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Chapter 69 Strange rules?

Dong Jie stroked his long white beard and said slowly:
"First, those wearing white coats are medical staff, those wearing blue and white striped hospital gowns are patients, and those wearing security uniforms are security guards. If you see someone wearing other clothes in the building, you should immediately shout for help or go to the nurse's station for help.

Second, take medicine on time every day and keep the room clean.

Third, be sure to lie on the bed when medical staff make rounds at night. Also, please note that medical staff have fingerprints of every room, so they will not knock on the door. If you hear someone knocking on the door, do not open it.

Fourth, there are many mezzanines in the building, which are not accessible by elevators. If you reach those places, don’t panic, as this is normal.

Fifth, if you hear strange noises coming from the ceiling and someone counting down, run away immediately."

Zhou Yuan: “???”

How come all these weird rules are coming out?

He scratched the back of his head and said, "Master Dong, what illness brought you here for?"

"I'm not sick. I came here to enjoy myself. Don't treat me as a psycho." Dong Jie snorted coldly.

Generally speaking, mentally ill people will say that they are fine. You have lived in a mental hospital for 10 years, so you must be seriously ill... Zhou Yuan suspected that Dong Jie was ill: "Then why did you come to the mental hospital to enjoy yourself, Mr. Dong? Isn't the nursing home much better than here?"

"What do you know? What's the point of a nursing home? It has to be a mental hospital. Everyone here is talented and speaks well. I like it here very much."

"..."

Zhou Yuan asked tentatively: "Are you really the Ten-time Champion? You can't be the Void Ten-time Champion, right?"

Dong Jie immediately blew his beard and glared: "You can question everything about me, but you can't question my strength and honor! If you don't believe me, check Baidu now!"

“Then I’ll check…” Zhou Yuan took out his mobile phone and searched Baidu, and indeed, he found Dong Jie’s encyclopedia information.

"He really is the ten-time champion. I am sorry for offending you."

"Humph."

"Hmm...it also said that after you were defeated by AlphaGo, your faith was shattered, you were unconscious and talking nonsense all day, and finally your family sent you to a mental hospital..."

"Nonsense... nonsense!"

"But that's what the encyclopedia says."

Dong Jie couldn't keep his mouth shut any longer, so he could only sigh helplessly, "It's true that my heart was broken and I went crazy for a while, but I'm almost fine now."

"Then why don't you go out?"

"I'm just trying to escape from reality." Dong Jie's expression was gloomy. "The Go world has become dominated by AI now. I can't even beat the juniors. The former ten-time champion has fallen to this state. Who wouldn't laugh at me?"

"Hey, is that all?" Zhou Yuan thought it was a big deal. "Master Dong, it's not shameful to lose to the AI. Didn't an eight-time champion lose to him? He still ate and drank as usual."

"Different."

Dong Jie shook his head, his eyes melancholy, "I am a genetically modified human. My brain's computing power is five times that of a genius. It can be said that I am even more talented than a genius. I have never lost a battle since my debut, but in that battle, I suffered an unprecedented setback and was completely defeated.

Do you know how much this hit me?"

"Uh... you can tell it's pretty big."

Zhou Yuan stopped exposing other people's scars and quickly changed the subject, "Mr. Dong, what are these rules? They feel so strange, where did you hear them from?"

"I forgot. Anyway, you must remember to follow the rules. In the past ten years, I have seen many people who did not follow the rules. Later, they all disappeared. I couldn't find them no matter how hard I tried. I asked the nurses and doctors, but they all said that these people did not exist.

Later, I secretly checked the hospital's admission system, and their information had disappeared completely. However, I still remember their family members' mobile phone numbers, but the weird thing is that their family members didn't even remember having this relative."

"So evil?"

Zhou Yuan frowned. If this was true, it would definitely be a Level 4 abnormal event because it involved reality distortion!
However, he could not jump to conclusions based on Dong Jie's few words. This was a mental hospital and everyone here was mentally ill. Who knew if these things were just Dong Jie's imagination.

"Okay, I've remembered the rules. These are the five rules that must be followed, right?"

"Ah."

"Do you have any other interesting gossip?"

"Yes." Dong Jie showed a somewhat mysterious smile, "I am the person who has stayed in the hospital the longest. I know more than you can imagine. However, if you want to know this information, you have to pay a price."

"Want money?"

"I have plenty of money, I just want chocolate." Dong Jie said, "Each person is only given one piece of chocolate a day, I can't eat enough. If you want to know some gossip, come to me tomorrow at this time with chocolate."

