"Instead of standing there in a daze, why not search this room for mental patients to see if you can find any clues that are helpful for clearing the level."
Hearing Asagiri's words and seeing his actions as if he was observing something by the window, although Yuuki Asuna still held some vigilance in her heart, she couldn't help but ask.
"Mr. Fangshi, why do you know that this is a room for mental patients?"
"Isn't this obvious at a glance?"
Asagiri stepped back two steps and pointed at the window. Yuuki Asuna looked in the direction of his finger and saw that the window of this room was only about thirty centimeters long and wide, and it was also installed with steel bars as thick as a thumb.
"The hint says that this is a sanatorium, but just looking at this window, it's clear that this room is similar to a cell, and there's also this..."
Speaking of this, Asagiri walked to the hospital bed, reached out and put his hand on the iron railings on both sides, and after carefully rubbing them, he said in a calm tone.
"This railing is not the kind of safety railing installed in ordinary hospital rooms to prevent patients from falling out of bed while sleeping. It's the kind that cannot be put down, and there are obvious signs of wear near the head and foot of the bed. This is because when someone was lying on this bed, their hands and feet were restrained on the railing and they struggled constantly, leaving behind these marks."
"The edge of this bed sheet also has traces of dried blood, which is consistent with what I just said, proving that someone struggled constantly, causing their wrists and ankles to be worn out."
"Judging from the above clues, this is either a room for mental patients, and they are the kind of mental patients with strong aggressiveness who cannot be unrestrained even when sleeping, or it is the scene of a sadist's crime. However, a sadist should not deliberately put a hospital bed so that the person they kidnap can lie down, and the APP hint also said that this is a sanatorium of unknown name, so the former is more likely."
Hearing Asagiri's analysis, Yuuki Asuna couldn't help but be a little surprised.
She was not surprised by the other person's extraordinary intelligence or keen insight, after all, as long as a normal person carefully observed in this room, they could find the traces the other person just mentioned and reach the same conclusion. This was not a big deal.
What really made Yuuki Asuna puzzled was...
Isn't the speed at which this mysterious person who calls himself "Fangshi Yangming" gets into the state a bit too fast?
Suddenly appearing in a completely strange place, at least they would be stunned for a while, and then take out their phone to try to contact the outside world to call the police. This should be a normal person's reaction, right?
As a result, the other person just took out their phone and took a look, seemed to confirm something, and then started observing like this?
This person...
Is their mental state normal?
"That... there seems to be something padded inside your clothes?"
Hearing Yuuki Asuna's cautious question, Asagiri, who was standing there, waved his hand and replied in a calm tone as if it were a matter of course.
"Actually, it's nothing, just padding those magazines, books, etc., under my clothes, and also rolling them up and wrapping them on my arms and legs with tape. After all, I'm going to enter the instance, so this most basic protection is still necessary."
Yuuki Asuna was speechless when she heard this.
From the appearance of the APP on the phone to the preparation time before entering the instance, there were only ten minutes of preparation time, right?
Assuming that this "Fangshi Yangming"'s situation is the same as hers, that means that in ten minutes, the other person used magazines and books to protect themselves, then took an electric drill and an electric saw, and finally entered the instance?
This speed of action... isn't it a bit too fast? They didn't hesitate at all and didn't consider the possibility that the phone was infected with a virus and had a Trojan program installed?
Yuuki Asuna's doubts were reasonable, but Asagiri's situation was different.
Utsunomiya Asagiri, who is currently sixteen years old, the same age as Yuuki Asuna, and according to the time in the real world, should officially become a high school student today, is a transmigrator.
For him, since even transmigrating to a completely different world can happen, the sudden appearance of the Main God Space and being selected as a Player is not that incredible.
"Instead of continuing to be curious about me, why not combine the information I just found and think about how to escape?"
Hearing Asagiri's words, Yuuki Asuna finally came back to her senses. Although she still didn't quite understand the current situation, she still tried her best to calm down and began to think seriously.
First of all, she was sure that the real name of this mysterious person who was in the same room as her was definitely not "Fangshi Yangming". The reason was simple. If the other person told her their real name so easily, what was the point of wearing a mask and sunglasses to cover their face?
Moreover, just now, when she chose not to say her name, the other person also said, "You're quite vigilant, good."
It was obvious that he was testing her.
However...
In this situation, regardless of whether this "Fangshi Yangming"'s mental state is normal or what kind of person he is, the most reasonable choice is obviously to cooperate with the other person and absolutely not become an enemy. After all, Yuuki Asuna did not think that she could defeat this male who was over 1.8 meters tall and was holding an electric drill and an electric saw with just a fruit knife.
Thinking of this, Yuuki Asuna recalled the red text she saw before entering the instance and muttered.
"Escape within sixty minutes, which is one hour... This is the 'Player's' mission objective, but it doesn't say what the penalty for failure is. Is there no penalty? Or is it that escaping this place within one hour is the only way to survive, so there is no need for a penalty?"
Yuuki Asuna paused here, first looked at the window with steel bars, then at the electric saw on the ground next to Asagiri, but finally shook her head.
"No, there's no way. Leaving aside whether an electric saw can cut through steel bars of that thickness, even if it can, with the size of that window, we can't climb out through the window. The only way to escape is to open the door and leave this room... But what exactly are the so-called 'caregivers'...?"
Just as Yuuki Asuna was halfway through her sentence, her peripheral vision inadvertently swept to the location of the hospital room door.
This glance made the blood in her whole body feel as if it had frozen. The sudden fear even made her feel that her body was paralyzed.
On the closed door of the hospital room, there was a transparent observation window, just like in a normal hospital room.
And at this moment, behind that glass observation window, a ferocious face with bloodstains was pressed tightly against it.
Those bloodshot pupils were staring at her intently.