Ever since Bohemia left and returned, she had finally been helpful for the first time. When the door closed with a heavy impact, she took out a tube of powerful adhesive, 502, from nowhere and squeezed a long strip of it into the gap. While Lin Sanjiu single-handedly held off three or four guards outside the door, Bohemia skillfully applied the adhesive into the seam and even took the time to blow on it a few times.
"Alright," Lin Sanjiu said, letting go of the door, relieved that she had released Bohemia from the amber glow in time. Unexpectedly, Bohemia had some usefulness. "A Special Item? That should be enough to stop them."
As soon as she said this, the door suddenly broke as if fractured, and with a creak, a guard's face peeked through the crack, pointing and shouting, "Hit here!"
"Damn it," Bohemia cursed. "Did you just waste my stuff?"
Lin Sanjiu didn't have time to argue and quickly withdrew the amber glow from the NPC. The latter, with both legs cut off, had already passed out from the pain. He fell from mid-air like a half-bloodied dead pig. Lin Sanjiu spread the amber glow like a spider web at the door, then grabbed the NPC, and shouted to Bohemia, "Follow me!"
"Why is it so dark here?" Bohemia followed closely behind, not daring to take a single step, wishing she could hold onto Lin Sanjiu's clothes as she walked. She was surprisingly more obedient than usual. "Where are we going?"
"Keep your voice down," Lin Sanjiu said, looking up at the green emergency exit sign on the ceiling and quickly walking in the opposite direction it pointed. "They haven't started work yet, but there might be guards on duty."
"The last time you came in, the alarm sounded," Bohemia whispered. "Why not this time—"
The alarm suddenly pierced the silence, drowning out their footsteps and gasps, tearing through their eardrums like sharp knives.
"Don't remind them!" Lin Sanjiu wasn't in the mood for Bohemia's comments. "Use your hands and help me tie a rope!" She threw the NPC to the ground and summoned several large bath towels and ropes. While Bohemia muttered, she tightly tied the NPC's thigh artery. Her grip was so strong that it even woke the fat man up twice. Within moments, the thick towels were soaked with blood. Lin Sanjiu had to use all the towels she could find to finally stop the bleeding from the NPC's thigh.
This was only a temporary solution. After all, the wound was too large, and it was possible that the towels would be soaked with blood again, leaving a clear trail behind them. Lin Sanjiu wiped the sweat off her face and whispered, "If only we had a flamethrower or something to cauterize his blood vessels... but for now, since the bleeding has stopped, let's hurry."
She could almost hear the approaching footsteps.
"Can't we just leave him behind?" Bohemia's arms were stained red as she carried half of the NPC's body, quickly following Lin Sanjiu as they turned one corner after another and passed through various corridors. "How come you're so familiar with this place?"
"He mentioned it before. He remembers us now." Lin Sanjiu wasn't actually that familiar with the lower levels of the hospital. She could only trace her steps back using the emergency exit signs on the ceiling. "Don't think wearing a veil is enough. The moment you speak, he might figure out who you are. Don't forget, you just changed your appearance a few minutes ago. Those guards don't care about patients, so the only person who knows your identity now is this NPC. As long as we keep him in our hands and prevent him from contacting the hospital staff, you might still be able to preserve your patient status."
Bohemia seemed to regard her with newfound respect. "I never expected you to be so thoughtful... So why not just kill him?"
"Maybe he can tell us something useful," Lin Sanjiu said, then stopped in her tracks and couldn't help but sigh. "We've arrived."
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Doomsday Wonderland Vol. 10: Lava [Complete]
Ciencia FicciónWhat is Lava? Lin Sanjiu has no idea either. - A translation of N. Heller's Chinese novel.