Su Bai could not see, so even as he traveled with the group, everything he knew about the Reverse Birth Corridor still came from Le Shiya's descriptions.
He listened quietly to the girl's descriptions, combining them with the details of the corridor he had memorized when he first entered the game, trying to build a complete floor plan of the Reverse Birth Corridor in his mind.
The Reverse Birth Corridor was vast. If each side was treated as a separate corridor, each corridor could accommodate roughly thirty patient rooms. The rooms the Nurse had assigned to the players were right at the beginning of one corridor, very close to the Nurses' Station, almost as if this had been deliberate.
In Le Shiya's words, although every door was beautifully crafted, and the corridors were covered with playful pictures and decorations, perhaps because each corridor was so long, when you stood at one end and looked ahead at thirty identical doors lined up neatly, it was like...
"Like a row of shadows with indistinct faces."
Su Bai could imagine the scene-repetition, symmetry, a rigid arrangement that was inherently unsettling and felt out of place.
Moreover, the corridor lights were blindingly bright. The incandescent light spilled unchecked across the cream-colored walls, giving them a sickly pallor and leaving nowhere in the entire space for shadows to exist.
It made the Newborn Ward's patient rooms, which should have felt warm and welcoming, seem like a cold glass container under harsh light, with everything exposed.
"Every time we turn a corner, there's another long corridor. It always feels like we're walking down a road that never ends." An indescribable sense of oppression seeped into Le Shiya's voice as well.
During their exploration, they discovered a washroom and a storage room halfway down each corridor. While