The First People's Hospital of W City, referred to as the People's Hospital, or more briefly, called the First Hospital, is the largest and best hospital in W City. The medical level is high, the equipment is advanced, and the service attitude is good, which can be called a business card of W City. And because the whole hospital is located in the center of W City, the traffic is very convenient, and the flow of people is amazing.

If a resident of W City has any illness, his first reaction is to go to a doctor. Generally speaking, if it is an incurable disease that the First People's Hospital of W City can't see well, then it is estimated that there is hope for going to a place like SHBJ. Of course, the greater possibility is beyond the capabilities of modern medicine.

The whole hospital covers a large area, because it has been supported by government departments many times, and a total of 17 buildings have been built over the years, and the numbers are naturally numbered from 1 to 17. One of them is the outpatient building, which is the first building that you can see when you enter the main entrance of the hospital. And No. 17 is the obstetrics and gynecology building, which is located at the rear of the entire hospital. Building 13 is a dangerous-sounding oncology unit, located at the very edge of the eastern side of the hospital. The first to fifth floors are used for various other purposes, and the sixth to fourteenth floors are used for oncology wards.

Perhaps due to the influence of Western culture, no one knows when "thirteen" gradually became an unlucky number. And using this building as the site of the oncology department naturally evokes a variety of associations. In reality, however, almost no one has been able to explain why the hospital used Building 13 as a ward for the oncology department. Maybe it's because although the First People's Hospital of W City has a high comprehensive capacity, the oncology department is not their strong point.

It is well known that a large percentage of patients in oncology are malignant tumors, that is, cancers. At least to the extent that modern hospitals are capable, such patients are usually incurable – with the exception of them, but not in large numbers. So if you want to say where the most sad cries are, this building is estimated to be on the top of the list. In fact, a large part of the hospital's morgue was moved from Building 13.

But let's be honest, not everyone has this superstition. At least Cheng Vanilla didn't. She can prove with irrefutable evidence that thirteen is not the most unlucky number. Because the thirteenth floor of the thirteenth building (according to this superstition, the most unlucky one) was only lifted out of the 12 floors last year by a total of about 20 patients, while the 12 floors below were carried out at least 40. As for the number of patients carried out from the entire thirteen buildings...... Malignant tumors are a medical problem that mankind has not yet fully overcome, and it is normal for patients to die of incurable diseases.

That's right, Cheng Vanilla is a nurse on the thirteenth floor - not the head nurse, just an ordinary nurse who is not very senior.

It's an ordinary day, and for the hospital, it's exactly the same as yesterday, and it's no different from tomorrow. A large number of patients were admitted, a large number of patients were discharged, and the patients in the ward changed wave after wave. But, of course, there are also the cries of family members and patients. Especially in this thirteen buildings.

Even though science is prosperous and medical technology is developed in this era, the saying "medicine does not die and disease, and Buddha is destined to be a person" is still true.

There are benign tumors, malignant tumors, and of course everything in between: what appears benign now will develop into malignant in the future. For example, if you have a myxoma or something like that, you can remove it surgically and you'll be fine. The admission of such patients to the oncology department is also a matter of staying for a few days. But those patients with malignant tumors ......

The most common treatments available to fight cancer are chemotherapy and radiotherapy. The basic idea of both is the same, to kill cancer cells at the cellular level. It's just that the former uses toxic chemicals, and the latter uses high-energy rays. However, in either case, the existing technology does not guarantee that innocent people will not be harmed, which means that while killing cancer cells, it will also kill a large number of ordinary cells.

Not only that, because many of the mechanisms of cancer have not yet been fully understood, it is very common for cancer cells in the original area to be killed in large numbers, and the tumor is getting smaller and smaller, but the cancer cells have metastasized throughout the body - the tumor suddenly appears and grows malignantly in other parts of the original health. When it comes to this point, there is usually no hope.

