LGSG Chapter 34
by VolareChapter 35: Not Dating Yet, Xia Ran’s Thoughts Are Impure
Xia Ran, on his side, actually fell asleep quickly because he was smelling Mr. Xie’s scent.
It was clearly the fragrance of tea.
But for Xia Ran, it had a very hypnotic effect.
On the other side, the patients in the ward weren’t able to fall asleep so calmly.
Shen Hua was lying on the upper bunk.
Originally, he was very relieved because Fu Qu, this muscular man, was sleeping on the lower bunk. But just as he was sleeping soundly, he inexplicably felt a palpitation.
Before he had time to gather his sleepiness again, he heard the slow, heavy sound of something falling outside.
One after another.
Shen Hua: “…”
Shen Hua’s sleepiness disappeared completely, and his eyes widened like copper bells.
Among these people, he was the weakest. Shen Hua wasn’t like Xia Ran, who was ignorant of survival games. He knew very well that this wasn’t some simple horror effect, but something that could really kill people.
Shen Hua tentatively opened his mouth: “Fu Qu?”
No response.
Shen Hua: “…”
Shen Hua said pitifully, “Brother Fu, I know your senses are sharp, you have a strong perception of danger, you’re very powerful… So don’t pretend to be asleep, chat with me for a while.”
A laugh came from Fu Qu on the lower bunk.
His tone was slightly sarcastic: “All’s quiet Fu Qu, something happens call for Brother Fu, huh?”
Shen Hua didn’t care whether he was getting the cold shoulder or not. For him, having a living person to chat with now was too damn reassuring.
Shen Hua said, “That ghost outside won’t come in later, will it?”
Fu Qu’s voice was low and slightly hoarse, as if he had just woken up from sleep.
“It shouldn’t.”
Shen Hua despaired: “What do you mean ‘shouldn’t’?”
Fu Qu: “It’s been wandering in the corridor for a while. If it could really break in, it would have already come in. It’s obviously waiting for players to actively trigger the death conditions.”
Shen Hua: “What are the death conditions?”
Fu Qu said angrily: “How would I know?”
Shen Hua was still cautious: “What if it’s just loading, and it will rush in when the time comes?”
Fu Qu: “That possibility can’t be ruled out.”
Shen Hua: “…”
Shen Hua simply sat up.
“Brother Fu, how do we hide?”
Fu Qu: “Take down the wooden boards that seal the balcony. If necessary, we can learn from Gu Qiufeng and hide on the air conditioner’s outdoor unit.”
Shen Hua’s mind hadn’t reacted yet, but he had already started to get out of bed. However, when his foot touched the cold stairs, he suddenly shuddered.
Fu Qu… didn’t seem to be this kind of person?
Although he was tall and strong, his mind was the most cautious. If removing the wooden boards was useful, Fu Qu wouldn’t wait until the crisis was imminent to act.
Moreover, jumping onto the air conditioner’s outdoor unit wasn’t such an easy thing to do.
First of all, not to mention whether an ordinary person could complete such a difficult action while being chased by ghosts. But how could Fu Qu guarantee that the ghost wouldn’t also go to the air conditioner’s outdoor unit?
Shen Hua’s cold sweat fell all over his body.
His ankle on the stairs was suddenly grabbed by a warm hand.
Then came Fu Qu’s strange voice.
“Shen Hua, who have you been calling Brother Fu just now?”
Shen Hua: “……?”
Belatedly, he lowered his head and met the eyes of Fu Qu, who was looking at him vigilantly from the bed. At the same time, the voice belonging to “Fu Qu” came from the sealed balcony.
“Fu Qu”: “Who are you talking to?”
Shen Hua: “…”
Shen Hua: “…………”
Why was he always the one haunted by ghosts?!
Shen Hua hesitated and turned to Fu Qu’s bed, gesturing for him to be silent.
Then he asked, “I’m looking for tools to help you open the balcony.”
As he spoke, he shook the hospital bed.
Fu Qu on the bed stared at him with a look of someone looking at a lunatic.
