Chapter 23: Encounter
"Classmate, come in!" the familiar voice seemed to be the words of an old man he had heard many years ago.
As soon as Chen Yaofei flashed into the ward, the person who pulled me in quickly closed the door and locked it. The sound insulation effect of the wards of Yixiang People's Hospital is good, especially the VIP ward. But we could still hear a slight "uh-ah" cry coming from outside.
"The glass window of the VIP room door is special glass, which can be seen from the inside out, not from the outside. Your voice is soft......" said the other man, leaning his ear to the door and listening carefully to the voices outside.
"There is no cry of a white-eyed zombie. That way, we're safe. The other man leaned his back against the door of the ward and covered his left arm in a plaster cast.
"Xie Changge!" was so excited, I threw myself on Xie Changge's body and wanted to hug him.
"Go away, dead uncle......" He just wouldn't let me hug me, and pushed my face with all his might with his right hand.
"Don't do that, I miss you so much...... Come, just hold a ......"
"Go away......"
Suddenly, I thought of the faceless monster in the ward next to me, my excited heart cooled, and I immediately said to Xie Changge in a panic: "Changge, there is a faceless monster in the ward on the side. It will turn the doorknob. We can't stay here. β
Xie Changge stood up, sat on the hospital bed silently as if he didn't hear my words, and then lay down.
"Little Red Guy, did you hear my words?" I was dissatisfied with Xie Changge's ignorance.
"The modified corpse doesn't break locked room doors, it only opens unlocked room doors. Xie Changge sat up and leaned against the head of the bed and said to me.
"Transform the corpse?" I asked.
Xie Changge was silent.
"Hello classmates. My name is Chen Yaofei and I am in the third class of science. Chen Yaofei introduced himself out of place.
"Good. Xie Changge actually responded to Chen Yaofei.
"Thank you classmates for your help, if it weren't for you, we wouldn't be in a disaster. By the way, can I call you by name?"
"That uncle said, my name is Xie Changge, it's a pleasure to meet you. β
"Please," I took the opportunity to tease Xie Changge, "now is not the time to say, 'Nice to meet you.'" β
Xie Changge was silent.
This little red guy, I really have to teach him a good lesson. Thinking so, I clenched my fists and prepared to strike.
"Click, click", someone is turning the doorknob of the ward.
Chen Yaofei and I held our breath and watched the ward door. After only a few clicks, a shadow flashed on the glass window, and then the wind calmed down.
"No," I looked at Xie Changge and said with emotion, "Little Red Guy, you really got it right." β
"Why doesn't the faceless monster break the door of the ward?" Chen Yaofei put away his stick and asked Xie Changge. Bastard, you know my heart.
"I don't know. Probably because of the sick room. β
"Speaking of the ward, I heard something from Ge Yingming. β
"That villain?" Chen Yaofei asked me.
"Yes," I replied, "he said, the hospital is cursed." Although he didn't seem to say who cursed him, he kept saying that a person deserved to die. That person's name was Wang Liang. β
"Ge Yingming and Wang Liang......" Xie Changge lowered his head and thought to himself.
"You know them?"
Ge Yingming is a doctor in the neurology department of Yixiang People's Hospital, and everyone with a little knowledge knows who he is.
"Chen Yaofei, do you know who Wang Liang is?" Without waiting for Xie Changge to answer me, I asked Chen Yaofei instead.
"I don't know. "Oh, boy, I finally don't know. Well, I don't know either.
"I don't know Ge Yingming," Xie Changge said again when I wanted to tease Xie Changge a few words, "but I have an impression of Wang Liang." β
"What, you're not kidding, are you?"
Xie Changge lowered his head and thought about something, but did not answer me.
Zhiqu, I ignored Xie Changge and looked at this VIP ward, and Chen Yaofei followed me to look at it. Unlike the wards I've seen, the mess is a bit haphazard, but it's not as miserable as those wards, and it's as good as the hospitals we used to have with no living people or zombies. It didn't take long for me to know whose ward this ward was.
