Chapter 12

"I didn't steal anything." The security guard faced Shen Yunzhe with his faceless face.

The sound came from his body. As a doctor, Shen Yunzhe had no idea where the sound came from. As an extreme sports enthusiast, he felt like his brain was about to explode with danger warnings.

"Who said you stole things?" Shen Yunzhe asked.

Although I know that the more I say, the more mistakes I make, but there is indeed something wrong with this security guard, and perhaps I can get some information from him.

"Everyone!" the security guard roared hoarsely. "I didn't take anything. I just found a cell phone and forgot to put it in the lost and found. And yet they say I stole it. Everyone accuses me of stealing, saying I'm stealing the property of a dead person."

"The captain wants to call the police, fire me, and the hospital will dock my salary."

"I obviously didn't do anything!"

Shen Yunzhe clenched the phone in his hand and forced a smile. "It's okay. I'll go return the phone to the owner now. I'll help you explain."

"Really?" The security guard leaned over, and the burnt smell rushed into Shen Yunzhe's nostrils.

Shen Yunzhe nodded, "Really."

"That's great, Doctor Liu, you are such a good person!"

Being thanked by a charred dead person was something Shen Yunzhe had never experienced in his life. He smiled with gritted teeth, trying to make himself appear gentler. Anyway, he could now take his cell phone and leave from the security guard, and walk out safely. This was something Shen Yunzhe had not thought of before he came here.

After turning around and taking two steps, Shen Yunzhe stopped just as he reached the hospital door.

A premonition, can it be called a premonition?

Shen Yunzhe felt an indescribable sense of fear, as if something was waiting for him at the door of the hospital building.

Just wait for him to take a step, and then...

[Don't ignore any form of warning. Code Climber's characteristics: unprovoked but extremely accurate intuition.]

In other words: there really is something.

It seemed that Shen Yunzhe stopped at the door of the hospital and did not move. The thing inside finally could not wait any longer. Blood flowed down the door frame, and the red liquid instantly wet the ground. Shen Yunzhe watched helplessly as a part of his lower body fell into the pool of blood.

His face turned pale as he finally remembered the pursuer he had already forgotten.

The hanged man!

The phone in my pocket automatically lights up, and the barrage of comments on the live broadcast begins to increase.

【Finally caught up with it. It took me so long to find it.】

Because he wiped all the blood off his body and stole the identity of Doctor Liu Ruoyu, which caused this thing's perception to be confused. But he still found it. I said that even if the blood was wiped off, it would still leave a mark.

[For a newcomer to have made it this far on his own is quite impressive. Unfortunately, he's the one closest to the truth among this group.]

[If he dies, the other players probably won't be able to find this place in a short time. Are they really going to be wiped out? ]

[Not sure yet, maybe we'll see a reversal, that would be fun.]

【Too. 】

Shen Yunzhe stepped back, looking at the familiar lower body. He already knew what it was.

The man's upper body also fell down. He still looked dead, with a hemp rope hanging around his neck. Blood flowed around little by little until Shen Yunzhe was wrapped in a circle of blood.

"You..." the corpse opened its mouth, "Give me back my heart."

"Give me back my heart."

Shen Yunzhe took a step back. How could he possibly have the heart of this thing?

"Give it back to me." The thing, hanging by the rope, kept moving towards Shen Yunzhe. "If you don't give it to me, I'll go get it myself."

He crawled towards Shen Yunzhe, "My heart, I want my heart back."

[It will be disemboweled, so pitiful. Maybe it's not dead before its heart is dug out.]

[This novice ghost's killing methods are a bit weak, but the visual effect is really good. Many people caught by it died in agony.]

【I have been looking forward to it for a long time. 】

What should I do? What should I do?!

Stay calm, take a deep breath. In an emergency, you must stay calm and be aware of the surrounding environment and available tools. Even a piece of paper might be useful! Shen Yunzhe tried to take in everything, gradually determining whether these things could be combined into some kind of self-rescue device.

But no, of course not!

This is a hospital, and there is absolutely no possibility of leaving sharp objects outside the inpatient building.

Shen Yunzhe stepped back step by step, looking around anxiously. His eyes swept over the withered flower beds, the countless shadows walking back and forth or even watching, the broken glass, the security room with a cracked door, and the security guard who had been standing at the door had long disappeared.

Wait...security?!

Shen Yunzhe suddenly opened his eyes wide.

"Security!" Shen Yunzhe shouted, his voice loud enough to trigger the 'no loud noise' rule.

Smoke came out from the cracks in the security room, and security guards holding iron rods gathered in front of Shen Yunzhe.

"Security! There's an outsider causing trouble at the hospital!" Shen Yunzhe shouted quickly before the security guard raised his stick at him. "He's even holding a nurse hostage!"

The security guard was stunned for a moment, he was obviously confused by Shen Yunzhe's remarks.

"The security guard's job is to maintain order in the hospital and protect the doctors!" Shen Yunzhe continued, "My life is threatened right now. In an emergency, the doctor's request for help is legitimate and reasonable."

