should have found the hospital map first before coming into this godforsaken place." Gu Mian said as she ran, looking around.

He tried to find something on the stairwell wall, but there was always a huge gap between his expectations and reality. The wall was clean, except for some dried bloodstains and hideous bloody handprints.

Gu Mian didn't expect to find anything from the bloody handprint, and just kept running upwards.

At this moment, Chu Changge suddenly spoke up from behind: "Have you noticed the doors at the top of each staircase?"

Of course I noticed.

Gu Mian replied, "What do you want to do?"

Chu Changge then gave Gu Mian the answer she expected: "Split up. One person continues running upstairs to draw aggro; the other rushes into the corridor and locks the door. If we're lucky, the group behind might only chase the person still going up the stairs, while the person in the corridor can move freely..."

If you have free time, you can look for maps and clues about the main quest, Golden Amber.

Gu Mian interrupted him: "You're talking to me about luck?"

"Therefore, this plan needs to assign the right people to the right tasks."

Having said all that, Gu Mian surely understood: "I'll keep running upwards, and you're free to do as you please?"

"Yes."

Upon hearing this, Gu Mian hesitated for a moment: "What if some of those things also set aside to chase after you?"

Chu Changge shook his head: "You have to believe in your luck."

Gu Mian: "..."

The two were now on the staircase between the eighth and ninth floors. Without delay, they parted ways on the ninth floor.

"We'll meet on the thirteenth floor after you get rid of what's behind you"—these were Chu Changge's last words before slamming the door.

He slammed the door to the ninth-floor stairwell shut as soon as he finished speaking, and then Gu Mian heard the sound of the bolt being locked behind the door.

The overhead light flickered a few more times, but Gu Mian didn't stop for long and continued running upwards.

The bloody handprints on the wall are still there, and in addition to the bloody handprints, there are even scratch marks from fingernails on the stairwell wall on the ninth floor.

By the light, Gu Mian saw several deep fingernail marks scraped on the wall, extending all the way to the corner of the stairs ahead.

It looks like someone was forcibly dragged up there; judging from the marks, that person must have struggled quite a bit.

Gu Mian ran up the nail marks, with the monsters in hot pursuit behind her.

He didn't know if any monsters were chasing Chu Changge, but he couldn't stop to count how many of the things behind him were missing, so he could only run upwards without looking back.

"Wait until I find a suitable weapon..." Gu Mian angrily gripped the stool leg in her hand.

If his weapon had been even slightly more advanced, he wouldn't have been chased to this point.

Gu Mian was still thinking about the weapons when the scene in front of him immediately brought him back to reality.

This is the twelfth floor. Gu Mian noticed that the stairwell doors on this floor were different from those on the floors below.

A card reader-like device was stuck tightly to the door, just like the one at the hospital entrance.

At the same time, Gu Mian also noticed that the scratch marks on the staircase wall ended abruptly at this point.

To describe it as abruptly ending might not be quite right. He saw the grotesque scratch marks on the wall extend to the side of the door and then disappear, as if they had been dragged inside by something. He then quickly glanced at the stairs leading upstairs.

The staircase leading upstairs was indeed much cleaner than the one downstairs, as if this floor were a dividing point.

Gu Mian quickly arrived at the door at the entrance of the twelfth floor staircase: "This lousy hospital has so many places that require a card. I'll have our hospital implement a card-swiping system later, so that no one but doctors can enter the hospital..."

The group of things behind him was still chasing, but he didn't hesitate. Without even taking the sign off his jacket, he straightened his chest and aimed it at the card reader.

The card reader beeped, and the door at the stairwell slowly opened a crack.

Gu Mian rushed in, muttering to herself, "It seems something has been bringing the living people from this hospital into this floor. Maybe I'll run into one or two players? But speaking of which, are there any players still alive in this godforsaken place?"

The hospital doors were quite high-class; after Gu Mian slipped inside, the doors began to close.

The instant the door closed, he saw through the crack that the group of white things had caught up behind him, but they seemed to have some reservations and stopped when they saw the door.

Gu Mian stared at them through the crack in the door, but the eye contact didn't last long before the door closed completely.

He then turned to look at the twelfth floor.

The first thing you see is a corridor. The layout of this hospital is quite different from that of Gu Mian Hospital. There seem to be several offices in the middle, while there are wards on both sides.

The ward doors were all wide open, and Gu Mian saw that they were all empty; there was no one inside.

It was almost too clean here, a stark contrast to the dirty and messy staircases he had just seen.

It was as if a cleaner had been sweeping this floor all along; the floor was spotless, and the lights overhead shone brightly, with not a speck of dust on the fluorescent tubes.

"This is really strange..." Gu Mian had seen the scratch marks outside the door and thought that she would see a scene of hell when she came in, but she didn't expect that it seemed to be quite peaceful here.

He glanced around the clean corridor.

He couldn't see anyone in sight; it was as if he were the only person there.

The only place he could go now was those few locked offices. Gu Mian lifted his foot and walked directly toward the office in the middle of the corridor, but he had only taken a few steps when he heard a strange sound.

The sound was dull, like something flapping around, and it was coming from one of the offices.

living person?

Gu Mian paused for a moment, then continued walking forward.

As he approached the door of one of the offices, he saw a huge sign hanging on the wall next to it.

The sign was covered with photos, like a list of the top students in the school. Everyone in the photos was in their prime, a flower carefully nurtured by the motherland.

However, the "Hall of Fame" in front of her was quite different from the one Gu Mian had seen during her student days.

Several of the people on the list were bald, their shiny heads reflecting the light from the overhead lamps. Gu Mian even spotted the outline of the Mediterranean coastline on one of their heads.

It turns out this wasn't a popularity chart, but rather a hospital job posting; after all, students couldn't possibly be that bald.

The sign had a large line of text at the top that read: "List of Respiratory Physicians".

Gu Mian then looked down.

His eyes fell on the photo of the most special person: "Head of the Respiratory Department, Jin Hu..."

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