Chapter 30: Run! (1/2)

The flood within the basement of the Administration Block wasn't really that deep.

At most, it was only about waist high.

Entering a small crevice at the bottom of the stairs, the group found themselves standing in a room with six lockers big enough to fit two people. Opening the lockers, they conveniently found some coat hangers for their hospital gowns.

They needed to keep these hospital gowns clean.

Calvin explicitly told them to do just that and none of them dared to shrug any words that he was saying at this point.

When they were done keeping their things in order...

They were finally ready to descend into the Flooded Basement.

But before that happened, Calvin gathered the newbies for another meeting.

”The depth of the water in the flooded basement can reach up to waist height. I want you all to be aware of this so that you won't unnecessarily panic when the waters suddenly get too deep. Also, if you feel something strange touching your skin. Don't be too surprised. Just ignore it, don't even look at it. Just ignore and focus on the task at hand.”

Calvin sternly warned.

”What do you mean something strange touching our skin?”

Jannette who had always been a clean freak due to the nature of her work shivered.

”The basement is connected to the sewers. The floodwater is stinky and dirty. What's more, since we are in a mental asylum with monsters roaming through the entire facility. Who knows if what will drift in front of you in the water is mere fecal matter, what if it's a severed head? I want you to expect that something like that would happen at the least...”

”I can't let you panic while in the flooded basement.”

Jannette gasped in fear. But she didn't say anything.

She knew that they needed running electricity before they could explore the eastern part of the asylum.

Gnashing her teeth, she swore to endure all of these and have a great meal and beer once she was out of this place.

Calvin could see the determination on Jannette's face, so he didn't say anything anymore.

Turning to look at the others, he explained even further. ”The waters in the flooded basement will slow us down. But it's not generally a problem as long as we can take our time. Unfortunately, we will be in a race against time once we descended into the basement.”

”Why?” Hugo asked with a frown.

”There may be a patient, or even patients roaming through this flooded basement the size of a school gym.”

”A patient?” Hugo's eyebrows scrunched even deeper.

Calvin could see that Hugo misunderstood, so Calvin further explained, ”No, they are not as strong as the Benevolent Father and that big fat bastard, but they are still dangerous. I think you can handle them with your experience, Hugo. But the problem is if you fight against them, who will defend the others?”

”Furthermore, I expect them to have weapons such as cleavers, steel bats.”

Calvin let out a sigh, ”Hopefully, there's only a single patient roaming through the flooded basement. If there are a lot of them, then that would be a problem.”

”A problem?” Medea raised an eyebrow, ”So, you are not saying that it's impossible?”

”Of course, not! We can still do what we need to do even if there are a dozen patients roaming through the flooded basement.” Calvin was quite confident of his claim. The patients of this mental asylum may be madmen and relentless on their pursuit against their enemies, but since their mental faculties were affected.

They were only moving according to their instincts.

In other words, they could be read like a book.

Given enough time, Calvin could plot their routes in his small notebook and create a plan according to the routes of those patients.

”How confident are you with that claim of yours?” Hugo asked.

”Ninety-percent. Minus ten percent because of Murphy's Law.” Calvin casually replied.

”Murphy's Law?” Hugo seemed to be astounded upon hearing a new term.

Rose explained to him, ”Murphy's Law states that what can go wrong will go wrong. In other words, one must always have contingency plans for all sorts of situations.”

Calvin nodded his head in agreement.

”Isn't that the same as saying that we will absolutely fail this mission?” Philip furrowed his eyebrows and complained.

Calvin turned to look at him and bitterly smiled, ”Don't be so pessimistic like that, man. All right, how about this. I will go and descend there first to check the situation. For now, I want you all to study this map that I made. Upon descending into the flooded basement. We must turn these cranks to fire up the generator for the eastern side of the asylum.”

”The order doesn't matter, but we must absolutely turn on the generator at the center of the flooded basement before electricity can return. Otherwise, just turning those cranks are useless.”