The three junior high school students all belong to the "newborn calves are not afraid of tigers" type. They themselves have a curiosity that is different from ordinary people. In addition, they have just awakened their superpowers. They happen to encounter strange things and naturally they are not willing to miss them.
"There are so many weird rumors about this hospital. Could it be that there really is a secret?"
They walked quickly down the stairs, Ji Chunzao humming a pleasant tune, and there was no trace of nervousness on her part, only a sense of excitement that she was eager to try.
"It's hard to say..."
However, Yan Jingxing quickly recalled something.
"By the way, I remember Teacher Gao mentioned that the most important reason why she was not sent to the building opposite was that the circuit was being repaired in the building?"
"Well, that's what she said. But in my opinion, the reason of 'maintenance' is probably just a rhetoric to cover up the truth inside."
"What truth?"
"That's unknown."
Xie Yuzhi smiled and replied:
"That's why we need to verify it ourselves, right?"
*
Leaving the main building, the three of them opened the door. In front of the door was a large piece of grass submerged in the night.
If you come during the day, you might be able to see a meadow under the sun with the blue sky and white clouds as the background. It will undoubtedly be a soothing scenery;
However, it has been two hours since the sun set over the western hills. If you don't light a lamp, you will be surrounded by darkness, and the sky in the distance is a bit scary.
Xie Yuzhi gave each of them a flashlight and walked together to the hospital building opposite.
Just now, they saw a group of medical staff in white coats hurried into the building, and there are still some people staying by the door.
"I can knock him out."
After crossing the lawn, Yan Jingxing stared at the doctor closely.
The "discussion" with Liu Tie gave him experience in using his abilities.
The simplest and crudest way is to find the vital points and kill the opponent directly, but activating instinct does not mean that Yan Jingxing will lose his mind. On the contrary, in this state, he is simply overly rational——
Therefore, as long as he reacts in time, he can immediately correct the direction of his thinking and come up with corresponding strategies.
"It's not necessary. It's better for you to retain your fighting power."
Xie Yuzhi closed her eyes and opened them after a few breaths.
"It's rare to have the first usable 'soldier chess piece', so let's use it to explore the way first."
…
The white coat who was staying at the door suddenly felt that something hit him hard on the back of his head.
"What, what's going on?"
The young doctor turned his head to look, only to find that there was nothing behind him.
What was that just now...?
If it wasn't his hallucination, someone really slapped him on the back of the head...
He felt creepy.
Of course the young man knew about the rumors about the hospital building behind him. He had heard about it before he came in. After becoming an intern here, his colleagues not only had no intention of "refuting the rumors", but often vividly described to him the strange things that had happened. He wanted to explore the truth but always met people who kept secrets about it...
The reason why he didn't dare to go in was because he didn't want to go in with his colleagues.
But this, would it be affected if I stood outside the door? Is there...a ghost running out of it?
The doctor was so frightened that he froze up. At this moment, he felt something cold and sticky crawling up from his feet, to his knees, torso, shoulders, and finally to his neck——
"Ahhhh!!"
He screamed.
The doctor found that he could gradually see the appearance of the thing clearly, and a blurry shadow was lying on his face. He was trying to peel it off while scurrying around hastily.
And in a direction that he didn't notice at all, young people had quietly entered the door.
…
Xie Yuzhi waved gently like a conductor at a concert, and Yan Jingxing saw a shadow running in from outside the door, and once again slipped into the dark corner and disappeared.
"let's continue."
Yan Jingxing turned on the flashlight, and an oval light spot streaked across the cement floor, ceiling and ceramic-covered walls.
For some reason, most places in the building were not lit. In the entire corridor on the first floor, only a few rooms in the depths revealed some light.
This is obviously unusual. Because the lights in the inpatient building are usually not turned off. This is a hospital after all. If a patient comes out in the dark, accidents can easily happen.
"So...there's really a power outage?"
Yan Jingxing thought to himself.
"Chun Zao, do you feel it?"
The curly-haired girl shook her head.
