Chapter 11: Drama posters in the outpatient hall
After the gunshot, I smelled the choking smell coming from the muzzle of the gun, which should be the smell of **, which is even worse than the stench in this bathroom.
I gasped and touched my forehead, where cold sweat was already oozing.
What the hell is that? Why did it take on a humanoid form? Am I dreaming?
I pinched my face hard, it hurt, it didn't seem like I was dreaming. Could it be my hallucination? Perhaps, then the things I saw earlier are also hallucinations? What's wrong with me?
It's useless to think about it here, and it's imperative to get out of here as soon as possible. So, I walked towards the door of the toilet, only to find that the door of the toilet had been closed.
What's going on? Wasn't the door still open when I came in? Who's playing a prank?
I pushed the door of the toilet hard, but the outside was firmly locked. No matter how hard I tried, I couldn't open the door.
At that moment, I suddenly heard the faint sound of footsteps outside the door, and the sound of soft gasps.
Wheezing? No, it's not my own wheez!
No, I can't get out from here, I can't shout loudly, I'm going to find another way out.
So, I found it in this toilet. My eyes fell on the window facing the toilet door. The window was nailed with several wooden strips, and it is not known why the hospital did this. However, when I walked up to me and shook the sticks, I realized that they were all rotting, perhaps because of the humidity of the air.
Okay, so let me get rid of these sticks. I don't know where the strength came from, maybe it was out of the instinct to survive, three times five divided by two, I pulled these wooden sticks down one by one.
The last stick was removed, and I pushed open the window, and a gust of wind blew in outside, which finally dispelled the stench in the toilet a little. I cautiously bent down and climbed out of the window, which wasn't very large. Before jumping out, I also took a flashlight and shone it to make sure that it was the floor and not the cliff outside, and then I jumped out.
Falling to the ground, I looked back at the toilet and let out a long breath.
I don't know what kind of place this is, could it be that I've escaped from this hospital?
I couldn't see it outside because it was still dark. I could only hold the flashlight and shine forward, and my right hand subconsciously clenched the gun that had been put back in my pocket.
Soon, I was out of the darkness because there was a light ahead.
Walking towards the light, it grew brighter and brighter outside, and finally, I came to a hall.
Standing in the hall, I was a little blinded by the light, and when I walked here from the dark place, the contrast between light and dark was so great that my eyes felt a little dazzling. After a second or two of resting with my eyes closed, I opened my eyes and realized that I had not left this hospital, and the place where I was standing now was the outpatient hall of this hospital.
There are a dozen lights in this outpatient hall, and I haven't seen this bright light in a long time. The light shone on my face, and I suddenly felt a little happy and a little frightened.
Strangely, the outpatient hall was empty, and there was no one around.
On my ceiling, a dozen or so old-fashioned ceiling fans were spinning and blowing on my body, and I felt a chill. Around me, a dozen stretcher beds were laid out in no order, but fortunately there were no patients, let alone corpses, just empty beds. The floor of the hall was littered with paper and garbage, and it seemed that it had not been cleaned in a long time.
What's going on here? Why not a single one? Could it be that this hospital has been abandoned for a long time?
However, the lights on and the flickering fan told me that the hospital was not abandoned. However, the people here seemed to have evaporated from the world, and disappeared without a trace overnight.
I turned around and walked towards a desk in the middle of the hall, where there was a telephone, which was supposed to be the only way to communicate with the outside world.
I walked over to the help desk, reached out, and picked up the phone. However, I was soon disappointed because the call didn't go out at all. Here, it is as if it has been abandoned by the outside world, completely isolated from the world.
I saw a stack of papers on the desk. I picked up the paper and looked at it, and at the top was the advertising leaflet for this hospital.
"Ghost Hospital"? What the? This hospital is called "Ghost Hospital"? I was taken aback when I saw these four words, I rubbed my eyes, that's right, this hospital leaflet is written with the words "ghost hospital"!
Is there any mistake? How could a hospital give itself such a name? Ghost Hospital? Could it be that the patients living here are ghosts?
I was horrified by this thought of my own, and subconsciously turned my head and looked behind me.
The hall behind him was still silent.
I turned my head again and continued to look, only to realize that this "ghost hospital" was not a psychiatric hospital, but a variety of departments, including internal medicine, surgery, pediatrics, obstetrics and gynecology, and otolaryngology. This is a general hospital that is so ordinary that it looks no different from other hospitals.
I flipped to the back of the flyer, and here is a floor map of the hospital. The first floor, which is the floor where I am, is the outpatient hall of the hospital, and of course there is the doctor's office on duty, the security room, the mortuary, the toilet, etc. The second floor includes the outpatient room, the lab, the injection room, etc., and of course, I wouldn't think about going back to that horrible lab again. As for the third and fourth floors, they are wards. I fell from the room on the third floor to the laboratory on the second floor, and I didn't go up to the ward on the fourth floor.
