Fantasy Game: Infinite City

Chapter 517 The Polluted City (11)

"Tum."

"Clang."

On the second floor of the small town hospital, at the entrance of the nurses' station lounge.

The old policeman Juan knocked down a crazy townsman who was wandering in the middle of the corridor. There were no other people around him, so the sound of his fall was not heard by others. Taking advantage of this opportunity, Madison, who was most familiar with the terrain of the hospital, quickly took Juan and Adenauer through this corridor.

The reason why Juan's gunshot was not heard was mainly because they passed by the cleaner's storage room before. Using the tools inside, Adenauer temporarily made two homemade canister silencers. Although some noise was still made when shooting, and this kind of thing would not be used for long, it could at least greatly reduce the size of the gunshot before it was damaged. As long as the timing of the shooting was right, it would not attract those crazy townspeople.

Although there were many crazy townspeople on the second floor of the hospital, due to the structure of the wards, there were not many people in the corridor, and most of the doors of the wards were closed. This caused Adenauer to be puzzled, because the three police officers who had mutated in the police station at the beginning still had the wisdom to shoot, but the townspeople on the second floor of the hospital could not even open the ward door. His previous judgment that the crazy townspeople had only lost their minds and still had a certain degree of wisdom seemed to be a bit wrong, and not all townspeople were like this.

However, the most difficult thing for him at the moment was not the current passive situation, but the reason why these townspeople became like this. In fact, when he was doing the autopsy on the police officer's body, Adenauer had already used the contractor's equipment to conduct detailed tests on those samples, including the half bottle of drink. But the test results given by the contractor's equipment made Adenauer very confused, because the test results showed that everything was normal.

The corpse samples were ordinary corpse samples, and the drinks were ordinary drinks. Even the brain tissue samples were fine. Adenauer originally thought that the samples used might be obtained from corpses, so after the death of the original body, the things that caused the townspeople to go crazy might have lost their activity immediately. There were many similar things in the contractor's huge database.

However, the need to scan live samples was easy to solve. After all, the town was full of crazy townspeople, so Adenauer kept scanning the townspeople he met on the way here. But the results obtained after scanning the live samples made him even more confused. The inspection results given by the contractor's equipment were still normal.

Within the scope of the town, the contractor's equipment was not disturbed in any way, nor was any abnormal energy source or equipment detected, which meant that the contractor's equipment detection results were correct. But if the townspeople were really normal, then their irrational collective behavior could not be explained. If it was just their nature, one or two people going crazy, it could be understood, but it made no sense for all the townspeople to become like this, and there was no way to explain why their bodies could be resurrected.

The Infinite City has many strange secrets, and most of them do not belong to the category of science and technology. Therefore, although the contractor's technology is powerful, it is not omnipotent in the Infinite City. Therefore, Adenauer suspects that the reason why these townspeople are collectively crazy is not related to technology. Therefore, external forces on the technological side such as contractor equipment may not be able to find out anything important. So he decided to use the original things in the Infinite City, which is now the medical testing equipment in the town hospital, to conduct an inspection, and perhaps get some clues. After all, although medical equipment belongs to the category of science and technology, the way it works in the Infinite City is not necessarily scientific. This is why Adenauer chose to come to the town hospital. However, he always felt that he seemed to have missed something, but he couldn't think of what it was for a while.

And he brought Madison and old policeman Juan, not out of pure kindness. Although the current situation is very tricky, Adenauer understands that the town is not the real stage of the dungeon. The real stage of the dungeon is the mysterious city of Johor Bahru. It will take at least a few hours to reach Johor Bahru. It is not the first time for old policeman Juan to go to Johor Bahru. He should have some understanding of that place. Moreover, from the beginning of the dungeon, the conversations between Juan and the prison gate revealed a message that going to Johor Bahru seems to be no different from committing suicide. But if this is the case, it is not right that old policeman Juan, who has been to Johor Bahru a long time ago, is still alive. He must have some secrets related to Johor Bahru. Knowing this secret is important information for him. But he cannot reveal his thoughts obviously, so Adenauer will show his dispensable attitude to Juan from time to time along the way. After all, if Juan really has a secret, he must not be a simple person. He cannot arouse his suspicion.

As for why he brought Madison with him, it was very simple. As townspeople, almost all of them were in an abnormal state of madness, only Madison was fine. Although the contractor's equipment tested her and everything was normal, and it might also be related to the fact that Madison was not a native of the town, but things in the Infinite City were often not that simple. So bringing Madison with him temporarily would help Adenauer figure out the reason for the town's situation.

Because of the number of townspeople gathered on the second floor of the hospital, Adenauer thought it might be very difficult to pass through the second floor, but because these guys had very low intelligence and couldn't even open the door, Adenauer and his two companions only had to deal with the townspeople in the corridor. For some reason, these townspeople stopped going crazy temporarily. It's not that they returned to normal, but their range of activities was much smaller. They either stood quietly with their heads against the wall, or staggered around. Some of them even lay on the ground, closed their eyes, and fell asleep. The most eye-catching among them were some townspeople who vomited for a long time and many times for some unknown reason.

"everything is normal."

After testing the vomit of the townspeople, Adenauer frowned at the result. Everything was normal, except for food residue and a little blood. If there was nothing wrong with the vomit, it meant that the reason for their madness was not due to the effects of drugs or food. The vomit did not have a corrosive effect, which meant that it had nothing to do with viruses or bacteria.

