Chapter 8: Another Space

Suddenly, one of the nurses smiled at me and nodded in a friendly way, like an acquaintance, and I couldn't help but politely respond. Then they continued to lie on the nurse's table and chat as if everything had happened, what should they do......

Does she know me? Come to think of it! Isn't she a trainee nurse on the 11th floor! At first, he thought I was crazy, but then when he saw me holding hands with Dr. Ma, he would have thought I was his girlfriend, yes! She must have thought of me as Dr. Ma's girlfriend, so she greeted me just now and didn't ask me what I was doing on the 12th floor.

They were chatting happily, all talking about some funny things that happened to mentally ill people, and watching them giggle and talk about other people's sore spots, I felt inexplicably sad in my heart......

And I am like an invisible person, standing in front of them, this long corridor, only this end has a sound, like a hell on earth, the corridor seems to have no end, no one can be seen, the silence inside makes people hairy, and the content of the chat at this end is not shy about it, their voices are particularly harsh in the quiet late night, such a volume should be transmitted to the last ward in the corridor! Aren't they afraid of being heard by the patient? After all, they're making fun of the sick!

Maybe...... Maybe there's no one living on this floor at all? That's why they chatted so unbridledly, and I walked slowly and curiously into the depths of the corridor, it felt strange, a tiny detail here, so familiar to me, as if I had been to this place before! Looking behind me, they didn't look at me, laughing and chatting, I was an invisible person.

The doors of the wards here are closed, are all the people inside asleep? I don't know why, but I'm just sure it's full of people! It was as if I could hear their snoring.

There's a staircase here?

There was a staircase in the middle of the hallway, spiraling up, and I stood in the hallway and looked up, only to see the bend, and I didn't know where the other end of the staircase would lead.

Roof?

The highest floor here is 12 floors. The stairs up the 12th floor must lead to the roof!

"Don't go to the roof!" The words came to my ears again, lingering, especially the piercing and sharp voice. Like a fingernail that is often pointy, it cuts through my brain one by one! It's unbearable!

What's on the roof? Why did the old man say not to go to the roof? Wrong! It doesn't have to be the old man's words, but Ken can be my auditory hallucination! I know that all auditory hallucinations or hallucinations are something in my subconscious, so why should I stop myself from going to the 12th floor? What's up there?

Looking around, there was no one, only the nurses at the end of the corridor in the distance were faintly chatting and laughing. But it was like another world, and it had nothing to do with me.

I stood there for a long time, and it was dark around the corner, what was on it? I hadn't even thought about going up before my feet had already stepped up the steps......

Step by step, step by step, as if all that was left in this world was my own footsteps and heavy breathing, and with each step, closer to the bend above, the stairs spiraled upward. I stepped up step by step with my head up, and there seemed to be something hidden in the darkness, waiting for me.

My neck is so sore, I keep my head up, I wasn't scared to death by something in the dark, my neck couldn't bear it! I lowered my head and rubbed my neck, and I accidentally noticed that it was also pitch black behind me, and it seemed to be the turn of the stairs, looking up and spiraling up, looking down and spiraling down. That's not right...... How can you get a sore neck? Has it been a long time? From the 12th floor to the roof. Is there that much space? But when I was on the 12th floor, I didn't notice how high the roof was.

I regret coming up a little bit, do you want to go down? Turning around, looking at the black patch below, I suddenly lost my courage...... And I heard their laughter at the nurse's desk before, but I can't hear it at all now! It was so quiet and silent, only a faint light that allowed me to see the steps under my feet.

It's all up, let's go to the top of the building and take a look, it's already come to this point. Looking at the staircase above that disappeared into the darkness, I took a deep breath and moved on.

As soon as I took a step, I suddenly froze and thought of a question......

At the moment I was in one of the spiral staircases, with white walls on both sides, no doors or windows, and looking up, the stairs disappeared into darkness. Looking down, you can only see a black abyss. The staircase was like a snake walking up in a spiral, and I was like a little ant, walking in it, the head and tail of the snake were plunged into an endless darkness like ink, the front and back were strange ink, and I didn't know where I was going before, and I didn't know where I came from.