The range of the priest's ability is between fifteen and twenty meters in radius, and the limit can be explored to nearly fifty meters. However, in that case, there is no way to maintain a spherical detection range, and you can only choose a certain direction to go deep; and Because of the concentration required, you will lose control of your body and have to be watched over by someone.
Xie Yuzhi's ability has a similar problem, and even the range of effect is very similar: once it exceeds the distance of fifteen to twenty meters, the monster controlled by her can only act according to instinct.
"If it is the kind of situation that is latent in the human body, the range that I can detect in advance will be smaller." Ji Chunzao said softly.
"I see."
Yan Jingxing nodded.
"Let's go in that direction first and see if there is anyone there."
The faint light flickering in the darkness is like a ship sailing on the sea seeing a lighthouse in the distance, attracting them closer.
"This light... doesn't seem to be the incandescent light originally in the ward?"
"Um."
While communicating in lowered voices, they quickly walked to the edge of the room where the light came from, and heard the conversation between the two people coming from inside.
"Doctor Sun, how did you get the injury on your arm?"
A relatively young female voice asked.
"..."
"Why don't you speak?"
"Stop asking." Another middle-aged man said in a somewhat impatient tone, "Help me deal with it. I have to go over and take care of the scene."
"Are you still planning to go back? I can see that these wounds were not scratched by the claws of dogs or cats, but by human nails!"
"You can tell and still ask me?"
"Aren't we worried about you? Dr. Sun, do you really plan to go back again? I think there is something wrong with those patients."
"...They were both mentally ill and something was certainly not right."
"I'm talking about comparison with before. Doctor, didn't you go to the Southern District just now? The patients in the Southern District are usually very peaceful, but something is particularly wrong tonight."
"Did you see it?"
"Yes, I was patrolling the corridor on the third floor at night and saw that most of the people were sleeping. Suddenly, I heard a dog barking downstairs. I didn't take it seriously at first, but when it started barking, several people nearby started to bark. There was a commotion in the ward for some reason, so I wanted to go check out the situation, and it would be best if I could drive the dog away."
"..." The doctor didn't speak, just listened silently.
"I walked around downstairs, but I didn't find any dogs anywhere." The female nurse sighed, "But when I came back, some patients started to bang on the door and tried to rush out..."
"Then what?"
"Then, I was taken away by our head nurse. She asked me to wake up all the people on the night shift and bring them over, and then take away the nursing staff."
"Well, it's Nurse Li, right? She is experienced."
"...Doctor, what is going on? After I told Nurse Li about the situation, she asked me to stay on the first floor to help with the response, and she didn't say anything about 'response'. Now I am the only one left on the entire first floor... "
There was an indescribable complaint and panic in the nurse's tone. This panic came from her ignorance of the current situation and the weirdness revealed in the current situation.
"Don't worry, listen to Nurse Li. If someone wants to leave after coming down, don't stop him. If the person is injured, just help him bandage it. If he is really sleepy, it doesn't matter if he takes a nap here first." Dr. Sun comforted him. She said, "Don't worry, wait until tomorrow, the matter will be over, everything will be fine."
"Wait until tomorrow...? No, no, I want to go back now.!
The nurse's voice grew louder.
"I was originally here to take over the shift, but I shouldn't have come tonight. Doctor, don't play tricks on me like our head nurse does. Just tell me what's going on here? Is there something wrong with this hospital? That mess. There are rumors that there was a fire in the past..."
"——Those are all fake!"
Dr. Sun's voice suddenly rose, interrupting her words.
The atmosphere in the room fell silent for a while, and the children who were hiding outside the door and eavesdropping looked at each other, feeling that they might have really encountered each other this time.
The doctor gasped for a while, and then said in a helpless tone:
"Okay, I'll make it clear to you first, just don't tell anyone."
"Okay... okay, I promise not to tell anyone."
"...Forget it, no one will believe it even if you say it. Except for the old man who has worked in this hospital for more than ten years, there are very few people who know the truth."
Dr. Sun said.
"You said you heard a dog barking nearby, and then the patients started to make a fuss, right?"
"right……"
"Then do you know that there are no dogs in our hospital? Even if a stray dog comes in, it will be kicked out early or simply beaten to death. In other words, you can at most hear the cat meowing."