The voice on the balcony said, “In the iron cabinet by the bed, there are iron awls that patients put there for suicide.”
Shen Hua: “Thanks, brother.”
He got out of bed, walked to the iron cabinet, and really found an iron awl inside. It was the large kind, and his wrist drooped the moment he held it in his hand.
Shen Hua held the iron awl and walked step by step to Fu Qu’s bed.
Fu Qu’s voice on the bed was surprised and uncertain: “Shen Hua, what are you doing?”
Shen Hua gave him a jab with the awl.
The “Fu Qu” on the bed turned into a torn paper doll and fell lightly to the ground. After a muffled crash came from the balcony, it also returned to calm.
Shen Hua collapsed weakly on the floor beside the bed, covered in cold sweat. His right hand was still tightly clutching the awl.
Damn it, where did Fu Qu go in the middle of the night?
Shen Hua thought, tearfully. He was almost tricked by the NPC.
While Shen Hua was highly focused and dealing with the ghosts in the ward, the knocking on the door outside had disappeared. The complete silence at this time gave him the illusion that he was living alone.
There was no movement outside, and Fu Qu’s whereabouts were unknown. Should he go and find the big boss to spend the night together?
But what if the ghost outside hadn’t left and was just waiting for a rabbit to walk by?
Shen Hua couldn’t sleep now, and he was afraid of being alone. He was holding the iron awl, afraid that the guy on the balcony would come back.
Just then, there were three knocks on the door.
Fu Qu’s voice came from outside: “Shen Hua, open the door.”
Shen Hua: “…”
Here we go again?
Shen Hua’s mentality completely collapsed.
He sneered and said, “You think I’ll open the door just because you tell me to? Who do you think you are? Don’t think that just because I call you Brother Fu, you can take advantage of me! I’m telling you, I only acknowledge one Brother Fu in my life, and it’s not you! Why run out in the middle of the night instead of sleeping? The door isn’t locked, can’t you push it open yourself? Hehe, lying ghost…”
Fu Qu: “Who else do you know called Brother Fu?”
Shen Hua: “…”
Something wasn’t right.
What felt off?
The next second, the ward’s iron door was kicked open from the outside.
Amidst the dust, Fu Qu stepped from the bright corridor into the dim ward.
Shen Hua was dumbfounded.
“The real Brother Fu?”
He was just cursing at the ghost because he was too scared.
Fu Qu still had a cigarette in his mouth.
Shen Hua had never seen him smoke before.
The man was carrying a large machete, with some suspicious flesh and blood on the blade.
He gave Shen Hua a sneer.
“Who’s your Brother Fu?” Fu Qu said, “Didn’t you say you only have one Brother Fu?”
Shen Hua: “.”
What to do if the real deal overheard QAQ!
“No…” Shen Hua said, “I was just talking nonsense to scold the ghost, no, why am I explaining this to you?!”
Fu Qu: “Who knows. What’s the relationship between you and that Brother Fu?”
Shen Hua: “Childhood friend.”
Fu Qu suddenly understood: “Oh, a childhood friend. Why isn’t he in the instance to protect you?”
Shen Hua: “…”
Shen Hua was speechless: “Dude, that makes us sound a bit ambiguous.”
Fu Qu chuckled and extinguished the cigarette.
Shen Hua felt that his attitude was a bit strange.
If he cared, he was indeed being a bit sarcastic just now. But it didn’t seem like he cared that much. At least now that he had reacted, Fu Qu was joking to some extent just now.
But it was indeed a bit mysterious.
Shen Hua got up and casually stuffed the iron awl into his pocket.
He walked to Fu Qu and circled around his weapon.
“What’s this?”
Fu Qu: “A game item. You get points and items after clearing the instance, the probability depends on luck. Later, a permanent store and a limited-time gacha pool will be opened, where you can exchange or draw with points.”
Shen Hua: “?”
Do survival games also cultivate leeks like this?
“The guy at the door has been taken care of. The elevator’s descent function has been released,” Fu Qu said, retrieving the weapon.
