Chapter 301: Methods of escaping


    The longer time goes by, the deeper he sinks into this spiritually polluted place.


    While thinking about countermeasures, Sima Xiaoer suddenly knocked on the door outside and shouted: "Xu Huo, can you hear me? Wake up! They are going to disembowel you!"


    Xu Huo saw that he was looking crazy, and was about to go over and open the door, but he let out another howl, turned and rushed out with tears in his eyes, his voice still echoing in the corridor: "I will avenge you! I will report to Hong after I get out." This **** place!"


    Xu Huo walked out and only had time to see his figure disappear at the entrance of the corridor.


    Closing the five open doors on both sides of the corridor, he left the fourth floor and returned to the third floor.


    Sima Xiaoer was not in the room and his whereabouts were unknown, so he had to go back to his room first. The tall black man was still awake, so he moved the person to another bed and lay down to rest.


    After daybreak, he went out to look for Sima Xiaoer.


    Sima Xiaoer hid in a corner of the lawn, holding his head in his hands and kept talking to himself, "... Xu Huo is dead, can I escape alone?"


    “No! Is he really dead? Is the person I saw a real person?”


    “I obviously entered the foggy area with my teammates, and the others disappeared. He came out of nowhere. It must be a lie. The hospital lied to me, and no one died!”


    “…But he died so tragically, and there were so many limbs in the treatment room…How come no one found out about this hospital? Well! This hospital is also fake!”


    "That''s not right. The hospital can be seen and touched. How could it be fake... Did I really regard the game world as real? Is this real, or was it real before? The people I killed before Is it a real person or someone in the game world?”


    Xu Huo walked over and kicked him, "Are you awake?"


    Sima Xiaoer fell to the ground, his eyes red as he stared at him, "You are dead, you are lying."


    Xu Huo knelt down and looked at him levelly, "Can you see if this is fake?"


    After saying that, a screen lit up in the air. On it was the player''s personal panel, complete with nicknames, numbers and other information.


    Sima Xiaoer''s dull expression gradually became more flexible, and his voice trembled: "Am I really not crazy?"


    “Didn’t I tell you last night that this hospital is fake, what you see is all your imagination, and you are not mentally ill.” Xu Huo erased the electronic screen.


    Sima Xiaoer''s eyes were shaking, and it was obvious that his belief had begun to waver, and he refused to fully believe what he said.


    Xu Huo motioned for him to follow him, and the two walked to the middle of the activity area. He pointed to the words on the roof of the hospital and asked, "Does it say the Seventeenth Hospital there?"


    Sima Xiaoer looked at it for two seconds before giving an affirmative answer.


    “Close your eyes and open them and look again.” Xu Huo said.


    Sima Xiaoer did as he was told, but when he opened his eyes again, he found that the big characters "Hospital" were suddenly missing, and it took two seconds before they reappeared.


    "Go and pick up a random person and ask him what the name of the hospital is." Xu Huo said again. Sima Xiaoer asked several people in succession and got several different answers.


    "The hospital is just a framework, and the content inside is composed of everyone''s imagination. The mental state and life experience are different, and the hospitals seen are also different, so the name of the hospital is different in everyone''s consciousness." Xu Huo explained, " You are mentally unstable and you see things differently than I see."


    "I saw you were killed." Sima Xiaoer said with difficulty: "Many people were holding you down. You opened your eyes and watched them cut open your belly..."


    “I think that treatment room is nothing but old.” Xu Huo interrupted.


    "But why I saw that scene, I have never thought about it that way." Sima Xiaoer was a little excited.


    "Your spirit has been disturbed by others," Xu Huo said: "The Seventeenth Hospital you just saw, and the windows that disappeared and reappeared the night before yesterday, were the wards before the windows disappeared similar to ordinary hospitals? But when Let me remind you that when the window disappears, the ward changes as your consciousness changes, and it becomes closer to the mental hospital in the film and television works. "


    “The hospital is just a surface of water. Anyone who steps on it will cause ripples, and the ripples interact with each other to produce something new.”


    He walked forward along the lawn, "Everyone who comes in here can form a part of this place. The difference lies in the individual''s mental state. The more you think something is real, the more truly it will be projected in the hospital and the reception room." The doctors and relatives in it are all imaginary, and in my opinion, they are real.”


    Sima Xiaoer grabbed his hair, "But I can''t control it. Things I never thought about will become real. So if we are killed by monsters imagined by others, will we really die?"


    "I don''t know about that." Xu Huo stopped in front of the hospital gate and looked up at the building, which was not as clear as the previous two days. "But the longer the time goes, the more dangerous we are."


    "Then how can I get out?" Sima Xiaoer asked: "The hospital is all imaginary, and this place is definitely not a copy. Even if I imagine a copy, I still won''t be able to get out in the end!"


    "The Special Defense Department studied this fog before you came in. What did you say?" Xu Huo turned to look at him.


    Sima Xiaoer took a deep breath, "They said this is a random copy, caused by spatial overlap, but the scope is larger and stranger than any random copy seen before."


    “What’s a strange method?”


    "The entrance to the random dungeon before was completely invisible to the naked eye. It seemed like there was an invisible portal. But this time the fog area is isolated from the outside. Except for people who can enter, there is no communication between the inside and outside, and the sound is not transmitted. Even The temperature is also very different!" Sima Xiaoer slapped his head, "What is going on?"


    After Xu Huo heard this, he suddenly caught something. Sima Xiaoer and the others entered the fog area in Tingcheng, while he was in the nearby Huacheng. This fog area was constantly changing, cutting off communications and causing temperature differences. It was more like another space. After invading Area 014, the lack of dungeon prompts can be taken as supporting evidence.


    If this strange space is a place of mental pollution, the players'' minds will be affected when they enter. They may not be active here in their own bodies, and the fog area can be entered and exited, which means that they only need to break away from this place of mental pollution. Get out of the fog zone freely.


    They are just mentally trapped, as evidenced by their inability to use player abilities. They must wake themselves up if they want to escape.


    But when the spirit is affected, ordinary pain or stimulation cannot wake them up, so we still have to start from the mental level.


    “Have you thought of a solution?” Sima Xiaoer stared at him intently.


    "This method may not work for other people." Xu Huo said, "I''ll try it first."


    (End of this chapter)