"it is good."

The exercise time was almost over, and Zhou Yuan stopped wasting time with Dong Jie. He found Chen Guangxi and repeated what had just happened.

"Strange rules? Patients are missing?"

Chen Guangxi was also surprised after hearing this. Could this place be a level 4 anomaly area involving reality distortion?
“Remember, in an abnormal event, don’t miss anything that doesn’t make sense. Although Dong Jie is a mental patient, his words may not be false. After all, this ghost place is indeed a bit weird.”

Chen Guangxi hesitated for a moment, "I will deliberately mess up the room tonight to see what happens if I break the rules. If nothing happens... I will try to break other rules until I can confirm the truth."

Zhou Yuan nodded: "Then let's keep in touch."

"Yeah." After the exercise, it was dinner time. After dinner, the nurses organized everyone to watch a movie. After the movie, the patients went back to their rooms in an orderly manner to wash up and rest.

At half past nine, the faint sound of the fingerprint lock unlocking was heard, and a nurse pushed the door open and walked in: "Li Hongzhong, it's time to take your medicine."

"Oh."

Zhou Yuan took the pills handed to him by the nurse and swallowed them with water.

"Open your mouth and let me see." The nurse checked and left after making sure there was no problem.

In fact, Zhou Yuan did not actually take the medicine. Instead, he put the pill into his backpack the moment it entered his mouth.

There's something strange about this hospital. It's better not to take random pills.

At ten o'clock, the lights in the ward were turned off on time. Zhou Yuan lay on the bed and practiced "Tongming Xin Jue", waiting for Chen Guangxi to come to him.

At about eleven o'clock, there was a faint knock on the door, and someone whispered outside. It was a female voice:
"Open the door... I'm coming..."

Zhou Yuan sat up from the bed, but when he looked towards the door, his movements suddenly froze.

[The person outside is not Chen Guangxi. Don't open the door! Don't open the door! Don't open the door! I have to say this three times.]

"!"

Zhou Yuan was startled and instantly thought of the third rule mentioned by Dong Jie: [If you hear someone knocking on the door, never open it].

He quickly took out his cell phone and sent a message to Chen Guangxi:

"Did you come to see me?"

"No, I'll go over after I finish checking the rooms at 12 o'clock."

Zhou Yuan couldn't help but take a breath of cold air. What the hell...

Are the rules real?

Chen Guangxi also reacted: "Someone knocked on your door?"

Zhou Yuan: "Yes, it's a woman, and her voice sounds a bit like yours."

Chen Guangxi: “Fuck…”

dong dong dong.

Just then, the knock on the door came again.

"Open the door quickly... didn't we make an appointment?"

The woman outside seemed a little anxious.

The noise was so loud that it should have attracted the attention of the nurse on duty. Why didn't anyone come?

Zhou Yuan’s mind raced, and he immediately lay back down and pretended to be asleep!
dong dong dong... dong dong dong...

The knocks on the door became more and more urgent, like a violent storm. What was strange was that despite the noise, not a single patient came out to check, and no nurse on duty came, as if they were isolated from the world.

I don't know how long it was, but the annoying and violent knocking on the door suddenly stopped, and everything became quiet, so quiet that you could hear a pin drop.

Just when Zhou Yuan relaxed a little and thought that the thing outside had left - bang!

There was a loud noise out of nowhere, and a huge impact force hit the door. Zhou Yuan felt the whole room shake.

Fortunately, the door was strong and was not knocked open. The thing outside roared angrily, a weird and inhuman sound.

"Get out!" a voice came, and the nurse on duty finally discovered the abnormality here and drove away the things outside the door.

A few seconds later, there was a subtle sound of the fingerprint lock unlocking, the lights in the room came on, and several male caregivers walked in.

"Just now a patient ran out of the ward. Fortunately you didn't open the door for her... Didn't it scare you?"

"I was scared to death." Zhou Yuan looked like he was still in shock.

"I'm so sorry."

The caregivers bowed and apologized, then warned, "If you encounter this situation again in the future, remember not to open the door."

"why?"

"Unless you want to be attacked by a lunatic."

"Okay, I understand." Zhou Yuan nodded thoughtfully.

"Good night, then." The nurses then turned off the lights and left the room.

Just then, the phone in the bed vibrated.

Chen Guangxi: "Just to be sure, you...didn't come to see me?"

(End of this chapter)