An ominous premonition often becomes reality…

When Feng Bujue, full of hope, approached the wall and saw the plastic diagram on it, the first "terrible puzzle" had arrived.

As it turned out, the "map" on this diagram was not arranged in an orderly fashion. Apart from the title at the very top, "Cedar County Public Hospital 2F Floor Plan," the rest of the content was a jumbled mess. Drawings didn’t match drawings, words didn’t match words; it looked like… a badly assembled jigsaw puzzle.

“Oh… is this going to test the players’ visual memory skills?” Feng Bujue muttered, looking at the chaotic diagram, “Puzzles are my forte…” As he said this, he stood still, resting his left hand on his right elbow, his right hand supporting his chin, his eyes blazing as he began his mental jigsaw puzzle.

Before he knew it, five minutes had passed…

Feng Bujue remained standing in exactly the same posture, muttering, "Hmm… it's much more complicated than I imagined…"

After observing it, he realized that the "puzzle pieces" on this diagram were all irregular shapes, with about twenty or so of these patterns mixed together and misaligned, forming the "map" before him.

This was much more difficult than ordinary rectangular or jigsaw puzzles. It was already difficult for the human brain to remember so many shapes in a short period of time, let alone arrange and combine these shapes in the mind; the difficulty was self-evident.

“Looks like it's going to take a lot of time…” Brother Jue muttered.

*Boom, boom…*

At this moment, another change occurred.

A series of heavy footsteps sounded from behind, gradually approaching.

“Hmm? Is that bandaged guy coming again…” Feng Bujue muttered, and slowly turned around. At the same time, his hand reached into his pocket, preparing to take out his sunglasses.

Unexpectedly, this time, he saw something else…

He saw a burly figure slowly approaching. The monster had a tumor-like head and was nearly three meters tall, its head almost touching the ceiling. The bulging muscles on its body had already burst through its clothes…

“Holy crap…” Feng Bujue was shocked to see this monster.

“Lester! You bastard!” On the monster’s tumorous head, a crack resembling a mouth opened, and two rows of sharp animal teeth grew in the crack. He was shouting loudly with this "mouth", "I’m going to kill you!"

“Hmm…” Feng Bujue put on his sunglasses and glanced at the other party, then quickly took them off again, because he found that looking at this guy with the naked eye was the same. “What’s going on… I didn’t set up any fLAgs…” The other party’s movement speed was not too fast, and the distance was still far, so Feng Bujue was not in a hurry to run away. “Oh… I understand.” He seemed to have thought of something, “Have I been staying in the same place for too long…”

This reasoning did have some basis, because the main quest of the script was: [Hold Your Post and Survive Until Dawn], so theoretically… as long as the player did not leave the hospital and ensured that they did not die, then anything was fine. Even if Feng Bujue randomly found a corner without monsters to squat in, without doing any exploration, he would not be judged as passive play.

[Prompt: If you stay in the hallway for too long, the enraged orderly Chad will appear. The powerful Chad can easily tear you to shreds; you need to escape as soon as possible. You can escape Chad’s pursuit by entering a room. Chad will linger outside the door of that room for one minute and then leave.]

The system prompt came in time, corroborating his reasoning.

“That’s strange… the puzzle of this ‘diagram’ in front of me can’t be solved in a short time…” Feng Bujue pondered, and turned around, heading to the left side of the T-junction. “Could it be that I have to find a disposable camera or something, take a picture of the map on this board, and then tear up the photo to play a jigsaw puzzle?”

Feng Bujue was a bit of an obsessive-compulsive; it made him uncomfortable to give up on a puzzle that was half-solved… but now that there was a killer-type monster approaching, he could only run first.

“Hey! Chad!” Feng Bujue didn’t forget to chat with the orderly, whose movement speed was very average, as he ran away. “Do we have some deep-seated hatred? Why is this necessary?”

“You slept with my sister!” Chad roared.

“Hmm… such a straightforward reason that leaves one speechless…” Feng Bujue muttered, complaining, and then turned his head and shouted, “I believe there must be a misunderstanding! Maybe we’re true love!”

Before he finished speaking, he saw the muscles on the side of Chad’s neck suddenly grow wildly. As a mass of pus burst open, a second head emerged from his neck. It was also a blurry tumor, but it emitted a woman’s voice, “Lester! You bastard! You said you’d call me!”

[Prompt: You have angered Chad and activated the vengeful spirit of his sister. From now on, his abilities will be further enhanced.]

Before the system prompt was finished, the “two-headed giant’s” pace quickened by a third.

This time… Brother Jue couldn’t run so leisurely anymore. He sprinted wildly and immediately began searching for the nearest door.

“This fLAg is completely inexplicable!” Feng Bujue said, “Singing ‘Huo Yuanjia’ can drive away the monsters, but proper negotiation leads to the situation getting worse!”

Soon, he approached the door of a clinic. He didn’t have time to think, so he directly slid towards the door, grabbed the doorknob and turned it, but… the most classic system prompt appeared: [Cannot be opened].

“What the hell~” Feng Bujue exclaimed and ran again.

After this delay of a few seconds, Chad was chasing even closer. This meant that Brother Jue could no longer stop to try other doors. He could only try to create some distance first… otherwise, he would be attacked as soon as he stopped to open a door.

“Sure enough, you can’t be careless at all…” Feng Bujue thought to himself, “If I had known this… I would have turned around and left the moment I saw him.”

At this time, his recent training experience in real life did play some role. After Feng Bujue became serious, he quickly adjusted his breathing, footsteps, and running posture, thereby shaking off the other party again.

However, at this delicate moment, another absurd scene appeared in front of him.

At the end of the corridor, there was a staircase. This staircase did not go up, nor did it go down, but was connected to the wall on the right side, extending sideways…

“What the hell…” Feng Bujue widened his eyes and muttered.

Since stopping meant death, he didn’t have time to think and could only bite the bullet and go.

As a result… he really managed to run up those steps that extended sideways.

When Brother Jue stepped on the stairs, he felt the gravity in the area in front of him shift… At that moment, his mind buzzed, and he instantly understood, “That map is correct!”