Ti slowly ticked by and Su Jin continued to sleep. His eyes only opened when the nurse ca with lunch. He opened the box and was glad that the food was normal. There were a few buns and a glass of milk.
He polished off everything without hesitation because he needed as much energy as he could get. Even if the hospital gave him frogs and rats, he would finish it without a second thought.
After that, he got up and walked out of the ward. A nurse imdiately approached him with a robot-like smile on her face.
Im having a bit of a headache, so Im looking for the doctor, said Su Jin to the nurse as he pretended to look unwell.
Wait here, Ill call one for you, said the nurse with a smile.
Thanks! Su Jin looked at her gratefully and turned around as if to return to his room while the nurse left to get the doctor. But of course, Su Jin wasnt going back to his room. He turned and said to another nurse, Miss, I accidentally pushed my food to the floor because my head hurt just now, could you bring another portion of food over?
Sure, give a few minutes! Another nurse left the corridor.
Su Jin didnt have a lot of ti because the two nurses would be back soon, but there was still one more nurse making her rounds. He called out to the last nurse, Miss, could you co over for a while?
The nurse imdiately approached him and asked, Sir, whats the matter?
Oh, I dropped sothing and it went under the bed, but I cant seem to find it could you help to look for it? asked Su Jin with a frustrated but also embarrassed look on his face.
The nurse agreed and walked into the ward with Su Jin. Su Jin pointed at his bed and said, I think it rolled in that direction. Thank you!
Sure, let help you find it. The nurse bent down to look under the bed as a murderous look flashed in Su Jins eyes. He pulled a knife out and approached the nurse. He didnt know if the nurses vital points were the sa as an ordinary humans, so he could only try to stab her in the heart.
Pfft! Su Jin no longer had his superhuman strength, but he had been well trained to be a killer. The knife was stabbed accurately into the nurses heart. She convulsed violently for a while, then collapsed motionlessly onto the floor.
He breathed a sigh of relief, then quickly gathered the blankets of the three beds to tie them together in a special way. He lit one end of the blanket, and once it reached a certain point, the flas would spread to the rest of the room and anything flammable would catch fire.
After that, he dashed out of the ward and ran toward the outside of the building. He had morized the entire map of the hospital the night before and he could visualize the buildings in his head.
Based on the map in his head, he quickly made his way out of the wards. But he was shocked when he stepped out of the building. While he was inside, he could see that it was sunny outside. But now all he saw was darkness. Night had fallen. Or rather, the night never ended.
Su Jin took a deep breath as he started analyzing the situation and ca to a conclusion quickly. It wasnt that night had fallen, but that it had never ended. It hadnt struck him before because he had been fooled by the two tis he slept.
Humans needed to draw reference from other things in order to have a sense of ti. If the things they were referencing changed or were removed, ones sense of ti would be greatly affected.
So people were able to calculate ti with other thods, such as silently counting the seconds or using their pulse rate as a guide. But those who did not think of such thods would have a gross miscalculation of ti.
Su Jins two periods of sleep occurred once when he first started the Challenge and was injected with tranquilizer, then again when he was knocked out. These two occurrences had been involuntary, and they had made his consciousness think that the night had passed while he was unconscious. And the fact that the hospital provided a day al after he woke up further solidified this misconception.
But why dont they want to know if its day or night? Su Jin was puzzled. Was it really necessary for the monsters to do that? Regardless of the ti, the hospital was fully within their control.
While he was thinking about these things, the fire in the wards was blazing as his entire ward caught fire. anwhile, he heard shouting coming from another building. He recognized that voice as the man with bandages. It seed like he had noticed sothing amiss and was fighting back now.
There was no ti to think so much about this. Regardless of the ti, he had to get out of here. He turned and started running toward the main entrance according to the map in his mory.
The blood red moon in the sky helped to light the way, but the hospital didnt only have just a few people working inside the buildings. Su Jin was eventually discovered and several nurses with human upper bodies and spidery lower bodies started shouting as they ran toward Su Jin.
Su Jin cursed inwardly and turned to run down a narrow passageway. These narrow paths worked to his advantage when it ca to these giant monsters.
The monster nurses werent agile enough, so even though Su Jin was in danger, he could still maintain a good distance between himself and the monsters behind. After taking a detour, he got back on his original route, except that he had already shaken off all the monster nurses.
He ran as fast as he could, but he was slowly getting more and more tired. Without any added strength, his body was so much weaker than he rembered. But he didnt have the ti to complain. Getting out of here alive was of utmost importance.
According to what he rembered, he just needed to make two more turns and he would see the main entrance to the hospital, so he persevered despite his exhaustion. But after he made it round the first bend, he stopped in his tracks as a skinny person appeared in front of him.
Youre alright?! The one blocking his way was the woman who was in the bed on his right in the ward. It turned out that the monsters hadnt captured her, which ant that the person who knocked him out was probably her.
Dont go in that direction, there are monster doctors guarding that side! she called out to him.
Su Jin frowned and cursed under his breath. The monster doctors seed to know what he was planning and were guarding the main entrance. anwhile, the woman ca closer to him and pulled at his arm. Co with ! I know another side road that can lead to the outside of the hospital!
Ill count on you to lead the way then. Su Jin had no choice but to follow the woman.
She led the way without hesitation and turned out to be extrely familiar with the hospital like Su Jin was. They made seven or eight turns and successfully avoided all the monsters to co to a high wall.
The wall around the hospital is only about three ters high, so we should be able to climb over it, said the woman as she pointed at the wall. Like she said, the wall was only about three ters high. One just needed to start running from a sufficient distance and you would make it.
The woman ran toward the wall, made a leap and got to the top of the wall. She then reached out to Su Jin and said, Hurry up! We can get out in no ti!
But Su Jin shook his head and looked at her perplexedly as he asked, Why did you knock out last night?
My mind was in a ss and I was afraid that you were going to stop from escaping, so I I didnt have a choice, Im sorry! she apologized to him.
Youve been hiding in the hospital for the past 20 odd hours and nobody discovered you? he continued to ask.
She nodded, then got a little anxious as she said, Hurry up! If the monsters catch up, you can forget about leaving this place!
But Su Jin rely scoffed and tapped his nose as he said, You knocked out last night and its night ti again, so you should have left the ward for more than 20 hours by now. I dont know how long Ive been sleeping for, but Im sure its not more than 20 hours.
What are you talking about? I knocked you out last night and its night again, so of course youve slept for more than 20 hours. You cant feel it because of the ds. Theyve injected you with ds, so you are able to sleep longer than you usually do, she explained.
He shook his head again and said, I say its impossible because of the way my body is. If I sleep for more than eight hours, my eyes would be very swollen when I wake up, but I dont feel like that now, so I think I didnt sleep for more than 20 hours, but more like just one or two hours. So it makes sense that its still night ti.
The woman frowned and did not say anything, while Su Jin went on, But you readily admitted that youve been hiding for more than 20 hours. I was unconscious, so I couldnt keep track of ti well. But what about you? Youve been awake all this ti. Even if you dont have anything to take reference from and you cant calculate ti accurately, the difference between two hours and 20 hours is way too great.
And when I think about it now, you were hiding under the blanket all the ti in the ward and didnt eat anything at all, so you should be very weak. But based on your movent just now, you dont look anything like soone who hasnt eaten or moved much in days. I was very close to the exit when you suddenly appeared to tell that monster doctors were guarding the area, which makes even more suspicious. You were trying to foil my plans! said Su Jin as he stared straight at the woman. He asked in a low voice, Who in the world are you? Or what are you?
Reviews
All reviews (0)