Although it is very sad to say it, in fact, many patients are still nominally being rescued, treated, and hospitalized, with daily infusions, oxygen, and medicines...... You may even go for surgery. But in fact, both doctors and nurses have secretly sentenced him to death. All the treatment measures they take, whether positive or negative, are just doing their best and resigning themselves to their fate.

For example, Vanilla knows that more than half of the patients in the ward are now hopeless. Although nurses often encourage patients and their families, this is essentially the case.

"Thirteen beds are the new patients who came in today...... Sixty-nine years old...... Hepatic ascites, cirrhosis and liver cancer ......," said her colleague on shift.

It's 6 p.m., and the 13th floor ward of the oncology department is taking over.

As a nurse in the oncology department, Vanilla has seen this type of three-in-one. This is basically the type of incurable and cannot even be operated on. And it's not too young...... The end result is a few months in the hospital and then the final days of your life.

This is not to say that doctors and nurses are on the wrong track, but that the disease has exceeded the existing capacity to treat it. It makes no difference wherever you go.

"How's the family?" asked Vanilla. In fact, for nurses in the oncology department, in most cases, the trouble of the family is greater than the trouble of the patient. Because they will often come up with opinions that are quite stupid and ridiculous for medical professionals, and they will stubbornly insist on it. When the patient is declared dead, it is almost always the family members who actually have a nervous breakdown and make a big fuss – usually, the patient has little opportunity to protest at that time.

"There is only one family. Her granddaughter, a nine-year-old girl, is very cute. The colleague let out a slight sigh.

Generally speaking, most medical staff (especially those in certain departments) are accustomed to joys and sorrows, so they will appear relatively indifferent. It's not because they're emotionless, it's just because they're too much of a human being to experience the same type of stimulus over and over again. So this lament is not much. And this sigh has so much meaning.

"No other family?" said Vanilla, a little surprised. This sentence reveals a lot of information, having a granddaughter but no son and daughter-in-law means ...... Well, this situation seems normal as well. Not to mention other places, how many car accident casualties are sent to a doctor in W City every year, and how many of them cannot be treated?

"Yes, there's a nephew or something, but I came over in the afternoon. But it wasn't for a visit. The sound of the quarrel was heard by the entire ward. ”

"What are you arguing about?"

"Force the patient to give him the house. The patient seems to have two houses, and her nephew wants a house, and he says that he wants to kill the little girl. Although indifferent, there was still a strong anger in the words of his colleagues. "Then I asked the hospital security to come and chase him away. The little girl has been in the ward since then, and the grandparents and grandchildren have been crying until not long ago. ”

It is common knowledge of modern people that when there is a granddaughter as the heir, it is not the turn of the nephew to inherit the inheritance. But this does not affect the fact that stupidity and greed will cause the wicked to seek property beyond their own reasonable range.

In fact, many times, death will unveil the last veil of warmth. The difference is who is revealed, sometimes it is the dying person, sometimes it is someone else. Death can deprive one person not only of reason, but also of the fear of others. When a person is sentenced to only a few years or even a few months to live, the situation changes radically.

The nurses' shifts are not very fast, as only one patient is hospitalized today. After each patient has been introduced, he starts talking about something else. For example, security.

"By the way, I found someone sneaking around in the ward today. Said a colleague. "A young man, quite eccentric. Not family members, but walking around each ward one by one. Be careful at night. ”

Hospitals have always been a high-risk area for thieves – not just thieves, but also scammers. After all, this place is crowded and often crowded. Even in the ward, there have been thieves more than once.

It's just a casual remark. During the day, there may be a condition for thieves to be infested, after all, people come and go, but at night things are completely different. Basically, except for the people who accompany the night, when you come to nine o'clock, there will be no one walking in the corridor. The problem of thieves is usually only during the day and not at night.

"By the way, there's another thing, some people say they saw dogs. ”

"Dogs?"

