Chapter 5: Terror
There was a slow, slight footstep hidden in this harsh grinding sound, which sounded a lot like the sound of some sharp metal object scratching the ground or wall, and almost at the same time as it was distinguished, Tang Juyi already had a bad association.
Hospitals, sharp objects, footsteps......
The combination of these three elements is equated with death in Tang Juyi's logic.
"So fast?!"
Tang Juyi didn't have time to scold his mother, so he rolled up the X-ray film and stuffed it into his pocket, then opened the door and poked his head out.
At the end of the staircase at the end of the corridor, a blood-stained scalpel was also half exposed.
It seems that the friend holding this scalpel is about to meet love with Tang Juyi.
Tang Juyi's scalp was numb, and he directly dispelled the idea of "it's better to hide in the room first and see if you can hide from it", and directly pushed the door open like a wild dog and ran to the other end.
And as he rushed out of the room, the sharp grinding and footsteps accelerated abruptly.
"Fuck me!"
Tang Juyi scolded, and he also knew that the one holding the knife had found it and chased after him, so he no longer saved his strength and ran as hard as he could.
Although he didn't know what was chasing him, Tang Juyi could also tell from the blood-stained scalpel that it was not a good stubble.
As for relying on the fact that he is now a middle-aged tough guy and going to fight with the other side for fighting skills....... Tang Juyi didn't want to bury his life easily for the time being.
Compared with a knife-wielding guy behind him, Tang Juyi also found a bigger trouble after running a few steps.
There is only one door in this hallway.
Within Tang Juyi's line of sight, there were bare walls on both sides of the corridor, and only a closed door was at the very end.
At this time, Tang Juyi had two choices, one was to bet that the door was unlocked, and there was another way to go in, and the other was to turn around and confront the buddy with the knife, and then pray that he could find a chance to run to the staircase.
Tang Juyi gritted his teeth, thinking that instead of wasting his physical strength to bet that the door was not locked, it was better to go back and try to fight.
While thinking about it, Tang Juyi subconsciously glanced back.
It was at this glance that he directly gave up his intention to turn back.
I saw that thirty meters behind Tang Juyi, a strange-shaped thing was rushing towards him at the speed of an adult's brisk walk.
The thing had thick legs, but it was slim compared to his upper body. It had six arms on its body, arranged at its sides in an irregular pattern, and where it was originally its head was an indescribable pile of tentacles.
Be sure to describe it in words...... It's probably a six-handed muscular man who has stuffed an octopus into his neck.
The scalpel that Tang Juyi had seen before was only one of the scalpels it held in its six hands.
According to Tang Juyi's understanding, the appearance of this monster is equivalent to saying "close to death".
Tang Juyi, whose back was cold, didn't dare to slow down, and almost rushed all the way to the door at the end of the corridor, and at the same time reached out and held the doorknob.
Click
Hearing the sound of the door lock opening as he wished, Tang Juyi only felt relieved, hurriedly pushed open the door and rushed in, and closed the door immediately after entering the house.
At this time, another problem arose - the door was not locked, which meant that there was no such thing as locking the door to block the monsters outside.
Tang Juyi, who found that something was wrong, also decisively looked away and tried to find another way out, but in despair he found that there was almost nothing left in this room, only an iron cabinet placed on the wall, and only a garbage can full of paper balls remained.
"No road?! How can it be?! β
Tang Juyi was incredulous, and the sound of footsteps outside the door was getting closer and closer, giving him little time to think.
Could it be that the second game of the bunny man starts with a mortal situation? Or did you waste your time and miss the chance to escape from the stairs? Or maybe it's the wrong idea, should you go up and fight that monster?
Tang Juyi's heart was beating violently, and he only felt that the shadow of death began to envelop him.
"Impossible...... Unless I'm missing something......"
He went mad and began to rummage through his clothes, trying to find something that would change the situation, but to no avail.
That is, while rummaging around, the X-rays that had been rolled up before also fell out of the pocket of the coat and fell to the ground with the back side up.
Strangely, there was still a line on the back of the X-ray, but it was scrawled in black lettering, and it seemed that the person who wrote him was in a hurry.
Tang Juyi quickly squatted down and picked it up, and quickly finished browsing the scribbled handwriting:
[Every time I hide from the cat, Xiao Zhe hides in the cabinet in the archives, but I still have to pretend that I can't find it, it's funny......"
As if it was the last straw, Tang Juyi directly set his eyes on the only cabinet in this room that could barely accommodate people.
Bang!
The door was kicked open, and the pieces of iron that connected the door to the door frame flew out and fell to the ground with a crisp sound.
At this time, Tang Juyi had already squeezed himself into the iron cabinet.
The funny thing is that this cabinet has no lock like the door, and Tang Juyi's body is a strong middle-aged man, so the cabinet door can't be completely closed.
It can be said that even a child with a normal IQ can see that there is a person hiding in this cabinet.
Tang Juyi was covered in cold sweat, and tried his best to squeeze himself into the depths of the cabinet, and the X-ray was also rubbed on his chest and squeezed into a ball.
"Heaven bless ......"
Tang Juyi closed his eyes and began to pray silently.
The footsteps were clearly audible, and according to Tang Juyi's judgment, the monster should have started searching in the room.
"Bang"
It's the sound of a trash can being knocked over.
There was a squirming sound, and Tang Juyi could almost imagine the monster rummaging through the trash can.
