Li Wan Private Hospital's main color scheme was white. It was the most eye-catching and unique building in the small town.
Pulling open the rusted iron door, the corridor was littered with yellowed patient's records. Picking one up randomly, it had words like terminal illness, death, and malignant infection written on it.
The glass windows creaked noisily as the wind blew. The doors of the sickrooms were all open like the dead patients had returned and would come out at any moment.
There were finger marks on the door frame, and unknown plants crawled on the walls. Large pieces of the ceiling had fallen off to reveal strange patterns that looked like human faces.
This hospital was one of the scariest scenarios in the small town, and it was using its unique attitude to welcome all the visitors.
The floor was cracked, and walking on it created a sound. In this place of silence, even the slightest sound would be very scary.
"Where has that Li Xu guy gone? They only came in ten seconds earlier than us, so how did they disappear in the blink of an eye? " Wang Yan's eyes were serious. He stood in the middle of the waiting hall and looked at the two corridors on the left and right. He wanted to determine the direction of the two through the cracks on the floor.
However, to his surprise, there were signs of people walking down both corridors. There were seven or eight footprints alone.
"Other than us, there are other people inside this building." Wang Yan stared at the footprints on the ground and hesitated.
He knew very well that the actors at this Haunted House were very good at scaring people. Any one of them could drive someone crazy, and there were probably several actors inside this building.
"Which way should we go?" Wang Yan's girlfriend asked. She was dressed fashionably, but her body was shivering involuntarily. It was unclear whether it was because of fear or she was just feeling a bit cold.
"I remember that both Li Xu and the male host were wearing sports shoes. From the footprints on the ground, they should have taken the left corridor, but …" Wang Yan lowered his head to think.
"But what? Can't we just talk this through? " Zhang Feng was getting impatient. When a person was placed in a completely unfamiliar environment, it was natural for them to be agitated.
"Why don't you come and take a look yourself?" Wang Yan took out his phone and shone it at the ground. There were two pairs of footprints on the left side of the corridor.
"The pair of footprints at the front has the pattern of a sneaker, but the footprints at the back have no pattern. I can confirm that the thing following behind the tourist is not another tourist but something else." Wang Yan was not trying to scare anyone. He was just telling the truth. "These two pairs of footprints are less than 30 centimeters apart. Can't you see the problem now?"
Seeing that Zhang Feng still did not understand, Wang Yan decided to demonstrate it himself. He walked to the back of his girlfriend and stood about thirty centimeters away from her. "The visitor is walking in front, and there is a strange thing following behind him. The two of them walk down the entire corridor. Also, look at the footprints on the ground. They're very neat. In other words, until the end, the person walking in front didn't notice that there was a 'person' thirty centimeters behind him. "
"The workers at this Haunted House sure are cruel." This was the first time Zhang Feng had visited a Haunted House. Just from listening to Wang Yan's description, he was already feeling guilty.
"Li Xu and the male host should have taken the left corridor. The workers on the left side are currently attracted by Li Xu's group, so that corridor should be safe." Wang Yan walked down the left corridor alone.
After Wang Yan left, the hospital lobby became even scarier. The patient's list on the ground was blown by the chilling wind, and they rustled against the ground. For the other visitors who were visiting a Haunted House for the first time, this was torture.
"Wait for me." Wang Yan's girlfriend and Zhang Feng also entered the corridor on the left.
No one was touching them, but the doors on both sides creaked on their own. Some kind of monster might be hiding inside the dark rooms.
Carefully, Wang Yan's group moved very slowly. They were practically squeezed together.
"This looks like a normal sickroom, but it's rather old like it hasn't been occupied for a long time." The decorations inside the sickroom were so realistic that it almost made one forget that this was the setting of a Haunted House.
"Be careful. The workers here are all professionally trained. They can follow behind the visitors silently and come up with many tricks to scare them. There's no telling when you'll be tricked."
Danger could come from many directions. Other than the half-open sickrooms, Wang Yan's group had to be careful of the cracked walls and floor. They could not even miss the ceiling.
Their nerves were stretched taut. If someone screamed, it would scare the hell out of them.