But...... Why can I see the road under my feet? Where is the light source?

It was as if a faint light had been following me. But...... If there is such an invisible light around me, why don't I have a shadow? There is no shadow on the steps, and the light source does not seem to come from a certain point, but should come from all directions, otherwise how can there be no shadow......

Where the hell is this...... I remember reading a story about a man who accidentally walked into another space, and even though he finally found his way home and successfully returned home, that place was not his home, but just another space......

The more scared I was, the more cranky I became, and I shook my head vigorously, trying to get rid of all these terrifying thoughts! But why was it so quiet, as if everything had stopped breathing, and it was so dead that I could even hear my hair being thrown up.

I want to run down to my hospital room against all odds! At least it's a little more familiar there! It's sad! In such a big world, the only place where I feel safe is actually a ward in a psychiatric hospital!

But just as I was about to turn around, I suddenly felt a breeze blowing in front of me.

Breeze?

This end has always been an abyss of endless darkness in my eyes, and now a breeze blows from above, does it prove that we are almost at the top of the building?

Suddenly I remembered the story I had just read, and if I walked back, I might break into another space, and even if I got to the ward, it might not be the ward in the real sense.

I'm going to the roof! The roof will be safer!

I started to run up desperately, I felt a little nervous, my mind was full of unrealistic and scary things, but my actions were controlled by those thoughts that I knew were unrealistic.

The stairs kept turning, and I crossed two of them, and I didn't slow down at the dark turns, and I even imagined that there would be someone up there running like crazy like me, and then we bumped into each other at the turn, but I ran up like crazy as if I were dead. Staying in the silent darkness for too long will make people's nerves tense, and as long as there is a little external force, the nerves will start to go crazy like a spring!

I don't know how long I've been "crazy" like this, but I finally saw a little dim yellow light in front of me, yellow and old, faintly penetrating here.

Is it moonshine? I'm finally on the roof!

Even if I jumped from it, it would be better than taking it with me in a place where there was no sound and there was a black abyss at all ends!

Gradually, the light became more and more intense, as if I saw a square luminous object in front of me, is it a door? The light came in through the door, so it was a square luminous body?

I started to slow down, slowly moving up, and now the destination was right in front of me, but I actually slowed down......

It didn't seem to be light, but fog, or rather, fog blocking the light. It looks like the back of the photographer has been blurred, and the appearance of the door is hazy, as if it is right in front of me, and it seems to be far away from me......

The last step is here, I'm here!

I finally found the door, and this is the door to the roof. Actually, this is not a door, it should be said to be a door frame, but I can't see anything in the door frame, it's all white, I reached into it, and I didn't feel anything.

After a moment's hesitation, I lifted one foot and stepped into the white mist...... Then, the whole person walked in......

"Don't come to the roof!"

An extremely thin and sharp hoarse voice suddenly sounded!

I don't even dare to move! Don't dare to scream! Nail in place! But I was so frightened that I almost fainted, and if it weren't for all the stiffness, I think I would have been lying on the ground!

I didn't dare to turn my head, I could only rely on rolling my eyes to keep looking around, who was talking just now? It sounds like the same old man I met downstairs before! But it doesn't make sense, I'll come up first! From the elevator on the 12th floor to this place, there is only one way to go, I didn't see him in the process of coming up, let alone him, I didn't see anyone walking in front of me from behind me, so how could he be here at this moment? Could it be that he climbed the wall to get in?

And when I really walked inside, I found that the fog here seems to have dispersed, just now the door frame is like a water curtain hole, but it is not covered with water, but with fog, after that layer of fog, but can see much more clearly, although it is still like in the clouds and fog, but at least you can see a few meters away.

Is it really the old man?

He was sitting next to the doorframe on the roof, and as soon as I stepped into it, I was frozen in place, and I now realize that he was right next to me, so close! If I had walked a little to the side just now, I would have touched his knee right now! He was sitting in a chair facing me, his knees just a fist away from my calves!

I can't take it anymore! "Ahh (To be continued.) )