"Ward 15 on the fifteenth floor, no......" I muttered to myself.
"The ward has a similar structure to a real-world hospital. As soon as I arrived in this different space, I first tried to try the fifteen-story ward No. 15 with my room card, and I successfully entered. This became a base for me. Xie Changge said.
It's good to have a room card. I meditated in my heart and asked Xie Changge, "When you first came here, like us, you didn't meet the living or the dead?"
Xie Changge was silent. Probably he remembered something sad. Well, I won't ask him what he's been through here.
"Xie Changge, I want to hear what you experienced when you first arrived here. "Chen Yaofei said that I wanted to ask Xie Changge about it. However, this is Xie Changge's sad past, he won't tell you bastard, Chen Yaofei.
"Yes. "I guess that's possible.
Next, Xie Changge recounted the experience of first arriving at the Walking Dead Hall: "I don't know how I got here; Remember, when I came here, as you said, there was neither living nor dead here. It was pitch black outside, the sliding glass doors of the hospital could not be opened, and there were locked rooms everywhere. That is to say, there is some kind of being that doesn't want me to go out. As soon as I did, I gave up the idea of fleeing and looked for clues to my existence.
"When I was conscious, I was on the first floor of Building 4. In addition to the locked doors of the exits and hospital rooms, other spaces in the hospital such as toilets, service desk cabinets, nurses' station drawers, etc., can be used normally. In order to prevent an emergency, I had to first establish a point of reference. The first thing I thought about was the ward I had been in, because I found that I still had my room card in my hospital gown.
"I wanted to go from the connecting passage on the second floor to Building 3, but I found that there was no connecting passage on the second floor. Why is there no connecting passage on the second floor? I thought about it: the people who trapped me here were afraid that I would escape the hospital from the second floor connecting passageway, but then I dropped that idea when I was sure that the windows on the second floor couldn't be opened.
"From the connecting passage on the third floor to Building 3, I took the elevator to the fifteenth floor......"
"Stop," I interjected, "Xie Changge, why did ......you get to Building 3 unimpeded?
"This ward is changing. Xie Changge interrupted me and said, "Whether it is a surface area where there are no people and no zombies, or an area where there are chaos and a large number of zombies are in danger, these two spaces are changing. So, you might ask somewhere you can't pass but I pass, and here's why. β
Hey, I asked, don't you little red guy exist when I don't exist?
Xie Changge continued: "Establishing a base, I began to explore the hospital. At that time, I didn't know that zombies existed. I think you've also thought about the question: what is the purpose of someone who traps us and doesn't let us out? If he simply wants to destroy us, he doesn't have to go to great lengths. On the other hand, if this person is just trying to trap us, then he should have prepared the necessary items for us to live. At the very least, he will prepare something for us to live on until he wants to destroy us. As I thought, the water and food in the hospital are usable. Originally, I wondered if I should wait at the well-fed kiosk, but then I decided it didn't make sense. Not to mention that I can't be sure what kind of existence the other person is, even if he comes to me, what ability do I have to compete with him.
"Bring enough food from the various supplies in the hospital, and I'll return to my base ......"
"Food, food, food, food ......" Because of Xie Changge's reminder, my mind now only has the word "eat", "Xie Changge has food, look for it quickly." Call you, Chen Yaofei, come and help find it......"
Xie Changge closed his eyes and said, "In addition to the food in the cabinet, there is also food under the bed." There's a reason for hiding it: I'm not sure if anyone will come into my room. Although I lock the door when I go out, I have to make sure the food is in good condition because of the master key.
"Through the hospital's display, I determined that the date of that day was August 31. Perhaps, you will arrive here on August 31. The time of this space seems to be stuck only on August 31, for unknown reasons. By the way, Chen Yaofei, at what point did you fall into the inner space?"
Chen Yaofei replied: "Zombie area? β
"Yes, I'm not like you.
"At 10 p.m., the hospital radio sounded, and I knew something strange was about to happen. After darkness, clean and tidy hospitals become hell on earth. Since I was in my own room during the broadcast, and after the darkness passed, my room was not much different from before, except for the sheets and items, so I walked out of the room to find that the hospital had changed dramatically.