Although no useful results were obtained, Adenauer continued to scan the surrounding townspeople through the contractor's equipment, perhaps finding some clues. While using the contractor's equipment for self-detection, Adenauer began to observe the surroundings, looking for and locating those townspeople hiding in the dark who could not be discovered by the ordinary people, the old policeman Juan and the clerk Madison.

At this moment, Madison suddenly stopped moving. She patted the old policeman Juan and pointed to a location in front. That location was an open ward. It sounded like there were quite a few people inside, but that was not the reason why Madison stopped. Under the light of the emergency light on the nearby wall, she could see some thick turbid smoke floating out from the open door of the ward.

The fire alarm in the hospital did not sound, and the fire sprinklers did not work, but the warning lights on the top of the corridor were always on, which means that the monitoring system inside the hospital had detected a suspected fire, but someone turned off the alarm system and the fire sprinklers. This kind of emergency equipment is usually connected to a backup power supply, so they can work normally even if the power fails. From the fact that the emergency lights and warning lights are still on, it can be confirmed that the hospital's backup power is working normally, so the only explanation is that someone deliberately turned off the alarm system and the fire sprinklers.

Adenauer picked up a pair of medical scissors from the medical cart next to him. He made a few gestures to Juan, indicating that he would use this thing to attract the attention of the townspeople who had opened the ward. Juan nodded, slowly turned the medical cart sideways, used it as a cover, and hid behind it with Madison. After they were ready, Adenauer found a good position and threw the medical scissors over, hitting the wall opposite the open ward, making some noise.

This strategy was very successful. Soon, the townspeople inside the ward were attracted by the sound and came out. The smoke that Madison had seen before seemed to be moving as well. With the help of the emergency lights, the three of them soon saw a very confusing scene.

The source of the turbid smoke was a middle-aged patient who seemed to have undergone a throat surgery. It could be seen that there was an opening in his throat. The medical equipment that was supposed to be inserted into it seemed to have been torn off by him. There were some tear marks under the opening, and the turbid smoke came out from the opening in his throat. The turbid smoke was very strange, like a thick protective film, covering most of his body, and did not float out normally.

"Ding!"

Adenauer took something from the medical cart again and threw it at the strange townsman. It was also a coincidence that when he was hit, the other townsmen who came out behind him happened to stand in the direction of the side of his body where he was hit. After turning around and finding other people around, the townsman whose body was wrapped in turbid smoke immediately mistook the other person as the one who hit him.

"Huh~~~~"

The town dweller with smoke on his body seemed to want to roar, but he lost his voice and only made some slight sounds. The town dweller who he mistakenly thought was hitting him didn't seem to hear the sound at all and didn't react. It was this ignorant action that seemed to anger the town dweller with smoke on his body. He immediately pounced on him and started to attack him.

However, perhaps due to his thin physique, the townsman emitting thick smoke did not cause any harm to the townsman whom he mistakenly believed to be the murderer. Instead, after the other party realized that he was attacked, he was knocked to the ground. Just as the other party pounced on him and continued to beat and bite him, a large amount of thick smoke suddenly spurted out of the incision in the throat of the townsman emitting thick smoke. The thick smoke quickly covered the other party's whole body. Then, the other party's body suddenly became severely dehydrated, accompanied by suffocation. The other party kept grabbing his neck to breathe, but his body, which was quickly dehydrated and began to shrivele, gradually lost strength. In less than ten seconds, the townsman's body turned into a mummy-like corpse, and he fell to the ground with his hands tearing and scratching his neck.

"He didn't die. He lived and stood up again."

"Same, confirmed, killed, same?"

"Confirmed, no."

Adenauer and the old policeman Juan used gestures to communicate what they saw. Madison seemed to want to join in the conversation, but she didn't learn police gestures very well and could only understand the meaning of some gestures. However, based on the gestures she could understand, she roughly guessed the content of the conversation between the two.

"After the townsman's body was killed, it did not revive and stand up again."

“Maybe the same kind can just eliminate the same kind?”

"uncertain."

Madison couldn't join in the gesture communication between the two for the time being, so she continued to observe the townsman who was emitting thick smoke. She wanted to ask quietly what to do, but more townspeople wandered out from the open ward, so she couldn't speak. So she wanted to tell them with gestures like Adenauer and Juan, but she didn't know what gestures to use, so she tried to communicate with the two according to the police gestures she could remember.

But after she finished her gesture, she found that the two of them couldn't help laughing, so Madison spread her hands and said she was confused.

The old policeman Juan shook his head and didn't explain anything, but Adenauer used easy-to-understand movements to tell Madison what the gestures he had just made meant.

"I saw the man being hit in the genitals."

Madison thought about it for a long time and had some impression of the gesture, which meant this. After realizing that she had just told a vulgar joke in an inappropriate situation, Madison covered her face.

“Woo~~!!”

"Boom!"

Just as Adenauer and Juan were secretly rejoicing, a strange sound was heard from a ward far away in the corridor. It was like someone was exerting force with the middle of his brain and making a sound with his mouth wide open. It sounded very weird. Then, all three of them heard a dull thump.

"Boom!"

"Clang!!"

After the second collision, the ward door, which was originally closed, was knocked out of the door frame and hit the opposite wall, making a loud noise. A large figure appeared in the far corridor, but his body parts seemed a little strange. The noise made by that guy quickly attracted the attention of the townspeople who had been quiet around him, and the collision and roar in the corridor sounded again.