Chapter VIII. Look to the right
My pace slowed down, especially when I hadn't found the light switch, the only light in the room was the flashlight in my hand and the not-so-bright light in the small room behind me.
I stood as far away as I could from the blue curtain, and walked slowly around it, and it turned out to be, as I had guessed, a concrete bench about waist high, with small white square tiles on top of it, for the corpses. But when I walked around, it was empty, and there was nothing. I was a little relieved and ready to go around the second platform, because I could already see the switch on the wall, and if I went around, I would be able to turn on the light here.
As before, I walked around slowly, and the second platform was empty, with no corpses parked. I felt a lot more relaxed, so I touched the wall and turned on the light. Probably due to the voltage, the light flickered a few times before it was fully lit, and it was the kind of white fluorescent lamp that accompanied the light on, and the subtle sizzling sound from the jumping rectifier. When the lights are completely and steady, the layout of the house can be seen at a glance.
According to the layout, it should be said that three identical rooms make up the whole house. The utility room I had entered earlier was about half of one of them. The remaining two and a half rooms are all broken through the middle wall and turned into a large room. Just like the blue curtain I saw earlier, here is almost a meter wide, and there is only a three-meter passage in the middle, that is, behind the double-open iron door, so that the corpse can enter and exit through the iron gate. I counted that there were seven tiled tables for the corpses between every two blue curtains.
Seven, a very magical number, whether in China or in the West, seems to have a certain meaning in the dark. China used the Big Dipper to define the gods of heaven and earth, and Westerners discovered the existence of seven monochromates in the spectrum; The Chinese pay attention to the first seven tails and seven tails, and the Westerners define human sins as seven sects; Chinese set the number of the I Ching calculus at seven sevens, and Westerners think that a week is a cycle, and on weekends you should go to church for worship, and a week is seven days......
There are countless examples. Although these seven tables seem to be more like a coincidence at the moment, such a coincidence does not seem to bode well for a person like me, who believes in metaphysics and is about to face the truth behind it. So, I mustered up the courage to recite the Golden Light Mantra to myself a few times, and then walked towards the curtain farther away. When I went around to the third platform, I found that there was still no corpse parked on it.
I felt a little strange, so I stopped for a moment and began to look at the tables. It soon became clear that the two tables I had seen earlier, the two near the utility room, were much more dusty than the third, and the third was smoother and neater. So I retreated to the edge of the first two countertops, reached out and touched them gently, and sure enough, a lot of dust had accumulated, and even a clear finger mark appeared on them when I touched them.
If you start numbering these tables from the direction of the utility room, then there have been no corpses parked on the No. 1 and No. 2 tables for a long time. And No. 3 was parked not so long ago. There was a passage between the No. 3 platform and the rest of the tables, and there were still 4 tables left, and I knew in my heart that the fewer corpses I saw, the less frightened I would be, and when I thought of this, I began to walk towards the No. 4 platform.
There were four tables on the other side, and because there was a cabinet on the wall next to the door, the place where I could put my feet was much narrower than before, and when the curtain was closed, it almost reached the edge of the cabinet. So I couldn't walk around like I had just done, and I had to lift the curtain to know what was behind it.
I mustered up the courage to lift the curtain on the No. 4 platform, and I was overjoyed, exclaiming that I was lucky, and there were no corpses here. Taking advantage of this good luck, I opened No. 5 and No. 6 one after another, and there were no corpses, but the countertops were the same as No. 3, they were smooth and tidy. There is only one last table left, which means that even if there is a corpse, there is only one. Because there is no reason for the hospital to have so many empty beds and pile all the bodies on the same table, since there are only dead people, and there is only one, then there is nothing to be afraid of. So I was so happy that I opened the last curtain without thinking, but the moment I opened it, something strange happened.
With a bang, my eyes even looked towards the table of Stage 7, but just as the picture entered my eyes, the lights in the whole room began to flicker at the same time, and the flash was only for a moment, but the darkness lasted for a second or two. At the first flicker, I noticed that there were four people on the wall at the end of Stage 7, which was the place where I had climbed over the wall before!
