Chapter 9: The Gap Between Life and Death

The scale of the hospital in the western suburbs is not large, and the main building is only a four-storey compound building, which can almost be called a shame for the hospital in a metropolis like G City.

Hongyuan walked into the gate of the hospital, and the smell of various potions mixed with a faint smell of formalin suddenly came to his face.

In a small, desolate hospital like the Western Suburbs Hospital, the number of mobile patients is not very large.

As soon as Hongyuan entered the hall, he saw a little nurse in a practice suit in the nurse's desk on duty fishing.

Not far from her, two regular nurses were leaning on the nurses' desk, whispering.

"Have you heard? Recently, the old people in our hospital have been spreading that in addition to the morgue on the first basement floor, our hospital also has a second underground floor! "The long-legged nurse of the two nurses is mysterious.

"It's impossible, I've been to the morgue on the negative floor, and the stairs end on the negative floor, so there can't be any underground floor." Another nurse wondered.

"What do you know? I heard Aunt Gu, the cleaner, say that she once watched a man walk into the darkness at the end of the stairs and never came up again. You say, could it be that there is some mechanism hidden there, or is it simply haunted? The long-legged nurse was still talking there, not realizing that her work attitude was already punishable.

The nurse's desk was near the gate of the hospital, Hongyuan walked in front of the nurse's desk, and he naturally heard the conversation between the two clearly, and couldn't help but shake his head.

Sometimes, the human imagination is so rich.

But the irony is that people never realize how far away their guess is from the real truth.

When the world reveals its strange and grotesque side to you, you will discover how humble and small your poor imagination really is!

At this moment, Hongyuan was suddenly bumped on the shoulder.

Hongyuan turned his head suddenly, but he was met by a pair of bloodshot eyes.

It was a man in a white lab coat and a mask, wrapping himself tightly, and Hongyuan could only see his eyes......

What kind of eyes are they!

The eye sockets are deep-set, as if they have been on duty for half a month in a row, and it is like they have not slept for three days and three nights.

What's even more weird is that maybe the two of them are close enough, Hongyuan actually smells a faint stench from under the man's clothes.

Plausible...... Corpse stench!

The man nodded apologetically to Hongyuan, and the two passed by.

"This man...... There's a problem. ”

Hongyuan's eyes lit up. People like this with the smell of corpses are generally engaged in work related to corpses.

But the man in the white coat just now, the doctor's certificate seems to be a doctor in the otolaryngology department, and it is obviously impossible for this kind of department to have frequent contact with corpses.

When all possibilities are ruled out, the remaining one, no matter how incredible, is the truth!

The man himself just now is probably the source of this corpse stench!

Thinking of this, Hongyuan's face suddenly became solemn, and he seemed to yawn lazily, but his eyes quickly swept around.

After making sure that there were no other suspicious people around, he walked quickly to the corner of the hall on the first floor, pushed open the door of the fire staircase, and walked down the stairs.

The staircase was dimly lit, and from time to time a cold wind blew in from below.

Hongyuan couldn't help frowning, although he didn't feel fear, this environment still made him instinctively feel uncomfortable.

On the negative floor of the Western Suburbs Hospital, even the elderly who have worked in the hospital for decades will not come down easily.

Because the basement here is not only a place of extreme yin in feng shui, but it is also the source of countless urban legends - the morgue.

The body instinctively shuddered, as if to warn Hongyuan to stay away from such a place as soon as possible. Hongyuan pursed his lips helplessly, only feeling that his body was simply weak compared to his consciousness.

When he came to the negative floor, Hongyuan stretched out his head and looked in the direction of the morgue at the end of the negative floor, and saw that the big iron door of the morgue was grinning, and it was cold inside.

"The facilities of the hospital in the western suburbs are really old and backward, and there is no one to guard even a place like the morgue." Hongyuan complained, as if he was a little disgusted that he had infiltrated too easily.

He didn't stop, but continued down the stairs.

According to the normal structure, the Western Suburbs Hospital does only have one basement floor, but for some reason, the staircase here is a small section downward, and at the end of the staircase is a concrete wall hidden in the darkness.

"Guy, are you lost?" A low, hoarse female voice suddenly came from behind. Hongyuan turned his head and saw a middle-aged woman with a black face, standing behind Hongyuan with cleaning tools.

If this is an ordinary person, he will be frightened if he is unprepared.

"Auntie, your surname is Gu, right?" Who knows, Hongyuan's answer is a little unanswered.

"Guy smash, how do you know me? Do you know me? Aunt Gu looked surprised and said noncommittally.

"It seems that this is Aunt Gu in the mouth of the long-legged nurse." Hongyuan thought secretly in his heart. He didn't reply, but walked straight down, and in an instant he disappeared into the shadows at the end of the stairs.

Aunt Gu: ∑ (っ°Д°; )っ!!

"Mom, I'm hitting a ghost again?"

Aunt Gu's face turned white, and she vaguely remembered that the last time she "hit a ghost", she seemed to see a similar young man!

"This guy smashed, it can't be a lingering ghost in the hospital, right? Could he ...... And the last time I hit a ghost? Aunt Gu was so shocked that her face was colorless, and she swore that she would discuss with her son whatever she said when she went back, and quit the cleaning job of the hospital.

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The twisted staircase stretched downward, but the world in Hongyuan's eyes was completely changed at this moment.

The staircase, which had been blocked by the wall, actually branched out again, like a grotesque corridor, extending crookedly downward.

The space seems to be distorted, or the structure of reality around Hongyuan is being confused, the surrounding darkness seems to have turned into substance, and the strange eyes open from the dark "surface"; Countless wriggling tongues protrude from the darkness, like red fat worms, licking greedily and irregularly; All sorts of anti-cross and anti-Buddha seals have appeared on the dark surface, filthy and desecrated.

Even the twisted stairs at Hongyuan's feet have become an existence that seems to breathe, live, and can't stop moving, which is terrifying!

In short, all the horrors and grotesques that the human brain can imagine seem to have their prototypes in this corridor. There are all kinds of things, which is enough to make a normal person's San value go crazy (Note 1), and fall into madness in an instant.

Hongyuan's body was also trembling instinctively, he knew where he was! Here is the mezzanine between reality and fantasy, materialism and idealism, the gap between life and death!

If ordinary people enter here, they will lose their value in a moment, their reason will collapse, and they will eventually be swallowed by the twisted and grotesque around them, and they will never be able to get rid of it.

But Hongyuan was different, he couldn't feel the fear, even if his body instinctively trembled, Hongyuan's consciousness still didn't have a ripple.

If you use a game as a metaphor, it means that Hongyuan will not drop the San value, or ...... The san value of Hongyuan is unlimited!

Ignoring the trembling of his body, Hongyuan took a determined step, knowing that if he wanted to see 'that person', he had to cross this corridor.

I don't know how long it took, but finally, at the end of this twisted and grotesque corridor, a little white light appeared, and Hongyuan walked quickly into that little white light.

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Note 1: San value, San is the abbreviation of the English word "Sanity", which means "sanity".

In many games (especially those set in the Cthulhu Mythos), it is customary to evaluate a character's mental state in terms of their San.

Once the San value is cleared, the character will fall into irreversible madness, and even if the body dies, the soul will go crazy forever and cannot be liberated.