In addition to the floor map, I also saw the names and introductions of many doctors, but I didn't find a doctor surnamed Meng among them, maybe this doctor is not famous. In a general hospital, the offices of good doctors are upstairs or in a separate building, but this Dr. Meng's office is on the first floor, and it seems that he is not a big doctor here, maybe not even an attending doctor. Oh, by the way, he's the doctor on duty, how could I forget that?
I carried this hospital leaflet into my arms, and it might help me get out of here. Then, I flipped through the bottom and found a stack of flyers mixed in with some fast-food advertisements, but when I saw the menu, I lost my appetite. Stir-fried pork belly, pork liver, pig heart, pig lungs? When I saw the names and pictures of these dishes, I couldn't help but think of the viscera coming out of the faucet in the laboratory on the second floor. Please, can't you have something else? Isn't there a single doctor or nurse here who wants to be a vegetarian? Not to mention, it's strange that there aren't any vegetarian dishes on this menu.
Suddenly, a piece of paper, which was different from the hospital leaflet and the food order advertisement, appeared in front of me.
This is a theatrical poster.
On this thin poster, a still is drawn, but this is not a photo, but a picture. In the center of the picture, a big man in a costume and a play makeup looks at a woman to his left with wide eyes. The woman in period costume lowered her head, but her beautiful and pale face could be seen.
When I looked at the name of the play again, I was stunned.
"Wu Song Kills His Sister-in-law"? I suddenly remembered, and my memory seemed to be connected.
"Wu Song killed his sister-in-law Pan Jinlian, this woman should be killed, who told her to commit adultery with Ximenqing? As long as it is an adulterous woman, she is not a good person. A kind, wrinkled face looked at me with a smile.
This is an old grandmother, but who is she? Why did she say these things to me?
The memories were interrupted again, and I fell into silence again.
I lowered my head and looked at the drama poster of "Wu Song's Killing Sister-in-law" in a daze, suddenly, I felt as if I had been electrocuted, let go of my hand, and the poster fell to the ground, however, Wu Song on the poster still stared at the round eyes, murderous, as if staring at me.
I was so shocked that I immediately picked up the poster and stuffed it into the stack of fast food commercials, but my heart was skipping a beat.
Why? Why do I feel so strongly when I see this poster? Could it be that I've seen this play before? Does this have anything to do with my past?
I can't give an answer, and my best option now is to get out of this hospital as soon as possible. But where do I go from here?
On the way out, of course, the first choice was the main entrance of the outpatient hall of the hospital behind me. However, when I got there, I found that the gate was locked, and it was pitch black outside, with no street lights and no road to see. It seemed to be foggy outside, and it was slowly pouring in this direction, and I couldn't see the way out of here.
I looked at the diagram on the back of the hospital leaflet, according to this diagram, there are no other exits except for the front door, but there is an elevator in the northeast corner of the lobby on the first floor, so the elevator may be able to take me out.
So, I walked to the northeast corner of the hall. Sure enough, there was an elevator there.
I pressed the elevator's external button, and the elevator didn't show how many floors it was now, so I had to wait. However, after waiting for a long time, the elevator just didn't come down.
Is this elevator broken? Otherwise, I'd better find another way out.
But just as I was about to turn away, the elevator clanged and the doors opened.
I hesitated, but went in anyway and pressed the button to close the door again.
I'm alone in the elevator, but I don't know which floor I'm going to. By the way, I'm not going to get out of here, am I? I should go to the basement, it's the first floor.
I looked at the floor button in the elevator, but suddenly found that the button on the 4th floor had been pressed, and it was on the light!
Yes? Someone has already pressed the button to go to the 4th floor? I was stunned for a moment, and then suddenly I felt a little chill in my neck.
I'm the only one in this elevator, how can anyone press the button to go to the 4th floor? Is this impossible? Could it be that there is someone else in this elevator?
I turned my head to look inside the elevator, but I was the only one in the elevator.
Could it be that the ghost pressed it? Elevator to the ghost hospital? Could it be that the ghost pressed this button?
I was frightened and desperately pressed the buttons on the other floors, but after pressing it for a long time, only the buttons on the 4th floor could be lit, and the buttons on the other floors seemed to be broken.
No, I'm going out, I'm going out! Don't lock me up inside!
I became so frightened that I even started smashing the elevator doors.
However, no matter how much I smashed it, the elevator remained unmoved, and it still pulled me to the 4th floor.
With a ding, the elevator door opened, and I was reluctantly transported to the 4th floor······