The effect of Yue Xingwen’s ‘Fast as Lightning’ team’s acceleration skill had not yet ended, and everyone took this opportunity to quickly climb up the stairs.
The stairs inside the library, both in height and width, were similar to those of the usual building, and it was no trouble to climb them. With the help of the team’s acceleration, in less than half a minute they climbed past the Research Group Center on the -2nd floor and the Database on -1st floor, then came to the 1st floor.
The staircase was marked with a sign that reads [1st floor], and the doors and walls had the same color—— same as if it was an invisible door.
Jiang Pingce and Yue Xingwen glanced at each other, and Yue Xingwen said, “Let’s go in and have a look.”
He took the lead and pushed his way in, followed by the others.
However, as soon as they entered the door, everyone was startled by the scene in front of them—— There were many strange patients standing in the hallway, they were wearing uniform blue plaid hospital gowns, their bodies were bloody, and some of them had broken arms and legs, like zombies in a post-apocalyptic movie.
However, at this time, because they had no target, all of them were in the ‘standby’ state, with their heads down.
At the moment when Yue Xingwen pushed open the door, these ‘standby’ patient NPCs seemed to have suddenly pressed the start button, turned their heads collectively, and stared at them with empty eyes.
Lan Yarong’s back stiffened, and she couldn’t help but scold, “Is this the Doomsday Hospital!”
Jiang Pingce frowned and took a step back as he protected Yue Xingwen, whispering, “Elective Course teleportation area.”
Lin Manluo was stunned, “Elective Course? Is it the Faculty of Medicine’s elective <Infectious Disease Area>?”
Jiang Pingce lifted his chin, signaling everyone to look at the sign not far away. Everyone looked up, and sure enough, they found four big characters covered in blood read ‘Infectious Disease Area’.
Zhuo Feng couldn’t help but scold, “Holy shit.”
When he was in the Faculty of Medicine on the 1st floor, Yue Xingwen met Liu Zhaoqing and Ke Shaobin, two schoolmates, and together they passed the compulsory course <Cardiovascular Ward>. In order to rush to meet up with Jiang Pingce, he didn’t clear on the Faculty of Medicine’s electives, and he only ever saw the name of the Elective Course on the class schedule.
But Jiang Pingce was different. He came to the library a few days earlier than Yue Xingwen, and when he received Yue Xingwen’s private message, he had already tried to clear two electives in the Faculty of Medicine. So, as soon as he saw these blood-covered patients, he knew this was the elective course <Infectious Disease Area>.
However, the examination did not start, the NPCs in the ward were still in the ‘standby’s state, and just now they pushed the door in, probably because the library system had sent their ‘virus’ materials to all floors, so these NPCs were activated instantly.
Jiang Pingce looked back at Yue Xingwen. “Retreat, or go over?”
Yue Xingwen said stiffly, “Let’s go over. Let’s go through the Infectious Disease Area and see if there’s an exit!”
Jiang Pingce was able to clear the elective courses on the 1st floor, Yue Xingwen thought that the difficulty was not high. Now, their skills had all been upgraded to the full level, would they still be afraid of these mobs in the novice village?
Everyone thought so.
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Although these monsters covered in blood look a little disgusting, the monsters in the Infectious Disease Area were slow-moving and were not difficult to deal with. Lin Manluo directly summoned the garbage bin on the spot and said loudly, “Hazardous Garbage Recycling!”
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Yue Xingwen said, “Understand, everyone speed up!”
Lin Manluo and Lan Yarong were in charge of controlling the field and all the way, there were actually no infected that could get close to them.
Everyone quickly passed through the corridor, and soon came to the end of the Infectious Disease Area, only to find that the door at the end had been locked. Yue Xingwen looked back at Jiang Pingce. “Can you open it?”
Jiang Pingce came forward and tried, shook his head and said, “This door can’t be opened. When I took the elective course in the Infectious Disease Area, the door was locked, and the examinees could not escape through the door, and all the windows were sealed.”
