LWGP - Chapter 6
Chapter 6: 01
This time, they weren't too nervous. There were more of them, and they had a total of four weapons.
The six of them split into two groups of three, standing on either side of the door, lying in wait for the murderer outside to make a move.
The door had an electronic lock. It didn't look like it could be broken by force, unless... the other party knew the password.
Wang Jiu stood with Zhang Xu and Li Meng on one side. This time, Zhang Xu was at the very front, serving as the main force along with Liu Guang and Xu Kai. After exchanging glances, both groups stared intently at the keypad lock.
After waiting for a while, the six of them grew anxious. Why wasn't he coming in?
Li Meng: "Maybe he doesn't know the password?"
Zhang Xu: "Even better if he doesn't. Then he can't get in."
Wang Jiu: "I'm just afraid he's not coming in on purpose, waiting for the other murderers to gather."
Holy shit, Lao Wang, give us a break.
That mouth of yours...
Liu Guang: "Director Wang has a point. This is their territory. There's a murderer on every floor responsible for dismembering bodies. The morgue has no guards or transport workers, so they must come to get the bodies themselves. It's impossible they don't know the password."
That analysis really made sense.
If they waited for them to regroup... the six of them would be trapped in this morgue.
Wang Jiu: "I'll open the door and let him in. Let's see what you can do."
Before Zhang Xu and the others could react, they saw Wang Jiu walk over and open the door from the inside.
Click. After the door opened, Wang Jiu, standing behind it, saw no one outside. Not here?
"Hey, no one's here?" Wang Jiu narrowed her eyes and took two steps toward the center of the doorway. Just as she crossed the threshold, the murderer hiding by the door swung his axe down ferociously.
Swish!
The axe hit nothing but air. Wang Jiu had only made a feint before immediately retreating back into the morgue. The murderer, who had missed, stepped from the darkness into the light, revealing his form. Unwilling to give up, and with Wang Jiu so close, he immediately pursued her inside, raising his axe to strike at the retreating Wang Jiu.
He was fierce, his explosive power extraordinary, and he was using an axe. The scalpel was useless; it couldn't block the blow. But Wang Jiu was swift and agile, and she had been prepared. With a complete dodge, she actually managed to avoid it, though she stumbled and fell.
Seeing this, the murderer lunged again, but... Zhang Xu and Liu Guang had already seized the opportunity to act.
They attacked in unison from both flanks behind him.
Zhang Xu's face was savage as he made a lunging chop. The axe landed on the murderer's back, likely hitting bone. The murderer cried out in pain and turned to hack back at Zhang Xu, but Liu Guang had already closed in from the other side. Clutching a slender yet sharp scalpel, he quickly stabbed at the murderer's neck. In, out, then a swift retreat...
Pfft!!
Blood spurted like a fountain.
"Die, die... Aaargh! Die!"
The axe rose and fell, sending flesh and blood flying. The murderer had stopped moving.
Li Meng called out several times, but Zhang Xu didn't snap out of it. His eyes were spattered with blood, his expression chaotic, until...
Smack!
A slap landed on his face. Zhang Xu, half his face now red, came to his senses and looked at Li Meng.
Li Meng pointed sheepishly at Wang Jiu. "Lao Wang told me to hit you."
Wang Jiu smiled. "Men shouldn't exert themselves too much all at once. It'll drain you. It's for your own good."
Zhang Xu: "..."
Having been slapped, Zhang Xu soon discovered something even more tragic—the kill count for this murderer didn't go to him.
"The system notified me it was an assisted kill. It was you who got the KO, right, Brother Liu?"
Liu Guang smiled humbly. "I only dared to poke his neck. It was just a lucky shot."
Zhang Xu felt a bit frustrated. "I was too nervous. I actually forgot a person's vital spots—the head, neck, and heart... If I had just chopped him in the back of the heart..."
"Zhang Xu!" Wang Jiu said suddenly.
Zhang Xu froze, meeting Wang Jiu's serious gaze, and subconsciously called out, "Director."
It was just like when he was an intern under her supervision.
"A game is a game, but you are real. Don't let it play you. Don't say things like that again."
"Remember, you are a doctor."
In that instant, Zhang Xu had a revelation. It was as if he had become obsessed, equating human life with monsters in a game, measuring everything by the number of kills.
Even if it was for self-preservation, and even if he was killing a murderer, it still violated humanitarian principles and professional ethics.
Zhang Xu was deeply ashamed.
Wang Ling and Xu Kai both felt this person seemed to have an aura, a holy radiance... but a moment later, Wang Jiu added, "See it, don't say it. Do it, don't talk about it. That's a real man, understand?"
"..."
Because of this kill, they also came to understand another rule of the game: when killing a murderer, assisted damage also counted towards their score. Previously, when Wang Jiu took down Number Four, Zhang Xu and Li Meng hadn't contributed, so they got no credit.
"The system told me that was Number Five. We don't know which floor's murderer will come up next. We need to get out of here quickly. Director Wang, Director Wang, what are you looking at?" As Liu Guang was gathering everyone to leave, he noticed Wang Jiu standing in front of the corpse cabinets, seemingly studying something.
"What is it?"
"I was wondering how many cabinets there are in total here."
"99, of course."
"No, it's 98."
Wang Jiu pointed to the corner of the corpse cabinets. "It starts at 02. From 02 to 99, 01 is missing. I think this might be a clue."
Liu Guang: "What does 01 represent?"
Zhang Xu and the others thought of it at the same time. "01?! Is it hinting that we should go to the first floor?"
