Chapter 17 Locking the Morgue Door

Zhang Wenbo spoke with a strange look on his face as he spoke: "Do you know what the family of this old man said to me before and after his death?"

Jiang Chen: "What?"

"The old man's son was taking care of him. He said that two days before his father died, he was lying on the hospital bed at night, half asleep, when he suddenly noticed his father staring at him motionlessly. The look in his eyes made him very uncomfortable."

"He tried to speak, but his eyelids grew heavier and heavier, and he fell into a deep sleep. When his father asked about it the next day, he refused to say anything."

"The next night, the old man's son was on guard and pretended to be asleep, but he was actually observing. This time, he realized it wasn't an illusion. His father had the same expression again, his eyes wide open, staring at him motionlessly."

"The old man's son felt increasingly strange, and he had a feeling that his father might not be looking at him, but at what was behind him. Could there be something behind him?"

"But when he tried to get up, sleepiness came over him again. This time, he didn't want to sleep at all, but he fell asleep uncontrollably."

"While sleeping, my son faintly heard a very light sound of footsteps, a bit like someone walking on tiptoe."

"The next day, he checked the floor and saw watermarks on the tiles, traces of toes. The intensive care unit was a single room with locked doors. So, the person who tiptoed up behind him last night was his father?"

"But my father is old and seriously ill. He needs help even to go to the toilet. How could he possibly tiptoe to walk? And why would he do that?"

"The patient's son felt increasingly puzzled and a little frightened. He heard that only people possessed by ghosts or with insufficient yang energy would walk on tiptoe."

"His son came to me and told me about it that day. I thought he had been taking care of the patient for too long and was under a lot of stress, which caused him to have hallucinations. I just offered a few words of comfort."

"The next day, his son came to me in a panic. He said he had asked the nurse for a needle last night to see what was going on. When he was about to fall asleep, he pricked himself and managed to lift his eyelids."

"He saw his father get up from the bed, stand on his toes, and walk around the ward twice in a very strange manner. Then he opened the door and ran out. He wanted to stop him, but he was getting more and more sleepy, and even pricking his thigh with a needle was useless."

"But when he woke up the next morning, he found his father still lying in bed."

"That afternoon, the old man died of respiratory failure, and his body disappeared that night after he was taken to the morgue."

Jiang Chen's eyes flickered.

There is a glass window on the door of the hospital. He felt that the old man might not be looking at his son, but someone outside the window calling him.

"Not only that, but on the night the old man's body was found, another patient in the intensive care unit also had an issue. The family member said they woke up in the early hours of the morning and saw their husband staring out the door, as if he had seen a friend."

"This middle-aged patient has been playing chess with the elderly man who just died in the next ward for eight or nine days in a row."

"Two days later, the middle-aged patient suddenly developed a severe lung infection and died despite medical efforts."

The more Zhang Wenbo spoke, the more frightened he became. He took a deep breath and looked around, as if he was afraid that a strange figure would appear from somewhere.

The two went downstairs to get the key, then went out and headed towards another building.

During this process, Zhang Wenbo added, "Not only that, but a female nurse in the inpatient department also had an accident. We saw from the corridor surveillance that she was walking around when she was suddenly distracted by something on the fire escape. She stumbled over it, and the next day she contracted a very uncommon viral cold and died despite medical treatment."