At that time, the Faculty of Medicine on the 1st floor was full of freshmen, and when they encountered such a situation, everyone must have panicked.
Lin Manluo curiously said, “Then how did you clear in the end?”
Jiang Pingce recalled for a moment and said, “Next to the nurse’s station, there is a hidden fire escape.” He turned and walked quickly toward the nurse’s station. The nurses there were all infected, their faces covered in blood and they pounced on him with open arms!
Jiang Pingce raised his right hand, and several infected people were instantly thrown out by him using the formula.
Immediately after, he stepped forward and kicked open the hidden door next to the nurse’s station—— Sure enough, another fire escape appeared in front of everyone. Jiang Pingce took the lead, and the others immediately followed.
The passage was a little dim, and Zhuo Feng turned on the Light Ball to illuminate.
Everyone took a few steps forward, and another door appeared in front of them. Jiang Pingce pushed the door open, only to see a monkey covered in blood suddenly rushing down from the roof.
The squeaky monkey made everyone’s heart skip a beat, and Yue Xingwen threw out the dictionary almost reflexively and slammed it on the monkey’s head!
There were bloody iron cages around. Countless monkeys squeaked inside, and some crawled out of their cages and jumped up and down to attack them.
This familiar scene made everyone dream back to the novice village in an instant.
Lin Manluo said, “The <Escape from the Laboratory> in the Faculty of Medicine?”
Everyone remembered the first compulsory course when everyone came to the library.
Jiang Pingce stopped and said in a low voice, “Control them.”
Lin Manluo immediately threw out five vines, tying a group of monkeys together; Zhuo Feng directly used Series Circuit, and the monkeys were instantly electrified into coke!
The surroundings were finally quiet.
Jiang Pingce frowned and said, “At the beginning, I passed the <Infectious Disease Area> course when I took the examinees in the same exam room out through the hidden fire escape. How come this time, it’s teleported to <Escape from the Laboratory>?”
Yue Xingwen thought for a while and analyzed, “What we are in is not the real examination room, but the most primitive state of the Faculty of Medicine, and these NPCs were also activated because they received orders from the Library, so it’s normal that the scene is different from the examination room.”
Jiang Pingce was silent for a moment, looked at Yue Xingwen and said, “Keep looking?”
Yue Xingwen nodded. “We’re here anyway, so let’s figure out the distribution of the entire Faculty of Medicine and make sure there’s no exit, then we’ll climb up to the upper floors.”
At this time, they were equivalent to full-level players returning to the novice village and these small mobs on the 1st floor couldn’t hurt them in the slightest. Everyone saw squeaky rabbits and monkeys, and they felt no fear.
Everyone quickly walked through the monkey area with calm expressions, and came to the location of the dungeon’s boss of <Escape from the Laboratory>, and the two boss, a man and a woman in white coats, really pounced on them fiercely!
The thick dictionary in Yue Xingwen’s hand was thrown out quickly, smashing that senior sister’s head with great precision, and directly smashing her to the ground.
Then silently recite the sentence ‘To Prostrate Oneself in Admiration’ and let the other male boss lie directly on his knees.
Yue Xingwen simply said, “Go!”
Everyone quickly followed, pushing open the door at the end of the laboratory.
In his memory, after pushing open this door, a prompt of ‘Congratulations to XXX student for clearing <Escape from the Laboratory>’ would pop up, and the points would be settled—— but this time, there were no prompts.
Instead, there was another familiar ward in front of him.
Looking at the doctors, nurses, grandfathers and grandmothers in checkered hospital gowns in ‘standby mode’, as if they had been pressed into stasis, as well as the ‘Cardiovascular Ward’ sign in the corridor, everyone stared at each other in disbelief.
After a while, Zhang Xiaonian said, “This is also a compulsory course in the Faculty of Medicine ah.”
Lan Yarong was in doubt and looked at Yue Xingwen. “I remember that there is no exit for this course? Will the ward doors be open during the day and closed at night?”