Pets are not allowed in the hospital. It's a multifaceted consideration, whether it's for the safety of the patient, or the safety of the dog itself, and it's a good idea. However, in fact, there are still too many wayward people in this society. So bringing pets to the hospital is not a very common, if not very common, thing. This kind of thing is usually resolved quickly, but it can also lead to the wayward people getting away with it.

"I don't know if someone brought it in, but it could be a wild dog that came from nowhere. "There are a lot of abandoned pets in these years, and it's not outrageous to have one in the hospital, at least it's much more normal than a wild boar running to the West Lake. "If you find anything, notify the security guard downstairs. ”

Time passed minute by minute, and it was already midnight in the blink of an eye.

For vanilla, it's a very calm night shift. The normal night shift consists of two nurses, one resting inside and the other at the nurses' station when nothing happens. But today she has an intern student, so the situation now is that there are two people on duty here at the nurses' station. Because it was relatively calm, both of them were using their mobile phones to surf the Internet.

The intern is an average-looking girl, but with a lively personality. And, somewhat strangely, this girl likes things like gods and ghosts. Although atheism is the mainstream among young people in society under communist education, there is no way to prevent some people from just liking mysticism. In fact, this is not a superstition in the traditional sense, they are just interested in this kind of thing as a game, and they don't really think that the gods and Buddhas are full of gods, "there are gods in the head".

"Vanilla-sensei, look at this!" the student suddenly exclaimed excitedly, and put his phone in front of Vanilla's eyes. "Watch this video. ”

A video is playing on my phone, and the video shows a person running fast through the street. It's nothing in itself, but the background looks familiar. It took Vanilla a few seconds to recognize the tall building in the distance in the background as a building in W City. However, because of the photographer, the running man had no face, and even his clothes were blurry, and he could only barely see that it was a man.

Is there anything wrong with such a person running on the streets?

She looked at it puzzled. The photographer apparently shot it in a car, and at first, the man was almost side-by-side with the photographer, shooting from the side, which was nothing special. But then the man ran to the front, and the back was shot.

Then you can sense that something is wrong. Because the streets are empty, only a few cars and motorcycles have passed.

By comparison, it is easy to see that this person is running faster than a car.

Empty streets...... A man who runs faster than a car.

On city streets, even if the road conditions are good, a steady driver will not increase his speed to prevent accidents. But at least fifty or sixty yards is no problem. This means that the man has run almost as fast as a lion...... Because according to scientific calculations, the speed of a lion is almost sixty yards.

The video ended quickly, and the blurry figure turned a corner at the intersection. The car was blocked by a red light. By the time the red light ended and the car drove past, the back had long since disappeared.

The name of the video is "The Incredible Night Runner of the City". Of course, the name is very good, because it would never be possible under normal circumstances.

Of course, vanilla scoffs at this. "It's fake, I guess it's deliberately organizing three or five cars and driving at low speeds, deliberately creating this sense of contrast. "After all, there is no accurate speed measurement tool in the video, so you can't see how fast that person is running, and you can only compare it by the speed of the vehicle - it's easy for the car to drive a little slower.

"What are you doing looking at this all day? Be careful to be stupid!"

"Teacher Vanilla, why aren't you afraid at all?"

"These are all fakes! What is there to be afraid of......? If you're afraid of this kind of thing, why are you interested in this kind of thing?" Vanilla has noticed that this video is from a supernatural forum in W City - all kinds of ghost stories, well, there are all kinds of things these days, and this forum is actually very popular. "I'm going to be on the night shift tonight, really you're like this, in case the circuit system trips, you can't be scared to death. ”

"Teacher Vanilla, don't just set up a flag, I heard that the night shift is most afraid of this kind of thing. ”

"What are you afraid of, our hospital's circuit system is the most complete, and it won't be the hospital's turn to trip any way. Besides, even if it trips, there is a complete backup circuit here, and it will stop for a few seconds at most......"

Before the words fell, there was a slight crackling sound, and the nurse's side of the station instantly dimmed.