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Chapter 118: The Alter Ego Says He Loves Me (Part VII)
The nurse hadn’t specified an exact time for lights out, and there were no clocks in the wards, making it difficult to keep track of time.
They had only spent one night here and hadn’t yet confirmed if the time for lights out was the same every day.
“Wealth and danger go hand in hand. What are you afraid of?” Xiao Ji said calmly.
Xiao Yinnian understood what Xiao Ji meant.
The point nodes in this mission had to be triggered by oneself. If they only sought stability, they might be able to survive, but if they always played it safe, getting the points he needed would take forever.
So he just took two deep breaths and made up his mind.
He said to Lin Chuan: “I’m going out for a bit.”
Lin Chuan glanced out the window: “Do you want me to go with you?”
Xiao Yinnian shook his head: “No need, wait for me to come back. If anything happens, I’ll call you.”
After saying that, he opened the ward door and walked out.
At this moment, the dim lights were still on in the deep corridor.
The further it extended towards the end, the weaker the light became, making it impossible to see what exactly lurked in the darkness at the other end.
Xiao Yinnian could clearly hear his own footsteps echoing in the corridor.
He walked to the ward door diagonally across, held his breath, and knocked on the door.
While waiting for a reply, Xiao Yinnian’s gaze uncontrollably drifted towards the darkness at the end of the corridor. His mind was filled with the rhythmic clicking footsteps of the nurse after the lights suddenly went out last night.
The more he thought about it, the more he felt that there seemed to be something unknown surging in that darkness.
“Don’t scare yourself,” Xiao Ji comforted him, sensing that Xiao Yinnian was on the verge of breaking into a cold sweat.
Xiao Yinnian forced himself to rein in his wandering thoughts. As a result, the moment he turned his head back, he met a face that suddenly appeared in the glass door frame.
“Fck!” Startled, Xiao Yinnian cursed out loud. Jin Can looked at Xiao Yinnian through the door: “Is there something you need?” To say he wasn’t completely panicked would definitely be a lie. Xiao Yinnian’s patience was limited: “Can you let me the fck in first?”
In the mission world, trying to fight your way out single-handedly and get a high score was very difficult.
If you met teammates who weren’t entirely devoid of conscience, people would generally cooperate if they could.
Xiao Yinnian and Lin Chuan understood this principle, and a veteran like Jin Can naturally understood it too.
After quickly weighing the pros and cons, Jin Can opened the ward door and let Xiao Yinnian in.
“What is it?” Jin Can asked after closing the door.
Xiao Yinnian wasn’t stupid. When Xiao Ji told him to find Jin Can, he had already guessed Xiao Ji’s purpose.
At this point, he spoke frankly:
“I want to cooperate with you. You are a nurse. As long as you move out of the inpatient department and live in the staff dormitory, you should be able to go out at night.”
Jin Can looked at Xiao Yinnian: “I know, but when we arrived, the nurse leading the way said the staff dormitories were full. If I want to move, I need an opportunity.”
“Don’t tell me you’re just planning on waiting for an opportunity to drop into your lap,” Xiao Yinnian raised an eyebrow.
Jin Can had indeed planned exactly that previously. She spread her hands: “What else?”
Xiao Yinnian was straightforward: “I will help you create the opportunity, but you must tell me all the information you get without holding back.”
Jin Can narrowed her eyes: “You probably don’t fully understand the rules yet, do you? The points in each mission instance are fixed. That means, if the key information I obtain gets a hundred points, once I share it with you, it’s equivalent to sharing half of the points with you.”
This was indeed something Xiao Yinnian had just learned.
But right now, he didn’t have a better plan, so he could only remain composed and say: “Then if it’s just you, what do you think the probability is of getting this opportunity before you escape this place?”
Jin Can didn’t speak.
Xiao Yinnian continued: “Furthermore, the priest’s baptism is clearly the final deadline for the mission to end. If this deadline means claiming your life instead of sending you away, how confident are you in escaping by yourself?”
“If you are reluctant to part with the points, I can also go talk to Wang Ran. I assume she’d be willing.”
After speaking, without waiting for Jin Can to consider, he prepared to leave.
“Wait.”
Jin Can stopped Xiao Yinnian: “What’s your plan?”
To be honest, Xiao Yinnian currently had no idea what Xiao Ji’s plan was.
But in front of Jin Can, he obviously couldn’t say that.
So he only said: “That’s none of your concern.”
Jin Can hesitated for a moment: “I can agree to your terms.”
Xiao Yinnian stared into Jin Can’s eyes: “After it’s done, I hope you won’t turn on me.”
Jin Can could see that Xiao Yinnian wasn’t joking.
She chuckled lightly: “You underestimate me, and you underestimate the rules. As long as the opportunity is created by you, the points will naturally be calculated to your account. This isn’t something that can be changed just by me turning on you.”
Having finalized the cooperation, Xiao Yinnian didn’t dare to stay any longer.
At this moment, every extra minute he stayed meant bearing an extra minute of risk.
He left Jin Can’s ward and asked Xiao Ji:
“What do you plan to do?”
However, just as the words left his mouth, the dim lights in the corridor suddenly went out without any warning.
Darkness enveloped Xiao Yinnian in an instant.
Xiao Yinnian’s heart sank to the bottom of the valley at that very moment.
When he heard the clicking footsteps echoing from afar, cold sweat immediately broke out on his forehead.
“Ah Ji.”
Before the flashlight beam accompanying those footsteps lit up, Xiao Ji spoke:
“Turn around and run.”
Receiving the command, Xiao Yinnian turned around and bolted.
Xiao Yinnian had thoroughly familiarized himself with the hospital’s layout during the day. The only stairs leading up and down were in the direction from which the nurse’s footsteps were sounding.
The direction he was currently running towards would lead to a turning corridor about thirty meters away. After two turns, it would be a dead end.
But right now, he had already subconsciously run forward; there was no turning back.
A split second before the flashlight beam lit up, Xiao Yinnian dashed into the turning corridor.
He frantically tried every door he passed to see if it could be opened, but unfortunately, they were all tightly locked.
The clicking footsteps, amidst the empty corridor and Xiao Yinnian’s violent heartbeat, grew closer and closer.
Just then, Xiao Yinnian suddenly felt a half-open door. Without hesitating, he pushed it open, slipped inside, closed the door backhandedly, leaned against the doorframe, and with trembling hands, tried to lock it.
Unfortunately, the lock on the door was broken.
Xiao Yinnian leaned his back against the door, blocking it, and forced himself to calm down.
His vision gradually adapted to the darkness. The pale moonlight shining through the window allowed Xiao Yinnian to vaguely see his situation.
This seemed to be a medical equipment room.
Rows of shelves displayed various instruments, and there were several idle operating tables, as well as some anatomical models missing arms and legs.
Seeing everything in front of him, Xiao Yinnian suddenly realized that if he hadn’t listened to Xiao Ji and turned around just now, but had instead gone straight back to his own ward, it seemed it wouldn’t have been entirely too late.
Even at worst, quickly knocking on Jin Can’s door again and hiding in her ward would have been a more advantageous situation than now.
He trusted Xiao Ji too much, so much so that he had lost his own judgment.
Thinking of this, Xiao Yinnian immediately flared up in anger:
“Did you do this on purpose to harm me?!”
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