As soon as senior sister Lan’s voice fell, the NPC in the ward was instantly activated, and at the same time, a warning of ‘Virus Invasion’ sounded overhead!
Sure enough, they received instructions from the library. At the same time, everyone turned their heads to look at Yue Xingwen and the other five people, and picked up the ‘weapons’ that could be used at hand, rushing towards them!
In addition to these normally dressed NPCs, there were also those monsters with only bones that appear at night in the cardiovascular ward, and they were also frantically flocking towards them like beasts that had suddenly been unleashed!
Zhang Xiaonian hurriedly raised his right hand. “Anti-earthquake Wall!”
A wall stood in front of everyone, stopping the pursuit of these mobs.
Yue Xingwen decisively opened his dictionary. “Torrential Rain.”
Zhuo Feng followed suit and injected the Electric Current into the clouds, only to hear a crackling sound before the mobs were collectively electrocuted into charcoal under the torrential rain with Electric Current.
It was not hard to deal with mobs. The difficulty was that until now, they had been confused about the structure of the Faculty of Medicine.
Just when everyone was wondering, they suddenly heard footsteps behind them——
Yue Xingwen immediately turned around, took out the dictionary just to release his skills, only to be met with a pair of familiar eyes.
Ke Shaobin, who was wearing glasses, was nervous, and when he met Yue Xingwen’s gaze, he froze slightly, followed by running forward excitedly. “Xingwen! Why are you here?”
Yue Xingwen: “… I was going to ask you the same thing.”
Liu Zhaoqing walked up to everyone and spat, “I’m really intoxicated! We climbed up the stairs to the 1st floor, originally trying to see if there was an exit on the 1st floor, but we ended up in the Psychiatric Ward!”
Xu Yishen rubbed his temples helplessly, and said, “Being pestered by a group of mental patients, the ones who laughed, the one who cried and committed suicide, the ones who stared at us with strange gaze, and the little kinds who mysteriously said they wanted to tell us stories… We finally managed to get away from this group of NPCs and ended up in the Cardiovascular Ward.”
Everyone looked at each other.
After a while, Jiang Pingce said in a low voice, “I know.”
Ke Shaobin looked back at him and put on an attitude of listening carefully. “Pingce, have you found the pattern?”
Jiang Pingce said, “Since it’s not the time for the exam, the library where we are located is the library where the exam room is not open and under the daily state. In the center of the library, as Ke Shaobin deduced, is a large patio, with four staircases in four directions inside the patio, which can lead to different floors.”
Yue Xingwen also understood when he heard this. “According to this rule, the center of each floor is the patio location, and the patio runs from the dormitory area on the -3rd floor all the way to the top 13th floor. Since the patio has staircases in four directions, each floor actually has four directions, four areas?”
Jiang Pingce nodded with satisfaction, Xingwen was always the first to understand his thoughts. He looked at Yue Xingwen and continued, “Yes. The Faculty of Medicine consists of four examination rooms: <Infectious Disease Area>, <Psychiatric Ward>, <Cardiovascular Ward>, and <Escape from the Laboratory>, which are connected into a ‘回’ shape area, with two compulsory courses and two elective courses.”
Ke Shaobin said excitedly, “Therefore, when the examination room is opened, these areas will be infinitely divided, generating countless parallel spaces like petals. When it’s not open, all four areas are at rest and all the NPCs are on standby in their own areas——This is the law of the internal structure of the Library!”
Jiang Pingce said, “It’s not surprising that each floor will follow the law of the ‘Four Area’ pattern.”
Liu Zhaoqing finally understood, he scratched his head and said, “So, in addition to the compulsory course’s examination room that we have taken before, we all know better, and we also have to figure out the elective course’s examination room on each floor?! Because, the exit, is it possible to be in the elective course’s area?”
Jiang Pingce nodded and said, “Perhaps, this is the true meaning of the existence of those elective courses.”
thanks for translating!! <333
I think I didn’t understand why the exit in the elective courses, but until it worked ¯\(ツ)/¯
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Gosh that’s so smart!? Especially since most people would ignore the elective courses.