Chapter 28
Chapter 28
The newly arrived doctor frowned and gave his instructions in an orderly manner.
“Bring over some restraints and bind him up. We should get this place settled since the road leading down the mountain has been sealed off, and we can’t make phone calls. Let’s move Doctor Zhou’s body downstairs for the moment and lock up this person before we discuss what to do next.”
“Let go of me!”
The vessels in the side of the large chap’s neck bulged as he scratched the ground wildly with his hands. As soon as the doctor spoke, the nurses quickly moved into action.
They took out some needles and medication from a small fridge in the corner of Doctor Zhou’s office. As soon as the needle went in, the large chap’s struggles began to weaken, and the nurses and bodyguards restraining him were finally able to breathe at ease.
When the large chap lost his ability to fight back, the bespectacled guy’s eyes narrowed, and he clenched his fists together. He gently pushed up his spectacles and glanced over at Song Qingxiao. When he noticed her looking back at him, the bespectacled guy quickly turned away.
Since an incident like that occurred in the hospital, the atmosphere changed. Doctor Zhou’s body was moved from the chair. The large chap was tied up by the bodyguards, and they were going to move him to a level one security unit on the ward. It was clear that the hospital staff would treat him like a critically ill patient for the next few days.
After he was placed in the level one security unit, the large chap would be bound and drugged. He would also be kept under constant surveillance 24 hours a day. He had barely entered the scene, yet he was already completely out of the game.
“What on earth is going on?”
The bespectacled guy who had silently observed everything finally opened his mouth to speak. Song Qingxiao noticed that as he spoke, his gaze stayed on her before moving to the pocket of her nurse’s uniform. The same pocket where she kept the large chap’s pistol after she took it from Zhu Xiaoke.
Song Qingxiao had slipped it into her pocket when no one watched and had not let go of it since. As the bespectacled man spoke, her hand began to erupt in copious amounts of sweat, nearly causing her to lose hold over the gun.
Song Qingxiao knew for sure that the bespectacled guy’s question was clearly directed at her. An instinct to kill developed in her heart, but she lowered her head and did not speak.
Zhu Xiaoke spoke up and explained the story of the large chap with the gun once more.
“The hospital has been short-staffed recently since Doctor Li left and Doctor Guo is on leave. The hospital has recruited a few doctors, and this person was being interviewed in preparation to start the job today.”
Zhu Xiaoke seemed to be much calmer than before, possibly because the large chap was under control, and some time had passed since the incident with Doctor Guo.
“I don’t know why but this person was carrying a gun. I was standing outside when I heard him yell, and a gunshot could be heard. When I entered, Doctor Zhou was already…”
Song Qingxiao felt a chill down her back when she heard those words. She remembered what it was like when she entered the scene and turned to look at Liu Yixun. He looked exactly like the person that she killed in the last trial.
If it was not for the fact that Song Qingxiao had mentally prepared herself for the trial as soon as she entered the scene, it was likely that she would have struggled to maintain her composure as soon as she faced him. The psychological trauma of seeing the person who was close to ending her life but whom she killed with her own hands was indescribable.
Since things developed that way, Song Qingxiao could guess what had happened as soon as the large chap with the gun appeared in the trial scene from Zhu Xiaoke’s words.
After they entered the test space, as soon as everyone received the instructions, number four could not stop herself and immediately tried to bully cowardly number five to find out more about the task instructions he received.
No one expected that after number five had been frightened by the red whip lady, he had run off into the midst of the thick fog before she had time to swing her whip. Soon after that, everyone was forced to start the task.
During the task, Song Qingxiao was almost certain that the large chap heard the ticking sound and saw the countdown as soon as the trial officially started, just like she did. Those two changes were enough to make a person uneasy. Soon after that, the choice to enter the task scene appeared, and they had to make a decision in a short time frame.
By then, anyone would be scared witless. However, the people who managed to survive the first trial would be far more vigilant than ordinary people. The large chap must have been clear that he was highly likely to face danger as soon as he entered the task scene. However, he had no other choice. His nerves must have been extremely frayed by that point.
The pressure on him would have increased gradually along with the appearance of the ticking clock sound, the numbers flashing in a countdown, not to mention the looming choices before his eyes. Once the scene changed, his vigilant nature and guard must have gone up to a certain level that even a tiny trigger would have caused him to overreact.
Song Qingxiao could understand the nature of the trigger when she recalled how she felt when she saw Liu Yixun. Even a mentally resilient person would suffer a mental breakdown if they experienced multiple shocks one after another only to be faced with a person they had killed previously.
When Song Qingxiao first entered the task scene and saw the doctor, she could not stop her body from shaking and instinctively reached for the dagger strapped to her arm. The large chap must have reacted similarly to her. The appearance of Zhou Yu must have been the final straw for the last chap, so he responded speedily and killed Doctor Zhou.
As soon as she thought about it, Song Qingxiao could not help but feel fear. She could see the fate of the large chap. His identity had changed from a doctor to a patient in an instance. From being the one in control to the one being controlled. His advantage in this trial had vanished entirely.
It proved that the choice that he made when he entered the scene was not the right one. Everyone would react differently on the spot based on their mental resilience leading to different results.
If Song Qingxiao attacked the doctor as soon as she saw him like the large chap because she was so worked up from all the successive stressors, even if she succeeded in killing the doctor once more, it was likely that she would end up like the large chap. After being restrained, the large chap’s identity had swapped from being a medical staff into a patient. He would eventually die in the trial.
Even though the trial had clear instructions and a generous reward, it was far more dangerous than the previous trial!
Song Qingxiao gritted her teeth tightly and struggled as she lifted her head to look at the bespectacled guy in the doctor’s uniform. It turned out that he was looking at her too. Their eyes met, and they were each warier of the other.
The large chap was out of the running since he did not pass the psychological test when he entered the task. However, if each participant who picked a medical staff role had to go through the same test, it meant that the bespectacled guy had managed to remain calm to successfully become a houseman in the hospital. She could imagine that he was full of restraint, scheming, and had strong mental fortitude.
At the same time, Song Qingxiao and the bespectacled guy did not look eye-catching in the space. In the eyes of the bespectacled guy, Song Qingxiao must have looked quite ordinary when she was held at gunpoint compared to the two women, number four and number six, who entered after her. Since she had been successfully inducted into her role, naturally, the bespectacled guy would not underestimate her.
Song Qingxiao sighed silently. Things were going to be problematic