The Director
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"Giggle—"
The next moment, all the doors in the corridors opened with a bang.
A strong suction force emanated from the door, sucking in the patient, doctor, nurse, and security guard. No matter how much they struggled, it was useless.
As medical staff disappeared in large numbers, the scene before us gradually blurred, replaced by a huge maze.
On the wall of the maze, a girl in white sat smiling, her bare little feet exposed, looking down at the senior engineer.
"Brother, it seems I've won."
"What do you mean?" the senior engineer asked in surprise. "If I remember correctly, we were betting on whether there was such a 'high-level message' in the City of the Dead. Isn't that exactly what's going on now?"
The girl didn't answer, but jumped down. The senior engineer was stunned, quickly shook off the mainframe computer, and hugged his younger sister. Unfortunately, the touch of a mechanical body was always a little inferior to that of normal flesh and blood.
"Then I'll take you to see it."
Since Gao Yuanyuan had created her own maze, she naturally wouldn't get lost. After being led through a maze of twists and turns, Gao Gong arrived directly at the maze's exit, in front of a large white door.
Gao Yuanyuan gently jumped down from Gao Gong's arms, a complex code flashing in her eyes. She gripped the doorknob, and the next moment, the entire maze began to blur, turning into complex streams of information light and neural currents. The terrifying pressure on the information level made Gao Gong feel his breath catch in his throat. This was the information pressure born from the merging of all the brain structures in the entire City of the Dead.
The next moment, with a gentle turn by Gao Yuanyuan, the door was pushed open, the maze disappeared, and what appeared before the two of them was an abandoned hospital.
"This is the true form of the 'advanced information phenomenon'? It really is a hospital, and it really is nighttime."
Nighttime, hospital, innocent young girl.
The senior engineer felt his soul trembling.
"Brother, come with me."
Gao Yuanyuan walked ahead, and the two passed through room after room. In each room, there were bloodstained scalpels, white coats, disinfectant, and a large amount of "surgical materials".
"Hmm, this is really a bit extreme."
However, after thinking about where he was, the senior engineer felt relieved.
He secretly sized up his younger sister.
Gao Yuanyuan looked completely at ease; this environment was no different from where she grew up.
The two walked along without seeing a single nurse or doctor; the hospital was deserted, creating an indescribable sense of loneliness.
"Brother, I have already grasped some of the rules of this 'advanced information'."
Gao Yuanyuan suddenly giggled, and when she turned around, she had transformed into a pink nurse wearing a nurse's cap and holding a stack of blue folders.
"Brother, isn't it beautiful?"
The senior engineer's eye twitched. "Sis, this flag you've raised is making even your older brother tremble. What if you attract some weirdo with long hair and glasses?"
Seeing that Engineer Gao didn't speak, Gao Yuanyuan wrinkled her nose and handed over the stack of folders she was holding.
When the senior engineer opened it, it indeed contained the surgical list and information about the doctors and patients.
"As long as someone's name is written on this list, we can perform surgery on them regardless of distance," Gao Yuanyuan said with a gentle smile, but her words made Engineer Gao shudder.
"So you have to be good, brother, or I'll have to perform surgery on you."
The senior engineer grabbed the other person's scissor-like hand and said in a serious tone, "I'll be counting on you for my tailbone and foreskin from now on."
"Snort!"
"But is this really that buggy? It can bring people in at any time. The impact shouldn't be limited to the City of the Dead."
The senior engineer looked at Gao Yuanyuan again and saw that she was smirking like a little fox. Only then did he realize that he had been deceived.
"So, only seriously ill patients can be brought in?"
"Yes, I've tried. Some minor superficial injuries can't be added to the patient list, and there are geographical restrictions; it has to be within a certain area of the hospital."
"No wonder."
The senior engineer muttered to himself that he had been infected with the "brain-computer interface virus" at its maximum level of infection, and was undoubtedly a severe case who could be surgically removed.
However, this limited range greatly weakens its effectiveness.
Seeing the senior engineer frown, Gao Yuanyuan quickly added, "But brother, don't worry, my 'ability' can directly pull patients in, so that distance can be ignored."
Upon hearing this, the engineer's brows relaxed again. That's right, a large maze with interconnected brains could be created using Gao Yuanyuan's abilities, and the power of the maze could be used to directly pull a person's consciousness into the "hospital".
This is equivalent to ignoring the limitation of distance.