"No, it could also mean the boss."
License plates, or serial numbers—01 usually signifies the leader.
And in a hospital, there's a leader of the hospital.
Wang Jiu glanced at Liu Guang, who had just spoken. "The dean's office is on the 12th floor, right?"
Considering the social hierarchy and the distribution of the murderers, the 11th and 12th floors were significant. So, it was most likely the 12th floor.
So, should they go to the 1st floor or the 12th floor?
"Director Wang, what do you think?"
Wang Jiu wanted to go to the 12th, but Xu Kai and Wang Ling wanted to go to the 1st. Liu Guang wanted to go with Wang Jiu—it was obvious to anyone with eyes that he had a favorable impression of her—but out of a sense of responsibility, he decided to go with the other two.
The three of them walked ahead, while Wang Jiu's group of three followed behind.
"Wouldn't it be safer if we stuck together? Why do they have to go to the 1st floor?" Li Meng didn't quite understand, whispering in a low voice.
Liu Guang had killed Number 5, so the axe was his, and the scalpel was given to Xu Kai. Was it because he was confident enough in his own strength that he wanted to go solo?
"My guess is, one mountain cannot contain two tigers. Liu Guang seems to be getting close to our director, and the other two have to follow his lead. They probably don't like it."
That was Zhang Xu's theory. "It's probably because she likes Liu Guang and noticed he's interested in Lao Wang, so she's making trouble. As for men, if they meet someone they like, the more straightforward ones won't care what their female colleagues think."
Zhang Xu had always been a friend to the ladies in the hospital, so his insight was spot-on.
Besides, Wang Ling's admiration and affection for Liu Guang were obvious.
Li Meng was puzzled. "Aren't you a man too?"
Zhang Xu: "The point is, Lao Wang doesn't see me as a man."
Li Meng: "..."
When they went out, they saw Liu Guang's group of three waiting for the elevator.
But Wang Jiu suddenly said, "I'm afraid neither of our groups is going anywhere."
Lao Wang, just because they won't go with us, you don't have to jinx them, and don't drag us into it!
Li Meng and Zhang Xu's faces darkened, but then they saw that all three elevators were continuously ascending. The middle one had already reached the 11th floor.
Ding! Everyone's heart skipped a beat.
The elevator doors opened. The walls inside were covered in blood. A tall, burly man stood amidst four bloody corpses, an axe dripping blood in one hand, staring woodenly at the six of them.
"It's just one of him. We can still handle it." After his drunken wood-chopping performance with the axe, Zhang Xu was feeling particularly heroic and brave. He exchanged a look with Xu Kai, and the two of them actually charged forward. Wang Jiu and Liu Guang didn't have time to stop them, but Liu Guang went up too. The three of them rushed toward the murderer who had already stepped out of the elevator.
Swish!
As Liu Guang and Zhang Xu swung their axes, the murderer proved to be incredibly agile. He dodged, and after dodging, he swung his axe swiftly at Xu Kai.
"Ah!" Xu Kai, who had mustered some courage, screamed in terror, stumbling backward and falling right on his butt. The murderer lunged at him, forcing Liu Guang and Zhang Xu to rush in to save him... Just then.
"Lao Wang, Zhang Xu he..."
"Wait."
Li Meng saw that Wang Jiu was looking at her phone and had walked over to the trash can between the two elevators.
Chen Dong's phone showed another red dot approaching the 11th floor.
And it had arrived.
The elevator on the left also arrived. The red light of the display stopped at 11, and then the doors opened. Another murderer stood inside, the only difference being that his axe was still stuck in someone's neck. He narrowed his eyes, and with a twist of his wrist, crack!
The head separated from the neck, and blood shot upwards like a showerhead. Then he turned around, staring at Zhang Xu, Liu Guang, and the others fighting ahead.
"Look out!!" Wang Ling and Li Meng were terrified. Li Meng even subconsciously rushed to the front of the elevator and shouted, "Stop!"
You silly fool, do you think you're a cop and he's a thief?!
The second murderer, axe in hand, saw Li Meng, a woman, seeking her own death. He sneered, strode out of the elevator, and raised his axe...
A swift, low sweeping kick suddenly came at his legs from the left.
Caught off guard, the murderer's burly body immediately fell.
Seeing the murderer fall for the trick, Li Meng was overjoyed. Just as she was about to cheer, she saw the murderer, after hitting the ground... press one hand to the ground, flipping back to his feet, and launching a swift snap kick at the approaching Wang Jiu.
Not good! Li Meng hadn't expected this murderer to be not only physically strong but also so skilled in combat.
However...
Swish!
Wang Jiu also dodged the snap kick with nimble grace. As she evaded, her arm moved with agile precision.
Swish! The arc of the scalpel's blade cutting through the air was perfect, just like every time she used it to precisely cut human skin—a matter of life and death decided in an instant.
The sharp scalpel sliced through the ankle of the murderer's kicking left leg, severing the Achilles tendon directly. Blood sprayed out. The murderer screamed in agony. Now lame, his mobility crippled, he couldn't dodge, but if Wang Jiu dared to get close...
Wang Jiu grabbed the nearby trash can with one hand and threw it directly. His vision obstructed and his leg lame, the murderer couldn't dodge effectively and could only swing his axe to smash it apart.
The plastic trash can shattered, and the bits and pieces of garbage inside scattered out. The murderer's vision was blocked, but he saw a dark shadow...
A running start, head-on, a flying kick—Thud!!!
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