Chapter 1: The Ward of Horror
I'm almost out of breath! No, no, I still want to live!
I screamed and struggled to my feet, gasping for air. In my ears, there was still a heavy voice.
I could feel my heart beating, thumping, beating so hard.
Was it just a dream? But why can't I remember anything when I wake up?
I had a vague feeling that I must have had a dream, a terrible dream. I felt like I had fallen into the river, the icy river, and I was almost drowning! That's right, it's just that feeling, it's horrible!
Suddenly, I realized something, and when I looked up, I saw the whitewashed patch on the opposite wall.
It's a white wall, quite dilapidated.
But, no, I shouldn't be here? Is this my home? No, it's not, absolutely not!
I looked around again, and I was even more surprised.
I was lying on a bed, a hospital bed, to be exact. Because, right on either side of me, there is a hospital bed on the left and right. However, apart from me, there was not a single patient in the other two beds, not only no patients, not even mattresses, these were two empty beds with only frames.
Looking to the upper right, a cold breath was blowing in a dilapidated air conditioner. That's right, the biting chill I just felt in my dream was not from the glacier, but from this air conditioner. The air conditioner made an unpleasant sound, as if it was about to fall apart. Suddenly, the sound stopped, and the room fell silent, eerily silent.
At this time, I suddenly felt a little dizzy, I subconsciously held my head with my hands, but I felt that my movements seemed very clumsy, as if it was not my hand, but another person, what was going on? No, I'm going to get up, I can't lie here anymore!
How could I be in a hospital bed? Am I hospitalized? But I'm not a patient? Where is this, why am I here? Why can't I remember it at all?
I tried to prop myself up, but I felt as if I had slept here for a century, and every movement I made was as if I was in a nightmare, so mechanical, so stiff, so difficult.
Finally, I stood up, my cold feet on the floor. The cold feeling must not be from my feet, but from the floor. I looked down and saw that the floor was made of wooden floors, and my feet would crunch when I stepped on it. Oh my God, this hospital is too old, isn't it? Actually made the floor out of wooden planks? Moreover, it looks like these planks are so old that they seem to be broken at any time, and when you step on them, you really don't know when you will step on them and fall down.
I could see some small gaps between the planks, but I couldn't see what was underneath the gaps. I didn't dare to look more, so I slowly raised my head, and at this moment, a gust of wind blew and hit me in the face. It felt like being slapped lightly by a little girl, but I was still somewhat sober.
The window swayed and rattled, and the window was broken, the glass was half broken, and the wood on the window was rotting.
It's a hospital, it's been a long time since there have been patients, right? But I live in such a hellish place? What was it about me that got it?
I reached out and touched my breast, and then my lower abdomen, which was flat up and down, not like a patient. Except that I still feel a little dizzy and weak in my hands and feet, I don't look like a patient, is there something wrong?
I got out of bed, it felt bad to walk barefoot, the cold wooden floor touched the soles of my feet, it was a bit uncomfortable and weird, I seemed to be looking for a pair of shoes, right? Walking barefoot like this, in case you get stuck with nails or glass shards, it's not fun.
At this moment, suddenly, the air conditioner that had just stopped working began to make a sound again. It's just that this time it's not the kind of noise that the air conditioner makes, but the grunt, the goo, as if the air conditioner was panting, and as if it was choking on something.
Then, something began to flow out of the air conditioner, a liquid, and it ran down the wall.
Could it be that the air conditioner is leaking?
Just as I was puzzled, suddenly, I felt something rush towards the soles of my feet. I was stunned, and suddenly the soles of my feet slipped and I slipped and fell to the ground.
No, don't! I was almost screaming, but I didn't even have time to scream, so I slammed and fell backwards. In that last moment, I felt something hit the back of my head, and then it went black······
After I don't know how long, I tried to lift my eyes, but I felt that my eyes were dry, but I slowly opened them and found myself lying on the floor. At this time, I suddenly smelled a bad smell, which was all around me. I shrunk my nose, but the smell was still there. I lowered my head, but I found myself sitting in the water, it was crimson water, the smell was coming from the water, and a few flies stopped on the water, as if they were sucking something, but when I saw these flies, I suddenly had a feeling of nausea.