"Brother, look again, you'll find something even more interesting."
The senior engineer scanned the patient list again. In addition to the names, the list also included each patient's symptoms, surgical site, and trial medication.
Actually, looking at it this way, this "Ancient Information" is quite neutral and orderly. At least it can actually be used to perform surgery and solve some ailments that are difficult to treat under normal circumstances.
"Huh, there aren't any high-risk surgeries listed here?"
The senior engineer was surprised to find that although these surgeries seemed dangerous, they were basically not likely to kill people.
The "surgery" he underwent previously was subject to a "murder conviction".
"Brother, high-risk surgeries require the hospital director's signature."
Gao Yuanyuan led the senior engineer to an office, pushed open the door, and saw a figure sitting in the darkness with a cold expression, holding a ballpoint pen for signing.
"It's him!"
When the senior engineer was queuing to see the testicles, besides the android and the AI projection, there was also a man with a gloomy expression sitting next to him.
On the surface, the man didn't seem to have any problem.
Now, the man is sitting in his office, dressed in a white lab coat, and his face exudes a sinister and eccentric air.
"So, the determination that a surgery is 'life-threatening' falls under the director's authority, and the condition for such a determination is that the director must witness it?!"
The senior engineer looked at the young nurse next to him with a strange expression.
"Therefore, the 'advanced information' here isn't one, but two!"
"Hehe, brother, you lost. What you said before was 'a high-level piece of information,'" Gao Yuanyuan emphasized.
"Hmm, it seems that's really the case," the senior engineer stroked his chin. "Interesting, really interesting. These two 'advanced information' are actually a set."
He could roughly imagine how these two intertwined pieces of information came about.
The surge in computing power brought about by the Electronic Brain Project and the semi-virtual world triggered by the sinking of cyberspace have made this planet extremely suitable for the birth of 'advanced information'.
However, since this situation did not develop over a long period of time but appeared suddenly, the 'twins' that should have separated from the placenta had already grown up before they were separated, and the equally rapidly evolving 'information umbilical cord' tightly intertwined them, making them unable to separate.
This situation is extremely rare, even in the information world. Only in the cyber testing ground where social structures undergo drastic changes can such a "monstrosity" be born.
As the two continued their conversation, the "dean" finally raised his head, staring intently at the senior engineer. His eyes slowly curved upwards, his expression a half-smile, and his gaze held an indescribable sense of perversion.
Then, without hesitation, he uncapped his pen and signed his name as a senior engineer on a surgical form.
Does this thing kill without requiring the prerequisite of being a "severely ill patient"?
Gao Yuanyuan snorted coldly and stood directly in front of Engineer Gao.
The next moment, two sets of footsteps sounded simultaneously, and two groups of doctors and nurses pushed operating tables directly to block the doorway; however, it was precisely because the two groups appeared at the same time, pushing and shoving each other, that no one was able to get in smoothly.
The chilling aura emanating from the senior engineer gradually dissipated, and he even watched the scene with great interest.
"Did the clash between the two surgical rules create a new bug?"
"Hehe, isn't my brother smart?"
Gao Yuanyuan was like a child waiting for praise; no one expected that she would become a super strong person in the information field.
"Well then, it's your turn next."
Gao Yuanyuan closed her eyes, and in the eyes of the 'Dean', a huge maze appeared once again. The 'Dean' heard familiar footsteps behind him, his expression changed drastically, and he hurried away. But no matter how he tried to escape, he could not get out of the maze. The footsteps were getting closer and closer. Then, he saw a door. He was overjoyed and pushed the door open. What he was met with were pairs of patients with resentful eyes.
A dead man has come looking for him!
"Okay, his computer crashed."
When Gao Yuanyuan opened her eyes again, the "dean" had disappeared, and there were many more "surgical components" in the various operating rooms.
"Kill him once, then reassemble him, and I can completely control him. But his face is too ugly; I need to change it." Gao Yuanyuan's eyes darted around, and she suddenly touched Gao Gong. Gao Gong immediately felt that he had lost a little bit of his pheromones, and he suddenly had a very bad feeling.
The next moment, the "Dean" came out again, plopped down in a chair, crossed his arms, had a distorted expression, and a white light reflected off his glasses.
The nurse stood beside him, seemingly keeping a secret, and gave the senior engineer a sweet smile.
Looking at that familiar handsome face, the senior engineer's eye twitched violently.
The "Dean" is actually myself!
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