I'm trapped in a block

Chapter 675 Important People
"Important person? Who is it?" Li Luo asked impatiently.

But at this time, the young man kept it a secret: "Let's leave here first. Residential Area 0 is very dangerous. Let's talk as we go. I'll tell you on the way."

After listening to the young man's conditions, Li Luo hesitated for a while, but finally agreed.

"Wait for me first."

Li Luo packed up the books he found on the ground one by one, tied them tightly with ropes, and carried them outside the door.

"Let's go."

"Why do you bring these books?" the young man asked in confusion.

Li Luo was stunned for a moment and replied, "I like reading."

……

In this way, the two of them walked to the entrance of Residential Area No. 0. The young man was indeed very familiar with the pipes here. After learning that Li Luo lived in Residential Area No. 13, he walked in the right direction without thinking.

Seeing the young man's reaction, Li Luo's doubts faded a little.

"Now you can talk to me."

"Of course, you saw it in your dream, right? My friend named 'Liu Quanli' is a doctor..."

……

During the Abyss invasion, doctors were scarce.

There are casualties everywhere. Those strange abyss species and relics always hurt people unknowingly, and there are also various difficult-to-cure abyss diseases.

At that time, Dr. Liu was temporarily assigned to a hospital that specialized in treating abyss disease. There were many patients suffering from abyss disease there. Some of them would become particularly dangerous, and ordinary doctors were helpless against them. Only medical personnel like Dr. Liu who had served in the army could take on this important task.

Dr. Liu felt very lucky at first because he didn't have to go to the front line and only had to take care of patients. But when he actually arrived at this hospital, he realized that he was wrong.

"This is hell on earth."

Whether it is day or night, the hospital is filled with the cries of patients.

It was no longer possible to tell whether the howling came from humans or some other species.

It was painful and miserable. Many patients suffering from the abyss disease were abandoned by their families. Because they didn't know whether their abyss disease was contagious, most patients were forcibly isolated.

Illness and loneliness simultaneously erode these poor patients, making them further and further away from "humanity" and gradually turning them into "experimental subjects" being studied.

All kinds of potentially effective drugs, surgeries, and even metaphysical therapies have been used on these patients. Doctors have become numb to this and turn a blind eye to the tragic conditions of these patients.

Dr. Liu also asked his colleagues when he first came to this hospital.

"Don't we have any humanitarian concern for these patients? Shouldn't we care about their feelings?"

The colleague looked at him with numb eyes and replied indifferently: "Only when you are alive can you talk about feelings. They are no longer alive..."

Listening to his colleague's words, Dr. Liu sighed helplessly.

He realized that his colleague was right, those patients were no longer alive.

"They are just some kind of structures corroded by the abyss. They are no longer human. Even if they are wearing human shells and have human thoughts, they are still not human. They were human beings and they died long ago..."

Before entering the hospital, doctors were told by their superiors not to have sympathy and to save patients if they could, but not to feel burdened if they could not.

When they first entered the hospital, most doctors were full of responsibility, but after watching patients die one after another or become increasingly twisted and transformed into inhuman appearances, they felt helpless and gradually became numb.

Heavy medicines, folk remedies, metaphysical treatments... For these patients, they had to try every possible method, and no longer followed any red tape when it came to curing illnesses and saving lives.

After being nearly burned to death by a patient suffering from "magma disease", Dr. Liu also made up his mind to be cruel.

It was at this time that his superior gave him an urgent task, asking him to care for an extremely critical patient.

"What type of abyssal disease is this?" Doctor Liu asked his superior.

"Not sure, it hasn't been confirmed yet."

"Still unclear?" Doctor Liu was a little surprised.

"Yes, the last doctor who took care of this patient used a scalpel to cut open his own chest and gave her his heart... This is her information, you can take a look for yourself." Upon hearing the description from his superior, Doctor Liu's heartbeat accelerated and his hair stood on end.

"Is it a thought-related abyssal disease? Can it affect other people?"

Dr. Liu made a judgment without even checking the information.

The superior said nothing, just nodded and shook his head.

After a moment of silence, he pointed to the information in front of him and said, "Take a look at it yourself. It's hard to say. The patient's condition is a bit special."

Doctor Liu picked up the documents on the table with some trembling.

"As I said before, if you can save someone, save them. If you can't save them, don't feel burdened. Just be safe."

After the superior finished giving the instructions, he waved his hand and asked Dr. Liu to leave the office.

Even when he arrived at the hospital corridor, Dr. Liu's head was still buzzing, and he was holding the information bag in his hand, at a loss.

He walked to a corner and pulled out the patient's information with some trembling.

"Age: 24."

"Gender: Female."

"Birthplace, onset time, medical history..."

Doctor Liu quickly scanned the basic information and found the record of the previous doctor...

"Every time I see her, I feel pity for her. I know that's not normal. After testing, I found that this feeling of pity is related to the distance between me and her. The closer I am to her, the more pity I feel, until I can't control myself at all... I guess this is a 'halo' type disease and it's not contagious."

"I have asked my superiors to change her room to prevent her from causing any trouble, but her symptoms are getting worse, so I guess she won't be able to stay in the new room for long."

"After such a long time of contact, I have developed strange feelings for her. I can't go on like this..."

"She said she wanted to see my heart, but I refused. I felt guilty..."

"..."

The previous doctor's records came to an abrupt end. Dr. Liu's heart began to beat again as he looked at these abnormal records.

Although he had not yet seen the patient, Dr. Liu's fear had reached its peak.

The most terrifying thing about Abyss Disease is the unknown. Before the cause of the disease is figured out, the doctor in charge of the research has died. There is nothing more terrifying than this.

Not only that, even the doctor's records are full of weirdness.

Doctor Liu carefully read the patient's information several times and took it back with some trembling.

He took a deep breath and decided to go see the patient first.

"The room at the end of the corridor on the third floor..."

Doctor Liu walked to the third floor with somewhat weak legs, reached the end, and pushed open the door of the ordinary ward.

Inside were concentric circles of floor-to-ceiling glass, with distances written on the glass in black marker.

"10m, 8m..."

"4m, 2m..."

In the center of the concentric circle, Dr. Liu saw the patient in hospital gown—a pale girl.

He looked ordinary, holding a book in his hand and reading it seriously.

The strange thing was that the girl didn't look 24 years old.

"It seems that he is only 10 years old... Is this also the cause of the disease?"

Just as he was observing the girl carefully, the girl seemed to sense something and suddenly raised her head and looked at Dr. Liu through layers of glass.

At that moment, Dr. Liu felt as if he was hit by something...

(End of this chapter)