Shen Hua didn’t really want to know how he solved it.
Because of the excessive noise, Xia Ran and Xie He also came out, just in time to meet them two.
Xia Ran said, “So what exactly was the thing at the door?”
After being scared, he was still very curious.
Moreover, now that the elevator was accessible, it meant that they would no longer be trapped in this mental hospital. They could just deliver the gift to Aunt Zhang and leave.
Fu Qu pondered for a moment and said, “Two mental patients who used to live here pushed and fought, and as a result, the balcony’s protective measures were simple, and one person fell down. Afterwards, there were rumors that he would come back to claim lives. Several homicides have occurred here in succession, all of them patients falling from high-rise buildings. These wards were all sealed and the balconies were welded shut.”
Xia Ran was puzzled: “But why would there be a ‘thump, thump, thump’ sound?”
“Because he died head first,” Xie He said, “When he comes back, his head is down.”
Shen Hua: “Damn, it’s a good thing Brother Fu solved him.”
Otherwise, seeing this unlucky thing when opening the door would drop your sanity too much.
Fu Qu: “Not me.”
Shen Hua: “?”
Shen Hua asked, “Then you…”
“It was me.” Gu Qiufeng popped up with a smile.
He had a large backpack on his shoulder.
Bulging and heavy.
Gu Qiufeng said, “When I was climbing the air conditioner’s outdoor unit today, I opened the balcony. I found that the idol I was looking for was nailed in the coffin… Although only the head remained, I can use it after I fix it. But I didn’t expect that the ghost opened my door at night… His head thumped on the floor, it was quite scary.”
Shen Hua: “…And then?”
This guy was actually able to counter-kill a small monster when the death conditions were triggered?
Gu Qiufeng smiled: “I was curious about who would win if the little ghost of Phoenix Village fought an ancient evil god. So I hugged the idol and lay under the bed.”
Shen Hua: “…”
Damn, magic clash?
Xia Ran clapped: “I’ve learned something.”
Fu Qu acquiesced that everything he said was true.
“I initially went out to check if the elevator could be repaired using other methods,” Fu Qu said, “When I came back, I found that those ghosts on the balcony were chasing him into the corridor, so I lent a hand.”
Gu Qiufeng: “That’s right.”
Shen Hua said strangely: “Why were you checking the elevator in the middle of the night?”
It had clearly been confirmed during the day that it couldn’t be used.
Fu Qu: “Just consider me meddling.”
When Fu Qu didn’t want to tell the truth, he had this extremely perfunctory attitude.
Shen Hua suspected that he had ulterior motives for going out in the middle of the night. But he couldn’t find any flaws in the other party.
He could only temporarily hide his suspicion in his heart.
“The elevator can’t go down in order to prevent these ghosts from going downstairs,” Fu Qu said, “Now that there are no ghost problems, we can go down.”
During the elevator ride, Xia Ran seemed to have something on his mind.
Eventually, Shen Hua noticed.
Shen Hua was the type of person who seemed carefree on the surface but was actually very perceptive of other people’s thoughts.
He pulled Xia Ran to a corner.
Fu Qu and the others went to communicate with the on-duty doctor to inquire about Aunt Zhang’s room number.
Shen Hua said, “Boss, did something happen to you yesterday?”
Xia Ran sighed.
He looked solemn.
“I seem… to have impure thoughts about Mr. Xie,” Xia Ran said, “What should I do?”
Shen Hua: “?”
Shen Hua’s expression was very shocked.
Xia Ran said, “I know this is very strange, but…”
He originally wanted to explain that Mr. Xie was too good-looking and his personality too gentle.
Encountering Mr. Xie and being unable to win with all your might was only human nature.
But he didn’t expect Shen Hua to interrupt all of his long explanations.
Shen Hua’s eyeballs were about to pop out.
He grabbed Xia Ran’s shoulders and shook him hard twice.
“You two haven’t even dated yet?”
Dizzy, Xia Ran didn’t expect this development.
He said in a daze: “…Huh?”
Should they be dating?