After breakfast, the group soon met up with the middle-aged male doctor who lectured them yesterday. He wore a pair of glasses and gave a brief account of the death last night. He made light of the situation and requested that they continue to be on duty tonight.
Because they had experienced too many supernatural worlds, they were not surprised by the indifferent attitude of the NPCs.
After the lecture, the lady who spoke to Gu Xizhou this morning led them to another floor where the mental patients were placed. This was also Building 2. Gu Xizhou took a closer look. The interior of this building was exactly the same as the one they were in. As for the patients, they did not see a single one.
They took a step forward and walked into the on-duty office. They asked the nurse on duty for information about the patients who died yesterday.
When they entered, the nurse was talking to two middle-aged men in overalls. "The bodies are in the underground freezer."
"Okay." One of the men, who was slightly taller, nodded.
When the nurse saw Gu Xizhou and the others, she raised one of her eyebrows and asked, "What do you want?"
"Nothing." The lady who led them here obviously knew the nurse. She smiled and waved her hand. She then led the group out.
"Which freezer is the body in?" asked the mortician in the office.
"Why don't you go to the freezer in the basement and take a look?" The nurse gave them a bunch of keys and said impatiently.
There were more than a dozen keys in the bunch, including the one in the corridor.
Two morticians came out of the room. One of them shrugged and whispered, "Brother, how many deaths have we had this month?"
"People die in this sanatorium every day. You'll get used to it."
"Brother, we'll go with you," Fang Zhi said. "We can help."
When they heard Fang Zhi's words, the two men turned around and saw Gu Xizhou and the others. They were stunned and asked curiously, "Are you the staff here?"
Fang Zhi said, "We're here for an internship."
"Oh, I say … this sanatorium really needs to hire people." The tall man smiled. "Then we'll have to trouble you."
The group went downstairs together. There were four freezers in the underground morgue. They did not know which freezer the patients who died yesterday were in, so they had no choice but to open all the freezers.
After opening all four freezers, the two morticians immediately felt a chill run down their spine. The four freezers were empty, and there were no bodies at all.
"There's no corpse. Where did the corpse go?"
One of them asked, and the mission enforcers looked at each other with an expression that said, "As expected."
The two of them went upstairs to look for the two nurses on duty. One of the nurses came down and was at a loss when she saw that there was no corpse. "How could this be? I pushed the corpse in yesterday with my own hands."
Right at this moment, a scream suddenly rang out from the first floor corridor!
Everyone rushed upstairs. The nurse frowned. She didn't see the nurse with a big belly in the on-call room.
"Where did he go?" The nurse raised her eyebrows and took out her phone to call the other party. Soon, they heard the phone ring in Gu Xizhou. They finally found the nurse at the corner of the corridor.
The nurse was kneeling on the ground as if she was kowtowing and apologizing. The braver one pushed the nurse, and the middle-aged nurse with a big belly fell sideways onto the ground, revealing her face at the last moment before she died.
The nurse was not injured, but she was obviously scared to death. Her eyes were as big as copper bells, and no one knew what she saw before she died. Her face was pale.
Her body was stiff as if she had died, and she maintained her kneeling position.
"Ah …" The nurse who was calm just now suddenly screamed and ran outside. She fell into a strange state of madness, and her mouth kept muttering, "Someone died again, someone died again."
"F * ck, what's the meaning of this woman? Is it the first time someone died?"
As soon as the group finished speaking, the two workers from the funeral parlor who had not left spread their hands and said, "There used to be people dying in this sanatorium every day. Apparently, they died while kneeling like this. Now, there are people dying in the daytime. You might not know this since you're here for your internship. I advise you to leave this place as soon as possible."
The man smiled meaningfully after he said that. When someone asked him about it, he refused to say anything else.
"Dying while kneeling means that these workers are apologizing. They must have done something …" Fang Zhi said as he walked away.
"Huh, the mental patients are all tied to the bed with straps, and the crazy ones are all tied to the bed. What else could it be? They are bullying the elderly and the mental patients, so they tie them to the bed because they think it's too troublesome! "the skinny man grumbled and cursed.
The people around them knew what was going on, but they were not as direct as the skinny man.
After keeping watch for an entire night, everyone returned to their own rooms to catch up on sleep. Gu Xizhou washed up simply and lay on his bed to sleep. After Gu Xizhou fell asleep, the three of them left the dormitory.
After leaving the dormitory, they planned to go to Block 1 where they had kept watch last night. However, they bumped into a familiar person on the way there.
After Gu Xizhou went downstairs, he saw the caretaker who had reprimanded him. He pointed at the man and said, "Isn't that the man who was reprimanding him?"
"Let's follow him." Si Yu grabbed Gu Xizhou, and Fang Zhi quickly followed. The man's office was not in one of the two blocks, but in a row of bungalows on the leftmost side of the sanatorium.
After the man entered the office, he drank tea and watched TV out of boredom. Gu Xizhou and the other two waited for a while before the man put down the things in his hands, took a few pieces of paper, and left the office. He even closed the door on his way out.
After the man left, Gu Xizhou walked to the door and was thinking about how to open the window when he saw Si Yu take out a hair clip and open the door with two clicks.
"What are we going to do now?" Fang Zhi asked in confusion.