After a while, the rummaging sound gradually stopped, and it seemed that the monster also realized that there was no one in the garbage can.
The footsteps sounded again, and this time it moved in the direction of the cabinet where Tang Juyi was hiding.
At this moment, Tang Juyi felt that his blood was frozen, his brain was blank, and he even began to think about how to run away from it if he was pulled out by that monster later.
The footsteps stopped abruptly, and the location was in front of the cabinet door.
The rich fishy smell entered Tang Juyi's nose through the cabinet door, and through the exhaust hole on the cabinet, Tang Juyi could clearly see the tentacles on the monster's body and the brown blood stains all over his body.
For a second...
Two seconds...
Three seconds...
......
Tang Juyi and the headless monster were separated only by a thin and fragile iron cabinet door, and the two were relatively silent like this.
Tang Juyi didn't know if this monster saw him, and he didn't know what this monster was hesitating, so he could only hold his legs and try not to make a sound.
Half a minute passed, and it seemed like half a lifetime had passed.
In Tang Juyi's shocked gaze, the monster stood quietly facing the cabinet door for a while, and then slowly turned around and walked away!
It's like an elder who is really playing peek-a-boo with a child, even if he knows that he is hiding from the person he is looking for in the cupboard, he still turns a blind eye and leaves.
Tang Juyi watched the burly figure walk out of the door in a daze, and then disappeared at the end of the corridor, all the question marks in his mind.
"I carefully checked the garbage cans that couldn't even hide one leg, and I was in a daze for a while in front of the half-open cabinets and left......"
Tang Juyi fell out of the cabinet as if he had collapsed, and said as if he was talking in a dream.
After a long time, he recovered from the happiness of the rest of his life after the catastrophe, and Tang Juyi also took out the crumpled X-ray again and observed it carefully.
The red handwriting that reminded him to hurry up had disappeared, but the black handwriting on the back still existed, and this also made Tang Juyi understand a lot of things.
"In other words, the red line is a reminder from the bunny man outside of this game, and the black words are the clues that really exist in this game......"
Tang Juyi stumbled out of the door, cautiously observed the outside, and made sure that there was no danger before entering the corridor, while his thoughts continued to work:
"This black handwriting is clearly a hint of how to survive, for example, the monster just now, even though he knew I was hiding in the cupboard, still didn't do anything to me, but [pretended not to find] like the paper was written......"
Returning to the door of the operating room where he had woken up, Tang Juyi also saw the entrance of the corridor at the end of the corridor in the other direction, and the dark and deep environment inside made him a little hesitant.
"It looks like a diary-like statement, and judging by the monster's reaction, it should be the [I] in the handwriting on the back of the X-ray...... But in this way, [I] should be a normal person, how could I become such a monster? β
Tang Juyi walked to the entrance of the building step by step, and first looked inside. With the light in the hallway, he could barely make out the bloodstained footprints on the steps.
"There are no footprints on the steps up, but footprints on both sides of the steps down, do you mean you want me to go upstairs?"
Tang Juyi was a little hesitant, but immediately found that there was a newspaper posted on the wall next to the corridor, but unfortunately most of it was artificially torn off, and he could barely read a few lines:
γ...... Doctors have shown remarkable results in their research on the disease, and the recovery process of patients in the hospital is equally promising, according to ......]
In another corner of the newspaper, four bold words can be faintly seen:
γGospel of the Sickγ
Tang Juyi shook his head, and didn't get any reliable clues from it, so he looked down, but saw a small miniature version of the map.
βγ...... Map of the hospital]? How come these words are just tainted? If you don't even write the name of the hospital, are you still afraid that I will sue it for infringement? β
Tang Juyi was obviously a little dissatisfied, but he still browsed patiently.
"It's ...... 3rd floor? So just now it was the archives and the operating room? There are only two rooms on the first floor, and the developer's heart is quite big......"
Even at this time, Tang Juyi did not forget to ridicule in the tense atmosphere.
When he hid in the iron cabinet, Tang Juyi discovered the purpose of the cabinet, but the inside of the cabinet had already been emptied, and the documents inside it did not exist.
"The fourth floor is the ward level, and there is also the attending physician's office...... Is it true that the ward was built on the 4th floor without fear of family members' opinions...... On the second floor, there is an emergency room and a psychological counseling room. β
Tang Juyi sneered and continued to look down, but then he was stunned, because the map on the first floor was completely covered with inexplicable stains, and no place could be recognized.
"So it's clear that you won't let me go to the first floor, right?"
Tang Juyi, who already had a plan in his heart, also glanced at the corridor downstairs, although there was silence in the darkness, but there was always a feeling of uneasiness lingering in his heart.
"Looks like we'll have to go to the fourth floor first...... I don't know what the origin of that [Xiao Zhe] is...... If there is such a possibility, he plays hide and seek with such monsters every day, then I can only respect him as a man. β
Tang Juyi walked towards the fourth floor while holding on to the stairs, and at the same time made up the appearance of a child in his mind.
Although it is said that [I] recorded on the X-ray film is likely to have encountered some accident to become that kind of monster, but speculation alone cannot be used as the entire basis for judgment, and it cannot be ruled out that there is a kind of hunting situation like Tang Juyi's imagination.
All the way to the 4th floor calmly, Tang Juyi didn't hear any footsteps or anything like that, which also made him a little relieved:
"Looks like you really want me to go to the 4th floor......"