[Oh my god! How could I have forgotten! He's now Doctor Liu Ruoyu! Not just a player!]

[Assigning security guards to protect doctors threatened by medical disturbances is indeed what security guards should do within the rules.]

[So you let him run away? ]

[I just stole a ghost's coat at first...]

[He saved my life again.]

The security guard was persuaded by Shen Yunzhe. He turned around to face the upper half of the body that was slowly crawling towards him, and swung the stick out fiercely. There was a bang, and the crisp sound of bones breaking rang in Shen Yunzhe's ears. The hanged man's head was smashed, and he was twitching on the ground, his eyes rolling constantly.

But he did not die, and he crawled over again in this terrible state.

"He was planning to attack the doctor." Shen Yunzhe said quickly, "The law allows for defensive counterattacks. Now the safety of the hospital and the doctors depends entirely on you, the security guard!"

The security guard moved his severely burned body, holding a bloody stick and walked to the hanged man. The man was still struggling to crawl forward. The security guard raised the stick high and then brought it down hard.

Blood splattered, and the man's hideous face could no longer be seen as he was hanged.

Shen Yunzhe was breathing rapidly because everything in front of him was too bloody. After making sure that the security guard would not let it continue chasing him even if it could not kill it, Shen Yunzhe turned around and ran.

Both the inpatient building and the treatment building have more than one entrance and exit, and you can enter through the side door instead of the main entrance.

What are you waiting for? Run!

The stairs at the side door were very narrow, but Shen Yunzhe didn't care. He ran upstairs facing the gray figures on both sides. The incandescent light shone on him but there was no shadow. He ran to the fourth floor as fast as he could. He saw many familiar gray figures lying in front of the window. Shen Yunzhe swallowed and looked down.

The security guard was still standing there, his long stick covered in blood, and holding a bloody human body in his hand.

"That security guard killed someone."

"It's said to be a medical dispute."

"Isn't this something he has the final say on? Did you know that he stole the patient's cell phone when he died in Ward 404..."

"What? He even dares to take things from a dead person!"

Shen Yunzhe took a step back, but the people in front of the window had already noticed him. They all turned their heads and stared at him with their dead white eyes, like a pile of white paper dolls.

He quickly turned around and left. Shen Yunzhe pretended not to see anything. He walked to Ward 404 without looking around and pushed the door open.

Wan Cen was still the same as before, sitting obediently on the bed.

But Shen Yunzhe found that this room was different from the last time he came.

The entire ward was covered with door panels and newspapers, and the windows were all taped up. There was no light in the ward, and only a little light from the corridor illuminated his cut neck. His eyes were unexpectedly bright in the dark, which reminded Shen Yunzhe of a beast with glowing eyes at night.

"I brought the things." Shen Yunzhe took out his cell phone and stood at the door of the ward.

Wan Cen's eyes became brighter, and he even couldn't wait to get out of bed and reach out to him. His expression was too anxious and greedy, which made Shen Yunzhe even more fearful.

"Give me your memories first." Shen Yunzhe put the phone back in his pocket and ran up to the fourth floor with a gasp, "Otherwise I will throw the phone off the roof immediately."

In this bad situation, Shen Yunzhe decided to take a gamble.

Shen Yunzhe reached behind him to open the ward door, then stepped back to stand at the intersection of the ward door and the corridor. "You can't leave this ward, otherwise you would have gone to the security guard to get your phone."

"Give me what you promised me first."

Wan Cen's face looked ugly, and blood was oozing from the wounds on his neck and mouth. The gray tone could not conceal his resentment. It was as if he wanted to tear Shen Yunzhe into pieces immediately. But even so, Shen Yunzhe knew that he had guessed right.

"You only have one minute." Shen Yunzhe threatened.

Light shone into the ward, but Wan Cen didn't dare to touch it at all. He panicked and avoided the light coming in from the corridor. He looked extremely angry.

The cracked mouth seemed to be yelling at Shen Yunzhe: "That's mine!"

"It can also be mine, as long as I don't give it back to you." Shen Yunzhe responded to him.

As if he was sure that Shen Yunzhe was serious, Wan Cen looked at him with cold eyes. After a moment, he glanced at the notebook in Shen Yunzhe's arms, and Shen Yunzhe realized what he wanted to say to him.

Shen Yunzhe opened the notebook and new handwriting appeared on it.

'The cleaner took away my body, the police took away my past, and the devil devoured my soul. If you want to know what happened in the hospital, ask my body, my past, and my soul.'

"Thank you." Shen Yunzhe closed the notebook. "I'll return the phone to you once I get the news."

"Oh, there's one more thing." Shen Yunzhe said, "The security guard didn't steal your phone. He just found it and hasn't sent it to the lost and found yet."

After saying that, he turned around and left in a hurry.

Wan Cen stood quietly in the open ward door. He twisted his neck towards the empty corridor and after a moment he began to laugh. His sewn-up mouth had been torn beyond recognition, but he was still laughing. He laughed with a hoarse roar, and even his eyes curved into crescents.

The wind blew in, and with a click, the ward door closed heavily.