My Cell Prison
Chapter 1495 - 1493: Crisis Lurks Everywhere

Chapter 1495: Chapter 1493: Crisis Lurks Everywhere

Known intelligence:

1. Opening the door to the ward equates to starting the game; no matter when the door is opened, it will inevitably result in a confrontation with the golden-haired nurse.

2. Each restart adds +1 ladybug.

Although not fully confirmed yet, we can only make a hypothesis: with the increase in the number of ladybugs, the entire hospital and the killers hiding inside will undergo changes.

Based on the second encounter, people in the hospital may exhibit certain tendencies to attack, but they might also assist in confronting the killers.

3. If one exits through the main entrance labeled as [Entrance], everything will reset. The number of ladybugs will increase by one, and any prior bodily injuries will be fully healed.

4. "Killing the killer" is the only behavior that will trigger a system notification and is likely the condition for clearing the game.

If the killer is not slain, even if an exit is found, one may not be able to leave.

...

Han Dong sat on the sickbed, organizing the intelligence and making reasonable deductions based on his experience with Fate.

One hand lightly caressed his abdomen; the wound from being pierced by a bullet earlier had completely healed. At the same time, he fixated on three ladybugs crawling on the surface of the green plant nearby.

"If the number of ladybugs corresponds to the difficulty level of events, then this time, the hospital’s scenario I’ll face will be even more nightmarish, and the killer much stronger...

Moreover, the police are also a nuisance.

Once contact is made, I will inevitably be forcibly removed from the hospital by the police, triggering a higher difficulty ’Hospital Cycle.’"

So the challenges I face now are twofold:

1. Quickly kill the killer, or lure the killer into a hidden corner for an assassination, avoiding contact with the police.

2. Find the real exit hidden within the hospital.

As long as I achieve the first point, I’ll have ample time to search for the exit’s location within the hospital... Better stick to the previous route. At least this way, I can pinpoint the killer’s position."

This time, Han Dong didn’t opt for directly replacing the standard-issue clothes in the wardrobe.

Instead, he approached the door wearing the patient gown.

Creak~

The moment he pulled open the ward’s door.

As expected, the familiar yet unnerving golden-haired nurse stood at the doorway... She seemed not to have coincidentally arrived but instead was stationed there all along, waiting for Han Dong to perform the ’door-opening’ action.

The scene before him made the seasoned Han Dong slightly furrow his brows.

The nurse’s lips had been completely stitched shut, striving to display a distorted smile.

As she struggled to warn Han Dong about the killer hidden within the hospital, the nurse desperately parted her mouth. The threads stitched into her lips tore the flesh apart.

Through the stitched lips, one could clearly see her mouth brimming with white larvae, crawling ceaselessly from her oral cavity as she spoke.

Her two eyeballs had been replaced with countless insect eggs,

Her exposed skin bulging with translucent sacs filled with insect eggs, bursting open as she scratched them, releasing more larvae.

"...When the danger is entirely eliminated, we’ll notify you again."

After delivering this message, the nurse, who should have left, remained standing at the doorway, holding her twisted smile.

Swish!

Suddenly, a syringe filled with green liquid shot out violently.

Fortunately, Han Dong had been prepared. Considering the grotesque appearance of this nurse, anyone would be on high alert.

While sidestepping, Han Dong grabbed the doorframe and slammed the door shut with force.

Since the two were conversing by the doorway, the nurse’s thrust left her entire arm extending inside.

Click!

With a powerful slam of the door, Han Dong forcibly severed the nurse’s arm.

Or rather... The nurse’s body was inherently frail, entirely filled with insect eggs inside.

When the severed arm hit the ground, it scattered various sizes of insect eggs.

Seizing the moment before they could hatch, Han Dong immediately bent down and grasped the arm in a "handshake"... Rustle rustle~ The arm, along with the eggs on the ground, turned entirely to yellow sand.

Han Dong took a deep breath, preparing to open the door again to kill the nurse.

Click~

Upon reopening the door, there was nothing outside.

As he extended his head to look, he saw the armless nurse standing at the entrance of the adjacent ward, informing others about the killer.

She seemed to sense Han Dong’s gaze, turning her head to flash an amicable smile, showing no concern about her severed arm.

Witnessing this, Han Dong reached full clarity on the significance of "ladybug count."

"Rather than difficulty, it’s chaos... As the ladybug count increases, the hospital becomes increasingly uncontrollable.

If trapped here for too long, death is inevitable."

At this thought, Han Dong couldn’t help but worry about his teammate, especially Green, who had a penchant for reckless behavior.

"I need to leave this hospital and locate Green’s starting area... Otherwise, with his personality, he might escalate the difficulty infinitely.

If Green were to die, it would be a major loss to the entire world."

Dispensing with pretense, Han Dong dashed toward the hallway’s end at full speed, donned in his patient gown.

Even if he couldn’t catch the killer in the restroom to strike, he needed to get ahead by securing a spot at the stairwell...

Yet, as Han Dong approached the semi-open communal ward.

Squish!

A chunk of brain tissue splashed out.

For safety’s sake, Han Dong slowed his pace to avoid any saws or axes emerging from inside to cut him down on the spot.

As he cautiously approached the communal ward, the scene within made Han Dong’s heart tremble.

Doctors and nurses, whose heads had been stitched with animal skulls, were performing a "feeding" therapy routine.

The patients on the other sickbeds had stripped off their clothes and were marking their bodies with diagrams drawn using marker pens, seemingly wishing to be the next ones consumed.

However, this "feeding" wasn’t about actually consuming patients.

Instead, it involved primitively gnawing away the diseased areas of patients’ bodies to extract the afflicted tissue.

Patients missing half their skulls and multiple organ structures displayed expressions of pure bliss.

A doctor wearing a horse mask took note of Han Dong’s presence,

Turning his bloodstained fingers toward the doorway to make a silent gesture.

Han Dong gave a slight nod, pretending to be obedient before quietly leaving.

"Good thing they didn’t come after me. I better hurry to the stairwell and deal with the killer."

The far end of the hallway was visible now. With his experience from the previous two rounds, he avoided checking the restroom.

But before reaching the end of the hallway...

A grotesque sound emerged from the restroom, akin to a massive creature squirming.

"What’s that?!"

A grotesquely bloated patient staggered out painfully from the women’s restroom, her body nearly filling the hallway.

Similar to the prior encounters, her head had been cleaved in half,

But instead of blood, copious amounts of fatty fluid mixed with traces of blood gushed from the wound, quickly flooding the corridor and soaking Han Dong’s shoes.

Not daring to linger, Han Dong made a quick turn toward the stairwell.

Bang!

Kicking open the wooden door to the stairwell, his gaze followed down the shaft.

Across the void structure of the staircase, he locked eyes on the crime scene below.

A killer with four muscular arms had just decapitated a helpless caregiver.

Upon hearing the sound of the door being kicked open, the killer’s head snapped upward, his murderous gaze meeting Han Dong’s.

Considering the police were actively hunting him, the killer didn’t rush to attack Han Dong. Instead, he skittered downward like a spider at terrifying speed.

The brief eye contact made Han Dong’s scalp tingle.

Instinctively, he knew he would likely lose in a one-on-one fight against this killer.

Deciding to forego the "jumping after him" tactic from prior attempts, he carefully tailed the killer, waiting for the ideal scene and opportunity to strike.