[Infinite] End Game

The smell of the lunch was very bland, with an unwashed earthy smell. Tang Yu kept staring in the direction of the door, but never saw Liang Shan, so he was sure that Liang Shan was not planning to come back.

In the afternoon they were divided into two parts, the boys did carpentry or planted in the backyard, and the girls did some cleaning, weaving and ironing.

Tang Yu expressed that he didn't understand that the patient had to work, but he still had to obey the arrangement under the encouragement of sticks and chains.

There is a huge courtyard under the steps of the backyard, which is full of apple trees. The courtyard is surrounded by high walls, and the square sky looks particularly distant.

Tang Yu received the job of weeding, and when he was about to do it, he found a familiar figure standing quietly in the corner where the weeds grew, facing the wall in a daze, thinking about something.

Ghostly.

Tang Yu said something silently in his heart, and walked over to stand with him.

"What are you looking at?" Tang Yu followed Liang Shan's gaze to the stone pillar covered by vines in front of the two of them, and asked with some doubts.

Liang Shan's eyes were calm. Hearing this, he reached out and swept away the vines, revealing the original pattern on the stone pillar.

It was an iris.

The blooming flowers are set off by soft and slender branches and leaves, and the petals flutter with delicate lines, like a fluttering white dove or the tail feathers of a colorful sparrow.

Its level of refinement was as if it had been cut directly on a stone, but Tang Yu and Liang Shan's expressions became heavy at the same time.

After Ji Shenlan's emergency training, Tang Yu's biggest gain was that he was forced to learn a lot of remote knowledge and had some rules for doing things.

Information will undoubtedly play a vital role in a dungeon, all words may have special meanings, the more information you have, the easier it is to dig out the truth of the dungeon.

Therefore, documents such as books, newspapers, and archives are the objects that players need to collect and understand first, but relying on these alone is not feasible.

In addition to words, there are more details that can also play a crucial role in inferring the truth.

Like the previous copy of the Iron Forest, there is not even a single word in the entire forest.

It is not a special case that there is no written data to rely on such a copy. If you encounter it unfortunately, you can only infer from the details.

Whether it is the season, or humidity, or even the height of the sun, the position of the stars, the types of trees and the animals that live nearby, or a painting, a piece of music, or a piece of clothing can provide information to the player.

Coincidentally, the information on various plants happened to be one of Tang Yu's bad knowledge, and among them, iris was naturally included.

Iris has the symbolic meaning of "bright freedom" in the European continent.But its genus name is also called "Iris", the rainbow goddess in Greek mythology-the legendary messenger between the gods and mortals, the god who brings the soul of a person back to heaven after death.

Badges and the like must have their symbolic meaning, but the meaning is good intentions, but appearing here at this time, for no reason, gives people a feeling of chills down the spine.

Tang Yu didn't speak. He took a step forward and opened the leaves further, and found a small bronze medal inlaid under the iris badge.

Due to the wind and corrosion, the writing on it was somewhat blurred. Tang Yu wiped the surface of the bronze medal, and slowly read the name on it: "St. Joseph...rehabilitation, center."

St. Joseph's Rehabilitation Center, the name of the facility.But that's just an elegant way of calling it, if it's more blunt--mental asylum.

madhouse.

It's just that this place is different from an ordinary lunatic asylum. Reminiscent of what Little Curly said to him before, there should still be quite a few normal people in this rehabilitation center.

In other words, the so-called treatment is being carried out on mental patients and normal people at the same time.

And the purpose and reason of it cannot be thought through in an apple orchard.

"What do you think..." Tang Yu withdrew his thoughts, intending to tell Liang Shan what he had known so far, but he only started to feel a sudden pain in his hand. It turned out that Liang Shan had let go of the vine in his hand. , The flexible branch bounced back just to hit the back of Tang Yu's hand, pulling back all the rest of his words.

Tang Yu frowned, but Liang Shan had already turned around and left. He walked under the apple tree, picked up the gardening shears leaning on the trunk, climbed the trunk with one hand, and quickly climbed into the crown of the tree. And the dense almost dark green leaves obscured his figure.

The job Liang Shan received was to trim tree branches.

Tang Yu stood under the tree and tried to raise his head to look up, and said patiently, "No matter who you are, you always have to clear the dungeon, right? At least cooperate first?"

What responded to him was a branch that fell from above his head.

Tang Yu: "..."

A surge of anger suddenly surged in his heart, Tang Yu suddenly lifted his foot and kicked it on the tree trunk, then turned and left.

The work of weeding is lackluster except for back pain.

It wasn't until dusk came down that the lights suddenly lit up in the tall building ahead.

The dim light shines through the panes, stretching the shadows of everyone long and narrow.

Tang Yu sat on the steps and squeezed the thorns by the light. Although he was wearing gloves, there were still some thin and soft thorns in the grass, which pierced into the flesh through the gaps in the fibers. It didn't hurt very much, but the presence was very strong. Strong, not only severe itching, but also a bit swollen around.

The nurse came out to count the number of people, and Tang Yu found that Liang Shan was still standing not far away. Tang Yu had noticed when he would come down from the tree before, but after pulling the grass for a while, he realized that he had lost sight of him.

The nurses took them back to the cafeteria. Tang Yu keenly noticed that the nurses were looking a little unhappy. It wasn't until they entered the room that none of the girls came back.

Girls' work is relatively easy, and in principle they should be done earlier than them.Tang Yu felt a little strange, Ning Han sat beside him and turned to look at the door, with anxiety and worry written all over his face.

The crowd waited for nearly 10 minutes before noisy footsteps sounded in the corridor, and soon, the girls were also driven into the cafeteria.Ning Han subconsciously supported the table and stood up, desperately looking for his wife among a group of girls. Fortunately, Ming Shu was also looking for him, and the two quickly met their eyes in mid-air.

Ming Shu's face was pale, with fear in his eyes, but luckily he was not injured.After seeing her husband, Ming Shu showed a weak but comforting smile, and Ning Han barely calmed down.

Ming Shu sat next to Ning Han after finishing the meal, and they held Ning Han tightly with the hand that was not holding the spoon under the table, both of them were grateful and cherished in each other's eyes.

"Ashu, are you okay? What happened?" Ning Han looked into his wife's eyes, and clenched his cold fingertips tightly in distress.

"...I'm fine, it's just that there was a little accident." Ming Shu shook his head, thinking of what happened suddenly in the afternoon, he still felt nauseous.

"...Can you believe it?" In such a dungeon, all escaping behaviors are meaningless. Mingshu knows this very well, so she just took a deep breath and said in a calm tone as much as possible: "While weaving today, someone stabbed a shuttle into the eyes of the people around me... probably injured his head. When the nurse came, the person had already passed away."