[Mission Start]
[Task requirements: Enter Nanhua Private Renji Hospital and survive until dawn]
[Remaining time: 13:06:54]
[Task requirements: Find Du Danping's melody fragment 0/1]
"Six in the morning?"
Just like the Jiangcheng Grand Theater before, surviving until dawn means living until six o'clock the next day.
As soon as Lu Ban walked into the hospital lobby, he saw a black box tied to the central pillar.
He looked closer and realized it was dynamite.
Previously, Lu Ban proposed to Song Yunyan to find a demolition team to install explosives, and it seemed that everything had been prepared in advance.
The hospital was in a mess, with some uncleaned forms, posters, broken chairs, and broken equipment on the floor. These things were usually either cleaned up before demolition or simply disposed of with the ruins, and no one cared about them.
Lu Ban squatted down and picked up a poster that was promoting health knowledge. He pasted it on the wall and fixed it carefully.
"Wash your hands frequently, ventilate the room more, and don't go out to join in the fun when there are a lot of people."
Lu Ban repeated the above words.
He picked up the flashlight and walked towards the elevator.
According to the description, the elevator is also a place where problems often occur.
The elevator was very old, the door was closed, and the power was off. Perhaps the cable was also broken. Lu Ban tried to push the door, but it was a little loose.
He picked up the crowbar, used both hands to slowly pry open the elevator door with his flexible and superb crowbar skills.
Crunch——
With the teeth-grinding sound of metal friction, the tightly closed elevator door finally opened.
Lu Ban looked inside and saw a person standing inside.
It was Lu Ban himself.
“Is this the mirror in the elevator?”
Instead of going into the elevator, he stood outside and looked at himself in the mirror.
In stark contrast to the dilapidated appearance of other parts of the hospital, this mirror was very clean, as if someone maintained and cleaned it every day.
Lu Ban could see that his expression in the mirror was serious, and his skin looked a little dull due to the light. He just stood at the elevator door, motionless.
He looked carefully and saw something flash by his feet.
Looking down, there is nothing.
"Rather than being some weird creation, this mirror is more of a creation that fights against weirdness?"
He muttered to himself.
Normally, Chinese people will not put a mirror opposite their door, as it is considered unlucky to see themselves in the mirror when opening the door. Most people use a mirror facing outside the door to ward off evil spirits.
Moreover, the mirror in this elevator is placed facing the elevator entrance, so normal people can only see it when they enter the elevator, just like Lu Ban is doing now. In other words, as long as they walk into the elevator, they can check through the mirror.
"This mirror can reflect extraordinary things?"
[He said that the mirror in the elevator can reflect the truth and hypocrisy, and those vicious and ferocious guys have no shadow]
Lu Ban remembered this sentence in the mission description.
"He said this is a pseudonym. Is it the person who set up this mirror? Is it Du Danping?"
"Those without shadows are all vicious and evil? But if a little girl's shadow appears in the mirror, does that mean the little girl is a good person?"
"At least it proves that I'm a good person."
Lu Ban finally asserted with satisfaction.
He looked around and walked into the elevator.
This behavior is actually very dangerous, because the first floor of an elevator is usually not the bottom floor, there is a lower floor, and today's elevator cars are equivalent to being suspended, and if they encounter any collision, they are likely to fall.
Crunch——
The elevator made a scary sound. Lu Ban came to the mirror and saw that something seemed to be passing behind him.
Turning back, he saw a face on the ground.
“…”
It was a poster with a picture of a child on it. It was also a poster promoting healthy living.
Crunch——
When Lu Ban moved his eyes away from the poster, he heard a sound of metallic friction.
It was as if the elevator started moving.
He saw that the elevator doors on both sides seemed to be closing, so Lu Ban rushed out immediately.
Looking back, the elevator door slowly closed. At the end, Lu Ban saw himself in the mirror smiling at him.
"Playing tricks."
Lu Ban had seen a lot of this kind of thing in battle and was not afraid of it at all.
He went to the nurses' station on the first floor.
This is where the memo is written. Lu Ban can see the beds in the duty room, where the nurses take a nap while waiting for their shifts.
Walking into the nurses' station, Lu Ban saw that the files had been moved out and the desk where the computer once stood was in a mess.
He sat down and closed his eyes, as if he were a nurse.
It was a dark night, and the corridor was pitch black. Nothing could be seen except the light from the nurses' station, which illuminated the surrounding area.
The nurses sitting here have to pick up flashlights and patrol from the fifth floor to the first floor every day. Two nurses take turns, twice a night.
On a quiet night, a person holding a flashlight slowly moved in the corridor filled with the smell of disinfectant. At this moment, the door of the room at the end of the corridor suddenly opened, and light shone from inside. The nurse wanted to check. She walked to the door and saw inside the room...
Lu Ban opened his eyes, not because he couldn't imagine what was in the room at the end of the corridor, but because he thought of something.
"Why do we have nurses patrolling at night? The doctors should just do the ward rounds once and for all. The nurses at the nurse station should stay here to prepare for patients to call in the middle of the night. If there is really security work to be done, it should be done by the security guards."
This is a private hospital that treats wealthy people, so it can afford to hire security guards.
"Or is there some special reason why the nurses do this?"
Lu Ban thought about it and looked under the table at the nurses' station.
It was dark there, but there seemed to be something.
He leaned over and saw a notebook between the table and the desk.
It was a notebook with a red cover, its surface worn and weathered.
"strangeness?"
Lu Ban picked up the notebook and raised his head.
Then he saw a pair of eyes looking at him.
He was an old man who looked to be over fifty years old, but he was in good spirits and had a kind smile.
These are the posters on the wall. Most of these posters are promotions of the attending physicians, but the one in front of the nurses' station is of the former dean, named Zhao Gongping. According to the description above, this dean studied medicine abroad and was hired as the dean after returning to China. He is also a highly skilled surgeon.
This poster is right opposite the nurses' station, as if the old man is monitoring the people here through this photo.
But Lu Ban knew that Zhao Gongping had died at home before the hospital closed down. The cause of death was a normal heart disease. When his wife woke him up the next morning, she found that he was already dead.
"What's written in this notebook?"
Lu Ban lowered his head and opened the notebook with a red cover.
There are some brief records on it, similar to a nurse's duty diary.
However, some pages were very dirty, as if stained with tea or ink, and there were no words on them. The dates on them were also intermittent, spanning a large range, from 2002 to before the company went bankrupt.
Normal duty records would not be irregular like this, they should be continuous.
Lu Ban felt confused. He could sense that the surroundings were getting darker. It was the sun setting, causing the light shining into the hospital to dim even more.
At this moment, Lu Ban saw that the page he was currently opening had handwriting suddenly appear on it, as if someone had scribbled on it with a pen.
He stepped back slightly and looked at the messy marks on it, which were entangled to form vaguely recognizable words.
It says:
Recorder: Xu Xiao