Bloody Hospital (8): Directly

After thinking it over again and again, the bald boy decided to temporarily believe the stories told by Zhao Tonggang and Wang Huan, and discussed the cooperation plan for the evening with the two of them.

Xia Ruize and Cheng Huaiqian were observing other patients, wondering if there were any differences between them and the day before.

After observing for a long time, the two came to the conclusion that many people looked better than when they were out for some fresh air the day before.

Moreover, compared with the dull and depressing atmosphere of yesterday, the atmosphere in the garden today was more lively. Many patients were enthusiastically sharing their feelings after taking the special medicine, and they all expressed their admiration for the Aardman Hospital, saying that the treatment effect was immediate.

In addition, Xia Ruize and Cheng Huaiqian also verified the places where the fight took place last night, especially the file room on the first floor of the administrative building. Sure enough, there were no traces of fighting. The file cabinets that were pushed into a mess by them last night were now neatly arranged, and some file materials that were damaged in the fight were also neatly placed far away.

Xia Ruize and Cheng Huaiqian had some guesses in their minds, but more verification was needed.

The two of them behaved very sociably. They returned to the ward at the appointed time, lay down to continue resting, and waited quietly for dinner to end and for the nurses to finish their busy work for the whole day.

When the nurse said good night to them, turned off the lights, closed the door and left, Xia Ruize noticed the time. It was 7:40 in the evening.

In the darkness, Li Hai quickly fell into a deep sleep, but Xia Ruize and the other two, who had rested for a whole day, were full of energy and their vigilance was high.

At this time, Gao Hexuan placed high-tech cameras produced by the Lord God in the four corners of the ward, capturing the situation in the ward in all directions. The images could be fed back to Gao Hexuan in real time, and then shared with Cheng Huaiqian and Xia Ruize through the heart network from Gao Hexuan’s perspective.

They wanted to test whether high-tech products could play a special role in the supernatural world and record the real scenes happening in the ward at night.

It was eight o’clock, and Xia Ruize, who was already on high alert, suddenly felt a strong sense of drowsiness. Even though he tried his best to resist, he could only hold out for a few seconds before his eyes went dark and he fell into a coma.

When he regained consciousness, the first thing Xia Ruize noticed was the time displayed by the system: nine o’clock in the evening.

Xia Ruize, who was already experienced, stood up calmly and walked to the window to look out. Sure enough, there were already many phantoms floating in the large garden outside the window. Because there was no target to attack, the phantoms were floating around aimlessly at a height of one or two meters above the ground.

“Woo…woo…”

The eerie sound that could be faintly heard was the cry of the phantom. When fighting with humans, this sound was the phantom’s means of attack. This was a sonic attack that directly acted on the brain, causing the attacked human to become dazed and suffer from unbearable headaches.

The good news was probably that the number of phantoms in the garden now was not as many as when they arrived at the garden last night. He wondered if the phantoms had just woken up from “sleep” and were arriving at their posts one after another.

Two minutes later, Cheng Huai woke up, turned over and jumped up from the bed, walked to Xia Ruize, and looked at the garden together.

Cheng Huaiqian took out his sword and slashed at the sealed glass.

The silver-quality long sword was so hard and sharp that it easily cut a square on the edge of the double-layer soundproof glass.

Cheng Huaiqian cut the glass, and the cut glass block was taken away by invisible hands. The glass block with extremely smooth cut edges was put aside.

At this time Gao Hexuan woke up, Cheng Huaiqian and Xia Ruize made a gesture to him, and then jumped down from the gap in the window glass one after another.

The movements of the two people startled Li Hai. His eyes, which had been slightly open, widened in horror when he saw his fellow patients Xia and Cheng in the same ward jumping out of the window.

“Ah! They…” Li Hai pointed at the window sill with his hands trembling and his voice trembling, “They jumped off the building???”

The person Li Hai was questioning was Gao Hexuan who was sitting blankly beside the bed.

According to the plan of the three, Xia Ruize and Cheng Huaiqian would explore the administrative building tonight, while Gao Hexuan would stay in the ward to find out what would happen there.

Gao Hexuan was closely following the actions of his teammates in his heart network. He was annoyed by Li Hai’s pestering and casually replied, “Maybe.”

Although Li Hai had been suffering from illness for a long time, he never gave up hope of survival, otherwise he would not have come to this devilish hospital where the treatment course lasted only two months and the final result was most likely death.

After all, if he hadn’t come to Aardman Hospital, he could have lived for another six months.

Now watching two of his fellow patients commit suicide by jumping off a building in front of him, Li Hai felt extremely complicated. After thinking for a long time, he couldn’t help but stand up and walk to the window to look down.

Then, Li Hai, who was completely unprepared, saw phantoms floating all over the garden.

“ah!”

Frightened to the extreme, Li Hai only uttered a hoarse and short cry, staring at the ghostly figures outside with wide eyes, completely forgetting what he was going to do.

After being stunned for ten seconds, Li Hai finally reacted. He staggered back to Gao Hexuan’s side, with a look of confusion on his face. At this moment, he instinctively wanted to get closer to the only person of his kind in the room, and asked with trembling teeth:

“Outside…outside, do you see it?”

Gao Hexuan’s gaze shifted to the ward door. There was already a banging sound coming from the corridor. It seemed that a phantom came from the windows on both sides and the middle staircase into the corridor on the fourth floor and started banging on the ward door.