"It didn't take long for me to see zombies. I knew that I couldn't fight them with my physical condition, so the most important thing was to get the information about the ward first. Once I had the most information, I returned to my room. During this time, I saw white-eyed zombies on the fifteenth floor that were different from rotting corpses. At that time, I only thought about going back to a safe place to sort out the information first, and I didn't try to test the white-eyed zombie. Also, if I had tested the white-eyed zombie at that time, I'm afraid I would have died by now. β
"Yes, that's right. I picked up a strawberry pie and excitedly unpacked it, took a big bite, and nodded my head repeatedly.
"After eating food, turn off the lights and go to bed. In the middle of the night, I heard a terrible sound outside the window. I heard it right, it was a cry for help coming from the window, but it was fleeting. Probably, someone tried to go outside, but something died.
"Here I would like to mention something that you may not know: the things in the surface space can be carried by you into the inner space. I didn't really find out about it because I brought the food from the commissary from the watch space to the inner space, but my clock...... That's it. This clock is in a drawer in my real-world ward. In the watchspace I took it for granted, but when I got to the inner space I noticed that it was unusual - you see, in this space, my nightstand has no drawers. I think it's because I've touched it in the watchspace that it came to the space. Of course, this is just my conjecture. I haven't checked.
"The next day I woke up at 2 p.m. ......"
"Haha, you pig. We slept for eleven hours, and you slept...... So long. Ahaha. "Tear down a strawberry and a chocolate.
Xie Changge closed his eyes and continued: "Only then did I know that when I fell asleep in this ward, time would be lost unconsciously. Interestingly, I didn't seem to be hungry enough to be hungry for two meals. Anyway, I filled my stomach and went out to continue exploring. At that point, I'm back in the tablespace......"
I walked over to Xie Changge with the food and wanted to ask him if he wanted it, but he barked at me: "Go away, uncle." "I'm so kind.
"The second time I entered the interior was at nine o'clock in the evening. This time, because I didn't take into account the shortening of time, I didn't have time to return to the ward when the broadcast was announced. After darkness, I met a nurse. Her name is Chen Peihua, and she is the head nurse of Yixiang People's Hospital. When I met her, I noticed that she was mentally disturbed - she thought I was a zombie and wanted to run away from me. Rare to meet a living person, I tried my best to catch up with her and explain to her that I was a survivor. After talking to her, I found that her concept of time has been skewed, and her cognition is also somewhat deficient. However, although her personality is a bit cowardly, she always leaves me alone to escape from the zombies, but her heart is not hopelessly bad. After I saved her life, she confessed to me and told me a lot about the hospital......"
"We know Chen Peihua. Sadly, she's dead, a slow-moving zombie. "Thinking of Ah Hua's death, I still regret it.
"Really?" the indifferent Xie Changge only cared about his own experience, which was really cold-blooded.
"She has a sweetheart, Ge Yingming. Who knows, Ge Yingming is a complete murderer. I said, how could Ah Hua not tell you about her sweetheart?"
"Nope. During the time I ran away from the zombies with her, she kept talking about the horrors of the faceless monsters. Although it is true that her mental condition is not very good, I believe what she says. β
"Why?" I asked Xie Changge, snatching a chocolate pie from Chen Yaofei's hand.
"Because I've met with the Modified Corpse alone. β
After Xie Changge said this, I almost choked to death by the chocolate pie.
"What? You mean you've met the faceless monster alone?"
"Because Chen Peihua fled away from me again, I was chased by the white-eyed zombie alone, and I ran to the twentieth floor by mistake. In the West ward on the twentieth floor, I saw the faceless monster that Chen Peihua had mentioned. As soon as I saw it, I knew it was not going to be good and turned to flee, but it was still catching up with it at an alarming speed. The transformed corpse ran like a gale, but I didn't know it at the time, and I thought I could get away with it......"
"You, you, how are you still alive?"
