Walking into the morgue, completely unafraid of any temperature changes, Xu Tong pondered for a moment, wondering where he should begin. After thinking for a bit, Xu Tong chose the simplest method. Search one by one! Anyway, I'm not afraid of the cold; I dare them to starve me to death in here! Walking to the nearest freezer, Xu Tong reached out and pulled it open. There was no stench of rotting corpses, but the air was filled with a smell that Xu Tong found hard to describe. How should I put it? Is this the smell of death? As soon as the freezer was pulled out, a strong odor rushed towards him. Xu Tong couldn't say he couldn't accept it, but the smell was a bit overwhelming. It felt like sniffing his roommate's socks that hadn't been washed for half a month.
He felt unclean. The corpse in this freezer was relatively normal, except for a strange symbol drawn on the body, which was definitely not human writing. Xu Tong took note of the writing and closed the freezer again. If the main quest wasn't progressing, it meant he hadn't found the "Patient Zero" hidden in the morgue. "Well, let's keep looking." Xu Tong continued to open the next freezer, but the main quest still didn't trigger. However, this freezer was empty, so Xu Tong stuffed the deflated inflatable doll from the stretcher inside. "Now I've taken care of the task that Pi Ye and Ye Ye gave me, and I can focus on finding the main objective." He then opened the third freezer, which contained a corpse, also marked with non-human writing in red paint. Memorizing the symbol, Xu Tong continued opening the other freezers. Four, five... and more. As more and more freezers were opened, Xu Tong gradually discovered some commonalities. In freezers with corpses, the bodies were marked with strange writing, while freezers without corpses had no such markings. Freezers with corpses accounted for about one-third of all freezers. It seemed like a small number at first glance, but due to the large number of freezers, the number of corpses also increased significantly. As the number of corpses increased, the number of markings made with strange writing also increased significantly. This was the most troublesome thing for Xu Tong. He had just memorized about a dozen symbols, and after seeing a dozen more corpses, he would likely forget what the first symbol looked like... It's not that he had a bad memory, but it would be difficult for anyone to remember more than twenty symbols in a row. The symbols were extremely abstract, requiring a lot of points to remember. Just looking at the symbols was headache-inducing enough, let alone memorizing them. And he had to remember dozens or even hundreds of them!
Just kill me already! Xu Tong finally realized how terrifying the difficulty of a hell-level dungeon was, not only an extreme test of the body but also a test of one's mind. Even the top players had to rely on luck to clear a hell-level solo dungeon. If they were lucky enough to encounter a field they were good at, they might have a slight chance of clearing it. Not to mention ordinary players, who could just mess around in normal-level dungeons and occasionally challenge hard-level dungeons as a very bold idea. Hell-level? Don't even think about it! Just as Xu Tong continued to open the freezers in front of him, trying to recall what the symbol he had seen a second ago looked like, a stream of information suddenly appeared in his mind. [Your brain has fully received all the symbols captured by your eyes, as well as the patterns of corpse appearances, and has performed a logically rigorous deduction, perfectly inferring the location of "Patient Zero" from the clues and logical patterns] Reading the stream of information in his mind, Xu Tong was silent for a moment. "You did a good job!" Following the inference result transmitted to him by his brain, Xu Tong went straight to a freezer. If his brain's deduction was correct, the so-called "Patient Zero" was currently locked in this freezer. With excitement, Xu Tong opened the freezer in front of him. However, lying in the freezer was not a corpse. Xu Tong raised an eyebrow, reached out, and picked up the contents of the freezer with one hand. It was a heart. A heart that was still beating in the low temperature, but with a weak pulse. "This... is the so-called Patient Zero? A heart?" Xu Tong was no longer surprised. After all, even an excavator could be considered a patient, let alone a heart that originally belonged to a human organ? Even if he opened the freezer in front of him and a little dwarf holding a Gatling gun jumped out and started shooting at him, Xu Tong would think it was normal. In comparison, a heart seemed a bit too normal. [Name: A Heart] [Type: Story Item (Cannot be taken out of the dungeon)] [Quality: Common] [Requirement to Pick Up: None] [Effect: Put it back into someone's body. Of course, they might resist, or you can be a little more violent] [Evaluation: Not everyone has this] ——
[Main Quest Updated: Go to Qingcheng Hospital 2F] [Side Quest Triggered: Find the Owner of the Heart] Seeing that the main quest had been updated, Xu Tong confirmed that the heart in his hand was indeed the so-called Patient Zero. If this main quest hadn't been updated, Xu Tong wouldn't have dared to be sure if this thing was real. But now, even a side quest has been triggered, which is very strange, requiring him to find the owner of the heart. But there are dozens, if not hundreds, of patients in the entire inpatient department. It's impossible to go and find them one by one, right? Of course, from another perspective, it could also be the heart of a Qingcheng Hospital staff member, but according to Pi Ye, there are only two staff members in the entire Qingcheng Hospital. Could it be Pi Ye's heart? A series of thoughts flashed through his mind, but Xu Tong temporarily stuffed the heart into his inventory. This side quest would definitely be extremely troublesome, and would likely require him to get to know all the patients and staff in Qingcheng Hospital before he could deduce who the owner of this heart was. In that case, it's better to take a tour of Qingcheng Hospital first. Explore the second floor, confirm that he has found all the characters in the dungeon, and then deduce who this heart belongs to. Returning to the elevator room, Pi Ye, who was smoking in the morgue, asked when he saw Xu Tong come back, "Have you finished what you needed to do?" Xu Tong nodded and asked bluntly, "By the way, does anyone in our Qingcheng Hospital lack a heart?" Pi Ye was amused by his question, "It's not appropriate to ask that question in the hospital. There are indeed many patients in our hospital who need a heart replacement, but if you're asking if anyone lacks a heart, that's impossible, because who can live without a heart?" No, you just pushed an excavator into the operating room for me. Does an excavator need a heart? Or are you trying to tell me that its engine is its heart?