In addition to Li Hai, someone else rushed to the window to check the situation. It was Zhao Tonggang, who was in the same ward as the three of them. Zhao Tonggang watched Xia Ruize and Cheng Huaiqian land steadily and then rush towards the administrative building at a high speed.

The two of them worked together to clear a path, and the phantoms that hadn’t reacted yet couldn’t stop them at all.

In the blink of an eye, Xia Ruize and Cheng Huaiqian had rushed into the administrative building.

At this moment, the sound of the bald boy kicking open the ward door was heard from the corridor on the fourth floor of the hospital building.

After seeing white phantoms floating in the corridor with his own eyes, the bald boy finally believed what Zhao Tonggang and Wang Huan said, and immediately rushed towards the two wards.

Wang Huan and the bald boy, who were staying in the ward on the other side of the corridor, did not see what Xia Ruize and Cheng Huaiqian did. They heard it from Zhao Tonggang. They were stunned and immediately rushed to the window of Zhao Tonggang’s ward to look outside.

Their original plan was to fight their way down from the fourth floor, but now, inspired by Xia Ruize and Cheng Huaiqian’s actions, they immediately realized that their thinking was limited. It would be more convenient and simple to just jump out of the window, so why bother taking the stairs?

The three of them immediately followed suit, breaking the glass windows and jumping out one after another.

As for the open doors of each ward?

Those ordinary people would die sooner or later anyway, so there was no need to worry too much.

Here, Xia Ruize and Cheng Huaiqian, who rushed into the administration building, did not stop on the first floor. They opened a path in the dense group of phantoms and rushed all the way to the third floor. The higher they rushed, the more blood phantoms there were. When they reached the third floor, they found that the entire third floor was full of blood phantoms.

Xia Ruize used his mental power to scan and found the room with “Dean’s Office” written on the door. Together with Cheng Huaiqian, he forced his way through the blood and rushed to the door of the dean’s office.

The door of the dean’s office was a dark red wooden double door. The lock had been opened from the inside by Xia Ruize. The two of them rushed into the dean’s office and slammed the door shut.

Only the three Blood phantoms who were following them the closest rushed in, while the others who were blocked outside the door began to bang on the door vigorously.

Cheng Huaiqian pushed hard against the door, holding up a door with one hand. His strength was enough to fight against dozens of Blood phantoms outside. Xia Ruize’s golden eyes fell on the Blood phantoms, igniting golden flames. At the same time, with a mental impact, three Blood phantoms were immediately pushed out.

Xia Ruize took a step, jumped across a distance of several meters, and landed directly in front of the desk in the middle of the dean’s office. His mental power swept across the entire desk and spread to the entire room. He quickly opened the drawer of the desk and took away the pistol and bullets inside.

Then Xia Ruize jumped to the bookcase by the wall, pushed the bookcase with both hands, and forcibly pushed the tall and heavy bookcase full of books to the entrance of the office, against a door.

He turned around and pushed another bookcase over to hold the other door. In this way, Xia Ruize and Cheng Huaiqian only needed to stand a little further away from the door and hold the bookcase to hold the door.

The amazing thing was that Cheng Huaiqian deliberately relaxed a little, causing the door he was responsible for to open a small gap.

For the phantoms, the gap was small, but it was big enough for them to squeeze in, and they immediately rushed into the gap.

For Xia Ruize and Cheng Huaiqian, the Blood phantom could only squeeze in through the gaps one by one, and the pressure they faced was greatly reduced. They only needed to work together to kill them one by one. Xia Ruize still had the energy to focus on searching the dean’s office and other offices on the third floor.

“Interesting. Doors, walls, and even glass can block these things. They don’t have the ability to pass through solid objects. If the door of the archive room could have held out a little longer yesterday, we wouldn’t have lost staff.”

Controlling the black demonic energy and transforming it into a sharp blade to cut the blood phantom back and forth, Cheng Huaiqian found a good way to deal with the phantoms.

“I blocked the door of the ward with the hospital bed, and they haven’t broken it open yet.” Gao Hexuan, who was far away in the hospital building, said calmly, “The window is also blocked, and no phantom has tried to enter the ward through the window for the time being.”

“Look at this.”

Xia Ruize waved his hand, and the door of the combination cabinet in the corner of the office opened automatically. A golden object flew in front of Cheng Huaiqian, and the picture was also transmitted to Gao Hexuan at the same time.

This strange thing was a commitment, a strange commitment.

First, the commitment was not printed on paper, but was embossed in gold.

Secondly, the content of the letter of commitment was very strange, and the words were unfamiliar. The three people guessed and thought that the general meaning of the letter of commitment was that a person named “Duowei¹” made a commitment that as long as he received a certain amount of goods on time, he would return half of them.

The letter of commitment was signed with the name “Duowei”.

In the entire director’s office, apart from some unread books displayed for show, the most eye-catching thing was probably the financial accounts of Aardman Hospital with astonishing figures, which could be said to be a money pot that only brought in money but never gave out.

As for the safe, besides a large amount of cash and jewelry, there was only this unique letter of commitment.

Xia Ruize and Cheng Huaiqian looked at each other. They intuitively felt that this letter of commitment was a key point.

Xia Ruize scanned the entire third floor and even the second floor under his feet, but did not find any other strange things. It was almost ten o’clock in the evening. Tonight, Xia Ruize obtained a piece of yellow low-grade special medicine, a piece of white phantom fragment and three pieces of blood phantom fragments.

Notes

1. Duowei, 多維, means multidimensional. ↩︎