The short corridor took them more than a minute to walk down. When they reached the corner of the stairs, they realized that their backs were drenched in sweat.
"What? That's it? I thought there would be an actor dressed as a ghost rushing out from the room. " Zhang Feng sighed in relief. "Actually, it's not that scary. If anything, your analysis at the beginning was quite scary. Are you purposely trying to create a scary atmosphere to scare us?"
This sports student was indeed braver than a normal student, and the key point was that he did not want his performance to be worse than Wang Yan's.
Actually, he looked down on Wang Yan from the bottom of his heart. He was a medical student who only knew how to deal with dead bodies. He had no interest, normal looks, short stature, and came from a poor family. There was nothing good about him.
With that thought in mind, the fear in Zhang Feng's heart dissipated slightly. He glanced at Wang Yan's girlfriend.
Wang Yan's girlfriend was his high school classmate, but he did not realize that the girl would become so beautiful after learning how to dress up.
After seeing her profile picture online, Zhang Feng could not believe it was her.
Hearing what Zhang Feng said, Wang Yan was quite angry. He had analyzed the situation out of kindness, but all he got was suspicion. This kind of person did not deserve help.
Suppressing the displeasure in his heart, even though Wang Yan used to have a bad temper, ever since he visited Chen Ge's Haunted House, the edges of his personality had been worn away.
He had no idea why. Perhaps it was because he had seen a real demon, and everyone looked kind and friendly to him, or perhaps it was because he had been revived again and again at the underground morgue, and he had heard the advice of the old professor from Western Jiujiang Medical University.
In any case, the current Wang Yan was different from before; he had grown a lot.
Facing Zhang Feng's repeated provocation, Wang Yan did not argue with him. He understood that arguing was pointless. His main goal was to give Zhang Feng 'happiness' at the Haunted House. As long as he could achieve his goal, everything else did not matter.
"Why aren't you saying anything? Are you feeling guilty? " Zhang Feng thought that he had seen through Wang Yan's thoughts. "Coming to a place like the Haunted House to prove who is braver, don't you think that's very childish?"
Nodding, Wang Yan moved forward silently.
The atmosphere at the hospital became strange. Li Xu and the male host had been in the hospital for quite some time already, but they did not hear any movement. There was not even the sound of footsteps. It was as if they had disappeared into thin air.
All the buildings in the small town led underground, and Li Wan Private Hospital was no exception. Wang Yan looked at the staircase that led underground, and a strange thought appeared in his mind. They had not run into the Haunted House's actors because they wanted to lure them underground. That would prevent the visitors from running out of the building after they were spooked.
The light dimmed, and the three became more careful.
"There's someone down there!" Just as they turned the corner between the first and second floor, Wang Yan's girlfriend suddenly screamed.
"Where?" Wang Yan and Zhang Feng turned to look down the stairs at the same time.
"Just next to the railing on the second floor! I see it! It's a pair of gray legs! "
Wang Yan and Zhang Feng followed the direction that Wang Yan's girlfriend was pointing at, but there was nothing at the railing.
"It was there earlier, but it disappeared in a flash." Wang Yan's girlfriend took several steps back and moved from the middle of the group to the back.
"The actors probably heard our footsteps and hid there to ambush us, but you accidentally saw us," Zhang Feng said to console her.
"Okay … Wait a minute!" Wang Yan's girlfriend suddenly pointed at Wang Yan's back. "Look, there's something stuck to your shoulder!"
"Me?" Wang Yan touched his back and realized that there was a patient's record stuck to his back.
There was a black and white picture printed on the front of the patient's record, and on the back, several words were written in a crooked manner — 'Come and find me?'
"Who put this up?" Wang Yan instantly realized that he had been targeted. The words on the paper could not have been written by Zhang Feng and his girlfriend. Neither of them had brought a pen with them, and the words on the paper were obviously written a long time ago.
"Do you think I would be as bored as you?" Zhang Feng was the first to wave his hand. Wang Yan's girlfriend also thought this was strange. The three of them were walking together, but they did not see anyone else pass them.
"Don't any of you have anything on your backs?" Wang Yan's expression was nervous. He turned to look at Zhang Feng and his girlfriend, but he realized that only his back was stuck to. "Is it because I'm walking at the front?"