I greatly regretted the impulsive opening of the curtain before, although that flash was only a fleeting thing, but under the sudden light, the four figures standing side by side against the wall were already imprinted in my mind, and before I could react to escape, a second flash suddenly appeared, this time I could not forget the eyes, and saw a more concrete picture, the four people seemed to be different in height, short, fat and thin, and they all stood upright, facing the wall.
Now I reacted, turned around and ran, but when I turned around, the moment of the third flash of light, scared me almost to death. Because when that flash of light had just appeared, in front of me, less than an inch from the tip of my nose, there was a pale human face looking at me with an angry expression! The look in his eyes... No, there were no eyes, the pupils of his eyes were dilated, and his forehead was black and white, as if the blood had coagulated, and the hair that hung down on the sides of his forehead, about the length of his eyebrows, looked greasy and wet.
I'm a useless person. If the four people standing side by side facing the wall just scared me into turning and fleeing, at least I knew how to flee, which means that I haven't lost my mind. But the face that turned around was so close that I was so frightened that I couldn't even think of myself, and I not only screamed in frenzy, but also broke out a loud and crisp fart because I screamed too hard. I didn't care about anything else and reached out to push the person in front of me, this is actually instinct, I didn't think about whether this person was a human or a ghost at all, but when my hand pushed on him, it was obviously different from the feeling of hitting the ghost with Ziwei or thunder in the past, hitting the ghost's body, it was a feeling of losing strength on the cotton, but this time, I really felt that the other party was a person.
It's just that as I said, at that time, I was already crazy, and only breaking out of the fart was the only trace of sanity I had left, otherwise even the would have collapsed. After pushing the man away, I ran away to the side like crazy, but I didn't know that I tripped over something under my feet, and my body was instantly weightless, so I reached out to grab the curtain, but I didn't think that the curtain couldn't bear my weight at all, just like that, the curtain was torn off with the action of my fall, and I didn't find the right direction to fall in the already narrow gap because I struggled too much, so my chin slammed firmly on the countertop that should be the No. 6 platform. In addition, I had been screaming, and this knock made me bite my tongue because of it.
In addition to the shock, there was a sudden sharp pain, and my eyes were dark, and I didn't know anything.
I think I fainted, but I don't remember how long I fainted. It's just that when I woke up in a daze, I was woken up by a disgusting smell. And when I woke up, my legs were a little sore, but in front of me was not the floor of the morgue, nor the curtain that I had torn off, nor the white tiled morgue, but some cracked, some white skin walls.
I thought I was facing the wall when I fell to the ground, but it turned out that I was thinking too simply. Because I suddenly realized that my body was standing! Stand facing the wall!
What's even more terrifying is that I can't move the rest of my body except for my eyes that can be turned, my mouth can be opened, and my neck can be twisted slightly!
I thought to myself, this is terrible, this feeling is almost the same as when I am pressed into bed by a ghost, except that my tongue can move. So I didn't care about the sharp pain of my tongue, and the smell of blood in my mouth, I tried to lift my tongue up and push it up against my throat, trying to make myself instinctively gag in this way, as long as I vomited, my body could move.
But the strange thing is that no matter how hard I try, I will only experience the uncomfortable feeling of gagging, but my body still can't move. Because of the gagging relationship, my eyes were full of tears, and under the moisture of tears, my vision became more moisturized. However, at this moment, a strange voice sounded from behind me:
"Stand upright——! Align with the right! ”
The direction of the sound was the left direction behind my body, and it was very close. It's like hearing a voice in the middle of the night, and everyone can't help but look for the direction it came from, and I turned my head to the left, but when I turned my head, I almost broke out another fart in front of me.
Four dead men, standing in the same posture as me, stood neatly on my left hand side, all with their heads turned to the right, looking at me!