"Ah? What, what does this mean?"
"This is a rule set by the hospital, and every security guard who comes in knows it. Of course, the reason I tell them is to prevent patients from being bitten and getting rabies, but in fact, it is to prevent bad things from happening."
"..." The nurse was silent. I don't know if she was too surprised to speak.
On the other hand, Dr. Sun, who had already started talking, did not intend to stop.
"Just ten years ago, there was a riot among mental patients in this hospital. The cause was a barking dog. Don't think it's strange, it's true, and there's no need to ask why, because no one knows... maybe those who are not under control Crazy mental patients will know, but after the incident is over, they all seem to have lost their memory and have no idea what to ask."
"I was present during the riot, so I saw it clearly. I even saw what the dog looked like. It was it that made more than a dozen patients want to escape from the hospital like crazy. That night Several people were injured, and there was even one..."
Dr. Sun took a deep breath. Even though ten years have passed, that extremely terrifying night is still fresh in his memory as a person who experienced it personally.
"There is another person I know whose throat was bitten to death by one of the patients alive."
"Really, such a thing really happens..."
"Yes, I don't want to lie to you. In addition, I also saw the dog with my own eyes, a dog with jet black hair, as big as a calf. I have never seen such a big dog in my life. The scary thing is that it has two mouths on its face! I don’t know if it’s a deformity or something else, but those eyes seem to be able to understand people’s words and make people’s hearts tremble... In short, as long as you see it for the first time, Just know that it is no ordinary beast.”
"So, what happened next?"
"Later, at dawn the next day, we no longer heard the dogs barking. The patients slowly returned to normal."
"Didn't you call the police?"
"Originally, I wanted to report it, but the leaders of the hospital did not agree at the time. They said that we can solve it ourselves, so we should not expose the matter. By then, the outside world will only treat this place as amusement, and reporters who heard the news will come around. , maybe the hospital will close down."
"...really hiding it?"
"Yes, because by the next day, everything returned to normal, as if nothing had happened. Except for the colleague who was bitten to death. The cause of death that his family learned was that he was killed by a wild wolf when he went to the mountains. Towed away.”
"..."
"Okay, I've told you what should be said and what shouldn't be said, that's it."
Before the man finished speaking, there was suddenly another shrill roar from the direction of the third or fourth floor.
"Come again?" There was unspeakable fear in the doctor's tone. "It was indeed that dog, and it started barking again. How did it come back after ten years?"
Yan Jingxing couldn't help but look up at the ceiling.
The sound came from above.
When they were in Teacher Gao's ward before, they only heard a scream that was so shrill and inhuman that it echoed through the night sky; but after listening to the doctor's words, he realized that it was indeed a dog barking.
"I, I have to go up. Just stay here."
The doctor suppressed his fear and stood up to go out.
Yan Jingxing and the others immediately left the place. The unlit corridor was enough to obscure their view. They found a corner to hide. Then, after the doctor walked up to the second floor, the three of them followed him quietly.
…
After arriving on the second floor, I could vaguely hear music playing on the radio from a distance.
Yan Jingxing, who was hanging behind the doctor, tried to keep a distance of about five meters from him.
At this moment, he suddenly felt that the music seemed a bit familiar. As he walked closer, the originally fuzzy sound became clearer and louder——
"Start now, the eighth set of radio gymnastics, stay put~walk! One, two, three, four..."
"Hey, I think I heard the sound of gymnastics broadcast?"
The little girl behind him made a surprised sound.
"..."
Yan Jingxing stopped subconsciously.
Because, just in the corridor not far from here, there were more than a dozen people standing in shadows.
Under the dim light, they were following the broadcast and doing stretching exercises; the swaying shadows cast on the ground and walls were like a chaotic dance of demons.
The scene itself was nothing unusual, he saw it every morning when he was at school. But the problem is that the place he is currently in is a mental hospital building late at night——
The group of people in front of them wearing hospital gowns and doing radio gymnastics silently in the dim light around them are the patients in this inpatient building.
Yan Jingxing, who suddenly saw this scene, felt his scalp numb slightly. The scene in front of him was absurd and unspeakably weird...