Xie Changge opened his eyes and looked at me, then turned his head to change the topic: "Leaving the transformed corpse, I found a place to take refuge on the twentieth floor. That's the office where Dr. Du Ming works in the neurology ward of the hospital. It wasn't Du Ming's office, as there were four desks in the office. Next to the office is a door-connected studio with a variety of experimental equipment. This kind of room arrangement is quite in line with the work of the experimenters. I couldn't figure out why there was a lab next to the neurology doctor's office β maybe I was alone. β
"You're definitely unheard. "When we were full, Chen Yaofei and I each sat on a chair and listened to Xie Changge's story.
Xie Changge closed his eyes again and told his experience: "I found his handwriting on Du Ming's desk. I dabbled in the notebook and wanted to take it away, but then I heard a strange sound from next door, and I was so frightened that I dropped my notebook to the ground. The studio door was unlocked. I vigilantly went to the studio to investigate the source of the sound, and then I saw the head of a female zombie in the glass bottle in the studio. It turned out that she was screaming. β
Xie Changge didn't say anything, but Chen Yaofei and I were stunned.
"You mean, you see the head of a zombie, a head that is separate from the body?"
"In addition to the female zombies, there is another thing in the studio. It was a skinny, skeletal-like red-eyed monster clinging to the corner of the ceiling. There is a mention of this zombie in the diary, but I don't remember a description of it.
"The red-eyed zombie clucked, and when they realized my presence, they crawled towards me from the wall. Even though I knew there was such a zombie beforehand, when it quickly rushed towards me, I panicked and forgot to close the door to the studio. Sensing his mistake, the red-eyed zombie crawled into the neurologist's office. Without bothering to pick up my notes, I opened the nearby door and fled the office, not being hunted by the red-eyed zombies.
"Escaping death, I met Chen Peihua again. She apologized to me for bending overβshe was too big to bend overβand seeing her sincerity, I did not pursue her abandoning me.
"I don't know when, there are more and more zombies. Although it is only a slow-moving rotting corpse, once such a large number of zombies surround us, we will definitely be doomed before the time is up. So, I led Chen Peihua to my hospital room. Just then, darkness fell again, and I returned to the watchspace. β
"Xie Changge, I want to ask a question," without waiting for Xie Changge to agree, I asked, "First, what is written in the notebook? information about zombies? Second, how many kinds of zombies are there? slow-moving zombies, fast-moving white-eyed zombies, skinny red-eyed zombies...... Ah, thirdly, why did you go back to a place where there were no living and no dead? Can we go back too? Fourth...... "I took off my clothes to look at my body and asked Xie Changge: "I met a white-eyed zombie before, will I become a zombie because of the corpse poison?"
Xie Changge glanced at me, lay down and covered the quilt and prepared to sleep.
"Classmate Xie Changge, I'm also worried about whether Yi Jiahe will become a zombie. Chen Yaofei said to Xie Changge.
"Can't die. β
So, I'm not going to turn into a zombie?
I leaned into Chen Yaofei's ear and secretly told him my questions and asked him to ask Xie Changge.
"Xie Changge, what should we do next?"
"Rest, wait until it's time to return to the surface space, and then wait for the darkness to fall into the space to get Du Ming's notes from the neuronist's office on the twentieth floor. Also, Chen Yaofei, what's in the briefcase you brought?"
Chen Yaofei opened the zipper and looked at the briefcase with me: matches, lighters, screwdrivers, syringes, medicines, first aid kits, small wrenches, fruit knives, flashlights, ropes, large scissors...... God, Ge Yingming's briefcase is so good. However, this guy cheated on my feelings - he didn't have food in his bag.
Chen Yaofei reported the contents of the bag to Xie Changge. Xie Changge was silent for a moment, then lifted the quilt and got up and said to us, "Bring those things, because you will encounter a crisis on the twentieth floor that you have not encountered below." "Don't forget the latest chapter of the "Don't Forget the Blessing and Claw Book House of the Past in the Past" is free to read for the first time.