Everyone's Shared Hospital
(To be revised) Ellison's gaze went briefly blank. After a momentary pause in his thoughts, his mental state changed dramatically. His sharp resistance gave way to uncertainty, as if his convictions were wavering.
By the time Xu Huo injected the "Syringe" into his arm, the light in his eyes had gradually gone out.
Xu Huo sat down in front of him and picked up a notebook. "Name?"
"Ellison Dog..."
The same scene was playing out elsewhere in the building. The doctors appearing before the "patients" all looked different, of course. Some were based on the patients' own imaginations, while others were phantoms Xu Huo had created using the Dungeon's power.
In fact, the group had been sorted as soon as they entered the Dungeon. The strongest High-level Players, along with Captain Matt, had been sent straight to the top floor. Bai Kou was there too, and she deserved much of the credit for the Dungeon not having been destroyed yet.
The others, such as Nobles like Ellison, had been divided into several groups. Some were harder to deal with and less likely to fall into an illusion, so Xu Huo had to reinforce their ideas of a "hospital" and "patients."
The game's first two tasks were linked. These Players, who lacked the ability to destroy the Dungeon but were eager to find a way to clear it, would naturally choose to kill the doctors. And where could they find a doctor? The psychiatric Treatment Room, of course.
But the psychiatric Treatment Room was a trap. Players who entered before reaching the range Xu Huo had set would wear themselves out opening doors, and the "doctor" wouldn't appear in the office until they had grown accustomed to the Dungeon's environment.
With that condition in place, the Red