What the hell is this thing? I raised my hand, which was also stained with the red liquid, and I put my finger in front of my nose, and I couldn't help but want to vomit at the smell.
I see, it's not sewage, it's blood. The red one is blood, it's the blood that has already stinked!
All around me, there was this foul red blood, and although it wasn't very deep, it made the floor of the whole room take on an eerie crimson color.
How can there be blood here? Whose blood is this?
Coo, coo, the sound on the wall made me look up again. On the white wall, the old air conditioner that was about to be scrapped was bleeding red pus and blood!
What the? Is the air conditioner bleeding? I was startled, and instinctively reached out to touch it, only to feel a cold thing on the ground.
I grabbed it and found that I had caught a can of beer, but it was empty. I couldn't make out the handwriting on it, because the cans were stained with blood. When I looked further, I saw that the floor of this small hospital room was littered with cans of beer stained with blood, but most of them were empty, squeezed cans.
Anyone has drunk here? Drinking in the ward?
I struggled to get up, and I didn't want to stay in this place for a minute. Bleeding air conditioners, blood and cans everywhere, creaking wooden floors, and the stench of blood! What kind of hospital is this? I'm not dreaming, am I?
Yes, I must be dreaming! That's right!
I was about to pinch myself hard, but my eyes were drawn to the bold words on the wall behind the bed in the middle. On the head of that hospital bed, the same bed I once slept in, there were three numbers "036" written in red letters on the wall! On the whitewashed wall, there are so many red numbers, it is almost impossible not to let people see them.
But, no, why didn't I see those three words when I woke up from my hospital bed?
I rubbed my eyes, but the three numbers were still on the wall, not gone! I'm not hallucinating, there are three words on the wall, maybe I didn't notice it when I woke up?
But what does this "036" represent? Could it be that this is my hospital bed number?
Ah, by the way, it's easy to see the information of the hospital bed number, just go to the end of the bed and look at it. In the general hospital ward, the patient's illness, bed number, and the corresponding doctor and nurse's name are not all on it?
So, I cautiously walked towards the end of the bed, for fear that I would slip under my feet and fall to the ground again. But when I looked at the floor again, there were a lot of medicines scattered in the bloodstain, in addition to the cans rolling around. Pharmaceuticals? yes, isn't this a hospital ward? It's a bit strange that there are no medicines. But why don't you see anyone else here but me? What about nurses? What about doctors?
At the thought of this, I couldn't help but shudder, raised my head, and looked around.
The wind blew in through the broken window and was blowing in my face, cold and sharp, like a knife. Outside the window, it was dark, was it late at night? Why isn't there even moonshine? I looked up, and there was no other source of light except for the faint light above my head. The dim light shone on my face, adding to the terrible silence. No, it's not silence, it's dead silence. There was a dead silence, and there was nothing but the sound of my heartbeat and breathing, and the muffled wheezing of the air conditioner.
I was scared, why was I in such a hellish place? This is the hospital, am I sick? What disease do I have? No, why can't I even remember who I am?
Forgot your name? It's something I couldn't have imagined. How important is a person's name? But I forgot my name? What is my name? What's my last name? Why can't I remember at all, am I amnesia?
I panicked more and more, and although I tried hard to remember my name, I couldn't remember anything. It's a terrible feeling!
Name, my name! What's my name? Who am I and why am I here? No, I'm not sick, I'm not sick at all, this must be a mistake!
By the way, I'd better look at the patient information posted at the end of the bed, right? Yes, my name must be on it!
I seemed to have found my way all at once, like someone who has lost his way in the desert. So, I walked forward, and I was only a few steps away from the end of the bed. But the strange thing is that my legs are as heavy as if they were filled with lead.
Suddenly, I fell down involuntarily, and I must have stepped on the slippery bloodstain.
Yes! I suddenly screamed. Because my mouth is only a few centimeters away from the stench of blood!
Thankfully, I didn't fall. At the moment when I was about to fall, I held the ground with my hands, and although my face did not touch the ground, my hands were dirty, and both hands were bloody!
Bastard! I was about to get up, but just then, I heard a voice.
Grunt, as if something was rolling this way.
Yes! I was stunned, my eyes motionless in the direction of the voice.
That thing rolled closer and closer, rolled closer and closer······