Looking at the patient's record in his hand, the person in the black and white picture appeared to be smiling at him. Wang Yan's forehead was covered in cold sweat. He knew that this scene was about to reveal its true horror.
"What are you mumbling to yourself?" Zhang Feng saw that Wang Yan was spooked, and he grinned. "You want to pull the same trick a second time?"
As if understanding something, he turned to say to Wang Yan's girlfriend, "Old friend, your boyfriend is quite an interesting one. We did not see anyone else along the way. Since the paper on his back was not pasted by either of us, who do you think did it?"
Wang Yan's girlfriend slowly understood. "It was pasted by him? Impossible, Wang Yan, he … "
"If it was not him, could it be a ghost? He wants to scare us and then pretend to be brave. This kind of person is so boring. "
"That can't be, right?" With Zhang Feng driving a wedge between them, Wang Yan's girlfriend started to suspect as well.
Holding the patient's record in his hand, Wang Yan's pupils twitched rapidly. He looked around cautiously. He understood that danger was about to descend. This patient's record was a 'death notice'!
"Since we've been targeted, there's no point in tossing it away." Wang Yan could hear the conversation between the two behind him clearly. He took a deep breath, bit on his lips, and turned around.
Seeing the suspicion and disappointment in his girlfriend's eyes, Wang Yan's tense expression slowly relaxed. He gripped his fists unwillingly and then released them. In the end, he told Zhang Feng honestly, "Fine, I admit that it was me."
"Why would you do that? You weren't like this before this. "Wang Yan's girlfriend's voice slowly grew louder.
"I just wanted to prove that I have my own strengths." Wang Yan's pupils twitched madly, and goosebumps rose on the back of his neck, but he forced himself to remain calm. "There's a legend at this Haunted House. As long as you write 'come find me' on a piece of paper, there's a chance that you'll run into a real ghost. I just wanted to prove that I'm braver."
"How childish. If you want to listen to urban legends, I can tell you one hundred of them." Zhang Feng's disdain toward Wang Yan increased.
"I admit that I'm a bit jealous of you. I'm not as handsome as you, not as well-groomed as you, not as rich as your family, and when I played basketball with you before, I was completely trounced by you. Compared to you, I'm too normal, so I wanted to prove that I have something that is better than you. " Wang Yan's voice started to shake. He saw a pair of gray legs walk out from the door in the corridor that he had come from.
"That's why you're using this method?" Zhang Feng's vanity was satisfied, especially before Wang Yan's girlfriend. "I really can't imagine a medical student like you would believe these ghost stories. Don't you know they're all made up by people who have nothing better to do?"
"Then, do you dare give it a try?" Wang Yan seemed to have been waiting for Zhang Feng to say that. He spoke very fast, so fast that Zhang Feng did not even have the time to react.
"What?" Zhang Feng was still basking in his self-satisfaction. He did not expect something like that to come out of Wang Yan's mouth.
"Since you think these ghost stories are made up, there's no harm in giving it a try." Wang Yan said as he stuck the patient's record on Zhang Feng's back. "Actually, after seeing you, I've realized that there are many people who are better than me in this world. I need to keep running to catch up to people like you."
Wang Yan's words confused Zhang Feng. He felt proud and satisfied, but at the same time, he felt like something was not quite right.
"After saying everything that's been on my mind, I feel much better. I'll be more honest in the future." Wang Yan patted Zhang Feng's back to make sure that the patient's record was securely stuck and would not fall off. "Come on, we'll continue our exploration. I'm not going to tell you these boring ghost stories anymore."
Wang Yan pushed Zhang Feng to the front of the group and said apologetically, "Actually, this Haunted House is not as scary as the rumors make it out to be. We only told outsiders that because we wanted to hide the fact that we're cowards."
Zhang Feng still did not understand the situation, but after hearing what Wang Yan said, he did not feel that afraid anymore. "Is it really not scary?"
"Yes, this Haunted House is not scary at all. When I visited earlier, I was so bored that I fell asleep." Wang Yan said with sincerity as he pushed Zhang Feng down the stairs.
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