"Look at the patient's information." Si Yu sat in front of the computer and searched for a while before finding the patient's information in the folder.
After searching for a while, Si Yu suddenly stopped typing on a page and said in a deep voice, "This woman looks a little like the woman who knocked on the door yesterday."
"It's her."
"But I didn't hear the sound of chains on her body." Gu Xizhou thought for a while before saying to Si Yu and Fang Zhi, "I didn't hear anything."
What he meant was that she was a ghost, but she didn't have a door on her body.
Gu Xizhou had mentioned the sound of chains before, so Si Yu naturally knew what Gu Xizhou meant. He nodded and searched for other information.
"There doesn't seem to be anything special. Their family doesn't seem to come to the hospital often," Fang Zhi said with some disappointment.
Si Yu nodded. When it was time for the next shift at night, they had to regroup because they were short of two people.
Because the person who died last night was in Block 1, the people in Block 2 were unwilling to come over.
"Anyway, I'm going to continue guarding Block 2. I don't want to go to your place!"
"I don't want to go either …"
Seeing that the people in Block 2 were unwilling to redraw, the people in Block 1 had no choice but to draw seven people.
Seeing that Si Yu had drawn a single red lot, Gu Xizhou looked at him helplessly. Was this Si Yu's so-called good luck?
"I'll switch with you. You stay with Fang Zhi."
"No need. I'll be fine by myself," Si Yu said with a smile as he pinched Gu Xizhou's face.
Gu Xizhou and Fang Zhi were still guarding the third floor, while Si Yu went to the fourth floor where the person died last night.
During the shift change, Gu Xizhou asked two nurses for the keys to the metal door in the corridor. As soon as the nurses left, Grandma Song came as expected.
"Doctor, can I …"
Before Grandma Song could finish her sentence, Gu Xizhou pointed at the landline on the table and said, "Use it as you wish. You can even blow it up."
Grandma Song, "Huh?"
Grandma Song walked into the duty room and picked up the landline to make a call. Soon, Gu Xizhou heard the familiar sound of the phone ringing. The man on the other end of the line had received a call from his mother. He tried his best to comfort her.
Gu Xizhou pulled Fang Zhi and said, "Lie down!"
"What are you doing?"
"Lie down and sleep. Otherwise, the old lady will call you later."
Fang Zhi was dumbfounded. He saw Gu Xizhou lying on the table and pretending to be asleep. He quickly followed suit.
"Mom, pass the phone to the doctor. I have something to say to them," Grandma Song's son said while holding back his anger.
"Okay." Grandma Song covered the phone with one hand. She was about to call Gu Xizhou and Fang Zhi when she saw that Gu Xizhou and Fang Zhi were both asleep. Grandma Song had no choice but to say to her son, "Son, the doctor is asleep.
"If you have something to say to the doctor, tell me. I'll tell them later," Grandma Song said thoughtfully.
The man on the other end of the line pursed his lips and said, "Then forget it. Mom, go to sleep. Don't stay up too late. I'll pick you up tomorrow."
"Okay, I'll wait for you tomorrow."
"Okay." The man paused and suddenly called out to Grandma Song, "Mom, good night."
"Son, good night."
Grandma Song put down the phone with a sweet smile and left the on-call room. After Grandma Song left, Gu Xizhou sat up straight.
"Fang Zhi, sleep for a while. I'll call you if anything happens." Gu Xizhou glanced at the dark circles under Fang Zhi's eyes.
"Then … Okay. Gu Ge, you keep watch for the first half of the night. I'll keep watch for the second half," Fang Zhi said before lying down to sleep.
A few hours later, Fang Zhi heard Gu Xizhou calling him in a daze.
"Fang Zhi, wake up. Someone is knocking on the door. I'll go take a look. You stay here and keep watch. Did you bring the mirror?" Gu Xizhou said in a deep voice.
Fang Zhi rubbed his eyes in a daze and nodded. "Yes, it's in my pocket."
"Okay, I'll leave for a while. Be careful." Gu Xizhou reminded him. After he left, he saw the woman from yesterday coming down from the fourth floor. She smiled at Gu Xizhou.
Gu Xizhou frowned. The woman walked over and knocked on the door. She seemed to realize that the door couldn't be opened, so she thought for a while and went downstairs. Gu Xizhou thought that there would be a scream of terror coming from downstairs, but there was no sound.
Gu Xizhou saw that the woman had left and immediately opened the door and rushed upstairs. The woman obviously came down from upstairs and stayed upstairs after the incident last night.
Si Yu …
Gu Xizhou ran upstairs to the on-call room. Si Yu wasn't in the office. Gu Xizhou was shocked. Just as he was about to go out, he bumped into Si Yu. She was surprised to see Gu Xizhou and reached out to hug him.
"Why are you up here?"
"I saw that thing coming down from upstairs. Your door was open. It's good that you're fine. That thing …"
Si Yu said in a deep voice, "I went to check the rooms. I didn't see that thing."
Gu Xizhou pursed his lips. "Oh, then I'll go down. Be careful."
"Wait, let me hug you." Si Yu rested her chin on Gu Xizhou's shoulder and said in a deep voice. She wrapped her arms around Gu Xizhou's waist and hugged him from behind.
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